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 * Draft:List of Queensland diesel locomotives
 * Draft:Australian Model Railway Magazine
 * List of bridge failures
 * Talk:List of bridge failures (~ @ # $ % ^ & * _ + { } | : " < > ?)
 * Draft:List of ravine and other failures . . . . List of road accidents 2000–09
 * Talk:Marc Levinson
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Railways

 * Teahouse how to access / Sweden
 * List of rail transport–related periodicals
 * List of road-rail bridges
 * Draft: List of model railway makers
 * Rail transport in Chad
 * Variable gauge
 * .cn . . . . 🇨🇳

Draft

 * Draft:Postal Corporations
 * User:MountVic128/Sandpit/Postal
 * User:MountVic128/Sandpit/PostalGallery

Cite book

 * List of tunnels in Australia

Gallery

 * Teahouse


 * Distinguishing blue and black text

Waterfall
See http://www.sa-trackandsignal.net/Pdf%20files/Sydney/RC2409.pdf

Recycling was trialled in 2023.

Recycling old cement in electric arc furnaces is being trialled in 2023.

Proposed ports
List of proposed ports

User:MountVic127/Sandpit

Draft:Abu Amama

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 * Abu Amama
 * Didia, Liberia
 * Matakong, Guinea

Teahouse

Great Circle

 * Draft:Great Circle Distance


 * coordinates             = 21.54333°N, 39.17278°W
 * coordinates             = 21.54333°N, 39.17278°W


 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Teahouse#Calc_Great_Circle_Distance
 * Teahouse

Calc Great Circle Distance Is there an easy way of calculating the great circle distance between two places, given their co-ordinates, such as ..


 * 21°32′36″N 39°10′22″E .... {Jeddah}
 * 19°37′N   37°13′   E .... (Port Sudan)

/
 * 21.5433333 ... 21° Port cities in Sudan
 * 39.1727778 ... 39°
 * 19.6166667 ... ...19° ...
 * 37.2166667 ... ...37° ...
 * 296 km between Jeddah and Port Sudan

Jeddah - Port Sudan port Sudan

Khartoum - Port Sudan Port Sudan

The rail map of Sudan is truncated so that the scale is missing. 957 km between Khartoum and Port Sudan

The rail map of Sudan is truncated so that the scale is missing.

MountVic127 (talk) 08:02, 18 May 2023 (UTC)

The answer is want in km, though other units of measurements may be specified.

MountVic127, welcome to the "teahouse", where people ask questions about using Wikipedia. Your question seems to belong to one or other of Wikipedia's "reference desks". -- Hoary (talk) 08:43, 18 May 2023 (UTC) @MountVic127 Is Great circle distance of any use? Mike Turnbull (talk) 10:14, 18 May 2023 (UTC) Your advice regarding Great Circle Distance, combined with DecDeg, have allowed me to get two distance which look about right. Unfortunately the Map of Sudan is truncated so that no scale is visible. All I need now is a map with a scale. Thank you very much. :-) :-) MountVic127 (talk) 21:32, 18 May 2023 (UTC)

Abu Amama

 * Sandbox/Postal Corporations

Interested In

 * Maps - "This User is interested in Maps and Diagrams"; see User:Jkan997
 * WikiProject Maps
 * Capstan (nautical)
 * Fiegenbaum number and chaos theory
 * Fiegenbaum
 * Diarrhea

Test
There is a BOT that advises editors that they have linked to a disambiguation page rather than directly to the article in question. My suggestion is to mark disambiguated links as soon as they occur, instead of waiting days for the BOT to advise you. Something like this:


 * Hooo        - red - no such page
 * Ho          - blue - disambiguation page - should be say yellow; actually orange. :-) MountVic127 (talk) 09:10, 9 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Ho - blue - good - no disambiguation


 * See Teahouse.
 * See Africa.



Suggestion re disambiguation bot 02
There is a BOT that advises editors that they have linked to a disambiguation page rather than directly to the article in question. My suggestion is to mark disambiguated links as soon as they occur, instead of waiting days for the BOT to advise you. Something like this:


 * Hooo        - red - no such page or spelling error.
 * Ho          - orange - disambiguation page - if editor does not make following change it will be blue like good link and BOT will tell you about this days later MountVic127 (talk) 09:16, 9 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Ho - blue - good - no disambiguation MountVic127 (talk) 06:33, 8 September 2020 (UTC)
 * There is an add-on listed in Preferences that allows you to see that. I see them as yellow. -- a lad insane  (channel two)  06:38, 8 September 2020 (UTC)
 * I wish more people would enable that gadget. It's incredibly useful. Instead of the gadget, I use a more orangeish color by simply adding the following line to Special:MyPage/common.css:  —[  Alan M 1  (talk) ]— 18:13, 8 September 2020 (UTC)

Brilliantly simple :-) :-) MountVic127 (talk) 09:16, 9 September 2020 (UTC)

Since this is a very useful command, what is the best way to keep it in public view.
 * Keep copying it at the end of this list of teahouse things?
 * I shall do this once!
 * make it a default setting somewhere?


 * MountVic127 (talk) 06:12, 11 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Hello . You cannot expect numerous bots working on over six million articles to produce instant results. Unless you have bot coding skills and can help streamline their operations, I suggest that you be patient and grateful for the useful work that these bots do. Cullen328  Let's discuss it  06:47, 11 September 2020 (UTC)
 * It is very helpful for editors, I agree, but I think that if it were made the default setting it could be confusing for Wikipedia readers who are not editors. That's just my immediate thought, and you could suggest this at the Idea lab (which is part of the Village pump), to get more input. There's quite a few helpful tools and scripts that make editing easier, and it's hard to say which is the most useful one... check out WP:TOOLS!
 * As for adding a copy of a post to the end of the Teahouse page (or any talk page) to keep it visible, that's not a good idea for a couple of reasons: the original post is still there, currently near the top of the page and subsequently in the archives, and this post will gradually move up on the page as well – there is no way to keep it at the bottom without copying it repeatedly, and we'd end up with hundreds of copies of the same post in the archives. Secondly, when copying the entire post and thread you also copied the replies and signatures of other editors, which is something you should always avoid doing.  And finally, it would not be read by very many editors here. New editors who come to the Teahouse don't usually read other posts, not even the ones immediately above their own post, and a brand-new editor does not necessarily know what a disambiguation page is.  --bonadea contributions talk 08:03, 11 September 2020 (UTC)


 * There is also User:Anomie/linkclassifier.js which I have been using for a very long time, and is very useful. It basically colour codes the links on the page that you are viewing, or previewing while editing. —usernamekiran (talk) 11:01, 11 September 2020 (UTC)
 * That's what I use, and I find it incredibly useful. —valereee (talk) 12:24, 12 September 2020 (UTC)

Suggestion 03
Disambiguation icon	This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Note: This page may need to be cleaned up to meet Wikipedia's quality standards. Further information might be found on the talk page. Tools: DabFix

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Not to be confused with
https://www.darpa.mil/about-us/timeline/torpedo-propulsion

Suggestion 05

 * .de DEU 🇩🇪 Germany	(Deutschland)		 – “Staedtler” coloured pencils
 * .de DEU 🇩🇪 Germany                   - Black Red - Yellow
 * .be BEL 🇧🇪 Belgium				    - Black Red - Yellow
 * .ug UGA 🇺🇬 Uganda				    - Black Red - Yellow
 * .bd BAN Bangladesh				 - Clothing
 * .ar ARG 🇦🇷 Argentina                 – “Woolworths” home brand peanut butter.
 * .id IDN 🇮🇩 Indonesia                 – “Paramount” business shirt
 * .id IDN 🇮🇩 Indonesia                 – Pineapple slices tin
 * .id IDN 🇮🇩 Indonesia                 – “Sovereign” exercise book
 * .in IND 🇮🇳 India                     – “Parmatex” face washer
 * .nz NZL 🇳🇿 New Zealand               - Logan Farm Spinach
 * .pk PAK 🇵🇰 Pakistan                  – “trend” face washer
 * .ph PHL 🇵🇭 PHL Philipines               – Pineapple pieces satchel
 * .my MYS 🇲🇾 Malaysia                  – “AusPost” DL envelope
 * .fr FRA 🇫🇷 France                    – “Bic” 4-colour pen
 * .pl POL 🇵🇱 Poland                    – “Garden Fresh” Vegetable Salad Mix
 * .cn CHN 🇨🇳 China                     - many
 * .vn VNM 🇻🇳 Vietnam                   - clothing
 * .us USA 🇺🇸 United States of America  - Aircraft
 * .am AME America   - many
 * .ca CAN 🇨🇦 Canada                    - many
 * .au AUS 🇦🇺 Australia                 - many
 * .ru RUS 🇷🇺 Russia                   - many
 * .mx MEX 🇲🇽 Mexico                   - many
 * .sd SDN 🇸🇩 Sudan
 * .br BRA 🇧🇷 Brazil                   - many

Suggestion 06

 * Big Cat Rescue
 * Area 400 ha
 * Area 990 acre
 * Weight 1 lb
 * Weight 1 stone
 * Weight 1 kg
 * Weight 1 stone
 * Weight 1 undefined

Suggestion 07 Gallery
World Toilet Day World Toilet Organization


 * Talk:Snip - need bug fix. MountVic127 (talk) 17:54, 3 November 2022 (UTC)

Suggestion 08

 * 🇬🇧 Festiniog Railway (1836–1863)


 * 🇬🇧 <

Suggestion 09
John Frederick Joseph Cade AO

Suggestion 10 Twinned

 * 🇹🇹 Trinidad and Tobago (TTO)
 * 🇹🇹
 * .tt

Maps

 * East African Railway Master Plan
 * Mapmaker
 * Map maker

Pedias

 * Festipedia.com  Festipedia
 * Investopedia.com Investopedia

Drafts

 * Draft:TBM names
 * Draft:Unusual behaviour
 * Draft:AfricaRail Table
 * Draft:OSShD Signals
 * Draft:China railway signalling
 * Draft:Ferrogrão Railway ‎
 * Draft:Railway stations in South East Asia
 * Draft:Food Plant Solutions - a Rotary associated special interest group.
 * Draft:Advanced Train Management System
 * Advanced Train Management System


 * 08:30, 17 July 2020 diff hist Talk:Rail transport in Brazil
 * 08:31, 14 July 2020 diff hist Draft:Avoiding electoral wipeouts
 * 04:42, 14 July 2020 diff hist Draft:ENSCO, Inc
 * 09:01, 12 July 2020 diff hist Draft:AIHSRN
 * 05:37, 11 July 2020 diff hist Draft:African Integrated High Speed Railway Network
 * 10:37, 24 June 2020 diff hist Draft:Plastic Sleepers


 * Draft:Lying for the Admiralty - deleted
 * Draft:Margaret Cameron-Ash - deleted
 * Draft:Fell into Well
 * Draft:TBM names
 * Draft:Great Toilet Battle on youtube from Deutsche Welle
 * Draft:DW GTB Valuing toilets
 * Drafts
 * Drafts

Images



 * Piggyback (transportation)

Help Left-handed mouse


If you wish to make a link to the file in text, without actually showing the image, for instance when discussing the image on a talk page, you can use the following (mark the ":" after the initial brackets!):

Right-handed people who use the mouse left-handed can use this user box

file:Userbox_Mouse_Left-handed.gif

UBX	This is a Userbox.


 * See: Handedness
 * See: [MV]

User_talk:Timdwilliamson#Userbox

Computer mouse and Keyboards
Mice are supposed to be so easy to use that it is arguably a waste of the dextrous right hand to operate a mouse right-handed. What proport of the 90% of right-handers us the mouse left-handed?


 * See Bias against left-handed people

What about keyboards and text messages on mobile phones?


 * Tendinopathy
 * Tendonitis

Railway stations in Laos
This new article is the result of reading the UN Map and other articles descending from "Transport in Laos".

Maybe I should change "See also" to "See also and cite"

The layout of Railway stations in Laos follows the same pattern as used by most of the "Railway stations in Xyz" articles.

A particular feature of these files is that they list the stations in "line order".

Maybe there needs to be a Category: Railway stations by country.

You have reverted this file too soon; you could have recorded your reactions in my User:MountVic127 page. May I revert your revert?

NBG

 * User:Fastily
 * User:Njd-de
 * Mahatma Gandhi
 * User talk:Nolabob - Draft:Pay Toilets

Please unrevert
The Great Toilet Battle is a project to improve poor sanitation which affects or kills millions or billions of people, mainly in the third world.]

GTB is a Deutsche Welle program uploaded to youtube. If DW is reliable then this YT piece surely as well. DW has a long, long list of programs that it has made. At time of writing there is no mention of Great Toilet Battle in this list. Is DW sloppy or something?

People and organizations in support of the Great Toilet Battle include:
 * Jack Sim founder of the World Toilet Organization
 * Bill Gates of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
 * Prime Minister Narendra Modi who announced a toilet upgrade project on Mahatma Gandhi's birthday of 2 October
 * etc.

