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Kingturtle 03:57, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
No, "an RAF" should be used rather than "a RAF". An is used rather than a before a word starting with a vowel or vowel sound. As "RAF" is pronounced "R", "A", "F", and not as "raff", and thus starts with a vowel sound, an is the correct form.
See A, an and compare google searches on "a RAF" vs. "an RAF".
Sc147 15:48, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
I've replied on my talk page. WLD 12:08, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for all of the names of people who were diagnosed with breast cancer. I've added some of them and am still working on the many others.
Since you have been very kind to provide this information, I wonder if you could add a comment about the fact that certain people want to merge the List of notable breast cancer patients according to occupation and the List of notable breast cancer patients according to survival status. The occupation list is much more comprehensive, but that's the one that they want to delete. The survival status is more basic, but it serves a vital purpose in allowing anyone interested to quickly ignore those who have died and concentrate on the living - either for charity purposes or just for inspiration without depression as might happen if a person was viewing a list that was interspersed with the dead as well as the living.
It seems as though some people are voting to merge the lists without even indicating why and without even bothering to appear to read the reasons given for one or the other choice and responding to those reasons. I'm not that expert, but it seems as though it would be a total waste of time to just delete all of that vital information just because people, who probably have not been affected by breast cancer, don't realize the value of both lists.
I'm tired of arguing with some of these people over what appear to be petty issues when I could be actually working to make wikipedia more comprehensive. It makes me wonder if some of these people are just full-time critics rather than contributors.
Thanks again for all of your leads! Bcsurvivor 22:27, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
Hi Jmb, thanks for your comments.
I have Dangerous Energy - a great book, it was some 12 months late comming out due to the run down of the Royal Commission on Historic Monuments in England and its absorption into English Heritage. I bought it full price in 2000, its now greatly reduced (less than 25% of list price). I also have Nevell, Roberts & Smith, and I'm listed in the Subscribers (but not as Pyrotec!).
I have to agree that ROF Capenhurst, etc, which are in Cocroft's list, are missing from the Wikipeda List of ROFs - Capenhurst became a nuclear site. I've tended to use the Official Histories of the Second War War, Civil Series, some of which I listed in some of the individual ROF pages; and they are not complete. It would have been easier to use Cocroft, I just got into the habit of doing it the way I'd always done it. I also discovered a remaindered book on 20th century Industrial Archaeology, by Stratton and Trinder, which includes some ROFs.
I started working on railways in Scotland, just for a change, but I'm coming back onto doing some more ROFs. Pyrotec 21:50, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
Hello,
I was editing other things in the Halliwell Article, and didn't take notice of the Date of Death. I Googled him and the sources that give the 29th are mostly taking their info from Wiki. But the DNB date seems far more reliable. Please have the honor of changing it in the Article.
Regards,
OK done, I put the full name of the hospice there as well. I don't know if you are aware but you can get online access to the DNB and other reference sources through many public libraries. Several give online membership even if you do not live in the area, including Bedfordshire and Manchester.
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Please see note at Talk:Burghead transmitting station re {reqphotoin|Scotland}. I was passing and am not sure if the image is appropriate. Ben MacDui 08:35, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
OK - thanks. I 've put the image on the article page. Ben MacDui 17:18, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
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It was nice to read your comments about the article in the telegraph today. It's got me intrigued but I haven't read it. Perhaps you have time to put the information into Tristan da Cunha. SuzanneKn 21:40, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
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I've started a poll on Talk:Fred_Dibnah with four options for his birthplace area. As you've left posts on that discussion page, I'm letting you know about this Poll and the chance to vote one of the options. Cwb61 (talk) 23:18, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
I see you've carried out your suggestion for me already! Thanks again for your very helpful links to the NS pages - I can see myself doing little work this afternoon as I read through what's there! Bencherlite 13:26, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
Hi Jmb, That was not a question that I had come across before. I did a search and found this [1]. So it looks like it is WW I era. I'll start looking at WW I, to see what else comes up; but I won't have much time to do anything in June. Pyrotec 01:07, 16 June 2007 (UTC)
Concerning the image PICT7389 trimmed-C.jpg and your comment "Restore page, incorrect removal of picture, They are C connectors, I took the picture and know the difference between a C and BNC." from the C connector page, the description of the picture states, "This shows the similarity between 50Ω and 75Ω BNC connectors.". If these connectors are C connectors, then they are incorrectly described as BNC connectors. Unsigned comment "04:24, 16 June 2007 Fl295 (Talk | contribs) (14,912 bytes)"
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Thanks for creating this topic. I rarely have the opportunity to visit libraries and as you can imagine info on such an old company is difficult to find ont'internet. If theres anything in your information sources about the Manchester, Bolton and Bury Canal, even if its just the location of the transfer of coal from the canal to the station, it would be fantastic if you could contribute to that. Parrot of Doom 17:16, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
Hi & thanks for your comment. I've replied on my talkpage. Pyrotec ( talk) 20:02, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
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I see you are interested in the Life On Mars Television Series, as I am.
