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Badnera railway station

Hi there,

I had noticed that you had reverted an edit at Badnera railway station which is quite similar to what i had done earlier in the day. Is it possible to check if 106.79.153.237 & Prasanna Gajanan Dudhe are the same individual & do you think page protection is in order or is it too early for it? Thanks. Superfast1111 (talk) 14:52, 16 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Nope, not yet. There is only two reverts so far, not enough to warrant protection. Usually, protection only comes after four reverts. Epicgenius (talk) 15:10, 16 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Do edits made on wikipedia commons count towards your total number of edits for the purpose of barnstar awards?? Superfast1111 (talk) 15:38, 21 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure myself, but I think that global edits require "global" barnstars. Epicgenius (talk) 15:47, 21 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Are you able to connect to STiki?

Just curious to know whether you're able to access STiki at the moment. I can't seem to connect right now and wanted to make sure it's not something on my end. --k6ka (talk | contribs) 16:28, 21 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@K6ka: Yep, I'm having the same problem. Thanks for the message; I hadn't launched STiki until you told me, and I got an "Error" message when I launched it. Epicgenius (talk) 16:36, 21 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Changes?

Hi. I got your message & thank you for writing. I noticed you changed the name from what I wrote as Flowering Gum Flower, back to "Gum Flower". It's actually called a Flowering Gum as gum trees don't generally flower. There is one gum that does flower, hence the name. And this is the actual 'picture' used on the $5.00 note. Being about Australian dollars I thought that I would correct it. Especially seems it's also our ONLY flowering gum which could lead to confusion with being just 'gum flower'.

I also read on the Edit history that you thought this was "test/vandalism"? I am not sure what that actually means in this instance. If you don't mind me asking? I am still trying to learn all that there is to know about contributing to Wikipedia.

Thanks. I think I put this in? I hope this works. Redrecks

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Yes, this is the correct page. I've fixed your talkback. I will get back to you shortly. Epicgenius (talk) 16:28, 22 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Cherry Hill (NJT station)

Station layout has a first line that says "does not stop here" and I find that a little confusing since the Atlantic City Line does stop there. If we want to illustrate that there is another non stopping track running through the station we should find another expression. Perhaps through track would be a better choice, or passing track since the line returns to single track in both directions. Secondarywaltz (talk) 17:58, 22 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I'll make a better layout showing the passing track. Epicgenius (talk) 18:06, 22 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Hey, how's it going? I just saw you reverted two of my edits to asmallworld. I think in general the some of the changes are ok. I would like to keep the part about offering several hundred rides out of a large membership, because I think that keeps the sentence NPOV, since the IP address which added that sentence seemed biased towards asmallworld, and the fact that several hundred rides may have been given (despite no citation) is balanced by reporting the membership total for perspective. I will re-add this numbering, but will change it to be NPOV, take a look and let me know what you think, cool? I added the quote to give specificity to the claim, which in the source cited and actually appears in many media sources - but I am fine with keeping it out. (Mostlyoksorta (talk) 19:20, 24 April 2014 (UTC))[reply]

I'll look over the article soon. Epicgenius (talk) 01:08, 25 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Ragtime Revert

Hi! I just had a first time editor complain to me about your reversion of her edit to the Ragtime (novel) synopsis. (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ragtime_%28novel%29&diff=596927630&oldid=596921632). Would you mind giving a little more explanation of your revert? She was very discouraged by it, and some more explanation might encourage her to remain an editor. --EdSaperia (talk) 12:19, 25 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@EdSaperia: I apologize for not giving an explanation. I was going to say that certain parts of the synopsis before my reversion did not have a Neutral Point of View. For example, I think that "the Eastern European socialist immigrant" is more biased than the previous version, "bereaved Jewish single father". Some of the other edits are good, such as the first paragraph of the edit, which goes, "Into this secure setup comes first an abandoned black child, then his sorrowful depressed mother Sarah...." Epicgenius (talk) 12:27, 25 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, this is the editor. I appreciate that you expect the words 'socialist' and 'immigrant' to be controversial but in fact Tateh in the novel repeatedly self-identifies as a socialist, and he is an immigrant from Eastern Europe. The novel as a whole has been described as an elegy for socialism as it succumbs to capitalism, representing the root of what we now live in; late capitalism/postmodern era. Doctorow himself has been described as one of the only serious leftist contemporary American writers. Tateh's socialism is not only completely central to the plot of the novel itself, but to all critical understanding of it. His immigrant status is similarly crucial to the founding of America. Iirc Tateh was in fact not Jewish, or if he was it was not central to the plot; it is Houdini's character who is definitively Jewish.

The second edit you mention above as being 'good' I find hard to believe was me. If I used such a tautology, it was in error.

The naming of the character from the very first line of the plot synopsis is also erroneous. It is 'Younger Brother', not 'Mother's Younger Brother', and 'the little boy' does not remain unnamed; he is named by his familial relationship status as with all the other members - as 'the little boy'. Crucially, 'the little girl' is deliberately not capitalised in the novel, to maintain the critical parallels between the three families.

It is frustrating to have one's edits reverted by someone who obviously has not read/understood the novel. Literature is usually specific in its themes, and explaining these themes is not expressing bias.

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