User talk:Small-town hero

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And I do have to say the Scarisbrick Hall photo is excellent! Galloglass 20:36, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Tagging rail articles

Hi, when you tag a UK station article, instead of tagging it with {{TrainsWikiProject}}, could you tag it with {{TrainsWikiProject|class=|importance=|UK=yes|UK-importance=|stations=yes|imageneeded=yes}} instead? This will ensure that it shows up on the UKTrains Wikiproject as well as the Trains Wikiproject. If there is an image then delete that portion of the text. Mjroots (talk) 06:41, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Award of The Photographer's Barnstar

The Photographer's Barnstar
I am delighted to award you The Photographer's Barnstar for the excellent photographs that you have added to articles on places in and around West Lancashire. Smile a While (talk) 23:32, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
Smile a While beat me to it! Great photos, thanks for your hard work on them. Andy Dingley (talk) 19:00, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Requests

Hi, I don't know if you do requests but your photos are so much better than my humble efforts that I thought I'd ask! Burscough F.C. is an upwardly mobile football club and the page could badly do with an image of the ground. There is a picture on Martin Mere but it is more suited to WWT Martin Mere. What is needed is a good photo showing the extent of the lake itself. Smile a While (talk) 02:48, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

I'll see what I can do next time I'm out and about. :) Small-town hero (talk) 13:11, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
I think that you did real well with Victoria Park, Burscough, working with limited material, many thanks. Smile a While (talk) 03:53, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
BTW, I have also added the image to Burscough F.C.. If you think it should be differently placed in that page please move it as you think fit. Smile a While (talk) 03:57, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Windmill articles

I notice you've moved a lot of articles with a rationale of no need to disambiguate. the reason these were titled in the style mill name, place is that it complies with the MoS on names, in a similar way to articles on churches(church name, place). The IoM and Channel Islands articles are not lists, but stand alone articles. Just because a disambig name isn't in use yet, doesn't mean that it won't be needed in future. Have a look at the List of windmills in Kent and see how many mills share a name. Multiply that by the number of counties that have significat windmill coverage, add in the watermills across the whole of the UK and you've only just scratched the surface! Mjroots (talk) 05:14, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for replying. Re the CI and IoM articles, if you compare them with the Kent list (which is a list) you will see why I consider they are articles and not lists. I created these as an article rather than have loads of stubs all over the place. Of course, any of the mills could develop into an article if enough material can be found. I'll get round to moving the articles later as I want to get the Dutch lists finished before I take a wikibreak. Mjroots (talk) 15:16, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
I notice you're adding photo's :-)). If you're interested in windmills, I'm proposing a WikiProject, link from Talk:Windmill. Mjroots (talk) 18:34, 26 May 2008 (UTC)


  • I note you moved Oldland Mill to Oldland Mill, Ditchling. I am unsure why you did this but I have reverted it to Keymer which is where it is located. Paste (talk) 21:30, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Moving a German Wikipedia image to Commons

Hi, I wonder if I may tap your knowledge of how Commons works, please? I want to use this image in Charlotte_Roche. Can you advise on the procedure to get it across to Commons? Smile a While (talk) 14:07, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

Thank you - that's some cool tool :-) Smile a While (talk) 03:50, 28 May 2008 (UTC)