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MountVic127

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Abbrev. Maker Special Rem Code
HK HerrenKnecht 1898 Rem Z
UH Under Harbour 2024 Remark N
TB Hurry 1945 REM X
BL Blue 2991 H

Sortable MP

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K Issue Date Cover Price Remarks
SSR Nr.154 2034 Jul-Aug CLF-3 $14.50
UH Nr.132 2020 Nov-Dec CLF-2 $12.95
BL Nr.139 2022 Jan-Feb QL-012 $14.50 Yellow/Grey

Railways

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Draft

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Cite book

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Bayley, William A. Tunnels on Australian Railways. Ausrail Publications. ISBN 0-909597-16-2.

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Waterfall

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See http://www.sa-trackandsignal.net/Pdf%20files/Sydney/RC2409.pdf

Recycling was trialled in 2023.[1]

Recycling old cement in electric arc furnaces is being trialled in 2023.[2]

Proposed ports

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List of proposed ports [3]

User:MountVic127/Sandpit

Draft:Abu Amama [4]

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Abu Amama [5]
Didia, Liberia
Matakong, Guinea

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Wikipedia:Teahouse

Great Circle

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Teahouse#Calc_Great_Circle_Distance
Wikipedia:Teahouse#Calc Great Circle Distance

Calc Great Circle Distance Is there an easy way of calculating the great circle distance between two places, given their co-ordinates, such as ..

21°32′36″N 39°10′22″E .... {Jeddah}
19°37′N 37°13′ E .... (Port Sudan)

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21.5433333 ... 21.5433333 Port cities in Sudan
39.1727778 ... 39.1727778
19.6166667 ... ...19.6166667 ...
37.2166667 ... ...37.2166667 ...
296 km between Jeddah and Port Sudan

Jeddah - Port Sudan User:MountVic127/Great circle distance port Sudan

Khartoum - Port Sudan User:MountVic127/Great Circle Distance Port Sudan

The rail map of Sudan is truncated so that the scale is missing. 957 km between Khartoum and Port Sudan

The rail map of Sudan is truncated so that the scale is missing.

MountVic127 (talk) 08:02, 18 May 2023 (UTC)

The answer is want in km, though other units of measurements may be specified.

MountVic127, welcome to the "teahouse", where people ask questions about using Wikipedia. Your question seems to belong to one or other of Wikipedia's "reference desks". -- Hoary (talk) 08:43, 18 May 2023 (UTC) @MountVic127 Is {{Great circle distance}} of any use? Mike Turnbull (talk) 10:14, 18 May 2023 (UTC) Your advice regarding Great Circle Distance, combined with DecDeg, have allowed me to get two distance which look about right. Unfortunately the Map of Sudan is truncated so that no scale is visible. All I need now is a map with a scale. Thank you very much. :-) :-) ----MountVic127 (talk) 21:32, 18 May 2023 (UTC)

Abu Amama

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UPU symbols

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Interested In

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Test

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There is a BOT that advises editors that they have linked to a disambiguation page rather than directly to the article in question. My suggestion is to mark disambiguated links as soon as they occur, instead of waiting days for the BOT to advise you. Something like this:

  • Hooo - red - no such page
  • Ho - blue - disambiguation page - should be say yellow; actually orange. :-) ----MountVic127 (talk) 09:10, 9 September 2020 (UTC)
  • Ho - blue - good - no disambiguation

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There is a BOT that advises editors that they have linked to a disambiguation page rather than directly to the article in question. My suggestion is to mark disambiguated links as soon as they occur, instead of waiting days for the BOT to advise you. Something like this:

