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Your GA nomination of Mall/Southwest 4th Avenue and Mall/Southwest 5th Avenue stations

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Your GA nomination of Mall/Southwest 4th Avenue and Mall/Southwest 5th Avenue stations

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DYK for MAX Light Rail

On 11 April 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article MAX Light Rail, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the MAX Light Rail system in Portland, Oregon, includes North America's deepest transit station, at 260 ft (79 m) below ground? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/MAX Light Rail. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, MAX Light Rail), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

— Amakuru (talk) 00:34, 11 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Please help me with... this GTFS source. Is it reliable for use on Wikipedia for the MAX Red Line length? Truflip99 (talk) 18:29, 11 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

That would depend a lot on the publisher. I am not familiar with the organization behind that specific website, but I cannot find any information on who provided the information, how they know or who they are, and that makes the site appear somewhat dubious to me. transitq.com merely says "Hi." - that's not what I'd expect from the homepage of a reliable source. In general, the place to ask about the reliability of a source is WP:RSN. Huon (talk) 20:51, 11 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations on MAX Red Line becoming a FA

Absolutely great work on the article. Keep up the exceptional work. I look forward to looking at future FA nominations from you. Stay safe.--Kew Gardens 613 (talk) 14:36, 27 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Kew Gardens 613: Thank you for taking a part in making it possible. I really appreciate it. I'm always available to help you out with anything you need here, so please don't hesitate to reach out. Good luck with your papers. --truflip99 (talk) 15:12, 27 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Dropping by to also say congratulations! Now we need to get Canada Line to FA so that all three major Cascadian cities will have excellent articles on their airport rail links. Sounder Bruce 08:25, 28 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@SounderBruce: I appreciate it! Thank you for all your help with the Portland-related articles and for being an inspiration for these expansions. And yes, totally up for that task. --truflip99 (talk) 14:58, 28 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Amazing! I'm loving your work on Portland public transit so much! ---Another Believer _(Talk) 12:45, 15 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of Pioneer Square South and Pioneer Square North stations

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Your GA nomination of Hall/Nimbus station

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Your GA nomination of Hall/Nimbus station

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Your GA nomination of Hall/Nimbus station

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Congrats! ---Another Believer _(Talk) 12:46, 15 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Old Portland Tribune URLs

Hi, Truflip. FYI, if you are trying to repair broken links for old Portland Tribune (or other Pamplin papers) articles by looking for archived copies, here's a tip if the cited URL uses "thetribonline.com" or "thetribonline.net". Replace that portion with "www.portlandtribune.com" – and leave the rest of the URL unchanged – before doing a search in the Internet Archive. Often, one can find an archived copy that way. If it's another Pamplin paper, the same trick sometimes also works, if you know the right (old) URL: e.g. replacing "thetribonline" with "www.beavertonvalleytimes"[dot-com] for an article in that Pamplin paper. Sometimes, a WP article's edit history will show that the original edit citing the newspaper article used that old URL format and was changed to "thetribonline" version later, and that can be another way to find the original URL if you don't know it.

The "thetribonline" URLs were used by Pamplin for what turned out to by a relatively very brief period, in 2013, only temporarily during something like a website upgrade, and the URLs for the very same articles went back to the old format later, but the temporary "thetribonline" ones were deactivated, not made into redirects on the Pamplin site. If you try that trick and still don't find the article in the Internet Archive, I personally don't know of any alternative option; I consider that a dead-end when it happens. SJ Morg (talk) 08:51, 8 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Replacement of 2000 MAX citation

