User talk:Martin of Sheffield/Archive 7

History of Rail Transport

I repaired the link to Railways in the Greek and Roman World.Phmoreno (talk) 00:53, 19 September 2016 (UTC)

CPU cache

Yes, I think you are right Ferry24.Milan (talk) 17:54, 26 October 2016 (UTC)

Your suggestion is ok but I do not know how to make this. I am an expert in this field but not in wiki. Can you help me ?. Thanks Ferry24.Milan (talk) 18:17, 26 October 2016 (UTC)

@Ferry24.Milan: Go to the CPU cache talk page rather than mine. I'm more than happy to assist, but to develop the page we really need the talk there where all editors can see it.

1. Next, work out exactly what you think the problem is, one step at a time.
2. Use a numbered list if it helps - like this one - it can help other editors to refer to your points.
3. Don't worry too much at this stage about layout or phrasing, particularly if English is not your mother tongue, just concentrate on the facts.

Hope that helps, Martin of Sheffield (talk) 21:58, 26 October 2016 (UTC)

Europe 10,000 Challenge invite

Hi. The Wikipedia:WikiProject Europe/The 10,000 Challenge has recently started, based on the UK/Ireland Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge. The idea is not to record every minor edit, but to create a momentum to motivate editors to produce good content improvements and creations and inspire people to work on more countries than they might otherwise work on. There's also the possibility of establishing smaller country or regional challenges for places like Germany, Italy, the Benelux countries, Iberian Peninsula, Romania, Slovenia etc, much like Wikipedia:The 1000 Challenge (Nordic). For this to really work we need diversity and exciting content and editors from a broad range of countries regularly contributing. If you would like to see masses of articles being improved for Europe and your specialist country like Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon, sign up today and once the challenge starts a contest can be organized. This is a way we can target every country of Europe, and steadily vastly improve the encyclopedia. We need numbers to make this work so consider signing up as a participant and also sign under any country sub challenge on the page that you might contribute to! Thank you. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 10:05, 6 November 2016 (UTC)

Clog dancing

In my sandbox I have just found this half developed piece that I had lost and forgotten about. User:ClemRutter/sandbox4. I was thinking of either merging into Clog dance (British) or launching it as Clog dance (North-west England). What do you think? Do you want to adopt it and do something else with it? --ClemRutter (talk) 13:11, 9 November 2016 (UTC)

My first thought is merge. I'll have a fuller look though in a few days if you like. I'm in the midst of revising for a radio operator's exam and can be found muttering the phonetic alphabet to myself or else broadcasting a mayday to the computers! Over. Martin of Sheffield (talk) 13:21, 9 November 2016 (UTC)

Mungo Park revision

Martin;

 Thank you for the correction.  Yes, the legend does interfere with the view of the river and was the cause of my poorly researched revision.  Pipey1  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pipey1 (talk • contribs) 23:40, 28 November 2016 (UTC) 

Help with new recorder?

Martin, are you still monitoring these pages? I have a new recorder, different from the previous, and I would appreciate some advice, or at least an opinion.

Steve from Australia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Old wombat (talk • contribs) 04:53, 2 January 2017 (UTC)

Request suggestion for Edith Cavell reference.

The addition I made to the Edith Cavell page was removed; you commented that it sounded like a book promotion. I'd like to have the contemporary reference to Edith Cavell acknowledged. Can you suggest how I can make this sound less like a book promotion? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Habakkuk21 (talk • contribs) 15:12, 11 January 2017 (UTC)

I've answered this on the talk page so that other editors can give their opinions. Martin of Sheffield (talk) 15:49, 11 January 2017 (UTC)

Salutations

Salutations and thanks for the post on my talk page. As I'm a bit new here, would you be able to suggest an alternative wording? I did say "Please share your comments at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2017_January_19#Category:Persecution_by_atheists, regardless of your opinion (emphasis mine)." The triangle was not my doing but was generated from clicking on the blue button on top of the noticeboard. Eliko007 (talk) 23:58, 25 January 2017 (UTC)

Union Jack

The statement in the article is an accurate summary of events. If you think it reads like a bit of trivia that may be because it is.©Geni (talk) 10:25, 11 February 2017 (UTC)

