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APT

I think you will find that there is some degree of super elevation on most British lines, including WCML, your edits sound like there is non. Cannot find a ref though--Kitchen Knife (talk) 21:03, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

@Kitchen Knife: Agree completely, see if you like the current version better. Maury Markowitz (talk) 16:38, 29 January 2016 (UTC)
A very good expansion. The problem I always have explaining the APT is that it the ability to stop which is what allowed it to do 155mph on a conventional track. That is what the pendolinos lack the Mark 2 can do the 155, there have been some mutterings from Alstrom, that their entry for the Classic Compatible for HS2 may tilt and may have brakes as good as APT, though I imagine the will be Eddy Current, the titling will by electrical not hydraulic, a true APT2.--Kitchen Knife (talk) 18:51, 29 January 2016 (UTC)
@Kitchen Knife: Interesting, and sadly typical. We have a similar situation here in Canada with the Turbo. When it came out the Toronto-Montreal run took 3:50. They replaced it with the LRC and it was ~4:10 in spite of it being designed to go faster. They recently replaced the LRC with the Genesis, and it takes 4:35. At this rate, by 2035 you'll be able to bike their faster! Maury Markowitz (talk) 20:46, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

Please remember that the abbreviation is "APT", not "ATP". I have corrected numerous instances where you got it back to front. - David Biddulph (talk) 13:19, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

Unfortunately I'm not the one to tell, it's my automatic spell checker. I'll see if he'll listen, but as a biologist he prefers ATP. He also hates "can't" <- you see? Maury Markowitz (talk) 13:23, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

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Actually, converting to citation templates does require discussion, see WP:CITEVAR. And yes, your edit did break the citation, but I think you have now realised that. SpinningSpark 13:27, 6 February 2016 (UTC)

Authors are free to chose the style they wish, and I'm the author of the section in question. I remain concerned that when you identified a minor syntax error, instead of fixing it you RVed, and then I did fix it you posted here. Is there an actual problem in the article you would like to discuss?

...and "general references" are not "further reading" just because they are not in any inline link. Rather, they are precisely those references that are not explicitly referred to. SpinningSpark 13:31, 6 February 2016 (UTC)

The materials in question are not actually used in the body in any cases I can see. They make excellent overview materials, especially "Why Antennas Radiate", but on topics already covered in more detail the ARRL text. If you have counterexamples, by all means point it out and I will fix them, and even add inlines where appropriate. Maury Markowitz (talk) 14:12, 6 February 2016 (UTC)
If you have a rationale for making the changes that improves the article I am fine with that. I reacted in the way I did because it showed every sign of someone changing references to suite their personal preferred system. That is the thing that CITEVAR says you should not do. If that was not the case then I apologise. SpinningSpark 20:38, 6 February 2016 (UTC)

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Lawson concepts of the triple product

I apologize it took me several months to see your message. I agree with your statement that most fusion researchers see the Lawson Criteria as setting a minimum density, temperature and time. The tokamak and ICF crowd uses this as a way to excuse lots of fusion approaches - and justify their funding, so this is a really important concept.

The original paper did start with an energy balance - which many people are unaware of - and yes it moved to a triple product. This has become a "minimum" triple product in the past 60 years. But, I think the balance is a more important concept, because it connects lots of problems seen in modern fusion research: plasma loss by conduction, energy lost by radiation, device efficiency and fusion rates. But - admittedly - that is just a opinion. In my opinion, using the energy balance is a much more comprehensive way to measure fusion approaches, then the triple product.

I cannot argue this position fully because I do not have enough information. For example, I do not fully understand the steps to take this energy balance to a minimum triple product. I suspect that there are assumptions built into those steps (for example assuming that you can only capture a maximum % of the energy from a fusion reactor). I also would love to see the measurements connecting radiation loss to confinement, plasma composition and temperature - which would be critical for finding a minimum set of conditions. I have some documents I want to read which I hope can explain this better:

1. Wessons' tokamak textbook walks the reader through the steps

2. Irvin Lindemuths' 2009 paper: "The fundamental parameter space of controlled thermonuclear fusion" American Journal of Physics 77, 407 (2009); doi: 10.1119/1.3096646 By Irvin R. Lindemuth and Richard E. Siemon

3. Re-checking Lawson's original paper

I called up Dr. Lindemuth, who spent a long time thinking about this and in his opinion the triple product had been oversold. He told me: "it is not clear that: reaching minimum triple is a guarantee that a concept will work and that not reaching a minimum triple will guarantee that a concept will fail".

But, I need some time to research this idea some more. I would also add that if you surveyed a group of fusion graduate students, or physics students they would tell you that lawson means a minimum triple, without knowing why.