I think I figured out why that September 2000 Oregonian article that had been acting as one of our key citations to support TriMet's adoption of route colors for the MAX lines – which I have in my files as a literal clipping from the newsprint edition – has never appeared in the digitized archives of the paper at Multnomah County Library (via NewsBank). I recently came across some information in my personal files from that time, and I was reminded that The Oregonian article of 9/21/2000 said that the Airport Line would be Yellow and the Interstate Avenue line would be Red! That was 20 years ago, but my notes from the time reminded me that contacts at TriMet told me The Oregonian's report had been premature, not cleared with TriMet's media people, because the colors were not absolutely final yet. Not long after, TriMet swapped the planned colors for the Airport and (future) Interstate lines, but the paper never printed a corrected story (or, if they did, it was not digitized for the online archives that became available in 2010), nor did TriMet issue a news release about it. Unfortunately, I neglected to actually read the 2000 article anew when I used it as a citation for Wikipedia a couple of years back, since the headline appeared to convey so well the information that was been given in WP – and since I had completely forgotten that the newspaper got it wrong originally. My notes-to-self from November 2000 say The O. never ran a later story correcting the erred one or a story simply repeating the news in an updated context but with the correct colors, but it appears that that omission was probably TriMet's fault. The agency changed Interstate Avenue's planned color from Red to Yellow in order to avoid, in the inner-city residential areas that would be served by that line, any unintended-but-unwelcome association with the term "red-lining", and they probably didn't want The O. to run a story explicitly correcting the Sep. 2000 one, since they didn't want to call attention to their reasons for the color swap. But this is conjecture; I don't actually know for sure why the newspaper never ran a later story.

I have now located a replacement citation, from a British transit magazine, and replaced the non-supporting ref in the affected articles. Since very few WP readers can access it, and also in consideration of the above error, this time I have included an excerpt/"quote" within the citation template. I did not include the portion of the magazine's text actually giving the colors, because the excerpt is already long, but I can add it if you want. By the way, the 9/21/2000 Oregonian article remains accurate for the Blue Line, so technically it could still be used as a ref for WP text relating only to the Gresham–Portland–Hillsboro line being designated as the Blue Line, but I think it's best to avoid that. SJ Morg (talk) 10:08, 12 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Interesting if true, especially with what happened with Red Line (Sound Transit). Thanks for updating those sources! I think with the Selinger text, we don't need a longer quote from this source for any line. There are also plenty of other articles that support the colors. --truflip99 (talk) 15:00, 12 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of Loop Service

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Your GA nomination of Loop Service

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Yes! ---Another Believer _(Talk) 12:46, 15 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Loop Service and NS Line photos

I realize you are probably still in the middle of editing Loop Service and maybe NS Line, and may be considering more image changes, but nevertheless I wanted to leave a brief comment about two recent image deletions you made. As it stands at the moment, the Loop Service article still has two photos of the Tilikum Crossing (which, BTW, I personally believe is much more commmonly referred to as "the Tilikum Crossing" rather than just "Tilikum Crossing") – which I consider appropriate (3 would be too many) – but now no photos of the long north–south sections along Grand and MLK following your removal of one. I concede there are very few photos of the latter on Commons, but I hope to add a few more in June (too busy right now). And your recent deletion at NS Line has had the same effect: You kept both of the photos on Northrup Street (both taken by me), but now no longer have any photo (except the Vintage Trolley one) to represent the long north–south section along 10th and 11th avenues which is the busiest part of the line. I know those image changes are just one small aspect of your recent editing and expansion of those two articles, which have greatly improved them, but I'm so busy in real life right now that I have not even looked at your other recent edits (but I'm not worried about them) and have only had time to make this simple observation on your recent image deletions. Cheers, SJ Morg (talk) 10:21, 16 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I did so as I've gotten a lot of reviews saying an article has too many pictures. Although, not sure what "too many" constitutes in wp, as there isn't a specific guideline. I would really appreciate it if you could add photos of MLK/Grand stations as there is still room in the Stations section of the Loop Service article that would look good with that. I had planned to do that before the pandemic as I work nearby, but alas. --truflip99 (talk) 18:15, 16 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I finally found time to choose, name and upload some additional photos of streetcars and streetcar stops on the east side. If you look soon, you'll easily find them at the top of my Commons uploads page. I should also point out that one close-up photo of a stop on the CL Line (now the Loop Service), this one at NE 7th & Halsey, has been on Commons since 2013, in case you missed it. I am aware that the Loop Service article is slated to appear on the Main Page two days from now, so I tried to make these images available by then. However, I know that you cannot add more than 2-3 to the article, at most. And of course you are under no obligation to add any, but given your comment above, hopefully you'll want to use at least one or two. SJ Morg (talk) 11:07, 9 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

