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Greetings Likelife, thank you for your enthusiasm in contributing to Wikipedia. I noticed that recently St Pancras railway station was renamed to include "International" in the title of the article; The new title now does not match the article, or the opening four words. I have requested the move be reverted.
Please consider getting involved with an article, or asking on the article's ‘’’Talk:‘’’ page before making similar moves in the future—it can save a lot of work. Once again, thank you for being so willing to get involved. —Sladen (talk) 19:08, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
Hi there, St Pancras is now branded with International I know the station has been around for years I lived in Wellingborough, but what im saying is that the station is branded International by all train services and maps puls the tube. If the station is not an National & International station what is it just an National???Likelife (talk) 19:48, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
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s-rail Service boxes
Hi, I noticed that you have been trying to improve the service box on the Derby station page. It appears you have been having trouble with the s-rail scheme. I will incorporate your changes into how the s-rail box should be - with the "rowsmid=2" etc. If you need help in the future with this leave me a note on my talk page and I can help you out. Thanks Year1989 (talk) 15:33, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi Likelife. I very recently created a project Wikipedia:WikiProject Worcestershire. For a start up project it might help give you some ideas. The main problem with counties like these is getting enough members to endorse the project. You may need to canvas the active editors and contributors to existing Northants articles. You can get a list of the articles from the categories, and from the article histories you can single out whom to post a template invitation to. The Worcs project only has very few members, but since it was created they have all been very active in sorting out what needs to be done, then setting about improving the the articles. If you need any help, don't hesitate to ask.--Kudpung (talk) 17:26, 20 July 2009 (UTC)
I was thinking about this the other day. Not only do I feel that it is a fantastic idea, but I would love to help. Hopefully it goes through okay! ReformatMe (talk) 19:18, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
Oops! I didn't realise this was your page :) Please don't think I'm trying to usurp your project - I'm just helping out by doing a little canvassing for it. In fact I've dropped this message on a careful selection from all the active contributors to the Northampton page already. You can copy and paste the message too, it puts the icon and the user's name in automatically. I get the users from the history logs, but nhere's no point in putting it on the talk pages of obvious troublemakers, or casual editors. I'll keep a log of what I am doing on the project page. --Kudpung (talk) 13:57, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
WikiProject Worcestershire
Hi! There is absolutely no pressure on you whatsoever to join the Worcs proj. However, there are a couple of experienced editors there with a bit of local knowledge about your area, and running projects, and they are quite happy to give you a hand to get started :) --Kudpung (talk) 16:33, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
Northamptonshire
Hi Likelife/Archive 1! A Top Priority article you have been involved with has many issues and urgently needs improving. If you can help with these issues please see Talk:Northamptonshire, address the different points if you can, and leave any comments there. (This is a generic message. if it has been placed on your talk page inadvertantly, please ignore it.) --Kudpung --Kudpung (talk) 22:56, 6 August 2009 (UTC)
Stagecoach
Hi Likelife! Corby Star and Connect Wellinborough are brand names of Stagecoach, their parent company, so the Wikilinks were in fact OK. However, it's not a major issue, although you may want to put them back in if your are travelling down that road again any time soon.--Kudpung (talk) 11:58, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
Wellingborough
Hi Likelife. Someone has gone to a lot of trouble to include a very interesting and detailed section on Geology. Unfortunaly, the section is totally unreferenced. See: Talk:Wellingborough. Perhaps with your local knowledge you can help save the section from being deleted. --Kudpung (talk) 21:25, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
Overground as National Rail
Hi. You are right that Overground is National Rail but it is also being treated as a separate mode of transport within London with its own prices and branding. I think it is best to go back to the old previous/next template and use that consistently. It is better because it makes a nice heading with the Overground roundel logo on it. I reverted Stratford but I then saw that you have done some other articles too. I won't revert those until we agree what to do.
I have a suggestion to make it more explicit that these lines are part of National Rail and also to make the list look better. We could update the templates so that the National Rail logo is added to the National Rail listings and also to the Overground one in addition to its roundel. That is how Overground itself brands the station signage. Does that sound OK to you? --DanielRigal (talk) 10:01, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
Hi there. We probably don't need to include the "(train operating company)" part so I'd propose that we rename this category to Category:Railway stations served by East Coast. I'd ask if you think that would be okay? If so, I am prepared to make the required changes using my bot account to avoid having to manually update each article. Regards. Adambro (talk) 14:22, 14 November 2009 (UTC)
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There was a flurry of news articles in late September following a press release by Alliance Rail which suggested they had submitted proposals to the ORR but nothing else has emerged since nor have any details of applications appeared on the ORR website. I propose this is deleted until, or if, anything more concrete emerges such as an ORR application, particularly when the service is planned not start for four years and the reports of a dispute with Grand Central cast further doubt about the likelihood of this getting off the ground.