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@WikiHelper2134: I love that third sentence :-) So lets see if we can get some actionable material from your sources, because I'd love to get this updated. I'd also like to extract some sort of smaller statement, perhaps one or two paras, that covers the concept well enough and can be included in other articles. I think this concept is so important that we need to include it everywhere - sort of like a minimal explanation of neutron balance and criticality in fission. Oh, can you shoot me a URL for that paper in (2)? Maury Markowitz (talk) 15:20, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

"The fundamental parameter space of controlled thermonuclear fusion" American Journal of Physics 77, 407 (2009); doi: 10.1119/1.3096646 By Irvin R. Lindemuth and Richard E. Siemon WikiHelper2134 (talk) 22:51, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

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Henry Worsley (explorer)

Hi! Which urls were you having a problem with on Henry Worsley (explorer)? Gaia Octavia Agrippa Talk 20:03, 17 February 2016 (UTC)

@Gaia Octavia Agrippa: #4 is a bare URL, and seems to be unrelated to the article. I cannot read #1, perhaps it could use a paywall marker? Maury Markowitz (talk) 20:07, 17 February 2016 (UTC)
Subscription required template added. #4 (though its now #3 because I removed a rubbish ref) links to his Who's Who entry. Unfortunately I no longer have access to their website (it has a pay wall) but I shall do my best to fill the reference out with my prior knowledge. Gaia Octavia Agrippa Talk
All refs that needed it have been cleaned up. Hopefully they are all good now, and those with pay walls have been tagged. Do tell me if some still aren't right.Gaia Octavia Agrippa Talk 20:30, 17 February 2016 (UTC)

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Hi Maury. You were very helpful in relation to Arthur Moon and a work of one of the artists in his collection is being debated in Talk:Prisoner of war. I would welcome your input. Tomintoul (talk) 17:52, 23 March 2016 (UTC)

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Hey Maury, I'm looking to resolve the video games Category:All articles needing expert attention queue and Game port is a mess. Would you be able to help clean up its unsourced sections? czar 03:37, 20 March 2016 (UTC) @Czar:

Consider it done! Maury Markowitz (talk) 19:48, 20 March 2016 (UTC)
Hey, just checking back on this. Trying to resolve its maintenance tags. Think you'll have time to source it, or should I move the unsourced content to the talk page? czar 00:43, 16 April 2016 (UTC)
@Czar: Totally spaced on that. Should be good now. Maury Markowitz (talk) 13:46, 16 April 2016 (UTC)

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Hey Maury, would you happen to have sources for the items in Template:Yamaha soundchips or would the unsourced articles be best redirect to some kind of list? I'm not seeing significant coverage for at least the ones I spot checked. czar 18:35, 22 April 2016 (UTC)

@Czar: I'm familiar with these only in passing, but I would suspect that these are minor variations on a small number of underlying designs and could all be placed into a single article. Is the original author still around? Maury Markowitz (talk) 18:56, 22 April 2016 (UTC)
Not that I can tell. I'm thinking a redirect to the list of Yamaha products unless there are any secondary sources about the chips czar 19:05, 22 April 2016 (UTC)

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Five refs for an article of that length is definitely not sufficient, especially when considering that they are not high quality sources. The pages from the websites called "Atari Museum" and "Atari Max" aren't reliable sources at all, and the latter page appears to be mostly made up of primary source material that would at the very least need to be qualified as being verifiable since there are no scans of actual product documentation, or even anything at all that could be used to help verify the accuracy of this information. Furthermore, most of the information in the article is presented by websites that are self-published sources. How do we know that any of this data is in any way accurate, or if there are any mistakes or errors? There's nothing on that page to authenticate the information presented, let alone the alleged internal emails. It's all essentially hearsay until the threshold for verifiability can be met. Laval (talk) 06:37, 19 July 2016 (UTC)

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Light Fighter Article and New Info

Maury, I see you are the originator of the Heavy Fighter article. It is very well written, but a lot of new information on modern light and heavy fighters has come out that is not reflected there yet. This was a result of the Lightweight Fighter Program in the U.S. that led to the F-16. There was so much struggle over this program that it is the theme of at least 5 books that have been published from 1993 to now. As I have read them and quite a bit of other material, I took it on myself to add a great deal of new material to what was the very skimpy Light Fighter article over the last month. Until today I did not even notice there was a Heavy Fighter article.

