[Talk-us] Rail tagging in US (and North America): operator=* and reporting_marks=*

[Chuck Sanders]

Agreed on all of that, honestly.

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 ...

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!

Chuck
VA

On Sat, Jun 13, 2020 at 10:15 AM Russell Nelson <nelson at crynwr.com> wrote:

> On 6/13/20 12:25 AM, stevea wrote:
> > It is absolutely fascinating (to me, anyway) to watch this conversation!
> >
> > I thanked Russ Nelson on wiki for his comments at New York/Railroads.
> (And we still have a ways to go there).
> Yeah, for me the map is much more important than the wiki. Except for
> Wikipedia's stupid citation rules, all that information belongs in
> Wikipedia. Although if it drives more mappers, that's fine. Maybe we
> should populate the wiki with the old_railroad_operator information?
> That would be a smart.
>
> I wish NE2 could have managed to color within the lines. He was a very
> prolific mapper.
>
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