Talk:Pipe Brands / Makers

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Calvert Super Deluxe

I recently acquired a large lot of pipes from an estate. It included many lovely styles and well known brands. There are 2 mystery pipes that are marked CALVERT SUPER DELUXE. There is no country of origin on them. One has a red dot mark on the bit and the other has a C in a circle. I am in Canada and the bulk of the pipes are Brigham's (the owner had a favorite sportsman model and the lot included 30 plus identical. I am wondering if Calvert could have been a store brand of Fader's? I would add pictures but I cannot seem to operate that feature. --Hdm1950 (talk)

I looked up Calvert in "Who Made That Pipe" by Herb Wilczak and Tom Colwell. They indicate Calvert was made in the US by Harry J Gorfinkel, circa 1941. I don't know if he was an individual pipe maker, or that was a company or distributor. Not much to go on, I'm afraid, but there you have it! --sethile (talk) 13:54, 10 July 2015 (CDT)
Thanks for that update and I have just searched Harry J Gorfinkel and have come up with similar information. --Hdm1950 (talk)

Special:MyLanguage

I discovered that using links to the "Special:MyLanguage" namespace lets Mediawiki think these pages are orphaned (see Special:LonelyPages). I think it doesn't make sense to use "Special:MyLanguage" for not translated pages. That's why I will remove these. If this proves to be a dumb idea we can revert my changes. Magna (talk)

Just editing this page I have reduced the number of orphans from 437 to 269 .. Magna (talk)
Excellent, thanks! I hated the way that worked. I had a contributor helping with the initial translation efforts that set the "Special:MyLanguage" stuff up. It seemed wonky at the time, but I did not understand the situation well enough to nix it. Thanks for tracking this down! sethile (talk).
Prefixing links w/ "Special:MyLanguage" is required if titles/names of translations are also translated if I understood it right. But there is no need to translate the titles of pages about pipe makers as these are usually names which should not be translated. But the fact that these pages become orphans really seems to be a bug, although I couldn't find any evidence for that. Magna (talk)
Makes sense! Thanks for tracking that down. It's definitely cleaner and much easier to add to the lists of brands and makers without all the "Special:MyLanguge" stuff in there. I can't think of a single case where a brand of maker's name would be translated. sethile (talk)