User talk:Danners430

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• Strathspey Railway (preserved)
• Long time volunteer. Aim to restrict editing to sourced material only.

WP:CITEVAR

Please don't make pointless invisible edits for that sole reason, especially not when they make future editing of the wikitext much more difficult. Andy Dingley (talk) 14:44, 15 July 2024 (UTC)

The edits are far from pointless. The entire point of formatting citations inline instead of with newlines is to make diffs easier to read. Heck, I've been chastised by other editors for writing citations like that. Danners430 (talk) 14:46, 15 July 2024 (UTC)

Stalking behind other editors and mangling sources as soon as they're added is borderline HOUNDING. I don't expect much better from you, I've yet to see anything other than deletionism and pettiness from any of your edits, but it's not on. Andy Dingley (talk) 14:53, 15 July 2024 (UTC)

So now we're going to personal attacks, are we? I really don't want to go to ANI, but you're beginning to be tiresom... those pages are on my watchlist - that is the point of a watchlist, it has nothing to do with hounding. Danners430 (talk) 14:54, 15 July 2024 (UTC)

• Seriously ? Andy Dingley (talk) 08:52, 26 July 2024 (UTC)

  Here we go again. I haven't touched what you altered - I simply did to that article what I've been doing to multiple different articles throughout the UK Rail project. I'm not singling you out, nor stalking you, I'm simply tidying up the number of references in the reflist. If you look through my edit history, you'll find multiple other pages where I've done the same thing, yet you seem to completely ignore them? Danners430 (talk) 09:08, 26 July 2024 (UTC)

  I will however apologise for the edit summary I left on that page - that was me pre-coffee, and was uncalled for. Danners430 (talk) 09:09, 26 July 2024 (UTC)

Citation - journal or magazine?

Hi Danners430. Re your edit on the SVR Rolling stock page "That's not how cite web works". Noted thanks, and I'm happy not to use "Cite Web" for that type of reference. However I see that you've replaced it with {{cite journal}} which I note refers to "academic and scientific papers published in bona fide journals", and suggests that for articles in magazines and newsletters one should use {{cite magazine}}. Branch Lines is a monthly newsletter, therefore shouldn't we use that instead? Thanks for the other updates on that page, by the way. Cheers. Robin84F (talk) 17:33, 15 July 2024 (UTC)

I definitely made a mistake in my definition of a journal then - definitely better to switch to magazine, cheers for raising that! Danners430 (talk) 17:55, 15 July 2024 (UTC)

Thanks, I've updated it accordingly and I know what to use next time! On a different but related topic, I'm planning on making my proposed changes to the main SVR article as I posted on WikiProject UK Railways and in the absence of any adverse comment there. As stage 1, I've drafted a new version of the map showing only the heritage railway in my sandbox; if you have a chance I'd be grateful for any thoughts you might have before I start. Cheers. Robin84F (talk) 19:47, 15 July 2024 (UTC)

20901/20905

Hi Danners430. Regarding your edit on the British Rail Class 20 page, you reverted edits regarding 20901/20905 on the basis that these were operated by HNRC. This is not correct, they were sold by HNRC to BB in January 2024 and now have no operational or commercial link to HNRC. I have provided evidence in the references, but as I also managed the purchase on behalf of Balfour Beatty I am confident this is the case. Thank you, and all the best. Scott Bradley (talk) 09:46, 24 July 2024 (UTC)

Those sources certainly work - just please don't use bare URLs like those when citing sources. Danners430 (talk) 12:43, 24 July 2024 (UTC)