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the list box of types of cricket bowling. I now see it was (my bad) and it has affected more articles than I thought it would. If you proposed un-doing the move, I wouldn't object; maybe it just needed a better clean-up, but there has never really been much consistency. To which article would one link a slightly faster than medium bowler? It's hard to distinct between them sometimes.

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Italicising should be done in accordance with WP:MOS, so book or story titles probably should be, and characters not. Different rules may apply at the start of the multi-character pages where we want to highlight the name the first time -- bold might be permissible there, since most are also redirect

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I think a look at all three to try and work out the distinctions between them would be a worthwhile project for somebody, but in the state it was in, "medium pace bowling" wasn't a lot of use to anybody, most people probably didn't know it existed (I'd never seen it before) and I didn't think it was

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Using a semi-colon in place of the 'and' (after 'Christopher') works well at breaking up the flow, I think, provided that it's clear 'he' refers to Henry and not Christopher! We might be able to drop 'character' too, but I think it's OK. Still not happy about that second sentence; still has adjacent

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2. - to "The Railway Series children's books by..." - really? OK, having thought about it for a few minutes, I see your point but it's a bit clumsy; It's not as simple as "The Winnie the Pooh children's books" because of the use of 'series' as a proper noun. TBH, won't "The Railway Series by..." be

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Ahh. Sage words, my friend, thank you. It was the intensity that was the problem, and once he started stalking my contributions I wondered what I'd have to do to escape and get on with my other editing in peace. (He must have been stalking as there's no way he'd have otherwise stumbled across Tower

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anyway? Why not remove the link altogether? Could leave in place "Duck is a main character", or remove it altogether as the main characters cross over anyway (just point out the exceptions)? Actually re-looking back at how it looked last month, maybe it does make a difference. It is more clear that

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Hiya - sorry I haven't been any help recently. I did notice the rather "kind" message he left on your talk page yesterday and had a look at the tfd discussion but it was late and even I was getting confused with them all. I've had a quick look at the Main characters (his last edits); I don't find a

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Hi, thanks for your thoughts here. I've always been a bit confused by that medium pace article. To my knowledge, most of the bowlers I'd stumbled over (hadn't checked them by any means) have either linked to ], ] or ]. Often it seems that it is hard to reference whether they are just slow non-spin

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Maybe we're being to pedantic about this; You mention dumbing down the technical knowledge, but for those without any background in steam locomotion, will they care enough about the actual workings? There isn't anything wrong with adjacent links so long as it scans well enough to guess which links

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I would assume that the first thing that a lot of people looking at the article for the first time would probably think "anthropo-what?". What about keeping fictional, but unlinked? I'm just concious of the possibility of 4/5 consecutive words being linked to separate articles, which is confusing

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That's rather a lot, but I'm not surprised given the permutations of his name! On a similar note (sort of), I just saw your edits to the Cameo section of TRS, and wondered about the wording of the first sentence. Could we say "The Rev. W and Christopher Awdry..." instead of "The Rev. W Awdry and

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biding my time. There are about 6 of 'my' articles he has attacked (among 100s of edits), and I'll need to revisit them when things have quietened down. (He also has a thing about heading text, and most are reduced to single words.) Some of his edits are good, but his style is so confrontational

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And I keep being drawn back to wanting 'steam locomotive' to precede 'character' in the first sentence. Maybe if we don't link it there, we can then link 'tender loco'/'tank loco'/'diesel-electric loco'/'diesel-hydraulic loco' later on? Although it is recommended practice to link the very first

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It is a bit clumsy, but it is providing complete and concise context for pages where the very presence of such information can be frowned upon! You could get away with removing 'children's', perhaps, but I think 'books' is needed to focus just what 'The Railway Series' is. For an example, see

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Thank you. You have made me re-evaluate the need for those links, and you are right, they are not needed. Each of the main characters also has a "Main" template leading to their main article, which covers both book and TV characteristics. The section in "Major characters..." and its T&F

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Don't do that! Just remember that these editors who just turn up and try to change everything get bored after a few days, and in a couple of weeks you can do a mass revert and they probably won't even notice. Remember the trouble in the past - Felix? etc. Those who stick around edit

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Hi - thanks for the message. I'd seen the conversation but was waiting to see what others thought. My personal opinion is that it is long enough, but if there is consensus for lengthening it then that can be done. I'll have a think about it and we'll see if we can get any further

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and excessive. I guess the difference between "A in W" is that animals in fiction tend to be anthropomorphic anyway. Locomotives are seen as inanimate (sort of) and it is the added face in illustrations that makes them more anthrop than normal. Can you see what I'm getting at?—

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because it is not necessary and unwieldy. Also the hatnote is not meant to be used in this function. Also, disambiguation is for terms that may be CONFUSED. Clearly, the application is for related articles. Disambiguation is used for tangential topics, not related

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We still need to tackle the Skarloey Railway issue, although since we last discussed it, most of the main engines now have their own pages (which I have just let pass) so this should make things a little easier to resolve. I suggest we tackle other areas

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bowlers, whether some are medium who swing a bit, or just plain medium. As I'm sure you're aware, once they get slightly faster than fast, they can be either medium-fast or fast-medium (I always assume the former is slower). TBH I only shoved it to

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Good! We don't have to mention green twice if it is unnecessary... Just realised that we agreed on your talk page that TRS would not be italicised though; I've removed them in the finished example. Wikibreak for a few days now, but at least we're

8848:(BOLD+++) that this is not so easy to spot. As for the template, I now don't care if he gets his way, as I'll just create a new template to do the same job, or else apply the formatting directly, which is how it was applied in the first place! 8975:

If you got out of your thomas world, you would see that NO article uses this hatnote to link to other articles. Hatnotes are for disambiguation, and if you want to disambiguate bluelinks, then do it in the paragraph. YOU DO NOT NEED

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I am not sure how double hooks were so I checked each under the normal criteria you would use for one article. They both pass the character limit, are well referenced and so on. Should be fine. It was submitted fine, good stuff!

