User talk:Howard Alexander

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[edit] Welcome

Hello, Howard Alexander! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your username and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! DuncanHill 14:06, 14 October 2007 (UTC) Getting started A tutorial • Our five pillars • Getting mentored How to: edit a page • upload and use images Getting help Frequently asked questions • Tips Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and guidelines Neutral point of view • No original research Verifiability • Reliable sources • Citing sources What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons Manual of Style • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Policy for non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The community Build consensus • Resolve disputes Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • No legal threats Community Portal • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Writing articles Be bold in editing • Develop an article The perfect article • Manual of style Stubs • Categories • Disambiguation Pages needing attention • Peer review Miscellaneous User name • User pages • Talk pages Clean up: General - Spam - Vandalism Join a WikiProject • Translation Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

[edit] 11 and 12 January edits to Association of British Counties

I reverted the majority of this edit with edit summary "trimming dead wood". It introduced a number of claims without citations and removed much of the article without explanation. I left in founded in 1986 - although we also need a source for that. I noted these concerns in the edit summary and on the talk page of the article

Unfortunately I see you added this again by way of a revert, without comment in the edit summary or talk page. [1] Can we have some sources for these claims and a rationale for removing a significant part of the article? It is customary to use the talk page to address the concerns of other editors and not simply re-insert disputed and unreferenced copy without comment.

If you want to make further changes to the article I suggest you direct comments to Talk:Association of British Counties. MRSC • Talk 22:34, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Association of British Counties. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions in a content dispute within a 24 hour period. Additionally, users who perform a large number of reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring, even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing. Please do not repeatedly revert edits, but use the talk page to work towards wording and content that gains a consensus among editors. If necessary, pursue dispute resolution. -- Jza84 · (talk) 22:53, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] AfD nomination of List of British Traditional Counties

An editor has nominated List of British Traditional Counties, an article on which you have worked or that you created, for deletion. We appreciate your contributions, but the nominator doesn't believe that the article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion and has explained why in his/her nomination (see also "What Wikipedia is not").

Your opinions on whether the article meets inclusion criteria and what should be done with the article are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of British Traditional Counties and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~).

You may also edit the article during the discussion to improve it but should not remove the articles for deletion template from the top of the article; such removal will not end the deletion debate. Thank you. BJBot (talk) 23:14, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome (2)

I notice another user left you a welcome message on 14 October 2007. Please take the time to read the basic principles of this project. In particular our Wikipedia:Five_pillars including neutral point of view and code of conduct. Your edits recently have not been in the spirit of these and Wikipedia:Citing sources. I notice you edited before under username Alexander Howard (talk · contribs) and encountered similar problems. Please take the time to understand our project and the principles under which it operates. MRSC • Talk 23:49, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

I would also like to make it known that on Wikipedia, we do not take the minority view that the historic counties still exist with the former boundaries. Much of the material you have added seems to breach this policy, which is why so many users will find it objectionable. -- Jza84 · (talk) 00:27, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Traditional counties

I'm afraid there are certain editors on Wikipedia fanatically opposed to traditional counties, indeed they have an almost religious devotion to the units of local government. So your article is almost certainly doomed to deletion. I should add we have have proved that they continue to legally exist but facts are of no interest to these people :( Lancsalot (talk) 00:37, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

There are also users who hold the opposing point of view with at least the same, if not a greater, level of fanaticism (the user above being one of them). Certain other users (including myself) are tired of dealing with them. It's makes a refreshing change to find a "traditional counties" supporter who is actually interested in making logical arguments, rather than just making blind assertions!

On that note, I found your comments here most interesting. Just for future reference, I would recommend that you place such remarks on the AfD page itself, rather than its talk page, if you wanted people to read it! I've added a note to draw people's attention to it. Regards, --RFBailey (talk) 23:56, 14 January 2008 (UTC)