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This user has been a Wikipedian since 5 May 2009.
This user has been editing Wikipedia for more than ten years.
This user is a member of WikiProject UK Railways.
This user is a participant in WikiProject Stations.
This user enjoys British folk rock music.
... more userboxes ...
We need people like these. The one at far left is being punished for trying to explain what accessibility means, and why it is a bad idea to deliberately ignore it

Redrose64 is a Wikipedian who has found that whilst there are many excellent articles, there are still some which could do with improvement. Not all are accurate or reliably sourced: this anon gets the idea. Thus, I decided to become an editor. My primary concerns are coverage of the British railway system, and certain records and their labels; hence the userboxes at right.[bad style - changes from third to first person in same paragraph] Every so often something annoys me and I become something of a gnome. My platypoid tendencies occasionally manifest themselves in other ways (a b c d).

Quick links to other subpages
BS icons, group 1
Common constants
Library
Links to handy Wikipedia pages
Railway Electrification prior to 1956
Railways in Oxfordshire
Referencing Demo
Sandbox (2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12)
Babel user information
en-NThis user has a native understanding of English.
de-1Dieser Benutzer beherrscht Deutsch auf grundlegendem Niveau.
fr-1Cet utilisateur dispose de connaissances de base en français.
simple-2This user has intermediate knowledge of Simple English.
Users by language

About me

This is not me
This is not me either
...or are they?

Just so that you know: I do not appreciate being called a racist or a sexist, even to my face. Evidence is required.

What do I do?

This user is a software engineer.

I am a computer programmer by profession, with diverse interests in many apparently unrelated areas. I've tried to show that by means of userboxes; unfortunately, if formatted as a single column, it turned out to be rather long but was still not exhaustive. Since it got a bit silly, I've shunted most of them into a siding. A few have been retained, placed alongside relevant paragraphs as illustration.

My programming skills are mainly in DataFlex and PFXplus (also known as Powerflex). I also have experience in HTML.

{{Wiki}}This user is an intermediate writer in the MediaWiki language.

This page might look messy; just as I worked out how HTML is done, I find Wikipedia with its strange ways of doing lists, tables etc. - and I can't always find the template that I like. However, hopefully my contributions are much neater.

You won't find me on TubeFace or SpaceBook; I don't tweet, blog, share files or anything else like that. I know that some people have great fun doing such things, but it's not my bag.

About my computer

This user uses Microsoft Windows under duress.

Not so long ago it was state of the art. But no longer. I can't keep on buying new kit just because some silly software salesman in Seattle says that their stuff needs it. So, by doing nothing, I move backwards.

A red queen, yesterday;
but not with me

Just at this moment, somehow or other, they began to run.

... they were running hand in hand, and the [Red] Queen went so fast that it was all she [Alice] could do to keep up with her: and still the Queen kept crying 'Faster! Faster!' but Alice felt she could not go faster, though she had no breath left to say so. The most curious part of the thing was, that the trees and the other things round them never changed their places at all: however fast they went, they never seemed to pass anything. ... till suddenly, just as Alice was getting quite exhausted, they stopped, and she found herself sitting on the ground, breathless and giddy. The Queen propped her up against a tree, and said kindly, 'You may rest a little now.' Alice looked round her in great surprise. 'Why, I do believe we've been under this tree the whole time! Everything's just as it was!'

'Of course it is,' said the Queen. ... 'It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!'

— Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass, and what Alice found there
Browsers installed

Why Redrose64?

This user is from the Real Lancashire
Roses don't have to be red

The red rose is the badge of the Duchy of Lancaster and my family mostly come from Lancashire. My favourite football team has a red rose in its badge; my favourite cricket county has a red rose on their cap; and (coincidentally) I have friends in the Welsh village of Rhos-goch. Sometimes, it's because of Burns Night.

64This user's favorite number is 64.

I was born in 1964, and the number 64 seems to come up in my life more often than the law of averages might suggest. It is also an exact power of 2, and therefore significant to a computer programmer.

Where am I?

This user lives in Oxfordshire
This user lives in England.
Countries visited

I have always lived in England, presently in Didcot. Strangely, my IP address always geolocates to a wildly incorrect location: sometimes it's in Olney, Buckinghamshire; maybe in Ruislip; or Cheapside, London - opposite St Mary-le-Bow; the middle of the Thames at 51°29′47″N 0°07′21″W / 51.496399°N 0.122400°W / 51.496399; -0.122400; Edgware Road, Kilburn; or even western Sheffield (all being places where I have never lived); but normally it's 51°30′00″N 0°07′48″W / 51.50000°N 0.13000°W / 51.50000; -0.13000, which is the Methodist Central Hall Westminster (work that out if you can) - this is 49.17 miles (79.13 km) away from the truth (check your own here). My mother has a different broadband supplier and lives 30 miles from me, but when at home, her laptop's IP address also geolocates to 51° 30′ 0″ N, 0° 7′ 48″ W, which is nuts. I have previously lived at Stonehouse, Corby, Telford, Bolton, Blackburn and Barford St. Michael. When living in Bolton, I lived opposite John Marshall (railway historian).

I have been to other countries (always as a tourist), see box at top of section. It's chronological, so sorry to Scots everywhere. I have visited every traditional county in England, the last to be crossed off being Sussex in about 1999. However, I've not yet been to some of the new-fangled counties/unitary authorities such as Cleveland.

Former colleagues

Well, since most of us edit Wikipedia under pseudonyms, I can't be certain who anybody is, but I'm pretty sure that Mermade worked with me for some 15 years. Hello!

Wikipedians I have met

Wikipedia Meetups
Upcoming
London 208September 8, 2024 (2024-09-08)
Oxford 104September 15, 2024 (2024-09-15)
Brixton 3September 24, 2024 (2024-09-24)
London 209October 13, 2024 (2024-10-13)
Recent
Edinburgh 17August 31, 2024 (2024-08-31)
Brixton 2August 27, 2024 (2024-08-27)
Oxford 103August 18, 2024 (2024-08-18)
London 207August 11, 2024 (2024-08-11)
ExeterJune 8, 2024 (2024-06-08)
Leeds 6May 4, 2024 (2024-05-04)
Brighton 2February 3, 2024 (2024-02-03)
UK virtual 20December 6, 2023 (2023-12-06)
Bristol 4September 16, 2023 (2023-09-16)
Cambridge 46June 18, 2023 (2023-06-18)
Outside the UK
Past meetups

Awards

This editor is a Grandmaster Editor FC and is entitled to display this Mithril Editor Star with the Neutronium Superstar hologram.
This user has written or expanded 5 articles featured in the Did You Know section on the Main Page.
This user has helped promote 2 good articles on Wikipedia.
The Wikilink Barnstar
for working to speed up navigation by dilligently fixing links pointed at diambiguation pages! --SquidSK (1MClog) 16:21, 12 November 2009 (UTC)

Link to original award of the above by SquidSK

Updated DYK queryOn January 29, 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article James Cudworth (engineer), which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits your article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check ) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Link to original award of the above by DYKadminBot. Article received 448 hits on 29 January 2010

The Railways Barnstar
Awarded for your work in expanding the James Cudworth (engineer) article. Mjroots (talk) 08:01, 7 February 2010 (UTC)

Link to original award of the above by Mjroots

Link to original award of the above by Mjroots

The Editor's Barnstar
for your efforts in fixing the soon-to-be serious problem with the templates that I had left unoticed. Where would we be without you? Jaguar (talk) 21:17, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

Link to original award of the above by Jaguar

Link to original award of the above by DYKUpdateBot. Article received 1137 hits on 29 January 2011

Link to original award of the above by DYKUpdateBot. Article received 1459 hits on 12 February 2011

The WikiProject Doctor Who Award
For your work on keeping Wikipedia's DW articles encyclopedic MarnetteD | Talk 23:42, 6 June 2011 (UTC)

Link to original award of the above by MarnetteD

The Citation BarnstarThe Citation Barnstar
For quickly correcting the table at Los Angeles City Council after the request of one anguished Wikipedian! GeorgeLouis (talk) 16:28, 30 June 2011 (UTC)

Link to original award of the above by GeorgeLouis.

Link to original award of the above by DYKUpdateBot. Article received 3596 hits on 23 July 2011

Link to original award of the above by Bob Castle

The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
Thank you for your help. I'm feeling the love. Thank you. Dannymol (talk) 13:27, 20 September 2011 (UTC)

Link to original award of the above by Dannymol.

