Hi there. I've reviewed Template:Did you know nominations/William Francis (civil engineer). Could you have a look at what I've said there, and see what you think? I'll be checking back, but please leave me a talk page note if it looks like I've missed any replies there. Carcharoth ( talk) 02:13, 1 January 2013 (UTC)
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Dropping by to leave you a note that I've left a review at: Template:Did you know nominations/Antoine Huré. I also left some notes at Talk:Antoine Huré because I managed to get drawn into digging deeper again. The topic is more interesting than I had thought. I had read the hook and half the article before I looked at the name of the nominator and realised I was looking over one of your nominations! Carcharoth ( talk) 06:02, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
The article Fourth Assembly of Madras State is above 1500 characters please review it and post your comments. Gfosankar ( talk) 16:34, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
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Hi again. I noticed one of your articles on the main page, and looked up a few more of those French army officer articles you've done (and some of the other biographies listed on your user page). I'm really very impressed by those: Noël Garnier-Duplessis and Gaston Cros were the ones I read first (I failed to find birth and death years for Garnier-Duplessis, but I did find that he was made an Officer of the Legion of Honour). Anyway, I usually have plans for several articles on the go at once within a topic area, but often get distracted and take time out to write a biography on someone in a completely different area. I did a couple of English army officers from WWI at one stage ( Louis Vaughan and Gilbert Clayton, both some years ago and I need to go back to them), but have never tried French army officers. Would you have any ideas for any from WWI that don't have articles yet? I have a few books where I could look up some ideas, but thought you might be able to help. Carcharoth ( talk) 00:11, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
I've dug around a bit more and I was particularly struck by this description of d'Alenson. That passage, incidentally, describes him as Nivelle's left-hand man, and describes Nivelle's 'triumvirate' (the other being his 'right-hand man, general Charles Mangin, described as 'the butcher' or 'eater of men'). The other thing I came across (both these found on a search for 'Nivelle' and 'd'Alenson') was this article on a French general called Robert d'Alançon (born 1909). The commentary below that refers to Nivelle's chief of staff as an Eric Audemard d'Alançon, though my brief reading of that commentary is that it involves a possible wrong photo, and discussion of lots of members of the d'Alançon family. The comments are in reverse order, so the final comment (at the top) seems to be saying that this d'Alançon is someone else. But maybe variants like d'Alençon and d'Alançon are alternative spellings worth trying. And after looking around some more, this Eric Audemard looks to definitely be someone else. More on D'Alenson in this book, though again only scraps. Carcharoth ( talk) 06:38, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
One last note, going back to General Garnier-Duplessis, I had assumed from the note on my talk page that you had found his Legion of Honour records, but I noticed that the birth and death year missing categories had been added to that page, and so went to look it up myself, and found it under a variant spelling here. Seems he was born on 25 December 1860 and died in 1928, though I can't make out the exact month (the stamp next to the death date is April 1928). Other sources seem to suggest 2 March 1928. That spelling of Garnier-Duplessix is used consistently throughout his records, so you might want to look into that as well. I did a brief search for Garnier-Duplessix (excluding the prenoms) and 1860 and 1928, and what looks like a book on him came up. Carcharoth ( talk) 07:38, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for taking a look. I'll try to run through the points you have raised: (i, ii) Correct {iii} They were more of a placeholder than anything, I find articles without any pictures much harder to read. I have swapped a couple for more relevant ones, including one of the few pictures I could find of the actual HQ building or staff. Will keep an eye out for more. (iv) Not sure, the French Archives site seems to have lost a lot of its content in the last week or so when it was transferred to the new French Defence Ministry site. That is why the document is only accessible from the Google cache. Hopefully they will sort it out soon, as it prevents you from searching the archives directly and from accessing the French Army personnel lists. (v) Still looking into that. (vi) Typo on my behalf, I think you are correct in that they predate ISBNs (vii) this source from La Garde seems to indicate that Foch remained outside of the GQG structure and was instead appointed to the higher "Grand Quartier Général des Armées Alliées" (GQGA) (still trying to find the name it