User talk:Peter Horn

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Welcome!

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[edit] CAF Beasain

This article has been speedily deleted because it consists of nothing besides a link to another site. If you wish to create an article about the subject, please do so, being sure that the information is verifiable and based on reliable sources. howcheng {chat} 19:53, 7 February 2006 (UTC) The article Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles covers this topic well. --Peter Horn 14:41, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Signatures

Although you should Sign your posts on talk pages you should not sign your contributions in the article namespace. Thryduulf 00:25, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Large number of edits to rail tracks

I noticed the large number of edits that you're making to rail tracks yesterday and today. In order to avoid edit conflicts and potential revert problems, you might consider putting {{inuse}} at the top of the article and state how long you expect to continue working on the article (by putting something like {{inuse|1 hour}} for example), as is shown in the examples on the template page. When you're done with your edits, remove the template. Thanks! Slambo (Speak) 21:16, 21 February 2006 (UTC) You asked me to refresh your memory, OK, this is what I was referring to. --Peter Horn 05:34, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Request for edit summary

Hi. I am a bot, and I am writing to you with a request. I would like to ask you, if possible, to use edit summaries a bit more often when you contribute. The reason an edit summary is important is because it allows your fellow contributors to understand what you changed; you can think of it as the "Subject:" line in an email. For your information, your current edit summary usage is 0% for major edits and 0% for minor edits. (Based on the last 150 major and 0 minor edits in the article namespace.)

This is just a suggestion, and I hope that I did not appear impolite. You do not need to reply to this message, but if you would like to give me feedback, you can do so at the feedback page. Thank you, and happy edits, Mathbot 04:03, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority, but we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material. Perhaps you would like to rewrite the article in your own words. For more information, take a look at Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Happy editing! (Your edit, source.) jareha 22:42, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Capital Metro Commuter Rail

[edit] Capital Metro Commuter Rail

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We appreciate your contributions to the Capital Metro Commuter Rail article, but we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material. Perhaps you would like to rewrite the article in your own words. For more information, take a look at Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Happy editing! jareha 23:10, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Light rail

Just a quick note: You're only supposed to bold titles of articles or alternative titles. For instance, in Light rail the phrases "light rail," "light rail transit," "LRT" and "Light rail vehicles" appear in bold. "Ground level power supply" should not be bolded since it has its own article. See also Wikipedia: Manual of Style. Foxmulder 02:18, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Another note about links: Usually we don't like to put things like "See some other related article" at the end of a paragraph, especially not when there is already a link to it in the paragraph. The great thing about Wikipedia is really that we don't have to do that; we can just make the word itself into a link right in the sentence where it first appears. Also linking to a specific section within another article is usually unnecessary, for example a link to the "Description" section of "Conduit Car" is unnecessary because really you're talking about conduit cars in general, and on top of that the article only has three sections, so it's not terribly hard to navigate. Other than that, great job editing. Keep up the good work! Foxmulder 19:25, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

P.S. the reason I've noticed your edits is I have light rail-related articles on my watchlist; it's a great tool if you didn't know about it already. Foxmulder 19:28, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

I've just tidied Rhaetian Railway along the lines suggested by Foxmulder. ATB! --Moonraker88 08:20, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Removing template?

I'll need a little memory refresher to answer the question you left on my talk page. I don't remember typing that phrase. Thanks. Slambo (Speak) 12:13, 10 March 2006 (UTC) Let me rephrase my quetion: How do I use the template? --Peter Horn 05:21, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Redirect

You recently created Texas Pacific Transportation. I believe you intended to create a redirect. To do this in future follow instructions at Wikipedia:Redirect I'll study the redirect instructions carefully for future applications. --Peter Horn 05:30, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Links to MEXLIST

The links to MEXLIST on articles about specific railroads will probably get deleted, (not by me, but by others) unless the link points to a page related to the railroad in question. Your enthusiasm for letting people know about that invaluable resource, is, I'm sure, much appreciated.

