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January 2017

Hello, I'm Jim1138. I noticed that in this edit to Sutherland railway station, you removed content without adequately explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry, the removed content has been restored. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. Jim1138 (talk) 07:03, 27 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Edit summaries and page history

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Electrification

those wires are still up way past Bowenfels station ... there's services electrics and able to be services rail line Dave Rave (talk) 08:07, 15 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Technical details in Metro North West Line

I have moved your edit of the technical details from Metro North West Line to Sydney Metro Northwest as the former article is about the rail service and the latter is about the infrastructure. Be mindful that an edit without any citation and source can be undone, and you should always supply some sources to back your own edits up in the future. I managed to find some sources to back them up and kept your edit in Sydney Metro Northwest. Marcnut1996 (talk) 06:03, 8 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

	The Minor barnstar
	Thank you for taking care of the rolling stock pages in recent weeks, in addition to removing unsourced information on scrapped/preserved trainsets. Keep it up! Seloloving (talk) 11:57, 9 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Date formats

Please check MOS:DATE for how Wikipedia formats dates. Do not use ordinals (1st, 24th) for dates, and superscripts are rarely used in normal text, as you did at EMU900 series. Thanks! ◢ Ganbaruby!  (talk) 07:15, 18 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Bombardier tech

Hi... your references for the traction tech used in various SkyTrain vehicles are extremely sketchy. I would advise you stop adding claims going forward unless you dig up way higher quality sources than comments on a blog post. People will continue to remove additions that aren't backed up by anything but your say-so. Please re-read WP:RS and WP:V. —Joeyconnick (talk) 06:07, 26 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

However, the Hyundai Rotem EMU uses Mitsubishi traction as Mitsubishi was a consortium member. Edgar Searle (talk) 06:11, 26 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

August 2021

Hello, I'm Barcakes. An edit that you recently made to Frame rate seemed to be a test and has been reverted. If you want to practice editing, please use your sandbox. If you think a mistake was made, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Please describe your changes with edit summary. Barcakes (talk) 11:59, 7 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

OK, I seem to have fixed it now. Edgar Searle (talk) 02:52, 8 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

MBTA

You can find the current MBTA colors at the MBTA website. Cards84664 15:30, 29 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

BART signalling

BART uses at least five different signaling systems on different track segments - the original 1970s system, the Daly City Yard extension in the 1980s, the three 1990s extensions, the SFO extension, and SVBX (which I vaguely recall having two separate systems). Cityflo 550 is just one of those systems. We should list all of them Bay Area Rapid Transit#Infrastructure, but probably not on the individual line articles. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 05:02, 4 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Nagoya Municipal Subway fleet numbers

Hey, I've seen you changed the fleet numbers in the Nagoya Municipal Subway N1000 series and Nagoya Municipal Subway N3000 series articles. In the N3000 series article, the fleet numbers are sourced to two offline sources (seemingly in the N31nn format); where did you get your fleet numbers from, and have you checked the offline sources? Also, in both Japanese Wikipedia articles they seem to use fleet numbers with the N11nn and N31nn format. Regards, Nyamo Kurosawa (talk) 17:01, 14 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I had explicitly said so in the edit summary: "since the third digit varies depending on the car position, it should be replaced with a 0 for each set number". Edgar Searle (talk) 21:16, 14 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I've seen the edit summary, that's why I'm asking from which source you've got the fleet numbers, as Wikipedia doesn't publish original research. Nyamo Kurosawa (talk) 21:37, 14 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Have reverted it back - on one end you'll see N11nn (N1000) or N31nn (N3000) and on the other you'll see N16nn or N38nn (N3000); that was why I had changed it to a 0. But you were actually right the first time - it was original research and not provided with a reliable source for verification. My apologies. Edgar Searle (talk) 22:10, 14 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the clarification. Best regards and happy editing! Nyamo Kurosawa (talk) 22:16, 14 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

October 2021

This is your only warning; if you make personal attacks on others again, as you did at WES Commuter Rail, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. Comment on content, not on other contributors or people. RickyCourtney (talk) 00:03, 31 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

RickyCourtney & SounderBruce: My apologies. I promise it won't happen again. Edgar Searle (talk) 00:06, 31 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Barnstar

		The Railways Barnstar
		For keeping the Victorian locomotive related pages on track. ThylacineHunter (talk) 07:55, 4 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

British Rail Class 555

I noticed that you reverted an image addition by someone at British Rail Class 555 with the edit summary "Only images with not only the front but also the full side please"; where exactly did you read that train infobox images had to show the front and the side as well? I've read MOS:LEADIMAGE and WP:TWP/MOS and neither of the two appear to state that images have to show the front and the side of the train. XtraJovial (talk) 20:44, 17 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Take this one for example (I know it's not the Class 555, but it's just an example). It can't be used as a lead image because the platform obscures the body of the train and isn't at a good-enough angle. Edgar Searle (talk) 02:28, 18 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Victorian rolling stock

I have made a backup of the correct (un-vandalised) version Template:Victorian rolling stock on it's talk page. Thanks for trying to support me in keping Wikipedia as an accurate encyclopedia. -- ThylacineHunter (talk) 12:05, 2 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Bay Area Rapid Transit rolling stock

