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Hello DigbyDalton, I reverted your first edit in the Rockabilly article because you gave information that was wrong:
1. Hillbilly boogie is not the same as Rockabilly. Hillbilly Boogie, or Country Boogie, was country music borrowing elements from the pre-war boogie woogie music, for example the simple chord pattern, the up-tempo style and so on. The part of the piano, which played fast solos during the songs, was often replaced by fiddle, steel guitar, guitar or even bass solos.
2. The name "Rockabilly" does not derive from the Burnettes' sons. Billboard used the term "rock-a-billy" as early as 1956 to describe this type of music (first in the review of Ruckus Tyler's Fabor record). Bill Flagg also used the word "rockbillie" to describe his music from the early 1950s on. The Johnny Burnette Trio's single "Rock-Billy Boogie" was released in 1957, when the term was already used in the music industry.
I'm happy when somebody edits the Rockabilly article and adds information (because much of the text there isn't relevant or wrong), but please only give accurate info and reference it. Regards, The yodeling cowboy ( talk) 10:06, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
"Rock Billy Boogie" was released in the late 50s but was written in 1953 when the two kids were born. This is according to quotes make by Rocky and Billy Burnette in the 1986 PBS show which is being shown on PBS in frequent rotation this week, please try to catch it. The Burnettes were playing in Memphis during that time period and 1953 was back when Sun Records was still doing black artists and no actual rockabilly. They go into detail on the 1953 coining of the term Rockabilly after the Burnette song. Try to watch it or buy the video. It goes into extreme detail and interviews all the rockabilly artists who were still alive in 1986, and some Brits. DigbyDalton ( talk) 19:55, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
It may or may not be self-promotion but Billy Burnette is making the same claim on his web site now. http://www.billyburnette.net/index2.html Thank you. DigbyDalton ( talk) 20:02, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
I dont see a huge difference between hillbilly boogie and rockabilly. It was a gradual shift, there was no sudden event or revolution. It started after the war, country boogies were extremely common, starting around 1946. By the late 40's almost all country singers had a boogie or two in their arsenals. The bit about Elvis in 1954 Sun is crap, Bill Haley was playing rockabilly for years before then. Maybe that was Sun's first rockabilly record but they are tooting their own horns. Skeeter Davis recorded "Rock A Bye Boogie" as the Davis Sisters and it was a major best seller on RCA in 1953 and that is a major label with tons of radio air play. Of course that is rockabilly, and it was nothing new. Tennessee Ernie Ford did Shotgun Boogie way before then and it was also a huge chart success, tell me how that is not rockabilly, and it was nothing new. Of course it was not 1956 style rockabilly, it was more primitive, but not enough different to warrant a paradigm shift. So I don't see a huge paradigm shift. The Burnettes sang country music in 1953, and of course that included some boogies because everybody did boogies back then. Don't point to a non boogie and claim that it means they didn't do other songs that WERE boogies. If you did not hear them play RockBilly Boogie live in 1953, don't point to a slow country blues they recorded and claim they played their boogies the same way. Every band had slow-dance tunes and fast dance tunes. I'm sure their live 1953 act included some rockers. DigbyDalton ( talk) 11:42, 30 March 2010 (UTC)
Your definition of rockabilly is poor. Slap bass was used before rockabilly. Maddox brothers used it and they were hillbilly boogie. Bill Haley used it and you say he wasn't rockabilly. Slap bass applies to upright acoustic bass but rockabilly often uses electric bass. Sparse instrumentation? Hillbilly boogie almost never had drums but rockabilly usually did in the beginning and always did later. So drums is part of it. You need to define the rhythm. Rockabilly is a boogie woogie rhythm with 8 beats to the bar, but instead of all 8 beats with the same instrument like a piano solo, then a guitar solo, etc, as you found in hillbilly boogie, you had 8 beats to the bar played by rhythm guitar and bass playing 4 each, but alternating, which makes them 8. The rhythm guitar and bass are playing 4/4 time each, but taking turns a half-beat apart, making 8 beats and doubles the tempo. The drummer playing on the same beat as the rhythm guitar, only twice per bar, on the 2nd and 6th beat, which is the "backbeat," the bass being off the rhythm guitar by a half beat makes it a boogie rhythm. It has nothing to do with slapping the bass, what it means is the bass is a step off which doubles the tempo from 4 to the bar to 8, exactly the same thing boogie piano players do. The right hand on the piano goes 4 to the bar, the left hand is also 4 to the bar, but off by a half beat making 8 beats which doubles the tempo. I hope this explains it. Rockabilly is a style of boogie woogie. For that matter, rock and roll is boogie woogie. If you don't believe me ask any musician. DigbyDalton ( talk) 02:54, 1 April 2010 (UTC)
I described the difference in my last post. It depends on how the boogie is orchestrated. Left hand and right hand on a piano is boogie woogie. Bass playing left hand of piano, rhythm guitar playing right hand of the piano, that is rockabilly. It makes absolutely no difference whether you use an upright bass or an electric bass. I don't pay attention to musicologists or music writers unless they are also musicians. Not one single one of them knows what "slap bass" means, yet they always use the term because they are copying other writers. Rockabilly is defined by the beat which is as I described. DigbyDalton ( talk) 00:50, 3 April 2010 (UTC)