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I was reading up on railways, and became somewhat puzzled by Tyndrum. I wonder if you possibly know the answer (given that you live nearby),
In 05/06:
In 06/07:
Have you any idea why everyone suddenly switched from one station to the other? Presently (although I don't have the old timetables) about 3 journeys a day serve each station.
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Thanks for the message on my talk page. I still add the occasional image but no longer contribute anything under 'Fair use'. I uploaded a considerable number of these over the past few years and, at the time, most of the other fair use images I came across had no 'rationale' whatsoever, so I added what I thought was a reasonable one to all of mine. Then later on, the Wikipedia 'Copyright Police' suddenly decided to change the criteria and instead of just revising a tag when they came across them, started leaving me automated messages on my talk page and expecting me to go back to each image and do a lengthy revision of the tag and description.
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Hi - you may be interested in the discussion currently going on in Category talk:Transmitter sites in the United Kingdom. -- Harumphy ( talk) 21:32, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
Thanks, I will have a more careful read in the morning when more awake! -- jmb ( talk) 01:22, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
If you have any further material relating to O'Toole can you post it on the talk page. Also remember that we just reflect what the main sources say and that WP:OR cannot be included. Happy to consider any material on O'Toole but if most sources state something that's what I'm inclined to go with without a good reason why.. As far as I can see you have one source that disputes this. Am I correct? Kernel Saunters ( talk) 15:34, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
Looks good having a direct link to your website there, I think that will go down as advertising and be removed, good luck though. You would be better off creating a wiki page for your barge with no advertising content and then linking to that. This way you are only displaying encyclepedic infomation even though the links. Looks like you have been on wiki alot longer than me though so maybe your right, if so I will pop my external link next to yours though I feel it would be a shame to use such a great page as the caledonian canal page for pure advertising. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Oliver Barge ( talk • contribs) 16:54, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
Re the removal: general consensus is to list those with articles on en-wiki. Ironholds ( talk) 18:05, 10 December 2009 (UTC)
Hello, Jmb! The Telegraph article clearly says: "Leian Paul Piper was born in Swindon on September 22, 1982. On April 25, 1983, her name was officially changed to Billie Paul Piper by her parents, Paul Victor Piper and Mandy Kane Kent." http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1435159/Family-Detective.html
The pay Vital Statistic site says that Leian Paul Piper's and Billie Paul Piper's mother's maiden is Kent. The Growing Pains autobiography says Lianne Piper and Billie Paul Piper.
I have a question for you. If I order both Vital Statistics records (Leian Paul Piper Q4 1982 Swindon Mother Kent v23 p1881 & Billie Paul Piper Q4 1982 Swindon Mother Kent v23 p1881), scan and upload them, will it suffice to show the birth is indeed Leian Paul Piper or will the autobiography still override it?
Should a more established editor order those records, scan and upload them? I'm willing to send them the money by PayPal. Israell ( talk) 02:31, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
WoooHooo, brilliant. 1,000 thanks. I spent countless hours searching and writing to people looking for anything about her later life. Maybe this will lead onto finding out what she did. Thanks again. Autodidactyl ( talk) 22:07, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
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You might want to have a quick look at the Gee talk page. I'm seriously considering moving it to "Gee" unless someone has a good reason not to. Dippy's own article on the topic called it "Gee", so that's my good reason. Maury Markowitz ( talk) 15:31, 20 November 2011 (UTC)
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