Hi Lifelike, much as I support your work on the encyclopedia, especially your initiative on Northants, I must unfortunately agree with the proposal for deletion of Great North Eastern Railway. See my comments on the debate page.--Kudpung (talk) 00:12, 5 December 2009 (UTC)
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Northamptonshirre, Worcestershierre, Warwickshierre, and Everyshierre
Hello Likelife/Archive 1! A non-British user seems to be attempting to suggest that the Brits are not pronouncing their own British place names correctly, and appears to believe that it is a policy of Wikipedia to instruct the Brits, through the use of the IPA, how British English should be pronounced. He/she also seems to be of the opinion that it is Wikipedia policy to regard British English by default as a rhotic language, which it is not. Some British Wikipedians are trying to avoid an edit conflict and have requested my support. I have added my comments to the debate the non-British user has has started in defence of his/her multiple, WP:BOLD? changes to IPA pronunciations of British place names. As a professional linguist I accord every version of English its own particular merits and my position here strictly concerns the way in which the IPA is interpreted and applied in the Wikipedia, and how the current policy may need to be changed through a truly representative consensus. If you would like to help resolve this issue, please see User talk:Kudpung#IPA, RP, etc. and User talk:Lfh#Warwickshire to get the background. Maybe you could then chime in with your views on the subject at Wikipedia talk:IPA for English#Rhoticity in place names. Thanks. --Kudpung (talk) 18:54, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
If you are not yet a member of the The Worcestershire project, you are probably receiving this because you have significantly contributed to one of our pages. Now is the time to consider joining - it might help you get some assistance on a page you feel particularly attached to it.
Someone once asked on the project page if they could get a newsletter. The Worcestershire project only has a few members and they most probably have the project pages and major articles on their watchlists, but here goes anyway...
Great news for 2010!
This year has got off to great start with the promotion of Malvern, Worcestershire to Good Article status. The GA review process was particularly strict and demanding, and a good thing too, because it sets a benchmark for the quality to be targeted for other articles in the project, even if we do not intend to reach GA with them. Furthermore, and probably most important, this particular review clearly demonstrated what can be achieved with teamwork, and it puts the page on a par with biggies such as Manchester, one of the Wikipedia's flagship English settlement articles. Anyone can go ahead and create an article, and some articles have a major contributor, but it would have been impossible for Malvern to have been promoted without the extraordinary collaborative effort of a dedicated few, spread across three continents in very different time zones, and sometimes tripping over each other at all times of the day and night to get the article up to snuff.
Recently founded
Since the Worcs project was founded barely seven months ago on 8 June last year, in addition to the creation and maintenance of the project pages themselves. a lot of work has already been done by the Worcs project members, including the creation of stubs for most of the missing settlements in the county, creation and improvement work on Malvern Water, creation and expansion of articles on important schools and one or two biographies in the county, and general repetitive tasks such as keeping spam and vandalism at bay.
Experts!
All the members of the project have their own specialised fields of interest of course, such as French wine, schools, Lancashire, the Malverns, cricket, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, busses, castles, waterways, or Spike Milligan. However, they all have a common denominator somewhere that brings them together in Worcestershire.
The Worcestershire project mainly concerns settlements. Perhaps after the success of Malvern, the immediate priority now is to improve the articles that really ought to be the flagships of the project, namely Worcester, and Worcestershire. These two are, sadly, some of the articles in the worst state. They have been created long ago and expanded over time by a great many shingle-edit authors and IPs.
So wotnow? (pun)
A possible suggestion would be to take one of those rather shoddy pages, probably Worcester, the county seat, or the project's eponymous article Worcestershire and do a Malvern job on it. Such a concerted piece of teamwork might even earn the project another major GA - and we now know it can be done!
Meet up
An attempt at a meet up failed last year - mainly either because some of the most active members of the project live in other countries, or the timing wasn't quite right. We can have another attempt in April, when Kudpung will be back in Malvern for his dad's 90th birthday, and hopefully this will coincide with a home trip to the UK for GyroMagician.
Talk
The place to make your suggestions and dicscuss it all is HERE - be sure to have the page on your watchlist!