None of those things have anything to do with music. Social background of the musicians? That's a load of doo doo. Plenty of people with the same social background don't even play music. You can't define music by the way people dress or their social background, which differs little or at all from the social background of the people who played hillbilly boogie which you just said is totally not rockabilly. The best rockabilly artists are the British of the 1970's like Nick Lowe and Rockpile. Look at their social background. The record has to be made for a small country label? What the fuck does the size of the label have to do with the music? RCA Victor had tons of rockabilly. You are full of poop. I'll look at that table you mention because it sounds interesting. In the mean time listen to this record that was recorded in 1950 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKqLJHQS-Cw and tell me why it's not rockabilly. It has the slap bass and boogie alternating between bass and guitar that I DEFINE as rockabilly. Tell me from a MUSICAL point of view why it's not rockabilly. And I don't give a rat's arse how they dress or their social background. DigbyDalton ( talk) 03:44, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
You say you "find it hard to believe that many estimates use a wolf-coyote divergence date of 1 million years since coyotes evolved from jackals, not wolves." All modern canines are descended from Cynodictus which over time dissolved into Tomarctus Foxes branched off from this line, becoming a distinct species around 10 million years ago. The other modern canids (wolves, jackals, coyotes, dingoes, dogs) developed as distinct species at varying times, and it is believed that what we now know as wolves and coyotes diverged around a million years ago. Marj ( talk) 23:50, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
That's impossible. The coyote has existed in North America for 1.81 million years, the ancestors of the grey wolf were in Asia and Europe at that time, and there were no grey wolves in North America until 125,000 years ago. The divergence time must have been quite earlier because coyotes evolved from the golden jackal or other jackal, who migrated to N America 1.81 million years ago and evolved into the coyote. By this information the most recent common ancestor of both the coyote and the wolf must have been way before then. Definitely not 1 million years ago. More like 3 million. Check out this database http://paleodb.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=checkTaxonInfo&taxon_no=44854&is_real_user=1 DigbyDalton ( talk) 16:36, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
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...for your contibutions to coyote and Hare Indian dog! Chrisrus ( talk) 16:33, 16 November 2011 (UTC)
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Do you have any modern, reliable, and preferably in-depth sources saying that Hare Indian Dogs were indeed coyotes? Otherwise, this is very, very dubious. Canadian Eskimo Dogs are now known not to have any substantial recent wolf origins from a genetic study, despite many naturalists having thought so in the 19th and 20th centuries. The Encyclopedia Brittanica of 1875 says that the Hare Indian Dog "seems to bear the same relation" to the coyote the Eskimo Dog, it says, certainly does to the wolf. The Brittanica said that it was generally agreed that dogs had many origins, a position held by many even a few decades ago, but now discredited by genetic studies. — innotata 22:48, 18 November 2011 (UTC)
Do you have any modern, reliable sources to say this is dubious, or are you just saying that yourself? My source is reliable and in-depth, but is not modern. No modern research can possibly study an extinct breed, we are at the mercy of scholars who lived among them at the time. Sir Doctor Richardson was not only a doctor from Edinburgh University, one of the most prestigious colleges in the world, but he was knighted for his work in his study on nature. He lived among the Indians during a 20 year period in northern Canada, he saw many of these dogs, and he even owned one. This is plenty reliable enough information for me. What can a "modern" study do compared to this, besides make some hand-waving guesses and say things like "this is dubious." Why do you say this is dubious? Because white people have not domesticated the coyote? White people have been here only 400 years, the Indians have been here 15,000 years. Plenty long enough to domesticate an American canine species which is closely related to the wolf, which is the most highly domesticated animal on earth. Dogs were domesticated from wolves. If we can domesticate an animal as ferocious as a wolf, how much more easily can we do the same to coyotes? Why do you say it's dubious? We have domesticated cats, sheep, cows, horses, falcons, sea lions, dolphins, and we even domesticated a polecat into a ferret. I don't understand why you think it's dubious. Are you a coyote hunter? Because coyote hunters live by the principle that coyotes are evil and sent from satan, and for them to learn of a domesticated coyote that can befriend humans and be used as pets would burst their whole "I kill the evil coyote" bubble. I live in the Adirondacks and am surrounded by ignorant rednecks who think that way. It is very sad how they think. Most of them have very low IQ's.
