User talk:Rogerhc

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Hi. You obviously have views on the current skid steer page as a redirect to skid. I might well agree with your reasoning if I knew what it was, but until then I will continue to think that the current redirect is the best option. Before making more changes, could you please explain your views on the Talk:Skid steer page, and give me an opportunity to explain mine. Thanks. --Richard New Forest (talk) 13:48, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

Answered on Talk:Skid steer. --Rogerhc (talk) 06:16, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Discussing the pages Engineering vehicle and Heavy equipment operator

Please don't change the list too much. Though to someone from outside the industry it may not seem so, the construction pages are in good hands by industry professionals. I do appreciate your edits to grammer, spelling and style. Forestry equipment is intentionally on the list, not by mistake. Same with agricultural equipment. We do log before building roads, and use agricultural equipment for construction if warranted. Air-track (machine), if the red link bothers you then remove the hyperlink. Most of this equipment comes directly from the CAT handbook, something of a standard for us heavy equipment managers. This page is here to help construction management students study for the equipment exams. Someone is going to lose points on the question about Air-tracks...Granite07 (talk) 20:29, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Just visited the heavy equipment operator page, "remove erroneous name Front shovel" google "Front shovel". I suppose you are the one who thinks there is only one type of haul truck, the generic "dump truck". There are about eight different haul trucks, again all exam questions and part of a complete article on heavy equipment. Sorry if I seem a bit terse, but it takes longer to create these pages in precious spare time, than you to delete them.Granite07 (talk) 20:40, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Answered on Talk:Engineering vehicle#Types. --Rogerhc (talk) 00:09, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

That an excavator and front shovel appear to be similar is where the similarity ends. They are used very differently (i.e. excavator loads-out from top of stockpile while shovel loads from bottom), the hydraulics are different and the structural design is different, the same person is not capable of operating both easily. You can not swap excavator and shovel buckets to change the equipment type.

This web link has photos to compare. http://www.cat.com/cda/files/253707/7/AECQ1042-06.pdf You really should put the front shovel back. The trucks is up to you, in my mind they should all be on the same page. Field engineers have a hard enough time as it is and you spreading everything around just makes it that much harder to figure out what a superintendent is talking about when they ask for six belly dump trains. The goal is to replicate the CAT handbook here on wikipedia, this article is the table of contents. Use this website for reference in your future edits. http://www.cat.com/cda/layout?m=37840&x=7, glad to see you have an interest in heavy equipment, if there is anything I can help you with, or you have any more questions, feel free to ask, happy editing.Granite07 (talk) 00:40, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

Roger, I am reverting your edits, please open a discussion on why your edits should be considered, present your logic and likely everyone will agree. As it is now, nobody has a clue what you are doing. There is a large group of people who watch this page and it may take some time for everyone to notice the discussion. We should give it a few weeks to give everyone a chance to comment before making any further changes, OK.Granite07 (talk) 01:01, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

I formally request this discussion be held on the article's talk page -- Talk:Engineering vehicle; I will answer specific questions you may ask there. --01:07, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

Roger, if you plan on, or have volunteered to review the heavy equipment articles, I have an extra CAT handbook (they give them out for free every year), it is several years old but for your purposes just fine. They have been issuing these several hundred page books for almost 40 years. Give me an address and I will ship it to you. Also found this forum that seems ok http://www.heavyequipmentforums.com/Forum/showthread.php?p=20763 this looks like an online electronic source http://www.southworthmilton.com/products/PerformanceHandbook/Pages/default.aspx Granite07 (talk) 22:07, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

Granite07, I would love a copy. I have emailed you my mailing address (via your email address in your Wikipedia preferences -- call me if you don't get it: my phone number is on my user page). Thanks! --Rogerhc (talk) 22:36, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

WikiDon was indefinitely blocked after a failed attempt to frame another editor for death threats. —SlamDiego_←T 04:42, 4 October 2009 (UTC)

User talk:Mr. Stradivarius on tour#Trouted 07:01, 8 November 2012 (UTC) — Mr. Stradivarius on tour ^{(have a chat)} 07:01, 8 November 2012 (UTC)

Hello. You have a new message at PartTimeGnome's talk page. – PartTimeGnome (talk | contribs) 00:42, 13 November 2012 (UTC)

When I look at WP:SMOS now, the More template is completely invisible. I looked on four different computers.

