User:Redrose64
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Redrose64 is a Wikipedian who has found that whilst there are many excellent articles, there are still some which could do with improvement. Not all are accurate or reliably sourced: this anon gets the idea. Thus, I decided to become an editor. My primary concerns are coverage of the British railway system, and certain records and their labels; hence the userboxes at right. [bad style - changes from third to first person in same paragraph] Every so often something annoys me and I become something of a gnome. My platypoid tendencies occasionally manifest themselves in other ways (a b c d).
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About me[edit]
Just so that you know: I do not appreciate being called a racist or a sexist, even to my face. Evidence is required.
What do I do?[edit]
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I am a computer programmer by profession, with diverse interests in many apparently unrelated areas. I've tried to show that by means of userboxes; unfortunately, if formatted as a single column, it turned out to be rather long but was still not exhaustive. Since it got a bit silly, I've shunted most of them into a siding. A few have been retained, placed alongside relevant paragraphs as illustration.
My programming skills are mainly in DataFlex and PFXplus (also known as Powerflex). I also have experience in HTML.
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This page might look messy; just as I worked out how HTML is done, I find Wikipedia with its strange ways of doing lists, tables etc. - and I can't always find the template that I like. However, hopefully my contributions are much neater.
You won't find me on TubeFace or SpaceBook; I don't tweet, blog, share files or anything else like that. I know that some people have great fun doing such things, but it's not my bag.
About my computer[edit]
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Not so long ago it was state of the art. But no longer. I can't keep on buying new kit just because some silly software salesman in Seattle says that their stuff needs it. So, by doing nothing, I move backwards.
Just at this moment, somehow or other, they began to run.
... they were running hand in hand, and the [Red] Queen went so fast that it was all she [Alice] could do to keep up with her: and still the Queen kept crying 'Faster! Faster!' but Alice felt she could not go faster, though she had no breath left to say so. The most curious part of the thing was, that the trees and the other things round them never changed their places at all: however fast they went, they never seemed to pass anything. ... till suddenly, just as Alice was getting quite exhausted, they stopped, and she found herself sitting on the ground, breathless and giddy. The Queen propped her up against a tree, and said kindly, 'You may rest a little now.' Alice looked round her in great surprise. 'Why, I do believe we've been under this tree the whole time! Everything's just as it was!'
'Of course it is,' said the Queen. ... 'It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!'
— Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass, and what Alice found there
Browsers installed[edit]
- Google Chrome 19.0.1084.52
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0.5730.13
- Mozilla Firefox 12.0 (as from 6 May 2012)
- Opera 11.64 (Build 1403)
- Safari 5.1 (7534.50)
Why Redrose64?[edit]
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The red rose is the badge of the Duchy of Lancaster and my family mostly come from Lancashire. My favourite football team has a red rose in its badge; my favourite cricket county has a red rose on their cap; and (coincidentally) I have friends in the Welsh village of Rhos-goch. Sometimes, it's because of Burns Night.
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I was born in 1964, and the number 64 seems to come up in my life more often than the law of averages might suggest. It is also an exact power of 2, and therefore significant to a computer programmer.
Where am I?[edit]
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I have always lived in England, presently in Didcot. Strangely, my IP address always geolocates to a wildly incorrect location: sometimes it's in Olney, Buckinghamshire; maybe in Ruislip; or Cheapside, London - opposite St Mary-le-Bow; the middle of the Thames at 51°29′47″N 0°07′21″W / 51.496399°N 0.122400°W; Edgware Road, Kilburn; or even western Sheffield (all being places where I have never lived); but normally it's 51°30′00″N 0°07′48″W / 51.50000°N 0.13000°W, which is the Methodist Central Hall Westminster (work that out if you can) - this is 49.17 miles (79.13 km) away from the truth (check your own here). My mother has a different broadband supplier and lives 30 miles from me, but when at home, her laptop's IP address also geolocates to 51° 30′ 0″ N, 0° 7′ 48″ W, which is nuts. I have previously lived at Stonehouse, Corby, Telford, Bolton, Blackburn and Barford St. Michael. When living in Bolton, I lived opposite John Marshall (railway historian).
- Nearest river: River Thames
- Nearest canal (navigable): Oxford Canal (disused):Wilts & Berks Canal
- Nearest railway line: Great Western Main Line
- Nearest main road: A4130 road
- Nearest secondary road: B4493 road
- Nearest cycle route: National Cycle Route 5, five minutes ride away. Which (if I follow it for 37 miles (60 km)) takes me within one minute's ride of my mother's house.
- Earthquakes felt consciously: 1990 Bishop's Castle earthquake, 2 April 1990, felt at a distance of 82.8 miles (133.2 km); also the Warwick Earthquake of 23 September 2000, felt at a distance of 48.35 miles (77.81 km).
