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Canary Wharf Group contributed £150m to Crossrail for design and building of Isle of Dogs station
Westminster Bridge's heritage 146-year-old lights were switched on for Christmas after the completion of a conservation project
Congestion charge suspended for Christmas and New Year
The Mayor has unveiled the winning designs for the 21st century Routemaster
East Thames Buses could go private to improve services
Campaign against illegal cabs intensifies as Christmas party season begins
Hybrid buses fleet to reach 56 by early 2009
TfL encourage freight operators for more efficient and safer driving through coaching and profiling
Extra funding granted to upgrade part of the London Overground
The London Underground is the setting for an award-winning poem called Green Park
A new policing team is launched on buses targetting pickpockets and violent passengers
November
As over two thirds of those people consulted wanted the London Congestion Charge Western Scheme Scrapped, the legal perocess has begun
New White City bus station opened
London Overground celebrates 1 year
Bloomsbury, Covent Garden and Holborn are to gain a new pedestrian way-finding system called Legible London, as well as other areas
Many schools to feature in safety campaign
Metrobus's Croydon branch won an award for good services, whist Arriva's Beddington Farm bus garage won the bus garage award
Route X26 doubles frequency
In many boroughs local transport is boosted by the mayor
TfL's Lost Property Office donated toys to The Salvation Army to bring joy to hundreds of children
A 19 year old becomes the youngest ever London taxi driver and to learn The Knowledge
LB Wandsworth enforces pavement obstructions (?)
Consultation sought on extension of London Buses route S3
Beckton gets a new bus station
The mayor has outlined a major multi-billion 10 year business and transport plan
Major engineering works begin on part of the London Overground
Hybrid buses were exhibitioned at Birmingham's National Exhibition Centre
Woolwich Town Centre gets a major boost in its regeneration
An RMT strike occurs on the London Underground
In many places in London boroughs, there are more places providing oyster cards
Numerous transport schemes scrapped and jobs cut
October
Work of art displayed on tube map and at Gloucester Road
Motorbikes are now allowed to use bus lanes
A new social networking site has launched called Together for London.org with hopes to improve London life
Passengers were able to to question the Victoria Line upgrade
Over 100 taxis transported sick children to Disneyland
Shepherd's Bush station on the Hammersmith & City Line renamed to Shepherd's Bush Market
Wood Lane station opened
The TfL Penalty fare has risen to £50 on most modes of transport
Freight operators awarded for helping shape freight in London
Delay into inquiry in Dagenham Dock extension cancellation
More wide aisle gates at stations.
Shepherd's Bush Central Line station reopened
The 56 TX4 taxi licences were reinstated once remedial work was finished
Over 3 million less school runs now every year
Please note that events are arranged from newest at the top to oldest at the bottom.
Member News
Welcome to the new members that joined during the months of October to January:
Yesnoguy
And a sad goodbye to
Oxyman42
Bringing us to a total of 69 members!
This WikiProject would not be where it is today without each and every one of its members! Thank you to all!
General
On the assessment side, there are still a lot of articles that need to be assessed for their quality and their importance to this project. Interest has remained on a level of a few articles every few weeks in assessment of articles. Of the current 1731 articles, 424 have not ben assessed for quality, also of which 413 have not had their importance to the project assessed either. Please can there be an effort to do this, just like an effort was done to the articles in UK Railways.
Congratulations to all the people involved in getting Edgar Speyer to good article status. Well done for this achievement.
Please can people become more involved with other areas of the portal. The portal still seems to be only gaining contributions on the selected article and picture areas. It seems there is still a general lack of interest in the portal other than these areas.
Sorry for this being a quarter of a year late as i have been busy with work.
As usual, this issue is in the current format and is still awaiting suggestions for other improvements. No new Did You Knows were available for this so have not been included, instead other Did you know suggestions were.
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This edition has an even larger TfL news section as the previous edition was launched in October and there have been many changes since then. It is at least back to near the start of the month. The tree is meant to represent new year, please suggest a better image if possible. I also apologise for not releasing this 3 days ago again.
This is a revived edition, partly as this still has had support from many people and the paper's subscribers and would not be here without you all.
