Talk:Stephenson's Rocket

message: I've just reverted one of these (which had been hijacked) but none of them seems to offer much and I'm not really inclined to keep any of them. Any thoughts? Anything better that should be in?  --Old Moonraker 16:08, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links 

message: How are we styling "Rocket"? In here, it's italicised, it's roman and it's quoted roman (using single quote marks, too, when the encyclopedia's adopted style seems to be for double quotes, with singles for nested quotations). If it's a vessel name, the way, say, USS Enterprise is a vessel name (as opposed to type), it should be italicsed. If it's just a sort of "brand name" (like "Cunard liner"), it should be roman without quote marks. I can't see any any reason for quote marks unless we're quoting.
Ajarmitage (talk) 11:17, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Style 

message: I have added references to another US replica of Rocket. Perhaps one of the two is the one made for Buster Keaton. I would be interested to know. The Chicago one is just visible in a photo at
http://www.msichicago.org/whats-here/exhibits/transportation-gallery/
The 0-2-2 'Rocket' at Philadelphia is a different sort of locomotive, see http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM7DK4_Reading_Railroad_1_Rocket_the_Franklin_Institute_Philadelphia_PA
81.86.167.71 (talk) 14:40, 22 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Replicas 

message: I have reverted this addition as Seguin "was not aware of the contemporary construction of the Rocket". . --Old Moonraker (talk) 14:35, 4 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Marc Seguin]] 

message: Dear members of Wikipedia,
The intro of this article and several others has been copied and used in the game Trainstation from Pixel Federation. It is in use on Facebook and the game is copyrighted bij the Pixel Federation. I don't know correctly if that is allowed, but I noticed it when I wanted to look up more information about other locomotives.
Your regards. Michael 1988 (from the Dutch Wikipedia). Michael V 1988 (talk) 22:33, 29 December 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for the warning.  Does the game acknowledge Wikipedia as the source of some of its content? The terms of free re-use of WP material are very broad, see WP:REUSE for more. --Old Moonraker (talk) 08:03, 30 December 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: No it does not. But there are more articles being used in that game. If you want to know them all, i could try to look them all up. I shall put up a list on this page. Michael V 1988 (talk) 15:05, 26 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Problem is solved, they mailed me last week (finally) and they putted up links what the source is from their text, even when i suggested only to put this on (Source:Wikipedia). Michael V 1988 (talk) 21:38, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Warning copyrightabuse 

message: The "Complete Book of Locomotives" () says cylinders are:
* 8 x 17; rather than
* 8 x 7; 
Which is it? Tabletop (talk) 02:00, 21 August 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: No idea about the real size, but a moment's look at the crankpins will show that 17" might be right and 7" is far too short. Andy Dingley (talk) 09:39, 21 August 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I've corrected the cylinder size data, but not the metric equivalents which are now wrong. Hallucegenia (talk) 10:35, 23 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cylinder size 

message: Engine weight of 
* 4 tons 5 cwt surely implies axle load of
* 2 tons 2.5 cwt and not
* 2 tons 10 tons ?? Tabletop (talk) 02:10, 21 August 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: No, that would only be the case if the weight was evenly distributed between the two axles. As Rocket is quite asymmetric, it deliberately places more weight on the drivers. Andy Dingley (talk) 02:13, 21 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Axle load ? 

message: I think we need to link to the two engineers' pages much earlier / more prominently in the article. Not sure best how to do this.
In the lede, there is the phrase: "It is the most famous example of an evolving design of locomotives by Stephenson..." This implies one specific Stephenson, but doesn't say which, and is not a link. (Linking via the Robert Stephenson and Co link is inadequate.)
Neither Robert Stephenson nor George Stephenson is linked until well down the page (in 'Credit for the Design'). The links are then repeated in the following paragraph (section), but not for the rest of the article. Considering Stephenson is mentioned in the article title, I think we need the link/s in the lede too.
I know views differ about multiple links. Personally, I would look to repeat important links in each major section, when first encountered, to allow for any readers who do not read the entire article. Hence I would duplicate the links in "Opening-day accident", as they certainly fit there; and probably remove them from 'Before Rocket' (which looks like a very old section!)
EdJogg (talk) 09:56, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Good idea. Hallucegenia (talk) 07:05, 4 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Links to Robert and George Stephenson 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Stevenson's Rocket redirects to this article, as it is a common misspelling indeed. It was also a short-lived (1974-1977) teenybopper/glam rock group from Coventry however, with a quite peculiar story. Therefore a disambiguation page should be implemented. 82.217.120.75 (talk) 10:22, 17 December 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: We'd need to have that article written first. Andy Dingley (talk) 12:35, 17 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stevenson's Rocket 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: I thought that at the moment Rocket is on display at the National Railway Museum. It could just be a replica . I need an answer. Thanks 87.114.14.153 (talk) 18:54, 11 September 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Still at the NRM, but it's now at Shildon rather than York  Andy Dingley (talk) 19:09, 11 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Where is it now??