- Loudest noise heard: Buncefield explosion, 11 December 2005 (the shockwave woke me up, then I heard it) at a distance of 37.38 miles (60.15 km)
I have been to other countries (always as a tourist), see box at top of section. It's chronological, so sorry to Scots everywhere. I have visited every traditional county in England, the last to be crossed off being Sussex in about 1999. However, I've not yet been to some of the new-fangled counties/unitary authorities such as Cleveland.
Former colleagues[edit]
Well, since most of us edit Wikipedia under pseudonyms, I can't be certain who anybody is, but I'm pretty sure that Mermade worked with me for some 15 years. Hello!
Wikipedians I have met[edit]
| Upcoming | |
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| UK virtual 10 | March 24, 2022 |
| London 178 | March 13, 2022 |
| Recent | |
| UK virtual 9 | February 23, 2022 |
| London 176 | November 14, 2021 |
| Oxford 81 | March 15, 2020 |
| Cambridge 42 | December 14, 2019 |
| Manchester 36 | June 9, 2019 |
| London Wikidata 2 | May 2, 2019 |
| Bristol 3 | September 1, 2018 |
| Edinburgh 13 | July 11, 2018 |
| East London 8 | October 25, 2016 |
| Glasgow 8 | July 16, 2016 |
| Liverpool 18 | February 27, 2016 |
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| Past meetups | |
- Wikipedia:Meetups are great places to meet other Wikipedians. At these, at Wikimania London 2014, and elsewhere, I have met:
Part of a meetup; some of these people are named here- Acalamari (talk · contribs)
- AdamBMorgan (talk · contribs)
- Amakuru (talk · contribs)
- Andreasmperu (talk · contribs)
- Andrew Davidson (talk · contribs)
- Andrew Gray (talk · contribs)
- Avery Jensen (talk · contribs)
- Bawolff (talk · contribs)
- Bazonka (talk · contribs)
- Bellezzasolo (talk · contribs)
- Brinacor (talk · contribs)
- Broichmore (talk · contribs)
- Carcharoth (talk · contribs)
- Christina de la Sala (talk · contribs)
- ClemRutter (talk · contribs)
- Clruwe (talk · contribs)
- Colinc1000 (talk · contribs)
- Crinoline (talk · contribs)
- CT Cooper (talk · contribs)
- Damo2929 (talk · contribs)
- DannyHatcher (talk · contribs)
- Dcfmyers (talk · contribs)
- Dsergeant (talk · contribs)
- Dudley Miles (talk · contribs)
- Edoddridge (talk · contribs)
- Edwardx (talk · contribs)
- Ex nihil (talk · contribs)
- Extua (talk · contribs)
- Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi (talk · contribs)
- Frimelle (talk · contribs)
- Fugitivedave (talk · contribs)
- Geni (talk · contribs)
- GeoffH 112SU (talk · contribs)
- Grandiose (talk · contribs)
- Harry Wood (talk · contribs)
- Hengistmate (talk · contribs)
- HJ Mitchell (talk · contribs)
- Insertcleverphrasehere (talk · contribs)
- Iridescent (talk · contribs)
- Jarry1250 (talk · contribs)
- Jheald (talk · contribs)
- Johnbod (talk · contribs)
- JohnCD (talk · contribs)
- John of Reading (talk · contribs)
- Joseph2302 (talk · contribs)
- Jpbowen (talk · contribs)
- Jude12 (talk · contribs)
- Keegan (talk · contribs)
- KTC (talk · contribs)
- Kudpung (talk · contribs)
- Legoktm (talk · contribs)
- Leutha (talk · contribs)
- LucyCrompton-Reid (talk · contribs)
- Macedith (talk · contribs)
- Mainly mazza (talk · contribs)
- Maproom (talk · contribs)
- Marek69 (talk · contribs)
- MartinPoulter (talk · contribs)
- Mattbuck (talk · contribs)
- Mattgirling (talk · contribs)
- Matthisvalerie (talk · contribs)
- Mentifisto (talk · contribs)
- MER-C (talk · contribs)
- Mermade (talk · contribs)
- Mervyn (talk · contribs)
- MichaelMaggs (talk · contribs)
- Mike Peel (talk · contribs)
- Millosh (talk · contribs)
- MinorProphet (talk · contribs)
- MistyMorn (talk · contribs)
- Monkmans (talk · contribs)
- Motacilla (talk · contribs)
- Mum's taxi (talk · contribs)
- Mvolz (talk · contribs)
- Natkabrown (talk · contribs)
- NavinoEvans (talk · contribs)
- Nicholas Jackson (talk · contribs)
- Panyd (talk · contribs)
- Paraphyso (talk · contribs)
- Philafrenzy (talk · contribs)
- Philjose (talk · contribs)
- Pigsonthewing (talk · contribs)
- Pintoch (talk · contribs)
- PraveenRk1976 (talk · contribs)
- Quiddity (talk · contribs)
- RedSquirrel (talk · contribs)
- RexxS (talk · contribs)
- RHaworth (talk · contribs)
- Rich Farmbrough (talk · contribs)
- Ritchie333 (talk · contribs)
- Robevans123 (talk · contribs)
- Rock drum (talk · contribs)
- Rodw (talk · contribs)
- Roger Davies (talk · contribs)
- Rubbish computer (talk · contribs)
- Rwendland (talk · contribs)
- Serendipodous (talk · contribs)
- SilkTork (talk · contribs)
- Skeptic sid (talk · contribs)
- Stemonitis (talk · contribs)
- Stykoo (talk · contribs)
- The wub (talk · contribs)
- TheDJ (talk · contribs)
- Thryduulf (talk · contribs)
- Tokenzero (talk · contribs)
