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WikiProject Beijing

Hey Python eggs! I'm currently planning the launch of the WikiProject Beijing, depending on if enough other editors would be interested in such a project. I saw you have edited the main Beijing page recently or in several times in the past and therefor might be interested. If you are, please sign: User:Poeloq/WikiProject_Beijing. As I am posting this to quite a few editors, I am not watching your page and would ask you to reply with any comment or questions on my talk page. Cheers, Poeloq (talk) 21:41, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Phoenix (spacecraft)

Hello, I reverted your revert. Its confusing with those anononomous edits, I know. It was correct though, as of http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/phoenix/main/index.html it is still some time til it lands on Mars. AndersL (talk) 23:40, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

It will take some time till the Earth receive the confirm signal. But it has landed. Python eggs (talk) 23:41, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

NASA TV still has about 7 minutes on touchdown; it has just entered the atmosphere. [1] -- RattleMan 23:46, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

NASA TV use Earth-received time, which is 15m20s behind Spacecraft Event Time, They use ERT because NASA is only a watcher for the event, but Wikipedia is an encyclopedia unlike NASA TV. Python eggs (talk) 23:49, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

railway stations

I noticed that you keep moving China's railway stations back to pinyin system for the cities whose English names are not pinyin. I disagree and raised the question at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (Chinese). I hope you can participate in the discussion there. Thanks. --Neo-Jay (talk) 18:57, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

Are you Chinese?

Your insistence on using pinyin for the names of Chinese cities in non-Han areas suggests that you are a Han Chinese yourself. Or is there some other reason for this behaviour?

Bathrobe (talk) 07:15, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

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Beijing Subway

Hi, I had added a category (Siemens Transportation Systems Projects), for as Beijing Line 10s signaling system is supplied by Siemens AG. However this category was removed, unfortunately without stating a reason. In my opinion the supply of equipment worth in general several million EURO should be worth a categorization, however I understand that only one line supplied might not qualify. Can I have a reason for deletion, otherwise I would like to open the addition for discussion. Thanks :) --Azchael (talk) 15:55, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

I suppose, if add, that category should be added to line 10's article. but personally i don't think it is a good idea to have categories like this. Python eggs (talk)

I agree, if there would be a Line 10 article, it would make more sense there. Maybe I should split the Beijing Subway article up. Have to check what other info I can find on the Metro Line 10. Regarding the category itself, I see it as an information aggregation. I had been looking before on ways to identify the original constructor / supplier of e.g. the electrification system of a specific line. Technic interests me and a few others I know :). There are so called reference databases available at, e.g. Siemens (which I used as a cite reference for several articles), but on the one hand is the information presented there more a press statement and lacks the information present at Wikipedia, and on the other hand, after I found one system I would like to know which other systems the same supplier has delivered. On Wikipedia I do not have this information aggregation at the moment and I hope to create it with this categorization. Later to be added by Bombadier and Alstom. The value itself as well as the technical point of view verify for me the categorization and it helps to aggregate a good market overview. But I agree, that for a real use of this the Beijing Subway page is too general and should be split, if that makes sense from the information point of view. Let me look into that. --Azchael (talk) 21:21, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

August 2008

Uncommented reversion to High-speed rail

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Do you agree with the solution about the debated paragraph in High-speed rail? If so, could you please indicate it here on your talk or here so we can close the mediation case, and if not, could you please tell what, in your opinion, is still wrong. Thanks! --Twinzor ^{Say hi!} - Do I suck or rock? 02:49, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

I agree with the solution. Python eggs (talk) 05:56, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

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Your GPS question

I've added a possible answer just before it'll be lost from the page, so I want to draw your attention to it. --Tardis (talk) 19:38, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

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Template:Lichun and other solar term templates

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It won't get outdated in one year. I'll try to update it some time later. Python eggs (talk) 16:53, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

I added 4 more years to {{Lichun}}. Can you have a look at that? I will add more to other templates soon.--Quest for Truth (talk) 14:16, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

It's alright. Thanks. Python eggs (talk) 14:32, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

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Jingguang vs. Jinggang

[2] [3] Why do some people talk about Jinggang instead? And by the way was Guangshengang originally just Guangshen? 61.18.170.190 (talk) 15:12, 11 July 2010 (UTC)

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On this web page: http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/horizons.cgi Set "Ephemeris Type" to "OBSERVER", Target Body to "Sun (Sol)", Observe Location to Geocentric and Table Settings to "31 (Obs eclip. lon & lat)", choose preferred time span, and then click "Generate Ephemeris", and then find those rows the ObsEcLon column is divisible by 15. Python eggs (talk) 18:25, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

Thank you so so so much! Layimu (talk) 06:04, 1 October 2010 (UTC)

October 2010

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Hello, I did cite a fairly reliable source. There is no evidence indicate whether the UIC figure is more reliable than what I cited. Python eggs (talk) 18:26, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

You didn't provide a source for removing the US - and the UIC are reliable so per WP:Verifiability we have to take them at their word, I think the reason its included is that some of the Acela track is at 150mph which is very close to their minimum of 250km/h.