Would you like to join the WP:WORCS?? Please enter yourself at WP:WORCS! - new editors are always welcome!
Happy Wikying, all the best for 2010, and special thanks again all round for the efforts of the Malvern taskforce, and to everyone else who has contributed to our articles.
Currently there are two featured articles in Worcestershire.
Priority Articles
The top priority articles have been identified as probably being:
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, so we can concentrate our efforts on these first. Priorities are not set in stone and if you would like to discuss changes, please join in at [[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Worcestershire.
Other priorities:
The recommended priority by kind is for creation/improvement of complete articles is:
Places in the county
Schools in the county (Particularly susceptible to vandalism - please keep them on your watch lists if possible).
Transport in the county
Notable buildings/objects/geo features/AONB/Heritage sites, etc. in the county
History in the county
Industry & Commerce in the county.
People in the county - NOTE: These all need the Worcs project banner adding to their talk pages, and assessing.
County related articles about things not actually in the county, and/or other related projects.
Monitor The watchlist to keep an eye on changes to the project's articles so that vandalism and spamming can be removed as quickly as possible.
Infoboxes Some of our articles need their infoboxes completing.
References Please remember that the list of stubs needing expansion is always in need of attention. Please take a look and see if you can help. One small edit, such as adding a reference section and reference, to an article each session would make a big difference. If you re uploadiing an image, be sure it has a correct FUR, and that you have preferably already created a link on the page where you want it to be.
Moves, merges, and multiple edits Please be careful when performing articles moves and check if anyone seems to be in the middle of doing the same thing. If he, she, or they are, stop and have a chat about it. Otherwise you may be unintentionally duplicating or reverting each other's work. This is particularly important if an article is currently under a GA review. Images may be deleted if they have an incorrect FUR.
Hi, Could you take a look at the IPA spelling of Oundle. I think it's wrong - but I might be wrong. When i lived in Corby I was often in Oundle, and I seem to femeber well how it is pronounced. Let me know what you think. Cheers. --Kudpung (talk) 08:39, 16 January 2010 (UTC)
Yes I think its correct, but you may need an other opinion as im not very good with writting IPA spellings. I do remember people calling it Undel and Oundlel though. Likelife (talk) 15:45, 16 January 2010 (UTC)
Quite simple really, the IPA as shown would give the pronunciation as OundEl, whereas I remember it as Oundl' - what do you think?--Kudpung (talk) 15:52, 16 January 2010 (UTC)
Hi, this was another edit of mine actually! I added /ə/, again based on WP:IPAEN, which calls for /əl/ at the end of words, e.g. "kindle" would be /ˈkɪndəl/. Some people write it without the /ə/, for example John C. Wells, so it wouldn't be wrong to take it out, it just wouldn't quite match the key anymore. Lfh (talk) 11:58, 17 January 2010 (UTC)
Thank you for pointing that out. If it's good enough for Wells, then it's good enough for me, and is what is being queried here in Oundle. I think that accurate IPA spelling in the encyclopedia is more important than the convenience of 'matching a key'. I realise that ultimately, the key may have to re-written for accuracy, but that's a task for the author(s) of the IPA article. In the meantime, it might be the better solution to base the IPA pronunciation of british place names on Wells's interpretations.--Kudpung (talk) 22:55, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
IPA
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I have just reviewed the St Pancras station article for which you are one of the top five editors. This article is currently rated as a B class article, but would, with a little work to add a few citations where I have marked, almost certainly pass a Good Article Review if nominated. I have started a discussion at Talk:St_Pancras_railway_station#Good Article - almost. --DavidCane (talk) 01:49, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
Motorcycling is to get safer with the creation of the London Motorcycle Policy Unit, a division of the Metropolitan Police that is a new dedicated team of motorcycle safety experts working to reduce motorcycle casualties across the Capital.
