User talk:JiggeryPokery

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Hello, JiggeryPokery, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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[edit] Welcome reply

You're most welcome. Let me know if there is anything you need help on. Also, consider joining the Adopt-a-user program. It's helpful to have someone to go running to sometimes. VanTucky (talk) 22:55, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Funny Cide

Not sure what edit on that article you're referring to. Please specify. BTW, use User talk pages for user messages, not pages in the User namespace. Cheers, Robert K S (talk) 00:12, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

Having looked at what you reverted, I'm not the person who made said edits. Robert K S (talk) 02:28, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Star over the bay

Welcome to Wikipedia. Please do not remove speedy deletion tags from articles that you have created yourself. If you do not believe the article should be deleted, then please place {{hangon}} on the page (please do not remove any existing speedy deletion tag) and make your case on the article's talk page. Administrators will look at your reasoning before deciding what to do with the article. Thank you.

[edit] Parole

Please look again at your references to Parole. The three British races he won in April 1879 were the Newmarket Handicap (April 16), the City and Suburban Handicap (April 22) and the Great Metropolitan Handicap (April 23). The first named is unlikely to be connected to the present Newmarket Stakes for three-year-old entire colts (Parole was a six-year-old gelding). Details of the latter two races (both at Epsom) can be found at tbheritage.com.

This is otherwise an excellent article - Merry Christmas, Zafonic (talk) 10:59, 24 December 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Tags, Infoboxes, referencing

Please:
1) insert the {Thoroughbred racing} tag on the Talk page of all articles you create (or edit if not already done). Usually, but not always, the tag helps avoid the problem of "notability" or "delete" tags as per the Lawrence Realization Stakes as polite editors will (and all should) question it on the Project Talk page and leave it at that.
2) do not alter the format for the Infoboxes or the birth/death format used throughout Wikipedia. An encyclopedia is always consistent. If you feel the infobox format should be modified, and are willing to make the changes to all existing boxes, then suggest such changes on the Project Talk page.
3) if you make specific claims, such as "considered the best two-year-old in 19xx," then either quote the source or tag it with a reference.
4) This is an encyclopedia and is to be succinct and precise unlike a magazine article. Avoid superfluous information that bogs down reading. Unlike paper, we can like to information and don't need to list such things as all the other horses at the stud farm where the article's subject stands.

Thank you for your cooperation. Handicapper (talk) 17:47, 26 December 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Golden Gate Fields Handicap

A tag has been placed on Golden Gate Fields Handicap, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article providing little or no context to the reader. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself. If you plan to expand the article, you can request that administrators wait a while for you to add contextual material. To do this, affix the template {{hangon}} to the article and state your intention on the article's talk page. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. iced kola(Mmm...) 00:14, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Golden Gate Fields Handicap

You created a new page, that just has two templates on it. That qualifies for Speedy Deletion under WP:CSD#A1, "Very short articles lacking sufficient context to identify the subject of the article.". If this race is as important as you say, then feel free to create an article for it, citing the appropiate sources and references. However, creating an article with just a couple templates on it will get it deleted. If you have any other questions, feel free to ask me. =) iced kola(Mmm...) 00:47, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

as the reviewing admin, I declined to delete it, since you are an editor apparently experienced here in working these articles. I put a tag on it which should protect it for a week. But Iced Kola is right, that such articles are often deleted immediately,and it is advisable to construct at least a minimal stub before saving the article. DGG (talk) 01:15, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
something must have gotten mixed up then, because the article is presently almost empty. I will recheck the edit history. Perhaps the article was moved unsuccessfully. DGG (talk) 01:59, 27 December 2007 (UTC) It looks like it was created by you 19:36 on Dec 26, with a length of only 23 bytes. Can you reconstruct what you think you had been editing. is there some confusion with the article on Golden Gate Fields? But you seem to have made only one contribution there. And I e nothing relevant otherwise. I am concerned whether text has not gotten accidentally lost in some manner. DGG (talk) 02:04, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
havent had a chance yet--just wanted to keep up to date. DGG (talk) 07:01, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
As an admin, I should be able to see even speedy deleted content,so it should be somewhere. I'll look over the next few days. DGG (talk) 18:04, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Landaluce

How the hell did that not already exist? Good job! --SmashvilleBONK! 07:17, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Jose Santos

Hello, do you have photos of Jose A. Santos? Juan25 (talk) 18:05, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

None that I can call my own. All pictures on the Funny Cide site were taken by me, but no Santos there that day. JiggeryPokery (talk) 18:13, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Silky Sullivan

Hey - just so you know - I copied your article to User:Smashville/Silky Sullivan so I could help you with the tone so we can get it to GA or FA status. --SmashvilleBONK! 15:00, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] California & Golden Gate Derbys

I'm sure you know a lot more about Califonia racing than I do so I thought you might want to look at Golden Gate Derby and California Derby and see if you can sort it out. I did tables for both, and verfied the winners from Thoroughbred Times, BloodHorse etc. Handicapper (talk) 16:39, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Towpath2.jpg

Hi. I see that you have loaded a pic of Viv Stanshall, and good for you. You have not included a license, and I guess that some bot or other will soon tell you so, and delete the image if you do not do so. So may I suggest you edit the image to include a license? (I hasten to add that I will not be the editor who does the deleting - this is just to help the image to stay.) Patche99z (talk) 09:28, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your response on my user page (it should have been my discussion page, but never mind.) You are right in thinking you can upload your own photos and that "You allowed them the right or summat". The point is that you did not choose exactly which right, that is, which licence you wanted to use. For example, take a look at one of my pics at Image:Chiswick House 022b.jpg. You will see that it has a special box stating that I put the pic into the public domain. This means that anyone can use it without mentioning who took it. But for reasons that now escape me, I chose a different licence for Image:Richmond Railway Bridge 333r1.jpg, the GNU type, which requires attribution. Why I bothered I don't know, since my real name is not stated anywhere. (That image is on Wikimedia Commons, but the same licensing applies.) So there is some danger (not from me - I don't fuss about these little details) that your image will be removed for a silly reason, that you have not filled in the form properly. Boring, I know. You will receive a warning before anyone removes it - I have had several images I took off a TV screen removed.
If you go to your image page and click the edit tab at the top, you may find a box to choose your license - I can't remember if this comes up or not, since I have always filled it in in the first place, and it does not seem to offer itself again once the choice is made. If it is not there, you can insert the box that appears below this para by clicking the edit tab on this page, and copy and paste the following two lines into the the image's text, just under where you said it was taken by you:

[edit] Licensing

Public domain I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. This applies worldwide.

In case this is not legally possible,

I grant any entity the right to use this work for any purpose, without any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law.
That will give the heading and a public domain license.
Sorry if this is all a bit tedious. It has taken me ages to learn about copyright and licenses, and the Wiki interpretation of what is and is not acceptable (take a look at my discussion page, where I copied out some of the tricky bits for my own education.) So I try to help where I can. Patche99z (talk) 11:22, 18 April 2008 (UTC)