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blast from the past
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i was reading Fairchild Channel F, and found a difficult-to-believe claim. digging in some dusty historical records, i found this edit, from some 11 years ago or so.
mr. noyce have left fairchild and founded intel in 1968, and it's hard to believe that he actually worked in fairchild on the Fairchild F8, which came into being in 1974-1975, some 6 or so years later. naturally, this claim is unsourced. i wouldn't be bothering you with this ancient history, except that the article still contains the claim "Notably, Robert Noyce had worked on the F8 design team before he left Fairchild to start his own company, Intel." i do not believe this claim to be true, but since my digging shows you as the originator, i thought i'll ask you about it. peace - קיפודנחש (aka kipod) (talk) 23:23, 4 January 2014 (UTC)
- after no response, and since i saw you active, i removed this claim. feel free to add it back if it you can find a source. peace - קיפודנחש (aka kipod) (talk) 14:20, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
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Textron problems
Hi Maury, the Textron article has had some major problems with COI editors over the past few y ears. As a result, the entire History section has been removed. You wrote the original article nearly 10 years ago. Do you by any chance know what sources you used? Did you use a book, or some websites perhaps? It's OK if you don't remember! I was considering re-adding your otriginal text on the history back to the article, but I need to source it first. Thanks. - BilCat (talk) 14:00, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
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Maury, I wanted to let you know that Orlady has just posted to this review, and noted a few more things you need to do to get this nomination ready for approval. I hope you can stop by soon. Thanks! BlueMoonset (talk) 16:35, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
- Maury, one more issue remains. Please stop by soon. Many thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 15:41, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
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Last call for Template:Did you know nominations/Boeing RC-1
Maury, as far as I can tell, Orlady's asked for one more (presumably small) thing from you, but we need action from you, or at least a request for more time. Please stop by soon.
Also, as long as I'm here, I should probably point out that the following nominations of yours need quid pro quo reviews before they can progress:
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The reminders for these were posted on January 25; we'll need to hear something from you on both by February 1. Many thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 23:58, 27 January 2014 (UTC)
Conversion tools
If a file format such as jpg or gif needs to be converted into a different format such as Scalable Vector Graphics or "SVG" format, the easiest means might be to find a free online converter. My old MAC software does not allow for me to make that conversion so I often look for something that is either freeware or shareware that can do the job. FWiW Bzuk (talk) 14:50, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
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Just FYI, in the event you're not watching it. I AFDed this in case you want to weight in since you declined PROD. StarM 03:49, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
OK, now it makes sense :-) I was wandering what's going on when I saw your user page. What's with the "It is" at the end of the third paragraph? Was that an accident or is it another seed that will blossom soon? — HHHIPPO 21:00, 6 March 2014 (UTC)
- It's gone already [1] — HHHIPPO 22:23, 6 March 2014 (UTC)
- Not really, I'm afraid. I have some experience with particle accelerators, and I'm currently teaching electronics, but for RF and microwave technology I mostly rely on proper experts. I usually do random gnoming all over physics here. So I can certainly have a look, but I'm not really an expert. — HHHIPPO 22:45, 6 March 2014 (UTC)
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It links to Wikipedia:Citation needed. I am not sure what is not clear? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 05:14, 8 March 2014 (UTC)
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A-12 OXCART Codename
G'Day Maury, Any chance of weighing in on the new proposal I have on the A-12 talk page ? Cheers ☭ irongron ☭ (talk) 05:30, 31 March 2014 (UTC)
XF-92
I've dug into this and checked NACA sources, and I believe Hallion was essentially correct, although my original edit on this should have been more nuanced. See the last section I wrote in XF-92 talk page. When von Karman interviewed Lippish in May, he was already aware of theory and supersonic wind tunnel experiments (including his own) on sweepback. Von Karman's report to Hap Arnold cites work by Jones and himself and contains the recommendation to build a flying prototype of a supersonic sweepback-wing aircraft. I believe the article should make it clear that Lippisch did the first work on Delta wing and he was consulted (Jenkins and Landis' book says Convair met with him in 1948). But Lippisch's work was not how the Air Force discovered the idea, it was a confirmation of theory and experiments underway in the months prior to the war's end. DonPMitchell (talk) 17:35, 1 April 2014 (UTC)
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Pitch-up
Hi Maury,
Thank you for taking an interest in our article Pitch-up. It appears that you didn’t add an in-line citation to indicate the source of any of your new text - diff. (The three citations of Clancy's Aerodynamics were already there before your edit.) Some of your new text is highly doubtful – for example: In some circumstances, the aircraft can actually tumble end over end, sometimes at supersonic speeds, and the recovery may be difficult or impossible. Sometimes an intentional rapid pitch-up of the nose by the pilot, such as in a high-speed hairpin turn in a fighter jet, will cause the aircraft to become uncontrollable and it may begin to tumble. Extraordinary claims like these definitely need to be comprehensively sourced because they will be challenged promptly.
