User talk:SPUI

FUCK THE FUCKING FUCKERS THAT FUCK THE FUCKING FUCKERS

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Wha' duh' eff

You have done some magic. All those stations that I so laboriously coded, you produced. And I thought they were merely ignored/unwritten.

Talk to me spui.--FourthAve 09:06, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

I second Stevey7788's request

I'd just like to say that I too feel that that bit at the top of your userpage should be removed; while I will not remove it myself or force you to remove it, I feel that it's a bit disturbing to have anything that personal as the first thing on your userpage. Y0u (Y0ur talk page) (Y0ur contributions) 19:38, July 13, 2005 (UTC)

Your user page image

The image at the top of your user page is indeed deeply offensive; as you well know, the preferred form of homosexual intercourse on #wikipedia is oral. - David Gerard 19:54, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

Besides, it doesn't blink. —Cryptic (talk) 22:32, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

GNAA

Slow down cowboy! That vote needs to be properly closed off before the tag may be removed. - Ta bu shi da yu 04:25, 14 July 2005 (UTC)

Just saw what happened. I think we should let User:Lupo close this one, otherwise accusations of bias will start flying about. - Ta bu shi da yu 04:30, 14 July 2005 (UTC)

I know that, but I'm trying to stop anyone from saying that the vote was closed off improperly. I know you aren't biased and that the vote is fairly clear, but I feel that someone who is uninvolved should close it. I know it's annoying, and normally I'd be very happy for you to close it. But this VfD is bordering on the ridiculous, and I'm not taking any chances a loophole will be created for a new one to be created. I've asked User:Lupo to close it.

I mean you no offense! - Ta bu shi da yu 07:47, 14 July 2005 (UTC)

Oh bugger it. I'll accept the closure. - Ta bu shi da yu 07:50, 14 July 2005 (UTC)

Anyone can close a VFD where the result is not delete, especially one with an obvious result like this

In this case, VfD was set up especially to be conducted impartially. You're involved, buckwheat, so it wasn't your call. --Calton | Talk 08:04, July 14, 2005 (UTC)

My decision was the only possible one; there's no question about what the outcome was.

Then there's no question someone would have taken care it, was there, buckwheat? So what's the problem here? --Calton | Talk 10:16, July 14, 2005 (UTC)

Hi SPUI. The decision you made on this VFD debate was the "correct" one, but since you were involved in the debate, I would recommend that you do not close it. (Wikipedia:Deletion_process says that you should not close those debates you have participated in, although I personally give some leeway for closers who declare the result as "keep", when they voted "delete". Nonetheless, I have now confirmed the "keep" result, and I will be sending a sterner message to Calton for his name calling. Sjakkalle (Check!) 11:24, 14 July 2005 (UTC)

9/11 VfD

Hi SPUI. A while ago you voted to get rid of a list of people who died in the September 11 attacks, and this has since been moved over to the memorial wiki. I've found some more articles on fairly non-notable victims and put them on VfD here if you want to take a look. — Trilobite (Talk) 05:56, 15 July 2005 (UTC)

114 is done

Have fun. --K1vsr 19:22, July 15, 2005 (UTC)

2022

Incompetent

Example of cleaning up after a Fucking Idiot

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Hi, I set a deletion request for all your articles like this one: Commons:1879 PRR 50%. I think they are useless. BTW. You should upload pictures as jpg, and not as png. -- Breez 15:51, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

I'm not saying delete the pages, but why not display the images on the pages as thumbs? At least then, people wouldn't have to kill their bandwidth by downloading ginormous files just to open the page. Attempted to be helpful, but if the wikilove isn't wanted, I'll take my services elsewhere </huff> Man vyi 19:26, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

So why not thumb them? If you have a good explanation for not thumbing them, I'd be interested to listen to it. Man vyi 19:44, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

Make a thumbnail so when users open the page, they don't have to download the massive image. If the thumbnail looks interesting enough to them, they can click on it to get the full image - you know, just like images on practically every other page in Commons. Man vyi 20:00, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

CASR WP template

Do we need the {{cleanupcsh}} template anymore? Because it wound up on Wikipedia:Templates for deletion.

--Rschen7754 20:18, July 18, 2005 (UTC)

Wikimania competition

I thought you might like to know that since a one of you images was one of the most popular WP:FPC nominations this year, I've entered it into the Wikimania Media Competition -- Solipsist 20:40, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

Maps for 114

Hey SPUI, could you add your map of Pawtucket showing the routing of RI 114 to the article when you get a chance? Thanks! --K1vsr 13:02, July 19, 2005 (UTC)

Sockpuppet

3y3 4m j0r3 50ckpupp3+ b33y0+ch. --K1vsr 20:27, July 19, 2005 (UTC)

Population for Lake Buena Vista

According to the US Census; Lake Buena Vista is shown an "incorporated city". Go to "search", type in the place name, and the results will be shown LBV as a city according to the laws of the states.

Remember, few places are incorporated under special cirumstances and few do not have typical "municipal style" governments; see neighboring Bay Lake.

Metatroll

Hi there! I must say I was largely unaware of the GNAA before the (sixth?) VFD recently started. But what has happened since then is simply amazing. Rather than simply trolling Wikipedia, the GNAA has somehow been meta-trolling and has convinced Wikipedia to troll itself - as evidenced by the recent plethora of GNAA-related pages and requests for deletion thereof, AND requests for deletion thereof. I find this wonderfully ironic and more than a little hilarious. I can hardly say to keep up the good work (or possibly, bad work) but this may prove good medicine for people who take WP way to seriously. So cheers, and have a good laugh! Yours, Radiant_>|< 09:10, July 20, 2005 (UTC)

Stone Bridge

When you have a second...

