User talk:Teapotgeorge
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[edit] Leach Pottery
You were right to edit the addition made to this page by Mark Anselm: it is unscourced, POV and marketing copy. I am going to edit his revert and put a note on the discussion page. Marshall46 18:38, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Pottery Makers category
Plainly, the elimination of named Potters from the External Links was wrong.
That writer has a different perspective as to which potters are not notable.
I suggest that the individual potteries be put into a different category, thereby not 'cluttering' the internal links (See alsos), while maintaining these. You may not realize, for example, the import of Pewabic Pottery -- but it is of significance to the Arrts and Crafts movement, and at least to much of the Midwestern U.S. Y
our deletion was at the very least parochial and ill-advised. Your getting rid of the new category and the listing orphaned a lot of serious articles on the subject. I was trying to work within the framework of letting the "External Links" be shortened and simplified.
7&6=thirteen 20:10, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Michael Cardew
Sorry, 'fraid I'm lost a bit on ISBN links, too; I tried everything I could think of, but it doesn't seem to work. Wish I could be of more help, sorry. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 22:02, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
- See Wikipedia:ISBN, it's automatically converted into links, no brackets required. Femto 14:48, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the help with the ISBN and the general tidying. I know that Seth Cardew describes him as such but not at all sure that the term "ceramic stylist" is appropriate for Michael Cardew? sounds like a hairdresser! Teapotgeorge 15:02, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
- Change as you see fit. I only added it because the opening sentence of an article needs to set the general context. Femto 16:19, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] KGVFs
Great to have you aboard. I solved it but you beat me to it. This can become addictive! Fiddle Faddle 13:57, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
Errr I don't think I solved it? Teapotgeorge 14:02, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
- It seems not. Ah well. I'll have a look a bit later. I've been painting a ceiling and my mind is not in Wikipedia :) Fiddle Faddle 17:36, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
- It could be simple. The OS Grid ref is incomplete (I think). two letters and 6 digits are required :). Complete that and it should go through —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Timtrent (talk • contribs) 17:39, 8 January 2007 (UTC).
- This is wonderful stuff. I haven't checked, but can you make sure you add a line to each place as well, stating that they have a KGVF and wikilinking the list you are workin on? There is an example in pretty much any of the other lists, of in the Wikiproject. :) Fiddle Faddle 22:54, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
- It could be simple. The OS Grid ref is incomplete (I think). two letters and 6 digits are required :). Complete that and it should go through —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Timtrent (talk • contribs) 17:39, 8 January 2007 (UTC).
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[edit] Camborne School of Mines and stuff
Hi, no big deal but it is considered a trifle rude to remove another editors contribution on a talkpage. Even if the comment is obsolete, as mine admittedly was, it should have been kept. LessHeard vanU 21:58, 16 January 2007 (UTC) Sincere apologies it was an accident not intentional... I have re-added your comment ...very sorry!! Teapotgeorge 10:43, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
- No problem. You appear to be new(ish) here, and we all make mistakes. Thanks for the revert. LessHeard vanU 13:48, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Liskeard
Thanks for the message. The general text was okay but the spamlink obviously is not permitted on Wikipedia. I have accordingly edited the text. Richard Harvey 11:32, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Commercial link on McCoy Pottery
Hi Teapotgeorge. With reference to comments a few weeks back you may be interested to read, and possibly comment, about the validity of the external link over at Talk:McCoy (pottery) ThanxTheriac 17:19, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Saint Mabena
Looks great to me. Thank you very much. :) John Carter 14:14, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Poll at List of notable converts to Christianity
Hello Teapotgeorge. I noticed that you have not cast a vote to break the tie in the latest attempt to reach consensus at List of notable converts to Christianity. I encourage you to do so here. Thank you. Nick Graves 19:17, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
[edit] ArbCom
I have submitted a report on User:Bus stop on the ArbCom page here. As an individual who was involved in this debate, your participation would be appreciated. Thanks. Drumpler 17:32, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Bus stop
I think for now it'd just be wise to ignore Bus stop's page. It doesn't really do any good for anyone, as he is blocked from disruptive editing, and it might just continue to entrench him in his belief that his actions are justifiable. Drumpler 21:11, 1 July 2007 (UTC) OK Teapotgeorge 21:41, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
[edit] re Stonehenge
Hi, about your query, as the article on that subject says, the voting, purpose and significance of the competition is disputed. I'd agree that in itself isn't a fatal objection, but it doesn't really seem to belong in the article, which is about the monument, and the recent history is about what affects it directly, i.e. the road scheme, UNESCO status, preservation work, etc. The fact it has appeared on a poll of this sort in some capacity is rather superfluous to an already long and detailed article. It was for these reasons that the article was split up. Stonehenge in popular culture would be a more appropriate place for this sort of comment, but I'm hesitant to, again owing to the fact there seems to be some sort of dispute over the competition. Once that was settled, I'd be more happy to see it in some way on one of the spin off articles. I don't seem to be alone in this, someone else seems to have added a reference to this earlier, and was reverted. Hope that explains my thinking. Benea 17:00, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Reversion
Please give an explanation for your reversion of my edits on Atheism. Thank you. selfwormTalk) 22:21, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
Sorry I didn't really check out the links properly, I initially thought they were inappropriate but on second thoughts they are quite relevant...feel free to re -add them. Teapotgeorge 10:51, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Pottery
Hi. Pottery is a term used to describe clay based ceramics. It is not connected with the form of the object. Ceramics is a very large group of materials, many of which did not conatin any clay - for example silicon carbide and boron nitride. If pottery is just specific to vessels consider the case of a ball of clay:
- A] Fire it as a ball. It is not a container so your defintion does not make it pottery.
