User talk:7800Evans

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If you need any more information, plenty of help is available - check out Wikipedia:Questions; ask your question here and attract help with the code {{helpme}}; or leave me a message on my talk page explaining your problem and I will help as best as I can. Again, welcome! strdst_grl (call me Stardust) 16:59, 24 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

GNR Large boiler Class C1[edit]

Hi; I've fixed up the infobox that you added to this article; I spotted the parameter |totalproduction=22 which looked suspicious; so I checked my books:

Groves, Norman (1990). Great Northern Locomotive History: Volume 3a 1896-1911 The Ivatt Era. Lincoln: RCTS. pp. 163 et seq., 188 et seq. ISBN 0 901115 69 X.
Boddy, M.G.; Brown, W.A.; Fry, E.V.; Hennigan, W.; Hoole, K.; Manners, F.; Neve, E.; Platt, E.N.T.; Russell, O. (1979). Fry, E.V. (ed.). Part 3A: Tender Engines - Classes C1 to C11. Locomotives of the L.N.E.R. Kenilworth: RCTS. pp. 6 et seq., 51 et seq. ISBN 0 901115 45 2. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)

and I believe that you took the figures from LNER Class C2 (the small boiler class), not class C1. It's an easy mistake: the GNR referred to both series as C1. --Redrose64 (talk) 20:48, 20 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for that, the book I was used has a few typos in and I did wonder at the time wether it was right. 7800Evans (talk) 17:16, 21 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

File copyright problem with File:Bridgnorth Yard.JPG[edit]

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The Great Bear[edit]

Your problem here was a missing pipe; the pipe "|" separates the parameters of a template. Most editors using multi-line templates put such pipes at the beginning of each line, but a few put them at the ends instead. It doesn't actually matter, so long as it's consistent; but arguments against the pipes-at-end form include that they're easily forgotten (as you seem to have done), misplaced or deleted by those unaware of their importance. Too many pipes will only cause a bot to clean up; too few causes parameters to be misinterpreted. Try this:

trailingdiameter=3ft 8in |

rebuiltdate=1924 |

retiredate=July 1953 |

--Redrose64 (talk) 20:33, 10 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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