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Oh Thanks. Actually my 5000th edit was the reply to the message above this one! BTW, where's my adopter?! I need some references from him! (Only joking- it's no big deal). Thanks again. Oliver Fury, Esq.message • contributions01:00, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
LOL yes, I missed that. :D Still, I'll be getting to it in that time frame...that bloody FAC is sucking up my time! (I'm so glad that I didn't nom two at the same time) —Ed17(Talk / Contribs)01:58, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
Usually, one should not revert when an editor blanks a page they newly created. It should be taken as {{{db-self}}}. Cheers, Dlohcierekim 23:03, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
Hi Ollie, no worries ref the typo correction,. I'm currently working on re-writing the article on the London, Midland and Scottish Railway and after that may have some tweaking to do on the Tube map article. However as someone with an interest in transport in Bucks, I have the page on my watchlist, and will see if there is anything I can contribute, although it seems to be coming along fine so far :o) ColourSarge (talk) 20:44, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for deleting the whitespace. Obvisouly, that comment kind of upset me a little, and I was tired. I went to bed shortly after, and didn't do it myself. I hope she comes back soon--I know I shouldn't because she assumed the worst of me, but I feel rather guilty that I chased somebody away. --Call me Bubba (talk) 19:50, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
Thanks. I hate seeing text like that- people think that when typing here you can indent with a space like when writing, not realising you should use a colon. If only they used the preview button...! Oliver Fury, Esq.message • contributions19:53, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
That, and if they thought about the level of professionalism needed to write an enclycopedia, they would know that adding a few sentences about the unusual sex habits of dwarves might seem rather odd. --Call me Bubba (talk) 19:57, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
Yeah. Several things- roughly how old are you? I mean are you an adult, a teenager like me or younger? And second- do I need to keep adding {{talkback}} to your talk page or have you got this page on your watchlist?
Spencer has had 1 successful "In the news" nomination.
From the Judges
This years WikiCup started off great! It's only the second full week of competition, and we already have a lot of content promoted. We have some very close pools, such as Pool A and J. We also have some pools who have not been very active yet, but hopefully that will start changing in the coming weeks.
Garden and iMatthew have also opened a new pool, the "Judge's Pool" where we are competing against each other and following the same rules as all of you. This pool however, will never have any effect on the actual competition, but you can still check back often to see how we are doing compared to yourself.
That's it for this newsletter edition, everyone. Any questions or comments are always welcome on the WikiCup talk page, or our user talk pages. Until next time, Garden. and iMatthew // talk // 13:55, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
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Current leaders
In this round of the WikiCup, the top three contestants from each pool will advance to the next round. As of this newsletter, the current pool leaders are:
Pool A
Catalan (138)
Gary King (86)
Spencer (67)
Pool B
Sceptre (22)
Spittlespat (7)
Greatestrowerever, Malinaccier (6)
Pool C
Candlewicke (60)
Scorpion0422 (24)
Steven Walling (9)
Pool D
NapHit (27)
ThinkBlue (18)
97198 (11)
Pool E
X! (69)
Sasata (10)
LOTRrules (4)
Pool F
Bedford (29)
RyanCross (21)
the_ed17, Howard the Duck (5)
Pool G
Sunderland06 (46)
Skinny87 (16)
What!?Why?Who?, Pedro_João, Ceranthor (2)
Pool H
Juliancolton (133)
Tinucherian (41)
Ottava Rima (28)
Pool I
Durova (144)
Theleftorium (121)
Wrestlinglover (15)
Pool J
Paxse (78)
Climie.ca (67)
Useight (46)
All scores are accurate as of the time the newsletter was sent out.
Ollie, I suspect this is something you haven't come across before. It applies to every article, not ones just those about MK or Bucks. It is considered bad practice to list categories that are nested within other categories. For example, you shouldn't have Category:MGM Hollywood and Category:Hollywood and Category:Los Angeles and Category:Califonia and Category:USA and Category:North America. So "Category:Transport in MK" and "Transport in Aylesbury" should each include a "Category:Transport in Bucks" tag, but you mustn't that tag additionally in each article. Nor should you put "transport in England", "Transport in the UK", or "Transport in Europe" either. I'm sure that there is a Help:Category that explains this better somewhere. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 20:16, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
Ah, I see now what the mistake is. Yes, there was no problem with you adding the template (which I really ought to have checked out first, so we're even). The problem is that there shouldn't be a "Category:Transport in Buckinghamshire" embedded in the template, because it creates the nesting problem I've described about. I'll leave it to you to fix as no doubt there are knock on consequences. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 20:21, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
But it is absolutely a question of categories, you can't just ignore a long-standing Wikipedia policy. (You are welcome to put the Transport in Bucks template on that article or any other MK transport article, but it mustn't contain a Category statement). --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 20:26, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
Thanks. If I had studied your template properly in the first place, we'd have identified the real problem earlier.