was known as in English) as "Général en Chef des Armées Alliées en France" on 26 March 1918. It is described as similar to the French GQG and the British GHQ with responsibility for co-ordinating the actions of the allied general staffs. The staff at GQGA is described as very small (just 175 officers) and seems to mainly serve as Foch's instrument in directing the war. It is never really disbanded, just reduced in size and morphed into the Allied Military Committee of Versailles ( info here). So I think the situation was that GQG remained under Pétain until the end but the GQGA was set over all the allied general staffs and that was under Foch. Hopefully I will be able to add something into the article about this (and then look at starting an article for the GQGA!) (viii) Thanks (ix, x) Still looking into that. Hopefully be back with more info as and when I find it - Dumelow ( talk) 10:50, 20 January 2013 (UTC)
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Charles Inglis (1875–1952) was a British civil engineer who has been described as the greatest teacher of engineering of his time. He was educated at King's College, Cambridge, and then spent two years with the engineering firm run by John Wolfe-Barry before returning to King's College as a lecturer. Working with Professors James Alfred Ewing and Bertram Hopkinson, he made several important studies into the effects of vibration on structures and defects on the strength of plate steel. Inglis served in the Royal Engineers during the First World War and invented the Inglis Bridge, a reusable steel bridging system (example pictured) – the precursor to the Bailey bridge of the Second World War. In 1916 he was placed in charge of bridge design and supply at the War Office and, with Giffard Le Quesne Martel, pioneered the use of temporary bridges with tanks. He returned to Cambridge University after the war as head of the Engineering Department, which became the largest in the university and one of the best regarded engineering schools in the world. Knighted in 1945, he spent his later years developing his theories on the education of engineers and wrote a textbook on applied mechanics. ( Full article...)
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Excellent! -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 05:39, 3 September 2013 (UTC)
I have a very minor quibble with the article. It's mentioned that From 1923, he was involved with the analysis of vibration and its effects on railway bridges for British Railways, including a period spent working with Christopher Hinton during the latter's final year as a student at Cambridge. I don't have access to the reference but wondered if either the text is confused or someone has mistaken the plural "British railways", meaning the four major companies post 1923 grouping, and has instead capitalised the word railways and linked it to British Railways, which (as you probably know, so I'll apologise in advance) only came into being in 1948.
There are so many people running around with tools like AWB linking to the wrong thing, I couldn't begin to see where the error crept in but I figure it's best to leave it in the hands of someone with the reference material to correct and reword if necessary.
It's a very good article and thoroughly interesting to read, well done and thank you. Nick ( talk) 17:56, 3 September 2013 (UTC)
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The Battle of Lake Benacus was fought along the banks of Lake Garda in northern Italy, which was known to the Romans as Benacus, in 268[2] or early 269 AD,[1] between the army under the command of the Roman Emperor Claudius II and the Germanic tribes of the Alamanni and Juthungi.[1]
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Hi there. I've reviewed Template:Did you know nominations/William Francis (civil engineer). Could you have a look at what I've said there, and see what you think? I'll be checking back, but please leave me a talk page note if it looks like I've missed any replies there. Carcharoth ( talk) 02:13, 1 January 2013 (UTC)
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Dropping by to leave you a note that I've left a review at: Template:Did you know nominations/Antoine Huré. I also left some notes at Talk:Antoine Huré because I managed to get drawn into digging deeper again. The topic is more interesting than I had thought. I had read the hook and half the article before I looked at the name of the nominator and realised I was looking over one of your nominations! Carcharoth ( talk) 06:02, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
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Hi again. I noticed one of your articles on the main page, and looked up a few more of those French army officer articles you've done (and some of the other biographies listed on your user page). I'm really very impressed by those: Noël Garnier-Duplessis and Gaston Cros were the ones I read first (I failed to find birth and death years for Garnier-Duplessis, but I did find that he was made an Officer of the Legion of Honour). Anyway, I usually have plans for several articles on the go at once within a topic area, but often get distracted and take time out to write a biography on someone in a completely different area. I did a couple of English army officers from WWI at one stage ( Louis Vaughan and Gilbert Clayton, both some years ago and I need to go back to them), but have never tried French army officers. Would you have any ideas for any from WWI that don't have articles yet? I have a few books where I could look up some ideas, but thought you might be able to help. Carcharoth ( talk) 00:11, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
