User talk:David Edgar

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[edit] Helvellyn

Thanks for expanding the Helvellyn stub. Only a few hundred more lakeland fells to go :) --Auximines 15:28, 27 Apr 2004 (UTC)

[edit] London Cathedral

I've added some thoughts to Talk:St Albans Cathedral, concerning London Cathedral. - MykReeve 16:28, 7 Jul 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday David. Keep up the good work! Yardcock 06:41, Aug 26, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Wastwater

Glad you like the photo. In case you are interested I took it climbing down Great Gable last aug/sep just after getting a good soaking. see also "mickledore" and "scafell pike" and I saw your Yardbirds site the other day which was cool. Chilepine 11 Jan 2005

[edit] Birthday

Happy Birthday!

Here's a tasty Birthday cake. Best wishes to you! Hope you enjoy your day. Now, get on out there and have some fun! ;)

--Jen Moakler 06:15, 27 August 2005 (UTC)

Thank you! I did enjoy it! --David Edgar 23:16, 27 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] County geo-stubs

Hi - good to see the new English county geo-stubs are being used less than an hour after I made them! Keep up the good work! :) Grutness...wha? 09:29, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

Now, what I'd really like to see are ones for Hertfordshire and Manchester... --David Edgar 16:37, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Ben Lomond

Thanks for spotting my silly mistake with the "cut and paste". Grinner 10:31, 15 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Architecture timeline

I don't think one should add the stub template to articles that mainly collect links to other articles, especially if they will probably be filled over time, such as the [[year in sometopic]] articles. Burschik 07:57, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

I agree - in fact I didn't add the stub template, I merely changed it to a more specific one to move it out of the top level Category:Stubs in which it had previously been placed. --David Edgar 08:22, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] VFD: Bracketed songs

Just a quick message to let you know that a page that you have contributed to in the past, List of songs with brackets in their titles, is up for deletion here :( David 5000 18:12, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks...

For the stub-sorting on Frank Lloyd (horn player) etc.

[edit] Brussels article

Hello ! Would you mind warning the people who vandalize the Brussels article ? That seems to be a prerequisite before starting a formal procedure and I'm getting tired of reverting vandalism every day or so. Thanks ! --Melodius 10:01, 8 December 2005 (UTC)


[edit] United Kingdom Planning Law

Hi, I've recently been expanding Town and country planning in the United Kingdom quite a bit and have started a subcategory called [Category:United Kingdom Planning Law]. I've really written up a bit of a skeleton for this area of planning. The planning acts, the new planning structure, PPS's, all those bloody new abbreviations LDF,LDD,RSS etc.etc. So far the majority of it are stubs and I was wondering if you might be interested in lending a hand in some way. Most of the articles so far are pretty dry statements of fact(I think) and could do with some context, structure/re-structure, debate, proof reading etc.etc. I'm a complete novice at Wikipedia and sure there's a heap of no-no's I've committed (Posting direct to talk pages?!?). Please let me know if your interested or not. Many thanks Russ --Mcginnly 09:50, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

I'll certainly take a look - I don't know much about the subject, but I can certainly do some proof reading etc. --David Edgar 11:15, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] County flowers

Following the AfD debate, you may wish to join in a discussion taking place at Talk:Plantlife. SP-KP 18:51, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Category:Manchester University people

Hi. I notice you are tagging people into this category. I suggest that you slow down and think about this first, because the title is suspect. There are three or four institutions that may take the (informal) title Manchester University, and it is not clear which one(s) you mean. Can you make it clear on the category page, or stop and consider making multiple categories for the different possible usages? Noisy | Talk 11:31, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hall of the Mountain Grill

David, thanks for the geography lesson and a more precise location for the cafe. Cheers, Ian Rose 13:14, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bike from Eddy Merckx

hallo, sorry for my bad englisch! I'm the user marcela in commons and http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Ralf_Roletschek in the german Wikipedia. I have change your Photo a little bit. Greetings 217.88.132.43 20:39, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

Cool, glad it could be useful! --David Edgar 11:42, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] St Catherine's Chapel Abbotsbury