  • Hooo - red - no such page or spelling error.
  • Ho - orange - disambiguation page - if editor does not make following change it will be blue like good link and BOT will tell you about this days later ----MountVic127 (talk) 09:16, 9 September 2020 (UTC)
  • Ho - blue - good - no disambiguation ----MountVic127 (talk) 06:33, 8 September 2020 (UTC)
@MountVic127: There is an add-on listed in Preferences that allows you to see that. I see them as yellow. -- a lad insane (channel two) 06:38, 8 September 2020 (UTC)
I wish more people would enable that gadget. It's incredibly useful. Instead of the gadget, I use a more orangeish color by simply adding the following line to Special:MyPage/common.css: 
.mw-disambig {color:#FF8921 !important;}
—[AlanM1 (talk)]— 18:13, 8 September 2020 (UTC)

Brilliantly simple :-) :-) ----MountVic127 (talk) 09:16, 9 September 2020 (UTC)

Since this is a very useful command, what is the best way to keep it in public view.

  • Keep copying it at the end of this list of teahouse things?
    • I shall do this once!
  • make it a default setting somewhere?
----MountVic127 (talk) 06:12, 11 September 2020 (UTC)
Hello MountVic127. You cannot expect numerous bots working on over six million articles to produce instant results. Unless you have bot coding skills and can help streamline their operations, I suggest that you be patient and grateful for the useful work that these bots do. Cullen328 Let's discuss it 06:47, 11 September 2020 (UTC)
@MountVic127: It is very helpful for editors, I agree, but I think that if it were made the default setting it could be confusing for Wikipedia readers who are not editors. That's just my immediate thought, and you could suggest this at the Idea lab (which is part of the Village pump), to get more input. There's quite a few helpful tools and scripts that make editing easier, and it's hard to say which is the most useful one... check out WP:TOOLS!
As for adding a copy of a post to the end of the Teahouse page (or any talk page) to keep it visible, that's not a good idea for a couple of reasons: the original post is still there, currently near the top of the page and subsequently in the archives, and this post will gradually move up on the page as well – there is no way to keep it at the bottom without copying it repeatedly, and we'd end up with hundreds of copies of the same post in the archives. Secondly, when copying the entire post and thread you also copied the replies and signatures of other editors, which is something you should always avoid doing. And finally, it would not be read by very many editors here. New editors who come to the Teahouse don't usually read other posts, not even the ones immediately above their own post, and a brand-new editor does not necessarily know what a disambiguation page is. --bonadea contributions talk 08:03, 11 September 2020 (UTC)
There is also User:Anomie/linkclassifier.js which I have been using for a very long time, and is very useful. It basically colour codes the links on the page that you are viewing, or previewing while editing. —usernamekiran (talk) 11:01, 11 September 2020 (UTC)
That's what I use, and I find it incredibly useful. —valereee (talk) 12:24, 12 September 2020 (UTC)

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Disambiguation icon This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Note: This page may need to be cleaned up to meet Wikipedia's quality standards. Further information might be found on the talk page. Tools: DabFix

blockquote test

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Not to be confused with

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{{distinguish|Advanced Traffic Management System}}

{{distinguish|Stored Chemical Energy Propulsion System}} https://www.darpa.mil/about-us/timeline/torpedo-propulsion

{{distinguish|Variable Gauge Axle}}

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  • Big Cat Rescue
  • Area 400 hectares (990 acres)
  • Area 990 acres (400 ha)
  • Weight 1 pound (0.45 kg)
  • Weight 1 stone (6.4 kg)
  • Weight 1 kilogram (1.0 kg)
  • Weight 1 stone (14 lb)
  • Weight 1[convert: needs unit name]
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    Railway cattle grid 3
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    Railway cattle grid 4

World Toilet Day World Toilet Organization

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John Cade AO
Born(1912-01-18)18 January 1912
Murtoa, Victoria, Australia
Died16 November 1980(1980-11-16) (aged 68)
Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia
Occupation(s)psychiatrist; army medical officer; medical scientist; mental health practitioner; prisoner of war (Australian); public servant
SpouseEstana Evelyn Jean Charles
ChildrenJohn (1938), David (1940), Mary (1947), Peter (1948), Richard (1950)
ParentDr David & Ellen Cade

John Frederick Joseph Cade AO[8]

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Maps

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Pedias

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Drafts

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Images

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Crocodile waggons
 
Transporter train

Help Left-handed mouse

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Userbox Mouse Left-handed.