Major improvement works set for the New Cross area
Smart Travel Sutton scheme sees a 75% increase in cycling and sustainable transport usage in the brough of Sutton
Taxi fares to increase by 2.3 per cent to meet higher running costs
New Pegasus crossings intalled over A3 between Wimbledon Common and Richmond Park
Bounds Green has gained Grade II Listed status from English Heritage
January 2010
A new walking route from Covent Garden to Holborn is completed, with a public space at Great Queen Street at its centre
RMT strike planned
London Undeground celebrate's the Royal Society's 350th Anniverseary with a set of poems
DLR Bank platforms reopen in February following upgrade works
Investment Programme Advisory Group set up
Bus routes 10 and 33 will become 24 hour services
Life stories are introduced on the Jubilee Line
Average speed cameras to be trialled on the A13
Safety, lighting and communication improvement works are to begin february to bring Blackwall Tunnel to 21st century standards
Twelve Outer London boroughs are selected to become cycling havens
Grants are given to community groups to boost cycling
New posters on the Underground network help to promote face equality to help tackle stereotypes on children with disfigurements
East London Line extension nearly complete
Rotherhithe Tunnel to close from Sunday to Thursday nights for the next three weeks for installation of pedestrian signage, power cables and additional pollution monitoring equipment.
Oyster Pay-as-you-go introduced across all London stations in early January
Member News
APHST (talk·contribs) joins the project bringing our total number of participants to 78. Welcome to APHST!
This WikiProject would not be where it is today without each and every one of its members! Thank you to all!
The portal went through a candidacy for featured portal with not much luck. The areas of the portal are becoming more active with the the voting and changing of the selected pictures and articles. The transport news seems has started to be updated again but with the most up-to-date news being in this newsletter. Did you know is being improved. The portal has had a new selected biography section added to bring it up to standard. Please vote at Portal:London Transport/Vote. The current biography is Charles Pearson.
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London General articulated Citaro passing Trafalgar Square on route 453.
Arriva London articulated Citaro turning in Shaftesbury Avenue, on now double-deck route 38.
Three Transdev London buses lined up, decorated for the Kingston park and ride.
A Northern Line train leaving the tunnel just north of Hendon Central station.
A Greyhound UK coach, usually running between London, Southampton and Portsmouth, seen in Cowes on the Isle of Wight on a promotional visit.
From the editor
Hello and Happy New Year from me and generally the London Transport project.
Thank you to Arriva436 for the February gallery update
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Upminster Bridge tube station was promoted to good article status in early February. Well done to all those involved. This is apparently the first tube station to be accepted as a Good Article.
All articles have been assessed of their quality with only some of the articles' importance to the project yet to be determined. Well done on the assessment.
Discussion arose over the addition or removal of succession boxes showing the present London Underground lines and their histories as well as former services. Another discussion arose on boxes showing stations layouts
Separate issues arose over the population of aboandoned London Undeground projects categories and categories on single station platforms
New guidelines have been proposed for railway accidents. Please see WP:RAILCRASH.
...that Belsize Park station is one of the only eight stations in London to have a deep level bomb shelter beneath it?
…that Mile End tube station is the only station on the London Underground network from which it is possible to reach any other station with only a single change of train?
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Shepperton Branch Line
You hv just added an infobox to this article, What now happens is that the route map is fouled up (at least for me). The distance column seems to want to put m and ch on separate lines with the result that most elements of the map are separated by a blank line. The template viewed by itself is good.--SilasW (talk) 17:48, 19 February 2010 (UTC)
You are probably receiving this because you have significantly contributed to one of our pages. If you are not yet a participant in the Worcestershire project, now is the time to consider joining - it might help you get some assistance on a page you feel particularly attached to.
Here goes for the second irregular news bulletin...
First GA in 2010
We finally got over our euphoria over the Malvern, Worcestershire promotion to Good Article status. The GA sets a benchmark for the quality to be targeted for other articles in the project, and clearly demonstrated how important teamwork is.
Recently founded
A lot of work has already been done since the Worcs project was started, including the recent tagging of the talk pages of all the articles about people connected with Worcestershire, keeping spam and vandalism at bay, and welcoming new editors on their talk pages.
Experts needed!
The Worcestershire project mainly concerns settlements. It's generally agreed that the immediate priority now is to improve the articles that shiould be the flagships of the project, namely Worcester, and Worcestershire which are some of the articles in the worst state.
Meet up
Kudpung has booked his flight from Asia and will be back in Malvern from 1 April for a month, and looks forward to meeting up with as many Wikipedians as possible, especially those who work on the Worcs project.
NEWS
Two major debates are raging on the 'pedia and we have been cautiously taking part.