I've added a couple of things I know personally to this article which, I think, you started. If you haven't seen the chapel in the evening light with the Chesil and Portland in the background do try to if you're around there. Britmax 14:27, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Anglicanism and the Anglican Communion

Hello! I noticed that you have been a contributor to articles on Anglicanism and the Anglican Communion. You may be interested in checking out a new WikiProject - WikiProject Anglicanism. Please consider signing up and participating in this collaborative effort to improve and expand Anglican-related articles! Cheers! Fishhead64 23:30, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bike of Eddy Merckx

hallo, excuse please, my english is very bad. I'm user marcela in commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Marcela I use your Photo from the Bike of Eddy at my private Homepage: http://www.fahrradmonteur.de/stundenweltrekord.php - your Name is listed in: http://www.fahrradmonteur.de/impressum.php Is this correct for you? I dont want write the complete GFDL License in the picture. I have change the picture al little bit more :). greetings Ralf 217.88.135.150 01:00, 17 June 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Happy Birthday

Wishing you all the best on your birthday! From the Wikipedia Birthday Committee.

Hope you have a good one Adamcobb 10:44, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] ISBN

It is indeed Seabirds. by Peter Harrison. jimfbleak 08:02, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Belgium

Hi,

I've started WikiProject Belgium, come take a look and consider joining!

--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 00:07, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] GR 11 (France)

Hi David- Is it incorrect procedure for me to link to the fr: article the way I did? Also:

  • though I can see the link to the fr: article in the page code, it doesn't show up in the article;
  • I don't see how the page to which the Category link points is helpful.

I'm new at all this, so please let me know what's up. -Eric (talk) 18:32, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

  • fr link: Look on the left-hand side of the page. You'll see a box titled "In other languages" - in there, there's now a link called "Français" which links to the relevant page. This is the standard way to link a page to its counterparts in other languages. (Have a look at a page like Brussels and you'll see the same thing done for virtually every different major language wikipedia.)
  • category: You mean the category Category:Hiking trails in Europe? I think this is the best category to include the page GR 11 (France) in. I don't think there's a more specific one that's better at the moment. Do you disagree? It's helpful because it allows people to easily locate articles on related hiking trails. --David Edgar 09:49, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
  • fr link: I see now! Hadn't noticed that before--wasn't looking in the sidebar. So, simply typing [[fr:GR 11 (France)]] adds the "in other languages" box to the sidebar and populates it with "Français"? I thought only templates did tricks like that; I'll have to learn that stuff.
  • category: Oops, of course the hiking trails link is helpful; I didn't have my brain on and only followed the link on the word "Category."
Thanks for the clue-ins! btw, did you notice that the French Wikipedia layout has all of a sudden changed drastically, and not for the better? -Eric (talk) 13:22, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
Er, no, I didn't notice any drastic change. On the other hand I haven't been looking at it too frequently...
You could check on fr:Wikipédia:Le Bistro or fr:Wikipédia:Bistro des non-francophones/en and see if there's any discussion?
(Oh, and yes, it's clever, the wikimedia software!... it handles all those things with the languages. Check out Wikipedia:Interlanguage links for more details). --David Edgar 15:11, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
Good idea, looking on the Bistro--found a mention right away that they've implemented a new version of Wikimedia on fr that looks all wrong in Firefox--which I use--but looks normal in IE. Thanks for your help! -Eric (talk) 16:31, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Dog Spinning

Thanks for helping me with the article, I think you did the POV better than I could. I wondered what you thought about adding those images I found that I put on the Talk page, I don't know how, or if it is against the rules. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Ratherhaveaheart (talk • contribs).

