User:Martinvl/sandbox

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In 1832 Carl-Friedrich Gauss made the first absolute measurements of the Earth's magnetic field using a decimal system based using the millimetre, milligram, and second as the base unit of time. In his paper, he also presented his results using the metre and gram instead of the millimetre and milligram, also using the Parisian line and the Berlin pound instead of the millimetre and milligram.

There have recently been a number of debates in WP:MOSNUM that ended in an edit-war in the article United Kingdom regarding the primary units of measure UK Geographic articles.

A few years ago, all MOS-type pages relating to regional articles were moved to the WP:MOS tree so that regional recommendations were visible to all. Although units of measure style guide has been centralised at WP:UNITS, there has been little or no input from WP:UKGEO in respect of which units of measure should be the primary units in UK Geographical article. I propose a new mechanism to ensure that WP:UNITS reflects the views of all editors. The process will be that each section of WP:UNITS will be associated with one or another Wikiproject and that debates regarding that section will take place on the talk pages of the Wikiproject concerned. Those editors connected with WP:UNITS rather than the project will have a responsibility for coordinating various inputs and ensuring a consistent format of the WP:UNITS page.

I propose therefore that WP:UNITS be amended as follows:
 * The following section is inserted between the subsections "UK engineering-related articles" and "Other articles":
 * UK geographical-related articles
 * Although Geography is usually classed a science at times it has been classed as a humanity. In order to cover both these aspects, geographic measurements that are specific to the United Kingdom should use SI units as the primary unit of measure (as per scientific articles) followed by, where appropriate, the equivalent alternative (imperial) unit in brackets (as per non-science articles). All changes to this definition are to be debated at WP:UKGEO.


 * In the sub-section "Other articles", the text
 * In non-science and non-engineering UK-related articles: the main quantity is generally ...
 * is replaced by
 * In other UK-related articles: the main quantity is generally ...
 * This is a general maintenance change.

Survey
*Support
 * This proposal will maintain the status quo in all UK articles that I have looked at (apart from United Kingdom where an edit war broke out when User:Wee Curry Monster changed the ordering of units of measure in that article). It also follows the normal usage of units of measure in scholastic, educational and public administration circles and is therefore appropriate for use in an encyclopaedia. Martinvl (talk) 14:31, 16 October 2013 (UTC)

Threaded discussion
RFC

There have recently been a number of debates in WP:MOSNUM and edit-warring regarding units of measure UK Geographic articles. To date there has been little or no input from WP:UKGEO. A few years ago, all MOS-type pages relating to regional article were moved to the WP:MOS tree. I propose ensuring that the current consensus regarding units of measure in UK Geographic articles is likewise moved into the WP:MOS tree. The most approriate place to record current practice is at WP:UNITS. In order to ensire what appears to be current consensus is perpetuated, I propose that WP:Units be amended as follows:
 * The following section is inserted between the subsections "UK engineering-related articles" and "Other articles":
 * UK geographical-related articles
 * Although Geography is usually classed a science it has at times been classed as a humanity. In order to cover both these aspects, geographic measurements that are specific to the United Kingdom should use SI units as the primary unit of measure (as per scientific articles) followed by, where appropriate, the equivalent alternative (imperial) unit in brackets (as per non-science articles).
 * A hidden comment will be added to this section stating that it should not be changed unless debated at WT:UKGEO.


 * In the sub-section "Other articles", the text
 * In non-science and non-engineering UK-related articles: the main quantity is generally ...
 * is replaced by
 * In other UK-related articles: the main quantity is generally ...

Survey
*Support
 * This proposal will maintain the status quo in all UK articles that I have looked at (apart from United Kingdom where an edit war broke out when User:Wee Curry Monster changed the ordering of units of measure in that article). It also follows the normal usage of units of measure in scholastic, educational and public administration circles and is therefore appropriate for use in an encyclopeadia. Martinvl (talk) 17:06, 15 October 2013 (UTC)

Threaded discussion
The question of measurement reform in France was placed in the hands of the French Academy of Sciences who appointed a commission chaired by Jean-Charles de Borda. Borda could be said to have been a fanatic for decimalization: he had designed the repeating circle, a surveying instrument which allowed a much-improved precision in the measurement of angles between landmarks, but insisted that it be calibrated in "grades" ($1/undefined$ of a quarter-circle) rather than degrees, with 100 minutes to a grade and 100 seconds to a minute. The instrument was manufactured by Étienne Lenoir. For Borda, the seconds pendulum was a poor choice for a standard because the second (as a unit of time) was insufficiently decimal: he preferred the new system of 10 hours to the day, 100 minutes to the hour and 100 seconds to the minute.
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Instead, the commission – whose members included Lagrange, Laplace, Monge and Condorcet – decided that the new measure should be equal to one ten-millionth of the distance from the North Pole to the Equator (the quadrant of the Earth's circumference), measured along the meridian passing through Paris. Apart from the obvious nationalistic considerations, the Paris meridian was also a sound choice for practical scientific reasons: a portion of the quadrant from Dunkerque to Barcelona (about 1000 km, or one-tenth of the total) could be surveyed with start- and end-points at sea level, and that portion was roughly in the middle of the quadrant, where the effects of the Earth's oblateness were expected to be the largest.

The task of surveying the meridian arc, which was authorized by Louis XVI and which was estimated to take two years, fell to Pierre Méchain and Jean-Baptiste Delambre. The task eventually took more than six years (1792–98) with delays caused not only by unforeseen technical difficulties but also by the convulsed period of the aftermath of the Revolution. In the meantime, the commission calculated a provisional value from older surveys of 443.44 lignes.

The project was split into two parts – the northern section of 742.7 km from the Belfry, Dunkirk to Rodez Cathederal which was surveyed by Delambre and the southern section of 333.0 km from Rodez to the Montjuïc Fortress, Barcelona which was surveyed by Méchain.

Delambre used a baseline of about 10 km in length along a straight road, located close to Melun. In an operation taking six weeks, the baseline was accurately measured using four platinum rods, each of length two toise (about 3.9 m). Thereafter he used, where possible, the triangulation points used by Cassini in his 1744 survey of France. Méchain's baseline, of a similar length, and also on a straight section of road was in the Perpignan area. Although Méchain's sector was half the length of Delambre, it included the Pyrenees and hitherto unsurveyed parts of Spain. After the two surveyors met, each computed the other's baseline in order to cross-check their results and they then recomputed the kilometre. Their result came out at 0.144 lignes shorter than the provisional value, a difference of about 0.03%.

References

It is in fact User:Kahastok who is Gaming the system.
 * He is showing contempt of the Wikipedia process for publishing guidelines. I request that he be instructed to revert this change.

In 2010 he was the principal editor of the page WP:FALKLANDSUNITS which he claims to be based on consensus within the Falkland Islands work group was published. My contesting of this on assertion and off over the years has been the source of considerable conflict, the most recent of which in this thread and associated discussions at WP:ANI. During the past ferw days I realised that this page had never been been subject to a"high level of consensus from the entire community for promotion to guideline or policy" as specified by WP:PROPOSAL, so in order to get clarification as to whether this was a proper guideline or not, I formally submitted it as a Wikipedia Guideline as per WP:PROPOSAL. Amongst other things, WP:PROCESS says "... The template should be placed at the top of the proposed page ...". I have added this template to the page but Kahastok removed the template here, here and after I issued a vandalism warning here.

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Martinvl (talk) 13:50, 7 September 2013 (UTC)

Metrology author

Prior to this, the strength earth’s magnetic field had only been described in relative terms. The technique used by Gauss was to compare the torque induced on a suspended magnet of known mass by the earth’s magnetic field with the torque induced on an equivalent system under gravity, thereby equating mechanical and magnetic forces.

