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[edit] William Sawrey Gilpin dates

Just wondering how you came up with the birth and death dates of William Sawrey Gilpin. Sophie Piebenga, on whose research the whole Wiki entry is based, couldn't establish a DOB after extensive research and is certain that your DOD is wrong. Could you clarify the source for your information? (G.Bissell)

[edit] Great you got back

I will remember your comment in the future and make sure I edit the content to suit.You do have some role. atbRumytime 11:33, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks,really

Hi, I'm impressed by the way you handled this - ref 'that was quick' - your pointers were healthy. I was truly mad when you deleted my very 1st article, but I guess it was better, as I have a wholesome view now. In fact there's more interesting stuff on the same topic. Am going to add that now along with the original. It'd be great if you dropped by and took a look and initially tutor (?)if that's not a problem with you.

Also, I've been writing on and off, various pieces in the offline world. After this piece I just will rewrite , would like to help with some projects where it would be constructive. I have taken a look at some help needed articles and have marked some, but if there's anything you'd like to bring up keep me posted please.Thanks.Rumytime 04:53, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] That was quick!

Hi, I just joined Wikipedia a week back and given the state of social networking in India really wanted to update others on a cool site I chanced upon. They're def working in the right direction because you don't have good travel references in the country that have local content. but you seem to have deleted the whole article as spam??? Why was this I'd like to you help me understand? Am not sure what I did wrong. Thank you 'ditto as below ...( I'm not sure if this is correct way to contact you, apologies, this is the only thing I could figure out.)

[edit] Question please?

Hi, I just joined Wikipedia because we have been getting incorrect info on the nightclub I work for, so I posted the correct info and added a few fun acts. I also added a page for Joe Shanahan, the owner, which you deleted. Granted I didn't have time to add much on there as I was called away from my desk, but as I am new can you help me understand why it was deleted? I want to follow protocol, but I am new and not sure what I did wrong. If I start a page, do I have to add everything all at once? Thank you for any help you can provide. (Also I'm not sure if this is correct way to contact you, apologies, this is the only thing I could figure out.)

[edit] WOW

you work fast. I was trying to fix an article I'd just created and you beat me to it. --WildKard84 18:23, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

Nah, just a little confusion is all. --WildKard84 18:27, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hey Deb, notifying you of change

You would know me originally as Draig goch20, but I have made a decision for a change. Instead of Draig goch20, I will now be known as Amlder20. Everything relating to me shall be there from now on, at user:Amlder20.

Amlder20 22:51, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

I am using "Amlder20" because last month I turned 20 years of age. Personally I would love to be 20 forever. oh well. Thanks for the Welcome back anyway. God bless.

Amlder20 14:44, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

I am rather pleased to see a comment as nice as that thanks, yeah, to be honest I had deep interests in things since I was a child, I guess I am just one of those kids at school who over did it with the work (though my schoolteachers failed to teach me major mathematics, everhything I know there I did myself). I am constantly reading history books and studying computing books and Welsh is my main favourite.

Amlder20 20:46, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Hello there, welcome to the 'pedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you need any questions answered about the project then check out Wikipedia:Help or drop me a line. BTW, you have been pretty busy with some British history artilces - Good work! Cheers! --maveric149

This is one of the things you wrote: "He will not admit when asked, but off the record, his biggest mistake is creating the lethal killing machine Chuck Norris." Is that not a personal attack on Chuck Norris?


"If you can understand English and the structure of this sentence, it is Jeffery Korus' biggest mistake, not an attack on Chuck Norris, more of an admittance of something done wrong by Jeffery Korus. It is close to saying Julius Caesars biggest mistake was being killed. The structure of sentences should be paid more attention to I would think before you delete someones article that does not actually violate anything close to a personal attack."

Hmm, let me see - do I understand English? Let's take a look at the above.

1. Yes, I do know that the sentence refers to Jeffery Korus' biggest mistake. My comment wouldn't make sense otherwise. 2. "Admittance" - I think you mean "admission". 3. "Julius Caesars" - There should, of course, be an apostrophe here, viz. "Julius Caesar's" 4. "It is close to saying Julius Caesars biggest mistake was being killed." Actually, it is not at all close to saying that - but we'll let it pass. 5. "Someones" - another missing apostrophe. 6. "article that does not actually violate anything close to a personal attack" - oh dear, we did get confused about the subject of the dependent clause here, didn't we? 7. You can't violate an attack.