If you wish to make a link to the file in text, without actually showing the image, for instance when discussing the image on a talk page, you can use the following (mark the ":" after the initial brackets!):


Right-handed people who use the mouse left-handed can use this user box  

file:Userbox_Mouse_Left-handed.gif


  This user is left-handed.
 This user is right-handed.
UBXThis user is left-moused but right-handed.

UBX This is a Userbox.

UBXThis user is left-moused but right-handed.

UBX This is a Userbox.


See: Handedness
See: [MV]

User_talk:Timdwilliamson#Userbox

Computer mouse and Keyboards

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Mice are supposed to be so easy to use that it is arguably a waste of the dextrous right hand to operate a mouse right-handed. What proport of the 90% of right-handers us the mouse left-handed?

See Bias against left-handed people

What about keyboards and text messages on mobile phones?

Tendinopathy
Tendonitis

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Railway stations in Laos

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This new article is the result of reading the UN Map and other articles descending from "Transport in Laos".

Maybe I should change "See also" to "See also and cite"

The layout of Railway stations in Laos follows the same pattern as used by most of the "Railway stations in Xyz" articles.

A particular feature of these files is that they list the stations in "line order".

Maybe there needs to be a Category: Railway stations by country.

You have reverted this file too soon; you could have recorded your reactions in my User:MountVic127 page. May I revert your revert?

NBG

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Please unrevert

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The Great Toilet Battle is a project to improve poor sanitation which affects or kills millions or billions of people, mainly in the third world.]

GTB is a Deutsche Welle program uploaded to youtube. If DW is reliable then this YT piece surely as well. DW has a long, long list of programs that it has made. At time of writing there is no mention of Great Toilet Battle in this list. Is DW sloppy or something?

People and organizations in support of the Great Toilet Battle include:

Like DW wikipedia is a bit sloppy too. DW claims to be "Made for Minds": is this claim justified? ----MountVic127 (talk) 01:05, 3 November 2022 (UTC)

So please unrevert your kneejerk changes. If you can please help improve the above flaws in DW, wikipedia and snip.

NBG2

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Great Toilet Battle is a serious health problem particularly in the third world

This billion dollar campaign is supported by the following people and organizations including

Furthermore

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  • When the Deutsche Welle logo thumbnail was upload with .PNG as a filetype it did NOT work.
  • When the Deutsche Welle logo thumbnail was upload with .png as a filetype it DID work.
  • When the Deutsche Welle index thumbnail was uploaded it did not work for unknown reason. Help needed.

Actions

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Wikipedia:Tearoom

So, you want the left-handed mouse gif and text that says “This user is left-moused but right-handed.” Right? - TimDWilliamson speak 16:07, 22 August 2020 (UTC)

@Timdwilliamson: @Timdwilliamson: 2020-08-28

Cameroon Rail

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Minim, Martap Birsok ASX Railway stations in Cameroon

Converting Degrees to Degrees Minutes Seconds

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Can the {{convert}} function do the above and vice versa? MountVic127 (talk) 07:10, 25 February 2021 (UTC)

@MountVic127: I don't see it in the documentation at {{Convert}}, but see {{Deg2DMS}} and {{Decdeg}}. —[AlanM1 (talk)]— 09:09, 25 February 2021 (UTC)

Citation

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AFC

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TBM names

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Underground workers such as Tunnel Boring Machine operators are given female names, because Saint Barbara is the patron saint of such workers.

