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Good article nominations and reviews

Hello, Puddleglum2.0. I see that you are a new editor and have recently reviewed a Good article nomination. It is normally not encouraged for new editors to be reviewers until they gain experience on Wikipedia in general and with Good articles specifically, especially for a controversial article like Aaron Swartz. Reviews are supposed to check against the Good article criteria's specific points, but a "drive-by" review like yours is not helpful to other editors looking at whether this article is of "Good" quality.

I also see that you posted (and then retracted) a nomination of Kennewick, Washington for Good article status. I will say that the article is not up to Good article standards for a variety of reasons, mainly the lack of citations for certain paragraphs and passages; the incomplete nature of the article (missing sections on neighborhoods, parks, infrastructure, and most of the history); and the sloppy writing. A nominator should be someone who worked a great deal on the article or has permission from other major contributors. SounderBruce 06:05, 22 September 2019 (UTC)

Sorry, I didn't realize that. Thanks for your comment! Puddleglum2.0 (talk) 23:43, 22 September 2019 (UTC)

Hi Puddleglum2.0, and thanks for performing the good article review of the the Aaron Swartz article. Could you please provide a more detailed explanation of how the article meets the good article criteria at Talk:Aaron Swartz/GA2 using one of the templates at Wikipedia:Good article nominations/templates? You can see examples of this at Talk:Kitty O'Brien Joyner/GA1 and Talk:Mary Jackson (engineer)/GA1. — Newslinger talk 18:31, 7 October 2019 (UTC)

I'm sorry, I am new to WP and not quite comfortable using templates. I just looked at the criteria and compared them to the article, and it seemed like they were in agreement. I realize that I probably should have waited until I was more familiar to WP before I reviewed articles like that. If you want, I am open to the recall of the GA status. I also didn't know about how controversial the article was. Sorry. Puddleglum2.0 (talk) 19:12, 7 October 2019 (UTC)

Templates aren't mandatory, so you don't have to use them. Would you be interested in writing an explanation that examines each of the good article criteria on Talk:Aaron Swartz/GA2? If you don't feel comfortable doing this, you can also withdraw the review. It's completely up to you. — Newslinger talk 19:26, 7 October 2019 (UTC)

OK. I feel like I should probably just withdraw the review and leave it to an experienced editor, if that's OK. Puddleglum2.0 (talk) 19:27, 7 October 2019 (UTC)

No problem. Currently, we have too many articles in the good article nominations queue, and not enough reviewers, so you're welcome to start reviewing articles again when you feel comfortable enough to do so. Feel free to ask me on my talk page if you have any questions about editing. Welcome! — Newslinger talk 05:22, 8 October 2019 (UTC)

OK! Thank you so much for your time! Puddleglum2.0 (talk) 14:37, 8 October 2019 (UTC)

Wikiproject Military history coordinator election half-way mark

G'day everyone, the voting for the XIX Coordinator Tranche is at the halfway mark. The candidates have answered various questions, and you can check them out to see why they are running and decide whether you support them. Project members should vote for any candidates they support by 23:59 (UTC) on 28 September 2018. Thanks, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 07:37, 22 September 2019 (UTC)

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Gesa Credit Union (October 21)

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Is/was

Hi there, re: this, please note that per the last paragraph of WP:TVLEAD, shows, even if canceled, are assumed to exist in one form or another, so in that first sentence, "Pillai Nila is a 2012-2014 Tamil language soap opera" would be correct. Your other correction of is to was ("The show was produced by") is correct, because the show is no longer being produced. Thanks, Cyphoidbomb (talk) 22:10, 22 October 2019 (UTC)

Hi @Cyphoidbomb:! Thank you for letting me know. I'm not a big TV person, so I didn't know that, but I will remember that in the future. Thanks again! Puddleglum2.0👌 (talk) 23:22, 22 October 2019 (UTC)

And thank you for being receptive to the note! Cyphoidbomb (talk) 23:56, 22 October 2019 (UTC)

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Twinkle warnings

Hi! I see you already have Twinkle installed, so you might like to also use Twinkle for warning vandals. You just click on "TW" in the upper right corner > "Warn", and then select an appropriate warning level / type. It also automatically signs your warnings, which is helpful in order to know when they were last warned and who warned them. See you around :) – Thjarkur (talk) 21:59, 5 November 2019 (UTC)

Oh! Thanks, I wasn't quite sure how to use it. Thank you for bringing that up! Puddleglum2.0👌(talk) 22:03, 5 November 2019 (UTC)

re message

As new user here, I have no idea what to click on to respond to your message. Re message: I guess one should make small alterations in bits, since the explanation box is not really large enough to hold detailed explanations. Does that figure?