The verdict? Yes, I do understand English, and, more to the point, I can speak it correctly. I realise not everyone has been fortunate enough to have the same level of education, and for that reason I do not despise people who cannot speak English well. But I don't rate people who make comments like "TORY CAN KISS MY ___" and try to pass them off as encyclopedia articles. Deb 19:52, 3 May 2006 (UTC)


I don't know the back story here, but you spelt realise with an "s," and you spent too much time looking that stuff up online

[edit] WP:LCOTW

The current Literature collaboration of the fortnight is Arabic literature.
All those who are interested are cordially invited to help improve this article. If you are not interested in this article, the template will update each week to keep you informed as to the current LCOTW article.

Filiocht 10:37, Nov 10, 2004 (UTC)


wow, you must think highly of yourself, sounds like you are an English teacher...but I think after reading that, you are stuck-up, and I would like to think you don't whip your kids for getting a "B" but then again, you probably whip them and put them in a cage

[edit] Seymours

Just FYI (I didn't notice on the first go-round), but Edward Seymour, Baron Beauchamp of Hache actually held the title by courtesy; he and his eldest son Lord Edward Seymour predeceased his father the Earl of Hertford. I've also knocked together a page for Baron Seymour of Trowbridge. Choess 22:48, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] My Dad George Sassoon

Hello to you all who spoke about my Father, I am glad to know he was respected in his own right rather than being Seigfried's son. I have just returned from his memorial service which was attended by a huge congregation of a wonderful mixture of people from all over the world and from all walks of life. The words that were spoken by his friends were fabulous. I kept mine short because I was choking up. Afterwards we all went to the pub and raised our glasses until we were to drunk to raise another. This is what he would have wanted. Thanks. Kendall Sassoon

[edit] Links to disambiguation pages: STOP replacing otherpeople with otherpeople2

Hi Deb

I have just reverted this edit which you did to Morgan Jones (Welsh politician), in which you replaced {{otherpeople|Morgan Jones}} with {{otherpeople2|Morgan Jones}}.

We have discussed this before .. and as before, please stop doing this. It is inappropriate to link directly to disambiguation pages - see WP:DAB#Links_to_disambiguation_pages, where it says:

To link to a disambiguation page (instead of a specific meaning), link to the redirect to the disambiguation page that includes the text "(disambiguation)" in the title (such as, America (disambiguation)). This helps distinguish accidental links to the disambiguation page from intentional ones.

There may be a case for the {{otherpeople2}} template when a redirect page at xxxx (disambiguation) does not exist, but removing a working link to xxx (disambiguation) is destructive, and impedes the removal of incoming links to disambiguation pages.

I don't know hy you persist in doing this, especially when you are aware of the guidance at WP:DAB, but if continue doing this, I will start issuing vandalism warnings. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 16:13, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

I would appreciate a reply, but that's up to you. However, please don't immediately archive a message. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 18:04, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Siegfried Sassoon

Nice new picture of SS's grave. Did you take it recently? Deb 21:59, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the appreciation :) However, I didn't take the photo...
It's from this page on the geograph website - and was taken in May last year. Since the geograph website images are all Creative Commons licensed, I find it is a really good resource for adding some great pictures to Wikipedia! - Euchiasmus 22:09, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Operation: C.A.K.E.D.-T.H.R.E.E./Operation: L.O.C.K.D.O.W.N.

I just wanted to know why you speedy deleted the article as "nonsense". It's an episode page (probably shouldn't have two episodes for one article), but I don't see how it meets speedy deletion criteria. Thanks, Nishkid64 01:32, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] My RfA

Thanks for taking the time to review my contributions and contribute to my RfA. I withdrew when it became clear that the uphill climb had crossed the snowball threshold, but I appreciate your feedback and the process gave me some good ideas for other ways I can be contributing to Wikipedia. I'll work on the areas that came up in the discussion, and try again after I've gained wider experience. -FisherQueen (Talk) 12:34, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Questionable reversion

I am not sure why you reverted this [1]. I will explain my edit better and await your response. TonyTheTiger 18:15, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