In for a shake up is an accumulation of nearly 50,000 totally unsourced articles that may end up on the cutting room floor after a period of grace. As a project, we can help by taking a look at those BLP in the county and doing what we can before the axe falls.
citations
A war almost broke out over citation formats, but a mature approach from Worcs project members prevented any physical injury. There, are only three basic rules for citations: 1. All articles must have them. 2. Consitency of format throughout an articles. 3. Changes to the format require a consensus. We are not obliged to use citation templates, and WP:LDR might not be such a good idea while chunks of text and/or their references are being copied and pasted around related articles in the county. In any case, let's always discuss what we have in mind HERE.
new project pages
The project main page has been pruned to be cleaner, and much of the support material has been transferred to dedicated pages. New usefull banners and templates have been created, and shortcuts to the new pages that also include a side bar navigator and a brand new easily edited To Do list.
new participant
After all the hints getting him to join, we now welcome User:wotnow !
sysop (admin)
Our only admin has resigned his tools. It would be great to have an active admin as a member of the project. If you think you would be able to cope with all the responsibility adminship involves, checkout WP:RfA and nominate yourself. Nobody needs to have a high edit count or to be an expert in all areas, but being active, having a reasonable overview of the workings of the Wikipedia, and a decent level of maturity, are expected minima. The process is not painless, and is worse than a British army promotion board! Alternatively you can always nominate another user.
Would you like to join the WP:WORCS?? Please enter yourself at WP:WORCS! - new editors are always welcome!
Happy Wikying, and thanks to everyone else who has contributed to our articles.
New project resources
Before making any major edits to articles or stubs, please be sure to read the new WP:WORCS/HowTo.
Urgent tasks are now listed at: WP:WORCS/ToDo. It should be referred to often, and will be your main stop for most maintenance tasks. We recommend keeping the page on your watchlist.
Most project pages now have brand new side bar for easy navigation. (Thanks, GyroMagician).
Priority Articles==
The top priority articles have been identified as probably being:
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, so we can concentrate our efforts on these first. Priorities are not set in stone and if you would like to discuss changes, please join in at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Worcestershire.
Other priorities:
The recommended priority by kind is for creation/improvement of complete articles is:
Places in the county
Schools in the county (Particularly susceptible to vandalism - please keep them on your watch lists if possible).
Transport in the county
Notable buildings/objects/geo features/AONB/Heritage sites, etc. in the county
History in the county
Industry & Commerce in the county.
People in the county - NOTE: These all need the Worcs project banner adding to their talk pages, and assessing.
County related articles about things not actually in the county, and/or other related projects.
Monitor The watchlist to keep an eye on changes to the project's articles so that vandalism and spamming can be removed as quickly as possible.
Infoboxes Some of our articles need their infoboxes completing infobox.
References Please remember that the list of stubs needing expansion is always in need of attention. Please take a look and see if you can help. One small edit, such as adding a reference section and reference, to an article each session would make a big difference. If you are uploadiing an image, be sure it has a correct FUR, and that you have preferably already created a link on the page where you want it to be.
Moves, merges, and multiple edits Please be careful when performing articles moves and check if anyone seems to be in the middle of doing the same thing. If he; she, or they are, stop and have a chat about it. Otherwise you may be unintentionally duplicating or reverting each other's work. This is particularly important if an article is currently under a GA review. image may be deleted as it has an incorrect FUR.
I see that the American campaign against the British pronunciation of British place names, by British Wikipedeia authors and British citizens has been relaunched. I think this campaign is deceitful and goes against an admin's remit. I might not be so prepared to let things rest this time round, especially as the editors concerned are oblivious of the sensitivities they may be affronting, and even though I am one editor who abhors opening cans of worms. I may call an RfC and will look forward to your support. --Kudpung (talk) 13:24, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
Kwami the American, admin, and quasi claimer of authority on all things IPA, who has never even been nto the UK has started again putting final /r/ in the IPA transcriptioins of names of British counties, starting with Worcestershire (again), herefordshire, and warwikshire (again). This kind of editing is called 'disruptive' and is inadmissible when done by an admin. who is supposed to uphold Wiki policy.--Kudpung (talk) 16:23, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
BTW - I've tried to explain this away to myself as good faith, but I can't, so in order to defend the issue, I have to risk getting myself accused of not being of good faith. I probably won't really escalate it, because I'm more interested in spending my time wrting good articles, but I hope to have made my point to those concerned. You might like to see the long response to Kwami on my talk page.--Kudpung (talk) 05:01, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
I've gone through all the people listed. These are the dubious ones, but only really because their home articles either do not respect Wiklipedia criteria for notability and/or the articles are not sourced. In the case of the unsourced BLPs this is very bad news as the articles should be deleted after warning the creator. Articles about footballers are notorious for flagrantly disobeying the rules, and nobody seems to care. If I were the major contributor, and I wanted to get the Wellingborough article up to snuff for a B rating or a GA, I would have to accept that these entries would have to go. I'll leave it up to you.
