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[edit] Welcome!

[edit] Welcome to WikiProject Former countries

Welcome, Dex1337, to the Former countries WikiProject! Please direct any questions about the project to its talk page. If you create new articles on a former territory, please tag their talk page with our project template {{WPFC}}. A few features that you might find helpful:

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask me or any of the more experienced members of the project, and we'll be very happy to help you. Again, welcome, and thank you for joining this project! 52 Pickup 06:30, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome to WikiProject Trains

Hello and welcome to the Trains WikiProject! Thank you for adding your name to our project membership list. Our goal is to build the most comprehensive and detailed guide to rail transport on Wikipedia. As a project member, you may add the project membership userbox to your user page if you wish.

If you haven't done so already, please add our main project page to your watchlist and take some time to review the Trains project manual of style where we have collected guidelines and suggestions on notability and style for a consistent representation of rail transport related material. If you're curious about where to start, we've gathered a few suggestions in the Trains project to do list. If you'd like to specialize in a particular area of study within rail transport, take a look at the current Trains project task forces.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask on the project talk page or on my talk page. Again, welcome and happy editing! Slambo (Speak) 11:01, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] TfD nomination of Template:Keihan Electric Railway Keishin Line

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[edit] Japanese train names

I think it is great that you created all the DAB pages for the Japanese train stations. But, in many cases (like Yoshikawa Station), you only included one possible Japanese name. Those three stations all have different kanji (well, hiragana, in one case), as seen on the lists. There are many DAB pages on the English side which do not need DAB'd on the Japanese side. Conversely, there are actually a few stations with the same kanji, but which have different readings, so, we don't need the DAB page here, even if one exists in Japanese. I can't think of it right now; but, my main point is that for many of these new DAB pages, the kanji should not be in the opening; nor, should just one of the three stations' ja: wikipedia be linked. I've fixed the articles at the end (from Z up through Ts so far), but, have to take off and do some other stuff right now. Regards. Neier 06:39, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] DEFAULTSORT

Hi, Dex1337. Thank you for your active creation of articles on Japanese railway stations. Unfortunately, I suppose from your recent edits, especially those in the articles of some Sakurai Line stations such as Unebi Station and Obitoke Station, that you are using DEFAULTSORT without good understanding of its purpose. Please read carefully Wikipedia:Categorization#Setting a default sort key, which fully describes the role of the magic word, and then please apply it to your future edits. --Sushiya 04:17, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

Just forgot to change the values, fixing now thanks for the heads up (copy and paste ftw) --Dex1337 05:56, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

Please confirm that you don't need DEFAULTSORT for articles like Sakurai Station (Nara) as opposed to those like ÅŒji Station (Nara) (which needs to be sorted as "Oji Station (Nara)", without macron). Omission of DEFAULTSORT would facilitate your copy and paste. Also, please note "ÅŒji Station (Nara)" and "ÅŒji Station (Tokyo)" may be sorted in same category so that it is better not to omit "(Nara)" or "(Tokyo)" from the sort key. --Sushiya 06:38, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the tips, Ill only include DEFAULTSORT if there are macrons in future, makes things easier I suppose (I had just gone with the policy of including it was best...) but I see how its easy to slip up. Thanks again --Dex1337 06:46, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Route diagrams of Japanese railways

I do not know what is your source, but I kindly recommend not to use that. So many errors have been found in your contributions, espectially rivers and locations of underground stations. See Sakaisuji Line. Thanx --Maxima m 03:32, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Notability of Individual Railway stations

Hi, I noticed in your contributions that you have been writing a series of short stubs on stations of the Iga Railway Iga Line. While I can understand how "Iga Railway Iga Line" is notable, the individual articles do not contain any assertion of notability. Notability is not automatically inherited by the parent topic. Please keep this in mind. You may also want to see Wikipedia:Notability. Thanks! SmileToday☺(talk to me , My edits) 01:58, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

Acutally, I may be wrong. See User:Mangoe/Wikipedia is not a timetable. SmileToday☺(talk to me , My edits) 02:00, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

Considering every stations has a page on the ja wikipedia, we would assume that that content should be mirrored here, and was considered notable enough. It appears every station in english speaking countries has its own page, so we should be fighting systematic bias and include from non english speaking countries as well. The stubs are simply allowing people to enter content easier, which is my aim (people are more likely to add one sentance to an article than create it before).

