Welcome!

Hello, Rivkid007, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

• The five pillars of Wikipedia
• Tutorial
• How to edit a page and How to develop articles
• How to create your first article (using the Article Wizard if you wish)
• Manual of Style

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place ((helpme)) before the question. Again, welcome! Jac16888^Talk 03:23, 12 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your edits, however you should know that standard policy is not to replace foreign language articles with machine translations, they are of such poor quality that they are generally worse than if there was no article, a better solution is just to reduce an article to a few lines. Cheers--Jac16888^Talk 03:25, 12 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Noted. Thank you for the warm welcome. I appreciate it. Rivkid007 (talk) 04:22, 12 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I noticed that you only included four summaries in your last 50 edits. Please, please, please use edit summaries. I know it's a little bit of extra effort, but it makes a huge difference in other editors being able to understand what's going on. Especially for those like me whose watchlists have grown to thousands of pages, consistent use of edit summaries makes it a lot easier to keep track of everything going on. Useddenim (talk) 23:06, 24 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. A renamer or clerk has responded to your username change request, but requires clarification before moving forward. Please follow up at your username change request entry as soon as possible. Thank you. ‐‐1997kB (talk) 01:42, 5 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Italics is used for connecting lines, not closed stations. Useddenim (talk) 16:08, 18 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Is there a protocol for closed stations? Surely they shouldn't be listed in the same manner as operational ones. WMSR (talk) 17:05, 18 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Closed lines/stations/facilities are shown in a lighter color:  (BHF) vs.  (eBHF) for example. Useddenim (talk) 20:17, 18 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

But no difference with regard to the text? It seems that there should be other ways to distinguish stations that are closed. WMSR (talk) 21:47, 18 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. I've tried to improve ((Douglas branch (CTA))) but I don't know the area. I'm confused by multiple stations with similar names and don't want to get it wrong. Looking at the pink line on File:Chicago L diagram sb.svg, Roosevelt and Lawndale seem to link to stations not on this line. Maybe there were former stations with similar names but no article. All stations on the closed section (below 54th Yard) look suspect. In particular, Central probably isn't any of Central Station#United States. Please can you help? Thanks, Certes (talk) 10:19, 7 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Also ((Lake Street Elevated (CTA))): Racine and Kostner link to disambiguation pages. I think Racine is Racine station (CTA Green Line) but no idea about Kostner. Certes (talk) 10:46, 7 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Just FYI, I’ve approved your request to be an AutoWikiBrowser user. NJA | talk 16:00, 24 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Your account has been granted the "templateeditor" user permission, allowing you to edit templates and modules that have been protected with template protection. It also allows you to bypass the title blacklist, giving you the ability to create and edit editnotices. Before you use this user right, please read Wikipedia:Template editor and make sure you understand its contents. In particular, you should read the section on wise template editing and the criteria for revocation.

You can use this user right to perform maintenance, answer edit requests, and make any other simple and generally uncontroversial edits to templates, modules, and edinotices. You can also use it to enact more complex or controversial edits, after those edits are first made to a test sandbox, and their technical reliability as well as their consensus among other informed editors has been established. If you are willing to process edit requests on templates and modules, keep in mind that you are taking responsibility to ensure the edits have consensus and are technically sound.

This user right gives you access to some of Wikipedia's most important templates and modules; it is critical that you edit them wisely and that you only make edits that are backed up by consensus. It is also very important that no one else be allowed to access your account, so you should consider taking a few moments to secure your password.

If you do not want this user right, you may ask any administrator to remove it for you at any time.

If you were granted the permission on a temporary basis you will need to re-apply for the permission a few days before it expires including in your request a permalink to the discussion where it was granted and a ((ping)) for the administrator who granted the permission. You can find the permalink in your rights log.

Useful links

• All template-protected pages
• User:AnomieBOT/TPERTable – outstanding template-protected edit requests (bot-generated)
• Request fully-protected templates or modules be downgraded to template protection

Happy template editing! Primefac (talk) 11:49, 13 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

There is a project consensus against including highways in the vast majority of routemaps, as they add unnecessary clutter for a module that is intended to be compact and part of an infobox. Please do not add them to other routemaps without good justification. SounderBruce 01:01, 2 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, thanks for the heads up! Are there specific instances in which it is warranted? It seems that it mostly depends on the location, as many California routemaps prominently feature expressways and some even include all numbered routes. It seems like expressways serve as good geographical points of reference (the Beltway in DC comes to mind). Best, WMSR (talk) 03:15, 2 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi WMSR, On the articles that use the converted Routemap templates, the maps do not seem to render in the Infobox rail line template that uses them. Your route map conversion schedule should include a related usage conversion and not leave it to the article watchers. Example: Twin Cities 400. Thanks, Group29 (talk) 13:14, 2 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, thanks for reaching out!! I fixed the affected templates. It seems it was limited to diagrams that were created using BS-table and formatted in a peculiar way. Best, WMSR (talk) 15:17, 2 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]