They look fantastic! I've added a couple. Feel free to change it up as you please. --truflip99 (talk) 15:26, 9 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Your choices were good. I added one to better show the typical features/fittings of a station, but then was reminded that the same photo is in the parent article, so I removed it from Loop Service. SJ Morg (talk) 08:37, 10 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of Pioneer Square South and Pioneer Square North stations

The article Pioneer Square South and Pioneer Square North stations you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Pioneer Square South and Pioneer Square North stations for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Username6892 -- Username6892 (talk) 00:00, 28 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of Pioneer Square South and Pioneer Square North stations

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DYK for Loop Service

On 11 June 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Loop Service, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Portland Streetcar's Loop Service enabled the production of the first U.S.-built streetcars in nearly 60 years? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Loop Service. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Loop Service), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

— Amakuru (talk) 12:01, 11 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

The Original Barnstar

Congratulations on successfully bringing another Portland transit article up to Featured Article status, in this case MAX Yellow Line. I am very happy that you've brought nearly all of the main MAX and Portland Streetcar articles up to Good Article class, but it's especially impressive to make FA class, as you have now done with two MAX line articles (so far!). Nice work! SJ Morg (talk) 05:02, 14 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@SJ Morg: Thank you for the recognition! It has been and continues to be an absolute pleasure working on these articles. Cheers! truflip99 (talk) 18:21, 14 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

South/North MAX project

I didn't have time for it until now, but I wanted to respond to your edit summary left here. I agree that my one-sentence explanation of the South/North name need not be included in the articles on the individual lines (especially given that the Yellow, Green, and Orange Line articles all have some history relating to that 1990s project!) as long as it is included in the parent MAX Light Rail article and in an article about the failed project, if one is ever written for WP. However, I take issue with you on two other points. First, that "official TriMet publication" to which you referred in your edit summary (the 50 Years book) is just one publication. I have countless others (from Tri-Met and Metro, which shared the planning) in my files from the period when it was an active project – including issues of the official project newsletter – that used a slash rather than a hyphen or dash, starting as early as fall 1993 and continuing for more than five years. Most just aren't online. If I recall correctly, The Oregonian originally wrote "South-North", but fairly quickly settled on "South/North" – presumably after noticing it was what TriMet and Metro were consistently using. (Of course, when describing the line, they wrote "north-south", as any normal person would do, but when referring to the project by name they wrote "South/North"). There is also this photo (which, BTW, I feel would be an appropriate inclusion in the Orange Line article once you have added some info. from 1995-98 to the relevant section [which currently has no images], which you already did at Yellow Line but which remains missing from the Orange article for now. It is even more relevant to the Orange Line than it is to the Green Line, but has some relevance to all three, and I am only talking about only a few sentences.) I wonder whether a standalone article on the South/North project might face a notability challenge, but I know you'll at least provide plenty of good sourcing if you ever create such an article. When you do the research, I predict that you'll find I am right about the slash-vs-hyphen thing, and please keep in mind that FUTON bias will skew your findings when doing research on something that was active mostly only in the pre-Internet era. However, if that does not happen, and you want to stick with "South–North" for the title, I probably won't object, considering that you're the person who will have done the vast majority of the work in compiling the article.

