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Great job on the William F. Brown page. I am his youngest son. I have an award he received that states he is the "Father of Pulsed Magnetic Welding". Do you have any further information on this that could be added to the page? You reference "magnetic pulse welding" in the page. Is that the correct terminology? My father always referred to it as pulsed magnetic welding as the award did. Also, did you know my father? I would like to know who you are. You can contact me via email at ...@gmail.com. — Preceding unsigned comment added by TomBrownNextstate (talk • contribs) 21:33, 30 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Solipsist

• 
  Brocket Hall
• 
  First digitally enhanced attempt by H&N

Happy New Year to you! I thought of you, after receiving the first entry on a little competition that I started on the German Wikipedia on digitally enhancing a problematic photograph of Brocket Hall. Following your example I have written 42 English and nearly 300 German articles by now.

Best regards

NearEMPTiness --NearEMPTiness (talk) 09:38, 6 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Stephan

A belated happy new year to you too.... sorry, I missed your post at the start of the year. I'm not editing Wikipedia that much these days, due to too many people not observing the rules or original spirit of Wikipedia.

But it is cool that you are helping to expand the German version.

Congratulations on your work on the Brocket Hall photo. The perspective correction looks particularly good.

Tschüs - Solipsist (talk) 12:46, 17 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Solipist

Thanks for replying to my message - and indeed very timely just 3 days after my birthday. There are times when I miss Cambridgeshire, but in general the move back to Germany has its advantages as well. Walking the tightrope between deletion and getting linked on the "Did you know?" section on the main page is very entertaining for me, but I agree with you, that a lot of hot air is being blown on the discussion pages of Wikipedia. --NearEMPTiness (talk) 19:02, 18 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

On 6 November 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Flying Merkel, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the Flying Merkel (pictured) was painted in bright orange? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Flying Merkel. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added 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.

		The Original Barnstar
		Nice work on the Flying Merkel article. A great read. Cheers, Stalwart111 11:44, 6 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

	The Writer's Barnstar
	Dear NearEMPTiness, thanks for your contributions to Wikpedia, especially your recent creation of Bianca Beetson. Keep up the good work! You are making a difference here! With regards, AnupamTalk 09:22, 19 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Dear NearEMPTiness, In reference to your comment concerning the Jones County Courthouse (Gray,Ga.) article on Wikipedia, the short article was intentional to eliminate plagiarism (which is easy to run into as an article becomes longer in form). To compensate for the short form of the article, I inserted several links on the history of the Jones County Courthouse (Gray,Ga.) which directs the reader to more informative avenues on the subject matter and gives due credit for other people's contributions on the subject matter.[User:Eddie001999|Eddie001999]([User talk:Eddie001999|talk]) 15:52, 26 July 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Eddie001999 (talk • contribs)

Hello! Your submission of Electron Hydroelectric Project at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! BlueMoonset (talk) 04:20, 2 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

• NearEMPTiness, it has been a week since the above notification, and there has been no response on the nomination page nor edits to the article. Please consider this a reminder that you need to take action soon to respond and address the nomination's outstanding issues. Many thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 18:09, 9 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the reminder. I think the commments of the review are accurate, but I do not want to make changes to the article, due to other priorities. --NearEMPTiness (talk) 18:52, 9 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I wonder if you are aware of the prior history of this article? It was originally created by User:PlanetStar, and then deleted as a copyright violation of this: [1] It appears that PlanetStar translated the English-language version of the article to German, and you have translated it back - leaving us with an article which is still closely derived from the original source, and thus possibly still a copyright violation. There are also issues with the sourcing and general appropriateness concerning articles on phobias created by PlanetStar, as discussed here [2] and here [3]. It is possible that these articles may be deleted en masse, and you may wish to comment before this happens. AndyTheGrump (talk) 23:04, 17 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@AndyTheGrump: I came here to say some of the same things, except, NearEMPTiness, it appears that you also did the German translation! My curiosity was piqued when I noticed that the earliest edit imported by Xaosflux contained an English edit summary. (I'm not sure I would've checked this myself, either, because you are one of the more reliable requesters at Requests for page importation). Could you comment on what's going on? Does the German Wikipedia have similar policies about copyright violations to the English one? Graham87 03:53, 18 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the ping Graham, I really only checked for overlapping edits, and made sure to only maintain the post-deleted enwiki edits. Note, I just restored the prior speedy-deleted talk page (Talk:Siderodromophobia) should it be relevant to this ongoing discussion. — xaosflux ^Talk 04:03, 18 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your comments. I was not aware of the intended mass deletion of phobia articles at all, and I personally think that re-writing would be better than deleting. I fully agree to the Wikipedia principle that we should not tolerate copyright infringements. However, in the specific case of siderodromophobia, I think by translating the siderodromophobia to German and then re-translating it back to English the wording has changed sufficiently that it cannot be seen as a copyright infringement anymore. I think that this version should be acceptable because the content cannot be changed further, and the author of the original is mentioned in the article. I have also added links and pictures. In summary, I do not see any reason for deleting this article. --NearEMPTiness (talk) 12:30, 18 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I start seeing the dilemma now: By importing the old English versions, which might contain copyright infringemens we have run a full circle. --NearEMPTiness (talk) 12:44, 18 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Yes. Also, unauthorized translations of copyrighted works are also copyright infringements. That's why it's illegal to translate, say, a Brockhaus Enzyklopädie entry into English and post it here; if the Wikipedia entry was re-translated into German, I'm pretty sure the original publishers would not be impressed. Graham87 15:39, 18 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I'm certainly open to RevDeletion of old reversions that are copyvios brought back via the import process, will that suffice to resolve this? — xaosflux ^Talk 20:44, 18 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't translate my original article to German Wikipedia as I don't know the German language. I think the reason why people are talking about this is because somebody may have copied the original siderodromophobia article to German wikipedia, then German editors edited the article to get out of copyright infringement, and then after siderodromophobia was first deleted, xaosflux recreated article through copying and translation from German. PlanetStar 00:36, 19 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I'd be fine with that, @Xaosflux:. @AndyTheGrump:, what do you think? Graham87 08:36, 19 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

OK, I've deleted the english language revisions that came back from dewiki via the import process (which had previously been deleted here on enwiki). If all the issues are settled now, I HIGHLY suggest this discussion be copied to Talk:Siderodromophobia. — xaosflux ^Talk 15:17, 19 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Done. --NearEMPTiness (talk) 22:03, 19 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Pleas help to translate the article Frank Christoph Schnitzler from German to english. Thank you very much. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.204.137.46 (talk) 05:06, 9 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Good idea, but I have other priorities at the moment. --NearEMPTiness (talk) 06:50, 9 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hi NearEMPTiness, thanks for all your work in creating this article - I've been making some minor corrections. However, there is a problem with one of the photos you uploaded, which will need to be renamed: File:The_old_explosives_magazine_building_at_Angas_Inlet_in_the_Port_River,_Port_Adelaide._State_Library_of_South_Australia,_PRG-280-1-12-37.jpeg.