Publisher

Gauss references Brian Leonard
 * Survey of natural systems
 * Gauss' original paper on magnetism
 * Measurement of Coriolis force in mine pg 4/5
 * General paper
 * Cardarelli's book
 * Gaussian system of units

1830 German handbook of weights and measures

Legendre and the French Reform of Weights and Measures

This is done at the cost of losing the simplicity associated with many traditional systems of units where division by 3 or 4 does not result in awkward fractions; for example one third of a foot is four inches, a simplicity that in 1790 was debated, but rejected by the originators of the metric system.

Prototype
Standard (metrology) - introduce etalon, prototype, standard. OED

étalon - Etymology: French étalon (Fabry & Pérot 1902, in Ann. de Chimie et Physique XXV. 107), lit. ‘a standard (of weights, measures, etc.)’

prototype - Etymology: Middle French, French prototype first or primary type, exemplar (1552) or its etymon post-classical Latin prototypum, prototypon prototypon n

The first or primary type of a person or thing; an original on which something is modelled or from which it is derived; an exemplar, an archetype.

1552 - "... may be resembled to a paterne, or prothotipe newly inuented ..."

In model-making: a full-size original of which a model is a representation on a reduced scale

Standard - The authorized exemplar of a unit of measure or weight; e.g. a measuring rod of unit length; a vessel of unit capacity, or a mass of metal of unit weight, preserved in the custody of public officers as a permanent evidence of the legally prescribed magnitude of the unit.

In abstract sense: The legal magnitude of a unit of measure or weight

The substance or thing which is chosen to afford the unit measure of any physical quantity, such as specific gravity.

An authoritative or recognized exemplar of correctness, perfection, or some definite degree of any quality.

A rule, principle, or means of judgement or estimation; a criterion, measure

Special - Old French especial (see especial adj.) or Latin speciālis individual, particular

Metre Convention (http://www.bipm.org/utils/common/documents/official/metre-convention.pdf) étalon - translated as "standard" prototype - translated as "prototype"

Table 9
Notes

United Kingdom and the former Empire
Even though the use of metric units were legalised for trade in 1864, the United Kingdom had signed the Metre Convention in 1884 and Parliament had defined the yard and the pound in terms of the metre and the kilogram in 1897, the United Kingdom continued to use the imperial system of measure and to export the imperial system of units to the Empire. In 1932, the system of Imperial Preference was set up at the Ottawa Conference. Although Ireland left the Commonwealth in 1948 and South Africa in 1961, both continued their close economic ties with the Commonwealth. Image here When the SI standard was published in 1960, the only major Commonwealth country to have adopted the metric system was India. In 1965, after numerous false starts the then Federation of British Industry informed the British Government that its members favoured the adoption of the metric system. The rationale behind the request was that 80% of British exports were to countries that used the metric system or that were considering changing to the metric system. The Board of Trade, on behalf of the Government, agreed to support a ten-year metrication programme. The government agreed to a voluntary policy requiring minimal legislation and costs being to be borne where they fell. SI would be used from the outset. The rest of the Commonwealth, South Africa and Ireland followed within a few years; in some counties such as South Africa and Australia metrication was mandatory rather than voluntary.

Industries who stood to reduce costs metricated quickly, but those sectors that were to incur high costs with little return, particularly the retail sector, opposed metrication. In December 1970, a full year before the publication of the Government White Paper on Metrication, the Department of Transport postponed the metrication of road speed limits indefinitely. By 1980 all apart from the United Kingdom, Canada and Ireland had effectively completed their programs. In the United Kingdom the breakdown of voluntary metrication in the mid-1970s coincided with the United Kingdom's obligations as part of the EEC to adopt the metric system, resulting in legislation to force metrication in certain areas. The Eurosceptic movement adopted an anti-metrication stance while the United Kingdom Government sought a number of derogations from the relevant EEC directives. By 1980 when the Metrication Board was wound up, Britain effectively had two systems of measurement&mdash;"one for the housewife and one for the businessman". When, in 2000, an EU directive made it mandatory to use metric units when weighing goods in front of the customer, most aspects of British life, especially in government, commerce and industry used SI though this caused a backlash resulting in the Metric Martyrs court case in which the Eurosceptic movement used metrication challenge the supremacy of European Community law over UK domestic statutes.

Although SI or units approved for use alongside SI are used in most areas where units of measure are regulated imperial units are widely encountered in unregulated areas such as the press and everyday speech. Canada has adopted it for most purposes, but imperial units are still legally permitted and remain in common use throughout a few sectors of Canadian society, particularly in the buildings, trades and railways sectors. The situation in Ireland, apart from road signs which were metricated in the early 2000s, is similar to that in the United Kingdom.

Ancestry
George's four grandparents represent four different strata of British society&mdash;royalty, the aristocracy, the untitled establishment and the working class.

At the time of George's birth, his paternal grandfather, Charles, Prince of Wales was heir to the throne of the United Kingdom. Charles' is patrilineal descent is from the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg and his paternal ancestry includes George I of Greece, Nicholas I of Russia. Charles' maternal descent, and many  and the Dukes of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg. In addition to the British royal line, Charles' was descended from Christian IX of Denmark on both his paternal and maternal sides and also counted many German dukes and grand dukes among his ancestors.

George's paternal grandmother was Diana, Princess of Wales, daughter of John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer whose ancestors included Edward Baring, 1st Baron Revelstoke, James Hamilton, 3rd Duke of Abercorn and the Charles Bingham, 4th Earl of Lucan. In addition, her maternal grandfather was the Maurice Roche, 4th Baron Fermoy.

George's maternal grandfather was Michael Middleton whose own grandfathers Richard Middleton and Frederick Glassborow were described as a solicitor and a bank manager respectively. Michael Middleton's grandmother was Olive Lupton, a member of the Lupton woollen manufacturing family. George's maternal grandmother was Carole Middleton ((née Goldsmith) who two grandfathers were described as a builder's labourer and a carpenter respectively.

Cobulator
I request that this merger proposal be speedily closed with the decision "Rejected". I believe that this is a malicious proposal by a banned editor. The rational is as follows: The case for writing the article in the first place is Talk:Imperial and US customary measurement systems.
 * 1) The merge proposal was made at about 22:00 on 11 July 2013 by an unregistered user
 * 2) The IP addressed used by that was 212.183.140.15, a dynamic address owned by Vodafone.
 * 3) Earlier that day User:Cobulator was banned as a sock-puppet of User:DeFacto
 * 4) User:DeFacto has used IP addresses from Vodafone in the past – here and here
 * 5) Sockpuppets of User:DeFacto proposed a similar merge of the article Metrication of British Transport back into Metrication in the United Kingdom shortly after the new article was created – see here.

Martinvl (talk) 06:30, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

I believe that User:Cobulator is a sock-puppet of the banned user User:DeFacto, operating from a sleeper account set up before DeFacto was banned. User:DeFacto was banned as a result of his continued disruption to the article Metrication in the United Kingdom. Cobulator has shown signs of becoming disruptive to the article History of the metric system

Disruption to article History of the metric system


 * DeFacto:The principal "contributors" to History of the metric system are myself (154 edits), User:Stevengriffiths (21 edits) and User:MeasureIT (17 edits). Most of the edits made by that latter two were reverted once they had been exposed as sock-puppets of User:DeFacto.  The principal "contributors" to Talk:History of the metric system are myself (31 edits), User:Stevengriffiths (11 edits) and User:MeasureIT (22 edits) - most of the discussion being tedious nit-picking in which User:DeFacto's sockpuppets were trying to discredit aspects of the article.  Discussion with them occupy about 90% of the Talk Page.
 * Cobulator: User:Cobulator's "contribution" to the same article consits of nit-picking about Simon Stevin's contribution to metrication (for the record, Stevin, who developed decimal numbers in the late 1500s foresaw that one day people would use decimal numbers to represent measurements, a view that is recorded in the article). Cobulator's "contribution" shows that he has not read the article, but is looking for a fight in the same way that MeasureIT and Stevengriffiths did.

