User talk:Jmb

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[edit] A vs an

No, "an RAF" should be used rather than "a RAF". An is used rather than a before a word starting with a vowel or vowel sound. As "RAF" is pronounced "R", "A", "F", and not as "raff", and thus starts with a vowel sound, an is the correct form.

See A, an and compare google searches on "a RAF" vs. "an RAF".

Sc147 15:48, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cable landing point

I've replied on my talk page. WLD 12:08, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you

Thank you for all of the names of people who were diagnosed with breast cancer. I've added some of them and am still working on the many others.

Since you have been very kind to provide this information, I wonder if you could add a comment about the fact that certain people want to merge the List of notable breast cancer patients according to occupation and the List of notable breast cancer patients according to survival status. The occupation list is much more comprehensive, but that's the one that they want to delete. The survival status is more basic, but it serves a vital purpose in allowing anyone interested to quickly ignore those who have died and concentrate on the living - either for charity purposes or just for inspiration without depression as might happen if a person was viewing a list that was interspersed with the dead as well as the living.

It seems as though some people are voting to merge the lists without even indicating why and without even bothering to appear to read the reasons given for one or the other choice and responding to those reasons. I'm not that expert, but it seems as though it would be a total waste of time to just delete all of that vital information just because people, who probably have not been affected by breast cancer, don't realize the value of both lists.

I'm tired of arguing with some of these people over what appear to be petty issues when I could be actually working to make wikipedia more comprehensive. It makes me wonder if some of these people are just full-time critics rather than contributors.

Thanks again for all of your leads!Bcsurvivor 22:27, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

Done. I put a long list from the DNB on your page then realised it was on the User Page rather than Discussion Page so deleted it though you can still get it from history. If you want more details on any of the names on the list then contact me and I can look up in the DNB. --jmb 23:10, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
Thank you so much. I just read what you wrote re: the merge, and I really appreciate it. Also, I did find that long list of all of those names, and I was amazed. I have added a few, and I'm going to work on more tomorrow. I really appreciate it because it can be hard to find out who was diagnosed with breast cancer. Thanks again! Bcsurvivor 03:44, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Dangerous Energy - List of ROF's

Hi Jmb, thanks for your comments.

I have Dangerous Energy - a great book, it was some 12 months late comming out due to the run down of the Royal Commission on Historic Monuments in England and its absorption into English Heritage. I bought it full price in 2000, its now greatly reduced (less than 25% of list price). I also have Nevell, Roberts & Smith, and I'm listed in the Subscribers (but not as Pyrotec!).

I have to agree that ROF Capenhurst, etc, which are in Cocroft's list, are missing from the Wikipeda List of ROFs - Capenhurst became a nuclear site. I've tended to use the Official Histories of the Second War War, Civil Series, some of which I listed in some of the individual ROF pages; and they are not complete. It would have been easier to use Cocroft, I just got into the habit of doing it the way I'd always done it. I also discovered a remaindered book on 20th century Industrial Archaeology, by Stratton and Trinder, which includes some ROFs.

I started working on railways in Scotland, just for a change, but I'm coming back onto doing some more ROFs. Pyrotec 21:50, 21 July 2006 (UTC)


OK. I saw it later listed as a reference for one of the ROF pages. All the English Heritage books tend to be late out - there is one on WWII radar that has been promised for the last few years but still no sign of it appearing. I only came across the Civil Series when someone found one secondhandin a gift shop for a few quid! I am watching out for any others now as I would like to get some of them. I started mysewlf listing radar stations on a Wiki page, I think I have all the Chain Home stations and when I get time will add a list of Chain Home Low, perhaps later add pages with photographs for the ones i have visited. --jmb 22:48, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
I have Works & Buildings; Labour in the Munitions Industries; Factories & Plant; Contracts & Finance; and, Administration of War Production - but for 45 to 55-ish year old books, they are quite expensive from 2nd hand internet bookshops, and still a few more to get. Southampton Univ still has a complete set on its shelves! Pyrotec 22:07, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
I take it that you have seen that there are some site visits to ROF sites on the Sub Brit website? --jmb 10:43, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the web link. I was a member of Sub Brit from about 1979 to 1985, but dropped out. I came across their ROF Sywnnerton visit a year or so ago, but lost their web link; I see they have also have Trecwn.
I was at ROF Chorley this Wednesday so I took a small number of photos, for possible uploading. Pyrotec 22:07, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Halliwell

Hello,

I was editing other things in the Halliwell Article, and didn't take notice of the Date of Death. I Googled him and the sources that give the 29th are mostly taking their info from Wiki. But the DNB date seems far more reliable. Please have the honor of changing it in the Article.

Regards,

Michael David 15:17, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

OK done, I put the full name of the hospice there as well. I don't know if you are aware but you can get online access to the DNB and other reference sources through many public libraries. Several give online membership even if you do not live in the area, including Bedfordshire and Manchester.

Thank you for the reference source tip - I am going to look into it here.
By the way, I, too, remember typewriters - I did all of my college work on one. Also, I'll do you one better on the rotary telephones; I remember when you would pick up the receiver and a voice would ask you "number please".
I also dream of visiting Scotland one day.
Be healthy,
Michael David 17:57, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
I just found the thingies with the typewriter and rotary phone somewhere in Wiki. I only just gave up my rotary phone a month ago when I retired. Two weeks out of three I was on call 24/7 and found the bell on the old 760 rotary phone would wake me better than the bleeps of modern phones so kept it (the company paid the rental). If you join Bedfordshire Library you get your ID/password immediately, Manchester post the card. It might be worth checking your own local library as most just use their library card number. There are some very good sources available online through them. --jmb 20:07, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
Jmb,
Is the E-mail address on your User Page still active; and, if it is, would you mind if I communicated with you that way - just to chat?
Michael David 21:35, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
If you follow the link to My Site you will find an EMail address. --jmb 23:26, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Burghead mast

Please see note at Talk:Burghead transmitting station re {reqphotoin|Scotland}. I was passing and am not sure if the image is appropriate. Ben MacDui 08:35, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

OK - thanks. I 've put the image on the article page. Ben MacDui 17:18, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Test Area

Commando Memorial

Sir Jimmy Savile

XLR-LNE Plug

Mince Pie

Mince Pie

Bungee cords

Group of XLR connectors

XLR4 connectors

XLR4 connectors

Inverlochy Castle

Inverlochy Castle

British Red Cross ESU and EMU in Inverness

Badge of 72nd, or Duke of Albany's Own Highlanders, Regiment of Foot

Caledonian Canal
Caledonian Canal
Caledonian Canal


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[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Pether, John (1998). The Post Office at War. Bletchley Park Trust, 25. 

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[edit] Tristan da Cunha

It was nice to read your comments about the article in the telegraph today. It's got me intrigued but I haven't read it. Perhaps you have time to put the information into Tristan da Cunha. SuzanneKn 21:40, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

I'll see if anyone with no knowledge of the place incorporates it into the main article. --jmb 22:42, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
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