The only mention of Christopher Hatton is that a school in Wellingboro is named after him.
Thanks for that I’ve removed some of your suggestions and I have found refs for some of them here. It is now in paragraphs, but I feel its not perfect. Likelife (talk) 17:44, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
What do you say we work on this really hard and get it to GA? It would be a first for teamwork of the Northants project.--Kudpung (talk) 23:08, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
Yes of course the Northants Project does need some credit and it would be great to get Wellingborough to GA. After this, I think Corby really needs to excel. Likelife (talk) 15:48, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
I see you've promoted Wellingborough. Did you check everything off on the Wikipedia checklist? I'm pretty sure that with still some inline tags in the Iron ore section it won't pass B class. Some of them appear to be OR, and may best just cut out. If we can get issues like that fixed, we can start looking at polishing it up for GA.--Kudpung (talk) 18:45, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
Its a great section, but I will remove the second paragraph with no refs in Iron Ore. I have tried to find refs in the past but couldn't find anything good for this section.Likelife (talk) 20:41, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
It's sad when that happens, but it's often the only solution. Maybe there is something in the local library. Local libraries often have copies of privately published works of local interest. Such works are not generally listed on the Internet. I've asked someone now to take a good look at the article and point out any glaring issues, prior to it being nominated for GA review.--Kudpung (talk) 22:42, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
I(ve asked a frined who is also an admin to have a quick check on the current state of the article before we nominate it for GA review. See his comments here: Talk:Wellingborough#Human peer review from Keith. Could you check some of these items out, and put this {{done}} ( Done) template against them if they have been successfully addressed? --Kudpung (talk) 02:52, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
TfL introduces new facility to help reduce the number of defaced Zip photocards in circulation
Vehicle testing fees will now be cheaper.
An innovative new campaign called "THINK!" is launched to cut motorcyclist deaths
February 2010
Motorcycling is to get safer with the creation of the London Motorcycle Policy Unit, a division of the Metropolitan Police that is a new dedicated team of motorcycle safety experts working to reduce motorcycle casualties across the Capital.
Major improvement works set for the New Cross area
Smart Travel Sutton scheme sees a 75% increase in cycling and sustainable transport usage in the brough of Sutton
Taxi fares to increase by 2.3 per cent to meet higher running costs
New Pegasus crossings intalled over A3 between Wimbledon Common and Richmond Park
Bounds Green has gained Grade II Listed status from English Heritage
The portal went through a candidacy for featured portal with not much luck. The areas of the portal are becoming more active with the voting and changing of the selected pictures and articles. The transport news seems has started to be updated again but with the most up-to-date news being in this newsletter. Did you know is being improved. The portal has had a new selected biography section added to bring it up to standard. Please vote at Portal:London Transport/Vote. The current biography is Charles Pearson.
As usual all suggestions to improving the Metropolitan are welcome so if you have one we would be happy to hear from you.
Please also could people submit suggestions for DYKs or does anyone want to do the next issue?
Hello and Happy New Year from me and generally the London Transport project.
Thank you to Tyw7 for doing many of the March updates
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Upminster Bridge tube station was promoted to good article status in early February. Well done to all those involved. This is apparently the first tube station to be accepted as a Good Article. Also, High Speed 1 retained its GA status.
All articles have been assessed of their quality with only some of the articles' importance to the project yet to be determined. Well done on the assessment.
Discussion arose over the addition or removal of succession boxes showing the present London Underground lines and their histories as well as former services. Another discussion arose on boxes showing stations layouts
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…that Mile End tube station is the only station on the London Underground network from which it is possible to reach any other station with only a single change of train?
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Transport Select Committee confirms the London Underground's Public-Private Partnership has not been delivering value for money.
£9.2 billion approved towards the completion of several of the major transport projects in London: East London Line extension, Jubilee Line upgrade, London Cycle Hire scheme, two Cycle Superhighways and 50 per cent boost to capacity of busiest DLR route.
London Bus Awards 2010 celebrated
Scooter safety urged for drivers to join the ScooterSafe initiative advised as well as warnings for teenagers on the changes of Daylight Savings
Frameworks set up to speed up delivery of electric vehicles in London by TfL
TfL's Travel Information Centre celebrated its 70th anniversary with the opening of a new centre at King's Cross St Pancras station
£11.5 miilion to be used in six boroughs for improvements in the run up to the Olympic games
Sutton High Street closed for 10 weeks for gas maintenance
A £6 million facelift of Woolwich town centre is completed.