Creating and abandoning stubs I checked Cobulator's record further
 * DeFacto: DeFacto too had a track-record of creating stubs on road-related topics and never progressing them. When he was appealing against his block, DeFacto wrote that he had created 138 artciles. Rather than work through all his articles, I checked the first 18 articles that he wrote.  My findings were that of the 18 articles, he only made significant contributions to one of the - Shared space:


 * Cobulator: User:Cobulator created a 1300-byte stub Preston By-pass, but has otherwise added very little constructive to Wikipedia..

Anti-metric editing
 * DeFacto: DeFacto's replaced metric units in the article Forth Road Bridge with imperial units.  ].
 * Colulator: User:Cobulator's contribution to the article Thelwall Viaduct was to replace metric units with imperial equivalents, leaving the metric units in brackets.

These three similarities appear to me to be shouting WP:QUACK.

I believe that these other similarities make the small WP:QUACK into a large WP:QUACK.
 * The name "Cobulator" is interesting - is it a corruption of "Corroborator", a word that is similar to "de Facto"?

The Sockpuppet investigations/DeFacto/Archive SPI case against User:Up and in was rejected with a note from the clerk "I think the similarity in edits is uncanny, but I'm not sure if that alone is enough to block on in this case." In particular,

Since then further evidence has emerged - both User:Up and in and User:Cobulator have shown their ignorance in respect of ecclesiastical affairs by being pedantic about matters which they clearly have little or no knowledge - User:Cobulator in making indirect reference to the Reformation in inappropriate places starting with  Lincoln Cathedral here, and then moving on to Wells Cathedral here, Winchester Cathederal here, Worcester Cathedral here. Many others are listed in his list of contributions. User:Up and in is equally pedantic in respect of the Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa

. *Oppose ratification Does ENGVAR go beyond language?

Does the policy of WP:ENGVAR apply only to the choice of language or does it go beyond just linguistic matters. My current argument involves the layout of junction or exit lists associated with major roads such as the M1 (in the UK) or the I70. Ever since Wikipedia articles started including junction lists, British and American practice diverged. Certain editors are trying to get a convergence of the two styles, but a dispute has broken out over, amongst other things, the headings of the junction lists. I have copied the headings from the teo items mentioned earlier below:


 * and

{| style="margin-left:1em; margin-bottom:1em; color:black; font-size:95%;" class="wikitable" !scope=col|mile !scope=col|km !scope=col abbr="Southbound"|Southbound exits (B carriageway) !scope=col|Junction !scope=col abbr="Northbound"|Northbound exits (A carriageway) !scope=col|Coordinates}}
 * - style="background:#0080d0; text-align:center; color:white; font-size:120%;"
 * colspan="6" | M1 motorway junctions
 * - style="text-align:center;"
 * 7.0
 * 11.3
 * North Circular (West), Brent Cross A406
 * J1 Southern terminus
 * Start of motorway
 * 51.57515°N, -0.23471°W

Apart from the column layout (which is outside the scope of my question), it will be noticed that the M1 junction list header has a title in the colours that correspond to the colours used on British motorways. The I70 has no equivalent title. My Question

Is it appropriate to prohibit the use of the blue title on the British junction list on grounds of uniformity across Wikipedia, or does WP:ENGVAR implicitly cover linguistic as well as non-linguistic matters thereby permitting the use of colours that are specific to the United Kingdom to be used on junction lists relating to British roads.

iPhone-friendly example
I have prepared an iPhone-friendly example of the M5 motorway. I took the data from the example proposed in the current RJL project page and made the following changes:
 * For purposes of illustration of concept
 * Discarded the "Locations" column
 * Merged the data in the "Notes" column into the "Destinations" column
 * The effect of this was to reduce the screen width where data wrapped for the first time from 1440px to 1030px (29% reduction) and to reduce the width of the smallest screen needed to display the table without any need for left-right scrolling from 760px to 590px (23% reduction).


 * For purposes of illustration of features, I made the following changes:
 * I assumed that the motorway south of Junction 7 was the A5.
 * I assumed that the county boundary passed through the middle of the Frankley Services.
 * I assumed that Junction 5 was a limited access junction.


 * I added a number of new features:
 * The distances are the exit distances in both directions.
 * I have reinstated the table title using UK-specific colours.
 * I gave greater detail about the continuation of the motorway after its termini.
 * I reduced the coordinate suffix from "coord" to "c".

I am happy to accept something based on this layout. Of course, this is only a first draft and many details need to be hammered out. For example, the handling of coordinates is outside the scope of this discussion, though as a thought, they could be in an automatically generated list below the main table with a hide/show option. (Just a thought)

{| class="wikitable" !scope=col|County !scope=col|Mile !scope=col|km !scope=col|Junctions !scope=col|Destinations
 * - style="background:#0080d0; text-align:center; color:white; font-size:120%;"
 * colspan="5" | M5 motorway junctions
 * rowspan="5"|West Midlands
 * rowspan="5"|West Midlands

(N): - The North West, Wolverhampton, Walsall (W:) Birmingham (north & east)
 * align="center"|Terminus M6, J8
 * The motorway splits into two


 * align="center"|1
 * - West Bromwich, Birmingham (north west)


 * align="center"|2
 * - Dudley, Wolverhampton, Birmingham (west)


 * align="center"|3
 * - Birmingham (south west), Kidderminster


 * rowspan="2"|Services
 * rowspan="2"|Frankley services
 * rowspan="6"|Worcestershire
 * rowspan="6"|Worcestershire


 * align="center"|4
 * - Birmingham (south); Stourbridge


 * align="center"|4a
 * - Birmingham (south & east), NEC, Birmingham Airport, London, the North East, Redditch


 * align="center"|5
 * bgcolor=#ffdddd| - Droitwich, Bromsgrove · No access from the south


 * align="center"|6
 * - Worcester (north), Kidderminster; - Evesham


 * align="center"|7 Terminus
 * - Worcester (south), Evesham Continues as the A5 to the South West and South Wales

Martinvl (talk) 14:16, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

{| class="wikitable" !scope=col|County !scope=col|Mile !scope=col|km !scope=col|Jcnt !scope=col|Destinations
 * - style="background:#0080d0; text-align:center; color:white; font-size:120%;"
 * colspan="5" | M5 motorway junctions
 * rowspan="3"|West Midlands
 * rowspan="3"|West Midlands


 * align="center"|AB-Vzw-blau.svg
 * (N): - The North West, Wolverhampton, Walsall (W:) Birmingham (north & east)


 * align="center"|1
 * - West Bromwich, Birmingham (north west)


 * rowspan="2" style="text-align: center;"| RJLUKservices.svg
 * rowspan="2"|Frankley services
 * rowspan="3"|Worcestershire
 * rowspan="3"|Worcestershire


 * align="center"|6
 * - Worcester (north), Kidderminster; - Evesham


 * align="center"|7 AB-ende-blau.svg
 * - Worcester (south), Evesham Continues as the A5 to the South West and South Wales

