When I click the image in the upper right it goes to an image for a film with the title Black Arrow.
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There is a difference between owning a satellite that is put into orbit by someone else, and developing the capability to do it yourself - the Alouette 1 was launched by NASA which is different to developing a successful launch system.--Si4200:34, 29 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I'm confused: the page describes the Black Arrow first stage as a modified Blue Streak. But BS was a kerosene/liquid oxygen fuelled rocket. Is there a confusion here with the Black Prince design? This page http://www.fathom.com/course/21701717/session4.html
sponsored by the London Science Museum mentions only the kerosene/hydrogen peroxide Black Knight technology.--213.78.103.13320:50, 30 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
The BBC "TimeShift" television programme stated that Black Arrow was one of two orbital carrier rockets to be derived from the Blue Streak (The other being Europa). Looking at images of the two rockets confirms this. The only difference is the use of different engines, and H2O2 instead of LOX. --GW_SimulationsUser Page | Talk22:16, 30 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Does anyone know how this thing actually flew without fins? Any info would be great, cheers - Acra
Black Arrow is too close to other uses, it needed to be disambiguated. For example Stevenson's novel is often called "Black Arrow" or "The Black Arrow" and its possible someone could refer to the rocket as "Black Arrow" or "The Black Arrow", or just "black arrow" for either one. -- Stbalbach23:41, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I've reverted your move, as the point of discussion is to discuss the action before it is carried out. For the record, I am opposing the article being renamed. The point of disambiguation in the article title is to deal with pages with exactly the same name, which is not the case here, as the book's title is different from the name of the rocket in that it does not contain the word "The". --GW_SimulationsUser Page | Talk11:15, 28 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Requested move
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Black Arrow → Black Arrow (rocket) — There are (currently) two articles on Wikipedia that a user could conceivably be looking for when searching on "black arrow" -- the rocket, or the novel (or the disambiguation page Black arrow (disambiguation)). According to "Deciding to disambiguate" in Wikipedia:Disambiguation, Ask yourself: When a reader enters this term and pushes "Go", what article would they most likely be expecting to view as a result? Since this rocket is not very well known to the general public (it was in existence for 4 years in the late 60s and had a total of four launches), and whereas Robert Lewis Stevenson's famous 1884 novel The Black Arrow is know the world over and a classic of English literature read by millions of people, the disambiguation guidelines would favor the novel having default for "black arrow", or at a minimum going to the disambiguation page. This would also apply to "Black arrow" or "Black Arrow". Although the novel is named in full "The" Black Arrow, many people just call it "Black Arrow" and could do so when typing it into the search field. Also according to Wikipedia:Naming conventions (precision): If a word or phrase is ambiguous, and an article concerns only one of the meanings of that word or phrase, it should usually be titled with something more precise than just that word or phrase. For example Nirvana (band) rather than Nirvana. -- since "Black Arrow" is an ambiguous name, a more precise "(rocket)" will give the reader a better understanding what the article is about, and solve the disambiguation concern at the same time. Stbalbach00:03, 29 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Are you for real? Please address the issue, not the person. It's standard that articles drop the "The" in cases of disambiguation. If someone types "Black Arrow" into the search field, should it point to the novel, the rocket, or the disambiguation page. This is about "chances of confusion" per WP:DISAMBIG#Deciding_to_disambiguate and the more precise naming guideline. -- Stbalbach23:25, 29 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
It is incorrect to use Nirvana (band) and Nirvana as an example in this case. In this case, Nirvana is an article about a more notable use of the term (i.e. oblivion), and therefore it is right to disambiguate. In this case, the book has a different title - The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses, and therefore, this is the only article that uses the title Black Arrow. This means that this article is correctly entitled Black Arrow, and moving it would serve no purpouse whatsoever, other than contributing to the sloppy disambiguation of rocketry articles, which is bad enough as it it. I would also argue that the rocket is just as notable as the book. The difference between the number of search results for Black Arrow Book and Black Arrow rocketisless than 1% in Google. As for the sniper rifle, this doesn't bear worrying about. There were just 1.2 million search hits for the rocket and book, but less than 900 for the gun. Therefore it should be alright to just leave this page here, and link to the disambiguation page, as is currently done. I really think the book's title provides enough disambiguation as it is. I should also point out that over twice as many articles link to here than to the article on the book, with all but two being relevent. Finally, I should note that from your spelling of words, I would guess that you are an American. Therefore, I would put the fact that you are judging the rocket not to be notable down to the fact that it is not notable in America. The fact is that it is pretty notable for being the First and only British rocket to place a satellite into orbit.
