Lost in translation
See here. It must lose something in the translation from Q-French! BilCat (talk) 00:59, 30 April 2022 (UTC)
AMO certification
I am not sure if your collapsing of the remarks at Talk:Aircraft Maintenance Engineer (Canada)#AMO certification might have been premature. There appears to be a stink brewing in the background over alleged failures of Transport Canada in its treatment of the AME role. See for example https://archive.org/details/wamea-presentation-march-2022 I am wondering whether this topic should be left visible until its usefulness or otherwise becomes clearer. But I am on the wrong side of the pond, whereas I believe you are nearer to the action. What do you think? — Cheers, Steelpillow (Talk) 18:56, 30 April 2022 (UTC)
- You can reopen if if you like, but all I saw there was a rant about nothing: no refs cited, no proposal to add or remove anything from the article. - Ahunt (talk) 23:20, 30 April 2022 (UTC)
The WikiEagle - May 2022
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They just keep coming
I have no clue on this one. (And no, HIPPA probably isn't a typo for "hippo"!) BilCat (talk) 06:28, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
- Ahunt (talk) 12:38, 1 May 2022 (UTC)- hahaha - I used to work for a subsidiary of TI many many years ago - JarrahTree 10:32, 12 June 2022 (UTC)
Edit review
Hi Adam, could you look at this edit? I don't know enough about the issue to know if either option is correct, as the instruments in the photo look pretty much the same on each side to my uninformed eyes! Thanks. BilCat (talk) 19:05, 4 May 2022 (UTC)
- Ah yes I saw that one go by and let it slide too. I can't tell which is correct from the layout either and couldn't find any ref for it either on the photo page, the article linked of the web in general. Normally the student will sit in the left seat on a light fixed wing, but there are are exceptions. - Ahunt (talk) 19:18, 4 May 2022 (UTC)
System76 Advert tag
I noticed you removed the Advert tag on System76 following my removal of the product lists, but that was only a small part of why I added the tag. The whole article still is clearly written by someone with ties to the company and gets pretty promotional throughout, I was just dealing with the most obvious thing that could be cut right away. I strongly disagree with reverting the tag on Pop! OS, the presence of critical reviews doesn't necessarily change the ad-like nature of much of the article per WP:PROMO.
Photonsoup (talk) 02:29, 5 May 2022 (UTC)
- In reviewing both articles there is nothing promotional or non-encyclopedic in either. If you have a case to make in that regard you need to at least detail it on the talk page as per WP:DRIVEBY, as the reasons for your tagging were not apparent in reading the articles, as neither contain promotional wording. A check of the article histories shows that both articles have had many contributors and none seem to be WP:COI editing. As far as the POP!_OS article goes I suggest you contrast it with others like Ubuntu from which it is derived, Ubuntu version history or Xubuntu as all are written in a similar manner, with encyclopedic descriptions and critical responses. - Ahunt (talk) 11:59, 5 May 2022 (UTC)
- You didn't provide any details as to what your concerns were, but I have done a re-write run though on System76. - Ahunt (talk) 12:35, 5 May 2022 (UTC)
- I'm not referring to the version list on POP!_OS, rather the fact that it's written in a very puffy style. See the second paragraph:
- "Pop!_OS provides default disk encryption, streamlined window and workspace management, keyboard shortcuts for navigation as well as built-in power management profiles. The latest releases also have packages that allow for easy setup for TensorFlow and CUDA."
- This reads like an ad copy, not an encyclopedic entry on an operating system. You're right though, I should have been better about explaining my reasons. Photonsoup (talk) 01:54, 6 May 2022 (UTC)
- It is strictly a factual description. Promotional language would be promoting the use of it, not just listing functions. Regardless, unexplained tagged accomplishes nothing and they usually get removed sooner or later. "Wikipedia is the encyclopedia anyone can edit" means that if articles need improvement then you can improve them. - Ahunt (talk) 01:58, 6 May 2022 (UTC)
Wiki-break
Hi Adam, I'm taking a mostly off wiki-break for a few days, for personal reasons. I'll probably make few edits, but I won't be going though my watchlist line by line. Feel free to aggressively patrol my talk page, if necessary, and as you are able. Thanks. BilCat (talk) 20:29, 14 May 2022 (UTC)
- No problem. Have a nice break. I'll keep an eye on your user pages. - Ahunt (talk) 20:31, 14 May 2022 (UTC)
Most-produced aircraft list revert
Hiya again Adam!
