User talk:Psulagain

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RVJ Butt[edit]

I would be interested in some evidence that supports your claim that The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present is "an unreliable source". Also paging Redrose64. Ritchie333 ^(talk) ^(cont) 15:27, 9 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Butt provides no provenance for any of his dates. You have only to compare with Quick https://rchs.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Railway-Passenger-Stations-v5.02.pdf which provenances each date. The criticism from the members of the Railway & Canal Historical Society's Railway Chronology Special Interest Group at the time Butt was published would be enough to put you off his book. Psulagain (talk) 16:20, 9 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Interesting. I'd like to look into this further. Ritchie333 ^(talk) ^(cont) 17:55, 9 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Be my guest. I completely fail to understand why just about everyone who contributes to Wikipedia cites Butt - idleness or ignorance, I suppose. Psulagain (talk) 18:01, 9 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Well in my case I can assure you it's the latter - a copy has sat in my local library for years, and when I saw other people citing it, I assumed it must be alright. However, there have been more than a few occasions when I've swapped out one source for another when I consider it more trustworthy, even though both are what we would normally call reliable sources. I've opened a talk thread on WT:UKRAIL to discuss this further. Ritchie333 ^(talk) ^(cont) 18:03, 9 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Cranmore West railway station[edit]

Be careful with describing a station as "closed", like on the above article. "Closed" should be used when it is properly, legally closed (see Railway stations not officially closed with no services in the United Kingdom, for example). Disused is a better word for stations that are temporarily without service, like CW. Hope that helps. Mattdaviesfsic (talk) 14:58, 27 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

This railway does not need to go through the hoops that the "national network" does - so your point is quite irrelevant. And the information is that Cranmore West is, indeed, permanently closed (even though the ESR website doesn't yet acknowledge the fact). Psulagain (talk) 15:26, 27 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

If the website doesn't acknowledge it, then it can't be verified that it will close permanently - unless you have another reliable published source saying so? Mattdaviesfsic (talk) 16:06, 27 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The platforms have been removed - stacked nearby. Time will tell.... Psulagain (talk) 17:00, 27 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

September 2023[edit]

Hello, I'm MichaelMaggs. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, The Weir, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so. You can have a look at referencing for beginners. If you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. MichaelMaggs (talk) 14:15, 14 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It's the theatre programme that spells it out - I was at last night's performance. So how do you want that "referenced"? Psulagain (talk) 14:36, 14 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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