User talk:Leigh richardson

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Hello, I noticed that you recently created a new page, Caisson (lock gate). First, thank you for your contribution; Wikipedia relies solely on the efforts of volunteers such as you. Unfortunately, the page you created covers a topic on which we already have a page – Caisson lock. Because of the duplication, your article has been tagged for speedy deletion. Please note that this is not a comment on you personally and we hope you will continue helping to improve Wikipedia. If the topic of the article you created is one that interests you, then perhaps you would like to help out at Caisson lock – you might like to discuss new information at the article's talk page.

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Just wanted to let you know that AndyTheGrump and I realized an error in communication and your article has been restored. Thank you for your contributions! RegistryKey^(RegEdit) 18:35, 21 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Caisson (lock gate)[edit]

Hi Leigh, sorry about this but I seem to have trampled your article at Caisson (lock gate). I'd added this to the Caisson disambig page and had been planning to write it for some time, but hadn't got round to it. In the recent edit-warring to protect WP from the danger of creating articles I noticed that something had been deleted, but didn't realise until just now that it was your draft article. I slapped something together quickly over lunch.

Please help fill in the gaps. In particular it's light on content for:

the early development of ship caissons – your sandbox looks like promising sources for some of this.
the widespread use of sliding caissons in naval dockyards in particular. Vernon-Harcourt could be a source for this.
The use of an temporary outer ship caisson during repair work on sliding caisson. See [1] (which is old, PD and could be added to Commons) for a source.

Sorry for all the mess here today. I hope it won't put you off editing - there's a shortage of editors for maritime history, especially for the nuts and bolts rather than the high profile ship biographies. Andy Dingley (talk) 20:32, 21 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Sandbox article[edit]

Hi Leigh. I have made a few tweaks to your sandbox article on Caissons, to show how things are done. You might like to read the Wikipedia:Manual of Style which has some pointers to how things are done. I have put one of the books into a cite book template, to show how that works, and then used a short-footnote {sfn} template to refer to it. You will need to provide inline refs like that, or someone will come along and slap a "This article contains a list of sources but it is not clear what refers to what" tag on it. If you need any help, do drop me a line. PS: to sign posts on talk pages use four tildes ~~~~. Bob1960evens (talk) 17:52, 22 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]