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Talk Archive

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Peter Johnson Article

Hi, I will try and get it scanned today - its odd that you say it differs from Peter Johnsons other work, perhaps it contains new information. Dje84 (talk) 11:32, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

Pirate radio

I notice from your edit to Radio Atlanta that you seem to know a bit about this subject. Would you cast a critical eye over the MV Mi Amigo article and make any necessary corrections, additions etc. Mjroots (talk) 09:17, 13 September 2010 (UTC)

Radio Caroline

I couldn't help but smile at being criticised by someone who writes: "Whole swathes of information has ben removed, and the grammer has suffered within the edits. --Keith 14:08, 8 February 2011 (UTC)  :-)

The edits were done in good faith. I hoped to be taking out just surplus words. My apologies if through clumsiness I went too far. Les woodland 16:55, 8 February 2011 (UTC)Les woodland

HRiWales v HRIGwynedd

Stewart,

The use of HRiG removes the catalogue from the view of HRiW, a ludicrous situation - hence it would be more advisable to have it in HRiW.

It was most disconcerting to see a map of HR in Wales and find the FR, WHR , and Talyllyn missing becuse of this.

Action had been previously taken by others to remove this anomaly be reverting the earlier edit that removed the original HRiW cat. I preferred to leave both as they are both relevant. However, I feel the use of HRiG is a bit anomalous(?) as there are a number of lines in other Welsh counties that are not so grouped. --Keith 14:03, 27 March 2011 (UTC)

Keith - The use of nested categories is encouraged, however putting both the parent and the child category in the article is deprecated. If the child category is used, it is in the parent category by default. Possibly the Gwynedd category should be removed? --Stewart ^{(talk | edits)} 21:26, 27 March 2011 (UTC)

Category:Heritage railways in Gwynedd existed for nearly a year without complaint, from what I can tell. Many Welsh categories are broken down by county, including Category:Heritage railway stations in Wales (with Category:Heritage railway stations in Gwynedd for example) so there's certainly precedent for this in the heritage railway field. Even though I only created Category:Heritage railways in Denbighshire today, Category:Heritage railway stations in Denbighshire was created as long ago as 2008!

Is the only argument against sub-dividing Category:Heritage railways in Wales by county the loss of the map functionality on the category page? Does that outweigh the benefits of uniformity in the way that Wales categories are presented and also the reduction of "category clutter" on the foot of articles? It strikes me that if a reader navigates his/her way to the category in search of a specific railway in Wales, the presence of {{Heritage railways in Wales}} at the top of the category rather eliminates the need for every single Welsh heritage railway to be included in the top-level Wales category as well. Wouldn't a better solution to the map issue be to add coordinates and a map to List of British heritage and private railways, which casual readers of Wikipedia are far more likely to find than a map in the category structure? Bencherlite^Talk 14:29, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

If the reader knows the railway is in Wales, then they can find it through List of British heritage and private railways or {{Heritage railways in Wales}}. What's the problem with either of those routes? I'm not sure I follow your argument. The reader won't need to know the county to find the railway. Of course, if they know the name, then it's a non-issue. Those who are browsing through the counties of Wales categories will find the heritage railways in each county more easily, in fact! Or do you object to the sub-categories of Category:Gwynedd and the other Welsh counties in general, and want to see everything rolled up into sub-categories of Category:Wales? Bencherlite^Talk 15:18, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

I've created this template and added it to Category:Heritage railways in Wales so that map functionality at the main category page is kept along with the sub-categories by county for the different railways. What do you think? Hopefully it keeps both of us happy! Regards, Bencherlite^Talk 23:43, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

Condolences

56, same age as my mother :( Thank you for your contributions to wikipedia, RIP mate. Goldblooded (talk) 22:44, 25 September 2011 (UTC)

RIP

I don't believe we have met, but I found your name and wish you the best. 71.146.20.62 (talk) 00:03, 23 November 2011 (UTC)

File permission problem with File:KCB-20100122 MCTC redraw.jpg

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ArbCom elections are now open!

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Nomination for deletion of Template:Festiniog Line Boston Lodge diagram

Template:Festiniog Line Boston Lodge diagram has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Safiel (talk) 16:25, 24 September 2016 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Festiniog Railway Company

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