User talk:Showjumpersam

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[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:Henry Newbolt.jpg

Image Copyright problem

Thank you for uploading Image:Henry Newbolt.jpg. However, it currently is missing information on its copyright status. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously. It may be deleted soon, unless we can determine the license and the source of the image. If you know this information, then you can add a copyright tag to the image description page.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thanks again for your cooperation. NOTE: once you correct this, please remove the tag from the image's page. STBotI 20:44, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

This has bnow been corrected Showjumpersam 19:43, 6 August 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Regarding your edit to Furse (Family and Surname)

Please use the "move" function instead of doing a cut-and-paste move in the future. Thanks. --WinHunter (talk) 14:19, 16 December 2007 (UTC)


Will do -- thanks for letting me know.

Showjumpersam (talk) 15:48, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Your VandalProof Application

Dear Showjumpersam,

Thank you for your interest in VandalProof! Unfortunately, your application has been declined because it seems that you don't have at least 250 mainspace edits. When you fulfill this requirement, feel free to re-apply.

Snowolf How can I help? 11:43, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

How do you assess the number f mainspace edits? The list I have access to says I have well over 250 edits but not more than 500. Do you mean editing of 250 different articles?

Showjumpersam (talk) 13:09, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

You still are below 250 mainspace edits, currently you have 305 edits, of which 236 in the mainspace. Anyway, posting on the userpage rather then on the relative user talk page, shows great unfamiliarity with our policies and uses. Feel free to apply in the future, when you will be more familiar with policies and uses. Regards, Snowolf How can I help? 13:21, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
I see. Thanks for pointing out the number of edits. I am aware of policies and proceedures, however your talk page was elusive to me and so I did the next best thing -- sorry! Can I suggest you include clearer/visible links to it so that this may be avoided? Many thanks.

Showjumpersam (talk) 13:57, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

Mediawiki provides a "discussion" link on top of every page. Snowolf How can I help? 14:02, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Halsdon1.jpg

Hi, Showjumpersam! Unfortunately, non-free pictures of living people and existing buildings run afoul of our non-free content criteria because they are replaceable - meaning that anybody can go and create a free image of it. Furthermore, watermarked images are strongly discouraged under the general image use policy. Hope this helps! east.718 at 00:43, December 27, 2007

Thanks so much for getting back to me, re: the photo. As it happens, that photo is no longer freely available from the website (www.beafordarts.co.uk) as it once was -- but if it being watermarked is enbough on it's own I won't argue! I had put it in as there are few of that part of the world at that time and it gives a nicer 'quick reference' for landed gentry in the westcountry.

Thanks again! Showjumpersam (talk) 00:54, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Your VandalProof Application

Thank you for your interest in VandalProof, Showjumpersam. As you may know, VP is a very powerful program, and in fact the just released 1.3 version has even more power. Because of this we must uphold strict protocols before approving a new applicant. Regretfully, I have chosen to decline your application at this time. Please note it is nothing personal by any means, and we certainly welcome you to apply again soon. Thank again for your interest in VandalProof. βcommand 02:12, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] re:Furse

All your edits are just adding "family history" which has no part in this particular article, or even in wikipedia. Because you don't seem to want to actually create an actual article on this family it is almost like are trying to weasel it into this article. Family information doesn't belong on this page (Did you click on the surname category?). How about starting a Furse family article? Then it could be added to the disambig page?--Celtus (talk) 10:57, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

Actually the history of the page is a bit more complicated than that. I started the Furse page as a way of bringing a number of notable people, some of whom already have in-depth articles devoted to them (e.g. Dame Katharine Furse), together so that scholars can be sure fo the common link without needing to repeat leg work by myself and others. I added the history to demonstrate this commonality and also because it is of interest for itself: they share a single male ancestor (Robert Furse, that mentioned in the Domesday book), as I understand all Furses across the world do, but more because the history of that family and what happened with their property provides an enclcyopedic reference to some of effects of the industrial revolution in England outside of the more resources-rich north, and some of the human and political consequences that surrounded the decisions they made as a result of it. I daresay the former aspect could be made clearer, and the latter expanded, and I shall endeavour to do those. There are also people (especially Americans) whose link to the family cannot be proved formally though have reached note in their own right and so are mentioned, but this also serves to clarify whether or not a link exists. So this article partly served to join up those of notoriety with the same name as well as provide a description of their common history.
Someone wanted to disambiguate that Furse from the name for Gorse and from the American ship of the same name -- not unreasonable in my view -- and so Furse (surname) was created for what I had written and the disambiguation page used for their usual purpose. The article was again changed to Furse (family and surname) a short time later for reasons I can't remember though of course that has now been revoked. I understand your suggestion of a separate article for the shared history, though two articles for topics that are sides of the same coin might be going too far? I can see your logic for suggesting it, but based on wikipedia policies I think administrators and other editors might see that as over-doing it, cheifly because the Furses are all related (more or less) and so anyone looking them up would find it more convenient to look on the same 'central' page I should think. I'll see if I can tinker with the structure of the article a bit to make it clearer. I am currently researching the Furses in more depth and can add relelvant points and join it up with the members listed in as far as is appropriate (i.e. as concisely as possible if at all). Does this answer your questions? As I say please do get in touch if not or if you can think of any angles I have not covered. Many thanks Showjumpersam (talk) 16:21, 1 January 2008 (UTC)