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Gibson City > How to Move a Page

I moved Gibson to Gibson City, Illinois WikiDon 21:43, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

How to Move a Page

Do NOT do a copy+paste!

READ How_to_move_a_page. You use the "MOVE" button, at the top of most every page, this moves the talk pages, the watch pages, the links, everything. If the page you want to move to has never been edited, any user can do it. If it has, or there is content there you have two choices:

You can use: Requested moves

and/or

Go to the admin page and see who is online now, then hit one up. Or an admin you already know. It is ten to 100 times faster than putting it on "Requested moves" I have seen pages stay on there over a month.

Once the page has been moved, go to and click "What links here" in the toolbox on the left pane. Then you can begin your link fixes, fix the "re-directs" (I recommend looking at this list before the move). I wouldn't worry to much about the "user" pages, if any, that are linked to that particular page, those users can fixs the re-directs if they want to.

WikiDon 21:43, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

Re: CGW

Honestly, I only skimmed through it and didn't give it the thorough read that it really deserves. I was going to add the president names and data to List of railroad executives before leaving for work today but ran out of time; the Derasmus typos just stood out for me. Slambo (Speak) 15:08, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

Chicago Railroad Fair

Since you mentioned an interest in the Chicago railroad scene on Wikipedia:WikiProject Trains, I thought you might be interested in contributing to the Chicago Railroad Fair article which I created yesterday. The information in it so far is all based on the official program whose cover is scanned as the image for the article (an acquaintance of mine gave me the program over the weekend). Slambo (Speak) 19:58, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Rockford

Hey! Thanks for Wikifying the links!  :) Iffer 06:57, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

Metra stations

I did read your plea about the Metra stations-- just didn't have time to address it.

I don't know beans about Chicago and trains (other than knowing a very little about the various belt railroads) but I'm willing to help. Mangoe 14:43, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

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Nice cleanup job!

Hi Gws57, I just read your cleanup of the Metra article and think you did a great job! MKoltnow 04:20, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

Linguistics Inquiry

Hey, I was just perusing the edit history of kretek and I noticed your little note that says the Indonesian word "kretek" has no S in plural form. If this is true, is the word even meant to be spoken in English? And if so, should there be an S or not? I don't exactly run into a lot of people who have any experience with the Indonesian language, so I figured I'd take a shot in the dark and see if you happened to know. Plus, I'm not even sure if I'm pronouncing it properly. I look forward to your insight, should you have any! :^) -- Randall00 ^Talk 21:13, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

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Re: I-290 (IL)

Sounds pretty legitimate to replace the comments about the banker with the inertia concept. In the 1950s Oak Park was pretty much developed out (something I can't quite cite yet), so it would make sense.

My first edits to the history section from the copious source material at http://www.cookexpressways.com/ haven't quite addressed this yet, so I'll work on that. It really doesn't help that the source isn't in chronological order. But it seems that the 6-lane Maywood section opened in 1955, while the 8-lane section from 1st Avenue to Laramie opened in 1960. Odds are a combination of cost constraints and pressure to open caused the reduction in lanes. —Rob (talk) 19:43, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

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IvoShandor 11:08, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

Route 59 (Metra)

I just thought you should know, that I posted the info regarding Naperville Station to make the distinction between that one and Route 59 Station. ----DanTD 02:22, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Germany Invitation

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--Zeitgespenst (talk) 17:13, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

Unspecified source for Image:BandOBasculeBridgeAtChicagoRiver.jpg

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Grand Central Station (Chicago)

As the major contributor to this article, I wanted to make certain that you were aware of its GA Sweeps review, in which it has been placed on hold pending the resolution of a few relatively minor isues. --Malleus Fatuorum (talk) 19:27, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

Grand Central Station (Chicago) at WP:GAR

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