Just a quick heads up: if you use anything other than the digit "1" in the "eng1 number" parameter, it will call the word "each" at the end of the line, meaning that you will get things like "One × Foomotors F-123, 300 kW (400 hp) each", since of course the software doesn't know that "1" and "One" are the same thing! -- Rlandmann ( talk) 20:41, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for the heads-up [1] on the image copyvios of Paki90 ( talk · contribs). I have started speedy deletion of the blatant violations, and am tagging all the rest of this editor's image uploads as {{ di-no source}}. Given the wildly divergent metadata on the images, unless he is using a dozen different cameras, I fear that they are all copyvios. -- Kralizec! ( talk) 00:33, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
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Spot-on. Yes, there are a few odd designations that appear in strange places - sometimes deliberately like the F-117! I've also noticed various manufacturer navboxes and have been moving them as I encounter them. As you've seen, these vary tremendously in quality and in what they include, so they will need to get looked at sometime -- Rlandmann ( talk) 20:00, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
During new pages patrole, I came across US transport aircraft. You had blanked the article, because it was meant for a template. If you would like a page you created by mistake deleted, you can use the {{ db-author}} tag to flag the page for speedy deletion. Martijn Hoekstra ( talk) 19:40, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
"(cur) (last) 09:00, 6 January 2008 MilborneOne (Talk | contribs | block) (33,998 bytes) (→Destinations - removed former destination - not normally done - how far back do you go 1923) (undo)"
No, you go as far back as can possibly be sourced. I found a source for Seattle, so of course it stays. Anyway, we could also easily solve this by defining it as a list of destinations *post-Aeroflot breakup* because Aeroflot had different definitions over the years. WhisperToMe ( talk) 21:40, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
Please provide me a source proving that the United States Air Force has Apache helicopters in its inventory. Thanks.-- THE FOUNDERS INTENT TALK 02:25, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
You are, of course, correct: there is a fundamental difference between these ADF numbers and the alpha-numeric designations used by the US, Canada, Sweden, and others (which we definitely should template). On the other hand (retitled to ADF serial prefixes or something more accurate and descriptive), they do provide a way of logically tying together ADF aircraft, I guess more in the style of footers like {{ wwi-air}} or another Canadian footer I've seen somewhere. What do you think? -- Rlandmann ( talk) 22:41, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the note about the template. I must admit that the chronological navbox is a bit superfluous on the Shorts Brothers page, since the aircraft are all there in order anyway. I based the navboxes on the existing Piper template, just to see what they would look like. I'm going to create the template(s) proper and add it/them to each Shorts aircraft article in due course (unless someone else beats me to it). I often find myself calling up the Shorts Brothers page, simply to navigate to another Shorts aircraft article, so the navbox idea is real progress. -- TraceyR ( talk) 22:16, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the apology you left on my talk page, much appreciated. Looks like you wern't the only one to miss the tag - I suppose that is one of the downsides of large articles. BTW, do you like the "improved" format I created. While you give it a scan, can you have a look at the talk page too?, Whoops, you already have! Kind regards --
Teutonic Tamer 19:38, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
BBC report quotes the AAIB report, which say "2 miles". In aviation distances are meaured in nautical miles, not statute miles! Mjroots ( talk) 11:38, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
You're one of the few editors I've encountered that is willing to remove the {{ current}} tag when the heat of the event is over. Thanks. -- Yellowdesk ( talk) 00:30, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for sorting that out. I've done the redirect, as suggested. (I also like the Hawker navbox). -- TraceyR ( talk) 13:59, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
Just happened to stumble on your list of created articles. Thought you might find this little gimmick useful:
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Hi, any chance you could check the AAIB website bulletins to find a link to the access door incident (BA 777). Sorry I can't do it myself. Mjroots ( talk) 23:57, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
Nothing in particular, just anything you know of. No need to hunt, but if you come across anything anywhere, I'm interested. BTW, as I think of it, have you ever seen Appleyard's 1917 book (booklet?) on convoy defense? My local library says they can't find it even exists. (Price cites it in A/c v Sub, I think.) Thanks again. Trekphiler ( talk) 05:15, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
Looking at {{ aerostart}}, I'm not getting anyting but a setup box, not the list of spex I show elsewhere. Go into the template at Curtiss XP-31 Swift (this one {{aircraft specifications}}) & you'll see what I mean about no fuel, & I'm not sure what to do. I'm in no way qualified to redo a template, or create 1. And I'm missing your point about alerting... Trekphiler ( talk) 19:09, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
Move this to Curtiss XP-31 Swift if you can see all the spex? Or delete it otherwise... Trekphiler ( talk) 20:07, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
Sorry for just jumping in like that - once I saw major templates getting edited, I just got a little nervous! :) -- Rlandmann ( talk) 20:49, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
I've decided to give you a MoRsE MeDaL after having witnessed weeks of tireless additions of aircraft related articles. Keep up the good work! -- MoRsE ( talk) 22:16, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
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Hi, Could you have a look at the variants section of this article please. We seem to have two variants with the same name 'DH 60GIII Moth Major'. I can't work out from the history when it was added, the production numbers are different, perhaps it is another 'Moth Major'? Congrats on your MoRsE medal BTW, well deserved. Cheers. Nimbus227 ( talk) 17:31, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
Heh - yes, I just found the Aerodrome post on the topic. Maybe we can go with Coastal Experimental and Trench-fighting Experimental for now? -- Rlandmann ( talk) 23:55, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
I appreciate your work in 'facelifting' my recently initiated 611 Squadron article. If you've time, would you like to improve the presentation of the new '616 Squadron RAF' article. I'm not at all adept at using the Wiki-type box layouts etc, and would welcome your experienced input!
