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[edit] Pavel Dolgoruki

Thank you for the article on Pavel. Do you have any source which names his parents? I am interested to see if we can connect him to some of the other Dolgorukovs. Wjhonson 23:38, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

My source was Dolgorukov's obits in the British press in '27. Alas, parents were not mentioned. But I am pretty sure, going by the patronymic, that his dad was called Dmitri Dolgorukov!!! --Peripatetic 01:26, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ian McEwan

Please don't just copy web pages, as you have just done for Ian McEwan. They are almost always unusable in Wikipedia terms, and have to be deleted for copyright reasons. As you see, we already have a McEwan page. You are welcome to edit that, but please note the copyright warning appearing below the edit box.

Charles Matthews 17:29, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Band Music

Welcome to wikipedia. We have been writing on different topics related to Bangladesh. It would be great if you write about the band profiles. However, please do not COPY from other websites. Just rephrase contents. Also put proper category tags at the end so we can look into them in an organized manner. Finally, thanks for your efforts. --Ragib 21:15, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Directory-fication of Bangladeshi topics

Thanks for your idea. This is good. I have also been trying to persuade more people into working on Wikipedia's Bangladesh/Bangla related articles, with almost no success. After my initial posts, I even had to revert a spate of vandalism from some people, who created a mess. Anyway, I like the idea of a directory, and I think the best way to organize things would be to use the page Wikipedia:WikiProject Bangladesh page. We can list articles there, and also have a to-do section of articles, requested articles etc. I think there are now 3-4 people regularly writing articles on Bangladesh, so co-ordinating should not be a big problem. This being summer, I can and regularly do devote a lot of time to wikipedia, and I can do 3-5 articles per week. Let's have the list of Bangladesh related articles in the wikiproject page first, I'll add what I find there, then we can sort, categorize etc. Thanks once again for participating in wikipedia. --Ragib 11:12, 26 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Wiki Portal Bangladesh

I have created a wikiPortal page on Bangladesh ([1]). Please join me in working on it. For references to other wikiportals, visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikiportal . Thanks --Ragib 17:55, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Edward M. Forster

Please add some copyright informations for the picture [[Image:Forster_young.jpg]].

I have moved the picture to http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Forster_young.jpg

When you add all this information we can use the picture in the other articles. Thanks a lot Wodo

[edit] Voting for Biography collaboration of the week

Hi, the article Sheikh Hasina has been nominated for voting at "Biography collaboration of the week". What this will do is that for a week, people of the team would contribute to make the article enriched, balanced and complete. Since this is an article about a Bangladeshi politician and a rich article would promote Bangladesh more, I think regardless of political beliefs we can vote for it. Even if you are opposed to her political ideology, you can be sure that both her positive and negative sides would be presented in a Collaboration of the week article. Please vote at Wikipedia:Biography Collaboration of the Week#Sheikh Hasina .28July_21.29 by signing your name with # ~~~~ . Thanks. --Ragib 04:22, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the vote, if you know any other interested person, spread the message, the vote would conclude in 2 days, so we need some more votes to have it chosen. Thanks. --Ragib 07:58, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)


[edit] BioCOTW Project

You voted for Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria, this weeks' Biography Collaboration of the weeks. Please come and help them become a featured-standard article.(Sorry I know its a little early but I'm not sure if I will be on tommorow)--Falphin 01:29, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Districts of Bangladesh

Please check out task 6 and 7 on the Bangladesh Project page. Help us out if you have time. Thanks. -- Urnonav 9 July 2005 12:29 (UTC)


I started a discussion on the common format for District articles in Talk:Districts of Bangladesh. Please participate in the discussion and add your ideas. Thanks. --Ragib 00:14, 17 July 2005 (UTC)


Ok, I finished creating articles on all 64 districts, added a navigation template to almost all, and have inserted the standard sections to most of them. Now is the time for some other volunteers to insert information into them, may be taking stats/info from Banglapedia and paraphrasing that. You can start by taking over any articles from the nav template at Template:Subdivisions of Bangladesh. --Ragib 06:49, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Copyvios

The copyvios aren't minor they are entire sentences and paragpahs of text, the page must be deleted since they were there when you put the page into Wikipedia. Rewrite a clean version on the temp page.--nixie 23:58, 18 July 2005 (UTC)


I'm not sure where you stand on intellectual honesty, but the article is mostly a paraphrase of the ODNB entry. The copyvio policy is not mine its wikipedias. This is the worst example.

