User talk:Chris j wood/2007

Hello

Regarding the article Ash, Surrey - you have edited, have you got any green idea about the origin of the name Ash?

Eliko 00:40, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

My email addess on your page

Hi Chris!

Could you please rename your "email to mdoege@compuserve.com" subpage to something else? Apparently a few people are getting the idea that this is your email address, so I am getting their comments that refer to your edits. The title of the subpage is a little misleading, apparently. Thanks! Morn 16:47, 23 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Below are some of the emails I got. I remember there were a few more, all of them negative I think ("Why did you delete X?"), always referring to articles I had never touched. But I guess I just deleted them, thinking they were some strange new kind of spam. It never occurred to me that those people might just be writing the wrong person... :-) Morn 18:41, 25 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi.. i noticed it says you removed my comment below on Galax in wikipedia I do not believe it is native to Massachusetts or New York. I believe its northernmost native state is Virginia. HOWEVER, it does grow very well in New England but is hardly there. -- Easternplantspecialties 19:53, 11 December 2006 Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Galax" i know galax very well ..its not native in New England..that source is wrong

Mark

Image copyright problem with Image:Mv-doulos-at-southampton.jpg

Image Copyright problem

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Unspecified source for Image:Mv-doulos-at-southampton.jpg

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Thank you for your thanks, even if they are just slightly belated (I uploaded this file nearly three years ago, in November 2004). If you had checked the history, you would have seen that the image was perfectly properly licensed as my own work.

Unfortunately since then another editor has transferred the image to Commons (which I don't think existed in 2004). That is a perfectly good thing to do, but in adding the NowCommons template, he or she removed the image description and license information. The information should have been retained for historical purposes. I have reinstated it. -- Chris j wood 19:43, 10 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yep, thanks. I've updated the license on commons and deleted the copy here. The issue was that it said "GFDL" but not "GFDL-self" so the source was not explicitly stated. --Selket ^Talk 03:18, 11 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, thanks. Of course the template "GFDL-self" is newer (January 2005) than the image upload (November 2004) so it is hardly surprising it wasn't applied at the time. And the text was faily unambiguous that it was my photograph. Wasn't there some sort of review of older images before "GFDL" was deprecated in this way?. -- Chris j wood 11:14, 11 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

One would think so. Probably fell through the craks. --Selket ^Talk 14:06, 11 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Par

I am not going to talk about golf (sorry!). See reply for something i have found on FGW. Simply south 18:42, 16 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Now i am beginning to wonder if the train times on the services counts as original research, partly based on personal experience. Simply south 19:57, 18 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No. I've taken them from the FGW web site, as referenced. -- Chris j wood 20:00, 18 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

OK, just as long as they don't link directly to atimetable and it shows it somewhere on the website, i think. Simply south 20:04, 18 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think there is any rule that info cannot be sourced from a timetable. Certainly WP isn't a timetable, and what I'm trying to do on this section is give the reader a feel for the sort of service Par gets (perfectly good encyclopedic content) rather than tell him what time to turn up for a train (which would be a timetable). It is quite a fine line, and I'm still pondering myself whether there is not a tad too much detail in what I've written. -- Chris j wood 20:10, 18 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Its funny it just i got told off once for citing something from a timetable but that was my early days and i suppose it could have instead come under WP:POINT. I was worrying over changes to train times restrictions in a local train company. I suppose that does not apply here. What do you think? Simply south 20:15, 18 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Not totally sure. I've decided to sleep on it, and see if I can come up with a more overview version that still conveys what I want. Of course somebody may just do it for me in the meantime; that is the joy of WP. -- Chris j wood 20:25, 18 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Freemantle

Hi Chris, I'm not entirely sure why you've moved Freemantle to Freemantle, Southampton - the "..., Southampton" disambiguation isn't necessary as there are no other articles called Freemantle (the Australian city only has one E). Am I missing something? -- Waggers 13:18, 21 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Nothing except my request at WP:RM to move it back. I was mislead by another editor's misspelling of the Australian city's name into thinking I'd discovered a case of disambiguation needed, when it was just a plain mis-link (unless Southampton has hosted the America's Cup without me noticing). -- Chris j wood 17:16, 21 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Railways in Cornwall

Just wanted to thank you for all the hard work you are putting in - it is appreciated! DuncanHill 12:07, 24 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

List of funiculars

Apologies for giving you more work to do in List of funiculars! I was trying to answer a question on the Talk:Cable railway page, specifically looking for those with only one car. (I had re-skimmed the Shire Albums book, mentioned as a ref in this article, and it was fresh in my mind...) As I hunted them down, links started appearing, so, rather than 'waste' them I dropped them in the article. I didn't have time for 'polish', sorry.

You may be interested to know that the two sites in 'external links' cover an awful lot of the UK funiculars (including some not listed on WP.) You may also be dismayed to hear that there is an alternative meaning for "cliff lift", as here, which features two such lifts. (Others, such as Babbacombe, are, of course funicular railways really.) Haven't looked to see if this term is covered elsewhere on WP, but their existence was news to me!.

