User talk:Andy Dingley/Archive 2010 February

Templates with errors

Templates with errors are most easily corrected by simply writing out the reference paramaters. Nice to see you are still on the job. FWiW Bzuk (talk) 13:37, 4 February 2010 (UTC).

Vertical fire-tube boilers

Hi Andy. Any particular reason why you have a plural article title this time? (Also Vertical boilers with horizontal fire-tubes) -- EdJogg (talk) 09:46, 4 February 2010 (UTC)

I'm really not sure what's best here for naming.

Vertical boilers with horizontal fire-tubes doesn't work in singular because there are multiple types in there, quite separate. "Cochran boiler and variants" doesn't work because there's no family resemblance. Cochran boiler is notable enough, but the others only so if bundled together. For an article that's thus a grouped composite in scope, I think it's reasonable as a plural.

Vertical fire-tube boilers is even less clear. Is this one or two forms? Should it split to a singular scope with a singular name, and Stanley steam car boiler separated out? We could do this, leave the existing plural name as a disambig. Or should it be Vertical multitubular boiler, as is a common, but perhaps more ambiguous, name?

If you've any good ideas or strong feelings, rename away. In other news, I'm stuck over diesel vs. compression-ignition for bunch of engine articles, which is an even more awkward choice. Andy Dingley (talk) 12:41, 4 February 2010 (UTC)

Hmmm. I see your point, but don't really understand why the naming should be different from other articles (such as "Boiler", "Automobile" or "Steam wagon"): you describe a generic configuration of boiler (as in the title) and then discuss individual types with differences. I'll move them later ('cos if I don't, I suspect that another editor will sometime in the future).

Article naming can be quite tricky, so good luck with your other problem areas. -- EdJogg (talk) 14:58, 4 February 2010 (UTC)

Moved, links fixed.

I zapped a couple myself (thought you'd finished!) I've also tweaked the first line of the two articles so they match the new title. I think the meaning is the same as you intended, but singular. -- EdJogg (talk) 15:49, 4 February 2010 (UTC)

Templates with errors

Templates with errors are most easily corrected by simply writing out the reference paramaters. Nice to see you are still on the job. FWiW Bzuk (talk) 13:38, 4 February 2010 (UTC).

Speedy deletion nomination of Retrotronics

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AfD nomination of Retrotronics

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About WSO2 wiki page

hi Andy

i reverted the WSO2 page coz i saw the same ip address did the same thing to virtusa wiki page

i think its playing fool with wiki pages. Please refer the history of those pages. Darshana Jayasinghe : U graduate,University Of Peradeniya,Sri Lanka (talk) 16:46, 7 February 2010 (UTC)

I reverted back your Advert tag on WSO2 page and added COI tag. They removed your Advert tag twice - so I added db-spam because page is clearly just advertising - mostly copied directly from marketing site. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pauljdw (talk • contribs) 20:39, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

British hardened field defences of World War II

Thanks for the revert - something went very wrong with my editor! Gaius Cornelius (talk) 13:22, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

Robotics Certification Standards Alliance (RCSA)

Hi Andy, Please see the talk page of [industrial robot] regards, David Robotics1 (talk) 14:18, 15 February 2010 (UTC)

Poyle Pump - FYI

Hiya. Late last year you (correctly) removed File:Poyle Pump 022.JPG from the traction engine article on the basis that it pre-dated the machines by several decades. (I had no problem with that -- obviously I'd never spotted the date mis-match before!)

A little research has just thrown up this page (http://www.villagepumps.org.uk/pumpsBucks.htm) which mentions:

"The [Colnbrook Turnpike] Trust was responsible for the maintenance of 17 miles of the Bath Road between Cranford bridge and Maidenhead bridge. They erected several pumps along the turnpike, specifically in order to fill water tanks to lay dust. Only two such pumps remain now, one here at Poyle, and one at Longford."

Presumably the water tanks were mounted on the back of horse-drawn carts, which would explain the need for the great height of the pump.

Cheers. -- EdJogg (talk) 14:21, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

1827 seems reasonable for that pump's construction (1754 wouldn't), and the "barrels on carts" theory. Are there any similar tall pumps elsewhere? Is Longford similar? Andy Dingley (talk) 14:58, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

Longford is similar (File:Longford Pump - geograph.org.uk - 136930.jpg), but no idea about other pumps. -- EdJogg (talk) 15:09, 26 February 2010 (UTC)