Tubezone 08:20, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

the links point to a

I believe I'm not the only one to insert a link to MEXLIST, at any rate, what would be the best spot for it? --Peter Horn 05:27, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

MEXLIST links should go on pages with general information on Mexican railroads, rather than specific railways. The List of Mexican railroads is a good example of a place where it should be. Tubezone 06:33, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

"kapich" --Peter Horn 23:11, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Question of Rail gauge

Hello Peter, hope you won't mind my mentioning it, it's not the first time somebody has tried to change the FR gauge from 600mm to 597mm (see the history). Be assured the same gauge is known in mainland Europe as 600mm and in the UK as 1 foot 11½ inches. It does not help to be so precise. The actual gauge will vary between about 595mm and 605mm depending on local circumstances - even on the same line. FR stock runs happily in France and vica-versa. Please change it back. NoelWalley 14:35, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Hello Noel, 1) Has already been done 2) in the case of Hong Kong & List of standard gauge by country, the 3 mm difference between 1435 mm & 1432 mm would also be quite irrelevant and not preclude thru running from one to the other. --Peter Horn 21:16, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

I'm still waiting to hear about this 3 mm difference in Hong Kong. since the 4 mm difference between Russia & Finland are said not to cause any problems. See below:

Russian Empire

....Now Russia and most of the former Russian Empire, including the Baltic states, Ukraine, Belarus, the Caucasian and Central Asian republics, and Mongolia, have the official Russian measurement of 1520 mm, 4 mm narrower than 5 ft (1524 mm), though rolling stock of both gauges is interchangeable in practice.

Finland

Finland, which was a Grand Duchy under Russia in the 19th century, uses 5 ft (1524 mm) gauge.

Peter Horn 23:29, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

Also this:

Iberian peninsula

Later, following adoption of the metric system, these two gauges were defined as 1674 mm (5 ft 5.9 in) and 1665 mm (5 ft 5.55 in) respectively. The gauges were sufficiently close to allow inter-operation of trains.

Peter Horn 23:36, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

Peter Horn 00:42, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Interwiki links and empty articles

To link to a foreign language Wikipedia, please use

[[de:Rigi-Bahnen]].

And please don't add empty articles like Niklaus Riggenbach; if you would like help in translating the article from German, you can ask at the German translation desk or at the German noticeboard. Thanks, and happy editing! Kusma (討論) 23:50, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

Hello Kusma, I have filled out the Niklaus Riggenbach article just a little bit and I have reqested a translation in the bio section. --Peter Horn 21:22, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Interurban

On March 5th you accidentally deleted the majority of the article Interurban, possibly because of a section editing bug (you saved one section as the whole article). I just fixed that and re-applied your edits of they were thus lost. Matthew Brown (Morven) (T:C) 10:10, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

Ever heard of a bug free program? --Peter Horn 13:16, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
Never! Certainly not MediaWiki. Matthew Brown (Morven) (T:C) 00:17, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] List of suburban and commuter rail systems

Hi! I've corrected some links. Could you try again and describe the troubles?-- Nixer 07:23, 31 March 2006 (UTC)


I'm still getting this message on some Russian map links: Hello 24.203.253.234, Sorry, this area is not for passengers...

Station master --Peter Horn 16:49, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

Russia
Arkhangelsk Elektrichka Map: [1]
Barnaul Elektrichka Map: [2]

The first is the map link which is troublesome, there may be others like it. The next one down from it opens up properly. Peter Horn 03:07, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] {{Train topics}}

Please join the discussion on reducing the links in this template. I thought you'd like to give some thoughts since you've been editing this template. Slambo (Speak) 22:35, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Transports de Martigny et Régions SA (TMR)

Transports de Martigny et Régions SA (TMR) comprises two physical railways:

  • Chemin de Fer de Martigny au Châtelard (MC)
  • Chemin de fer Martigny-Orsières-Le Châble (MO)

