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A couple of years ago, I became aware that there was a reference article, not contributed by myself, describing my original 'Jacobson Flare', the World's first and only universal, quantifiable, consistent, safest and unassailable aeroplane/airplane approach and landing training technique. Some time later, I was aware of on-line comment or comments, disparaging this technique, made by a person or persons unknown to me, clearly with no knowledge of the technique, but with some sort of grudge against me, personally. Some time after that, the article describing the Jacobson Flare was removed from Wikipedia, with no effort made to contact me for comment or further information. (I'm not that hard to find!) I MAY wish to contribute a new article – as the researcher/developer/director, but I will NOT do so if mere personal issues or whims can result in an article relating to a ground-breaking technique (based on facts, logic and some lateral thinking) being torn down, with no recourse to its owner/developer. The Jacobson Flare, conceived in 1965 (at the beginning of my 50+ year flying career in civil aviation) and developed from 1985 onwards is a proven landing training technique that needs no validation from armchair experts. My website, www.jacobsonflare.com has much further information, including its history, pilot testimonials and more. Briefly, the technique defines a pilot 'eye path', from final approach to touchdown, using among other things, the application of simple triangulation to FIX the flare initiation point, rather than relying on an 'educated' guess of physical height above the runway or other landing surface. It provides factual answers (found NOWHERE ELSE) to the following questions: Where to aim? How to aim? When to commence the flare? How mucho flare? and How fast to flare? (i.e., the flare rate) Since my retirement in 2010, from Qantas Airways Ltd Australia, as a former B737 Check and Training Captain (Type Rating and Flight Instructor), after 40 years in the airline and its domestic predecessors, Trans-Australia Airlines (TAA)/Australian Airlines Ltd), I developed and released the Jacobson Flare App for the iPad (June 2014) and, recently (March 2020), new versions for the iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch (iTunes App Store)and Android (GooglePlay). Several thousand copies of this paid app have now been purchased by pilots in 65 nations. Since 1987, I have offered a solution to landing training; however, the world doesn't realise yet that it even has a problem. Modern, so-called 'state-of-the-art' flight training organisations still perpetuate myths and legends, dating back to the end of World War One, in 1918. The closed-minded individuals who insisted that the original Jacobson Flare article be torn down merely followed the very old and quite dangerous dogma that besets many topics other than just the Jacobson Flare: "WE'VE ALWAYS DONE IT THIS WAY". |
I would very much appreciate your advice on how best to re-establish an entry for The Jacobson Flare, in Wikipedia. Both institutions deserve no less.
Captain David Jacobson FRAeS MAP
Developer/Director
The Jacobson Flare Pty Ltd
www.jacobsonflare.com
JacobsonFlare ( talk) 04:30, 8 April 2020 (UTC)
— Preceding unsigned comment added by JacobsonFlare ( talk • contribs) 04:14, 8 April 2020 (UTC)
ref 8 is in red. I cannot fix it up. Please assist if you can. Thankyou 175.32.219.132 ( talk) 06:19, 8 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi! Lundin Petroleum has changed its name to Lundin Energy, but I can´t seem to be able to change the name of the page. I found this guide for changing name: /info/en/?search=Help:How_to_move_a_page but I don´t have the "more" menu as shown in the description to be able to do this. Can someone help me? — Preceding unsigned comment added by JennySand87 ( talk • contribs) 07:21, 8 April 2020 (UTC)
This edit prompts me to ask if Wikipedia has installed any anti-virus program so that editor's computer won't get infected while checking the sources. -- Reciprocater (Talk) 08:25, 8 April 2020 (UTC)
hello, on an artist wikipedia page, is it ok to use the artists own website for sources? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tobbe s 97 ( talk • contribs) 09:04, 8 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi. Recently 86.150.157.82 ( talk · contribs) was blocked for disruptive behaviour on reality show articles, including changing colours unnecessarily, making inconsistent changes to results tables, etc. Now 86.170.140.177 ( talk · contribs) is doing the same thing, which, per WP:DUCK, makes me think that it's the same person evading the block. I've previously reported such a case to WP:SPI, but was told that that was inappropriate when there was no registered user account present. What's the right course of action here? Thanks. YorkshireLad ✿ (talk) 11:44, 8 April 2020 (UTC)
Here's a headshot like image of Ed Wood, which is a cropped screenshot of a scene from his (public domain) movie Glen or Glenda. Could this or should this image replace the current infobox picture of Ed Wood, which is being used under Fair Use? StrangeloveFan101 ( talk) 12:55, 8 April 2020 (UTC)
Hello,
I'm looking for some statistics about Wikimedia Commons for an article in a professional periodical. I'm wondering how I can find statistics on the number of pictures by big subject (for example: nature, animals, people, monuments, art pieces...). I'm also looking for statitics by epoch or by decade. I imagine that the pictures taken by digital cameras represent a huge part of the pictures, that means that the last 15-20 years are over-represented in Wikimedia Commons. Do we have figures about that? I thnak you in advance. Have a nice afternoon. -- Delsaut ( talk) 14:34, 8 April 2020 (UTC)
I really don't understand why although this an article of an FM station that was purchased by Holy Family Radio from Ohio Northern University with a callsign change...why do you want to delete this??? I spent some extra time late last night gathering information for the External links section..some of it refers to the soon to be defunct on-air station WONB to become WOHA. The power output and frequency remains the same...and I am awaiting some new info from the FCC link for the callsign switch from WONB to WOHA. AS THE ARTICLE STATES...WONB HAS BEEN SOLD to the new owners, that being Holy Family Communications as of December of 2019. Station manager Jeff Compton informed me by email a month ago that the FCC has approved the transaction....so in the meantime WONB continues to broadcast on the air until Holy Family Communications takes over the station sometime this month. According to a telephone conversation I had with Mr. Compton nearly a week ago, he informed me that Holy Family Radio programming on 94.9 (the soon to be defunct WONB..which will switchover to webcasting) will comnmence on Monday April 20, of 2020 as WOHA.
