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Please don't break links to filenames [1] by 'correcting' spellings. Andy Dingley (talk) 08:16, 7 July 2019 (UTC)

I did try to avoid any breakage; thanks for fixing the one mistake I made when correcting about 250 instances of incorrect capitalization in that edit, in which I changed no spellings. Michael F 1967 (talk) 18:51, 8 July 2019 (UTC)

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Fixed. Michael F 1967 (talk) 18:01, 10 August 2019 (UTC)

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Is there a straightforward and quick way to create a new redirection page? I can't find anything in Wikipedia help. Michael F 1967 (talk) 21:27, 28 September 2019 (UTC)

You can create a new page you want to redirect to something, then type #REDIRECT [[(page you want to redirect to)]]. Hope this helped! –apap04 ^{talk | contributions} 21:40, 28 September 2019 (UTC)

Thank you for the suggestion, but I'm afraid I can't find the process for creating a new page quickly. All I've found is wizard which apparently requires a new page request to be moderated before being accepted and that takes weeks.

There's a page Exercise Tiger Triumph which was created as Tiger Triumph and I feel it'd perhaps be useful to create a redirection page from Tiger Triumph. Perhaps I'm wrong.

Michael F 1967 (talk) 21:46, 28 September 2019 (UTC)

I think this has been wrongly done. The page calls itself Tiger Triumph and, while it identifies itself as an exercise, it does not use Exercise Tiger Triumph anywhere. The page should be moved back and leave Exercise Tiger Triumph as a redirect, though why someone looking for it would not simply type tiger triumph as their search term is a mystery to me. — jmcgnh^{(talk) (contribs)} 21:52, 28 September 2019 (UTC)

You could be right. Another user moved the page to Excercise Tiger Triumph. I just corrected the spelling. Two of the referenced links refer to 'Exercise Tiger Triumph' and what Tiger Triumph might be isn't clear from just the name - there is after all a motorcycle firm called Triumph that's made several models called the Tiger and this could be confusing. Tiger Triumph redirects to Exercise Tiger Triumph, so the article can be found either way. I'll leave any further changes up to the judgement of others. Michael F 1967 (talk) 21:59, 29 September 2019 (UTC)

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Poros

Hi, I read it as porous and assumed a spelling mistake. Thanks Sun Creator^(talk) 01:24, 7 November 2019 (UTC)

No worries. As it happens, I suspect that my capitalization changes of poros to Poros might class as mistakes: poros seems by one authority to count as a noun by itself.

Then again, by capitalizing the term, it makes it clear that it's a stone named after a place rather than an incorrectly spelt version of 'porous'. I don't think my judgement can be trusted one way or another. Michael F 1967 (talk) 01:32, 7 November 2019 (UTC)

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Iron Bridge

Hi Michael,

Our Iron Bridge article is pretty poor, but I've just seen the other article and that's really awful!

Iron Bridge (the bridge, not the article) is a mess, structurally. It's a miracle it has stayed up this long. Some of it hasn't, and the rest has had help.

You can't make trusses out of cast iron. Brunel discovered this, wrote extensively on it (then did a few more anyway - we really need an article on his Uxbridge Road bridge). Cast iron won't support bending loads, engineering design at this time wasn't up to the point of making pin-jointed spaceframes or planar trusses. Even if it had, cast-iron won't support their tensile loads either. So cast-iron bridges have been almost entirely arch structures, purely in compression, just like masonry bridges. A few weren't, most of those (like Stephenson's Dee Bridge) fell down.

There are some early examples of cast-iron trusses. Pont-y-Cafnau is a good example. However it's an awful design. It stays up by being small, lightly loaded, and being hugely overbuilt. Even then, it's only held together by later repairs in wrought iron. The Old Iron Bridge in Merthyr would be another one worth looking at, but WP decided it was "non-notable". Also it's hard to get access to see it, and even harder to study the technical design of it.

