User talk:Regan123

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Citing sources on road articles

I have just come across the A28 road article, on which I believe you have asked for sources to be cited. I just wonder where such sources might be found? I have edited several such articles in circumstances where I know the road so well, and then use the OS map, to have enough knowledge that the result is correct. Of course there are instances where there are reports (eg media) of blackspots or general holdups - I think particularly of the A21! - but where the road is simply described from Alpha to Omega, I cannot see what more can be done. I should havw thought that an article such as I am tackling at the moment - Hastings - needs such a nomination better. The only place I can see on the A28 article is where it says "plans for a northern link" - perhaps a "fact" entry would have been more appropriate at that point? Peter Shearan (talk) 14:23, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

Excessive use of "citation needed" template on Smallthorne article, etc?

Hello, since you have edited the Smallthorne article before, I wondered if you have an opinion on the tagging of almost every sentence in some sections of the article by this editor? Yesterday, I was in a similar situation with his tagging and Great Sankey where he tagged a swathe of sentences, and, after I supplied citations, tagged some more, and then changed the name of a section and asked me to provide more context. (Strange how I have had this happen from the same editor for a number of articles I have edited in the past, or are editing now.) I wonder whether this degree of tagging is actually counter-productive, since this one incident has made me reluctant to do work on wikipedia as it is so disheartening. Of course, I realise, as a scientist, that there is an enormous amount of work needed to get articles up to a minimum standard of referencing, but I think this can be taken as read, and that a simple note on the discussion pages of articles would not be so off-putting to people who only have a small amount of time trying to retrieve unreferenced articles (whereas it is very easy to give others a load of work by merely adding the citation needed templates.) Do you have any views about this?  DDStretch  (talk) 10:34, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Great Britain road numbering scheme

Hi Regan123, could you please elaborate this edit as to what the percentages correspond to? Thanks. --  Netsnipe  ►  14:33, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

User:Stavros1 and Norfolk roads problem

I refer to A148 road and A149 road: I notice you tagged one or both of the articles with the {{essay-like}} template; however the user in question has persisted in removing them when I have attempted to restore them to the article. I believe they are correctly used, as I do not think information in such elaborate prose form is conducive to an effective encyclopedia entry. He is very much risking a wp:3rr if he continues (and probably has violated it by now, anyway). Are you able assist/advise? I have written to him on his talk page, but he has merely deleted my comment and not provided a response. I can understand his frustration, but his behaviour is not in the spirit of the whole Wikipedia project. I personally believe he is being possessive of these articles (being from Norfolk) and immature with his "don't agree with your opinion so I'll ignore it" attitude. This is really beginning to wind me up, to be honest, but I'm trying to be calm and approaching this from a pragmatic view. I've flown off the handle in the past, and have got burnt, so I don't want to do anything silly now. But I can't see a way through: he will clearly not listen, but I'm pretty certain his views are not in keeping with the overall wikipedia ethos, so therefore something needs to happen.  — MapsMan [ talk | cont ] — 16:28, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

A494 POV issue

Hi I noticed on the discussion page that in 2006 you removed a huge edit because of major POV issues on the A494. Well it appears that 18 month later the problem has returned. A huge pre-amble about the how local residents stopped the road being widened has been inserted. None of it is truly relevent (the copy already says it was the Planning Inspector that threw out the scheme after a full planning inquiry - which included residents concerns). Ironically the history of the road explains how it has grown, in 200 years, from a carriage way into a major dual carriageway because every 30 years the increasing traffic volume creates serious problems. The balance of the article has been changed with the POV of this edit. Anyway I can see you are actively editing road pages so I just thought I'd flag this up to you. I don't want this to become an edit war and as an editor who has done much with regard to highways in UK I am sure you can help with your judgement. Yours PB —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.162.194.84 (talk) 20:58, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

Manchester Airport Destinations

Hey, I see you have quite a strong presence on the Manchester Airport talk page and, well, it's so crammed full of rules and regulations of where users should post comments I decided to ask you first so as not to get a message box full of angry and unnecessary feedback.

I'm flying to Kefallonia, Greece on the 29th of this month with European Aviation Charter from Manchester and the destinations list on the airport article doesn't reflect this. I'm getting quite worried as the only destination they cover is Lapland and that could result in quite a different type of holiday.

Could you either chase this up for me or tell me which area to post my concern in? Thank you Abfab27 (talk) 00:38, 19 June 2008 (UTC)