Passengertrainman

Welcome!

Hello Passengertrainman, welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Our intro page contains a lot of helpful material for new users - please check it out! If you need help, visit Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on this page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Ironholds 23:55, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Hey, thanks for your contributions. Before creating more articles on trains could you look at Wikipedia:Manual of Style and neaten them up a bit? It saves other editors from having to do so :). Ironholds 00:11, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

Please don't copy and paste articles from another website. It is a violation of copyright and against Wikipedia policy. Stifle (talk) 11:39, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

Copy and paste.

The items I am copying and pasting from is a proposed book that I personally wrote and all materials represent 40 years of personal research. If you would like a copy of the entire article before I add any additional material I will be happy to submit it to you it is about 256 pages. (Passengertrainman (talk) 11:45, 10 July 2008 (UTC))

No problem there then. Would you consider adding a "references" section at the bottom of the article with details of the book title? It's customary on Wikipedia to cite your sources. I added a section heading for you at Chicagoan so you can see how it's done.

Would you please also have a look at the manual of style? We appreciate your contributions, but someone is going to have to go around after you cleaning up those articles, wikifying them, and adding relevant links. Thanks for your help! Stifle (talk) 11:51, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

Hi. Please wikify your articles as described above. Deb (talk) 11:52, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

Personal research

Since we have a policy of WP:No original research, you should cite your original resources, rather than your book. Marasmusine (talk) 11:56, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

Welcome!

Hello Passengertrainman, welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Our intro page contains a lot of helpful material for new users - please check it out! If you need help, visit Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on this page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. BustOut' (talk) 13:26, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

Can You Wikify / Edit Your Pages

Hi I have just spent some time on wikifying City of Miami. I think there is great merit in the content you are adding and even room for a project on WP. However can you please do some editting as well. I am glad to help out if you are new to WP with tips or just look below for how to do it.

Proposed deletion of Choctaw Rockette

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Speedy deletion of Shasta Daylight

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Speedy deletion of Advanced Denver Zephyr

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Article Suggestions

Here are some more suggestions to help you wikify the rail transport articles that you are creating:

1. Add infobox Template:Infobox Train to the top of the page and fill in as much as you can (see City of New Orleans for example).
2. Add {{TrainsWikiProject|class=|importance=}} to the talk page to add the page to WikiProject Trains (you can also request help or comments at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Trains and there is a style manual: Wikipedia:WikiProject Trains/Manual of style).
3. Add inbound links (e.g. Illinois Central Railroad can link to City of Miami).
4. Add appropriate external links (see WP:EXT).
5. Add references (as noted above).
6. Categorize (e.g. Category:Rail transport in the United States by state, Category:Illinois Central Railroad etc.)
7. Add images (see [1], etc.)

Happy editing! --Kkmurray (talk) 16:22, 12 July 2008 (UTC)

Copyright problems: Chicago - Des Moines Rocket

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However, for textual content, you may simply consider rewriting the content in your own words. Thank you. • Gene93k (talk) 22:55, 23 July 2008 (UTC)