Hare Indian dogs were brought to Europe in the 1820's, some used as pets and some put in zoos. Maybe if we find a mounted specimen we can do a DNA test on it. Apart from that, there is nothing a "modern" source can do that can improve on the work of Sir Doctor Richardson. Any "modern" study would be based on inferior knowledge, because a modern researcher would not be as informed as Sir Doctor Richardson, as he saw them when they actually existed.
Indian sled dogs, such as the Eskimo dog, Malamute and greenland dogs, as well as Siberian sled dogs like the Husky, and European sheep dogs like the Belgian Sheepdog and German Shepherds, and many other wolf-type breeds, are deliberately cross-bred with wolves to make them stronger. It is a practice which is carried on to this day by Eskimos. Indians brought dogs over from Asia when they came to America 15,000 years ago, and crossed their dogs with wolves. This is a widely known fact. Golden Jackals, which are almost identical to coyotes and are basically the Asian version of the coyote, have been domesticated in Asia and have been cross-bred with dogs to produce new breeds such as the Sulimov Dog. It seems inevitable that the Indians when they arrived from Asia crossed some of their dogs with coyotes and domesticated that breed over thousands of years. I actually have 3 friends that have Coydog hybrids and keep them as pets in their houses. I have one friend who has not one but two foxes in her house. One is a domesticated Russian silver fox, the other is a tame wild red fox raised from a kit. The red fox is named Steve, and is just as much a house pet as a kitty cat. I'm sure that would anger fox hunters and make them say "This is very very dubious" just like you did. I suspect you are a coyote hunter and it would burst your bubble to think coyotes are anything but evil and in need of destruction. DigbyDalton ( talk) 01:49, 19 November 2011 (UTC)
We know the Sulimov Dog is a hybrid between a dog and a Golden Jackal. We also know from DNA studies that the latter is essentially the same as a coyote. From Sir Richardson's undisputed writings we learn that the Hare Indian dog was smaller than a coyote, had a voice which was "very much the same as" one, it did not bark, but howled like a coyote, that the sled dogs chased after them as food (as wolves do to coyotes), but could not catch them because they were too fast (like coyotes), that it rubbed its back against a man's hand in a cat-like fashion to show affection (like coyotes do), that the head was long and had a slender nose and high erect ears.....I read this and see nothing but coydog spelled out here in black and white. I don't understand what your dispute it. READ MY LIPS. The Hare Indians had coydogs. DigbyDalton ( talk) 02:40, 19 November 2011 (UTC)
I changed the coyote article to read "domesticated coyote or dog-coyote hybrid" to remove all dispute. You MUST believe it was at least a hybrid. DigbyDalton ( talk) 02:50, 19 November 2011 (UTC)
I ref'd a modern source and can put more on if you wish. DigbyDalton ( talk) 23:20, 20 November 2011 (UTC)
You have crossed over the line into the realm of edit war, at this point. One source is too old, one is not scientific enough, nothing is good enough for you, and your only reason is, you think "it's very very dubious." It's not dubious at all, but is in fact extremely believable. Dubious that Indians crossed their dogs with coyotes? Why? At this point anything I do will be a waste of time because you will just dispute it again. The evidence I have presented is overwhelming and still not enough. I didn't write the article on Hare Indian Dogs anyway, it was written by dozens of Wikipedia editors going back several years. I merely linked it to the coyote article. I am asking you to PLEEEEASE stop. You are not improving Wikipedia at this point, just trying to win an edit war. The evidence I've presented is convincing, reliable, scientific, and undisputed. Please stop DigbyDalton ( talk) 02:00, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
The sources I have cited are perfectly adequate. If you want to dispute this information, you must cite some reliable sources that demonstrate that the Indians dogs, especially the Hare Indian Dogs, DIDN'T have any coyote in them, since all the information about them, in all the reference works which mention them, from 1820 until now, say they did. You seem to be the first person on earth to ever dispute this information, so if you have evidence then please bring it forward. Otherwise, please remain silent. All sources, from 1820 to the present, that mention Indian dogs, say they derive from coyotes. The burden is on you to prove otherwise. Until now, the only evidence you have presented is your own opinion that "it's very very dubious." Says who? Who says it's dubious? You? Can we just state that traditional information is dubious and cite Innotata as the source? DigbyDalton ( talk) 04:20, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
It's an intersting theory, Dalton. I think it's original to you, though. But it could be right. Let's look into it:
Desmond Morris's respected reference, Dogs, has thousands of breeds and is my best dog breed book. It doesn't say they were domesticated coyotes or coywolves, don't get me wrong. But what it does say about them isn't inconsistant with them being part C.latrans. It's still believable to me. Are there any specimins existant? It says they were used for fur. I wonder if any museum has one of those garments.
