User talk:Murray Langton

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Contents 1 You're welcome 2 Tent 3 Wilderness 4 Cabin tent 5 temporary links to get redirect page defined 6 Tent retailers 7 Flight planning 8 Georgette Heyer 9 Bicycle gearing 10 re: spellings 11 Georgette Heyer 12 Re: Flight planning removal of 'Trivia'

[edit] You're welcome

Glad I could help. I've watched the article for a while now; You're doing great work there. Tom Harrison ^Talk 23:22, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Tent

Hi Murray, great to meet you. Keep up the bike riding! ;) I've got a couple of kids too, but they're knee-high to a grasshopper. They love camping, even in the backyard. Anyway, I've added some initial thoughts to the tent talk page about your suggested rewrite - basically, go for it and happy to support along the way :) Jtneill - Talk 11:23, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wilderness

You may also be interested to check out the wilderness article and vote for it in the Article Improvement Drive. Jtneill - Talk 11:23, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cabin tent

Here's one. I can make a diagram of one if you wish, to match my pictures of the dome tent and dining fly. I've watchlisted your talk page; you can reply right here. --Smack (talk) 16:19, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks Smack. 'Cabin tent' is not something you see in UK or Europe, The nearest equivalent would be a frame tent, except that usually has the frame inside the tent rather than outside. Murray Langton 21:56, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

It would very much help to have either diagrams or (copyright free) pictures of almost every type of tent. Murray Langton 06:33, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

One query. Is a 'cabin tent a single skin or double skin tent? My impression from the link you helpfully supplied is that it is only single skin, with a divider to make two rooms. Murray Langton 06:33, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

I'm really out of my expertise here, but I would be surprised if placing the frame inside would disqualify a tent as a cabin tent.

I haven't seen any double-wall cabin tents. Weight, one of the main reasons for double-walling, is not very important for them, because they're not very portable anyway.

I can try to make more diagrams, but I'm afraid that, for some of the more complex types, they won't be very good. --Smack (talk) 02:28, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

Cabin tents here in the USA are the kind of tent used by car campers, people packing everything in a car or truck and basically camping right by your parked vehicle, like commercial campgrounds and those in state and federal parks, where there's a parking lot quite nearby. They are not made lightweight like a backpacking tent, generally speaking. Often they do have a (sometimes movable or removable) center divider to make 2 rooms. User:Pedant 00:55, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

Hi Pedant. It sounds as if you have some knowledge/experience of cabin tents. Feel free to add to the relevant section of Tent. Murray Langton 05:46, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] temporary links to get redirect page defined

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[edit] Tent retailers

As a new tent retailer has been added to the Tent article, I find myself wondering why we need the retailers links at all-- surely there are enough images of tents in the links to the manufacturers that we don't need the retailers' links? -- Mwanner | Talk 13:31, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

Hi Mwanner, if you think that the manufacturers links cover (nearly) all of the tent types mentioned then we could certainly remove the retailers links (I'm on the other side of the world from my home right now, using a rather slow dial-up connection, so I haven't been following things as closely as normal.) Murray Langton 22:22, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Flight planning

I have done a bit of spell checking and minor copy editing on your Flight planning article. It is, I think, very well written, though it would benefit from a few diagrams. I will try to keep coming back to it from time to time-- it's a lot to take on at one bite if one is unfamiliar with the subject.

One section you might want to try to work on: Flight planning#Calculation is written in how-to language after the first sentence. I realise this is a natural form for this section, but it really ought to be made descriptive, instead.

Excellent work. Cheers! -- Mwanner | Talk 12:18, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks Mwanner for your swift response and helpful comments. Murray Langton 13:59, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for your note. The intro looks better, but I rewrote it, as you'll see. (Changes like "There are two safety-critical aspects of flight planning: the first is the fuel calculation to ensure that the aircraft can fly to the destination without any risk of running out of fuel" becomes "Flight planning involves two safety-critical aspects: fuel calculation, to ensure the aircraft can reach its destination safely..."). So I cut down the wordiness a little. Second, the introduction should really reflect the organization of the rest of the article, so as it stands, the intro we have suggests the article will deal with (1) fuel calculation (2) air traffic control, and (3) historical development of flight planning. Is that what you intend? Kaisershatner 14:21, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks Kaisershatner for your revision. For (3), what I really wanted was to emphasise the existence of computerised flight planning systems, and how much more scope they give compared with hand calculations. Murray Langton 14:56, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Georgette Heyer

Fantastic that you're going to start working on the Heyer novels in depth - at the very least I promise to follow you around proof-reading, should it be required. --JennyRad 14:49, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

I have copies of about 2/3 of Heyer's books (my brother has almost all of them). From previous experience with other articles some proof reading will almost certainly be required. Thanks in advance. Murray Langton 20:29, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bicycle gearing

Thanks, man! I find the mph values very uncomfortable and the table wasn't even that hard to do. I'm researching into recumbent bikes in desire to build one myself and these gearing tables might be useful. Although I'm thinking about a jackshaft under the seat to 1.5x the cadence, to acquire higher speeds. I want a compact LWB with USS, streamlined and all-weather 8)) MiShogun 15:47, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] re: spellings

Thanks very much for your thoughts about my proposed post. I think I'll sit on it for a while though, in case someone else replies. Have a great day, — riana_dzasta • t • c • e • 15:26, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Georgette Heyer

Hello! I saw that you linked to the Georgette Heyer page so I thought you might be a good person to ask a question or two, I hope you don't mind me bothering you! I'm a relatively new user, although I've been around without an account for ages, and I'm interested in removing the red wikilinks from Georgette Heyer's page, mainly the ones linking to her historical romances- I own almost all of them and have read them countless times. I did create Black Sheep but I don't think it's great. I was wondering whether you had any tips on the best style/layout/content for pages on her novels? Thankyou very much for your help. Farosdaughter 22:36, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Flight planning removal of 'Trivia'

Murray, I've (slowly/belatedly) replied to your comments on my talk page about the above. -- Rehnn83 ^Talk 22:18, 11 June 2007 (UTC)