ChrisWhittington (talk) 23:12, 11 November 2019 (UTC)

@ChrisWhittington: Hi! Thank you for reaching out to me! The reason I reverted your edit is because it seemed like you deleted a whole ton of information in the article. If you can give me a good reason why you did that, I would be happy to revert my revert and restore your edits, but I didn't really understand your edit and it didn't seem helpful. Again, feel free to talk to me about it and I can answer your questions! Yours - Puddleglum2.0👌(talk) 04:23, 12 November 2019 (UTC)

Hi there! Thanks for that, I am still struggling of course with all the Wiki ways and means and etiquettes, so thank you! In general, on that Rybka article, what we see is the sort-of patchy result of a (the) major argument and unpleasantness in the little field of computer chess. I guess I did indeed take too strong a delete brush to the Strelka and Ippolit sections without adequate explanation. Other than a passing reference, it's dubious either section belongs there at all. First the Strelka section( and NB this is a Rybka wiki page). Strelka chess engine was alleged to be a copy of Rybka. The evidence that it is a copy is patchy, unsourced and dubious. It's a maybe, maybe not. The author of Strelka is alleged to be some Uri Osipov, who may or may not actually exist, allegedly. So far, so gossipy.The Fruit chess engine author, stated that he thinks Strelka derives from his engine. So, we have sourced evidence that various people have made various allegation back in 2011 or so, but these have never been backed up with anything that can be sourced, and basically this makes, in my opinion(!) the Strelka section to be gossip that doesn't actually tell readers anything about Rybka, and no reason to connect it to the Rybka page. By all means leave it in the Strelka page. Or, an alternative edit, I'll suggest after Ippolit Section:

For the Ippolit section: Again, this is quite gossipy as it stands. Ippolit was/is a chess engine produced by (supposedly) a group of politically inspired Russian hackers. Maybe, maybe not. It's origins remain mysterious. Rybka author has written than he thinks Ippolit is a reverse engineered Rybka, although he may have backtracked on that, since the reference has been deleted from his own forum site. The remaining comments in the paragraph are gossip.

So, I guess a possible edit, would be to merge those two sections into one, giving sourceable facts, insofar as those facts connect somehow to the Rybka wiki page. So what do we have? 1. Rybka author has claimed that two chess engines, Strelka and Ippolit, were the result of decompilation of his chess engine, Rybka. No evidence has been provided by the Rybka author and one of the accusations has since been deleted from his web forum. 2. Fruit author has claimed Strelka chess engine is a copy of his chess engine, Fruit. No evidence has been provided for this claim.

I think that would be a factual history of sourced, Rybka relevent material.

Anyway, thanks again for your commenting. It is quite daunting as a newbie here knowing how it all works! It says I should sign with four tylda characters. And I'm not sure if this is how to 'reply', I looked around for a reply button, but to no avail. Is editing the page how one is supposed to do it?

ChrisWhittington (talk) 13:35, 14 November 2019 (UTC)

@ChrisWhittington: Wow, thank you for the long reply! Yes, I'm beginning to see your take on Rybka... I now actually think that it is maybe good to delete it, but it would be even better to source it and reword it so that it is true. either way, I guess that's fine. I will restore your edit. Yrs, you do just edit the page to reply to your messages. Generally you want to ping the person you are responding to; that gives them a notification that you responded. You can read the link to find out how. ALso, it will only work if you sign your post, so keep that in mind to. Again, thanks for the reply! Yours - Puddleglum2.0 \ /Have a talk? 15:42, 14 November 2019 (UTC)

Invitation to discus the rule on whether to include the victims names

Dear Puddleglum2.0,

I hereby invite you to discuss a possible new rule on whether or not the name of victims should be included on various articles (i.e. Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, Santa Fe High School shooting.