I added a response to Talk:Dog spinning. --David Edgar 09:49, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] List of castles in France

I came acroos the List of castles in France page you created with interest. However, I'm disappointed to see that most of the places listed are not actually castles. As I'm sure you know, the French word château can be translated as "castle", but much more often "palace" or "stately home" would be better. Compare, in the UK, Kenilworth Castle and Blenheim Palace: to the French they are both châteaux, but to call both castles in English would be silly. The French also refer to just about every vineyard as a château whether on the site of a castle, a palace, a stately home or a 20C farm, which only adds to the confusion

On your page, I have identified the following which should not be described as castles:

  • Azay-le-Rideau
  • Beauregard
  • Blois
  • Boisclaireau
  • Bourdaisière
  • Chambord
  • Chaumont
  • Chavaniac
  • Chenconeau
  • Cheverny
  • Fontainebleau
  • Mont Saint Michel (a fortified town)
  • de la Muette (20C)
  • Oiron
  • Pécany
  • Plessis-Bourré
  • Rambouillet
  • Saint-Aubin (vineyard)
  • Valençay
  • Vaux-le-Vicomte
  • Versailles
  • Villandry


The following are partly castle, partly stately home:

  • Brissac
  • Canaples
  • Loches
  • Ussé


And, off the top of my head, here are some genuine castles that are not listed (some with Wikipedia pages of their own or shown in the relevant town page):

Can I make some suggestions? 1. Rename the page to reflect its content. 2. Turn the page into two lists, separating palaces from proper castles. 3. Restrict the page to genuine castles, adding in any others that can be found (and there's loads).

I would be happy to help with this if you want.

Emeraude 15:50, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

When I "created" this page, actually all I did was to move the content out of the page List of castles which was getting much too long. (I created many other similar country-specific pages in the same way.) I didn't have a lot to do with which entries had previously been added to the list.
I certainly agree with you, there's a big distinction between castles and palaces; there isn't really yet a standard way to handle them in the context of these lists. For example, for Denmark there's a page List of castles and palaces in Denmark which includes both, but for England there's a list of Castles in England and a separate List of historic houses in England.
Places like Chenonceau and Versailles definitely merit inclusion in a list somewhere... so I would tend to suggest creating a new page for them, rather than simply removing them - List of palaces in France, perhaps? (It would be the list counterpart to the Category:Palaces in France. You might also check the existing French list within List of palaces.) Or maybe call them manor houses or stately homes if that makes it more inclusive?
As you indicate, there are a lot of the stately home / palace variety of châteaux... so probably separating the lists would make for better clarity than renaming the existing list to include both.
And of course, you're more than welcome to help! You obviously know more about the subject than I do! --David Edgar 16:45, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Random Smiley Award

For your contributions to Wikipedia and humanity in general, you are hereby granted the coveted Random Smiley Award
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--TomasBat (Talk)(Sign) 22:15, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for the 'name' attribute

I supposed there must be some way of avoiding the need to repeat a reference, but couldn't find out how to do it. Thanks for the pointer! Matthew 12:47, 22 February 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Soon to be ex Local History Glossary

Can you link from Wiki articles to Wikibooks?

If a glossary is specific to an article, then what is wrong with the glossary that was attached to the Dalgarven Mill article?

Rosser 21:15, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Yes, you can certainly link to wikibooks. Just type the following:
[[wikibooks:Scottish Rural Life, History Dictionary]]
to get a link that looks like:
wikibooks:Scottish Rural Life, History Dictionary
Of course you can also pipe it in the usual way - type:
[[wikibooks:Scottish Rural Life, History Dictionary|the glossary]]
to get a link that looks like:
the glossary
As for the glossary on the Dalgarven Mill page, it seemed inappropriate. For example, there's no need to explain what a cart or a maiden is - the words 'cart' and 'maiden' can be considered quite basic, and weren't even used in the text of the page. There's no problem explaining on a particular page a small number of terms relevant to the subject, but I don't feel it's helpful to add huge lists of terms. And for terms which already have pages on wikipedia / wiktionary / wikibooks, the best way to explain them is just to link to the appropriate page. --David Edgar 12:31, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Soon to be ex Local History Glossary

Thanks for the information Rosser 19:10, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Incidently - even secondary school kids do not know the definition of either a cart or a maiden. I asked!

Rosser 10:40, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Yes, I'm sure you're right, and many of them don't. Nevertheless, if we had to explain what these and other words meant on each page they were used on, we would have to start attaching dictionaries to thousands of articles throughout wikipedia. --David Edgar 16:42, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
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