User talk:Sweetalkinguy

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[edit] Hello

Welcome To Wikipedia! Ω Anonymous anonymous Ψ: ''Have A Nice Day'' 21:34, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Skip Bifferty

I have fixed up the problem. You could have too, the procedure was to move "Skip bifferty" (using the "Move" tab, to the right of the history tab at the top of the page) to Skip Bifferty. Have a nice day :-) --Commander Keane 17:04, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Harry

I wasn't quite sure which action of mine you were referring to. I'm guessing that it is that I marked Harry for cleanup. We have a style guide for these page: Manual of Style (disambiguation pages).

Basically, disambiguation pages exist to get people to their desired location. Someone types in Harry to the search bar - what were they looking for? Not Harry Cohn. Not Harry Connick Jr. Maybe Prince Harry. Certainly Harry (album). Probably not Dirty Harry etc. So some entries should be removed from the page, hence my call for cleanup.--Commander Keane 15:41, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hon.

"Why is Sir Michael Havers and his sons Philip and Nigel referred to as "Honourable". Is there a relinquished peerage somewhere that we have not been told about? "Honourable" is a courtesy title conferred on certain sons of the peerage, does this include life peers?"

The second is correct the former not so. Lord Havers is The Rt. Hon. Lord Havers , of St Edmundsbury in the County of Suffolk. His sons are Hon. due to their fathers title.Alci12 17:16, 8 May 2006 (UTC) =

[edit] Throughbred racing project

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[edit] British Royalty

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[edit] Cyril Lord

Thank you for the message. I'll look forward to seeing the changes you mention over time. If his tale is like the one you compare it to, I'm sure it's quite a story. Erechtheus 06:17, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Indexing

Please, don't use accents and other special charactes at the indexing of articles, as you did in Pascual Pérez (boxing), because it disrupts the proper sorting due to a technical problem; accented vowels are considered to be alphabetically after Z (Placing Puerta before Pérez). Thanks, and good wiking, Mariano(t/c) 07:44, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bourne (castle and station)

Thanks for the appology. If I don't get worse than you gave me, I'll be doing allright. I had forgotten it.

As to the railway: it was certainly moribund by the time of Beeching's report in 1963 but I think it did remain open to use (just) until 1965 (J.D.Birkbeck p. 116). The station was demolished in 1964 (JDB p.116 and John Rhodes p. 43). The Essendine line closed in June 1951 (JR p. 43 & JDB p 116). The Sleaford timetabled service had gone in 1930 (JDB p. 116) but that line remained as in effect, a siding reaching to Billingborough, until 1965 (JDB).

The Castle site extends from Church Walk (the river opposite the Abbey is a remnant of its outermost moat) to Manor Lane. The revetted ditch opposite the electricity sub-station is the counterpart of the Church Walk Eau. In the north, this ditch lies under the pavement and shop fronts on the south side of West Street and in the south, from the north boundary of the Red Hall to the kink in Manor Lane south of the gate which stands across it. The whole, including these outer works, extends to 47½ acres or 17.5 hectares. The brick structure around the War Memorial stands in the outer bailey (The East Bailey as it was known) alongside the site of the brink of the inner bailey moat. The water in South Street is the East Bailey moat.

The parts of the originally extensive, water defences which remain have done so because they were needed in their other function as the mill pool and tail race for Baldock's Mill, which stands on the site of the castle mill. (RJP 17:45, 21 October 2006 (UTC))

[edit] Galloway

The cited page now has a scan of a national newspaper report of the incident, as you can appreciate it was only Monday so media coverage is still coming and I will update when i can... and Gregg was a member of Sinn Féin/The Worker's Party which was in fact one party (in Wikipedia as Official Sinn Féin).. RegardsStevecull 14:17, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Possibly unfree Image:Maudfostermill.jpg

[edit] Problem with your user page...

Hi there. I've got a little request. Since you've added those color templates to your user page, you are listed as being (through categories) a shade of many different colors. That is probably not a good thing when there are guidelines like WP:SELF that we're supposed to follow, despite my respect for your appreciation of those templates. Would you please substitute those templates on your page and delete the categories from the resulting wikicode? Regards, Nihiltres 00:03, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

The main problem is that your user page being in non-user categories is that it's a general violation of WP:SELF. Check that link out, it's good to know - I only found out about it a month and a half ago. The general idea is that since your page is part of the Wikipedia project and not an article, it should not appear alongside articles in categories meant for articles. For example, if you looked through a physical encyclopedia and found an editor's phone number in the index, you'd probably find it odd. If you prefer having the templates appear on the page, then substituting the templates and removing the categories from the resulting code works well. If you just want to remember the names of each, you can use the {{tl}} template. Used with the syntax {{tl|NameOfTemplate}}, it produces {{NameOfTemplate}}. You can then use a list. You could even use both approaches simultaneously, as in =={{tl|template}}== (newline) {{subst:template}} (kill categories) Hope this helps :) Nihiltres 18:17, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

Noticed your last userpage change since I watched your talk, and your page is looking awesome. Nihiltres 18:49, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Edenham

