User talk:Foxhill

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[edit] Hitomi Yaida

Hi. Thanks for making those album page :) And Welcome to Wikipedia. gren グレン 02:27, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

Thank you Foxhill for improving the disaster that was Hitomi Yaida's discography. Keep up the good works. rydia 02:34, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Steve White

Hi, thanks for making a page for Chalky, good stuff! Bigmike 19:41, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Did you know nomination for History of Swindon

Howdy! Whilst browsing through Special:Newpages for potential articles to feature as part of the Did you know? section of the Main Page, I ran across the article History of Swindon, which you created. You can see the proposed blurb at Template talk:Did you know under the date heading corresponding to the creation of the article. I'm adding this notice here for two reasons: Firstly, if you feel the blurb I wrote is inaccurate or misrepresents the subject, feel free to propose a correction below it, or add a note to my talk page. Secondly, barring a large backlog or a significant problem cropping up with regards to the article, you should expect to see it on the Main Page within a week, so if you wish to add some polish to it before getting a sizable influx of eyeballs looking it over, you'll need to do so fairly soon. Regards and good luck, GeeJo (t)⁄(c) • 19:52, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

Updated DYK query On December 8, 2006, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article History of Swindon, which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Hello Foxhill, and thanks for this very comprehensive article. It was very interesting.....You've made a great start here - Happy editing, Blnguyen (bananabucket) 23:56, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Wiltshire Fire Engine.jpg

<<now deleted>>

re the above article. Good to see another UK FRS added to the mix. Well done! Escaper7 06:17, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] AfD Nomination: Swindon Town F.C. seasons

An editor has nominated the article Swindon Town F.C. seasons for deletion, under the Articles for deletion process. We appreciate your contributions, but the nominator doesn't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and has explained why in the nomination (also see What Wikipedia is not and Deletion policy). Your opinions on why the topic of the article meets inclusion criteria and what should be done with the article are welcome: participate in the discussion by editing Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Swindon Town F.C. seasons. Add four tildes like this ˜˜˜˜ to sign your comments. You can also edit the article Swindon Town F.C. seasons during the discussion, but do not remove the "Articles for Deletion" template (the box at the top of the article), this will not end the deletion debate. Jayden54Bot 18:47, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

I became of this article by stumbling accross its AfD pages, but, as Victor Kiam so nearly said, I liked it so much I copied it all to build Gillingham F.C. seasons May many more clubs build such a useful database: thanks for the framework. However: do not think that my gratitude extends to forgiving you or your team for the events of 1979 or 1987 :@) Kevin McE 19:22, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Speedway

I looked at your two league pages and they looked accurate and I will try and help keep them up to dat throughout the year.

As far as the template thing I 'made' I don't have the first clue as to how to do it properly so please feel free to hack it to bits and make it look good !!

I am not sure if I have replied in the right place and I apologise if I have got it wrong !!

Hammer1980 21:33, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Please look at the Rye_House_Rockets page. I have had to twice delete result updates from the page which in my opinion are not in Wikipedia's remit. Could you give me your opinion please. Thanks Hammer1980 21:18, 2 April 2007 (UTC)


I have made a page called Lakeside Hammers as the Srena Essex Hammers have changed their name. Please could you make the Arena Essex page point to the Lakeside one.

Thanks. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Hammer1980 (talk • contribs) 17:40, 14 February 2007 UTC.

Done Foxhill 18:17, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

Someone has made an extra speedway subcategory for polish speedway riders. I think its totally uneccessary and needs to be removed. Your thoughts ? Hammer1980 11:39, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Southwest Cup

I saw you edited the articles, Yellowlime31 has installed:

All these articles have no references or external links! Please add references! Do you not have the suspicion it might be a hoax?--Rheinländer 19:16, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] George Hunt

Hey there - as WP's resident Swindon Town fan I have a question which you might be best positioned to answer. I was about to create an article on the Arsenal footballer George Hunt, who played between 1937 and 1939 for Arsenal and was also a Spurs player. However I've found out there was also another separate George Hunt who played over 300 times for Swindon Town between 1948 and 1958 and I'm thinking of how to name the articles as a result. Arsenal's George Hunt played as an inside forward and Swindon's as a right-back (according to my PFA Player Records book) so I was thinking of naming the articles George Hunt (forward) and George Hunt (defender) respectively. I was wondering what your opinion would be on this? It'd be much appreciated Cheers. Qwghlm 15:25, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

I would be OK with that. I notice the same type of article title has been used to disambig amongst others Ian Wright.
Swindon's George Hunt was born in 1922, I mention this as I've seen some disambig pages listing by, for example, George Hunt (footballer born 1922), George Hunt (footballer born 19xx) such as Andy Gray and James Walker. This can be a bit unwieldy but is a second option if the original doesn't work out.
Of course this means I'll have to shift my arse and write the Hunt article now.. - Foxhill 15:55, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
Cheers. I hate disambiguating on birth date - people are more likely to remember a player for where he played and who he played for, not his year of birth. I've done the necessary moves and disambigs on the main George Hunt page and will get cracking on the Arsenal player's article in due course. Qwghlm 16:52, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cyril Demarne

Thanks with the help on citation, I think I'm getting the hang of it! I keep re-designing the In Memoriam page I've linked to (got a good AFS West Ham badge photo) the page doesn't print as seen, any ideas why?Dylanmills 00:33, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] jerry@lavoie.com

[edit] Recent changes to Swindon Town F.C.

