Talk:Jordanhill railway station

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To-do list for Jordanhill railway station:	edit · history · watch · refresh
Create redlinked articles, e.g., Glasgow Academicals (site down; Google cache) and White Rage Expand stubs for the other stations on the Argyle Line and related articles: Victoria Park, Glasgow; New Anniesland; Transport Scotland; Jordanhill School; Whiteinch Victoria Park railway station; Jordanhill Scots: Get a featured picture quality image of Jordanhill railway station Go to your local university and search the 1887 archives of the Herald for mentions Put up a commemorative plaque, Jimbo and/or Wikimedia UK host a ceremony with the railway line officials – Support such a commemoration here.

[edit] Archives

Archive 001 - March 2, 2006 to March 3, 2006 Including random comments about the millionth article
Archive 002 - March 4, 2006 to March 9, 2006 Including further extensive discussion on adding a reference to Wikipedia

[edit] WiFi

Is there free WiFi at the station? I searched for "WiFi" but couldn't find anything. --James S. 01:15, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

This is rampant speculation as I've never been there, but I wouldn't really expect a small unmanned station to have free WiFi? (And even in the large ones, you have to pay, in my experience.) -- Mithent 01:41, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Rampant speculation on my part as well, I'd be amazed if such a small station had wi-fi. However, the station could be located near someplace that is blasting out free wi-fi (a school or a park or...) If it is in range of wi-fi, it would be cool to host a wiki-meetup there. Attendees could sit and edit Wikipedia from "inside" our one-millionth article. (OK, from inside the topic illustrated by our one-millionth article) Johntex\^talk 01:47, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

No WiFi at Jordanhill, I'm afraid: [1] Nach0king 13:39, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for that info about there being no wifi from the national rail service. However, it is still possible there is some spillover from a nearby internet cafe or office or house or something. Wifi signals generally don't understand property boundaries very well. Johntex\^talk 23:24, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

I should be the judge of that ; ) Pacific Coast Highway • ^blah 00:53, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

And if there were such "spillover", using the network without permission would be illegal. --Happynoodleboy 19:19, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] On which line?

The article currently says "The station is five stops and eleven minutes journey time from Glasgow Central." My question is, on which line? The station is on "the Argyle Line and the North Clyde Line" - can you take either line to Glasgow Central and get there in the same time and same number of stops? Johntex\^talk 01:41, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

The station isn't actually "served" by the North Clyde Line; it's on the line but NCL trains don't stop there. I'll clarify that sentence. Nach0king 13:49, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] This link?

Has anyone seen this link? That and the main page have a lot of detailed information, and a good non-copyrighted pic that could be stolen. - Calgacus (ΚΑΛΓΑΚΟΣ) 22:09, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

Oh, some wonderful photos of the station here. The site is a goldmine! - Calgacus (ΚΑΛΓΑΚΟΣ) 22:13, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

Hope you enjoyed your wikibreak, Calgacus. Yes, that's a great site (sorry to say, someone else had discovered it as the site is referred to in the references section). Anyway, I've added a link to one of their photos to the external links section. Also: which pic do you reckon is non-copyrighted? --A bit iffy 11:57, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

I think it's [2] (from 1913). TZM^T (de:^T) 09:18, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ugly footnotes

This article is a good example of why footnotes are worse than in-line parentheticals in a hypertext-enabled presentation. Skipping over parentheticals is much easier than scrolling back-and-forth, up and down several screenlengths. --James S. 06:10, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

You don't need to scroll up and down, the footnotes have anchor links from the text down to the footnote and then back up to the text again. If you want to glance at a footnote one click will take you there and then a second click takes you back where you came from. Bryan 08:03, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

So? That's still two more clicks than it takes to scan past a parenthetical, or about fifty times the calories, I'm estimating. Footnotes are terribly inefficient. --James S. 08:05, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

So if you mean "two clicks" don't say "scrolling back-and-forth, up and down several screenlengths" instead - those words describe two very dissimilar activities. Arguing against footnotes by complaining they make you scroll up and down over several screen lengths to read them is disingenuous when you're not actually having to scroll up and down to read them. Bryan 08:34, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

For those who want to skip any in-line parentheticals, they have to move their eyes down to find the end of the parenthesis. It's also ugly in the text as a whole. I estimate the ugliness factor contributing to a loss of 100 calories and the finding-the-end-of-parenthesis-factor to be a loss of another 100 or so calories, so it is therefore very inefficient. 50 DKP minus! FranksValli 01:40, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] commemorative (blue) plaque

One day there shall be a plaque at the station commemorating it being the subject of the millionth article.... – Kaihsu 22:40, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:Jordanhill commemoration. Da niel (‽) 18:25, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ticket Machine

First Scotrail has now installed more Scheidt & Bachmann Ticket XPress machines at Scottish stations, following the success of the initial batch of 10 (including the Jordanhill one). When I next get the chance to check my definitive list of machine locations, I will update the two references on here with the correct number. (Not to mention getting round to writing the Scheidt & Bachmann Ticket XPress article, as part of my "British railway ticket machines (computerised)" project!) --Hassocks5489 12:06, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

List of S&B machines checked; there are 37 at 26 different First Scotrail stations. Will update article accordingly now.

--Hassocks5489 17:12, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Electrification (Blue Train) Logo on Crow Road Bridge

Up until the early 1980's, the station name sign on the Crow Road bridge had the logo that was developed when the Blue Trains - Class 303 - were introduced. A picture of this would add to the article.

Pencefn 20:26, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

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