Second, The Oregonian only writes "light-rail" when using it as a compound modifier, in which the inclusion of the hyphen is correct. Examples include "light-rail planning", "light-rail controversy", "light-rail ridership", "light-rail funding", etc. Nowadays they never use it when "rail" is the noun, only when "rail" is part of an adjective. Back in the 1970s and 1980s, The O. was writing "light-rail line" and occasionally even just "light-rail" (as a noun), but that was usually when the term was still new and unknown to most readers (only two LRT systems in the entire country opened before Portland's), and it appears that the paper dropped the hyphen in constructions such as those several years ago. BTW, it is the same at The Columbian (even today): often hyphenating "light rail" when used as an adjective, but not otherwise, which is simply proper grammar. I am conservative when it comes to punctuation, and I concede that it has become much less common to hyphenate "light rail" when it is being used as a compound adjective, though personally I still support the hyphen in such cases (but would not argue about it at WP). But at the least, I felt that your swipe at The Oregonian over that point was unfair. (For the record, I do not work for The O. and I do not personally know anyone who does.) Anyway, "South/North" vs. "South–North" is hardly a major issue, but I did feel your edit summary warranted a reply. SJ Morg (talk) 11:50, 6 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Fair points. I concede to the naming convention and will opt with "South/North". Thanks for clarifying all of this! --truflip99 (talk) 16:37, 6 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Also, yes! That photo is fantastic. I'm really glad you took that. Will definitely use it. --truflip99 (talk) 16:50, 6 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Happy editing. – SJ Morg (talk) 03:34, 7 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

April–May 2020 GAN Backlog drive

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		Thank you for completing 10 reviews in the April–May 2020 GAN Backlog drive. Your work helped us to reduce the backlog by over 60%. Regards, Harrias ^talk 08:38, 11 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	Thank you for improving CTrain articles! It's also one of my favourite system too! Eric0892 (talk) 22:09, 20 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

MAX Yellow Line scheduled for TFA

This is to let you know that MAX Yellow Line has been scheduled as WP:TFA for 11 August 2020. Please check that the article needs no amendments. If you're interested in editing the main page text, you're welcome to do so at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/August 11, 2020. Thanks! Ealdgyth (talk) 13:20, 27 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you today for the article, "about a service of TriMet's MAX Light Rail system in Portland, Oregon. It has one of the more eventful histories of any rail line in the city that started with attempts to build a bi-state "South–North Line" between Vancouver in Washington and Oregon City. The project failed thrice in 1995, 1996, and 1998. North Portland residents, still wanting to benefit from light rail, convinced TriMet to build just the segment of the South–North Line in their neck of the woods. To fund the project without costing tax payers, Portland created an urban renewal area. That same urban renewal area ended up displacing many of the local residents, mostly minorities. In 2008, Oregon and Washington tried to extend the line to Vancouver again with a freeway bridge megaproject. The project failed for the fourth time in 2013, but plans still exist."! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:28, 11 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Congrats on the Main Page appearance! ---Another Believer _(Talk) 14:17, 11 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! Glad to have been able to get something Portland up there! --truflip99 (talk) 17:13, 11 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations from me as well! Great work on this page. epicgenius (talk) 17:25, 11 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Epicgenius: Thank you! It of course wouldn't be up there without you so I really appreciate it. --truflip99 (talk) 21:41, 11 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Precious

Portland train travel

Thank you for quality articles about train transportation around Portland, such as MAX Yellow Line, MAX Red Line, MAX Blue Line and Beaverton Transit Center, requesting help from the GOCE team, for updating, expanding and reviewing, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

You are recipient no. 2430 of Precious, a prize of QAI. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:30, 11 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Gerda Arendt: Wow, thank you! --truflip99 (talk) 17:13, 11 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

nono, you produced, I just looked around for 5 minutes, thanks to your well-organized user page. It became rare that a featured article is written by someone new, - I always love that especially! I will hopefully have one on 1 September, and a featured list on 21 August. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:18, 11 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Gerda Arendt: I'm happy to contribute. I look forward to seeing your work featured as well! --truflip99 (talk) 21:44, 11 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Some of it is on the Main page almost daily, but rather the small stuff, DYK and RD, right now Erich Gruenberg. I tell myself to focus more on quality work, but people keep dying. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:49, 11 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you today for MAX Orange Line, about "Portland's newest MAX extension, having opened in 2015. Its was built following two decades of failed attempts to expand light rail between Portland and Clackamas County. Part of the project saw the construction of Portland's newest Willamette River crossing, Tilikum Bridge, which is notably the country's first major "car-free" bridge (it only allows peds, bikes, and transit)."! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:44, 10 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Talk:Toyota Auto Body/GA1

Truflip99, the nominator has posted that they think this should be failed now, given your latest review post. Can you please take care of it? Many thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 14:57, 2 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

October 2020 GAN backlog drive!

