User talk:Slambo/Archives/2010/January

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You may wish to put this on the trains portal, as a news item:

• January 4, 2010 – Helsinki, Finland - An intercity train broke in two, and four carriages crashed into the main railway station's concrete buffer. Thanks to the timely actions of operators and a guard, the train had been diverted, and the platform was evacuated. However, one of the carriages plunged into the Holiday Inn hotel's offices causing severe structural damage. There were no casualties. Only the conductor of the train, which carried no passengers, was slightly hurt. See this webpage: [1] Greetings, and best wishes for the New Year! --Janke | Talk 11:32, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads-up. I'll add it to the page shortly. Slambo (Speak) 15:53, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

(Jordan S. Wilson (talk) 19:06, 7 January 2010 (UTC)) Greetings fellow wiki railfan!!! I am MetroFan2009. It is an honor to edit to you. Such an honor!! I just wanted to ask you that would it be possible to create WikiProjects U. S. Railroads and U. S. Mass Transit? U. S. Roads have their own WikiProject and why not railroads. Please respond on my userpage.

Very very impressed - you have been around so long now and still slogging away - am currently trying to tidy up some years old messes from western tasmania - and noticed a whole lot of cats never tagged for the project - does anyone run bots to pick up stray cats (categories - not the felines) ? cheers and my heartfelt wow' for your endless work :) SatuSuro 07:48, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

stray cats - wow at every turn i find more red talk pages on categories - has anyone ever had an issue about this at any stage? I mean I could just tag away for the equivalent of a few days i think :| SatuSuro 09:11, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

I try to check every category talk page that I run across, usually in the timeline series, to ensure that it is tagged with the banner. I haven't heard of any problems with categories being either tagged or untagged, so I just continue with what I'm doing. I'm sure there are some bots where we could ask for assistance. I just haven't had a chance to search for an appropriate bot. Slambo (Speak) 14:40, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

Thats fine - I might just stab away every now and then - I seemed to find heaps today. What is your attitude on the collection of Disused, Closed and Defunct in relation to railway stations and railway lines - I have been guilty of using one over the others in the Australian project - has there ever been any discussion about standardising the terminology at all? SatuSuro 14:50, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

Being the crazy 'Merkan that I am, I'd prefer to use "closed" for stations. As to lines, the Surface Transportation Board and the Interstate Commerce Commission before it use "abandoned" when a railroad company totally leaves a line to fallow (see [2]), whether the rails are lifted or not. Slambo (Speak) 15:00, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

Heheh - you still have a sense of humour after all this time - wow im impressed - well australian project has a mix of closed, defunct and i think disused in various states - and over-all the whole trains project seems to have all used all the terms in different parts - though the main (original?) article about the issue or parent cat seems to be defunct and i did a quick test on some category fiends and they thought defunct sounded the best but i then threw in the problem we have in good ole oz down our way we have lines that lose their trains and they are disused but not closed and then the regional administrations (state government) can sit on abandoned lines for decades and then decide to close by act of parliament after which they are closed by law (sigh) - i think i will leave it be - but if ever at the trains project you see mention of this give a call - and I'll bamboozle the discussion with irrelevencies to blunder the brain senseless by the craziness of it all - maybe trying to change all the closed and disused into defunct feels like too much of a brain strain for the moment :( SatuSuro 15:09, 18 January 2010 (UTC)