Everything I have read has given the light fighter a strong edge in "effectiveness" as described by combat aircraft architect Pierre Sprey. Basically, according to Sprey, it comes down to maximum kills per unit of budget for maximum effectiveness. As all the data seems to support higher effectiveness for the light fighter from WWII to now, that is what the article reflects. If I had any hard data in favor of the modern heavy fighter (F-4, F-14, F-15) as it compares to the light fighter, I would have put that in the light fighter article to keep it balanced. But, from the data I have the modern heavy fighter has been a strategic mistake that has wasted a lot of budget and in some ways has resulted in the aircraft being of reduced fighting ability even on a per plane basis, and much weaker on a per budget basis. A major problem with the modern heavy twin is that they are basically designed around high powered radar and BVR missiles, and that has been a pretty ineffective idea until possibly very recently. For example, from 1955 to 1982, of 528 air to air kills, only 76 were by radar missiles, and only 4 BVR. Most of the radar missile kills being WVR would have allowed them to be cheap heat-seeker or gun kills. But, the BVR cost was over $10B over that time period. So, that's $137M per cheap MiG shot down (most less than $1M value), or $2.5B each if that cost is amortized over the 4 BVR kills. Even now the BVR is an iffy proposition, but if it is now really is worth its budget with AESA radar and newer missiles, newer engines have the power to have effective BVR on modern light fighters also. This is all discussed in detail in the Light Fighter article, with a ton of references.

Maybe you can look this basically new Light Fighter article over and let me know what you think, either here on your talk page or on mine. I think you will like the WWII section, which puts light vs. heavy on a precise cost basis. Perhaps you have some references you can point me to for defending the heavy fighter concept that should be fairly mentioned in the Light Fighter article. And, perhaps some of this information should come over to the Heavy Fighter article as well, such a new section on the modern heavy fighter. I'd be glad to help you with that if you like.

Regards, Farron PhaseAcer (talk) 04:56, 20 July 2016 (UTC)

@PhaseAcer: I see you have made extensive changes to the article. This should be an article about light fighters, a well defined class, not the Light Fighter Program. We already have an article on that topic, and the materials you added are mostly related to that program. The majority of the new section on "theory and strategy" is purely related to LFP, and that section starts with the 1970s, goes to the 1960s, and then to today. There's lots of good information, but none of it really has anything to do with this article. I suggest removing it. Further, there seems to be confusion over what is meant by "light", which it appears you believe is based on weight. For instance, you use the F-86 as an example of a light fighter, when it was widely commented to be overweight compared to its contemporary MiG. Light fighters are designed to be light not just light, and the MiG is a perfect example of this distinction - by the definition the MiG is not a light fighter, it is primarily a bomber interceptor. Frankly I would argue that the majority of your additions are either off-topic, or simply wrong. Sorry! Maury Markowitz (talk) 11:27, 20 July 2016 (UTC)
I understand what you mean, but the topic is confused by what is the definition of a light fighter. Where did this idea come from that "light fighter" has to be the extreme end of what is a continuous curve, and nobody can say differently? My expert sources do say differently, and the functional definition they use based on the full weight of history and practicality makes a lot more sense than what someone casually said in 1940 with respect to a meaningless failed experiment. The Lightweight Fighter Program also verified the definition of light fighter as typically using one of the two powerful engines used in heavy twin engine fighters, being weight and feature disciplined, and being aerodynamically competitive. But, that result is not new. The earlier Mirage III, Saab Draken, and F-8 are all very similar to the YF-16 prototype--single engine, austere design, and because they are aerodynamically competitive on that single engine about half the weight of the big boys of their time (the exception being the F-5, but only because it uses two little drone jet engines of superior thrust to weight than the larger jet engines of its time). That functional definition of light fighter is very similar to the difference between heavy twin fighters of WWII and the more successful lighter single engine fighters of WWII--single engine, about half the weight, austere design, and highly practical in combat. It is a consistent definition from then to now.
However, I'm not fixed on the definition. In my opinion that is just semantics, and I am just as happy to exchange "light fighter" for "lighter fighter". It is 1000 times more important to address the strategic and budgetary issues of lighter vs heavier, austere vs complex. It's also a bigger issue than the modern Lightweight Fighter Program, because it has been going on from WWII to now. I'd be just as happy to do that in a separate meaningful article with a title like "Strategy of Fighter Design" than using the existing article structure. The light fighter article could go back to the poor shape it was in a month ago (skimpy, unreferenced, plain wrong in fundamental assertions, and very lacking in that it avoided presenting the most important issue). Because, the existing article structure and contents have been mostly missing this key information and its fundamental validity from WWII to now, it has been one of those "The Emperor has no clothes" kind of situations. Trial results show light or lighter (if you insist) jet fighters like the F-86 and the F-5 generally defeating much more expensive heavy fighters like the F-4 on a plane for plane basis. Combat results agree, over the full span of history. On a budgetary basis it is complete dominance. If you think that is wrong, I would like to see your data. All the hard data I can find says the light fighter wins that fight by knockout. That's not my opinion, it is coming straight from the finest air strategists, fighter aircraft designers, and fighter pilots and their leaders of history, the giants of the field. It is also from U.S. Air Force briefings and research reports presented at high levels, and reports written by serving U.S. officers as part of their graduate training, and by expert defense analysts. It is fully backed up by extensive trials and large volume combat results. You might take a look at the Sprey effectiveness report--it's the best thing in print on fighter effectiveness, written by a brilliant combat aircraft architect. You can get it at http://pogoarchives.org/labyrinth/09/08.pdf. If there is any data, anywhere, that stacks up to the expert quality data I am referencing, I would really like to see it and include it.
Maybe the issue is a perception that Wikipedia should just give brief overviews and not elucidate fundamentally important or technical issues. Well, as a professional engineer I use Wikipedia technical articles all the time in my work. Many are quite outstanding. Fighter aircraft design is also a technical issue and more importantly a huge strategic and budgetary issue, and there is no reason that what basically works best should not be described, so long as it is valid and properly referenced. In fact, I would assert that is lot more interesting to the readers than just dry expositions of specs and numbers. It's very puzzling to me that you should assert the material is "off-topic". Light fighters are a weapons system, so discussion of their effectiveness as a weapons system is not only on-topic, it IS the topic. Same for heavy fighters--if you leave that information out you have missed the boat and your article has far less meaningfulness. PhaseAcer (talk) 22:40, 20 July 2016 (UTC)
@PhaseAcer: TLDR. This is a matter for the talk page of the article in question. Maury Markowitz (talk) 19:24, 24 July 2016 (UTC)

