User talk:Historianbuff

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Arctic  Kangaroo  02:17, 30 March 2013 (UTC)

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Files and provenance
See Reply and my comments given on Wiki Commons file deletion page. Historianbuff (talk) 21:03, 13 January 2019 (UTC)

Could you have a look at this, please? We might need information that you have. DS (talk) 14:32, 13 January 2019 (UTC)

Corvette C1 Revision
Hi - can you walk me through the logic in reverting recent changes to Corvette C1, which as I recall needed references for some of it's points. One of the glaring errors that I fixed was reference to the 1955 Ford Thunderbird as a 'personal luxury car' - the marketing department of Ford Motor Company described it as 'a personal car of distinction' to establish the T-Bird as different from the C1 'sports car.' The press in late 1954 adopted this name. Then in 1958, the Ford marketing department called the four seat model a 'personal luxury car.' This is the first reference I can find that uses this term. If you do have references to the contrary, please share them. Thanks for being a conscientious editor. PLawrence99cx (talk) 23:46, 5 June 2019 (UTC)

Hello PLawrence99cx - I reverted your changes due to the fact that I believe you had used a not a reliable WP:UNRELIABLE and also a questionable WP:QUESTIONABLE reference source. If you disagree, then you could always go to the main talk page and discuss it further. Historianbuff (talk) 12:44, 6 June 2019 (UTC)

Germans made the first working Transistor
The world's first working device was built in Paris by German scientists Herbert Mataré and Heinrich Welker, who preceded the Bell Labs, Moreover their prototype was more advanced than the prototype of Bell Labs. See: https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/silicon-revolution/how-europe-missed-the-transistor Just because the War Crimes of Germans, it was impossible to receive Global attention for Germans after the war.--Regtraht (talk) 18:01, 16 November 2019 (UTC)

"he French device “turns out...to be superior to its American counterpart,” read a more measured but still favorable account in Toute la Radio, a technical journal [see drawing and photo]. “The latter has a limited lifetime and appears to be fairly unstable, whereas the existing transistrons do not show any sign of fatigue.”

According to Mataré, this superiority could be attributed to the care they employed in fabricating their devices. While observing the process with microscopes, the women working on the small assembly line would measure current-voltage curves for both metal points with oscilloscopes and fix the points rigidly on the germanium with drops of epoxy after the curves matched the desired characteristics. When Brattain and Shockley visited the Paris group in 1950, Mataré showed them telephone amplifiers made with his transistrons—which allowed him to place a call all the way to Algiers. “That’s quite something,” admitted Shockley a bit guardedly, Mataré recalls half a century later."

No wonder, since the United states was not center of the scientific discoveries, it is enough to compare the number most famous scientific awards, the American results were simply laughable in a comparison with Germany or UK.--Regtraht (talk) 19:31, 16 November 2019 (UTC)

NO where does it say in the article reference that you had added, which says Matare or Welker had discovered the Transistor BEFORE the Bell Lab scientists. If you are correct, then why did the three scientists of Bell Labs had been awarded the Nobel Prize (Stockholm Sweden) in Physics (1956), for their Transistor Invention and not Matare or Welker ? Historianbuff (talk) 02:04, 17 November 2019 (UTC)

Nobel prize is not an official document like patents, neither a proof for the past, like a publication in a scientific magazine/newspaper. If you read the article, both Matare or Welker dealt with the subject a decade before Bell Labs.--Regtraht (talk) 14:56, 19 November 2019 (UTC)

You are Wrong. Matare and Welker had originally worked on duodiodes and rectifiers during WW2,as also stated in your reference article. Also, authors and writers often do make mistakes in their magazine/newspaper applications and that is why the original patent filing dates are the only proof of having an invention, not their own research scientific papers that easily can be changed later on. Finally, Matare had filed his original transistor patent (Transitron) on August 13th 1948, "AFTER" Bell Labs had filed their original transistor patent. Furthermore, I have nothing more to add to this subject and if you still have a problem, I would suggest that you take it up with its "Main" transistor talk page. Historianbuff (talk) 17:55, 19 November 2019 (UTC)

Antique radio
Hello, according to External links to avoid item # 11, it would appear that the site you are wanting to add back in falls within "personal website" or fan page. Is the author of that website a recognized expert, not by the swearing of other enthusiasts, but have reliably published books (not "self publishing" vanity presses) on the topic of antique radios? Graywalls (talk) 17:09, 1 December 2019 (UTC)

Hello Graywalls,

You are not correct with you information that you have stated. This website link that was originally listed, not by me, is a website that provides all sorts of various repair materials, schematics, and parts listings for various antique radios and were published by the "original" radio manufacturers. The website and its owners does NOT repair any radios and this is also stated on his website. I suggest that you go to the website and see what "valuable resource information" that is provided from the various early radio manufacturers. Historianbuff (talk) 17:54, 1 December 2019 (UTC)


 * That would be fandom site, a personal site being, a website built by an individual for fans, or how to guides. Graywalls (talk) 19:16, 1 December 2019 (UTC)

If you want to remove this external link that has valuable antique radio reference information, then you need to go it the main TALK page and start a Consensus and get of majority of editor users that agrees with you, in order to remove this existing material. Remember, Wikipedia is NOT a one band show, and just because you say so, that does not mean that you are correct. I suggest that maybe instead of just removing existing referenced materials, like you have been doing with your previous edits, maybe you should add some useful referenced materials that will further enhance the subject materials. Historianbuff (talk) 20:36, 1 December 2019 (UTC)

"own image"
Hello, I see the image that you uploaded https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antique_radio#/media/File:Transistor_car_radio_Mopar_model_914HR.JPG is used in the article also appears in the cited source http://www.allpar.com/stereo/Philco/index.html. The article's author is also the same as the contributor of the image. I am wondering what's going on here. Graywalls (talk) 14:43, 2 July 2020 (UTC)

Hello, I have corrected the existing information on the Wikimedia commons image page. Thanks --Historianbuff (talk) 12:52, 3 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Whose image is it, and where does it say the actual author has released the image, NOT for use on Wikipedia, but released it under Creative Commons license? If this person is someone you personally know, and you're using the article they have written, that needs to be disclosed as well for NPOV/COI reasons.  Graywalls (talk) 21:16, 3 July 2020 (UTC)