You are very busy indeed! good answer above, was wondering the same thing as SmileToday. Good luck. Alpine boarder. July 22, 2008 —Preceding undated comment was added at 12:36, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the support Dex1337 (talk) 12:39, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Lists of basic topics WikiProject status report

I've just created List of basic human anatomy topics. It's not complete. Please look it over to see if there is anything you can fill in.

Also, we've got a pretty long wish list of basic topics lists that don't yet exist. Please adopt a topic from the list and create a basic list for it -- the {{BLT}} template is for creating basic topic lists, and is used like this: {{subst:BLT|topic|Topic}} (where "topic" is the name of the topic being covered). Instructions are included on the template. Once the page is created with the heading skeleton, fill it in to the best of your ability. Post a message on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Lists of basic topics to let the whole team know what you are working on.

The Transhumanist    01:43, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Collaboration

I'm pushing a collaboration to complete the list of basic space exploration topics.

Should be fun. Drop on by.  ;)

Also, see my post to User talk:Quiddity#Basic topic lists if you want to delve in deeper.

The Transhumanist 09:20, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] One link at a time

Hi.

Since you are a member of the Lists of basic topics WikiProject, I have a couple requests for you...

As you browse/edit Wikipedia, please be on the lookout for links you can add to the lists of basic topics (and each time you find one, add it to the appropriate list). The ones that need the most work are listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Lists of basic topics.

You can also help build the set by adding or completing lists. Set a personal quota (build or complete one list per month, or per week, or per whatever time period you think you can handle), and keep up with your quota. These lists take from 3 hours to 8 hours each to complete, even if you know nothing about the subject to begin with. (The basic topics of a subject are pretty easy to identify). Even partial lists are useful for study and navigation, so don't be shy. Others can pick up where you've left off.

Links add up, so even if you add one link at a time, here and there, it will help. Please acquire the habit. The more people we get involved with this, the sooner the project will reach its intended scope.

The Transhumanist    06:06, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Disambiguating the unnecessary?

Why the disambiguation pages when all the entries on the page do not have Wiki articles? This is the second one I've run into in the space of a couple hours random browsing. This page has only been up for a half a year, but the other one was up for years. Wouldn't it be better to wait until there's a need?

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Yamamoto_Station&action=history 24.130.14.14 (talk) 10:08, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Proposed deletion of Shimmachi Station

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[edit] Disambiguation pages

Hi, I noticed that (some time ago) you had created a bunch of disambiguation pages for train stations. I'm not sure if you're still making any disambig pages, but in case you do, I'd like to point out that per the manual of style, entries should actually use bullet points, not be numbered (* instead of #). Not a big deal, of course, but best that they all look the same for the sake of consistency. --Xyzzyplugh (talk) 07:00, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Kitanoda Station

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[edit] Minami-Nagayama Station

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[edit] What's up doc?

Hi Dex,

We could sure use your help over at the WikiProject Lists of basic topics...

We've created a page for every country of the world! (They are listed on the WikiProject page). They're not complete, and most of them aren't even in the main namespace yet, but...

A team of editors has been working on them, and the pages have come a long way.

We're about to run a competition, called "Around the World", in which participants will compete in the completion of specific data items across all of these country lists. For example, one task would be adding the population figure for each country. Each participant will be using advanced tools like AWB and Linky.

The awards images for the contest are almost done, and the pages themselves need a couple sections completed before they can be moved to the article namespace and the competition can begin.

We could sure use your help getting these pages ready...

[edit] Tracking down the administrative divisions types for each country

The first task is on the "Administrative divisions of" sections.

In each of these sections, there's an initial hierarchical list of the division types in that country, followed by subheadings for each of the types. Unfortunately, the types listed are those from the template I used to create these pages, and they aren't accurate for many countries.

The defaults that I used were:

(Where "x" is the name of each country).

For each country, the links to the names of the administrative divisions for that country need to be checked and corrected, adding more links if there are more than 3 division types. Those that are subdivisions of another type are indented under the parent type. In most cases, you would leave municipalities in place, because that's a generic name for "city". We'll blue-link those later. (Blue-linking is creating a redirect so that a link turns blue - that way, the link remains standardized on all the pages in the set).

Also we need to change the subheadings in the same section to match the initial list, including the "main article" links presented just below each of those subheadings.

