Article development at User:EdJogg/Steam Portal/Sandbox

NOTE -- have recently created Category:Steam road vehicle manufacturing companies but now considering requesting a rename to the slightly shorter Category:Steam road vehicle manufacturers -- 12:23, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

NOTE 2 -- there is scope for an article (sub- of steam engine) covering the preservation movement. This would provide a parent article for the new Category:Preserved steam engines and Category:Preserved stationary steam engines and a good way of linking-in Live Steam, Steam fairs, vehicle restoration, etc -- 09:30, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

NOTE 3 -- Sitush (talk · contribs) has volunteered his access to the Newcomen Society papers, should we ever need them. (15:22, 23 March 2011 (UTC))

'Wikirank' comparison of article popularity (steam engine vs others) [dead link]

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Research notes for article development

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  • ihp and indicated horsepower both redirect to Horsepower#Indicated horsepower. This short section may benefit from referenced expansion!
  • Steam bus - little more than general history, yet not shown as a stub
    • Useful content added 16 Jun 08, describing how steam vehicles were better for roads and safer than horse-drawn equivalents - merge across to history article and steam road vehicle (under 'advantages').
  • Steam tricycle - actually covers 'any' three-wheeled steam road vehicle
    • Includes a pic of Cugnot's first vehicle
    • Suggest we should have an article covering the development of steam road transport somewhere, to collate all the snippets! (see PRJ's project page!)
  • Lots here already
  • Steam car - includes good history and pic of cugnot's tricycle
    - has been used as basis for History of steam road vehicles
  • Steam wagon -- found (unref'd) mention of use of old steam wagon chassis for Bison concrete armoured lorries in WW2
  • Entry for Traction Engine on RitchieWiki: This wiki is intended to contain knowledge about equipment and industry.
    • Worth adding to other articles and using as a source for other reference material -- in particular, their coverage of TE and roller history is far better than here (so far), although the precursor history is somewhat peculiar!!
    • Should be added as an external link on all relevant pages (eg steam shovel, steam donkey, Aveling & Porter, etc - already added to TE page. Might be worth maintaing a list of which pages have links, and which pages are not yet present at RitchieWiki.)
    • Not good idea to cite it directly, but it does seem to be based on references and is NOT just a WP mirror. Articles on traction engine, steam engine and steam donkey (the only ones examined) are clearly written from original material and not based on the WP articles.
  • Goldsworthy Gurney article -- Acts of Parliament following from his early steam carriage services, imposed prohibitive tolls on steam vehilces, effectively suppressing development, etc

Notes

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Vehicle contains a large chunk about Steam Carriages, which is out-of-place, but contains no other vehicles besides Steam tricycle!

UPDATE - Aug 2007 - has been moved to Steam car.
Vehicle will need an update...

Automobile contains a cursory section on steam propulsion, and the history section is weird! Also links to...
History of the automobile which contains out-of-date info concerning steam power...

Aim is to gather all articles about steam engines and steam-powered stuff into a co-ordinated hierarchy of categories. This is where it will be worked out, in stages, before going 'live'.

Further research

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Hierarchy

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Category:Steam power (use {{cat main}})

Category tree
Missing categories

THIS SECTION NEEDS RATIONALISING NOW THAT THE CAT TREE IS AVAILABLE

  • Category:Mis-named steam things
    • ie things that are called steam but have nothing to do with hot water!
    • Might be better as a cohesive article than a category
    • some would argue that it is POV!

Article categorising

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==Category:Steam engine manufacturers

===Category:Locomotive manufacturers of the United Kingdom

  • add as sub-cat

==Category:Steam engine technologies

===Category:Boilers

==Category:Railway museums

===Category:Railway museums in the United Kingdom

===Category:Heritage railways

====Category:Heritage railways in the United Kingdom

==Category:Steam vehicle manufacturers

==Category:Steam road vehicles

===Category:Steam road vehicle manufacturers

====Category:Steam road vehicle manufacturers of the United Kingdom

====Category:Steam road vehicle manufacturers of the United States

==Category:Steampunk

  • Steam Detectives - Japanese manga series, with a definite steam connection!
  • steampunk - literary style similar to cyberpunk, but with steam-era technology!
  • many, many other titles. How do we sanely link it in?
  • Steam beer - does not use steam in the brewing process!

==Category:Steam (content delivery) products

Possible new cat? To include:

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Found via Owl's Head Transportation Museum links page: