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| I just don't get it. Signaleer can't seem to be satisfied with ANY version of the story other than his own. I wrote a balanced and reffed sentence about the XB-17 nomenclature, INCLUDING it in the article, and that STILL isn't enough for him. I don't know what it is he wants... ] (]) 19:47, 5 August 2008 (UTC)Mark Sublette] (]) 19:47, 5 August 2008 (UTC) | I just don't get it. Signaleer can't seem to be satisfied with ANY version of the story other than his own. I wrote a balanced and reffed sentence about the XB-17 nomenclature, INCLUDING it in the article, and that STILL isn't enough for him. I don't know what it is he wants... ] (]) 19:47, 5 August 2008 (UTC)Mark Sublette] (]) 19:47, 5 August 2008 (UTC) | ||
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Ann Pellegreno
Hi Bzuk! I am in the process of writing up a new article on "Ann Pellegreno". As you probably already know, she is the one that did the Amelia Earhart flight on the 30th anniversity - similar to Linda Finch. In the research I am doing on this article I am working out in a sandbox now I came across this picture of Pellegreno. Do you know if I can use this publicity photo in the biography? Can I download to Wiki-Commons and under what conditions? I am reading her book World Flight. The Earhart Trail (1971) now to get additional biography information. You don't know of any other picture of her I could use, do you? Should have the article up and going in about a week. Will let you know so you can "tweak" if you want. What about this picture of her and this picture of her plane? I'll check back here on your talk page for any answers later. Thanks. --Doug 18:15, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
- See Ann Pellegreno, out of my sandbox. FWiW Bzuk (talk) 00:28, 5 July 2008 (UTC).
Nice article, much better than I could have done. You are a specialist in this field. --Doug 11:33, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
Nominated your new article for a possible DYK. If you can think of a better hook, feel free to submit an alternate one. Tried to use a hook that you already have a footnote on. Would it be correct to use additional references from websites that say basically the same thing, so they can verify the hook? If so, I'll locate some. --Doug 16:56, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
Stewart and Sullavan
Dear Bzuk, I don't doubt that Stewart was enamored of Sullavan, but such wasn't because they worked together in the University Players. They never did. Stewart would have first met Sullavan when she was in Princeton during his junior year and in the cast of Strictly Dishonorable with Princeton's Theatre Intime. Additionally, Stewart would have partied with the University Players in Baltimore in the winter of 1931-32 when his Princeton Triangle Club was there in January 1932 performing their show Spanish Blades, in which Stewart was cast. At that time, Fonda and Sullavan had been married less than two weeks. Half the males of the University Players were Princeton graduates, including Joshua Logan, who had been president of the Triangle Club the year before, and others, such as Norris Houghton, Myron McCormick, and Bretaigne Windust. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hrenrut (talk • contribs) 15:56, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
- Fair enough, Eliot describes an infatuation but your edit, (my slight revision in the cite) clearly establish the correct timeframe of the Princeton period. FWiW Bzuk (talk) 16:40, 5 July 2008 (UTC).
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Thanks for the "tweaks", and goodnight! :) Dapi89 (talk) 00:04, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
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Pusher configuration
A dispute seems to be developing about this between me and another user. Here is the argument as on the other party's talk page. Just between us, am I being very silly? --Soundofmusicals (talk) 07:51, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
Was intrigued by your idea that a "pusher" prop "pulls" - although actually on the same grounds a tractor prop "pushes"! The difference is of course really the location of the propeller rather than the nature of the thrust applied to the aircraft. I have tried to keep the sense of what you had to say by leaving your "giving the impression of pushing" - but have cut your sentence that it is "really pulling". The image behind the terminology may well be a bit meaningless (especially in the case of a "push/pull" layout - if that was really what it says the propellers would be thrusting in opposite directions, and would cancel each other out!) - but on the other hand we don't have to get dogmatic about the physics of the situation, I feel. Get back to me if you feel we need to discuss this one. --Soundofmusicals (talk) 23:42, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
(Let's keep this discussion in one place - even move it to the article discussion page? - anyway I have put your reply here)
- I've undone your edit. Aerodynamics is aerodynamics; dogmatics is just POV. Props "pull" and there just isn't any other way. I would, in any rate, suggest you bone up on some basic flight theory. Cheers--Phyllis1753 (talk) 00:25, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
- Basic laws of physics (and, I suspect, aerodynamics) have nothing to do with "push" or "pull". A force is applied in a particular direction (strictly, "sense") - forward or back. "Push" and "pull" - in ordinary English (as opposed to scientific and technical language) indicate where the force is "coming from" (itself not a very scientific" idea) - we use the word "push" to indicate a force that comes from behind and "pull" to indicate one that comes from the front. You can push a shopping trolley backwards and pull in forwards as well as the other way around, for instance. The difference is where you are standing! This is, as you very rightly point out, not a very scientific use of language - in fact in terms of physics, at least, it is pretty meaningless - but it is the (ordinary language) sense in which the word is applied here. In fact - the propeller is part of the machine itself - it "propells" rather than pushing or pulling!!
