DonPevsner

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de Havilland Comet: How many produced?

I'm concerned about your edit to the number of Comets produced. I was led to believe that there were 113 C4s alone. Do you have cites that confirm your edit? ... richi 19:31, 21 August 2007 (UTC) CITE IS: "VISCOUNT, COMET & CONCORDE", by Stewart Wilson, Aerospace Publications Pty Ltd (Australia), 1996. -DLP 7/18/2008-

SS Norway

You appear to be attempting to add unsourced content to SS France (1961). Though YouTube certainly doesn't meet WP:RS, could you at least provide a link to the supposed photo/video your insertion speaks of? Also, please avoid POV, editorial-type descriptives like "spectacular" and "sloppily," as well as personal opinions about certain companies. Thanks. --G2bambino 20:13, 12 September 2007 (UTC) SEE www.midshipcentury.com for dramatic photos of the SS FRANCE being scrapped in Alang, India. -DLP 7/18/2008-

Norwegian Cruise Line

You added a personal opinion about NCL's CEO, Colin Veitch, and the SS Norway that don't satisfy POV. I personally don't like the way NCL handled any of the matters surrounding the Norway, but your edits detract from the integrity and impartiality of the article. If you have specific facts surrounding any of the above that you want included in the NCL page, please reference the sources. Thanks for your efforts and understanding. --OneCyclone 00:01, 20 October 2007 (UTC) OK. -DLP 7/18/08-

October 2007

Please do not add commercial material to Wikipedia, as you did to Noël Forgeard. While objective prose about products or services is acceptable, Wikipedia is not intended to be a vehicle for advertising or promotion. Thank you. richi 00:28, 20 October 2007 (UTC) NO "COMMERCIAL MATERIAL" ADDED. Mr. Forgeard has now been formally charged with insider trading, which violates the law in France as well as in the USA. -DLP 7/18/08-

John Rigas

You added a personal opinion about John Rigas in your edit to his article reporting on the auction of the former Adelphia headquarters. Your comments about his "ego" clearly violate WP:NPOV. I've noticed a trend here with you adding personal opinions to articles. Please refrain from doing so. By the way, I happen to be from Bradford, PA, and have been following the Adelphia case since it started. Local opinion goes both ways with Mr. Rigas, but one must be careful not to let personal emotions get in the way when reporting the facts. Thanks and please try to be more careful about this in the future. --Fredtorrey 00:23, 21 October 2007 (UTC) NOTED. -DLP 7/18/08-

PRR T1

Do you know which issue of the Keystone this was in, and the title & author of the article? Best to cite it as accurately as we can. Thanks, Matthew Brown (Morven) (T:C) 20:12, 16 May 2008 (UTC)ALREADY POSTED CITE. -DLP 7/21/08-

John J. McCloy

Hello - you made some additions [1] to the John J. McCloy regarding his inaction over Auschwitz. Can you post your sources please so we can add these to the article. Thanks - Crosbiesmith (talk) 18:03, 27 June 2008 (UTC) ALREADY POSTED. -DLP 7/21/08-

July 2008

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While I share your frustration at the state of much of the rolling stock at Steamtown (I started the article and took most of the pictures in it), Wikipedia's policy on reliable sources means that your web page can not be cited here (for one thing, it cites the Wikipedia article as a ref). Adding it constitutes a Conflict of Interest and is also strongly discouraged. What could be added as references would be any sort of newspaper or government publications (as these would be reliable), or items from most journals. Yours, Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 17:20, 20 July 2008 (UTC)

I have several points to make in reply to your post on my talk page and your edits to Steamtown.

1. I actually agree with you and think that Steamtown should do more to repair the engines and stock it has.
2. I have no problem with your using your personal website to write whatever you want about Steamtown or anything else, for that matter.
3. When you do write on Wikipedia, you need to follow Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. This is what I am trying to tell you - it appears you are an attorney so this is similar to rules in a courtroom in some ways - you have freedom of speech, but the judge and the rules say when you can speak and what evidence you can admit. Here sources used have to be reliable - please read WP:RS
4. It is also the case that adding links to your own website (even if it met WP:RS, which it seems not to) is a conflict of interest, see WP:COI. This is like a judge recusing himself if a relative or friend were involved in a case he was trying.
5. I asume that you know of sources that are reliable that can be added to the Steamtown article that back up your claims. Please add them, not your website.
6. I prefer to be transparent and conduct business via talk pages. If you have something you must say to me privately, my email is enabled. I do not check it often.