Vision outlined on new trains and a better system for the London Underground
A new map is launched showing coach parking close to major landmarks
A taxi rank in Cranbourne Street is to be moved to Haymarket to curb touting
Mayor and TfL: Arbiter's directions show PPP is 'not delivering for Londoners and taxpayers'
Transport for London has awarded the morning free newspaper contract to Metro
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Upminster Bridge tube station was promoted to good article status in early February. Well done to all those involved. This is apparently the first tube station to be accepted as a Good Article. Also, High Speed 1 retained its GA status.
All articles have been assessed of their quality with only some of the articles' importance to the project yet to be determined. Well done on the assessment.
Discussion arose over the addition or removal of succession boxes showing the present London Underground lines and their histories as well as former services. Another discussion arose on boxes showing stations layouts. This has reslted in many of thwe succession boxes being removed from articles.
Separate issues arose over the population of aboandoned London Undeground projects categories and categories on single station platforms
New guidelines have been proposed for railway accidents. Please see WP:RAILCRASH.
Major discussions arose over the notability of many London bus routes, which resulted in some routes being kept and some being deleted. Please leave your comments at WT:LT#London bus route articles and WT:BUS.
that at 44 tons, the locomotives of the Central London Railway's first underground trains were so heavy that they shook buildings as they passed 60 feet below and were scrapped after three years?
...that bus company London Country North East lost over £5 million in less than two years of existence before it was split up in 1989?
...that Belsize Park station is one of the only eight stations in London to have a deep level bomb shelter beneath it?
…that Mile End tube station is the only station on the London Underground network from which it is possible to reach any other station with only a single change of train?
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Hi Likelife, Wellingborough has had a detailed peer review and all points addressed. I think we should now go for GA. Would you care to nominate?--Kudpung (talk) 22:00, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
I need your help. There is a heavy discussion on the Talk:Worcester page about the intrusive final /r/ in British English place names again. If you have time could you read the whole thing? I don't care if you don't come out in favour of my opinion or that of the editors who share it and whom I have been asked to support, but I do wish the discussion were more evenly balanced and without the personal attacks. If you can contribute directly, please do, otherwise you are welcome to discuss it first on my talk page. Thanks a million.--Kudpung (talk) 16:11, 20 April 2010 (UTC)
Kettering
I think you are most certainly right about kettering being C class. It's probably also close to B class. I haven't verified qll the references but thyey are certaqinly displaying in a very clean list. BTW: How about now nominating Welly for GA? --Kudpung (talk) 03:18, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
Sorry about Welly it's now nominated. I'm not very good on Kettering, but I still would like to get Kettering to GA soon and show what WP Northants actually works. Likelife (talk) 16:03, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
OK. Let me know as soon as a reviewer has accepted to do Welly, and I'll help you get it through. Kettering can wait - after all, on the Worcestershire project we still only have one GA for the moment, but it would be good if all the midlands counties could have at least one GA. It will help in our appeal to have the correct pronunciation shown for our counties for one thing.--Kudpung (talk) 01:27, 7 May 2010 (UTC)
The North London Line fully reopens are completion of upgrade work
May
London Underground and the Royal Society for the protection of Birds (RSPB) team up to launch wildlife competition to encourage people to use the Underground for nature spotting.
Barclays to sponsor London Cycle Hire scheme
LED traffic light installations across London to begin this August
The final consultation of the scrappage of the western extension of the Congestion Charge begins
TfL and the Mayor are encouraging Londoners to sign up to the London Cycle Challenge this June
Tfl wins a prestigious award from the Royal Institute of Brital Architects for the East London Transit
The first of five hydrogen buses in London is currently unmdergoing testing in Bedfordshire
Weekend service introduced on the East London Line
Blackwall tunnel southbound to close for five weekends in the year for vital upgrade work
A series of artworks are commission for the Jubillee Line as part of Art on the Underground, the first of which is shown at City Hall until 10 June. Also, for twelve months a digital moving image installation is installed at Canary Wharf tube station.