Who wrote this, Audobon? http://www.audubonimages.org/q81-155/132____________hare_indian_dog.htm. It starts out calling it "CANIS FAMILIARIS VAR. LAGOPUS"), basically saying it's a type, variety, or breed of the familiar dog. It says that the world leading expert at the time was John Richardson, who is credited for all the information in the Audobon book about it. And it says this:
From the size of this animal it might be supposed by those who are desirous of tracing all the Dogs to some neighbouring wolf, hyena, jackal, or fox, that it had its origin either from the prairie wolf or the red fox, or a mixture of both. The fact, however, that these wolves and foxes never associate with each other in the same vicinity, and never have produced an intermediate variety, or, that we are aware of, have ever produced a hybrid in their wild state, and more especially the fact that the prairie wolf, as stated by RICHARDSON, does not exist within hundreds of miles of the region where this Dog is bred, must lead us to look to some other source for its origin. Its habits, the manner in which it carries its tail, its colour, and its bark, all differ widely from those of the prairie wolf.
Well, so it's not a mix of fox and coyote, which as suspected at the time turns out to be impossible because of the chromosomes are too different. That doesn't mean it wasn't domesticated coyote or coywolf or coydog, all of which are known to evolve.
That there were no coyotes in the area at that time doesn't disprove the theory, because it also says they had been proven to move more than 900 miles running alongside a dogslead in the snow, following their people. So their being far from the place of origin is no surprise.
The tail, color and bark are also the differences between domestic dogs and wolves, so that doesn't disprove the theory either. You'd expect the tail, ears, color, to change when you domesitate a canid. Even domesticated silver foxes bark, but wild ones don't.
But the fact that Audobon/Richardson do address the coyote theory must mean that they'd heard it or thought of it themselves just to dismiss it, which they do when they call it "C.l.familiaris var." That's their conclusion.
Richardson had seen several, but not really all that many actually. But Audobon had just one specimin from which he painted this extraordinary picture: It's striped! Ok, not as striped as a zebra or a tiger, but when's the last time you saw a striped dog? Never, that's when. Ok, some brindle dogs approach stripedness, but not really.
Now audobon was a great taxonomist so if he saw the teeth and bones and pelt and said it was a dog, we would tend to believe him. But we know he was primarily a bird specialist and so might have missed it.
