User talk:CourtneyBonnick

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[edit] Hi there. Welcome to Wikipedia

I couldn't help but notice that you've been creating articles on London Buses. A while ago there were people trying to delete all of these. Myself and the other member of WikiProject London Transport were able to keep the articles at a high enough quality to allow them to stay.

I created User:web_kai2000/London Buses route layout to ensure that this quality was maintained, so please don't be offended if people try to delete the ones you create or turn them into redirects.

If you need any more help in this subject, just leave a message on my talk page. --sonicKAI 01:53, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Deleted article

A tag has been placed on Thick lipped gourami, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article providing little or no context to the reader. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself. If you plan to expand the article, you can request that administrators wait a while for you to add contextual material. To do this, affix the template {{hangon}} to the page and state your intention on the article's talk page. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Theunicyclegirl 20:05, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] London Bus articles

These are the things that I want you to do:

  • Can you not delete the bus routes that i have just created, it is very insulting because I am London bus enthusiast and I know my bus routes pretty well.
  • Instead of deleting my bus routes that i have just created, why don't you tell me were i've gone wrong and tell me how to make them better.CourtneyBonnick 21:22, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
  1. I'm sorry if you were insulted. I know what it's like, but your articles would have been deleted sooner or later
  2. Here's where you went wrong. You need to use the London Bus route infobox to display cartain information like PVR and management. Currently London Buses route 79 is a perfect example of what should be in the infobox.

I don't doubt how well you know your bus routes, and I didn't mean to offend you, but articles on London buses have been nominated for deletion more times than I can count. Here are a few examples: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

If you need any more help, you know how to find me --sonicKAI 01:08, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

I have just gone through and made extensive fixes to the London Buses route E6 article. You should take a look at how I have formatted the infobox, headers and categories as you shouldn't just cut and paste these from other articles. Also I've fixed numerous spelling and grammatical errors in the text. Finally I've removed the several examples of personal commentary that you included. Its very important that Wikipedia articles are written from a neutral point of view and do not include your personal commentary. Thanks, Gwernol 05:38, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
Please do the same for London Buses route 297, London Buses route 223 and London Buses route 282 all of which have the same typoes of errors in them. Thanks, Gwernol 05:40, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] How to create the infobox

Thank you. How do i creat a London bus route Infobox and add pictures.CourtneyBonnick 20:57, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

I've got everything set up at User:web_kai2000/London Buses route layout. Just copy and paste.
Another thing, you may want to create you newest London Bus article as a userpage. To do that just put User:CourtneyBonnick/ in front of the page title. For example: User:CourtneyBonnick/London Buses route ### --sonicKAI 15:37, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
By the way, if you have any pictures you own that you would like to use, let me know. We're not allowed to use pictures on other websites.--sonicKAI 15:40, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] categories

In order to add a bus article to its category, you must add Category:London bus routes. It doesn't work by editing the category itself. Just thought you'd like to know. --sonicKAI 00:49, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] London bus articles

I have just created London bus route 606 and their is this grey thing on it, how do i get rid of it?CourtneyBonnick 18:30, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

The article was tagged as being non-notable a few minutes after you created it. I'll sort it out for you. --sonicKAI 21:03, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bus routes infoboxes

Courtney, you are still creating bus route articles without properly including the infoboxes. Please do not just cut and paste the contents of one article into another. For example look at London Buses route 237 and see how you have ugly extra information like "{{length}}" and "{{image}}" in the infobox? Now edit the article, see how your infobox code looks like this:


{| class="infobox" style="width: 29em;"
|+ style="font-size: large;" | 237
!colspan="2" align="center" | {{{image}}}
|-
! colspan="2" bgcolor="#FF0000"  | <font color="#FFFFFF">Management
|-
|'''Operated by''' || [[Metroline]]
|-
|'''Garage''' || [[Brentford]]
|-
|'''Vehicle''' || [[Dennis Trident 2]] 9.9m / [[Alexander ALX400]] 
|-
|'''Peak vehicle requirement''' || 22
|-
! colspan="2" bgcolor="#FF0000"  | <font color="#FFFFFF">Route
|-
|'''Start''' || Hounslow Heath
|-
|'''Via''' || Hounslow

Brentford

Kew Bridge

Turnham Green

Chiswick

Stamford Brook
|-
|'''End''' || Shepherd's Bush Green
|-
|'''Length''' || {{{length}}}
|-
! colspan="2" bgcolor="#FF0000"  | <font color="#FFFFFF">Service
|-
|'''Level''' || {{{level}}}
|-
|'''Frequency''' || About every 8-12 minites
|-
|'''Journey time''' || {{{time}}}
|-
|'''Night''' || N9 between Stamford Brook and Hpunslow
|-
! colspan="2" bgcolor="#FF0000"  | <font color="#FFFFFF">Adult single fares
|-
|'''[[Oyster card|Oyster]] || £1.00
|-
|'''Cash''' || £2.00
|-
!colspan="2" bgcolor="#efefef" align="center" | <small>[[Transport for London]]</small>
|}

