Wikipedia talk:Using maps and analogous media: Difference between revisions

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:Please look at the graph in [http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/dutc.html this paper] and compare it to the reference that you gave me. The one that you gave me is incorporated into the one that I mentioned. The big picture highlights the anomaly for the eighteenth century and it is the sort of thing that I would expect a school-child to pick up, which is why I do not regsard it as WP:OR - remember WP:OR is defined as "Wikipedia articles must not contain original research", so is something that we woudl expect s schoolboy topick up original research or is it something to which the author of the paper said "That is not really relevant to what I am writing and it is so damned obvious I am not going to waste time memtioning it". [[User:Martinvl|Martinvl]] ([[User talk:Martinvl|talk]]) 19:58, 8 May 2012 (UTC)

::It would be nice if one of you could either copy or point to the disputed statement that lead to this discussion. Just looking at the graph at the bottom of [http://hpiers.obspm.fr/eop-pc/earthor/ut1lod/lod-1623.html], I think the graph safely supports any of the following statements:

::*Between 1623 and the early 1700s the average duration of the day has increased by approximately 12 milliseconds.

::*Since approximately 1700 the duration of the day has trended slightly upward with an exception during the latter half of the 19th century.

::[[User:Moabdave|Dave]] ([[User talk:Moabdave|talk]]) 21:13, 8 May 2012 (UTC)