User talk:Marksie531

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[edit] All those Roberts

Can we talk about that list you copied onto the Robert page? I don't think that a list of people named "Robert" has much reference value. ---Isaac R 23:41, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)


[edit] Image Tagging Image:Silent valley.jpg

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[edit] Snooker edit

Hi - cheers for the edit to the snooker 2006 page - unfortunately I think you misunderstood the numbers in brackets, which represents the player seedings rather than the current score (although the one you changed had the big coincidence that the players seeding were the scores at one point!). I don't know if it is worth while putting in current scores (to the main score box), as they change fairly quickly and the page isn't really meant to be a "live" representation - the bbc site is there for that type of info. Thanks for the edit anyway, I hope you can add some more info on snooker as there is plenty to be done (you can have a browse by the snooker project that has just been restarted to get involved). Best wishes, SFC9394 16:37, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

You are most welcome to get some of the other years done (there are plenty to do!). I have gotten a couple done and Nick has got one done as well. I was using the BBC archive [1] but it only goes back to 2000. Beyond that I think we would need to have a trawl about for some definitive (and reliable) source for past years. I found the best way when entering the results was to work from the final backwards, that way it all falls in a logical order and it is not too complicated (trying to get the ordering of players right when starting from the first round is a bit of a nightmare). The full results for 2002, 2001 & 2000 are in the BBC archive so you can happily have a crack with those if you wish. I am happy to help you out if you get stuck anywhere (I am about WP most of the day, most days), Best wishes, SFC9394 12:13, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
Updated to add - I didn't realise that the results were dumped in the pages for 2000+ by Pete Davis last night. Unfortunately they appear to just be a copy/paste from the BBC site (which is good from the perspective of using the data for compiling the charts) - but bad due to the fact that copy/paste jobs from other websites are generally discouraged (they are technically copy violations). The results already being there should make your task a bit easier - hopefully Pete won't add any more results as copies from other websites! SFC9394 12:23, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] License tagging for Image:Silver strand.jpg

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[edit] Deletion of School articles

PLease don't remove the AfD notice from articles, but instead discuss why the article should not be deleted at the linked page. Removing AfD messages is considered vandalism, but I assume that you were not aware of this. Fram 14:04, 8 September 2006 (UTC)