User talk:Clithering

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Is consensus needed to use the Wikipedia naming conventions? Blake the bookbinder 17:44, 14 September 2007 (UTC)


Natural causes at adventist hospital 4:15 am wed 11 april 2007.... listed in SCMP thursday april 12, also he was my grandfather so i know... Scrugbyhk 09:19, 16 April 2007 (UTC)


Do you think you could do a page like that for the english wiki? i haven't had the time Scrugbyhk 02:18, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Wahaha Danone joint venture

I just created this article on this very topical subject. The subject matter would make for a good featured article, so I am hoping to enlist your help to get it there qualitatively. Maybe you would be interested in translating it? The most important sources are in Chinese. ;-) Ohconfucius 04:03, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] DYK

Updated DYK query On 4 September 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Yang Ti-liang, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Carabinieri 14:11, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Honours

Well I suppose the London Gazette does actually still use them 2008 New Year Honours, but most newspapers no longer do so eg The Guardian style guide, Acronyms and abbreviations Wikipedia isn't really a formal document, but an encyclopaedia after all, so are usage tends toward that of general newspapers. David Underdown (talk) 13:42, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

I also meant to say that otherwise there was a mix of usage in the article, not using full stops in his postnominals, but using them in the Honours list. In addition, the London Gazette provides the official record of all British honours, and can be searched (back to the 1660s!) here. Obviously with Chinese names it's worth trying both orderings of personal and family names. The search facility isn't 100% due to the way older additions have been scanned in and automatically converted to text, so I've been building up an index of Honours lists, see User:David Underdown/Honours which may mean you can find the relevant information manually if you already know what year an honour was given. David Underdown (talk) 13:54, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
The Gazette did revamp their website in October last year, and the search is now better than it was, I don't know if you've tried again since that time. Bear in mind also that The New Year list is usually published at the end of the previous December - the award of Honours always includes the phrase "graciously pleased", so if you enter that as you search term, and restrict the dates to say 25 December and 3 january of the year you're actually interested in, you should get somewhere. Similary the birthday honours are normally inlate may to Mid June, "raciously pleased" should work there too, but "birthday" is also quite useful. David Underdown (talk) 15:22, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Yuet Keung Kan

Updated DYK query On 25 February 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Yuet Keung Kan, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--BorgQueen (talk) 04:34, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Henry Pollock

Well, besides the fact that it should have been put under the 17th rather than the 19th (which the commenter should've just went and fixed themselves for you), there was no inline citation for the hook, which we're trying to make a requirement. It is a very nice article though, try adding in some citations and you could probably get it to GA status rather easily. Wizardman 15:29, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] 1st Baron Lugard

Thanks for correcting that, I wasn't sure. --Canley (talk) 13:48, 5 May 2008 (UTC)