I was unsure about the seemingly off-the-cuff Boeing 737 production figure edit to the Most-produced aircraft list by user 2607:fea8:bc62:da00:e170:cafa:32c6:ca99. (Who doesn't love round numbers, right?) I've never reverted an edit before, but I was especially wondering how & what to say to the user before it got to that... Perchance on the article talk page?
Thanks a gillion!! Benjamin22b (talk) 07:18, 16 May 2022 (UTC)
- Thanks for your note here. In checking the cited ref it doesn't seem to give the current production total, at least that I can find there. Perhaps the ref page used to at one time? In cases like this my approach is usually to revert it and say something like "no ref cited for change in production number, to change this you must cite a ref, please see [[WP:PROVEIT]]". You could of course start a talk page discussion by just noting the edit and asking for a ref. The biggest factor with talk page discussions of that nature is that you have to have your own next step figured out in the event that you get no response from anyone there. - Ahunt (talk) 12:00, 16 May 2022 (UTC)
- Merci beaucoup Adam - I elected to revert (first time ever!) and added your suggested text. Had it been a less straightforward/more questionable revert, I would have added a "depressed poet eulogy" on the talk page first. I appreciate all of your unending help; it's a godsend! Benjamin22b (talk) 08:09, 23 May 2022 (UTC)
Lynx Air
Hello! To your query/challenge on the Lynx Air Management section, it's specifically the web-archived version of the page dating to the November 2021 announcement that includes it (though in the much more fruitful/marketing prose that has now been changed), rather than the "live" one that is simply the airline's current web homepage that's open for business. It's just hidden underneath the "+" symbols or (clicking on their names) to expand the text, which turn into "-" symbols to return them as such.
For example, Merren McArthur's passage reads as follows: "A role model in the aviation industry, Merren has spent more than a decade leading successful airlines. Most recently, she was CEO of Tigerair Australia, an ultra-low-cost carrier, and is the former CEO of Virgin Australia Regional Airlines and founding CEO of Virgin Australia Cargo. Before she discovered her passion for aviation, Merren held several prominent executive roles, including Executive Partner at one of Australia’s preeminent law firms, Deputy State Solicitor of Western Australia and Chief Advisor for Rio Tinto Iron Ore." which should be enough to cite that she has previous experience at the noted airlines in question.
I hope this has been of assistance and I appreciate your correspondence. ChainChomp2 (talk) 01:14, 20 May 2022 (UTC)
- Thanks for your note, we just needed the refs added, so thanks for doing that, explaining where to find them and also cleaning up the marketing language in that section of the article. - Ahunt (talk) 02:22, 20 May 2022 (UTC)
userbox creation request
Hi. Can you create one that says something along the lines of "this user has low vision due to macular dystrophy." No colored ribbon is preferred. I've been called out twice today for not reading enough details on multiple complicated template pages. Perhaps they wouldn't be so rude if they could see there's a reason for it. Thank you. Kire1975 (talk) 04:32, 27 May 2022 (UTC)
- Thanks for your note. Sure, no problem. Here is my first try at it. I hope I got the links right and an appropriate image. macular dystrophy is a disambiguation page, so I was guessing the right link is Macular corneal dystrophy. Let me know what changes you would like! - Ahunt (talk) 12:22, 27 May 2022 (UTC)
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A barnstar for you!