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Good point - lots of work to be done! I was having a look at the project page yesterday and saw that some of the rationalisation still hasn't been done (4 years after we agreed, 2 years after I was determined to make a start on

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lot wrong with the format (apart from Don and Doug which is a broken link...), don't see it makes much difference. However, I don't think the link is even necessary. Why link to a TV series summary when it then points to the

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Done. I've only read a bout a third of them, and borrowed them from the library so I don't have them with me, so the information is pretty basic. So there may be character/information omissions that should be in there.

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Hey! If I wasn't agreeing with you, then maybe I could have mis-interpreted it; but as we are forming consensus, and seem to be in agreement I doubt I would have even thought about it! Thanks for the thought though.

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Yes, actually the same thought had occurred to me, but I didn't have time to write any more! Your linking suggestion seems sensible, although the 'anthrop...' article doesn't obviously mention fictional either! --

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be doing at the moment is post-FA review of two articles, GA preparation of a third, and pre-DYK proof-read of a fourth. That is why I might not get round to repairing the articles for a number of weeks. --

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Christopher Awdry"? Speaking it aloud it works, but I'm not sure in print. If he wasn't titles, "Wilbert and Christopher Awdry" works fine, and is infinitely better than the reptition. What do you think?—

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Um, no - well spotted. That's what you get from re-organising the existing links! Haven't touched the TV aspect or the later sections; for my money the list of model railway gauges and manufacturers can

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Moving Whyte notation, fine. Not sure about losing fictional or keeping anthropomorphic. Comparison with other articles is inconclusive. None of the Alice in Wonderland animals mention anthrop., but

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is always in need of attention. Please take a look and see if you can help. One small edit, such as adding a reference section and reference, to an article each session would make a big difference.

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is always in need of attention. Please take a look and see if you can help. One small edit, such as adding a reference section and reference, to an article each session would make a big difference.

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is always in need of attention. Please take a look and see if you can help. One small edit, such as adding a reference section and reference, to an article each session would make a big difference.

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is always in need of attention. Please take a look and see if you can help. One small edit, such as adding a reference section and reference, to an article each session would make a big difference.

12290:, as it were, such as the Black Five article your text reads fine. Other articles, directly within the WP:THOMAS framework it could be simplified. The first sentences have got quite long too (and 25003: 12792:..well, if you really want me to be pedantic, we mention 'green' in both sentences -- a problem that will only affect Henry, James and Edward -- but otherwise I don't think we can improve on it! 14730: 26221: 25178: 24551: 23513: 22841: 21803: 21191: 20153: 19569: 18531: 17928: 16890: 16191: 15171: 14384: 13364: 11934: 10909: 10366: 9346: 8291: 7275: 6707: 5555: 4893: 3945: 3323: 2731: 1783: 1361: 386: 8784:

Thankfully our 'friend' must have gone to bed as everything's been much quieter so far today -- yesterday the intensity was getting towards the point of me considering giving up editing...

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Agree about the gauges/manufacturers, although some info is not present at 'Merchandise' yet. That paragraph needs to be re-written and perhaps better summarise the Merchandise article.

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The fact that this format isn't used outside these articles may simply reflect the fact that there are no other subjects (currently) that need this treatment. Doesn't mean it's wrong!

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although that section is pretty dire. It would increase the blue sea, but would keep the links more logical. The Literature section of anthrop almost seems more of a description of

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Things have moved on. He has gloated over 'winning', regarding the overlinking in steamroller -- it took an effort to avoid getting into a slanging match there! But his TfD for

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point where. If you think it works better to have steam loco after fic.anthrop. I'd be happy just to link it I think (but drop character). The semi-colon works well.....

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BTW Mr 308 the only reason I am spending a lot of time in 'my thomas world' at the moment is because of your continuing insistence on degrading the articles. What I

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I need to read through the Thomas article properly, but what I've read seems very good. Did you mean to omit 'the' from The Railway Series in the first sentence? --

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occurrence, where you have a series of links I think you can get away with linking a little later -- especially for something like 'steam locomotive'. So we have:

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The actual changes I've made to the articles are RULE based. They are not my own opinions of aesthetics. You simply cannot use that style of disambiguation on

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than anthrop. It makes you wonder whether it is even worth linking to; however, we should. I'll add it to the long list of things that I don't have time to

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Fine by me - I haven't touched any of them for quite a while now. Like you say, they can always be split off again if there is a lot of content. Go for it.—

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has been thrown out. Now he's trying to prove that that template can only be used as a hatnote (where it is unlikely to be useful). Sigh. I

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receive barnstars for their contributions! If you have a spare moment, please join and wikify an article or tell your friends. Thanks!

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could be moved later in the lead nearer to which class of locomotive it was based on. Also, when is anthropomorphism not fictional?

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I'm not sure how far we should dumb-down here! We certainly cannot assume any technical knowledge of the workings of a steam loco!]

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Urgh. Doesn't seem right that we should distinguish diesel locos and not mention steam-power. We could use a phrase such as "...

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We either need a "Main" template or the "see also", both is probably excessive. I'll have another look into things tonight.—

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For those of you attempting to add alt text to images, a task which is not easy to get something succinct yet descriptive.

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