Wiki:The Den

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Contents 1 Caption formatting 2 Places and Lineside Features - aka FR Locations 3 The small request... 4 Block log

[edit]Caption formatting

I have started to "improve" look of captions at bottom of picture - see Carriage 38 for example. This again will be an "as edit" change --Keith 2007-11-16T17:24:15

[edit]Places and Lineside Features - aka FR Locations

I have standardised the format for the FR and WHR Stations and Locations pages.

In doing this, I have got rid of the anomaly called "Places and Lineside Features", which was a very early page. Wheras before there was a redirect from "FR Locations" to "Places and Lineside Features" it is now reversed, and slowly I will remove mention of "PaLF" --Keith (talk) 2007-12-17T19:57:16

Have also instigated similar in Carriages, Wagons, Loco's. Bulk of original text has remained as was --Keith (talk) 2007-12-18T10:21:17

[edit]The small request...

irrelevant spam removed --Keith (talk) 2008-7-14T14:18:57 (UTC) more irrelevant spam removed --Keith (talk) 2008-8-8T19:27:10 (UTC) more irrelevant spam removed --Keith (talk) 2008-8-13T15:00:29 (UTC)

[edit]Block log

I was interested to note that the blocks placed on spamming IPs are short term, as little as one month in some cases. Is there a reason for not making them permanent please?

Ben

We don't have any formal policy on this. However, dynamic ISPs change frequently, particularly with AOL users - two successive requests from the same user may show different IP addresses. Even static IP addresses are reassigned. I don't want to block innocent users. It is also the case that vandals tend to go away when blocked, even if the block is relatively short. I therefore tend to go for a period that I think will be sufficient to deter the particular spammer. I will admit it does also depend how I'm feeling that day! --Peter Harrison (talk) 19:34, 16 August 2008 (UTC)