Church bells

Thanks for note; Yes I didn't finish that edit off too well, but have fixed it, also cleaned up a lot of other stuff that was cluttering and confusing the page Regards Dougsim (talk)

May I ask how i can Quote something out of a documentary, since the information comes from planet earth II, with this I would also like to ask if this is a reliable source. Kind regards, A wikipedia user — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.113.223.38 (talk) 11:52, 22 March 2017 (UTC)

Many thanks for BS. The work goes on and roping the RW in now to create commons images.Dougsim (talk) 11:26, 12 April 2017 (UTC)

Kings and Maths

Have you looked at the two articles recently? Kings has barely a reference- and Maths has none. I don't have either school history on my bookshelf - seems a shame to delete them though!--ClemRutter (talk) 10:12, 12 April 2017 (UTC)

Hi Clem. I hadn't looked at either page recently, they are on my watchlist so I keep an eye out for vandalism but otherwise haven't done anything to them. I agree they need more references, I'll try to give them a kicking at some point in the near future. There's no sense in talking about deletion; citations are only required for contentious and challenged material (see WP:CITE), though clearly they are desirable for all material. I would suggest that the existing tags are quite sufficient. Regards, Martin of Sheffield (talk) 10:22, 12 April 2017 (UTC)

secondary modern sense of humour! Thanks.--ClemRutter (talk) 10:49, 12 April 2017 (UTC)

Gentle kick applied to Maths. Feel free to add to it if you want. Martin of Sheffield (talk) 12:25, 12 April 2017 (UTC)

What are those?

The translators of KJV were seeking to get the original meaning from Hebrew and Greek. Fold and Flock in that passage means the same thing. It is just a literary style of the translator of not repeating the same word twice. The reader gets it (anybody with basic knowledge of English) that the the author is trying to convey the same meaning.

And what other evidence is that the NT in KJV uses Vulgate? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.176.187.112 (talk) 16:58, 19 May 2017 (UTC)

Please continue this discussion on the article's talk page: here. Martin of Sheffield (talk) 22:53, 19 May 2017 (UTC)

Flame supervision device

Martin, I came upon this article you created while trying to purchase a gas range in the U.S. with FSDs on the top burners. Thanks for creating it. I found only one model offered that had FSDs on the top burners (a 30 inch-wide Thor plain vanilla gas range at $1600—a similar unit (except for the top burner FSDs) from another manufacturer would cost about half as much. I was amazed. Evidently there are no laws or regulations in the U.S. that require this safety device on top burners. All models I have found use FSDs in the oven. I removed a statement from the article that FSDs are required on all burners in apartment buildings over ten units and added a statement that FSDs are not required for stove top burners in the U.S. Since this is a safety device I though I best to indicate usage varies from one political unit to another even though I don't have a citation at hand. I will try to locate sources for the U.S. and other countries. User:Neonorange (Phil) 19:31, 11 June 2017 (UTC)

I'm afraid I can't take credit for creating the article, I merely questioned a statement on the talk page a year or so back. I found a reference today and have therefore changed the article, but only as regards FSDs on pilot lights. We have an electric hob so FSDs aren't appropriate, and the last time I had a gas cooker was 20 years ago. I know that here in the UK, and in Europe, FSDs are required on all marine cookers, but that is a bit specialist. You are making a good point about regulations varying, good luck with finding adequate resources. Martin of Sheffield (talk) 19:46, 11 June 2017 (UTC)

Sfn

Hi Martin, Thanks for kindly fixing the article, Just one question tho - If a news source doesn't have an author would I just put the paper name instead? (if it's the same paper then I'd do what you did which is put a, b, c etc next to them),
Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 13:15, 19 June 2017 (UTC)

Good question. I was trained in an old fashioned library with a card index and every item _had_ to have an author so that the master card could be filed. A few books used "anon", but where the publication came from a corporate body with no specific author then that body was regarded as the author. It depends on whether you regard the author as the inky-fingered person who writes the words, or else the body (corporate or personal) that creates the work. The Yanks seem to differ on this though. so be warned. To turn to the specifics of newspapers: if there is a by-line, then use that, otherwise use the newspaper title. All IMHO of course but it makes sense to me! Regards, Martin of Sheffield (talk) 14:27, 19 June 2017 (UTC)