I've dug around a bit more and I was particularly struck by this description of d'Alenson. That passage, incidentally, describes him as Nivelle's left-hand man, and describes Nivelle's 'triumvirate' (the other being his 'right-hand man, general Charles Mangin, described as 'the butcher' or 'eater of men'). The other thing I came across (both these found on a search for 'Nivelle' and 'd'Alenson') was this article on a French general called Robert d'Alançon (born 1909). The commentary below that refers to Nivelle's chief of staff as an Eric Audemard d'Alançon, though my brief reading of that commentary is that it involves a possible wrong photo, and discussion of lots of members of the d'Alançon family. The comments are in reverse order, so the final comment (at the top) seems to be saying that this d'Alançon is someone else. But maybe variants like d'Alençon and d'Alançon are alternative spellings worth trying. And after looking around some more, this Eric Audemard looks to definitely be someone else. More on D'Alenson in this book, though again only scraps. Carcharoth ( talk) 06:38, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
One last note, going back to General Garnier-Duplessis, I had assumed from the note on my talk page that you had found his Legion of Honour records, but I noticed that the birth and death year missing categories had been added to that page, and so went to look it up myself, and found it under a variant spelling here. Seems he was born on 25 December 1860 and died in 1928, though I can't make out the exact month (the stamp next to the death date is April 1928). Other sources seem to suggest 2 March 1928. That spelling of Garnier-Duplessix is used consistently throughout his records, so you might want to look into that as well. I did a brief search for Garnier-Duplessix (excluding the prenoms) and 1860 and 1928, and what looks like a book on him came up. Carcharoth ( talk) 07:38, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for taking a look. I'll try to run through the points you have raised: (i, ii) Correct {iii} They were more of a placeholder than anything, I find articles without any pictures much harder to read. I have swapped a couple for more relevant ones, including one of the few pictures I could find of the actual HQ building or staff. Will keep an eye out for more. (iv) Not sure, the French Archives site seems to have lost a lot of its content in the last week or so when it was transferred to the new French Defence Ministry site. That is why the document is only accessible from the Google cache. Hopefully they will sort it out soon, as it prevents you from searching the archives directly and from accessing the French Army personnel lists. (v) Still looking into that. (vi) Typo on my behalf, I think you are correct in that they predate ISBNs (vii) this source from La Garde seems to indicate that Foch remained outside of the GQG structure and was instead appointed to the higher "Grand Quartier Général des Armées Alliées" (GQGA) (still trying to find the name it was known as in English) as "Général en Chef des Armées Alliées en France" on 26 March 1918. It is described as similar to the French GQG and the British GHQ with responsibility for co-ordinating the actions of the allied general staffs. The staff at GQGA is described as very small (just 175 officers) and seems to mainly serve as Foch's instrument in directing the war. It is never really disbanded, just reduced in size and morphed into the Allied Military Committee of Versailles ( info here). So I think the situation was that GQG remained under Pétain until the end but the GQGA was set over all the allied general staffs and that was under Foch. Hopefully I will be able to add something into the article about this (and then look at starting an article for the GQGA!) (viii) Thanks (ix, x) Still looking into that. Hopefully be back with more info as and when I find it - Dumelow ( talk) 10:50, 20 January 2013 (UTC)
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Thanks for the fix, Dumelow. I notified on 24 March at Talk:Main_Page#WP:ITN_-_most_recent_blurb, but was unable to find Template:In the news :) -- Vejvančický ( talk / contribs) 07:18, 26 March 2013 (UTC)
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I have started a stub article called Volunteer corps (1794-1814) which I'll try to flesh out in the next few days; please feel free to contribute. Thanks for your help. Alansplodge ( talk) 13:58, 23 April 2013 (UTC)
