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Trying to simplify moving images to commons from enwiki. Slambo (talk) 20:19, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

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Two Images

File:110-1063 IMG.JPG -- I suspect you know what to do -- either delete this:

"This image may be used for non-commercial purposes, including, but not limited to, links in Wikipedia articles. For commercial use, contact the photographer through his Wiki profile: slambo"

or make an appropriate change. Once you fix it, I'll withdraw the DR. Thanks.

File:MP7100.JPG Sorry about that. I had just tagged the other and saw you on the edit history of this one, so figured you might be interested in it. All you did was add a category.      Jim . . . . Jameslwoodward (talk to me) 16:52, 4 June 2010 (UTC)

Autopatroller

I just gave you the autopatroller right; you're a very experienced and competent user, and I'm surprised you weren't autopatrolled already. You're doing some great work with categorizing rail images. Cheers, Pi.1415926535 (talk) 05:34, 9 November 2017 (UTC)

Thanks. For me it's a natural extension of the daily edits I make to Portal:Trains on enwiki. Slambo (talk) 11:56, 9 November 2017 (UTC)

clarification please

In this edit you replaced Category:Trains on bridges with Category:Trains on bridges in the United States.

Did you realize that the bridge connecting Sault Sainte Marie, Ontario, and Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan, is an International bridge, not a "bridge in the United States"? Geo Swan (talk) 01:26, 23 December 2017 (UTC)

I'm in Wisconsin, and I have visited Sault Ste Marie, Ontario. Yes, I know it's an international bridge. Part of the bridge is in the US, part of it is in Canada. I've been doing a lot of categorizing in the last month. Category:Trains on bridges in Canada didn't exist until I created it today. It's there now, and I've added it to the image page. Slambo (talk) 06:11, 23 December 2017 (UTC)

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Category:Trains at SEPTA stations

I'm really not convinced of the utility of Category:Trains at SEPTA stations, which you just created. The current system based on geography (Category:Trains at train stations in Pennsylvania) makes more sense than by railroad. Dividing up by both is useful for the stations themselves - "This is a train station in Pennsylvania" and "This is a train station served by SEPTA" are both useful pieces of information - but "This is a train at a train station that is served by SEPTA" isn't useful. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 00:48, 22 July 2018 (UTC)

It parallels the other "Trains at OPERATOR stations" categories such as Category:Trains at MARC stations, Category:Trains at Metro-North stations and even Category:New York City Subway trains at stations. We already specify if the station is owned and/or operated by a specific company, it seems sensible to me to collect those into a category like this. MARC and Metro-North span state lines, and other regional operators cross state lines (Metra has crossed into Wisconsin, and MBTA crosses into Rhode Island). SEPTA crosses state lines too as is evidenced by Category:SEPTA Regional Rail stations in Delaware and Category:SEPTA Regional Rail stations in New Jersey. For regional operators that are entirely within one state, such as Altamont Commuter Express in California or Tri-Rail in Florida, the associated category by operator can be a subcategory of the state. Slambo (talk) 15:56, 22 July 2018 (UTC)

It's not about whether or not it fits neatly under states - that's an issue for the station categories, not the trains-at-station categories. The issue here is that trains-at-stations-of-operator categories are useless for mainline railroads because many stations are served by multiple operators. What's the use of a category that contains images of Amtrak, SEPTA, and NJT trains (and maybe predecessors of all of them) at stations whose only commonality is that they are served by SEPTA?

If you really think these categories are important to have (and I think they're not - you do so much good categorization work, and this seems like a waste of your editing time), then they should be at Category:SEPTA trains at stations, under a category structure like Category:SEPTA trains and Category:Trains at train stations in the United States by operator. Then you're uniting them by a useful common element - photos of SEPTA trains - that might be useful if someone needs an image of a SEPTA train at a station. Does that make sense?

Side note: There are a lot of images in Category:Rail transport in unidentified locations in the United States that are probably permanently unidentifiable. See for example File:6619.JPG or File:Amtrak P42DC locomotive 22, side view.jpg - no one except the photographer will ever know where they're taken. I'm thinking about creating Category:Rail transport in unidentifiable locations in the United States or similar to separate those images from the ones that can have their locations plausibly identified. Thoughts? Pi.1415926535 (talk) 00:14, 23 July 2018 (UTC)

I don't have a strong preference between "Trains at OPERATOR stations" or "OPERATOR trains at stations." I went with an extension of the geographic scheme for simplicity. It just seemed like the operator element was missing from the categorization for trains at stations.