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Public transit in Portland, Oregon

Came across Public transit in Columbus, Ohio and was surprised there is not a similar article for Public transit in Portland Oregon. Thought of you, if you're interested and willing. Either way, happy editing! ---Another Believer _(Talk) 02:27, 18 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Another Believer: Thanks for the heads up! I actually have a different plan to create a History of rail transportation in Portland, Oregon. Not sure if I want to omit the "history" part. --truflip99 (talk) 18:03, 19 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Truflip99, Sure. Do what you think is best, of course your article is focused on rail specifically, while 'public transit' is broader. Happy editing! ---Another Believer _(Talk) 18:06, 19 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page stalker) We already have Transportation in Oregon and Rail transportation in Oregon, which both include a lot of related content (and the latter includes relevant rail transit, which is all located in the Portland metropolitan area) but are not very well developed and have been poorly maintained – e.g. it has often included content that was years out of date until I've updated it because no one else was doing it. I don't think we need another article that overlaps heavily with those when we clearly have too few editors around here currently who are willing or able to take the time to develop and maintain such articles. If you (Truflip) wanted to take it on, I've no doubt it would be well developed within a reasonably short time, but I wouldn't have time to help much at all, and (based on what I just wrote) I imagine you'd end up having to do most of the work by yourself. So, if you are more interested in doing a "History of rail ..." article, I think you should keep that on your to-do list for when you have the time and not add something like this if it was not already on your to-do list. It's not as though readers cannot find content on this subject on WP; it's just spread out over several articles. And one of the most important ones, TriMet, has long been in need of a lot of attention – and the fact that it has not received it supports my point about there being too few editors with the interest, the editing skills and (in my case) the time to address it. My two cents. SJ Morg (talk) 06:48, 20 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Your GA nomination of MAX Orange Line

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Your GA nomination of MAX Orange Line

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MAX Orange Line

Hello, Truflip99. This is a courtesy notice that the copy edit you requested for MAX Orange Line at the Guild of Copy Editors requests page is now complete. All feedback welcome! Cheers, Baffle☿gab 22:09, 3 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Baffle gab1978 - Thank you for your work! --truflip99 (talk) 19:42, 5 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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In reverting your revert on MAX Orange Line my edit summary didn't really address yours. Please say more about why Line is capped in the Failed South/North proposal. Dicklyon (talk) 03:52, 14 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Promotion of MAX Orange Line

Congratulations, Truflip99! The article you nominated, MAX Orange Line, has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best articles on Wikipedia. The nomination discussion has been archived.

This is a rare accomplishment and you should be proud. If you would like, you may nominate it to appear on the Main page as Today's featured article. Keep up the great work! Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) via FACBot (talk) 12:06, 16 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Wow, congrats! Well done! ---Another Believer _(Talk) 00:37, 26 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Ditto from me. Nice work. SJ Morg (talk) 08:16, 26 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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About importing map data

Hey Truflip99! I'm here to ask how you set up the interactive map of the MAX lines at MAX Green Line. You may be interested to know I'm working on an Oregon-related transit article myself, Draft:Eugene streetcar system, and would love to implement something similar there. Feel free to redirect me to any other resources you found useful if you would prefer not to go into detail here. Thanks! —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 05:22, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello TechnoSquirrel69! I did it (quite dauntingly) using Wikipedia:Map data. The source code is here: Wikipedia:Map_data/Wikipedia_KML/MAX_Light_Rail/Green_Line. Basically, each coordinate I placed manually because I couldn't locate a corresponding KML file (at the time). Maybe I can offer some help; show me a map of what you're working on :) --truflip99 (talk) 05:32, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I would greatly appreciate any help you're willing to provide, as I'm not familiar with map files of any kind. The map I'm hoping to transcribe is this one published by The Oregon Encyclopedia. —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 05:36, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

