On Sat, 31 Mar 2007, John Rowland wrote:

Tom Anderson wrote:
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007, MIG wrote:

On Mar 29, 5:23 pm, Tom Anderson wrote:

What puzzles me is why John doesn't add it himself - does he perhaps
not understand that Wikipedia is publically editable?

So you came to the conclusion that I might not know Wikipedia is
publicly editable, as a result of me asking the public to edit it? Are
you on drugs?

I thought maybe you thought you had to be a registered user to do so or
something. It did seem a rather unlikely thing for you to believe, but i
was stuck for other good explanations!

He probably meant someone more knowledgeable about Brockley Station to
get the facts right.

You don't need to know everything to make a contribution - that's the
beauty of wikipedia. If you know a little more than what's there, add
it; if enough people do that, you end up with a lot of information.

I've made numerous additions to Wikipedia, but in this case, I didn't
see the point in adding a row which contained nothing but the name of
the station, which was pretty much all I knew.

Of the columns in the table, the name, place, management, station code,
zone, line and grid reference would have been easy enough to find out with
a bit of googling. If you know the area, local authority too, and if you
know the station, the number of platforms. Annual entry/exit would have
taken a bit more work - we had the relevant document floating about here
not long ago, i think. The opening date is the only thing that needs a
specialist source, so a post asking "can someone tell me when Brockley
station opened?" rather than "can someone edit this page on wikipedia for
me?" would have done!

Whoever added the row, well done.

Indeed. It was one P. Ingerson, i believe - three cheers!

tom

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