User talk:The Geography Elite

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[edit] The Indy On Sunday

I have started the basics of this page , if its not been deleted which i see no reason why it should. Then If you have any info to add feel free.

[edit] Initial Support...

Yaaasss well done there ben , looks good. Hopefully its onwards and upwards for the geo elite. Adam.

[edit] A Proposition Here

I was thinking it might be a decent proposal for me to compose a weekly Geo-orientated mini-newspaper to be posted on either the discussion page, or the main user page (I can archive old ones and just post the new one in the same slot), or even link to a new subpage within my user page. It would contain short, snappy news on funny stuff, Geo Dept. & Belmont news, national & world news, and a few different geo-linked features such as Geoman of the Week, a delve into the life of a historical/noteworthy geographer or man of related profession, also perhaps GeoFocus where we have a look at a topical Geography issue, hopefully probing discussion of it. Yay or nay? The Geography Elite 18:26, 8 December 2006 (UTC)


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Sounds like a good idea , however i think it may be best to get others views and opinions before making a final decision , not just on here nbut also in the classroom we should discuss. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Addmclean (talk • contribs) 18:33, 8 December 2006 (UTC).
Fair enough, I agree a consensus should be reached. I don't know how often the others actually go on the internet, it seems like it would mainly be for us head honchos. Bailey will hopefully go on periodically, but I think our best reliance is Callum. A little vote on the name should be a good first start once we have gained sufficient approval. I can hardly imagine a lodging of offense taken or disapproval from any party, that would be weird to say the least. Please continue to offer thoughts and opinions, that's what the page is for - and mutual ideas will result in a better end product! The Geography Elite 18:39, 8 December 2006 (UTC)


[edit] WP:NOT

Hello. Please be aware that Wikipedia is not a blog, webspace provider, or social networking site. User and user talk pages are for discussion of the user's contributions to articles, not for publishing newsletters or for co-ordinating the activities of school groups. Thanks. Rockpocket 19:06, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your message. My concern is twofold. Firstly, the following: "Please do head on to the discussion page, which will house the main hub of interaction between members and is also destined to house our weekly Geo newsletter." - which suggests the purpose of your account and associated user pages is as a webhost for communication with your group and for publishing your newsletter. This is in breach of WP:NOT and your newsletter and off-topic posts may be deleted. Off topic content is oftern tolerated if the editors are regular contributors to the project, but not if there is evidence that the account is being used for that puropose only.
Secondly, if you want to have information about your group on you user page in the style of an article (and there is nothing wrong with that per se) then it might be prudent to use the ((userpage}} template at the top of your userpage. This advises readers who have stumbled upon your page, or found it on a mirror site, that it is not an encylopaedia article, but a personal information page.
I hope you, and your group members, will stay and contribute to the encyclopaedia, however, as editors with a knowledge of geography would be most welcome. You could always join Wikipedia:WikiProject Geography also. Rockpocket 22:57, 8 December 2006 (UTC)


[edit] The Indy on Sunday

Hello. Thanks for your message. I'm sorry if you inferred criticism of you from my comments regarding merging of the articles. That certainly was not my intent. I didn't check the history to see who had added what, I simply observed that there was a large amount of duplication between the two articles and thus proposed merging them. As the amount of unique info in the IoS article at the moment, could easly fit into a small section in the article on the daily. If you are planning to add a significant amount of content to make the articles discrete from each other then by all means do so. Then there will be no grounds more merging. A few words of advice:

  • If you are interested in building an article from scratch, its often worth doing so on a personal subpage, such as User:The Geography Elite/drafts. That way you can leave it in an incomplete form without other editors acting on it. When it is complete enough to stand on its own, you can copy it to article namespace. I realise you didn't create this page yourself, but its advice worth considering in the future.
  • Its often worth removing all the duplicate material and building up from a stub. You can always have a "see also" link to The Independent for info about history etc.
  • The article is in the wrong place. It should reside at The Independent on Sunday and the current title and Independent on Sunday should redirect there. If you don't know how to do this, let me know and I can show you (or do it for you).