I regard any inputs from you, on the various Wiki articles I access and contribute to, as always constructive and authoritative.
Regards
(hope I've used the tildes correctly - have been 'jumped on' about this by other wiki fanatics! (PS - got it right the second time!)
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Thanks for your expert help re 616 Sqn! Regards Ringwayobserver ( talk) 22:48, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
The F.14 on the list is indeed the Fokker USA aircraft you've written up; if you move the article to Fokker F.14, that will leave Fokker F.XIV as a redirect for now until we write up the (completely unrelated) Fokker Netherlands F.XIV (see here), which will be a hady and obvious way to disambiguate them, since the Dutch aircraft was probably only ever designated with roman numerals. -- Rlandmann ( talk) 19:28, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
Looking at the edit summary for Aviation in World War I, I'm seeing what looks like vandalism under your banner. I know your username well enough to doubt it, but I do wonder how it got there & how you seem to be responsible... (BTW, it's happened to me, too.) Trekphiler ( talk) 00:20, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
I don't think it's necessary to go through the whole article adding countries to the names major cities. There's a general guideline on this somewhere, probably WP:MOS#PN. LeadSongDog ( talk • contribs) 15:40, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
I'm wondering why you reverted the article. Looking at the differences there is stuff that should have ben deleted, but also stuff that should have been kept - ref BBC3 and BBC6 for example - they are reliable sources and are relevant to the article. Mjroots ( talk) 09:58, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
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Why remove the flagicons from ZOOM Airlines? Are we going to change ALL destination lists (Delta Airlines, etc?). It doesn't hurt, and many different pages of diverse categories have them. I say, if it adds some colour and, more importantly, clarifies information, then they are fine.-- Rob NS 17:30, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
Just realised we must have created articles at the same time!! Sorry about that I did all the usual searches then created the new article. All help appreciated (particularly as I had the fatality figures wrong from the earlier CAA Report!!), a neglected subject which we have put right. Thanks. MilborneOne ( talk) 23:44, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
That is what Frank Huddle (U.S. consul general who was involved in the crash) said in an interview for the Mayday about it ("Ocean Landing" a.k.a. "African Hijack" is the episode, AND Huddle said this in the beginning as the passengers board in Addis Ababa). Was he not articulating his point properly? Maybe - But as he is a government official I didn't see how he could be incorrect. Maybe I should look into the matter. To make room for this I added "Huddle said" in case he made an error. WhisperToMe ( talk) 21:55, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
I watched the episode (from the UK airing of the show) on my computer to see what he said. This is what he said: "My wife Pom and myself decided to take a trip to Africa and go on a safari. I wanted a daytime flight, because it was safer. So I picked Ethiopian Airlines, which had a good reputation. It was one of the two carriers in all of Africa that was FAA-certified." (somewhere around four minutes into the program) WhisperToMe ( talk) 22:17, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
That may be what he is referring to. Maybe we could place the specific, sourced fact AFTER Huddle mentioning the "FAA certification" so the readers can see if this is what he is referring to. I may see if I can contact Huddle and ask him what he meant and see if he will answer :) WhisperToMe ( talk) 22:37, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
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Sure, you're right in stating that they were modifications, but the resulting aircraft is essentially the same. Since the KDC-10 probably doesn't need its own article they should just be listed imho. - Dammit ( talk) 16:45, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
Thanks so much for finding and adding those refs I tagged on the military 172 users! I have been getting really sticky on refs lately and bugging people for them. If you haven't seen it I posted a rationale at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Aircraft#The_Importance_of_References. Thanks again for adding them! - Ahunt ( talk) 22:29, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the kind note - glad that you find it more help than hindrance! Incidentally my tagging wasn't aimed at you, but an IP address 202.169.204.177 who was adding military names without refs! - Ahunt ( talk) 22:37, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
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I noticed that you removed the "question marks" from the article [2] - In fact those are characters of the Ge'ez alphabet used in Amharic. I asked on a forum and got the Amharic there.