My comment is that even without research, one could improve it by reformating in compliance with WP:LEAD. An article of this depth could easily be reformatted to have a small lead. Does your definition of a stub come from a policy page? Please point me to it. I appreciate your advice if this is the case. Otherwise, we need to come to an agreement on what a stub is. I admit, I have never assessed articles so I may not have proper understanding of the meaning of the term stub. It seems that some very lengthy articles might be deemed stub by your definition. Please advise. TonyTheTiger 19:50, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
You contest each tag. There is a problem with the set of tags available for lead deficiencies. I may design my own tag that would say. "This article although having good content in general should be reformatted so that it has a lead in compliance with WP:LEAD." I don't think any of the following truly apply: {{context}}, {{LEAD}}, {{Tooshort}}, {{vagueintro}}, {{introrewrite}}. Tell me what you would use to tell a person that you believe the article needs cleanup in the sense that its lead does not comply to WP:LEAD. Maybe vagueintro is the best here. TonyTheTiger 20:08, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
When I am on WP:NPP I usually spend an hour starting with the 10001st most recent edit. This is about 4.5 days since the article was created. This gives the page creators time to post most relevant thoughts on an article. By this time, the new page creator may be starting to lose enthusiasm for his new creation. I add tags in order to give them some pointers on things that can be done. WP:LEAD clearly would lead one to take a few sentences to summarize the whole article. I would think you could do a 2 or 3 sentence lead and then have a section or two following the lead that comprise the main body of the article.
Note that I am not saying the introduction is not good. It complies with Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style_(biographies)#Opening_paragraph. However, it is not a WP:LEAD. There is a difference between an opening paragraph and a lead. A lead is something that precedes the main article. The opening paragraph is the first paragraph you see. These are two different things. TonyTheTiger 20:37, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
I have revised the article according to WP:LEAD off the top of my head (without rereading it). The article is now slightly better, IMO. TonyTheTiger 20:56, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
I just forgot to remove stub. Thanks for following along. TonyTheTiger 19:39, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] CALM DOWN

Why do you delete everything?!? I was making a page for an actor and you deleted it —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Rappolt.a. (talk • contribs) 21:36, 28 January 2007 (UTC).

[edit] George Henry Morris

Fair enough, I quoted your sentence back to you, sorry, but it is a fine line between boring facts and over-elaborate irrelevant guff, just to pad it out. I can't do this 24/7, and i am trying to learn this , but there must be more important causes needing your assistance surely? . Thank you.



Which part of this sentence is not complete?

"He was born in Spiddal, Co. Galway, Ireland, the second son of Michael Morris, 1st Baron Killanin, and was educated at The Oratory School, Edgbaston."

It is written in English, and whilst it may not be wonderful prose, it is punctuated reasonably well. A series of staccato facts is no way to educate, inform, and enthuse people about Wikipedia. There are many more worthy and less able pages that require serious attention. This one is way way down the list. I will take your advise onboard, and try to learn "the system" better, but please get a grip], and lay off the pedantry. Thank you.


Sorry, but I disagree with your edit. He was not a British solider. I have however added an introductory line to give some more context to his entry. Thank you. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Dillonphoto (talk • contribs) 23:52, 29 January 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Jean Estoril/Mabel Esther Allan

Sorry, I have reversed your redirect as Mabel Esther Allan [aka Jean Estoril] was definitely British, although at least one of the Drina books she wrote is set in New York--Abbeybufo 23:28, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

thanks for message - weird we should both have been working on her at the same time!--Abbeybufo 23:35, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
PS Don't really want to do article on her at all - as I'm not that keen on most of her books - just happened to see Jean Estoril in the red subject list and thought I'd tie her up with MAE--Abbeybufo 23:40, 3 February 2007 (UTC)


[edit] PC Pic

Thanx for letting me know the picture was removed. I found the picture on the Welsh language Wiki, and brought it over. But I couldnt understand where the authorship was from. Can you tell me if we receive premission from one Wiki to use their pictures that it transfers to the English version too? There are other pictures I am looking for too, but havent been able to get. Ive written to PC on their website with no answer yet to supply some pictures for use here. I hope they answer soon. Thanx again! Drachenfyre 01:13, 4 February 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Linking catagories

Hello again :)

I would like to create a "see also" link to the Plaid Cymru politicians page as currently only MP Plaid members are listed. There is already a nifty catagory page that would save work instead of simply creating another "list of." Might you know how to link a catagory? I have been looking for a ready example but so far have not been able to find one. By the by, I have placed the Saunders Lewis pic up again. Drachenfyre 11:10, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Reply

Nice of you to say so, Deb! I'm a history student at university, so an interest in the subject is something of a given (it'd go ill with me if I wasn't!). If you ever want a chat about history here, just ask - I'd be happy to. Michaelsanders 17:06, 7 February 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Added GolfInvestors, but got deleted

I just added the GolfInvestors page as people were starting to talk about GolfInvestors on Wikipedia. I see that the New York Stock Exchange has their own page...but that is not deleted. So why would you delete the GolfInvestors page we just created...as it is now linked on another page in Wikipedia?