Stone Bridge (Rhode Island)

No Problem!!!....

Hey, no problem, I was totally surprised that the area around Walt Disney belonged to any incorporated land. But when I first got into comparing cities and unincorporated places, There were quite a few places that I thought were inorporated, to find out later that they're not.

Take Honolulu for example; I didn't know that the census treated Honolulu as an "unincorporated place" even though, it's technically co-extensive with Honolulu County. (Honolulu is the "only" incorporated city in Hawaii).

Another place that changed dramatically was the unincorporated community of East Blythe, California. According to the census, the community's population fell from 1,511 in 1990 to only 3 in 2000 due to the annexing by Blythe city. This was a big shocker for me. (Although Census Designated Places are hard to figure out and perdict).

RI 138

OK, I put everything I thought was relevant in RI 138. --K1vsr 02:09, July 21, 2005 (UTC)

All 1xx Routes Done

RI 138A, RI 146, RI 146A, RI 152, RI 165, RI 177 and RI 179

Have fun! --K1vsr 18:27, July 21, 2005 (UTC)

SM&B Charter

According to Kulp, the SM&B name was applied to two companies (NJ & NY), so they probably only had charter rights to the state line in the vicinity of Boston Corners. The line from State Line to Northampton would have been an extension of the Mass. Central, but it's not clear whether it would have been built under their charter, or whether they did/would have had to charter another railroad to construct that line. As for the route east of Boston Corners, my educated guess would be that the original SM&B (NY) charter had rights Liberty Corners (NY/NJ state line) to Boston Corners. However, the SM&B (NY) doesn't seem to have been included in the renaming and subsequent mergers/reorganizations of the SM&B (NJ) which were limited to PA and NJ. Per Kulp, the line from Liberty Corners to Pine Island (on the Erie RR) was graded by the PS&NE and track laid by the PP&B, which then chartered the Campbell Hall Connecting Railroad in NY and turned over the track to it, presumably because the loss of the SM&B (NY) left them with no NY charter. By this time, the route beyond Campbell Hall was CNE&W. Choess 22:00, July 23, 2005 (UTC)

List of warez groups on VfD

Please see Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/List of warez groups for an ongoing discussion regarding the potential deletion of the List of warez groups article. —RaD Man (talk) 05:57, 25 July 2005 (UTC)

I-895 and the Sakonnet River Bridge

Hi there - re: your removal of the line in the Sakonnet River Bridge article, "At one point, it was considered for inclusion as part of the never-built Interstate 895." One of my sources for this information was you: Link. Even if it was a possible alternate, shouldn't it be mentioned? Thanks! —Charles O'Rourke 13:08, July 25, 2005 (UTC)

SPUI, correct me if I'm wrong, but that plan for I-895 to use RI 24 and MA 24 to Fall River was only very briefly considered and never really officially put into planning documents. Therefore, I really don't think it should be listed in the Sakonett River Bridge article, but I will add a mention of it on the Interstate 895 article. --K1vsr 13:19, July 25, 2005 (UTC)

Well, all the removed sentence says is that it was considered. The sentence mentions it casually and doesn't put undue importance on the consideration. I think it's an interesting fact that has a place in the Sakonnet River Bridge article. —Charles O'Rourke 13:23, July 25, 2005 (UTC)

I added a sentence in the Sakonnet River Bridge article that makes it very clear that this was not a serious consideration and never made it to official planning stages. Cheers! --K1vsr 14:10, July 25, 2005 (UTC)

I-285

So, um, correct the factual mistake, instead of reverting the entire addition?
--Baylink 18:41, 27 July 2005 (UTC)

• Well, lots of people *have never even been in a state with an Interstate beltway*. Why isn't there a list of complete-cirle beltways, anyway?  :-)
  --Baylink 18:55, 27 July 2005 (UTC)

"SPUI"?

Single Point Urban Interchange? Wahkeenah 21:40, 27 July 2005 (UTC)

Awesome. Do I get a prize for guessing right? A free cloverleaf would be a good bit of irony. We have several SPUIs in the Twin Cities, and I hate them. Most of them are on bridges. One is actually under a bridge, which makes things interesting. Wahkeenah 21:44, 27 July 2005 (UTC)

User:SPUI

Lave da userpage, babay, lave it! </new york aunt accent> humblefool® 02:20, 28 July 2005 (UTC)

Check this shit

Very cool LOL. I didn't know baa had so many meanings. --K1vsr (talk) 14:43, July 28, 2005 (UTC)

Me neither! • Thorpe • 15:18, 28 July 2005 (UTC)

US 44/MA 3

There was no multiplex signed as of December 23, 2004, last time I drove through the area, and I never heard any differently on MTR...

--EmiOfBrie

OK I see...though to be less confusing, personally I think it would make more sense to just end 44 at 3 and 44A at 3A.... *shrug* Did you notice RMcN jumped the gun a bit? They had the new 44 complete as of the publishing date of the 2005 atlas (Sept 2004)  ;)

I-4

Gee, guy, generally it's best to check (and add to!) the Talk page of a page when editing it, rather than making angry comments in your edit summaries because of some perceived injustice.

