User talk:Zzyzx11

Semi-retired

I'm currently too busy in real life to handle the day-to-day operations of Wikipedia
(That does not necessarily mean that I have completely stopped reading Wikipedia, checking my talk page, or making occasional edits. It's time permitting in my real life.)

This user is no longer very active on Wikipedia as of January 2020.

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Your recent revert on California State Route 198

Just a head's up, I undid your revert that added a new exit, as the information is sourced in the Future section. The only part that wasn't was that it's called "Visalia Parkway", which I removed. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 17:15, 12 August 2026 (UTC)

That's what happens when nobody uses the WP:REFNAME method or similar. Zzyzx11 (talk) 18:40, 12 August 2026 (UTC)

Sorry, I'm not sure I know what you mean. None of the intersection part has any sources. I assumed that's because the sources were supposed to be elsewhere in the article. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 18:49, 12 August 2026 (UTC)

I was referring specifically to the inclusion of Road 148 intersection, not the unsourced Visalia Parkway intersection. All I saw was that previous editor did not provide any citation for that row, nor use the WP:REFNAME method to show that they were referring back to that source in the Future section. Hope that clarifies that. Zzyzx11 (talk) 18:55, 12 August 2026 (UTC)

Ah that makes sense, thanks for updating the article. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 19:07, 12 August 2026 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Metrolink (California) navigational boxes

A tag has been placed on Category:Metrolink (California) navigational boxes indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and removing the speedy deletion tag. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 05:12, 29 August 2026 (UTC)

Checking the page histories of all the navboxes that were previously in that category, someone recently created a single Template:Metrolink (California) stations navbox to replace them, and thus it can be just tracked in the parent Category:Metrolink (California) templates. Zzyzx11 (talk) 12:31, 29 August 2026 (UTC)

Highway abbreviations

Hi, I noticed you reverted a few of my recent retargets. The "Statecode [dash] number" abbreviation seems to be more commonly used for highways than congressional districts, and hatnotes still exist at the highway page, while the "Statecode [space] number" abbreviation is never used for highways in the US, only congressional districts. Wide Surge 7 (talk) 16:16, 14 September 2026 (UTC)

Where did you get that idea? There was a reason why User:Golbez initially did not fix the second CA-48 redirect. Do not solely relying on actual links, because most current links have been "fixed" to link to the articles directly instead of the redirects. The current body text or "piped links" of most Wikipedia articles related to congressional districts and elections, such as on 2026 California Proposition 40#Endorsements; 2026 United States House of Representatives elections in California#Endorsements and all the other 2026 United States House of Representatives election articles, still use the dash whether they are actually linked or not. I would however compromise and support converting them all to disambiguation pages like CA-27 and CA-26. But without evidence to the contrary, I can only go based on the edits by Golbez and other editors on most of these redirects, and on current body text of articles related to both the topics of congressional districts and highways -- that the congressional districts appear to be the primary topic for these abbreviations based on usage. Zzyzx11 (talk) 17:56, 14 September 2026 (UTC)