That's why I corrected your interwiki link edits...--Klaus with K 13:51, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Notability question

An essay has started on the notability of some railway stations. User:Mangoe/timetable. Join in and have your say. SilkTork 11:08, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your contributions to Trailer (vehicle)

I noticed you made quite a big contribution to the trailer article, maybe you would be interested in clarifying this section: Types of trailers. Currently it reads "There are five main types of trailer, defined by their axle arrangement and method of combination.", however, there are more than five types of trailers listed under that section. Much thanks. --Porqin 19:15, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

--Porqin: I'll have to do a bit of research on this and get back to this topic. --Peter Horn 18:13, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

--Porqin: I have revised this section of Trailer (vehicle) so that there are now five main types of trailers and three types of trailer arrangements. This should clear up any confusion.

Cheers, --Peter Horn 18:50, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Compressor

It's just that the first thing when I think of a Compressor (I'm an audio guy) is a Compressor-the Dynamics Processor (Audio level compression). The Compression article does an ok job (albeit, in a clumsy way) of covering some of the uses of compressor. So, I think that Compressor needs a disambiguation and not necessarily a redirect to a specific meaning (Gas compressor) in the mechanical domain. best, --Ravelite 22:31, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: External links

I saw your note early this morning and moved it to my talk page. I intend to take a closer look tonight after I get dinner in the oven. I've got a couple photos from a trip to Colorado earlier this month where we rode the Pike's Peak Cog Railway; they use an Abt system too, so I need to go through them and look at adding the best images to the article. As a quick side note, use my talk page to send me a message rather than my user page; thanks. Slambo (Speak) 19:44, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

You're right, I haven't had a chance to look at this further. Sheesh, I've got to work from my user talk page more often. B-) Thanks for the reminder. Slambo (Speak) 20:13, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] de:Niklaus Riggenbach translation

Done. Also, see comments at Talk:Niklaus Riggenbach —QuicksilverT @ 19:03, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Henri Sarolea translation cleanup needed

I see from your user page that you claim en-4 skills in your Wikipedia:Babel table and are a native of the Netherlands. Would you care to take a stab at cleaning up Henri Sarolea? —QuicksilverT @ 19:26, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Rack Railway

Sorry you're so bitter. You edits are not deleted; there are special rules for format of links. You can find them in WP:Style and connected pages. They should be in the form: [http://de wikipedia.org/wiki/etc.]. A even better idea would be to translate the pages you linked directly into English. Good work!! --Attilios 13:57, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Move material

Move all the text to Portainer and make this article a #REDIRECT Portainer.

Peter Horn 14:43, 12 October 2006 (UTC)Peter Horn 02:39, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Road Train and Road train

The two all but duplicate each other and most, if not all of the former should be deleted from this article. There also appears to be a lot of duplication(s) in the rest of the Transportation article. Peter Horn 00:57, 12 October 2006 (UTC) Peter Horn 02:39, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Share Taxi and Share taxi

More of the same unnecessary (?) duplication, and there is no doubt more yet. Peter Horn 01:31, 12 October 2006 (UTC) Peter Horn 02:39, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Pacific Crest Trail

You recently made an edit to Pacific Crest Trail: I'm having trouble understanding the intent of the last few changes. It sort of looks like you were adding a footnote elevation, is that right? If so, you could write <ref> elevation numbers </ref> in the body of the text where you want to see the little [2] (or whatever number is assigned for it). More information is at WP:FN Thanks for the metric conversions throughout the article! — EncMstr 19:01, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] dealing with templates

Hi Peter Horn. No problem. It was a bit confusing to track that one down. I'm afraid I created a complicated section of the PCT article with all the cites and references embedded in an infobox template. No wonder you're asking about templates.

A template behaves like a macro (#define) in C or C++, string variables in Perl, Java, Word for Windows form processing, etc., if you've used any of those.

