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Superheater
Hi Andy, Please stop undoing the edits on Superheater and take the time to read the text. Unsaturated steam and wet steam are the same thing. When I first read the article, it was confusing, which is why I took the time to edit it. The revised text should be clearer to everyone. Jonathan 123987 talk 00:34, 26 January 2014
St George's Canzona
Andy - many thanks for looking at the page I created. I have added a couple of citations in the article. Do you think that is enough? There aren't articles about the group or the person that I can cite easily and that are available online. John Grubb 54 (talk) 15:44, 14 April 2016 (UTC)
Pics
Hi Andy - problems uploading this image file as the server did not update very quickly.
[1], I managed to make a fine mess of this one - the current image should be the cropped version. Do you have the access rights to fix it? CheersRstory (talk) 15:25, 15 April 2016 (UTC)
- I think it's OK already, with your last revert. You have to watch the list of versions, as the main image itself gets cached all over the place and can take an hour or two to update. Andy Dingley (talk) 16:46, 15 April 2016 (UTC)
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- Thanks for looking, I spotted another gaff on this one
- [2] where the file name should be '...No.3026...' to match the engine number. How do I fix than one!Rstory (talk) 18:11, 15 April 2016 (UTC)
- There's a Move tab at Commons, if you have the qualifying number of edits. It's now at File:LNWR engine No.3026, First compound 4-2-2-0 tank.jpg Andy Dingley (talk) 18:39, 15 April 2016 (UTC)
Unhelpful
Hey, i know you don't like me, but this was unhelpful to that editor. Instead of pointing them to where they could get what they wanted, you just "stirred the pot." You feel how you feel about me, but please don't let that get in the way of actually helping people who need it. Jytdog (talk) 17:31, 18 April 2016 (UTC)
- Unhelpful? Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Medicine#Purest_advertisement_you_will_find_in_Wikipedia is the location where you had been gloating over your CSD of this article (the word is linked to make it absolutely clear). But you'd prefer to keep the creating editor in the dark over this deletion? Your WP:OWN problems are far in excess of any editor I've seen previously, this was just the latest. This article needed work, not deletion. Andy Dingley (talk) 17:51, 18 April 2016 (UTC)
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- You came within an inch of getting an i-ban at ANI. Now you wrote this, after the CU had been endorsed here. That is two HOUNDING events today. The first of which actually confused a new user. Do it once more, I go back to ANI, and I will get you blocked and I will get an I-ban against you. I am not chasing you around Wikipedia. Enough. Jytdog (talk) 20:14, 18 April 2016 (UTC)
- You have a big mouth, Jytdog, and it's very good at intimidating new users - a tactic you use a lot. I've seen you file three fatuous SPIs with no credibility, just to harass other editors. If you want to rant about "HOUNDING", then take it to ANI and see just how far you get. Andy Dingley (talk) 21:08, 18 April 2016 (UTC)
- You came within an inch of getting an i-ban at ANI. Now you wrote this, after the CU had been endorsed here. That is two HOUNDING events today. The first of which actually confused a new user. Do it once more, I go back to ANI, and I will get you blocked and I will get an I-ban against you. I am not chasing you around Wikipedia. Enough. Jytdog (talk) 20:14, 18 April 2016 (UTC)
Wow
More biscuittin socks. many, many more. WP:Sockpuppet investigations/Henry Mazzer/Archive Jytdog (talk) 15:51, 23 April 2016 (UTC)
- I will say this again: "Any evidence that these were connected to Biscuittin, or were you just trawling again?"
- These are socks, they probably have the same sockmaster (although there are simply so many that a team could be more likely). Yet why would we claim that they are Biscuittin?, someone who had previously been a constructive editor; until they were recently tarred and feathered for "outing" someone by threatening to repost information which that person had already put on their own userpage? I still see no reason to accuse Biscuittin over this. I would also note, again, that this is the third fatuous and totally without merit SPI which you have filed. Andy Dingley (talk) 18:51, 23 April 2016 (UTC)
Category:Bristol Avon catchment
Hi Andy, thanks for raising that. At the moment I'm going from List of rivers of England, but am open to improving on that. BTW you may be interested in a discussion questioning these catchment/basin categories at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Rivers. --Bermicourt (talk) 07:31, 24 April 2016 (UTC)
Talk pages
I notice that you keep reverting my edits to a talk page, with no attempt to discuss your rationale for re-adding the deleted entries, which are clearly not pertinent to the talk page in question, so I've reverted your edits ~dom Kaos~ (talk) 13:08, 24 April 2016 (UTC)
- WP:TPO is very clear on this. We might hat off-topic threads, but we are very reluctant to delete anything, unless it's outright NPA territory. These, obviously, are not. It's a several-years-stale discussion of the subject, not the article. Very minor stuff.
