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FYI, there are four grade-separated crossings on the Blue Line west of Beaverton TC: Murray Blvd., Cornelius Pass Road, Brookwood Parkway, and Main Street (the bridge around 18th & Main). However, at Murray, it was the road (not the track) that was regraded (raised up onto a new viaduct), and that grade separation was built about 35-40 years ago, when the track there was in use only as a freight railroad line (which continued until the early '90s). So, it is definitely a grade separation, but not one that was built for MAX. The Brookwood Parkway grade separation was built as part of the MAX project, a trench being dug to lower the track, and a bridge built over it for an (eventual, later) extension of Brookwood Parkway through that area. Of the four, only the Main Street Bridge and Cornelius Pass Road have WP articles. SJ Morg (talk) 10:59, 1 August 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for your work on so many MAX Light Rail-related articles lately. I've been waiting for some editors to overhaul entries about the lines and stations for a while now, so I'll be following along. Don't hesitate to reach out to WikiProject Oregon if you need some help. Happy editing! ---Another Believer (Talk) 02:55, 10 August 2018 (UTC)
Not sure if you're familiar or interested, but the WikiCup is a content-creating competition. Given your prolific work, you might have fun participating. Either way, keep up the great work, I'm definitely appreciating and following along. Looking forward to your future (hopefully) work on other MAX station and line articles. ---Another Believer (Talk) 15:31, 17 September 2019 (UTC)
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Hi Truflip99. First of all thank you for the work on many MAX Light Rail articles. But there is something which has bothered me for a while, and I thought I'd directly reach out to you. I hope this is ok for you! :) I prefer having the Rolling Stock of MAX Light Rail within the "MAX Light Rail" page, as it used to be, and not on a separate "TriMet Rolling Stock" page. First it is much clearer when it is on one page. Second, it is incorrect to only list light rail vehicles under the page of "Trimet Rolling Stock", as TriMet also has buses, LIFT vehicles and many other vehicles. Can this be revised, so the Rolling Stock will be in the main article again? Thank you very much and have a great day! 77.57.88.243 (talk) 12:29, 10 February 2019 (UTC)
Hi, I appreciate your offer in improving further Philippine Rail Articles. Although I would ask a request from you to help out in making administrators understand that MRT-8 and PNR East-West Railway is one and the same and it thus was officially given the Line 8 designation as I have mentioned in Talk:Manila Metro Rail Transit System Line 8. I do hope you could participate in the discussion as some Chinese user whom was deeply hurt when I updated the zhwiki with the new info reverted all my edits there and retaliated here in the english wikipedia for unwarranted reasons. Thanks! Korean Rail Fan 16:04, 22 February 2019 (UTC)
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Great work on making major, high-quality expansions of articles related to the MAX Light Rail system. Those articles have long been in need of high-quality expansion, so it's great to see someone working on that. Thank you. SJ Morg (talk) 13:35, 10 March 2019 (UTC) |
Expanding on the above barnstar message: I wanted to compliment you on the work you've been doing, over the past several months, making major expansions of the articles on the individual lines of the MAX Light Rail system. It's long been frustrating to me that the vast majority of transit-related articles on Wikipedia seem to be edited by people who don't know how to write and, more importantly, don't know how to find reliable sources and use them, and are unwilling (or unable) to take time to make high-quality, well-referenced expansions. So, it is very nice to see an editor making transit-article expansions who is an exception; SounderBruce is another such exception.
I've been on Wikipedia for 10 years now, and although I probably wouldn't have initiated any of those major expansions myself (because I have other Wikipedia editing interests that are a higher priority for me), I almost certainly would have been willing to help you to some degree if your expansions had taken place before 2018. Unfortunately, during the last year or two, the amount of free time I have for Wikipedia editing has greatly decreased, due to demands on my time from non-WP activities and other factors. For the same reason, a much higher-than-previously proportion of my WP edits nowadays are just gnomish edits, which I can do when I am tired or have only a few minutes of free time. So, I have not been able to help you out – and that includes taking time to scan and upload photos that might be useful, and which I had held off scanning and uploading in the past only because the relevant WP articles were not long or detailed enough to support the additional photos – and I don't anticipate any change in that for the foreseeable future.