- In THIS sense it is quite true that a "pusher" propeller "pulls" an aircraft just as a tractor one does - but in the same way a "tractor" propeller "pushes" it (in a forward direction of course). This is nonsense, but it is where you quibble leads us, I'm afraid.
- I think my edit - that left the first sentence of your edit intact but removed the essentially nonsensical second one, actually kept what was valid in your argument. I remain open to further persuasion, of course! I haven't reverted it (yet) -until we've had a better chance to make sure we are talking about the same thing!! --Soundofmusicals (talk) 07:14, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
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F-16 Citations
Hi Bill, I have a question regarding formating of citations. I'd been using the format shown in WP:CITE/ES, so your changes were a bit novel to me. Is there a preferred citation format? (I know there's not an "official" one, but is there one that tends to better pass on FA/GA reviews?) If so, could you please provide me a link for guidance? I can seem to find anything. Thanks, Askari Mark (Talk) 22:38, 13 July 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks, Bill. The reason for the variety of styles was because I’d not gone through all of them. I was the one who added the “Anons”; it’s not uncommon, but I mainly did it to signify that there was really was no identified author – as opposed to the more common (on Misplaced Pages) simple neglect to identify one (a problem with several citations I did clean up). I don’t like the “date forward” style either, but was just following WP:CITE/ES. I will probably restore publisher info where appropriate because that’s proper traditional citation, and I do plan to restore parallelism in listing author’s names where there’s multiple authors. Using mixed forms drives me nuts. Cheers, Askari Mark (Talk) 01:39, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
Little Miss Sunshine A-class review
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Biblio & notes
Hi - saw your revision of my edit on Jean Arthur. No beef from me, just wondering what's the logic of the biblio going last?
BTW, How have you been -- how's being a film coordinator going? Ed Fitzgerald (unfutz) 02:41, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
- See comment your talk page. Just a rule of bibliographic formatting. I have never seen an example of the bibliography appearing before the citation guide/end/footnotes or appendices. FWiW Bzuk (talk) 02:57, 17 July 2008 (UTC).
Aircraft of the Battle of Britain
Apologies for this becoming a bit of an editing can of worms. To mind, the section on the fighters has become overdone, from being a straightforward analysis of the aircraft it has become a jungle. I have made my comments, at length, about unverified, contradictory or inadequately referenced statements being used to push a particular barrow. In the meantime I'll withdraw from editing this page because I'm wanting to concentrate on other articles, and my time is better spent on more important things in life.Cheers! Minorhistorian (talk) 23:19, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
Kurfürst needs to be blocked - look what he's doing to the article. Dapi89 (talk) 18:16, 19 July 2008 (UTC)
My granpappy warned me before I woz born not to get caught up in Misplaced Pages editing! "Boy, jus' ya leave that kinda stuff to th' masochists!" he'd say, "Oh ya porr blin' fool! Ya gonna wish ya ain't gone and done that ya cretin!" I shoulda heeded my granpappy's advice...Minorhistorian (talk) 02:21, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
Edit war
Looks like another admin beat me to it! Sorry, I was out at a roller derby, if you can believe that! Maury (talk) 00:54, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
A-26 etc
Thanks for your comments. My biblio and refs styles are mostly based on examples I find in the individual articles, where I am generally concerned with technical details and overall sense and presentation to the readers, and standardization of refs comes after standardization of other stuff. As to extra refs for the Third Party section, as the author, I feel I should offer my own refs, although apologetically late. PeterWD (talk) 14:48, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
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Could You Be of A Bit of Help?
