User talk:Ritchie333

Northern Ireland A3

Hi Ritchie. I suspect the photo from Geograph added to the NI A3 page should be titled "former A3", from Streetview it actually appears to be the parallel Vicarage Road. The coords in Geograph on Streetview show the modern A3, well surfaced with hard shoulders.Bothar 22:25, 20 April 2012 (BST)

Oops. I thought the road surface was a bit suspect! Can you find a better photo and replace it? --Ritchie333 09:08, 21 April 2012 (BST)

Done. I found another picture by the same photographer on Geograph, but actually the A3 this time. I also amended the reference to the other picture in the gallery. Bothar 22:27, 21 April 2012 (BST)

B4483

Why did you revert my B4483 changes? "Sedgeley" is a misspelling for "Sedgley", and the boundary is the Met Borough boundary, not the edge of the town. And I'm sure Birmingham is an OK link... Steven 09:14, 27 April 2012 (BST)

I wasn't aware I did! I must have hit the wrong button on my iPhone, so if it'll help, I can chop my fingers off :-D --Ritchie333 09:16, 27 April 2012 (BST)

Uncompleted Wikis

Please mark your Wikis which you have decided to to Save but which are not complete. It then gives guidance to others (such as me) when processing a further adjustment. Bob 15:10, 27 April 2012 (BST)

Eh? This doesn't make sense.--Ritchie333 15:13, 27 April 2012 (BST)

To explain: A Wiki (not by you) was Saved by another user. I amended it on the basis of Red print. Yet another user said it was not complete.

Bob 15:19, 27 April 2012 (BST)

Well I'm going to guess you mean "Put an 'under construction' note on a page if you're in the middle of research so you don't get clobbered by edit conflicts". The easiest way to do this is that if you see a page in the "Recent changes" list, go to "Who's online" and see if somebody is actively editing the page. --Ritchie333 15:24, 27 April 2012 (BST)

Yes your guess is correct. Your idea works but why not just add W.I.P to the original submission.

Bob 15:29, 27 April 2012 (BST)

I guess in the instance you're talking about, I assumed writing "can somebody else figure out why the mapbox doesn't work?" was a clue that I wasn't done with the article. --Ritchie333 15:34, 27 April 2012 (BST)

That wouldn't help the problem with Simon's page earlier. He put a link to a page he was about to create on another page so that it was ready to go, and that link was removed a few minutes before Simon hit "save" on the new page. The only way to solve it is to slow down and give people more time to do stuff, or to take a close look at the page and spot that "Tallaght" was in the template at the bottom, therefore take a stab that someone knew it was going to be created already. Steven 15:36, 27 April 2012 (BST)

New SABRE Maps extension

Ritchie, have you made a change to the SABRE Maps extension feature? All the routeboxes with SABRE Maps extracts are now too wide! They should be 250px for the routebox to fit properly. Steven 19:37, 5 May 2012 (BST)

Yes, it uses a different API to get tiles, so it can retrieve them from multiple map sources, giving us access to NPE, Popular, the NLS archives, etc etc. However, I haven't changed any of the code that relates to the box width. --Ritchie333 10:05, 6 May 2012 (BST)

Update - the routebox doesn't specify a width and height for the sabre maps extension, which default to 320 and 200. I've changed the default to 250. --Ritchie333 10:10, 6 May 2012 (BST)

Ellsemere Port

Err, it's Ellesmere Port and we have a page already. Could you merge the two pages onto the correct spelling? Si404 14:53, 23 May 2012 (BST)

Oops. I saw a redlink on Chester, thought "wonder why we don't have a page on this?" and made one. I think my newer one's better, but feel free to disagree! --Ritchie333 14:56, 23 May 2012 (BST)

B2229

You really haven't heard of it? [1] Doesn't go to Romney Marsh though! Si404 16:25, 18 June 2012 (UTC)

I did mean "never heard of signs going to Romney Marsh", but since the extension to Victoria Road opened about a year ago, nobody's really sure if it actually still exists on its current route via Brookvale Road and Beaver Lane, since through traffic doesn't tend to go that way anymore. --Ritchie333 17:03, 18 June 2012 (UTC)

1922 Road Lists

Ritchie, I take your point, re the 1922 Road Lists/Zone 2 Class II article, that "This list is a transcription of the original hard copy" (even if, to be picky -- you know ME! -- the 1922 Road Lists page says that "The information is derived from", not "...is a transcription of" the HMSO's booklet of 1923). [My italics.]