Note: The page I created, and was deleted, was not an advertisement for GolfInvestors.

Regards, John Mueller

[edit] Sorry

Sorry, I only just got your message. I have not been logging on much for a few months. Hope to be more activein future. Paul J

[edit] An Invite to join Novels WikiProject

Hi, you are cordially invited to join the Novels WikiProject! As you may have guessed, we're a group of editors working to improve Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to fiction books often referred to as "Novels". We make no length distinction so all narrative prose fiction is of interest. This includes Novels, novellas, novelettes and short stories. Articles about the works themselves and the forms and genres.
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[edit] Welcome to Novels WikiProject

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[edit] Gooseberry Patch

Deb -

Why delete our page? What's the difference between what I put up as compared to Amazon.com and Ebay? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Gooseberrypatch (talk • contribs) 20:54, 16 February 2007 (UTC).

Deb - Rather than point me to the Spam explanation, explain to me how what I put up differs from Amazon.com, Ebay or Vermont Country Store to just reference a few.

Because Amazon.com is much more notable. It doesn't matter if your company has the same concept; if it isn't notable, then it doesn't merit an article. --Hojimachongtalkcon 21:02, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Since you removed my entire entry, are you capable of making it available to me? Since you offer very little explanation and you removed my entire entry explain to me how our page is considered advertising but Vermont Country Store is not as we have very similar product lines and we feel our page was written in the same tone as theirs.

Okay, Hojimachong take away Amazon and Ebay and compare us to Vermont Country Store.

The Gooseberry Patch article that I read, and added a speedy delete tag was not an article at all, but rather contact information only -- which reads like an advertisement. See Wikipedia:Notability (organizations and companies) for notability, also. Betaeleven 21:11, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
If you want to create a page like that, then put it on your own user page. Betaeleven 21:14, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Betaeleven - Forgive me as I may have made an edit mistake, I'm not sure. I had written a full description of our company including our company history, brand, external links and brief product description along with the contact information. I was editing the contact information and when I saved it, I was told that Deb deleted it. What am I missing here? I'd really like to get my original information back if possible.

Deb - I did not intend to get Vermont Country Store in trouble. I've removed the contact information from our page, is there anything I can do further to be valid? Any assistance would be very much appreciated. Thank you.

[edit] DOB & DOD: Thanks!

I've noticed you have been hitting a lot of the obscure 16th c. people on my watch list and providing missing or more precise DOB and DOD information. Thanks for your tireless work! ✤ JonHarder talk 19:26, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Advice request

I created a page called "Music-Map" about a music recommendation site that you marked for speedy deletion. I don't have any especial interest in that particular site, and perhaps it doesn't deserve its own page after all. However, I would like to see an article about such sites, even if it were merely a "list of" page. Perhaps "List of Music Recommendation Systems" would do? What do you think? Meanwhile I'm going to add a link to Music-Map to "Recommendation Systems" since it has a (small) list going already. If you object, I would appreciate it if you would explain why. --JandarShadowstar 22:57, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WorldCat Identities

Thanks for your excellent provision of birthyear / deathyear data on biographies! Thought you might be interested in a proposed project to link to WorldCat Identities: if you are, please do sign up at the project proposal page Dsp13 15:50, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Classification of articles

Maybe I am being slightly mean for some of these. I shall consider in the future being more generous! However I would still rate the Silyn Roberts article as Stub, and you can allways change the rating if you wish. At least I've classified them rather than leaving them as unclassified. --Cynnydd 13:39, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

I see you suggested the Silyn Roberts article as a collaboration article. If we in this Wales project actually did something as a collaboration we might be able to get this article deserving of a higher rating. Would you like to have another go at getting the collaboration going? (might work better if its a monthly collaboration! )--Cynnydd 14:12, 21 February 2007 (UTC) (p.s.) checked my assessments and you know I haven't done too many stubs after all :-) )