TechnoSquirrel69 Apologies for the delay. Slowly working on it. Check it on my sandbox! --truflip99 (talk) 23:26, 20 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Absolutely no apologies needed — thanks so much for getting started on this! To be honest, I had originally reached out to you to check if you had any workflow suggestions to make the process of creating the map easier without the intention of soliciting you to actually work on the project, so I'm grateful that you went that extra mile to help out. You've given me an excellent start on the map, and I think I can now emulate what you've been doing and finish it up myself. —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 04:38, 21 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

TechnoSquirrel69 Sounds good! Reach out if you need any help. --truflip99 (talk) 14:30, 21 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Pedestrian crossings in Portland, Oregon

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Questionable revert of my edits to MAX Blue and Red Lines

It's common practice for closed stations to be included in station lists. I have started a discussion on the Blue Line page about readding them, thereby undoing you questionable revert. _pbp 18:42, 30 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Purplebackpack89 can you please link me to an existing featured or good article that supports your claim? Note that MAX Blue Line and MAX Red Line are service lines; so if you're going to refer to a track segment (e.g. BMT Franklin Avenue Line) as opposed to a service (e.g. Franklin Avenue Shuttle) then I would support you if we were talking about the Eastside MAX and the Airport MAX. The way I've gone about including the closed stations is to call them out in the prose, and that has so far worked to get MAX Red Line up to featured article status. --truflip99 (talk) 18:57, 30 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Why need it be a FA or GA? I don't see how adding the closed stations jeopardizes the GA or FA status in the slightest. Please explain how it does, and also explain how lines and track segments are different. _pbp 19:05, 30 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

FWIW, 9 (New York City Subway service) includes a closed station in its station list. _pbp 19:07, 30 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

FA or GA articles exemplify Wikipedia's editing standards, though I never said adding that info would jeopardize that status. You can read MAX Light Rail#Segments and MAX Light Rail#Lines for an answer to your second question. New York City Subway#Nomenclature best illustrates why I did what I did.

Anyway, the real reason why I reverted your edits was to avoid confusion between when the station was built vs when a station was served by a MAX Line. For example, how would you communicate in that table that the Morrison/Yamhill segment of MAX was once served by the Yellow Line? Further, how would you then communicate in the MAX Yellow Line article that same info? At what point would it be TMI? Also the 9 (New York City Subway service) is a defunct service and that station you referred to is technically not closed. truflip99 (talk) 19:26, 30 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

There is literally an option to mark as closed stations on any NYC. It even appears in the legend.

The Yellow Line probably needs an additional table denoting its alignment when it went down Morrison and Yamhill and 1st

Your questions indicate that you don't really understand how tables such as these work. In that case, you should step aside in favor of people like me who DO _pbp 22:16, 30 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You need to calm down. I've spent years working on the Portland transit articles to get them up to GA and FA. Don't tell me what I don't know. truflip99 (talk) 22:44, 30 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Don't revert me then. You don't own those articles and don't act as if you do.

You've fundamentally ignored that listing former stations in the manner in which I did is commonplace. You haven't given a good reason to ignore common practice. You haven't participated in the discussion on the article's talk page either _pbp 01:12, 31 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Purplebackpack89 Again, you need to calm down. It's not that serious. I don't need to respond to the talk page because I'm responding to you here. And I never claimed ownership of anything. You're the one telling me I don't know what I'm doing and downplaying the years of research and writing I've done to these articles, all of them GA and three of them FA. You really think I didn't consider retaining those closed stations before? I already showed you an example of a transit system, one that actually has GA articles, that does what I'm doing. In fact, I got the idea from them: look at the difference between the station list on IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line and 1 (New York City Subway service). Anyway, there's no reason for you to be talking down on me like this. You don't know me. And if you're making huge fuss about the fact that some closed stations aren't on some table, that just tells me that you don't even read the articles you're editing, which means you should probably "step aside in favor of people like me who DO". truflip99 (talk) 02:52, 31 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Why are you so fixated on New York? Why not Chicago or LA? New York is, as far I can tell, the only city for which the lines and the services have different articles. Portland sure doesn't do that (for example, Eastside MAX is a redirect to the Blue Line rather than a separate article).

I'm not stepping aside, fwiw _pbp 02:59, 31 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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