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05:06, 10 February 2018 (UTC)
Stripping region from BR?
Is this a good edit?
Changing British Railways (Southern Region) or British Railways to the plain, and unspecific, British Railways. This is on loco articles for SR locos, with AFAIK no use outside that region.
I've seen a bunch of these recently, all from Vodafone IPs from Ireland. They ignore discussion attempts.
- 2A02:8084:6A80:5C80:2151:E3EA:7C7C:B15C (talk · contribs)
- 2A02:8084:6A80:5C80:BD79:946A:649E:4573 (talk · contribs)
- 2A02:8084:6A80:5C80:E9E4:4798:176C:E85A (talk · contribs)
Thoughts? Andy Dingley (talk) 16:39, 7 March 2019 (UTC)
- Should at least be discussed, not a change that I can see any benefit from. Britmax (talk) 16:48, 7 March 2019 (UTC)
- The contributor seems knowledgeable about British and Irish railways and rolling stock and has made many useful edits but these particular examples do not seem helpful. Perhaps the editor is trying to make the point that the locos were theoretically available for use in Inverness even if they never ventured north of London in practice. Wikipedia hasn't quite got its head around communicating with IPv6 editors who move around randomly within a /64 and may not see messages on the talk page of the last address they edited from. See also:
- 2A02:8084:6A80:5C80:10A6:59D7:462:6758 (talk · contribs)
- 2A02:8084:6A80:5C80:10DA:B9AB:4B08:BF7F (talk · contribs)
- 2A02:8084:6A80:5C80:1169:43F9:B1E4:930D (talk · contribs)
- 2A02:8084:6A80:5C80:420:2F0E:8B91:BD5B (talk · contribs)
- 2A02:8084:6A80:5C80:4D69:C923:B507:300F (talk · contribs)
- – Certes (talk) 17:28, 7 March 2019 (UTC)
- 2A02:8084:6A80:5C80:B098:779C:6B1:A9 (talk · contribs) had joined the party. Have blocked and reverted. Can we get that edit filter sorted? Mjroots (talk) 15:07, 30 March 2019 (UTC)
- I don't have the skills to do that - ask at WP:EFR. Thryduulf (talk) 13:24, 31 March 2019 (UTC)
- Unless there's some way to restrict it to British Rail articles, a blanket filter on IPs adding/removing the term "Southern Region" from articles will be a recipe for complaints. Thanks to the unimaginativeness of 19th century civil servants and their tendency to use "region" instead of "county" or "province" when drawing lines on maps, there are a bunch of former colonies with administrative districts just called "Southern Region". ‑ Iridescent 14:10, 31 March 2019 (UTC)
- There are certainly ways to restrict it to sets of articles, including page title and what was in the article before and after the edit (which I suspect can be used to restrict it to categories) - see WP:EFD#Variables. This is probably better discussed at WP:EFR though as users who actually know what they're talking about will be able to give better answers than I can. Thryduulf (talk) 14:24, 31 March 2019 (UTC)
- Unless there's some way to restrict it to British Rail articles, a blanket filter on IPs adding/removing the term "Southern Region" from articles will be a recipe for complaints. Thanks to the unimaginativeness of 19th century civil servants and their tendency to use "region" instead of "county" or "province" when drawing lines on maps, there are a bunch of former colonies with administrative districts just called "Southern Region". ‑ Iridescent 14:10, 31 March 2019 (UTC)
- I don't have the skills to do that - ask at WP:EFR. Thryduulf (talk) 13:24, 31 March 2019 (UTC)
- 2A02:8084:6A80:5C80:B098:779C:6B1:A9 (talk · contribs) had joined the party. Have blocked and reverted. Can we get that edit filter sorted? Mjroots (talk) 15:07, 30 March 2019 (UTC)
- 2A02:8084:6A80:5C80:B098:779C:6B1:A9 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) again Andy Dingley (talk) 20:39, 2 April 2019 (UTC)
- Raised at WP:EFR#Southern Region. Mjroots (talk) 05:55, 3 April 2019 (UTC)
- No need for a filter. I've blocked Special:Contributions/2A02:8084:6A80:5C80:0:0:0:0/64 which covers all the IPs. Galobtter (pingó mió) 09:00, 3 April 2019 (UTC)
British Rail Class 73
The recent edits by 79.151.200.21 could use some serious cleanup. Not a total revert, since they have in fact corrected some factual errors. But it's not well written, and does tend to deviate from the primary topic. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 21:37, 10 March 2019 (UTC)
Chris0512
As some of you may know, Chris0512 (talk · contribs) was blocked a few weeks ago for being WP:NOTHERE. One of their habits was to frequently revert their own edits, sometimes days or weeks later. Reverting your own edits is not a crime; but two new users have surfaced today, with similar habits: Christo McBride (talk · contribs) and Scotlandinia (talk · contribs). Their edits are also primarily reverts, either to edits made by Chris0512 or to edits made by themselves. Does anybody else smell a WP:SOCK? --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 18:43, 31 March 2019 (UTC)
- Passes the DUCK test for me, and even if for some bizarre reason they're not Chris0512, they're NOTHERE for anything useful either. Blocked both. Black Kite (talk) 18:50, 31 March 2019 (UTC)
Where am I?
Possibly Crewe. Can someone confirm or otherwise identify please? — O Still Small Voice of Clam 14:21, 3 April 2019 (UTC)
- The Twitterati say it's the "Southend Upside Bays" at Crewe. Mjroots (talk) 08:13, 8 April 2019 (UTC)
- Definitely Crewe; you can tell by the distinctive red zig-zag struts. File:Crewe railway station - platform 3.jpg shows the same location as it now appears. ‑ Iridescent 08:21, 8 April 2019 (UTC)
- Thanks - categorised accordingly. — O Still Small Voice of Clam 09:24, 8 April 2019 (UTC)
- Definitely Crewe; you can tell by the distinctive red zig-zag struts. File:Crewe railway station - platform 3.jpg shows the same location as it now appears. ‑ Iridescent 08:21, 8 April 2019 (UTC)