User talk:Harami2000

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Welcome! For ease of reading, if you leave a message here I'll reply here unless you request otherwise. If I leave a message on your page I'll be watching it for a while, so feel free to reply there. Please include a link to the article in question, and sign your comments by typing four tildes (~~~~). Thank you, David. (+ thanks to Ben_MacDui for this unknowingly borrowed message box!)

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Hi darling... can I upload this image from Russian wikipedia? Зображення:Esox lucius distribution.gif

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HI darling... why should you afferm that Clouded Leopard is extint? Are your sure that there are no leopard in captivity? answer to me Flavio/Tigre Reietta 07:57, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

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[1] Hey, it's good to see that someone's been keeping them in a zoo! Now we just need need to set out on a Long Island safari to find those photographable feral cloudies.--Pharos 13:50, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Scottish Islands project

I thought you might be interested in Wikipedia:WikiProject Scottish Islands - come on over and have a look. --MacRusgail 19:09, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

A few new templates. Not entirely satisfactory. In the case of the Outer Hebrides, there are so many islands, that various local templates are needed, however the boundaries for what should go where are not clear. Here they are:
Template:Lewis and Harris, Template:Barra Isles, Template:Sound of Barra, Template:East Shetland
I'm not completely happy with the L&H one, but there's so much to cover there... --MacRusgail 21:29, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

Why the huff? --MacRusgail (talk) 16:14, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

Thanks go to Wikipedia's watchlist, too: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v316/harami2000/log.gif - watchlist, left; change log to my talk page, right. The watchlist would appear not to be 100% perfect when it comes to home page watches.
I was oblivious to your posting notification of your new template proposals, above, until just now and could see no mention of those in WP:ISLE when I checked. Hence the slight surprise at seeing 20 hours of work being kicked into touch by the person who invited me over and had apparently given the nod to that. i.e. "Eilean Siar is perhaps almost "ready to go" and I'm more than happy to roll that out to all the relevant pages" and no reply other than positive feedback. Didn't seem like particularly good "co-operation" from my p.o.v. :)
Anyhow, more than enough work for everyone. Highland, which was next on my WP:SCOT "to do" list otherwise, has zero navigation at present, so I'll get that sorted.
Regards & Best wishes, David. Harami2000 (talk) 19:58, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Aberdeenshire

Thanks for the hello. I am trying to add bits to Angus, Aberdeenshire and Orkney as I have time. Feel free to append, amend or modify my edits. All in the interest of making a more complete picture of this great region. Cheers. Hadrianheugh 22:42, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

Good luck and will be looking forward to bumping into you elsewhere around the area! :) Nice *long* periods of time to make significant edits: not just for (after) Christmas (dinner)? ^^
Strange you should mention, but I'm also just finishing 'test' settlements/places of interest navigation bars for Western Isles, Orkney and Shetland similar to what I put in for Aberdeenshire, but "one level" only. Will be asking the better-organised-than-us(!) WP:ISLE people what they think of that before implementing, though. (Didn't see your name on that wikiproject list (yet?) ;)
Cheers & Take care, David. Harami2000 22:56, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] DYK nom

OK - could maybe do with a photo of the fountains?? Victuallers 09:03, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

Thanks again! David. Harami2000 21:19, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

I read the stuff at DYK ... is the picture of the fountains corect? If not then please delete. Oh and thx 4 thx etc Victuallers 21:58, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

The second image is of one of the original Trafalgar Square fountains which were there for 94 years. I've removed the present-day image to avoid confusion. Cheers & Thanks for checking up... am still /very/ unfamiliar with how things work here... David. Harami2000 22:09, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] DYK: Boddam, Aberdeenshire

Updated DYK query On 15 November 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Boddam, Aberdeenshire, 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.

--PFHLai 13:28, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

Great work in producing the Boddam article! Cheers. Hadrianheugh 17:58, 15 November 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Typo redirect Geoffrey Box

Hello, this is a message from an automated bot. A tag has been placed on Geoffrey Box, by another Wikipedia user, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. The tag claims that it should be speedily deleted because Geoffrey Box is a redirect page resulting from an implausible typo (CSD R3).

