I'm not thrilled by the addition of the major stations to what was quite a slim template directing users back to the list of UJ railway stations. Would you reconsider, or justify. (Why Cardiff and not Nottingham? Why none of the London stations ... users who wnt these stations could use the A-Z to find the station easily enough. For the majority of station pages on whch the template is used, the major station are probably of little interest...oh, and since it also serves as the index on each UK railway stations - X page, it does not IMO enhance each of these pages, merely pushes the payload further down the screen :(). thanks -- Tagishsimon (talk)
I had originally called it just "Revolt of the Earls" but then found other historical events that also use that terminology (these are all loose terms anyway, there is no "official" name) -- so I called it "Revolt of the Earls 1075" because 1) it would avoid disambiguation with other similar events and 2) it is clear in the title what it is referring too. It is the same problem with Siege of Jerusalem (1099) -- Stbalbach 18:43, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Hi, you recently renamed 7th century Gospel Book fragment (British Library, Add. MS 5111). I have since found that the fragment in question has a name and renamed the article , again. However the listing of the article on VfD for having an "ugly" name has prompted me to write a proposal for a naming convention for articles about manuscripts without names. The proposal can be found here. Any comments you would like to make would be appreciated. Thank you. Dsmdgold 11:25, Jan 12, 2005 (UTC)
I support avoiding US-centric spelling, etc.--I've been thinking of requesting a move of theater to theatre, and agree that both are welcome on Wikipedia, as I added to the tutorial [1]. However, I am not aware of serial commas being an AE vs BE issue--in fact, most US newpapers omit it, following the AP style manual. I made the comma changes based on Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#Commas (and my belief that it is clearer). (PS FWIW, I wasn't 'targeting' any user--most of my last 250 or so edits were from my working thru a list of 500 newpages, that I retrieved late Jan 9.) Niteowlneils 19:02, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Hello, User:Owain has been adding "X place is in the traditional county of X" to loads of articles about Welsh towns such as Welshpool, I have had a word with him about it on his talk page, but he claims it is acceptable by the policy, which it certainly isn't. He seems to be ignoring me so perhaps you should have a word with him about it. G-Man 23:27, 15 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Hi Warofdreams, just a quick note that I've noticed one or two articles you've worked on turning up in Category:Geography stubs rather than in the subcategories that are better suited to them (eg Borden Island, which I moved to Category:Canada-place stubs). It's good to see you adding new articles and wikifying ones that are already there, but I'm busy trying to make the Geography stubs more usable by making sure that it's not so full as to be useless, so can you please use the subcategories where they exist? Thanks Grutness| hello? 03:07, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Sorry about my use of the word "lift" didn't intend any slur on your work! Peter Shearan 07:30, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)
when copying images from another wikipedia please include the original description and an interwiki back to the original wikipedia. Plugwash 17:51, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC)
St. George's Day has been proposed at UK COTW. I'd noticed you'd shown interest when it was previously nominated, and now the UK COTW page is once again seeing more interest there are high hopes that something will happen with the article. Please come along to the board and register your vote and any thoughts. Grunners 04:56, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Regarding the removal of the current non-islands from List of islands of England, is there a case for these having been historical islands? If so, then the List will need to be put back; if not, then the 'Isles' will need removing from category: English islands. Thanks, Ian Cairns 20:33, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Hey cool, I didn't know about that fourth verse. Jordi· ✆ 14:43, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Where did you get your figures on the number of seats won by each party? The Electoral Commission has not given any seat figures. If these are only your estimates, that should be stated. Adam 21:47, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
When you updated DYK talk, some of the entries under the warn these users heading ended up in the archiving heading. (
[3]) I'm not sure how it happened, but please try to keep an eye out so it doesn't happen again. Thanks for updating, BTW. :)
Mgm|
(talk) 14:04, Mar 4, 2005 (UTC)
Once you've informed people, you can remove the item from that section. They were already archived when they were featured a few days ago.
Mgm|
(talk) 17:37, Mar 4, 2005 (UTC)
Good point. It doesn't really fit the archetypal definition of civil war, since only one side really had any territory under its control; but Google reveals that you're quite right about the name being commoner, so feel free to move it to Algerian Civil War. - Mustafaa 20:35, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Hey Warofdreams, how are you? So Sheffield, ah? You gotta love Sheffield if youre a boxing fan, like me. Nigel Benn, Paul Ingle, Ricky Hatton is from nearby Manchester, and of course, one of my all time favorites, Naseem Hamed, who lives in a castle there!
When I go to Manchester, remind me to include boxing autograph hunting among my sightseeing duties..LOL
Anyways, thanks for letting me know about Melissa McIntyre being included in did you know. It was a pleasure to learn that.
