Talk:Richmond and Petersburg Railroad

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History Section

The first lines of the history section is a summary of the entire section which is all referenced. I have reworded it to be more specific to that.

Maps Crop

I made the pictures smaller, half size in some cases due to complaints that this took too much of peoples screen, They still show up will at the smaller size.

I undid the crop removal, because the crops show the railroad that is the subject of the article. Some of these maps are very large and the railroad in the article is a small part.

Track gauge

Was the track gauge 5 ft (1,524 mm)? 02:56, 21 October 2015 (UTC) Peter Horn User talk

Can you clarify @Vaoverland:? Peter Horn User talk 15:36, 22 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

And @Morgan Riley:? Peter Horn User talk 15:51, 22 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Excessively big pictures

I did reverted it again. Your pictures are so excessively big, that they are taking over the screen. That means that people with a small screen can not read or navigate in the article. The effect of your trickery is entirely disruptive and unnecessary. When you double-click on a thumb, you get a normal, readable size in view. With all the details you want. The Banner talk 17:21, 3 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

moved from User_talk:The_Banner#Richmond_and_Petersburg_Railroad

Please stop undoing my crops. See the Talk Page. These maps are cropped to show the railroads. When you take out the crops the maps do not show anything related to the article, except as a very small part. It took a long time to get these cropped correctly.

I have made the maps considerably smaller, please look again and let's discuss this on the talk page if they are still to big there should be a way to keep the crops and not have the maps too big on your monitor. These are now very small on my monitor. Let me know the resolution settings of your monitor and I can try set my monitor to a similar resolution and see what they look like.

Just deleting the crops and makes the pictures useless.

Here is a cropped smaller image if the Richmond and Petersburg

In 1848, the Chesterfield Railroad is no longer shown and the Clover hill is shown connecting to coal mines, the Clover Hill Pits.

User talk:James_Shelton32

Here is the entire map not cropped. You can hardly see the railroad that is the subject of the article.

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I did revert it again. Your pictures are so excessively big, that they are taking over the screen. That means that people with a small screen can not read or navigate in the article.

The effect of your trickery is entirely disruptive and unnecessary. When you double-click on a thumb, you get a normal, readable size in view. With all the details you want. The Banner talk 17:13, 3 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Please look at this image, so that you understand what I am saying.

CLick this link this is the image that you see when the thumbnail is opened. Can you see where the Richmond and Pestersburg is on this image?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richmond_and_Petersburg_Railroad#/media/File:Map_of_Virginia_and_Maryland,_constructed_from_the_latest_authorities_(NYPL_b15025186-433986).tiff

User talk:James_Shelton32

I suggest that when you revert again, you should try to watch the article on your mobile phone. After endless downloading you have a picture that pushes every navigational device out of view and you are stuck...

My advice is: make a cut out of those maps, showing just what you want to show.

By the way, I have requested extra eyes and input in the discussion on the talkpage of the article. In will copy this to that page. The Banner talk 18:50, 3 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

End of moved part, moved by The Banner talk 18:53, 3 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Banner and others: OK, sounds good. I will make crops of these images, that should stop the slow download at slow internet speeds. I have viewed this on a mobile phone, but I will compare the newly cropped images in my sandbox, with other image on on other articles to make sure that they show up in a similar manner.

Thanks for taking time to look at this and I will get all ready in my sandbox first before any more revisions.

I will use: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:CropTool to crop the images and upload cropped images to Wikimedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by James Shelton32 (talk • contribs)