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FYI

http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2012/01/spelling-can-be-a-hot-potatoe/ Cheers SmartSE (talk) 19:10, 29 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry

There are in fact islands that are part of the state of victoria... take care satusuro 16:15, 8 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Iguana

Why do you repeatedly keep undoing my edit, without leaving even some commentary? I even provided sources the second time. What's the issue here, please? Wolfdog (talk) 19:55, 1 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Clapham Junction

It's pronounced /ˈklæpəm/, not /ˈklæfəm/. See [1]. Marnanel (talk) 00:07, 25 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

August 2014

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October 2014

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize pages by deliberately introducing incorrect information, you may be blocked from editing. 124.148.212.227 (talk) 09:37, 23 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to violate Wikipedia's no original research policy by adding your personal analysis or synthesis into articles, you may be blocked from editing. 124.148.212.227 (talk) 09:37, 23 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

This is exactly what I could say about you. All of my information was correct and backed up with reliable sources, whereas yours wasn't at all. Hypocrisy is unnecessary. Mvpo666 (talk) 15:05, 23 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Benin pronunciation

For the most common pronunciation, check out virtually any dictionary, including http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/Benin?q=benin and http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/benin?s=t. Wolfdog (talk) 22:51, 12 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Just because there is a "most common" pronunciation, it doesn't mean there isn't an alternative. For example: the most common pronunciation of route is "ROOT" but some people pronounce it as "ROWT". Benin is a similar idea (except I have never heard anyone say "bi-NEEN" before). "bi-NIN" is certainly not wrong. Mvpo666 (talk) 17:41, 14 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Newhaven Harbour railway station

Please stop making those edits. Newhaven Marine railway station is a terminus, and moreover it is closed; the railway line between there and Newhaven Harbour railway station carries no scheduled passenger trains, and is also closed. If it did carry such trains, Newhaven Marine would be open - but it isn't. --Redrose64 (talk) 13:58, 16 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

You are wrong. Like you said, Newhaven Marine railway station is closed (I never denied it, that is why it says "Line open, station closed"). However, the line remains open. If it weren't open, it wouldn't be available for any train services at all (trains just wouldn't be allowed on it). And since a few services do use the line, it is still physically open, just not for passengers. It is a bit like saying that the Castle Donington Line is closed because no passenger services run on it, even though it is still used for freight.

Besides, there is actually a scheduled service which runs regularly from Newhaven Marine (at 18:52, I think).

Mvpo666 (talk) 14:21, 16 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Please don't reply in a different place. It makes following a thread difficult.

There may indeed be trains along the line, but empty coaching stock (ECS) and freight services are outside the scope of routeboxes, which describe scheduled passenger services. If there really is a scheduled passenger service either to or from Newhaven Marine, I should be able to find it in National Rail Enquiries - but I can't. But if a service did run, Newhaven Marine would not be closed - why run a train to a closed station? If passengers can use the station for the purpose of using the train, the station is not closed.

Put simply: either both the line and station are closed, or both are open. The situation of one being open and the other closed is illogical. --Redrose64 (talk) 14:58, 16 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

On this 2011 visit to Newhaven Marine, the station was closed, a ghost train did go to there but was not accessible to passengers, and an old poster offered a relief taxi service for the two-to-three-minute walk to Newhaven Harbour. So the line was open in the 'Parliamentary' sense but no longer carried passengers. NebY (talk) 15:28, 16 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

A train that is not accessible to passengers is not a passenger train, it is ECS. If there are no trains accessible to passengers (or if you prefer, if the only trains that use the line are ECS workings), the line is not open for passenger services, therefore, the line is closed to passenger trains. --Redrose64 (talk) 16:05, 16 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe our problem is that a description that's helpful to our readers is at odds with the legal situation. Legally, they're running a scheduled passenger service; that's more convenient for them than the closure procedures. Practically, they're not. NebY (talk) 16:49, 16 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

March 2015

Your recent editing history at Tamworth railway station shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you get reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the article's talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war. See BRD for how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection.

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Mvpo666, Redrose64, perhaps we should just discuss this here. The issue is whether we take north/southbound from the line or from the station geography. Now, I do understand the argument for east/westbound on the WCML - the platforms are oriented east/west (ish) and it distinguishes from the XCR high level platforms, which are definitely north/south. However the WCML itself is certainly north/south. Trains on the WCML that go through Tamworth are either working northbound or southbound services. Therefore it makes more sense to call the WCML platforms north/southbound, on the grounds that up/down is frowned upon as being too jargony.