Compare this to the article London Buses route E6 which I fixed for you. Edit that page and look at how the infobox is created:

{{Infobox London Bus
     | number=E6
     | image=
     | operator=[[Travel London]]
     | length= 
     | time=34-51 minutes
     | vehicle=[[Dennis Dart SLF]] 8.8m/[[Plaxton Pointer]]
     | garage=[[Travel London#Hayes|Hayes]]
     | start=[[Greenford station]]
     | via=[[Hayes]] Willow Tree
     | end=Bull's Bridge Tesco
     | level= 
     | frequency=About every 15-20 minutes
     | night=No night service
     | pvr=8
|}}

This is how the infobox should be created when you edit a page.

Similarly instead of using '''History''' as a section header, you should use ==History==.

These formatting commands are important as they result in a consistent appearance of articles and stop you getting ugly missing fields in the infobox. For more information about formatting articles, please read the manual of style. Please also go back and fix up the bus route articles you have already created before you create more ones.

Many thanks, Gwernol 21:16, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

Hello, saw your post on asperger's discussion.

Aspies are known for their creativity, intelligence, different and fresh perspectives. Hans Asperger, the guy who started the whole thing, actually said that Aspies are *more likely* to be successful in the arts and sciences.

Straight from the horses mouth :

‘To our own amazement, we have seen that autistic individuals, as long as they are intellectually intact, can almost always achieve professional success, usually in highly specialized academic professions, often in very high positions, with a preference for abstract content. We found a large number of people whose mathematical ability determines their professions; mathematicians, technologists, industrial chemists and high-ranking civil servants.’

Asperger H. Die ‘autischen Psychopathen’ im Kindesalter. Arch Psychiatrie Nervenkrankheiten 1944;17: 76-136.

And ...

‘It seems that for success in science or art a dash of autism is essential. For success the necessary ingredients may be an ability to turn away from the everyday world, from the simple practical, an ability to rethink a subject with originality so as to create in new untrodden ways, with all abilities canalised into the one speciality’. - Hans Asperger

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=539373

And Asperger should know, it's his disorder after all :)

A lot of writers with Asperger's too. We've got a few hundred here, very active in developing Wikipedia.

CeilingCrash 01:03, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Buses WikiProject

I notice that you have edited lists of bus routes recently. You might be interested in helping with the new WikiProject buses, especially the proposed Bus route list guide. We are also working out when a bus route should have its own article and other issues. --NE2 15:32, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] C2, 205, 628 and others

Do you have a source to show these 24hr\new services? Simply south 22:20, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

OK. Simply south 11:09, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Original Barnstar

The Original Barnstar
I award you this barnstar in recognition of your wonderful work regarding London Bus Routes. Well done, and keep it up! Lradrama 13:04, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

Why do you make this comment about astberger och success? Despite of the evidence that there has been successful people with the diagnosis astberger?

[edit] Messages

Can you please sign your messages.C.bonnick 05:42, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] London Bus

Hello. What are your thoughts on creating merged London Buses routes H18 and H19 and London Buses routes H9 and H10 articles, as the routes are so closely related to each other? The original article titles could serve as redirects. MRSC • Talk 12:53, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Requested article: Featherfin squeaker / Synodontis eupterus

(Cross posted to User talk:CourtneyBonnick and User talk:Jourdy288)

I see from the history of List of freshwater aquarium fish species that you are interested in tropical fish. I have an article request. Can you create Featherfin squeaker (Synodontis eupterus)? We recently got a submission on the photo submission OTRS queue of some featherfin squeaker pictures (Image:Synodontis eupterus 1.jpg and Image:Synodontis eupterus 2.jpg) and I'd like to see them used in an article. Raul654 (talk) 03:38, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] London Buses route H9 and H10

I got involved in London Buses by accident when a user was trying to insert the 'ibus' logo along with the number in the 'Infobox London Bus' template. This disrupted the reading of that field by the template to connect to the related Performance.pdf file. I fixed that by the addition of another parameter for active ibus routes that only displays the logo with the number (see London Buses route 482) if 'ibus=yes' is entered. Similarly what you have done in this article, by combining the two numbers, is also to disable that same function. The only way out is to divide the article again. To see what I mean, quickly edit, preview and test with only one number - and it works. Could you please let other editors know about this, as I am not a part of the group. Hope I have helped. -Secondarywaltz (talk) 16:52, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] offer on working on the UK Transport Wiki

Hi CourtneyBonnick,

I am creating a Wiki all about transport in the UK and i was wondering if you would like to join and edit it. This offer has been offered to you as you are interested in London Buses. Please write back on my talk page.

Many Thanks

Dudleybus Spake 2 me 16:38, 3 June 2008 (BST)