With regards to your source for the China section on High-speed rail for better or for worse this is a "Western" dominated project, you need to bring a source to the table that people outside of China are likely to have actually heard of. So something like Xinhua, China Daily, or the top newspapers in Shanghai, Beijing and Guangzhou. English language is better too, but Chinese is fine if there isn't an English source available. -- Eraserhead1 <talk> 18:56, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

Back in 2007, there was already a few hundreds km of upgraded line capable for 250 km/h running in China. UIC seems seriously overestimated the United States (To be precise, only a very short section of the 362-km Acela route is capable for 241 km/h running) but underestimate China. I haven't did much research for their European data, but based on their data on these two countries, it can't be considered as "reliable". Anyway, please discuss in Talk:High-speed rail, not here. Thanks. Python eggs (talk) 19:07, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

Quite right :). -- Eraserhead1 <talk> 20:04, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fastest trains in China

I have reverted your addition of Fastest trains in India as that should be done by the AfD nominator if they wish to combine nominations. Also, you did not follow the rest of the process as the AfD page was malformed and the necessary tag was not added to the article. I have no opinion on whether or not the list should be taken to AfD (with this if the nominator so wishes, or separately if you/someone else wish to initiate one). cheers. —SpacemanSpiff 18:21, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

Length of HSR in operation in China

I noticed that you undid my figure, but I don't know why. Your references were about two new lines in operation, but failed to mention the total length of HSR in China. And mine, came from the same site, had the exact figure and more updated than yours. So if you don't give me a sound reason in the following days, I'll change it back. Derekjoe (talk) 12:35, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

The official 8000+ km figure is about 200+ km/h lines. Here on the table, only 250+ km/h lines included. Please read Talk:High-speed rail, lots of discussions there. Python eggs (talk) 13:48, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

Template:High-speed rail by country

An excellent move to have the Template:High-speed rail by country, but there's no easy way to reach it from either High-speed rail or High-speed rail by country. Is that deliberate, or just an oversight? (reply here, please). Tim PF (talk) 17:29, 17 February 2011 (UTC)

I find it's not easy to keep both table with the same data. Python eggs (talk) 17:36, 17 February 2011 (UTC)

True, and even harder for it to be changed if it is not easy to find to edit. It's not impossible to find, it is just not easy. Tim PF (talk) 21:05, 17 February 2011 (UTC)

How to edit a template should be a must knowledge for Wikipedia editors. There're plenty of them. Python eggs (talk) 06:15, 18 February 2011 (UTC)

But unlike many templates, such as Template:Mark 3-derived, this one does not have a "v.d.e" in the top left corner. Tim PF (talk) 07:37, 18 February 2011 (UTC)

If you want "v.d.e." in the corner, why not add them yourself? I am more than happy to see them, but I dont have time to find out how to add them sorry. Python eggs (talk) 07:56, 18 February 2011 (UTC)

I was going to, but couldn't figure out how to do it either. Ok, thanks, Python Eggs. Tim PF (talk) 16:27, 18 February 2011 (UTC)

Ah, so that's how it's done. Thankyou. Tim PF (talk) 22:49, 18 February 2011 (UTC)

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(talk page stalker) I'm taking a look at this. There is a template that I should be able to use to do all 60 odd uses in one sweep. -- Eraserhead1 <talk> 22:00, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

• 60 uses? Wow. That would make it the most used non-free file on the project. I doubt it would qualify for many of the uses. For example, China Railways CRH1. It's just not necessary for every thing within an organization to be blazoned with that organization's logo. Consider comparison case; Amtrak, logo File:Amtrak Logo.svg, used just once despite having a large number of sub-articles. Also, you (Eraserhead1) added a rationale for China Railway High-speed, but the image isn't used there. What is used is File:ChinaRailwayHighspeed.svg. We should be using the SVG equivalent. I think this image could be deleted. --Hammersoft (talk) 22:22, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

If the rationales aren't enough, then you are more than welcome to go through and find which ones aren't justified. -- Eraserhead1 <talk> 22:49, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

• Rather than adding it to a dizzying array of articles, I would encourage you to carefully consider each use before adding it. Is the logo really necessary for X article such that the article can't be understood by the average reader without it? Or, is it just decoration? --Hammersoft (talk) 22:59, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

Fair point. It seems that the 'what links here' list at the bottom of the image links to a bunch of pages it isn't included on, how annoying, so the 60 figure isn't accurate either :(. -- Eraserhead1 <talk> 23:01, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

• Near as I can tell, the image is used only at High-speed_rail_in_China#Service (and decoratively at that; that type of use isn't supported when there's a linked main article), and at Rail transport in the People's Republic of China. I removed it from three uses where it was used as an icon (WP:NFCC #8 failure). --Hammersoft (talk) 23:13, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