All this being said, Mvpo666 I would like to reiterate what Redrose said. There is a policy on Wikipedia called WP:BRD, short for "bold, revert, discuss". Someone makes an edit, someone else disagrees and reverts it. If the first person disagrees they should discuss the matter with other users to gain consensus as to what the correct wording is - perhaps a middle ground can be reached. Edit summaries are bad places to argue, as there is no room for a full explanation. -mattbuck (Talk) 09:37, 27 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

We should use the general direction of the line as a whole. The WCML through Tamworth does follow an approximate west-east alignment through the station. However, to the west of the station, it curves to the right until it is running almost north-northwest after only two miles. Similarly, further to the east it curves to the right until at Polesworth (less than 4 miles) it's running south-east. This is not the only location where the alignment through the station differs greatly from the general direction: on the Great Western Main Line - which is generally considered to be a west-east route - westbound trains through Goring & Streatley are on a right-hand curve, a tangent to which is due north approximately half a mile north of the station; it continues to curve such that it is aligned 5° east of north three-quarters of a mile north of the station. As a result, trains running towards Bristol are actually getting slightly further away from Bristol (as the crow flies) over this stretch. --Redrose64 (talk) 13:17, 27 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The general direction of the line as a whole is used only when talking about the train services (e.g. "the next service from Tattenham Corner will run northbound to London Bridge"). This is because a train service is actually getting somewhere: in this case, its destination is London Bridge, which is more or less to the north of Tattenham Corner. So when the service is getting to a certain place, we use the direction of that place in relation to us. However, when talking about platforms, the current direction of the line must be used, e.g. "at Tattenham Corner, platform 1 is a southbound platform used by northward services to London Bridge". That is because a platform is always facing one particular direction (in this case, the south). That direction is not related to the general direction of services using it (I hope it all makes sense, by the way; I am not very good at explaining). This is why I have come up with the alternative: instead of constantly reverting each other's edits, just say: "Platform 1 is a westbound platform for northward services to Crewe and beyond". That way, both actual and general directions are included.

Also, I apologise for arguing through edit summaries; I am quite new to Wikipedia so I did not know about BRD, and I also do not know how to start a discussion elsewhere. Mvpo666 (talk) 17:18, 27 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Discussions are held on talk pages. Every article has one; in the row of tabs at the top you should see one marked "Talk" - in the case of Tamworth railway station, this leads you to Talk:Tamworth railway station. --Redrose64 (talk) 20:02, 27 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

April 2015

Please do not add original research or novel syntheses of published material to articles as you apparently did to Kingston upon Hull. Please cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. Thank you. Charles (talk) 21:31, 9 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Recent edit to Warblington railway station

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Thanks for fixing `{{Hitchin Flat Junction}}`

Thanks for doing that. I had several attempts and never got the space in the arrows at the bottom sorted out. I tried and tried.... Si Trew (talk) 18:55, 15 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It's okay

. The problem was the <br /> function, which made the bottom "layer" slightly longer, unfortunately too long for the symbol to fill all of it. So instead I added another layer and split the text between the two layers. Mvpo666 (talk) 22:40, 15 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Original Research

Would you please note that you cannot revert or make any edit on Wikipedia based on what you believe to be true or not. This edit was accompanied by an edit summary of "I am quite certain that this service will be run by 12-car units...". I have not reverted this particular edit because someone else did exactly the same thing so you could have legitimately reverted it as an 'unreferenced change', but it has now been flagged that a reference is required. I regret that it does not matter how certain you are of anything, you cannot alter anything in Wikipedia based on that certainty. You cannot even alter it if you have personally counted the carriages on the train because that would be original research. The only way you can alter anything (or even add anything) is if you provide a reliable and verifiable reference to support the change or addition. I note that I have had to revert a couple of other unreferenced changes that you have made. However, I have managed to provide a reference for one piece of information that you [added] (though I did have to correct it). –LiveRail < Talk > 14:43, 14 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Travolator

Your reference that you provided ([2]) for your US English version of travolator clearly identifies the spelling as US English. It also offers 'travolator' as an alternate spelling. Unfortunately, the OED frequently records both British and US spellings these days. On the other hand [3] clearly identifies 'travolator' as the British English spelling (because Collins is a British English dictionary).

I have also just been thanked by another editor for correcting the spelling. –LiveRail < Talk > 13:25, 15 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I started a thread at Talk:Waterloo & City line#Travolator or Travelator. --Redrose64 (talk) 13:33, 15 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Two things I would like to quickly point out: first, by undoing my edit, you also removed the link to the Wikipedia article about trav(o/e)lators that I had provided; could you please add it back there? Secondly, that article states that the British-English spellings of the word are either "travelator" or "travellator" (i.e. not "travolator) and that in US English, there isn't such a word at all (apparently they say "moving walkway" instead). Does this mean that that article will need to be edited as well? Mvpo666 (talk) 15:33, 15 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

