User talk:Dricherby

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[edit] my favorite edit summary of the day

[1] --barneca (talk) 19:47, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Good point on the Canon EF 50mm lens talk page

If you are knowledgable about camera equipment, there are a lot of articles that really need a lot of work! Thanks for the help. Good work elsewhere too, I see. Matthew Brown (Morven) (T:C) 14:22, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Trespass

If you do not like the tone of the article, you can of course edit it. The rest of us (who are watching the article) will judge whether it is a good edit, and change it further or revert as appropriate. Please add not comments at the foot of the page, not the top. If starting a new subject, click the "+" at the top, which dies this authomatically. Peterkingiron (talk) 19:10, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] National Police Memorial

I've reverted your edit to National Police Memorial; the wording on the roll of honour is not "in the line of duty", but "in the execution of their duty". (The full text is "Police Officers of the United Kingdom Who have Lost their Lives In the Execution of their Duty As the result of Criminal Acts or In the Course of Effecting an Arrest or In the Performance of Acts of Gallantry or Other Hazardous Duty", but that's obviously too long for the infobox.) "Line of duty" and "Execution of duty" don't mean the same thing in this context; the memorial specifically does not commemorate officers killed in training accidents, road traffic accidents etc. — iridescent 22:04, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

Fair enough. The phrasing seems rather unfortunate to me, which is why I changed it. I think that "Line of duty" and "Execution of duty" do mean exactly the same thing; the reason that, say traffic accidents don't count because the quote you give specifically states "as the result of criminal acts". Either way, the article should use the same phrasing as the roll of honour so I fully agree with your revert. If you have a cite for that quote, I think you should add it to the article; I agree that it's too long for the infobox. Dricherby (talk) 22:25, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
Here's the exact wording, together with the specific definitions of "in the execution of their duties" that they're using. As it's already cited-to-death where the definition is discussed (in the "Criticism" section), I don't see any particular reason to clutter the infobox with yet another citation; the website's already cited repeatedly in the article, so anyone ref-checking will reach it anyway. — iridescent 22:47, 28 May 2008 (UTC)