- Victuallers (talk · contribs)
- Wellho (talk · contribs)
- WereSpielChequers (talk · contribs)
- Whispyhistory (talk · contribs)
- Widefox (talk · contribs)
- Worm That Turned (talk · contribs)
- Yaris678 (talk · contribs)
- Yellowrose63 (talk · contribs)
- Yodin (talk · contribs)
- Yuitsum (talk · contribs)
- Zeromonk (talk · contribs)
- There have been others. Sorry, I can't remember everybody's handles. I may have met Harej (talk · contribs) but can't be sure. I have met some people who have edited under IP addresses - these have been omitted deliberately.
Awards[edit]
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The Wikilink Barnstar | |
| for working to speed up navigation by dilligently fixing links pointed at diambiguation pages! --SquidSK (1MC•log) 16:21, 12 November 2009 (UTC) |
Link to original award of the above by SquidSK
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On January 29, 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article James Cudworth, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits your article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check ) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Link to original award of the above by DYKadminBot. Article received 448 hits on 29 January 2010
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The Railways Barnstar | |
| Awarded for your work in expanding the James Cudworth article. Mjroots (talk) 08:01, 7 February 2010 (UTC) |
Link to original award of the above by Mjroots
 | This user helped promote the article Hawkhurst Branch Line to good article status. |
Link to original award of the above by Mjroots
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The Editor's Barnstar | |
| for your efforts in fixing the soon-to-be serious problem with the templates that I had left unoticed. Where would we be without you? Jaguar (talk) 21:17, 19 January 2011 (UTC) |
Link to original award of the above by Jaguar
| On 29 January 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Britannia railway station, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the highest point on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway was 965 feet (294 m) above sea level, just to the east of Britannia railway station? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Link to original award of the above by DYKUpdateBot. Article received 1137 hits on 29 January 2011
| On 12 February 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Pontyclun railway station, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Pontyclun railway station, previously called Llantrisant, was originally two separate railway stations that were later merged into one? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Link to original award of the above by DYKUpdateBot. Article received 1459 hits on 12 February 2011
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The WikiProject Doctor Who Award | |
| For your work on keeping Wikipedia's DW articles encyclopedic MarnetteD | Talk 23:42, 6 June 2011 (UTC) |
Link to original award of the above by MarnetteD
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The Citation Barnstar | |
| For quickly correcting the table at Los Angeles City Council after the request of one anguished Wikipedian! GeorgeLouis (talk) 16:28, 30 June 2011 (UTC) |
Link to original award of the above by GeorgeLouis.
| On 23 July 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article NBR 224 and 420 Classes, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that no. 224 of the North British Railway (pictured post-accident) was the first inside-cylinder 4-4-0 and the first tandem compound to run in Great Britain; and the locomotive involved in the Tay Bridge disaster? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Link to original award of the above by DYKUpdateBot. Article received 3596 hits on 23 July 2011
| This user helped promote the article NBR 224 and 420 Classes to good article status. |
Link to original award of the above by Bob Castle
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The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar |
| Thank you for your help. I'm feeling the love. Thank you. Dannymol (talk) 13:27, 20 September 2011 (UTC) |
Link to original award of the above by Dannymol.
Userboxes[edit]
There are several scattered about this page, partly as illustration of the paragraph alongside, but mainly to brighten the place up a bit. There are well over 100 that I wanted to incorporate, but if formatted as a single column they took up too much space, so most of the rest have been moved to a userboxes sub-page. Some were removed because the Great Renaming Plan of April 2015 turned them into redlinks.