I have done a bit to the page though there is plenty more which could be done. The pictures would enliven it. I think the railway might be better dealt with separately. There, a picture of the weighbridge house at Edenham station (by the 30mph sigh) might be useful, as would a view of the tracks' approach to Bytham. The embankments and cuttings might generally be a bit overgrown to show up effectively. (RJP 00:26, 24 November 2006 (UTC))

Having looked at you remarks on the M&GN talk page, and as the originator of the diagram, I have studied the sources you suggest and OS and altered the diagram accordingly. If the Earl's/M&GN bridge is the wrong way round either change it or just say. Thanks for the heads up! Britmax (talk) 18:19, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] Piers Morgan

Your additions have been removed per biographies of libing persons in that they do not cite any reliable sources, nor are they written from a neutral point of view. Among other things, such subjective words and phrases as "unusual" or an "exact contemporary" requires expert commentary that's already been published. Please write me if you have any questions. RadioKirk (u|t|c) 14:55, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Does this edit summary mean you intend to fight the efforts of editors who are working to make this and other articles compliant with the verifiability and neutrality standards required by an encyclopedia? RadioKirk (u|t|c) 23:47, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The Apprentice UK

[edit] Proposed removal of the The Apprentice UK template

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[edit] Harry

Just to let you know, I responded to your edit on the talk page. Pan Dan 22:33, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Inline country flags

I notice you added an inline country flag when writing Pride & Clark. Can I ask you to desist from adding flag inline in the main article text. They;re just about tolerable in infoboxes. They are never tolerable in the main text. See this diff if I'm not being clear about my meaning. thanks --Tagishsimon (talk)

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[edit] Lincolnshire navbox

Hi there - I've provisionally reverted your change to the Lincolnshire navbox back to my version that included links covering the whole of Lincolnshire, including our poor benighted northern colonies (joke). My reasoning: other county templates (inc. Somerset, Durham, Yorkshire) relate to the entire ceremonial county, not just to the bit under county council control ... even if the ceremonial county includes areas in other regions or police authority areas to the rump. Now: if you strongly feel that N Lincs and NE Lincs should be treated separately then so be it (although I'm not sure just how useful or enlightening a Grimsby-only navbox would be) - but if so then I'd contend that we should go about changing the navboxes for the other counties too, in the spirit of consistency. TheVenerableBede (talk) 11:18, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

Hello Guy - I don't want to get bogged down in the old arguments about the relevance or otherwise of the sixteen different types of "county"(!) - I'm much more interested in the consistency of the information on Wikipedia and its usefulness to users who may not live in Lincolnshire (any part of it).

If you think it's more appropriate to have a separate infobox for each unitary authority / top-level administrative area, then far be it from me to stand in your way. I just think it's important that:

• All counties are treated the same, avoiding a patchwork approach.
• The level of navigation is appropriate for the information contained within. If the boxes are linking to pages which relates to local government status and services, then obviously your solution fits the bill. But an awful lot of the genuinely encyclopedic pages (history, geography - rather than the sometime pedantic listings of current administrative status) relate to Lincolnshire in its entirety.
• That it's suitable for users who may not be familiar with, or indeed even care about, the finer points of UK local governance. Who in the world is actually interested in the fact that there are three top-level Lincolnshire authorities, other than local gov't afficionados (or rabid supporters of the traditional counties), people waiting for their wheelie bins to be taken out, and Peter Levy?
• That it's useful beyond the field of local governance.
• That it's stable over time - this worries me, given the current changes to local gov't in Northumberland, Cheshire, Durham etc. I'd hate to see us having to change all of these boxes when Lincolnshire (County Council area) is itself split into 2 or 3 unitary authorities in a couple of years' time.
• That it recognises that Lincs, N Lincs, and NE Lincs, while currently separate entities (for the purposes of taking the bins out) share a lot in terms of history, geography and culture (with a small c.).

As I'm sure you're aware, Lincolnshire has always been a region made up of separate administrative entities, rather than a single "county" in the narrowest sense - my contention is that nothing's changed since the days of Lindsey, Holland and Kesteven - Lincolnshire is still a 'thing' which would be recognised by most people as a county, even if its servies are provided by 3 separate entities.

Whether the Lord-Lieutenant of Lincolnshire is doing his/her job properly or not is no concern of mine!

I'm sure we can find a solution that works. What about summat like this?

v • d • e Lincolnshire Local government County of Lincolnshire • North East Lincolnshire (unitary authority) • North Lincolnshire (unitary) Settlements etc. etc. etc.

That raises the unfortunate aspect that there's a NE Lincs page and a N Lincs page which relate to their status as local gov't entities and their narrow geography, but that the Lincolnshire page manages to amalgamate discussion "Lincolnshire" from the Humber to the Wash and "Lincolnshire" the current county in one article. See what I mean about inconsistency?

Fancy taking that one on too?

TheVenerableBede (talk) 10:57, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Fuschia vs. Magenta

what is the difference? just curious, from your user page. Unrandomperson (talk) 20:52, 30 March 2008 (UTC)