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DYK for Organic nuclear reactor
On 6 January 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Organic nuclear reactor, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that organic nuclear reactors, widely reseached in the 1950s and 1960s, replaced the water normally used to cool the reactor core with various organic fluids? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Organic nuclear reactor. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Organic nuclear reactor), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
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Hi! Hope I'm doing this in the right place. I wanted to thank you for the edit of the SKYPIX article. As an editor myself let me say that you improved it tremendously. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:8804:4100:B810:E9:A3B8:A3CF:1C23 (talk) 11:13, 15 January 2019 (UTC)
TFA
Thank you for ZETA, "built in the UK in the 1950s, the largest and most powerful reactor of its era. ZETA is representative of the fusion field's history - a theoretical breakthrough suggests a new route to fusion power, a reactor is built to take advantage of the design, it proves not to work, and fixing it requires a larger and more expensive design. Unlike other examples, however, ZETA had the rather unfortunate problem of announcing it was successful in very public fashion in newspapers around the world and then having to retract the claim. In spite of this embarrassing event, ZETA went on to have a very productive career and provided several important advances in the field." --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:55, 25 January 2019 (UTC)
DYK for AMES Type 85
On 27 January 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article AMES Type 85, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Royal Air Force's AMES Type 85 radar was already considered obsolete by the time it became operational? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/AMES Type 85. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, AMES Type 85), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
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DYK for ASV Mk. II radar
On 10 March 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article ASV Mk. II radar, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the first airborne radar system, ASV Mk. II, led to the sinking of the German battleship Bismarck? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/ASV Mk. II radar. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, ASV Mk. II radar), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
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Atari 8-bit family hardware description
This isn't quite right: "The 2600 had no bitmap graphics support or a character generator, all on-screen graphics were created using Player-Missile graphics (sprites). The CTIA was designed on the same model, and likewise used only sprites for drawing."
The 2600 has 20 bits of background graphics--half a line which can be reflected or repeated. The display combines that background with sprites. Dgpop (talk) 13:55, 29 March 2019 (UTC)
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You have comments that need to be responded to at Project Excaliber; I've responded to your comments at Normandie-class battleship that you need to evaluate.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 20:16, 31 March 2019 (UTC)== Congratulations from the Military History Project ==
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Help! :)
I have completely revamped the background section per your requests. I think it's now interesting and incorporates the narrative you wanted to tell. The only major omissions are:
1) I didn't go into detail on the provenance of the sub-periscope. Again, I think that's better suited for its own article.
2) I didn't mention the HoJo's.
3) I put the details of the GRAB system's operations in the Spacecraft section.
I hope you dig. Thank you for your help.
SOLRAD 1 FA is ready! :)
I've added the details of GRAB's ELINT collection and transmission under the Spacecraft section. I think the article is ready to go.
Could you please provide the complete Bamford reference? Thank you for all your help! --Neopeius (talk) 15:27, 27 March 2019 (UTC)
- Hello again. While I am amenable to including material from the Bamford reference, I cannot include it if I don't have it. Could you please give me the complete citation and, if able, a URL to access it? Thank you! :) --Neopeius (talk) 02:35, 31 March 2019 (UTC)
- Hello out there. :) SOLRAD 1 should be ready for you. Thanks again for your help. --Neopeius (talk) 14:04, 22 April 2019 (UTC)
- Hello out there. :) Could you give SOLRAD 1 a final judgment, please? The nomination turns on your assessment, and I've addressed your main issues (breadth and completeness). Thank you! --Neopeius (talk) 13:32, 24 April 2019 (UTC)
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DYK for ASV Mark III radar
On 10 May 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article ASV Mark III radar, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the ASV Mark III radar was able to hunt down German U-boats with deadly efficiency in part because of a little white lie? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/ASV Mark III radar. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, ASV Mark III radar), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
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Teahouse question
