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Question about Tram maps

Hi! Just a question about your maps on the Trams in Sydney article. How did you make the maps, and where did you get the template of the Sydney suburbs? Thanks for your help! --Whats new? 02:48, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for getting back to me so quickly. How do you remove the existing routes and draw new ones with Acrobat. Isn't it just a pdf reader? --Whats new? 04:02, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Sraheada.gif

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Fair use rationale for Image:Transitfirst_logo.jpg

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London Meetup - January 12, 2008

Hi! There's going to be a London Wikipedia Meetup coming Saturday January 12, 2008. If you are interested in coming along take part in the discussion over at Wikipedia:Meetup/London7. The discussion is going on until tomorrow evening and the official location and time will be published at the same page late Thursday or early Friday. Hope to see you Saturday, Poeloq (talk) 03:03, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Qld rail map request

I would like to ask if you could make a rail network map for Queensland and the Rail transport in Queensland page like the one you uploaded on the Rail transport in New South Wales page? - Shiftchange (talk) 10:39, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

Disputed fair use rationale for Image:ExtensionOptionsMap.jpg

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Sydney tram maps

Hi Quaidy - I've noticed your great maps on the Sydney tram network, and I wondered whether you have ever done a map for the North Shore system? Also - did the line to Ryde only have the two termini at West Ryde station and Top Ryde shops? The map doesn't show it. JRG (talk) 05:00, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the map. I wanted to point out something - I don't think trams ever went over the new Gladesville Bridge - from the city, the trams would have travelled via the old route up what is now Victoria Place, then over the old bridge, then up Huntley's Point Road from next to the present ferry wharf, then left at where Huntley's Point Road now joins with Victoria Road and onto the present route. JRG (talk) 06:19, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

Railway stations

Most of the Victorian closed stations have articles already, and there's plenty of material to write decent articles on the ones in New South Wales. Had someone thought to go through and link them back when the Victorian ones were, we'd probably have at least some material on a lot of these already. Rebecca (talk) 10:39, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Some are, some aren't. The ones that are would be easily fixed by a very little bit of research. And thus, we get articles where we didn't have them before, which is great for people like me who find these old country stations really interesting. Rebecca (talk) 21:39, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

I'm afraid that Wikipedia doesn't work that way (perhaps Citizendum is more your style? They take the opposite approach.). It may well take a year or two, but as we've seen with articles elsewhere, once the redlinks are there to highlight that an article needs creating, they'll be created eventually. There isn't a chance that any of these would be deleted if an article (in any form) was written, so please quit trying to prevent them from being created in the first place. Rebecca (talk) 03:13, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

"Try looking and you'll see." How about going to the library? There's good books on a lot of railway lines and stations (including these rural lines), useful material in local history books, as well as a wealth of historical material in the archives of the five or six Australian railway history journals. Rebecca (talk) 04:51, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

I am not asking you to. What I am asking you, however, is to stop screwing around with these articles so that others can in the future. Rebecca (talk) 05:43, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Replaceable fair use Image:ExtensionOptionsMap.jpg

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Sydney RAS

I notice that you removed a "stray bit of text". FYI- a stray bit of text like that is almost always a sign that there has been vandalism, which, despite some reversions, has been missed. My suggestion is, track back through the history until you find out exactly what caused the problem. Go to the next clean version bbelow that and go to "edit". It will warn you that your edits will be lost, but you can force a save of the older correct version. But check it out first.

If you don't want to go to the trouble, or you just don't have time, then leave the stupid stuff right where it is. It will be found by someone who watches the page regularly, and it will immediately cue them to the fact that something is seriously missing.

I get so sick of vandals... but I go round the traps and check the articles I've written regularly. Amandajm (talk) 06:59, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Image source problem with Image:Circular Quay trackplan.png

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Stop it

You've gone on a mass redirecting spree, both unilaterally deleting practically every regional railway station and creating redirects where there should be redlinks. There is a long-standing consensus that these articles are notable, as there's abundant sources: hell, to show how arbitrary this was, a bunch of the articles you randomly decided to redirect were buildings on the Register of the National Estate. In any case, if you want to change that longstanding precedent, please go and actually get a consensus, instead of making a complete bloody mess. If you a pull a stunt like this again, you can expect to be blocked. Rebecca (talk) 01:13, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

I've just realised the sheer extent of the mess you've created - you've redirected every single railway-related redlink in the entire state, including entire suburban lines. This is an incredibly controversial thing to do without so much as a word beforehand, and it's going to take me the rest of the morning to clean up. As such, I've blocked you for 24 hours as a warning not to do something like this again. Rebecca (talk) 01:26, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

If you look at what I have actually done you stupid bloody idiot you will realise that I have added rail station related info on the town or city pages on most of the stations I have redirected to. Go ahead and revert it you bloody self righteous idiot. I don't see any reason why rail station info can not be put on a town's page with a redirect to it. At least I am adding constructive info. Take a look at Bowning, New South Wales, Towrang, New South Wales‎, Breadalbane, New South Wales‎, Moree, New South Wales‎ etc etc. This is has been a NSW convention, what are you a bloody Victorian or something? I object to my sanctimonoius blocking and am going to take this further.Quaidy (talk) 10:27, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

You made somewhere in the vicinity of a hundred redirects which you knew to both be controversial and against longstanding precedent, causing a huge mess took ages to clean up. If you want to get a consensus to not have articles on these topics, as we already have in other states, then get it. Trying to make an exception for NSW by force is just disrupting the project. Rebecca (talk) 10:56, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

• I redirected blank, let me repeat, blank, pages to other pages with info on them. Did I remove anyones work? No. I'm not saying that these stations should not have their own stand alone articles, it is just that there is not enough information on any of them that anyone but me has contributed to make a stand alone article worthwhile. Until such time arises, it seems much more logical to have a redirect to the town page with station information on that page. You have gone and blocked me for something that only you and I are disagreeing on, some admin you are. By the look of your talk page, you have a history of this. I'm thinking of leaving anyway becasue I don't appear to have a personality disorder large enough to put up with this sort of crap.Quaidy (talk) 11:04, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason (see the blocking policy).

Quaidy (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

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Request reason:

This block is completely unjustified- I have added rail station related info in good faith to varoius NSW town pages and redirected uncreated rail station links to the town pages, because at this stage there doesn't seen to be enough info to create stand alone railway station pages for many minor railway stations in NSW, especially those that have been closed, and no-one else seems interested in creating any of these pages at this stage. This block seems a little vindictive from someone who has made no effort to contribute info to these topics.

Decline reason:

reason — totally justified block, when you're warned, listen and learn from this. — Rlevse • Talk • 11:29, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

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There was exactly 6 minutes between the warning and the block!!!! Some of us are not on Wikipedia 24/7Quaidy (talk) 11:34, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

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