SH-88

 * Coordinate list
 * Item 1 (Oppose)
 * Every style guide that I have seen, both in industry and at university, has either demanded or at least recommended that every table and chart should have a title. It does not matter whether the title is above or below the chart as long it is there.  I notice that none of the examples in WP:RJL have titles, something that I rate as a deficiency.  Part of the British culture is to use specified colours for specified classes of roads.
 * The only objection that I can see to using colour is that which is outlined in WP:COLOR. That page references this document. The colour schemes used by British Road Engineers satisfy the contrasts defined in the document.
 * I therefore oppose this proposal on the grounds that headings are general good practice, the RJL is deficient in omitting headings from its examples that to require the removal of traditional British colours from British RJL:s is an unwitting assault on British culture.
 * Item 2 (Reservations)
 * I have given the matter serious consideration over the past few weeks, and have made a point in listening to traffic reports on British radio, in particular Classic FM. In view of this, I am happy to include ceremonial county names, but am opposed to have a second column for location on the following grounds:
 * There is no consistency in the United Kingdom regarding the identification at levels lower than ceremonial county.
 * Some descriptions, particular where a road follows a boundary can become verbose. This is particularly the case where the boundary in question is a county boundary.
 * WP:Accessibility councils that all output should be designed for small screens. That page identifies 1024x768 pixels as a lower limit.  However, since that page was written, iPhones have become very popular - they have a screen size of 640 x 960 pixels. This means that RJLs in general should be looking at the need for the second column. In the case of the UK, that column, in my opinion, serve no purpose other to waste space on a small screen.
 * Item 3 (Reservations)
 * I am open to discussion about a single destination column, but as explained above, a "notes" column can be a liability. Most of the text that goes into the notes column can be handled elsewhere - the start and end points of the road in the destinations column and notes about limited access in small letters above the destination list.
 * Item 4 (Reservation)
 * My reservations about this section are covered above.
 * Item 5 (Redundant Question)
 * This item is redundant. It is self-evident that the examples should reflect the policy.
 * Further points
 * All the documentation look American and feels American. For example, in respect of British roads, the documentation for template:jct states "Not all A roads have an svg shield. Use a lowercase a to show a png shield." British roads do not have shields.  Please do us (and others) the couresy of using the correct terminology.  The documentation for jctint, when dealing with the "location" parameter makes a reference to "the Northeast".  As far as I am concerned, the principal ciies in the Northeast are Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Gateshead and Middlesborough.  If you meant the "New England States", please say so.
 * The road numbers, as created by templatge:jct look awful. Why are they all different sizes? Why does the "chopstick" symbol appear on the motorway signs?  If you consult the TSRGD, you will see that the "chopsticks" are used to denote the entry point to the motorway from the Queen's highway, not the motorway itself.
 * In the United Kingdom, the use of the coloured road identifiers (not shields) depends on the road concerned. They are not used on motorways themselves, but are used on motorway access roads and on primary roads.  As a rule of thumb, once you pass the "chopsticks" sign, coloured road identifiers are not used - See TSRGD for more details. Furthermore, am road can be a primary route for part of its length, in which case it is designated by gold lettering on a green background, while on another part of its route it can be a secondary road in which case it is denoted by black lettering on a white background.  An example is the A38 at Junction 5 of the M5.  this picture and this picture are about 200 metres apart looking in opposite directions.
 * Looking through the examples, I get the feeling that the templates in question were designed by Americans for use in America. Using them outside America requires adaptations and adaptations require proper testing.  If changes are made to the templates, are they regression tested?  If not, then I do not believe it safe to entrust the UK road junction lists to templates that were not designed with the UK in mind (for example the A38 changing from being a primary to a secondary road at either side of a motorway junction).
 * Finally
 * If this is accpeted, will those who supported the proposal be willing to do the grunt work of the conversions. If you are not willing to do the grunt work, please be honest and mark your statement accordingly.

Alternative Proposition

 * 'Strong Oppose
 * The promoters of this proposition have not even done the British users the courtesy of removing blanant US terminology such as "shields" instead of "route identifiers" and "North East" when the mean "New England" from their documentation.
 * The promoters have misused the colour schemes used for road identifiers. The A38. for example, should be green on gold north of J5 on the M5 where it is a primary route, but black on white south of that junction where it is a secondary route.
 * The non-UK RJL, as it stands does not have a title line. In many style guides for technical subjects, such title lines are mandatory.  The UK RJL has gone a step further and used the colours that are standard and are well-understood throughout the UK. Do the promoters want this removed? If they do this, do they realize that these colours are now part of Britain's cultural heritage.
 * I agree with Richie333 about the use of mobile devices and look forward to this proposition being thrown out and the UK producing a version of the RJL which is suited to use in the UK and to use on I-phones (see ACCESSIBILITY). I personally am not so arrogant to think that what is suitable for the UK is suitable for other countries in the world, I have lived in South Africa long enough to realize that there are fundamental differences in British and South African motorways/freeways. I have also spent enough time developing software to realize that writing a single-all embracing set of specifications/program suite can have numerous side-effects and requires endless regression tests every time that it is updated to accommodate a new scenario - it is often best to built a second set of specifications/program suite which can build on the lessons learned from the first without having to compromise either. Martinvl (talk) 16:54, 30 June 2013 (UTC)

I would like to make an alternative proposition:

Given that
 * 1) The RJL as currently worded makes no provision for a table title, even though the current UK layout has a title and most good style guides require that tables (and charts) have a title.
 * 2) The RJL as currently worded often required that text be folded in order to accommodate a screen of width 1024 pixels (as per WP:ACCESSABILITY)
 * 3) Since WP:ACCESSABILITY was written, iPhones with a screen width of 960 pixels have become popular
 * 4) Cannot accommodate that certain roads, for example the A38 at Junction 5 of the M5, can change from being a primary route to being a secondary route as it traverses the junction.
 * 5) All documentation associated with the current RJL is strongly US-oriented. Examples include the text "road shields" rather than "road indicators" and "the Northeast" when referring to New England; in the UK, "the Northeast" refers to the area around Newcastrle-upon-Tyne.

It is proposed that a UK-specific format for RJLs be developed which
 * 1) Makes a title a mandatory part of the table
 * 2) Seeks to minimize the table width
 * 3) Allows for road types to be changed either side of a junction.

Sandbox misc
PAIN (AT), PAIN (DE)

moderatuur description

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Correspondence regarding royal marriages

Active articles sort out this citation
 * Realisation (metrology)
 * Coherence (units of measurement)
 * Second Severn Crossing
 * General Conference on Weights and Measures
 * International Committee for Weights and Measures
 * International Bureau of Weights and Measures
 * International Organization of Legal Metrology
 * Metrication of British Transport

Falklands were a single island in pre-glacial times British road junction terminology.

BIPM/OIML merger Quinn's book

A55/131.7/132.5/136.6/137.1/138.8/139.3/140.7 - check border

ERT

Leeming Barton

Role of OIML vis-a-vis other organisations, also another publication (GUM)

Stamboom

...Add years to metric prefixes and to SI...

German conversion book dated 1830

New SI paper

Italian book of measures - Milan 1860

Look at Template:Rp for SI article

US Metrication thesis, US course notes

Track MeasureIT's changes regarding "first". Check here. Hexagonal metric weights

In addition 10 km of the MPA road was to be capped

Falklands census 2012

New Driver location sign picture from http://www.dft.gov.uk/ha/standards/ians/pdfs/ian93r1.pdf

Metric in Falklands

Update Provincial politics in the Netherlands

Up to date Admirtalty chart - all metric

Falklands rainfall map

Falklands flora from Kew

Permission from UK Government to drill in FAlklands waters

Falklands to start producing oil by 2017

- cfc

EU Coastline report

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT ADDENDUM FOR DARWIN EAST – 1 AND STEBBING – 3 OFFSHORE FALKLAND ISLANDS EXPLORATION DRILLING

trees on south western shores - chiefly birch

[Koppen] ... Based on the concept that natural vegetation is the best expression of cliamte, climate zones have been deliminated with vegetation distribution in mind

- Treeline on islands

Administrators, climatologists, ecologists view of arctic

Koppen classification



French arithmetic book 1794 - very metric ... Also saved in Wikipedia folder

- paper on SI

SI Version marked as B-class

gondwanaland & patagonia

Yale Law Report - Falklands

Falklands Current

Antarctic Coastal Current

Metric conference 1962

[good overview of SI]

short summary of ancient French measurements]