I'm not going to answer your question at the Teahouse directly, as we don't want to encourage new editors thinking they can come and ask non-Wikipedia related questions there. However, whenever I'm trying to find out about a disuse website, I pop the url into https://archive.org/web/ and search for old archived versions of that site for contacts or other clues. Maybe you might try that? If you have a real name, you could always try https://www.thephonebook.bt.com/person/ - though since the advent of mobile phones, fewer and fewer people list their details there. If the site relates to some specialist activity, I look for clubs and organisations in their home area, then search online member lists and so on. Thinking laterally is the clue to finding someone. If you have a real name you could try modern social media platforms and check all the profiles for a match to the home town. Out of interest, why do you need to contact that person? Regards from the UK Nick Moyes (talk) 11:36, 3 June 2019 (UTC)
- @Nick Moyes: Here is what I have tried to date: 1) exhaustive google searching, and my google-fu is quite good, 2) looking through several categories looking for anything Lancashire-related where general discussions take place that might be cogent, 3) several attempts to abuse the GeoCities URL format to attempt to trick out additional information, 4) using various "find this person" engines, including Facebook and Twitter. To answer your last question, the person in question wrote a web page where they ran the Rugg/Feldman benchmarks on a variety of machines, and I would like to know if they have any original copy of PCW that contains the original source listings. I guess I could have added that to the Teahouse post, but that did seem OT in that it doesn't actually clarify the request. Maury Markowitz (talk) 11:49, 3 June 2019 (UTC)
- OK, thanks. I very much doubt I can do any better from over this side of the Pond, but if you wanted to email me the details I can try and have a look for you, seeing that it relates to the article you're working on. Regards, Nick Moyes (talk) 13:56, 3 June 2019 (UTC)
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Would you be willing to give Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Project Rover/archive1 a review? The subject is esoteric, and I can't think of anyone better qualified. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 19:51, 5 August 2019 (UTC)
Alleged "Lenticular" Telechrome
Maury, I responded to your posts on my talk page. My reply appears on my own talk page. ColorWheel (talk) 02:53, 6 August 2019 (UTC)
FAC
Thought you might be interested in this, given that there is a connection to radar. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 12:50, 11 August 2019 (UTC)
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Maury Markowitz, this nomination has been holding fire for over a month, and the lack of sourcing of several Benchmarks plus the final section of article is enough to keep the nomination from succeeding. Are you planning on adding the necessary sourcing, or should the nomination be closed? Please let us know on the nomination template. Many thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 20:38, 30 August 2019 (UTC)
- @BlueMoonset: Sorry BM, this had fallen off my radar and I did not see the reviewer's comments. I disagree with his assessment, which strikes me as "maximal". Can you have a look and/or start a 3rd party review? Maury Markowitz (talk) 12:39, 31 August 2019 (UTC)
- Maury Markowitz, if you don't plan on adding any further sourcing, then I don't see any point in asking for a new reviewer; Benchmarks 3 through 7 are uncited, as is the Sample results section, and the nomination will not make it to prep without added inline citations per WP:DYKSG#D2. If these citations are added, then proceeding with a second-opinion reviewer or making a post at the DYK talk page asking for others to weigh in on the sourcing independence issue are probably the way to go. BlueMoonset (talk) 14:56, 31 August 2019 (UTC)
- @BlueMoonset: BM 3 to 7 are cited at the top. These are sub-sections of one large paragraph. I could add the same sfn to all of them, but I struggle to understand how this informs the reader. As to the sample results, I removed the extraneous material at the bottom. Maury Markowitz (talk) 15:37, 31 August 2019 (UTC)
- I simply added the SFN to all of them.Maury Markowitz (talk) 15:48, 31 August 2019 (UTC)
- Maury Markowitz, if you don't plan on adding any further sourcing, then I don't see any point in asking for a new reviewer; Benchmarks 3 through 7 are uncited, as is the Sample results section, and the nomination will not make it to prep without added inline citations per WP:DYKSG#D2. If these citations are added, then proceeding with a second-opinion reviewer or making a post at the DYK talk page asking for others to weigh in on the sourcing independence issue are probably the way to go. BlueMoonset (talk) 14:56, 31 August 2019 (UTC)
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On 26 September 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Type 271 radar, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that one of the first microwave radars, the British Type 271 (Type 273Q pictured) on board HMS Duke of York, led to the night-time sinking of the German battleship Scharnhorst? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Type 271 radar. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Type 271 radar), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
Ontario Northland and the James Bay Railway
The original charter for the James Bay Railway dates from 1884 when the Lake Nipissing And James Bay Railway was granted their charter for a railway from Callander to James Bay, by William Barclay McMurrich and others. There was an 1895 charter for the James Bay Railway by William Mackenzie and Donald Mann, for a railway incorporated to construct and operate from Parry Sound via French River, Lake Wahnapitae to Moose River on James Bay, but it was NOT planned to build from Parry Sound to North Bay, however, Mackenzie and Mann did manipulate McMurrich & Co. to have the charter of the Lake Nipissing And James Bay Railway changed to include running from Parry Sound to Callander, and this was done in 1897 and not in 1895 or 1884.
