User contributions for Colin Douglas Howell
A user with 5,883 edits. Account created on 14 September 2004.
18 August 2024
- 17:2817:28, 18 August 2024 diff hist +182 Boilermaker Special →Inspiration for the Boilermaker Special: Add 1892 photo showing Schenectady No. 1 on the Purdue locomotive dynamometer stand. current
- 17:1917:19, 18 August 2024 diff hist +34 Purdue University College of Engineering Change caption of 1892 Mechanical Laboratory photo to mention that it shows the 1892 laboratory's locomotive testing plant. current
- 17:1617:16, 18 August 2024 diff hist +34 Purdue University →College of Engineering: Change caption of 1892 Mechanical Laboratory photo to mention that it shows the 1892 laboratory's locomotive testing plant.
- 17:0217:02, 18 August 2024 diff hist +208 Boilermaker Special →Inspiration for the Boilermaker Special: Add archive link for dead URL in Purdue web site citation.
- 11:5811:58, 18 August 2024 diff hist +22 Boilermaker Special →Inspiration for the Boilermaker Special: "Vauclain", not "Vulclain"; wikilink to its meaning.
- 11:5511:55, 18 August 2024 diff hist +415 Boilermaker Special →Inspiration for the Boilermaker Special: Schenectady No. 1 and 2 were built not by Baldwin but by Schenectady Locomotive Works, hence their name. Correct the description about what they were: locomotives of several decades later than had been mentioned, and definitely American; "Victorian-era" has British implications. Mention the significance of their time, and cite the whole thing to one of Purdue professor W.F.M. Goss's books.
- 10:5210:52, 18 August 2024 diff hist +4 Raymond Viskanta Link "W. F. M. Goss" (the name of an endowed chair), since he was an important Purdue engineering professor in his own right. current
- 10:4910:49, 18 August 2024 diff hist +41 N W. F. M. Goss Create redirect for an alternate spelling of his name that is already in use on Wikipedia. current Tags: New redirect Uncategorized redirect
- 10:4410:44, 18 August 2024 diff hist +41 N W.F.M. Goss Create redirect for an alternate spelling of his name that is already in use on Wikipedia. current Tags: New redirect Uncategorized redirect
15 August 2024
- 20:4420:44, 15 August 2024 diff hist +17 Vulcan Foundry →Steam locomotives: "...supplied the first *locomotive* [singular] to run in Japan...". The first batch of locomotives for Japan's first railway came from several companies, and Vulcan only supplied a single locomotive. Include wikilink to its article. current
- 19:3319:33, 15 August 2024 diff hist +14 History of rail transport in Japan →Stage 1: early development, 1872–1906: More grammatical and precise caption for Class 150 photo, with wikilink. current
- 19:1819:18, 15 August 2024 diff hist +18 Rail transport in Japan →History: Wikilink "Class 150" in locomotive photo caption. current
- 18:5818:58, 15 August 2024 diff hist +36 Japan Railways locomotive numbering and classification →Pre-nationalization: Identify the locomotive in the photo by number and wikilink. current
- 16:3316:33, 15 August 2024 diff hist +1,973 Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Trains →Rewrite of JGR Class 150 from ja:国鉄150形蒸気機関車 on Japanese Wikipedia: new section current Tag: New topic
- 08:2208:22, 15 August 2024 diff hist +1,973 Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Trains/Locomotives task force →Rewrite of JGR Class 150 from ja:国鉄150形蒸気機関車 on Japanese Wikipedia: new section current Tag: New topic
- 08:1908:19, 15 August 2024 diff hist +1,950 Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Japan →Rewrite of JGR Class 150 from ja:国鉄150形蒸気機関車 on Japanese Wikipedia: new section Tag: New topic
- 08:1108:11, 15 August 2024 diff hist +1,724 Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Trains in Japan →Rewrite of JGR Class 150 from ja:国鉄150形蒸気機関車 on Japanese Wikipedia: new section Tag: New topic
- 07:4007:40, 15 August 2024 diff hist +1,661 Talk:JGR Class 150 →Near-full translation of the corresponding Japanese Wikipedia article: new section current Tag: New topic
- 07:1407:14, 15 August 2024 diff hist +103 Talk:JGR Class 150 Add another "translated page" template notice for full translation (well, nearly full—I chose to omit some bits and rewrote some parts) of Japanese Wikipedia article at ja:国鉄150形蒸気機関車.
- 07:1407:14, 15 August 2024 diff hist +13,326 JGR Class 150 Near-total rewrite of article, based on translating the Japanese version (including its list of sources cited), but with many further edits for style and content, and a few parts of the Japanese version omitted. Content in this edit is translated from the existing Japanese Wikipedia article at ja:国鉄150形蒸気機関車; see its history for attribution. current
- 04:5704:57, 15 August 2024 diff hist 0 Thalassomedon Correct usage of parameters in "Fossil range" template in Speciesbox; the numeric range endpoints should be separated by a vertical bar instead of a hyphen. This moves the fossil range marker to the correct place, the start of the late Cretaceous, instead of in the early *Jurassic* as it was before! current
10 August 2024
- 03:4003:40, 10 August 2024 diff hist +35 Battle of the Yellow Sea Wikilink the battleship's name in the infobox photo caption.
- 03:3803:38, 10 August 2024 diff hist +12 Battle of the Yellow Sea Note in the infobox photo's caption that it is colorized.
9 August 2024
- 17:3217:32, 9 August 2024 diff hist −3 Talk:JGR Class 150 →Newly translated infobox data from the corresponding Japanese Wikipedia article: oops, "correct"—brain fart.
