Could you help with the references. Drmies is not a happy camper. I don't have access to these sources. Robin Page Arnot, A History of the Scottish Miners, p.66" (note 2) lacks bibliographical information and is, unlike three other books, cited in the note, not in the Sources section; same with " Robin Page Arnot, A History of the Scottish Miners, p.420" (note 10). The latter: "Mr Abe Moffat", The Times, 29 March 1975 (note 8) lacks a page number (or a link--who has access to this article?); "Scottish TUC Bulletin, Nos.242-338, p.555" (note 9) lacks title and author and year.Thanks. 7&6=thirteen ( ☎) 21:57, 10 January 2016 (UTC)
Thanks for the "thank" on the Fulwood article. Been wanting to do that one for ages, still lots of work to do on the Sheffield Suburbs, Norton is one significent omission, Lodge Moor, Ecclesall and Bents Green are three others that come to mind and many need expanding. Cheers Mick Knapton ( talk) 18:56, 20 January 2016 (UTC)
We got a new reviewer. Would you take a look and add and move around citations? Thanks. I am tied up for now. 7&6=thirteen ( ☎) 12:30, 21 January 2016 (UTC)
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Hi Warofdreams,
Can you have a look at the Bureaucrat chat on a RfA for Hawkeye7. SethWhales talk 23:41, 1 February 2016 (UTC)
Hi pal - Good work on the Hollow Meadows article, in fact very good. That's an interesting one for me as I work out at Rivelin Dams very close to HM. I had a nice photo of the hamlet taken from the Head Stone on the moorland (I can't find it now). Friend of mine lives in Hollow Meadows Mews which are the swish apartments made from the old truants school / mental hospital buildings. BTW Rik Allen out of Def Leppard had his accident at Hollow Meadows when he lost his arm, that might be worth mentioning in the article, as might be the Head Stone as it's very visible on the left hand side as you drive up the A57 towards Moscar. Just done an article on Bradfield Dale which I will post later today Cheers Mick Knapton ( talk) 14:29, 8 February 2016 (UTC)
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Four years now! -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 08:49, 9 February 2017 (UTC)
Hi, I've just seen that this article is up for deletion. I think it could be improved by you adding further details relating to his educational work that are listed in Google Books. This may address some of the existing concerns. Graemp ( talk)
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As a heads-up, I've nominated Category:Northern Ireland MLAs 2011–, for renaming to reflect the recent election. I was looking for a speedy way to do it, as it's an uncontroversial change, but it didn't meet any of the speedy criteria. Valenciano ( talk) 14:54, 7 May 2016 (UTC)
Actually, Anderson, Drain, Daly and Jinkinson were Gen Secs after the union changed its name to the National and Local Government Officers' Association in 1952. So, their category is technically wrong. Would it not be better to simply use the (unchanged) acronym NALGO? Ghmyrtle ( talk) 13:27, 12 July 2016 (UTC)
Hi, I have just created an article on this interesting political figure. It is scratchy on much of his career and it occurred to me that you might have access to sources that could fill in a few gaps. Graemp ( talk) 08:03, 17 July 2016 (UTC)
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Thank you for starting this article. James Jack was my first cousin twice removed and I remember my Grandad taking about him years ago :). Bennycat ( talk) 21:26, 19 August 2016 (UTC)
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Hi, I have drawn a blank on researching Belcher and wondered if your access to sources could shed any light. He stood at Dudley in 1900 as a Lib-Lab candidate. I have found his postcard from 1904 that suggests he may have been re-adopted, though he never stood for the UK parliament again. He is not the same person as William Belcher. Graemp ( talk) 11:27, 16 September 2016 (UTC)
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I take it from your Thanking me for the revision I made to the WFTDA D1 Template that you approve of my being bold in how to define membership? (that is: that relevant membership is as of June 30, as that determines Playoff eligibility which is really the only reason to have Divisions right now) I updated most of the member teams, but may have missed some, unsure. Also, I moved former members into the former member list at Women's Flat Track Derby Association Division 1, although I have to go back and add "departure" dates. I figure for that, use the rankings release date where they crossed the 41 threshold. Thoughts? I suspect there are a few teams that weren't listed as members after that was first set up, that then became members of D1 and subsequently fell out of D1; that will take more research to verify. I'll probably dump the top 40 rankings into a spreadsheet to compare numbers unless you had other thoughts?
I hope at some point to do something similar to update D2 membership. I do not look forward to doing this for D3 membership. Echoedmyron ( talk) 16:12, 23 November 2016 (UTC)
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...your (I think) red-link to Dan Turley in the article on Hugh Corvin. No real comment to add...just that he was my grandfather. His last surviving child--my mother--passed away last January. As I said, nothing really to say but could not say nothing. 75.161.84.18 ( talk) 17:55, 4 December 2016 (UTC)
I would be grateful for your input in the above discussion. Many thanks, WJBscribe via MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 11:33, 5 December 2016 (UTC)
On 11 December 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Baxter Langley, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Baxter Langley, who stood for the UK Parliament alongside William Gladstone, was later sentenced to hard labour? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Baxter Langley. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, Baxter Langley), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
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Thank you for your recent articles, including Peter Fox (journalist), which I read with interest. When you create an extensive and well referenced article, you may want to have it featured on Wikipedia's main page in the Did You Know section. Articles included there will be read by thousands of our viewers. To do so, add your article to the list at T:TDYK. Let me know if you need help, Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 03:44, 11 December 2016 (UTC)
Thank you for your recent articles, including Peter Fox (journalist), which I read with interest. When you create a new article, can you add the WikiProject assessment templates to the talk of that article? See the talk page of the article I mentioned for an example of what I mean. Usually it is very simple, you just add something like {{WikiProject Keyword}} to the article's talk, with keyword replaced by the associated WikiProject (ex. if it's a biography article, you would use WikiProject Biography; if it's a United States article, you would use WikiProject United States, and so on). You do not have to rate the article if you do not want to, others will do it eventually. Those templates are very useful, as they bring the articles to a WikiProject attention, and allow them to start tracking the articles through Wikipedia:Article alerts and other tools. For example, WikiProject Poland relies on such templates to generate listings such as Article Alerts, Popular Pages, Quality and Importance Matrix and the Cleanup Listing. Thanks to them, WikiProject members are more easily able to defend your work from deletion, or simply help try to improve it further. Feel free to ask me any questions if you'd like more information about using those talk page templates. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 03:44, 11 December 2016 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Herbert Asquith. Since you had some involvement with the Herbert Asquith redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. -- Nevé – selbert 17:01, 18 December 2016 (UTC)