Here is A description of the country traversed by this railway between Lake Nipissing & James' Bay Railway, published in 1884 by Copp, Clark & Co. of Toronto. https://archive.org/details/descriptionofcou00nipi/page/n1 W W (talk) 04:04, 26 September 2019 (UTC)
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TFA
Thank you today for IFF Mark II, "t the first IFF system to be used. IFF is an important technology, it's what keeps jets from pilling into each other (as long as the pilots listen to it!), and this is the device that started it all"! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:49, 30 September 2019 (UTC)
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Hi Maury, I think that I've now addressed your comments at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Operation Catechism/archive1. Could you please look in on this review? Thanks, Nick-D (talk) 09:43, 10 October 2019 (UTC)
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@Shieldforyoureyes: moving the convo[1] here. (He hasn't been active in a while. I'm in regular contact with him, though. Recently I've been uploading photos on his behalf.)
See the RCS collection and let me know if additional images are needed and/or desired. We have an S/230, for example.
It looks like you've done some fine work. I'll take a closer look over the weekend. I'll also ping our resident DG expert.[2] --mikeu talk 23:55, 13 December 2019 (UTC)
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Focal
hello, since your edit it started saying FOCUS instead of, presumably, FOCAL... And in all subsequent edits you write FOCUS as well. Since yours are apparently good-faith edits I decided to go and ask rather than revert outright. I'm also curious how something like that comes about (over-eager spelling correction software? But then "focal" is a word, too...) Aecho6Ee (talk) 20:43, 27 December 2019 (UTC)
- Grammary. 9 times out of 10 it's amazing. The other 1, subtle. Maury Markowitz (talk) 21:10, 27 December 2019 (UTC)
Category creation
Hi. Please don't create "blank" categories as you did recently with eg Category:General Electric radars. At the very least, you need to add categories so that humans and maintenance bots can use the category hierarchy to find them - and browsing the hierarchy to find suitable parents can help you see whether you have the right name for your new category. It's also nice to link to a relevant article either directly or using {{catmain}}. Cheers. Le Deluge (talk) 09:55, 28 December 2019 (UTC)
- @Le Deluge: I do not understand. That category has several items in it. It is not blank. Maury Markowitz (talk) 20:00, 28 December 2019 (UTC)
- The category is now in several categories because I added them, but in its original form as you created it it was completely blank. I'm not talking about the category being empty (ie when a category contains no articles), I'm talking about the category itself, which is a "page" like an article, which can be edited in its own right (but normally just has categories, and maybe a template like {{catmain}}). Have a read of Wikipedia:Categorization, or ping me if you need further help. Le Deluge (talk) 20:05, 28 December 2019 (UTC)
- @Le Deluge: I understand the "nice" at the end of your list, but I am at a loss for the other items. Can you give me a use-case of where this causes failure? Maury Markowitz (talk) 20:10, 28 December 2019 (UTC)
- Honestly, it's worth reading Wikipedia:Categorization. But the key thing is that categories are not "simple" metatags but actual "pages" which can be edited like any other Wikipedia page, as well as "containers" for other pages. Think of it a bit like a library logo on a traditional card index. So if you look at the categories I added to the category after you created it, they are the reason that the radars category now shows up in Category:General Electric systems. Without that categorisation, you would not be able to find the radars category in Category:General Electric systems. And possibly more importantly, there's various automated systems that rely on things being linked in to the category hierarchy.Le Deluge (talk) 20:19, 28 December 2019 (UTC)