The style of your new text appeared to conversational, rather like the style I would expect in a popular flying magazine or a text book for young students. Remember that Wikipedia is an encyclopedia and it is important that it is written in an encyclopedic style.
I have deleted your edit but I am happy to discuss the details further if you wish. I am an aeronautical engineer so I can talk the language, if you wish. Best regards, Dolphin (t) 10:01, 9 April 2014 (UTC)
- Thanks for your reply on my Talk page. I now see the problem - Wikipedia's means of determining diffs is rudimentary and sometimes shows old text as new text. My apologies for getting it wrong and reverting your edit.
- In your latest edits you have written If the wing is positioned so its CoP lies near CoG for the aircraft, in level flight the wing will lift the aircraft straight up. You appear to be under the impression that the center of pressure is located at a fixed point on the aircraft. That is true for a symmetrical airfoil but not for a cambered airfoil. On a cambered wing, the center of pressure can be as far forward as 25% of the chord, but it can move a great distance aft of that point. At small lift coefficient (eg high speed) the CoP usually lies behind the wing where it causes a significant nose-down pitching moment but only a small lift coefficient. For that reason, the center of pressure is rarely used in rigorous explanations of how wings operate. Instead, the aerodynamic center is used. In any work related to the design of a wing, or analysis of the longitudinal stability of the aircraft, aerodynamic center is used instead of center of pressure. The movement of CoP of a cambered wing is a function of the angle of attack (or lift coefficient) and Mach No.
- I will take a close look at the article in coming days and challenge any text that is unsourced and/or technically unsound. Dolphin (t) 13:43, 10 April 2014 (UTC)
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You don't think an AUG and a Tavor have an identical profile when the AUG's foregrip is folded? Whatever dude.--Mike - Μολὼν λαβέ 04:02, 27 April 2014 (UTC)
- This is an article about the Tavor, its history and its design. It is not an article about bull put design in general, that article already exists. Selecting specific examples of other bullpup weapons lead the reader to believe there is some connection between the designs. Yet looking over the references in question, I can't see any. If you can demonstrate that the Tavor design team was influenced by the AUG, by all means, put it in. But it appears to me this weapon was developed independently, much as the AUG was vis a vis the EM-2. Maury Markowitz (talk) 13:55, 27 April 2014 (UTC)
- Dearest WP SysOp, bet you have no idea why that sentence was there, right? Go check through the edit history and you'll find that long time ago... there was an Austrian dick who keeps insisting that all bullpup rifles are a copy of his country's AUG... so that line was placed there so he would shut his trap for good, I have had enough arguing with them clowns. Best and out. --Dave ♠♣♥♦™№1185©♪♫® 10:36, 27 April 2014 (UTC)
- No, I didn't know that. Message received, I'm happy to take it from here. Maury Markowitz (talk) 13:55, 27 April 2014 (UTC)
- Suit yourself, I was pretty much vexed out by his WP:CPUSH the last time round so you handle him when he comes back to haunt us, make that a promise and I'll just leave everything to you from hereon. --Dave ♠♣♥♦™№1185©♪♫® 14:20, 27 April 2014 (UTC)
- Just be aware: my watch list has some 12000 articles on it, so if this does come to pass, let me know! Maury Markowitz (talk) 14:22, 27 April 2014 (UTC)
- Thank you and apologies if I didn't mince my words and for offending you. TBH, I don't think I'm being difficult when I ask you to make it a promise because I'm not always online but your duty as a SysOp isn't an excuse. Since you take it off, it is only right for you to keep your eye out for that nationalistic dick, that's all I'm gona say. Seriously and again, I have had enough dealing with all these jerks over the last few years, I just want to return to my root of editing and not having to constantly watch out for this kind of WP:CPUSH crap. Best and out. --Dave ♠♣♥♦™№1185©♪♫® 14:55, 27 April 2014 (UTC)
- Oh don't worry about offending me, I've been around the block a bit. Actually I though your words were very funny, which is why I put them in the edit :-) Other people noticed too, I got a couple of likes on that checkin… Maury Markowitz (talk) 15:34, 27 April 2014 (UTC)