Thanks, Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 23:13, 20 July 2008 (UTC)

REPLY: (a)The update data I gave on operationality of the 3 steam engines at SNHS as of July, 2008 is accurate, and NOT AN "OPINION" OR "CONFLICT". PLEASE CORRECT ASAP. If you lost my correction, I will rewrite it.

(b)FYI, I happen to be a "reliable source." I wrote the hardest-hitting consumer-affairs column in the nation for Universal Press Syndicate for four years, and never got challenged. My position remains: if you can report "criticism" by other third parties of SNHS, you can report mine, which happens to be in article form.

August 2008

Please do not use styles that are unusual or difficult to understand in articles, as you did in Concorde. There is a Manual of Style that should be followed. Thank you. Please review WP:ENGVAR ... richi (hello) 15:24, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

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Poughkeepsie Bridge

Hello,

I have edited your contribs to comply with Wikipedia's policies regarding Neutral point of view, verifiability, and use of primary sources – original analysis of primary-source material and conjecture by Wikipedia editors should be avoided. Only previously published material in reliable secondary sources can be properly included in Wikipedia articles. In general, biased terms such as "scandalous" and "it should be noted" are words to be avoided.

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I have read your email with interest, as I just went on the Walkway last Sunday – part of a 3-day New York stopover on a flight from Moscow to Florida. I can understand your passion for the renovation, and it indeed is a shame that the burned-out bridge languished for almost 35 years before something was done about it. All of what you have said may be 100% true, but Wikipedia is not the place to publish original thought and analysis: it is "an encyclopedia of previously published material from reliable secondary sources". That is why WP:V (verifiability) is one of Wikipedia's core principles. Unless a claim can be independently verified by checking the cited source(s), it does not belong in a Wikipedia article, even if completely accurate. Using personal correspondence and legal opinions constitutes original research using primary sources, which is contrary to Wikipedia's methodology, you see.  JGHowes  ^talk 13:17, 29 October 2009 (UTC)

Show preview

Please consider using the "Show preview" button just to the right of "Save page". Your edits are preserved forever when you press "Save page" even if you immediately change them, press Save page again, change them, press Save page, etc, as you did recently on the Ulster and Delaware Railroad‎ page. I often make mistaeks which I don't notice until I see them "in print". "Show preview" lets me see my edits as they will appear once saved. I've had to force myself to always use Show preview even on the most trivial edits, and I think you can learn to do the same thing. RussNelson (talk) 02:52, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

US/UK spelling

Hi Don. Thanks for your work on copyediting various airline articles. Just a small comment: please make sure you stick to using UK spellings in articles pertaining to the United Kingdom and which were written in British English (e.g. British Overseas Airways Corporation), as per WP:ENGVAR. In particular, words such as "cancelled" and "levelling" have a double-L in the middle in British English, so "correcting" these spellings is unnecessary. (I've noticed you've had messages about this before!) Best, --RFBailey (talk) 03:58, 17 January 2011 (UTC)

Changes to Rosendale testle

Hi, I just wanted to let you know that I reverted some of the changes you made to Rosendale trestle, and why I did. There were a couple of instances in which you added commas after a month, and Wikipedia's policy on month-year combinations is that it's just the month name, and the year; there is no additional punctuation. Regarding the addition of dashes to "bungee jumping", the article on bungee jumping does not include hyphens, and neither do most of the sources used in the article. The changes you made to the Modern use section significantly altered the content and punctuation of a direct quote from the Shawangunk Journal, which is against Wikipedia's policy on quotation. Phrases such as "bizarre claim" appear to editorialize, which is also frowned upon. I have not been able to find John E. Rahl v. New York Telephone Company, Case No. 11-2266 online, but if you can direct me to where a copy would be located (or to a newspaper article that contains the same information), I would be happy to help incorporate this into the article in a way that conforms to policy. --Gyrobo (talk) 23:13, 29 November 2011 (UTC)

Erie Railroad NY Division

Ok, I appreciate the the typo corrections on my sandbox, I could always use help with my Erie work. Mitch32^{(Victim of public education, 17 years and counting)} 23:57, 15 September 2012 (UTC)

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NYO&W / NY17

Are you sure NY17 is anywhere build exactly on the NYO&W grade? I think it is parallel and often on opposite sides of Fish Kill. In a few places (like E of Cadosia) NY17 cuts across the old grade and obliterated it, but NYO&W was not converted to NY17. Please check your sources and edit accordingly Blauwkoe (talk) 16:00, 3 September 2013 (UTC)

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