EdJogg 01:18, 16 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

There's a cliff lift in Brighton too. DuncanHill 01:22, 16 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You're right, Dr Mark Hows also lists these on his funiculars index page (didn't scroll down far enough!)
See http://www.hows.org.uk/personal/rail/index.htm.
He lists nine in eight locations. These should be listed somewhere on WP, either as a subsection of elevator (there's a brief section for urban elevators, would go after that) (or ...?) as they are distinct stand-alone structures, and relatively uncommon. EdJogg 08:48, 16 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Chew Stoke FAC

Hi, I've recently put Chew Stoke up as a Featured Article candidate. As you have edited this article in the past I wondered if you would like to make any comments at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Chew Stoke?— Rod ^talk 07:44, 19 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Stagecoach Group navbox

Interested in helping me out with Template:StagecoachGroup at Talk:Stagecoach_Group? --Lee Stanley 21:52, 10 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Dab header on Hythe Pier, Railway and Ferry

Merely an attempt to help get people to the right place! A frequent search term on the website of the RHDR in Kent is "Hythe railway". The same search term in a Wikipedia search box does not direct to the RHDR article, but rather to the Hythe pier article. Not very surprising really; I grew up in Hythe (Kent) and have a lifetime's experience of the confusion caused by several places (in different counties) sharing that same place name. In the current context, all have railways and railway stations, making confusion all the more possible. However, don't worry about it; if you don't like the dab, I'm not bothered. Timothy Titus ^{Talk To TT} 10:56, 21 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Fact Templates on London Heathrow Airport Destinations

I should point out that I was in fact not citing Wikiproject Airports as a reason for my removal of your request for citations but as a reason for correcting date formats, and by putting the ellipsis in you changed the meaning of my edit comment. My objection stems from the fact that it is quite simple, in my opinion, by going to various airline/airport websites and other travel-ish sites on the internet, to varify the information on here and that Wikiproject Airport members are constantly fact-checking the destinations as they are added. If you wish to add the template again I will not remove it, however I look it as being almost an insult to the work put in by members like me, who verify destinations as they are added. I suggested adding fact templates to individual destinations because I assumed there were a few you were very uncertain about, but it seems you have different motivations for your desire to add the templates. Thanks. NcSchu 17:08, 26 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

quan la bossa sona

As you have followed up on a few of my revisions to the various Barcelona metro articles, I wonder if you'd like to give your opinion here. Thanks! - Montréalais 03:58, 8 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

AfD nomination of Cruachan (band)

Cruachan (band), an article you created, has been nominated for deletion. We appreciate your contributions. However, an editor does not feel that Cruachan (band) satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion and has explained why in the nomination space (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and the Wikipedia deletion policy). Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cruachan (band) and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Cruachan (band) during the discussion but should not remove the articles for deletion template from the top of the article; such removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Boricuaeddie 16:27, 19 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Train operating company

You created this as a redirect to National Rail, then some years later it got changed to a proper article. Now it is undergoing a merge proposal (from August actually). Simply south 16:59, 13 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

September 2007

Hello. Please don't forget to provide an edit summary, which wasn't included with your recent edit to Calcot, Berkshire. Thank you. Tiptoety 18:50, 25 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

St Pancras services

Thanks for your message at Talk:St Pancras railway station#Redundant section headings. I setup the skeleton with the intention to follow this up. I have partly done this, Remainder to follow, --Stewart^(talk) 19:07, 15 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

St Pancras station

Great work on this article. It is now one of the best articles that is around. --Stewart^(talk) 19:20, 21 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The St Pancras Barnstar

		The Original Barnstar
		For tireless work in improving the St Pancras International article. Stewart^(talk) 17:09, 14 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

St Pancras Domestic?

Chris,

St Pancras International in all probability refers to the whole station, domestic and Eurostar.

best, Sunil060902 (talk) 12:22, 19 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Chris,

I'm only going on what the signage says at the station itself. If ATOC see things otherwise then Occam's razor suggests they have it wrong. Why go to all that trouble to make incorrect signage, not only on the FCC (Thameslink) platforms, but all around the station? Not being a Midland fare-paying passenger, I haven't checked out the four Midland platforms from beyond the ticket barriers, but I presume the signage is similar to the Eurostar platforms, which are visible from the champagne bar/concourse sections of the station. best, Sunil060902 (talk) 12:45, 21 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Or from a slightly different angle, there seems to be no "on the ground" evidence for a station termed St Pancras Domestic. Sunil060902 (talk) 12:49, 21 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Vandalism warning

This is the last warning you will receive for your disruptive edits.
The next time you vandalize Wikipedia, you will be blocked from editing.

~~Warning someone is not constructive?Frtg66678 (talk) 15:55, 24 December 2007 (UTC)~~ [reply]

~~Administrators can block, but anybody can warn. Frtg66678 (talk) 15:59, 24 December 2007 (UTC)~~[reply]

This warning was bogus. Adding a reference and mentioning that a building is a Grade II listed building is not vandalism. It's clearly a constructive and valuable edit. I'm checking out Frtg66678's edits right now to see why he's giving people warnings. --Elkman ^(Elkspeak) 17:02, 24 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]