To contest the tagging and request that administrators wait before possibly deleting Geoffrey Box, please affix the template {{hangon}} to the page, and put a note on its talk page. If the article has already been deleted, see the advice and instructions at WP:WMD. Feel free to contact the bot operator if you have any questions about this or any problems with this bot, bearing in mind that this bot is only informing you of the nomination for speedy deletion; it does not perform any nominations or deletions itself. To see the user who deleted the page, click here CSDWarnBot (talk) 09:30, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, apart from RedirectCleanupBot, bots don't delete pages. I came across the page because it was listed on short pages, which I go over often. --Closedmouth (talk) 10:03, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
Cool; thanks again for the spot/assist. Does that happen often when trying to "erase" unrequired redirects, or am I the only culprit?! Perhaps it might be useful to add in a helpful "please manually alter to a CSD R3 deletion request if redirect not required owing to a genuine typo on the original page" (paraphrased!) information note on the "Move Page" screen if not? Goodness knows the average editor such as myself isn't aware of all the depth there, even if I've browsed casually through many of the "inner workings of Wikipedia" pages.
I only ended up carrying out that move when I spotted the main page DYK referring to the River Darent article was half-incorrect and half-unreferenced (still noted on Talk:Main_Page, awaiting action there). Certainly hadn't expect to end up trawling down and patching up to that degree. Keep up the good work & Have a good Christmas/New Year. David. Harami2000 (talk) 10:14, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
People blank pages all the time under the assumption that it's how you're supposed to delete them. I don't know why there isn't a mechanism built into the MediaWiki software to give some kind of message that blanking isn't the correct method, but hey, it gives me something to do :P
If you're interested, you can read up on the various methods of deletion at WP:DELETE. --Closedmouth (talk) 02:51, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
Mhmm... that was the concern - that I /had/ read up on WP:DELETE and elsewhere several times before, yet had not spotted that "best practice". i.e. that it's easier to see a message at "point of need" saying "don't delete it, CSD R3 it" (catchy, huh?) rather than rely on memory to file away every such intricacy.
"Something to do"? *g*. Take care, d. Harami2000 (talk) 07:51, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Hi, I don't know what the issues were regarding the R3 delete, but couldn't we leave Geoffrey Box as a redirect? While its implausible as a typo, the fact that the guy's name was quoted as Geoffrey Box in the source I originally used to write that bit of Dartford, and hence the Godfrey Box article, means that maybe people would search for information under that name. Redirects don't cost, after all.. Jdcooper (talk) 16:34, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
Hiya! There was no indication of a primary source whereas multiple Google Books referred to Godfrey Box (1 2 3), in addition to a likely mention of their name on a contemporary record. Under the circumstances, without any primary reference and seeing that the vast majority of other online references to the 16th Century "Geoffrey Box" were apparently propagated from Wikipedia, it seemed like the best idea to remove that entirely as it appeared to be error and so as not to get in the way of any "other" "Geoffrey Box" who may be deemed noteworthy at a later date.
Was the source used this one this one? If so, the second half about "Sir John Spilman, set up the first paper mill in England at Dartford in the 18th century" (as appears to be the underlying source of yesterday's DYK) is actually in error (should be John Tote, in Hertfordshire, 1495). I tried to get that corrected on the DYK but that was not taken forward by the admins in time and is now shown incorrectly on the historical DYK list. :/
Was there a separate, preferable primary, source for the name, "Geoffrey Box"?
Thanks & Regards, David. Harami2000 (talk) 07:44, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

I got that, I think, from Mark Chatwin's history of Dartford (which was originally on his own site but seems to have been adopted by Dartford Council). The passage reads thus: "Aside from the problems, new developments in industry occured in Dartford. Sir. John Spilman set up England's first paper mill on a site near Powder Mill Lane, and Geoffrey Box built England's first iron-splitting mill on the Darent at Dartford Creek." As someone who is most definitely a pygmy in local history terms I cede instantly to your info about the paper mills, but hopefully we can still use the other info in that account, there's a lot there anyway. As far as I can see, the most likely explanation is that Chatwin made an error when writing that history (could even have been a typographical one), and mistakenly put Geoffrey instead of Godfrey. However, given that someone has made the mistake, and that the "Geoffrey Box" name does seem to refer, albeit mistakenly, to the same individual on Google searches, we could surely tolerate a redirect until the time when a real Geoffrey Box becomes notable? Although as I typed that I realised what a truly minor issue this is! No-one is really going to search for the poor chap however he spells his name... Jdcooper (talk) 17:08, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

  • Oh and I'm watching this page now, so you can reply here. Jdcooper (talk) 17:09, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
Hi, I nominated the River Darent article for DYK. If there was a problem with one of the factoids it's a pity nobody contacted me about it. The book on the River Darent I quoted says "A paper mill, arguably Britain's very first..." in reference to Spilman's mill. I'm afraid papermills are not my area of expertise and until now I'd not heard of John Tote. Using a search engine to search for "John Tote" brings up many pages unrelated to the man in question. Mjroots (talk) 13:38, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Aberdeenshire.png listed for deletion

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