The discussion can be found here: Wikipedia:Village_pump_(idea_lab)#Victims'_names_proposal_workshop

TheHoax (talk) 17:16, 18 November 2019 (UTC)

@TheHoax: Thank you, I will look into it. Puddleglum2.0 ^{Have a talk?} 18:15, 18 November 2019 (UTC)

Rollback granted

Hi Puddleglum2.0. After reviewing your request for "rollbacker", I have temporarily enabled rollback on your account until {{{expiry}}}. Keep in mind these things when going to use rollback:

• Getting rollback is no more momentous than installing Twinkle.
• Rollback should be used to revert clear cases of vandalism only, and not good faith edits.
• Rollback should never be used to edit war.
• If abused, rollback rights can be revoked.
• Use common sense.

If you no longer want rollback, contact me and I'll remove it. Also, for some more information on how to use rollback, see Wikipedia:Administrators' guide/Rollback (even though you're not an admin). I'm sure you'll do great with rollback, but feel free to leave me a message on my talk page if you run into troubles or have any questions about appropriate/inappropriate use of rollback. Thank you for helping to reduce vandalism. Happy editing! Lord Roem ~ (talk) 06:11, 19 November 2019 (UTC)

Hi Puddleglum - now you have rollback, you have access to Huggle and Stiki. Using them is not part of the course, but I'll be happy to answer any questions you might have about them. My advice is to try Stiki first, before moving onto Huggle - they are similar in some ways, but Stiki lets you take your time whereas Huggle puts a certain amount of pressure on you to make quick decisions, which isn't ideal while you're still getting used to things. GirthSummit _(blether) 13:05, 19 November 2019 (UTC)

@Lord Roem: and Girth Summit what is the expiry? If just says {{{expiry}}} after the temporarily enabled bit. Thanks- Puddleglum2.0 ^{Have a talk?} 15:29, 19 November 2019 (UTC)

Ah, strange. It's indefinite, unless misused. Lord Roem ~ (talk) 15:36, 19 November 2019 (UTC)

@Lord Roem: Oh, OK thank you. Puddleglum2.0 ^{Have a talk?} 15:39, 19 November 2019 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Football

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Your GA nomination of Football

The article Football you nominated as a good article has failed ; see Talk:Football for reasons why the nomination failed. If or when these points have been taken care of, you may apply for a new nomination of the article. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of SounderBruce -- SounderBruce (talk) 04:01, 20 November 2019 (UTC)

Archives

Hi, I've converted your archives to the form "/Archive 1" rather than "/Archives/November/2019" since I was unable to figure out how to fix ClueBot's indexing. I think this should work automatically now. – Thjarkur (talk) 16:15, 20 November 2019 (UTC)

@Thjarkur: Thank you! Puddleglum2.0 ^{Have a talk?} 16:32, 20 November 2019 (UTC)

Congratulations

CVU Academy Graduate

Congratulations from both myself and all of the instructors at the Counter Vandalism Unit Academy on your successful completion of the Counter Vandalism Unit Academy. You completed your final exam with a score of 97%. Well done! Further information on your achievement can be found here. It has been a pleasure working with you these past few weeks, and thank you for offering to help out in removing vandalism from the project's articles. If you ever need any advice or assistance in the future, you're always welcome on my talk page. Hope to see you around! GirthSummit (blether) 17:43, 20 November 2019 (UTC)

Good articles

Hi - since I'm a nosey sort of person, I followed the links above to the Football GA nom. It's great that you want to get involved in article improvement - if you don't mind a bit of unsolicited advice, if I were you I'd start out with some smaller articles. Football is such a big subject (and article), getting it to GA status would be a pretty big task. I've written a few GAs, but they're all about fairly constrained topics - historic buildings, mostly. If I were you, I'd start out small - GAs don't have to have hundreds of refs, they just need to have enough to give good encyclopedic coverage, so a subject which is notable but hasn't been written about too extensively is easier to knock into shape than a subject like football that has had entire forests worth of books and magazines written about it. If football is your thing, perhaps a particular club or player would be an easier place to get started? Anyway, congrats again on the CVUA course, and happy editing. GirthSummit _(blether) 17:52, 20 November 2019 (UTC)