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Thanks for your many contributions. - From a fellow GNU/Linux user. :-) Beestalman (talk) 12:57, 28 May 2022 (UTC) |
- Thank you for that, glad you think my contributions have been of value! - Ahunt (talk) 13:04, 28 May 2022 (UTC)
Belated welcome back
Welcome back! Did y'all get a snow storm or something? BilCat (talk) 17:26, 29 May 2022 (UTC)
- Thanks. No snow, just 190 km/h winds that took out our power and internet for five days. Some parts of Ottawa are still without power nine days later. I have been trying to catch up, as well as rebuild a fence that didn't survive. - Ahunt (talk) 17:48, 29 May 2022 (UTC)
- I actually don't have a cellphone, although my fiancee does. Hers kept working throughout, as did my landline phone, but keeping her phone charged was a challenge! Otherwise all we had was cold water. We did have a camp stove, canned food and a battery-powered radio from the 1980s to listen to what was going on on the news. We did get to read some books in the daytime, although night was strictly candlelight. - Ahunt (talk) 18:08, 29 May 2022 (UTC)
Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II
Why are you so quick to edit things he reverts them before you are even done writing them in. You claim to have sources but doesn't cite them in the text properly or provide them. Obviouisly doesn't read the sources provided because he is adding unconfirmed statements and opinions without citing them. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.58.103.4 (talk)
- Your edits and tagging on this page have now been reverted by four different editors. If you have a problem with this article please describe your issues on the article talk page Talk:Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II where other editors can participate in the discussion. - Ahunt (talk) 13:20, 1 June 2022 (UTC)
What would be considered a reliable news source
Please clarify what you mean by "often critical of governments of the day". And just to be clear a news organization getting most of its funds from the government and working on behalf of the government means that it is not independent
Also here are some examples of bias from CBC news:
- https://www.canadaland.com/canada-does-not-want-to-see-itself-this-way/
- https://nationalpost.com/opinion/jesse-kline-the-case-for-breaking-up-the-cbc
- https://nationalpost.com/opinion/raymond-j-de-souza-cbc-bias-on-full-display-in-coverage-of-freedom-convoy-coastal-gaslink-protests
- https://nationalpost.com/opinion/tara-henley-why-i-quit-the-cbc — Preceding unsigned comment added by Reasonable Doubt 89 (talk • contribs) 13:21, 1 June 2022 (UTC)
- My talk page is not the right place to bring up these issues. Please take this to the article talk page where other editors can participate in the discussion. - Ahunt (talk) 13:24, 1 June 2022 (UTC)
Typos
See my edit here. Thanks. BilCat (talk) 19:11, 1 June 2022 (UTC)
- Quite right! It is a letter of the alphabet and not a zero. It means "opposed" cylinder configuration. - Ahunt (talk) 19:23, 1 June 2022 (UTC)
The WikiEagle - June 2022
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Draft:Aero Dynamics Sparrow Hawk
Hi Adam, can you look at Draft:Aero Dynamics Sparrow Hawk and see what it needs to go live? I know you worked on ultralights and kit planes for a while, so you probably have a better idea what it needs than most of us. Thanks. BilCat (talk) 02:56, 5 June 2022 (UTC)
- It is actually not too bad as it is, needs some minor changes only. I can make those changes and move it to mainspace if you think it is otherwise ready. - Ahunt (talk) 12:21, 5 June 2022 (UTC)
- Do you think it needs a couple of "significant" sources? That seems to be what the AFDers are focusing on of late. Other than that, it looks good to me too. It's been languishing since I moved it to draftspace in Oct 2020, so do what you can as you can. Once you're done, go ahead and move it. Thanks! BilCat (talk) 18:07, 5 June 2022 (UTC)
Done, now at Aero Dynamics Sparrow Hawk. - Ahunt (talk) 18:27, 5 June 2022 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
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Thanks for helping to prepare and bring Aero Dynamics Sparrow Hawk into the mainspace! — Urban Versis 32KB ⚡ (talk | contribs) 02:04, 6 June 2022 (UTC) |
- Thank you! I am glad that you thought my contributions were useful. The article only needed a bit of tuning to be ready for mainspace, so I finished the work up and moved it. Feel free to expand it further! - Ahunt (talk) 02:08, 6 June 2022 (UTC)
Userbox request
Hello, I would like a userbox for people that have alexithymia as I cannot find one and it would be nice to have one to show that we can't identify our feelings at all. Thanks, Kaue (They/Them) (talk) 14:59, 7 June 2022 (UTC)
- Thanks for your request. Here is my first try at it. Please do let me know if you would like changes made!