Thanks and God bless you!
Sincerely yours, " Antonio Sheffield United Martin"
You strike me as someone who might know some stuff about UK left wing campains/org's. Could you have look at Searchlight magazine. I am trying to keep facist POV from creeping in. Hope you can help.-- JK the unwise 21:05, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)
I think it's time that quickpolls be re-evaluated as a solution to short term disputes between users. What say you? -- Ryan! | Talk 05:18, Mar 11, 2005 (UTC)
No problem - I was just about to add some entries manually myself before I had a World Factbook brainwave :) sjorford →•← 10:11, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)
For non-4/2 time signatues, I have never seen anythign other than a semibreve rest being used. I agree that this isn't entirely consistent, so will look it up in the AB Guide to Music Theory when I get a chance. Tompw 17:03, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)
I've found some more examples which I've linked to on Talk:Stone circle. Although I'm not sold on all of them, it looks like my archaeology books were being a bit too Eurocentric. adamsan 20:28, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Hi: Thanks for compacting the TOC at List of Parliamentary constituencies in the United Kingdom. I only learnt how to do this yesterday so I am pleased to see it done already. The addition of Combined English Universities is good but I am not convinced that separating out Historic Constituencies is easy to maintain; there are already historic constituencies embedded in the list. I was planning to convert the list into a table (if I can just get my head around the table tagging) with start and end dates for each constituency. -- Theo (Talk) 19:28, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for correcting my parenthetical omissions. I had been led to believe that the convention was changing to their omission in constituency names. I now see that the Project deems otherwise. I will seek out my other errors that flowed from this. -- Theo (Talk) 08:33, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Warofdreams: I'm also a bureaucrat, but there must be a better term for that.
Hi Warofdreams, thanks for voting for me in my adminship nomination. I very much appreciate your support. Best, SlimVirgin 03:03, Mar 24, 2005 (UTC)
I've got no problem with you using the pic on your user page - thats part of the reason I GFDLed them. As for taking my photo - just edit the caption and image description page if I've got something wrong, my memory is not perfect! Thryduulf 00:41, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)
While I appreciate your efforts in updating this page, I'd like to ask you to to take the items you add from the bottom of The archive section at Template talk:Did you know to avoid a number of items being skipped (which your edit did). Happy editing! 131.211.210.16 11:13, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)
I noticed you've been creating a few pages for West African cities (or towns). I know there is no established convention, but I wonder if it would be less ambiguous if the article names could include the country (or at the very least, province). For instance, this proposal would move Koubiala, to Koubiala, Mali. Do you think you could change it, or have you thought about it and there's some reason it makes less sense?-- Dmcdevit 01:47, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Yes, the highest point in Jersey is Les Platons in the parish of Trinity (also location of TV transmission mast). As for the highest point in Guernsey, I'm not sure. The highest point in the bailiwick is in Sark, but the highest point in Guernsey itself is around 106m and I believe it's in Forest, but I'm not certain of the exact location. Man vyi 06:32, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Hi! Following your comments on my Sheffield template, you planted in my head the idea that it would be better if the districts of Sheffield were covered by 28 articles on the Sheffield wards. The wards have definite boundaries and so it is much easier to say what is within a ward, whereas the districts have quite fuzzy boundaries. Also most of the district articles are still red links, and those articles that do already exist are quite short (most are stubs). I think that focussing on a ward makes it much easier to write a structured and useful article. I have started an article for the Ecclesall ward (the area of Sheffield that I know best) to illustrate the idea. I have merged the contents of the Ecclesall, Millhouses, and Ringlinglow articles into this new article and I have redirected Millhouses and Ringinglow (I also created redirects for Bent's Green and Greystones). Because you originally created the Ecclesall article I have not yet redirected it but I propose to do that unless you object. As you seem to be the most prolific contributor to the Sheffield area articles I would be interested to know what you think of the proposal to replace all of the Sheffield district articles with ward articles. Thanks, JeremyA 00:53, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Before you make any more changes to Rest (music), I want to alert you that I'm considering redirecting Multiple measure rest to Rest (music), and all the pages for crotchet, quaver, crotchet rest, and so on to Note value. Before I do this, of course I plan to merge the relevant information, and that's what I did with Multiple measure rest; but now you've removed that info again, or at least that's what your edit summary said. I'm happy to gather opinions on this before I do it. My view is that the individual note (or rest) values can only be understood in relation to one another, and there isn't much to say individually about them; the info in the stub pages is a lot of duplication. — Wahoofive | Talk 16:16, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Like many people, you seem to think that these two words are interchangeable. Each has a differenct use and conveys a different meaning. Please see Get it write on-line for more information. Thanks. Ground Zero 18:38, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Hi. I've been looking at all your articles on West Africa, and thinking you deserve a working man's barnstar. If you accept it copy and paste [[Image:WMBarnstar.png|CAPTION]] and put it on your page with whatever caption you want. Howabout1 18:54, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)