@Girth Summit: Yes, thank you for your advice. I didn't realize that you had to contribute significantly to the article, but now that I know that, I hope to get a GA done sometime. Football isn't really my thing, it was just an article I saw while rving vandalism, and I thought it was really good and well sourced. Thank you. Puddleglum2.0 ^{Have a talk?} 20:00, 20 November 2019 (UTC)

Pending changes reviewer granted

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@Mz7: Thank you. Puddleglum2.0 ^{Have a talk?} 19:07, 25 November 2019 (UTC)

The Stand

Hello. I noticed that you reverted my edits for "vandalism," but none of them were vandalistic in any way imaginable. If anything, you're edit was incredibly disruptive and done with a false rationale. NEVER do that again. 2604:6000:130E:49B0:CCBF:2938:CDE7:4680 (talk) 04:14, 27 November 2019 (UTC)

Hello 2604:6000:130E:49B0:CCBF:2938:CDE7:4680 Sorry, I don't think your edits were vandalism persay, but they were not constructive. The article was better before you edited it, I am sorry to say. Would you like me to give you some links that will take you to editing guidelines and editing help so you can learn how to edit constructively? Thank you, Puddleglum2.0 ^{Have a talk?} 04:16, 27 November 2019 (UTC)

By the way, it is unnacebtable behavior to remove warnings from your talk page. If I see your side of the issue and agree with you, I will strike those warnings, but it is not cool to delete them yourself. Regards, Puddleglum2.0 ^{Have a talk?} 04:19, 27 November 2019 (UTC)

I'm still adding material from the Cinefantastique issue, so I'm not finished yet. Also, they were constructive edits. Can you please wait until I've added all the material from the magazine feature? Also, you ARE allowed to remove warnings from the talk page. Only if it's a block notice and you're still blocked can you not remove the message. 2604:6000:130E:49B0:CCBF:2938:CDE7:4680 (talk) 04:20, 27 November 2019 (UTC)

Please tell me when you are done editing that article; I will check it and see if the edits are constructive. Thank you, Puddleglum2.0 ^{Have a talk?} 04:22, 27 November 2019 (UTC)

Thank you so much. There's a LOT to add from the magazine, so please be patient. 2604:6000:130E:49B0:CCBF:2938:CDE7:4680 (talk) 04:32, 27 November 2019 (UTC)

No problem. Sorry I have to put that warning on your talk; I will strike it if I see your edits are Good Faith. Puddleglum2.0 ^{Have a talk?} 04:36, 27 November 2019 (UTC)

Well I need to go do real life stuff now so I will review your edits tomorrow. Please put a link to the article you edited here when you are done. Thank you. Puddleglum2.0 ^{Have a talk?} 04:44, 27 November 2019 (UTC)

Let's give it a try

Puddleglum:

Let's see what you can do. You might want to start off with some copyediting experience first - it will give you some insight on how folks will copyedit your copy, so make that a bit easier to take. You should also go thru the archives (look for how often WP:Video games has already been done) If it's already been done twice, you should start with a different topic. In the archives you can also check what seems to work in an article and what doesn't. I'd tend to start out with more facts than others have (if I remember them correctly). For your own use you might find a list of the currently viable WikiProjects. Many were started, but few survive. Your job is not to promote the WikiProject, but to let readers know about it if they run into somebody from the project, or even to know if they want to join. Neither is it your job to criticize the project or bring up all the old mistakes they've made, but you should try to ask the questions that you think our readers might ask. So if there were a WikiProject Beauty Pageants, you'd have to ask yourself if you'd want to ask whether the pageants fit into the modern view of women or just objectify women. Off the top of my head I'd guess that the participants would love to answer that question if you put it politely, so probably yes on this one. In general I'd say this isn't the type of column where you'd want to ask the obnoxious question about the elephant in the room, but you should ask a couple of tough questions in a polite way. More later. Smallbones_(smalltalk) 02:02, 1 December 2019 (UTC)