[edit] Helping out with the Unassessed Wikipedia Biographies

Seeing that you are an active member of the WikiBiography Project, I was wondering if you would help lend a hand in helping us clear out the amount of unassessed articles tagged with {{WPBiography}}. Many of them are of stub and start class, but a few are of B or A caliber. Getting a simple assessment rating can help us start moving many of these biographies to a higher quality article. Thank you! --Ozgod 20:25, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Mary I of Scotland

I don't understand your revert of this edit of mine. Shouldn't a 'rough wooing' section have a 'rough wooing' paragraph to explain why the term is in the section header, if nothing else? 76.22.4.86 02:22, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

No worries. Thanks for letting me know. I've been editing as an IP long enuf that this wasn't the first time my edits have been rolled back due to IP vandalism around the same time as my edits, and I'm pretty sure it won't be the last. I had restored my non-content changes, but was unfamiliar enuf with the topic that I thot it best to leave it to someone more familiar with it to determine whether the paragraph should be restored. 76.22.4.86 19:23, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you for the welcome

Thank you very much for the welcome. I will make sure to check my spelling more carefully in the future. Virgosky 17:32, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

No, not at all. I appreciate you pointing that out so it could be fixed. I look forward to seeing you too! Virgosky 17:41, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikiproject Biography March 2007 Newsletter

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[edit] Deletion of Todd brookshire

Hee. I was just nominating it for speedy deletion and when I hit save it tells me you deleted it xD Way ahead of me. Just dropping a note to say hi. --Theunicyclegirl 18:37, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Idris Foster

Just noticed, rather belatedly, that you moved this page from "Sir" Idris Foster shortly after I created it. Thank you for doing this - I wasn't aware of the relevant naming convention but I will remember it in future. Bencherlite 14:25, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

Not that hard to guess, is it?! Bencherlite 15:49, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Lady Di

Thanks for helping to fix the Lady Di page. -- Fuzheado | Talk 21:30, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Gweet fweet ure

Sorry, I tagged it for speedy in VP just as you deleted it, and it recreated the page. You might want to hit it again. Apologies. Philippe Beaudette 21:37, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] 1509 architecture

My gut reaction is that this category is *way* too specific, and will almost certainly be deleted sooner rather than later. Fourohfour 17:40, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Deleted page template

FYI, placing a {{deletedpage}} on a page (such as Davy Takenashi) when you're a non-admin who can't actually delete and protect the page is pretty pointless...Just a standard speedy deletion template should do. -- Scientizzle 18:02, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

Now that I look like a moron...I thought you were just a well-meaning, regular-old 'pedian like myself when you made this edit and didn't actually protect the page. I left this message after I saw nothing on your user or talk pages indicating that you are, in fact, an admin. Feel free to ignore my advice, as I'm sure you've got the situation under control. :) If you'll excuse me, I'm going to head off somewhere to feel smarter... -- Scientizzle 18:29, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] AfD on articles on chapters of Jerome's De viris illustribus

Hi. I see you were one of a couple of editors who seemed concerned by these articles. If you'd like to weigh in on the AfD, see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jerome's De viris illustribus Chapter 1. Wareh 13:56, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Help with Normalmouth

Deb, I am getting nowhere with Normalmouth who's insisting on retaining imbalanced racist remarks on the Plaid Cymru page. Can you intervene again? He's now saying he will reinsert unreliably-sourced comments on the page, after originally agreeing to remove them!Lenincymru2007 15:12, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Your suggestion

Hi Deb. Good suggestion. I have made some very significant compromises on the Plaid Cymru article tonight and accepted LC's edit on Welsh Labour in full (though I have moved it), So I hope we can deal on this basis. I will now take the opportunity to cool off. Tks. Normalmouth 22:08, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
Deb, I wonder if you could provide guidance on an issue to do with the Plaid Cymru article. I have just noticed that much of the new material in the history section has been lifted verbatim (before my edits) from the PC website (see [2]. Is this permissable or desirable? I'm concerned that the article should not seek to regurgitate official party perspectives, which will naturally seek to put PC is the most favourable light, perhaps at the expense of objectivity and relevant information. I'd value your thoughts before I pleace something on the talk page about this. Normalmouth 14:47, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Posting messages for vandals

Hello, I see that you are not only a fellow vandalism fighter, but also a WP admin. I sure was glad to see how assiduously you tracked down all of the instances of vandalism by anon. user 64.251.48.170 today (other than his earlier complex vandalism of Slavery, which I dealt with myself).