I need your services, if possible. I've added a statement to the P-61 page and I need someone to link it to the book "Queen of the Midnight Skies" in the reference section. Much obliged. Ken keisel (talk) 00:26, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
- I'll try for a page # tonight. Much obliged. Ken keisel (talk) 00:53, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
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LMS A-class
Hey Bill, I was just wondering if you had any further comments or objections to the Little Miss Sunshine review. If not, your indication of a support should be sufficient to conclude the review and confer the A-class upon the article. Thanks! Girolamo Savonarola (talk) 05:23, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
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User talk:138.88.35.77 and CSX Transportation
Hi
The edit summary 138.88.35.77 (talk · contribs) used was of course extremely rude, but he was right, and it wasn't misleading either: The source wasn't quoted correctly, it didn't say "T for Transportation", and that's what he removed.
Also, he was already warned for both of his rude edit summaries.
Cheers, Amalthea (talk) 17:29, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
- I absolutely agree, as a matter of fact I was about to warn him myself when I saw that EronMain already warned him about both edits.
FWIW, I also redid his edit on the Air Force One article (with hopefully a more civil edit summary), since that one too seems OK. --Amalthea (talk) 18:05, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
Removing date and other links
The guidance in the Manual of Style on what shouldn't be linked has recently been clarified. The relevant bits are at WP:CONTEXT#What generally should not be linked and WP:CONTEXT#Dates.
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I'd say in general the same principle applies to universally understood concepts such as World War II, and common professions such as actor, singer, and quite a few other examples that are often unnecessarily linked. No-one is ever going to click on those links, so they're just clutter.
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Wikilinking dates provides a small benefit to a small proportion of readers but is at best useless and at worst a distraction for the vast majority, so when I'm making some other change to an article, I'm also de-linking dates. Colonies Chris (talk) 18:08, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
- It's a recommendation, not a rule - but the emphasis of the MoS guidance has definitely changed towards linking less - only things that the ordinary reader of the article would want to find out more about - and not linking/autoformatting dates unless there's some special reason to do so. The problem has been that the autoformatting mechanism and the linking mechanism are inextricably entwined, so there are masses of completely valueless blue links on pages just for the benefit of the small number of users who've registered and set a date format preference. And because the rules of the autoformatting mechanism are not particularly intuitive, the mistaken impression has grown up that all years shoud be linked as standard, which is another source of link clutter. Colonies Chris (talk) 23:43, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
- "Optional" was your word, not mine. It means "not compulsory". That means that if I, in my judgement, think an article would be improved by unlinking the dates, I'm entitled to do so. If you, in your judgement, disagree with me, you're entitled to re-link them. It's not something I propose to get into an edit war about. Colonies Chris (talk) 19:21, 2 August 2008 (UTC)
- If I thought that the linking of dates in an article was the result of "Careful consideration of the disadvantages and advantages of the autoformatting mechanism", then I would be reluctant to unlink them. But all experienced editors know that >99% of the date linking is just there because that used to be the recommendation, and editors just copied the practice from other editors. When I was following the previous recommendation to link dates, occasionally - but rarely - another editor would raise an objection. Now I'm unlinking them, occasionally another editor will object to that change. If any particular editor feels strongly that s/he wants to keep the linking, they can have it, I'm happy to explain my reasons, but ultimately they can have it if it matters so much to them - it's not important enough to battle over. Colonies Chris (talk) 10:10, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
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Doolittle Raid
Saw your edit of my edit and your reasoning. I rewrote that because the impression left by the previous text and the footnote seemed to imply that the Chuchow bases were not the original interim stop for fuel. They were. (The map in Craven and cate seems to imply that Kweilin and Kian were planned as bases, when in fact they were well beyond the range of the B-25 even if they had reached the planned launch point). Without the tailwind, none of the raiders would have made the China coast, period. York didn't even try because the civilian maintenance in Sacramento had replaced his pre-set carburetors against Doolittle's orders. Even so, a number of the raiders dead-reckoned to C'hu-hsien, which the Allies mistakenly call Chuchow. (The topo maps show that Lishui to the SE is actually Chuchow). Doc Watson, Brick Holstrom, Bob Gray, Major Hilger, and Davey Jones all reached and flew past Chuhsien--Watson by more than 100 miles. Joyce, Greening, and Bower bailed out in the vicinity while they had a little gas left. So while Lawson, Hallmark, and Smith all had to ditch because they ran low on gas, and Hoover and Farrow came down at Ningpo, it wasn't so for most of the crews. They were fouled up by the storm front and the lack of radio beacon to guide them in. That is why I used "locate". If you can think of a better way to phrase it to encompass both situations, feel free to try.--Reedmalloy (talk) 04:33, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
