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Happy New Year!

Dear Mackensen,

Wishing you a happy new year, and very best wishes for 2009. Whether we were friends or not in the past year, I hope 2009 will be better for us both.

Kind regards,

Majorly talk 21:25, 1 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

DRV request

Hi Mackensen. There now is a request at DRV to create a disambiguation page at Adult-child sex. You closed the DRV discussion back on 28 January 2008. The page was protected on 27 January 2008 and the reason given was "Per WP:DRV closing admin". It would help that discussion to know the reasoning behind the protection of that page (e.g. for any and all purposes or was it only in furtherance of enforcing the DRV decision). Also, it would really help that discussion to know your thoughts on whether a disambiguation page could be created at Adult-child sex consistent with your DRV close. Thanks and happy new year. -- Suntag ☼ 01:31, 2 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Hiding the rail services

I was wondering whther hide options should be added to s-rail boxes, similar to nav boxes and now RDTs? Simply south not SS, sorry 16:50, 12 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure; fundamentally it's a succession box, and I don't think those have a show/hide feature. I vaguely recall trying to implement such a thing once and having problems doing it without breaking the formatting in nasty ways. Mackensen (talk) 23:51, 12 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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S-rail and station name suffixes

Hi Mackensen, I've got a question about using S-rail with a station name that needs the network in brackets after it, to avoid ambiguity, when the rest of the stations on that network are non-ambiguous and don't need it. The station is Airport Metro station (Tyne and Wear), which was named just "Airport Metro station" until recently. I can't add it as a parameter in S-rail because the +station which the template adds needs to fall in the middle, and I can't see how to do that without changing it for the whole network. The old name worked because it had no special suffix. Hope this is clear enough and not too stupid a question! :-) — FIRE!^{in a crowded theatre...} 16:19, 19 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

This has been sorted. Johnwalton 18:30, 19 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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User:Mackensen/Grand Elk Railroad

According to Watco, this is to begin today. Railinc (AAR subsidiary) is a good reference for the reporting mark. --NE2 07:06, 9 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Cool, I'll move it into the mainspace. Mackensen (talk) 22:17, 9 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Amtrak

Heya! I just realized how recently you standardized the disambiguation of Amtrak trains. I've already moved some of them according to my suggestion but I wanted to check in with you before moving the the rest of them so that we are on the same page. I suggest that they are moved to "Name (train)" in those cases where they are the only train with a certain name, and "Name (Amtrak train)" in those cases where there are several. That way they conform to the (new) standard of the rest of the train articles. All the best/ Pax:Vobiscum (talk) 09:54, 17 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I've noticed the moves on my watchlist ;). I think standardization is great, and I have no objection to the new standard. In situations where multiple systems operated the same train (like the Champion and Lone Star), are you going with whichever system operated it last (usually Amtrak)? Mackensen (talk) 11:27, 17 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Good question, up until now I've just used whatever the previous name of the article was (so Lone Star (Amtrak) became Lone Star (Amtrak train) and Lone Star (SSW passenger train) became Lone Star (SSW train)), so I've never really made that decision. What do you think? Pax:Vobiscum (talk) 12:35, 17 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  - Well, I picked some bad examples. Amtrak took the Lone Star name from the SSW, but it ran over a different route. Both articles ought to grow independently. Where a train starts with one company but moves on to others (like the Abraham Lincoln) the (train) dab is best. Where we're going to be stuck is if we have two trains with the same name, at least one of which moved on to a different company. If that happens, I say take whichever company is best associated with it. The Empire State Express, for example, probably shouldn't be (Amtrak train). Mackensen (talk) 01:31, 18 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    - Sounds good to me. Pax:Vobiscum (talk) 10:28, 18 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

AfD nomination of Detroit Tigers minor league players

I have nominated Detroit Tigers minor league players, an article that you created, for deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Detroit Tigers minor league players (2nd nomination). Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time.

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Haßfurt–Hofheim railway

Hi, that's certainly a lot better and the ability to "show/hide" the route diagram is cool. What I would really like is a multi-lingual infobox that works for the existing English-language community, but also accepts and interprets the de.wiki "BS-daten" fields when copied across. It should have the best features of both infoboxes. As a translator, time is key and I want to spend it on the difficult bit - translating the article - not on repeatedly translating field names or converting templates for the 1,000th time. I used to do that with the locomotive template - very boring - until I found a way to auto-translate it! Now I can add articles much faster than before. :) --Bermicourt (talk) 20:27, 26 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Well, it should be possible to just make the BS-daten fields alternatives for their counterparts in Infobox rail line. Let me look over BS-daten and see how big a job that would be. Mackensen (talk) 21:38, 26 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Redeleted article

I had a question about a redeleted article at WT:AFD#Redeleted article. Since you conducted some of the actions mentioned in my query, would you care to respond there? Thanks. — AjaxSmack 00:56, 31 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Baseball Reference Minors

The baseball reference minors pages can no longer be linked to with the template baseballstats because they have changed their URLs. Since you were the one who put BR minors on originally, I was hoping you could fix this please. It would also be great if the BR Bullpen could be linked with the template. Thank you. Kinston eagle (talk) 19:27, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I just checked out the link at Elvis Andrus and it appeared to redirect okay. The entire format has changed--we'd have to touch every article that used the link after changing the template. Mackensen (talk) 22:47, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- The pages that were on the old BR minors pages (people who were in the minor leagues since 1992 like Elvis Andrus) redirect to the new pages most times but not every time. The new pages covering the rest of minor league history prior to 1992 don't work. As an example, I was trying to add the recently deceased HoF player George Kell's minor league page found here: [1]. It does not redirect to his page. I do a lot of work with minor league pages on the Bullpen and from experience I can tell you that about ten percent of the post-92 pages don't redirect properly. Believe me, I know it's a lot of work to change them the way it should be. I have been changing hundreds of them over at the Bullpen since the change, but it just has to be done. Kinston eagle (talk) 01:24, 15 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  - I've updated the template link. Mackensen (talk) 11:01, 15 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    - Thank you. Kinston eagle (talk) 12:33, 15 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Remember this?

This page was the subject of a VfD debate on April 16, 2005. The decision was to merge and redirect to/with Fermi Paradox. See Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/The Great Filter for discussion. Mackensen (talk) 05:18, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I have nominated this again I think it could be merged with Rare Earth hypothesis this time. Apparently someone brought this back a few years ago. If you care please chime in. If not have a nice day. Thank you. J8079s (talk) 22:45, 21 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

That's certainly a blast from the past! I have no views on the merits, but thanks for the heads-up all the same. Mackensen (talk) 00:58, 22 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Great Filter (2nd nomination)

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WP:OP

Greetings, I'm just trying to get a current feel for who is still active in the project and if anybody would object to cleaning out inactive users of the verified user list. Thank you for your time. Q ^{T C} 03:46, 20 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

DYK nomination of Gazelle class light cruiser

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DYK for Gazelle class light cruiser

On June 11, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Gazelle class light cruiser, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Giants 27 11:28, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

Congrats on your excellent article! Great job!! — Kralizec! (talk) 12:07, 11 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! --Mackensen (talk) 21:55, 11 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Scott Williamson

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DYK for Don Kelly (baseball)

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