Where is the specimin audobon had? If there were just a piece of DNA existing, we could prove or disprove the "Canis latrans domesticus," if you will pardon my coinage, theory. What you should do is to contact the Audobon Society or some such and see if they know where if it still exists and where. Then somehow get the proper genetic tests done and bam, just write it up and you're famous and we'll have something to cite. Don't give up! Oh, but on the other hand, your debate with Inno? Give that up. That's not what I meant. I meant don't give up trying to prove your Hare Indian Coydog theory. It's a very good one. But you can't use Wikipedia to publish original research, he's right. But you may be right about something probably more interesting. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chrisrus ( talk • contribs) 00:25, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
OK I'll work on finding more references. But I'm not publishing anything myself because this is NOT my own research. DigbyDalton ( talk) 16:54, 23 November 2011 (UTC)
I inserted the word "possibly" and explained in the edit that modern DNA studies have not been done to confirm it. But the evidence we do have is believable enough to mention the possibility of this interesting breed of domestic coydog. Please leave it with the change I made, or add clarification of your own. It would be detrimental to delete it outright because future research can be done on the topic. DigbyDalton ( talk) 23:05, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
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Hi DigbyDalton, your entry to the Van Morrison article on the 2004 release of 17 of the "revenge songs" in 2004, is not a valid one for several reasons. There were previous releases of the songs but on European bootleg labels, they have not been officially released by Bang and certainly never officially santioned by Van Morrison. Do not continue to make that entry into the article. If nothing else, it is n/a, which usually stands for "not applicable", by the way. Please see the Van Morrison talk page. Agadant ( talk) 17:50, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
Do you have documented evidence that the masters were not sold by Bang to a European concern? Please cite a third-party reference that shows it was bootlegged. By the way, bootlegged recordings are always stolen from existing recordings, and if no records were released by Bang, then where did the European record company get them? The masters must have been sold, therefore it's not a bootleg. The sound quality shows they were taken from the masters......since all that existed were masters, obviously. Your claim that Van Morrison never officially sanctioned them is wrong. By recording them for Bang, under the terms of his contract, he sanctioned them. He knew quite well he was playing them for a record company. Just a word to the wise....when musicians go into the recording studio of a record company and make recordings, under contract, they sort of know what the record company plans to do with them. The discography in the Wikipedia article is incomplete, thanks to you. DigbyDalton ( talk) 18:10, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
You may not have noticed but your addition to this article was actually redundant. William Herschel's giant telescope, AKA the 40-foot telescope, is covered down the article a ways with almost the same picture. I have integrated the material, although the picture needs work. BTW yes, Herschel did make multiple mirrors for these telescopes, they were metal, hard to make, tarnished easy, one had to be swapped out while the old one was polished, and sometimes got so screwed up they had to be chucked and replaced. Fountains of Bryn Mawr ( talk) 03:52, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
I didn't see the other illustration. I'm glad you replaced it because it was low resolution and actually was inaccurate. The 1797 Britannica illustration is a far better graphic. As for the claim that he used his 20 foot telescope for many years, and merely replaced the mirror, it can't be true. A telescope with an 18 inch mirror and 20 foot tube can't be turned into a 48 inch telescope with a 40 foot tube. You would have to replace the tube with one 40 feet long and much greater diameter, and with the great increase in weight of the tube, change all the pulleys, the building that houses it, the staircase...in short you would need a new telescope. You can't turn a Toyota into a Cadillac by changing the motor. DigbyDalton ( talk) 05:32, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
No kidding! DigbyDalton ( talk) 20:09, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
I have uploaded an updated version of your image to Commons (with credits given). It was adjust to fix exposure/lighting and is a separate file to make the description name search work better. Fountains of Bryn Mawr ( talk) 02:42, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
OK cool I'll check it out. The original is just a scan I made at home from my personal copy of the 1797 Britannica. Glad you were able to fix the contrast, etc. Good work. DigbyDalton ( talk) 02:53, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
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Looks good (I knew your first edit was correct, thanks for looking up a source to go with it.) NewsAndEventsGuy ( talk) 12:41, 7 September 2013 (UTC)
OK thanks for making sure the facts are the facts. It's all good.
I'm sure that at Vostok when the temperature is -127℉ the H2O percent is even less, but I couldn't find a source and can't speak Russian. DigbyDalton ( talk) 14:03, 7 September 2013 (UTC)
I don't know but it's below the triple point of CO2 so the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere down there freezes into dry ice. Vodka would be nice on the "rocks" DigbyDalton ( talk) 15:50, 7 September 2013 (UTC)
Actually, I just double checked. At the atmospheric partial pressure of CO2, which is .4 millibars (400 ppm), the freezing point of CO2 at that pressure is -84℃. So, there is no dry ice in Antarctica. DigbyDalton ( talk) 16:07, 7 September 2013 (UTC)
Double checked again. -84℃ is -119℉ so there might be a little at -127 DigbyDalton ( talk) 01:47, 8 September 2013 (UTC)
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The term can be used as an adjective but we can go with abscission. What you say is not remarkable might be more remarkable to you if you went to your car one autumn morning and found 2 inches of pine needles on the windshield, as I did yesterday. They don't just turn yellow as they age, they stay green for two full seasons and suddenly turn yellow and fall, just like deciduous trees. The ground is covered with needles now. Only the current year's needles stay green on the tree. DigbyDalton ( talk) 09:03, 11 October 2013 (UTC)
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Of course you have. Just as I expected. One of the best editors on Wikipedia and you want me banned so you can hide 5 feet of tide. DigbyDalton ( talk) 16:12, 15 October 2013 (UTC)
Look, the current church is the THIRD ONE ON THE SITE. The congregation was founded in 1654 AT THE ORDER OF STUYVESANT, who was the head of the Dutch Reformed Church in the entire area. Please stop showing your ignorance by reverting my edits which corrected the editing error which showed Suyvesant ordering the building of the CURRENT CHURCH, not the ORIGINAL ONE. Beyond My Ken ( talk) 03:35, 20 December 2013 (UTC)
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Did you photograph/scan this from a copy of Low's? Bms4880 ( talk) 22:26, 31 December 2013 (UTC)
Yes I did. Would you like me to scan something else? I own one of the few copies of Low's left on the planet. DigbyDalton ( talk) 22:47, 31 December 2013 (UTC)
You might want to try to remember to categorize your uploads on Commons, I just puts cats on all the maps from Low's Encyclopedia. BMK, Grumpy Realist ( talk) 02:49, 5 January 2014 (UTC)
Hey, if you found this sourced in the Barry Miles bio, then what page? GabeMc ( talk| contribs) 22:31, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
It's on page 548. DigbyDalton ( talk) 22:49, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
I never said he played on "Celebration" I own a copy of the Steve Miller album Brave New World, and Paul Ramon is only credited for My Darkest Hour on the liner notes. I don't know who said he played drums in Celebration DigbyDalton ( talk) 22:55, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
Thanks but you are not my boss and I don't work for you. Do you own Wikipedia? DigbyDalton ( talk) 23:51, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
Once again, I don't work for you. Next time you make me do extra work I'm going ask you to pay me a salary. Do you own the Paul McCartney article? DigbyDalton ( talk) 04:03, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
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I have a question. Do you think putting "own work" to the source of this image (that obviously copied from mine) is fair???-- Ali Zifan ( talk) 20:18, 21 December 2014 (UTC)
Who cares, Ali? I photoshopped a new building into a pic that you donated to Wikipedia. There will be two more building within 2 years that will be on that list, did you think your work would remain after they built new tall buildings? Your picture is not accurate anymore and should be deleted because 432 Park is finished and is the 3rd tallest building in NY by pinnacle height. DigbyDalton ( talk) 20:49, 21 December 2014 (UTC)
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Fixed. See attribution at the touched-up file:
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I edited the graphic again. After finding out the exact dimensions of 432 Park Avenue, I came to realize I made it too thin. The updated version I made a few days ago, I made the building a little thicker according to proportions, using a pixel count of the image. That image is now found in the article. I forgot the name of the file DigbyDalton ( talk) 22:53, 28 January 2015 (UTC)
OK here is the new file, correctly sized----->>:
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Hello there! I see the work you've done with the image you modified to include 432 Park Avenue. Could you possibly do something similar for 125 Greenwich Street? Let me know. Best, FoCuS contribs; talk to me! 19:33, 26 January 2016 (UTC)
Sure, when it's finished. At what stage of construction is it now? DigbyDalton ( talk) 04:30, 28 January 2016 (UTC)
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Do you know that phonograph records are made from plasticized PVC? That is the portion of the lead sentence that you placed it. Records do not appear to be soft like plasticized PVC, they are fairly sturdy. You might want to move that up a sentence or two in the paragraph and perhaps have a citation. JSR ( talk) 21:43, 1 March 2017 (UTC)
Hi, this is just to notify you that I reverted a spelling change you made in the Vitaphone article about a month ago. I failed to notice that your edit immediately preceded mine, otherwise I would have simply used "undo", presumably resulting in an automatic notification. 66.81.104.134 ( talk) 01:20, 23 March 2017 (UTC)
That is some great information you're putting on the Rocco page. Of course, it isn't what the source says. Are you by chance getting this information from the original issues? 78.26 ( spin me / revolutions) 16:22, 5 April 2017 (UTC)
I know we can't use primary sources for information on Wikipedia, so I am going to site this youtube video, which has both versions of St Louis Blues, and shows clearly the different matrix numbers on the records. https://www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&video_id=jpWoplQLeS8 DigbyDalton ( talk) 17:44, 5 April 2017 (UTC)
I have read the book you cited and the information is incorrect. Read the recently updated book referenced by Gustin which has significant detail on OHV. At least 2 other manufacturers had OHV at the same time. Kirbitz who contributed the material is more reliable in this area than the writer of the Marr book. The design was adapted from steam engines so the configuration was known to many. "David Buick's Marvelous Motor Car" ( ISBN 978-1-943995-01-1) Looks like Amazon does not have the 2016 edition so I scanned a bit of it for you. Thank you for your time. http://imgur.com/ATvrRHC
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He deleted my entire edit saying it's the Allegheny Plateau not Allegheny Mountains. So I changed it to the names of the states and reinserted it. Then he deleted the entire thing again, saying I should not abbreviated the names of the states. So I spelled out the names and reinserted it, he came back and deleted the entire thing a third time, for spite, because this time he made up bogus reasons. Never once did he discuss with me the reasons or suggest corrections, he just kept deleting my work unilaterally, trying to bulldoze his way in. In the first edit, instead of changing it to Plateau, he deleted it. The second time, he could have written the names of the states. Instead, he deleted it. The verity of my edit was never in question so you are WRONG saying it was contentious. You are also wrong saying I was the one who was edit warring because I always corrected it before reinserting it. You are also wrong what you said about the IMDB, their policy is that nobody can edit that website until they prove themselves to be authorities in the film industry or Hollywood insiders. Random readers cannot just sign up and edit, like we do here. DigbyDalton ( talk) 16:26, 9 December 2017 (UTC)
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Discuss this, don't just keep blindly reverting
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We can see from the above that I only made one revert before a 3-revert warning, and one after, while Andy Dingley gamed the system by adding his revert to the 4 made by Chaheel Riens to make a total of 5 reverts, claiming that I was the one edit warring, when they were. This is the result of an ongoing edit war against me waged by Andy Dingley, starting several months ago, where he followed me around Wikipedia changing the additions I wrote to several unrelated articled in the Encyclopedia. He must have been hitting the contributions button on my page to find out my most recent writings, to harass me and change what I had written, such as in
Hydraulic brakes and
Overhead valve engine, deleting what I had written, challenging it, making false arguments against it, always resulting in me citing references to back up what I'd written, and the text being left as I originally had written it. In one edit war, he and Chaheel Riens teamed against me, so these two are working together and gaming the system (an earlier edit war on the V8 engine page).
I know this is wrong because I have many antique cars with hand cranks for starting them, and know that almost all hand-cranked cars had 4 cylinder or fewer, or extremely rarely 6 cylinders, which were unpopular because they were very difficult to crank start by hand. No manufacturer anywhere in the world made an 8 cylinder car for sale to the public because they would be impossible to start, until Cadillac introduced the electric starter in 1912, and the first production V-8 automobile in 1914.
Here is Andy's revert.
Here's Chaheel's 4th revert:
Yeah popular means road car, because even to this day the average person doesn't have an airplane or a race car. What kind of stupid argument is that?
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Please scroll above on my talk page to where it says December 2018, for my concise and compact explanation of how I only made 2 reverts, while the tag team of Andy Dingley and Chaheel Riens made 5, and note that other than those 2, all my other edits were re-wordings and attempts to arrive at wordings that we would compromise with, but their edits were flat-out reverts to a text which contains wrong information. After my concise explanation and enumeration of the edits, I explain in more detail why V-8 engines could never be popular in automobiles anywhere in the world before the electric starter was invented by Cadillac in 1912. DigbyDalton ( talk) 1:13 am, Today (UTC+0)
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Note that Andy Dingley, who is not an administrator, is the editor who has been edit warring with me for 6 months, including falsely reporting me for 3RR when he and his tag team member reverted 5 times and I only did 2 times. See above. DigbyDalton ( talk) 14:47, 11 January 2019 (UTC)
The following is one of the comments Andy Dingley made about me, talking to Chaheel about me on the V8 engine talk page, which is pretty insulting:
The edit war was entirely on his side, my only interest throughout all of it was the accuracy of Wikipedia. Every attack he made I merely deflected, and it is hypocritical for him to be accusing me of edit warring and for him to post a note on the administrators page about a 3RR that I never made and he did. Everything he has done so far has been bad faith.
I would investigate also whether he and Chaheel are a pair of dirty socks. DigbyDalton ( talk) 14:59, 11 January 2019 (UTC)
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