The Zoroastrianism Barnstar
For helping an inexperienced user with essential project maintenance. Your kindness is appreciated. Doughbo (talk) 21:55, 12 May 2024 (UTC)


Userboxes

There are several scattered about this page, partly as illustration of the paragraph alongside, but mainly to brighten the place up a bit. There are well over 100 that I wanted to incorporate, but if formatted as a single column they took up too much space, so most of the rest have been moved to a userboxes sub-page. Some were removed because the Great Renaming Plan of April 2015 turned them into redlinks.

Politics

In the UK there are several political parties; I have supported some of them, but not all. In the United States they have two parties, let's hear what one politician from each party has said:

And tonight I have the high privilege and distinct honor of my own as the first president to begin the State of the Union message with these words: Madam Speaker.

— President George W. Bush, State of the Union Address, 23 January 2007

Madam Speaker, Madam Vice President. No president has ever said those words from this podium ... And it's about time.

— President Joe Biden, Speech to a joint session of Congress, 28 April 2021

Articles

Editing

This user tries to do the right thing. If they make a mistake, please let them know.
This user page has been vandalized 12 times.
This user has been attacked by a sock puppet.
This user has an alternative account named Redrose64a.
This user is an administrator on the English Wikipedia. (verify)
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Some edit counts
271,000+This user has made more than 271,000 contributions to Wikipedia, over 53,000 of which were to articles, on over 34,000 distinct pages.
12+This user has made more than 12 contributions to the Chinese Wikipedia, over 5 of which were to articles.
9+This user has made more than 9 contributions to the Czech Wikipedia, over 7 of which were to articles.
20+This user has made more than 20 contributions to the French Wikipedia, over 15 of which were to articles.
11+This user has made more than 11 contributions to the German Wikipedia, over 8 of which were to articles.
15+This user has made more than 15 contributions to the Italian Wikipedia, over 6 of which were to articles.
15+This user has made more than 15 contributions to the Japanese Wikipedia, over 7 of which were to articles.
12+This user has made more than 12 contributions to the Russian Wikipedia, over 6 of which were to articles.
17+This user has made more than 17 contributions to the Simple English Wikipedia, over 9 of which were to articles.
7+This user has made more than 7 contributions to the Swedish Wikipedia, over 5 of which were to articles.
29+This user has made more than 29 contributions to the Welsh Wikipedia, over 23 of which were to articles.
4,000+This user has made more than 4,000 contributions to Wikimedia Commons, over 1 of which were to articles.
77+This user has made more than 77 contributions to Wikimedia Meta-Wiki, over 25 of which were to articles.
251+This user has made more than 251 contributions to Wikidata, over 241 of which were to articles.
This user has created 123 articles on Wikipedia.

Virtually all my edits have been on either English Wikipedia or Wikimedia Commons. Whether good or (hopefully not) bad, all edits that I have done are recorded as by Redrose64, with the following exceptions:

  1. 82.109.193.99 12:53, 29 April 2009 - Matty Grooves Records (diff); this was before I registered
  2. 213.232.79.146 14:59, 21 October 2009 - c:User talk:Redrose64 (diff); I didn't realise that the browser I was using didn't pass on all cookies that it should have
  3. 87.114.117.131 13:12, 4 March 2010 - Chaucer coming in contact with Petrarch or Boccaccio (diff); whilst carrying out this edit, I somehow became logged out. No idea why.
  4. 194.81.226.131 18:42, 11 November 2016 - Talk:LMS Coronation Class (diff); in public library, so intentionally not logged in
  5. 94.118.5.104 15:29, 21 May 2017 and 15:32, 21 May 2017 - Talk:Senna glycoside (diff); somebody else's mobile device
  6. 94.118.94.134 16:56, 21 May 2017 - User talk:RexxS (diff); somebody else's mobile device
  7. Whispyhistory 14:21, 20 August 2017 - Charles Singer (diff) and 14:34, 20 August 2017 - User talk:Redrose64 (diff); assisting another user at a meetup

However, no other edits of any page from those IP addresses or accounts were mine. When editing from home, my normal IP address is dynamic, and begins 87; but the other three groups vary on a daily basis.

For the purposes of testing various features under circumstances of low user permissions, I have created account Redrose64a (talk · contribs)

Naughtiness

My alleged misdemeanours, such as they are, are recorded here. Despite these, I seem to have been given some extra rights on 14 June 2010. It's not all been bad.