- B] Force your finger into it to make a hole, and then fire it. According to your defintion it does becomes pottery.
This doesn't make sense! It can not be sensible to suggest that A has more connection with a missle nose cone (high tech cermaics which had no clay) than with B. Also pottery as a clay based ceramic is the recognised terminology with the industry (for UK think "The Potteries" in Stoke-on-Trent) Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.153.70.31 (talk) 17:07, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
Thank you for your comments, I am a potter so am fully aware of the various terms. Consensus in the past has been that Ceramic is the preferred term for the Venus figurine.Teapotgeorge 17:17, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
- Hi. The article should make some mention of pottery. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.153.70.31 (talk) 17:27, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Umm?
Hmm, I think you might have gotten confused! You placed an Afd comment on my talk page, I think you were looking for Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lila Turjanski-Villard ARendedWinter 13:32, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Creation science
Rather than blindly reverting,[1][2] it would help if you actually read the source[3], and corrected the spelling error[4]. cheers. – ornis⚙ 09:40, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
I'm sorry you've lost me! I reverted because it made no sense, then I changed the spelling so it did make sense...you reverted it to the incorrect spelling and then changed the spelling again yourself???Teapotgeorge 10:14, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
Eh? No, you reverted twice[5][], from "could not published[sic]" to "did not publish". Fair enough on the surface, except the source is specifically saying "cannot" not just "did not". I revert to the misspelled version ( admittedly because I didn't notice it was misspelled ) then corrected the error. Check the history, sorry about the finger-wagging, I guess this was just a misunderstanding.– ornis⚙ 10:53, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
- ARGH!!! I just checked the history again... don't I feel the fool, quite right, sorry about that, I saw you revert hrafn twice, and obviously didn't look closely enough... go on slap me, I deserve it... – ornis⚙ 10:57, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
I'm not the violent type so... no slapping! I've made similar mistakes myself! All good wishes Teapotgeorge 11:20, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
- Lucky for me! But rest assured, at this very moment, I am fetching the sack-clothe tunic from my wardrobe, and covering my face in ashes...;) – ornis⚙ 11:28, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Pewabic Pottery
Dear Teapot:
That you would eliminate Pewabic Pottery from the list of studio potters is bizarre. Putting aside whether you are or I am "parochial' (I apologize for saying that; you might be right that I am), but [[Arts and Crafts] (which was international, not just North American) and Pewabic Pottery were and are important. I know you are from Columbia, but you need to not put on your censorship mode.
You did the same stuff in Pottery. I have the same problem here.
I would like to collegially work this out. I don't mean to have a war over this, and I would like you to voluntarily reconsider.
7&6=thirteen 13:47, 16 November 2007 (UTC) Stan
It is a list of individual "Studio Potters" I don't see how Pewabic Pottery qualifies? Teapotgeorge 14:13, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Hello George:
I'm over here to chat about your removal of the Notable Pottery makers (should really be ( opinion) Notable pottery makers) from the Pottery article. This seems to me to be a pretty useful section. However I am reluctant to just plop it back if you are just going to axe it again and then I can . . . ..... well you know how it goes. So, what is your objection again? Carptrash (talk) 05:35, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
I have no objection to a "notable" potters list but not an "obscure" potters list, designed to get people's personal favourites in. Plop it back if you wish. Teapotgeorge (talk) 05:58, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Re:Ashley West
Are you referring to the artist Ashley West. He currently teaches at QE Boys school in barnet. I attend the school and he used to teach me art. DavidJJJ (talk) 22:02, 26 November 2007 (UTC) PS His website is www.ashleywest.co.uk
[edit] Noah's Ark
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[edit] Penwith Wikiproject & Cornwall Wikiproject
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[edit] Emma Bossons
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[edit] AfD nomination of Emma Bossons
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[edit] Thanks
Thanks - next stop featured article status!Mammal4 (talk) 08:49, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Bono
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I removed an innappropriate template that you added for no good reason?. I suggest you take it to the talk page. Teapotgeorge (talk) 22:37, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Craft Potters’ Association
I have started a discussion about the recent changes. You may wish to comment before I edit again. Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.147.253.151 (talk) 19:29, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
- Hi - I've started another thread on the same discussion page. Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.147.253.151 (talk) 21:19, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Language notice
In a recent edit to the page Shroud of Turin, you changed one or more words from one international variety of English to another. Because Wikipedia has readers from all over the world, our policy is to respect national varieties of English in Wikipedia articles.
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I apologise I thought I was reverting to the original spelling? Teapotgeorge (talk) 22:30, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Your POV Pushing on the Ficus and Jacob Sheep papes
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An encyclopedia article is no place for creationist propaganda. Teapotgeorge (talk) 19:49, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Edit to Intellegent Design
Please do not arbitrarily delete positive contributions to articles. Feel free to disagree or even discuss - but do not automatically delete what you find. This is currently a very polarized article which has room to state some common ground. Other people may have legitimate input to articles. Rlsheehan (talk) 21:11, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
If you really want references, proper protocol is to tag an item as "citation needed". I will replace the material with a citation. Rlsheehan (talk) 23:27, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Helligan in St Mabyn parish
Thanks for correcting my foolish error. Would it be possible to have an article on Helligan (St Mabyn)? Google is no help! It looks lovely from the map (Cornwall interactive). Vernon White . . . Talk 19:58, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
I'll see if I can find any details. Teapotgeorge (talk) 20:05, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Ashley West
Unhelpful to whom? XCharltonTilliDieXTalk/Contribs 19:41, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
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[edit] Terry Ananny
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[edit] Turin Shroud - "alleged" resurrection
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