User talk:21stCenturyGreenstuff

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[edit] Penarth RFC

Hope this is the kind of thing you were looking for. Cheers, --FruitMonkey (talk) 20:55, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] re: Johnny Johnson and the Bandwagon

Hi 21stCenturyGreenstuff, thanks for your response. Although it's unfortunate about your edits to Johnny Johnson and the Bandwagon, just thought this policy would be worth looking over, at the very least from the point of view of a new Wikipedia editor: Wikipedia:Verifiability. I saw that you're working on an autobiography.... just know that once it is published, your memoirs can be cited in an article as a reliable source.  :-) I for one would definitely know what it was like to work with Kate Bush! Cheers.... - eo (talk) 01:00, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Sully, Vale of Glamorgan and Sully Island

I think you've done a really good job on those pages - you've improved them tremendously. Thanks! I made a couple of minor edits - Wikipedia style doesn't italicise headings; just use the ==heading==, ===subheading===... markup. I also removed the mention of the post office and the Sully Inn - although the Sully Inn is certainly a historic building about which much could be written, if we could just find it, and the Post Office has been the village shop for several generations, it doesn't add much to the article just to say that the village has a pub and a shop. It would be more notable if Sully didn't have those!

Thanks again for all the work you've done on these, it's really nice to see my home village getting some Wikipedia lovin'. :) Vashti (talk) 18:36, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Margate

Thank you for your edit on Margate. --{{123Pie
Thank you for your edit on Margate. --{{123Pie

[edit] Happy First Day of Spring!

Happy First Day of Spring!

[edit] Bayston Hill

Hello,

I saw your message at WP:ENGLAND about Bayston Hill and thought I'd give you a nudge about WP:UKCITIES which is a resource/guideline put together to provide UK "place" articles a consistent layout and content style. Hope it helps! Happy editting! --Jza84 |  Talk  01:10, 22 March 2008 (UTC)


[edit] Paula Yates

Sorry, Hutchence's just didn't sound right, my mistake :) BTW, I'm from Birmingham too. INXS-Girl (talk) 15:15, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

I am English and not at all sad, it's Hutchence not Hutchence's, say it out loud. Sounds like something an idiot chav would say. 82.18.230.206 (talk) 20:40, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
Well sonny, I guess you are sadder than you thought and Yes, your university education does appear to be wasted. Learn to punctuate your English correctly before you start firing blanks! 21stCenturyGreenstuff (talk) 13:27, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

Oh dear, I appear to have changed sex too. 82.18.233.248 (talk) 20:30, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

LOL Phut! that was the sound of one of my blanks....Isn't it funny how you assume certain things?....My sincere apologies for such a basic error. Hope you are having a nice day 21stCenturyGreenstuff (talk) 21:00, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Dreamland Margate

I have reverted your recent edit to Dreamland Margate. You changed the text before the citation to something which is not backed up by the cited source. In addition, your text which read

“ Twenty five percent of the ride's track footprint has been totally destroyed including the first main tower, the station and the workshop storage facility. Early indications by scenic railway experts are that the ride can be rebuilt. However, the ride's trains are irreplaceable as they were the last surviving original 1920's scenic railway cars in existance, although replica rolling stock can be found or fabricated. ”

is unsourced, so cannot be included. If you need assistance in citing sources, have a look at WP:CITE. If you would like me to help, let me know which newspaper you read the story in and I'll try and work in a citation for you. -- JediLofty User ¦ Talk 12:35, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

The amendments to the Dreamland page were drawn from here http://www.savedreamland.co.uk/ which is updating daily since the fire and contains links to dozens of other sites and newspaper reports. My amendments to the Dreamland article were a precis of all the extant and more up to date information than the older referenced quotation that you have reverted to.
"Police investigating the fire which badly damaged the Scenic Railway have now confirmed it was started deliberately. Samples collected by specialist police and fire officers at the Margate site on Tuesday have been sent off for analysis in the arson investigation."
"It was difficult to gauge just how much of the Scenic has gone with smoke billowing around the park, but I would guess we have lost at least 25% of the track, part of the Station and - this is the worst bit by far - the workshop."
"Approximately 25% of the structure (the main lift hill and much of the central part of the ride) has been lost, and so has the workshop, which housed all the original trains."
"The trains are more difficult, but there are other examples elsewhere in the world, and at Great Yarmouth, which could be used as a template for a rebuild." 21stCenturyGreenstuff (talk) 13:22, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
I've worked in three of the latest BBC news stories about the fire, and moved it to its own section. What do you think of this? -- JediLofty User ¦ Talk 13:23, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
Yeah, better than what was there before. How about mentioning the extent of the damage though...25% of the track, the main lift hill, station and workshop...and the loss of the original 1920s rolling stock? To the casual reader it may sound currently like the whole ball of chalk has gone up in flames. 21stCenturyGreenstuff (talk) 13:31, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
That's a good point, well made. It's such a shame that the Dreamland site has been allowed to fall into such a state of disrepair. I have very fond memories of being taken there as a child, back before it became "Bembom Brothers". -- JediLofty User ¦ Talk 13:43, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Lavernock

I think you're right. All done - in future you can redirect by replacing the page's contents with #REDIRECT [[target]]. You're doing great work on these pages. :) Vashti (talk) 16:15, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Dolly Parton

Hi, 21stCenturyGreenstuff. I reverted your deletion for the reason I stated: there was no justification given in the Edit Summary. I did not look in the article Talk because you gave no indication to look there. Please make good use of the Edit Summary; it's a courtesy to other editors, particularly to those who have many articles in their watchlist.

As to your (and the previous anonymous person's) claim that the cited source made no mention that Dolly the sheep was named after Dolly Parton and thus was a false attribution -- you seem to have missed the following statement in the given source. "Dolly the cloned sheep, named after singer Dolly Parton, was born 10 years ago." It's in the article's accompanying photo caption.

I am reinstating the statement, again. If you doubt the veracity of the current source, it would be better to instead tag the statement "in need of a better citation". But don't delete the statement saying that it was not properly referenced. Thanks. --Mercury McKinnon (talk) 03:53, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

LOL You were too late, it was already back and this time I had added a better and more suitable reference than the one you placed there, the BBC quote (currently Ref 25) actually states that DP was the influence for naming of the sheep 21stCenturyGreenstuff (talk) 10:08, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] AfD nomination of King Edward VI School, Spilsby

Please don't take offense, but I have nominated King Edward VI School, Spilsby, an article you created, for deletion. I do not feel that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/King Edward VI School, Spilsby. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time.Ecoleetage (talk) 00:46, 24 April 2008 (UTC)


[edit] Userspace

Hi. You mentioned you weren't sure how to create an article in your userspace. It's pretty simple to do it just by typing the url that you want, such as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:21stCenturyGreenstuff/New article right in the address bar. See also How do I create a user subpage? Additionally, you can use templates such as {{underconstruction}} to let people know something is being actively worked on. Cheers! --Dhartung | Talk 23:22, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Orphaned non-free media (Image:Stanwell Badge.jpg)

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Deletion is fine, this image was just too damned big for its purpose. I have replaced it with a smaller version, which is why this is now orphaned 21stCenturyGreenstuff (talk) 13:03, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] May 2008

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, we would like to remind you not to attack other editors, as you did on Dolly Parton. Please comment on the contributions and not the contributors. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Rtphokie (talk) 15:33, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

For heaven's sake don't be so prissy and oversensitive. That was no attack. If you want to see attack just wait till I am annoyed and turn the words on. That 'editor' had made a number of stupid and juvenile changes to the article, which I reverted...but commenting that they could not count is NOT an attack, in any shape or form. Go away and prissy at someone else 21stCenturyGreenstuff (talk) 15:54, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Woodhouse Grove School

Basically, you just need to go through the article and eliminate all the superlatives, along with anything that might be described as opinion as opposed to verifiable fact. For example, its an opinion that the school is "caring", or that it offer a "high standard" of something (unless of course you have independent reliable sources which make such statements, in which case you can quote those sources but not simply reproduce those statements as if they were fact). Perhaps it might help if you had a look at WP:NPOV and any related pages. Hope that helps. Regards, Gatoclass (talk) 12:20, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Orphaned non-free media (Image:Westbourne School Badge.gif)

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[edit] Good work on Penarth

I'm impressed with progress and live in Cardiff - so if there is anything particular you would like a photo of or want me to look into for you let me know. Cheers Tony (talk) 15:30, 6 June 2008 (UTC)