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Hi Dumelow, I'm looking at scheduling the next Nottingham meetup, probably on a Sunday in August or September. Are there any dates that work well or don't work at all for you? I can't promise anything, but we have our choice of dates as long as we can claim a date for Nottingham before any of the others are scheduled. Best, HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 14:29, 9 July 2013 (UTC)
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There are two WP:RFCs at WP:FOUR. The first is to conflate issues so as to keep people from expressing meaningful opinions. The second, by me, is claimed to be less than neutral by proponents of the first. Please look at the second one, which I think is much better.-- TonyTheTiger ( T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 06:26, 20 August 2013 (UTC)
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This is a note to let the main editors of Charles Inglis (engineer) know that the article will be appearing as today's featured article on September 3, 2013. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page. If you prefer that the article appear as TFA on a different date, or not at all, please ask featured article director Raul654 ( talk · contribs) or one of his delegates ( Dabomb87 ( talk · contribs), Gimmetoo ( talk · contribs), and Bencherlite ( talk · contribs)), or start a discussion at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests. You can view the TFA blurb at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/September 3, 2013. If it needs tweaking, or if it needs rewording to match improvements to the article between now and its main page appearance, please edit it, following the instructions at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/instructions. The blurb as it stands now is below:
Charles Inglis (1875–1952) was a British civil engineer who has been described as the greatest teacher of engineering of his time. He was educated at King's College, Cambridge, and then spent two years with the engineering firm run by John Wolfe-Barry before returning to King's College as a lecturer. Working with Professors James Alfred Ewing and Bertram Hopkinson, he made several important studies into the effects of vibration on structures and defects on the strength of plate steel. Inglis served in the Royal Engineers during the First World War and invented the Inglis Bridge, a reusable steel bridging system (example pictured) – the precursor to the Bailey bridge of the Second World War. In 1916 he was placed in charge of bridge design and supply at the War Office and, with Giffard Le Quesne Martel, pioneered the use of temporary bridges with tanks. He returned to Cambridge University after the war as head of the Engineering Department, which became the largest in the university and one of the best regarded engineering schools in the world. Knighted in 1945, he spent his later years developing his theories on the education of engineers and wrote a textbook on applied mechanics. ( Full article...)
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Excellent! -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 05:39, 3 September 2013 (UTC)
I have a very minor quibble with the article. It's mentioned that From 1923, he was involved with the analysis of vibration and its effects on railway bridges for British Railways, including a period spent working with Christopher Hinton during the latter's final year as a student at Cambridge. I don't have access to the reference but wondered if either the text is confused or someone has mistaken the plural "British railways", meaning the four major companies post 1923 grouping, and has instead capitalised the word railways and linked it to British Railways, which (as you probably know, so I'll apologise in advance) only came into being in 1948.
There are so many people running around with tools like AWB linking to the wrong thing, I couldn't begin to see where the error crept in but I figure it's best to leave it in the hands of someone with the reference material to correct and reword if necessary.
It's a very good article and thoroughly interesting to read, well done and thank you. Nick ( talk) 17:56, 3 September 2013 (UTC)
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Hi Dumelow! You have created this map and I am interested which source you have used for the borders of the concessions. It looks similar to the map from Red Rubber, but seems not to be exactly the some. For using this map in Wikipedia it seems to be necessary to attribute the source and specify the date of this map. Regards -- Chricho ∀ ( talk) 21:29, 22 September 2013 (UTC)
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Hi Dumelow ! You are perfectly justified in thinking that it was a typo since I had to use one reference for both the date and the names of the invading tribes. Do you think that we need to repeat the reference to Watson per following?
The Battle of Lake Benacus was fought along the banks of Lake Garda in northern Italy, which was known to the Romans as Benacus, in 268[2] or early 269 AD,[1] between the army under the command of the Roman Emperor Claudius II and the Germanic tribes of the Alamanni and Juthungi.[1]
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Per this - Dumelow ( talk) 09:05, 9 March 2014 (UTC)