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Contents 1 Deaths 2 caisson disease 3 Timeline 4 naallic 5 Fauxtography?

[edit] Deaths

13 or 14 lives lost - ASCE says 14? -- Syd1435 03:27, 2004 Nov 19 (UTC)

[edit] caisson disease

The article states: ...one of the first major outbreaks of "caisson disease", and thirteen workers died. The phrasing is ambiguous. Did thirteen (or fourteen) die from caisson disease specifically, or from all causes during construction? In either case, it needs to be made clear. -- Kbh3rd 00:07, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Timeline

the Historic Bridges of the Midwest reference in the article has a great timeline which might be interesting to abridge and include. ++Lar: t/c 03:38, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] naallic

"The triple span, tubular naallic, arch construction" Naallic???? --Marcusscotus1 21:16, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

Dunno. That appeared in this edit by Lar. --Kbh3^rdtalk 03:00, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

It's HAER text, not my original wording. It may not have OCR'ed quite right though. Thanks Kbh3rd for letting me know that there might be an issue. From my answer on my talk page:

That material is indeed cut and paste (of OCRed text) but with some light editing. However it's PD material... "From material recorded by Kevin Murphy, Historian HAER, April 1984 in the public domain.", it all came from the HAER (Library of Congress) site. We use PD text here as a basis (we used 1911 Britannica stuff), and then improve it. This article was barren, in my view, of much in the way of history so I dropped some in. If it's too much, let's ditch it again, no worries... ++Lar: t/c 03:24, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the update. I think the material is great, and I'm glad to learn that it's legit to use. --Kbh3^rdtalk 04:15, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

There is a LOT more there if we wanted it... it's worth picking through and seeing if there is more worth OCRing in to use as material to start from... Probably it would not want to all be put in, but rather boiled down and cited. ++Lar: t/c 03:25, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

PS the "nallic" wording got fixed to "metallic" but if anyone sees any others please advise. I can reaccess the original data sheets (or anyone else can, there should be sufficient linking info there in the article to do so). Multiply photocopied typwriter fonts are hard to OCR with good accuracy so it's not surprising stuff slips in. I do try to catch it when I can but that was one I missed (and a funny one too!) ++Lar: t/c 19:01, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fauxtography?

Concerning Image:eads bridge pano.jpg, "A panoramic image of Eads Bridge": The image description page states, "This image has been 'photoshopped' in order to restore the bridge to an earlier era." Do we want manipulated images in articles? I do not think that this is necessary. There are older images freely available, and there are new images that have been contributed. Where's the need to fake "an earlier era"? Wikipedia has enough credibility problems as it is.

The photo manipulation article states, "the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) have set out a Code of Ethics promoting the accuracy of published images, advising that photographers 'do not manipulate images [...] that can mislead viewers or misrepresent subjects.'" In the photos that I've contributed I've lately been explaining what, if any, manipulation has been done to the image since it came from the camera, as a statement of authenticity: e.g., Image:Great River Road Alton-Grafton 1.jpg. --Kbh3^rdtalk 19:20, 17 March 2008 (UTC)