Talk:Gun carriage

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I still don't know how to use wikidata, but this page should link to these language links. BigSteve (talk) 10:04, 17 April 2013 (UTC)

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This article was expanded in January 2013 with content copied from sources. For instance, the book Artillery an Illustrated History of its Impact says, at page, 70:

As artillery sights were almost nonexistent, aiming a cannon was a time-consuming procedure. Contemporary theory held that the first shot should be purposely aimed well short of the intended target, so as to provide the crew with a visual reference point. The gunners would then “walk” their subsequent shots ever closer to the target, until they established the proper range. With heavier pieces, elevation was accomplished by placing increasingly larger blocks of wood under the breech. A slightly more sophisticated device, the quoin, was a simple wooden wedge, sometimes fitted with a handle, that was shoved under the breech as needed. Lighter guns were fitted with a somewhat more sophisticated arrangement consisting of a vertical wooden plank drilled with holes through which a peg mated with a hole in the rear of the barrel bed. Under such circumstances, the optimal rate of fire was considered to be 8 shots per hour.

Content added to the article said:

As artillery sights were almost nonexistent, aiming a cannon was a time consuming procedure. Contemporary theory held that the first shot should be purposely aimed well short of the intended target, to provide the crew with a visual reference point. The gunners would then “walk” their shots closer to the target until they established the proper range. With heavier pieces, elevation was accomplished by placing increasingly larger blocks of wood under the breech. A slightly more sophisticated device, the quoin, was a simple wooden wedge, that was shoved under the breech as needed. Lighter guns were fitted with a somewhat more sophisticated arrangement consisting of a vertical wooden plank drilled with holes through which a peg mated with a hole in the rear of the barrel bed. Under such circumstances, the optimal rate of fire was considered to be 8 shots per hour.

It's easy to see that very little has been changed here - a few words removed and some punctuation modified. This is just one example. Copying and close paraphrasing seems to be rampant throughout.

This article needs to be rewritten, I'm afraid, to remove content copied or closely paraphrased from this or any other source. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 13:02, 30 October 2013 (UTC)

I have started the article again from scratch - all contributins welcome! Alansplodge (talk) 17:56, 4 June 2014 (UTC)