Like DW wikipedia is a bit sloppy too. DW claims to be "Made for Minds": is this claim justified? MountVic127 (talk) 01:05, 3 November 2022 (UTC)

So please unrevert your kneejerk changes. If you can please help improve the above flaws in DW, wikipedia and snip.

NBG2

 * See: User:Onel5969
 * Kunming-Singapore

Please unrevert
Great Toilet Battle is a serious health problem particularly in the third world

This billion dollar campaign is supported by the following people and organizations including
 * The Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi
 * Bill Gates or Microsoft
 * The founder of the World Toilet Organization, Jack Sim
 * The World Bank and its $2b bounty payable if toilet installation targets are mit.

Furthermore
 * the logo of the Great Toilet Battle consists of a pair of Mahatma Gandhi's glasses.
 * the Indian GTB was announced by Modi on Gandhi's birthday 2 October.

Gallery does not always work

 * When the Deutsche Welle logo thumbnail was upload with .PNG as a filetype it did NOT work.
 * When the Deutsche Welle logo thumbnail was upload with .png as a filetype it     DID work.
 * When the Deutsche Welle index thumbnail was uploaded it did not work for unknown reason. Help needed.

Actions
Tearoom


 * So, you want the left-handed mouse gif and text that says “This user is left-moused but right-handed.” Right? - TimDWilliamson speak 16:07, 22 August 2020 (UTC)

2020-08-28

Cameroon Rail
Minim, Martap Birsok ASX Railway stations in Cameroon

Converting Degrees to Degrees Minutes Seconds
Can the undefined undefined function do the above and vice versa? MountVic127 (talk) 07:10, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
 * I don't see it in the documentation at, but see and . —[  Alan M 1  (talk) ]— 09:09, 25 February 2021 (UTC)

Citation

 * Mozal - Mozambique aluminium


 * Mozal - Mozambique aluminium

TBM names
Underground workers such as Tunnel Boring Machine operators are given female names, because Saint Barbara is the patron saint of such workers.


 * XRail is Crossrail.
 * HK = made by Herrenknecht
 * UH = Under Harbour


 * Ida and Phyllis, Royal Oak to Farringdon section, named after Ada Lovelace and Phyllis Pearsall
 * Victoria and Elizabeth, Limmo Peninsula to Farringdon section, named after Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth II
 * Mary and Sophia, Plumstead to North Woolwich section, named after the wives of Isambard Kingdom Brunel and Marc Isambard Brunel
 * Jessica and Ellie, Pudding Mill Lane to Stepney Green and Limmo Peninsula to Victoria Dock sections, named after Jessica Ennis and Ellie Simmonds
 * TBM Wendy is named after Wendy Schreiber, a volunteer at Bear Cottage.


 * It is not clear if the size is an inside diameter or outsize sizes,

If a TBM is transferred to a different site, does the name change?

Camrail Locos
This is an example of a small sortable table.

Ranked choice voting in Australia
RCV is the voting system used in Federal, State and Local elections.

The prime reason for using RCV is because the right of centre party is actually a semi-permanent coalition of two right of centre parties and RCV is needed to avoid suicidal three-cornered-contests. RCV has gradually spread from federal elections to state and local elections. The counting RCV votes is gradually being automated; now the ballots are "scanned" by hand into the computer which then eliminates the lowest rank candidates until only two candidates remain. This is called the "two party preferred" vote even though one of the parties may actually be a coalition.

This system allows large number of candidates, parties and groups to nominate; and measures are necessary to winnow out the number of candidates. For example, a registered party with 1500 members can have their party name and logo printed on the ballot paper which is not possible with fewer than 1000 audited members.

Whether the rankings are optional or compulsary depends on jurisdiction. If a party advertising "just vote [1]" may counter-productively discourage the numbering of all the squares if that is necessary to cast a valid vote. In the scheme of things, numbering some or all of the squares is not rocket science.

Ranked choice voting is used in the upper and lower houses in all federal and state elections in Australia. The following table shows that the upper and lower houses are more similar than seen at first sight.

The elections are gradually being automated. Firstly the ballots are manually scanned into a database, and then the commission activates the computer to eliminates the lowest scored candidates, and so until there are only two candidates.

Comparison of Upper and Lower houses
The essential difference between voting in the upper and lower houses is the size of the quota.

See Electoral system of Australia

Child endowment
This is an example of a small sortable table. child benefit ... Child_benefit

VGA

 * Variable gauge MOB BLS Zweisimmen

Election of President

 * President of North Macedonia