User talk:Ellis678

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[[Blackwater railway system|Blackwater]] and [[Goonyella railway line|Goonyella]] coal networks (including the [[Central Western railway line, Queensland|Central West line]] as far as Emerald

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Ways to improve Mackay Railway

Hi, I'm Planet Herald. Ellis678, thanks for creating Mackay Railway!

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The tags can be removed by you or another editor once the issues they mention are addressed. If you have questions, you can leave a comment on my talk page. Or, for more editing help, talk to the volunteers at the Teahouse. Herald talk with me 11:28, 14 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Railway lines in Queensland

Thanks for updating the Railway lines in Queensland template. It was on my to-do list. Another thing I wanted to mention is that it would super excellent if you could add a few more references when you are expanding railway articles. - Shiftchange (talk) 00:01, 17 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	For adding images to Queensland transport articles. Mo7838 (talk) 22:00, 23 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, they were excellent contributions. Just of couple of minor points to add. Portrait orientated photos should have |upright| added to display better, a few more links to locomotive articles and year the photo was taken in the captions may of been appropriate and generally images are placed beneath infoboxes. See WP:IUP for more information on our policy. - Shiftchange (talk) 22:24, 23 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

11_separate_railway_systems

http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/11_separate_railway_systems - great idea, but smacks of WP:OR and insufficient references or citations - also the lead sentence and para as found are not on... please read WP:LEAD before trying that one again. Dont be suprised if someone else comes along and tags it for a range of other reasons. Hope you are getting a hang of the place - also if that actually came from somebodies book or article - please find it and add it as a cite. satusuro 13:29, 26 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

A pie for you!

Hey Ellis678. Thanks for all your articles on Queensland Rail and your further contributions and images to that topic. But, as many others have pointed out previously, some of your contributions have some glaring issues; issues that you really should understand and aim to rectify before creating too many more articles or other new material. Otherwise the polite requests will become more terse!

Briefly:

more references
directly cite claims that may be challenged (biggest, fastest, last, first etc) else they be removed.
article names should as short as possible WP:TITLE (I will move more of these)
images are nice, but this is an encyclopedia, not a magazine. Aim for an image every computer screenful of text or every thousand words or so. Your additions of images have overloaded many of those articles. Instead, use {{commons}} or {{commonscat}} links to commons for all your image goodness!
Talk constructively with other editors. Given your rate and volume of contributions, and the issues raised, you need to be interacting more with others here. I'm confident everyone that has given you feedback here is more than willing to answer any questions you may have or clarify and expand any feedback given; just ask!
You should read and understand wp:sock. If you have another account through which you have also contributed (though not concurrently) you should say so on each user page (not obliged, though, I think) giving your reasons. Concurrent editing is generally a no-no. Apologies in advance if this is your only account.
Pay attention to the lead para and the first sentences in your articles. there are particular requirements for them. wp:lead
List articles are tricky to get right. Some of yours have a way to go. Expect others to either extensively edit, merge into existing articles or just delete.

End of sermon. Enjoy the pie! Bleakcomb (talk) 02:50, 3 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

June 2014

Hi. I noticed that you removed the "Unsourced" maintenance tag from the Yodo Line article, even though the article still has no reference sources. I also note that your edit was marked "Minor", which is also a no-no. I've restored the maintenance tag, but please be careful in future about marking edits as a minor when they are actually removing valid material from articles. Thanks, and thanks also for your work in filling out the history details of many Japanese railway line articles. --DAJF (talk) 13:21, 30 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Useful "Translated page" template

Hi again. Further to my comments above, you might find Template:Translated page useful for adding to the Talk pages of articles when you have added material translated from other projects. This more properly provides attribution to the original authors of the material you add to comply with the licensing terms. And if, along the way, you can also include some reliable sources with the text added, that would be even better for the articles, as just adding "translated from Japanese Wikipedia" unfortunately isn't a substitute for reference sources. Anyway, keep up the good work. --DAJF (talk) 00:41, 1 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Removing maintenance tags and using other Wikipedia articles as reference sources

Hi again. I don't know if you got the memo, but other Wikipedia articles (either on English Wikipedia or other language projects) unfortunately don't constitute reliable sources that can be used are references, so just adding "This article incorporates material from the corresponding article in the Japanese Wikipedia" at the end of an article, doesn't change the fact that an article is unsourced. Have a look at WP:CIRCULAR if you are uncertain or unconvinced. Also, as I mentioned above, if you are actually translating material from Japanese Wikipedia articles, you really ought to read through the guidelines at Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia, as, strictly speaking, full attribution needs to be added to the Talk page using the template I mentioned above to comply with licensing requirements. If it happens to be spotted by an admin having a bad day, you can be accused of copyright infringement, which is, understandably, taken seriously. I know because that happened to me once in the past. In short, please be more careful in future about removing valid maintenance tags without comment. Thanks. --DAJF (talk) 05:29, 5 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not remove maintenance templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Nippō Main Line, without resolving the problem that the template refers to, or giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your removal of this template does not appear constructive, and has been reverted. I have politely directed you to the guidelines concerning sourcing requirements in my message above, and asked you not to remove maintenance tags, but since you have chosen not to respond or heed this advice, please consider this your first formal warning. Two more and you will be reported. --DAJF (talk) 08:00, 5 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

July 2014

Please stop. Continuing to remove maintenance templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Kagoshima Main Line, without resolving the problem that the template refers to, may be considered disruptive editing. Further edits of this type may result in your account being blocked from editing. DAJF (talk) 02:00, 6 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you remove the maintenance templates from Wikipedia articles without resolving the problem that the template refers to, as you did at Gotōji Line. --DAJF (talk) 01:59, 12 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Maintenance tags

There has been concern expressed regarding your removal of Maintenance tags on several articles. Would you please leave a reply here as to your reasoning behind their removal? -- John Reaves 02:30, 13 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

"Kansetsu Railway Co."

Thanks for your contribution to railway articles. For your information, there was no company named Kansetsu Railway Co. in Meiji era Japan. "官設鉄道" (kansetsu tetsudō) in Japanese refers to the original government-run railways before the nationalization of private railways. --Sushiya (talk) 09:45, 3 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Victoria Tunnel, Queensland

Hi, I wonder if you are able to remember this edit where you added the Category:Queensland Heritage Register. I am currently working on a set of articles for all the entries in the Queensland Heritage Register and I am compiling a mapping between the entries and existing articles. Unfortunately I cannot work out which QHR entry applies to Victoria Tunnel. I can well imagine the Victoria Tunnel would be on the QHR but the QHR often uses unexpected names for things. Do you happen to recall which QHR entry includes the Victoria Tunnel? Thanks Kerry (talk) 05:43, 17 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Hey, please don't remove maintenance tags and "citation needed" tags if the issues in the article have not been resolved, as you did here here here whats that uh oh nah [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] . Wikipedia, including the Japanese language version of Wikipedia, is not a reliable source, also WP:REFLOOP. Please make sure to include reliable sources before removing "citation needed" tags. Regards, Nyamo Kurosawa (huh?) 08:12, 7 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop removing maintenance tags and "citation needed" tags. Your repeated removals constitute as vandalism and are reverted. Instead, provide a reliable source in their place. ◢   Ganbaruby!   (Say hi!) 02:15, 12 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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