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Mass rollback of an IPs edits

Over at WP:EF/FP/R, 69.113.135.130 is requesting help making an innocuous-looking edit to Main Line (Long Island Rail Road). But I see you've rolled back over a dozen of this user's edits without giving an explanation, or warning. What was your reason for the reverts, and the lack of a warning? They've been quite busy, in any case. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 22:52, 31 October 2018 (UTC)

That IP, and at least a dozen before it, have been making no-edit-summary changes to railroad-related articles for months now. Some are good, some are mediocre, and many are outright wrong. (Several of the previous IPs have received blocks.) Given their refusal to respond to talk page messages, and the number of bad edits they repeatedly make, they should be reverted on sight. I've been thinking about filing an LTA report. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 22:57, 31 October 2018 (UTC)

@Pi.1415926535: Perhaps one of you should report this to AIV/ANI, then? I'm not familiar enough with the case, obviously, to make the report, but it looks like this user is still at it as we speak. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 23:09, 31 October 2018 (UTC)

New Haven Line

Trying to show distinct complex service patterns with s-rail, like the New Haven Line, ends up being confusing more than helpful. As a general rule, any given named service - Northeast Regional, New Haven Line, etc - should be shown in s-rail as if it was an all-local service. Unless they separately name different classes of trains (as Caltrain does), it's not worth the maintenance headache - and reader confusion - of showing the service pattern in s-rail. Whatever you're trying to do right now is resulting in some baffling situations - like West Haven station claiming New Haven Union Station to be the terminus. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 21:15, 3 November 2018 (UTC)

@Pi.1415926535: I have already reverted the complex services, everything else should be minimalized now. I did forget to switch the terminus to State Street, so that should be fixed now. Cards84664 (talk) 22:39, 3 November 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for the fix. I really do appreciate all the effort you're putting into s-rail! Pi.1415926535 (talk) 23:14, 3 November 2018 (UTC)

Hudson Line edits

Please don't modify my edits, the "Hudson Line" is the line the stations are served by. Empire Corridor is associated with Amtrak and they do not serve the the MNR stations excluding Yonkers, Croton & Poughkeepsie. Though you are correct, Hudson Line sounds more appropriate as it is owned by Metro-North and more people refer to it as the Hudson. North of Poughkeepsie is Amtrak only so stations northward are better appropriate for use of "Empire Corridor". 67.87.196.115 (talk) 01:06, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

Agreed in full here; that's why it's been that way for years. ɱ (talk) · vbm · coi) 03:47, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Infobox NYCS titlepadding

Template:Infobox NYCS titlepadding has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Frietjes (talk) 15:19, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

Use of left template on Japanese stations

The left template causes syntax errors with the markup parser. Mackensen (talk) 16:07, 18 November 2018 (UTC)

Why the revert at Template:Left?

I'm curious why you reverted my change to Template:Left without leaving a note on the template's talk page. There is a discussion there about the nuances involved. A simple revert of my change does not fix anything, and it introduces Linter errors into many pages. Please revert your edit and join the discussion. Thanks. – Jonesey95 (talk) 19:53, 18 November 2018 (UTC)

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Format

Hi. What happened here? --MarchOrDie (talk) 18:36, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

The long established format for MBTA infobox headers is to match the physical signs on the platforms. Those signs are color coded and all caps. Cards84664 (talk) 18:38, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for the speedy reply. Can you point me to a discussion where this was agreed, please? And can you also say how this fits with MOS:ALLCAPS? Thanks in advance. --MarchOrDie (talk) 18:39, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

I am not aware of an exact discussion, the template in question was created in 2011. I joined in 2015. You could try asking the people that edited it before me. Here's the link. Cards84664 (talk) 18:42, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

I could, or you could. Meantime, I'll reinstate those edits. See also WP:LOCALCONSENSUS. --MarchOrDie (talk) 18:44, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) See Template talk:MBTA infobox header for history. – Jonesey95 (talk) 20:23, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

Thanks, that's interesting. I definitely don't see a consensus there for all caps or multiple instances of the title. It looks daft, adds no information, and contravenes our project-wide style guidelines. --MarchOrDie (talk) 22:10, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

We have this argument once a year. Please stop disrupting articles that you know nothing about. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 23:10, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

Do we? I don't. That sounds very unproductive. I'll move this discussion elsewhere, and I note your hostile edit summary. Really there's no argument to be had though. --MarchOrDie (talk) 23:49, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

Pi.1415926535: If the discussion happens once year, it would be helpful to link from the template's page to a definitive WikiProject MOS, guideline, RfC or other consensus outcome. I found some previous discussions, but they were not conclusive, and the most recent one I found was from 2012. I didn't find the annual discussions from 2013–2018, so please link to them. Thanks in advance! – Jonesey95 (talk) 05:28, 27 November 2018 (UTC)

See this talk page discussion, started without any notification here, as far as I can see. Pinging Pi.1415926535. – Jonesey95 (talk) 19:10, 28 November 2018 (UTC)

They already saw it. Cards84664 (talk) 19:11, 28 November 2018 (UTC)

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Dashes

The name is question is a compound between "Thi-C" (which has a hyphen) and "Campus District". The correct connector is the unspaced en dash. See MOS:DASH for related examples. Dicklyon (talk) 17:00, 15 December 2018 (UTC)

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