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[edit] Promenade concert

Nice work on the new article. Have you any plans to work on The Proms article? I've been pondering doing some more radical work on it, but most of my sources are currently in storage (and will be until late May). It would be good to try and get it up to featured article status, perhaps in time for the first or last Prom this year. David Underdown 10:44, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Thank you. It has been an interesting topic and I've learned while researching it. I hadn't thought about editing The Proms article but would be happy to do so if it is not treading on anyone's toes. It could indeed do with some expanding and tidying. I'll give it some thought. Hikitsurisan 11:13, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

So long as the article ends up better than it starts, and you keep to all Wikipedia policies, I don't really see how you can step on anyone's toes. That the whole point of this place (as I see it).
Good work on the Henry Wood and Robert Newman articles too by the way. Just one thing, although they are not hugely long, it might be worth putting a few section headings in. The table of contents that's then generated helps give a quick overview of what's in the article. David Underdown 11:40, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Suriname River

Thanks for proofing. Yes, sounds much better now - sounded right when I was thinking in Dutch .Bridesmill 16:53, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Zeugma

Hi, The Macauley quote is nice but I wouldn't have classed it a Zeugma myself (I don't claim to be an expert in the area, so maybe I'm just plain wrong here). It looks to me that dropping is being used in the same way in both parts of the sentence. Dlyons493 Talk 19:10, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

Hi, Thanks for the reply. Definitions seem to differ quite widely and I think the article both reflects that and suffers from it a little. What would be useful maybe would be to list the various definitions and, for each quote, note under which defintions(s) it woul/would not be Zeugma. I might take a stab at that sometime. Dlyons493 Talk 23:42, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Working on an update for zeugma

I have been spending the last few weeks researching the zeugma for the purpose of expanding the article. I was first introduced to the term while reading Tacitus in my 5th semester of Latin. It came up again while reading Cicero, Livy and Ovid. The article as it stands now makes no mention of the specific kinds of zeugma mentioned in Quintillian and Rhetorica ad Herennium such as the prozeugma and hypozeuxis. I am assembling the material and would welcome a critical critique in the name of accuracy. I have also recently expanded chiasmus and have my eye on tricolon and isocolon. Let me know what you think! Regards, --Ben Trent 19:11, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bertramka

Hi Hikitsurisan. You are off to such a great start on the article Bertramka that it may qualify to appear on Wikipedia's Main Page under the Did you know... section. The Main Page gets about 4,000,000 hits per day and appearing on the Main Page may help bring publicity and assistance to the article. However, there is a five day from article creation window for Did you know... nominations. Before five days pass from the date the article was created and if you haven't already done so, please consider nominating the article to appear on the Main Page by posting a nomination at Did you know suggestions. If you do nominate the article for DYK, please cross out the article name on the "Good" articles proposed by bot list. Also, don't forget to keep checking back at Did you know suggestions for comments regarding your nomination. Again, great job on the article. -- JayHenry 20:11, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

Updated DYK query On July 30, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Bertramka, 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.

Blnguyen (bananabucket) 07:28, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The Proms

would have been nice to have some discussion before moving the article. They've only been know formally as the BBC Proms for less than 20 years, and common usage (which is one of the main determinants for naming in Wikipedia) is still pretty split. When you move a page you should also check for any double-redirects (a bot has tidied up after you), and the lead could do with re-wording if the article is going to stay at its current location. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by David Underdown (talk • contribs) 09:29, August 20, 2007 (UTC).

I've now actually moved it back. I was finding more and more double-redirects which hadn't been fixed, so the simplest way to sort things out was to move tha article back to its original location - there were so many incoming links to the original title it was very hard to navigate through the list. See my comments on the article talkpage for more reasoning as to why The Proms is a better title anyway. David Underdown 14:57, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Speedy deletion of Evelyn Barbirolli

A tag has been placed on Evelyn Barbirolli requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a person or group of people, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not indicate the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, as well as our subject-specific notability guideline for biographies.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of the page (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the article's talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. WebHamster 10:07, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Request to move article Bedford High School (England) incomplete

You recently filed a request at Wikipedia:Requested moves to move the page Bedford High School (England) to a different title - however your proposal is either incomplete or has been contested as being controversial. As a result, it has been moved to the incomplete and contested proposals section. Requests that remain incomplete after five days will be removed.

Please make sure you have completed all three of the following:

  1. Added {{move|NewName}} at the top of the talk page of the page you want moved, replacing "NewName" with the new name for the article. This creates the required template for you there.
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If you need any further guidance, please leave a message at Wikipedia talk:Requested moves or contact me on my talk page. - JPG-GR (talk) 18:14, 13 April 2008 (UTC)