Non-English editing

I have done a few, mainly to fix up mistakes by non-English speakers which a 'bot then propagated back to the English article, also to fix up errors copied verbatim from English Wikipedia. I've also set up a number of interlanguage links. They have all gone on as Redrose64 though; these edits on other Wikipedias were mine: Arabic; Basque; Belarusian; Bosnian; Breton; Bulgarian; Cantonese; Catalan; Chinese; Colognian; Croatian; Czech; Danish; Dutch; Esperanto; Estonian; Finnish; French; Georgian; German; Greek; Hungarian; Indonesian; Italian; Japanese; Korean; Latvian; Lithuanian; Luxembourgish; Macedonian; Malay; Norwegian; Odia; Persian; Polish; Portuguese; Romanian; Russian; Serbo-Croatian; Simple English; Sinhala; Slovak; Spanish; Swedish; Tagalog; Thai; Turkish; Ukrainian; Urdu; Vietnamese; Volapük; Welsh. For some reason, the Amharic, Aragonese, Bangla, Bavarian, Bhojpuri, Central Kurdish, Egyptian Arabic; Emiliano-Romagnolo; Hindi; Kazakh; Ligurian; Malayalam; Moroccan Arabic; Punjabi; Tajik and Tulu Wikipedias, and Tamil Wikisource have noticed me. I had difficulty logging in at Urdu where I could only edit anonymously. See also List of WikiMedia accounts; SUL Info (see bottom for unattached accounts); Recent contributions on all projects

Other WikiMedia projects
  • Commons (watchlist) - besides uploading a few dozen images myself, I've categorised over two thousand images uploaded by others
  • Incubator (watchlist) - for some reason, they've noticed me
  • MediaWiki (watchlist)
  • Meta (watchlist) - mainly for Meetups
  • Wikidata (watchlist)
  • Wikinews (watchlist)
  • Wikivoyage (watchlist)
  • Wiktionary (watchlist)
  • Wikimedia UK (watchlist)

Done

Most of my editing has been amendments to existing articles. I also fix vandalism as and when I encounter it. However, I do claim to be the creator of:

ArticleSeqDateClass
11D8120 March 2011
11E8927 May 2011
11F8220 March 2011
2011 Cherwell District Council election856 May 2011 ???
Abingdon Road Halt railway station1222 September 2009 Stub
Agecroft Bridge railway station7111 January 2011 Stub
Beattie well tanks14131 December 2022 C
Bedford VAS14516 March 2024 ???
Boar's Head railway station6116 November 2010 Stub
Brent sidings3313 April 2010 Stub
Brookfield railway station (England)11711 March 2013 Stub
Bryngwyn Halt railway station11416 February 2013 Stub
Butler-Henderson1211 February 2014
Buxton railway station (Midland Railway)9618 October 2011 Start
Buxworth railway station9315 July 2011 Stub
Chalford railway station6028 October 2010 Start
Chalvey Halt railway station8616 May 2011 Start
Chapel-en-le-Frith Central railway station9718 November 2011 Stub
Cheltenham High Street railway station3013 March 2010 Start
Cheltenham Spa Malvern Road railway station275 March 2010 C
Cheltenham Spa St. James railway station285 March 2010 C
Chequerbent railway station6828 December 2010 Start
Cirencester Town railway station5724 October 2010 Stub
Clarbeston Road and Letterston Railway676 December 2010 Start
Clyde Locomotive Company3825 May 2010 Start
Coed Ely railway station7516 February 2011 Stub
Counting the Eons421 July 2009 Stub
Crossley Mancunian14821 September 2024 ???
Daniel Kinnear Clark2429 January 2010 Start
Darcy Lever railway station5511 October 2010 Stub
Dinmore railway station (England)985 January 2012 Stub
Douglas West railway station1121 December 2012 Start
Downham and Stoke Ferry Railway4029 May 2010 Start
East Anglian (train)11824 March 2013 C
East Linton railway station10025 March 2012 Start
Ely and Newmarket Railway4727 June 2010 Start
Ely Valley Railway7617 February 2011 C
Ensam1387 July 2020
Eric Butler-Henderson1201 February 2014 Start
Fretherne with Saul798 March 2011 Stub
Fritwell & Somerton railway station73 August 2009 Start
Gangway connection3419 April 2010 C
Gateshead railway station9126 June 2011 Start
GCR Class 1B2222 January 2010 Start
GCR Classes 8D and 8E7824 February 2011 C
GCR Class 9P12523 March 2015 Start
GCR Class 11E8825 May 2011 C
George Augustus Nokes2621 February 2010 Start
GWR 378 Class5412 September 2010 Start
Haddenham railway station (Buckinghamshire)1013 September 2009 Start
Hertford Cowbridge railway station413 June 2010 Stub
Heswall railway station (Birkenhead Railway)7330 January 2011 Start
Heyford Park14726 May 2024 ???
Hinksey Halt railway station1322 September 2009 Start
Hold Your Horses (Ella Edmondson album)627 July 2009 Redirect
Hunt Edmunds8723 May 2011 Start
Iffley Halt railway station113 July 2009 Stub
Jackament's Bridge Halt railway station653 December 2010 Start
Jordanston Halt railway station10215 May 2012 Start
King's Cross railway accident259 February 2010 C
LCDR Acis class13327 November 2016 Start
LCDR Aeolus class1296 November 2016 Start
LCDR Brigand class13010 November 2016 Start
LCDR Echo class13223 November 2016 Start
LCDR R class1716 January 2010 Start
LCDR R1 class1916 January 2010 Start
LCDR Second Sondes class1285 November 2016 Start
LCDR Sondes class1275 November 2016 Start
LCDR Tiger class13117 November 2016 Start
LD&ECR Class D5620 October 2010 Start
Maidenhead Boyne Hill railway station158 November 2009 Stub
Market Drayton railway station12410 January 2015 Start
Marriage and Civil Partnership (Scotland) Act 201412213 March 2014 Start
Melton Halt railway station10915 November 2012 Start
Metropolitan and Great Central Joint Railway945 August 2011 Start
MG Midget (disambiguation)14330 May 2023 Disambig
Montgomery railway station11329 January 2013 Start
Mouldon Hill railway station10429 August 2012 Stub
Moulsford railway station1115 September 2009 Start
National Assembly for Wales (Official Languages) Act 201210814 November 2012 Start
NBR 141 Class1236 July 2014 Start
NBR 224 and 420 Classes9213 July 2011 GA
NER 38 Class5319 August 2010 C
NER Class V13731 January 2020 Start
Newchurch Halt railway station4413 June 2010 Stub
Newnham railway station2911 March 2010 Start
Neyland railway station5824 October 2010 Start
North Filton Platform railway station7718 February 2011 C
Offord and Buckden railway station3928 May 2010 Stub
Oldfield Road railway station8328 March 2011 Start
Oldham Mumps railway station (London and North Western Railway)7222 January 2011 Stub
Ouse Bridge railway station4621 June 2010 Stub
Park Leaze Halt railway station665 December 2010 Start
Plodder Lane railway station6930 December 2010 Stub
Portsmouth and Ryde Joint Railway13523 June 2019 Start
Quakers Yard and Merthyr Railway3120 March 2010 Stub
Ramsey railway station3717 May 2010 Disambig
Reading Southern railway station143 November 2009 C
Redmarshall railway station5022 July 2010 Start
Reston railway station9922 March 2012 Start
Robert Absalom Thom2324 January 2010 Start
Rover P11421 April 2023 Disambig
Sarnau railway station6429 November 2010 Stub
Savernake Low Level railway station5213 August 2010 Stub
Seaton railway station (Devon)11028 November 2012 Start
SECR R class2016 January 2010 Disambig
SER 235 class2119 January 2010 Start
SER A class1405 April 2022 C
SER R class1816 January 2010 C
Silly Verse for Kids13615 August 2019 Stub
Harry Meysey-Thompson11129 November 2012 Stub
Snailham Halt railway station9030 May 2011 Start
SNCF Class A1AA1A 68000707 January 2011 Stub
South Church railway station515 August 2010 Stub
Spetchley railway station12627 July 2015 Start
Stapleford railway station424 June 2010 Stub
St Clears railway station6326 November 2010 Stub
St Helens Central railway station (Great Central Railway)1068 November 2012 Start
St Helens railway station1058 November 2012 Disambig
St. Marys railway station3617 May 2010 Disambig
Sturton railway station14611 May 2024 ???
Sudbury railway station (disambiguation)11927 August 2013 Disambig
Symington railway station10125 March 2012 Start
Taw Valley Halt railway station1033 June 2012 Stub
Tempsford railway station3514 May 2010 Stub
Tetbury Road railway station3226 March 2010 Start
The Glenn Miller Story (album)13927 May 2021 Stub
The Mound railway station4830 June 2010 C
The Sun Shines Bright (book)321 July 2009 Stub
Thetford Bridge railway station846 April 2011 Start
The Tragedy of the Moon522 July 2009 Stub
Union Bank Farm Halt railway station5926 October 2010 Start
Velvet Hall railway station438 June 2010 Stub
Virgin Trains (disambiguation)1345 April 2019 Disambig
West Auckland railway station1079 November 2012 Start
West Stanley railway station4917 July 2010 Start
Western Valley14418 July 2023 Start
Wickham railway station (Hampshire)9512 August 2011 Stub
Widnes Central railway station11519 February 2013 Start
Willersey Halt railway station1166 March 2013 Start
Wilsthorpe Crossing Halt railway station6221 November 2010 Stub
Wolf's Castle Halt railway station8011 March 2011 Start
Wotton railway station (Brill Tramway)812 September 2009 FA
Wotton railway station (Great Central Railway)912 September 2009 Start
X Stands for Unknown221 July 2009 Stub
Ynyshir railway station7410 February 2011 Start
York engine sheds and locomotive works1613 January 2010 Start
Zino (horse)4520 June 2010 Stub
  1. See here for verification. The list produced by this link shows four pages (LNER electric units, 2 January 2011; Alexandra Park railway station, 12 January 2011; Edmund Ward, 1 August 2011; Mid-Kent Railway, 9 December 2011) in addition to the above. These were created as redirects by me but have been expanded either to full articles (Mid-Kent Railway) or to disambiguation pages (others) by other people.
  2. For some reason, in some edit counters, articles which are purely redirects also count towards the total, so to resolve the discrepancy, I admit to being responsible for setting up over 150 redirects, some of which were as a result of page moves. See here for verification.