I have made a few edits related to your recent MAX expansions, as you know, but I was beginning to worry a little that you might be inferring that I was taking your work for granted and only jumping in when I found something with which I disagreed. I simply have much less time for Wikipedia editing nowadays than I did between 2009 and 2017. Anyway, for several weeks now I have been intending to leave a note like this, to thank you for your work on making high-quality, well-referenced major expansions to MAX-related articles. I congratulate you for bring the MAX Red Line and Airport station articles up to Good Article class (and also getting the former listed at DYK!), and I know you are working towards bringing certain other MAX and Portland-area transit articles up to the same level. If a question or two comes up, from time to time, during your research or editing, you are free to ask me about it, but just don't ask me much (or about any complex topics), because I probably won't have time to reply to anything that cannot be answered quickly or easily. (And the next month or so will be even worse than usual.) I really wish I had more time for Wikipedia editing, but it looks like 2019 will be just as bad as 2018 was for me in that regard. Keep doing what you are doing. It's been nice to see. SJ Morg (talk) 13:36, 10 March 2019 (UTC)
Like +1, thanks so much for your work on these articles! ---Another Believer (Talk) 14:46, 25 March 2019 (UTC)
Hello:
The copy edit you requested from the Guild of Copy Editors of the article MAX Yellow Line has been completed.
Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.
Best of luck with the GA review.
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Twofingered Typist (talk) 20:41, 28 March 2019 (UTC)
Hello:
The copy edit you requested from the Guild of Copy Editors of the article NS Line (Portland Streetcar) has been completed.
Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.
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Twofingered Typist (talk) 21:55, 17 April 2019 (UTC)
Regarding this edit: A single TriMet source is hardly a case of TriMet "insisting". I've been following Portland transit for decades, as you know, and I have never, ever seen "15.3 miles" for the original Eastside MAX line (and very broad Google searches also find zero hits for that). But I already knew it was wrong (an error by Mr. Selinger), because I have many other sources for a length of "15.1 miles", several of which I have now added to the MAX Blue Line article. I even have multiple issues of a public newsletter that TriMet (or "Tri-Met" in those days) produced during construction of the Banfield Light Rail line in the early 1980s (called Light Rail's Movin'), which repeatedly gave the length as 15.1 miles – but I cannot use those as references because they are not available online. But several others are. The 1989 TRB report I have now cited includes articles by a TriMet planner (Gerhart), on page 317, and a TriMet rail vehicle engineer (Porter), on page 468, both repeatedly citing 15.1 miles; and that is just one source that I have added. (BTW, the page numbers I gave in the citation template are the as-marked, printed page numbers, not the PDF page numbers.)
Unfortunately, as the Westside MAX project got under way, TriMet began using rounded figures – length figures that did not include any tenths digit – nearly all the time, and when I looked for info. over the past few days I found it very difficult to find any figures that were not rounded to the mile. Planners and engineers are often more precise, even in public documents, than public relations people are, so I managed to find a few references that provided more precise figures. Unfortunately, the vast majority of the potential sources suitable for WP on this subject are newspaper and magazine articles (this was still mostly pre-Internet) that were presumably getting their info. primarily from TriMet's public relations staff, so they use length figures that lack any tenths digit. Partly due to that, the few publications that did give more-precise lengths frequently vary by 0.1 or 0.2 mile, and there are so few overall that it's not possible to say 'the vast majority say 17.5', or whatever. You can see how I decided to handle it in the Blue Line article, and I hope you'll find it acceptable, but I still don't know how to handle this inconsistency in the MAX Light Rail article. But I know that "33.3" miles is inaccurate by more than half a mile, resulting partly from adding unrounded figures to rounded figures, and I couldn't sit by and let info. here that had been relatively accurate for many years suddenly be made inaccurate. The "33.3" figure in the main MAX article definitely needs to go, but I'll wait for your reaction to my Blue Line article changes before I do anything there. Since we do have more-precise figures (with a tenths digit) for the other lines – maybe because the next line after the Westside had a length approx. halfway between 5 and 6 miles! – I feel it would be a pity if we had to round all of them. And writing "33.0" miles for the Blue Line, in the parent article, is simply inaccurate. TriMet never writes "33.0", because TriMet is rounding (from 32.6 or 32.7), to "33". So, I think we either have to round them all, or round none, and rounding none requires using mostly non-TriMet sources, because the accurate unrounded Blue Line length is 32.6 or 32.7 km, not 33. (By the way, in that aforementioned edit, you changed sourced info. without removing one of the two cited source, and I was surprised to see you make that mistake. My changes this morning have reinstated mention of the previous length figure there, allowing the citation in question to be retained.)
