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[edit] Criticism

Mrsteviec has added a NPOV tag to the criticism section, which upon reflection seems justified. I've attempted to make it more balanced. I've also removed some bits which cite no sources. I think it still needs some work, but hopefully its a start! RicDod 12:32, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

I think it is much better than it was, but as Ricdod says: more work needed. For instance, the West Anglia tt changes in Dec 2005 did contain some improvements (15 min airport services all day, used to be only 30 min services in the peak), obviously at the expense of other services. Might be worth making clear that the Dec 2004 major tt change was for 'one' GE, Dec 2005 for 'one' WA. Might also be worth specifying how many stations lost their off-peak service, rather than saying an unquantified 'some'. Rushey Platt 19:38, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

if you think the above, why not alter it yourself?

[edit] Pictures

There have been a lot of changes to the pictures of late and we have ended up in a situation whereby there are two of the same pic in one article. Can someone maybe replace, preferably the second, Class 170 picture with something else - possiblly a sprinter of some kind. --wozza 16:17, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

If you see a duplicate picture just substitute it or remove it. Commons has a category of pictures of 'One' trains - Commons:Category:One (train operating company). We don't have many pictures, but I've replaced the second 170 with a Class 317 (it was a toss up between that and a Class 156, but as we already have a DMU I went for teh EMU). Please upload any photos you have to the Commons and put them in that gallery - I live in Somerset so I don't get much chance to photograph 'One' trains. Thryduulf 18:18, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

I quite like that picture, thanks for altering it - I would change it myself but I'm relatively new and only just getting to grips with wikipedia and didn't want to mess the article up --wozza 09:34, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

The joy of a wiki is that you can have a go, and if you mess it up it can easily be fixed by you or someone else - for example by reverting (see Help:Reverting to learn how). I don't think there is anything a normal user can do that cannot be fixed - if you don't know how to do it yourself ask at Wikipedia:Village pump (assistance), Wikipedia:Help desk, the article talk page, the talk page of another user, or several other places! Thryduulf 09:52, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 'one'

Any support moving this to 'one'. A quick visit to their website reveals this is the way it is always represented in text. Mrsteviec 06:56, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

very weak oppose - I dislike it, but I don't have any compelling reasons for this. It is ugly (imho of course) and is only done to make it clear that it is referring to the company and not the number in sentences, I've never seen it as 'one' in a list or info table for example (see [1] and [2]). "X (train operating compay)" is the standard naming scheme for UK TOC's that require disambiguation - e.g. Thameslink (train operating company). Thryduulf 10:48, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

I could go either way on it although it does seem to be most common naming and much simpler than the current. The ATOC National Rail website IMO is poorly written and has frequent mistakes. Where 'one' refer to themselves in text, it is this form that is always used. Mrsteviec 11:10, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

No major objections in a week so I've moved the article. Now there is the task to also clean up the variety of ways the name is represented in articles: