User talk:Genie

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Hello there Genie, welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you ever need editing help visit Wikipedia:How does one edit a page and experiment at Wikipedia:Sandbox. If you need pointers on how we title pages visit Wikipedia:Naming conventions. If you have any other questions about the project then check out Wikipedia:Help or add a question to the Village pump. MB 15:22 May 14, 2003 (UTC)

Please be careful not to remove content from Wikipedia without a valid reason, which you should specify in the edit summary or on the article's talk page. Thank you. RexNL 23:12, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

Contents 1 Hwicce 2 License tagging for Image:BristolCastle.jpg 3 Aliweb looks like a pure advertising site 4 Invite to Bristol wikiproject & listed buildings 5 Sally Lunn, Bath etc

[edit] Hwicce

Very interesting; the only comment I'd make is that there are much easier ways to do footnotes, see Wikipedia:Footnotes. All the best ! Angus McLellan (Talk) 15:35, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Osric looks very nice indeed. I have made a disambiguation page for Osrics at Osric (disambiguation) as it seems to have been a rather popular name for Anglo-Saxon kings ! Best wishes. Angus McLellan (Talk) 23:19, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

Many thanks for your help. As you see, I'm working my way through the Hwiccian royal house. --Genie 23:31, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] License tagging for Image:BristolCastle.jpg

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[edit] Aliweb looks like a pure advertising site

Hello Genie. I notice that you commented in the Talk page for Aliweb. Since someone just added it to List of search engines it came to my attention. The site www.aliweb.com looks like a pure advertising page! 'Aliweb' is trademarked by Advertising Technologies Corporation, an American company, based in Lexington, Kentucky, and the aliweb.com domain is registered there. The anonymous contributor to the Aliweb talk page who says he is the chief programmer seems to be located in Britain. Martin Koster's paper (cited in the article) mentions the Nexor Co. and gives several links to nexor.co.uk, which is no longer working. There is a British company called Nexor with a live website at www.nexor.com, based in Nottingham, but their web site disclaims any continuing connection with Aliweb.

If you Google search for 'aliweb' at site:nexor.com it tells you:

 301 Error Message: page no longer available at www.nexor.com
 Aliweb is no longer available from Nexor. Their site is at:
 http://www.aliweb.com/.
 Nexor specialises in security solutions, read more on: Nexor's website

The most serious problem is that the Aliweb search engine is so weak. I type in 'Wikipedia' or 'google' and it can't find either one. Do you have any ideas about what to do? EdJohnston 19:21, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

• • That's because the original database is being maintained for historical purposes while the new search software is developed. There has never been a reference to Britain in relation to the chief Aliweb programmer. As for advertising - most search engines make the majority of their money from advertising revenue. Aliweb is no different. -aliweb 09:00, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

Presumably the post above was by Aliweb's owner. Please sign posts. --Genie 02:08, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

Also, the database is maintained at this time for historical purposes - therefore google or wikipedia is not going to be found searching the database. However, I believe google is linked on the links list - and wikipedia will be added shortly. It was state of the art in 1993 when the entire database of all the websites in existance in ASCII - not compressed - was only a 1/2 megabyte file. aliweb 09:06, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Invite to Bristol wikiproject & listed buildings

& any help with the (incomplete) lists of listed buildings eg Grade I listed buildings in Bristol, Grade II* listed buildings in Bristol & Grade II listed buildings in Bristol would be great— Rod ^talk 18:06, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sally Lunn, Bath etc

Hi, I see you've removed the reference to Sally Lunn on the Bath article. Have you also seen the massive copyvio tag on Sally Lunn & can you help sort it out? I noticed you'd edited several other articles on Bath & wondered if you'd be interested in joining the Somerset wikiproject which aims to improve all Somerset related articles?— Rod ^talk 14:50, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the invitations to the Somerset and Bristol projects. I'm not sure how much time I could put into either, but I'll bear it in mind. --Genie 18:32, 26 September 2007 (UTC)