If you want to check the validity, talk to the members of the Amharic Wikipedia - I already requested an Amharic translation of the article there - am:Wikipedia:Translation_requests WhisperToMe ( talk) 21:59, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
They are used to show how the name is written in non-English languages. This is seen a lot in Japanese, Chinese, and Korean articles, for instance. WhisperToMe ( talk) 22:15, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
You're absolutely correct: the permission given by the photographer is insufficient, since he only seems to indicate that it's OK for Wikipedia to use the image. As it stands, it's a non-free image and will need to be deleted.
There are two directions you can take here:
1. Contact the photographer via airliners.net and explain the problem and that in order for us to continue to use the image, he needs to agree to release the photo under a suitable licence (or release it into the public domain). You can find a boilerplate declaration of consent here. If you get a response in the affirmative, forward his email and your original request to "permissions-en AT wikimedia DOT org", making sure that URLs for both the Wikipedia file and the airliners.net are included. Someone from OTRS will follow it up.
2. Contact the photographer via airliners.net and ask him to create an account here or at Commons and upload the photo himself.
When requesting photos, I usually use option 2 (including links to the account creation and upload pages). Either way, it's important that the photographer understands the implications of the process: that anyone will be able to reuse the photo for any purpose, including for-profit purposes.
FWIW, I've had a really positive experience approaching airliners.net people (and private website owners) and asking them to upload their photos. Most people are happy to help. -- Rlandmann ( talk) 22:08, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for messages. Still couldn't find this without your link. Now composing edit stuff offline in text file, then paste selections to edit box, but keyboard shortcuts don't work, eg Alt 124, must chant "wikipedia mouse". Is search & replace possible ? PeterWD ( talk) 14:02, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the Marksman stuff, but that's the nonsense that I've been trying to fight against for months. Did you see my narrative at http://www.abheston.btinternet.co.uk/photos4.htm I know we can't use it as a reference, but IMHO it's a thousand times better than all the published stuff. Busy now with list of Profiles, but I'll get back soon. PeterWD ( talk) 01:22, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for msg, done 2 small amendments to Marksman, will study other stuff, need to check specs etc. PeterWD ( talk) 00:33, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
Very sorry MilborneOne - that was indeed another one of my typos. I've deleted the redirect. -- Rlandmann ( talk) 23:04, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
No, no - it's all good. MoS, GTL, WP:AIR, and Aerostart all agree: See also, References, External links. I've left a detailed response on the Vampire talk page. I couldn't readily spot any such re-arrangements made by Fnlayson, so if you're aware of any, maybe you could refer him to those documents? -- Rlandmann ( talk) 20:41, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
I've just created an article on the Piel Emeraude and realised that you'd created one on its UK licence-built version, the Fairtravel Linnet. Any objections if I merge it in? -- Rlandmann ( talk) 00:47, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
Please explain "do not make any sense" about the aviation cats. I put about 6 hours of work total into it, so I'd sort of like to know. :) -- Woohookitty Woohoo! 12:41, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
Nothing was taken any further; at the moment, aerospecs enjoys a status of something like an "unofficial alternative". As you're aware, of course, most new articles use it, and a rough head-count suggests to me that it now appears on something like 20% of aircraft articles.
I fear that the road to making it the "official" template would be a rocky one, mainly because using it to replace aircraft specifications in many articles would mean dropping a lot of detail in many articles. I actually see this as beneficial, since I (obviously!) believe that anything that's worth putting in a general specifications section is already in aerospecs, but some people seem to think that an article is enhanced by the number of specifications they can provide, and others seem to believe that removing data of any kind is somehow anathema.
I've been thinking that a good intermediate goal would be moving from "unofficial alternative" to "official alternative", which I guess would mean listing it as an alternative in the page content guidelines, and perhaps calling a moratorium on people replacing either template with the other one in articles that already contain. I know that, for example, one particular long-standing editor here has actually made a personal policy of changing articles using aerospecs to the older template.
To be honest, however, my attention is still too taken up with the aftermath of the page reordering and templating, and I don't feel that's a cause I want to take up right now. Maybe in another few hundred articles' time! -- Rlandmann ( talk) 09:26, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
Marksman Thanks, I missed the Specs section, so went ahead with Aircraft specifications template, and at least it works now. I see now the purpose of own sandbox, hindsight. PeterWD ( talk) 14:23, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
Based on the discussion I've come up with an temporary page at Talk:List of airports in the United Kingdom/Regions to see how it would look. Can you take a look. I remembered your comment about it being hard for people to find them by regions and was going to try one listed another way but the combination Metropolitan county and Shire county seems confusing. Perhaps it would work or would "Ceremonial county" work? CambridgeBayWeather Have a gorilla 00:56, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
Just a couple of thoughts since I've seen you wade in: these manufacturers are tricky! Up until the mid 1930s, they all follow generally predicable patterns (nonsense example here): AB.14 followed by AB.15. Seaplanes and flying boats (Hydroplanes in French) were usually prefixed "H", so the next in our sequence might have been the HAB.16 followed by the AB.17.
