User talk:ColinBoylett

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[edit] Sussex

The arms of East and West Sussex can be found in the following Wikipedia articles.

East Sussex West Sussex

ColinBoylett 11:17, 8 February 2007 (UTC-6)

You didn't provide a context. From what I remember, you were wanting a user box? What information do you want on it? Are you wanting two versions for East and West? Will (Talk - contribs) 20:52, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

I was looking for 'This user lives in East Sussex', I found 'This user lives in Sussex', but that turned out to an American Sussex. As Sussex is a divided County, I thought it would be useful to also have available 'This user lives in West Sussex. ColinBoylett 15:08, 8 February 2007 (UTC-6)

Better. Do you want one or two ID sections? (That's where graphics appear.) I can use any free (not fair use) image on Wikipedia or Commons. Just be sure it fits. You can also have text there. If you want one ID section that can be on the left or right.
I am asking about that now as it affects which template I build the box with. You can see samples of all three (left, right, both) at WP:UBX. I have yet to build a box with two IDs. I rarely see that used. Normally, it is either left or right. But if you want both, tell me what you want. Will (Talk - contribs) 21:16, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

I was looking for one box on the left with the East Sussex County Arms, with 'This user lives in East Sussex'. An image of the Arms is in the article East Sussex, not sure if that would be usable, the only one I have found so far.

I personally do not need one for West Sussex, but thought it would be useful for those who need it, I have noticed that a lot of users in Sussex (UK) are displaying the American version of 'This user lives in Sussex'. ColinBoylett 15:45, 8 February 2007 (UTC-6)

The basic boxes are now up at User:Will Pittenger/User Boxes#Sussex, England. Please comment on them. Would you like color changes? I can control both background colors, both foreground text colors, and the border. I also added "England" so people would know which Sussex. (Remember why were are doing this.) Should I change the wording?
Finally, the coat of arms image shown West Sussex would be a fair use violation in user boxes. So I found a free image from Commons. The color is a little different than the fair use version, but I doubt people will notice.
Currently, the boxes don't create any categories. However, you should be aware that if I do add categories, I do so with a parameter, {{{No Categories}}}, that if it is non-blank, the category will be suppressed. 22:33, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for doing that, both boxes look just right, just the thing I was looking for, the colours look OK to me. Thanks! ColinBoylett 04:39, 9 February 2007 (UTC-6)

Excellent. Glad you like them. Sorry I couldn't respond sooner. I have been having health problems. Even now that I am starting to recover, working in front of a computer monitor is still very tiring, more than anything else.
However, I do want to go ahead an list them as planned. I was holding that off in case changes were made.
BTW: I generally don't make custom boxes. However, if you have other requests and I see them on the page where I saw the Sussex one, don't be too surprised if I offer to help. User boxes, and templates in general, are relatively simply.
Will (Talk - contribs) 09:16, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Your philatelic edits

While adding the {{Philately}} template to some article talk pages I noticed your edits, and talk comments, to some philatelic articles and wondered if you were aware of the Wikipedia:WikiProject Philately as you have not yet joined those of us who are trying to make the philatelic article better and more complete. There id also a to do list there if you need some ideas for work. Cheers ww2censor 22:57, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the contact, I had noticed the project, and planned to get involved, I have now added myself to the project, I will not have a great deal of time over the next couple of weeks, busy time at work, but I have a couple of ideas for some new articles. ColinBoylett 09:09, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
Now that you have joined the Philately WikiProject, welcome. I hope you can find some time to add and improve articles as time permits. Thanks ww2censor 13:04, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