So, The Iron Bridge. It's a horrible design. Unlike Pont-y-Cafnau, which is a good timber bridge design reproduced in iron, the Iron Bridge is just all over the place. There are radial members which should be in compression, with dovetailed ends as if they were in tension (an idea which wouldn't work). Then because they're sometimes in bending (the foundations have shifted) they've mostly cracked off anyway. But structurally, this isn't a truss, it can't work as a truss, there's no concept of a truss in effect amongst civil engineers at the time. In particular, how is this a two- or three-hinged truss arch? There are no hinges. The only way this structure could flex is by snapping the brittle, non-flexible members. Andy Dingley (talk) 21:00, 29 November 2019 (UTC)

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Yes, there are hinges: the central arch section is made in two halves pinned together at the centre line - each semi-circle arch section is made in two parts. That centre line works as a hinge. The other two "hinges" are, as I understand it, where the arch segments sit on the ground.

As for "can't make a truss out of cast iron": erm, you've cited the existence of some cast iron trusses. You are correct that it's not a good idea to do so, but as you point out, the Iron Bridge is a mess of a design.

Looking at the Iron Bridge from the side, I'd say that "truss arch bridge" could make sense as a description, since there is an arch supporting a deck and it looks like one might call everything held up by the arch as the "truss".

Granted it doesn't look much like any sensible truss structure I've seen elsewhere.

I'm no civil engineer. All this is about is me reading the arch bridge article, noticing no mention of the Iron Bridge which one would have thought would have been mentioned as a notable example of the type, and following the wikilinks on that page until I found a page that mentioned the Iron Bridge - which defined it as of the truss arch bridge type.

I've just had a poke around on the wider web and not found anything definitive to settle the matter of whether the Iron Bridge counts as an arch bridge or a truss arch bridge. Nor, for that matter, anything which settles the matter of whether the arch-supported deck is made of wrought or cast iron.

I would therefore suggest that the Iron Bridge article be left with the description of "cast iron truss bridge" in line with the Wikipedia article on the subject until someone can find a more definitive source.

Certainly, I can't see any real justification for you repeatedly undoing my edit on the basis of your personal opinion rather than an available reference.

Michael F 1967 (talk) 21:40, 29 November 2019 (UTC)

There are no hinges. Andy Dingley (talk) 21:45, 29 November 2019 (UTC)

From a bridge engineering point of view, the centre line pins certainly are hinges. They are not a rigid connection: they allow rotation.

Michael F 1967 (talk) 21:49, 29 November 2019 (UTC)

And while I'm at it, trusses have been used since antiquity , although apparently the ancient Romans were the first to make much use of them.

Michael F 1967 (talk) 21:53, 29 November 2019 (UTC)

• OK then, WP:3RR? Andy Dingley (talk) 21:55, 29 November 2019 (UTC)

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Adding unsourced content

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Hello Michael F 1967. There is a question whether The Iron Bridge would be correctly described as a 'truss arch bridge'. You support use of the word 'truss' for this bridge. At this edit at The Iron Bridge you have added the word 'truss' back to the article, a fact which is unsourced. (Remember that another Wikipedia article cannot be used as a source). You stated "I suggest you leave "truss arch bridge" in place unless you can find a source which contradicts that definition." This is the exact opposite of what is supposed to happen! Per WP:BURDEN anyyone who adds material to an article must be able to provide a source. Please consider undoing your last change. Otherwise you are risking a block for disruption. Thank you, EdJohnston (talk) 22:54, 29 November 2019 (UTC)

I inserted a claim with a weak source to replace an unsourced claim which was to my mind very obviously fallacious. User:Andy_Dingley's repeated reversions of my edits to an obviously incorrect and unsourced claim is disruptive behaviour. Please consider your criticisms more carefully in future.

Michael F 1967 (talk) 17:34, 7 December 2019 (UTC)

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Regarding your revert

See H:DUMMY. Thanks, RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 00:16, 9 June 2020 (UTC)

Colston

Your skimming a bit close to 3rr.Slatersteven (talk) 15:47, 27 June 2020 (UTC)

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It's true that people are engaged in an edit war on that page - some editos on that page are behaving very badly in my view. Editors are repeatedly reverting my edits for invalid reasons, just because they disagree with my choice of words despite me following policy as best I can to improve the article particularly in line with WP:NPOV and WP:RS.

Why some editors don't want to call a slave trader a slave trader is beyond me: it seems that Colston in the 21st century has people trying to protect his reputation and sweep some dirty aspects of history under the carpet.

Why are you suggesting that I am the guilty party? For example, my attempts to use a reliable source for evidence of Colston's restricted philanthropy are repeatedly removed for invalid reasons. This is very bad behaviour.

What is the method I should use for dealing with these disruptive editors? Michael F 1967 (talk) 15:57, 27 June 2020 (UTC)

Well you can discus rather than edit war, and when (and if) you convince edits you edits are vlaid make them. But if you think there are behavioural issues you should report them to wp:ani and not edit war (but I would strongly advise against that).Slatersteven (talk) 16:02, 27 June 2020 (UTC)

Also not an edit war warning is non judgemental, it is not based upon the validity of your edits, only your actions. Beging right is not a valid reason for edit warring.Slatersteven (talk) 16:06, 27 June 2020 (UTC)

Hmm - so why is it that it's just me who's the guilty party, rather than others? The current text was not arrived at by consensus, although there WAS a text agreed to on the talk page some time ago. That was immediately edited out of existence - surely it would be best to revert back to the originally agreed text until a new formulation receives consensus?

Michael F 1967 (talk) 16:16, 27 June 2020 (UTC)

Did any other editors make more than 3 reverts over 24 hours?Slatersteven (talk) 16:25, 27 June 2020 (UTC)

You pointed out that is not relevant when you defined edit warring in these terms: Your recent editing history shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war; that means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be, when you have seen that other editors disagree. Michael F 1967 (talk) 16:32, 27 June 2020 (UTC)

What? read wp:3rr.Slatersteven (talk) 16:34, 27 June 2020 (UTC)

Your own message to me, above, stated: Your recent editing history shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war; that means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be, when you have seen that other editors disagree.

Why do you now suggest that that only applies to me but not anyone else? Are there special rules that mean I should be judged differently to others? Michael F 1967 (talk) 16:40, 27 June 2020 (UTC)

No I am asking who else made more than 3 reverts on that page. You are only edit warring if YOU are , it does not matter if 3 other editors make 2 reverts a piece, that is not edit warringSlatersteven (talk) 16:42, 27 June 2020 (UTC)

But I asked you about your statement that Your recent editing history shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war; that means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be, when you have seen that other editors disagree. Michael F 1967 (talk) 16:44, 27 June 2020 (UTC)

Its not mine is a standard wearing template that can be issued when ever an editor is pushing at 3RR.Slatersteven (talk) 16:46, 27 June 2020 (UTC)

Yes, and you posted it on my talk page. Please read the Colston talk page and make the edit we agreed upon.

It does occur to me that if I were to re-instate the older first paragraph text using two reverts, and you then removed it each time, you but not I would be guilty of wp:3rr and you could be blocked from editing.

It would be better if you just undid your reversion, since we both agree what form the text should currently take.

Michael F 1967 (talk) 16:51, 27 June 2020 (UTC)

This is my last comment, here, I have reverted twice, that is not a breach of wp:3rr.Slatersteven (talk) 16:59, 27 June 2020 (UTC)

June 2020

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Edward Colston; that means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be, when you have seen that other editors disagree. Users are expected to collaborate with others, to avoid editing disruptively, and to try to reach a consensus, rather than repeatedly undoing other users' edits once it is known that there is a disagreement.

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You are within a cat's whisker of being reported. Stop. Now. Cassianto^Talk 16:41, 27 June 2020 (UTC)

What are you talking about? I made a necessary change in line with policy and talk page discussion.

