User talk:Garryq
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Again, welcome! Chris Roy 19:13, 9 Apr 2004 (UTC)
[edit] re: max
Thanks for writing the article in the first place. I hope you stick around wikipedia for a long time. Your enthusiasm is greatly welcomed here. Keep up the good work. Remember, nothing ever has to be perfect because there are 1,000s of others out here to help.
If you ever have any questions, please ask.
Sincerely, Kingturtle 18:03, 11 Apr 2004 (UTC)
[edit] 80,255
Ive noticed your spat with User:80.255 on the Sunderland page. What he/she's doing is completely unnaceptable. Policy regarding county naming has already been decided upon at Wikipedia: Naming conventions (places). I've had many arguments with 80,255 at Warwickshire and Coventry feel free to revert his/her changes G-Man 17:31, 19 Apr 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Edward VIII
Hello, Garry. I've viewed the revision history of Edward VIII of the United Kingdom:
and I can't find the edit you mention. Could you please provide me with a link to the edit where you made the specific change to the article? Thanks. Happy editing, Chris Roy 15:52, 21 Apr 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Sunderland
I am thinking about making City of Sunderland be an article about the city of Sunderland, and making Sunderland just be about the area that used to be part of the county borough. This follows precedent we've set for districts that include disconnected urban areas or large rural districts (e.g. Lancaster vs City of Lancaster, Canterbury vs City of Canterbury, and Peterborough vs City of Peterborough, etc. (See Wikipedia:List of English districts to disambiguate for a big list of districts we've done this too).
I am wondering if you have any feelings in this matter. Thanks, Morwen 17:08, May 3, 2004 (UTC)
- Great idea. I renamed Sunderland City of Sunderland, but User:G-Man was none too happy about what I called my hometown and reverted. I have some notes and half articles that can be used for Sunderland. The City is in 3 parts, Sunderland, Washington and Hetton & Houghton, so the article can certainly be divided. garryq 18:06, 3 May 2004 (UTC)
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- How does that look? Morwen 19:27, May 3, 2004 (UTC)
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- You've made at least one editor exceeding happy :) Thanks. garryq 20:05, 3 May 2004 (UTC)
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[edit] Anthony Lambton
Hey, no problem at all. I thought the short forms may be useful as redirects, for exampel if somebody types in "Anthony Lambton" in the search box. Happy editing -- Chris 73 | Talk 01:48, 9 May 2004 (UTC)
Hi - just a small point this, but when you make links such as the one you just edited in Jack the Ripper, can you please not use underscores (_) for spaces. There's no need to use them, and it makes links look a bit ugly. All the best--Camembert
Tnx for yr Senate-classes response; a little embarrassing for it to come from abroad, but hey!
I think that helps substantially. --Jerzy(t) 16:13, 2004 May 14 (UTC)
[edit] Baron Rix
In regards to Baron Rix: Thanks for experimenting with Wikipedia. Your test worked, and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any other tests you want to do. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. Thanks. - Tεxτurε 20:19, 16 May 2004 (UTC)
- Its back --garryq 21:44, 16 May 2004 (UTC)
Hi, Garry. I notice you have reintroduced the error in the article on Richard III of England which says that there are records of Hastings' trial. This is a very controversial article, and it's important to keep it NPOV. If you feel I am wrong and you have evidence that such records exist, please quote a reference and location where they can be viewed. Deb 11:53, 17 May 2004 (UTC)
Thanks for your note. I've heard the claim before, that there are records of Hastings' trial, but all the books I've read say that there aren't. However, if they do exist, I'll be quite happy to give way. I don't know if you saw "Historyonics" the other week - that was a surprisingly even-handed interpretation of the known facts, I thought. If the Richard III talk page is short, it's probably because I gave up arguing with a certain person who was determined to have her own way; I just waited for her to leave the project, which happened more quickly than I'd hoped. However, you'll find the controversy has been shared out between several articles, including Edward IV of England, Edward V of England, Princes in the Tower, Dominic Mancini and Philippe de Commines, to name but a few! Deb 16:46, 17 May 2004 (UTC)
Hi again. It's not your fault you took what someone else had written at face value, but I don't think these records exist. I'll have a look at that article on Morton, and see if I can help make it more even-handed. Unfortunately, the only way it can ever be "proved" is to produce the records of the trial. Otherwise, we have to assume there aren't any. Deb 16:47, 18 May 2004 (UTC)
Kindly leave my user pages alone. Mintguy (T) 22:28, 20 May 2004 (UTC)
Just wondering - did you get my reply? Morwen 17:01, May 23, 2004 (UTC)
[edit] 1974
I'm digging up some fascinating stuff in these researches - have a look at the Administrative counties of England#1974 : Two-tier section for a start. Of note for Tyne and Wear is that (a) the Local Government Bill 1971 actually named it 'Tyneside' (lated amended for reasons I am sure you can imagine), and it was to include Easington and Seaham. Looking at a map that would have left Durham practically landlocked! Morwen 22:28, 1 Jun 2004 (UTC)
- Didn't know about "Tyneside". The Redcliffe-Maud Commission in 1969 (?) never managed to get that far. --garryq 22:38, 1 Jun 2004 (UTC)
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- Apparently they didn't think it was worth a metropolitan county. They just recommended ones based on Birmingham, Liverpool and Manchester.
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- There are some particular things I'm going to have to look up a bit more. In particular, there were 'passenger transport authorities' for the conurbations well before 1974. Apparently Greater Manchester had a South East Lancashire North East Cheshire (SELNEC) PTA. I wonder if Tyneside had a similar one. Another intesting thing is apparently there were plans for a 'South Hampshire' metropoplitan county, consisting of presumably the Southampton/Portsmouth areas. Morwen 22:48, 1 Jun 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Coat of Arms of Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother
I was just wondering as to the copyright status of this picture. Burgundavia 10:19, 2 Jun 2004 (UTC)
- Thanks for the info. As a technical note, you might want to convert it to png to save some download time. Burgundavia 05:42, 3 Jun 2004 (UTC)
[edit] civic heraldry
This is just to let you know I replied to your question here [1]. Marnanel 16:14, 8 Jun 2004 (UTC)
[edit] vote
Good luck! Morwen - Talk 11:31, 10 Jun 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Cambourne
Cambourne is definitely worthy of an article. But it shouldn't appear on the list of towns, as by any standard I can think of it isn't a town. Note that the list of towns is not just a list of places, which are usually listed on the appropriate county or borough article. I've removed Cambourne again, along with Barnt Green, which has if anything even less of a claim to the status. Warofdreams 13:33, 15 Jun 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Union Jack etc.
Garry
Rather than getting into an edit war, please explain youself at Talk:Flag of the United Kingdom. DJ Clayworth 17:24, 8 Jul 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Image:COA_Prince_Harry_Wales.gif and Image:Prince_William_Wales.jpg copyright status
Do you know of the copyright status of these images? Marnanel 16:37, 15 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- As a section of the Royal Household they may be {CrownCopyright}, but as Garter Principal contends "that the question of copyright is not really relevant" in an heraldic display, I prefer {fair use} in wiki's educational context. --garryq 17:51, 15 Aug 2004 (UTC)
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- You could probably get away with public domain. If "the question of copyright is not really relevant" this would suggest that they are uncopyrightable, or they are effectively so, as it would be impossible for their copyright holders to assert any intellectual property rights over them. — Trilobite (Talk) 05:51, 24 Aug 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Mountbatten
Thank you for clarifying the ancestry secion on Louis Mountbatten- it's much more readable now. -FZ 18:59, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Enormous blue square with white cross
The software says that you replaced a bunch of heraldic images with an enormous blue square with a white cross (like this one: [2]). Might someone else have been using your account? Marnanel 23:33, 21 Aug 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Navboxes on Stewards of the Chiltern Hundreds
Please see Talk:Resignation from the British House of Commons for my proposal to do away with these misleading additions. Dbiv 22:17, 26 Sep 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Queen James
Please monitor the James I of England page and its talk page.