- @Le Deluge: I understand the "nice" at the end of your list, but I am at a loss for the other items. Can you give me a use-case of where this causes failure? Maury Markowitz (talk) 20:10, 28 December 2019 (UTC)
- The category is now in several categories because I added them, but in its original form as you created it it was completely blank. I'm not talking about the category being empty (ie when a category contains no articles), I'm talking about the category itself, which is a "page" like an article, which can be edited in its own right (but normally just has categories, and maybe a template like {{catmain}}). Have a read of Wikipedia:Categorization, or ping me if you need further help. Le Deluge (talk) 20:05, 28 December 2019 (UTC)
@Le Deluge: Sorry, family emergency, all good now. I think perhaps I am not explaining myself properly. In your first post, I read it to mean that not adding content would break something. Specifically, what is the problem with the "various automated systems" you refer to? Can you be more specific? Certainly, if the category does not show up in GE, that is not a problem, anyone can fix that at any time like any edit to any article. But you seem to be stating something will actually break. If so, it seems that should be reported. If not, all good. Maury Markowitz (talk) 21:34, 29 December 2019 (UTC)
- Well it should be enough that Wikipedia:Categorization#Categorizing_pages clearly states
Every Wikipedia page should belong to at least one category
. A category is itself a Wikipedia page and so every category in turn should be in a category. If you want to change that, you are welcome to find a consensus for it but for now, them's the rules. But just about every maintenance bot (and anybody or any bot using WP:AWB) relies heavily on selecting a top category and then applying some change to it and all the subcategories. For instance, if General Electric changed its corporate name, then an editor would start at Category:General Electric and work their way down through all the subcategories to propose the rename. If the radars category wasn't in that hierarchy, it would be missed and wouldn't get renamed. Or someone might use AWB to add an infobox or subject navigation box to all the articles in Category:Military radars and its subcategories - but not in your category if it didn't have categories. There's a lot of that stuff goes on behind the scenes, and you don't need to worry about it just follow the instruction in WP:Categorization ! Le Deluge (talk) 12:04, 31 December 2019 (UTC)- @Le Deluge: Good, so nothing is actually broken. Maury Markowitz (talk) 13:05, 31 December 2019 (UTC)
- Well yes, breaking the category hierarchy means breaking the basis of 90% of Wikipedia automation, on which the whole encyclopedia relies (even if it's not particularly obvious to the average user). And also, what's the point of creating a category if nobody can find it? You might as well not bother. Le Deluge (talk) 13:14, 31 December 2019 (UTC)
- @Le Deluge: Its not broken, it's working fine. You fixed it. Right? Maury Markowitz (talk) 13:19, 31 December 2019 (UTC)
- Yes for this specific category, I thought we were talking about the general principle of not categorising.Le Deluge (talk) 13:45, 31 December 2019 (UTC)
- @Le Deluge: Well I wasn't, but I thought I was clear about that. In any event, there is nothing actually wrong, so I'd like to move on to writing actual content. Maury Markowitz (talk) 13:54, 31 December 2019 (UTC)
- Yes for this specific category, I thought we were talking about the general principle of not categorising.Le Deluge (talk) 13:45, 31 December 2019 (UTC)
- @Le Deluge: Its not broken, it's working fine. You fixed it. Right? Maury Markowitz (talk) 13:19, 31 December 2019 (UTC)
- Well yes, breaking the category hierarchy means breaking the basis of 90% of Wikipedia automation, on which the whole encyclopedia relies (even if it's not particularly obvious to the average user). And also, what's the point of creating a category if nobody can find it? You might as well not bother. Le Deluge (talk) 13:14, 31 December 2019 (UTC)
- @Le Deluge: Good, so nothing is actually broken. Maury Markowitz (talk) 13:05, 31 December 2019 (UTC)