Talk:Glossary of United Kingdom railway terms

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"Screamer" nickname for Class 43[edit]

Please don't revert this again. The "Screamer" was a well-known nickname for the Class 43 HST power cars prior to them being re-engined with the VP185 (EMT) or MTU4000 engines. 41001 (the prototype) now has a working Paxman Valenta engine installed, its welcome back tour was named "The Screaming Valenta". Or search for "Valenta scream" on Youtube, or Google. There's your citations. Squirrel (talk) 16:32, 6 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It is the responsibility of the content adder to reference where he or she found the facts. While other editors can guess as to the source of the supplied facts, or search, the burden should ideally be on the original editor. This is for several reasons:
  • To show that the facts are true
  • To show that the text was not plagiarized
  • To show that it's not original research
  • So that articles don't grow with an unmaintainable amount of uncited content
It is not my duty to search for you and fill out a citation template. It's disappointing that you expect others to do this chore for you. Therefore, I will temporarily remove this re-addition, but you are welcome (encouraged, in fact!) to reintroduce it with one or more reliable references—ideally secondary sources. You seem to have found sources on YouTube or via Google, so why aren't you supplying a reference or two?
I've been working to improve the quality of this and the other rail glossaries, especially in terms of being properly sourced. These glossaries have had an abundance of slang in the past—some of which appears to have been coined by the editor who posted it. In order to prevent backward progress, I'm going to insist that the free-for-all that this article has been in the past stop. After all, this is an encyclopedia and not a blog or dictionary. Sorry for being stubborn, but I feel that's the only way to get these rail glossaries up to Wikipedia standards. – voidxor (talk | contrib) 22:55, 6 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
WP:BURDEN is policy. Part of one of our core policies, in fact. --Redrose64 (talk) 15:55, 8 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Bad Reference[edit]

Reference 4 is a link to an invitation-only blog. You need to have G-mail account that has been e-mailed by a certain other G-mail account to view this blog. Dr. British12 (talk) 22:07, 6 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

 Done Blog references are discouraged anyway per WP:NOTRELIABLE. I have removed the offending citation. Thank you for pointing it out. – voidxor (talk | contrib) 01:12, 11 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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