Another source I cannot cite for WP: Over the years, I have managed to acquire civil-engineer's-style track maps of every MAX line (including separate Banfield Project and Westside Project ones), which convey a lot of detailed info. Before starting on my recent quest (which I spent several hours on, over the past few days) to find published info. that gave precise length figures, I examined those track maps to see if they gave the same figures that I had believed were correct. They did. 15.1 miles for the Eastside line (but almost 15.2 miles with the "tail track" beyond the platform at the last stop, Cleveland Ave., which is not really part of the "route") and 17.6 miles for the Westside line. They give the downtown (SW 11th) to 185th segment as 11.4 miles (and the extension west as 6.2), but I found multiple sources giving "11.5 miles" for the former and only a single source giving "11.4", so in that instance I decided to use 11.5 in the Blue Line article. Having been reassured by the engineers' maps, I was then willing to spend several hours looking for published info. to cite for the Blue Line article, but I am frustrated at having had to do it, since I really have almost no time for WP currently. A lot of other things on my WP to-do list didn't get done, as a result. But please don't infer any criticism from that comment. SJ Morg (talk) 11:38, 6 May 2019 (UTC)
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article MAX Yellow Line you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Kew Gardens 613 -- Kew Gardens 613 (talk) 13:21, 23 May 2019 (UTC)
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article MAX Blue Line you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Kew Gardens 613 -- Kew Gardens 613 (talk) 15:40, 23 May 2019 (UTC)
The article MAX Blue Line you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:MAX Blue Line for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Kew Gardens 613 -- Kew Gardens 613 (talk) 17:40, 23 May 2019 (UTC)
The article MAX Yellow Line you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:MAX Yellow Line for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Kew Gardens 613 -- Kew Gardens 613 (talk) 17:40, 23 May 2019 (UTC)
The article MAX Yellow Line you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:MAX Yellow Line for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Kew Gardens 613 -- Kew Gardens 613 (talk) 02:22, 24 May 2019 (UTC)
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article NS Line you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Kew Gardens 613 -- Kew Gardens 613 (talk) 23:01, 24 May 2019 (UTC)
Hello:
The copy edit you requested from the Guild of Copy Editors of the article Overlook Park station has been completed.
Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.
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Twofingered Typist (talk) 19:55, 25 May 2019 (UTC)
With reference to the MAX Blue Line article, I suspect you might not be aware of the fact that the 4.6-mile section referred to was from Cleveland Avenue to Ruby Junction and then south (passing what became the site of the Ruby Junction maintenance facility) to Linneman Junction, which was located just south of Highway 26/Powell Blvd. So, less than half of it became part of the 15.1-mile Banfield light rail line. Another of your sources for that sentence (http://web.archive.org/web/20181128211023/https://www.oregonmetro.gov/sites/default/files/2014/04/16/walk_there_gresham_downtown.pdf) makes no mention of PTC, but rather its predecessor, the Mount Hood Railway (which became part of PRL&P in 1914), and says MAX uses its former right-of-way between (NE) 99th & Burnside and Cleveland Avenue station. That's correct, but the section between 99th Avenue and Ruby Junction was abandoned in 1927, so I don't believe that source really should be used to support text that only refers to the two-mile section that survived (under PTC) as a freight line until 1983. I probably have sources in my files (or may be able to find them, if not), but don't have time to look in the next few days. (If you have Richard Thompson's book, Portland's Interurban Railway, a map appears on p. 72. A photo caption on p. 138 of the 1980 Labbe book could provide a partial reference, but not nearly enough by itself. Same for this book's pp. 98 and 110.) For now, maybe you should remove the specific length (4.6 miles), since most readers will infer that a 4.6-mile section of PTC right-of-way became part of the MAX line, and that's inaccurate. However, in addition to the two-mile section that became part of the first MAX line, TriMet used some of the north–south section for access to its maintenance complex. And TriMet also used the section between there and Linneman Junction for deliveries of LRVs, which came on flatcars over that section (although I cannot recall for sure right now, I think TriMet purchased that section either as a possible testing or training track [an idea that never came to fruition] or to ensure that it would not be abandoned and dismantled before the agency's 26 LRVs were delivered, which would have forced them to come by truck all the way from Vermont, increasing the shipping time and costs signficantly. Or both). SJ Morg (talk) 06:54, 26 May 2019 (UTC)
The article NS Line you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:NS Line for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Kew Gardens 613 -- Kew Gardens 613 (talk) 17:01, 26 May 2019 (UTC)
