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I nominated this article for speedy deletion because it seems to be a copyright violation of material found on http://online.northumbria.ac.uk/faculties/art/humanities/cns/m-spain.html
In general it's not a good idea to create articles by simply copying and pasting from another website.
If you wish to use that material as a starting point for a better article you can create a sub page on your user page.
e.g. [[/Nancy Spain]]
Then you edit that subpage until it is no longer a copyright violation and you are happy with it, then you can simply move the material to a new article in the encyclopedia.
Take care.
TheRingess 03:11, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
The Nancy Spain material on the Northumbria U website was written by me and is my copyright. It has now been shifted to
http://pages.britishlibrary.net/alan.myers in any case. I hope it can stay where it is in Wikipedia.
Bandalore 07:48, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
My integrity has been impugned by Wikipedia and I seek an apology. The deleted Nancy Spain material was written by me, and there is nothing live on the Northumbria ac.uk cns site which TheRingess quotes. It is merely a link to my present (non-profit site) at
http://pages.britishlibrary.net/alan.myers
I hold the copyright on this material, and can supply written evidence from academics. I can hardly be stealing from myself! I'd like to see Nancy restored, but I shan't bother unless I get a satisfactory reply.
Bandalore 14:16, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
Regarding the article: the text that you inserted is not completely suitable for Wikipedia. The main issue is that it is not completely neutral, as all Wikipedia articles should be. You do not have to write the perfect article yourself (one of Wikipedia's strong points is that people collaborate in creating articles and improve on each other's work). I restored the content of the page, if you would like some guidelines about how to procede, this is a great start: Wikipedia:Manual of Style (biographies). However, there are no obligations at all, if you don't want to edit it yourself I (or someone else) will work on it later! Thanks, -- Joann e B 14:57, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
I've edited my raw material in this light, but I don't mind if a more experienced hand gives it the suitable form.
Bandalore 11:53, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
I have been looking through the list of unwatched pages (available only to administrators) and found (Gavin) Graham Laidler. I see that you created this but were not watching it. You may want to go to your preferences and under the "editing" tab turn on "Add pages you edit to your watchlist". This will enable you to keep an eye out for any edits that are made to pages you create and help to revert vandalism. Thanks. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 20:47, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
I intend to create a few final pages and then start tweaking. I'm not altogether used to the process as yet. In the meantime, I know my chickens and will keep a watch on them. Thanks.
Bandalore 23:18, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
Please see my comments on your edits to the Newcastle upon Tyne article at Talk:Newcastle upon Tyne#Edit. Thanks. Johnwalton 18:04, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
Please don't sign talk pages as Bandalore, since it makes it very difficult for other editors to figure out who made comments, and to respond to you. If you'd like to put something on your userpage about yourself, feel free, or even put that Bandalore means Yo-yo (if it does) or whatever. Just please have a link to either your userpage or your talk page in your signature. Thanks, Mak (talk) 23:32, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
You're accidentally linking to a real article rather than your namespace. To sign automatically simply put "~~~~" (without the quotation marks) and wikipedia will do it for you. If you wish to do it manually you need to put "User:Bandalore" as your link e.g. User:Bandalore (you need to make this page! Feel free to edit it however you wish).
Similarly you may way to link to your user talk instead if you do not wish to create a userpage for yourself. This can be done by linking to "User_talk:Bandalore"
Hope this helps you :)
Take a look here for more info
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Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We appreciate your contributions to the Harold Heslop article, but we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material. Perhaps you would like to rewrite the article in your own words. For more information, take a look at Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Happy editing!-- Commander Keane 11:21, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
Sorry, but isn't South Bank in London? NewYork1956 07:16, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
Yes, there is an area of London described as the South Bank since 1951, but not in 1882. It's an arts complex, not a place where one might be born.
South Bank in Middlesbrough is a specific place (there's no North Bank because Middlesbrough is entirely south of the River Tees, some 250 miles north of London). The entry makes it clear that Florence was sent to London to study, and returned to Middlesbrough from Canada.
Fascinating article by the way, I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Bandalore 17:09, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
Oh, thanks for clearing that up, but on the article when you click that link it still brings you to London's South Bank. Perhaps you could change it to the article it should go to. Thanks,
NewYork1956 00:01, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
{{ helpme}}
I have acquired a domain name www.myersnorth.co.uk
This should replace the former http://pages.britishlibrary.net/alan.myers
which appears all over Wikipedia - most importantly with the articles on W.H. Auden and Yevgeni Zamyatin
I haven't a clue about how to change all these links - and not much clue about anything else! I've done all my contributing to Wikipedia (quite a lot) and what I would really like is for some kind person to just wave a magic wand.
