User talk:Carbonix

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Hello, Carbonix, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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[edit] Welcome to Wikipedia

Hello and welcome to Wikipedia. You may want to take a look at the welcome page, tutorial, and stylebook, avoiding common mistakes and Wikipedia is not pages.

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! By the way, you can sign your name on Talk and vote pages using four tildes, like this: ~~~. Four tildes (~~~~) produces your name and the current date. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! --Image:Ottawa flag.png Spinboy 23:22, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] first article

Congradulations on your first article, Andrew Thomas Blayney, 11th Baron Blayney. However, unfortunately it contains absolutely no content. Please in the future place information on the pages you create. Again, thanks, AndyZ 23:03, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

Well spotted - but, in my defence, the Wikipedia server was having some indigestion at the time and didn't accept the content... Still, it's always nice to get congradulations! Carbonix 14:02, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Italic fonts

Why are we italicizing font names? I'm pretty sure that it's only things like movie titles and book titles that get italicized... everything else is just bold. -Vontafeijos 00:16, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] William Kimber

Wow! Nice work -- I actually understand now! lol :) Sarah Ewart 21:10, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] St. Peter's Episcopal Church, McKinney

Thank you for contributing to the St. Peter's article. Are you a parishioner there? Jason M. Smith 20:34, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

No - I just thought the article needed a bit of love and attention! .Carbonix 20:41, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
Yes it certainly did. If you're ever in McKinney, Texas please feel free to pay us a visit. Jason M. Smith 22:11, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Barclays

You're absolutely right about that, PLC it is. Sorry for creating work, I've got no idea where my idea for that came from. Ian3055 18:38, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

Hmm. I didnt read far enough through the legalities to see that there was a "Royal Bank of Scotland Group" company, the .com site being owned by "Royal Bank of Scotland" threw me. Wasn't having a good day was I? Going to put my thinking cap on about how to make our coverage of RBS a bit clearer. Ian3055 19:24, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] St Matthew's - Brandon, Manitoba

I noticed that you revised the name of the church. But I think perhaps it should have remained as it was. Its proper name is the Cathedral Church of Saint Matthew. The word "cathedral" is an adjective, and is most properly used to describe "church." On the diocesan web site under the tab "cathedral" you will see it listed as the Cathedral Church of Saint Matthew. It's not a big deal, as it is not uncommon to see the word used as a noun. Just thought I'd let you know. Sarum blue 15:05, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

Hello Carbonix

I was doing some family re-search on my great-grand father W.A. Elliott and came across this Wiki article on St. Matthew's Cathedral and I see that you are the original contributor of this Wiki article, actually I have read similar pages ,Word for Word, from other websites regarding this particular church so I can say that your Wiki article regarding this church is not original in it's wording or it's source which you do not make referrence of, I have provided that source recently.
Also in this Wiki there is a reference of a person that I know rather well as I am related to him, he's my great grandfather, W.A. Elliott, who designed this particular church, among other building's in Brandon Manitoba he has also designed, so I have a problem when a reference is made of an individual without giving the reader some historical mention of other things that particular person has done; seeing that I am the great-grand daughter of W.A. Elliott I have provided sources to his other architectural designs being that his name has been mentioned in this particular Wikii article which has been obviously found from other sources I have found and provided reference to this Wiki article regarding this church he, W. A. Elliott, designed.
One problem I am having is that this particular article keeps being reverted back to not include these references to W.A. Elliott as I know them; it's like telling the world about one of Picasso's famous paintings and not mentioning any of his other famous works to give the reader some reference to what this person has done.
My reference I have provided for  W.A. Elliott may not relate to the subject of churches in this context, but his name is made mention in this Wiki article so I have provided a clearer reference to who the individual mentioned in this Wiki article is and what other works he has done in relationship to architecture.
If people are going to write an article that contains mention of a particular individual make sure you know what you're writing about and check if they have other living relitives before writing about them.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Charmeyn (talk • contribs) 02:38, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

sorry, I don't know why my message to Carbonix is showing up in a box and the text spreading across the page

[edit] Hello_My_Future_Girlfriend Deletion?

You did not do the AfD properly. It has already survived a AfD thus you need to make a second page -- check the links from the AfD macro you put up. I would recommend not doing an AfD since it pasted fairly well last time. --Ben Houston 20:33, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Since there has been no development, and the notice has been there nearly two weeks now, I've gone ahead and removed it. ~ Booya Bazooka 23:42, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Forest Hills, Boston

Good work on this article; could you just clarify the last paragraph under St. Andrew's Parish - it reads as if the school closed twice !?... From the references, was it the Catholic parish that closed in 2000?; if so, is the St. Andrew's church building still there? (You may see I've upgraded the link from St. Andrew's Church.) Thanks! -- Carbonix 12:04, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your kind words and thanks for paying close attention. Yes, you caught a typo. The text now reads:

"St. Andrew's Church closed in 2000 although funeral masses are sometimes still held there. St. Andrew's School closed at the end of school year 2005."