To find out what the administrative divisions are for a country so you can add them, try looking on the government of x or politics of x pages for that country, and on the country's main article as well.

[edit] Adding the administrative divisions to their respective subsections

For each country, we need to find the list of administrative division for each type, and add them under that type's subheading.

For example, copy and paste the provinces listed at Provinces of Angola to the "Provinces of Angola" subheading on that country's basic topics list page.

See the countries listed at Lists of basic topics for examples of how this has been done for those. If there's a map showing the administrative divisions, grab it too! Maps are great.

Generally do not add towns and cities to the municipalities section, as there are usually way too many of them (and will unnecessarily bloat the page). Instead, provide links to the various pages (Cities of x, [[[Towns of x]], Villages of x, etc.

[edit] Completing the "Government of x" section

This section also has temporary data, and needs to be corrected/completed.

The titles of the head of state and head of government of each country need to be corrected, and the specific office holders added.

The branches of government subheadings need to be corrected/filled in.

Etc.

The above tasks are fun, because it's interesting to see how other countries operate. I've completed about 25 of the country pages so far, and I've been intrigued and even amazed at some of the approaches different countries follow. The U.S. is definitely behind in many respects.

Please help out as much as you can, and help us get Around the World started!

Sincerely,

The Transhumanist    18:03, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Reply to Train Station articles

Hey there, its Mattokunhayashi, and I have to say that I do not support competitions such as this. And, seeing how many articles you have created, I don't think I would win. ^_^ Although, I think you may have made a typo; perhaps you didn't mean 2300? Maybe 230? If not, sincerely sorry, I just doubt that number. It's a good thing we're working in two different parts of the country, or else we *might* create the same article under different names. Unless we coordinate ourselves to work on certain, different projects. Would you like to work together? I would like this, but if you wish to not, I will understand. RSVP. Mattokunhayashi (talk) 03:03, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Post-Scriptum

Statement Status: retracted Reason: Apology; hey listen, I'm sorry for what I said about your adjacent stations sections (see history tab, the second edit by me), I was wrong in thinking that someone else's edits were wrong. There is no wrong edit, just inexperienced ones. I'm not saying your edits are inexperienced, but someone else's may be. Although I'm apologizing, I still believe that the layout section should be left out. (You wouldn't put in a history section if you had no history on the article, would you?) In addition to the apology, and after review of the information provided in the template and of my thoughts, I realize that the format you used was superior to the one I had, and will format the stations I created to comply with them. This just means more work for me and also a more unified Wikipedia, don't you agree?
I'm deeply sorry for what I commented about your edits and I hope you understand. Mattokunhayashi (talk) 06:30, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

[edit] BSicon map

WARNING: if you click the link in this post: it may lag your computer and internet!) Here's a question, and I can only ask you because you're the only person I know with extensive knowledge on trains in Japan: Do you think it is possible to create a map of the Tokyo Metro system (or any other train system for that matter) using the Rail Icons? I'm not too sure about it, but I might be able to figure it out. Note: I'm not saying 'do it' (nor do I expect you to) just asking a simple question... If you think its possible, maybe I can try my luck at it, eh? Mattokunhayashi (talk) 07:47, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Concerning the Wikipedia:WikiProject Lists of basic topics

(the RfDs below have already run their course)

[edit] RfD nomination of Navy of Sudan

I have nominated Navy of Sudan (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) for discussion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:07, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

[edit] RfD nomination of Navy of Belarus

I have nominated Navy of Belarus (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) for discussion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • ^{(Broken clamshells • Otter chirps • HELP)} 16:01, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Navy redirects

We've been "bluelinking" the Navy of x links in the basic topic country lists, by creating redirects for them, even for the countries that have no navy.

There's been a little controversy over the navy redirects for the landlocked countries (many of which have no navy), as you can see above. But it's all been worked out. Each country with no navy gets a redirect to wherever it is reported that it has no navy, or failing that, to its "military of" article.

The country lists are coming along slowing but surely. It shouldn't take too much longer before they will be complete enough to move into article space (!), but I can still use all the help I can get. (hint hint).

The Transhumanist    20:46, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

We could sure use your help in bluelinking the links in these lists (each link appears in one of the various country basic topic lists):

To bluelink them, create a redirect to wherever the information is covered. If there is no entity, redirect to where that is (or should be) covered.

If you have any questions, please contact me. The Transhumanist    20:58, 23 September 2008 (UTC)