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Reference errors on 1 February

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Speedy deletion nomination of BR(W) bench

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Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. This is a notice to inform you that a tag has been placed on BR(W) bench requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article providing little or no context to the reader. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

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Railway benches

Hello. Would you mind if I move your article BR(W) bench to Draft:BR(W) bench? This would reduce the risk of it being deleted. Roberttherambler (talk) 18:40, 7 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Yes please.

Thank you. I think it would be a good idea to merge Draft:BR(W) bench with Draft:British railway benches. Is this OK with you, or is there a particular reason why you want to keep them separate? Roberttherambler (talk) 22:16, 7 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I never thought of putting them together, its a great idea.

Thank you. I've merged them to Draft:British railway benches. I think the article is coming along really well. Roberttherambler (talk) 23:29, 7 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Copying

Thank you for starting the article at Praze Railway Station, but there are a few problems.

It looks as if you copied a paragraph from Helston Railway, complete with a reference which didn't work as it was a reference defined elsewhere, when you started the article Praze Railway Station. Don't do that: some other editor wrote that paragraph, and you have stolen their text without attribution. See Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia for more information. If you have not read the relevant page of Oakley's book, you should not be adding it as a reference: the references are supposed to show where you have found the information you are adding. I've removed the copied text, and the reference which didn't go anywhere.

In fact the article should have been created at Praze railway station (lower case "r" and "s"), which is the established style for UK railway stations. You could have over-written the existing "redirect" which currently points to the Helston Railway.

Please take a little more care over spelling - "Discription" etc don't look good in an international encyclopedia. Thanks. PamD 18:09, 22 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Your draft article, Draft:BR(W) bench

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Ways to improve Nancegollan Railway Station

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Your draft article, Draft:British railway benches

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Copying from uboat.net

Please see WP:COPYVIO. You must not copy and paste text from other websites such as you have done on HMS Acanthus and HMS Airedale (L07) Lyndaship (talk) 11:37, 2 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Class 14s

Hi, do you have any sourcing for the Class 14s being regarded as Type 1s? Because they were built so much later than most of the other classes being introduced, I've found it hard to source this. Most of the useful sources pre-date the 14. It's "obvious" that they were (from how they were used) although their power is still in the "shunter" region, rather than the Type 1 definition. But all of that is close to WP:OR and really we need sourcing. Thanks Andy Dingley (talk) 15:01, 2 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, Hembry, P.J. (1982). Class 14, The Cinderellas of the Diesel-hydraulic Era. Sutton Coalfield: Diesel & Electric Group. ISBN 0-906375-09-6. This book refers to the Class 14s as Type 1 Locomotives.

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