Politics[edit]
In the UK there are several political parties; I have supported some of them, but not all. In the United States they have two parties, let's hear what one politician from each party has said:
And tonight I have the high privilege and distinct honor of my own as the first president to begin the State of the Union message with these words: Madam Speaker.
— President George W. Bush, State of the Union Address, 23 January 2007
Madam Speaker, Madam Vice President. No president has ever said those words from this podium ... And it's about time.
— President Joe Biden, Speech to a joint session of Congress, 28 April 2021
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Virtually all my edits have been on either English Wikipedia or Wikimedia Commons. Whether good or (hopefully not) bad, all edits that I have done are recorded as by Redrose64, with the following exceptions:
- 82.109.193.99 12:53, 29 April 2009 - Matty Grooves Records (diff); this was before I registered
- 213.232.79.146 14:59, 21 October 2009 - c:User talk:Redrose64 (diff); I didn't realise that the browser I was using didn't pass on all cookies that it should have
- 87.114.117.131 13:12, 4 March 2010 - Chaucer coming in contact with Petrarch or Boccaccio (diff); whilst carrying out this edit, I somehow became logged out. No idea why.
- 194.81.226.131 18:42, 11 November 2016 - Talk:LMS Coronation Class (diff); in public library, so intentionally not logged in
- 94.118.5.104 15:29, 21 May 2017 and 15:32, 21 May 2017 - Talk:Senna glycoside (diff); somebody else's mobile device
- 94.118.94.134 16:56, 21 May 2017 - User talk:RexxS (diff); somebody else's mobile device
- Whispyhistory 14:21, 20 August 2017 - Charles Singer (diff) and 14:34, 20 August 2017 - User talk:Redrose64 (diff); assisting another user at a meetup
However, no other edits of any page from those IP addresses or accounts were mine. When editing from home, my normal IP address is dynamic, and begins 87; but the other three groups vary on a daily basis.
For the purposes of testing various features under circumstances of low user permissions, I have created account Redrose64a (talk · contribs)
Naughtiness[edit]
My alleged misdemeanours, such as they are, are recorded here. Despite these, I seem to have been given some extra rights on 14 June 2010. It's not all been bad.
Non-English editing[edit]
I have done a few, mainly to fix up mistakes by non-English speakers which a 'bot then propagated back to the English article, also to fix up errors copied verbatim from English Wikipedia. I've also set up a number of interlanguage links. They have all gone on as Redrose64 though; these edits on other Wikipedias were mine: Arabic; Basque; Belarusian; Bosnian; Breton; Bulgarian; Cantonese; Catalan; Chinese; Colognian; Croatian; Czech; Danish; Dutch; Esperanto; Estonian; Finnish; French; Georgian; German; Greek; Hungarian; Indonesian; Italian; Japanese; Korean; Latvian; Lithuanian; Luxembourgish; Macedonian; Malay; Norwegian; Odia; Persian; Polish; Portuguese; Romanian; Russian; Serbo-Croatian; Simple English; Sinhala; Slovak; Spanish; Swedish; Tagalog; Thai; Turkish; Ukrainian; Urdu; Vietnamese; Volapük; Welsh. For some reason, the Amharic, Aragonese, Bangla, Bavarian, Bhojpuri, Central Kurdish, Egyptian Arabic; Emiliano-Romagnolo; Hindi; Kazakh; Ligurian; Malayalam; Punjabi; Tajik and Tulu Wikipedias, and Tamil Wikisource have noticed me. I had difficulty logging in at Urdu where I could only edit anonymously. See also List of WikiMedia accounts; SUL Info (see bottom for unattached accounts); Recent contributions on all projects
Other WikiMedia projects[edit]
- Commons (watchlist) - besides uploading a few dozen images myself, I've categorised over two thousand images uploaded by others
- Incubator (watchlist) - for some reason, they've noticed me
- MediaWiki (watchlist)
- Meta (watchlist) - mainly for Meetups
- Wikidata (watchlist)
- Wikinews (watchlist)
- Wikivoyage (watchlist)
- Wiktionary (watchlist)
Related[edit]
Done[edit]
Most of my editing has been amendments to existing articles. I also fix vandalism as and when I encounter it. However, I do claim to be the creator of:
- See here for verification. The list produced by this link shows four pages (LNER electric units, 2 January 2011; Alexandra Park railway station, 12 January 2011; Edmund Ward, 1 August 2011; Mid-Kent Railway, 9 December 2011) in addition to the above. These were created as redirects by me but have been expanded either to full articles (Mid-Kent Railway) or to disambiguation pages (others) by other people.
- For some reason, in some edit counters, articles which are purely redirects also count towards the total, so to resolve the discrepancy, I admit to being responsible for setting up over 150 redirects, some of which were as a result of page moves. See here for verification.