The original SLSA photo caption states that it is of the explosives depot at the North Arm, so it must refer to the earlier depot at Magazine Creek. Note also that the use of "Angas Inlet" in the earlier newspaper reports is somewhat misleading - this is the waterway separating Garden Island from Torrens Island in the Port River Estuary. Barker Inlet separates the two islands from the mainland to the east, and the North Arm separates them from the mainland to the south. Cheers, Bahudhara (talk) 00:07, 10 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much for your very helpful edits and the proposal for renaming the photograph. I now requested it to be moved. --NearEMPTiness (talk) 06:05, 10 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Earwig's copy violation detector seems to suggest you need to clean up a couple of sections. Just paraphrase them a bit more, throw them into a cuisinart, and we should be good to go. Let me know when you've arrived at that destination. Cheers. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 20:53, 10 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Dear 7&6=thirteen: Thank you for the encouraging comments. We have made some changes and now arrived at the following values:

• http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/5083277 (which is public domain anyway) : 48.5%
• http://www.sahistorians.org.au/175/bm.doc/high-and-dry-by-the-mangroves-.pdf : 46.8% --NearEMPTiness (talk) 07:11, 12 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

GTG. Nicely done. WP: DYK should be a positive experience that makes the article and the encyclopedia better. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 11:54, 12 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

On 3 April 2015, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Dry Creek explosives depot, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that a horse-drawn tram was used to move dynamite to and from the Dry Creek explosives depot? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Dry Creek explosives depot. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

 — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:03, 3 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The article you recently created, Telford steam tram, seems to be an exact copy from this page as you indicates in the initial edit summery. While that site is released under a free CC license, an exact copy&paste isn't really a good idea, nor does the current text well establish notability. See the article's talk page for more. DES ^(talk) 23:55, 15 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for creating Jeepomotive, NearEMPTiness!

Wikipedia editor Vibrantmatter just reviewed your page, and wrote this note for you:

Nice. niche piece very few historical gems on these unique vehicles. I added more context from the U.S. Army experience

To reply, leave a comment on Vibrantmatter's talk page.

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Hello! Your submission of Railway of the Prince Imperial at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 07:40, 25 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! Your submission of Railway of the Prince Imperial at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! BlueMoonset (talk) 17:15, 15 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I've gone ahead and closed it as keep. Another admin would probably have gotten to it eventually and closed it, but I think the AFD shows a strong enough consensus for keeping the article. Graham87 05:37, 14 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much and sorry for being a bit impatient on this occasion. --NearEMPTiness (talk) 06:04, 14 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you so much sir, I appreciate your comment. I also would like to change the name of the page from "Apra (village)" to "Apra, Punjab" for better knowledge and information. I can not do it by myself as am not yet autoconfirmed user so is there any possibility if you can change the name? Regards GSS-1987 (talk) 09:42, 14 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Done. --NearEMPTiness (talk) 09:45, 14 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Respected Sir, I have updated the page with more information please have a look and please let me know if there is anything i need to change. Also I appreciate if you guide me how I can enrol at Wikipedia:Wikipedia Asian Month. Regards GSS-1987 (talk) 13:59, 14 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Nice to read you here as well. Wish you a contemplative advent season. Now your user name become more transparent to me. --Symposiarch (talk) 09:58, 13 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

	The Asian Month Barnstar
	Thanks for your great contribution in Wikipedia Asian Month 2015! --AddisWang (talk) 14:38, 17 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hallo @NearEMPTiness:
dein eindrucksvolles Foto von der Maske aus Gabun beschreibst Du hier mit "from Mahongwe". Ich kann aber nirgends finden, dass das ein Ort ist. In der deutschen WP gibt es einen Artikel "Mahongwe", da ist es eine Sprache; in anderen Fundstellen im Internet wird es auch noch für ein Volk verwendet. Wegen dieser Unklarheit habe ich die Maske im deutschen Artikel "Afrika Museum" auch nur als "Maske aus Gabun" beschrieben. Weißt Du mehr? --Maimaid (talk) 11:29, 5 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Maimaid: Ich habe die niederländische Beschriftung auf Wikimedia Commpns wohl wort-wörtlich von der Museumsbeschriftung abgeschrieben, die ich fotografiert hatte, und habe diese dann ins Deutsche und Englische übersetzt. Ich vermute, dass es sich mehr um das Volk handelt als um einen Ort oder ein Gebiet. Daher halte ich die Beschreibung "Maske aus Gabun" im Artikel für perfekt. Wer genaueres wissen will, wird sowieso auf das Bild klicken. Ich freue mich sehr, dass Du meinen Artikelwunsch erfüllt hast, und hoffe dass er zahlreiche Leser findet. Sollten wir ihn auf de:WP:SG? eintragen? Zum Beispiel:

• Das Afrika Museum in Berg en Dal ist Teil des neuen niederländischen Nationalmuseums der Weltkulturen. NearEMPTiness (talk) 12:12, 5 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@NearEMPTiness: Dankeschön, das ist eine gute Idee - machst DU das? (letztes Mal, als ich einen eigenen kleinen Artikel für SG vorgeschlagen habe, zog ich damit ganz ungewollt die Aufmerksamkeit von Usern auf den Artikel, die ihn sonst vermutlich nie gelesen hätten. Es folgte ein LA, eine unglaubliche LD und endlose Diskussionen um Nichtigkeiten auf der Disk, die mich glauben ließen, im falschen Film zu sein...Letztlich blieb der Artikel, sieht aber jetzt völlig anders aus als meine erste Version. Falls Du es Dir antun willst, schau mal hier: [4] (wollte nicht immer nur Biografien schreiben, sondern mal etwas "Lustigeres") :-)
Beim Miniaturenwettbewerb hab ich "Afrika Museum" auf Deinen Vorschlag hin schon eingereicht. Viele Grüße --Maimaid (talk) 14:13, 5 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Maimaid: Ja, ich habe den Artikel auf de:Wikipedia_Diskussion:Hauptseite/Schon_gewusst#Vorschlag:_Afrika_Museum_.284._März_2016.29 hochgeladen, und hoffe, dass er dort anders als die de:Nuckelpinne behandelt wird. Ob das Lemma besser Afrikamuseum oder Afrika-Museum heißen sollte, wird sich herausstellen. --NearEMPTiness (talk) 18:06, 5 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

On 11 March 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Warwickslade Cutting Railway, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Warwickslade Cutting Railway was assembled from prefabricated rail sections with pin to tube joints, like those of a toy railway? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Warwickslade Cutting Railway. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, ), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

—♦♦ AMBER^(ЯʘCK) 00:07, 10 March 2016 (UTC) 00:02, 11 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! Your submission of Colossus of Ostermunzel at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! BlueMoonset (talk) 14:48, 15 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Everything in the bibliography except "page" which I translated is names that cannot be translated. Antondimak (talk) 12:59, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your DYK review. I will try to tweak some of the descriptive quotes to make their attributions more clear (they are mostly from Brown & Jackson (1990)). I also tweaked the nickname "Bubble car" as per your edit summary (small "c" in car). Cheers, Hassocks5489 (Floreat Hova!) 14:03, 23 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your review and comment for the article Sushil Pokharel. I shall add more categories as I come across more information about the figure. --10:19, 24 March 2016 (UTC)Kpaudel969 (talk)

On 24 March 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Colossus of Ostermunzel, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Colossus of Ostermunzel (pictured) is significantly lighter than originally estimated? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Colossus of Ostermunzel. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, ), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 13:17, 24 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi NearEMPTiness, thanks for your review and comments on Liverpool City Council election, 1900. I acknowledge that, at the moment, there is not much text. I wanted to get the basic data onto Wikipedia and intend to add extra information on Aldermanic elections, by-elections and context and analytical data in due course. I hope that is OK? Regards, Pat.moloney (talk) 18:26, 24 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Pat.moloney: Absolutely. It is very good that the ball is already rolling by now. There might even be some old photographs available on the internet. --NearEMPTiness (talk) 18:34, 24 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

love of monuments

Thank you quality articles on monuments and the monumental, such as Colossus of Ostermunzel, Hibernia 41-E, Dry Creek explosives depot, railways around the world and Flying Merkel, with excellent illustrations, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:01, 25 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Four years ago, you were recipient no. 1357 of Precious, a prize of QAI! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:40, 25 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! I would like to thank you very much for your review of my article. It means much to have feedback from someone as experienced as yourself! Keep up the good work. God bless.