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- Thanks I think it's perfect for me this is being added right now to my user page Kaue (They/Them) (talk) 00:31, 8 June 2022 (UTC)
I could think of you and a few others
- https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/conversations/will-oxley-sailing-sydney-to-hobart-celestial-navigation-rpt/13890070 upside down in Bass strait... JarrahTree 10:22, 12 June 2022 (UTC)
- That is a bit too much excitement. - Ahunt (talk) 11:39, 12 June 2022 (UTC)
- but, but - circumnavigation in the wrong direction with people who have never sailed before for almost twelve months (well just short) - I mean that's ailing with sailing, yes? - worth listening - methinks he has the type of attitude towards difficulties that one should have in dealing with fellow internees here... JarrahTree 12:05, 12 June 2022 (UTC)
- That is a bit too much excitement. - Ahunt (talk) 11:39, 12 June 2022 (UTC)
- Lots of adversity! - Ahunt (talk) 12:10, 12 June 2022 (UTC)
- but, but, sense of humour and level headedness required... JarrahTree 12:32, 12 June 2022 (UTC)
- Lots of adversity! - Ahunt (talk) 12:10, 12 June 2022 (UTC)
- well said sir, so well put...JarrahTree 13:21, 12 June 2022 (UTC)
Advice
Hi Adam, should I bother with a merge discussion for Super Scooper, or just be bold and redirect it? Thanks BilCat (talk) 04:11, 13 June 2022 (UTC)
- I would say that there is not much to debate. We don't have articles on nicknames, they redirect to the main topic! - Ahunt (talk) 11:23, 13 June 2022 (UTC)
I guess I'm getting old
Do you think part of the problem with some editors is that they are too young to know what a print encyclopedia is, yet alone ever actually used one? Thus they have no real frame of reference for what an encyclopedia is supposed to be? BilCat (talk) 00:06, 16 June 2022 (UTC)
- That is a good theory. I am getting old, too. Many seem to think it is a blog! Of course it is even more challenging in a era of "alternative facts". I guess that just makes our job more important! - Ahunt (talk) 01:22, 16 June 2022 (UTC)
- Yeah, many think it's communal blog. I was trying to think of the word "blog", but couldn't. I'm still amazed at how many people edit Wikipedia articles who obviously haven't even bothered to read the paragraph or section they're editing, much less the whole article. Sometimes it's clear they haven't even read the sentence! BilCat (talk) 02:00, 16 June 2022 (UTC)
- The IP? The only rotary engine they know of is probably the Wankel engine from all those Mazdas. But, of course, instead of actually reading the article to learn why this type is also called a "rotary", they change it "radial"! Astonishing. Is there a psychological term for that? BilCat (talk) 21:19, 16 June 2022 (UTC)
- A river in Egypt?. - Ahunt (talk) 21:44, 16 June 2022 (UTC)
Power-off accuracy approach
Are you familiar with power-off accuracy approach? I think it should be either deleted or merged with Landing (seeing we don’t have a page dedicated to the approach.) Any thoughts? Dolphin (t) 05:27, 18 June 2022 (UTC)
- I've done many of those! I agree that the article is far too WP:NOTMANUAL and should probably be shortened to a single para and then merged into Landing. - Ahunt (talk) 12:08, 18 June 2022 (UTC)
Dubious claim?
I'm out of my depth on this one, but it is completely unsourced: See here. It was added by a Ukrainian IP, so presumably the person mentioned is a Russian. ;) BilCat (talk) 20:58, 18 June 2022 (UTC)
- A quick G-search of "Dovgalyuk's formula" turned up nothing on the initial search page (30 items). Perhaps it has another, more comme name. BilCat (talk) 21:34, 18 June 2022 (UTC)
- I have never heard of it and a series of web searches on several different search engines turned up absolutely nothing at all. Furthermore the formula looks oddly worthless, too, so "spurious" may be the right term. - 23:09, 18 June 2022 (UTC)
- I've learned that the best way to handle a new unsourced addition, especially by an IP, is to simply remove it. A lot of users get upset at me for it, but it works. Sometimes a regular editor will restore them with a source, but berate me for removing it so quickly. But at least it got sourced properly, which is my goal. For that, a little blowback is worth it. Usually it's for something I have absolutely no personal knowledge of, and usually no idea where to find it. And I sometimes do follow up with a note to someone whom I think may know, as I've done with you several times for aviation or Canadian stuff. BilCat (talk) 01:08, 19 June 2022 (UTC)