Tube Lines becomes a subsidary of Transport for London after the aquisition of its shares
April
Marshalled taxi ranks at O2 on Thursday to Sunday nights when there is an event
More busking licenses available for tube stations
East London Line reopens with new stations at Dalston Junction, Hoxton, Haggerston and Shoreditch High Street
Tour of Britain cycle race to return in September
Talks on 14 and 15 May to discuss improvements to Blackwall Tunnel to be held at the O2
London Underground has been awarded the Carbon Trust Standard in recognition towards its work to wards carbon efficiency
Oxford Circus to become exit and interchange only weekday mornings to give time to replace some of its escalators
Junction improvement means changes to bus services in Herne Hill
EDF Energy awarded power upgrade for sub-surface lines
Tube Lines and shareholders, Ferrovial and Bechtel, must demonstrate plans are robust and prove Tube Lines is creditworthy, as challenged by the Mayor and TfL
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I have also had to give less detail on some reports as the Article Alert Bot is currently down.
New guidelines have been proposed for railway accidents. Please see WP:RAILCRASH.
Major discussions arose over the notability of many London bus routes, which resulted in some routes being kept and some being deleted. Please leave your comments at WT:LT#London bus route articles and WT:BUS. This has essentially ground to a halt.
Another discussion as well as straw poll has been on whther the frequency of trains per hour should be added. It appeared there was no consensus.
New usage data has been given by TfL for the London Underground for 2009
Finally a minor issue arose on the colour of London Overground.
Did you know...
that at 44 tons, the locomotives of the Central London Railway's first underground trains were so heavy that they shook buildings as they passed 60 feet below and were scrapped after three years?
...that bus company London Country North East lost over £5 million in less than two years of existence before it was split up in 1989?
...that Belsize Park station is one of the only eight stations in London to have a deep level bomb shelter beneath it?
…that Mile End tube station is the only station on the London Underground network from which it is possible to reach any other station with only a single change of train?
... that at 44 tons, the locomotives of the Central London Railway`s first underground trains were so heavy that they shook buildings as they passed 60 feet below and were scrapped after three years?
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Hello, Likelife. You have new messages at Talk:Wellingborough/GA1. Message added 04:16, 11 June 2010 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.
I've started having a look at what needs to be done. see my first edits, and see my comments embedded ion the review notes. Kudpung (talk) 04:16, 11 June 2010 (UTC)
Likelife, on the review page be absolutely sure to put a {{done}} template next to all points the reviewer has made as soon as they have been addressed, it will look like this: Done, and to add your signature. This will avoid any unnecessary duplication on my part. We only have 7 days to clean up and unfortunately I happen to be just very busy in real life this coming week and may not even have an Internet connection for two or three days while I'm in the jungle. Some of the items may require you to do a trip to a local library if you can. --Kudpung (talk) 00:57, 12 June 2010 (UTC)
There's not much more help I can provide at this stage - you're the local expert. Do please have another look at the list of things to do if you can because time is running out.--Kudpung (talk) 20:04, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
I've done what I can. If I were reviewing it I would probably pass it at this stage, after all it's not a FA. I feel that while some comments have been helpful, others have not been particularly encouraging. Let's see what happens. The only loss if it fails will be one of enthusiasm ;) --Kudpung (talk) 21:15, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
Thank you
Thank you very much for the GA "sticker" but if you don't mind I will remove it as Wellingborough was improved to GA by you and Kudpung among others. All I did was a bit of cosmetic shuffling to an article I noticed in the GAN list when I added Astley. Congratulations on achieving GA status and I hope you contribute many more. :-)--J3Mrs (talk) 19:56, 27 June 2010 (UTC)
Hi Likelife/Archive 1! A Wikipedia:WikiProject Northamptonshire has now been created. If you wish to help out improving articles relating to anything in the county, please don't hesitate to go to the page and sign up!--Kudpung (talk) 13:37, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
An article that you have been involved in editing, Template:Anglophone states , has been proposed for a merge with another article. If you are interested in the merge discussion, please participate by going here, and adding your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. — .`^) Paine Ellsworthdiss`cuss (^`. 10:36, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
Done) template against them if they have been successfully addressed? --Kudpung (talk) 02:52, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
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. The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needed to be addressed. If these are fixed within seven days, the article will pass, otherwise it will fail. See Talk:Wellingborough for things which need to be addressed. Pyrotec (talk) 13:42, 11 June 2010 (UTC)
Done, and to add your signature. This will avoid any unnecessary duplication on my part. We only have 7 days to clean up and unfortunately I happen to be just very busy in real life this coming week and may not even have an Internet connection for two or three days while I'm in the jungle. Some of the items may require you to do a trip to a local library if you can. --Kudpung (talk) 00:57, 12 June 2010 (UTC)