Moved over to the other image and added rationale. I suggest we get the png image deleted. -- Eraserhead1 <talk> 23:20, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

Blanking

Please stop blanking articles like you just did here. If you consider it a violation of copyright, at least attempt to establish a consensus first. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.117.233.162 (talk) 01:30, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

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Naming of Chinese railway articles

I noticed that you reverted the change I made to the name of the Lanzhou-Xinjiang Railway article without explanation. I have started a discussion at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (Chinese) on the naming convention of railways and expressways. Perhaps you can review the other comments and give your input. ContinentalAve (talk) 13:29, 24 April 2011 (UTC)

Message to Yaohua2000 about time span of "Total Solar Eclipse Paths: 1001–2000" image

Total Solar Eclipse Paths: 1001–2000. This image was merged from 50 separate images from NASA.

I find that the image "Total Solar Eclipse Paths: 1001–2000" in Solar_eclipse#Occurrence_and_cycles (reproduced on the right) covers way too long a time span and hence does not provide much useful information, other than where eclipses have not occurred.

A span of 20 years, such as 2001–2020 paths or a composite of, say, 100 years centred on approximately the current year (1961–2060) from images on NASA to World Atlas of Solar Eclipse Paths may be more readable.

No doubt you have put in a lot of effort to composite the NASA images, so before I change the image, what do you think?

Thanks, cmɢʟee☺τaʟκ 11:50, 13 June 2011 (UTC)

References

Beijing Shanghai railway

So we can post it quickly onto the front page it would be nice for there to be some more sources for the first day in service section. -- Eraserhead1 <talk> 21:43, 29 June 2011 (UTC)

I've added quite a few sources, but it would still nice to see a few more if you have the time. -- Eraserhead1 <talk> 22:06, 29 June 2011 (UTC)

I'll be on the first train G1 from Beijing South to Shanghai Hongqiao. You can follow my Twitter as I'll post pics once onboard. All my pics of this trip will be released in the latest version of CC-BY license. Python eggs (talk) 00:11, 30 June 2011 (UTC)

Harbin–Dalian High-Speed Railway and others

Can you please explain your rationale for moving Harbin–Dalian Passenger Railway to Harbin–Dalian High-Speed Railway. I moved all of the articles to a X–Y Passenger Railway format in order to maintain consistency. In Chinese, these lines are referred to as 客运专线, which roughly translates as "passenger dedicated line" or "passenger railway" but nowhere do I see the words "High-Speed." In contrast, the Beijing to Shanghai High Speed Railway is correct because in Chinese it is actually named 高速铁路, the words 高速 clearly indicating High-Speed.

Also, explain your rationale for reverting all of my moves for Qinshen Passenger Railway and such. Please take a read at Wikipedia:NC-CHINA#Transportation as the new naming convention is to name the articles with the termini stations, aka Qinhuangdao and Shenyang, not Qinshen.

Please explain your rationale and/or conform to naming conventions set by WP:NC-CHINA. Thank you Heights^{(Want to talk?)} 20:21, 3 July 2011 (UTC)

No. In Chinese, it is controversy. If you search for "哈大高铁" on Google, tons of results will be returned, and many of them from official sites like xinhuanet or gov.cn. Chinese government is switching from "客运专线" to "高速铁路". Python eggs (talk) 03:01, 4 July 2011 (UTC)

Your reverts to the Beijing Hong Kong High Speed Railway line

Various sources now say that the former Beijing-Guangzhou line is now the Beijing-Hong Kong line, in Chinese it is now called 京港高速铁路, if you see Chinese Wikipedia, Baidu, etc. http://money.163.com/09/1224/08/5R9N2DGH002526O5.html You seem to point out that a railway line can not be international however this simply does not make sense. Trains DO and will run straight through to Hong Kong (West Kowloon station). Even articles for that specific section of line between Guangzhou and Hong Kong have been created (see Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link). Isn't that a legitimate international railway line, if you constitute Hong Kong as a separate administrative region? The Beijing Hong Kong High Speed is simply the old Beijing Guangzhou High Speed + this new Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong XRL. Many sources use Beijing Hong Kong high speed and you cant simply try to hide and pretend it's still terminating at Guangzhou.

Also I'd appreciate it if you leave some form of discussion or talk page first before going in and reverting my edits at your own will as I simply don't do that to yours in order to avoid my actions being interpreted as an edit conflict. But I would appreciate some form of discussion first. Heights^{(Want to talk?)} 22:01, 6 July 2011 (UTC)

Your removal of the link about Acclimatization

I would appreciate your not removing links without reason or comment. I am re-inserting the following link on the Qinghai-Tibet Railway page and appreciate it you leaving it alone or having the courtesy to discuss first or give reason for removal.

• Does the Qinghai-Tibet Train Help Travelers Acclimate to Lhasa's Altitude? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.7.72.98 (talk) 03:15, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

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