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I've noticed the IP range 114.122.128.0/18 made changes on road sign meaning multiple articles of road signs by country. However, some contains errors, and/or are incorrect, meaningless, and/or disruptive. For example:

• Changing the sign's meaning to literally describe the sign pictogram, rather its legal meaning, which is often incorrect or meaningless (and may mislead readers, since it may mean more or different in legal sense, rather than just what the pictogram means). (Examples: [1], [2], [3], [4])
• Changing the images of the sign to different one than used in the country, and/or add signs not existing in the country. (Examples: [5], [6], [7])
• Confused the dangerous curves sign direction by changing i.e. right to left, and vice-versa. (Examples: [8], [9])
• Changed the roundabout sign description from "Roundabout" to "Circle road" and "Detour" (maybe took the sign pictogram too literally, or maybe due to they translated too literally from their native language). Roundabout (or traffic circle) is a type of junction, not literally a road going just in circle.
• Removes entire section, or most of the info, without any reason. (Example: [10])
• Changing English variation, like from "Pedestrian crossing" to "Crosswalk", and "Give way" to "Yield", and "level crossing" to "railroad crossing". (Example: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Road_signs_in_Iceland&diff=next&oldid=1096565257]
• Shortening "bicycle" to just "bike", which means the same.

Can someone please check the edits, and if necessary, rectify the errors made by the IP range? I've fixed the errors (and did revert as it's too large to simply correct it).

Please assume the IP range did most of the edits in good-faith. I've notified the IP range to this discussion.

Also IP range is currently partially blocked from Road signs in Malaysia for similar reasons. See Talk:Road signs in Malaysia#Disruptive editing by 114.xxx.xxx.xxx for relevant discussion. Stylez995 (talk) 13:24, 25 July 2022 (UTC) (Edit: typo. --Stylez995 (talk) 13:35, 25 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

IIRC, there is a WP:LTA editor who is obsessed with road signs. Just revert and WP:DENY. –Fredddie™ 02:19, 26 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Fredddie: I don't think this is an LTA, based on consistent typos, letter case errors, and using words that doesn't make any sense, like "Lokomitif railroad Crossing Ahead [sic]", "Doubletipel / Multiplayer railroad Crossing [sic]", and "No entry Mopped", which I think the operator of this IP range isn't a native English speaker.

The road sign-obsessed LTA you have referred to (based on my research on WP:LTA) is probably a native English speaker. So in case of the IP range, it could be WP:CIR issue based on language issues that required cleanup by other editors. --Stylez995 (talk) 13:18, 29 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

U.S. Route 287 in Texas and Kentucky Route 80 are running into parser limits with "too many expensive parser calls". Fredddie has made some related changes; I don't know if that is the cause or not. MB 23:50, 11 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@MB: I had been messing with the backend of {{Jct/sandbox}} to get rid of the code that caused this, so I went ahead and applied those fixes. I got the expensive parser function count down to 14/500 on US 287. –Fredddie™ 00:35, 12 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. When searching on Google for A4160 road length, I can't find any gov.uk reports etc. Does anyone have any suggestions of any useful websites? I have tried Google Maps, although it tries to take a shortcut along the A4234 Central Link and A4232 Grangetown Link. Thanks, Roads4117 (talk) 19:15, 12 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]