User talk:Surfing bird

Container image
Thanks for finding that image - as requested I've added it to Shipping container architecture, about halfway down. Feel free to move it to somewhere else in the article if you like. To add to its caption, do you know where this wall of containers is? that way I can replace "on a building site" with "in Smithville, Smithtown" or similar.

Re posting images, there's a series of complex instructions at Help:Image but the simplest set of formatting to use is this:
 * 250px - this is the size of the image. 250 or 300 are pretty standard but you can use other numbers if you like
 * thumb - this puts the image ina box and lets you add a caption. If you don't include this, the image just appears without a border.
 * right - this puts the image on the right-hand side of teh page. "left" is the default setting.
 * Caption - this is the caption that sits under the image. If you didn't use "thumb" above, the caption won't appear.

Once again, thanks for the image and if you don't agree with its size or placement, feel free to move it around. Euryalus (talk) 01:32, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

Leighton international
The policy is, in a case like this where the user is merely blocked indefinitely and not banned, to revert only those edits which need reverting. Only banned users are subject to automatic reversion regardless of the innocuousness of the edit. Daniel Case (talk) 05:37, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Okay, what you are saying, its fine for a corporation to edit an article about itself as long as that edit is non controversial.Surfing bird (talk) 05:43, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

Well, WP:COI suggests it's not a good idea for a corporation to do even noncontroversial routine edits to an article, but WP:BFAQ and other policies certainly do not discourage them from reverting vandalism. If you think we haven't totally worked this out yet, you're right. Daniel Case (talk) 05:47, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
 * There was no vandalism, it's a small thing, but you have allowed a major corporation to write their own article!!! Using your logic, GM, McDonalds, Mobil would be allowed to do the same thing!!!Surfing bird (talk) 13:01, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

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Airplaneman talk 12:43, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

Great Britain and Ireland (at Breakfast)
Thanks for the message. This is a problem that has been discussed perennially on WP, and of course boils down to whether one is talking about the geographical entities or the political ones. Britain, here, I believe is not generally accepted as a shorthand on EN:WP. "British" is. While I accept that the British govt may have said that, that is rather a unilateral decision and the term may still be ambigious to English-speaking readers from other parts of the world. Since the link was piped to United Kingdom anyway, and tahat (or UK) seems to be the more general usage, why muddy the waters?

Similarly it seems to have been settled that, unless context makes it unclear, Ireland can refer to the Republic of Ireland, as well as the island of Ireland.

I would actually have preferred changing amalgamating both to being the British Isles, but since all other sections are for political entities (e.g. Australia and New Zealand, United States and Canada) it is hard to know which way to jump there.

Best wishes Si Trew (talk) 10:07, 18 November 2009 (UTC)

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Ultra late reply :)  Airplaneman  talk 03:25, 13 March 2010 (UTC)
 * I requested it's deletion. Cheers, Airplaneman   ✈  00:42, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

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Whpq (talk) 11:00, 9 July 2014 (UTC)

Container_Wall.jpg
Hi Surfing bird

The Image container_wall.jpg, you mentioned that you took that photo yourself. Is there any chance you can tell me what mine site that was taken at?? I work on a mine site in QLD and we are looking at doing the same thing with containers and want to know more about how it was engineered. Thank you in advanced. JbrockJ.brock2020 (talk) 05:07, 10 May 2020 (UTC)