In the mid 30s, they changed to using an extra digit at the end to signify a variant, so now, the next in our sequence might be the AB.180 - under the US or German systems, this would have been the AB.18A and the French AB.181 would have been the AB.18B. I'm not exactly sure what prompted this change, but all French manufacturers did this around the same time, and it co-incides chronologically with the French government busily nationalising the aircraft industry, so I feel sure these events are related.
We therefore normally shouldn't be making separate articles (or template entries) for the AB.192 and AB.195 any more than we would usually treat the "F-19C" and "F-19F" separately - they're variants of the same plane. What did they do when they reached the 11th variant and ran out of digits? Added an extra separator: eg Potez 63.11 (sometimes written 63-11). The base model was sometimes written AB.19, or sometimes AB.190 - this seems to have varied between manufacturers. Note too, that the AB.200 and AB.230 may have been substantially the same aircraft, separated for whatever reason the manufacturer chose.
The trick when working with these manufacturers is determining when the changeover occurred; but once you see three-digit numbers appearing, you know they were on to the "new" system.
And, of course, there were always exceptions.
This is all really counter-intuitive for English-speaking aviation enthusiasts used to the US and German systems, hence the big mess that our French aircraft coverage is currently in! We desperately need to rationalise all this one day... but it will be a big job. It's added to by the fact that the "base model" may be virtually unknown in English publications and often probably only existed as a single prototype anyway, therefore eclipsed by the production models.
Finally, note that Bloch should probably be covered by the Dassault navbox; this was effectively the same company pre- and post-war, and Dassault directly continued the Bloch numbering.
....which of course, is why I'd left these guys on the back burner! :) -- Rlandmann ( talk) 22:26, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
Looks OK to me - can you point me to an example of brokenness? -- Rlandmann ( talk) 22:44, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
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Sorry to revert your last edit but I had to remove senseless edits of previous user. He removes structured information making article senseless. He also removes information entered according to MOS style. Regards, Piotr Mikołajski ( talk) 20:10, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
Milb1, do you have a good source with a list of T-6 Texan variants? I just noticed there's not a list in the article, with all the variant info being in the "Development" section. SInce you always seem to be improving to my "attempts" to creats such lists (not a bad thing!), I thought I'd see if you want a crack at this one first. :) Btw, thanks for improving the Tu-142 list - it was very late when I stopped last night, but I hope to do some more on the whole page tonight. - BillCJ ( talk) 01:21, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I have specs for the Cherub from an old Shuttleworth book, I can put them in if you like (unless you have them and were going to do it later). Cheers Nimbus227 ( talk) 20:35, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
OK. I was not aware of it. I will self-revert. Otolemur crassicaudatus ( talk) 22:10, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
I appreciate the reversion of my mistake. I initially misunderstood what "project" referred to in the tag, later on I realized the real meaning but did not have time to undo my mistake. Regards, DPdH ( talk) 07:16, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
I wasn't sure whether that was the official opening or just a formal opening. Thanks for the clarification. Regards, NcSchu( Talk) 14:36, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
Just a couple of (hopefully!) helpful hints to flesh out some of the barer specifications sections:
Cheers! -- Rlandmann ( talk) 22:01, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
It's fine now and was fixed with this edit. I saw the same problem at Emirates and left a question at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 132#Template:Infobox Airline and missed Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Barnstars format which was about the same problem. I was going to run through all the airline articles with AWB but saw Wikipedia:Bot requests#Lots of images now appearing in incorrect size so I figured it was in hand. I did remember to fix the infobox and the documentation. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather Have a gorilla 20:19, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
Weather was a contributory, not the main, cause for the crash. The mystery, still unsolved, is why the aircraft overshot the destination by some 80 km. Zawoja was not anywhere near, and well to the south of, the intended flight path.
There are some sources, in Polish only AFAIK, which discuss the possible causes (and don't come to any conclusion). I'll expand the article later, and change the Type to Unknown (or similar).
Thanks for adding the infobox all the same.--
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You removed a similar event from the BA038 article saying it was a Co-Pilot error. Do you have a non-PDF source for that so I can have a read please? Mjroots ( talk) 14:04, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
Milb1, thanks for starting the clean-up on the Eclipse 500 page. I fully intended to get to it myself tonight, but do appreciate the second pair of eyes looking it over. - BillCJ ( talk) 23:07, 26 March 2008 (UTC)