User talk:CrimsonSage

Welcome!

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Thanks for your help on cannon. · AndonicO ^Engage. 09:50, 16 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Clip vs. magazine

I agree that all uses should be included, and "clip" is becoming a catch-all; however, there is a difference in the nit-picky, technical definition, and it's the presence of a spring to feed the cartridges in a magazine, and it's lack in a clip. This is just like, for instance, the term "dum-dum bullet". That refers to a very specific bullet made at the Dum-Dum arsenal in India for the .303 British, the Cordite Mark III, which used a full metal jacket bullet modified by filing the tip of the jacket off, thus exposing the lead and creating an expanding bullet. Any other use of the term is incorrect, but the media and pulp fiction writers still use it to refer to any expanding bullet. scot (talk) 02:11, 23 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Got your note, thanks. It's good that we are in agreement that all uses should be included (that is the important point for this part of the discussion). Now, as far as the technical aspect is concerned (which, as I mentioned is a different debate), you mentioned to me that you feel what defines a magazine is the presence of a spring to feed the cartridges. Well, when we talk about the Lewis gun we say it has a drum magazine, but this magazine did not have such a spring, per se, and was driven by the operating mechanism (as you probably know, there was a spring within the cycle, but it was not technically part of the 'magazine' and was used in a different manner). Thus, it would be an incorrect technical definition to say that magazines are defined by the presence of a spring to feed the cartridges, unless you want to call the drum magazine on the lewis gun something else (although, it is generally called a drum magazine). So, if we want to be detailed technically, that specific technical definition does not hold for all guns.CrimsonSage (talk) 04:01, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

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"Ni!"

I hereby sentence the both of you to provide 2 reliable references for the magazine article, or I shall be forced to say "Ni" at you again! scot (talk) 19:52, 23 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Clean coal technology

Hi, I have to start by admitting that I am somewhat ambivalent about Clean coal technology as currently written. It does probably currently over-represent the environmentalist view, but your edits weren't the solution. I haven't studied the subject enough to know what is, but if you feel the article must be changed, here is what I would do (not that I'm anywhere near being an expert here). First, I'd put an {{Expert}} tag at the top and say why in Discussion. Second, I'd read WP:RfC, and consider going that route. Both are relatively slow processes. Simesa (talk) 03:47, 9 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]