Also, if you're going to change around the redirect, please make sure you've fixed the page that it's redirected to, i.e. Straight-4. (i.e. "'I-4' and 'I4' redirect here..." would no longer be accurate.) BorgHunter 02:55, July 31, 2005 (UTC)

My reply to your comment about the IRC incident that you wrote at Kmccoy's RFA

Here's the sequence of events, as I remember them: Someone (possibly Snowspinner, not sure) kickbanned and then unbanned soon after (long enough for the autorejoin to fail) a user who had been lurking and was suspected of being a Scientologist logging the channel, and was apparently in the same IP range as Scientologists. (It turned out to be a newbie who was puzzled at being kicked.) Kmccoy argued that this was rather over the top, and said that he could send the Scientologists logs and nothing could be done about it. Snowspinner then removed his channel op priveleges. --SPUI (talk) 07:33, 30 July 2005 (UTC)

SPUI, I'm terribly sorry, but I'm afraid you got the whole IRC thing the wrong way round. It was I, not Snowspinner, who kick-ban-unbanned the user; it wasn't particularly that we thought he was a Scientologist, but more that the user had been logged on for something like 75 hours without any activity, and had an auto-rejoin on, so we assumed that the user may have been a logger and kick-ban-unbanned the user just so that the user is no longer on channel (not denying channel access, or performing any kind of disciplinary procedure - after all, it is meant to be a channel for chatting). As you rightly pointed out, the user was a newbie, and I apologised to said user and explained the situation. Kmccoy was upset about the fact that I'd kicked a perfectly innocent user off the channel, and said that he might as well send logs to anyone who might wish to collect them (using the Church of Scientology as an example, as we've been having some trouble with CoS-related personnel lately). Snowspinner only removed Kmccoy's ops for about 15 minutes just to prove his point; he gave them back afterwards, and didn't mean any harm by doing so. The ultimate irony of the scenario is, after all, the fact that I am a Scientologist. --NicholasTurnbull 17:09, 31 July 2005 (UTC)

CSD

Please stop adding that picture to CSD. It adds no meaning and is merely a joke on an official policy. You've been around long enough to know better. -Splash 22:50, 31 July 2005 (UTC)

Hey there, SPUI. I find the joke amusing, but the image probably shouldn't be there. A policy page should be taken fairly seriously, right? Would you consider removing it? It's not causing any harm, but it goes somewhat against the purpose of the article. Cheers. --Sn0wflake 23:20, 31 July 2005 (UTC)

Google Maps Links

In response to your question on my talk page about why I was using Google Map links for the locations on the Interstate connection points, the simple fact is that I know about them. I was not aware of any other method available here for providing a link the user could click on to go directly to a map, except maybe for the U.S. Census Tiger Map server and their comments are that they don't really want to become a map site for general use by the public. (I gather what they're really trying to do is provide a resource for people creating small maps to download and put elsewhere although they seem to imply they don't want that either.)

Google's map page also provides a "clickable link" that is useful for the purpose of providing a link to the particular map in question at the resolution given. Now, if you know of something else - such as your suggestion of the TerraserverUSA system and some Wikipedia internal template that can reference it - that supplies clearly visible maps that a single link can go directly to that point and show it on a map, I'm all ears in hearing about it. I'll be more than happy to use something else either in place of or in addition to Google's mapping system. I think the one supplied by Google works nicely, but if there is something better and/or easier to use for a reference, that's fine. - Paul Robinson (RFC1394) [Talk Page / User Page] 11:23, 1 August 2005 (EDT)

Secondary Comment

The template you recommended doesn't provide direct access to a map, it provides a page of links to maps. I will add that template reference but I think providing a direct link to Google will be more useful. Also, I am, however, not sure what you mean by "won't work in all browsers" as Google's map system works in both Netscape 7.2 and IE. Maybe it doesn't work in older browsers I will include dual references, I think so if it doesn't work using Google maps they can try another one. I'd be happy to include other map server references if there is a direct "clickable link" feature allowing one to directly go to the specific map image. Paul Robinson 16:47, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

Third Comment

The coordinate template {{coor d|lat|fraction|long|fraction}} is ugly. I don't want to show the latitude and longitude. And I am not interested in putting in two references, I tried creating a template <nowiki>{{Google Map}} to create a Google link to a map and automatically create a cross-link to others but it doesn't work, I'm not sure why. So I'm sticking with what does work, which is the direct reference to Google. If you can figure a way to make the template work so I can pass parameters to it, then I'd be happy to use it. But the most important thing is having a direct immediate link to the map point for the point in question.

By the way, if you choose to use a non-standard browser and standard features don't work in it, that's your problem. Google's use of background requests to load images while other things are being shown or drawn works with Netscape 7 which means it also works with Firefox and anything using the Mozilla codebase. And it also works with IE. I would presume it also works with Opera. That probably covers 99.9% of all browsers in use.

If you choose to use a non-standard browser and it doesn't support a standard that everyone else does, well, then you're stuck, I guess. :)Paul Robinson 18:12, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

Florida routes sorting (response)

The change I did was an attempt to bring order to chaos on the list page. (Which didn't completely work; a couple sort keys stubbornly refused to re-sort to their new headings.)

There were routes both sorted with and without initial zeros, which made the whole concept not work properly. Personally, I liked the sort key being the first digit, as otherwise you have a crapload of things showing up in the Wikipedia index under "0". From a generalized encyclopedia sorting standpoint (not a road numbering standpoint), this was unreadable to me, because it meant there were no useful headings in the index.

