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Editing

I say this not to be unkind, but to encourage some quiet reflection. I can tell with complete certainty without needing to look at the edit history when you have substantially edited an article. MRSC (talk) 08:25, 18 December 2021 (UTC)

I don't know what policy or style you think I need to follow more. If you have a preference then why not say so? Your style is not bad, perhaps you could also reflect on not to take any change or hallmark idiosyncracy in style as a problem?- Adam37 Talk 12:46, 18 December 2021 (UTC)

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Harrow Way / Old Way map

Ten years ago you created a map now found on Commons, Anglo-Saxon Chronicle - Locations with Old Way.png - it looks as if it was derived from a vector map, and I always prefer vector, SVG, version. I cannot though see an SVG map of the British Isles in that much detail, with every little river traced. Have you come across one?

Thanks. Hogweard (talk) 12:51, 18 July 2022 (UTC)

Not memorably. There is the means to convert, say xxx to pdf then pdf to svg. I see what you mean and like (like everyone wiki) as to scale-ability. However firstly it is not the be all an end all, and secondly "little river" these days covers in reality any stream, for instance most of those with the average flow and jump-ability of streams are routinely called maps something they seldom were before say 1950 or 1900. All to do with obsessions with a generic term I'm sad to say. If you would like a hydrological map I am sure the EA and flood search agencies have them, however piecing your own together could be a labour of love.- Adam37 Talk 16:37, 31 July 2022 (UTC)

Seven Springs, Gloucestershire article

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October 2022

Please do not add or change content, as you did at Rowing on the River Thames, without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. Chris Troutman (talk) 19:47, 19 October 2022 (UTC)

Read WP:V and WP:LEDE cover-to-cover. You obviously are a doubter and a deletionist. The content stood in line with others on the subject and you need to respect the sport and recreation also it can be of rowing and not be so anti-rowing. I have never known someone so anti-rowing in my life, whether on wikipedia or in the world of broad academia. There are many football hooligans, convicted, who have more respect for rowing than your shambolic and disrespecting, left-field edits.- Adam37 Talk 19:53, 19 October 2022 (UTC)

User page

Could you explain these templates you added to your userpage? The reason I ask is that you claim you promoted Dorset to Featured but it was promoted in 2012 and your unhelpful edits to that article came in 2015, mostly getting in the way of Ykraps who did all the work. Your userpage also claims a Good article but all I can find are insufficient reviews like Talk:Stanley Bruce/GA1, Talk:Norman, Oklahoma/GA1, and Talk:2012–13 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team/GA1. You also nebulously claim a DYK but I see no evidence of that, either. I'd love to know where we have a disconnect. Chris Troutman (talk) 20:24, 21 October 2022 (UTC)

Much of it is true and truth is not an absolute but more of an art where the work is more artistic than scientific (the bulk). OK let's take that off. It's fair but not wholly true. I hope that slightly muses.- Adam37 Talk 16:30, 23 October 2022 (UTC)

I am not taking off the more absolute truths about me expanding DYKs (before they got DYK), 1,334 bytes to Wentworth Estate and many others, often the most obviously lacking bytes as I only add content where I have read around the subject broadly.- Adam37 Talk 18:10, 23 October 2022 (UTC)

autopatrolled

Adam, I've removed your autopatrolled perm per the discussion at Talk:Rowing_on_the_River_Thames#Sources_are_now_required. Valereee (talk) 20:25, 23 October 2022 (UTC)

Undo that. The source was at the foot of the article.- Adam37 Talk 16:15, 24 October 2022 (UTC)

October 2022

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Request reason:

If you all look, please, at my recent history you can see I am adding citations from reliable sources to other articles. I am also not reverting to the main source of this friction, which stood for a long time past other interested experienced editors using the major independent rowing calendar for the UK as its (sad but OKish?) single, meticulously compiled secondary source (Biddulph's rowing page). Furthermore I am currently working on two articles relegated, without telling me, to DRAFT space, by the warring experienced editor who is trying to accuse me of disliking making inline citations. I am not harassing but asking for their apology as their behaviour has been tyrannical and it is not within normal behaviour. I am the one who has been harassed as I have not been given any fair process instead stern action has been taking when I was making a case and not edit warring and for simple academic language or debate they have put sanctions in place. I am now hampered in my pure work of adding citations which is all I intended to do for some weeks.- Adam37 Talk 20:44, 24 October 2022 (UTC)

Decline reason:

Your recent edits are full of melodramatic incivility, assuming bad faith, and aspersions. There's an old legal aphorism that goes, "If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts. If you have the law on your side, pound the law. If you have neither on your side, pound the table." What you're doing is pounding the table. You need to stop doing that. If you want to edit Wikipedia, you have to obey our rules. That means properly sourcing content, being civil during discussions, and assuming good faith. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 00:29, 25 October 2022 (UTC)

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Your recent contributions to Edersee

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Pathetic. Vandalism requires intention and mistakes. Neither of which were there. You appear to be edit warring which is childish.- Adam37 Talk 19:00, 6 April 2023 (UTC)

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Company of Watermen and Lightermen

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Wimbledon station

Padding is unecessary, it adds nothing to the article and you have provided no sources. Murgatroyd49 (talk) 20:49, 23 April 2024 (UTC)

How flagrantly against what I put - I removed a couple of padding words and instead put what google maps shows which is what everyone sees too on the train. You are curating rather than adding substance. In fact you behaving as if estate agent words need to go into the lead as not admitting it had ANY padding either. Just wrong per WP:V and WP:COPYEDIT - presumably you require a railway source for every plain fact. Even London is southeast of Birmingham.- Adam37 Talk 20:52, 23 April 2024 (UTC)

I have no idea what that rant was supposed to mean. If you have a problem with the idea providing sources for material added to articles perhaps wikipedia is not the best place for you. Murgatroyd49 (talk) 20:56, 23 April 2024 (UTC)

It is not a rant to use English. I have now compromised with your position which is indeed off the scale protectionist. It's not a rant to characterise edits, only to "curate" which is what you are doing of all UK railway articles.- Adam37 Talk 20:57, 23 April 2024 (UTC)

Still don't understand what you think you are driving at, what has Birmingham got to do with anything? You added padding and unsourced material, apparently on the grounds that you saw it from the train. That is original research. Murgatroyd49 (talk) 21:08, 23 April 2024 (UTC)

Have you read WP:V - it says obvious things on maps require no citation. Admittedly I didn't write my full edit summary to my first edit but edit summaries are somewhat optional. I should not have to plead with just you as the owner of the article - you are not the owner of the article - the improvements are about mentioning the nearby traincare depot and showing a correct diagram of both Raynes Park and how the lines are grade segregated which is a colossal piece of work dozens of workers achieved.- Adam37 Talk 13:14, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

What has the depot to do with the station? Murgatroyd49 (talk) 17:35, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

It was in the station diagram (not by me) in the article; it has more than six effects. 1) it has platforms which can lead to confusion 2) it has many workers who use the station 3) close ties in history to heritage of the platform areas such as signal boxes 4) it is not uncommon to mention features of a line across a sprawling zone in a station's article - so too number of car parks and landmark buildings in sight necessarily 5) it imposes daily speed restrictions and red signals to the trains which the station encounters 6) a not to be confused element as novels and cross-cutting papers such as in local planning and engineering may refer to "at Wimbledon" which could mean either and so it is useful to give a very simple description of both, the largest depot (of the SW Main Line) does this. Presumably you would keep nearby building mention yet scrap rail infrastructure mention. - Adam37 Talk 17:01, 25 April 2024 (UTC)

Don't presume, you have no information to make any such presumptions. Murgatroyd49 (talk) 18:37, 25 April 2024 (UTC)

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