User talk:Sturmovik

Welcome

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Orphaned fair use image (Image:Scandinavian Flick.jpg)

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Orphaned non-free image (Image:TopGear Cow-on-Roof.jpg)

Thanks for uploading Image:TopGear Cow-on-Roof.jpg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

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North American railway signaling

You have made several significant edits to the North American railway signaling article in the past few weeks. This includes removing text, changing/restructuring sections and adding/modifying text. Would you please explain why you have made these edits. None of them have verifiable source references, which is required under Wikipedia policy (see WP:REF). Without references, these edits are considered as original research, which is not allowed (see WP:OR). The Wikipedia community trusts that your edits are made in good faith. However, if references are not added to the article to substantiate the changes within 10 days (by September 28, 2007), they will be reverted under WP:OR. Truthanado 01:36, 19 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for adding some references. More references are always appreciated. Remember that Wikipedia requires references, even when the text is written by a subject-matter expert. Best of luck in your future edits. Truthanado 03:04, 30 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Jeremy Crash.jpg

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If it is determined that the image does not qualify under fair use, it will be deleted within a couple of days according to our criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thank you.BetacommandBot (talk) 18:25, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

"Bill Buckner" bridge name

Ah HAH! That's much clearer. - Denimadept (talk) 20:28, 6 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion of "Chazzwazzer"

A page you created, Chazzwazzer, has been tagged for deletion, as it meets one or more of the criteria for speedy deletion; specifically, it redirects from an implausible misspelling.

You are welcome to contribute content which complies with our content policies and any applicable inclusion guidelines. However, please do not simply re-create the page with the same content. You may also wish to read our introduction to editing and guide to writing your first article.

Thanks. BigHairRef | Talk 04:03, 10 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

So much for WP:AGF I suppose? BigHairRef | Talk 04:56, 10 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Signal box merge

If you have issues with my edits, the proper place to discuss them would be here on Wikipedia and not on some external forum. You are obviously very bitter because I have merged two articles that you think should be kept separate. Please understand that I only merged the articles following a discussion, the result of which was a concensus to merge. You lost the argument. Get over it. –Signalhead ^< T > 17:26, 9 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not bitter, I am mildly irritated as to the massive UK slant seen on railway related articles and I will speak of this on whatever forum that I see fit. As I said on the other forum I don't have the time to trying to globalize all of the existing articles. I also have the integrity not to ruin them by dropping in external content in a half-assed manner. The only loser here are those that wish to learn about railway operations outside the UK.Sturmovik (talk) 17:47, 9 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

am not to blame for any UK slant that might exist in articles with worldwide relevance. On the contrary, I have been actively working to keep such articles free of unnecessary country-specific detail and I will continue to do so. If you have evidence of me introducing UK slant into non-UK articles, I'd like to see it. –Signalhead ^< T > 18:25, 9 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Check_Game is currently up for deletion, along with this and 94 other Price is Right games

You are welcome to comment in this deletion discussion. You are being contacted because you participated in the first AFD in 2007. Ikip (talk) 21:46, 16 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Fair use rationale for File:Budd-Pioneer-III-truck.jpg

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Where on the River Line is this image?

I see two sheltered platforms in the background of this File:SJLR Signal-127S.jpg, and I think it'd be good for a station article. The trouble is I've looked up and down the line on Google Maps Street View, and I can't find it for the life of me. Can you tell me where this station is? ----DanTD (talk) 03:10, 7 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

RfD nomination of The Other Guy

Complete the lists of railway substations

Please complete the lists of railway substations used for 25 Hz-traction in USA. Add please also coordinates! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.46.188.164 (talk) 12:12, 22 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

File:SEPTA Lansdale-Substation-transformers-close.jpg missing description details

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If you have any questions please see Help:Image page. Thank you. Sfan00 IMG (talk) 15:04, 28 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Captain New Zelaand

A tag has been placed on Captain New Zelaand, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a redirect from an implausible typo.

Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself. If you believe that there is a reason to keep the redirect, you can request that administrators wait a while before deleting it. To do this, affix the template {{hangon}} to the page and state your intention on the article's talk page. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Bridgeplayer (talk) 21:44, 19 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Some tips to help you out!

Hi Sturmovik, I thought I'd drop a few notes on your talk page with some help on writing articles :o)

First of all, it may be best for you to do a bit of reading, starting with the Wikipedia manual of style, which will give you a lot of information about how Wikipedia prefers its articles to be written. It's not as hard to follow as it might look; quite a bit of the information there probably won't be vital for you at first.