The article MAX Blue Line you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:MAX Blue Line for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Kew Gardens 613 -- Kew Gardens 613 (talk) 20:22, 29 May 2019 (UTC)
As you have probably already noticed, I have replied to some of the questions raised in the GA review of the NS Line. Although I may do a little more of that, I'd like to note that I am resisting, because a lot of the answers to the reviewer's questions can be found in information already given (mostly by me), with sources, in the Portland Streetcar and Portland Vintage Trolley articles, so I am hoping you can use the latter to address many of the reviewer's questions (but I know it won't work for all). I can guess that you chose NS Line to bring to GA first, before the Portland Streetcar article, because that parent article needs a lot more editing work, but many of the issues raised by the GA reviewer for NS Line apply also to the parent article – and really should be 'fixed' there first, before fixing in this article, if not already addressed in the parent article (which some have been).
BTW, I have already known for a few years that the Portland Streetcar article needs some paring-down, especially copying or moving of a lot of its Eastside Line content to the Loop Service article, but doing that while leaving a sufficient overview in the parent article (and not breaking the extensive and carefully placed inline sourcing) would take a lot of time, so I have not been willing to spend the time to do that, so far. But I wanted to acknowledge that it's issue I am aware of. The extensive detail on U.S.-built streetcars also was appropriate when added to that article, but now (a few years later) it needs to be trimmed by maybe half or a bit more – but not by too much more than that, IMO, as it will always remain a significant part of the PS system's history (and it received national media coverage). However, I have too much else on my WP to-do list to want to tackle that in the near future. SJ Morg (talk) 04:27, 4 June 2019 (UTC)
It seems I've encountered an issue with segment lengths again as well as dollar amounts. Both Portland Streetcar and Selinger seem to contradict some of your figures as follows:
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The article NS Line you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:NS Line for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Kew Gardens 613 -- Kew Gardens 613 (talk) 20:02, 6 June 2019 (UTC)
I think your nomination of Beaverton Transit Center as GA was premature. Although I am very happy that you have, in recent months, tripled the size of this article – which I have long felt was far too short for what is likely the busiest MAX station and transit center in the entire TriMet system – there are still some pretty major gaps. Although I have changed its WikiProjects' assessments from Start-class to C-class, personally I wouldn't yet even rate the article as B-class. It jumps all the way from the TC's opening in 1988 to the opening of the MAX station 12 years later with a single sentence! It also makes no mention of the concession stand (or whatever it would be called) that has occupied part of the main building for 30+ years. (That only deserves a sentence or two, so is not a "major" omission, but just a significant one that I noticed.) I have not taken time to look for other specific omissions, for the same reason that I am afraid I don't have time to help you with this (too much else on my 'plate', and other priorities; I've been working a lot lately on researching and drafting [offline] a couple of new articles – one quite long, but not Oregon-related), but I'll try to upload a photo or two that may be useful now that the article has been greatly expanded. Again, thanks for doing a well-sourced expansion. I just feel that it's still well short of GA. Sorry. SJ Morg (talk) 04:44, 12 June 2019 (UTC)
I hope you won't mind, but I have added an image to the DYK nomination for NS Line, for possible inclusion. My position (which I picked up years ago from other editors active at DYK) is that, as long as the subject is something that can be easily illustrated, it's always better to at least offer an image in DYK nominations than not at all. If whoever "promotes" the completed DYK review to a Prep area chooses not to include the image (i.e., chooses not to give that hook the top spot in a set of hooks for the Main Page's DYK section), so be it, but there's no risk in at least pitching a photo for possible inclusion. If you have no objection, I may do the same for the MAX Blue Line nomination (I am thinking maybe this or this or maybe I'll upload a new photo; your opinion would be welcome). SJ Morg (talk) 18:12, 12 June 2019 (UTC)
You might already know about the stop consolidation plan, but I thought I made sense to let you know. You should get the direct TriMet source and add it to the articles. Thanks again for all your work!--Kew Gardens 613 (talk) 17:14, 28 June 2019 (UTC)
Hello! Your submission of MAX Blue Line at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 20:34, 3 July 2019 (UTC)
On 11 July 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article MAX Blue Line, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Portland's MAX Blue Line (train pictured) was built as a result of freeway revolts in the 1970s? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/MAX Blue Line. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, ), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
valereee (talk) 00:01, 11 July 2019 (UTC)
Hi mate.
