User talk:Myrtone86/Archive 2

Melbourne Enthusiast
You shouldn't have removed the reference to the Melburnian usage of gunzel. This infomation is correct (I live in Melbourne). Rejecting it as irrelevent is like saying that Australian English is non-sequitur because the articles main Englishes are British and American English. It's also as if Australia is non-squitur simply because each side of the Atlantic is more important or somehow (inherently) superior.Myrtone (the strict Australian wikipedian):-(
 * Aww. As I do not live in Melbourne, I wouldn't know, but perhaps one could edit the first mention of Australia to say "In Australia, and especially so Melbourne, ...". Now, as I'm writing this, I however notice the difference between railfan and tramfan and thus I agree with you that it should stay! Jobjörn 14:42, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Question relating to statement you made on Ambi's talkpage
Hey there. You wrote on Ambi's talk page "Did you know that Australian could have been bilingual as well a multicultural? We could have had an antipodean teutophone "Québec" (South Australia)?" As someone born and schooled in Adelaide, I hadn't heard of any moves to make South Australia bilingual. In fact, besides the small German population in the Adelaide hills, South Australia was the most British of colonies and I can't see what other language they would have used. I'd be interested to hear what you know of this. Cheers --Roisterer 05:11, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

Vacuum brakes
I posted my comment before I saw your interest in electric trams; I was really talking about steam road vehicles, sorry. These tend to have relatively much smaller, but quicker reacting, boilers to enable frequent stops for deliveries etc. Any continuous bleed would be risky because the water level would drop too much. As regards the "dead man's handle" on a road vehicle: with the exception of trams, the driver would be steering, wouldn't he/she?

This reminds me of a story told me by the old footplateman who taught me to fire and drive steam railway locos. He switched to diesel when steam was phased out, but soon left to become a lorry driver. This might expain why: One of his routes was the local commuter line I use to get to and from work. In a casual conversation I mentioned that the long tunnel just before my evening station was very handy for waking me up in time for the stop. "Funny you should say that", he said, "the same thing used to happen to me when I was driving".Moonraker88 15:46, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

Babelfish articles
Please use WP:TIE to file translation requests. Machine "translation" is worse than nothing. Usually our human translators create decent articles within weeks to months, but babelfish nonsense doesn't get properly cleaned up for months to years. To improve the situation, I will now speedily delete GTL8 because I think it qualifies as patent nonsense. If you use machines to create articles, please clean them up yourself. Thank you, Kusma (討論) 04:35, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Well, I just click the "delete" button, but I'm an admin :-) If you want a page that nobody but you has touched deleted, you can tag it db-author if you think it is no longer useful. Anything you need deleted?
 * Oh, and sorry for being harsh above, but Babelfished articles are my pet peeve on Wikipedia. Happy editing, Kusma (討論) 05:03, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
 * The standards for inclusion in Dutch and English Wikipedia are probably similar. I have deleted the article not because the topic is not notable (it is), but because the content was almost unreadable. Kusma (討論) 05:18, 20 April 2006 (UTC)