User:EdJogg/ToDo
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The burgeoning ToDo list...
[edit] Current Task Priority
Priority order, see below for details...
- Maintenance Tasks from: WP:THOMAS
- Page/support for ToDo List
- Page/Support for 'MiniProjects' List
- FAQs/Guidelines re-write
- Register on WP-Commons and start uploading/using images
- Major project - Ilfracombe Branch Line
- Next: Clayton & Shuttleworth, E. R. Boston
- Tasks from: User:EdJogg/WikiProject Thomas - (ongoing)
- Prototype details for Trevor the Traction Engine and George the Steamroller
- Fictional Locations navi boxes
- The Railway Stories - Update + add images
- Railway Series Links gathering - (ongoing)
- Tasks from: WP:THOMAS - (ongoing)
[edit] Active Maintenance
Edited pages that require monitoring or future updates.
[edit] The Railway Stories Recordings
Much new detail has been discovered but not yet incorporated. Continue monitoring eBay for source material!
- Update text to incoporate new headings, new info and singles table
- Pictures needed, for singles, albums and tapes
- 'Single' info (especially) is still incomplete
- Mention in intro: "Article does not cover audio releases of TV Series stories, see: TV merchandising"
- Mention in intro: "Unless otherwise stated, stories are recorded in the same order as the books from which they are taken."
[edit] Revised Headings:
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- Johnny Morris recordings
- Delyse
- Decca
- Argo
- Willie Rushton
- Decca
- Argo
- Ted Robbins
- Reed/Tempo
- ELC specials
- Michael Angelis
- Johnny Morris recordings
[edit] Delyse Recordings Table
- Reformat Delysee recordings into a table:
| Catalogue No. | Released | Side 1 | Side 2 | Railway Series source volume |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DEL101 | 196x | Edward's Day Out | Edward and Gordon | Book 1 – The Three Railway Engines |
| DEL102 | 196x | The Sad Story of Henry | Edward, Gordon and Henry | |
| DEL103 | 1961 | Thomas and Gordon | Thomas's Train | Book 2 – Thomas the Tank Engine |
| DEL104 | 196x | Thomas and the Trucks | Thomas and the Breakdown Train |
- etc
[edit] The Railway Series Characters
These have been 'fully edited' (both book and TV) - watch for vandalism!
- Oliver the Western Engine
- Daisy the Diesel Rail-car
- City of Truro
- Stepney the "Bluebell" Engine
- Neil the Boxtank Engine
[edit] Urgent Tasks
- Investigate: Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation popups (aka 'popups' in edit summaries)
[edit] Potential Projects
Not including creation of new pages, which count as Major projects
[edit] Slough to Windsor & Eton Line
- Needs moving (eg to Windsor Branch Line)
- Templates need adjusting
Add cross-ref from Slough railway stationDONEAdd cross-ref from Windsor and Eton Central railway stationDONE- Create structure and content as for Marlow Branch Line
- History needed
Pictures needed (Marlow Branch Line includes a pic of a 2-car Class 165, which would do!)DONE- Details needed
[edit] Lynton and Lynmouth Cliff Railway
Some typos in existing textDONEAdd Operation and History headingsDONE- Use Official web page for source info about how it works
- Include ref to official guidebook.
- Add 'list of funicular railways' to pages needing attention - Aberystwyth lift is only a stub, for example.
[edit] Next Major Project: Sam on Boff's Island
- New Page Needed
- Programme is mentioned on Tony Robinson's page, but is not Wiki'd.
- Very few references on the web.
- Definitely time for Wikipedia to come to the rescue!
[edit] Reference Sources
- Annual, published by BBC, 1973
- School workbooks, pub by BBC autumn term 1972 and spring term 1973
- Sophie!!!!!
- Internet: following links are entire Google output as of 16 Jun 06 !!!
- This web page shows the annual from 1973 (recently obtained from eBay!).
- This is a Kids TV forum page regarding SoBI (last entry Sept 05 - no new info!) - however it does mention the school work book in passing (again - see home reference!!).
- Useful refs at TV Cream and TV Cream school's progs - search for 'boff'!
- Programme possibly made by Smallfilms (see Oliver Postgate - need to research this further)
- Will be able to use scanned character images from source material.
(See Garfield for images that provide suitable Wikipedia Fair use and copyright information.)
[edit] Add Wiki-Links on Pages
- Tony Robinson
- Smallfilms - if relationship proved
- Oliver Postgate - ditto
- List of BBC television programming
Note that there appear to be no Wiki pages that reference BBC Schools programmes, nor Words and Pictures...
- Include in categories:
[edit] Articles Needing Attention
[edit] Steam-related
- Steam shovel and satellite pages
- Much wikilinking needed
- Bristol Harbour Railway
- as part of Bristol Industrial Museum, has several preserved steam tugs and a (dock) steam crane (inc. picture)
- Hollycombe Steam Collection
- stub, and not NPOV, neither!