Your text:

Brydon was awarded medals for his service in Jalalabad, Kabul, Burma, and Lucknow. In 1858, he was appointed a Companion of the Bath. The following year, he retired from the service of the Company with the rank of surgeon-general, and settled down in the Scottish Highlands. He died in 1873 at the age of 61 in his home in Westfield, Ross-shire. His wife, Colina Maxwell Brydon, survived him.

ODNB:

Brydon was awarded medals for his service in Jalalabad, Kabul, Burma, and Lucknow, and in 1858 was appointed a companion of the Bath. In the following year he retired from the Indian service. He settled in the highlands of Scotland, and in 1862 became honorary surgeon to the Highland rifle militia. He died at his home, Westfield House, Nigg, Ross-shire, on 20 March 1873, and was buried in the same month at the Rosemarkie burial-ground. His wife, Colina Maxwell Brydon, survived him. --nixie 00:10, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

If someone has one of my sources and reads my article and can see where I've just reorganised the word order, I think thats pretty clearly plagarism. There is however no policy on plagarism, and it is not a clear copyvio since some ofhte text is not in the ODNB entry (I don't have easy access to the other sources to check them). I think you should rewrite anything that you know is a bit too close the the original phrasing, but otherwise it's OK to take down the copyvio notice.--nixie 23:02, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] J das

Seems someone did the job. thanks for pointing out, though --ppm 12:23, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Lionel Davidson

Hi there.. just wanted to ask about the recent change to the Davidson article.. might I ask your source for the Kingston on Hull reference? --Peripatetic 20:11, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

I'm doing disambiguation link repair. If you check into the link in my edit comments, you'll see the project I'm working on. The basic idea is that we don't want links pointing to disambiguation pages as much as possible, but rather we want them pointing to the real page for what they reference. In the specific case, I was working through all articles that point to "Hull". Many were references to ship hulls. Many were to the city Hull, Yorkshire, England. A few were to a former city named Hull in Quebec.
For the Hull in Yorkshire, from the Hull Disambiguation page, the correct link is actually titled Kingston on Hull. I have no idea why it's called that, but that's the correct page for that city. And the Lionel Davidson page was obviously referring to that Hull, so I updated the link.
So in the end, no external source, but extending information already in the Davidson and Hull Disambiguation pages to properly execute the project to improve Wikepedia. TexasAndroid 21:21, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:WikiProject Cricket

Hi

I see you've been editing cricket-related articles recently. Have you see the Cricket WikiProject yet? It's a group of cricket-loving Wikipedians who use the WikiProject both to collaborate and to highlight to others what they're doing. You'd be more than welcome to sign up and join, jguk 19:17, 27 August 2005 (UTC)


[edit] Muzaffar Ahmed

It seems you started the article on Dr Muzaffar Ahamed. I might be interested in working on this article, but I'm not sure which Muzaffar Ahamed this is. Is this the curent Chairman of National Awami Party (Bangladesh) or am I totally off the mark here? Then again, he's not a professor at IBA, although that's the first Muzaffar Ahmed that comes to my mind. Thanks,

Urnonav 08:28, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

Yeah there is NAP neta Muzaffar Ahmed. And then there is economist Muzaffar Ahmed. The two are different. I don't know too much myself about the first one. The second one is an economist and university professor. If you can find any info, you could do both! --Peripatetic 08:36, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Mohiner Ghoraguli

I'm sorry, but I myself know very little about the old band (though I remember winning points at a quiz by identifying a song as have been sung by MG). You can try [2] for album cover, though it's rather small. Incidentally, I've been hunting around quite long for the song "Prithibita Naki Chhoto Hote Hote Satellite Ar Cable-er hate" but can't seem to get it. If you have it then can you send it to me? You are also welcome to contribute to the Chandrabindu article. Loom91 17:10, 4 September 2005 (UTC)

My e-mail address is loom91@yahoo.com, you can just attach it. Thanks. Loom91 17:48, 4 September 2005 (UTC)
Recieved it properly. Thank you very much. I believe Krosswindz perform this song nowdays, right? Loom91 18:10, 4 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] unsourced image

Please provide source information for Image:LIONEL.gif or it is likely to be deleted. The Uninvited Co., Inc. 22:14, 19 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Unsourced images

You have many images listed as being un-sourced. See User:Pearle/by-author-Category:Images_with_unknown_source.txt for a nice, wikified list of them. (Search for your name). If you do not add a source, they will probably all be deleted really soon(as in, people are deleting images in this category - RIGHT NOW). JesseW, the juggling janitor 09:19, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

A lot of those pics are more than 50 yrs old. Mainly because the writers themselves have been dead for longer than that. -- Peripatetic 22:50, 21 September 2005 (UTC)
The critical year is 1923 (See Public domain). That's the general year for things going out of copyright. If you are sure that the subject had died before that date, the picture should be pretty safely assumed to be public domain - of course, a source is still necessary to be sure that the picture does in fact, show the person in question. ;-) But if you can remember where you got any of those pictures, it would be a great help - then the remaining issue would be if we have a legal license to use them. Otherwise they will be deleted, sadly. JesseW, the juggling janitor 17:20, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] List of cricket books

Just a quick line to say thanks for your suggestion re finding additional titles. I've bookmarked the link and I'll make use of it before long: it might help me track down a couple of titles on my own wants list too! All the best. --Jack 10:41, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Please tag all your images

Hello please realise that if you do not tag your images you make a lot of work for other people who have to tag all untagged images (perhaps you can find time to help us) Wikipedia:Untagged_Images please find the appropriate tag for your images here Wikipedia:Image_copyright_tags or ask me for help. Thankyou Arnie587 23:30, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Mohiner

Well, actually I am no authority about Mohin, having joined college in 1998, a year before the new-look Mohin lost steam. At first glance, the facts look consistent, though. You might want to make album pages ?

Pradiptaray 17:11, 4 November 2005 (UTC)


[edit] Bengal Famine

Hello, I see that you had worked on the Bengal Famine page. I have recently edited it to make it more accurate. Specifically I have challenged the "diseased rice" explanation for the famine. Just thought you might be interested. Regards, Jayanta Sen 17:37, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] 1911 EB

To respond to your question about the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica, the answer is yes. Just use this template in the references section of your article --> {{1911}} and you should be fine. --DanielCD 22:00, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Cool deal. You can follow the link that template makes into the whole world of combined Wiki-EB1911ism. --DanielCD 22:04, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] RFC/KM

You commented on Kelly Martin's second RfC. it is up for archival. you may vote at Wikipedia_talk:Requests_for_comment/Kelly_Martin#Archiving_this_RfC. CastAStone|(talk) 03:58, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] List of Bangladesh-related topics

Please add whatever BD related article you see missing from it now. This is in line with other pages like List of India-related topics. The utility of having this is that you can open the page, clieck "Related changes" on the left panel, and see if anything has changed in the articles. Really a handy tool, rather than having all articles in your watchlist. --Ragib 08:55, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] DYK

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[edit] Poll 3

I was wondering if you wouldn't consider to vote on the Poll. The number of + votes might encourage the others. Best... Resid Gulerdem 15:24, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Portal:Russia

Hi there. I've noticed your great work on Russia-related article and decided to recommend to add to your watchlist these two notice-boards: Portal:Russia/New article announcements and Portal:Russia/Russia-related Wikipedia notice board. Please check them out now and then. Thanks for your time, Ghirla | talk 12:25, 7 February 2006 (UTC)Ghirla | talk 23:00, 6 February 2006 (UTC)


Hi Peripatetic , I have read ur message to Jimpo , actually i think that the best idea is to propose a suggessted policy to hide all offensive pics for all religions not anly islam behind a fold ... icluding : Piss Christ , blackface , pic in anti-semistism .. and so on ... can u prepare such a text for this proposed policy , what do u think about that --Chaos 14:25, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks!

Thanks for your kind words on my talk page. I was in the Adam Smith building, too, and I lived around 10 minutes from you. What did you study? Nach0king 09:53, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Cowbell1.JPG

Can you please tell me how you made this image? --Gmaxwell 02:38, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Economic impact of AIDS

As you are a member of the WikiProject Business and Economics, your help is kindly requested in the section of the AIDS article linked to above. Any help would be appreciated. --Bob 18:36, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Grea work on Mohiner Ghoraguli

You have done a very great work on the Mohiner Ghoraguli article, considering how difficult it is to find information on the band. If you have some time, you may wish to consider improving the article [[Chandrabindu (band}]], it is currently rather short and lacking in factual informtion. Thank you very much. Loom91 10:39, 21 April 2006 (UTC)


[edit] uploading bangla band music

is there any way to upload music by bangla bands on to wikipedia? I have quite an extensive collection...