Change it one way or the other; all said, it doesn't matter which way to me, but please make it consistent for all pages on the index. --Todd Vierling 17:09, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

Moooooooooooooooo

Check this shit: Moo --K1vsr (talk) 20:45, August 4, 2005 (UTC)

Re: Lethal injection

What's heard on the history channel isn't normally enough to justify removing the 'accuracy' tag from something (which is there to prevent confusion) -- I assume there's a page to justify this edit somewhere? Ojw 22:14, 4 August 2005 (UTC)

Duck knife image

The duck image looks really cute and funny. (Stuffed ducks for dinner!) Could you tell me where you got that? :) — Stevey7788 (talk) 23:03, 4 August 2005 (UTC)

Pretty nice pic. — Stevey7788 (talk) 23:12, 4 August 2005 (UTC)

My Sockpuppet

5p0000000000000....j00 4r3 my s0ckpupp3+ b33y0+ch. B0w +0 m3. --K1vsr (talk) 01:33, August 5, 2005 (UTC)

Why you strange little SockGnome

Dear SPUI,

You are quite weird...

Keep up the good work!

Redwolf24 02:06, 6 August 2005 (UTC)

US Interstate highway stub problems

At Wikipedia:WikiProject_Stub_sorting/Proposals there is an ongoing debate about U.S. Interstate Highway Stub and US Highway stub... --Rschen7754 00:39, August 7, 2005 (UTC)

User page

Hi, SPUI. Would you consider removing the line from your user page about the police and the girl? I know that Wikipedia is not censored, but that line seems too over the top to me. — Knowledge Seeker দ 04:28, August 8, 2005 (UTC)

yaaa

your cool. love the user page. did people really object to you having the colorful words "anal sex, gay sex" at the top of your page? that's pretty amusing, if you were seriously asked to remove it cuz it's offensive. j'ever see wag the dog? There's this guy who defends his use of something corny in something he made by citing it's corniness as it's central virtue. THis may or may not be analogous to your use of a giant anal sex sign.

anyway, the reason I write is to ask this: have you ever used kate's tool? that thing is cool. but it's crazy if you use rediects. I stumbled across a thing you wrote about the NSA exit off the Baltimore-wash parkway. anyone who ever writes anything about the NSA is the coolest. later. Kzzl 18:59, 8 August 2005 (UTC)

PS keep up the good work, overtly skewering the processes and tags and junk "wikipedia society" seems to take so seriously so often.

Template:Interstates

In what browser are you finding the change I made didn't center? It centers ok in Firefox and IE, which is all I have to check it in here. Can we try to make the toccolours version center, rather than reverting it all the way back to blue (which isn't how most footer boxes are tending to be now) and with a less accessible table structure, please? — OwenBlacker 21:13, August 8, 2005 (UTC)

In K-Meleon, none of the table cells have the text centered inside them, as you removed the "align=center". The one at the beginning of the table code only centers the table on the page. --SPUI (talk) 21:28, 8 August 2005 (UTC)

Aaah, didn't realise you meant the cells. That centering code doesn't work in most browsers and is pretty non-standard across templates on Wikipedia. I'll start a conversation on the Talk page about that centering effect. I'm a little surprised you reverted the whole thing, rather than just adding that centering back in, though… — OwenBlacker 21:32, August 8, 2005 (UTC)

To whit, I've started a conversation at Template talk:Interstates#Formatting; please feel free to add your comments there :o) — OwenBlacker 21:42, August 8, 2005 (UTC)

I award you....

For Neutrality

SPUI, I hereby award you your own Barnstar, for being a model of neutrality. ;-) Func( t, c ) 05:19, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

Of course. I was expecting him to come here and get it, (you don't mind, right?) :) Func( t, c ) 05:25, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

Chicago rail stations

Nice work on the Chicago rail terminals template. I'm impressed that, in the 24 hours since I wrote/expanded those articles, they're getting so much attention.

A good source of info on old rail infrastructure is HABS/HAER, the files for which you can find at the Library of Congress website here. Each entry has photos from the 60s or 70s as well as extensive history and, sometimes, measured drawings (although the entry for Central Station seems to be missing the history).

The Nickel Plate did indeed use Illinois Central Station (Central Station) until the mid-50s, I think, at which point its association with the New York Central caused its trains to be moved to LaSalle Street, which was the NYC's Chicago terminal. If you've got any other questions, please feel free to ask. This is an area of interest for me. --Boreas231 03:31, 12 August 2005 (UTC)

Hey, nice work on the train stations, especially the Chicago Terminals infobox. I've been agonizing over what to do with them for weeks now, but what you've done tops anything I could come up with. Bravo! 14:11, August 12, 2005 (UTC)

You're right; I must have been mistaken about the NKP's association with the NYC. What I am certain about, though, is that (Illinois) Central Station was the only major terminal to have existed at the eastern end of 12th Street (aka Roosevelt Road). It was sometimes referred to as "12th Street Station". The remaining commuter station's name is "12th Street-Roosevelt Road". The non-electrified intercity tracks on the IC alignment have now been reconfigured, but there used to be a direct link of quadruple tracks from Central Station to a junction just south of LaSalle Street Station. The connection has now been reduced to double tracks and simplified so that northbound freight trains cross over the commuter tracks under McCormick Place and turn west, connecting to the BNSF (ex-CBQ) over the old St. Charles Airline bridge.