I assume you checked other Bucks transport articles to check that they've still got the category statement? (i.e., you added your template to what was there before, not replaced an existing Category statement). [No need to reply, just a nudge that may be stating the obvious]. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 20:13, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
Go to your preferences and go to the 'Gadgets Tab'. Look down the list for the 'User interface gadgets' things. Then tick the penultimate box in that list, the one that says 'Add a "*" tab to the top of the page, which purges the page's cache when followed.'. Follow the instructions at the bottom of your preferences page under the save button. After that you should be able to press the tab with the asterisk (*) at the top of the page to purge the cache which should update it. If it doesn't, edit your talk page and place the exact same {{your chesspage}} template where it is already (don't change anything-you're not making an edit). Save the page and it will have been updated. That won't count as an edit, as you haven't actually done anything. Bear in mind that there are probably easier ways to do this, but I find it easiest to just copy and paste the template into the same position as before. It always works!
Hello, OllieFury. You have new messages at The ed17's talk page. You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.
Wow, you guys are racking up the DYK's fast! Good articles are also coming in quite quickly, and we also have a few new Featured articles. This is coming along great so far; we're glad to see almost everyone working on something.
Also, Thehelpfulone is our newest judge. He will, starting Monday, be helping maintain the WikiCup and help us ensure all runs smoothly. It's hard to gain consensus between two editors, so I guess "majority rules" (with three people) will start to apply while we make our decision. :-P
In this round of the WikiCup, the top three contestants from each pool will advance to the next round. As of this newsletter, the current pool leaders are:
Pool A
Catalan, Gary King (191)
Spencer (127)
Pool B
Shoemaker's Holiday (112)
Sceptre (34)
Spittlespat (9)
Pool C
Candlewicke (182)
Scorpion0422 (72)
Steven Walling (16)
Pool D
97198 (79)
NapHit (29)
ThinkBlue (25)
Pool E
Sasata (91)
X! (69)
Straight Edge PXK (6)
Pool F
Bedford (55)
RyanCross (31)
the_ed17 (24)
Pool G
Sunderland06 (104)
Ceranthor (34)
Skinny87 (17)
Pool H
Juliancolton (230)
Tinucherian (64)
Ottava Rima (28)
Pool I
Durova (319)
Theleftorium (196)
J Milburn (65)
Pool J
Climie.ca (101)
Paxse (97)
Useight (81)
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I thought that was a bit odd - the user has been putting a lot of effort into removing the speedy deletion tags from the article, it made me wonder why they're request deletion... -- roleplayer23:04, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
The page will be deleted shortly- if that user want to keep it he has the right to say why on the talk page. If he doesn't, his removing of the speedy delete tags will be taken as vandalism. Oliver Fury, Esq.message • contributions23:12, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
The content is continuing to pile in, it's great! Nothing significant this issue, but we currently have a straw poll going on regarding the point values of featured pictures, sounds, and lists. Garden., iMatthew // talk, and TheHelpfulOne
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WikiCup At a Glance
As of this newsletter, the WikiCup participants have collected a total of:
In this round of the WikiCup, the top three contestants from each pool will advance to the next round. As of this newsletter, the current pool leaders are:
Pool A
Catalan (254)
Gary King (215)
Spencer (150)
Pool B
Shoemaker's Holiday (189)
Sceptre (35)
Spittlespat (10)
Pool C
Candlewicke (250)
Scorpion0422 (146)
Steven Walling (29)
Pool D
97198 (89)
ThinkBlue (37)
NapHit (31)
Pool E
Sasata (140)
X! (105)
Straight Edge PXK (9)
Pool F
Bedford (101)
the_ed17 (40)
RyanCross (32)
Pool G
Sunderland06 (107)
Ceranthor (67)
jj137 (50)
Pool H
Juliancolton (355)
Tinucherian (71)
Ottava Rima (28)
Pool I
Durova (462)
Theleftorium (264)
J Milburn (88)
Pool J
Climie.ca (135)
Paxse (134)
Useight (116)
All scores are accurate as of the time the newsletter was sent out.
I wanted to ask you what the general rules where on gaming site article's on Wikipedia. I wanted to add a specfic game to this list: List_of_multiplayer_browser_games, however is there a policy I have to stick to? If I include enough context, do you think it will be able to stay?