- You are now at 3RR, BTW. Andy Dingley (talk) 13:13, 24 April 2016 (UTC)
Exploded gun on HMS Thunderer
"...the left 12.5-inch gun in the forward turret exploded during gunnery practice". Histories state that this was in fact a 12.5 inch gun bored to 12 inches, designated "12-inch 38-ton gun". Your thoughts ? It wouldn't make sense to have different calibre main guns. Rod. Rcbutcher (talk) 04:41, 27 April 2016 (UTC)
- Winfield & Lyon, p. 255, state that the source of Thunderer's guns being 12 inch vice 12.5 inch is from King's report on European navies, but they say 12.5, as does Parkes. Conway's, OTOH, says 12 inches. Sadly, Campbell doesn't start his series on British guns until the 1880 models. Do any manuals say that there was a 12-inch 38-ton gun?--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 05:36, 27 April 2016 (UTC)
- I just noticed that Winfield & Lyon state that the ship had four 12.5-inch guns, not just in the forward turret like everybody else. Hmmm....--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 05:38, 27 April 2016 (UTC)
- This belong on the article talk: page, not here. I'll move it over. Andy Dingley (talk) 09:27, 27 April 2016 (UTC)
- I just noticed that Winfield & Lyon state that the ship had four 12.5-inch guns, not just in the forward turret like everybody else. Hmmm....--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 05:38, 27 April 2016 (UTC)
B-Dienst
Dude, why did you undo my revision on B-Dienst, specifically putting the link back in for British Naval Cypher No. 3 ? scope_creep (talk) 17:22:38, 29 April 2016 (UTC)
- WP:REDLINK
- But what the hell, you just edit-warred over it anyway. Andy Dingley (talk) 23:28, 29 April 2016 (UTC)
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- That may be the case, but you usually it is good form to inform the editor who is improving, or created the article at the time, perhaps do some collaboration, maybe. If you look at British Naval Cypher No. 3 for instance, there is no information about it, excluding some evidence of it's use in operations, and when and by whom broke it. So I think it is bit foolish to blithely redlink an article, (particularly when WP guideline state not to redlink until you ready to create the article) assumung is going to be created about in future, without doing the investigatory work to determine if it can make well ref'd article.
- I see you've created a few articles, I'm looking for somebody to create this article, AA/Pers Z: (AA) Auswärtiges Amt (Department of State) (Pers Z) Sonderdient (Special sets) The Foreign Office cipher bureau decrypting diplomatic signals. There is a load of information on it. It's a important, heavy weight encyclopedic article, probably would take 3-6 months to complete, to accurately pull all the information together. Also, this: OKL-Stelle: The OKL/Chi cipher bureau for high command of the Luftwaffe. These both need completed to re-balance the coverage for German cryptographic efforts during World War II against Allied efforts. scope_creep (talk) 13:23:38, 02 May 2016 (UTC)
- I don't want to write an article on British Naval cyphers, I want to read it. I know nothing about them - I know plenty about German cyphers and British analysis of them, but so little about the opposite direction.
- If the No. 3 cypher was important enough in B-Dienst's efforts to be mentioned so early on, then it deserves an article, or at least the REDLINKed possibility of an article. I would like to read that article. Even if it's only a very short article, it could give some indication of how it worked (pencil and paper? Giant book? Machine?), how competent it was as a cypher compared to German efforts, and its strategic role in the war: when was it used, when was it out of use, was any compromised use of it militarily important? Just answering those would be valuable. Andy Dingley (talk) 15:14, 2 May 2016 (UTC)