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@Dank:, sorry what A class? Maury Markowitz (talk) 19:46, 8 September 2016 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Mark XIV bomb sight. It's got 3 supports now. FWIW, what you did didn't ping me, because you did it in two edits instead of one ... it's very finicky. - Dank (push to talk) 20:28, 8 September 2016 (UTC)
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I just watched Castles in the Sky, about the development of Chain Home, and was unsurprised to find that you're the major contributor to that article. Do you have any plans to take that to FAC, as you did with AI Mk IV? I'd be glad to help with reviewing if you're interested. And if you haven't seen the film, I can definitely recommend it, though I don't know just how historically accurate it is. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 23:03, 2 October 2016 (UTC)

@Mike Christie: I read your post and then went to find the movie. Found a rather odd movie about surfing in Peru... still looking. Maury Markowitz (talk) 12:34, 4 October 2016 (UTC)
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DYK nomination of Atari CX40 joystick

Hello! Your submission of Atari CX40 joystick at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! BlueMoonset (talk) 15:46, 27 November 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Atari CX40 joystick

On 1 December 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Atari CX40 joystick, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the joystick shipped with the Atari 2600 was described as "the pinnacle of home entertainment controllers in its day"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Atari CX40 joystick. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Atari CX40 joystick), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Gatoclass (talk) 00:01, 1 December 2016 (UTC)

DYK nomination of The Global Dilemma: Guns or Butter

Hello! Your submission of The Global Dilemma: Guns or Butter at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! EdChem (talk) 05:46, 1 December 2016 (UTC)

Cray-3

I provided a GA review of Cray-3 two weeks ago at Talk:Cray-3/GA1. Are you planning to address this? SpinningSpark 13:36, 2 December 2016 (UTC)

Project PACER

Talk page comment that you may be able to answer Boundarylayer (talk) 14:12, 2 December 2016 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Cray-3

The article Cray-3 you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Cray-3 for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Spinningspark -- Spinningspark (talk) 20:21, 2 December 2016 (UTC)

DYK

On 17 December 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Swarmjet, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Swarmjet. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Swarmjet), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

— Maile (talk) 14:10, 17 December 2016 (UTC)

Incomplete DYK nomination

Hello! Your submission of Template:Did you know nominations/Klein Heidelberg Parasit at the Did You Know nominations page is not complete; if you would like to continue, please link the nomination to the nominations page as described in step 3 of the nomination procedure. If you do not want to continue with the nomination, tag the nomination page with {{db-g7}}, or ask a DYK admin. Thank you. DYKHousekeepingBot (talk) 03:26, 20 December 2016 (UTC)

Talkback

Hello, Maury Markowitz. You have new messages at Template:Did you know nominations/Bombing of Nagaoka in World War II.
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North America1000 23:00, 20 December 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Tank steering systems

On 22 December 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Tank steering systems, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the steering system on the Saint-Chamond tank (pictured) weighed five tons? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Tank steering systems. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Tank steering systems), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

— Maile (talk) 00:01, 22 December 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 22 December 2016

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Merry, merry!

From the icy Canajian north; to you and yours! FWiW Bzuk (talk) 21:53, 26 December 2016 (UTC)

DYK for The Global Dilemma: Guns or Butter

On 28 December 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article The Global Dilemma: Guns or Butter, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Chris Crawford considers The Global Dilemma: Guns or Butter to be among the worst video games he created? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/The Global Dilemma: Guns or Butter. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, The Global Dilemma: Guns or Butter), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

— Maile (talk) 00:01, 28 December 2016 (UTC)

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