You voted for Decolonization, this week's Collaboration of the week. Please come and help it become a featured- standard article. Tony Jin | (talk) 02:22, Apr 27, 2005 (UTC)
If Lake Volta isn't the largest reservoir on earth, which lake is? You changed this on its page, but Geography of Ghana still thinks that it's the largest. -- Joy [shallot] 09:43, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)
I think we may have meet in the real (i.e. non-wiki) world. In fact I'm prety sure. Did you go to sheffield Uni? If u are who I belive you to be then, nice to bumb into you on wikipedia, its a small world (especialy in internet-vill). Hope your life is treating you well.-- JK the unwise 18:58, 4 May 2005 (UTC)
Hi. I'm writing this to you as you seem to have made a lot of edits to this article. Apologies if what I have to say doesn't interest you. I have an issue with this article, and a similar problem with Benbecula, and I'm interested in your view. User:GordonMireson seems to have appeared for one day in 2004 and added a few Scottish island flags. Try as I might, I can't actually find these flags on the External Link page at flags of the world, and I believe the author of the webpage goes on to claim that these islands don't actually have flags. I left a similar comment/question on the Benbecula talk page a while back, but no one addressed it. What thinkest thou? mat_x 20:06, 4 May 2005 (UTC)
If Sheffield United weren't the first team to be known as "United", who was? I've often heard that Sheffield were the first United and would love to know why I am wrong! Warofdreams 18:15, 9 May 2005 (UTC)
Please join the discussion at Wikipedia:Schools - this is an effort to reach consensus (or at least, compromise) through discussion, rather than voting. And it seems to be succeeding. R adiant _* 14:20, May 19, 2005 (UTC)
Fascinating story. Do you have any references? Not doubting you, would just like to read more. Flapdragon 17:37, 25 May 2005 (UTC)
User User:TJive has begun aggressive edits to the Communist Workers Party and Orangeburg Massacre pages. I noticed you initiated the CWP page, so thought you might be interested in checking for balance. I'm currently reading some of the relevant reference works, but it will be a few days before I can make siginificant contributions. DJ Silverfish 19:28, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
I see that you've created Category:2000 by month. A similar category for 2001 was created by User:Docu and deleted recently. I believe this way of handling month articles makes the category system harder to use and adds no real advantage over the standard way of categorizing months in the first (*) section of the year category (see, for example, Category:2001). I plan to recategorize the articles in Category:2000 by month and put it up for deletion. - dcljr ( talk) 07:01, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
If I'm snippy, it's because I do all the transwikis to Wiktionary, so I come across opposition a lot. But it's unfounded. There should be no stigma attached to transwikification. I transwikied Rape and Lathe because I looked at Wiktionary and saw they weren't there. So, now that I've transwikied them, what happened to the articles? Nothing. They're not gone, they're not merged and redirected, infact, the only difference is that I took the transwiki tag off. Perhaps if you're really worried about what happens to articles after transwiki, you should come to the Transwiki log and help me resolve the backlog according to the instructins given there. -- Dmcdevit 22:55, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
A contribution of yours to this article:
It presided over a society where only settlers and their descendants were citizens able to vote, and so represented them, often working in tandem with the Masonic Order. The party endorsed systems of forced labour and even sold human labour to other colonial powers. Despite this, the west saw them as a stabilising, unthreatening force and so invested heavily in the nation under William Tubman's leadership.
Is it really the case that the True Whig party -- created in 1878 -- "sold human labour to other colonial powers"? I was under the impression that the British navy had shut down the transatlantic slave trade decades earlier. Who were they selling to? French colonialists in Côte D'Ivoire? Jobius 08:49, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)
I know nothing about the subject, but I made a few "cleanup" changes (see history). I hope that talamus is a good artcle to send someone to who wants to know about burnt mounds. I also turned a couple if WK links into external links because there is no WK aricle.
My intent was only to make the article more useful to the average reader. Please feel free to make changes as appropriate. -- KSnortum 23:43, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)
most other edits by ip were, just revert it.-- Fenice 30 June 2005 16:08 (UTC)
Hi, just to let you know that the list of UK participants at the UK notice board was getting rather long, so I have replaced it with the above category which I have added to your user page. -- Francs2000 | Talk 30 June 2005 21:20 (UTC)