To find out how many times an article is accessed daily: Wikipedia article traffic statistics - make sure that both date and article are filled in suitably. Thanks to Henrik via Piano non troppo.

Templates

  1. See here for verification, except for those deleted.
  2. This list includes deleted templates, but excludes redirects and certain types of subpage such as /doc, /sandbox and /testcases.

Other non-talk namespaces

User; Wikipedia; File; Category.

Images

This user has contributed 172 images to Wikipedia and Commons.
Old-style upload links
(bypassing wizards):
File lists:
  • Wikipedia
  • Commons
Full upload logs:
  • Wikipedia
  • Commons

These are the images which I have uploaded:

Screenshots

Images (Geograph)

Images (RDT)

Dear readers, feel free to glue any of these into other Wikipedia articles provided that they are relevant; I don't expect to see a picture of Port Meadow Halt in an article on quark–gluon plasma.

Note however that the following, being WP:NONFREE, are excluded from the above

Also excluded are deleted images - c:File:LNW 0-8-0 at Crewe Works fresh from repair - geograph-2606488-by-Ben-Brooksbank.jpg was LNW 0-8-0 at Crewe Works fresh from repair which being at 640x480 was a lower-resolution version of c:File:Crewe Works geograph-2606488-by-Ben-Brooksbank.jpg.

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h Not listed at Special:Uploads/Redrose64
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u Another user has uploaded a replacement image with the same name
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Replacement for image of same name originally uploaded by another user
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p These are hosted on English Wikipedia (and so are recorded at Special:Uploads/Redrose64); all others are on Wikimedia Commons

Also shown at Special:Uploads/Redrose64 is this image.

To do

This user spends WAY too much time on Wikipedia and really needs to get off the computer... after one more edit.

Go through the whole of Wikipedia and check that it's 100% correct. Failing that, concentrate on improving the stubs.

Railway Electrification prior to 1956 - based on notes originally placed in Talk:Sale, Greater Manchester

Rewrite UK-relevant portions of Right- and left-hand traffic#Trains to describe gradual change from RHD to LHD, particularly in case of large boiler and left-hand signals. Mention Milton 1955. Mention also that some rlys were RH running, such as M&B. Mention early GWR rule about direction on each line. In Bidirectional traffic#Railways, see what can be done for referencing, particularly UK.

Checking/significant expansion req: Ainsworth Road Halt railway station, Baguley railway station, Barton Moss railway station, Cheadle LNWR railway station, Cross Lane railway station, Ellenbrook railway station, Worsley, Maltby railway station, Malvern Link railway station, Pendleton Bridge railway station, Seedley railway station, The Happiness Patrol, Weaste railway station

Railway Stations

Could do with an article Railways in Oxfordshire.