Michael F 1967 (talk) 16:43, 27 June 2020 (UTC)

Fine have it your way.Slatersteven (talk) 16:50, 27 June 2020 (UTC)

I am genuinely interested in learning here. I do not understand why am I being accused of edit warring apparently on the grounds of making an agreed change back to a form of text which had been developed with consensus on the Edward Colston talk page.

Please would someone explain? Michael F 1967 (talk) 16:55, 27 June 2020 (UTC)

YOU were not, you had already been accused of edit warring before making your last revert. Moreover you are not supposed to get one person to agree and then rush to make the change. The fact you were reverted means you did not have consensus.Slatersteven (talk) 16:58, 27 June 2020 (UTC)

You had explained that I had a correct understanding of Wikipedia policy regarding text being discussed under an RFC. The text I reverted to had previously been agreed by consensus on the talk page. All I was doing was putting back consensus text in line with policy, after checking that I'd correctly understood policy. Please tell me what's wrong with that? Michael F 1967 (talk) 17:04, 27 June 2020 (UTC)

As far as I know no agreement had been reached on that text, that is why there was an RFC.Slatersteven (talk) 17:06, 27 June 2020 (UTC)

I also suggest you read wp:npa, tone it down.Slatersteven (talk) 17:06, 27 June 2020 (UTC)

What happened was that that form of text was agreed on the talk page, and then an objection was raised about the reference to philanthropy, causing the RFC to be raised. Therefore, the text should not have been changed until the RFC was closed.

You made the point that the text should have remained unchanged. It looks to me that the text should be put back to what it was when the RFC was raisedt. If not, why not? Michael F 1967 (talk) 17:13, 27 June 2020 (UTC)

This is my last comment here ever, next time its a report. I have told you being right is not a justification for edit warring (if you had read wp:editwar you would have seen that).Slatersteven (talk) 17:16, 27 June 2020 (UTC)

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You are continuing to edit war to try to force your own way on this page. You need to gain a consensus on the talk page before making any more edits or risk being blocked. - Ahunt (talk) 13:36, 11 February 2022 (UTC)

Mmm. Hardly an "edit war" on my part. Other editors, for spurious reasons which I identified in each case, kept removing information which was both properly sourced and valid for inclusion. Each time someone removed that information giving a spurious reason, I restored the information with explanations as to why the reasons for the removals were spurious. It strikes me that those who kept providing different (and in each case invalid) reasons for deleting relevant information were those who needed to gain consensus on the talk page if they wanted their ideas to stick.

But... Hey, we're all here to make this place a better place, am I right?

One might suggest the "removal" types were edit-warring - or then again, assuming good faith, more likely they'd just got the wrong end of the stick.

Peace and love, man. Peace and love.

Michael F 1967 (talk) 04:27, 30 October 2023 (UTC)

Just an fyi...

I noticed your edits on BilCat's talk page. Once someone removes something from their page, that's it... it's not your place to reinstate it. You shouldn't continue to pester people on their talk page, once they've made it clear they don't want you posting there. Also, this is his user talk page. If you wish to discuss an article, you should do so on the article talk page. Hope you find this helpful. - wolf 04:42, 11 February 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for the tip. In this case, I had what seemed to me to be a valid reason for asking a question. The user in question had not stated or implied that they didn't want me posting on their talk page and I was certainly not pestering them, simply trying to get an answer to a question relating to claims regarding an edit made by that user.

In other words, where else would I go? Well, the issue's gone away now.

82.69.102.61 (talk) 13:21, 11 February 2022 (UTC)

Well, one might think it was implied he didn't want you posting there when he deleted all your comments. But regardless, that is done now. As for the issue, you asked where else would you go, and as I stated above, you should discuss issues regarding articles on article talk pages. (In fact, it's preferred.) If you don't get a reaponse, or do but cannot come to an agreement there, then you can go to through the dispute resolution process.

Lastly, and on another note; if you are Michael F 1967, then it appears you are editing while logged out. Try to remeber to always log in before you edit. Hope you find this helpful. - wolf 20:18, 11 February 2022 (UTC)

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