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History of Rail Transport

I repaired the link to Railways in the Greek and Roman World.Phmoreno (talk) 00:53, 19 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

CPU cache

Yes, I think you are right Ferry24.Milan (talk) 17:54, 26 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Your suggestion is ok but I do not know how to make this. I am an expert in this field but not in wiki. Can you help me ?. Thanks Ferry24.Milan (talk) 18:17, 26 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Ferry24.Milan: Go to the CPU cache talk page rather than mine. I'm more than happy to assist, but to develop the page we really need the talk there where all editors can see it.

Next, work out exactly what you think the problem is, one step at a time.
Use a numbered list if it helps - like this one - it can help other editors to refer to your points.
Don't worry too much at this stage about layout or phrasing, particularly if English is not your mother tongue, just concentrate on the facts.

Hope that helps, Martin of Sheffield (talk) 21:58, 26 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Clog dancing

In my sandbox I have just found this half developed piece that I had lost and forgotten about. User:ClemRutter/sandbox4. I was thinking of either merging into Clog dance (British) or launching it as Clog dance (North-west England). What do you think? Do you want to adopt it and do something else with it? --ClemRutter (talk) 13:11, 9 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

My first thought is merge. I'll have a fuller look though in a few days if you like. I'm in the midst of revising for a radio operator's exam and can be found muttering the phonetic alphabet to myself or else broadcasting a mayday to the computers! Over. Martin of Sheffield (talk) 13:21, 9 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Mungo Park revision

Martin;

 Thank you for the correction.  Yes, the legend does interfere with the view of the river and was the cause of my poorly researched revision.  Pipey1  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pipey1 (talk • contribs) 23:40, 28 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Help with new recorder?

Martin, are you still monitoring these pages? I have a new recorder, different from the previous, and I would appreciate some advice, or at least an opinion.

Steve from Australia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Old wombat (talk • contribs) 04:53, 2 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Request suggestion for Edith Cavell reference.

The addition I made to the Edith Cavell page was removed; you commented that it sounded like a book promotion. I'd like to have the contemporary reference to Edith Cavell acknowledged. Can you suggest how I can make this sound less like a book promotion? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Habakkuk21 (talk • contribs) 15:12, 11 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I've answered this on the talk page so that other editors can give their opinions. Martin of Sheffield (talk) 15:49, 11 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Salutations

Salutations and thanks for the post on my talk page. As I'm a bit new here, would you be able to suggest an alternative wording? I did say "Please share your comments at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2017_January_19#Category:Persecution_by_atheists, regardless of your opinion (emphasis mine)." The triangle was not my doing but was generated from clicking on the blue button on top of the noticeboard. Eliko007 (talk) 23:58, 25 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Union Jack

The statement in the article is an accurate summary of events. If you think it reads like a bit of trivia that may be because it is.©Geni (talk) 10:25, 11 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Church bells

Thanks for note; Yes I didn't finish that edit off too well, but have fixed it, also cleaned up a lot of other stuff that was cluttering and confusing the page Regards Dougsim (talk)

May I ask how i can Quote something out of a documentary, since the information comes from planet earth II, with this I would also like to ask if this is a reliable source. Kind regards, A wikipedia user — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.113.223.38 (talk) 11:52, 22 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks for BS. The work goes on and roping the RW in now to create commons images.Dougsim (talk) 11:26, 12 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Kings and Maths

Have you looked at the two articles recently? Kings has barely a reference- and Maths has none. I don't have either school history on my bookshelf - seems a shame to delete them though!--ClemRutter (talk) 10:12, 12 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Clem. I hadn't looked at either page recently, they are on my watchlist so I keep an eye out for vandalism but otherwise haven't done anything to them. I agree they need more references, I'll try to give them a kicking at some point in the near future. There's no sense in talking about deletion; citations are only required for contentious and challenged material (see WP:CITE), though clearly they are desirable for all material. I would suggest that the existing tags are quite sufficient. Regards, Martin of Sheffield (talk) 10:22, 12 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

secondary modern sense of humour! Thanks.--ClemRutter (talk) 10:49, 12 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Gentle kick applied to Maths. Feel free to add to it if you want. Martin of Sheffield (talk) 12:25, 12 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

What are those?

The translators of KJV were seeking to get the original meaning from Hebrew and Greek. Fold and Flock in that passage means the same thing. It is just a literary style of the translator of not repeating the same word twice. The reader gets it (anybody with basic knowledge of English) that the the author is trying to convey the same meaning.

And what other evidence is that the NT in KJV uses Vulgate?