User talk:Bermicourt/Archive 1

Bayerische B V

Hi, I made a redirect Bayerische B V to Bavarian B V, since that is the original German name of the locs, and also added it in italics to the article. I see you are making a whole list of these. Further, the categories should go below the sections of the article (and thereafter the interwiki links, e.g. to the German WP). Happy editing, Crowsnest (talk) 13:58, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

I was just hopping through new articles when I saw your article on the Bayerische B V. I did have model trains when I was a kid, perhaps that made the interest. Good luck, Crowsnest (talk) 16:18, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

DYK

On 18 July, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Nuremberg Transport Museum, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Gatoclass (talk) 07:49, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

Nice job with translating BTW. I saw the article on new page patrol and could see you had begun translating. Keep up the translation and good work! ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 09:59, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

Verbandsbauart

Hello. This is the English Wikipedia (not the German) ;) Should you need help for translating the article, feel free to contact me. De728631 (talk) 18:34, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

Nice job! De728631 (talk) 22:40, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Bavarian Localbahn Society

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• • I checked under the German name also; Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL. Phlegm Rooster (talk) 19:16, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

List of OF DBAG locomotives and railbuses

Hello again. Just a reminder, it looks like you typoed while writing the page title. A move might be in order. ;) Also, for clarification you might also want to write out Deutsche Bahn AG, not everyone knows what DBAG means. De728631 (talk) 13:14, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

• You're right - I've just spotted it and moved it! I will ensure the introduction makes DBAG clearer. Thanks - I need someone to proof-read; going cross-eyed with all the translation! --Bermicourt (talk) 13:16, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

• Looks like you found that someone. De728631 (talk) 13:32, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

That's it, we're done :) De728631 (talk) 15:57, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

• A good team effort - thank you! --Bermicourt (talk) 19:19, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

Meiningen Steam Locomotive Works DYK

On 16 August, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Meiningen Steam Locomotive Works, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Daniel Case (talk) 03:35, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

Railway project

Well, I'm already with WP Translation and Lighthouses, so railways might be a tad too much for me - although I must admit to being somewhat guilty of railway fandom. You are welcome though to place translation requests at WP:Translation#How to propose a page to be translated so we can do the work for you. :) De728631 (talk) 17:40, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

Re: German railway articles

The simple answer right now to adding articles to the Trains project recent changes list is to manually add them. The list was originally created manually, but was last updated by a bot based on the placement of the {{TrainsWikiProject}} banner on the talk pages. I was hoping that we could have a bot update the list about once every week or so, but haven't had a chance to follow through on this yet. Slambo (Speak) 10:41, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

Regarding the article on the 06 class 4-8-4, I have edited the mention of these under the 4-8-4 wheel arrangement. The specification in the DRG 06 article give cylinder dimensions of 520x720mm, whereas Railway World 1952-53 gives 450 x 660mm. They also note Borsig as the builder. The information is in a table, and could be in error, but three 520x720 cylinders would be pretty hungry!Mav62 (talk) 12:38, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

ICE 1 / DB Class 401

I have just noticed your renaming of the ICE 1 article back to DB Class 401. The revision history says: "ICE 1 article moved here to conform with German locomotive and Wikipedia naming conventions". I don't quite get the point of this re-renaming. Only the power heads of the ICE 1 trainset are reffered to as "class 401" while the cars in between are designated as classes 801, 802, 803 and 804. The naming conventions for rail vehicles on the German Wikipeda do not yet say what should be done in such cases. I also haven't found any clue in the English naming conventions that would require such a renaming.

From what I understand, there is no point in referring to the whole trainset by the name of its powerheads, so I would say we should rather move it back to ICE 1. What do you think? --Bigbug21 (talk) 15:12, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your prompt response (on my talk page). I have just undone the renaming. By the way: It's the same thing with the ICE 2. The power heads go by the name "Baureihe 402" while the four types of coaches have the designations Baureihe 805 to Baureihe 808...

I would also like to thank you for your hint on the German Rail Transport task force. I'll have a look at it. Besides, if there are any questions on high-speed rail transportation in Germany, just let me know. It is my field of expertise. --Bigbug21 (talk) 19:25, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

Rail transport in Germany task force - status table

I could not find your project page. Try using this table & change the UK [Categories], as appropriate, to your German [Categories]. You also need to set your project up on [Wikipedia 1.0 assessments] so that the bot updates your table.Pyrotec (talk) 18:32, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

Quality classes		Other classes
FA		Disambig
A		Redirect
GA		Template
B		Category
C		File
Start		List
Stub
???
Needed
NA

This category contains articles that have been assessed by the UK Railways WikiProject. Articles are automatically placed in the appropriate sub-category when a rating is given; please see the assessment department for more information.

UK Railways articles by quality and importance
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	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
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FL			4	2			6
A				1			1
GA	1	12	41	87		1	142
B	9	54	192	287		2	544
C	7	65	435	987		17	1,511
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List		6	89	150	8	6	259
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Disambig					79		79
File					64		64
Redirect		3	24	192	554		773
Template			1	7	1,407		1,415
NA				1	3		4
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Assessed	20	222	1,719	13,456	4,246	54	19,717
Unassessed				1		11	12
Total	20	222	1,719	13,457	4,246	65	19,729
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 77,386			Ω = 5.16

Hi Bermicourt, I've modified the above template for "Rail transport in Germany", set up some directories in Category:Rail transport in Germany articles by quality and I've run the bot. As all the entries in the table are zero (the table is blank), there is a problem. Looking at some of your task force articles, e.g. Talk:DB Class 420 the templates are rating them for WP Germany and for WP rail transport but not for WP Rail transport in Germany. This seems the be the case for all the articles that I have looked at within the scope of your task force. The problem appears to lie in Template:TrainsWikiProject. This is a protected template, so we need someone such as User:Slambo, who is an Administrator, to fix the problem for us. Note: The bot will update the table every three days or so, but as none of the articles have a quality assessment, the table will remain empty until the template is fixed.Pyrotec (talk) 20:45, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

Yes there are separate importance ratings for TrainsWP and for national projects such as DE and UK. I've added DE-importance ratings this morning for your two GA-class articles (only) and I ran the bot a couple of times to populate the table. The bot will run automatically. Pyrotec (talk) 08:44, 20 October 2008 (UTC)