To reference a template, write wikitext with two double curly braces around the template name: {{template name}} There's a good introduction in the last section of Editing basics of Help:Editing.

Templates can be passed parameters. The vertical bar (or pipe) is always the delimiter, if one is needed: {{some template name | parameter 1 | parameter 2 | named_parameter = value | named_parameter2 = value2 }}. This mixes positional and named parameters, which is acceptable, though it seems like all recently written templates use named parameters.

For me, the hardest part of dealing with templates is finding the appropriate one to use. Anymore, I have pretty good luck just guessing and using search to get close.

To look at and see documentation for the cite web template, type into the search box template:cite web then press Go. Some templates have usage documentation on the Template page, others have it on the associated discussion page. To see the actual template code, click on view source or edit. The former appears for protected articles. This particular template uses heavy conditional logic, so the source is kinda ugly.

Does that answer your question?

BTW, It would be much easier to reply if you signed your talk page posts with four tilde's (~~~~) as gets replaced with your username, timestamp and your username is wikilinked to your user page. Like this: — EncMstr 07:03, 27 October 2006 (UTC)


Hello again Peter Horn.

You can view the template {{1m}} by typing template:1m in the search box and pressing go. If editing is permitted, the "edit" tab will appear (otherwise it says "view source").

Before you change it, it would be a good idea to click on "what links here" for template:1m to make sure the predominant usage is compatible with any change you make. Beware that some templates are referenced by thousands of articles. Tread lightly.

This template has this for its contents:
1&nbsp;[[metre|m]] (3&nbsp;[[Foot (unit of length)|ft]] 3&nbsp;[[inch|in]])<noinclude>[[Category:Rail transport gauge templates|{{PAGENAME}}]]</noinclude>

Templates often use more intense and complicated wikimarkup than articles, but this one isn't bad at all. The &nbsp;'s are HTML non breaking spaces: they are just like the space character, except the words on either side are not split for paragraph wrapping.

The <noinclude> tag differentiates between wiki text which is "transcluded" and which is displayed on the template's page. In this case, the rail transport gauge category applies to the template itself. Articles referencing the template are not included in the category.

If that's confusing, just think of the noinclude tag as a comment boundary. Be careful not to introduce anything—especially whitespace—outside the tag which might affect the layout of pages which use it, the most tempting might be to put noinclude at the start of a line.

— EncMstr 08:02, 2 November 2006 (UTC)


Babel is a template which takes parameters. Even among templates, it is unusual because the parameters are expected to be names of templates.

There are several methods to control the layout of user boxes (for example, recycling, vegetarian). The easiest to use are tables and more templates. Look at the text of my user page, and you'll notice it starts with the Babel template (with a long parameter list. After the closing }}, there is {{Boxboxtop}} with a few optional parameters. Then there's a long list of user boxes, followed by {{Boxboxbottom}}. Boxboxtop and Boxboxbottom create a structure which includes the items between them.

On your Afrikaans user page, there is a babel template which is creating your language list. — EncMstr 23:15, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Pictures from the German Wikipedia

I responded here. — EncMstr 03:21, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Adding See also sections to articles

Hi Peter,

I see you've been adding a "See also" link to 800 mm (2 ft 7½ in) to several articles (for example Brienz Rothorn Bahn). I don't see the purpose of this link. The linked article isn't specific to railways, it just gives a comparison of different magintiudes. It doesn't seem like a useful link to the articles. Can you tell me why you are adding this particular link? Many thanks, Gwernol 02:33, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Translation request

Hi Peter, I've translated Carl Roman Abt per your request. I'd be grateful if you'd look over the article when you have time and let me know if I've made any mistakes. Best wishes, --YFB ¿ 02:51, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

