User talk:Neiljamesking

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Please see the disscussion page for Magna Carta, there are concerns and issues with the text you are adding. -- Stbalbach 22:50, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] A page you added

Hi, the page you added Talk:Magna Carta edit, is in the wrong namespace. The title implies that it is the discussion page of an article called "Magna Carta edit". I have therefore moved it to User:Neiljamesking/Magna Carta, that is, a subpage of your user page. In your user space, you can edit it as much as you like. Angr/talk 21:45, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Magna Carta

Hi. I see that you de-commented the "this article follows the usual academic style and uses "Magna Carta" with no "The"." I don't want to start an edit war over something so trivial, but just thought you should know that I find it inappropriate. In fact, I find it almost asinine to claim that referring to it simply as "Magna Carta" is more academic. "The" is simply an article, used grammatically in certain constructions involving proper nouns. It's not less academic to use the article "the". Thus, although a redirect for "The Magna Carta" is fine, there is no need to announce the redirect at the beginning of the article in the absence of disambiguation. You'll also find that there is no consensus for such a note across Wikipedia ("the" United States Constitution, "the" Concordat of Worms, etc.—those articles begin with "the" for grammatical reasons, not because they don't use "the academic style"). I'd like to request that you either remove the text in question, leave it as a comment, or—if you can find a source vouching for the styles of reference—change it to a footnote. savidan^{(talk) (e@)} 21:51, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Sorry if we got off on the wrong foot here. Can you produce any sources for why this is specific to the Magna Carta? Also, is there a talk page discussion on this that I missed? savidan^{(talk) (e@)} 18:12, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikifying Magna Carta

Hi- I'd like to have a go at wikifying your thesis on Magna Carta. There's a lot of very interesting material there, but the biggest problem with it is that it contains quite a lot of opinion which isn't backed up by citations, which fails the three principles on which Wikipedia is built, i.e. No Original Research, Verifiability and Neutral Point of View. I'd like to improve the article, but in cases where I don't know the underlying sources (which is pretty much all of them), that's going to mean deleting. I'd much to prefer to keep your material but give citations where possible. Would you be able to help at all?

--Merlinme 18:04, 3 September 2007 (UTC)