In fact it does seem that a lot of web-based games' articles have been proposed for deletion, but I would value your viewpoint :). —Preceding unsigned comment added by ²wenty³ (talk • contribs) 11:36, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
The general rule for anything like this is notability. Find a reference for the game to cite it and then you can try adding it. If you want to create an article for a specific game, you will have to find several good sources, see here for information. Have you created any articles yet? If not, read that!
If you make a page and do not indicate any reason why it is notable- (why is this game notable!) then it may be proposed for deletion. You can ask and consider joining here if you want more info. I think some of your questions may have been answered on the articles talk page.
We're still going strong. Couple of things though; please note that you must make it known you are in the WikiCup when nominating FAs, FLs, FPos, FPs, and FSs. This is to lower the possibility of bias. We're also changing the way you get to the next round. Now, the top two from each round get through, along with ten wildcards. This means that even if you're not in the top two you can still get into Round 2, so even if you're in the group of death you can still go through. Hopefully this will be fairer for all. We've also unfortunately had our first withdrawal - Truco has left the Cup. Best wishes for him in the future. Garden., iMatthew // talk, and TheHelpfulOne
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WikiCup At a Glance
As of this newsletter, the WikiCup participants have collected a total of:
In this round of the WikiCup, the top two contestants from each pool, along with ten wildcards, will advance to the next round. As of this newsletter, the current pool leaders are:
Pool A
Gary King (452)
Catalan (254)
Pool B
Shoemaker's Holiday (233)
La Pianista (61)
Pool C
Candlewicke (400)
Scorpion0422 (249)
Pool D
97198 (148)
NapHit (63)
Pool E
Sasata (233)
X! (210)
Pool F
Bedford (202)
the_ed17 (148)
Pool G
Sunderland06 (142)
Ceranthor (134)
Pool H
Juliancolton (491)
Tinucherian (95)
Pool I
Durova (887)
Theleftorium (458)
Pool J
Mitchazenia (671)
Paxse (291)
Wildcards
Useight (250)
J Milburn (181)
Spencer (177)
Climie.ca (169)
Rambo's Revenge (100)
Tinucherian (95)
WereSpielChequers (77)
Wrestlinglover (67)
Rlevse (65)
10. ThinkBlue (57)
10. Skinny87 (57)
All scores are accurate as of the time the newsletter was sent out.
20:36, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
Delivered by J Milburn, on behalf of the judges. 20:36, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
New bus designs are put on display in the London Transport Museum
East London Line phase 2 gets go-ahead, completing orbirail proposal
Chesham to get 2 trains per hour from London in 2011 following consultation
Taxi fare increased by 3.4% to meet rising costs
Blackheath Hill and Shooters Hill sections of the A2 to undergo eight week improvement scheme to reduce maintenance and improve facilities for pedestrians and cyclists.
Spring poems are released on the Underground
Following a planned upgrade, London Overground will see an increased number of trains per hour to 8.
Bus route 263 extended from Archway to Holloway
Possible suspension of the third phase of the London Low Emission Zone for those vehicles affected in October next year
January 2009
Safety campaign for motorcycle users driven forward with two-day summit
Winter Wanders talk place around many London walks
Tube maps have been changed to make it easier for people with disabilities, bicyles, luggage and other things with clarifications on the step-free map. A new map is also introduced showing toilet facilities.
Changes in London Board
TfL wants views on changes to some buses in north-west London
Funding is to be given to improve Exhibition Road in London's museum quarter
New bus route 228 between Central Middlesex Hospital and Maida Hill via White City is introducd
The Docklands Light Railway extension to Woolwich Arsenal opens
£50 penalty fares are introduced
Stonewall has named Transport for London one of the top five firms for employing lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered staff
PPP report published
Preparations begin at Tottenham Court Road for the construction of Crossrail
Please note that events are arranged from newest at the top to oldest at the bottom.
Member News
Welcome to the new members that joined during the months of January to February:
Dennisman
L07chleo2
And a special sad goodbye to
Unisouth
Bringing us to a total of 70 members!
This WikiProject would not be where it is today without each and every one of its members! Thank you to all!
General
On the assessment side, there are still a lot of articles that need to be assessed for their quality and their importance to this project. Interest still remains on a level of a few articles every few weeks in assessment of articles. Although there has been an increase in the number of articles, assessments has not much improved.