@Smallbones: Thanks for letting me try. I decided not to write about WikiProject VG, as it has been written about numerous times before. I was going to write about it because they are on the verge of meeting their biggest goal, but I'm retrospect I will not. I will find a namd WikiProject and write about it. Thank you also for the advice, Puddleglum2.0 ^{Have a talk?} 02:38, 1 December 2019 (UTC)

Ok, you might want to try Wikipedia:WikiProject Tree of Life . They seem to be active and have some sorts of projects going on. That's about all I know, but it's something different! For your first column, please try to get the copy in by the 19th or 20th so we can avoid the holiday rush and correct any mistakes in plenty of time. Please put it in the Newsroom under "other columns(?)" and then move it up with the regular columns. @Bri: (I'll probably be out of town this month!) Smallbones_(smalltalk) 02:55, 1 December 2019 (UTC)

Sounds like a plan Smallbones. Thank you, Puddleglum2.0 ^{Have a talk?} 06:07, 1 December 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – December 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2019).

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• The global consultation on partial and temporary office actions that ended in October received a closing statement from staff concluding, among other things, that the WMF will no longer use partial or temporary Office Action bans... until and unless community consensus that they are of value or Board directive.

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WP:UAA reports on users with no edits

Generally, there is no reason to report usernames with no edits whatsoever. Per WP:UAAI: "Wait until the user edits. Do not report a user that hasn't edited unless they are clearly a vandal. We do not want to welcome productive editors with a report at UAA, nor do we want to waste our time dealing with accounts that may never be used." The exceptions are obvious hate speech or names that attack a living person/Wikipedia editor, those are blockable even without any edits, but other run-of-the-mill violations such as names of organizations or products need not be reported unless and until they at least attempt to edit, and you should be able to clearly explain what the problem is if it is not immediately evident.

For whatever reason, every day dozens, if not hundreds of accounts are created that never make one single edit. It is our responsibility as admins to conscientiously review every report a user makes at UAA, so we have to check for contribs, deleted contribs, and tripping of the edit filter for every one of these reports, only to find out there's nothing there and therefore no problem to be solved. That's time that could be spent doing more productive things, but you basically obligate admins to do it by making such reports.
Also, I'm no expert on this but I can't imagine your signature meets WP:SIGAPP as it is barely legible on the page, at least to me. The pink is so light that on a white screen there is not enough contrast to make it out. Beeblebrox (talk) 23:44, 2 December 2019 (UTC),

@Beeblebrox: Oh man, I'm sorry. I was up editing too late and wasn't paying enough attention. I'm sorry for wasting your time, it won't happen again. BTW, about the signature, that's weird, no else I've interacted with told me anything. I'll just go ahead and change it anyway. Thank you for telling me all this though! Puddleglum2.0 ^{Have a talk?} 05:29, 4 December 2019 (UTC)

You're hardly the only one, a lot of folks don't realize this aspect of the username policy. It's kind of my one-man crusade to try and make more people aware of it. The sig thing, maybe it's worse because I'm getting older and also using an iPad with a small screen, but it just looks like a pink squiggle to me. Beeblebrox (talk) 06:04, 4 December 2019 (UTC)

OK, thanks a lot for notifying me Beeblebrox, I appreciate that. I am working on changing my signature, I'll be done soon. Thank you! Puddleglum2.0 ^{Have a talk?} 06:14, 4 December 2019 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) P.S. A good way to verify whether colored text is visible to the great majority of people is checking the contrast over at WebAIM's Contrast Checker. AddWittyNameHere 16:02, 4 December 2019 (UTC)

@AddWittyNameHere: Thank you much! Puddleglum ^2.0 17:21, 4 December 2019 (UTC)

You're welcome! Your new signature is much easier to read. :) AddWittyNameHere 20:19, 4 December 2019 (UTC)