As for pinning down the date of the terminal switch, you might try looking for a series called The Official guide of the railways and steam navigation lines of the United States, Porto Rico, Canada, Mexico and Cuba. It was published annually by the National Railway Publication Company, and includes maps and timetables for every passenger railroad in the U.S., as well as some scheduled freight info. I think it's available in most large university libraries. The Library of Congress call number for the series is HE2727.O3. --Boreas231 14:58, 12 August 2005 (UTC)

0111

YTMND

...is now undeleted and on VFD. Radiant_>|< 00:39, August 14, 2005 (UTC)

Monique deMoan

Whilst I understand your removal of the speedy tag from this article, I have reinstated it. It is, unfortunately, recreated content and it does not include an assertion of notability. More importantly, it is currently being discussed over at WP:VFU where it has near-unanimous keep deleted votes. NoPuzzleStranger is just getting upset over that. -Splash 22:45, 14 August 2005 (UTC)

Park Avenue

See Forgotten NY. Sounds from their description as if the 1830s construction predates the street. Choess 04:34, August 15, 2005 (UTC)

Boston Post Road images on Commons

I cleaned up the category Milestones after uploading an image myself. If there is an article with images under the category it's no use to have the those images in that same category, it will only slow down for people. Just wanted to inform you what I've been doing. /commons:User:Kdhenrik 19:07, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

RFA?

Care for to be of adminship requested? — BRIAN0918 • 2005-08-15 19:23

You're joking, right? No, I won't accept. --SPUI (talk) 01:06, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

You are a coward and a loser SPUI. Being willing to stand and be judged by your peers is what seperates the boys from the men. Scratch 22:19, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

Oh, please. What is the point of having candidates accept if they're not free to decline. -- Cecropia | explains it all ® 23:36, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

Could anybody please explain why SPUI is a "coward"? He seems to be OK most of the time and never severely disrupts Wikipedia. — Stevey7788 (talk) 21:16, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

If you ran SPUI I would have voted for you.--Jondel 09:35, 19 August 2005 (UTC)

DualDisc FAC

Hey SPUI. The nomination failed the first time around, but I have re-submitted it as an FAC. I was wondering if you'd consider supporting it this time around? Cheers! --K1vsr (talk) 15:43, August 17, 2005 (UTC)

Scratch is Jennet

I need evidence that Scratch is Jennet. Don't want to hurt the innocent.--Jondel 08:49, 19 August 2005 (UTC)

Scratch was blocked. I'm investigating Jennet. I'm checking if she(he?) was warned already. --Jondel 09:04, 19 August 2005 (UTC)

Please look at Knowledge Seekers talk page.[1]. They have very different personalities.--Jondel 10:26, 19 August 2005 (UTC)

Next look at my talk page for why I think that the same person is behind both. --MarkSweep 18:17, 19 August 2005 (UTC)

Disambig repairs

Thanks for the assistance. I was thinking about Union Station as I went to bed last night, just didn't have a chance to get to it yesterday. slambo 10:45, August 22, 2005 (UTC)

Un-speedied 1980 SEPTA map

I don't believe "only had a category, which are not for images on Wikipedia" is one of the criteria for speedy deletion, so I removed the tag from Image:SEPTA_Rapid_and_Commuter_Rail_System_1980.png. It is used in the article SEPTA Regional Rail, so it is not true that it "only had a category"; moreover, images are categorized throughout Wikipedia, both in dedicated categories like Category:Wikipedia_images_by_topic or mixed with articles like Category:Flags_of_the_United_Kingdom. Thought I would drop a note in case I missed something. - choster 01:47, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

Ah, the Commons. Thanks, sorry for the bother. - choster 18:04, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

3RR

Please do not keep undoing other people's edits without discussing them first. This is considered impolite and unproductive. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia under the three-revert rule, which states that nobody may revert an article to a previous version more than three times in 24 hours. Thank you. --Ryan Delaney ^talk 22:24, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

I am warning you based on these edits. You have not violated the rule; I am just providing you with a friendly reminder that if you revert again prior to 05:10, 25 August 2005 UTC, you will have broken the 3RR. --Ryan Delaney ^talk 22:29, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

Uh, you might want to be aware of this

User talk:Jimbo Wales#Admin?... your page is linked to in the "And your thoughts on this?" sentence. -- Curps 07:08, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

Trenton

And just as before as in the the debate for Wilmington Station (Delaware), Trenton (Amtrak station) is not going to cut it. --Boothy443 | comhrÚ 07:36, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

I'll offer a compomrise, becuas i rather not see the rons get involed on RM, Trention Rail Station (New Jersey), that should remove most of the "ambiguity" and a disambig note for West Trenton, as that would be the only other New Jersey station that could be confused with Trenton. --Boothy443 | comhrÚ 07:46, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

Fime, i moved the page, i'll fix the redirect in a sec, what "main station" are you talking about. --Boothy443 | comhrÚ 07:53, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

Nifty, i could only guess that those stations were better then the present. --Boothy443 | comhrÚ 08:25, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

B-road discussion

Please stop vandalizing votes and deleting paragraphs to entries related to the B-road discussion. It's not done.