Hi again, er... thanks for the list of articles to translate - I have to admit (no offence intended) that I'm not massively interested in mountain railways and only picked up the Carl Roman Abt translation because it looked reasonably bite-sized and had been awaiting translation a while. I'm pretty busy (final year of university) at the moment but I'll try to find time to tackle some of the articles you've listed whenever possible. If you're hoping for rapid progress, though, you might be better off asking elsewhere. Sorry if I'm a disappointment! All the best, --YFB ¿ 04:29, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Terminus Centre-Ville (AMT)

Hi Peter. First, thanks for your numerous contributions to the transit pages in Montreal. To answer your question, ALL terminuses (termini??) are under the responsibility of the AMT. This includes, Panama, Cote-Vertu, Henri-Bourassa, Radisson and all the others listed here Alex@MTRL 03:43, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Template Added

Hi Peter, I just created the AMTbus template. Please feel free to use it and modify it if you create more terminus pages! Alex@MTRL 03:43, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Replies

Thanks for your answers, I'll make the necessary modifocations & I'll see where I can fit in your new template. The reason that I was able to make all these contributions is that I live in Chomedey. BTW, personally I prefer "termini".

Peter Horn 18:38, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

AMT Termini

[edit] CIT Haut Richelieu

For your info, peter, CIT Haut Richelieu is now known as Ville de Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu (I know, AMT page isn't updated).

Alex (kellerGraham)

[edit] Rack railway (2)

Hi Peter, it looks like these can all be transfered to commons. I'll try to do this later today. Best, Gwernol 21:40, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Dolly (trailer)

Hi! I'd just like to make sure You'd notice my question at the talkpage for dolly. It seems You know of something called an H-dolly, which I've never heard of before. If You can provide further info about that, it would sure make me a happier man :-) --G®iffen 15:58, 14 December 2006 (UTC)


I have reverted your inclusion of commercial links to a vehicle manufacturer's web site. Please do not put unnecessary advertising links in wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a link farm for commercial web links.

The US government web site link in the article adequately describes the A-dolly and C-dolly terms used in north america and hence there is no need to include a link to a commercial site advertising a c-dolly product.

I used several google searches to try to compare the prevalence of h-dolly, a-dolly, c-dolly, convertor dolly and low loader dolly. In order to reduce unrelated links and remove links to articles derived from the wikipedia article, I added trailer and -wikipedia, getting a search such as:

"convertor dolly" trailer -wikipedia

I can find nothing to indicate that the term "h-dolly" is anything except a unique marketing term used by one manufacturer to refer to a 2-axle c-dolly. If you can find a verifiable source that shows otherwise, please feel free to add information based upon that source, and don't forget to provide a reference to that source.

I note that you currently appear to be destroying all of the technical content of this article by repeatedly editing the article to remove valid content. Please stop doing so immediately. I am a technical expert on this subject and the changes that you have made in the past few hours are not verifiable because they are incorrect. --Athol Mullen 01:21, 17 December 2006 (UTC)


Hi again. You're right in that both a-dollies and a c-dollies are convertor dollies. Sometimes you have to step back and think about things to see the obvious. :-)

I read every page I could find on the web site mentioned. I found a technical comparison between their c-dolly and an a-dolly. It stated that dollies can have two axles but that all in the study were single-axle. That appears to confirm my conclusion that, given that the difference between a-dolly and c-dolly is one vs two couplings and that the h-dolly has two couplings, h-dolly is their marketing term for their 2-axle c-dolly. In their entire site, I found no mention of the h-dolly being derived from a a-dolly, only comparisons to state that theirs were better than a-dollies. I also found no detail on whether the axles of the h-dolly self steer or not.

I'm not going to go into the design error I found that undermines the basis of the study but it might end up being used in relation to errors in the installation of fifth wheels either in this article or in a separate article if I split it out of semi-trailer. --Athol Mullen 03:16, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Howdy

I see we just narrowly missed each other on Crane (machine) but the system figured it out somehow. I'm done for now, so have at it. Cheers. --CliffC 02:50, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Camrail

Greetings. User:McTrixie left a message for you on my discussion page by mistake. You are welcome to read it part 12:26, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 935 Trainbus Blainville/CentreVille

When the 935 was started, it did go all the way to Guy Concordia. However, they cut it to its present terminus at Rene-Levesque and Peel. I think that was done in 2000 or 2001. Refer to this [press release] it did at one time go to Guy Concordia —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Kellergraham (talk • contribs) 13:28, 25 December 2006 (UTC).