I would like to ask for your help against the active campaign for the deletion of all Metro Manila Subway station articles.
Thanks Jpg0813 (talk) 07:12, 16 July 2019 (UTC)
On 18 July 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article NS Line, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Portland's NS Line opened in 2001 as the first newly built streetcar line in the United States in 50 years to use modern vehicles? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/NS Line. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, ), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
— Amakuru (talk) 00:01, 18 July 2019 (UTC)
Hello:
The copy edit you requested from the Guild of Copy Editors of the article 191st Street station has been completed.
Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.
Best of luck with the GA nomination.
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Twofingered Typist (talk) 20:11, 6 August 2019 (UTC)
I noticed you've been working a lot on the MAX Light Rail article, undoubtedly towards your goal of making it a GA eventually. I wanted to mention one thing while I'm thinking about it, so I won't forget: Eventually, if this is to be a GA, there should be a mention of that fact that MAX shared lanes with other traffic across the Steel Bridge until 2008 – a source for this is already present in the bridge's article – and that the sharing of lanes along the transit mall started in 2009. Right now, the section on "Alignments" includes only a description of the current situation and no history, and at some point the latter needs to be added. (I'm too busy to do it myself, but am still available, intermittently, to assist your GA expansions when questions arise.) Prior to the opening of the mall tracks, the Steel Bridge had also been the only place on the entire MAX system where MAX trains shared lanes with other traffic, an important distinction that lasted for 22 years and into the era of the third (or fourth, if one counts Westside as the second) MAX line. I can easily find sources for that from the 1980s and 1990s, but not so sure I could easily find one from the 2000s. SJ Morg (talk) 11:10, 12 August 2019 (UTC)
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Orenco station (TriMet) you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Llywrch -- Llywrch (talk) 16:41, 5 September 2019 (UTC)
The article Orenco station (TriMet) you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Orenco station (TriMet) for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Llywrch -- Llywrch (talk) 23:01, 6 September 2019 (UTC)
The article Orenco station (TriMet) you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Orenco station (TriMet) for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Llywrch -- Llywrch (talk) 08:02, 8 September 2019 (UTC)
Hi, because of your other good articles on the same topic, I thought I'd leave a personal message to tell you that the nom for Tualatin station has failed, which I know sucks, especially because it's been months. Review is here. Normally I would put it on hold for responses to the issues I've found, but my honest opinion after reading the article is that it needs a formal copyedit. Given the wait experienced at WP:GOCE (to the point I forget I'd asked for one when it finally happened!) means that the review would be on hold for much longer than the normal 1-week period, and even the two or three weeks that are allowed with discretion when it's clear work is being done to improve it. I will be more than happy to review it again, I think it can definitely be improved and expanded and it will be great to see what it looks like then! Note on the term "expansion" - I do not mean it fails because it is short (one of my GA's is short, and another one that I passed even shorter!), I mean that some of the statements would be clearer, more informative, better formatted, if they were expanded out and given a bit more space for explanation and contextualizing with the rest of the surrounding information for clarity, coverage depth, and good style. Kingsif (talk) 21:13, 11 September 2019 (UTC)
Hello:
The copy edit you requested from the Guild of Copy Editors of the article MAX Green Line has been completed.
Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.
