User talk:Augusta2

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Hello, Augusta2, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Again, welcome!  Will (Talk - contribs) 09:24, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Pwllheli

Any chance you can start to incorporate the excellent things you added to the talk page to the article? Fiddle Faddle 07:35, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

Sorry Fiddle Faddle, I now live in Belgium and contact with Pwllheli is tenuous. I have contributed (a very little)- to the Mynytho and Llanbedrog pages, and consider the information on the Pwllheli page to be pretty sparse as well. Part of the trouble is gathering existing information together: for example there is an interesting item about Pwllheli on a website about British work houses. There is primary source information in the county records office, but one would have to make a systematic synthesis of it. Pwllheli used to have a cattle market, an abattoir and a gasometer. There was some light engineering and a machine tool workshop in the town at one time. Penlan Fawr, the pub, is a very old building and of local historical interest, but you need a local historian to write it up. Another problem is that much of the secondary source material is in Welsh, and my Welsh is unfortunately only very basic. The history of the chapels is a story crying out to be written and probably exists in Welsh, alas English visitors tend to ignore it.

My suggestions on the talk page are just that, an expression of a hope that somebody local might be sufficiently inspired to add a few words of their own. Regards Augusta2 01:27, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Ah well, it is my hope, too. I was last there in the mid 1970s. Fiddle Faddle 07:21, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
How come we haven't seen you around on cy.wikipedia.org? (It's more fun than here...) Deb (talk) 12:56, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
Hello Deb. Thanks for the invite but I'm afraid my knowledge of Welsh is insufficient to be of much use for editing Welsh pages. Hwyl from Belgium. Augusta2 (talk) 18:01, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
You'd be surprised - we need all the help we can get. Incidentally, do you live anywhere near Ypres? Deb (talk) 22:02, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
Sorry Deb, my Welsh is really very very basic. It's a shame as I did a "cwrs ulpan" (inspired by Dan Lynn James of fond memory) many years ago at Aberystwyth and there was a time that I hoped to become quite competent. I have been living in Antwerp since 1974 and have slowly forgotten my Welsh, although I have acquired Dutch, French, some Spanish and a basic knowledge of German. I do know Ypres (Ieper)although it's a two hour drive from here. My connection with Wales runs through the Penrhos (near Pwllheli) and if Sanders Lewis hadn't burnt down the bombing range I probably wouldn't be writing these words.

[edit] Port of Antwerp article improvements

Interested in ports-related articles?
I notice you recently made some improvements to the Port of Antwerp article, and I thought you may be interested to know there is a WikiProject working to improve articles about port-related topics. Your help would be greatly appreciated on similar articles, so please consider joining WikiProject Ports. Euryalus (talk) 00:22, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
You're very welcome. Far from being a restriction, your expertise with Antwerp and other European ports will be invaluable. I'm in the Pacific so my first-hand experience is with Asian and Australian ports, and Europe only via industry publications. Technical "translation" is also a great skill - there's plenty of ports data to work with online but most of it is impenetrable to a passing reader.
Given your work on Antwerp, I'd be interested in your views on a standard layout for future ports articles. I proposed something off the cuff at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ports but trial and error with some Indonesian port articles suggests it needs more work. Any thoughts? Euryalus (talk) 19:58, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Speedy deletion of Centrale der Werkgevers aan de Haven van Antwerpen

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