Year
Complete 		Type City Project Scheme Name Fame Maker Size
m
ID 		Remarks
2021 Sewer Co London Tideway Ursula Cryobiologist Rem
2021 Sewer Co London Tideway Rachel Engineer Rem
2021 Sewer Co London Tideway Charlotte Rem
2021 Sewer Co London Tideway Millicent Suffragist Rem
2021 Sewer Co London Tideway Selina Medico Rem
2021 Sewer Co London Tideway Annie Rem
2015 Rail Co Sydney NW Elizabeth 06.13 Dual Name
2015 Rail Co Sydney NW Florence 06.13 Dual Name
2015 Rail Co Sydney NW Isabella 06.13 Rem
2015 Rail Co Sydney NW Maria 06.13 Rem
2021 Rail Do Melbourne VIC Alice 07.28 GN Dual
2021 Rail Do Melbourne VIC Joan 07.28 RD Rem
2021 Rail Do Melbourne VIC Meg 07.28 BL Rem
2021 Rail Do Melbourne VIC Millie 07.28 YW Rem
2022 Rail Eo Auckland NZ Dame Whina Cooper Rem
2023 Rail Metronet Perth WA Grace Rem
2023 Rail Metronet Perth WA Sandy Rem
2024 Rail Go Brisbane QLD Merle Rem
2024 Rail Go Brisbane QLD Else Rem
2025 Rail Ho Sydney SW Nancy Comment
2025 Rail Ho Sydney SW Mum Shirl Comment
2025 Rail Ho Sydney SW Wendy Comment
2025 Rail Ho Sydney SW Mabel Comment
2025 Rail Ho Sydney SW Kathleen UH
2025 Rail Io London HS2 Cecilia Comment
2025 Rail Io London HS2 Florence Dual Name
2023 Rail Jo London XRail Ida HK 06.2 Rem 1
2023 Rail Jo London XRail Phyllis HK 06.2 Rem 2
2023 Rail Jo London XRail Victoria HK 06.2 Rem 3
2023 Rail Jo London XRail Elizabeth HK 06.2 Dual Name
2023 Rail Jo London XRail Mary Partner HK 06.2 Brunel
2023 Rail Jo London XRail Sophia Partner HK 06.2 Brunel
2023 Rail Jo London XRail Jessica HK 06.2 Rem 7
2023 Rail Jo London XRail Ellie HK 06.2 Rem 8
1999 Water Martina HK 15.62
2017 Road Auckland NZL Alice ?? | 14.41 Dual [11]
0000 Patron Saint Barbara Patron
  • XRail is Crossrail.
  • HK = made by Herrenknecht
  • UH = Under Harbour
Abbrev. Maker Rem
HK HerrenKnecht Rem
UH Under Harbour Remark
REM X
BL Blue
GN Green
RE RE
YW Yellow


  • Ida and Phyllis, Royal Oak to Farringdon section, named after Ada Lovelace and Phyllis Pearsall
  • Victoria and Elizabeth, Limmo Peninsula to Farringdon section, named after Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth II
  • Mary and Sophia, Plumstead to North Woolwich section, named after the wives of Isambard Kingdom Brunel and Marc Isambard Brunel
  • Jessica and Ellie, Pudding Mill Lane to Stepney Green and Limmo Peninsula to Victoria Dock sections, named after Jessica Ennis and Ellie Simmonds
  • TBM Wendy is named after Wendy Schreiber, a volunteer at Bear Cottage.
  • It is not clear if the size is an inside diameter or outsize sizes,

If a TBM is transferred to a different site, does the name change?

Camrail Locos

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This is an example of a small sortable table.

class axles Power
hp 		high number fleet size built maker remarks
CC22 Co-Co CC2232 32 Bombardier MX620 (CC2201-CC2232) Rem
1000 Bo-Bo 1008 4 Grey-Green
GND Co-Co GND003 0 Rem
CC26 Co-Co CC2606 06 General Motors Red
GPR3000 Co-Co GPR30-07 09 2015 Grindrod Red [12]
CC25 Co-Co CC2502 2 xx
CC33 Co-Co 3300 CC3305AC 5 Red [13] [14]
BB11 Bo-Bo BB1114 14 zz Rem
Total
Co-Co
Bo-Bo		 .
53
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Ranked choice voting in Australia

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RCV is the voting system used in Federal, State and Local elections.