Congratulations to all the people involved in getting Edgar Speyer from good article status to featured article status. Well done for this achievement.
Please can people become more involved with other areas of the portal. The portal still seems to be only gaining contributions on the selected article and picture areas. It seems there is still a general lack of interest in the portal other than these areas.
The last month makes the first anniversary of this newsletter, hence the birthday cake at the start.
As usual, this issue is in the current format and is still awaiting suggestions for other improvements. No new Did You Knows were available for this so have not been included, instead other Did you know suggestions were.
Please provide any suggestions for any improvements to this newsletter and any comments or anything else to include in the next issue. Please can ideas be given for a better layout on this newsletter. Feedback is much appreciated.
This newsletter is also looking for another editor to collaborate with since the departure of Unisouth.
Newsletters for the time being will be launched during the months.
This edition would not be here if not for the feedback, support from many people and the paper's subscribers and I would like to thank you all.
In Janary 22nd, 1 year has passed for the launch of this newsletter
Images were discussed, some on Carshaton station and others which could not be identified until some later.
Creation of a list on London bus stations and also confusions with it and London bus garages.
Founder Unisouth has departed
Some articles including Thames Gateway Bridge itself and light rail and Bus Rapid Transit need updating to show that the proposal for the bridge has been cancelled
Did you know
{{Portal:London transport/Did you know}}
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There's not really much to say this week, everyone is still doing well. There was a discussion on shortening the length of round one, but the idea is dead in the water. Thanks for contributing! GARDEN, iMatthew // talk, and TheHelpfulOne
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WikiCup At a Glance
As of this newsletter, the WikiCup participants have collected a total of:
In this round of the WikiCup, the top two contestants from each pool, along with ten wildcards, will advance to the next round. As of this newsletter, the current pool leaders are:
Pool A
Gary King (673)
Catalan (254)
Pool B
Shoemaker's Holiday (308)
La Pianista (62)
Pool C
Scorpion0422 (483)
Candlewicke (451)
Pool D
97198 (210)
NapHit (97)
Pool E
Sasata (262)
X! (210)
Pool F
Bedford (275)
the_ed17 (161)
Pool G
Sunderland06 (144)
Ceranthor (136)
Pool H
Juliancolton (559)
Tinucherian (100)
Pool I
Durova (1135)
Theleftorium (656)
Pool J
Mitchazenia (777)
Paxse (371)
Wildcards
Useight (325)
Spencer (215)
Climie.ca (203)
J Milburn (202)
Rambo's Revenge (110)
Rlevse (93)
WereSpielChequers (82)
Dendodge (74)
ThinkBlue (72)
Wrestlinglover (72)
All scores are accurate as of 22:40, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
Hi Guys! Well it's Thehelpfulone's first time properly looking at the scores as he made this newsletter and he's impressed on how much work you have all done. It's a shame to say that RyanCross has withdrawn from the Cup. We have almost hit 200 DYKs, not far off from 100 GA's and Durova has passed the 1000 point mark on points, with 1347 points so congratulations to her! GARDEN, iMatthew // talk, and TheHelpfulOne
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WikiCup At a Glance
As of this newsletter, the WikiCup participants have collected a total of:
In this round of the WikiCup, the top two contestants from each pool, along with ten wildcards, will advance to the next round. As of this newsletter, the current pool leaders are:
Pool A
Gary King (792)
Catalan (254)
Pool B
Shoemaker's Holiday (419)
La Pianista (66)
Pool C
Scorpion0422 (530)
Candlewicke (502)
Pool D
97198 (240)
ThinkBlue (141)
Pool E
Sasata (412)
X! (211)
Pool F
Bedford (284)
the_ed17 (169)
Pool G
Sunderland06 (157)
Ceranthor (137)
Pool H
Juliancolton (582)
Tinucherian (110)
Pool I
Durova (1347)
Theleftorium (840)
Pool J
Mitchazenia (779)
Matthewedwards (503)
Wildcards
Useight (396)
Bedford (284)
Catalan (254)
97198 (240)
Spencer (238)
Climie.ca (234)
J Milburn (216)
X! (211)
the_ed17 (169)
Sunderland06 (157)
All scores are accurate as of 17:15, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
Done You have to be patient with template and page transclusion- it's take time. I've updated it manually for you anyway. Oliver Fury, Esq. message • contributions 21:58, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
