[edit] October 2006-February 2007
[edit] Depot disambiguation
Hi. I'm just dropping you a note to explain why I've reverted some of your recent edits to 'depot' wikilinks. In British English, depot does not mean a train station, but rather an area where trams, buses and trains are kept overnight, and where maintenance is performed - like a rail yard (see List of words having different meanings in British and American English#D. A redirect to 'train station' in that context is incorrect. The 'depot' disambiguation page does contain a definition of the British English use of the word, and as many readers might not be familiar with the use of the word in that context, I think it is worth keeping wikilinks to the disambiguation page. Sometime in the future, somebody may create an article about tram depots etc. I've picked up a few of your edits, but there may be others that you might be able to go back and change. - cheers. -- Adz|talk 02:19, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
- Gotta say that I agree, depot is one of those words, that on both sides of the pond (or Australia) carries many, many meanings. I figured that Train station was the best among those avaliable, but I too am beginning to reconsider. Train station, in the case that I was linking to meant just that, a small station among many others. Of course, a better definition would be a hub, or storage location in which many trains are serviced/stored. I may have to start a few new entries to finish this project. HammerHeadHuman|talk 02:27, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
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- The difference is though that trains/trams/buses usually don't collect passengers at depots, so it isn't really a station at all. If you do and up creating an entry for transport depots, you may want to see if User:Paddington62 would like to give you a hand (who wrote much of the Paddington tram depot fire article and knows a lot about trams), as well as some of the editors who started some of the depot articles at. cheers -- Adz|talk 02:48, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Barnstar
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[edit] Wikify
Righto then. But if Wikipedia's working definition of "wikify" includes section headings, then you might like to update Wikipedia:Glossary#Wikify, so that these misunderstandings don't happen in future. Hesperian 01:04, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
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