Again, thanks for your message and when the article is discrete enough to exist independently (if you'll excuse the pun), i'll remove the merge proposal. In the meantime, i'll leave it so other editors can offer their opinions. Rockpocket 18:45, 15 December 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Indy

Great additions , unfortunatly ive been out all day so havnt had a chance to do anything to the page. Addmclean

[edit] Unfree images

Hello, I notice that you have a few unfree images on your userpage. Unfree images may be used under a claim of fair use in Wikipedia, but only in articles; as such the fair use policy does not permit such images to be used on user pages. I have removed the images from your userpage. It is possible to link to images without displaying them, by including an extra colon before "Image:" in the link, like so:

 [[:Image:Name of image.jpg]]

--bainer (talk) 12:29, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Orphaned fair use image (Image:Sindielogo.png)

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[edit] Yes please

Hello there. Welcome!

I have asked at the Scottish noticeboard if someone with more experience can help. Please see:

But the short answer is, yes! Of course we would love you to make some of your work available under the correct licence. It would be a great boost to the relevant articles. Be WP:BOLD! Many thanks in advance, Mais oui! 17:50, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Yes indeed - quality images are always welcome. If you are not sure of the protocols drop me a note - I am not an expert, but if its not unduly complex I'd be happy to help. Ben MacDui (Talk) 18:48, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Sorry to take so long to reply. Let's say you want to upload the Georgian Houses image to the Ayr artcile. All you need do is type [[Image:Georgian houses on Seafront.jpg|thumb|150px|The Seafront at Ayr]], which gives you the image at right.

The Seafront at Ayr
The Seafront at Ayr

The 'thumb' gives you the opportunity add a caption inside the caption box. The 'px' field determines the size of the image. I think the 'thumb' sets them at 150px automatically. The are rules somewhere about the sizes, but I think 200px and 250px are acceptable if you want to make them bigger. The caption legend is the last field, and obviously that's up to you. By all means include one or more in the articles you mention. The 'Carrick Hills' for example might brighten up South Ayrshire. Locating images is a bit of an art as you need to try and avoid the other text and templates etc. If you want to change the orientation, [[Image:Georgian houses on Seafront.jpg|thumb|left|150px|The Seafront at Ayr]] will move the image to the left hand side of the article. 'thumb' automatically creates a right sided placement.

I have always uploaded to Commons rather than Wikipedia as it means the images can be used elsewhere and there are categories to fit them into. (See for example [1])

You use this page. [2] and then copy in the template provided: {{Information |Description= |Source= |Date= |Author= |Permission= |other_versions= }} to the Summary and then add in the relevant details. You would need to create a new ID to use Commons, although a lot of folk just re-create the one they have on Wikipedia. Ben MacDui (Talk) 09:53, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Might be interested

I noticed that you took part in State terrorism by United States of America discussion for deletion. After the article has survived many deletions, you may be interested that there is a user right now who is deleting large portions of the article. 69.150.209.15 17:43, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] London spellings

I'd just to like to offer you my sincerest thanks for so comprehensively continuing to rectify the mildly upsetting prevalence of "center" and all such variations on the theme on the London article. I suppose I feel slightly stupid, because my immediately preceding edit rectified just one such instance that I found... so I am very grateful that you went back and did a proper job of it, unlike me!

—The Geography Elite 13:16, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

No worries, I do that all the time: spot one error in the part of the article I'm reading, then later notice the same things elsewhere. Some you win, some you lose. That goes for the massive input Mercenary2k has had on the article as well: albeit unfortunately in colonial-talk! Nevermind, it's a quick job in Notepad using find and replace; but I missed a few where it's not quite so easy to robotically sort. BTW, I also sorted out your problem of small text! ;-)  — MapsMan [ talk | cont ] — 17:41, 28 August 2007 (UTC)