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Just an FYI, I removed your section on Playground from Swift. At this point I'm leery of adding too much speculation (that's not really the right word, but I'll go with it) to the article because there's a real paucity of decent sources out there on the language. If you feel that's going too far please plop it right back in to "Features", as I know that eventually the IDE (and the inspiration from Brett Victor, etc.) will be an important part of the article. But for right now I'm hoping that the article can stay slimmed down and focused on sourceable claims. Protonk (talk) 14:09, 6 June 2014 (UTC)
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- Wow Cowdy, great catch! I had totally forgotten about that edit, which came about in a roundabout fashion while writing some railway articles. I meant to do the edit you mentioned, but simply forgot about it - now I'm onto WWII radar systems :-). I'll try to get to this this week, but I'm super-buried IRL. Maury Markowitz (talk) 15:09, 19 June 2014 (UTC)
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Just a note this tower was removed a few years ago. I don't remember exactly when I stopped seeing it but it is gone for sure. That or they replaced it with a transparent tower, with no lights. B137 (talk) 23:34, 12 October 2014 (UTC)
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DYK Arthur Moon
Hi Maury. Thanks for your comments. I've never done a DYK before, so first attempt was a bit flakey. Could you take a look at my 'improvements'? Thanks.Tomintoul (talk) 13:23, 3 November 2014 (UTC)
Delighted that the article appeared on DYK today, November 11th. Couldn't have been a more appropriate date. Thank very much indeed for your help. Tomintoul (talk) 16:24, 11 November 2014 (UTC)
Hello,
I kind of backed into this subject via James William Lair. I do have an Auto Defense Choc article in progress to complement this. However, since the ADC program began under the French before Lair and the CIA ever showed up, it is unknown how the French equipped the companies they trained. In the process of covering Auto Defense Choc, I can foresee further additions to this TO&E article. Will I wrap this article into that one? Could be. Depends on circumstances.
I hope this answers your inquiry.
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- I find it very difficult to believe there will ever be a reason for two articles, especially one that's simply a list. The entire "list" is less than 1/2 a page and could probably be compressed with a little editing. If the historical notes in the current "list" are removed, there's almost nothing left. Maury Markowitz (talk) 13:22, 13 November 2014 (UTC)
- Actually, there are already four intertwined and interlinked articles. There is this one, Bill Lair, Operation Momentum, and Operation Pincushion. I expect this article will gain text, as I work up the Auto Defense Choc article to accompany it—possibly a curriculum section. I will probably run into more info on this subject while working on the Lair/Momentum/Pincushion articles. Additionally, it will link to future articles as well. I order my sources through Inter-Library Loan, and sometimes they take a while to get to me. Could I ask for a spot of patience, please?Georgejdorner (talk) 03:54, 14 November 2014 (UTC)
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- Well I'd rather have the Barnstar of Too Many FA's, but I'll take it, I'll take it! Maury Markowitz (talk) 12:05, 19 November 2014 (UTC)
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Just a note to say I've almost caught up with the review and am taking a break for some house chores and possibly another FAC review I need to respond to. I have still to respond to one or two of your replies, and I should be able to get back to it tonight. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 20:15, 30 November 2014 (UTC)
- @Mike Christie: No hurry, the review has already outlasted the entire Battle of Britain, so if we push into Blitz territory that would seem appropriate. Maury Markowitz (talk) 21:41, 30 November 2014 (UTC)
- Thanks for your patience. I've tried to make the review more manageable by shifting resolved issues into a collapsed section. I've responded on most of what's left; there are a couple that I'd like to read the whole article again before responding to, and a couple more I just haven't got to. I am probably done for the night unless I get another burst of energy; I'll get back to this tomorrow some time. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 00:52, 1 December 2014 (UTC)