To find out how many times an article is accessed daily: Wikipedia article traffic statistics - make sure that both date and article are filled in suitably. Thanks to Henrik via Piano non troppo.
Templates[edit]
- Navboxes:
{{GWR absorbed locos 1922 on}}- Railway stations:
{{Commuter Stations: Cardiff Local Lines run by Arriva Trains Wales}};{{Railway stations in Lancashire}};{{Railway stations in Oxfordshire}};{{Railway stations in Pembrokeshire}} - Closed stations:
{{Closed stations Berkshire}};{{Closed stations Gloucestershire}};{{Closed stations Gloucestershire West}};{{Closed stations Greater Manchester}};{{Closed stations Oxfordshire}}
- Railway stations:
- Succ boxes:
{{Future Heritage Rail Insert}};{{Future Heritage Rail Start}};{{Future rail start}};{{Rail line three to two}};{{Rail line/doc/colours}};{{S-text}}- Colours for rail succ boxes:
{{AJR colour}};{{Anglia colour}};{{ArrivaWales colour}};{{Barry colour}};{{BR(NE) colour}};{{BR(S) colour}};{{BR(Sc) colour}};{{BR(W) colour}};{{Cambrian colour}};{{Chiltern colour}};{{CLC colour}};{{CV colour}};{{Dutchflyer colour}};{{Ferry colour}};{{FTPX colour}};{{Furness colour}};{{GatExp colour}};{{GCR colour}};{{GER colour}};{{GNGE colour}};{{GNR colour}};{{GrandCentral colour}};{{GWGC colour}};{{GWLNW colour}};{{GWRMR colour}};{{HBR colour}};{{HeathCon colour}};{{HeathExp colour}};{{Heritage rail colour}};{{LBSCR colour}};{{LCDR colour}};{{LM colour}};{{LNWLY colour}};{{LNWMR colour}};{{LNWR colour}};{{LOR colour}};{{LSWR colour}};{{LYR colour}};{{MCR colour}};{{Merseyrail colour}};{{MetRly colour}};{{MGNJ colour}};{{Midland-Metro-colour}};{{MR colour}};{{MSJA colour}};{{MSWJ colour}};{{NER colour}};{{NET colour}};{{Norfolk Orbital colour}};{{Northern colour}};{{NSE colour}};{{NSJ colour}};{{Rhymney colour}};{{RR colour}};{{SDJR colour}};{{SECR colour}};{{SER colour}};{{Sheffield Supertram colour}};{{SMJ colour}};{{SR colour}};{{StanExp colour}};{{Temporary rail colour}};{{TVR colour}};{{VWC colour}};{{Wessex colour}};{{WirralRly colour}};{{WrexSalop colour}};{{WW colour}}
- Colours for rail succ boxes:
- Route Diagrams:
{{Bideford, Westward Ho! and Appledore Railway RDT}};{{Cheltenham area RDT}};{{Derbyshire Dales Narrow Gauge Railway RDT}};{{Dearne Valley Railway RDT}};{{Ely Valley Railway RDT}};{{Liverpool South Parkway RDT}};{{Manchester and Milford Railway}};{{Medway Towns RDT}};{{North Cornwall Railway RDT}};{{Oxford area RDT}};{{Railways in Bridgwater RDT}};{{Ramsgate and Margate RDT}};{{Stoke Ferry Branch RDT}} - Stubs:
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{{RCTS-LocosGWR-8}};{{RCTS-LocosGWR-10}};{{RCTS-LocosLNER-3C}};{{RCTS-LocosLNER-6A}};{{RCTS-LocosLNER-7}};{{RCTS-LocosLNER-8A}};{{RCTS-LocosLNER-8B}};{{RCTS-LocosLNER-10A}};{{RCTS-LocosLNER-10B}};{{RCTS-LocosLNER-11}} - Editnotices:
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Other non-talk namespaces[edit]
User; Wikipedia; File; Category.
- Longest interval between making a fix and its effects being first seen: 5+1⁄2 years.
Images[edit]
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These are the images which I have uploaded:
Site of Port Meadow Halt railway station in September 2009
Street-level building of Aynho Park railway station in May 2009
Site of Moulsford railway station in September 2009
North door of church at Barford St. Michael, Oxfordshire. Gothic porch with Norman doorway. November 2009[a]
Front cover of The Railway Magazine for October 1901. Scanned November 2009.
Vertical and horizontal longitudinal sections of Cudworth's coal-burning firebox and boiler design. Scanned February 2010.
