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Actually not sure if it was set up at Brookwood - though there is a Brookwood village nearby. The cemetery is about 4 miles west of Woking, and Brookwood village is also west of Woking, and North of Guildford. This needs to be checked. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.137.39.195 ( talk) 08:53, 20 June 2003 (UTC)
This is correct, it is called "Brookwood Cemetery" today and is adjacent to Brookwood Station. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 169.71.50.40 ( talk) 15:16, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
Isn't this it? http://www.scienceandsociety.co.uk/results.asp?image=10324706&wwwflag=2&imagepos=11 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.35.107.44 ( talk) 16:26, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
It's near Brookwood, it takes nearly a minute to pass on the Bournemouth to Waterloo train!!
Britmax (
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A fascinating article, probably a bit too detailed for a truly encyclopaedic WP contribution , but ticks all the right WP style and format boxes. Good example for anybody writing a WP (historical) article and justly given Featured Article status.
But, I wonder, I just wonder: in a 99,000 bytes article (say, 25 pages normal text in word) there are some 320 cites to only two books from one author. There are ten cites to one page from Clarke 2004 alone. Credit where credit is due: if WP used the Harvard style of citations, the name Clarke would be mentioned 320 times in the body of the text. As WP prefers the numbered Vancouver style, Clarke is only mentioned twice (in the bibliography). To address this imbalance gently I will add the source (and mention Clarke’s name) in two of the illustrations, which are based on maps from the two Clarke books. It creates inconsistencies in the citation style but that’s in my view a small price to pay for making the originator of most of the material in this splendid WP article slightly more visible. Sleuth21 ( talk) 11:37, 6 August 2011 (UTC)
This article has been created essentially by only one editor and is a ‘featured article’. Typically, Wikipedia articles / should be the result of collective efforts, but this article was put on WP 'in one go' (on 10 June 2011) and there are only few subsequent 'collective' edits. As mentioned above, this article complies (on a very high standard) with WP style editing policies but is much too detailed to qualify as an 'encyclopedic' contribution. It also violates the spirit of copyright restrictions and ‘close paraphrasing’ rules. Some of the main editor’s paraphrasing falsifies careful scholarly statements in the two main sources (by John Clarke). This article (and similar other ones) seems to use WP as a vanity press publisher. I have placed a corresponding general comment on the vanity press site. Sleuth21 ( talk) 15:01, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
I have started a discussion about the mysterious "legal issues" surrounding this article at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Legal issues with London Necropolis Company? (update: archived). Please keep discussion there. Thryduulf ( talk) 15:25, 22 June 2013 (UTC)
I've read all the related discussions and things are even less clear to me. Some people are talking about the images and how they might possibly be violations under UK law because they were taken on private property or something? But only if someone actually presents a lawsuit? But then there are several others explaining that there's no way such a lawsuit would hold up under what the law actually covers.
If the issue is the copyright of images, then shouldn't we just remove said images from the article?
Then there are other people talking about copyright/possible plagiarism issues with the text and I don't know what the heck that is about besides the fact that the article is based on only a few books. If there are concerns of text plagiarism, then that is something that needs to be addressed. If there isn't such an issue, then what the heck are the "legal concerns" over this article in the first place? Silver seren C 23:29, 23 June 2013 (UTC)
I am aware of the issue that were of concern to Iridescent. They provide a reasonable basis for his suggestion that this article (which as it happens he wrote in the first place) not be run on the main page at this time. However, they do not require that article remain protected from editing, nor warrant its being deleted, revised, or de-featured.
The administrator who protected the article has said on his talkpage that he would not object to the article's being unprotected by an administrator with the relevant background. Accordingly, I am lifting the protection. Anyone with concerns is of course free not to edit the article, which has had relatively few editors in any event. Newyorkbrad ( talk) 01:51, 26 June 2013 (UTC)
Is that really an accurate translation of the motto? My Latin is weak but at the very least it should reflect the order of the two clauses; also, I would prefer "health" for "salis" rather than just "good". Mangoe ( talk) 17:24, 24 June 2013 (UTC)
More than once this article mentions that Brookwood Cemetery's take up (and with it that of the London Necropolis Railway) was less than expected by its founders. There is room here for discussing, with citations, what I believe to be the most important factors, which must have caused a significant decline:
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Actually not sure if it was set up at Brookwood - though there is a Brookwood village nearby. The cemetery is about 4 miles west of Woking, and Brookwood village is also west of Woking, and North of Guildford. This needs to be checked. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.137.39.195 ( talk) 08:53, 20 June 2003 (UTC)
This is correct, it is called "Brookwood Cemetery" today and is adjacent to Brookwood Station. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 169.71.50.40 ( talk) 15:16, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
Isn't this it? http://www.scienceandsociety.co.uk/results.asp?image=10324706&wwwflag=2&imagepos=11 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.35.107.44 ( talk) 16:26, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
It's near Brookwood, it takes nearly a minute to pass on the Bournemouth to Waterloo train!!
