User talk:Mhockey

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Keep up the good work! --Red King (talk) 22:36, 7 January 2008 (UTC)


Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, adding content without citing a reliable source, as you did to Eastern Coach Works, is not consistent with our policy of verifiability. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. If you are familiar with Wikipedia:Citing sources, please take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you.Jeepday (talk) 14:50, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

a bit late, but for the record Jeepday caught me between "saves". Refs added 15 Feb 2008Mhockey (talk) 12:20, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] Dunlop Sport (Australia)

A tag has been placed on Dunlop Sport (Australia), requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article seems to be blatant advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the general criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 11, as well as the guidelines on spam.

If you can indicate why the subject of this article is not blatant advertising, you may contest the tagging. To do this, please add {{hangon}} on the top of Dunlop Sport (Australia) and leave a note on the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would help make it encyclopedic, as well as adding any citations from reliable sources to ensure that the article will be verifiable. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Bearian (talk) 20:01, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

responded on Talk:Dunlop Sport (Australia). Comment seems to have come from a misunderstanding over the purpose of the article (which facilitated the correction of several other errors in WP). Speedy was denied. Mhockey (talk) 12:20, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] LEJOG

Nice work on this! What a difference a day makes to an article - I only fell over it because someone (ah, I see it was you!) had added a link as a "See also" on Long-distance footpaths in the United Kingdom which is on my Watchlist. PamD (talk) 00:00, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Gertrude Leather

Splendid lady! How long did she take, do you know? I'm glad you didn't find the gent from Somerset too trivial, I thought it rather fun when I fell over it on BBC news website today. PamD (talk) 19:54, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

3 days LE to London, 7 days London to JOG. I rather envy the guy from Somerset (our new passes still haven't arrived) - but I guess he had to pay in Scotland! Mhockey (talk) 20:01, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] VAT

I've responded to your comments. Thanks! Good Ol’factory (talk) 22:04, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] LEJOG

The BBC article suggests he did it all for free, and there is such a scheme in Scotland, even if he would not normally qualify for it, hence I think I'm good. There does appear to have been some special permission granted here, presumably dispensation for him to use the Scottish scheme, but the BBC doesn't make the precise details clear. By the way, if your edit listing the price of a journey by public transport was achieved by tapping destinations and arbitrary dates into search forms on a travel site, you've breached WP:OR. Deiz talk 22:13, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Red & White

Your proposed solution to the problem is reasonable. I didn't correct the old links immediately myself in case someone had a better idea for what to name the original article, though I did include a crossref so that people wouldn't be lost. Caerwine Caer’s whines 19:07, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

All done, thanks. Mhockey (talk) 19:52, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] RE: Malin to Mizen

The article was deleted due to an expired PROD tag. The reason the article was tagged was "No evidence this is a "notable" journey". Since you've contested the deletion, although a bit late, I've went ahead and restored the article. - Rjd0060 (talk) 23:23, 7 May 2008 (UTC)