User talk:RickyCourtney

Amtrak Maple Leaf Canadian service resumption

You added on the Maple Leaf (train) article that service to Toronto resumes on June 27, however the Amtrak website continues to state that resumption is still to be determined, and it is not possible to book a cross-border ticket even after June 27. Could you provide a source for your edit? Thanks. Reaperexpress (talk) 10:15, 25 May 2022 (UTC)

Thank you for normalizing the references

Hello. I was doing a long manual editing in the reference section of the Amhara genocide article. You did a fantastic job "normalizing" the references with ProveIt. It looks like this tool does some magic. Thank you! Petra0922 (talk) 09:01, 7 June 2022 (UTC)

Happy to help. Also, highly recommend using ProveIt. RickyCourtney (talk) 12:59, 7 June 2022 (UTC)

Absolutely worth considering!. Thank you for fixing the infobox caption as well. I appreciate it. Petra0922 (talk) 13:33, 7 June 2022 (UTC)

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I am a bit concerned...

... about Template:American transit ridership, particularly its use in article text. The general practice, as per the template guidelines, is not to use templates in running text, as it makes editing considerably more difficult. Your work is impressive, but I hope you will reconsider this approach or seek broader consensus for it. -- Visviva (talk) 19:53, 13 June 2022 (UTC)

Happy to discuss it. My feeling is that these pages get very little attention or update, so this is a durable way to keep this information up to date. I'm open to any ideas on how to do it better and I'm also happy to eliminate the article text. RickyCourtney (talk) 20:07, 13 June 2022 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) The exact wording is Templates should not normally be used to store article text, as this makes it more difficult to edit the content. I don't think this usage is in violation of that - the template is just storing numbers and citations, not actual prose. Having the numbers and citations in the template guarantees they will be updated together, and that they'll be consistent across the article, which are both very good things.

Looking at South Bend Transpo as a typical example, I do see two other issues that need addressed. One, you should clarify that it's weekday daily ridership, as that's very different than simply dividing annual by 365 (since weekends tend to have lower ridership). Two, there are currently duplicated citations because of the daily and annual uses. I know that this will only last until the daily is changed to the next quarterly update, but it's less than ideal for now. Perhaps there's some logic that can handle that. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 20:37, 13 June 2022 (UTC)

@Pi.1415926535 Thanks for your input. Fixing the citation issue was a lot easier than I expected it to be. I also added weekdays to the infoboxes too. The benefit of this template is that I was able to update dozens of pages in a few clicks. RickyCourtney (talk) 21:57, 13 June 2022 (UTC)