User talk:Andy Dingley

• Hey. I saw this Comparison of pumps at AfD and thought you might have insights to offer. I see you're retired, but maybe someone watching your page will want to weigh in. Take care. ChildofMidnight (talk) 23:35, 22 October 2009 (UTC)

Merlin engined cars

Sorry, Andy, no technical details. The piece I unearthed yesterday read in its entirety "The second Jameson Special, a six-wheeled torpedo which had its 26.7 litre motor two-stage supercharged, I actually drove within earshot of Dorking. That now languishes in a Dutch museum". It was somewhat peripheral to Ronald "Steady" Barker celebrating the registration of a project car, viz. a Daimler DS420 with a Napier Lion where one would normally expect to find the Lord Mayor. The 2-stage blower suggests a Merlin rather than a Meteor, though I'm pretty sure The Beast had the latter.

There was a much more comprehensive article in either Autocar or Motor when the six-wheeler first broke cover, but alas all my magazines from that era went to the tip many years ago, so nothing about fuel or installation details. I'd have thought an aero engine would have been fairly happy drinking leaded five-star (certainly the assorted 2.0l Pinto-engined Fords which transported Clan Larrington around that time much preferred it to the muck available in the early 90s). The only thing I do remember from the article is that the transmission originally came from a Stoke-on-Trent Corporation bus! Mr Larrington (talk) 14:44, 27 October 2009 (UTC)

Found evidence of another Merlin-engined car the other day, this being a Merlin-engined Phantom II which had been acquired incomplete by Nick Harley (the bloke who paid five million quid for the ex-Briggs Cunningham Bugatti Royale Kellener saloon. Again no technical details chiz. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mr Larrington (talk • contribs) 13:26, 29 October 2009 (UTC)

Glossary of boiler terminology

The boiler pages have been quiet since your retirement, but a new-ish editor has commented on the layout of this glossary and, I think, would like to re-format it. Do you have a view on this? I know I suggested (recommended??) this style for the page, but I no longer have strong feelings about it. -- EdJogg (talk) 13:45, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

Talkback

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Talkback

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Netalarmtalk 18:49, 9 November 2009 (UTC)

I was very nearly put off posting by the "retired" notice above, but, on seeing that you have contributions more recent than that notice, I have decided to go ahead, so here you are:

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Shhh! Don't tell everyone! He's now editing undercover... (Looking at his contributions list is cheating!) -- EdJogg (talk) 02:07, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

Only because I'm getting paid for it...

ceci n'est pas une talk page

I just have to say that I loved your reply to The PIPE: ceci n'est pas une talk page LOL :-D -- Phoenix (talk) 22:03, 10 November 2009 (UTC)

OpenPSI

Hi Andy. Could you expand on [1]? I can think of dozens of JISC funded projects in the semantic web / linked data-ish area. Is there any reason why you feel this one is especially prominent? I work in this field, and I've never heard of it. Cheers shellac (talk) 16:48, 16 November 2009 (UTC)

I don't feel it is, "especially prominent"

Why does it need to be? We have WP:Policy, and that means WP:NOTABILITY - AND NO MORE THAN THIS. Despite some recent AfDs, SemWeb articles are not held to some higher standard of "prominence" as well as notability. Any attempt by some editors to do this should be resisted - or else redirected to WP:Policy until they've re-written WP:N.

As to WP:N, then pretty much anything of this size and with these parties involved in it generates a large footprint that meets WP:N, WP:RS & WP:V, just because it's the nature of government projects. Doesn't mean it's interesting, certainly not "interesting enough I'm going to get off my backside and write it", but it is good enough grounds to leave an article alone if someone else has done the legwork on it.

Personally I know of OpenPSI because I'm a SemWeb geek (although that now appears to mean that I must never edit WP again!) and I'm also interested in family genealogy - so when I saw it through some National Archives mailings, I happened to pay attention. Andy Dingley (talk) 17:35, 16 November 2009 (UTC)

It's a JISCRI project, a 6 month, <40k, chance to do some quick hacking. At Bristol we've got at least two of them, one semweb one. OpenPSI was added by one of the members of the project. shellac (talk) 20:10, 16 November 2009 (UTC)

So what's the budget cutoff to be notable these days? I just don't understand why SemWeb is being expected to exceed the usual policy levels.

PS Where in Bristol? ILRT? Andy Dingley (talk) 23:25, 16 November 2009 (UTC)

Napier deltic

I see you have re-added the faulty image. As I don't currently have the time, skill, or knowledge to create an animated replacement I have added a small note to the image description to prevent potential confusion.

Best wishes.87.102.78.86 (talk) 17:09, 16 November 2009 (UTC)

Haven't touched that image in months.

This was actually re-added by user:Wdl1961. I happen to agree with this, and with your note, but I wouldn't have re-added it myself. Andy Dingley (talk) 17:40, 16 November 2009 (UTC)

Image source

Hi Andy, I wonder if you could add all and any publishing detail that you may have to the permission of File:ArticulatedConnectingRod.jpg? It has been questioned at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Rolls-Royce R/archive1, I would really like to keep the image in this article. Cheers Nimbus (Cumulus nimbus floats by) 23:48, 18 November 2009 (UTC)