- Fred Dibnah
- more details of Betsy are available (eg official site) - but should it be described on Fred's page or at steam roller?
- Plenty of sites available to describe "Digging with Dibnah" - could create a page for it!
- Try these for starters: good site by one of the diggers, lots of mine plans! (- lots more pics here!!), Obituary (The Times), official biog
- Steam engine
- New section required on modern applications of steam engines, for example:
- Add information from IAASP website (International Association for the Advancement of Steam Power)
- new section describing development of hybrid engines by BMW.
- etc
- New section required on modern applications of steam engines, for example:
[edit] British (Steam) Engineering companies
Patricularly concentrating on locomotive and traction engine manufacturers...
- Clayton & Shuttleworth – see 'workshop'
- Cowans, Sheldon & Company – see crane (railroad) and Finnieston Crane
- Ransomes & Rapier – see 'workshop'
- Ruston & Hornsby and Ruston, Proctor and Company are both in Ruston (engine builder)
- Ruston-Bucyrus – seems to be missing entirely
- Mirrlees Blackstone Ltd – barely gets a mention at the end of MAN B&W Diesel, but it's talk page encourages expansion. (Mirrlees and Mirlees redirects also created).
[edit] Salvage Squad
- Has now been created, but really little more than a list of the vehicle types restored.
- Three series to cover - fortunately there are good details on the Channel 4 website Salvage Squad . Google search will also reveal good info (including a page on the Centurion tank).
- PRJ has pic of "Margaret" at GDSF 2006
[edit] Pumping station articles
Most are just stubs! Check out others in the list at Pumping station.
- Abbey Pumping Station
- page reqs detail
- Abbey Mills Pumping Stations
- Brunel Engine House
- Claymills pumping station
- Crofton Pumping Station
- Crossness Pumping Station
- Hollycombe Steam Collection
- Kempton Park Steam Engines
- stub, and not NPOV, neither!
- Kew Bridge Steam Museum
- when first seen, just a stub
- Markfield Beam Engine
- Prickwillow – a village whose main claim to fame is a pumping museum!
- Smethwick engine
- Stretham Old Engine
- Westonzoyland Pumping Station Museum
[edit] Canals
- Wey and Arun Canal - more history of restoration needed
- Basingstoke Canal - little information about restoration
[edit] Railway
- Slough station
- Windsor and Eton Central railway station
- Swindon & Cricklade Railway - note that it is OK to create a new page with the correct '&' name and redirect the 'and' version - see WEFC as an example.
- Hudswell Clarke - ideal for pic of no.3 !
- Tarka Trail - sort out references, and indicate actual trackbed sections used
[edit] Railway with excess US bias
(re-write to remove US bias)
[edit] Switcher
- Needs re-arranging (too US-centric)
- See Talk:Switcher for approach to take (and further ideas)
- Also see Control car (rail) as an example of how page to be re-arranged
(Note that the introductory paragraph of this page needs US-specific language replaced)
[edit] Caboose (Brake van)
[edit] Road Transport
[edit] Model Cars
- Matchbox cars
[edit] Work
- Sharp Corporation - no refs to mobile phones! (see also new articles below)
- Ferranti - doesn't mention Bracknell, + little on Ferranti Computer Systems Ltd
- FTSS redirects to TMSL
but this is a stub with very little info, and no mention of Fleet, Church Crookham,
Ferranti International Sonar Systems (was that what it was called?) or DBE - Slough Trading Estate - no mention of the railway and little of its history.
Need to correct links between here and Slough Estates (eg on Sir Nigel Mobbs page, which is a bad link, and ensure consistency for Slough Estates Ltd rather than the PLC form.
[edit] Football
- Slough Town F.C. - very little here,
not even a link to the official site- (compare with Windsor_and_Eton_F.C. which has 'everything'!)
- Also see: Wikipedia:WikiProject Non-league football - added to STFC talk page?
[edit] UK Places
- Burpham, Surrey
- Major copy-edit completed
- Images needed (try, 'Geograph')
- Merrow, Surrey
- Major copy-edit completed
- Images needed (try, 'Geograph')
- Need coverage of the Race Course and the PoW camp (see Merrow Residents Association website)
- More detail for St John's church
- Data (dates?) confirmation for existing text incl old names of pub
- Woolacombe - detail and pictures required (plus railway info?)
- Mortehoe - minimal information at present (added by EdJogg!) plus a few pics!
[edit] Literary
- Agaton Sax - add note regarding Kenneth Williams and Jackanory (check facts first!)
[edit] Lorenzo the Llama
Audiobook stories by Johnny Morris
- Add details to Johnny Morris page, including images of singles (as a gallery?)
- Cheat and use cropped image of single to provide pic of JM!! (while we can get away with it!)
- Create redirect Lorenzo the llama
- Link to Meccano (publisher!) - possibly as new page 'Pied Piper'?