Proceedings of the Royal Dublin Society "How to simplify British Weights and Measures" - 1903

kennet & avon markers - km 91 to km 120

Sydney Northern Beaches - GOOD PHOT OF GOLF COURSE

Falklands Oil/Conservation (copied to My Documents/Wikipeidia)

Royal Society - development of metric system

http://www.servicehistorique.sga.defense.gouv.fr/contenu/functions/dc/attached/FRSHD_PUB_00000221_dc/FRSHD_PUB_00000221_dc_att-FRSHD_PUB_00000221.pdf Maps of Algeria - km used from about 1850 onwards]

Some French maps

Dutch law of 1869 regulating use of metric terminology

1769 - French (from foot (unit)) - 2400 toise pour une heure (pg 9)

1853 map of the Netherlands

myriametres par heure: Page 90 - Physique d'Emile: ou, Principes de la science de la nature. v. 1, Volume 1 By Emmanuel Develey (1802) Paris - http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=AFsIAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA90&lpg=PA90&dq=vitesse+myriametre&source=bl&ots=i526jH4oL3&sig=WQa8sQ57eShj-YCGVpC0-Y2CVtw&hl=en&sa=X&ei=RClaUKe5JIit0QXp5IHgBg&ved=0CCQQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=myriam%C3%A8tres&f=false

George Stevephenson Rainhill Trials - mph

Paper on Argentine Geographical nationalism

Tidy up changes to History of the metre (23 August)

Check changes Atomic mass unit (23 August))

Check changes Foot (unit) 23 August

met office metrication - pg 354; linked to AIr Ministry

Use of millibar discussed before 1914

Met office makes extensive use of metrication - 1969

Metrication Singapore

Estonian view of IBAN

Units in use temporarily - 6th SI brochure pg 13

Abraham Faure
Abraham Faure

- Thesis, lots of Faure stuff

Genealogy

SJ du Toit
Reverend Stephanus Jacobus du Toit (9 October 1847 – 29 May 1911) was a South African who pioneered the recognition of the Afrikaans language. As a young man he did much to promote the Afrikaans language, both on a literary and a political platform, but disillusionment with the Kruger regime led him to moderate his views in later life.

He was born in 1847 near Paarl in the Cape Colony at Plaas Kleinbos, a farm that had been in the family's possession since their arrival in the Cape as Hugenot refugees in 1688. He studied theology at the Theological Seminary at Stellenbosch, completing his studies in 1872.

At the time, the better-educated Dutch settlers in the Cape Colony regarded the Afrikaans language as a patois that was used by the less-educated. Du Toit however regarded the Afrikaans language as a symbol of Afrikaner Nationalism. Good biography - publisher unknown.

Academic paper - African Journals Online

Short biography - authoritative He was the leader and one of the founder members of the Genootskap van Regte Afrikaners (Society of True Afrikaners) which later merged with the Zuidafrikaansche Boeren Beschermings Vereeniging (South African Farmers' Protection Association) to form the Afrikaner Bond.

S.J. du Toit was editor of one of the earliest Afrikaans-English dictionaries and was editor of the first Afrikaans newspaper Die Afrikaanse Patriot. In 1905Die Afrikaanse Patriot became the Paarl Post.

His son Jakob Daniël du Toit, known by the pseudonym Totius, was also a pioneer of the Afrikaans language and the first to translate the Bible into Afrikaans.

Bible translation fragment
At the time, the better-educated Dutch settlers in the Cape Colony regarded the Afrikaans language as a patois that was used by the less-educated. Du Toit however regarded the Afrikaans language as a symbol of Afrikaner Nationalism.

In the early 1870s two Dutch schoolteachers Arnoldus Pannevis and C.P. Hoogenhout made a number of pleas in the Zuid Afrikaan that, for the benefit of the Cape Coloured community and also for the lesser-educated Afrikaner community, the Bible should be translated into Dutch. In 1874 Pannevis addressed his concerns to the British and Foreign Bible Society while du Toit's articles in Die Zuid Afrikaan added support to Pannevis and Hoogenhout.

On 14 August 1875 Hoogenhour, Du Toit and others established the Genootskap van Regte Afrikaners (Society of True Afrikaners) which has as its objectives the promotion of the Afrikaans language, nation and country. Initially this was to be achieved by the publication a monthly journal and as soon as was possible, a dictionary and grammatical rules (spraakkuns). The Genootskap van Regte Afrikaners later merged with the Zuidafrikaansche Boeren Beschermings Vereeniging (South African Farmers' Protection Association) to form the Afrikaner Bond.

Other base units
None of the other base units rely on a prototype - all are based on phenomena that are directly observable and had been in use for many years before formally becoming part of the metric system.

The second first became a de facto base unit within the metric system when, in 1832, Gauss used it, the centimetre and the gram to express the units associated with values of absolute measurements of the Earth's magnetic field. The second, if based on the Earth's rotation, is not a constant as the Earth's rotation is slowing down—in 2008 the solar day was 0.002 s longer than in 1820. This had been known for many years; consequently in 1952 the International Astronomical Union (IAU) defined the second in terms of the Earth's rotation in the year 1900. Measurements of time were made using extrapolation from readings based on astronomy. With the launch of SI in 1960, the 11th CGPM adopted the IAU definition. In the years that followed, atomic clocks became significantly more reliable and precise and in 1968 the 13th CGPM redefined the second in terms of the frequency of a specific frequency from the emission spectrum of the caesium 133 atom, a component of atomic clocks. This provided the means to measure the time associated with astronomical phenomena rather than using astronomical phenomena as the basis from which time measurements were made.

The cgs absolute unit of electric current, the abampere, had been defined in terms of the force between two parallel current-carrying wires in 1881. In the 1940s, the International Electrotechnical Commission adopted an MKS variant of this definition for the ampere which was adopted in 1946 the CIPM.

Temperature has always been based on observable phenomena&mdash;in 1744 the degree Centigrade was based on the freezing and boiling points of water. In 1948 the CGPM adopted the Centigrade scale, renamed it the "Celsius" temperature scale name and defined it in terms of the triple point of water.

When the mole and the candela were accepted by the GCPM in 1971 and 1975 respectively, both had been defined by third parties by reference to phenomena rather than artefacts.

Reference sources
 * si_1_8:

RJL
I have been giving the matter of location columns some thought – I was able to contribute to Imzaldi’s merger of the articles Motorway and Freeway without any problems, yet we are having problems over the inclusion of the “location” column in road junction lists. In looking at the differences between the UK and US perceptions of local government, I noticed one very important fact – if you look at the 1888 map of the US you will see that the state boundaries are virtually as they are today - I am not qualified to comment on how static the county boundaries have been over the last 125 years or what changes have been made to local government structure. In contrast, local government in the United Kingdom was overhauled in 1975 – a number of country boundaries were redrawn while sub-county local government was totally reorganised. There were further major changes in 1986, 1992 and 2010 - four sets of changes in living memory. As a result, local government areas, apart from the one that you live in, are meaningless to most people. Even the country boundaries are confusing – Middlesex ceased to exist as a county council in 1965, but the Post Office continued to use it in postal addresses until 1996, while the postal address of many localities does not reflect the county in which they are situated – for example the postal address of Blackwater, Hampshire is officially “Blackwater, Camberley, Surrey” (the reason being that letters to Blackwater are handled by the post office in Camberley and Camberley is in Surrey.

