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I get mixed up between the two. Cheers for the heads up. Regards. Cs-wolves ( talk) 21:56, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
Sorry to bring this up again, but
Terence Fox bears more than a passing resemblance to the ODNB entry.
[1] I'm back off to
Wikipedia talk:Copyright problems#ODNB concerns. Have you read the previous discussions there which led to a total rewrite of your the article on
Amalie von Wallmoden, Countess of Yarmouth? --
Testing times (
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I am sorry, that was my mistake. You were not the author of the old version of Amalie von Wallmoden, Countess of Yarmouth, that was User:Craigy144. My apologies for confusing you with him. The page history for the old version has been deleted, but that is not a good excuse. I should have checked my facts again before mentioning it. Again, my apologies.
However, if you remember, I did point you to the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Copyright problems#ODNB concerns about Amalie von Wallmoden, Countess of Yarmouth, in which I mentioned a few of your recent new articles, Falkes de Breauté, William Tresham and Alan Garrett Anderson. I am still concerned these and several other of your new articles seem, to my eyes, to be essentially copies of the copyright text of the ODNB. Not word-for-word cutting and pasting, and not plagiarism (as you clearly give the source) but still a substantial taking of the basic form and structure of the original.
I'm sorry if you think reviewing some of your work amounts to "wikistalking". To be honest with you, I am worried that some of your work may amount to copyright infringement. -- Testing times ( talk) 17:59, 6 November 2008 (UTC)
Hi, you only have a day left on hold with this. I've been pretty lenient with time on this due to my busy schedule as well, so you've had quite a bit of time to fix concerns raised. If you could, would you have a look? I'll have to fail it if it's not fixed, and it would be such a shame because it has great potential. Best wishes, – How do you turn this on ( talk) 18:16, 6 November 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for your input on my user page, I will shorten the market predictions.
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Thanks
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Hey,
i thought you would be the right person to ask about audio samples, can you stick 4 or five on the Cardiacs page, or maybe one tune from each album, for readers who don't know mucha bout them to get a sample? I would, i just am so shite with computers. Could you?
A photo of the band in the info box at the side might be nice too, a photo of tim smith on the tim smith page would also be lovely. Could you do that please?
Thanks
Zach
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I think that if you take a massive list/article with no/little text and add 1500 new characters then TICK. If you take the 1500 chars out of the list then NO. If you expand text x5 with an unchanged list then TICK.... if you steal the material out of the list then NO. Hope that helps. Cheers Victuallers ( talk) 14:18, 13 November 2008 (UTC) I don't think many would check.... I wouldnt ... I'd trust to your integrity and good judgement Victuallers ( talk) 14:34, 13 November 2008 (UTC)
Cirt ( talk) 06:10, 16 November 2008 (UTC)
Hello IronHolds, Thank-you for your message I found it very helpful
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Are you an english expert? I don't think so DaffyDuckDied ( talk) 18:26, 16 November 2008 (UTC)
I never said I was an english expert and I don't claim to be. But I believe it looks more correct with periods.
It is still making a snide and unproductive comment, and also trying to imply that they are somehow more knowledgeable than you and therefore they are in the right. Anyway, have a nice day. :) — neuro (talk) 18:34, 16 November 2008 (UTC)
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As a new user who is reverting vandalism, improving articles and voting in the demographic process I feel that you are biting the newcomer. Please stop. DaffyDuckDied ( talk) 18:52, 16 November 2008 (UTC)
Given my comments on some of your previous articles, I just wanted to say that I think this article is excellent. I have no concerns about it, and I hope you can see the difference yourself. Similarly, from your comments at User_talk:Moonriddengirl#Alan_Garrett_Anderson, I trust you appreciate the difference there too now.
You may have noticed that Pat Wall also has an ODNB entry - [2] - which seems to draw principally from the newspaper obituaries, like your article. The ODNB has further details in some areas which could be incorporated. In addition to the three obituaries you cite, it also refers to an obituary in The Times (15 August 2001) and a website ( http://www.ppaonline.co.uk/patwall.html) which seems to be a deadlink now; if you can find either of these, they may also add some further details.
One request - please could you try to avoid saying "apparent[ly]" when reporting the events of a person's life. It occurs five times in Patrick_David_Wall#Return_to_Britain! -- Testing times ( talk) 13:12, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
It's displaying for me fine. Which browser are you using? -- role player 18:51, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
It is here. -- BorgQueen ( talk) 05:26, 18 November 2008 (UTC)
~ User:Ameliorate! (with the !) ( talk) 11:26, 18 November 2008 (UTC)
I think you have to wrap each name in Template:Sortname, and assign it a sortkey in there. Then the table will display the name but can be sorted on last name. Choess ( talk) 14:15, 18 November 2008 (UTC)
I see User:Moonriddengirl has rewritten Alan Garrett Anderson and Terence Fox. I think this demonstrates that my concern was not entirely misplaced.
As I mentioned above, I have looked at some of your other recent articles. James Feast, Philip Cohen, Tomas Lindahl, John Frank Davidson and John Vavasour seem fine, and Frederick Gugenheim Gregory, Ernest Kennaway, William Henry Lang and Peter Victor Danckwerts are just about ok, I think. However, I have just nominated Robert of Thornham and Charles Ansell at Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2008 November 19.
I think there are about 40 other articles that will need to be reviewed, dating back to Simon of Pattishall in September. Before then, I see you created a series of MP stubs, which should be less of a concern. -- Testing times ( talk) 18:16, 19 November 2008 (UTC)
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I didn't know! I thought it was for creating pages with templates! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Californium-256 ( talk • contribs) 22:49, 19 November 2008 (UTC)
Not lately, I'm afraid; rather busier in this part of the semester, and I like to have large chunks of time to do the High Sheriff editing. (Sit down, open up 10 Gazettes in tabbed browsing, and work my way down the line for each shrievalty — it takes a while to set up.) Maybe later this month. Sometimes I wonder if there shouldn't be a wikiproject for British officialdom, but declaring of a project isn't actually going to increase my free time, alas. Choess ( talk) 01:57, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
I'd like to offer my help. If anything specific is needed please let me know.-- Ευπάτωρ Talk!! 03:03, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
...and not a single stroke on a talk page to acknowledge his wanton destruction means that all bets are off AFAIC. Sorry to be so brutal, but I have been putting up with this idiot for four years as have others. Believe me, I have actually tried to reason with this guy to no avail. -- PMDrive1061 ( talk) 03:14, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
Thank you SO much. Really. There's an entire page at WP:LTA/MG. He creates an account and then uses that account to create as many socks as he can and then wreaks havoc on certain articles. He edits from a dynamic IP; there have been three CU's this month alone. Sorry to have gone off like that, but I am truly sick of this person. He has never so much as acknowledged a single concern leveled at him. -- PMDrive1061 ( talk) 03:19, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
Thanks again. Sure as shooting, you'll see five more socks which have been created by the main sock if you hit the log key. Sometimes he'll abandon his accounts if he thinks he's been caught and it looks as if he's gone away, but I'll monitor the activity. -- PMDrive1061 ( talk) 03:26, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
Bless you and please forgive me for losing my temper on the talk page. It's just that I have cleaned up after him more times than I care to count. Heck, I'm even updating his LTA page more than just about any other page here lately and I really don't want to do so anymore. He is just...bizarre. No other way to put it. -- PMDrive1061 ( talk) 03:31, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
Good idea. I'll see what I can do in that regard. He's persistent, but he'll likely slink out of sight for the next couple of days or so before he pops back up. I'll roll back my comments in the meantime. He'll never respond anyway. Thanks again. -- PMDrive1061 ( talk) 03:32, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
Absolutely. I'm not even sure what to ask an outside checkuser in this case. Please keep me posted on this; I'm very curious to know what comes of it. -- PMDrive1061 ( talk) 03:33, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
Sounds good. It's time to get on the defensive with this person. Four years and the same thing time after time. -- PMDrive1061 ( talk) 03:43, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
That account doesn't appear to have made any edits, how do you know it is the editor in question? Jayjg (talk) 03:39, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
My pleasure. Jayjg (talk) 03:53, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
-- Efe ( talk) 07:01, 21 November 2008 (UTC)
Ok:Will do. Thanks for the advice! Genius 101 Guestbook 04:23, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
Hi. :) In the interest of "diving right in with delicate subject matter," I see that there a couple of more articles up at Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2008 November 19 that need evaluation for degree of separation from source. This is kind of a problem, since I seem to be doing most of the work there, and unless I get access to the ODNB articles involved, I'm not going to be able to assess where they may follow too closely on the source. :/ I'm not a subscriber and no longer have ready access to a university library. With the last couple, another user temporarily provided access to the articles to me. Would you like to take a go at revising yourself in a sandbox or in the provided temporary pages? I'd be happy to help you figure out how to restructure in sections that you find difficult if you can tell what the original passages say. (As I've said before, I know what a pain in the neck it is. Believe me. :) I have stared at many a blank page asking myself, "Let's see. How else can I say, "He died at Mercy Hospital in 1953"?) Otherwise, I'll either have to see if I can access the source material somehow, find somebody who already has access to it to take a look, or (at least with Charles Ansell) start over. I welcome your thoughts in the best way to proceed. :) -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 16:42, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