I notice that you live in the US and as such have never seen any of those roads that you try so hard to include. Do take the word from those that live in .uk and find the idea bemusing. Pilatus 09:40, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

Please stop vandalizing votes. I am bored. Pilatus 19:26, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

Note left on WP:VIP. Pilatus 16:30, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

SEPTA

I think using Center City Philadelphia for the SEPTArr infobox would be an improvement. --Luciuskwok 11:25, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

I think it should be consistent with what a passenger would see before boarding a train. The problem is that on through trains, SEPTA crews sometimes put a "Center City Philadelphia" sign on the train, and other times use the ultimate destination of the train. I think "Center City Philadelphia" without a link works best.--Luciuskwok 11:57, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

I think as long as it's clear in the article that the station is in the Philadelphia area, "Center City" works. My preference is to be more verbose in situations where there is ambiguity. --Luciuskwok 12:14, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

Template edit

Please do not edit the user page template. My explanation is provided in the summary of my revert.  Thorpe ^talk 17:51, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

Wouldn't an html comment or nowiki tag thwart a find/replace just as well? -- Norvy (talk) 23:26, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

Edited your Toby

Since you put Toby on your "uncensored" page, I just thought I'd upgrade his display to Image:Toby-off.png. No, this wasn't available five minutes ago. Hope you don't mind. — Xiong熊talk* 04:49, 2005 August 27 (UTC)

Oh SPUI.

Hosterweis (talk) (contribs) 02:03, 28 August 2005 (UTC)

Vanity links

Oops - I must have misphrased that.

I've now made Ontario provincial highway 58A redirect to Townline Tunnel, since it doesn't really make sense to have a separate article about it IMHO. (The 58A basically is the Townline Tunnel.) I included the 58A info on the Townline Tunnel page. As such, I figured two links to the same article, one redirecting, in direct neighbourhood aren't really necessary.

Let me know if that seems more reasonable to you.

Also, I'm not native in English, but isn't there only one approach on the west side, and another on the east? --qviri 18:30, 29 August 2005 (UTC)

yo homey

I hope you don't mind- I was inspired by something I saw on your user page. I did an omage to it.

that's uberlame that you got censored. I'll help you fight it tho it's probly not worth it. I never heard of such censorship of userpage content by the wikipedia establishment. it's pretty funny that your user page (one click away) is all "fuckity fucka-titty" and whatnot. what's next? are you just gonna keep it chill on your page? anyway, anything I can do to offend/piss off the people who censored you, don't hesitate to hit me up. keep it rearl. Yameen? 01:11, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

OK, word. so many levels. Yameen? 01:18, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

VIA stations

The form Kitchener, Ontario railway station (see Category:Canadian railway stations) seems to me much more effective for stations named after the city they serve than Grimsby (VIA station); for a start, it specifies the province, which is important given that not all city names are unique. It also matches the form that has been used quite successfully for articles about Britain (see examples such as Windermere railway station), which has far more passenger railway services than anywhere in North America, not to mention all sorts of cities with multiple stations, complicated routes, and the like.

In many cases, the stations also pre-date VIA, and a number are shared with other railways (I was planning to rename shared VIA-GO stations such as Aldershot (GO Station) to the more generic form). David Arthur 21:04, September 2, 2005 (UTC)

I see no reason why information about a railway station's predecessor couldn't be included in the same article, though it seems there are few enough people interested in writing articles about even the stations that do still exist (Pacific Central Station (Vancouver) still lacks an entry). When two railways operate from separate stations, there may be call for separate articles (for a parallel of sorts, see Canary Wharf tube station and Canary Wharf DLR station), but when there's only one station, I don't think it's productive to attach an individual carrier's name to it, especially when it's shared. The pipe trick is useful, but I personally don't think it's worth having a less-appropriate title in order to save typing. David Arthur 21:19, September 2, 2005 (UTC)

Asking for support

Hello, since you are interested in maps I thought hat you might support our letter to Centre for Cartography, Vilnius University. We are asking to release their maps found at www.balticdata.info under GFDL licence so they could be used in articles about Lithuania. So far we got 14 people to "sign" it. The draft in very very rough English is available at user:Renata3/letter. If you decide to support it, I'll need just your first and last names together with your user name. You can leave it on my talk page or send it via email: just attact @gmail.com to my user name. Renata3 22:26, 3 September 2005 (UTC)

Toby

Simply put: What is with the lonely Toby campaign?? Dragons flight 01:02, September 4, 2005 (UTC)

Please stop, and please don't use rollback on me if I've reverted the change... thanks Ryan Norton ^{T | @ | C} 01:34, 4 September 2005 (UTC)

That's fine that they are your brother and friend... I just mentioned that you probably shouldn't use rollback (since if you would have made an edit summary explaining why I probably wouldn't have reverted) Ryan Norton ^{T | @ | C} 01:40, 4 September 2005 (UTC)

Explore highways

You should explore some select freeways, and expressways to obtain more knowledge about odd freeways and expressways with at-grade intersections. You should go to Nova Scotia to research the type of expressways the 100-series highways in that area are like.

You should also explore Ohio to research their so-called "odd freeways".

Anyway, you should page-move your talk page as an archive and start a blank one. --SuperDude 05:47, 12 September 2005 (UTC)

No personal attacks

Regarding your comment on Articles for deletion/New Hampshire Route 118,

• Strong keep and ban the asshole deletionists. --SPUI (talk) 22:43, 12 September 2005 (UTC)
  • Please do not make personal attacks on other contributors. Wikipedia has a policy against personal attacks. Some users may remove personal attacks, and you may be banned from editing. Comment on content, not on the contributor. For further help, see Wikipedia:Dispute resolution. Thank you.