I contrast this further with the situation in France. The French local government structure was overhauled during the French Revolution and by Napoleon with a strict Department-Arrondissement hierarchy. The departments were numbered – for example Calvados was department number 14 – at one stage car registrations, telephone number and post codes all started with “14” – on holiday, I noticed that even the number on a milk carton of the hygiene certification centre started with “14”. When I contrasted this with the United Kingdom, I understood the difference in perception of local government. I trust that this discourse will illustrate the differences between the United Kingdom and the United States in their perception of local area names and why I am opposed to including them in British road junction lists – they just clutter up the list without adding value. However during the past month I have found the inclusion of coordinates very useful – they have enabled me to home in on a map and find the information that I want to find without being told by the editor what sort of information I should be looking for.

2nd Severn Crossing history
Good reference

Environmental concerns

SSI - many local parties

Marine considerations

Zostera Biotope Monitoring

turbidity

Study by FSB on tolls


 * [[Image:Erioll_world.svg|20px]] 54.1234 N 2.3456 W

Environmental concerns
Prior to the bridge's construction environmentalists raised numerous concerns and criticisms, chiefly about the immediate damage from construction work and the effects of long-term pollution from a projected increase in car traffic.

The crossing passes over mudflats in the Severn Estuary with part of the eastern approach viaduct sited on the English Stones, a rocky outcrop uncovered at low tide. The wetlands are home to both migrating birds such as the Ringed Plover (Charadrius hiaticula), Redshank (Tringa totanus) and Whimbrel (Numenius phaeopus) while the Eurasian Curlew (Numenius arquata), Dunlin (Calidris alpina) and Grey Plover (Pluvialis squatarola) winter in the area. The birds feed on ragworm, lugworm (Arenicola marina) and other invertebrates. Saltmarsh is found along the fringes of the coast. Beds of eelgrass (Zostera marina) occur on the more sheltered mud and sand-banks.

The construction of the approach roads and toll plaza have resulted in the loss of wet pasture land. The actual construction process resulted in an increase in turbidity of the Severn’s waters. Although eelgrass is reasonably tolerant to short terms high turbidity (and consequent loss of light), the bed of eelgrass in the Severn was observed to greatly decline during the period of construction. In 1976, in recognition of the importance of the estuary as a wetland used by migrating birds, an area of 247 square kilometres was desginated a Ramsar site   In 1988, the same year that tenders were invited for the building of the bridge, the Severn Estuary was designated a Special Protection Area. The same year an area of 99 square kilometres was notified as a SSSI designated as such the following year. In 1995, was extended to cover an area of 247 square kilometres. Field surveys carried out in 2003 and 2004 reported that the bridge had little effect on the flight paths of the various birds - it was noted that when Curlew, Dunlin and Lapwings approached the bridge, they would change course to gain height and fly over the bridge, but that Oystercatchers and Turnstone would fly under the bridge. The survey showed that the bridge had minimal impact on the roosting habits of most birds, though a flock of Mallard were seen to be roosting directly under the bridge with many positioning themselves on the dry concrete base on one of the pillars. Likewise, it was noted that the bridge had little impact on the bird’s feeding habits - Turnstone and Lapwing being recorded as feeding on mudflats directly under the bridge while the absence of other waders was attributed to the rocky nature of the foreshore.

Conversion between SI and legacy units
During its evolution, the metric system has adopted many units of measure. The introduction of SI rationalised both the way in which units of measure were defined and also the list of units in use. These are now catalogued in the official SI Brochure. The table below lists the units of measure in this catalogue and shows the conversion factors connecting them with the equivalent units that were in use on the eve of the adoption of SI.

Other base units
None of the other base units rely on a prototype - all are based on phenomena that are directly observable and had been in use for many years before formally becoming part of the metric system.

The second first became a de facto base unit within the metric system when, in 1832, Gauss used it, the centimetre and the gram to express the values of absolute measurements of the Earth's magnetic field. The second, if based on the Earth's rotation, is not a constant as the the Earth's rotation is slowing down—in 2008 the solar day was 0.002 s longer than in 1820. This had been known for many years, consequently in 1952 the International Astronomical Union (IAU) defined the second in terms of the Earth's rotation in the year 1900. Measurements of time were made using extrapolation from readings based on astronomy. With the launch of SI in 1960, the 11th CGPM adopted the IAU definition. In the years that followed, atomic clocks became significantly more reliable and precise and in 1968 the 13th CGPM redefined the second in terms of the frequency of a specific frequency from the emission spectrum of the caesium 133 atom, a component of atomic clocks. This provided the means to measure the time associated with astronomical phenomena rather than using astronomical phenomena as the basis from which time measurements were made.

The unit of electric current has been defined in terms of the force between two parallel current-carrying wires since 1861. Temperature has also been based on observable phenomena&mdash;in 1744 the degree Centigrade was based on the freezing and boiling points of water. In 1946 the CIPM adopted the accepted definiton of current and in 1948 the CGPM adopted the Centigrade scale, renamed it the "Celsius" temperature scale name and defined it in terms of the triple point of water.

More
1. The account User:Up and in was created at 06:16, 1 May 2013 - about 24 hours after a sockpuppet of Defacto was banned. The account remained dormant until 26 May 2013.

2. User:Up and in is obviously familiar with Wikipedia as is shown by this change. (This change was his seventh change) User:Up and in has contributed to five articles in three totally unrelated areas:
 * Stephanus_Jacobus_du_Toit - first contribution
 * Milestone – first contribution
 * International Bank Account Number - first contribution
 * Paarl – first contribution
 * Afrikaner Bond – first contribution
 * All of the edits in the above list follow an edit made by me. Given the diversity of subject matter, it is obvious that User:Up and in is hounding me – something that many of DeFacto’s Sockpuppets have done.

3. Although both DeFacto and User:Up and in made a few minor improvements to articles, both have the same clumsy style of asserting themselves when trying to prove a point:
 * Up and in – the following sequence appeared in Stephanus_Jacobus_du_Toit.  The original text in question was followed by a citation which was in Afrikaans.
 * [Original text] - his tombstone describes him as "The father of the Afrikaans language" …
 * [ User:Up and in – Change 1] - the author of the epitaph on his tombstone described him as "The father of the Afrikaans language” …
 * Original text reinstated by me&mdash;an explanation on the Talk Page gave quotes from the original citation.
 * [ User:Up and in – Change 2] - the anonymous author of the epitaph on his tombstone described him as "The father of the Afrikaans language" …
 * This last change adds absolutely nothing to the article.


 * DeFacto
 * The change made by DeFacto here not only converted an already clumsy sentence into one that was more clumsy, but also cast doubt on the judge’s finding&mdash;The reference itself states "The law judge found that the aircraft had landed overweight".

4. Both DeFacto and Up and in have the same style of detracting from statements:
 * Up and in:
 * In the article Paarl, User:Up and in changed the wording "Father of the Afrikaans Language" to "Proponent of the Afrikaans Language".  For the record, du Toit complied the first Afrikaans dictionary and grammar - some academics rank du Toit as the father of the language, others ranks him with two of his contemporaries - Hoogenhout and Pannevis.
 * DeFacto
 * In the article [in this example DeFacto replaced the words "The [[civil service]] is bound by law to follow EU directives relating to public administration" with the words "civil servants might be constrained by standards and procedures which dictate the measures to be used".

I believe it beyond reasonable doubt that User:Up and in has been WP:HOUNDING me. Moreover the evidence suggest that User:Up and in is not the new editor that (s)he appears to be. Given the similarity between User:Up and in and User:DeFacto given above is sufficient to pass the WP:QUACK test - in other words, that User:Up and in is a sockpuppet of DeFacto.

Permitted units of measure
The Weights and Measures (Metric System) Act of 1897 made the provision that metric units could be used, in addition to the traditional imperial units, for trade. In practice the actual choice of units was restricted by price marking orders which catalogued packaging size and pricing structure that may be used in specific circumstances. For example, as of April 2012, wine for consumption on premises may only be sold in 125, 175 and 250 ml glasses while draught beer may only be sold in, , and one pint glasses. Prior to 1973 (the year that the United Kingdom joined the EEC) such restrictions were almost all in imperial units.