( Bandalore 20:05, 12 April 2007 (UTC))
JoanneB, yes, it does redirect to the Seaham site and it will stay there for a while - permanently I hope, though there are some imponderables. Even if my material moves in the future, I understand that the domain name www.myersnorth.co.uk will continue to point at the relevant site. Thanks for your time. regards
Bandalore 11:06, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for your assistance Jtir. The last pp numbers should be 417-427.
However, interested parties should access my online version 'Zamyatin in Newcastle' (now via www.myersnorth.co.uk.) It contains all the material of the articles I wrote in the 1990s plus added information and is kept right up to date. It is crucially relevant to the connection between WE and Zamyatin's life in Newcastle. I would like it to appear on both the WE (novel) and Zamyatin pages.
Bandalore 21:08, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
Insofar as the online version completely supersedes the original published articles (which contain some errors and conjectures since disproven, and in any case were published 14-17 years ago) I would prefer the cite template link to remain pointing to the online version.
[I'm not sure that the Slavonic and East European review can be accessed without subscription anyway. I wrote three articles on Z in Newcastle for it 1990-93. Only the first used to appear as a reference in Wikipedia. Now only the third one is there. Much better to clear the lot away and insert the online version. The reader will miss nothing, and gain a lot (plus photographs!]
Bandalore 13:58, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
Very many thanks. This is to everyone's benefit.
Bandalore 15:41, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
Hi, could you take a look at the translation of the title of this book referenced in Zinaida Serebriakova? A Russian editor and I developed it, but I have never been completely satisfied with it.
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help) (in Russian)
[1]-- Jtir 22:08, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
I read the article with interest; the English seems a bit uncertain. Anyway, the word 'coal' in this context should be 'charcoal'.
The sub-title of the book is, literally: 'Letters, contemporaries on the artist.' This is unusually snappy for a Russian book. It's usually 'The Artist through the Eyes of Contemporaries' or some such.
A brisk English translation might be: 'Zinaida Serebriakova: Letters, contemporary views.'
Bandalore 04:02, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
FYI, your earlier msg in Talk:We (novel) is where I learned of a possible connection. I don't recall having ever heard of 4711. -- Jtir 18:49, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
If the author of a reference is the subject of a WP article, the article can be linked from the reference.
For example, the single reference in
Auguste Kerckhoffs has a link to the article about historian and author
David Kahn.
Wikipedia:Citation templates has the gory details. (The authorlink field is the one that is used to make the link.)
-- Jtir 12:26, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
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I used to have my webspace on the British Library site, but they have now discontinued this support (for everybody). Unfortunately, I see that two key references to my work on
W.H.Auden still point to the old defunct BL site.
I am afraid of bungling so am appealing for assistance.
My domain name is now www.myersnorth.co.uk and the relevant section of that is titled 'Auden in the North'. (Not Auden and the North). The new site has the word Seaham in it.
One link appears in the External Links section of W.H.Auden
At the top of this section there is: 'See also: descriptive list on the Auden Society website. The other reference to Auden in the North is there.
My work covers in detail aspects of Auden which are unavailable elsewhere, so I am anxious to get the directions right.
I'd be most grateful for some help here.
Bandalore 18:29, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
Relief and thanks.
Bandalore 20:05, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
Hi, here are two tips for editing talk pages.
-- Jtir 21:53, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
[Copied from Talk:We (novel) to move discussion here. -- Jtir 19:55, 19 May 2007 (UTC)]]
The only English translation of the Newcastle novellas that I know is from the Salamander Press 1984 (Flamingo 1985 paperback), translated by Sophie Fuller and Julian Sacchi. ISBN 0-00-654141 - 0 (the paperback)
Martin Amis called the stories 'remarkable in every way' (Observer 4.11.1984)
Bandalore 23:35, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
This card catalog image from the NLR has some unusual features. We, Chekova, 1952
I realize this is creeping into original research. -- Jtir 14:22, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
I don't think the top left hand number 69-5 is a date - or if it is, it makes no sense to me. It might just be some kind of acquisition number.
The bottom left hand date of 1988 no doubt refers to the Selected Works of that year. The indistinct writing underneath seems to start 'Glav...' (Russian for chief...).
The bottom right hand date is another such reference. The scrawl after it looks like s/ya i.e. short for sochineniia; works. That's all I can make out. I have asked others.
Bandalore 00:14, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
Hello Bandalore, I posted the passage below too spontaneously after following the link from Zamyatin talk to your site. Admittedly: Love at first sight, your site that is. Absolutely wonderful. Now Jtir was a bit angry at me for unloading the whole passage below in the Zamyatin talk section. May I park it here for a little while, before I delete it altogether. Although Jtir suggested to simply reduce it to the relevant passage. I am aware that as a Kraut I might possibly be a little too interested in these matters. A couple of years ago, I only knew there was a myth, but I did not know anything about the story of the Protocols. But this connection sounds interesting. From the first time I read about it, I wondered if this forgery does not indeed pull much of its power from all the other Anti-utopias that exist in the world. ... As I learned now: e.g. "We". LeaNder 15:54, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
Originally on Talk Section: Zamyatin'
Are you an expert on Zamyatin, I have no time to take a closer look? What raised your interest?
