<div dir="ltr"><div>Agreed on all of that, honestly.</div><div><br></div><div>It's funny, but the one handy thing about the state wikis is having such a good place to keep notes. I started adding info to the Virginia/Railroads page just under a week ago because it turns out to be a simpler way of keeping notes on what I have and haven't started already ... and that way if someone other than me does start getting into rail in VA again, at least there's some pre-coordination work done. Not sure how many will, though - the only edit to the VA rail page before this week going all the way back to 2012 was fixing some of the categories at the bottom last year! So I think I'm going to have plenty to keep me busy for a while ...</div><div><br></div><div>It's funny, but regarding Wikipedia, and from coming back here after 10 years of being off on other things, their strict citation rules feel a lot like the vocal portion of editors here who are extra-strict about "map what's on the ground." I agree with both that and Wikipedia's rule in principle, but after watching the re-discussion of the abandoned railroad line "where do we draw the line" topic, from a somewhat-outside perspective, I feel like some folks' definition of "on the ground" is "if it were a snake it'd be so obvious it'd have bit me." Which is all to say, I guess every community has their one or two funny topics!<br></div><div><br></div><div>Chuck</div><div>VA<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jun 13, 2020 at 10:15 AM Russell Nelson <<a href="mailto:nelson@crynwr.com">nelson@crynwr.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On 6/13/20 12:25 AM, stevea wrote:<br>
> It is absolutely fascinating (to me, anyway) to watch this conversation!<br>
><br>
> I thanked Russ Nelson on wiki for his comments at New York/Railroads. (And we still have a ways to go there).<br>
Yeah, for me the map is much more important than the wiki. Except for <br>
Wikipedia's stupid citation rules, all that information belongs in <br>
Wikipedia. Although if it drives more mappers, that's fine. Maybe we <br>
should populate the wiki with the old_railroad_operator information? <br>
That would be a smart.<br>
<br>
I wish NE2 could have managed to color within the lines. He was a very <br>
prolific mapper.<br>
<br>
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