- Add to Llama - section for 'in popular culture'
[edit] Asterix Audiobooks
The six audiobooks by William Rushton.
- Asterix
- add note towards end of intro to say audiobook versions were made
- List of Asterix volumes - add new section for audiobooks
- General overview, based on books, adaptations by Anthea Bell
- Table to show titles, date, code
- Mention need to describe pictures and visual gags
- Examples reqd, eg signposts, battle scenes, Obelix collecting helmets
- Comparison with TV programme transferring to radio (eg Dad's Army)
- Possible para:
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- Often, audiobook adaptations require the book in question to be abridged, in order to reduce the overall duration to something manageable. For the Asterix books, the opposite is true, as they must be more than just unabridged, since the spoken text must be adapted to suit the comic-book format of the original. A large proportion of the humour is carried through visual gags. These, by necessity, must be described to the listeners, along with sufficient description of the pictures to keep the story flowing.
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- Willie Rushton's characterisations 'bring book alive'
- Asterix as cockney wideboy
- Obelix: slow + gentle, a bit dense
- etc
- POV - recommended to all (British) Asterix fans!!!
- Willie Rushton's characterisations 'bring book alive'
- Add new section to each indiv book title (see above)
- include cover pic
- 'Audio book' cat
- link back to main article for general notes
[edit] Christian
- Phatfish - Wikification needed - also smartening up (too much block text!)
[edit] New Articles Needed
Potential Major projects...?
[edit] Gumdrop (fictional car) and Val Biro
- New pages needed
- Gumdrop (fictional car) created, initially as a redirect to Austin 12 hp
- Val Biro still not added
Add to List of fictional vehicles- DONE- Need full list of books (apparently there are 37+ titles!)
- Need to scan some book covers
[edit] Steam Traction
- Many independent UK steam loco manufacturers are missing
- Steam ploughing/Farming with Steam/Steam agriculture
- to include (separate articles, or not?):- Ploughing engines (currently a redirect to Traction engines - created by EdJogg)
- Balance Plough (+ x-ref to/from Ploughs)
- Unusual Capstan ploughing system, as seen at GDSF in 2005
- Note that article on Ploughs skips from horse-drawn to tractor-drawn
- Steam yachts - the fairground ride
- Also see Category:Amusement rides
- NB Carousel does not really cover the steam-operated aspect well
- Steam lorry/Steam wagon
- Brief mentions under Truck and (even less) under Traction engine
- See Sentinel Waggon Works for a little more detail and some pics
- Also see Category:Road transport - high level, there are better ones!
- Steam narrow boat "President"
- Mentioned in passing on narrow boat page
- See official website
[edit] Work
[edit] Model Cars
- Lesney
[edit] Christian
- Jonathan Veira
- listed on ICC Records (are releases on this label notable enough?)
- should be on lists of Christian musicians and baritones (?)
- JV's homepage!
- Must check notability guidelines, etc vs WP:BAND (especially), WP:BIO and WP:LIVING
- St. Mary's Parish Church, Slough
- Plenty of source material!
- list of stained glass windows
- must write (snailmail) to tell them of misspelling of Wolmark's name! (see below)
- West Window:
- need to add Alfred Wolmark, designer (see biography, and elsewhere)
- also need to modify Stained glass, to include a ref.
[edit] Miscellaneous
[edit] Walking routes in North Devon
Following on from extract at DCC Tarka Trail page:
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- Coincides with the South West Coast Path for part of its route, Two Moors Way for another part and the Dartmoor Way for a third; links with the West Devon Way, Two Castles Trail, Little Dart Ridge and Valley Walk and Dartmoor Way.
All of the 'red' routes mentioned deserve coverage in WP. Start here to find initial information.
[edit] Archive
[edit] Queries from Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)
[edit] Missing Edit Toolbar in IE
Hi.
I have use of a Win2K laptop (with IE6.0) at work, and a venerable Win98SE PC (with IE 5.5) at home.
If I edit at work, I can see the edit toolbar, yet I cannot see the toolbar when editing at home.
(At home, an error is also reported on the IE status bar.)
I am sure that there is 'something missing' in my home setup, but I have not yet been able to establish what it might be.
Is there a 'minimum spec.' PC required for editing Wikipedia? Else, any clues as to what I might be able to do to fix the problem? (Unfortunately, upgrading to a newer PC is not financially viable at present.)
EdJogg 17:14, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
- Well, you might consider visiting Windows Update and upgrading to IE 6.0 at least. :)
- If you can report details of the error at http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/ we might be able to take a look and fix it if we can get ahold of a copy of IE 5.5, but no guarantees. --Brion 20:38, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
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- Or try Mozilla Firefox? --Aude (talk | contribs) 20:40, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Follow-up
- Buttons are visible in Firefox, even on Win98SE PC!
- Haven't tried IE6 upgrade yet
