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you understand the logic of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category_talk:Railway_stations_in_Australia_closed_in_the_1900s - cheers JarrahTree 15:10, 31 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@JarrahTree: If you mean your project tagging just then, it seems fine to me. Fork99 (talk) 21:25, 31 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

apologies, I was misreading diffs, and I was tagging inadequately myself... JarrahTree 02:45, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:27, 2 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Seems like you forgot about that little V/Line Sprinter

I removed the model railways section as it violated WP:PROMO

You should also consider articles of trains from overseas as these may also have the Model Railways section 122.104.182.164 (talk) 23:16, 7 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Note to self: has been WP:USERFIED, now at User:Fork99/List of Queensland Rail stations. Fork99 (talk) 09:20, 13 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I like what you did better re Cityrail at CityRail. I was mainly trying to avoid it showing up as an unfixable entry at Wikipedia:Database reports/Linked miscapitalizations as it did with the redirect hatnote before I changed the redirect target. Dicklyon (talk) 01:31, 15 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:14, 17 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Long time no speak, maybe lacking adequate WP:RS but the actual text added is closer but no cigar, I'm not near adequate RS for the assertions at this stage, but it is out there... Keep the faith! good to see you are keeping up the transport tagging - well done! JarrahTree 11:38, 2 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@JarrahTree: Yeah, I'm sure some of the info is out there too and is probably fine to include somewhere in the article body, but some of the more personal info about the manager and volunteers is a little bit out of the scope of Wikipedia methinks. Fork99 (talk) 11:56, 2 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

hahah - indeed a very good point... JarrahTree 11:57, 2 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

a major problem with relatively low edited articles about volunteer operations is the tendency to slip in some real humdingers, and go un-noticed for ages. Thanks for checking that. JarrahTree 12:01, 2 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Amazing set of disambig pages yesterday! well done! JarrahTree 00:41, 5 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Your offer to look things up in your personal library is a Very Good Thing, and you've got me thinking maybe I should do the same. What would be really cool is a central catalog of such personal libraries. Isaac Rabinovitch (talk) 00:08, 3 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Isaac Rabinovitch: haha I stole the idea from another user! Yeah not a bad idea actually, not sure where you could pitch the idea, maybe at the WP:Village pump? Fork99 (talk) 00:28, 3 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

you both might be interested in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Resource_Exchange/Resource_Request JarrahTree 02:23, 5 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Good to know. Isaac Rabinovitch (talk) 16:30, 5 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for catching my spelling error. I make mistakes all the time, and don't mind, but stupid ones like "Sidney" are irritating! Happy days, ~ Lindsay^Hello 09:30, 5 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@LindsayH: All good, don't stress over it! Fork99 (talk) 12:17, 5 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

you could have asked at the wa project, for a start.... JarrahTree 01:38, 24 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

A close read of the articles that exist could have waylaid a national enquiry, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swan_Transit#TransAlbany for instance. JarrahTree 01:45, 24 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@JarrahTree: First of all, please don't use that dismissive tone with me. I thought I'd ask at the transport project where there's also editors from interstate who might have an opinion (e.g. on notability), and I know that you and @Steelkamp are based in WA. I'll ask at the WA project to contribute then as well. Fork99 (talk) 01:55, 24 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

well if that is how you feel about it, my apologies... The problem with notability is like the melbourne metropolitan focus of the project is hardly an australian wide understanding - and regional western australian bus service articles have never been a high focus of any editor by looks, which makes it far too easy to dismiss regional services in any state - that said, most Perth metro editors are web based (with a very strong bias to PTA and Metronet), and hardly ever adequately even use Trove let alone regional sources - the https://www.pta.wa.gov.au/our-services/transregional system is probably what you might be thinking of for a central default - I would strongly object to reducing back to that for any great urge to deal the gng on to the bus services however depleted the articles may currently appear, as the actual context and history of the services (like Albany) have not been adequately described in the articles as, if you havent noticed, general editing of Australian content is 'down', and going down... in some cases your finding more items for transport tags in australian articles you may be the only editor to visit those articles in the current state of low editing. Furthermore, the resounding echo chamber of Western Australian and Tasmanian projects (of which I am most familiar) strongly suggests that any identification of problem articles would be to actually encourage actual adding more material rather than applying GNG questions.JarrahTree 02:08, 24 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@JarrahTree: I'm not suggesting deletion, just simply a merge and/or expansion where possible. I do agree that the 20th century history aspects of buses in each of these places might have been forgotten about - I don't think that the TransRegional articles are the best place for it since the name implies a focus on the current branding name. If the respective operator already has an article or deserves an article, by all means, go for expanding those I think. Fork99 (talk) 02:15, 24 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]