I don't understand your revert comment of You are supposed to use the measurements ACCORDING TO THE SOURCE. What does that have to do with using convert templates? Pi.1415926535 (talk) 03:16, 20 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

When you convert the imperial unit you don't actually get the exact metric measurement on the source. Edgar Searle (talk) 04:55, 20 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

{{convert}} has the ability to handle that - see section 9.2 of the documentation. For the first template that you removed, for example, {{convert|40.89|m|ftin|order=flip|abbr=on}} generates 134 ft 2 in (40.89 m). Pi.1415926535 (talk) 06:29, 20 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. ThylacineHunter (talk) 08:27, 28 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

CPUs

Thank you for your work updating some computer articles recently. Can you also please update this article, List of Macintosh models grouped by CPU type to correspond with the changes you've recently made? Thanks. —GoldRingChip 12:09, 25 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

CPUs # 2

Why are you eliminating the link such as this one in which you replace PowerPC 604 with PowerPC 600#PowerPC 604? —GoldRingChip 21:25, 25 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Because otherwise, what's the point of the redirect? Edgar Searle (talk) 21:26, 25 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I understand your point, but if a future article were to be created specifically on the 604, then PowerPC 604 would go to it, and PowerPC 600#PowerPC 604 would have to be changed. Yeah, I know what you're thinking: Who's going to write a whole article just on the 604? I agree, in principal, that it's a silly notion. But I like to leave the option open for future editors. (See {{R with possibilities}}). I'm not describing it well, but I think there's a good discussion of it here:WP:NOTBROKEN). —GoldRingChip 21:46, 25 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

September 2022

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Edit summaries

Please use edit summaries; it's difficult to figure out what you've done when you don't. You have been cautioned about this before. Useddenim (talk) 14:17, 4 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Seconded. Some of your recent edits like this one have no edit summaries, unhelpful for other editors. Please make sure you are using these summaries in future. Mattdaviesfsic (talk) 08:13, 11 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. I have noticed that you often edit without using an edit summary. Please do your best to always fill in the summary field. This helps your fellow editors use their time more productively, rather than spending it unnecessarily scrutinizing and verifying your work. Even a short summary is better than no summary, and summaries are particularly important for large, complex, or potentially controversial edits. To help yourself remember, you may wish to check the "prompt me when entering a blank edit summary" box in your preferences. Thanks! Steelkamp (talk) 08:23, 25 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

OK. I'm sorry, but I'm often in a rush when I edit wiki pages, therefore it's very hard to summarise what I've changed within that precise amount of time. Edgar Searle (talk) 08:28, 25 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

A month later, you're still not doing edit summaries for the majority of your edits.

Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear to be constructive and has been reverted. If you only meant to make a test edit, please use your sandbox for that. Thank you. Steelkamp (talk) 07:51, 29 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The reason behind lack of edit summaries is I'm often in a rush when I edit wiki pages and it is therefore very hard to summarise what I've changed within that precise amount of time. Edgar Searle (talk) 07:55, 29 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

In that case, maybe don't be in such a rush. Other people may have no idea what you're trying to do with an edit if there is no edit summary. Help:Edit summary says "It is a good practice to provide a meaningful summary for every edit, especially when reverting (undoing) the actions of other editors or deleting existing text; otherwise, people may question your motives for the edit." Steelkamp (talk) 08:00, 29 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Also, read up on WP:PRESERVE. It says "As long as any of the facts or ideas added to an article would belong in the "finished" article, they should be retained if they meet the three core content policies: Neutral point of view (which does not mean no point of view), Verifiability, and No original research." Most of the information you removed does have a reliable source out there, just not on Wikipedia at this time. In that case, all you should do is tag it with citation needed. Steelkamp (talk) 08:06, 29 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Edgar Searle, it’s now coming to the end of December and almost all of your recent edits still do not contain edit summaries. Please try to include a summary wherever possible to help everyone involved in maintaining Wikipedia. Danners430 (talk) 15:06, 27 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Removal of line colours in Class 700 and 717 articles

Please note that in both of your removals the comment immediately following the colour setting explained that the chosen colour does comply with WP:COLOR, aka MOS:CONTRAST. The comments:

Adapted from [line colour], has x contrast ratio and complies with WCAG AAA

And the relevant section of MOS:CONTRAST:

Some readers of Wikipedia are partially or fully color-blind or visually impaired. Ensure the contrast of the text with its background reaches at least Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0's AA level, and AAA level when feasible.

You are welcome to verify this for yourself using the WebAIM Contrast Checker, which is conveniently linked to in the same part of the MOS.

There is also no non-compliance on the other relevant points;

Ensure that color is not the only method used to communicate important information. Especially, do not use colored text or background unless its status is also indicated using another method, such as an accessible symbol matched to a legend, or footnote labels. Otherwise, blind users or readers accessing Wikipedia through a printout or device without a color screen will not receive that information.

Links should clearly be identifiable as a link to our readers.