Hi Foxhill, I was wondering if you could have a look at the recent changes to Swindon Town F.C. made by 156.56.171.43 listed as grammatical corrections. I am of the opinion that the changes do not improve the article and in some cases are detrimental, but I can't really simply undo them. I thought that you, as a major contributor to the page, would be a suitable person to ask for advice on whether to revert some or all of the edit in question. Cheers. I-hunter 18:56, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] History of Swindon Town F.C.

Just a small note of appreciation for your work from a sometime Townender. (You’ll see that I have left a niggle about Liddington on the talk page.) Cheers! —Ian Spackman 12:02, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Barnstarslapping

Thank you for the barnstar! I've rescaled it so it fits in with the rest of the list (else they take up too much space, I find) but I've preserved your comment within. Thanks once again. Qwghlm 23:00, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

Thank you very much for my barnstar too - my first one! It's very much appreciated. Gasheadsteve 19:18, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Barnstar

<moved to userpage, Thanks Angelo!>

[edit] Re: New ad - filename collision

I just created an ad for WP:FOOTBALL and uploaded it as commons:Image:Qxz-ad63.gif however there seems to be an unused ad in wikispace at Image:Qxz-ad63.gif already. Should I rename and re-upload? Foxhill 14:45, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

Tag the version you uploaded for deletion, and re-upload it as Image:Qxz-ad64.gif. Number 63 isn't in use because there's a sourcing issue that hasn't been settled yet and it may have to be deleted, but if it is, we can just fill the gap in later; the order of numbering doesn't matter – Gurch 17:04, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
I've re-uploaded it under the new name, you just need to tag the other one for deletion. Thanks – Gurch 17:09, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
Done, thanks for your help! Foxhill 17:16, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Help needed re: Club template

Hi, I noticed that you created the Swindon Town F.C. club template, Template:Swindon Town F.C.. I've created a similar one for West Bromwich Albion F.C. but I can't get the templates (WBA, League founder members and Championship clubs) to join up neatly at the foot of the main article like the Swindon one does. If I put them all within the fb start / fb end tags, one box seems to go inside another rather than one on top of the other.

I've tried tweaking 'my' templates to match the Swindon and League One templates, but it was more a case of copying by example rather than actually knowing what I'm doing, and it doesn't seem to have made any difference anyway. If you have any time free, I'd be really grateful if you could have a quick look at the templates to see what I'm doing wrong. It's not a biggie in the grand scheme of things, it is a bit annoying though! Cheers. --Jameboy 11:42, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

There was a problem with {{Original Football League clubs}} which was causing it to not nest properly, I've hopefully fixed this and things should look ok now. Have a looksee Foxhill 12:31, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
That is excellent, thankyou very much for your help. I've awarded you a star on your userpage. --Jameboy 12:48, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Cocacolalge2.jpg

Thanks for adding the rationale to Image:Cocacolalge2.jpg. §:SandShrew 18:34, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Star - you deserve it

The Working Man's Barnstar
The laborious task of sorting out all those images deserves some recognition. Well done

ChrisTheDude 07:01, 3 July 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Speedway Template

Hello mate. Long time no speak. Another editor has adapted a football squad template for use on speedway articles. I know you are good at this kind of thing. Would you be able to make a basic one dedicated to speedway that I could adapt for each team. The one I have in mind is in use at Ben Wilson (speedway rider). Thanks Hammer1980 22:14, 24 July 2007 (UTC)


You are a star.. That is spot on. One thing I just thought of. Instead of 'Current Squad' can it ba changed so we can insert a year ie 2007 / 2006 /2005 ? Hammer1980 09:16, 25 July 2007 (UTC)


Mate that's perfect. Thanks. I owe you one! Hammer1980 13:00, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

Hello. Quick question, is there aw way of making the boxes 'stack' closer together. Look at this page Tai Woffinden ... I can't get the Rye House and Poole boxes together without the gap. Cheers Hammer1980 17:20, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Polish Speedway

Hi. See this. Best wishes, Radziński (t) 17:59, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Replaceable fair use Image:Wiltshire_Fire_Service_HQ.jpg

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[edit] Featured topics

I didn't even know such a concept existed, but I'll look into it...... ChrisTheDude (talk) 10:19, 19 December 2007 (UTC)


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[edit] Template

How about making it so that there is a sep section for projects and another for taskforces, prolly using show/hide? Nanonic (talk) 23:45, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] AutoWikiBrowser

Hi,

Thanks for applying for AutoWikiBrowser. I have approved you, so you can get to work immediately (you can download it from here). Good luck!

  jj137 ♠ 20:42, 20 January 2008 (UTC)


[edit] Just a quick hi

I came across your page as I was looking up information on Swindon. My OH is from there and I have visited several times, it's great to read up on the city! Speak soon maybe? Love, Katie1971 (talk) 15:30, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Trophy

Thank you so much! ChrisTheDude (talk) 12:26, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Gerry Cottle

Jeremy Beadle died today and I was reading how he was ringmaster at Gerry Cottle's Circus. I see you have done a lot of work already putting a site together but almost missed seeing it. I noted the Moscow State Circus, Chinese State Circus and Gerry Cottle's Circus on List of circuses and circus owners. Look forward to reading further on Cottle's accomplishments. Could you not add your work to Wikipedia? Someone might pip you to the post.--User:Brenont (talk) 23:51, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

Would you mind if I started a Gerry Cottle biog article incorporating the material you've gathered in your "/content to add/" area? Circusandmagicfan (talk) 16:44, 10 May 2008 (UTC)Circusandmagicfan

[edit] Hi from Jerry Lavoie

Remember me? Think OpenNap. JERRY talk contribs 03:08, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

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