User talk:KoakhtzvigadMobile

Philistines map
I thought I'd already done that on the Talk. Anyway, I believe the map's unsuitable because it doesn't show the Philistine area accurately - only 3 out of 5 cities, and you can't really tell where they are. What would be useful would be a map that concentrates on the southern coastal strip where the cities were, plus inland as far as the Dead Sea and north as far as the southern Phoenician cities (just north of the Mt Carmel promontory) for context.

As to how it might be done, I'm not sure, as it's not something I've ever been involved in. The obvious way would be to use a map from an academic book, but I imagine that involves copyright issues. Could we create our own map using a book plus Goggle Earth? PiCo (talk) 02:18, 10 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Moving your comments to article KoakhtzvigadMobile (talk) 03:06, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

Waiver for the M-1 Abrams tank to be rolled over the C-17's ramp.
Its mentioned on page 136 of this document:

http://stinet.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA441079&Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf

"Cargo Vehicles Because of the C-17's large capacity  (in both size and weight), the parameters  of an individual cargo  vehicle  rarely come  into  play. The C-17 can transport the ground force's heaviest combat vehicle, the M-1 tank, at a  maximum weight  of 135,000  pounds. This is 5,000  pounds heavier  than  the  operational  weight  limit  of  130,000  pounds  for loading  across  the  ramp.  However,  a  waiver  was  granted  after analysis  by  the  C-17  System  Program  Office  (SPO)  and  the  aircraft manufacturer  showed  that  the load  distribution  of  the M-1  did  not detrimentally  affect  the  ramp  structure.  This  waiver  is  for  the  M-1 only." Hudicourt (talk) 02:45, 27 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Thank you. I believe recently the waiver was used for something else, a piece of mining equipment that was shipped by the RAAF from western australia to Japan for the metigation fo the nuclear reactor accident there.KoakhtzvigadMobile (talk) 02:49, 27 April 2011 (UTC)

WP:BRD
You need to read WP:BRD and be guided by its policies. If you make a change, as you did at Levantine Arabic and it is reverted by another editor, you do not replace your edit. You take it to the Talk Page and try to build a consensus for your change. If you cannot build a consensus for your new text, then you don't make the change. In discussing the Arabic languages/dialects, we use the term "variety" here in Wikipedia as a result of much discussion at various pages over the years. "Variety" walks the middle road between calling the spoken Arabic forms "dialects" or "languages". Do not go back and reinsert "dialect" where "variety" is more appropriate. The article and template used for Arabic is called Varieties of Arabic, not "Dialects of Arabic" for a reason. --Taivo (talk) 08:08, 28 April 2011 (UTC)