Rear entrance of Surrey Quays railway station in March 2010
Front entrance of Surrey Quays railway station in March 2010
Two Banbury cakes, one having been cut into two pieces
Bridge carrying Compton Road, Banbury over Oxford Canal in June 2009
Closeup of bridge carrying Compton Road, Banbury over Oxford Canal in June 2009
Cropped down from File:Aberlour station railway in 2006.jpg
Plaque affixed to former Hunt Edmunds tied houses
Blue roses in Oxford Covered Market
North British Railway 224 Class. Scanned July 2011.
Cropped down from File:Garsdale.JPG
Site of Wolvercote Halt railway station in November 2010
The first Oxfam shop, opened in December 1947. 17 Broad Street, Oxford, England.
Plaque attached to aforementioned Oxfam shop
Blue plaque attached to aforementioned Oxfam shop
Detail from the model railway layout "Ascott under Wychwood"
Cropped down from File:Locomotive nameplates at NRM York - DSC07770.JPG
Symbol used in technical drawing[b]
Symbol used in technical drawing[b]
Wikipedians at the Oxford Wikimedia Meetup Number 4
Speed skating current event pictogram
Cropped down from File:No.506 Butler Henderson (6164073156).jpg
Cropped down from File:Mint Museum in uptown Charlotte, North Carolina.jpg
A grey silhouette of a lorry
A grey silhouette of a container ship
A grey silhouette of a ferry
Map showing location of The Swan and Castle, Oxford
Amended drawing[c]
Never tell me that the Concise Oxford Dictionary wasn't edited by Judy Pearsall when I can prove that she did
Never tell me that the COD doesn't show plurals, in this case "roofs"
Never tell me that the COD must list "rooves"
Never tell me that the COD doesn't list "hooves"
Opium poppies being grown at Harwell, Oxfordshire
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Screenshots[edit]
A screenshot for demo at Template talk:Tlx[d]
Demo of variation in diffs: with red text[d]
Demo of variation in diffs: with black text[d]
Demonstration of IE7 blank space problem[d]
Demo of variation between browsers for fixed-width table but column widths unspecified[d]
Demo of horizontal scrollbar in Safari[d]
Re-captured screenshot[c]
Proximity of rollback link to diff link[d]
Problem: visible HTML markup[d]
Screenshot demonstrating alt text displayed when image retrieval fails
Screenshot showing error message thrown when an edit seems to fail
Demo of strange behaviour in IE 7[d]
WikiProject banner broken by bad bot edit[d]
Screenshot demonstrating variant font-family in the interlanguage links
Screenshot demonstrating template coding error
Screenshot demonstrating where the caret backlinks have become arrows, and the lowercase letters have become numbers[d]
Screenshot demonstrating increased spacing in stub templates[d]
Demo of browser variations
Screenshot demonstrating broken edit link and doc box
Images (Geograph)[edit]
- Images copied from Geograph. Various photographers, none by myself
Hunt Edmunds steam engine
LNWR Class G2a 0-8-0 no. 49395
LNWR Class G2a 0-8-0 no. 49395
Norman's Bay Halt
Railway line at Normans Bay
Level Crossing at Norman's Bay, East Sussex
Normans Bay level crossing from a train
Normans Bay railway station
Dovey Junction railway station[c]
Bridge over the River Towy at Carmarthen
The same bridge
The same bridge
The same bridge
Viaduct over the A666 and River Croal at Burnden
Reading station, as rebuilt[c]
Blandford Forum station, with Up freight, 1963
Billericay railway station, Essex
The Chinese Arch
White Cottage, Didcot
A shop where I once bought a very good dufflecoat
Spetchley railway station (site), Worcestershire
Admiral Holland, Banbury
Charwelton Telecommunications Tower
"The Millstream" public house, Hitchin
The Phillips Memorial Cloister at Godalming approached from the east
Phillips Memorial Cloister, Godalming
Phillips Memorial Cloister, Godalming
Through the Arched Windows
Bandstand, Philips Memorial Park
Phillips Memorial Cloister
Plaque, Phillips Memorial Cloister
Godalming Phillips Memorial Park Bandstand
Footpath along the River Wey
Godalming bandstand and bowling club
Play area in Phillips Memorial Park
Looking over the bowling green to the clubhouse
Godalming and Farncombe Bowling clubhouse and bowling green
Lovett House, Chapel Hill, Soulbury
Postbox in the wall
Houses on the corner
House on the Appleford Road
Dog on the top
Mill House, Sutton Courtenay, Oxfordshire
Georgian house on Appleford Road
House on Appleford Road, Sutton Courtenay
View up the Appleford Road
Whitedale railway station (site), Yorkshire
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Images (RDT)[edit]
- Icons for route diagram templates
Something different
Another new RDT icon
A half-width RDT icon
As previous, but minor station instead of major
Another
Another new RDT icon[b]
A black RDT icon[b]
Another black RDT icon[b]
Another new RDT icon
Another
Another new RDT icon
Railway in use crossing over navigable left-right canal by swing bridge
Disused railway crossing over navigable left-right canal by swing bridge
Disused railway crossing over navigable up-down canal by swing bridge
A variant on my first RDT icon
Previous one, rotated 180°
Previous one, flipped about horizontal axis