I won't, therefore, alter anything in the lefthand column of such lists in future. I assume, though, that additions/amendments to the righthand (Notes) column will not be out of order. -- Viator 23:04, 5 August 2012 (BST)

Hi. The reason I did this is because there's that other wiki (I won't mention names) and the 1922 Road Lists is used in places as what they term a reliable source. So if people start editing, some people will jump up and down screaming "unreliable source! unreliable source! Burn them! Burn them!" or something like that. It does remain editable to all because there may be mistakes that need to be corrected. Sorry if I came across a bit forceful! --Ritchie333 12:16, 6 August 2012 (BST)

Comma

I believe there was a template setup somewhere where we couldn't physically use a comma, so had to use a template for it instead. However it looks like it's no longer relevant. Just sayin' ;-) Jeni ^(talk) 15:39, 29 April 2013 (BST)

I think we can probably delete it then. While you're here, can you please document how Template:Coord works? Ritchie333 11:31, 30 April 2013 (BST)

Done :-) Jeni ^(talk) 16:37, 30 April 2013 (BST)

Picture Gallery

If memory serves, the fugly bit at the bottom gets the related gallery pages as links. As each gallery can only be a subgallery of one parent, it's a way of getting multiple subgalleries - so when you have a gallery of a place, you then have those links for junctions etc. Steven 12:00, 2 May 2013 (BST)

Yup. I'll uncomment it when it displays properly, which it never has done. Working through a paging version of the gallery at the mo (which is what Template:Picture gallery test is for). Ritchie333 12:01, 2 May 2013 (BST)

Level crossings lists etc

The lists of:

Level crossings
Passenger ferries
Abandoned roads
Road stars
Owen Williams Bridges

are all hideous as soon as you look at the template level. There's templates inside templates inside templates - all interdependant on one another. Have a look and see what you think, but right now it's probably easier to rip the whole lot out, have a single "header" template and a "row" template across the whole lot and deal with the pain of going through the articles getting it right. Steven 15:41, 3 May 2013 (BST)

Well, let me put it like this. If it's not been touched in three and a half years, and it's not documented, bin it. So yes, rip it out and start again sounds like a good idea. If somebody complains, explain the value of documenting things. ;-) Ritchie333 15:53, 3 May 2013 (BST)

Some of that is my fault, as I've just bodged new templates to do what I want. I think there are a few more bodged lists around, because there were different things 'needed' in the table, and I didn't want to break an existing template.

However if a single multi-use template can be set up, i'll have a go at fixing my rubbish! Useful Header titles are Name, Photo, Road number, Location, lat/lng/zoom to generate a map, GR maybe, notes and maybe a couple more.

Other lists might include Hill Passes and Wades Bridges. I dare say that the named junctions list might be mergable too, although a lot more work. I cant remember how the map lists work, but they are obviously needing different headers! Rileyrob

Well, if we can come up with some standard headings, that would be sensible. I'll have a think and come up with a list. Steven 17:50, 8 May 2013 (BST)

NI A road gallery splitting in two

Given that there are only 71 A roads (inclusive of the A8(M)), do they need splitting (cf the blocks of 100 in Britain)? And A50 seems an arbitary place to split (40:31) - 39/40 is the historic split (OK, A11 and A12 swap with the A500-A501), giving a 32:39 split and 99/100 is the numerical split (51:20), consistent with the templates and other galleries. Si404 17:40, 8 May 2013 (BST)

Yes, because the gallery takes too long to load otherwise. Feel free to reshuffle it to A1-A39 and A40-A999. Does that give you the original / later split as suggested above? Ritchie333 17:43, 8 May 2013 (BST)

OK, but why do Gallery:A1-A99, etc have over 100 sub-galleries and yet are considered fine? (The original A roads were A1-A8, A20-A39, A500-A501). I still see little reason for the split, unless you plan on splitting the 'Roads by 100s' ones up as well. The A51-A9999 gallery would look better with the name 'other A roads (Northern Ireland)' or similar. Si404 18:47, 8 May 2013 (BST)

Before we get to that stage, we need to correct the sorting. Why does A1-99 go A14 (Royston - Alconbury), A38, A17, A31, A41, A92 and not A1, A2, A3, A4, A5? Ritchie333 18:52, 8 May 2013 (BST)

Indeed!Si404 18:55, 8 May 2013 (BST)

So fix it! You need to add a sort parameter to each individual {{Picture gallery}} template. Ritchie333 18:57, 8 May 2013 (BST)