You are correct about the link so it does need restoring. I cannot find a reference to 'travellator' (with two l's) anywhere (and Google turns up nothing at all except a note to ask if I meant 'travelator'), so that would appear to be erroneous. So I would say that that article does need editing, and I shall oblige. I B Wright (talk) 16:10, 15 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Dealing with vandalism

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incorrect pronounciation edits

Mvpo666 has a history of bad edits regarding placename pronounciations. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.159.162.68 (talk) 10:48, 14 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop your disruptive behaviour. Your behaviour is verging on harassment. Wikipedia prides itself on providing a safe environment for its collaborators, and harassing other users, as you did on this page, potentially compromises that safe environment. If you continue behaving like this, you may be blocked from editing. Mvpo666 (talk) 15:56, 14 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

February 2016

Greetings. At least one of your recent edits did not appear to be constructive and has been or will be reverted or removed. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to Wikipedia, please take some time to familiarise yourself with our policies and guidelines. You can find information about these at our welcome page which also provides further information about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. If you only meant to make some test edits, please use the sandbox for that. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you may leave a message on my talk page. (All articles should be prose instead of having tables everywhere), Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 18:26, 23 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Davey2010: I have done similar edits on other articles (such as Southern, Thameslink and London Midland), and none of these edits were ever reverted; in fact, some users have thanked me for those edits. I do not understand why some users are suddenly reverting this particular edit (sometimes without explanation), despite the fact that there is nothing explicitly wrong with the change. Could you please elaborate on what the issue is? Mvpo666 (talk) 18:33, 23 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Davey2010: Perhaps it would be kind of you to reply to this paragraph, instead of going around and restoring ALL of my table edits without any explanation (or at the very least, a note on the article talk page). I am now going to revert it for the second time, as I have not found any information on the Policies and guidelines page regarding the fact that all articles should be written in prose; also, the table is objectively better than "prose" because it is more detailed, more accurate (the prose section was incorrect at times), more readable and easier to edit. There is virtually no reason for it to remain as prose. Your revert on the London Midland page has already been reverted by another user, probably for the same reasons. Mvpo666 (talk) 23:06, 23 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry I didn't realize you replied (first ping never worked!), That article is only one where I've reverted you ? ...., I was meant to have hit Twinkle (which includes an edit summary) but accidentally smacked Rollback which proves no summary so sorry about that,

Anyway my main and actual issue is simply the tables, Personally I prefer the prose/list instead of the tables - They take up unnecessary room and I guess in an encycloepdia view it's probably unencyclopedia if that makes sense but that's just mho,

I've had enough of this swamp and 3RRNO so I'm not edit warring with you but it may be a good idea for you to revert yourself and go to the talkpage ..... otherwise Charles (or someone no doubt) will revert and then you'll end up blocked.... –Davey2010^Talk 23:18, 23 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Davey2010: The ping thing was my mistake; I completely forgot that you need to ping users for them to see your edit. I added the pings later on, but I do apologise for coming out in such a rude manner.

It was also my mistake to accuse you of reverting tables on other articles; that was in fact Charles. I should have paid attention to that.

Anyway, if you really prefer prose form to tables, maybe we could do without the table, but keep ALL the information that is in it using bullet points. For example, instead of having a row (of the table) saying "London Waterloo to Salisbury / 1 / Woking, Basingstoke, Overton, Whitchurch, Andover, Grateley", we could have bullet points saying "* Waterloo to Salisbury (hourly) calling at Woking, Basingstoke, Overton, Whitchurch, Andover and Grateley" (or something along those lines). My main concern with the prose-form edit that was there before I changed it was that it was relatively vague (and at times erroneous). I thought that the table would make it easier to organise and manage the services in case of a timetable change. I am going to keep the table at the moment but if someone decides to change it back again, I'll try to turn all the information from the table into a bullet-point form, and hope no one reverts that. Also, I want to keep the external links that I had provided. Mvpo666 (talk) 00:08, 24 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

UPDATE: And there goes the revert. I'll turn it into a list as soon as I have time. Mvpo666 (talk) 00:10, 24 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

WP:USEPROSE. --Redrose64 (talk) 11:13, 24 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

RFC

Hi, It may be a good idea to start an WP:RFC as I don't think anyone's going to agree with it all, I personally don't have an issue with your edits however I've been known to be the minority on alot of things on this place but as I say it may be better to start an RFC and get others peoples opinions who don't edit the article, Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 22:45, 30 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Davey2010: That's a good idea. Which RfC category would you go for? I'm not sure which one would suit this issue most. Mvpo666 (talk) 23:03, 30 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Personally I would just list it under Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Economy, trade, and companies, as technically South West Trains is a company and that's the closest to a category I think we're gonna get :), Cheers, –Davey2010^Talk 23:28, 30 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, thanks :) Mvpo666 (talk) 23:44, 30 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

October 2016

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