CharacteristicPositionOpen stationsClosed stations
{{Infobox GB station}}(top)checkY☒N
{{Infobox UK disused station}}(top)☒NcheckY
|original=
|pregroup=
|postgroup=
(infobox) as necessary
|gridref=(infobox)checkYcheckY
date of opening(infobox), HistorycheckYcheckY
date of renaming
date of closure checkY
date of reopening
description of position(lede) or HistorycheckY (Baker)checkY (Connolly)
[[File:xxx RJD yyy.jpg|thumb|left|A year [[Railway Clearing House]] Junction Diagram showing (sub-map pos) railways in the vicinity of station (station pos)]]History only if station shown
{{rail start}}/{{rail insert}}Services,
Routes (or similar)
checkY☒N
{{Historical Rail Start}}/{{Historical Rail Insert}} checkY
{{Disused Rail Start}}/{{Disused Rail Insert}}
*[http://www.npemap.org.uk/tiles/map.html#xxx,yyy,1 zzz Station on navigable O.S. map] (grid square chart)External links checkY
{{Railway stations in county}}(last section)checkY☒N
{{Closed stations county}}☒NcheckY
[[Category:Railway stations in county]]checkY☒N
[[Category:Disused railway stations in county]]☒NcheckY
[[Category:Former railway company stations]] or sub-cat of Category:United Kingdom railway stations opened since 1948checkYcheckY
[[Category:Railway stations served by operator]]checkY☒N
[[Category:Railway stations opened in xxxx]]checkYcheckY
[[Category:Railway stations closed in xxxx]] checkY
{{region-railstation-stub}}

Navboxes for open/closed stations for single county or unitary authority may be found in Category:Rail transport navigational boxes of the United Kingdom or its subcats. Several are categorised as stubs, but in the wrong stub category. Berks, Bucks, Hants and Oxon should be in {{SouthEastEngland-railstation-stub}}; Glos and Wilts in {{SouthWestEngland-railstation-stub}}; Northants in {{EastMidlands-railstation-stub}}; Worcs and Warks in {{WestMidlands-railstation-stub}}.

On the Talk page, use the TWP banner (removing parameter pairs as required):

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WikiProject banners for counties include {{WikiProject Berkshire}}; {{WikiProject Buckinghamshire}}; {{WikiProject Hampshire}}; {{WikiProject Northamptonshire}}; {{WikiProject Wiltshire}} (see also projects within Category:WikiProject England)

Useful strings to copy&paste
<br /><small>Line and station closed</small> 
<br /><small>Line closed, station open</small> 
<br /><small>Line open, station closed</small> 
<br /><small>Line and station open</small> 
use final name of station per [[Template:Butt-Stations|Butt 1995]] p.xxx and [[WP:NC (UK stations)]] 

To find links to a page that don't go through a navbox, use the query linksto:"Foo railway station" insource:/\[\[Foo railway station/ - of course that fails to find those that go through {{stnlnk}} and similar.

Barford St. John and St. Michael

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Why do these two villages - which have three articles between them - warrant so much less total coverage than neighbouring South Newington? I've nothing against the latter place - I just feel that the Barfords could get a bit more. St. John has more than St. Michael - and it's tiny by comparison.

Idea for that: go to field (the old cricket field) in Barford St. John, stand on N bank of river near the water pipe or the weir, and take photo showing bridge, and if poss, include Woodworm Studios in the shot. Put it on the Barford St. John and St. Michael page. Caption it Bridge over the River Swere connecting Barford St. John to Barford St. Michael. Add comment stating that the bridge is a multiple hazard to motoring; the road narrows at this point, turns through a sharp bend, and the bridge is hump-backed. Both parapets show signs of frequent repair as motorists misjudge the road. In winter, the road often floods across its whole width for some distance either side of the bridge. If poss, also note that the Woodworm Studios is on the left of the picture.

Get something about the river from Peter Sheasby's book. Also on the two churches from that book "Churches of the Banbury Area". Is there something on St. Mary's, Cropredy in that? Is there any "Field Names Survey" stuff left (Bond, J. and others).

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I try to cite my sources when editing. It's not always possible; but I do have literally hundreds of books.