I have created a new article today, needs expanding, ran out of time this morning, just checking up on things from work this afternoon, should be able to add something to several existing articles, and Ihave some thoughts about possible articles, as time permits. ColinBoylett 15:33, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Are you talking about Stanley Gibbons Great Britain Concise Stamp Catalogue? I would favour merging this with Stanley Gibbons as there is little point in having separate article for the catalogue when it is one of the core elements of their business. I can help you with that if you need, and you can continue adding data there, otherwise I will add a merge tag to both unless you have some really really good reason to keep both articles. Cheers for now. ww2censor 17:35, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
You are probably right about merging the two, had not thought of that, yes I agree merging would be a good idea, have not looked at merging pages yet, perhaps that is something you can do. ColinBoylett 22:00, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
Ok, I will do it today or tomorrow, as time permits. Have a look ate Millennium Stamp and Millennium Series (stamps) to see how the tags for merging work, if you are not just doing it like we are by agreement. I tagged those earlier today but did not get the chance to review them carefully enough to decide what goes where, or if they should even be moved to a new name. Anyway that's how it's done. BTW, semicolons are used to indent a thread as they make it easier to read, unless it gets too narrow. Cheers ww2censor 22:14, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
Ok, I added merge tags to both pages earlier, not yet investigated how to actually carry out the merge. Might not have much time for the next couple of days anyway, my work colleague is away at present, so having to cover extra hours. Gradually working how to most things connected to editting, learn something new every day. Cheers ColinBoylett 22:25, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
Done, but still needs some compressing and cleanup to also cover some of the other catalogues even with fewer details. Cheers ww2censor 02:04, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
Well done, when I get a chance I will add more detail. Taken a look at the two Millennium pages, agree would be better merged, and cover 1999-2000 Millennium stamp0s of any country. ColinBoylett 10:17, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
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[edit] License tagging for Image:Etchcrick1930.jpg

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Image now tagged. ColinBoylett 22:22, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Millennium stamps

I did the merge and have also renamed the page Millennium stamp instead of Millennium Stamp, but I now realise that many countries issued stamps for the beginning of the 3rd millennium so I added Fuji and will look for other countries; Poland, Romania, etc. This could turn out to be an interesting page over time. Curiously I could not immediately find any other non-3rd millennium stamp issues other than the Dublin millennium stamps of 1988. There must be more than just the one. Cheers ww2censor 14:24, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

That's good, when I get a chance I will see if I can expand the two British series, with some detail on some of the stamp designs. As you have a bit more editing experience, perhaps you could take a look at something for me.

[edit] Etchingham

Over recent weeks, I have been expanding the detail on the Etchingham article, this has included a section on the village shop being saved and run as a community owned (not for profit) enterprise. As far as I am concerned this constitutes part of the village history. This morning an edit was done, removing this section completely, by an anonymous user, minor edits have been done to other Sussex pages from the same IP, but this was removing a complete section. I cannot see a reason why it should be removed, perhaps you could take a quick glance at it and give me your opinion, I have modified it a bit since I reverted it, but it is essentially still the item that was removed. ColinBoylett 15:41, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

I had a look at this anon IP user's edits and they seem mostly ok. He has mainly been removing commercial type external links but I would question some of his edits but in general not too bad. Regarding the Etchingham page I am not sure your edit about the shop are very encyclopaedic and I am sure could be improved. For me the philatelic connection is way too detailed for a village and should be compressed. I will also reduce the images that are rather too big for this page. I see you did put a comment on the user's talk page but he might not get that same IP again so it would be better to discuss the removal of the village shop on the Etchingham own talk page with an edit summery saying that the issue is written about on the talk page. Hope that helps. Cheers ww2censor 16:33, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for your comments, I agree about the size of a couple of the images, not got around to doing anything about that. I am looking at fruther edits to the shop section, I will take a look at the philatelic connections bit and do some midifying. Cheers ColinBoylett 16:39, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
BTW, I want to reduce the size of the Church image, is there a way to do it without uploading a smaller size image? ColinBoylett 16:59, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
Images done. You need to specify it is a thumbnail, specify the size, location and comment. Have a look at the mods I made so you understand what can be done. No need to upload a new image, you tell the page what size to make the image on that page. Sometimes you will see the same iamge used at different sizes like this one I have worked with on Postal history and Postal censorship. Notice that by putting a colon in front of the image name, the actual image does not show on your page. Look at the edit. Cheers ww2censor 17:15, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
Thanks, now I know how to do that, I can make some adjustments to a couple of other pictures I have added elsewhere. Now I have managed to work out how to add citations I have done the two you marked and will be adding others later. I am always ready to help explain something to others, so it is really nice to know there are others out there prepared to assist me when I get stuck. Again, many thanks. ColinBoylett 20:28, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
I assume you wanted a reference for James Temple living in Etchingham rather than him signing the death warrant. Rjm at sleepers 12:07, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] TOCleft