GOCE December 2019 Newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors December 2019 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the December 2019 GOCE newsletter, an update of Guild happenings since the September edition. Our Annual Report should be ready in late January. Election time: Nominations for the election of a new tranche of Guild coordinators to serve for the first half of 2020 will be open from 1 to 15 December. Voting will then take place and the election will close on 31 December at 23:59 UTC. Positions for Guild coordinators, who perform the important behind-the-scenes tasks that keep our project running smoothly, are open to all Wikipedians in good standing. We welcome self-nominations so please consider nominating yourself if you've ever thought about helping out; it's your Guild and it doesn't run itself! September Drive: Of the thirty-two editors who signed up, twenty-three editors copy edited at least one article; they completed 39 requests and removed 138 articles from the backlog, bringing the backlog to a low of 519 articles. October Blitz: This event ran from 13 to 19 October, with themes of science, technology and transport articles tagged for copy edit, and Requests. Sixteen editors helped remove 29 articles from the backlog and completed 23 requests. November Drive: Of the twenty-eight editors who signed up for this event, twenty editors completed at least one copy edit; they completed 29 requests and removed 133 articles from the backlog. Our December Blitz will run from 15 to 21 December. Sign up now! Progress report: From September to November 2019, GOCE copy editors processed 154 requests. Over the same period, the backlog of articles tagged for copy editing was reduced by 41% to an all-time low of 479 articles. Request archiving: The archiving of completed requests has now been automated. Thanks to Zhuyifei1999 and Bobbychan193, YiFeiBot is now archiving the Requests page. Archiving occurs around 24 hours after a user's signature and one of the templates {{Done}}, {{Withdrawn}} or {{Declined}} are placed below the request. The bot uses the Guild's standard "purpose codes" to determine the way it should archive each request so it's important to use the correct codes and templates. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators; Reidgreg, Baffle gab1978, Miniapolis, Tdslk and Twofingered Typist. >>> Sign up for the December blitz! <<< >>> Participate in the Coordinator elections! <<< To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:05, 4 December 2019 (UTC)

Copy editing feedback

Since you are new to the GOCE (welcome!), I took a look at your copy edits on Krzysztof Niemczyk. Overall, the article was greatly improved. I made a few more edits to tag unsourced information and do a bit more cleanup. Please let me know if you have any questions. Again, welcome, and your enthusiasm is greatly appreciated. I hope that you will continue to contribute to the Guild of Copy Editors. – Jonesey95 (talk) 06:25, 5 December 2019 (UTC)

@Jonesey95: Thanks a lot for the message! Puddleglum ^2.0 15:40, 5 December 2019 (UTC)

Planet Rock

Hey Puddleglum. Thanks for starting your copy-edit of "Planet Rock". As for the lead of the article, unless some new rules have come in that I'm unfamiliar with, per MOS:CITELEAD, "the lead will usually repeat information that is in the body, editors should balance the desire to avoid redundant citations in the lead with the desire to aid readers in locating sources for challengeable material. Leads are usually written at a greater level of generality than the body, and information in the lead section of non-controversial subjects is less likely to be challenged and less likely to require a source; there is not, however, an exception to citation requirements specific to leads." I don't believe I have anything in the lead of "Planet Rock"'s article that is not in the prose. Ditto for the infobox. Also, I've archived my talk page, it was something long over-due! Thank you! Andrzejbanas (talk) 14:01, 6 December 2019 (UTC)d

@Andrzejbanas: OK, I should have looked more closely before I said that. :) I've been really busy the last couple days, but I should be able to finish the copyedit soon. Thanks, Puddleglum ^2.0 23:23, 8 December 2019 (UTC)

No worries! Makes it easy on both of us. Thanks again for taking time to check out the article. :) Andrzejbanas (talk) 23:34, 8 December 2019 (UTC)

@Andrzejbanas: Sure thing! Puddleglum ^2.0 23:36, 8 December 2019 (UTC)

Shropshire

Hi, about my edit to Shropshire. As of yesterday, Virgin Trains is no longer in operation and has been replaced by Avanti West Coast. Therefore, all articles that say Virgin Trains need updating to say Avanti West Coast. Otherwise the information is out of date. Thank you for understanding. 82.0.161.78 (talk) 18:23, 9 December 2019 (UTC)

(For the record) Responded to on talk page: issue resolved. Puddleglum ^2.0 00:48, 10 December 2019 (UTC)