I am really pleased there is a little something on him, I can come back to with a little more time. I am just in the process of translating a short article and I never heard the name before. It's not really related, but a fast scan on your entry for Zamyatin tells me you might possibly like to see the passage below, so I cut and paste a longer passage of my translation below, I'll mark Zamyatin for you. I'll change the footnote and the last one is not finished yet. Neither is this proofread this is the first draft, so forgive anything that hurts your English eyes/ears.
It's from a German book the title in translation reads: Conspiracy theories: Anthropological Constants - historical Variants ( in German: Ute Caumanns, Mathias Niendorf (ed.) Verschwörungstheorien: Anthropologische Konstanten - historische Varianten, Osnabrück: Fibre, 2001, p. 90 f) The special article is: by Michael Hagemeister, The Myth of the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion” [Der Mythos der "Protokolle der Weisen von Zion"] Michael Hagemeister is working on Sergei Nilus the first publisher of the "Protocols" in Russia. He is one of the most interesting scholars I know of at the moment. This is of cause an interesting topic for us Krauts.
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Footnotes:
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I'll be back in a couple of days, and take a closer look at your site too. Wonderful on first sight. LeaNder 16:37, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for your kind message LeaNder. I'm not an expert on Zamyatin though of course I'm aware of his life and career. I am, however, regarded as the authority on Zamyatin's time in Newcastle 1916-17 and the influence of that milieu on Zamyatin's work, particularly WE.
I am a native of the Newcastle area and reading 'Islanders' long ago sparked off my interest, though I didn't get around to doing anything about it until the 90s.
There's a great deal of original research on my site which you won't find elsewhere. Even modern Russian scholars, who are now very interested in Zamyatin, are unaware of e.g the Harold Heslop connection.
I've never come across the Protocols in the context of anti-utopias. What you say makes a lot of sense and seems a fruitful line of inquiry.
The best of good luck
Bandalore 15:45, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
Thanks Bandalore, that you are so patient with me. I stopped with the translation for the time being, as the friend I wanted to translate it for has shown no interest.
Newcastle can be very, very pleased about your site. It is simply perfect for the kind of culture tourists like me.
I decided to read more of Hagemeister's research on the Protocols. But I think to study it simply as literature or with the methods of literary studies is rather new. E.g. Cesare G. De Michelis What is more astounding is that not much original research has been devoted to the matter since the sixties, but everybody basically copied with the rare exception of Michelis and Hagemeister. But that is a comment for the special sections on the topic, which has taken a strange turn. But I need more time for that. Maybe that could be my topic here. The best from Germany LeaNder 17:39, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
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This is the same absurd situation as obtained with regard to Nancy Spain and George Burton Hunter. I simply transferred material from my own site to Wikipedia. Still, I won't make a fuss this time. Carmichael isn't a major figure.
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There is a link. Just below the subsection title, you should be able to see the following:
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See what? There's a blank in your post, as well as below the subsection I've looked anyway and see that there is a link in the edit enclosed by curly brackets. I've repl;aced them by square brackets and all is well.
Bandalore ( talk) 11:45, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
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Many thanks for your efforts MSGJ. I couldn't see the link and now again can't see it, but for a while during my fiddling it did appear (and worked)
My browser must be on the blink.
Bandalore ( talk) 14:17, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
Interesting (and I believe accurate) additions - but could you add inline citations for your statements, to stop them being unsupported assertions? Many thanks. Tim riley ( talk) 17:47, 17 March 2009 (UTC)
I've re-written the para to some extent, both adding and subtracting. The factual information is contained in the Oxford New DNB. I don't think I'll be able to supply citation of The Cathedral which I saw a long time ago. Perhaps that can be deleted.
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I confirm that the Charlotte Marsh material is taken from my own website which is now http://www.myersnorth.co.uk I intend to add a little to it
Bandalore ( talk) 00:52, 5 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi. I'm afraid that I cannot find verification on file in the OTRS system, and we do need this unless you place a licensing release at your website. If we do this properly it should avoid future confusion about the usability of your content, so that you stop winding up in this situation. :)
Would you prefer to place a release at your website (< http://www.sclews.me.uk/myers.html> would be the best position) or to send an e-mail to the Wikimedia Foundation? Either way, I can help you craft a statement that will not only cover your current content, but also any future imports of your own text you should choose to make. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 11:51, 5 May 2010 (UTC)
Many thanks but no. It's unlikely that I will be uploading any whole entries like this, so I'll leave it.
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