Hello. Why are you positioning the TOC to the left? This is very unconventional. It can be useful for some articles (I have seen the TOC aligned to the right most effectively on some articles about reality TV shows, where the TOC contains a dozen+ names), but really it's not good on most. The JPStalk to me 22:42, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] License tagging for Image:MedalsPHQ.JPG

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Now tagged. ColinBoylett 15:50, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Collaboration 18th - 25th March 2007

Hi fellow WikiProject Kent Member, you may have already seen this on our Kent Article Improvement talk page. We are planning a small drive on the Kent related articles this week, 18th to 25th March, to grade and categorise them.

  • All we are asking is, as you read/edit a Kent related page, for you digest the information, then add the template {{WP:Kent|class=|importance=}} to the top of the articles talk page. Instructions are available on the Project page or template page.
  • Please try to grade according to the guidelines to enable us to prioritise future work.
  • After saving the template, add comments in the section created by the template.

- Olive Oil -ŢάĽɮ - 14:11, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Results

Hello again ColinBoylett, following our collaboration to tag Kent-related articles, we have ear marked 931 articles as being Kent related, however, as of the 26th March, 137 articles are still to be assessed.

  • Could you please look at any, some or even one of the 137 unassessed articles and change the {{WP:Kent|class=}} template, on the talk page, to a "class=Stub/Start or B category".
  • Please try to grade according to the guidelines to enable us to prioritise future work.
Kent
articles		 Importance
Top High Mid Low None Total
Quality
Featured article FA 1 1
A 1 1
Good article GA 1 1
B 3 4 6 13
Start 1 12 49 137 2 201
Stub 5 17 552 3 577
Assessed 1 20 73 695 5 794
Unassessed 0 2 5 130 0 137
Total 1 22 78 825 5 931

- Olive Oil -ŢάĽɮ - 01:45, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Krays.jpg

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[edit] Image:Krays.jpg

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[edit] Image:Krays.jpg

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[edit] Image:Krays.jpg

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[edit] Philately WikiProject

You are listed as a participant in the Philately WikiProject. Today I have created an inactive list consisting of those participants who have not made any philatelic edits for more than six months. I was going to use a 3 month cut off point but felt generous. You are not one of those editors, so I have not moved you and you remain as an active participant. If you are still active on Wikipedia but are inactive in philately please let us know by moving yourself to the inactive list. However, we really need more active participants for all philatelic articles. The Philately Portal has been running for some time and I am doing occasional updates, Postage stamps of Ireland is a candidate for featured article (that would be the first philatelic article), and several of the redlinks have been filled but we need more activity so if you are around please participate. Thanks for the work you have done in the past even if you have not done anything recently. Cheers ww2censor 01:09, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

I have not been very active on any areas of Wikipedia for some time, I recently suffered a major computer breakdown, which left me without a computer for a few weeks, eventually requiring the purchase of a new computer, as I was not able to recover a large proportion of the files from my old computer, I have had to start from scratch with a new computer. Added to other things going on at this time, I do not expect to have much time to do any edits for a few months, so I have moved myself to the inactive list, I hope to be able to return to some editing by the time the winter arrives. ColinBoylett 07:22, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
That was unfortunate about your computer disaster. We have 3 words in the computer business; backup, backup and backup. Hopefully this time, with your new computer, you make sure to have a simple daily backup ability, like an external USB hard-drive that you can rely on in case of another meltdown. When you get back on Wikipedia, please join the active participants again as we really need more people to work on the philatelic articles. Thanks and cheers ww2censor 14:36, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
The external hard-drive is on this weekends shopping list. ColinBoylett 19:04, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
That is good news, just make sure to use it with a simple to use backup software that you can schedule, if possible. ww2censor 19:15, 26 June 2007 (UTC)