- Susanna Correya

Susanna Correya 11:16, 26 March 2016 (UTC)

@SusannaCorreya: Thank you very much for the nice kitten, indeed. I actually enjoyed reading and reviewing your article on St. Theresa's Girls' Higher Secondary School. --NearEMPTiness (talk) 12:13, 26 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Not my article, it is an article I moved upon request.--☾Loriendrew☽ ☏(ring-ring) 22:58, 26 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for informing me about this. --NearEMPTiness (talk) 07:28, 27 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Why the heck did you approve this piece of garbarge? It's of minimal notability and the sourcing is crap, why is it in our encyclopedia? I have grave doubts about your ability to approve articles. BMK (talk) 00:51, 27 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The "53rd highest peak in Indiana"? BMK (talk) 02:14, 27 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Feel free to do what is required: My approval can easily be reverted. However, I personally think that words like "this piece of garbage" are not appropriate in the context of this project. Please read again WP:ETIQ and try to understand what is written between the lines. Please keep your voice down, when communicating with me and the author of this article. --NearEMPTiness (talk) 07:00, 27 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

"You broke my priceless vase playing ball in the house!!!!" "Don't you know that yelling at your kids is no longer politically correct?"

Thanks, I'll be the one to judge the proper level of my ire and the tone and loudness of my "voice". Your approval was an egregious act which did not improve the encyclopedia and deserved every decibel I put into it. If I run across your approving another article as bad as this again, it will become a matter that I will thoroughly investigate and then bring to the noticeboards, so I suggest you apply some more stringent standards in the future. BMK (talk) 05:09, 28 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

FYI, the draft that was moved by NearEMPTiness contained a lot more citations (admittedly in poor format) that were later expurgated by another editor. We need to get along, folks. Play nice. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 14:08, 3 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi NearEMPTiness:

I read the messages you left on my talk page. Yes, I'm aware some of the articles I created (especially those created recently) are quite short in length. I of course understand how to expand existing articles but as of now I am more interested in creating new ones. Although some stubby articles I created has little more than an introductory sentence and a list of references they at least covered some subject areas not previously known to Wikipedia. For now, at least for articles relating to China that I edit, the coverage is really poor. I mean, terribly poor, so they should be treated differently to, say, those well managed ones. I would prefer to first expand the scope of articles (adding referenced, accurate and concise information) before expanding individual pages--they will be expanded sometime in the future inevitably. Wishds (talk) 15:53, 27 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the review - I have added a link on another page - aviation lists have been subject to a discussion regarding content and formatting and photos are no longer to be embedded in tables, and if I could find a relevant image on wikimedia I would add one at the intro. - NiD.29 (talk) 18:32, 28 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the quick reply. --NearEMPTiness (talk) 21:15, 28 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Its glad you read and left such sweet words. stay blessed. Just help me protecting the same from getting deleted. Medialove41 (talk) 18:34, 29 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your contribution to WP:DYK. There are issues that need to be addressed. Needs citations for all those paragraphs in Lawa Railway. It's policy. Cheers. 12:48, 3 April 2016 (UTC)

@User:7&6=thirteen Thank you very much indeed for reviewing this article. The article was orgiginally written in the NL:WP and then translated by me to DE:WP. I have thoroughly checked the internet for references, and believe that the information in the article is correct. Even so I cannot easily provide references to all the paragraphs, and need to check some printed literature now. This will need a bit of time. --NearEMPTiness (talk) 15:41, 3 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

No problems. This can wait. Unfortunately, the citation problem can get sticky. See the WP:DYK for Margareta Hallin. Of course, that was a WP:BLP (higher standard I would think); we finally had to eliminate some of her awards because we could not find sources to back up the facts stated in the Swedish Wikipedia. And I am virtually certain those facts were accurate, but the language barrier proved to be almost impenetrable. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 17:58, 3 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! Your submission of Lawa Railway at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 22:39, 4 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

On 7 April 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Lawa Railway, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the passengers of the Lawa Railway (rail car pictured) had to cross the Suriname River via cable car? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Lawa Railway. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, ), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 14:11, 7 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hello NearEMPTiness. Thanks for patrolling new pages – it's a very important task! I'm just letting you know, however, that you shouldn't tag pages as lacking context (CSD A1) and content (CSD A3) moments after they are created, as you did at Tayr Dibba. It is also suggested that pages that might meet CSD A7 criteria not be tagged for deletion immediately after they are created. It's usually best to wait at least 10–15 minutes for more content to be added if the page is very short, and the articles should not be marked as patrolled. Tagging such pages in a very short space of time may drive away well-meaning contributors, which is not good for Wikipedia. Attack pages (G10), blatant nonsense (G1), copyright violations (G12) and pure vandalism/blatant hoaxes (G3) should of course be tagged and deleted immediately. Thanks. LoudLizard (📞 | contribs | ✉) 16:37, 23 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I didn't note, how new these are. --NearEMPTiness (talk) 16:40, 23 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for reviewing the article about Hundsheimer Berg(e) (nature reserve) that I created earlier today. I noticed and you wrote me that you changed the name of the page by adding the "e" and making it plural. I used the singular version though because based on the official brochure that I have regarding the nature reserve and the LIFE project that took place, it is called "Hundsheimer Berg". I also find this at the official website of the LIFE project (http://www.steppe.at/downloads/g_6_HundsheimerBerg.pdf). Please let me know your view on the correct naming, keeping in mind the above information.

Thank you, Vlendert (talk) 20:52, 23 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Vlendert: By now I noted that there are two options. If you want to move the article back, I propose that you add this official link and that above to the references. This seems to be a smaller area than that covered on the German Wikipedia, to which I installed the Wikidata link. --NearEMPTiness (talk) 04:29, 24 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

On 26 April 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Columbia and Nehalem Valley Railroad, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the McBride Creek bridge (pictured) of the Columbia and Nehalem Valley Railroad was built from horizontal logs? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Columbia and Nehalem Valley Railroad. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, ), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 10:07, 26 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Dear Mr Near

I warmly welcome your contributions, thank you.

We have bumped into each other this afternoon. If I have zapped anything you've added it is my incompetence, for which I apologise.

Is there any way we can alert each other when we intend to have a bash. so we can complement each other rather than conflict?

Best wishes

DaveDavidAHull (talk) 15:06, 27 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@DavidAHull: I am very much impressed by the information that you have found and uploaded about this railway and unfortunately have not noticed that we were editing at the same time. I have added some additional figures, as you have noticed. Now I will take a break, so that you can proceed with the "work in progress". I think, the large National Trust file is worth downloading:

• Caroline Hardie and Harry Beamish: Historic Environment Survey for the National Trust Properties on the Northumberland Coast Lindisfarne Report No: 0058/5-09. (16.3 MB)]

At a later stage, I will recommend to move comments such as "Sliding the blue circle leftwards shows a clear underwater trace of the jetty, but no hint of the trackbed on the farmland north to Chare Ends. The 1860 6" map does not have the overlay facility, but by switching between images the user can identify several early structures" into the footnotes. --NearEMPTiness (talk) 15:15, 27 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@NearEMPTiness: I think we're on the same wavelength and both bring something to the party. I will soldier on this evening, probably finishing all I can usefully contribute. Tomorrow (Tues 28th) I will be out from 09:00 to 17:00, so the stage will be yours. I will welcome you putting the stuff about the blue blob into a footnote and to you downloading the National Trust stuff, I don't know how to do the former or know where the latter is. Kind regards, DaveDavidAHull (talk) 15:32, 27 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@DavidAHull: I have now collated all hints about the maps into a new section called "Notes" according to Help:Footnotes#Footnotes: groups. I personally think that these hints are too long to be shown inside the main text. You can easily undo this in the tab "View history", if you think it is too complicated for some readers. --NearEMPTiness (talk) 06:22, 28 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@NearEMPTiness: What you have done with Notes is wonderful. It opens a whole new way of handling such things for me, especially as I have taken to using the NLoS maps big time over recent months. As you will see, I've added Map numbers to try to make users' lives that bit easier, I hope you agree. I've corrected the name of the sketch artist and added a Further reading section. That's my lot. I look forward to seeing you putting the tin hat on the article when I get home this evening. Kind regards, DaveDavidAHull (talk) 07:51, 28 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@DavidAHull: Thank you for the improvements. I think that the work has progressed very successfully so far. Now I have 2-3 recommendations for cosmetical improvements:

• I propose to spell consistently either "waggon" or "wagon", unless you want to attract search engines. At the moment both variants can be found in the article.
• I propose to modify one of the headlines from "Tramway, waggonway and quarrying operations", e.g. to "Operations at quarries, waggonway, kilns and jetties". I think that "tramway" is obsolete, because the synonym has already been explained in the introduction, and the ships, jetties and or staithes should be mentioned. However, I am not sure, how it should be re-phrased.
• Just a question to confirm that I understood Map 2 correctly: Does the westerly track start at the "26" mark of the rule and ends one third down the way to the high water mark? --NearEMPTiness (talk) 16:45, 28 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@NearEMPTiness: I really appreciate the changes you've made during the day; unearthing colour copies of both of Hedley's paintings is a masterstroke. I've moved the RM article from Sources to Further reading as it isn't actually used in the text. Regarding your three points:

• I suspect that waggon, wagon, waggonway, wagonway and tramway are all used inth text. One of Jermy's opening remarks is that the spellings evolved over the period of the railway, with waggon(way) segueing into wagon(way) into tramway. I suggest we put a note to that effect, then use waggon(way) consistently for the first two lines, then tramway for the third. I'm certainly happy to spell waggon/wagon consistently unless in quotations from original sources.

• I'm happy to change the heading. I merged your Ships section into the overlapping evidence of the decline of the third venture as it seemed all of a piece.

• I'll address this point after tea!

DaveDavidAHull (talk) 17:00, 28 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

OK, now to your third item.

• Map 2 is a lot easier to understand if you look at the original map as linked here ^{Map 1 in its entirity, via NLoS} where the top exactly matches the bottom of Map 2. If there is any way you could do a new version of Map 1 going right to the top of the sheet it might help.

The route diagram shows two lines at Acres Quarry, but neither OS map shows a second line diverging off the line going through 26. I have taken that second quarry line (siding) from Jermy's own composite map which shows two tracks near Seal Gut.

Kind regards

DaveDavidAHull (talk) 17:54, 28 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@DavidAHull: Thank you for your efforts. I will re-edit Map 1 later this week. Finally the biggest question: Should we nominate the article to be linked from the main page within the WP:DYK scheme? If you want, I could do this, if you help me, if any actions will be required. Otherwise, I could give you some hints, how to do this yourself. I propose for instance the following teasers:

Did you know...

• ... that ships were moored between two jetties of the Holy Island Waggonway (pictured) for unloading coal and loading lime?
• ... that coal and lime were transported on the Holy Island Waggonway (pictured) in different directions?
• ... that the Holy Island Waggonway (pictured) was made up of three successive railway lines?
• ... any better idea for a teaser?--NearEMPTiness (talk) 18:35, 28 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@NearEMPTiness:

I need to revisit my responses to your questions earlier. I replied in haste that "I'm happy to change the heading.", I should have written "I'm happy for you to change the heading." Tramway and waggonway are indeed tautological given all that's gone before, and ships should be mentioned.

I'll be pleased to help you to do a link from the main page within the WP:DYK scheme, I've never seen such a thing before, let alone done one.

I happened to glance back at work I've recently done on the West Somerset Mineral Railway and see you've added a picture or pictures there, too. I take my hat off to you for your skills and scope with this. I'd love you to have a stab at other stuff I've done in the last few months,notably about Cumbria, SW Lancashire, NE Lincolnshire and, in the past, my first love, the LDECR. You are the second person I've come across in the Wikipedia world who is constructive and encouraging, it's such a rare treat.

Kind regards

DaveDavidAHull (talk) 20:50, 28 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

PS, I should have added that I reckon the teaser "* ... that the Holy Island Waggonway (pictured) was made up of three successive railway lines?" is the best, though you might like to weave the word Lindisfarne in, to catch the eye and avoid umpteen other Holy Islands Dave DavidAHull (talk) 21:03, 28 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@DavidAHull: I have now nominated the article on Template talk:Did_you_know#Holy Island Waggonway. I will keep an eye on it and will contact you, if the reviewer requests some actions. --NearEMPTiness (talk) 23:22, 28 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@NearEMPTiness: The teaser looks great, is it now "live"?

Having slept on it all, I wonder two further things, both down to you, alas. a) Instead of editing Map 1, can you join the full Map 1 to Map 2 to make one continuous map? If you did I'd volunteer to make the necessary changes to the text and other map numbers. EDIT: I SHOULD HAVE LOOKED FIRST!! GREAT MINDS THINK ALIKE b) Hedley did a painting of Lindisfarne Castle from near the village. The twin jetties must be in the picture, but might be too far away to be useful. The only image I've seen is too small to tell and I can't enlarge it. Can you find it and decide whether to include it?

Kind regards, Dave DavidAHull (talk) 08:44, 29 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@DavidAHull: Thanks for keeping me updated.

• I have uploaded our WP:DYK nomination onto the relevant web page yesterday, but now it will need several days or weeks until it will be presented on the main page of Wikipedia. Until then the nomination will be reviewed, particularly regarding potential copyright violations and regarding references for the facts mentioned in the teasers.
• When you mentioned your idea on stitching the maps, I noted that we have very similar thoughts, which was a pleasant experience.
• Today I looked at some of your other Wikipedia articles and was impressed by their quantity and quality. My focus is on narrow gauge railways, and from time to time I write or expand English articles, but more often I translate foreign articles to German.
• By now, I have drafted a German translation of the complete Holy Island Waggonway, which I want to upload onto the German Wikipedia on or after 1 July 2016.
• I still have some concerns about the use of the term "Tramway" for the eastern railroad, because it is mentioned as "Old Waggonway" on the relevant map. Thus I will keep my eyes open for other references, and potentially change this also to Waggonway, to minimise confusion.
• I could find the blurry photograph of the oil painting, but do not think that this is relevant to the waggonways.
• It was and is a pleasure to work with you on this article, and I hope to meet you ocasionally both virtually and/or at one of the upcoming railway events. --NearEMPTiness (talk) 16:48, 29 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

New Maps

@DavidAHull: (cc:@MagentaGreen:) I hope you can help me with the following three requests:

• I have asked a virtual friend from the German photographic workshop, user:MagentaGreen, to stitch-up a better map. His draft is shown in "Map A". It is is certainly large enough but I think it it a little bit too blurry for our purpose. Generating the complete map at high resolution seems to be impossible both because of the final file size and the file size during processing. Thus I propose that you and I agree to the best section for our purposes. I think that "Map B" is, what we should insert into our article, instead of my draft, if the resolution could be further improved. To avoid unnecessary work, I want to ask you now: Is the cropped section in "Map B" is perfect for our needs, if the resolution could be improved?
• My second question is about the colour of the frame: I personally think that the colour of the purple frame is a bit too modern, and would prefer a navy blue similar to that of a link that hasn't been clicked, unless this colour is MagentaGreen's trade mark. Do you agree to navy blue?
• Finally, MagentaGreen wants to know, whether he should upload also the 26,6 MB file of Map C. I think this would be optionally very useful but not essential. Do you agree?