With that said I implore you not to delete the article on WOHA-FM. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wrpojimmatthews ( talk • contribs) 15:44, 8 April 2020 (UTC)
I got one from an different language. Why is that? New3400 ( talk) 16:46, 8 April 2020 (UTC)
How do I stop it then? New3400 ( talk) 16:53, 8 April 2020 (UTC)
As I am an 80% disabled veteran, I know that I should receive preferential treatment from my GP as well as medical services at North Tees. I don't and I've tried and failed to contact via email, the Deputy Director for Medical Services in order to make a full compliant with regards to what my problem IS! In the main the problem IS that both my feet - ankles - lower legs are very swollen, sore a have spots. Every medic that I've been to or have come to my home, places the bliam on my being a type2 Diabetic? I've had me heart checked around about 5 times and no fault found. I spent 9.5 months on water tablets and all that occurred was me having to pee every 30 minutes and my legs remained swollen and painful. So my GP sent me too the Lower Limb Specialist, who lost his rag and wrote to my GP setting out his anger and pointing out that the problem that I had was in fact the realm of the Lymphoedema Specialist Service! So I received a letter from this service to arrange a home appointment. The nurse was supposed to arrive at 1145am but did not arrive till 1205pm. The letter also stated that she would be here for 1hour and 30 mins. She left telling me that there was 'NOTHING' she could do for me and inferred that the cause was, yet again:- 'TYPE 2 DIABETEES'.???????? sincerely:- RedDog -- RedDog338 ( talk) 17:03, 8 April 2020 (UTC)
Dear all, I moved an article from my sandbox to wikipedia ( /info/en/?search=Steve_Forward) but it is written: "This sandbox is in the article namespace. Either move this page into your userspace, or remove the user sandbox template". I already searched on wikipedia how I can remove the "user sandbox template" and tried to follow the instructions, but the message is still on the page. How may I fix it ? Many thanks in advance.
Zebulon28 ( talk) 17:41, 8 April 2020 (UTC)
Victor Schmidt ( talk) 17:43, 8 April 2020 (UTC) Thank you Victor for your quick answer. But the problem seems still to be there. When I am searching the article on Wikipedia "search results", the message still shows next to the name.