Regards,
Twofingered Typist (talk) 12:53, 12 September 2019 (UTC)
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Overlook Park station you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of The Rambling Man -- The Rambling Man (talk) 21:00, 20 September 2019 (UTC)
The article Overlook Park station you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Overlook Park station for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of The Rambling Man -- The Rambling Man (talk) 16:40, 22 September 2019 (UTC)
The article Overlook Park station you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Overlook Park station for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of The Rambling Man -- The Rambling Man (talk) 20:02, 22 September 2019 (UTC)
I just happened to find information on a Tri-Met bus lane on Barbur Boulevard here and thought you might find it of interest. I hope you are doing well.--Kew Gardens 613 (talk) 13:44, 26 September 2019 (UTC)
Hello:
The copy edit you requested from the Guild of Copy Editors of the articleTualatin station has been completed.
Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.
Frankly I disagree with the GA reviewer over the heading "Station details". I don't see anything wrong with the wording and couldn't think of anything that is more appropriate. "Specifications" and "information" don't work in my opinion. The heading has also been used in other articles, including GA articles, so it is consistent.
Best of luck moving forward with the article.
Regards,
Twofingered Typist (talk) 12:53, 5 October 2019 (UTC)
I did not revert your sentences, I copy edited them. Your grammar is redundant. "Carlos Yulo is a Filipino gymnast who has won gold and bronze.... In 2018, he won bronze in Doha". I simply made it more concise, which is Wikipedia's goal. Your revert was uncalled for. --Truflip99 (talk) 22:57, 12 October 2019 (UTC)
At the 2018 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Doha, Yulo advanced to the all-around and floor exercise finals. He won bronze in the floor exercise finals, becoming the first Filipino and the first male Southeast Asian gymnast to win a medal at the championships. At the 2019 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Stuttgart, Yulo won gold in the floor exercise finals. An historic win, it made him the first Filipino and first Southeast Asian to claim gold at a world gymnastics championship."
Would you please kindly point where the instance of redundancy was committed? Thanks.
Migsmigss (talk) 23:09, 12 October 2019 (UTC)
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The copy edit you requested from the Guild of Copy Editors of the article Beaverton Transit Center has been completed.
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Best of luck with the GAN
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Twofingered Typist (talk) 19:48, 14 October 2019 (UTC)
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Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Tualatin station you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Kingsif -- Kingsif (talk) 15:01, 9 November 2019 (UTC)
The article Tualatin station you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Tualatin station for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Kingsif -- Kingsif (talk) 15:21, 9 November 2019 (UTC)
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Hello:
The copy edit you requested from the Guild of Copy Editors of the article MAX Blue Line has been completed.
Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.
Regards,
Twofingered Typist (talk) 14:02, 24 December 2019 (UTC)
Hello, Truflip99. This is a courtesy notice that the copy edit you requested for MAX Light Rail at the Guild of Copy Editors requests page is now complete. All feedback welcome! Cheers, Baffle☿gab 06:42, 1 March 2020 (UTC) |
@Baffle gab1978: Thank you! Your work is very much appreciated. The article looks fantastic. Cheers! --Truflip99 (talk) 16:19, 1 March 2020 (UTC)
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article MAX Light Rail you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of 1.02 editor -- 1.02 editor (talk) 12:20, 6 March 2020 (UTC)
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Beaverton Transit Center you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Kingsif -- Kingsif (talk) 21:01, 7 March 2020 (UTC)
The article Beaverton Transit Center you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Beaverton Transit Center for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Kingsif -- Kingsif (talk) 22:02, 7 March 2020 (UTC)
The article MAX Light Rail you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:MAX Light Rail for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of 1.02 editor -- 1.02 editor (talk) 06:20, 8 March 2020 (UTC)
The article MAX Light Rail you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:MAX Light Rail for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of 1.02 editor -- 1.02 editor (talk) 07:41, 8 March 2020 (UTC)
Hello! Your submission of MAX Light Rail at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Hawkeye7 (discuss) 06:08, 9 March 2020 (UTC)
Hello, Truflip99. This is a courtesy notice that the copy edit you requested for Mall/Southwest 4th Avenue and Mall/Southwest 5th Avenue stations at the Guild of Copy Editors requests page is now complete. All feedback welcome! Cheers, Baffle☿gab 06:28, 15 March 2020 (UTC) |