[edit] Image:Tudor Crowns copy.jpg
Thanks for uploading Image:Tudor Crowns copy.jpg. I notice it currently doesn't have an image copyright tag. Could you add one to let us know its copyright status? (You can use {{gfdl}} if you release it under the GFDL, or {{fairuse}} if you claim fair use, etc.) If you don't know what any of this means, just let me know where you got the images and I'll tag them for you. Thanks so much, – Quadell (talk) (help)[[]] 21:15, Nov 16, 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Article Licensing
Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:
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[edit] Image license
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[edit] unverified image
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[edit] Your image
I noticed you uploaded Image:Marie Lloyd001.jpg, which you noted was an image from your family collection. I took the initiative and marked it as GFDL, but if you wish to use a different license, use one at Wikipedia:Image copyright tags :-). Thanks, ugen64 22:00, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Stuff
I wondered if you might take a look at the metropolitan county article, I've done loads of work on it, I think it's mostly accurate, but seem as you seem to know a lot about this stuff you might be able to add something to it.
BTW are you still a councillor.
G-Man 23:10, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Hi
Hi there. I'd just like to say your the only fellow Sunderland wikipedian I've come across since I've been contributing (I thought I was the only wikiobsessed person in the city :-) Keep up the good work. All the best Craigy 00:51, May 3, 2005 (UTC)
[edit] British counties - again!
Hi Garryq,
This topic has become a hot potato all over again. There's been constant discussion and argument for weeks. We've now reached a critical point and are having a straw poll on a particular issue to see if we can make some progress that way; if this fails we may need to go to official mediation.
Would you be willing to take a look at the straw poll and consider voting? It was posted on the policy talk page on 22nd August 2005. Many thanks Chris Jefferies 23:37, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Image Tagging Image:St Edward Crowns.tif
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[edit] Barnstar
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[edit] COA
I see you were granted a coat of arms last year? I bet that cost an arm and a leg? Nice one, though! You should upload it to the 'pedia for all to see! :-) Craigy (talk) 01:00, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
- Lol, I betcha. I think I should start to question how much council tax I'm paying if counsellors can afford to buy arms and I can't! :-D Joking aside, the best of luck for St Michaels in May! Craigy (talk) 16:41, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
- Forgive me from intruding, but what is your newly granted coat of arms? Can it be seen online anywhere?--Evadb 11:22, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Power CoA...
Greetings, I had a question about the image that you uploaded of Colin Powell's coat of arms HERE. You mention that this is your rendering of the arms, but they seem almost identical to the version painted by Andrew Jamieson which can be seen HERE. If you did use his painting as a basis, it might be good to credit him as such.--Evadb 11:20, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:Colin Powell COA 1.png
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[edit] Heraldry Portal?
Hey. I've proposed the creation of an heraldic portal. If you think that such a thing would be helpful, you can voice your support HERE and hopefully we can get the heraldry category items organized better. Thanks for all your hard work on heraldic topics.--Eva db 08:53, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Image:Colin Powell COA 1.png listed for deletion
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[edit] Still a City Councillor?
Are you still a city councillor?. Your userpage says you are until 2004. G-Man * 21:54, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Invite to WikiProject
TellyaddictEditor review! 20:08, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
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- I would like to inform you that WikiProject Tyne and Wear is considering a name change to WikiProject North East England which was suggested by a non-member, this is being discussed now on WikiProject Talk Page so any comments and/or thoughts would be greatly appreciated in order to reach a community consensus, Thanks you.TellyaddictEditor review! 19:41, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] North East England Newsletter
Garryq, as mentioned on the Project Page, all the members will receive a newsletter informing them of all the latest news about WikiProject North East England. Their are a small selection of news stories in which I would like to bring to your attention:
As you will most probably know, the Project will be one month old in less than twenty four hours, so far the project appears to have been successful so far, almost five hundred articles have been tagged informing viewers that the article is within the scope of this project, the Project now has eight members which is good but I'm sure that will double or even triple within the time of the next newsletter
As mentioned above, urgent help is needed for tagging articles and rating them for their quality and their importance, by viewing:
and all of the subpages, a range of untagged articles can be found, there will be at least a thousand their in which require tagging and I/we need your help in doing this!
That is all for this newsletter, if you would like to bring anything to my attention or have any comments to make then please leave me a message on my talk page or leave a note on the Project talk page and I/someone will get back to you as soon as possible. Thank you for reading and I hope you are still enjoying being a member. Regards - Tellyaddict 20:46, 15 March 2007 (UTC)