[edit] High Doors / Low Doors

The Hawker Siddeley cars were all former GO Transit cars purchased by the Quebec government in 1994 (before the creation of the AMT). Most of them retained or were given numbers in the 1000 (for regular coaches) and 100 (for cab control cars). You'll see these ones on AMT's CP services (Vaudreuil, Blainville and Candiac). Some cars from the 1000 and 100 series were rebuilt and renumbered to 1200 and 200. The only difference is that one door is high platform for Gare Centrale. A photo of the high doors is here. More info about the AMT's roster can be found here

Alex@MTRL 16:04, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

Nice photo, may be you could include it in an apropriate article like the one mentioned above?

Peter Horn 16:08, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Dorval, Fairview

Because Dorval and Fairview are only served by local STM buses, they are not considered AMT "Terminus Metropolitains". Neither are Monette-Lafleur or the Lachine Correspondence point.

Alex@MTRL 04:14, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Repentigny-Mascouche Line (AMT)

I just reformatted the Repentigny-Mascouche Line (AMT) page to conform with the existing AMT line pages. Do you know more about the temporary commuter train service the STCUM offered in the 1990s which ran on the same line as the proposed new AMT service? If so, please expand the article.

Alex@MTRL 02:44, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Voyageur

Copy/Paste of comment on Voyageur's Page

Voyageur used to operate three Montreal/Ottawa routes:

Montreal/Ottawa EXPRESS Montreal/Ottawa (via Lachute/Hawkesbury) North Montreal/Ottawa (via Dorion/Hawkesbury) South

According to the latest cache of voyageur.com (the original doesn't seem to work), all service have been transfered over to Greyhound. HOWEVER, when querying Greyhound's website for a Montreal/Ottawa trip, it mentions the carrier as VCL.

Google Cache

So, I would assume then that the website is correct. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Kellergraham (talk • contribs) 06:14, 1 January 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Trucks

Pardon for intruding, but would you be interested in supporting the creation of a project about trucks? Please feel free to sign up or just comment at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Proposals#Trucks.   Rotten Stone 16:21, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] I.T.E.C. link on Dolly (trailer)

Hi Peter. Could you please explain why you want the link to I.T.E.C. on the Dolly (trailer) article? The guiding policy is Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (particularly "Wikipedia is not a repository of links" and "Wikipedia is not a directory") and the guideline Wikipedia:External links. Finding other articles that do not follow these and holding them up as examples is not a good idea - Wikipedia would be a complete mess if the standard of every article was reduced to the lowest comparable one we could find, as I'm sure you agree.

For the particular page, I can find no information on that website that is not able to be added to Wikipedia. If there is useful information that is not presently in the article, I suggest adding the information to the article, and link to the website as a footnote reference. If they really are allowed a 12% weight advantage in Mexico, then the Mexican Department of Transport that grants the allowance would be better than the manufacturer's page - it will describe why they are better, and possibly list other brands too. --Scott Davis Talk 03:33, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

I answered your comments on my Talk page. I also note that it is a little disingenuous of you to be citing Coupling (railway) as an article with many external links to companies, when you added many of them in the last two days. Perhaps you should read both WP:EL and WP:POINT. --Scott Davis Talk 03:32, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Montréal-Ouest (AMT)

I created Montréal-Ouest (AMT) station page. If you know when some passenger train routes would have started and ended stopping at Montreal-Ouest, can you please update the page?