Zebulon28 ( talk) 18:13, 8 April 2020 (UTC)
Thank you so much for all your kind answers! Stay safe. Zebulon28 ( talk) 06:37, 9 April 2020 (UTC)
The numbers in the categories of cases and deaths listed by county do not add up to the totals listed for the state. The totals are understated. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.5.164.81 ( talk) 21:19, 8 April 2020 (UTC)
[[Article name]]
. Also, it's generally best to post queries about a specific page to the page's talk page. For example, questions about
Coronavirus disease 2019 are at
Talk:Coronavirus disease 2019. —[
AlanM1 (
talk)]—
21:57, 8 April 2020 (UTC)Good Afternoon,
I submitted a contribution about a week ago and am still waiting on approval for it to be published. Is there anything I can do to speed up the process or can I get an update on when I can expect to know whether or not it will be approved? — Preceding unsigned comment added by WillnerM21 ( talk • contribs) 22:02, 8 April 2020 (UTC)
Help desk | ||
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< April 7 | << Mar | April | May >> | April 9 > |
Welcome to the Wikipedia Help Desk Archives |
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The page you are currently viewing is an archive page. While you can leave answers for any questions shown below, please ask new questions on one of the current Help Desk pages. |
Hello, Wikipedia Help Desk,
extended explanation
|
---|
A couple of years ago, I became aware that there was a reference article, not contributed by myself, describing my original 'Jacobson Flare', the World's first and only universal, quantifiable, consistent, safest and unassailable aeroplane/airplane approach and landing training technique. Some time later, I was aware of on-line comment or comments, disparaging this technique, made by a person or persons unknown to me, clearly with no knowledge of the technique, but with some sort of grudge against me, personally. Some time after that, the article describing the Jacobson Flare was removed from Wikipedia, with no effort made to contact me for comment or further information. (I'm not that hard to find!) I MAY wish to contribute a new article – as the researcher/developer/director, but I will NOT do so if mere personal issues or whims can result in an article relating to a ground-breaking technique (based on facts, logic and some lateral thinking) being torn down, with no recourse to its owner/developer. The Jacobson Flare, conceived in 1965 (at the beginning of my 50+ year flying career in civil aviation) and developed from 1985 onwards is a proven landing training technique that needs no validation from armchair experts. My website, www.jacobsonflare.com has much further information, including its history, pilot testimonials and more. Briefly, the technique defines a pilot 'eye path', from final approach to touchdown, using among other things, the application of simple triangulation to FIX the flare initiation point, rather than relying on an 'educated' guess of physical height above the runway or other landing surface. It provides factual answers (found NOWHERE ELSE) to the following questions: Where to aim? How to aim? When to commence the flare? How mucho flare? and How fast to flare? (i.e., the flare rate) Since my retirement in 2010, from Qantas Airways Ltd Australia, as a former B737 Check and Training Captain (Type Rating and Flight Instructor), after 40 years in the airline and its domestic predecessors, Trans-Australia Airlines (TAA)/Australian Airlines Ltd), I developed and released the Jacobson Flare App for the iPad (June 2014) and, recently (March 2020), new versions for the iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch (iTunes App Store)and Android (GooglePlay). Several thousand copies of this paid app have now been purchased by pilots in 65 nations. Since 1987, I have offered a solution to landing training; however, the world doesn't realise yet that it even has a problem. Modern, so-called 'state-of-the-art' flight training organisations still perpetuate myths and legends, dating back to the end of World War One, in 1918. The closed-minded individuals who insisted that the original Jacobson Flare article be torn down merely followed the very old and quite dangerous dogma that besets many topics other than just the Jacobson Flare: "WE'VE ALWAYS DONE IT THIS WAY". |
I would very much appreciate your advice on how best to re-establish an entry for The Jacobson Flare, in Wikipedia. Both institutions deserve no less.
Captain David Jacobson FRAeS MAP
Developer/Director
The Jacobson Flare Pty Ltd
www.jacobsonflare.com
JacobsonFlare ( talk) 04:30, 8 April 2020 (UTC)
— Preceding unsigned comment added by JacobsonFlare ( talk • contribs) 04:14, 8 April 2020 (UTC)
ref 8 is in red. I cannot fix it up. Please assist if you can. Thankyou 175.32.219.132 ( talk) 06:19, 8 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi! Lundin Petroleum has changed its name to Lundin Energy, but I can´t seem to be able to change the name of the page. I found this guide for changing name: /info/en/?search=Help:How_to_move_a_page but I don´t have the "more" menu as shown in the description to be able to do this. Can someone help me? — Preceding unsigned comment added by JennySand87 ( talk • contribs) 07:21, 8 April 2020 (UTC)
This edit prompts me to ask if Wikipedia has installed any anti-virus program so that editor's computer won't get infected while checking the sources. -- Reciprocater (Talk) 08:25, 8 April 2020 (UTC)
