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Stefan2. You may as well delete the file right away, if you can. This dummy found a freely licensed version, but went and uploaded it with the same file name instead of choosing a different name... -- André Kritzinger (talk) 18:37, 23 June 2016 (UTC)[reply

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Hi, Andre Kritzinger, I noticed your revert. Why Stay with SA loco article family standard display? There can't hardly be anything wrong with a link to King of Diamonds wat is depicted I would think? Thank you for your time. Lotje (talk) 14:37, 23 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

No, it wasn't that - I actually missed the link and have no issue with it, sorry... The revert was meant to undo the inline Commonscat link in a separate new section. Nearly all the other SA loco articles have it displayed in framed format in the references section. - André Kritzinger (talk) 14:51, 23 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Thank you. The same to you and yours! - André Kritzinger (talk) 16:26, 27 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I appreciate your keenness to rename the categories, but you need to use the speedy rename process at

Thanks, will do. I expected a few renames but it rapidly got out of hand... - André Kritzinger (talk) 17:16, 27 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

OK, now I need some advice. The

WP:C2D listing format

* [[:Category:old name]] to [[:Category:new name]] – Reason ~~~~

makes provision to list categories one by one, even though you said it can all be in one listing. Finding and listing them one by one will be just as tedious as manually finding and renaming them. What I need, it seems, is a request for a bot to look for any category/subcategory/article title that has a hyphen in South West Africa or German South West Africa and remove it, and also similarly edit the text of such articles. - André Kritzinger (talk) 18:02, 27 February 2017 (UTC)[reply

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Another aspect is that you should never add links to non-existent categories per

WP:REDNOT. I started listing them for a speedy rename before I realised quite what had happened - but trust me it's easier to go for a rename (where a bot will take care of all the contents) rather than doing it the way you had been doing and hoping that the red-link fairies would create new cats. Le Deluge (talk) 19:12, 27 February 2017 (UTC)[reply

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Those are the "I'll get back to it just now" ones. I got back to most before they helped me realise things were getting out of hand. - André Kritzinger (talk) 19:29, 27 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Fixed, thanks. - André Kritzinger (talk) 11:17, 28 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Somebody has been adding locomotives to this page and I'm sure they can use some Wiki links to your articles. I'd do it myself, but I don't really know anything about locomotives. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Francoisdjvr (talk • contribs) 12:57, 3 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I'll take a look. - André Kritzinger (talk) 13:41, 3 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hi André, wil jy nie dalk van jou waardevolle bydraes hier by die Engelse Wikipedia ook oordra na die Afrikaanse Wikipedia nie? Adriaan Joubert (talk) 20:24, 13 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Ek sien op teen die vertaalwerk. En ek het nie meer genoeg tyd nie... - André Kritzinger (talk) 23:21, 20 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Skuus, Adriaan, ek sien my antwoord was ietwat, wel, kortaf...

Jammer, mediese issues en sommer plein oudgeit begin my effens inhaal. Net die engelse artikels hou my al sewe jaar besig en dis nog nie eens klaar nie, en ek het 'n gevoelentheid vertaling gaan selfs langer neem as mens dit ordentlik wil doen. André Kritzinger (talk) 17:37, 2 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Why are you using |diameterinside= for what are verifiably outside diameters? --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 22:22, 20 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Redrose64, To use the outside diameter of a boiler in loco specifications is useless and you'll likely find it to be the exception, not the rule. To determine boiler capacity (volume, heating surface, etc), the inside diameter of the boiler, the outside diameter of the boiler tubes and flues and the inner distance between tube plates are needed, all those surfaces that would be covered by water or steam in a working order boiler. All boiler measurements in loco drawings are given this way. The only exceptions I've found so far were really old engines, usually because factory drawings of them could not be found and someone had to clamber about the engine with a measuring tape or guesstimate the diameter. In such cases I add "outside" after the diameter just to be clear about it. Outside diameter is of no use unless the thickness of the boiler skin is also brought into the equation, but draughtsmen and designers preferred the KISS principle. For that reason I would also argue against, for example, adapting the infobox to make provision for an outside boiler diameter. - André Kritzinger (talk) 23:18, 20 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I know how to calculate volume and heating surface, thank you: I have been studying the subject for over thirty years. My point is that texts on British locomotives rarely give an inside diameter - the only cases that I've ever seen have been in detailed engineering drawings, the kind that also specify plate thickness, the corner radius of flanges, size of rivets and their spacing. Other than such engineering drawings, where boiler dimensions are quoted (either in tabular form or on a diagram) it is always the outside diameter which is given, normally that of the largest ring, but there are exceptions. Tapered boilers - such as those used on the GWR from 1902 and the LMS from 1933 - often have a minimum and maximum diameter quoted, but again, other than on engineering drawings they are always outside diameters.

It is misleading to place a figure into a parameter that was not intended for it. The parameter was added by you at 22:29, 2 January 2016 during the first of a long series of edits (example) which made massive changes to the infobox. There was a discussion at the time concerning a large number of additional parameters, now archived to Template talk:Infobox locomotive/Archive 2#Additional fields required: Steam, mostly, but only two people - yourself and DePiep (talk · contribs) - commented there. Previous to your edits, it was possible to use the |boiler= parameter to hold these outside diameters; now, it is not. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 08:18, 21 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Your last statement needs some looking at: "Previous to your edits, it was possible to use the |boiler= parameter to hold these outside diameters; now, it is not."

That's not quite a true reflection of facts. It was possible to hold both inner and outer dimensions without any indication whether it was outside or inside diameter, which was not a particularly accurate portrayal of specifications. That was misleading! Way back when, in the SA loco articles, I began adding "outside" in those cases where the drawings specified as such, i.e. the exceptions where the inside diameter was not known.

Just to clarify: What precisely is the outside boiler diameter defined as anyway? Around the boiler's skin? Around the boiler cladding?

In the few UK loco articles I edited the past few days to fix parameter errors, I could find no indication in any of them that the measurement was the outside diameter, and I honestly never expected it to be outside by default, hence the need for you to re-edit them. If, in the sources used for these articles where boiler dimensions are quoted either in tabular form or on a diagram, it is always the outside diameter which is given, why was this fact never mentioned as such in any article's text?

I suggest you do what I used to do with exceptions until the infobox was expanded. The parameter calls for inside diameter and if only outside diameter is known, simply add the word "outside" after the measurement.

Meanwhile, I suggest you put Category:Articles with unknown parameter in infobox locomotive in your startup list. It's in mine to highlight erroneous use of infobox parameters, or use of non-existing parameters. The present locos in there are all GCR as well, so maybe I'd better leave them for your attention. Please note that in these nine remaining articles with infobox errors, nowhere in the text or table of any of them is any mention made of whether boiler dimensions were measured outside or inside. - André Kritzinger (talk) 11:49, 21 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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In the article Voiture État à 2 étages I noted that template:Infobox train would have been more appropriate. Peter Horn User talk 13:14, 16 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hi André Kritzinger

Yes I think your telling the truth and yes it will take time or such to go over again, I am as trying to list whatever your stateing of preserved or storage, but I think you may need to write it sometime and on all engines,

That means like you told me in the section perhaps write the ones preserved and in storage on steam engines and that be up-to you from now on,

And also I think I do need help on all these SAR engines of South Africa what's left and what is not, Trooper201 (talk) 22:35, 2 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

So if were to put in preservation list or storage then will add in the

This is something you need to try out if editing preserved or such engines why not give this template a go, and also make a edit if you can of it and if no CGR or IMR or BR then give it width=45 up to two colums or three without too much and colspan can be 2 or 3 in some places so that's not that hard though and it could work.

also check out the document link below tells of all SAR engines, it was requested when I asked permission from Sandstone Heritage Trust to learn of all heritage engines.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1etp-ezkDpRHmjaK-LVNPQsypAMfL5aZLHnw6_RzhEME/edit#gid=285943220 the link is in discription here on engines so tell me which of them is preserved or incorrect or in storage and also as spare parts before I go over it again? thanks... Trooper201 (talk) 04:27, 3 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: Copied to User talk:Trooper201 where the matter was raised and where it belongs. André Kritzinger (talk) 10:34, 3 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Oh another place you forgot to mention is or on facebook if have a facebook account or know of it's site is Hilton Steam Heritage Association which I have discribed that Class 1, 1276 is a privately owned by RSSA Trust which I have discribed. Trooper201 (talk) 08:08, 4 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Also I wrote about Class 24 no. 3632 here is the scource http://www.nbloco.co.uk/news/2016/oct_16.pdf in this link and oh Mr Kritzinger you may also find http://www.nbloco.co.uk/news_letters.html this site if it's any use it helps keep anyone upto date with anything North British I guess. Trooper201 (talk) 09:00, 4 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hi and I did use sources for wikipedia on some steam engines like you told me to do so, and they're is one from Issuu.com site I used SARI Volume 4 November 2015 magazine which in that case got some guidence but it's is an old one from 2015 but should work out just fine. I checked into the 6A 462 and it's at believe it or not The Big Hole Museum in Kimberley which I used as one of the scoures. and the Big Hole Museum scorce.

I do apologise for not useing it before I am listening and I am doing them for you.

Regards Colby James. Trooper201 (talk) 01:27, 5 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Even though I never saw your account before, never knew you; knowing that you passed away somehow made me sad. I hope you rest in peace. wikiprojects has lost a gem in your form. —usernamekiran(talk) 12:21, 9 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I'll echo what kiran said. Rest in peace.

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How very sad. We have lost Andre's encyclopedic knowledge of medallic history, together with his willingness to help with projects. RIP.Lexysexy (talk) 04:51, 10 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Andre made a major contrition to Wikipedia's coverage of South African topics. As well as his contributions here, he also donated a range of excellent photographs on South African topics to Wikimedia Commons. My condolences to his family and friends. Nick-D (talk) 05:32, 10 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

• My condolences to friends and family, RIP Andre. –Davey2010^Talk 21:32, 12 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
• Rest in peace. I am really sad to hear this. - CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 22:16, 14 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
• I would like to offer my condolences to Andre's wife Maggie (mentioned on his userpage) and to everyone else who knew this no doubt magnificent individual. His presence here was a great benefit to our community; his passing, a great loss. May Andre rest in peace. Kurtis ^(talk) 06:45, 15 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
• Thank you for your contributions, Andre. Rest in peace. Lord Sjones23 (talk - contributions) 21:41, 30 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
• I don't think anybody did more work on South African railway topics than he did. He will be missed. Francoisdjvr (talk) 09:28, 6 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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My condolences to his family and friends. Peter Horn User talk 20:38, 27 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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