[edit] Montréal-Ouest (AMT)

It may be just me, but I never liked the [[1]] [[2]] next to all the bus route numbers indicating the map and schedule. How do you like what I did on the Montréal-Ouest (AMT) page? I'd like to do that system-wide for all the metro and train stations. Alex@MTRL 03:56, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Conflict

Peter, what is the conflict?

between Centre Champlain at Honoré-Beaugrand (Montreal Metro) and Champlain Mall at Terminus Panama (AMT). Peter Horn 01:53, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] You're welcome

Hi Peter, you're welcome. --Kyoko 16:47, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] train table or template?

Hi Peter, I took a look at the table, and I think it's actually a template of some sort. I don't have much experience with either one, so I'm afraid I can't help you fix this. Sorry. I tried looking at fr:Gare centrale de Montréal for some formatting clues, but it's also made up of templates. Maybe you can ask your question at the Wikipedia:Help desk.

As a side note, are you signing your messages with four tildes as in ~~~~? I've noticed that your signatures are in plain text, so that I have to check a page's history in order to contact you. It's been so long since I've had an ordinary signature, but I think that typing in the four tildes will give you a signature that looks like this: Peter Horn 20:42, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

I hope this helps. --Kyoko 20:42, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

I clicked on "Sign your name: Peter Horn 21:07, 5 February 2007 (UTC)" & I'll now try typing in the four tildes Peter Horn 21:07, 5 February 2007 (UTC) one after the other. If that doesn't give results, then I suppose I'll have to go to the help desk.
Maybe if you go to "My preferences", locate your user profile, and type the following where it says "Signature"
[[User:Peter Horn|Peter Horn]]
and then click "Save". You might have to refresh your computer's cache too.
Your sugestion worked just fine. Peter Horn 19:03, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
As for the map image, I'm afraid I haven't yet learned how to deal with image uploads and downloads with Wikipedia. If the image is truly public domain, then it has to be copied or transferred from French Wikipedia to Wikipedia Commons, and then inserted into the article from there. So I get the basic theory, but I don't yet know how to do it. Sorry. --Kyoko 21:32, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] fr:Gare centrale de Montréal (Consolidation) & Gare Centrale (Montreal)

I guess the best thing to do would be to save the image to your computer and reupload it to the English Wikipedia. I've tried adding it as a regular img html tag, but to no avail.

You wrote: How does one copy the following image, and others, from the French article into the English one? I tried, with this one, but got nowhere. Translation of the captions is the least of my problems. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Kellergraham (talk • contribs) 22:17, 6 February 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Dorval (AMT)

Previous station   VIA Rail   Next station
(limited)
   Ottawa-Montreal  
Terminus
Cornwall
toward Aldershot
   Toronto-Montreal  


Any way of getting rid of "toward Fallowfield" and "toward Aldershot". Both are irrelevant, if not incorrect. Peter Horn 00:57, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Would you rather change Fallowfield for Ottawa and Aldershot for Toronto? Or you want the termini to no longer appear? I agree that from Montreal, few trains continue all the way to those two destinations. AirOdyssey (Talk) 02:24, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
The Montreal-Ottawa trains end/start at the "new" station in east end Ottawa (just east of the Rideau Canal). It is the station that replaced the original one in downtown Ottawa near the parliament buildings. See Ottawa Station. The Fallowfield has nothing to do with VIA's Montreal-Ottawa runs. Likewise all Montreal-Toronto runs start/end at Union Station in downtown Toronto. Aldershot is beyond Toronto. Peter Horn 01:04, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
Please have a look at the VIA Rail schedules, as per WP:V. NOT all Montreal-Toronto runs start/end at Union Station. At least one train a day continues to Aldershot. Same thing for Montreal-Ottawa. At least one train a day continues to Fallowfield. P.S. I know where the train stations in Ottawa and Toronto are, I've taken the train on the corridor more than once. That wasn't the point. AirOdyssey (Talk) 01:14, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
My appologies, I guess I havent been keeping up with the latest news. Peter Horn 01:24, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
No problem! AirOdyssey (Talk) 01:46, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

