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		I hereby award the Indian Barnstar of National Merit to Vatsmaxed for making over 9000 contributions to articles related to Indian Railways. Best wishes and warm regards, Field Marshal (talk) 21:37, 22 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Edit summaries

Hi Vatsmaxed, I just saw your request at WP:PERM/AWB and was just reviewing your edits. Thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia. Is there any chance you can start using edit summaries to explain why you are making the edits you are making? When you are making a lot of repeat edits across multiple articles, I can appreciate it takes time to write (or copy in) an edit summary but it is really helpful for other editors to be able to see why you made the edits you made. This is especially important when removing content. If you are given AWB access or you otherwise engage in automated or semi-automated, it will be extremely important to have descriptive edit summaries. —Tom Morris (talk) 18:49, 8 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Tom Morris, Thanks for reaching out to me, Yes, will start using edit summaries, and will also make them descriptive, for people to understand. Feel free to monitor my edit summary habits for some time, before actually working on my request. Vatsmaxed (talk) 05:30, 9 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I'd suggest going into your 'preferences' section and select the checkbox in the Editing tab labelled "Prompt me when entering a blank edit summary". This will make it much easier to stick to writing edit summaries as the software will nag you to enter one if you forget. Thanks. —Tom Morris (talk) 06:10, 9 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Placenames

Please stop changing the names of places in our articles, to different names to those used as our article titles, as you did at Habibganj railway station. We use the Common names in English for our articles, not the "Official names", so changing the name breaks internal links to those articles, and is confusing to our readers - thank you - Arjayay (talk) 16:32, 6 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Cut-and-paste editing

I think that on at least one occasion, you copied or moved text from one or more pages into another page. I know that this is not obvious, but Wikipedia's licensing does require that you provide attribution to the original contributor(s). When copying within Wikipedia, this is supplied at minimum in an edit summary at the page into which you've copied content, disclosing the copying and linking to the copied page, e.g., copied content from [[page name]]; see that page's history for attribution. It is good practice, especially if copying is extensive, to also place a properly formatted {{copied}} template on the talk pages of the source and destination. Please provide attribution for this duplication if it has not already been supplied by another editor, and if you have copied material between pages before, even if it was a long time ago, you should provide attribution for that also. You can read more about the procedure and the reasons at Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia. Thank you.

I think that this edit involved copying text from another article into the article on Bhopal. Unfortunately you did not attribute this. And this will reveal another reason why attribution is so useful. The text you added included the following:

A total of 248 trains halt/originate/terminate at the station daily.<ref name="auto"/>

There was no definition for name="auto". If we knew what article you copied it from, we could fix it. There is a smart bot that tries to fix this kind of error, but this time the bot made a foolish choice. ^[1] (Automatically-generated reference names like "auto" and ":1" can easily create such errors.)

It is also rather odd that the paragraph had two copies of the same sentence about 248 trains. (Yes I make this kind of mistake too.)

I have assumed that the 248 trains statement is about Bhopal Junction rather than Habibganj railway station. But as there is no source supporting the statement, I do not know.-- Toddy1 (talk) 07:06, 23 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for fixing it.-- Toddy1 (talk) 10:07, 23 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Indian Railways

Hi,

I noticed your revision of Indian Railways where you updated the electrification network length in the lead section and deleted the percentage further down, both of which I de-facto undid. Here is my rationale in a longer form than possible in the edit summary.

The sentence on track lengths in the lede refers to [March] 2023, the last date for which IR released complete network statistics. The most up to date August 2024 electrified route length is out of place because it's not synchronous with the other stats; what's more, even if quoted separately (as it is now), the percentage is more relevant because the total route length changed significantly (some new lines were opened, electrified, while a lot of non-electrified lines were officially closed earlier this year).

Deeper down in the article, where the August 2024 electrified route length has already been quoted, the percentage is again relevant because it is relative to a total broad-gauge route length at a different date than quoted elsewhere in the Tracks section. Rontombontom (talk) 14:02, 26 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Rontombontom (talk) for the edits. Can you please perform same for Rail transport in India too, so that both articles stay in sync.

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