User talk:AtholM
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[edit] Your edit to Talk:Apocalypto
I noticed that you edited someone else's comment for clarity, spelling or grammar. As a rule, refrain from editing others' comments without their permission. Though it may appear helpful to correct typing errors, grammar, etc., please do not go out of your way to bring talk pages to publishing standards, since it is not terribly productive and will tend to irritate the users whose comments you are correcting. For more details, see Wikipedia:Talk page guidelines. Thanks, --Erik (talk/contrib) @ 05:24, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Wikipedia:Photo Matching Service
Thought you might want to know about this, it has the same goals as Wikipedia:WikiProject Photography, but is better organized. If you have any questions, please contact me on my talk page. --Gphototalk 19:23, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Dolly (trailer)
Please explain to me why, oh why, you call the following two links "linkspam"?
Both these are ligitimate information. Also, an H-Dolly does NOT necessarely have two parallel drawbars.
Peter Horn 23:35, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
According to I.T.E.C. Inc., an H-Dolly is a double axled version of the A-dolly and not of the C-Dolly. I.T.E.C. would do so according to North American usage and hence the customers or clients refer to it by the same term I.T.E.C. H-Dolly or tandem dolly and I.T.E.C. web site. We appear to to be at odds because you approach it from an Aussie point of view and I from a Canuck or Yankee point of view. There is "English" and there is "English". It's somewhat like the caboose and the brake fan on the rear end of the train. No hard feelings & I shall in due time look this up in a hard copy North American dictionary.
Peter Horn 02:08, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
Hello again, I carefully looked again at I.T.E.C. H-Dolly or tandem dolly and I fail to see the two couplings in either one of the two dollies shown on that page. After two cataract operations (one in each eye) I have not needed any glasses, but maybe I should get some anyway. It appears as though I.T.E.C. Inc. happens to be the only N. American manufacturer of converter dollies, at least so far I failed to find any others. The only thing left is to sift thru the department of transportation web sites of all US states and all ministry of transportation web sites of all Canadian provinces an territories and see if any useful definition of an "H-Dolly" may be found in any one site. That's going to be a "monk's task" (un travail des moînes).
Peter Horn 01:32, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Hello again,
Other articles such as trucks and more do include links to manufacturers, so why not the Dolly (trailer) article? See also Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals#Trucks
Peter Horn 17:05, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Hello once again,
Add to that Fifth wheel coupling, Semi-trailer, Semi-trailer truck, Coupling (railway), Variable gauge axles, Automobile and many more which all have internal links to Wiki articles about manufacturers as well as links to manufacturers web sites. With these innumerable precedents, I don't see why Dolly (trailer) should be an exception. Peter Horn 01:29, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
- Copy and paste of message to I.E.T.C. Inc.
Sat, 6 Jan 2007 20:48:37 -0500 (EST)
From: "Peter Horn" <phorn12000@yahoo.ca>
Subject: H-Dolly
To: dennash@itec-inc.com
Dear Mr. Nash, Does your H-Dolly (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_%28trailer%29) have one or two front end couplers? Yours truly (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Peter_Horn) and a fellow Wikipedian Athol Mullen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:AtholM) have a difference of opinion about this. Yours,
"signed" Peter J. C. Horn
Peter Horn 01:57, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] {{Auto-tech-stub}}
Hi - a stub template that you created has been nominated for deletion at WP:SFD. The stub type was created without being proposed at WP:WSS/P (as is strongly suggested at WP:STUB) and while it may have some merit it needs a serious look at as far as its place in the stub hierarchy is concerned. Grutness...wha? 03:14, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Kangaroo is new WP:ACOTF
Merry Christmas. You voted for kangaroo as Australian collaboration. It has been selected, so please help to improve it towards featured article status. Thankyou. Scott Davis Talk 14:03, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Hello
Hello AtholM, I need your assistance on an article Ford BA Falcon please of you can could you complete one of the following points:
- Copy/edit
- Add information
- Review article
- Nominate article for Good Article status
If you have any questions just go to my talk page. SenatorsTalk | Contribs 23:29, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Reply to spammer email
To my utter lack of suprise, the webmaster of these two sites is a certain "rayme" (see this and this). No prizes for guessing who the blocked account belongs to... Anyway, "sources"? An amateur site talking about his town with "please please please advertise here" banners and a car-review site with only one entry? No-one knows about these sites except this "rayme" guy. Don't worry about the whole "I'm a poor first time user that got bitten" spiel, these people do it all the time. Fuggehdaboutit. yandman 11:38, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Truck project
Hi! I see you're into something with knowledge of vehicles. I'll invite you to check the startup of a truck related project. User:Rotten Stone suggested a truck project to put those to a standard like automobiles etc. Please feel free to check User:Rotten Stone/WikiProject Trucks and Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Proposals#Trucks. So far we are only 3 europeans on the project, but to make a world wide project work, it would be nice to get world wide contributors :-) --G®iffen 13:14, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Don't give up!
Hi. I've again asked Peter why he wants that website linked so much - maybe there's some point we're missing (WP:AGF!). I'm also going to use his list of other bad articles to prune their external links - I trimmed out half a dozen from Truck last night, and had the blogspot one put back by an anon. I'm either making more enemies, or collecting some silent friends. --Scott Davis Talk 03:45, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
- When you check back, could you please look at my edit to Semi-trailer truck and make sure I've accurately represented the situation in Australia? I'm sure what was there before was wrong and misleading. Thanks. --Scott Davis Talk 13:04, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Sprag edits
Just saw your last contribution to Sprag. Good to meet another Australian mechanical engineer that uses Slackware. We're an exclusive group. Bernard S. Jansen 01:02, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Re Editing your talk page comments
Er, no. Although it is standard practice to strike out comments before emending, as you say, there also times when this is unnecessary and few wikipedia editors observe this. You can confirm this by checking the "diffs" on talk page; you will actually find this practice quite common. As for the comment on Bull Bar, I deleted the text because I never intended to say it in the first place; my original comment didn't represent my thoughts.
I could say: "I am a murderer" "I am not a murderer", or I could forgo the unnecessary step and delete my mistake and state what I originally intended.
Please don't leave that kind of message on my talk page; at best, it is pedantic; at worst, annoying and rude.Rintrah 03:41, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Road transport in Australia is new WP:ACOTF
Hi Athol. Road transport in Australia is the new Australian collaboration of the fortnight. Your experience and knowledge could help to improve this article, so if you;re interested, please help to improve it. Thanks. --Scott Davis Talk 12:49, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Revert of fuel efficiency
Hello,
Just wondering why you reverted my work of last Saturday on fuel efficiency. The values in the table (as I wrote in a comment in the text) were inconsistent. That is, someone apparently converted from BTU/gal to MJ/L or vice versa using an inaccurate conversion factor. I do not have access to the book referenced, so I looked at the on-line Transportation Energy Data Book and carefully copied the appropriate numbers to the table, and converted them to MJ/L and BTU/imperial gallon. I also added several that were not there before.
It seems to me that some of the numbers that were there were not very accurate. I compared them to both the on-line source mentioned above and to a graph in the Chemical Engineers' Handbook (Perry's Handbook), and for instance the value for diesel fuel was too high, in BTU/gal. I think all the numbers were too low in terms of MJ/L because of the bad conversion factor that had been used.
If you have density data, you could fill in the column in my version for MJ/kg, which would be helpful. You can also put in numbers for the rows I left blank, if you can check with the original source to see which value was correct (either the BTU/gal or the MJ/L). But I don't think it's appropriate to simply revert what I did without even so much as a comment as to why.
EricK 15:14, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