• 
  Map A: Northumberland Map Sheet IIX (including Elwick, Holy Island, Kyloe, Ross)
• 
  Map B: The perfect section as Map 1 of our article, according to my preference (ignore the purple line)
• 
  Map C:Blurred rendering

By the way: The German version is now online (despite of the result of the referendum). --NearEMPTiness (talk) 19:22, 1 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@NearEMPTiness: Map B is superb and will be just the job with a navy blue border, renamed as Map 1.

My ideal overall map would be an outline of the island with all three lines drawn on, simple labels for the key lime features plus a handful of landmark features such as the castle, the priory and both causeways to the mainland. Jermy 1992 p6 has something very close to the ideal, but it is copyright. The trouble with Map C is that it predates the third tramway and therefore doesn't add a lot to Map B. Alas, I am no draughtsman. A number of articles, such as Padarn Railway include such a map, but I have no idea how to even begin drawing such a thing. Do you or your friend know how to do so?

Kind regards, DaveDavidAHull (talk) 21:16, 1 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the quick reply. --NearEMPTiness (talk) 22:00, 1 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@DavidAHull:

• I assume that you have noticed the new map, which highlights two of the three waggonways. I am not sure whether there are additional rail tracks: Is there a southerly branch near the "I" of "THE LINK", which then follows the border of a field and then turns sharply left (on a turntable?) by 90° towards the south-east? John Higgins' map of 1860 shows such a line. Is there another branch near the "K" of "THE LINK"?
• We received some feed back regarding our WP:DYK nomination on Template:Did you know nominations/Holy Island Waggonway. I am not sure, how to react or comment. --NearEMPTiness (talk) 15:19, 4 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@NearEMPTiness: I've now seen the wonderful Map 1 with red and purple lines. I take my hat off to you for it.

I know of two very short, but in my view significant, stretches of track not coloured red or purple.The first is in the earlier limeworks we refer to as St Cuthbert's, served by the first, red, waggonway. Immediately right of the word "Well" a dark line leaves the red line heading northwards, it loops back on itself just below the number "50". This was an example of grade separation, it was used by northbound loads of coal from the original jetty which climbed up the black line and curved round onto the southbound limestone track, itself on an embankment, from the quarries on the coast. Both coal and stone were then tipped into the top of the kiln. My route diagram seeks to make this clear (suggestions for improvement welcome.) The second missing line is shown on the source OS map as an embankment with no track, presumably it was being built when the map was surveyed. If you look at the bottom "Limekiln" (which we know as the Lower Kennedy kilns) a faint grey line heads NE from the northern end of the building itself, merging into the purple track from Nessend Quarry. This was an embankment by which coal and limestone were fed into the top of the kiln. Stone came direct form the quarry, whilst coal came up from the old jetty then reversed back up the same embankment. As before, coal and stone were then gravity fed into the kiln. Once again, my RD seeks to portray this. Arguably the line southwards from the kilns should be purple as far as the red line.

The only missing line thereafter would be (say) blue for the third and final waggonway (tramway) heading northwest-southeast north of the N and K of LINK, on or very close to the unfenced track which more or less parallels the coast.

Higgins' 1860 map is treasure, but, being drafted for land enclosure purposes, it adds and omits features which interest us. The most obvious omission is the waggonway south of what he calls the "Present Lime Kilns" to the old jetty. His draughtsmanship may be the reason the "Old Lime Kilns" appear to be on the sea shore, the OS map has the buildings more inland, but I doubt this is significant, I can well imagine St C's Limekilns site reached the shore. I puzzled for ages about the two near-horizontal lines, both of which have "J S D Selby Esq" beneath them. When I finally resorted to getting my magnifying glass out I saw they are fences, not railways at all. I also realised a reason for his hasty retreat from the Lower Kennedy kilns, they are ON SELBY'S LAND, ie just south of the fence.

I'll send this then look at the response to the nomination.

Kind regards, DaveDavidAHull (talk) 21:36, 4 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I've now had a look at the review. I suggest we forget DYK, such destructive anal retentivism does Wikipedia more harm than good. I don't intend to descend to that level.

All the best, DaveDavidAHull (talk) 21:45, 4 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for both comments. --NearEMPTiness (talk) 04:53, 5 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@DavidAHull: Thank you very much for your helpful comments and also for your patience, especially as I have no access to page 6 of Jermy's book. Our colleague is making good progress. I have now received a new draft, as shown below, and would propose the following changes to him, if you agree:

• Convert the green dotted lines into red continuous lines, please YES PLEASE
• Change the blue lines to pink lines, please YES PLEASE, EXCEPT I don't know where the very short new line southwards from the New Kennedy kiln has come from, I can't see it on the source map
• Add an (if you want dotted) green line north of the "N" and "K" of LINK, please YES PLEASE; CONTINUOUS, NOT DOTTED
• (if possible: Add a (if you want dotted) green line on the larger map towards the the two castle jetties as shown on this YES PLEASE; CONTINUOUS, NOT DOTTED and that NO THANK YOU map)
• (if possible: Add "Castle Point Limeworks" in green letters YES PLEASE)
• Change the turquois line to a pink line (do you agree?) I DON'T KNOW WHAT THIS LINE IS, IS IT A STREAM? I DON'T THINK IT IS A RAILWAY
• Ignore the lines highlighted with blue arrows until further notice, please (do you agree?) YES, I AGREE, I SUSPECT THEY ARE STREAMS, TOO
• Add "St Cuthbert's Limeworks" in red letters near the Limekiln close to the currently green dotted lines, please YES PLEASE
• Add "Lower Kennedy Limeworks" in pink letters near the Limekiln close to the currently blue lines, please YES PLEASE

(talk) 15:24, 5 July 2016 (UTC)

@NearEMPTiness: please see comments next to each point, above. Kind regards, DaveDavidAHull (talk) 20:35, 5 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@NearEMPTiness: I've now seen the latest map of the whole island with the three lines in three colours. It's pretty close to my dream, wow! Inevitably I can see scope for more work, but hey, you're definitely winning. I suggest the wording "Lower Kennedy Limeworks" be moved down a bit, but that's merely a suggestion. I still believe the very short purple line leading southwards from the Lower Kennedy kiln didn't exist, the red line being the actual siding which was used to take product southwards. In any event, that longer red siding should be purple, it was Lower Kennedy only.

Moving on to the turquoise (cyan?) line representing the third route, I reckon it's spot on except for the complicated stuff round the castle. The schematic is set out in my route diagram which is based on visits some years ago and, more importantly, on detailed text and photos in Jermy's fine works. The key feature which explains a lot is the preserved bridge which forms the first image near the top of our article. As at the two earlier limeworks, the tracks for loading coal and stone into the tops of the kilns and taking finished product from the bottoms of the kilns were grade separated. At St Cuthbert's works this involved incoming coal being hauled up an incline then turning back in a 180 degree loop, at Lower Kennedy coal went past the kilns towards Nessend then reversed up the same slope used by incoming limestone.

At Castlepoint limestone came down the eastern track, gently climbing on an embankment which is plain to see to this day, on the ground and on umpteen photos. This meant that limestone reached the north side of the castle mound about half the height needed to reach the top of the kilns, slightly to the left of the "W" in "Well", which I'll come back to in a minute. The track then continued round the castle mound falling in a spiral to meet the line as drawn where it passes through some text which I can't decypher, but which appears to begin with "C". Coal came up this spiral from the jetty to the "W" in "Well" which I promised to return to. At this "W" point both coal and stone were about halfway up as high as they needed to be, so a short siding was built on a slope curving off approximately (sufficiently close for our purposes) to the "tl" in "Castle". The slope gained the height needed to be at the kilns' tops. To summarise, coal came up to point "W" from ships then continued up the sloping siding to the kiln tops, stone came down to point "W" then reversed up the sloping siding to the kiln tops. Both were then tipped in to the kilns.

