Talk:Aerial work platform

message: ...that we call the cherry pickers in the US, too, so I deleted the part about "in the UK, at least".  =) --Jemiller226 19:49, 4 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Tweaking

message: I have made some significant changes to this article.  Predominantly they are around increasing it's readability (e.g. reducing the amount of subheadings, which do make it hard to read) and removing 'how-to' information, in line with wikipedia policy.  
This has lead to the removal of a fair amount of text, which as an inclusionist, i don't tend to do, but the majority of the article read like an instruction manual for a particular model of scissor lift.  
What I hope I have left behind is a good article structure which can be further expanded upon, sufficiently splitting generic information from type specific information.
I hope I haven't hacked out anything too important (I think I was careful...), but no doubt someone will tell me if not (please feel free to comment on my talk page, i love feedback...)
Regards Owain.davies 16:47, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not quite happy yet with what you did, and will in the next couple days do some clean-up in layout and formatting (with explanations of where I disagree and why some things should preferably follow general Wikipedia styling). I generally don't disagree with your removal of the how-to info, though. Cheers. MadMaxDog 06:31, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Hope you agree with most of the tweaks I did. Cheers. MadMaxDog 09:04, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: looks great, we'll make an FA out of it yet! Only one thing - i can't quite reconcile mechanism etc. in the titles being singular.  I agree with keeping the AWP name out, and that the article name should be singular, but everything in my brain is telling me that there is more than one mechanism, so it should be 'mechanisms'. Thoughts?Owain.davies 09:24, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Mmmmh, I think of it in the sense of 'by' that you struck out (i.e. "defined BY lifting mechanism", "defined BY drive mechanism"). That said, I don't feel strongly about it (hey, rare! ;-) so if it irks you, put those 's' back in. MadMaxDog 12:08, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article overhaul 

message: The first sentence of this article claims it is the same as a elevated work platform Zackmann08 (talk) 21:26, 16 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed merge with [[Cherry picker]] 

message: The Polish article is https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podnośnik_koszowy. 85.193.240.212 (talk) 22:43, 5 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Could you add Polish interwiki? 

message: Type "aerial lift" into the Google Image Search. You will be surprised. 85.193.233.31 (talk) 15:48, 23 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Google Image Search 

message: Upon casually researching the subject, I'm seeing more sites (unaccredited, mind) give the invention credit to one Walter E. “Ted” Thornton-Trump and his device known as the "giraffe", along with a patent related to such.
Sample source:
https://dozr.com/blog/boom-lift
Thanks to those willing to investigate this discrepancy.
40.134.136.158 (talk) 21:17, 20 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Contention on inventor and timing