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Hi Steve, I will reply here as you are new to all this, but I usually reply wherever the discussion starts. Firstly I have reverted the edit you added to Post box because it is quite clearly a copyright violation as it stands even if you are the curator and give you permission to use it. Wikipedia encourages editors to write anew and not just cut and paste, especially from a copyright site. It does not integrate well with the current text and is not written in a very encyclopaedic fashion. The page you quote from, can be used as a source and for improving the article. I will be happy to help you do that because any philately related article is of interest to me but should be done to the standards required, so look at the welcome links I left you above to get a better view of things. Starting off with smaller edits is usually the best way before getting into the deeper improvements. I still have some pages I want to work on for more than a year - I'll get there some day, maybe.
If you want to do a major improvement to an existing article I will sometimes make a special user-space page and work on it there until I am ready to upload it. that way you can experiment and see that everything you add in relevant. I will start such a page and call it Kitmaster/postbox for you and paste the post box text into it that you added. Now you can rewrite it and tidy it up.
You also mentioned having photos available. These need to be appropriately licensed and possibly the best place to upload them in into Wikimedia Commons. Improperly licensed images will be removed by other editors or administrators. This may all sound rather strict to you but it is the correct way to ensure everything is above board. Too much is stolen, purloined or improperly used on the internet, but Wikipedia tries its best.
BTW, your website info on Irish letter boxes is rather badly and inaccurately written - I will look around more later when I have time. Hope the above all helps. Cheers ww2censor 17:19, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
Damn! Had to settle for a Dollard o/p on SG3 instead! Kitmaster 23:00, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
We should cooperate on writing a Ludlow page that has been on my radar for quite some time. I have a nice photo of the Clonmel Ludlow that I have observed each time I have pass it as they are so rare in Ireland; maybe 4 or 5 times in 20 years. You seem to have many examples that would be great to illustrate an article. ww2censor 00:10, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
I was but came here about 15 years ago. Franklin Lakes is quite close to me, so let's hope it is not when I go to the Show near Boston in early May. ww2censor 16:08, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
Regarding losing edits, if the server is busy, the best thing to do is use the back button, copy the whole section, or page, depending on what you are working on, and paste into a text editing software on you computer. When you come back online later paste that into the edit taking care to see no one else has made any major edits in the meantime that you wold be overwriting. I have usually only had to wait a few minutes, well maybe 10, for the server to get back online and up to speed again. Thanks ww2censor 00:32, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
I will add a construction section near the top to gather your recent edits together and the Guernsey sections needs some rewrite. Do you have any images of the early Guernsey pillar boxes? If not I will ask a friend, who lives there, to take a pic for us. The Anonymous section also needs some extra info. Next we need to put some inline citations into the text. ww2censor 13:02, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
I see you are back. I have posted the finished Pillar box page from your work page into the mainspace. My only immediate concern is that some of the image captions are too long and detailed. BTW, I received the milestone book and will be in touch privately soon on some other matters. ww2censor 16:31, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
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Hello Kitmaster, an automated process has found an image or media file tagged as nonfree media, such as fair use. The image ( Image:P&T (Ireland).png) was found at the following location: User:Kitmaster/postbox. This image or media will be removed per statement number 9 of our non-free content policy. The image or media will be replaced with Image:NonFreeImageRemoved.svg , so your formatting of your userpage should be fine. The image that was replaced will not be automatically deleted, but it could be deleted at a later date. Articles using the same image should not be affected by my edits. I ask you to please not readd the image to your userpage and could consider finding a replacement image licensed under either the Creative Commons or GFDL license or released to the public domain. Thanks for your attention and cooperation. User:Gnome (Bot) -talk 05:48, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
Long time no see. I have been to London again since you were last online here. Can I help you with anything? You may want to put a tag {{ db-author}} on the original page we worked on to delete it because it is now obsolete. Hope you will be around a little more often. Cheers ww2censor 18:59, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
Ok, I will look at Wall box it has quite a few format errors that need dealing with, as in a minor way, did you user page. As mentioned previously all the letter box pages need proper references. citing a book alone as a reference is just a biographical reference. Individual statement that could be questioned should be cited with an inline reference/footnote. Have a look at these pages to see what I am talking about; WP:CITE, WP:ECITE and WP:CIT. You may also want to look at [WP:MOS|Manual of Style]] to help with general formatting guidelines, so that your articles comply. Proper formatting and style are important if one ever wants to bring an article up to Good article or Featured article status. It avoids lots of extra work later on. Hope to see you around. BTW are you ever coming to New Jersey again? ttfn ww2censor ( talk) 17:05, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
I see a few edit today but am not sure you are really back. I have a question that needs the answer from someone who has access to Jean Farrugia's Letter Box book. Let me know if I can ask you to look up something for me. Cheers ww2censor ( talk) 00:10, 27 November 2008 (UTC)
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