So much for input, now to output.

Output was loaded onto wagons at ground level. The track couldn't run due west to the jetty because the castle was in the way, so it ran northwest, passing under the stone tramway by the well-preserved bridge, then curved westwards to pass round the castle mound to the sidings and jetty. From space this output track and the sloping spiral track ran parallel, converging near the obscured word. On the ground the output track was virtually level, but the spiral track was, er, a spiral.

As drawn the cyan line confuses the input and output tracks. 1. It should be redrawn as a steady curve between point "W" and the obscured word, part way up the hatching the map uses to show the castle mound. 2. The short, sloping siding should be added from point W to the tl in Castle, the slope won't show of course, I include it for continuity of description. 3. The output track should be added from just to the right of the "5 O" to the right (east) of the castle, heading NW to pass under the cyan line approx under the cyan "k" in Limekilns. It should then swing west and skirt the foot of the castle mound as shown by the hatching, meeting the revised line near the obscured word. I hope it will be possible to represent the bridge as it is such a clear, prominent and easily findable reference point for any reader whose fancy we tickle.

I hope you and your fabulous cartographer receive this in the constructive and impressed spirit in which I send it.

Kind regards

DaveDavidAHull (talk) 08:55, 7 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@DavidAHull: Thank you for the helpful feedback and your patience, while I was working on three articles about another set of successively used narrow gauge railways - in this case built and operated by John J. Coit: Venice Miniature Railway, Eastlake Park Scenic Railway and Long Beach and Asbury Park Railway in reverse chronological order. I have since then used my virtual magnifying glass and, personally, believe that the short piece of track near the Kennedy Limekiln might be useful to remove burnt lime from the kilns on the ground level and transport it to the old jetties. I will discuss this and the other aspects with the photgraphic expert and see how he reacts. The nominations for WP:DYK and its German equivalent de:WP:SG? have both been approved, and I am looking forward to checking how many readers we attract. --NearEMPTiness (talk) 17:06, 9 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@NearEMPTiness: If you're satisfied the short siding below Lower Kennedy is real, then I'm delighted to have it. I'm amazed the DYK has been approved, we didn't go through the whole article looking for every unspecified fact, adding a reference not at the end of paragraphs. I'm doing further research on the limeworkers' accommodation to the north of the island. I have a lead, but it hasn't produced anything yet. I'll let you know if it does. When the map is finalised I'll go through the text editing the passages which tried to guide readers through the uncoloured version. Lots of wording there is rendered redundant now we have the wonderful coloured lines and places overlain. Kind regards, Dave PS: I'm also working on a route diagram for the railways to Dinorwic, encompassing the Padarn, Dinorwic and LNW lines. I'll invite your comments before going public. DavidAHull (talk) 06:43, 10 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@DavidAHull: Today I have translated the recommendations for finetuning to the German photo workshop expert, and he has aknowledged the receipt, but kindly requested some patience, while he is finishing off two other projects. I confirmed that there is no real urgency apart from de:WP:SG? and WP:DYK. --NearEMPTiness (talk) 23:05, 11 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. I agree there's no urgency.DavidAHull (talk) 06:35, 12 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@NearEMPTiness: Have you any idea why the route diagram in Holy Island Waggonway has suddenly started appearing in the middle of the screen? It's nothing I've knowingly done. It looks out of place there.

DaveDavidAHull (talk) 20:20, 12 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@DavidAHull: It is correctly displayed on my computer both with Firefox and Google Chrome. It is displayed right of the text on my computer in all size adjustments, which I choose by <Cntrl> <+> or <Cntrl> <->. It is displayed larger than the other photographs and maps due to the setting "upright=2.33". Setting this to a smaller number would reduce the size. By the way: Two new German maps appeared this morning on de:Penrhyn Quarry Railway and are currently being translated to English. --NearEMPTiness (talk) 16:18, 15 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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@Miniapolis: Thank you very much for your efforts. --NearEMPTiness (talk) 22:46, 7 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hello again

Here's my draft route diagram I mentioned recently. I would welcome any feedback. We're off on a short break tomorrow (Weds 13th) until Saturday, so I'm unlikely to see any correspondence then.

v t e Railways to Dinorwic
Legend
Key Padarn Railway Quarry Gauge Dinorwic Railway Standard Gauge LLR LLR on Padarn Route SMR ----------- 1824-43 Wharf Port Dinorwic 1843-1961 Wharf 1852-1962 Wharf Port Incline Port Dinorwic stations Caernarfon-Bangor Penscoins Garth Incline Cefn-Gwyn Crossing Bethel Caernarfon Pen-Sarn Pont Rhythallt Mill West Pont Rhythallt Mill East Pontrhythallt Pont-Rhythallt Pen-y-Llyn Cwm-y-Glo Penllyn (LLR) Llyn Padarn Cei Llydan Craig-Lwyd Incline Pen-yr Incline Chwarel-Fawr Quarry Allt Ddu Quarry Allt Ddu Incline The Village Branch Hospital Vivian Quarry Gilfach-Ddu Llanberis Llanberis (LLR) Steam Mill Garret Quarry The Tramline Llanberis (SMR) Wellington File:BSicon uextSTRag.svg Llyn Peris File:BSicon uextSTRef.svg Braich Quarry Hafod Owen Australia Quarry Victoria Quarry Snowdon Summit

This is a route-map template for a UK railway.

• For information on using this template, refer to Template:Routemap.
• For pictograms used, see Commons:BSicon/Catalogue.

Kind regards

DaveDavidAHull (talk) 06:40, 12 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

This looks very good and it encouraged me, to click the blue links. I guess, another blue link could easily be provided to Snowdown Summit. I am not sure, whether I deciphered the line of 'Port Dinorwic' correctly. I guess the different shades of blue symbolise that it is salt water and not a lake. But what is left of it? Is this a lock, which looks a bit like an incline? And what is right of it? Are these the grey harbour walls? I am looking forward to seeing this route diagram in the article(s). --NearEMPTiness (talk) 15:18, 12 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I'm just back from a short holiday in Devon. Thank you for your kind and constructive remarks. Yes, I'll add a blue link to Snowdon Summit. Remarkably, Port Dinorwic is still live, though it is now a pleasure marina, not an industrial site. The structure to the right of the dock is a dry dock (standard Wikipedia icon) which I believe is also still live, also for pleasure craft. As for Locks looking rather like inclines, the dock is protected from the tides by a lock (still is) and the icon is the standard icon for lock. I have adapted to indicate an incline, so if either is wrong it is inclines, not locks! I know of no icon for incline, so when I saw another, established, diagram use it I adopted it with delight. I reckon the combination of railway line, chevrons and label "XXX Incline" makes them unambiguous.

I'll build it into the relevant articles in the next few days.