Per Wikipedia:Disambiguation: Ask yourself: When a reader enters this term and pushes "Go", what article would they most likely be expecting to view as a result? When there is no risk of confusion, do not disambiguate. -- Clearly, there is risk of confusion, because we already have a disambiguation notice at the top of the page. The question is, should the term "Black Arrow/arrow" default to the Rocket, when other more common meanings exist:
and per Wikipedia:Naming conventions (precision): If a word or phrase is ambiguous, and an article concerns only one of the meanings of that word or phrase, it should usually be titled with something more precise than just that word or phrase -- since "Black Arrow" is an ambiguous name, adding "(rocket)" gives it more precision and reduces the ambiguity. Renaming this article to {rocket} solves two problems: it makes this article name more precise, and it free's up "Black Arrow/arrow" which is a common, easily confused and ambiguous search term to point to a more common usage (or to the disambiguation page as a neutral ground). -- Stbalbach16:31, 31 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
This seems to just be a nuisence disambiguation - Black Arrow is only a small part of the title of the book - The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses - Black Arrowisless than a third of the title. Therefore, this article is fine where it is. --GW_SimulationsUser Page | Talk20:00, 1 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
It says When there is no risk of confusion, do not disambiguate. Risk of confusion seems high, users should not need to worry about the definitive article when searching. Plus, there are other things called Black Arrow that have not yet made their way to Wikipedia but could at any time:
I suppose I could keep going, but the point is, there are many things "black arrow" that users could be looking for. It is not clear that any one is the "most common" - if there was a most common black arrow, it would be Stevenson's novel, but it's a close call on Google (about 2:1). -- Stbalbach00:11, 2 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
This is all incredibly tendentious. Look, we've satisfied the disambiguation rules by having a link at the top of the page. The title of the book is 'The Black Arrow' but the name of the rocket is simply 'Black Arrow' anyone lazy enough to shorten the title down probably knows the 'The' should be there anyway, and even if they don't they can follow the disambiguation. Given that the correct name of the rocket is Black Arrow whereas it's only one slang name of the book I don't really feel you've got a leg to stand on.WolfKeeper01:09, 2 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
1) The book is common usage than the rocket. 2) There are other meanings for "black arrow" besides the rocket. 3) The guidelines on naming precision say use more precise names when the names are ambiguous. -- Stbalbach23:15, 2 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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While Paraffin is techincally correct, it is vague and confusing. Paraffin describes an entire class of hydrocarbons, from light volatiles to wax. Kerosene is much more specific. If there's another term that is as specific as kerosene, go for it. But I don't know what that would be.
This is not a color/colour issue. This is a less-specific/more-specific issue. This is also clearly demonstrated by the fact that the use of "paraffin" in the article *cannot* use the actual "paraffin" Wikipedia article, but has to use the kerosene article! Doesn't that clearly demonstrate that the use of "paraffin" in the article is at the very least vague?
Tmassey (talk) 19:46, 14 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
To expand on the color/colour analogy, this is more an "inquiry/enquiry"-type issue. The word has different meanings in the two dialects. And the word "kerosene" simply isn't used in British English. Changing it would be like changing "inquire" to "enquire" in US English articles when it does not refer to official inquiries. (In British English "inquire" refers to an investigation conducted officially, whilst "enquire" is used for general investigation. In American English, "inquire" is used for both. For example, EN-GB: The police are conducting an inquiry and I didn't know the telephone number so I called directory enquiries. EN-US: The police are conducting an inquiry and I didn't know the telephone number so I called directory inquiries.) --GW…20:35, 14 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
The Ariel 1 and Ariel programme articles indicates that Britain was the third rather than the sixth nation to have a satellite, and that Prospero was Britains fourth satellite. Shouldnt this be mentioned in the article? 92.28.249.93 (talk) 21:22, 18 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]