But I was disappointed that you didn't follow through and post warnings on the user's talk page -- which is so crucial in terms of dissuading people from further vandalism. I know sometimes it's a bit of a hassle if you're short on time, but even if I skip this step on occasion, I always make a point of doing it when the user has perpetrated multiple vandalisms. So I hope you'll consider doing so in the future. Regards, Cgingold 23:24, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] re David Llewellyn (author)

It was deleted per Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/David Llewellyn (author). Herostratus 02:16, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Deleting 'Penguin Posters'

Why? We are a small community of Club Penguin Players and we don't know how exactly you use Wikipedia and make Wiki's.

[edit] Douglapedia

I know that Douglapedia is not exactly the most notable of books. It hasn't been published or anything. My friends and I wrote it for the pupils of Douglas Academy in Milngavie, Scotland, and many of them have taken an interest in it and have downloaded it from the Commons page. Some people have been asking for it but we have not been able to get it to them because the links to the Commons files had to be removed from the Douglas Academy page. I therefore thought I'd create a page for Douglapedia, and put a link to it from the Douglas Academy page, which I have been told is the best way to do this. Douglapedia is popular amoung students of Douglas Academy, and it would be a pity if they could not access it.

[edit] Year pages

We have a house style for these pages, which was established by a survey. It dictates, among other things, that multiple events occurring on the same date have separate links. -- Smjg 20:12, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

And I wish you well to wear it. Have fun with your "house style", Smjg. -- Picapica 21:38, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Guilford vs Guildford

I have undone your edit of the Guildford Dudley article and your "correction" of the spelling of Guildford. I would encourage you to read my discussion of this issue on the Talk page of the Lady Jane Grey article. The correct spelling of the name is GuilDford. Thanks. Stephan Edwards, Ph.D. PhD Historian 19:37, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Yes, I can indeed tell you where to look to confirm that the correct spelling of Guildford is GuilDford. If you have access to the manuscripts collection of the British Library at King's Cross in London or the National Archives Public Record Office at Kew, I can provide you with a list of sixteenth-century documents that contain this original spelling. I can also suggest a number of sixteenth-century printed books that use the GuilDford spelling, as well as the University of Sheffield's online access port to definitive versions of John Foxe's Actes and Monuments (http://www.hrionline.ac.uk/foxe/apparatus/person_glossaryD.html). I understand your concern about the article being moved to a new spelling, but shouldn't the change be made so that Wikipedia is accurate and more nearly reliant on primary source material rather than the caprice of later, most nineteenth century, amateur historians and antiquarians who were demonstrably prone to altering spellings (and "facts")? This is exactly the kind of issue that makes most academics highly critical of Wikipedia as a source of reliable information. PhD Historian 23:36, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

I've not read Weir's recent novel about Jane Grey, but I will ask her where she got her spelling of the name (we are in touch a lot). The only other thing that I can say is that all academic historians, to my knowledge, accept and use the "d" spelling; non-academics (of which Weir is one) tend to use the non-"d" spelling, usually repeating it from works by amateur antiquarians like Agnes Strickland and Richard Davey. But as long as serious academic historians use the "d" spelling, I will consider it the most correct.PhD Historian 18:13, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Plaid Cymru and LeninCymru

Hello Deb. I'm having trouble on the Plaid Cymru page again. I've embarked on a big rewrite of the history section (expanding it substantially) and have been meticulous in sourcing my edits, using only well respected, widely read published Welsh political historians. LeninCymru has taken offence, and I'm really not sure he wants anything other than a puff-piece on PC. Wouild you mind having a look at the article, its sources and the discussion and give your opinion on the points beind disputed? Tks. Normalmouth 13:22, 30 March 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Plaid Cymru

Hi, Where in the Plaid Cymru discussion is the two-man argument? if it is in the discussion. Amlder20 16:42, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Because at the moment I can't think of any way to settle this, my suggestion is to lock down the page until the dispute is settled, if it ever is. Amlder20 11:43, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

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