As part of the EEC attempt to harmonise units of measure between the member states of its internal market, the EC issued directive 80/181/EEC which catalogued the units of measure that should be used for what it called "economic, public health, public safety and administrative" purposes. In order to comply with this directive, the Weights and Measures Act of 1986 extended the scope of the trading standards responsibilities from just matters related to trade to all aspects of the directive. For example, it was the trading standards office who criticised the use of sub-standard weighing machines in NHS hospitals.

In 1971, as part of its trade harmonisation process, the EEC issued Directive 71/354/EEC in respect of "economic, public health, public safety and administrative" purposes. This directive, which the United Kingdom agreed to adopt within five years of joining the EEC (1 January 1973) required that member states adopt the SI and proscribed a number of cgs-based units of measure. In 1973, the United Kingdom in the process of a voluntary metrication process, but by 1987 this process had stalled and the United Kingdom negotiated Directive 80/181/EEC which granted a number of derogations in respect of untis of measure used in the United Kingdom and in the Republic of Ireland.

To help ease the EEC's desired transition from sole use of imperial units to sole use of metric units, the EC directive permitted the use of what were termed "supplementary indicators" - the continued use of imperial units alongside the metric units catalogued by the directive (dual labelling). The initial intention was to prohibit dual labelling after the end of 1989, with metric units only being allowed after that date. This deadline was later extended; first to the end of 1999, then to the end of 2009 and finally abolished in 2007, after an EU-wide consultation, following which the, by then European Union (EU) and its commission (EC), confirmed that the UK would be able to continue to use imperial units such as pints, miles, pounds and ounces as at present, forever. Gloucestershire County Council trading standards department confirmed the EU ruling that the previous deadline for ending dual-labelling had been abolished.

As of 24 April 2012, there are still a few cases where imperial units are required to be used and where metric units are optional within the scope of the Weights and Measures Act. These are the pint for the sale of draught beer and cider and of milk in returnable containers, the use of miles, yards, feet and inches for roads signs and distances and the use of troy ounces for the sale of precious metals. In addition, British legislation specifies which imperial units may be used with dual labelling (for example the imperial gallon is catalogued, but not the US gallon).

stone & hundredweight catalogued in 1976 W&M legislation

1835 Act legalised the use of the stone of 14 lbs & the hundredweight of 112 lbs.

1837 weights and measure (US)

Good stats report

COnsolidated road stats

Road type definitions

Strategic Road Network

Next Section
Details of Falklands climate

Falkalnds weather study here

Paper about Koppen system]

METAR and TAF reports

Mount Pleasant data

Burdwood Bank
The Burdwood Bank is an undersea plateau with a prominence of approximately 200 m (100 fathoms), part of the Scotia Arc projecting some 600 km from Cape Horn in the South Atlantic Ocean and located some 200 km south of the Falkland Islands. The Argentine claims economic rights over the whole of the bank, while the United Kingdom has designated about half of the bank as part of the Falklands Outer Economic Zone.

The Burdwood Bank is one of the four morophologic features defined by the 200 m isobath off the coast of the Argentine - the other three being the Patagonian Shelf (Argentine Coastal Shelf), Isla de los Estados and the Falkland Islands. It forms a barrier to the northward flow of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current. The Bank itself (as defined by the 200 m isobath) is some 300 km from east to west and some 60 km from north to south. The channel to the west of the bank is about 80 km wide and 400 m deep while the channel to the east of the bank is 130 km wide ands has a depth of up to 1800 m (1000 fathoms) deep.

Salinity and ocean characteristics.

Sort out map

gravity measurement paper

geological paper - good description for Patagonian Shelf

Geographical description

es:Banco burdwood

Economic zone definition

Investigate "Burdwood Bank National Marine Park" (Look at Spanish as well)

http://en.mercopress.com/2008/06/21/argentina-bans-all-fishing-in-s-atlantic-burwood-bank

Geology paper
TECTONICS, VOL. 23, TC4011, doi:10.1029/2002TC001482, 2004 Anatomy and formation of oblique continental collision: South Falkland basin Madeleine Bry,1 Nicky White,1,2 Satish Singh,3 Richard England,4 and Carl Trowell5 Received 27 November 2002; revised 10 February 2004; accepted 7 May 2004; published 17 August 2004.

Working on 250 m isobaths, West channel - 90 km, 500<depth<250; Burdwood Bank 370 km; East Channel 190 km; 2000 < depth <500 from Fuigure 2

Island list
This is not really a big deal. WP:MOSNUM states "In non-science UK-related articles: the main unit is generally a metric unit (44 kilograms (97 lb)), but imperial units are still used as the main units in some contexts ...". I have checked the units of measure that came first in a number of similar "UK-related" Wikipedia articles. In order to avoid cherry-picking and also to keep the lists as short as possible, I chose sets of articles and looked at all articles in the set concerend. My findings were:

British Overseas Territories


 * Akrotiri and Dhekelia - all metric
 * Anguilla - all metric
 * Bermuda - mainly metric
 * British Antarctic Territory - partially metric
 * British Indian Ocean Territory - all metric
 * British Virgin Islands - all metric
 * Cayman Islands - all metric
 * Falkland Islands - all imperial
 * Gibraltar - all metric
 * Montserrat - mainly metric (aviation hieghts imperial)
 * Pitcairn Islands - metric
 * Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha - mainly metric
 * South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands - mainly metric
 * Turks and Caicos Islands - metric

Islands off UK coast
 * Jersey - metric
 * Guernsey - metric
 * Isle of Man - metric
 * Hebrides - GA - metric
 * Orkney - GA -metric
 * Shetland - GA - metric
 * Isles of Scilly - metric
 * Isle of Arran - GA - metric
 * Isle of Wight - mainly imperial

United Kingdom - mainly metric
 * England - GA - metric
 * Scotland - GA - metric
 * Wales - GA - mainly metric
 * Northern Ireland - GA - mainly metric

As can be seen, the Falkland Islands and the Isle of Wight are the two "odd men out". The general trend has been that in most of these artciles, geographical measurements are quoted in metric units while in some articles, transportation measurements are given inm meric units and in others, are given in imperial units.

Overview - Climate of the Falkand Islands
The Falkland Islands have a Maritime Subarctic climate (Koppen Cfc) that is very much influenced by the cool South Atlantic ocean and its northerly Patagonian current. This climatic type is characterised by both low seasonal and diurnal temperature ranges with the average monthly maximum exceeding 10°C for no more than three months of the year and the average monthly minimum not dropping below -3°C. There is no marked wet and dry season. In addition to the Falklands (and the southern tip of South America), this climatic condition is typically found on the north-eastern coasts of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans - the Scottish Atlantic coastline, the Norwegian coast, southern Iceland and the Alaskan panhandle.

''... giving it a narrow annual temperature range. The January average maximum temperature is about 13°C (55°F), and the July maximum average temperature is about 4°C (39°F). The average annual rainfall is 573.6 millimetres (22.58 inches) with East Falkland being generally wetter than West Falkland. Humidity and winds are however constantly high. Snow and sleet are frequent in winter, although snowfall is rarely deep. Gales are very frequent, particularly in winter.''

A comparison of climatic conditions in the Falklands (51S) with those in the United Kingdom indicates that the Falklands has a climate comparable to that found in the Hebrides or in Shetland (60N), although drier and with a more severe winter but has more hours of sunlight than the South of England (51N).

Patagonian shelf
EoE width = 850 km;

Falkland CUrrent & Brazil current confluence zone - 39S

Falkland current - nutrient -rich, less slaine than the Brazikian current significant seabird and marien mammal populations

Post 1982: Argenine shifted from hake to squid FICZ established 1986 - 100 nm; extended to FOCZ (200 nm)

Rio de la Plata (220 km wide) discharges fresh water, sediments & pollutants into the area.