Kind regards

DaveDavidAHull (talk) 19:40, 16 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your help. However, I don't want to be a hero, just a cog in the machine. Have a nice sunday.--Buchbibliothek (talk) 05:08, 17 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks a lot for your revision! Good sunday, --Pampuco (talk) 07:58, 17 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your message re the page I created. Yes, I could see the problems with the references, which looked very ugly but I couldn't work out how to fix them. Fortunately some other kind person has done it in the meantime. Best Kestevenc (talk) 08:39, 18 July 2016 (UTC)Kestevenc[reply]

On 19 July 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Holy Island Waggonway, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that ships were moored between two jetties of the Holy Island Waggonway for unloading coal and loading lime? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Holy Island Waggonway. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, ), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 01:16, 19 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I note that at least two of the ships were lost through fire. Would you please add the details to the relevant "list of shipwrecks in (year)" if they don't already appear? Mjroots2 (talk) 12:41, 19 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I will ask user:DavidAHull, whether he knows, in which year they sank. --NearEMPTiness (talk) 21:58, 19 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

According to Jermy 1992 The WILLIAM shifted at her berth in Holy Island harbour on 17 April 1847. The vessel settled on her anchor, puncturing the hull. Water got to the cargo of quicklime and the boat caught fire, only eventually being extinguished by the rising tide (pages 26-7). The CURLEW had taken on lime on 31 July 1868, whereafter "off the May Light water came into contact with the cargo and the heat generated set fire to the vessel. She sank but her two man crew was saved..." (page 43). Kind regards, DaveDavidAHull (talk) 11:07, 20 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Mjroots2 (cc: DavidAHull): Thank you for your motivating comments. I have edited the sunken ships to: List of shipwrecks in 1847 and List of shipwrecks in 1868. --NearEMPTiness (talk) 11:37, 20 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hello again. Thank you for your kind remark about my first Barnstar. I look at Holy Island Waggonway from time to time to see if the cartographer has added the detail around the kilns and jetties near Lindisfarne Castle, if and when he does I will redraft the text of the article as directions where to look on the map will become redundant. Are you in touch with him? Do you know if he still intends to make these changes? Kind regards, DaveDavidAHull (talk) 18:35, 29 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

You should consider expanding this a bit more and adding one or two more sources and nominating it for Wikipedia:Did you know.--KAVEBEAR (talk) 21:29, 19 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@KAVEBEAR: Thank you for the motivating feedback. I just got active on this article to mitigate a babel fish incident. The source shown in the references contains some information about the plantation and the sugar mill, which I have not yet added to the article. I would be glad if you support us regarding the expansion of the article. As you can see above, I got a WP:DYK credit today about another narrow gauge railway. --NearEMPTiness (talk) 21:55, 19 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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	The Teamwork Barnstar
	Thank you for helping me improve Trainspotting Live, it is very much appreciated! Enjoy this barnstar :) Class455fan1 (talk) 21:04, 25 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Class455fan1: Thank you very much for this nice gesture. Best regards, Class 395 fan a.k.a NearEMPTiness (talk) 21:14, 25 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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On 20 August 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article John J. Coit, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that American engineer John J. Coit, who built and operated miniature railways, died when his locomotive ran into a cow? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/John J. Coit. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, ), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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Hello NearEMPTiness, I would like to hear your opinion: I added sons and daughters of the town to the article Gelsenkirchen, and also added three photos from commons. Another user removed the photos two times. Who is right? Thanks.--Buchbibliothek (talk) 21:24, 14 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Buchbibliothek: I personally think these two black and white pictures are not suitable for the article about Gelsenkirchen. They should better be shown in the articles about these persons. Additional reasons to remove them are as follows: The pictures are not of very high quality, the people are not very well known, the article has already a large number of pictures. --NearEMPTiness (talk) 20:40, 16 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your help. Regards--Buchbibliothek (talk) 21:20, 16 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I did not work on the article since 6.7.2016, so it is an article that unfortunately did not find the way in my excel file for touch up. I asked you to give me a message if you find an article from me like this, so I can correct it, because I don't want other people to do work like this for me. Regards--Buchbibliothek (talk) 09:57, 30 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the commments. I did not check the date, indeed. The content of the article is very interesting. Thus it is worth spending more time on improving its quality. --NearEMPTiness (talk) 01:07, 1 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Gruby Josek is notable. Go to "google books" and google "U grubego Joska", "Gruby Josek". The books are in Polish, but he is notable. The song "Bal u stargeo Joska" in Polish is well known, this is to the point that almost everybody in Poland knows his name. It is urban folk - like John Henry (folklore). I will add more references and link to youtube. He is not related to me in any way. Puncinus (talk) 16:50, 2 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Puncinus: thank you for the clarification. --NearEMPTiness (talk) 18:36, 2 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Thank you for your comments, I am working on the Dagenham Coup now and it will shortly be an article itself.Racingmanager (talk) 13:41, 30 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. --NearEMPTiness (talk) 13:44, 30 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Thank you for your compliments on this article, NearEMPTiness!

This is a very informative article. For me, it looked as if the brakes had only failed at the bottom of the hill, although I assume that the break failure had already occured before, resulting in the excessive speed.

I am very pleased to hear that you found it to be informative. I myself had originally thought that the brakes only failed as it reached the bottom of the hill, but a couple of sources that I found stated otherwise. Even thought the brakes obviously weren't working properly, one can certainly speculate that the excessive speed may have contributed to the failure of the brakes. I'm also rather surprised that there is not too much information about this crash on the internet, considering it's significance. --Undescribed (talk) 20:27, 10 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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That table might be a good idea for replacing the separate infoboxes... I'm actually in the middle of some (offline) work on that page, when I get to doing that on the actual page I'll implement this table with a few necessary changes based on some data I have from 한국철도차량 100년사. 2Q (talk) 16:35, 10 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the update. --NearEMPTiness (talk) 16:38, 10 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I've updated the page and the table, and added the table to the main page; maybe you'll want to look at it for additions to the de.wiki version of the page? 2Q (talk) 22:21, 11 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello. I'm pleased to tell you I've sourced copies of the article and letters in "The Narrow Gauge" you have found reference to. I've been promised them in the next day or two. I'll act accordingly when it does. Boyd should be here in a week or so. Kind regards, DaveDavidAHull (talk) 21:08, 19 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! Your submission of Loch Ewe Distillery at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! BlueMoonset (talk) 19:54, 21 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

On 5 March 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Loch Ewe Distillery, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Loch Ewe Distillery in Drumchork was allowed to open in 2006 with stills over 90% smaller than the legal minimum, due to a loophole in the 1786 Wash Act? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Loch Ewe Distillery. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, ), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Mifter (talk) 12:03, 5 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

NearEMPTiness, although your DYK nomination of the article was promoted to prep, it has acquired a template about its overly brief lead section. We cannot promote the article to the main page with that template on it.

If you could expand the lead section by a few sentences right away, we could avoid having to pull the nomination back from prep. Please reply here as soon as you've been able to do that; if it doesn't happen in the next 24 hours or so, we will probably have to pull the nomination back until you have been able to deal with it, or someone else does so. I hope you see this soon. Thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 23:31, 6 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@BlueMoonset: Thank you for the comment. I have expanded the lead section by now.--NearEMPTiness (talk) 05:28, 7 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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On 28 April 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Mississippi River and Bonne Terre Railway, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the engine frames of the Mississippi River and Bonne Terre Railway "had to be extra heavy ... to withstand rough usage"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Mississippi River and Bonne Terre Railway. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, ), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Mifter (talk) 02:13, 28 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I'd like to hear your two cents on this: Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Rail transport in Walt Disney Parks and Resorts/archive1, when you have a moment. If enough people say they support this on the page, we'll get another piece of train-related featured content on Wikipedia. Jackdude101 (Talk) 14:24, 3 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

On 28 June 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Church of Reinhardtsgrimma, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Baroque pipe organ of the Church of Reinhardtsgrimma was built by Gottfried Silbermann? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Church of Reinhardtsgrimma. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, ), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