Also, I don't understand changing the word "more" to "MOS". How is the reader going to guess that more information is available, and why would he be more interested in knowing which bureaucratic document that information comes from? Art LaPella (talk) 03:37, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

Hi Art, Thanks for dropping me this note and sorry for the confusion. The More template was not invisible, I had simply changed it to display as a link instead of as a box, and tried variations on the link text, first "more..." and then "(MOS)". However, I'm not sure I improved things. So I have reverted my edits and returned the "More" template back to the box version. I have an idea that making the Headers into links to the relevant section of the MOS might make the page more readable and less distracting than having "More" links or boxes at the end of so many lines. However, I will propose this on the SMOS talk page instead of implementing it. By the way, thanks for your contributions to the SMOS page. It is really important to have a simple to read overview of MOS, in my view. Cheers, --Rogerhc (talk) 04:53, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

Well, I certainly looked for the links and didn't see them. I wouldn't have known that they were intended to say "MOS" if I hadn't looked at how the template was coded. But that's moot now, short of reverting just to look at it.

If the headers became links and MORE disappeared, do you understand the tradeoff? The existing MORE links go to specific guidelines. The headers, in some cases, correspond to much longer lists of guidelines, and wouldn't fulfill the same function at all. Most cases are worse: the MORE links go to completely different parts of the main MoS page, or even to different pages, and a single link from the header would steer the reader in the wrong direction altogether. Art LaPella (talk) 05:28, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

Art, you are quite right. Yes. I'm kinda stumped regarding my desire to make the SMOS less visually distracting. Perhaps toning down the link colors of the MORE box would help but I don't know. It is rather cleaver and useful to have each MORE box colored by its link status. Maybe specifying lighter link colors for the boxes via CSS instead of using the default dark link colors would help. I have caused enough confusion for one day however. So I will leave that thought in the hands of others, and maybe just do a mock up here on the talk page tomorrow to see what it looks like instead of editing the template. Thank you for explaining your thinking to me. It is a mystery how the links I replaced the box with in the template were invisible to you while visible to me. Quite strange. Maybe you were viewing Wikipedia via a different cache than I was. A purge of the template page might have cleared that up. Not sure. And as you noted, moot point now. --Rogerhc (talk) 06:01, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

This discussion is for changing the sister sites on Wikipedia's main page not WV's main page :-) This will occur on the launch of WV. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 04:17, 23 December 2012 (UTC)

Hi, thanks, I was confused at first but figured it out. Looks good to me either way for Wikipedia's main page. Happy holidays to you! I will be away now till Dec 30. Sorry about not replying on your page but splitting a conversation thread like that just doesn't make sense to me and I know you will find this reply if it is important to you. Cheers, :-) --Rogerhc (talk) 07:20, 23 December 2012 (UTC)

Hey all.

As promised, we've built a set of improvements to the Article Feedback Tool, which can be tested through the links here. Please do take the opportunity to play around with it, let me know of any bugs, and see what you think :).

A final reminder that the Request for Comment on whether AFT5 should be turned on on Wikipedia (and how) is soon to close; for those of you who have not submitted an opinion or !voted, it can be found here.

Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 19:24, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

Hey Rogerhc :). I'm dropping you a note because you have signed up for the Notifications, or Echo, newsletter.

If all goes according to plan, we should be launching Echo on en-wiki either tomorrow, or next Tuesday - I'll drop a followup tomorrow when we know what's happening. Should the launch succeed, we'll begin the process of triaging bugs and gathering feedback on what features work, what cause problems, and what we should do next; I hope you'll help us out on these fronts by leaving any comments you might have on the talkpage.

Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 21:43, 24 April 2013 (UTC)

Hey Rogerhc; Kaldari has finished scripting a set of potential replacements available to test and give feedback on. Please go to this thread for more detail on how to enable them. Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 15:33, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

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All the best, Trizek (WMF) (talk) 10:51, 29 September 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for your email. I am not yet sure whether I will be at the Stanford event. It depends on my work schedule. Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 22:37, 9 January 2019 (UTC)