I think the above was written by AndrewPmk. --Tony Sidaway^Talk 23:56, 12 September 2005 (UTC)

First and only warning

That business on the road AfD was completely uncalled for. I'm watching and if there is any more nonsense I will block you for disruption. --Tony Sidaway^Talk 23:56, 12 September 2005 (UTC)

Deletionism is also uncalled for. But those assholes don't get blocked for the ultimate vandalism of deleting an article. --SPUI (talk) 00:04, 13 September 2005 (UTC)

• He is starting again with that bad language in another of an article i nominated for deletion Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Queens Place Mall --Aranda56 23:20, 13 September 2005 (UTC)

Vandalism/disruption block

You have been blocked for one hour for vandalising Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/New Hampshire Route 118: see [2]. --Carnildo 23:59, 12 September 2005 (UTC)

• • Uh, one thing I forgot to tell you. Meet my friend Carnildo. I voted for him at RFA. :) --Tony Sidaway^Talk 00:03, 13 September 2005 (UTC)
    • Meet my friend foot. I shoved him up your ass. :) --SPUI (talk) 00:05, 13 September 2005 (UTC)

Ping

I replied to your message on my talk page. Feel free to remove this ping. --Gmaxwell 17:18, 13 September 2005 (UTC)

[[Gary Takes a Bath

Gary Takes a Bath

...is now a bluelink per VfU. I didn't take it back to AfD since there was no suggestion in the VfU that it need be. -Splash^talk 20:55, 14 September 2005 (UTC)

InfoMI Webpages

You say the InfoMi webpages don't add anything to the articles. I couldn't disagree more. Other than the maps showing the location of the corresponding county, there are no photographs, and bookmarking the webpages gives the articles pictures and, in some cases, some extra info the Wiki articles don't. I feel it's a mistake removing the webpages.

Buckingham Branch

Oops!! It came through e-mail. Let me get on that right away. Thanks. Mark in Historic Triangle, Vaoverland 22:36, 18 September 2005 (UTC)

An image (admittedly not as stunning) from Ken Moss has been substituted. Thanks!! Vaoverland 22:50, 18 September 2005 (UTC)

Image:UTAH SR-24.PNG

Oops....I missed that one. I created it from the atlas from the state of Utah.gov website.

The states' disclaimer:

• COPYRIGHT LIMITATIONS - The State of Utah has made the content of certain pages of its Web sites available to the public. Anyone may view, copy, or distribute information found within these web pages (not including the design or layout of the pages) for personal or informational use without owing an obligation to the State if the documents are not modified in any respect, and unless otherwise stated on the particular materials or information to which a restriction on free use applies. The State makes no warranty, however, that the materials contained within these pages are free from copyright claims, or other restrictions or limitations on free use or display. The State disclaims any liability for the improper or incorrect use of information obtained from its Web sites.

Utah.gov Terms of Use

But, ...since I cropped it, and colored the other highways black, I GFDL the maps I have made.

WikiDon 10:34, 19 September 2005 (UTC)

Yes, I read the statement. So, I took the un-altered image in its entirety, free, then I created, me, a new image with my computer, which I then GFDL. I am not citing Utah.gov as the source. WikiDon

It would only be a problem if:

• 1) I cited Utah.gov as the source of an altered image

or

• 2) The document was not free-use to begin with

WikiDon

It seems to me that Image:UTAH SR-12.PNG has exactly the same problems. Bob Palin 19:20, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

Mr. SPUI and Mr. Palin:

How do I tag the image now:

"The State of Utah releases Don Burns, User:WikiDon, to alter its 'OfficialHighwayMap2005.pdf' document for informational and educational perposses only. The document can not be altered in a manner to distort or change factual information. But only use the alterations in a favorable light for highlighting specific geographical points of interest."

Letter forthcoming to:

ATTN: Copyright Release Wikimedia Foundation Inc. 204 37th Avenue North, Suite. 330 St. Petersburg, FL 33704

Nile Easton UDOT Public Information Officer 801-965-4387 Cell 801-673-7107

WikiDon 19:15, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

U.S. Highway 66

Thanks in advance for the map. I received several comments about this and I don't have a way to make one. I noticed you did some editing. Thanks for this, too. The Wikitravel article does have a complete route, the Springfield-St. Louis section is there, but it might be hard to find. I'll go ahead and leave it off, though, it seemed strange there, but I didn't know where else to put it. If you have the time, I would appreciate a second set of eyes going through it and seeing if anything else turns up. I would really like to see this become a featured article. Thanks again. Rt66lt 23:47, 19 September 2005 (UTC)

Deleted image

Hi SPUI. Yes I realised my mistake last night and started screaming profanities whilst thinking of what to do (but then I fell asleep at my keyboard :-S). However, I see the image has been restored somehow (although still unsourced) and I guess I should slow down a bit when sorting through the images!? My apologies anyhow, thanks Craigy File:Uk flag large.png (talk) 20:04, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

Norfolk Southern Railway (former)

I was pleased to see that you created a new (and long-overdue) WP article on this railroad. Harry Bundy of our Virginian Railway group on Yahoo is a retiree of the original Norfolk Southern and an excellent source for information,a s is warren Calloway. We may be able to get some good ikages, logo help, etc. There is also a group on Yahoo for the original Norfolk Southern. I moderate one and belong to the other. I will pass along the good news about your new WP article, and surely some additional facts and some links will emerge to enhance the article. Good job! (and thanks again for catching my screw up on the Buckingham Branch image!). Yours in Virginia's Historic Triangle, Mark. Vaoverland 11:09, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

Template deleted

Just to let you know that Template:Blank was deleted on September 12. Please do not consider making a new "blank" template in future. It is best you work with others rather than just make the template for your purposes. -- Thorpe ^talk 19:29, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