BengalRenaissanceEccentrica 00:59, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject London

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You are currently listed as a participant in WikiProject London, so you may like to know that the participation list is being update. Contributors are asked to bold their names if they are still contributing to London-related projects. Inactive members will be removed at the end of the month. Thanks for participating, Image:Armsofengland.png DJR COME ON ENGLAND! (Talk) 15:42, 12 June 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Thanks

Many many thanks. By the way, why most of the poets's name are in RED in your preference? Were the articles deleted? Were not they created? --Maksud3 18:03, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hi,

This can be a long gap, my left hand thumb is badly hurt and I just can’t compose! Had a long preparation for many more new entries and enrichments. Heart is sunk. I've found many FRIENDLY countrymen here, THANKS!!!

[edit] British bengalis

You can go for a deletion review at WP:DR. --Ragib 18:05, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Clementina Panella

Heya. Yesterday, you created a link to Clementina Panella in the article on the Arch of Constantine (References section). As there's no article on Panella (an archeologist at the Università La Sapienza in Rome): do you plan to create it, or is there any specific reason for adding the link? Regards, Varana 12:38, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

I see that Wetman just created the article, so the question is moot. Varana 19:55, 22 July 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Lawrence James

Hi - thanks for your constructive comment on my postulation. Looks like Lemorgoth disagrees with us, but I'll add a sentence or two and see if I'm blown out of the water!! Let's wait and see.... --Baggie 19:15, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hrishikesh Mukherjee

He was Bengali and started working in Calcutta, initial work was assisting Bimal Roy a known director who made Hindi and Bengali films, but then Hrishikesh had to move to Bombay as hindi movies made in Calcutta started to dry up. As per his filmography in imdb he seems to have worked only in and on Hindi films. Haphar 08:13, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bn

Hey, if you have time, do visit bn wiki too. We are 9300+ now, and also have started Featured article nomination process. See the noticeboard for the whole process details, and please express your opinion in the FA page. Thanks. --Ragib 07:43, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] link to British

Hello, when you want to link to the article about something British, please do not link to British, as that is a disambiguation page (which nothing should be linked to). Instead link to the one of the options found on that page such as United Kingdom or Great Britain by writing out [[United Kingdom|British]] or [[Great Britain|British]]. Regards, Jeff3000 14:38, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Nazrul and Dhaka FACs

Hi Peripatetic - please do visit the FACs of Dhaka and Kazi Nazrul Islam. I need your input and criticism. Rama's arrow 21:01, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] British African-Caribbean community

I've tried to address the oversight you described by adding a new sourced paragraph and have placed the section in chronological order. Thanks for your advice.--Zleitzen 20:09, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Matt Yglesias

On the Matthew Yglesias talkpage you've been accused of being... Matt Yglesias. Just for the record: you're not, right. :) Makgraf 19:17, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] F.Y.I.

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[edit] WikiProject History of Bangladesh

WikiProject History of Bangladesh has started. It needs members and participants. Aditya Kabir 11:45, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fortune Theatre

Hi you have a mention of this theatre somewhere in your archive/watchlist. I am currently in the process of splitting this page between the modern theatre and a page Fortune Playhouse for the historic theatre. If you wish to continue to 'watch' developments on the historic article, you should add that to your watch page. Cheers. Kbthompson 11:56, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Hi again. Nice navigation box (/West End); anychance of nicking it as a template for West End theatres? Was that your intention? Kbthompson 13:09, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
In the end, I just nicked the idea and based it on something pinched from WWII! But it was a good idea, and in the nature of good ideas, it has been used! Kbthompson 10:55, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
Theatres were added (and checked) from cat:theatres in London, if any are added to the template, it means they have the wrong category; and that should also be adjusted. Cheers. Kbthompson 11:08, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Chaunk

Hi, can you help by adding the Bangla/Hindi scripts for Chaunk? Do you know which language this term comes from (and the etymology of the word)? And which language pronounces it "chaunk" and which pronounces it "chaunce"? And can it also be called tarka or baghar? Badagnani 04:23, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Forster Picture

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[edit] AfD nomination of Arnob

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[edit] Re: Jibanananda Das

Just give me a couple of days. I'll have to look for the images you are looking for. That assured I'd like to volunteer a few suggestions:

  • Please, cite the sources for all the information you (and other editors) have put into the article. It is imperative that FA articles are amply referenced and cited.
  • Submit the article as GA nominee first, and work on the feedback you get there. It's the first step towards an FA status.
  • Before submtting it to GA nomination, you may well try a peer review, and then work on the feedback.
  • And, may be before that you make sure that it conformas to the manual of style.
  • When other editors have taken a look at it (if you need, you can invite potential reviewers to take a look at it, you may well get a good copyeditor to run through it.
  • Here goes a few useful pages on the Wikipedia that would come handy, if you really want drive for an FA:
FAs are the hallmarks of Wikipedia quality, they need to be extra good, and I am happy to see someone volunteering for that hard work.
  • A few more ideas:
    • Add an suitable biographical infobox (find one at Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography)
    • Gather as many works of Das as possible (essays, novels, short fictions, plays)
    • Move Banalata Sen to a new page
    • Take a look at some of the writer articles to get a better idea (you find plenty at Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Arts and entertainment)
    • Make the leader a summary of the whole article, ideally consisting more than one paragraph.
    • Early life and Life in Calcutta (that would be Kolkata) should become parts of Biography
    • The political part of his life should be a part of Biography, not Literary style.
    • You would absolutely need critical assesment (by famous critics, of course with appropriate references and citations) and if possible criticism of Das's work to make the article complete.

Great going. Cheers. Aditya Kabir 20:01, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

I can offer to volunteer for two things - (1) I can get books on this end and use them to assist you, since I live in Bangladesh; and (2) I can post to editors who may take an interest. I would have jumped right in, but that too will have to wait a few days (like the images). Cheers. Aditya Kabir 20:41, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

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Hi, I'd like to draw your attention to Bangladesh portal. I have tried to address the concerns in earlier peer review and checked the portal against Featured portal criteria. Based on this I think it is proper time to push for Featured Portal status for Bangladesh Portal, which will be an important milestone for WikiProject Bangladesh. But to achieve this I need help from you. Please participate in the on-going discussion on the talk page and give me your valuable inputs.-Arman Aziz 03:37, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Theatre box

Thanks for your Curtain plaudits on theatre infobox and questions about the London theatre template. Sorry for the delay in replying, I have been on a technology free Sabbatical, for two weeks (that's a holiday to anyone else).

This probably gets more complicated than it needs to be:

  1. Wiltons - this is not on the London theatre template because it doesn't seem to currently be in regular use. It should probably be added to 'Fringe and Suburban', and that's my omission (because I wrote it!); still in two minds, as it's not an active theatre producing/receiving centre and when it does do things, it is more usually opera.
  1. Bush and Theatre Royal East; again an interest because I fiddled with the latter and expanded Theatre Workshop (not all covered in Joan Littlewood article). These went into 'Fringe and Suburban', because that's what they essentially are. Yes, they have an impact out of proportion to their category, but you have to draw the line somewhere, and I see that template as being about the current theatre scene. There's probably room somewhere for an article about important developments in London theatre, and a historical timeline (there's probably a book, or two, in it!).

The past month, or so, I have also become busy in real life - and that's been interfering with my wiki writing. Sometimes, it's no bad thing to step back from these things, my views change. If I do get time, I want to complete the rollout of the infobox to suburban theatres, write an article on Studio theatre (currently a disamb to theatres), contribute to London articles and generally have far greater ambitions than I can possibly have time for! Kbthompson 08:25, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The Years Between

Responding to your suggestion I have now transformed your stub into a 750 word article covering all the bases. Although my guess is that few will look beyond the Daphne du Maurier article when seeking information about the play.

I wonder, do we know each other?

Best wishes John Thaxter 18:23, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Beverley Baxter

Having quoted extensively from Beverley Baxter's review of The Years Between prompted me to look at Baxter's wiki article, only to find no mention of his role as a theatre enthusiast, failed playwright, overwrought theatre critic and victim of Milton Shulman and Ken Tynan.

I have repaired the omission with a new paragraph London theatre critic that you may find amusing.

Best wishes, John Thaxter 09:46, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] DYK

Updated DYK query On 10 December 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Augustine Podmore Williams, 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.