hello, on an artist wikipedia page, is it ok to use the artists own website for sources? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tobbe s 97 ( talk • contribs) 09:04, 8 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi. Recently 86.150.157.82 ( talk · contribs) was blocked for disruptive behaviour on reality show articles, including changing colours unnecessarily, making inconsistent changes to results tables, etc. Now 86.170.140.177 ( talk · contribs) is doing the same thing, which, per WP:DUCK, makes me think that it's the same person evading the block. I've previously reported such a case to WP:SPI, but was told that that was inappropriate when there was no registered user account present. What's the right course of action here? Thanks. YorkshireLad ✿ (talk) 11:44, 8 April 2020 (UTC)
Here's a headshot like image of Ed Wood, which is a cropped screenshot of a scene from his (public domain) movie Glen or Glenda. Could this or should this image replace the current infobox picture of Ed Wood, which is being used under Fair Use? StrangeloveFan101 ( talk) 12:55, 8 April 2020 (UTC)
Hello,
I'm looking for some statistics about Wikimedia Commons for an article in a professional periodical. I'm wondering how I can find statistics on the number of pictures by big subject (for example: nature, animals, people, monuments, art pieces...). I'm also looking for statitics by epoch or by decade. I imagine that the pictures taken by digital cameras represent a huge part of the pictures, that means that the last 15-20 years are over-represented in Wikimedia Commons. Do we have figures about that? I thnak you in advance. Have a nice afternoon. -- Delsaut ( talk) 14:34, 8 April 2020 (UTC)
I really don't understand why although this an article of an FM station that was purchased by Holy Family Radio from Ohio Northern University with a callsign change...why do you want to delete this??? I spent some extra time late last night gathering information for the External links section..some of it refers to the soon to be defunct on-air station WONB to become WOHA. The power output and frequency remains the same...and I am awaiting some new info from the FCC link for the callsign switch from WONB to WOHA. AS THE ARTICLE STATES...WONB HAS BEEN SOLD to the new owners, that being Holy Family Communications as of December of 2019. Station manager Jeff Compton informed me by email a month ago that the FCC has approved the transaction....so in the meantime WONB continues to broadcast on the air until Holy Family Communications takes over the station sometime this month. According to a telephone conversation I had with Mr. Compton nearly a week ago, he informed me that Holy Family Radio programming on 94.9 (the soon to be defunct WONB..which will switchover to webcasting) will comnmence on Monday April 20, of 2020 as WOHA.
With that said I implore you not to delete the article on WOHA-FM. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wrpojimmatthews ( talk • contribs) 15:44, 8 April 2020 (UTC)
I got one from an different language. Why is that? New3400 ( talk) 16:46, 8 April 2020 (UTC)
How do I stop it then? New3400 ( talk) 16:53, 8 April 2020 (UTC)
As I am an 80% disabled veteran, I know that I should receive preferential treatment from my GP as well as medical services at North Tees. I don't and I've tried and failed to contact via email, the Deputy Director for Medical Services in order to make a full compliant with regards to what my problem IS! In the main the problem IS that both my feet - ankles - lower legs are very swollen, sore a have spots. Every medic that I've been to or have come to my home, places the bliam on my being a type2 Diabetic? I've had me heart checked around about 5 times and no fault found. I spent 9.5 months on water tablets and all that occurred was me having to pee every 30 minutes and my legs remained swollen and painful. So my GP sent me too the Lower Limb Specialist, who lost his rag and wrote to my GP setting out his anger and pointing out that the problem that I had was in fact the realm of the Lymphoedema Specialist Service! So I received a letter from this service to arrange a home appointment. The nurse was supposed to arrive at 1145am but did not arrive till 1205pm. The letter also stated that she would be here for 1hour and 30 mins. She left telling me that there was 'NOTHING' she could do for me and inferred that the cause was, yet again:- 'TYPE 2 DIABETEES'.???????? sincerely:- RedDog -- RedDog338 ( talk) 17:03, 8 April 2020 (UTC)
Dear all, I moved an article from my sandbox to wikipedia ( /info/en/?search=Steve_Forward) but it is written: "This sandbox is in the article namespace. Either move this page into your userspace, or remove the user sandbox template". I already searched on wikipedia how I can remove the "user sandbox template" and tried to follow the instructions, but the message is still on the page. How may I fix it ? Many thanks in advance.
Zebulon28 ( talk) 17:41, 8 April 2020 (UTC)
Victor Schmidt ( talk) 17:43, 8 April 2020 (UTC) Thank you Victor for your quick answer. But the problem seems still to be there. When I am searching the article on Wikipedia "search results", the message still shows next to the name.
Zebulon28 ( talk) 18:13, 8 April 2020 (UTC)
Thank you so much for all your kind answers! Stay safe. Zebulon28 ( talk) 06:37, 9 April 2020 (UTC)
The numbers in the categories of cases and deaths listed by county do not add up to the totals listed for the state. The totals are understated. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.5.164.81 ( talk) 21:19, 8 April 2020 (UTC)
[[Article name]]
. Also, it's generally best to post queries about a specific page to the page's talk page. For example, questions about
Coronavirus disease 2019 are at
Talk:Coronavirus disease 2019. —[
AlanM1 (
talk)]—
21:57, 8 April 2020 (UTC)Good Afternoon,
I submitted a contribution about a week ago and am still waiting on approval for it to be published. Is there anything I can do to speed up the process or can I get an update on when I can expect to know whether or not it will be approved? — Preceding unsigned comment added by WillnerM21 ( talk • contribs) 22:02, 8 April 2020 (UTC)