Because the colour is not being used as the sole means of conveying information, and because there is no linking in the coloured areas. Thank you. XAM2175 ^(T) 23:34, 26 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Siemens P2000

Unfortunately, the ref used is blacklisted. However, it's an easy research. Insolation recordings point towards Westinghouse AEG being the manufacturer of the traction motors used on the P2000 rolling stock. Lars Smiley (talk) 10:22, 10 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Again, that's about the traction motors, not about the inverters (the actual thing that generates the waveform). Please go ahead and check again - GTO is what you're looking for, not traction motor. Edgar Searle (talk) 10:39, 10 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Toronto Rocket

Not important but on it I was editing the revision before you edited it, and I didn't notice that it said blank in yours but said something in the other. In the change log it doesn't standout. oops. (btw line 3 and 4 were edited after yours so I had to use the present, if you think I skipped the edits on those) Humulator (talk) 04:10, 14 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

December 2022

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My apologies. I just now fixed the punctuation as it was before. Edgar Searle (talk) 00:38, 26 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. XtraJovial (talk • contribs) 01:19, 26 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. I have noticed that you often edit without using an edit summary. Please do your best to always fill in the summary field. This helps your fellow editors use their time more productively, rather than spending it unnecessarily scrutinizing and verifying your work. Even a short summary is better than no summary, and summaries are particularly important for large, complex, or potentially controversial edits. To help yourself remember, you may wish to check the "prompt me when entering a blank edit summary" box in your preferences. Thanks! Danners430 (talk) 09:54, 31 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I'd come here to say the same thing. XAM2175 ^(T) 12:17, 31 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Edgar Searle, I notice that you are still not using edit summaries for almost all of your edits, despite repeated requests to do so. Edit summaries take seconds to add, and assist everyone on Wikipedia. I’m unsure why you still refuse to use them. Danners430 (talk) 00:20, 15 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Danners430 + XAM2175: As I have literally said before, the reason behind lack of edit summaries is I'm often in a rush when I edit wiki pages and it is therefore very hard to summarise what I've changed within that precise amount of time. Edgar Searle (talk) 00:26, 15 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Being in a rush isn’t a particularly good reason - does that also mean you rush your edits? Sorry if I sound rude, but it really does take literal seconds to add an edit summary. Perhaps take your time a bit more so others are able to interpret what you’ve done without having to dig through diffs. Almost every other editor can do it. Danners430 (talk) 00:28, 15 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

NOBR

Per advice I've received previously, WP:NOBR should be read with specific attention to Do not separate list items with line breaks (<br />). This means that HTML line breaks are permitted when not used to separate list items; and by association it is in fact improper to use templates like {{ubl}} to create line breaks outside lists as it will be incorrectly interpreted as a list by screen readers and other accessibility tools. Thanks. XAM2175 ^(T) 19:57, 27 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Specifically, this edit summary. Thanks, XAM2175. --Redrose64 🦌 (talk) 00:26, 28 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

January 2023

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. Steelkamp (talk) 03:52, 15 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Steelkamp: Fine, I will now try my best to use edit summaries from now on. Edgar Searle (talk) 03:52, 15 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Steelkamp: Yes, you probably know how worried I am. I will now try my best to summarise my edits. In case you haven't noticed, I joined in 2017 and Mum wrote in my sanbox this (view only). Edgar Searle (talk) 04:18, 15 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

All of us do appreciate your adding something in the edit summary, User:Edgar Searle, even if it's just a brief personal code. Edit summaries are enormously helpful to admins and other editors, who might find themselves trying quickly to sort wheat from chaff during discussion. I like to think of wikipedians as moving together on this gigantic pitch. It's often true some of us tend to cluster around the ball and just whack at it again and again, but the best of us keep our heads up, eyes open, constantly moving, making space while communicating to our teammates. Sticking one's elbows out is a useful strategy and is helpful for editors working together on the same page. Again, thanks for helping. BusterD (talk) 04:48, 15 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Kawasaki M8

Hi, because of this movement not being covered by major news outlets, there are no links to prove this testing took place. If you would like to get in touch with me so I could prove with some photos taken, that'd be much appreciated, thanks. Please don't remove things unless you can verify they are false. RobelyBasis (talk) 16:25, 11 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Self-published photos or videos are not counted as reliable sources for this information. Go ahead and reread WP:RS and WP:V first. Edgar Searle (talk) 04:53, 13 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

March 2023

Please do not attack other editors, as you did at R142 (New York City Subway car). Comment on content, not on contributors. Personal attacks damage the community and deter users. Please stay cool and keep this in mind while editing. Thank you. XtraJovial (talk • contribs) 05:19, 23 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Excuse me, I really did try to censor the word that wasn't nice (I literally also said “pardon my language” after. Edgar Searle (talk) 05:27, 23 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

May 2023

Hello, I'm XtraJovial. I noticed that you added content to New Flyer Xcelsior along with a citation, however the source you provided did not support the content. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so, taking care that the source directly supports the material. If you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. The source you provided is for the E40LF and E60LF trolleybuses, which are not Xcelsior models. XtraJovial (talk • contribs) 02:11, 18 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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