User talk:PEPSI697

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Thank you for signing up! Fork99 (talk) 20:46, 19 April 2024 (UTC)

You may also be interested in Wikipedia:WikiProject Australian Transport, where centralised discussions about articles on transport in Australia happen. Fork99 (talk) 20:47, 19 April 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the suggestion. I appreciate that. PEPSI697 (talk) 01:41, 20 April 2024 (UTC)

No worries! By the way, regarding your edit on Lynbrook railway station which I just thanked you for, the relevant guideline on this is MOS:ORDINAL. You might also be interested in MOS:ENGVAR and MOS:DATEVAR. Fork99 (talk) 04:49, 20 April 2024 (UTC)

Thanks! I will definitely keep doing that to keep up with Wikipedia’s policy on Dates, Months and Years. PEPSI697 (talk) 04:57, 20 April 2024 (UTC)

TIMEVAR at Sam Rubin

If that's the case, then why does MOS:TIME give "11 a.m." and "8 p.m." as examples? I don't think you're reading it correctly. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 07:43, 11 May 2024 (UTC)

Hi Sammi Brie,

Thank you for spotting it out. You can revert the edit I made if I read it incorrect if you want.

I think your right, I didn’t read the MOS:TIMEVAR correctly.

Thank you for the question and asking me!

Have a nice day. PEPSI697 (talk) 07:53, 11 May 2024 (UTC)

East Pakenham railway station

Hi, just to let you know, there shouldn't be any spaces between punctuation and a reference. Also, if you're editing from an Apple device which you might be since your edits are tagged with "mobile", please note that Wikipedia prefers using ' and not ’ for apostrophes; if you're using an iPhone or an iPad, you should press on the apostrophe key for a second and switch to the straight apostrophe.

We also had a discussion a while ago where Vicsig was decided to likely not be a reliable source somewhere on WT:AUSTS as it's a rail enthusiast page, check the talk archives somewhere for that if you would like. I would try to avoid using it, but don't go around removing it unless you have a better source.

One last thing, InternetArchiveBot doesn't frequently archive sources by itself, there is a tool to manually use it however. To access it, you need to go on the Desktop version of Wikipedia, click "View history" on the page you want, then under "External tools", click on "Fix dead links". Otherwise the direct link is https://iabot.wmcloud.org/. Then follow the prompts. Fork99 (talk) 05:21, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

Hi Fork99,

Thank you for leaving this message here. I didn't even know all of these stuff was against Wikipedia's TOS. (since I only joined Wikipedia a month ago and started editing then).

I am now aware of all of these stuff (like sources, bots and editing Wikipedia articles and projects (Mobile Wikipedia or Desktop Wikipedia).

However, I was aware that Vicsig was a railway enthusiast website since not every information is accurate, but I only just saw it just then archived at WT:AUSTS with lots of talks about it back in August 2023.

Also, just to let you know, this wasn't a deliberate vandalism on East Pakenham railway station I edited today, I didn't even know that Wikipedia's TOS doesn't is preferred not to do on what I did.

I did actually notice that you can hold on a key on an Apple devices (such as iPad or iPhone) and do that (I only knew that trick on letters, not on characters). Thank you for teaching me that trick.

In future, I'll be careful about what I edit or which sources I publish.

Thank you for letting me know that I can manually archive any websites (with Desktop version only)

Although, I do know how to edit on the desktop version of Wikipedia. For some reason, I prefer editing on Mobile Wikipedia, obviously, I did notice that there are tags under the lists of edits I made tagging "Mobile edit" or "Mobile web edit".

I also didn't even know that InternetArchiveBot doesn't automatically archive sources.

Thanks for letting me know. PEPSI697 (talk) 06:27, 18 May 2024 (UTC)