Image:UTAH SR-24.PNG

Why did you recreate File:UTAH SR-24.PNG? The licence listed there is for a PDF, not a PNG, and any file with that licence is a speedy candidate as it's "Used with permission". --fvw* 02:23, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

I did not recreate it. The original deletion was in error, as it was deleted for no source the day after it was uploaded (without giving 7 days). The original uploader re-uploaded it. I'm still not sure the image is OK to have here, but it deserves discussion, not a speedy deletion. --SPUI (talk) 02:26, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

It's currently not got an associated image and is an orphan image info page, created by you. Maybe someone deleted it while you were modifying it? Anyway, the seven day wait isn't necessary here, as it's a "used with permission" licence uploaded after may 2005. See WP:CSD for more info. --fvw* 02:29, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

Norfolk Southern (former)

I hope you did not mind my nominating your NS article for the DYK feature and adding to it. The various Yahoo rail groups are excited about it. A fellow named Harry Bundy who is active in my Virginian railway Enthusiasts Yahoo group (550 members online!) is something like a 50-year veteran. Railfans have noted that the original NS (as they seem to call it) may hold some kind of record for its many financial reorganizations. Here are some notes from Harry about the article:

"Mark:

A few corrections:

There is reference to Mackey. Prior to the trestle (1910), this was listed in timetables as Mackey's Ferry. After, the station became Mackeys.

It also notes that this station is "on the other side of the Albemarle Sound from Elizabeth City". It's on the other side of the Albemarle Sound from Edenton.

Virginia and Carolina Coast Railroad - later the Suffolk & Carolina. In addition to the line between Suffolk south to Edenton, the S&C also had a line from Beckford Jct. (on the Suffolk-Edenton section) to Elizabeth City.

The Egyptian Railroad. It isn't said, and not many people know, but North Carolina had coal near Cumnock. It was known as the Egyptian field. NS steam locomotives burned coal from the Egyptian field until about 1935. As one engineer noted - "it packed all the btu's of a day-old cow pie".

Trivia - Chocowinity was named Marsden to reduce having to send the eleven- alphas. As Texas Gulf Sulphur began receiving shipments, Marsden became the governing agency. In 1966 BZC (before zip codes), the agent at Timbuktu would send any correspondence regarding shipments to AGENT-Marsden, NC. Marsden wasn't a post office. The mail would usually be received by the SAL agent at Marston, NC and he, being a railroad familiar, would forward it to Chocowinity. So at one midnight in 1966, Marsden became Chocowinity and the NS went back to 1917 because in repeating train orders, stations are spelled out letter-by-letter. Care to guess what dunce was working the night ALL bulletin orders had to be rewritten showing Chocowinity instead of Marsden, and then repeated to the dispatcher?"

                                                             Harry Bundy

I must learn to do spell checking before releasing my work (due to my motor coordination disability, I transpose letters, creating misspelling a 2nd grader could avoid). Thus, the image file of the night shot of the NS passenger train on the Albemarle Sound was misspelled. I highly recommend the ieSpell program. Good article. I hope it makes the main page.

BTW, if you get a chance to come up with a simple map of the Historic Triangle, it would enhance that article a great deal, I believe. Thanks! Mark. Vaoverland 21:36, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

DYK

Did you know? has been updated. A fact from the article Norfolk Southern Railway (former), which you recently created, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Traffic Circles on AfD: White Horse Circle

Hey, this article is on AfD. You may want to vote on it.

Roodog2k (talk) 16:14, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

I-4

Question- I'm not the one who made the edit or anything, but ... you don't think the high amount of tourist traffic on I-4 through Orlando merits mention? JD 18:40, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

Edit summaries

Please don't use edit summaries like "cock in yo ass". User:Zoe|^(talk) 07:40, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

Fair use question

I wanted to ask you about the fair use images on Rhode Island State Highways/Map sources. They don't seem to be linked to from any pages at the moment, so I was asking you what they were used for. I was wondering if the "fair use" ones could be deleted if they are no longer used. Thanks. --Fastfission 15:49, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

Ok, I was just wondering. The difficulty is of course that Rand McNally would be able to claim that they were being defrauded by this as people could use these instead of their wonderful atlases, but I find that pretty unlikely (especially since they'd be hard to print out) so I'm willing to not worry about it. --Fastfission 15:57, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

Ok, I didn't realize that it was so out of date and useful only as a historical reference of sorts. I think that makes it pretty safe since there isn't really any market for outdated maps. ;-) --Fastfission 16:01, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

VfD

Please stop mucking about with VfD. Leave the redirects in place. android79 22:20, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

VFD

Uh, what exactly are you doing on Wikipedia:Votes for deletion? Talrias (t | e | c) 22:21, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

Stop changing the VfD redirect

It's pointless and disruptive and you know it. Stop it or you'll be blocked. --fvw* 22:24, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

Please leave the redirect alone . . . some of us are still in the habit of typing WP:VFD for AFD! - orioneight (talk) 22:47, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

BC Rail a class I?

Hi, do you have a source for this edit? My understanding was that BC Rail was a provincially-chartered railway, and since it was provincially-chartered and not federally-chartered, it would be a Class II, regardless of how much revenue it earned. Thanks, JYolkowski // talk 01:23, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

DYK

Did you know? has been updated. A fact from the article Calumet, which you recently created, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Union Station (Chicago)

Ok, I see you point. I thought by intercity you were talking about anywhere outside of Chicago because Ogilvie serves Kenosha and other smaller cities in the metro area. --Gpyoung ^talk 00:52, 27 September 2005 (UTC)