It isn't possible to suppress the termini altogether, but it's trivial to change the destinations. I was given to understand, when I created the templates in question, that said trains continued to those destinations. Is that, in fact, incorrect? What should the termini be? Mackensen (talk) 15:52, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

The Aldershot and Fallowfield termini are not incorrect per se. Like, one or two trains per day continue all the way to those two destinations. The only trouble is: if you change them to Toronto and Ottawa respectively, then the template no longer works if you want to include Aldershot in the Toronto-Montreal line for instance. It will say on the left "Aldershot toward Toronto" which makes no sense. So on second thought, keep the termini as they are. Change "Aldershot" to "Aldershot (certain trains)". AirOdyssey (Talk) 00:42, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
Ditto for "Fallowfield" (certain trains). All these comments also apply to the table in Gare Centrale (Montreal) Peter Horn 01:54, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] RE: List of shopping malls in Saskatoon

Thanks for creating it. The main Saskatoon article was getting a bit too large and back in December, someone else merged in all of the various individual articles describing the various shopping malls so your list was definitely waiting to burst out of the main article. Thomas Dzubin Talk 17:53, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Re shopping Malls

Thank you for also for this page, and the shopping mall articles...please read these talk pages Talk:List of neighbourhoods in Saskatoon. See also Talk:Saskatoon#Merge. There is some more shopping mall information on other neighborhood articles as well. The encyclopedia article grows when the shopping mall info is combined with Neighborhood information and grows past stub status, and perhaps past AFD status. I wish you much luck. I have been uploading Saskatoon shopping mall pictures, so perhaps that will help you out as well to get past stub status. The original old article about the Shopping mall - Midtown Plaza had been very nicely started, and had gone through various edits, I thought it was an awesome article, and then someone did a AFD to it and it was gone. The info about Midtown Plaza on the Central Business District, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan was some of this info from its own article. When I saw that you had created The Mall at Lawson Heights and moved the mall info from Lawson Heights Suburban Centre, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan I worried that your article about the shopping mall would get the AFD that the others are talking about. See the comments of 23skidoo who I believe started that Midtown Plaza article at... User_talk:SriMesh#Saskatoon_neighbourhoods_template I will try to add the reference to the appropriate neighborhoods and pictures on your started shopping mall articles to help them stay alive over the next few days. Kind Regards SriMeshSriMesh Julia


[edit] Shopping Malls and Midtown Plaza

That is a good idea about merging the two articles - I puttered at it this morning. I hope they survive. It is an unusual feeling to surf the web and see another WWW encyclopedia web page article which states the source was Wikipedia and then that selfsame article is deleted off Wikipedia itself. Kind Regards SriMesh SriMesh Julia 17:11, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Shopping Malls and Scotia Centre Shopping Mall

I made some links to shopping malls I have taken pictures of which are on neighborhood sites. I don't really have more information about them. I tried to do a Scotia Centre Shopping Mall site, but it ended up being very scrimpy. Please use the pictures where I have shown neighbohood links on their own shopping mall sites if you can beef up the articles somewhat. Only some of the shopping malls have their own website made so far. I basically only see the Direct West phone book online at mysask.com for some of them. Also ... I will try to find incorporation titles for any listing I make here-to-for Kind Regards SriMesh SriMesh Julia 22:12, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] shopping Malls and pics

S'allright that is what I'll do, and maybe they will be fleshed out and filled in over the long haul. Thanks for everything. Weather is disappointing, we were spoiled with spring melting, and warm weather, and then back to snow fall and the deep freeze. What's up with that? Kind Regards SriMesh SriMesh Julia 23:23, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Who left me a message?

Who left me a message, and what was it about? I could'nt find anything. Peter Horn 18:11, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Jarry Park Stadium

What's your source for this claim that the word "Stadium" was appended to the ballpark name? Wahkeenah 23:22, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

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