XVI-55 760 km East to West Rio de la lata - 3.2 million km^s basin

Notes - shelf 760 km wide; ecosysmte 850 km shelf 1.2 M km%^2, ecosystem 2.7 M km ^2

- Atlas of the Patagonian Sea defined as 50W to 75W; 60S to Brazil/Uruguay coast, include Tierra del Fuego.

Tides - shelf-width matches diurnal resonance frequency -

UN-sponsored fuile

Tides Defines shelf around 300m isobath.

biodiversity - Patgonain shelf

The page WP:FALKLANDSUNITS was written between March and July 2010. Its opening paragraph is in my view a piece of text book WP:SYN written to justify a piece of WP:POV. (I will justify this in a later posting if necessary, but at the moment I see no justification for the page and I think that it can be discarded without looking at its detail).

A check on its |history and |Talk page will show that WP:FALKLANDSUNITS (written March to July 2010) was not an act of consensus, but really an act of bullying by is principal author User:Pfainuk aka User:Kahastok backed up by User:Justin A Kuntz aka User:Wee Curry Monster. :The reason that Michael and I stepped back for a bit in mid-2010 was to avoid the Gibraltar situation later when Wee Curry Monster (along with others) received sanctions for edit warring in December 2010 and both Kahastok and Wee Curry Monster received sanctions in April/May 2011 (filed under the name of Imalbornoz). (These sanctions were lifted on a trial basis in October 2012). Kahastok has creditied WP:FALKLANDSUNITS with the name "rules". Insofar as they exist, Wikipedia "rules" come in four flovours - pillars, policies, guidelines and essays, each with their own protocol. WP:FALKANDSUNITS does not fit into any of these categories - so what is it? Martinvl (talk) 08:19, 20 December 2012 (UTC)

Since then centralisation of all MOS-type pages into MOS-space was agreed by the Wikipedia community at large. The arguments used for this merger were essentially the same arguments that I used when to merge the WP:FALKLANDSUNITS page into WP:MOSNUM but was shouted down by Pfainuk and Justin Kuntz.

I see absolutely no reason that the page WP:FALKALNDSUNITS should exist outside MOS-space - it contains MOS-type content that impinges not only to the Falkland Islands work group, but to other groups and project, including, but not limited to the islands group/project, the UK group/project, the fisheries group/project, the Argentine group/project and the geology group/project. In October this year I revisited WP:FALKLANDSUNITS and tried to regularise the situation. As I saw it, there were three options: I believed that the last of these was the only practical choose which is why I redirected it.
 * Merge the text into MOSNUM.
 * Move the page into MOS space and leave a reference in MOSNUM to this page
 * Redirect this page to MOSNUM on grounds that it adds nothing new.

I now ask Wee Curry Monster (or anybody else) to justify the continued existence of the page WP:FALKLANDSUNITS in Falkland Islands work group-space rather MOS-space. If he can’t justify its existence in Falkland Islands work group-space, how does he propose incorporating it into MOS-space? Martinvl (talk) 15:03, 29 November 2012 (UTC)

Armoured train references
King George has conferred the Albert medal upon Charles Wagner, the driver, and Alexander Stewart, the fire man, for gallantry on November 16, 1899, in connection with the Boer at- tack on the armoured train nearFix this text Chieveley, in Natal. Both Wagner and Stewart aro now living at Pietermaritzburg.

Abraham Faure (29 August 1795 &nash; 28 March 1875) was a clergyman and author from Cape Colony. Faure was educated in both England and the Netherlands and, with a strong Calvanist background, in 1818 he ordained as a dominie (minister) in the Dutch Reformed Church in Graaff-Reinet, Cape Colony. In 1822 he was called to be dominie of the Groote Kerk in Cape Town (af), where he played a significant role in the first synod there in 1824. He remained a member of the church executive for 43 years. Politically he remained loyal to the British Crown on grounds that the Crown was part of the God-willed social order, expressing disapproval of the Dutch farmers who left the Cape Colony at the time of the Great Trek. His sermon on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the arrival of Dutch settlers under van Riebeeck reflected social responsibility, this time the responsibility of the Dutch Reformed Church for bringing the gospel to the [former] slaves and the indigenous population. He however
 * Pringle’s Biography
 * Het Nederduytsch Zuid-Afrikaansch Tydschrift (1824-1843)
 * Faure & Boniface

Links etc
Material from this point onwards is included for compatibility purposes only.
 * Biography of scientists.

MOS reference
Moving all MOS articles to MOS-space

Sockpuppet requested an article merge
A sockpuppet of a banned user requested that an article on which I am working be merged back into the article from which it was spawned. When the sockpuppetry was uncovered, the views on the merger were:


 * Supported the merger:
 * User:Pother - Proposed of the merger (identified as a sockpuppet of User:DeFacto who has an indefinite ban)
 * User:Ornaith - identified as a second sockpuppet of DeFacto
 * User:Kahastok - An editor of good standing


 * Opposed the merger:
 * User:Martinvl - That's me

I tried to close this merge request on grounds that as it was opened by a sock-puppet, it was null and void. Kahastok disagreed on grounds that he supported the merge. Since he and I are the only editors of good standing who have expressed views on this merge request, which take precedence - my view that as a request made by a sockpuppet should be declared null and void ab initio or Kahastok's view that since there is support (his) for the merge that the request should stand even though Pother has been identified as a sockpuppet.

and more
I believe that User:AnnieLess is a sockpuppet of User:DeFacto. My view is that these points, when considered together, say WP:QUACK.
 * 1) The name "AnnieLess" looks like a play on the words "Any Less", similar to the play on words by other sockpuppets of DeFacto - for example User:Bill le Conquérant and User:Cap-Saint-Martin (Cap Martinvl’s edits).
 * 2) AnnieLess appears to be a new Wikipedia user. The edits and approach taken on talk pages and the way in which (s)he avoided a 3RR warming suggests that AnnieLess seems conversant with Wikipedia procedures. On the other hand AnnieLess had avoided any references to any WP: pages, something that one woudl expect form a new user. Taking these two together, one cannot rule out that AnnieLess is really DeFacto and that (s)he is avoiding the traps that caught him/her out in the past, but slipped up by splashing this banner accross the article.
 * 3) DeFacto and his Sockpuppets have been hounding me on the topic of metrication for over a year. His contribution list shows an interest in, amongst others, Metrication in the United Kingdom, Tonne, Litre, Metric Martyrs and Metrication. The bulk of AnnieLess’ changes are connected with metrication – his/her contribution list shows Metric system and Kilogram while the changes in United States customary units were related to metrication.
 * 4) DeFacto had an editing style of watering down statements of fact – in this example he replaced the words "The civil service is bound by law to follow EU directives relating to public administration" with the words "civil servants might be constrained by standards and procedures which dictate the measures to be used" while in this example, AnnieLess added the words "may have" when replacing the sizes of those units varied as did their relationship with the sizes of those units may have varied and the relationships.
 * 5) DeFacto would add inappropriate banners to blow his point out of proportion – for example here (citations might not be 100% perfect, but the article has still not been to be rated for quality) while AnnieLess added this banner because (s)he was not satisfied with the notability of the paragraph even though two different reviewers in a Peer Review made no comment about this quotation.
 * 6) When adding this flag, DeFacto described terminology that was taken straight from a source as "ambiguity, jargon, and vague or unnecessarily complex". AnnieLess used the words "highly ambiguous " in this talk section where (s)he disputes the use of the words "realisation", "prototype", "phenomena" and "artefact", even though all four are taken straight from the SI Brochure (the metrication "bible"), albeit with UK rather than US spellings. This is a classic way of attacking an article when the article cannot be attacked on any other grounds.