Tyger27

New Real Tennis Wikia

Wikipedia seems to be cracking down somewhat on articles that are not suitable for an encyclopaedia. For instance the Royal Melbourne Tennis Club article is marked for deletion. I've created a [Real Tennis Wikia] designed to be the font of all knowledge about real tennis. This is a good place to put information which may be not significant enough for Wikipedia's policies, not fully cited, and so forth. I wonder if you'd be able to give me a hand copying the information already on Wikipedia over there (lest it get deleted) and filling out more pages? You can catch me at: User_talk:JeremyHoward

hours of daylight

You said this in an edit of the "sundial" article:

"Unlike horizontal dials, a vertical dial cannot ever receive more than twelve hours of sunlight a day, no matter how many hours of daylight there are."

Actually, that's not true. In the northern tropics, a north-facing vertical dial receives sunlight from sunrise to sunset. Near the summer solstice, this can be substantially more than 12 hours per day. The same is true for a south-facing dial in the southern tropics.

I have Waugh's book, which you cited frequently. I don't see anywhere where he says that a vertical dial cannot receive more than 12 hours of sunlight per day.

DOwenWilliams (talk) 20:32, 13 June 2013 (UTC)

Hi again. I've edited the Sundial article to put your footnote into the main text, and to add an example, with reference, of a north-facing wall receiving more than 12 hours of sunshine per day. Basically, I'm trying to drive home the point that, in this case, Waugh is wrong. Wikipedia's slavish adherence to citations deserves criticism. (See my user page.) DOwenWilliams (talk) 13:01, 14 June 2013 (UTC)