User talk:Truthanado/archive7

ARCHIVE: October 2009 – December 2010

AfD nomination of Black Nobel Prize laureates

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Speedy deletion declined: 1959 Brisbane network television schedule (weekday)

Hello Truthanado, and thanks for your work patrolling new changes. I am just informing you that I declined the speedy deletion of 1959 Brisbane network television schedule (weekday) - a page you tagged - because: A7 doesn't apply. Please review the criteria for speedy deletion before tagging further pages. If you have any questions or problems, please let me know. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 03:54, 21 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Brittany Bock

Sorry mate, was going off of what I did for almost literally every single player I've updated that has played in Women's Professional Soccer. I didn't know that Wikipedia chose to leave off where a person was born in the opening bit. That can be changed (if you want, there are a lot of articles I've done in a similar manner). The same goes for "currently playing for" as opposed to whatever you put, although I suspect that's just grammatical differences. As for club names, I don't believe "the" is grammatically correct to be placed in front of them, just as "are" is typically used as opposed to "are", but then again that is grammar as well.

In summary, the only thing I can see "wrong" with the article according to Wikipedia is the birthplace in the first line bit. If you want to go through and change all that knock your socks out. For easy access to most of the players I've edited in this manner, many of the WPS teams have an "all time roster", for which lists the vast majority of the players I've worked on lately. GauchoDude (talk) 21:45, 26 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Curious as to why you've now changed the Bock place of birth in the infobox to all one thing. I understand the city's Wikipedia address is located at Naperville, Illinois, but obviously Naperville and Illinois are two separate things and should be put down as such, which is why I had it originally as Naperville, Illinois. It allows the person to click on both the city and state. Is this according to some mysterious Wikipedia law too? GauchoDude (talk) 19:30, 30 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Links

I don't think there is such a guideline (in fact there was a project/group working to the opposite plan). Increasingly, though, the style is more in line with Naperville, Illinois, on the basis that it is a. visually clear that there is one link and it takes you to Naperville, and that Illinois is in many contexts (maybe not the first time in say, a county article of Illinois) an overlink. Certainly US, UK, France, USSR etc. are widely considered overlinking. Rich Farmbrough, 01:39, 5 December 2009 (UTC).[reply]

Hi Truthanado, I found this information as part of the Wikipedia:Manual of Style and Wikipedia:Linking. While both methods are acceptable to use for linking city/states, one method of linking should be used consistently throughout the article. I would agree with what Rich Farmbrough states above as well about the dangers of overlinking using the two link method. I hope that this helps. Shinerunner (talk) 13:48, 5 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Waterloo Middle School

I've completed your request. Please note that merge sources should never be deleted; consequently, I've redirected it instead of deleting it. Moreover, if you want admin attention for a simple issue, the best place to post a request is the administrators' noticeboard; the help desk works, of course, but you're likely to get a faster response at the administrators' noticeboard. Nyttend (talk) 00:59, 4 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry if this seemed overly simplistic; I was surprised to see such an experienced user requesting such an action, so your comment at WP:HD clarifies the situation quite well. Nyttend (talk) 02:07, 4 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Below is the text from the Help Desk, placed here to provide a complete record of this discussion.

Proposed merger has been completed --> delete the article

Resolved

– – ukexpat (talk) 14:21, 4 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The Waterloo Middle School article has been merged into Waterloo Central School District, which is the consensus of its proposed deletion discussion, which ended on 11 March 2010. Can an admin please delete the Waterloo Middle School article. Truthanado (talk) 00:53, 4 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Completed. Nyttend (talk) 00:57, 4 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the quick response on my talk page. I guess I need a wikibreak from too much patrolling, I should have known I should just redirect the article. Truthanado (talk) 01:04, 4 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Conversion templates

Truth, Please see my post at User talk:Jason Rees#WPTC convert template policy. As far as I am concerned there are many Wiki users who do not get the hang of conversion templates, much less how to manipulate them. It is not that difficult. Peter Horn User talk 00:41, 5 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Anglicanism

That's a good call; I didn't even notice the caption or else I'd have preserved it. While it's not possible to caption an unthumbed image it is possible to create the illusion that it is captioned, and that's what I've done. I also took the liberty of linking the image to Canterbury Cathedral. Overall I think it makes for a more elegant and appropriate visual style, but if you disagree feel free to change it back to the way it was - it was just something I noticed that bothered me so frankly I changed it on a whim and have no attachment to it or anything. -- Aricci526 02:34, 5 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

International Federation of Associations of Anatomists (IFAA)

Hello. I expanded the article IFAA. I would like to know your opinion. Thank you.--Giselle Chamorro (talk) 19:38, 9 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

IFAA

Hello. Thank you very much. Your lines are encouraging. I'm still learning. --Giselle Chamorro (talk) 20:14, 16 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You are now a Reviewer

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Electricity pylon... and dead-end towers

I see you mentioned that the towers in your photo's caption was changed back to "dead-end towers". You seem to be knowledgeable on the subject, so I was just wondering if you knew a couple things, and if not, where I can get this information.
1) Are "tension tower" or "strainer" anywhere close to official terminology?
2) Are towers/poles which change direction of the power line without using termination insulators to cause a break in the line (like this or this) also called "dead-end poles"? And if not, do they have a name?
Thank you for your time. I'd love to add this information to the article. —Onore Baka Sama^{(speak | stalk)} 18:04, 21 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I used to work in the electric utility industry, specifically in the area of overhead transmission lines, for a public utility outside New York City. My knowledge is limited to American terms. Other countries may use different terms.

I have never heard the terms "tension tower" or "strainer" used to describe any type of pole/tower. High tension usually refs to transmission lines of very high voltages (115 KV and above), presumably because the wires are under higher physical tension than lower voltage lines.
Towers/poles that change the direction of the line are not dead-ends. Structures are usually called tangent structures if there is no change in the angle and angle-structures (with the angle identified, ex: 30 degrees) when the line does turn. The term dead-end refers to the end of a run of the conductors. They always involve strings of insulators that are in-line with the conductors. A dead-end structure always has two strings of insulators for each conductor, one to terminate the wire coming to the structure, and one to terminate the wire leaving the structure. A separate wire loop is then connected via clamps to each conductor to complete the circuit. Dead-ends server several purposes:

The wire conductors come on a reel (spool) of finite length. When you run out of conductor, it needs to be terminated, at a dead-end.
Reliability. Long runs of conductor are subject to ice and wind storms. If the run is very long, a problem (a break in the wire) in one span of conductor (between adjacent poles/towers) can bring the entire section down. Dead-ends break these up into shorter sections so that if there is a problem, it is limited to a smaller area.
Safety. The electrical code in most countries requires dead-ends at each side of a road crossing, often with two strings of insulators per conductor. This is to prevent the wire falling on the road in the event of a break in the insulators or wire away from the road.

I hope this helps. In the United States, American Electric Power (AEP) and Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) should have more information on electric transmission. Happy editing. Truthanado (talk) 23:50, 23 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks!

Thanks for your help in cleaning up the prose in Fort Carondelet. It's much appreciated. poroubalous (talk) 15:49, 22 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]