- Checking in; are you waiting for anything from me? There are just a handful of minor points left, and I expect to support once those are sorted out. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 13:34, 5 December 2014 (UTC)
- No, sorry, just got very busy IRL with a trade show. I'm back to it this weekend. Maury Markowitz (talk) 13:35, 5 December 2014 (UTC)
- Checking in; are you waiting for anything from me? There are just a handful of minor points left, and I expect to support once those are sorted out. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 13:34, 5 December 2014 (UTC)
- Thanks for your patience. I've tried to make the review more manageable by shifting resolved issues into a collapsed section. I've responded on most of what's left; there are a couple that I'd like to read the whole article again before responding to, and a couple more I just haven't got to. I am probably done for the night unless I get another burst of energy; I'll get back to this tomorrow some time. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 00:52, 1 December 2014 (UTC)
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Hi M, calling upon you , Obi Wan Kinobi, again as I have a follower who seems to want to remove imagery from films that I edit under the same basis even though I do not pick out frivolous or fluff images to illustrate key section of the film articles that I work up. As you may know, I am a former filmmaker, and have an interest in particular areas of film production, so I do not create trivial commentary or provide useless imagery. FWiW Bzuk (talk) 05:31, 8 December 2014 (UTC)
- My suggestion is to point to the 2001 article - close enough to jedi for you?! That article has multiple non-PD images in different sections in a fashion similar to yours. I suspect anyone touching that article in response will find the reception exactly as welcoming as Kubric's reaction to news of a sequel. Maury Markowitz (talk) 16:32, 8 December 2014 (UTC)
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Radar
I'm afraid your latest change to AI Mk. IV radar doesn't work – the reference is added to the end of the External links section since the callout occurs after {{reflist}}
. If you want to have a superscript callout in that sentence, you would need to move the sentence to the start of the References section (or just before the reflist invocation). --Mirokado (talk) 21:09, 16 December 2014 (UTC)
- sigh*. Is there any reason we need this link? The cite in question is the very next line. Maury Markowitz (talk) 21:52, 16 December 2014 (UTC)
- Har. Well I will support whether or not you agree to the change, it's not worth a long argument, but it is the sort of technical imperfection I routinely correct when looking at articles, so you will probably have to revert other editors correcting it from time to time if you don't want it. Anyway, what is wrong with having the link like every other reference to that source has? --Mirokado (talk) 23:46, 16 December 2014 (UTC)
- None at all, and if you know a simple way to get the link to work properly, by all means. Maury Markowitz (talk) 00:02, 17 December 2014 (UTC)
- Well, this update was exactly what I think we need, it just adds a wikilink to what you would presumably write without the link. I've already suggested moving the sentence if you prefer a superscript callout. --Mirokado (talk) 01:00, 17 December 2014 (UTC)
- None at all, and if you know a simple way to get the link to work properly, by all means. Maury Markowitz (talk) 00:02, 17 December 2014 (UTC)
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Hi -- I see Graham posted a note that he's considering archiving the FAC and is waiting for a response. I'd hate to see it get archived with the amount of work you've done on it. Are you going to be able to respond soon? Is there anything I can do to help? I think it's close; you just need to get a couple of responses in and you may well get a support from Mirokado, which would likely push it over the top. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 01:15, 20 December 2014 (UTC)
- Yes indeed, I am basically waiting to support this article. There is the one reference (see #Radar) which needs sorting out somehow and one picture which is currently problematical. --Mirokado (talk) 01:49, 20 December 2014 (UTC)
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