Second, I recommend you make a user sandbox - which is just an area you can use to practise in, and to make notes in, and to get things ready in. If you click this red link: user:Sturmovik/Sandbox, that will let you create that page (it gives you an edit window to start work in). Anything, anywhere, on the help and information pages which gives you an example, try it out in your sandbox until you're familiar with it.

For your article, the next thing you want to do is start collecting as much information as you can about it. Google searches (particularly in Books and Scholar) will be your best friend for this! Once you've found the information, the next most important thing is to start writing up each fact in your own words (very important, this), and make a note at the same time of exactly where that information came from. Build in the references as you go along; I'm going to copy in, down below this, a whole heap of help on doing references, which was produced by one of our best teachers (Chzz).

Here's another place that you'll find incredibly useful - citation templates which you can copy and paste into your sandbox, between <ref></ref> tags; you just fill in the blanks from your sources into the template, and you'll end up with nicely formatted inline citations :o) It all helps. Remember to add a references section to your sandbox (make a new line, and put ==References== on it, and type {{reflist}} on the next line, so that you can see how your citations look as you do them. Remember to save your page often! You don't want to lose your work.

Hopefully this will give you a good start and make life easier for you.

One last thing to keep as a motto: "It's better to write one good, well-referenced, nicely-presented article than it is to create fifty unreferenced one-line stubs!" Pesky (talk …stalk!) 11:25, 20 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

How references work

Simple references

These require two parts;

a)

Chzz is 98 years old.<ref> "The book of Chzz", Aardvark Books, 2009. </ref>

He likes tea. <ref> [http://www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com Tea website] </ref>

b) A section called "References" with the special code "{{reflist}}";

== References ==
{{reflist}}

(an existing article is likely to already have one of these sections)

To see the result of that, please look at user:chzz/demo/simpleref. Edit it, and check the code; perhaps make a test page of your own, such as user:Sturmovik/reftest and try it out.

Named references

Chzz was born in 1837. <ref name=MyBook>
"The book of Chzz", Aardvark Books, 2009. 
</ref> 

Chzz lives in Footown.<ref name=MyBook/>

Note that the second usage has a / (and no closing ref tag). This needs a reference section as above; please see user:chzz/demo/namedref to see the result.

Citation templates

You can put anything you like between <ref> and </ref>, but using citation templates makes for a neat, consistent look;

Chzz has 37 Olympic medals. <ref> {{Citation
 | last = Smith
 | first = John
 | title = Olympic medal winners of the 20th century
 | publication-date = 2001
 | publisher = [[Cambridge University Press]]
 | page = 125
 | isbn = 0-521-37169-4
}}
</ref>

Please see user:chzz/demo/citeref to see the result.

For more help and tips on that subject, see user:chzz/help/refs.

Something to make your life easier!

Hi there Sturmovik! I've just come across one of your articles, and noticed that you had to create titles for your url links manually, or were using bare urls as references.

You might want to consider using this tool - it makes your life a whole heap easier, by filling in complete citation templates for your links. All you do is install the script on Special:MyPage/common.js, or or Special:MyPage/vector.js, then paste the bare url (without [...] brackets) between your <ref></ref> tabs, and you'll find a clickable link called Reflinks in your toolbox section of the page (probably in the left hand column). Then click that tool. It does all the rest of the work (provided that you remember to save the page! It doesn't work for everything (particularly often not for pdf documents), but for pretty much anything ending in "htm" or "html" (and with a title) it will do really, really well. Happy editing! Pesky (talk …stalk!) 11:25, 20 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

CBTC edition

Hi! First of all, thanks to your contribution in the CBTC article. I´d like, however, to make you notice that some of the statements are not agreed by the whole community, e.g.:

It is not necessary at all a fallback signalling system to provide high availability. In fact, main suppliers already desing and deploy their systems based on a complete redundant architecture (including the radio system) achieving values of even 99.9% availability with NO need of a fallback system ^[1]. Besides, network security is good enough to avoid any issue.
Supervision system is NOT a single point of failure since local, central and backup systems might be included in the design.
I do not agree with your first comment: apart from the fact that the availability is high, and degraded modes of operations allows the (e.g) failed train to be manually driven without a complete affection of the system as you stated.
Regarding your last comment: it is an "isolated" circumstance, no point in showing. Most of the cases result in the opposite: transport capacity is increased.

Let´s discuss about it. We must be objective and state general and common statements, and we should not use certain specific issues as a common issue for the technology.

^ http://www.cbtcworldcongress.com/presentations

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