Tackling the unidentified locations category will be more difficult. I haven't gone into there mostly because I don't want to do the detective work for each file, but I have added several more to that category as I go through other files. Many of them can be narrowed down a little (for example, File:19660529 11 South Shore Line.jpg is probably in Indiana because the surrounding field is empty, and File:125xrpcr - Flickr - drewj1946.jpg is probably in California because it's a mountainous area on the route of the Reno Fun Train and many of the uploader's photos are from California). Detail shots are nearly impossible to tell their location unless you can place it in a group of photos taken at the same time that shows more of the subject or has a more verbose description. An unidentifiable category would be an easy way to separate those files where there just isn't enough to tell. Slambo (talk) 11:20, 24 July 2018 (UTC)

Okay, unless you object, I'll go ahead and move those categories. And I'll create that subcategory later today. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 23:43, 24 July 2018 (UTC)

Postcard dates

I see you've been adding 'Category:Train stations photographed in XXXX' to a number of postcard images. I would advise against this - the dates on the postcard are the postmark date, which doesn't necessarily represent the date the photo was taken. I've seen a number of cases where a postcard was clearly sent several years after it was taken, based on the postcard type or the subject. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 17:52, 15 September 2018 (UTC)

(fix) on Number 4415 on vehicles

Good time of the day,

You modified Category:Number 4415 on vehicles with the comment “(fix).”

Does that mean I made a mistake creating that category? I would like to learn from my mistakes.

Best regards, -- Renardo la vulpo (talk) 21:28, 10 October 2018 (UTC)

Alright, I think I got it: There is a new supercategory Category:Number 4415 on objects. So please ignore my question. -- Renardo la vulpo (talk) 13:53, 11 October 2018 (UTC)

Yeah, it's bringing consistency into the numbering categories. As I have been working through adding Category:Number XXXX on rail vehicles to photos of rolling stock, I noticed that several Category:Number XXXX on vehicles linked to Category:XXXX (number) instead of Category:Number XXXX on objects, like had been done for a majority of the categories for numbers under 1000. I tend to go quickly on these edits so my edit summaries have been pretty terse. Slambo (talk) 14:08, 11 October 2018 (UTC)

History of Argentina

Hi, Slambo. I noticed that you created Category:History of Argentina by theme and Category:History of Sri Lanka by theme. Could you explain how these new categories are different from Category:History of Argentina by subject and Category:History of Sri Lanka by subject? Thanks. --Auntof6 (talk) 21:35, 10 October 2018 (UTC)

I am adding photos to categories for rail transportation. When I find one that has not yet been created, I make it, then copy the structure from another category in the same level and work up the tree to resolve the red links. In this case, I created Category:History of transport in Argentina because it was a redlink parent category to Category:History of rail transport in Argentina. I used Category:History of transport in Austria as the model to create the then redlinked category Category:History of Argentina by theme. The Sri Lanka category tree was the result of creating Category:2017 in transport in Sri Lanka and working up the tree using Argentina as the model. The by theme and by subject can probably be merged without issue. I will watch for this similarity in future edits. Slambo (talk) 14:02, 11 October 2018 (UTC)

Wish

Hello. Help improve for [1]. Thanks you.125.214.50.74 12:27, 4 December 2018 (UTC)

What are you trying to achieve? The photograph itself is reasonably well composed and is properly exposed for the subject (although this png version seems just slightly darker than the associated jpg version), the content description appears to be filled in completely, and the jpg version is already used on the English language Wikipedia article about her. Do you need help just finding more categories where the photograph fits? Slambo (talk) 12:35, 4 December 2018 (UTC)

The Pöstlingbergbahn …

… is not in Germany, but in Austria, as the description of the file in the first link even says. I've fixed your edits accordingly. Tokfo (talk) 17:19, 5 January 2019 (UTC)

Whoops, thanks for catching that. Slambo (talk) 14:40, 6 January 2019 (UTC)

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