Keep up the great work! --Royalbroil 04:17, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Chains (play)

Hi,

Were you planning on creating Chains (play) in the near future? If not, the redlink should probably be removed. There's no reason to have a redlink on a disambiguation page. The line itself could stay I suppose, probably not as a link. WLU (talk) 18:42, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

Dear Peripatetic (Have we met? I think I asked you that before),
Thanks for the Chains (play) page. You have already linked my Stage review to that page, so you have my reaction to the play and Auriol's production. I was glad you have also created a page for Auriol Smith. I have edited it sightly, adding her involvement with the BBC Radio Drama Repertory Company (sadly now disbanded, although Ellen Dryden's First/Writes independent production company has taken up some of the slack).
I also added that Sam is not only Auriol's husband and co-founder of the Orange Tree but is also its Artistic Director.
I have created a major new page about the Orange Tree Theatre itself, but all about the history and the building. I have been working with people at the theatre hoping to resolve the matter of how we feature the repertory and the major productions, but they tend to be too busy to help, and it takes forever to go through my archives.
Best wishes John Thaxter (talk) 17:21, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Theatre assistance

Thanks for your offer of help.

I am currently being asked to deliver an upgrade to the Anton Rodgers page. I have details of his CV from the start until 1979, when Theatre Who's Who disappeared from our bookshelves. I have scanned the relevant page which now sits reproachfully on my laptop. But it badly needs translation into wiki format. I can email you the scanned page if that will not breach your peripatetic anonymity!

Otherwise I shall slog on to the end - although much distracted at the moment by a dozen Christmas shows I have to review for The Stage.

Beyond the 1979 Who's Who CV I would then have to translate from my own 1980 index and copies of the Theatre Record (1981-2006) annual indexes. Do you also happen to have access to the latter? It would be a great help if you do, as otherwise I seem to be the sole User source of London theatre details on wiki, which is a terrible responsiblity! John Thaxter (talk) 15:28, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Auriol Smith

I have greatly enlarged your article on Auriol Smith qv. John Thaxter (talk) 12:18, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

Now what about one on her husband Sam Walters? John Thaxter (talk) 12:49, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Orange Tree Theatre

Over Christmas I have added an article on Sam Walters, amplified Auriol Smith's page still further, and done much work on the Orange Tree Theatre page. For these three I am awaiting programme listings for the early years in the Room Above the Pub - the Richmond Fringe period from1971, which is nowhere documented other than in the Orange Tree archives. Sam has promised to provide these!

I have also done related work on the articles for Alec McCowen, Martin Crimp, Geoffrey Beevers, Christopher Hampton and Harley Granville Barker, all of whom have links with the Orange Tree.

I welcome your London theatre endeavours and have done a small editing job on your three new pages, opening out the paragraphs for easier reading and access. In the case of David Salter I have provided References and a couple of useful links - as a result of which I was able to delete the 'Unreferenced' editorial flag at the top of the article - I hope that's okay.

But the problem of your three new articles, as they stand, is a general lack of firm information, sources, dates and venues. This of course would be helped by access to Theatre Record listings or the artiste's agent! I may manage to do a few for you, but it is very hard work.

Best wishes for 2008. Yours John Thaxter (talk) 13:07, 2 January 2008 (UTC)


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[edit] Anton Rodgers

In an idle moment I took over the chore of transferring Anton Rodgers' Theatre Who's Who CV to the Wiki page.

It also gave me the opportunity to do some tidying of the Monty Norman page (mainly about his SWET award in 1982 for Songbook — I was on the judging panel at the time, so I had insider knowledge!). I also linked the Northcott Theatre, Exeter page to The Stage news reports on the current round of ACE funding cuts. Hope all is well with you. Best wishes John Thaxter (talk) 15:05, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Orange Tree

Thanks for your note. I did not get to the Hackney panto, but my review of The Woman Hater (linked from the Orange Tree wiki article) can be found on The Stage website at [3]. Sam Walters told me that he did cut Burney's repetitive text, but probably not enough.

Sam's reaction to the proposed ACE funding cut was neatly summed up in his letter to the Evening Standard - see the Friday edition. I believe it will also be featured this Sunday in the regular British Theatre Guide update. The Orange Tree and the Bush are both getting such high level support from the industry that I suspect their grants will be maintained, but not increased as they might otherwise have reasonably expected given the big hike in the government's contribution to arts funding by ACE.

I am not sure how we can reflect all this on wikipedia. I would not wish to add it to the Orange Tree article, since it is transient information, although I think The Stage link I made as a ref from the Northcott Exeter page is perhaps the best way of tackling it encyclopedically. John Thaxter (talk) 12:38, 13 January 2008 (UTC)


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I hope you'll go back and tell us more about Davison and why you admire him. I tried to find a little about him, without great success.Thomas Babbington (talk) 15:40, 25 March 2008 (UTC)Thomas Babbington

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