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-- Powers ^T 12:41, 27 August 2010 (UTC)

 Done - Acps110 ^{(talk • contribs)} 17:36, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

106 Street Crosstown

Hey Acps110, I just made a new article called "106 Street Crosstown". Do you think you can help me put in some details? R68A B Train (talk) 20:57, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

I see the article is up for deletion. I don't think this article is Notable. Acps110 ^{(talk • contribs)} 16:47, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

Rewrite of {{Infobox NYCS service}}

I just rewrote {{Infobox NYCS service}} to use {{infobox}}. What do you think? — Train2104 (talk • contribs • count) 02:46, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

Looks good. I assume this was just a cleanup of the code. Acps110 ^{(talk • contribs)} 16:49, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

No it isn't. Originally, it used wikitables for formatting (not recommended). This is a complete rewrite with the same parameters and the infobox meta-template. — Train2104 (talk • contribs • count) 17:20, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

That's what I meant; substituting a different kind of code and re-writing to generate the same resulting page. That said, I haven't found any errors. Acps110 ^{(talk • contribs)} 17:43, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

Google Maps

Hey do you have any idea on why Google Maps shows Second Ave as Second Ave - Lower East Side - 2nd Ave?--iGeMiNix/What's up?/My Stuff 05:24, 3 October 2010 (UTC)

I'm not seeing where that is shown. Can you give me a link? Acps110 ^{(talk • contribs)} 13:11, 3 October 2010 (UTC)

Right here. Link--iGeMiNix/What's up?/My Stuff 15:22, 3 October 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the link. I have a Google account, so I reported the problem to them. Here's the text of their e-mail back.

Hi,

Thanks for taking the time to report a problem with Google Maps. We'll send you an update once your report has been reviewed to let you know the resolution.

We have created ID: 3E6C-E5F7-5CFB-A30D to track this problem.

Report history

Problem ID: 3E6C-E5F7-5CFB-A30D

Your report: The station name has been renamed - it is now simply Second Avenue. Source - http://www.mta.info/nyct/maps/subwaymap.pdf

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Thanks for your help,

The Google Maps team - Acps110 ^{(talk • contribs)} 16:13, 3 October 2010 (UTC)

On on a side note, I hope you didn't mind me taking some of the info boxes from you lol.--iGeMiNix/What's up?/My Stuff 15:32, 3 October 2010 (UTC)

Certainly! I even learned a trick from you linking to the bottom of the page. ;-) Acps110 ^{(talk • contribs)} 16:13, 3 October 2010 (UTC)

Cool! Thanks again man. Also by the way, the sock of 24...173 got blocked today.--iGeMiNix/What's up?/My Stuff 17:11, 3 October 2010 (UTC)

Here's another e-mail I got on the 5th of October.

Hi,

The Google Maps problem you reported has been escalated to the appropriate team. We don't have an immediate fix but are working

hard for a resolution.

Report history

Problem ID: 3E6C-E5F7-5CFB-A30D

Your report: The station name has been renamed - it is now simply Second Avenue. Source - http://www.mta.info/nyct/maps/subwaymap.pdf

--

Thanks for your help,

The Google Maps team - Acps110 ^{(talk • contribs)} 04:47, 10 October 2010 (UTC)

Cool, I wonder what process they need to go through to get this fixed. lol--iGeMiNix/What's up?/My Stuff 05:15, 10 October 2010 (UTC)

Heh, it never got fixed, oh well.--iGeMiNix 01:35, 16 November 2010 (UTC)

I guess they are still in process with the fix. I haven't received any other e-mails from them. Acps110 ^{(talk • contribs)} 02:45, 16 November 2010 (UTC)

Move discussion

I started a move discussion at Talk:New York City transit fares a while back and I'm not getting enough comments to establish consensus. What do you think? Note that oknazevad (talk · contribs) supports deletion, I don't think so. — Train2104 (talk • contribs • count) 02:25, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

 Done at Talk:New York City transit fares. (Sorry for the delay in getting back to you.) Acps110 ^{(talk • contribs)} 01:06, 16 November 2010 (UTC)

Service letters/numbers

Where ever I see them, I am replacing bare service letters/numbers (e.g., "1 Train") with links (e.g., 1 train. I see you've been undoing some of my work, so I think you ought to know the reason.

If you want to find every article that refers to the 1 train, you clearly can't do a search on a bare number 1; you would get too many false hits. This is why references to service numbers/letters need to always be linked. If the service changes, it's the only chance you have of ever finding all references to it.

Indeed, I found such an example this afternoon: a bare "M" which referred to the old M service that traveled down the Nassau Street Line. When it was re-routed (at the time the V was discontinued), no doubt an editor looked for every article that linked the M service; this one was missed.

Because you can't search for a bare letter or number, and have any prayer of finding just the subway service, these must always be linked. I don't care if you use the template, i.e, {{NYCS}}, but that is a convenient way that makes it straightforward and convenient in an article with many such references. Marc Shepherd (talk) 22:19, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

It is still redundant to change every letter as if a paragraph is describing the service, linking the first one is fine.--iGeMiNix 03:18, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

Also, the reason we use the format [[C (New York City Subway service)|C]] is for Google Earth because it cannot read {}<>, which is why we use HTML code that Google Earth can read.--iGeMiNix 03:25, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

Hey Marc, This past summer (2010), IGeMiNix, Gfoley4 and I replaced instances of {{NYCS|4}} with [[4 (New York City Subway service)|]] in all of the station articles (the lead section). Google Earth displays a pop-up for each station, but unfortunately it can't deal with templates or non-escaped special characters. It would display something like this... "Canal Street is served by the  train at all times and the  train late nights only." In the Summer of 2009, much work was done on removing overlinking. For example, Sutter Avenue has a link to the L train in the infobox and the first paragraph. This edit was unnecessary. You can't argue that a reader can't find the link to the L train. Likewise, this edit to Marcy Avenue is very overlinked. Please don't undo all the work that has been done while you were gone.

One more thing, Each page has a What links here in the navigation bar on the left. That's how you can find what links to a particular service page; and that's also a good case for keeping the overlinking to a minimum. Thanks, Acps110 ^{(talk • contribs)} 00:57, 16 November 2010 (UTC)

Iceland

Why did remove section of Iceland from discussion of "List of rail gauges"?

Iceland should build 1435mm gauge rail networks. 121.102.122.122 (talk) 08:23, 20 November 2010 (UTC)

That's not what a talk page is for. The talk page is for discussion on how to improve the article, not speculation about what should or shouldn't be built. Acps110 ^{(talk • contribs)} 09:24, 20 November 2010 (UTC)

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