- 14:2714:27, 9 August 2024 diff hist +512 Talk:JGR Class 150 →Newly translated infobox data from the corresponding Japanese Wikipedia article: new section, reporting addition of translated data to infobox and requesting a lookover. Tag: New topic
- 14:2014:20, 9 August 2024 diff hist +144 Talk:JGR Class 150 Add "translated page" template notice for translation of infobox data from Japanese Wikipedia article at ja:国鉄150形蒸気機関車.
- 14:2014:20, 9 August 2024 diff hist +1,320 JGR Class 150 Filled out infobox with data from Japanese Wikipedia, verified with cited source Usui (1968). Content in this edit is translated from the existing Japanese Wikipedia article at ja:国鉄150形蒸気機関車; see its history for attribution. Also added "Expand Japanese" and "Proofreader needed" template notices.
8 August 2024
- 03:3403:34, 8 August 2024 diff hist 0 Japan Railways locomotive numbering and classification →References: Put the {{Reflist}} list of numbered citations before all the listings of general sources.
- 00:4500:45, 8 August 2024 diff hist +280 Talk:Mike Todd →From where did the fatal flight take off?: Reply; question is now answered in the article. current Tag: Reply
- 00:4200:42, 8 August 2024 diff hist +68 Mike Todd →Death: Include the starting point and intended endpoint of the fatal flight; someone had recently asked about this on the talk page.
4 August 2024
- 19:4719:47, 4 August 2024 diff hist +2 History of rail transport in Japan →Stage 1: early development, 1872–1906: Make sure both initial references to specific rail gauges link to their corresponding Wikipedia articles; do not use the RailGauge template twice for the same gauge in the same paragraph.
- 19:3419:34, 4 August 2024 diff hist +52 History of rail transport in Japan →Stage 1: early development, 1872–1906: Explain that the name "Cape gauge" for the 3 ft 6 in gauge came from its use in the Cape Colony in South Africa.
- 19:1619:16, 4 August 2024 diff hist +20 History of rail transport in Japan →Stage 1: early development, 1872–1906: "Matthew Calbraith Perry" -> "Commodore Matthew C. Perry". Mentioning Commodore Perry by his full name without his title, in an article not about him, is likely to *obscure* who is being talked about for an ordinary educated reader who is likely to remember him only as "Commodore Perry".
3 August 2024
- 23:3823:38, 3 August 2024 diff hist +31 Black-thighed falconet Replace the zoomed image with another version with a tighter crop (so the bird's relative size is larger in a thumbnail view) and no vignetting. current
- 19:2519:25, 3 August 2024 diff hist −5 Black-thighed falconet Further reword image captions for clarity.
- 19:2319:23, 3 August 2024 diff hist +41 Black-thighed falconet Tweak image captions for style and clarity, mentioning where "Ipoh" is located.
- 19:0519:05, 3 August 2024 diff hist +29 Black-thighed falconet →Taxonomy and systematics: Use Drapiez's full name, and also wikilink and use the full name of "Vigors", since general readers will not be familiar with these people.
- 18:5018:50, 3 August 2024 diff hist −11 Microhierax →Extant Species: Use the common name "Brunei", which is better known internationally, instead of the official name "Brunei Darussalam", which is needlessly precise for a discussion about birds rather than countries. current
- 18:4318:43, 3 August 2024 diff hist −11 Black-thighed falconet Just use the common name "Brunei" in lead. "Brunei Darussalam", while being the country's *official* name in English, is not widely known internationally (until I looked it up, I thought it was some *subregion* of Brunei) and is needlessly precise for a article about a bird rather than the country itself.
2 August 2024
- 08:4208:42, 2 August 2024 diff hist +4 Collared falconet →References: Wikilink Jim Corbett National Park in photo caption. current
- 08:4008:40, 2 August 2024 diff hist +60 Collared falconet →Distribution: Wikilink various subnational divisions which are less well known.
- 06:3806:38, 2 August 2024 diff hist +97 Train to the End of the World →Plot: Use a photo showing a 2-car Seibu 2000 trainset like the one in the anime, instead of the previous photo which showed a much longer 10-car train. Someone recently uploaded a nice photo of the actual trainset 2463 portrayed in the anime, so use that!
- 05:2905:29, 2 August 2024 diff hist −10 Seibu Ikebukuro Line →External links: Update link to route diagram. current
30 July 2024
- 17:4217:42, 30 July 2024 diff hist +1 Agenda 47 →Education: Properly close unbalanced parentheses.
- 17:2317:23, 30 July 2024 diff hist 0 User:Colin Douglas Howell Update edit count userbox. current
- 02:0302:03, 30 July 2024 diff hist −1 Tokorozawa Aviation Museum →Aircraft in collection: Correct misspelled "Ventrol" to the correct "Vertol". current
26 July 2024
- 05:2305:23, 26 July 2024 diff hist −22 Pied falconet →Description: I don't know where "with a yellowish beak" originally came from, but it's obviously false if you look at photos of living birds, whose beaks are dark grey. (The taxidermied bird doesn't count, as its beak has obviously faded with time.) current
25 July 2024
- 05:5905:59, 25 July 2024 diff hist +137 Pied falconet Add caption to speciesbox image. Full explanation of location is too long for a caption. The specimen's original placard says "Marghena", but there's no place in Assam by that name. The location given by Auckland Museum's collections matches Margherita, Assam, so I'd guess that the lower-case "rit" was originally misread as a lower-case "n".
- 02:1602:16, 25 July 2024 diff hist +10 Pied falconet →Gallery: Wikilink locations for the photos from Assam.
- 02:1002:10, 25 July 2024 diff hist +52 Pied falconet →Gallery: Rearrange photos by location; identify site of Vietnamese photo, with wikilinks.