MOS Elitists
Wow, what a mess? Seems pretty clear who the elitists are there, huh? It's obvious they only want to scrap the date autoformatting, and they couldn't even get a concensus for that. Yet Greg point blank says that is what the consensus is! And with all the name-calling from theire side - elitist, brain-damaged - it's obvious there just don't care what anyone else even thinks. And to, that is true elitism! I think we need to find a place to take this issue over their heads, and get broader community involvement on the issue. - BillCJ (talk) 19:58, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
Citizen Kane
If you're going to work on Citizen Kane, I invite you to check out User:Erik/Citizen Kane and User:Erik/Citizen Kane/Draft. It was something that Alientraveller, J.D., and I attempted to start, but we kind of dropped it. Thought it might come in handy for you. —Erik (talk • contrib) - 22:19, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
- No problem. The journals marked (saved) mean I have electronic copies of them in case you're not able to find them yourself. Just email me if you want to see about using them. —Erik (talk • contrib) - 22:23, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
Removal of properly sourced information
Once again we have one editor sneakily removing or altering properly sourced information in order to trundle his own barrow. Another example can be found here http://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Rolls-Royce_Merlin&action=history Same thing with the Spitfire variants article, where information has been altered and a reference removed with nothing cited as a reason for altering things. I ended up doing that. On top of that he resorts to rather laughable personal attack. Is there anything that can be done about this? Sorry to complain, but this kind of behaviour begins to grate.Minorhistorian (talk) 00:42, 2 August 2008 (UTC)
- Sorry to interject but I have been watching what's been going on. He is blocked now and you are right BTW. Better to take it to User:Rlandmann who is an admin or just shrug your shoulders and carry on! Nimbus (talk) 01:33, 2 August 2008 (UTC)
- Yep, you're right Nimbus, I should have taken this elsewhere. Sorry about the grizzle; ps am I doing better with my citations? Cheers!Minorhistorian (talk) 03:35, 2 August 2008 (UTC)
Please Read WP:EL
Please read WP:EL, Misplaced Pages does NOT link copyvio.
The removal of the URL's in the cites was because the site linked is not necessarily hosting the material with the permission of the copyright holder.
If you can make a justification for fair-use please feel free, especially in the case of Google Books.
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- It has been held in the US that, linking to sites that then link to copyright material hosted without the consent of the copyright holder is a form of contributory infringement.
I do not remove links indiscriminately, and in most cases have left details of the ORIGNAL work (as opposed to web linked scans) which would enable someone to find the relevant document.
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- More specifically, WP:ELNEVER covers it. Gordonofcartoon (talk) 16:04, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
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Supermarine Spitfire heading photo
Hi Bzuk. Perhaps a compromise would be in order? I have changed the photo to one which I hope both you and Kaiwhakahaere can work with. I have discussed this on the Spitfire discussion page.Minorhistorian (talk) 11:47, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
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Hola amigo. Thankyou for your kind words. Always nice to be appreciated. Yes sometimes I don't meet eye to eye with others unfortunately which is to be expected on a site this size, but I generally get on very well with most people I come across. Best ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ 14:10, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
P.s excellent work with Anna May Wong!!! ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ 14:15, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
I'm not happy with this new "guideline" on screenshots. I've seen screenshots removed from articles which not only identify the main characters but describe a key event or moment in that film. In many caes it seems like a point of view of the editor who removed it rather than a general community feeling. I'm not for overuse or unnecessary use of screneshots in articles but personally I think a screenshot which identifies a key moment or cast in a film is far more encyclopedic than a film poster can ever be and in identifying a film we need such images for something which is primarily visual. ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ 19:20, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
Checkuser
Now who could that be? Carefully read the preamble, and then make a request here. Please be as specific as possible when making a request - it may be worth perusing the closed cases and their outcomes before posting. If you need any help, please give me a hoy. --Rlandmann (talk) 00:03, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
Signaleer with a mission
I just don't get it. Signaleer can't seem to be satisfied with ANY version of the story other than his own. I wrote a balanced and reffed sentence about the XB-17 nomenclature, INCLUDING it in the article, and that STILL isn't enough for him. I don't know what it is he wants... Mark Sublette (talk) 19:47, 5 August 2008 (UTC)Mark SubletteMark Sublette (talk) 19:47, 5 August 2008 (UTC)