Junction in railway tunnel, both routes disused[b]
Cross-platform interchange connector, curved
Cross-platform interchange connector, curved
Cross-platform interchange connector, curved
Cross-platform interchange connector, curved
Closed station: terminus of closed line, through line remains open
Half-width river
Light rail terminus on partially-disused route
Light rail terminus on partially-disused route
Parallel routes, one terminating (not at a station)
Interchange
Interchange
Closed station: terminus of closed line, through line remains open
Closed station: terminus of closed line, through line remains open
Crossing with curves
Crossing with curves
Crossing with curves
Crossing with curves
Crossing with curves
Crossing with curves
Crossing with curves
Crossing with curves
Junction in railway tunnel, both routes disused[b]
Junction in railway tunnel, both routes disused[b]
Junction in railway tunnel, both routes disused[b]
22.5° junction on diagonal
Half-width partial station
Half-width partial station
Half-width partial station
Half-width partial station
Half-width partial station
Half-width partial station
Half-width partial station
Half-width partial station
Half-width partial station
Half-width partial station
Half-width partial station
Half-width partial station
Half-width partial station
Half-width partial station
Parallel routes, one terminating (not at a station)
Parallel routes, one terminating (not at a station)
Another variant on my first RDT icon
Again
Again
Again
Triangular junction
Triangular junction
End of interrupted line
Goods station on interrupted line
Goods station on interrupted line
Goods station on interrupted line
Goods station on interrupted line
Goods station on interrupted line
Goods station on interrupted line
Stop on curve[b]
Stop on curve[b]
Stop on curve[b]
Stop on curve[b]
Stop on curve[b]
Stop on curve[b]
Stop on curve[b]
Half-width tunnel
Dear readers, feel free to glue any of these into other Wikipedia articles provided that they are relevant; I don't expect to see a picture of Port Meadow Halt in an article on quark–gluon plasma.
Note however that the following, being WP:NONFREE, are excluded from the above
Also excluded are deleted images - c:File:LNW 0-8-0 at Crewe Works fresh from repair - geograph-2606488-by-Ben-Brooksbank.jpg was LNW 0-8-0 at Crewe Works fresh from repair which being at 640x480 was a lower-resolution version of c:File:Crewe Works geograph-2606488-by-Ben-Brooksbank.jpg.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Not listed at Special:Uploads/Redrose64
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u Another user has uploaded a replacement image with the same name
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Replacement for image of same name originally uploaded by another user
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p These are hosted on English Wikipedia (and so are not recorded at Special:Uploads/Redrose64); all others are on Wikimedia Commons
Also shown at Special:Uploads/Redrose64 is this image.
To do[edit]
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Go through the whole of Wikipedia and check that it's 100% correct. Failing that, concentrate on improving the stubs.
- If I get bored of that, here are some hidden categories that ought to be empty, but never are: Category:Articles using citation needed template with unnamed parameter; Category:Articles with inconsistent citation formats; Category:Articles with incorrect citation syntax; Category:Articles with invalid ISBNs; Category:Pages containing cite templates with deprecated parameters; Category:Pages using citations with accessdate and no URL; Category:Pages using multiple issues with incorrect parameters; Category:Pages with empty citations; Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting; Category:Pages with malformed coordinate tags; Category:Pages with missing references list; Category:ParserFunction errors; Category:References with multiple page specifications; Category:Stub message boxes needing attention; Category:United Kingdom railway station stubs; Category:Unreferenced rail transport articles; Category:Unusual parameters of Infobox locomotive template; Category:Unusual parameters of Infobox train template; Category:Unusual parameters of Infobox station template (from A).
- Also, some generated lists (which do age) selected from Wikipedia:Database reports:
- Wikipedia:Database reports/Articles containing overlapping coordinates - 02:10, 16 February 2013 (UTC);
- Wikipedia:Database reports/Broken WikiProject templates - 20:02, 19 May 2022 (UTC);
- Wikipedia:Database reports/Categories categorized in red-linked categories - 01:00, 22 May 2022 (UTC);
- Wikipedia:Database reports/Deleted red-linked categories - 07:23, 16 January 2017 (UTC);
- Wikipedia:Database reports/Dubious stub categories - 10:00, 20 May 2022 (UTC);
- Wikipedia:Database reports/Invalid Navbar links - 13:52, 01 May 2022 (UTC);
- Wikipedia:Database reports/Self-categorized categories - 06:00, 25 May 2022 (UTC);
- Wikipedia:Database reports/Stubs included directly in stub categories - 07:00, 13 June 2014 (UTC).