Britmax (
talk)
13:01, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
A fascinating article, probably a bit too detailed for a truly encyclopaedic WP contribution , but ticks all the right WP style and format boxes. Good example for anybody writing a WP (historical) article and justly given Featured Article status.
But, I wonder, I just wonder: in a 99,000 bytes article (say, 25 pages normal text in word) there are some 320 cites to only two books from one author. There are ten cites to one page from Clarke 2004 alone. Credit where credit is due: if WP used the Harvard style of citations, the name Clarke would be mentioned 320 times in the body of the text. As WP prefers the numbered Vancouver style, Clarke is only mentioned twice (in the bibliography). To address this imbalance gently I will add the source (and mention Clarke’s name) in two of the illustrations, which are based on maps from the two Clarke books. It creates inconsistencies in the citation style but that’s in my view a small price to pay for making the originator of most of the material in this splendid WP article slightly more visible. Sleuth21 ( talk) 11:37, 6 August 2011 (UTC)
This article has been created essentially by only one editor and is a ‘featured article’. Typically, Wikipedia articles / should be the result of collective efforts, but this article was put on WP 'in one go' (on 10 June 2011) and there are only few subsequent 'collective' edits. As mentioned above, this article complies (on a very high standard) with WP style editing policies but is much too detailed to qualify as an 'encyclopedic' contribution. It also violates the spirit of copyright restrictions and ‘close paraphrasing’ rules. Some of the main editor’s paraphrasing falsifies careful scholarly statements in the two main sources (by John Clarke). This article (and similar other ones) seems to use WP as a vanity press publisher. I have placed a corresponding general comment on the vanity press site. Sleuth21 ( talk) 15:01, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
I have started a discussion about the mysterious "legal issues" surrounding this article at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Legal issues with London Necropolis Company? (update: archived). Please keep discussion there. Thryduulf ( talk) 15:25, 22 June 2013 (UTC)
I've read all the related discussions and things are even less clear to me. Some people are talking about the images and how they might possibly be violations under UK law because they were taken on private property or something? But only if someone actually presents a lawsuit? But then there are several others explaining that there's no way such a lawsuit would hold up under what the law actually covers.
If the issue is the copyright of images, then shouldn't we just remove said images from the article?
Then there are other people talking about copyright/possible plagiarism issues with the text and I don't know what the heck that is about besides the fact that the article is based on only a few books. If there are concerns of text plagiarism, then that is something that needs to be addressed. If there isn't such an issue, then what the heck are the "legal concerns" over this article in the first place? Silver seren C 23:29, 23 June 2013 (UTC)
I am aware of the issue that were of concern to Iridescent. They provide a reasonable basis for his suggestion that this article (which as it happens he wrote in the first place) not be run on the main page at this time. However, they do not require that article remain protected from editing, nor warrant its being deleted, revised, or de-featured.
The administrator who protected the article has said on his talkpage that he would not object to the article's being unprotected by an administrator with the relevant background. Accordingly, I am lifting the protection. Anyone with concerns is of course free not to edit the article, which has had relatively few editors in any event. Newyorkbrad ( talk) 01:51, 26 June 2013 (UTC)
Is that really an accurate translation of the motto? My Latin is weak but at the very least it should reflect the order of the two clauses; also, I would prefer "health" for "salis" rather than just "good". Mangoe ( talk) 17:24, 24 June 2013 (UTC)
More than once this article mentions that Brookwood Cemetery's take up (and with it that of the London Necropolis Railway) was less than expected by its founders. There is room here for discussing, with citations, what I believe to be the most important factors, which must have caused a significant decline:
Cloptonson ( talk) 11:50, 25 July 2015 (UTC)
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