User talk:Atomicjohn

Greetings... Hello, Atomicjohn, and  welcome to Wikipedia! 
 * To get started, click on the green welcome.
 * I hope you like it here and decide to stay!
 * Happy editing!  Dolphin  ( t ) 02:33, 18 March 2011 (UTC)

Discussion pages
Hello John! Thanks for your constructive comments on our articles about John P. Merrill and Enola Gay. Unfortunately your comments have been removed, simply because they are in the wrong place. We don't put general comments and editorial suggestions in the article itself. Each article is supported by a Discussion page and that is where editors make comments of all kinds, and discuss the best way for the article to proceed. You can access the Discussion page simply by clicking on the Discussion tab in the top left of your screen.

The place for comments about the article John P. Merrill is at Talk:John P. Merrill, and for the article Enola Gay it is at Talk:Enola Gay. On your behalf, I have already explained the situation on the Discussion pages for these two articles - see HERE1 and HERE2. Feel free to add extra comments on these two discussion topics. Regards. Dolphin ( t ) 02:40, 18 March 2011 (UTC)

Footnotes and references
Hi John. Thanks for your request.

Footnotes are often described as in-line citations. Information about inserting footnotes is provided at WP:INCITE. In a nutshell, at the end of the sentence or paragraph which you wish to support by a footnote just commence your footnote with. It will look like. Then hit Save page to see the results.

Existing footnotes can be simply amended by locating the place in the text where the footnote is written, and then editing it and saving.

References are simply added to the list of existing references by editing the section titled "References". Existing references can be amended by editing the References section in the same way as amending text in the body of an article or a Talk page.

Let me know if you have any difficulties making these things work. Best regards. Dolphin ( t ) 22:14, 23 March 2011 (UTC)

Navy Gun Primers
I just made some revisions to the Little Boy article and added the term "BuOrd Mk15, Mod 1 Navy gun primers". This was quickly undone to remove "Navy gun" citing "racism" and I'm wondering why. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Atomicjohn (talk • contribs) 21:35, 24 March 2011
 * The IP who made that change didn't explain why. I personally agree that the comment didn't make any sense.
 * Usually this sort of question is asked at the IP's talk page or the article's talk page.
 * Georgewilliamherbert (talk) 21:41, 24 March 2011 (UTC)


 * When leaving edits on Talk pages, including your own Talk page, please be sure to sign with the four tildes ~ so that your name plus date and time automatically appear at the end of your message. (On my keyboard the tilde is made by holding down the shift key and striking the key in the extreme top left of my keyboard.)  I have done it for you and you will see that your edit above is now identified as having come from you.
 * I have looked at the deletion of your edit. It was made from an IP address and was the first edit ever made on Wikipedia from that address.  I can only assume it was inadvertent or, more likely, an act of mischief.  If your use of the words Navy gun have not been restored you should feel free to do so. Regards.  Dolphin  ( t ) 21:46, 24 March 2011 (UTC)

Identity confirmation
For the record - I can confirm the identity of this account holder as John Coster-Mullen, from private email exchange. This is not logged with OTRS or Arbcom, but WP:REALNAME policy doesn't require all such confirmations to be logged, only that a Wikipedia-trusted person has confirmation. I am an en.wp administrator and a sporadic OTRS contributor. Georgewilliamherbert (talk) 21:51, 24 March 2011 (UTC)

Could you clarify a statement in this article?
In Little Boy, you made this edit awhile back. Specifically, you changed "a short smooth-bore gun barrel" to "a 72 in long, 6.5 in smooth-bore gun barrel". The second measurement, 6.5 inches, is that supposed to be diameter or something else? It's not specified. &mdash;/M endaliv /2¢/Δ's/ 12:30, 9 September 2011 (UTC)

The "6.5 inches" is the gun bore or internal diameter.Atomicjohn (talk) 12:58, 9 September 2011 (UTC)

Is this the Little boy mushroom cloud or firestorm cloud?
Dear Mr. Coster-Mullen,

I am writing to you in the hopes that you have better sources, than I could find, for the picture attached below. Essentially I am skeptical that the picture is correctly described, due to the fact that the photo was taken 1hr post detonation and thus would put it in the timeframe of the firestorm and definitely not the mushroom cloud. What are your thoughts on this?

On a separate note, I was also wondering if you could describe how one can use photo-analysis to estimate the height of this cloud? The reason being, is that I'm a frequent editor to the nuclear winter page and evidence for the height of the firestorm cloud/pyrocumulous would be a great addition to the field of study.

http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/g_l/levine/bombing.htm "Photo by US Army The huge atomic cloud 6 August, 1945. A Uranium bomb, the first nuclear weapon in the world, was dropped in Hiroshima City. It was estimated that its energy was equivalent to 15 kilotons of TNT. Aerial photograph from the 80 kilometers away of the Inland Sea, taken about 1 hour after the dropping."

P.S As I am an IP editor I would appreciate you replying here or on the Talk:Nuclear winter page rather than on my dynamic IP.

On a related note Alex Wellerstein recently did some work estimating these separate photographs as from the 2-20 minute post shot time and don't look very much like the larger cloud in the attached link above. http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/01/rare-photo-of-the-mushroom-cloud-over-hiroshima-discovered-in-a-former-japanese-elementary-school/267042/

Hoping you receive this in good health, Tom, 185.51.74.214 (talk) 23:30, 24 March 2016 (UTC)

Response
Please contact me at john.costermullen@gmail.com76.199.151.99 (talk) 16:55, 25 March 2016 (UTC)