- Admin related - administrators' how-to guide; administrators' reading list; new admin school;
{{dashboard}}; Category:Wikipedia requests related to admins; Category:Expired proposed deletions; Category:Expired proposed deletions of unsourced BLPs; Category:Speedy deletion; Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Administrator instructions;{{subst:uw-csd|pagename|code|extratext}}; WP:BP; WP:IPB; Category:User block templates.
Railway Electrification prior to 1956 - based on notes originally placed in Talk:Sale, Greater Manchester
Rewrite UK-relevant portions of Right- and left-hand traffic#Trains to describe gradual change from RHD to LHD, particularly in case of large boiler and left-hand signals. Mention Milton 1955. Mention also that some rlys were RH running, such as M&B. Mention early GWR rule about direction on each line. In Bidirectional traffic#Railways, see what can be done for referencing, particularly UK.
Checking/significant expansion req: Ainsworth Road Halt railway station, Baguley railway station, Barton Moss railway station, Cheadle LNWR railway station, Cross Lane railway station, Ellenbrook railway station, Worsley, Maltby railway station, Malvern Link railway station, Pendleton Bridge railway station, Seedley railway station, The Happiness Patrol, Weaste railway station
Railway Stations[edit]
Could do with an article Railways in Oxfordshire.
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[[File:xxx RJD yyy.jpg|thumb|left|A year [[Railway Clearing House]] Junction Diagram showing (sub-map pos) railways in the vicinity of station (station pos)]]
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History | only if station shown
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{{rail start}}/{{rail insert}} |
Services, Routes (or similar) |
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*[http://www.npemap.org.uk/tiles/map.html#xxx,yyy,1 zzz Station on navigable O.S. map] (grid square chart) |
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Navboxes for open/closed stations for single county or unitary authority may be found in Category:Rail transport navigational boxes of the United Kingdom or its subcats. Several are categorised as stubs, but in the wrong stub category. Berks, Bucks, Hants and Oxon should be in {{SouthEastEngland-railstation-stub}}; Glos and Wilts in {{SouthWestEngland-railstation-stub}}; Northants in {{EastMidlands-railstation-stub}}; Worcs and Warks in {{WestMidlands-railstation-stub}}.
On the Talk page, use the TWP banner (removing parameter pairs as required):
{{WikiProject Trains |class= |importance= |stations=yes |UK=yes |UK-importance=
|Scotland=yes |Scotland-importance=
|Underground=yes |LUL-importance=
|imageneeded=yes |Imagedetails=
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WikiProject banners for counties include {{WikiProject Berkshire}}; {{WikiProject Buckinghamshire}}; {{WikiProject Hampshire}}; {{WikiProject Northamptonshire}}; {{WikiProject Wiltshire}} (see also projects within Category:WikiProject England)
Useful strings to copy&paste[edit]
<br /><small>Line and station closed</small> <br /><small>Line closed, station open</small> <br /><small>Line open, station closed</small> <br /><small>Line and station open</small> use final name of station per [[Template:Butt-Stations|Butt 1995]] p.xxx and [[WP:NC (UK stations)]]
To find links to a page that don't go through a navbox, use the query linksto:"Foo railway station" insource:/\[\[Foo railway station/ - of course that fails to find those that go through {{stnlnk}} and similar.
Barford St. John and St. Michael[edit]
Why do these two villages - which have three articles between them - warrant so much less total coverage than neighbouring South Newington? I've nothing against the latter place - I just feel that the Barfords could get a bit more. St. John has more than St. Michael - and it's tiny by comparison.
Idea for that: go to field (the old cricket field) in Barford St. John, stand on N bank of river near the water pipe or the weir, and take photo showing bridge, and if poss, include Woodworm Studios in the shot. Put it on the Barford St. John and St. Michael page. Caption it Bridge over the River Swere connecting Barford St. John to Barford St. Michael. Add comment stating that the bridge is a multiple hazard to motoring; the road narrows at this point, turns through a sharp bend, and the bridge is hump-backed. Both parapets show signs of frequent repair as motorists misjudge the road. In winter, the road often floods across its whole width for some distance either side of the bridge. If poss, also note that the Woodworm Studios is on the left of the picture.
Get something about the river from Peter Sheasby's book. Also on the two churches from that book "Churches of the Banbury Area". Is there something on St. Mary's, Cropredy in that? Is there any "Field Names Survey" stuff left (Bond, J. and others).
Sources[edit]
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I try to cite my sources when editing. It's not always possible; but I do have literally hundreds of books.
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