The prime reason for using RCV is because the right of centre party is actually a semi-permanent coalition of two right of centre parties and RCV is needed to avoid suicidal three-cornered-contests. RCV has gradually spread from federal elections to state and local elections. The counting RCV votes is gradually being automated; now the ballots are "scanned" by hand into the computer which then eliminates the lowest rank candidates until only two candidates remain. This is called the "two party preferred" vote even though one of the parties may actually be a coalition.

This system allows large number of candidates, parties and groups to nominate; and measures are necessary to winnow out the number of candidates. For example, a registered party with 1500 members can have their party name and logo printed on the ballot paper which is not possible with fewer than 1000 audited members.

Whether the rankings are optional or compulsary depends on jurisdiction. If a party advertising "just vote [1]" may counter-productively discourage the numbering of all the squares if that is necessary to cast a valid vote. In the scheme of things, numbering some or all of the squares is not rocket science.

Ranked choice voting is used in the upper and lower houses in all federal and state elections in Australia. The following table shows that the upper and lower houses are more similar than seen at first sight.

The elections are gradually being automated. Firstly the ballots are manually scanned into a database, and then the commission activates the computer to eliminates the lowest scored candidates, and so until there are only two candidates.

Comparison of Upper and Lower houses

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House House name Quota Quota 1/n System name System Remarks
Lower Representatives 50.1% 1 / 02 Preferential Ranked voting Number all squares
Upper Senate (half dissolution) 14.3% 1 / 07 Proportional Ranked voting Above line 1 ... 6
Below line 1 ... 12
Upper Senate (double dissolution) 07.6% 1 / 13 Proportional Ranked voting Above line 1 ... 6
Below line 1 ... 12

The essential difference between voting in the upper and lower houses is the size of the quota.

See Electoral system of Australia

Child endowment

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This is an example of a small sortable table. child benefit ... Child_benefit#Comparison_in_Europe

country children benefit 1 benefit 2 benefit 3 benefit 4 X Y Z
UK 32 Rem UU
US 4 USA U2
Belgium BE BL
Canada Rem R
Czechia CZ Z
Croatia CC C
Denmark DD D
DEU Red R
Estonia xx EE E2
Finland qq FF FF
Italy II III I2
Latvia zz Rem R
Lithuania RR R
Poland P
Slovakia SK S
Spain ESP S
Sweden SW
Total

VGA

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Election of President

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References

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  1. ^ "How to make low-carbon concrete from old cement". The Economist. ISSN 0013-0613. Retrieved 2023-04-27.
  2. ^ "How to make low-carbon concrete from oldish cement" (PDF). The Economist. ISSN 0013-0613. Retrieved 2023-04-27.
  3. ^ "How to make proposed ports" (PDF). The Economist. ISSN 0013-0613. Retrieved 2023-04-27.
  4. ^ Abu Amama
  5. ^ Abu Amama
  6. ^ "The Festiniog Railway". The South Australian Advertiser. Adelaide: National Library of Australia. 27 May 1872. p. 2. Retrieved 1 December 2011.
  7. ^ Jones, Mark (2012). [www.historypress.co.uk Discovering Britain's First Railways]. Stroud. ISBN 9-780752-462738. Retrieved 2021-04-16. {{cite book}}: Check |url= value (help)CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  8. ^ De Moore, Greg; Westmore, Ann (2016). Finding sanity : John Cade, lithium and the taming of bipolar disorder. Crows Nest, NSW: Allen & Unwin. p. 324.
  9. ^ "Mozambique: Mozal Suffers From South African Energy Crisis". Agencia de Informacao de Mocambique (Maputo). 2008-06-10. Retrieved 2017-09-07.
  10. ^ "Mozambique: Mozal Suffers From South African Energy Crisis". Agencia de Informacao de Mocambique (Maputo). 2019-06-10. Retrieved 2021-02-28.
  11. ^ Alice
  12. ^ [dennewspaper.net/camrail-commissions-nine-new-locomotives/ GP3000]
  13. ^ CC3305AC
  14. ^ GM locos
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