IronGargoyle (talk) 00:02, 28 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Nice to see that today, thank you! It's also featured on Portal:Germany. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:22, 28 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for supporting the Rail transport in Walt Disney Parks and Resorts article during its featured list review (it passed)! I am now putting the Disneyland Railroad article through a featured article review here: Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Disneyland Railroad/archive1. You are welcome to comment on that one, also. Jackdude101 01:07, 1 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations. Well deserved. --NearEMPTiness (talk) 06:30, 1 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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I noticed that you hid the copyright infringement notice on Boat Quay. Copyright infringement does not depend on whether it is available online or not (and in the case of books, Googlebook often remove the scanned pages of books after complaints), if you want to remove the notice, please rewrite the section thoroughly to remove any infringement. Hzh (talk) 13:58, 21 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Hzh: I cannot see any copyright infringement and, thus, I WP:AGF. --NearEMPTiness (talk) 20:35, 21 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I have the book concerned, so I do know the text was copied from the book. The problem is extensive, apparently the editor copied the text verbatim into many many articles on places in Singapore, and a large part of the book has been copied. These edits have stayed there for many years unnoticed, but the editor also appears not to be active for many years. I mentioned the problem here in the Singapore project talk page [5]. I only tagged a few articles, and I'm sure there are a lot more. I'm not really sure what to do about it unless someone wants to hunt them all down and delete them all. I have tried to fix some of the articles, but cannot fix them all. Hzh (talk) 20:52, 21 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for being vigilant. --NearEMPTiness (talk) 21:28, 21 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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On 1 November 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Fayoum Light Railway, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that American paleontologist Walter W. Granger used the Fayoum Light Railway for transporting the fossils he had found in Egypt? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Fayoum Light Railway. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, ), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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Hi, Why did you add an article of LTN(自由時報) to the Talk page in the ja:ノート:羅東森林鉄路(Talk:Luodong Forest Railway)? I had already written at the first edition with LTN's news source. so It's not necessary. You should add it to not Japanese edition but Chinese edition(zh:羅東森林鐵路). --Tze Chiang Hao (talk) 08:29, 3 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

((Quote box| align = left| quoted = true | bgcolor =#d9eff0| title= [[:ja:羅東森林鉄路#保存現況|ja:羅東森林鉄路(Luodong Forest Railway)#保存現況]]| quote =<div style="text-align: right;">[[2017年]]秋には天送埤駅の軌道工事が完了し、ミニトロッコ列車も落成した<ref>((in lang|zh-tw))[http://news.tvbs.com.tw/travel/786612 太平山森林鐵路「五分仔車」　三星鄉重現]2017-10-11,TVBS</ref>。近々三星駅までの約3.9kmで旅客運行が復活予定となっている<ref>((in lang|zh-tw))[http://news.ltn.com.tw/news/focus/paper/1142279 太平山林鐵五分仔車 月底試營運]2017-10-10,[[自由時報]]</ref>。))

@Tze Chiang Hao: Sorry, this was a mistake, indeed. --NearEMPTiness (talk) 08:42, 3 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks for the recomendation. I'm held back by the efforts for WP:QPQ.

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Thanks. I thought this happened automatically through a robot. --NearEMPTiness (talk) 16:07, 5 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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As far as I know there was more than one grubbs tram, and also more than one place called comstock and consequently more than one Comstock Tram - - all good funfor the researcher ! JarrahTree 00:43, 17 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@JarrahTree: Thanks for the comment. The other tram was partially built by another guy with the same surname as Grubb's Tramway (Mowbray). Initially, I had hoped to have found a high resolution scan of a photo and a high resolution map of the same tram, but the letters on the tram car gave me a clue, before I uploaded my first version of the article. I hope, everything is accurate by now. it would be interesting to know, whether the tree Grubbs were related to each other. --NearEMPTiness (talk) 06:45, 17 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

It is hard to know what you can or cannot access, my copy of whitham's work is temporarily out of reach, I am sure there were a number of later tram operations on the west coast were also called grubbs tram as well (just like multiple comstock trams) and not necessarily connected in any way with the mowbray/launceston one. JarrahTree 10:13, 17 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello once more.

Now for something completely different. I have attempted to replace the image associated with the above article so that it matches the one in the English version of the article. It appeared to work and I received a welcome note from de.Wikipedia; however, when I open it up it still displays the old image. A friend has opened it and found the same thing.

Can you please tell me what I've done wrongly? Assume I have no German, which isn't far from the truth.

The replacement image is in Wikicommons as "CCLR24.jpg". It appears as such in the text when editing. The old image showed a train with lots of passengers, the new image shows a black loco number 24.

I hope this makes sense.

Kind regards

DaveDavidAHull (talk) 13:52, 26 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@DavidAHull: On the German Wikipedia, changes by IPs or novices need to be reviewed by experienced users. I happen to have the latter status and reviewed your changes. Thus these changes are highlighted in blue in the history. I see the black #24, and assume you will do by now as well. NearEMPTiness (talk) 14:08, 26 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

When you have a moment, consider indicating whether you support or oppose the candidacy for the Carolwood Pacific Railroad article as a featured article here: Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Carolwood Pacific Railroad/archive1. Jackdude101 ^talk cont 01:22, 12 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Jackdude101: Thanks for asking. I put wrote a short comment. I am currently working on the Miniature Train at Monarch Park and Midland Beach Railway Company, because I found two interesting uncategorized photos on Wikimedia Commons. Do you know, where the train shown in this photo was used? --NearEMPTiness (talk) 20:38, 12 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

According to Flikr, it's described as the latest design of carsand locomotive. Given that they don't mention a specific location or customer for this locomotive, I believe this was taken at the Armitage Herschell Company headquarters in North Tonawanda, New York, very soon after it was made circa 1891. Side note: this complex run by Armitage Herschell (and later Herschell-Spillman, and Spillman Engineering after that) is different from the complex opened years later in the same town by Alan Herschell after his split with Spillman, which is now the Herschell Carrousel Factory Museum. Jackdude101 ^talk cont 01:08, 13 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the comment. By the way: The original text spells cars and locomotive correctly. --NearEMPTiness (talk) 05:55, 13 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

In the future, please add attribution when copying from public domain sources: simply add the template ((PD-notice)) after your citation. I have done so for the above article. Please do this in the future so that our readers will be aware that you copied the prose rather than wrote it yourself. Thanks, — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 14:45, 26 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Diannaa: Thank you very much, indeed. --NearEMPTiness (talk) 14:53, 26 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello. Regarding the edits on the Disneyland Railroad article from that South Carolina-based IP user you saw recently, he is desperately trying to find a source (regardless of its reliability) stating that a fifth locomotive went into service on the Walt Disney World Railroad on March 1, 1997. I gathered some information from page 23 of The Ward Kimball: The Story of Disneyland Engine No. 5 by Steve DeGaetano, which states the following: "Plan B" had Disneyland executives unceremoniously sending the large Davenport to the Magic Kingdom in Florida. The Walt Disney World Railroad, not really needing or wanting a fifth engine, reluctantly went through with plans to officially name and dedicate the locomotive. There was no one in Disney history more deserving than that pioneer rail preservationist and Walt's trusted employee and fellow railfan, Ward Kimball. A small dedication ceremony was held backstage with Ward Kimball in attendance, but after the hoopla, the engine was quietly set aside on the property. It seems as though the engine was deemed too small to pull trains up the WDWRR's slight grades, and it remains in doubt to this day whether the engine ever pulled a train of any kind on the Walt Disney World Railroad. At the Magic Kingdom, it was simply an unwanted orphan. I posted the same quote on the talk page for this IP user. As you can see, the information that this user is trying to post contradicts what this legit published source is stating. I should also note that this same person is the one who drove the WDWRR article into the ground with never-ending unsourced or questionably sourced edits about two years ago, leading to other editors reverting so much of its content that it was briefly changed to a redirect to the Magic Kingdom article. That's when I decided to step in, re-write the WDWRR article, and raise it from a joke to a respected piece of featured content. Even after all these years, this guy is still not getting it. I suggest that whenever you see editing activity on these articles or any similar articles, and they are from an IP user starting with "2606:A000:131B:E9", it's most likely this same person and those edits should be heavily scrutinized. Jackdude101 ^talk cont 13:12, 24 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Jackdude101: Thank you for the background information. I will be more vigilant in future. --NearEMPTiness (talk) 08:04, 25 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]