Talk:Benjamin Baker (engineer)

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Peterlewis 09:51, 30 January 2006 (UTC) added details of Baker's life and achievements

I have reverted the article twice now to restore images to their rightful place, that is by the section to which they refer. Please explain why anyone wants to rvert again. "Ugliness" is entirly subjective and POV. Peterlewis (talk) 07:44, 18 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Please stop with this reverting again and again. As said, the introduction is the wrong place for these pictures. The pictures of the bridges belong in the section "bridges", because there they are described. That is a much better place, not the introduction. Also, you placed Cleopatras Needle picture two times, that's overdone. And furthermore, the pictures partially overlaps the table of contents, because you totally cluttered the introduction with the pictures, that's ugly! Please give your rationale why to place the picture in the top, instead of the section where they are described. Demophon (talk) 17:46, 18 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Your arrangement is very poor because the pictures all fall to the bottom and are not related to the sections of the article. Very "ugly". If you want to make a reasonable edit, then I suggest you write more text and show some responsibility. Peterlewis (talk) 21:24, 18 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Look, the earlier situation was fine as it was, I don't have to justify that. Instead, you are changing the arrangement, so you have to come with a better reason why (you didn't do that in the edit summary). Don't turn it around!


 * But 'again':
 * Argumentation 1: The is not a lot of space in the top to put a lot of pictures there, since the introduction is short and there is already a Infobox with a picture (on the right) and a content box (on the left) there. There isn't simply not enough space to put three extra pictures there. It makes it even worse because then they are partially overlapping the content box, that's ugly and impractically. But I do not see why it should be changed, since again the pictures have to be put in the right section:
 * Argumentation 2: Pictures of subjects have to be placed in the topic in which the subjects are described. There is a seperate section about the Tay bridge disaster and one about the Forth bridge. So the pictures should be logically be placed there. Demophon (talk) 03:46, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

New York
This-- "referring to his design of the elevated railroad in New York in 1868, some of which still survives in Manhattan (unused)" --is terribly wrong although possibly it is what some source says. The first elevated railroad was definitely designed by Charles T. Harvey, verified by the multiple patents Harvey filed for all the details of the structure. Additionally the last of Harvey's pioneering structure was removed in 1879, replaced by new iron, because it was already too weak for newer trains. JoeBrennan (talk) 00:54, 8 April 2015 (UTC)