KoakhtzvigadMobile

Philistines map

I thought I'd already done that on the Talk. Anyway, I believe the map's unsuitable because it doesn't show the Philistine area accurately - only 3 out of 5 cities, and you can't really tell where they are. What would be useful would be a map that concentrates on the southern coastal strip where the cities were, plus inland as far as the Dead Sea and north as far as the southern Phoenician cities (just north of the Mt Carmel promontory) for context.

As to how it might be done, I'm not sure, as it's not something I've ever been involved in. The obvious way would be to use a map from an academic book, but I imagine that involves copyright issues. Could we create our own map using a book plus Goggle Earth? PiCo (talk) 02:18, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

Moving your comments to article KoakhtzvigadMobile (talk) 03:06, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

Waiver for the M-1 Abrams tank to be rolled over the C-17's ramp.

Its mentioned on page 136 of this document:

http://stinet.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA441079&Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf

"Cargo Vehicles Because of the C-17's large capacity (in both size and weight), the parameters of an individual cargo vehicle rarely come into play. The C-17 can transport the ground force's heaviest combat vehicle, the M-1 tank, at a maximum weight of 135,000 pounds. This is 5,000 pounds heavier than the operational weight limit of 130,000 pounds for loading across the ramp. However, a waiver was granted after analysis by the C-17 System Program Office (SPO) and the aircraft manufacturer showed that the load distribution of the M-1 did not detrimentally affect the ramp structure. This waiver is for the M-1 only." Hudicourt (talk) 02:45, 27 April 2011 (UTC)

Thank you. I believe recently the waiver was used for something else, a piece of mining equipment that was shipped by the RAAF from western australia to Japan for the metigation fo the nuclear reactor accident there.KoakhtzvigadMobile (talk) 02:49, 27 April 2011 (UTC)

WP:BRD

You need to read WP:BRD and be guided by its policies. If you make a change, as you did at Levantine Arabic and it is reverted by another editor, you do not replace your edit. You take it to the Talk Page and try to build a consensus for your change. If you cannot build a consensus for your new text, then you don't make the change. In discussing the Arabic languages/dialects, we use the term "variety" here in Wikipedia as a result of much discussion at various pages over the years. "Variety" walks the middle road between calling the spoken Arabic forms "dialects" or "languages". Do not go back and reinsert "dialect" where "variety" is more appropriate. The article and template used for Arabic is called Varieties of Arabic, not "Dialects of Arabic" for a reason. --Taivo (talk) 08:08, 28 April 2011 (UTC)