User talk:Dave.Dunford
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[edit] Hayfield
Dave, I feel we're about to enter an editing war regarding the Hayfield entry. To explain my position, I live in the village and I've been writing for Wikipedia since it first started. As a resident, I know many local people in Hayfield and am aware of most local references. I regularly walk the hills and know the OS map like the back of my hand. With this in mind:
- Kinder Scout: This is considered locally as a mountain. Ordnance Survey refer to it as a mountain. Local people are proud that it's a mountain! To edit the Hayfield entry to say otherwise is to insert your own point of view. Please don't do that. Yes, to all intents and purposes it's a big hill. But it's classed as a mountain, even if it's an unimpressive one :)
- Lantern Pike: I and many others have not heard of the term "outlier". Indeed, I had to get a real-life dictionary out to find out what the term means. Most online references (including Wikipedia's own) refer to "outlier" in the mathematic sense. Now that I do know what it means, I have to ask you provide evidence that Lantern Pike is actually an outlier. Maybe you can create an entry for Lantern Pike, and cite references? Anything else is, again, point of view editing. I really think you should change this reference in the Hayfield entry to something more easy understood, and more informal, as is the style of the rest of the Hayfield entry. 86.135.160.199
- Discussion copied to (and continued) on Hayfield discussion page. Dave.Dunford 11:39, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Comma butterfly
Hi. Nice picture of a comma butterfly. Zeimusu | (Talk page) 01:21, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- Thanks - have only recently discovered Wikipedia and am glad to have a useful outlet for pictures I've previously only taken for my own pleasure. Let me know if I do anything wrong, there's a lot to learn! -- Dave.Dunford
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- Flickr.com is a good image-oriented community site. Highly recommended. Jez 17:25, 4 May 2005 (UTC)
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- Thanks - I'll take a look. Dave.Dunford 17:29, 4 May 2005 (UTC)
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[edit] Alphabetizing Aces
Do you have an automatic way of alphabetizing these lists? I spent some time on one section emulating a human bubble-sorter; if I'd had the right sort of program I could have done it in seconds. Variable-length strings are hard to read into a spreadsheet for sorting, though I suppose I could have gotten a BASIC program writtenn for this in only a little more time than it took to do by hand. Some day I'd like to get some more information on the Canadian aces, even a pair of dates for each one and maybe the credited number of victories would add a lot to the entry. Someone did a good job with the Australian aces, ranking them by victories. --Wtshymanski 15:50, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- Nope - I was doing it the same way as you ("human bubble sort"). I can envisage ways of mechanising this task, but you'd probably have to assume the last word (i.e. everything following the final space) constituted the surname - not always the case, but probably better than nothing. I'll look into it. -- Dave.Dunford 15:57, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)
[edit] St. John Philby
The copy edits on Jack Philby look real good, thanks. I have a question though (being a newbie). Franklin Roosevelt appears twice, first time just as a name dropper, second time in context of his personal involvement with the Philby Plan. Is it always just appropriate to link the name in its first occurance in an article, or wait to some involvment with context? Thx. Nobs 19:14, 4 May 2005 (UTC)
- I'm pretty new to this myself, so I don't know the "official" answer (if there is one). I'll try to find out. Personally I'd be tempted in circumstances like this to link both the first mention, and the "key" mention. Dave.Dunford 19:23, 4 May 2005 (UTC)
[edit] practi (c/s) ed
FYI in your edit on Eeny, meeny, miny, moe - "practiced" is the American spelling (I assume you're not a USAian; "practised" looks wrong to me). Generally wikipedia doesn't switch from one to the other unless there is good reason - e.g., American spelling in a story about an American person - because it leads to pointless edit wars. I didn't change it back, I'm just mentioning it. - DavidWBrooks 20:11, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
- Fair enough. I'm British and in British English "practice" is the noun and "practise" the verb; I didn't realise this didn't hold in American English. I'll not object if it's reverted and I'll try to refrain from UK-centric spelling edits in future Dave.Dunford 20:13, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Rushden & Diamonds/Relegation from conference
In [1] you say that Rushden have also been relegated to the Conference twice. According to the Rushden & Diamonds article they have only been relegated once (this year). I'm not particularly knowledgable on this, so I thought I'd check with you before reverting the Halifax Town article. Tdrawler 11:28, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
- You're right - 2005/06 was the first time Rushden were relegated from the League. Change reverted. Dave.Dunford 13:56, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Malcolm Shotton
Nice work on the article. I'm especially pleased to have the other half of the colossal defence, Gary Briggs, linked to, since I started the latter article. Dudesleeper 19:14, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Canolfan Tryweryn
I noticed that you have been involved in creating the Afon Tryweryn article, and would like to inform you that I intend to merge the article with my newly created Canolfan Tryweryn article, unless you have any objections. DevAnubis 12:47, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
- Please post replies in the Talk:Afon Tryweryn page, to save me having to search through all the user's talk pages to find any suggestions. DevAnubis 12:58, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Hello. I created a baby stub for the article benzethonium chloride.
Free free to jump into the contributions with this benzethonium chloride stub. Good Luck. BenzethoniumChloride 06:47, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Class War
The article I read was five over years ago so I cannot give chapter and verse, but I can quite clearly remember Skinner being quoted as saying that he "hated posh people" and that football had gone down hill since they admitted the middle classes and women (for whom he used some perjorative term like "floosie"). Perhaps these asinine comments were an attempt at humour. Perhaps they were an exemplification of the putrid and poisonous English class system. Or perhaps Skinner was, er, misrepresenting himself. You tell me. Bill Tegner 23:29, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