I wasn't verifying it, I was merely taking back my previous statement. I tried to verify it just now and noticed a problem; I've left a message at T:TDYK. — Politizer talk/ contribs 19:24, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
I've started work on prettying up some of the citations, in particular, converting the online ones from Google Books to "cite book," which are more metadata-rich. If you look at Sir James Lowther, 4th Baronet, you can see the style I've been using to reference the ODNB via "cite book," but you'll have to supply some of that info yourself, as I no longer have access. Choess ( talk) 03:10, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
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Well i disagree, you can be selective in giving a barnstar. Just as i would have with you, I was selective in appreciating you taking the time so i posted one for you. The page says anyone can give one if they want to. You make a valid point about it can scare a new comer, i did not think about that and im thankful for you pointing it out. However, it will not be diminshed if someone recives one out of kindness, but by being a tad selective, It can encourage some users to either contribute more civally or promote good faith between editors. I will continue to award them :) and advice is always welcome Ottawa4ever ( talk) 01:38, 24 November 2008 (UTC)
In many ways I agree with you, but ive seen with pages like skittles a little encouragement helps editors keep an eye on a page which is frequently recieving vandalization. Yes alot of those reverts are from twinkle or huggle but there are people who come on there to clean up. If the want reconginition for doing so on that page, they might not get it. But the possibility of being rewarded encourages them maybe to seek that interest in vandalilsim behaviours. Its obvious we value these awards differently in some manners, but i dont give out awards often. I do believe people should have a little tenderness and happiness on their talk pages from time to time. Anyway no beef here I just think we have a different view on the award. Ottawa4ever ( talk) 01:47, 24 November 2008 (UTC)
Ya I see that with taht revenge fellow guy, which i agree with you, handing them out as a welcome may have its draw backs, which is why getting feedback from time to time is great. But being a former vandal myself and knowing a bunch others my advice to you is ignore and give the standard warnings (to reporting eventually if need be). With huggle or twinkle the amount of time to catch his edits is nothing compared to the time it takes him to do the vandal in the first place. but lets say he wants to turn over a new leaf one day, becuase we do. If he had a reason maybe to contrubte and build a profile up around himself, just a thought but who really knows why they do it in the first place. Enough rambling on that, I think I see many of your points here, And i will defineatly put more thought into this the next time i go onto a 'barnstar' spree. thanks for your feedback Ottawa4ever ( talk) 01:56, 24 November 2008 (UTC)
BorgQueen ( talk) 07:22, 24 November 2008 (UTC)
While I do not refute that there is a contravorsy of his service in the Texas Air National Guard, such a statement does not belong in the National Guard of the United States article. While Bush's service record is dubious, he is still listed as serving in the Air National Guard regardless of him fulfilling his obligation. Such a statement does not directly pertain to the National Guard of the United States. Please place such a statement in the George W. Bush article. Neovu79 ( talk) 01:46, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
Noted! In the future I will watch the style of writing for neutrality. However IFOAM does reject Genetic Engineering and that deserves to be said. Elderberrywine ( talk) 09:07, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
Thak you for the suggestion. I will edit it similarly, with neutrality. Elderberrywine ( talk) 10:11, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
I don't know why that UAA notification would not work. I suppose you recognise the extreme likelihood of all of those usernames you have posted being from the same person, having a trolling spasm? That is not to say that you are wrong, but be aware.-- Anthony.bradbury "talk" 09:24, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
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If it is policy though not to add multiple, then thanks for telling me. ηoian ‡orever ηew ‡rontiers 04:41, 26 November 2008 (UTC)
Are you referring to Haydn's "Book of Dignities", aka Beatson's political index modernized? It's pretty handy, especially for things like the revenue department, but sometimes not entirely accurate. (I'm still struggling with the identity of "W.H. Guarden", sometime a commissioner of the Irish treasury, for instance.) Choess ( talk) 15:31, 27 November 2008 (UTC)
Hi - thanks for the heads-up. Certainly looks like Nimbley to me. There are probably enough registered Nimbley6 socks active right now to justify a new SSP report; if I get time later today I'll create a fresh report and possibly a RfCU.
Cheers, This flag once was red propaganda deeds 17:59, 28 November 2008 (UTC)
BorgQueen ( talk) 00:12, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
Yeah, just got your message, I was at the gig, thought it was amazing! And album/tour news is also great! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Thedarkfourth ( talk • contribs) 19:27, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
I never really took that into account. Thanks for the advice! --Dylan620 ( Home • yadda yadda yadda • Ooooohh!) 14:21, 30 November 2008 (UTC)
Hi Ironholds. Are speedy templates for articles (CSD A) also for user pages (CSD U)? Just wondering. -- Efe ( talk) 09:38, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
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