Best wishes. ◄HouseOfScandal►House of Scandal 22:18, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bird species new to science

Hi, I saw you started good work! I tried to make the "decades" pages more readable time ago; one should have an idea for the summary table in the source code. Don't know if you'll find it any good; I'll add bird species as needed. Dysmorodrepanis 02:58, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] St. Giles' Church, Tattenhoe

Hey, I (like someone further up) saw you'd edited the page - do you have any links or did you just do it? Just a little intrigued, that's all! Cheers for what you did :) Guydrury 16:15, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

Hi - sorry, no connection here, I just did it; I am interested in (mainly) English churches, their architecture and their place in society, then and now. I think such articles are generally not as robust as they could be, and I try to raise the standard generally, adding information or, as here, seeking to upgrade the style, syntax and general readability! Thanks for the kind words. Carbonix 14:43, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Antony Worrall Thompson

Hello. Could you please add a source for the longer version of Antony Worrall Thompson's name you added? I can't find it mentioned in any of the sources we currently have, and it would be good to source this to prevent against people subtly changing it. Thanks! Skittle 20:53, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

Hi; I had no source, simply rearranged article to conform to wiki layout; having said that, the full name appears on several websites if you Google it, eg IMDb OK? Carbonix 23:17, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
Source now found - extract from autobiography! Article updated. Carbonix 14:04, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Disambiguation pages

When making disambiguation pages, please make sure you change all the links to that page to direct to the right location, so other editors don't have to clean up after you. I'm speaking of the Suel page in particular. Thanks.--Robbstrd 23:22, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

Whoops! - sorry, I normally do make the changes, but seem to have had a mental blockage this time. Thanks. Carbonix 17:49, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] AfD nomination of List of Concorde pilots

I've nominated List of Concorde pilots, an article you created, for deletion. We appreciate your contributions, but in this particular case I do not feel that List of Concorde pilots satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion; I have explained why in the nomination space (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and the Wikipedia deletion policy). Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Concorde pilots and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of List of Concorde pilots during the discussion but should not remove the articles for deletion template from the top of the article; such removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. → AA (talk • contribs) — 17:03, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Church titles

Thanks for your message and support. I think there are arguments on both sides. I looked hard and long for guidance on naming churches when I started doing a series on Cheshire churches and found no guidance. So I followed Wikipedia:Naming conventions which says "Generally, article naming should prefer what the majority of English speakers would most easily recognize" and Wikipedia:Naming conventions (common names) which says "Convention: Use the most common name of a person or thing that does not conflict with the names of other people or things." Most English people say "St xxxxx's church", rather than "Church of St xxxxx". The majority of titles of British church articles follow the former style, as do the vast majority of articles on US churches. There is no WikiProject on churches so I agree we should continue with the common format unless there is an authoritative convention on the other style.

There are of course counter-arguments (English Heritage in [1] generally states "Church of xxxxx"). And there are times when the common version does not work; for example Church of St Mary-on-the-Hill, Chester does not really work as St-Mary-on-the-Hill's Church (perhaps it should be St Mary's Church on the Hill!) – but that's an exception. I've copied the first paragraph above on the Vox Humana 8' talk page. I shall also ask the other members of the WikiProject Cheshire for their views. Peter I. Vardy 13:25, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

I have placed the following message on the talk page of User:Vox Humana 8'.
"I do not think that "an admin once told me" adequately reflects consensus or that it is authoritative enough to form a policy for Wikipedia. What I have said above represents what I see as the current consensus. I therefore, with support from other editors, intend to continue to use the format "St xxxx's Church" and I will change back the titles of those in the Cheshire category. I shall not of course change any of the titles on the articles you have contributed, and I hope you will not change any more of mine."
and I hope this will do the trick. Thanks for your help. Peter I. Vardy 09:01, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
I have replied on PIV's talk page.--Vox Humana 8' 10:28, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Mary Wollstonecraft

I am sending this to everyone who participated about six months ago in the discussion about the appropriate English variant to use for the Mary Wollstonecraft article.

You may wish to read a similar discussion, taking place over a Mary Wollstonecraft pamphlet, A Vindication of the Rights of Men, currently a featured article candidate.

The FAC discussion is here: Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/A Vindication of the Rights of Men

The applicable part of the article's talk page is here: Talk:A Vindication of the Rights of Men#FAC: AmEng, BrEng, etc

--ROGER DAVIES TALK 18:56, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Vitusapotek: inclusion of legal status "AS"

Hi. I agree with you on your interpretation of the rules. The reason I did this was that as I see it that while the article Norsk Medisinaldepot is about the company, the article Vitusapotek is about the chain, and not about the company. And since 2007 Norsk Medisinaldept, NMD Grossisthandel and Vitusapotek have been merged into one legal entity. As such I have also added 'AS' to Norsk Medisinaldepot's heading, but removed it from Vitusapotek. Arsenikk (talk) 17:31, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

Right. I can see what you mean and eventually found the 'merging' you refer to; I was relying too heavily on the company's website and even their contact address, which still use AS! Carbonix (talk) 18:40, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] List of Concorde pilots

I'm on the "a bit disappointed" side that the list didn't stay in... but if you constructed it, you likely know the answer to the question which *I* wanted to drop into the article: how many pilots were ever type-rated in Concorde? A pilot friend says he thinks 24...
--Baylink (talk) 15:03, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

No, sorry, I don't know how many pilots were ever type-rated for Concorde. It is certainly more than 24 though; the 1986 (an early) edition of Christopher Orlebar's The Concorde Story lists 34 Captains and 28 First Officers in the first ten years of flying, and that's just for British Airways, not including the French pilots. Carbonix (talk) 11:46, 15 May 2008 (UTC)