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Hi Charles. Good to see William Pryce on here. Do you have access to the online ODNB article? It has some significant changes from the old version – I can email you a copy of the text if it would be useful. — SMALL JIM 20:31, 1 December 2013 (UTC)
Yes, use it all the time. I have moved onto William Gwavas now, though. Charles Matthews ( talk) 20:39, 1 December 2013 (UTC)
Hi can you give me the full citation for this.♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:52, 29 November 2013 (UTC)
Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 7 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. Charles Matthews ( talk) 13:02, 29 November 2013 (UTC)
Thanks. Hope you're well.♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:27, 29 November 2013 (UTC)
Yes, not too bad. Incidentally my collaborator on Copenhagen did a lot of work on List of women photographers a while back, I suspect he might be interested. I've been meaning to start some more DNB entries but I've been concentrating on general cleanup of things like Indian cities and focusing on getting articles like Aalborg, Skagen and now Copenhagen to GA. Mughal-e-Azam is at FAC and I'm also helping prepare Trichy for FA, I didn't do the majority of the work though as I feel my time is best put into editing those articles which desperately need even basic editing. I've also been working with Rosiestep on translating articles on Benedictine monasteries in Catalonia which is quite interesting.So much work needed on existing articles aside from all the missing ones, sometimes difficult to know where to start! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:31, 29 November 2013 (UTC)
Looks a sizable task to sort out! One of the problems of course is lack of priority on here. I've seen GAs even FAs on churches or small monuments or something and you find the village it is in is an unsourced stub or the town article too haphazard and bloated and unsourced. Of course all good content contributed here is a positive thing but I've noticed that people generally pick topics which are narrower in scope and easier to research, which is why we have so many minor roads and TV episodes being presented at GAN when the major highways and TV programmes are often in a shocking state and poorly sourced. I'm trying to balance my work between the three areas as you say New articles, basic general cleanup and sourcing and Good Article quality work, four if you include identifying notable topics which is also pretty important. Indian and Pakistani settlements tend to be among the worst on wikipedia in general because those countries have a fair access to the Internet at least in the cities and articles tend to get hijacked by people with a very poor command of English or understanding or what wikipedia is and spam them with lists of "famous" locals and schools and businesses and POV. A lot of Indian cities just require a basic cut and a source or two. I've also been meaning to go through the top level admin divisions of the African countries on things like regions, provinces and departments and ensuring it at least as sourced data or some info. Some of the countries have articles on regions which cover thousands of square miles and they contain next to nothing.♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:02, 29 November 2013 (UTC)
I started Walter Field but can't remember what the attribution and source template was.♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:51, 4 December 2013 (UTC)
Thanks, I'll try to find a PD photo.♦ Dr. Blofeld 15:13, 4 December 2013 (UTC)
Oddly couldn't find anything in google books, but I started John Finnie (painter) and managed to find quite a bit more. Started Francis Parsons (painter) too but there is an error with the volume.♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:09, 4 December 2013 (UTC)
You don't mind me creating the ones you've listed on your user page do you? I wasn't sure if they were meant only for you.♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:01, 4 December 2013 (UTC)
Charles, I read your comment at NAN talk. While I extracted comments from John Vandenberg, I didn't write most of the story, and I don't know what a djvu file is, sadly. But the text does say "pdf or djvu". Is it still wrong or misleading? Tony (talk) 11:34, 5 December 2013 (UTC)
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Many thanks for this. What a squat, solid building it was. I'm not familiar with the topographical resources for C18 London buildings, but I know someone I can ask. I've not been in touch recently since I've been very busy here with a couple of long term projects running simultaneously. One is to list all of Burney's musical biographies and general articles from Rees. I done a 1/3 of the work so far, and will aim to finish it around the middle of next year. I've had to read up a great deal about Burney and his times. While working at it I amuse myself by listening to baroque music on YouTube. The other is to finalise the editing of a list of all the news articles from my local paper the Bridgwater Mercury for each week of WW1. This is to inform the design of displays about the War at the Blake Museum, Bridgwater, of which I am Hon Curator. We've had a team working on it for the past year. Its really very harrowing stuff, since numerous letters from the front were published. Kind regards Apwoolrich ( talk) 22:29, 13 December 2013 (UTC)
One way or anther I think that this thread Wikipedia talk:Citing sources#Using full names of authors may be of interest to you. -- PBS ( talk) 23:03, 13 December 2013 (UTC)
Sorry, only just checked email and got your message. Yes the article could do with pruning. No I don't think it'd be a good merge into Christ myth theory. Now that Ehrman has dedicated 4 or 5 pages to Acharya S./Dorothy Murdock's works the academic world has a reliable (and agnostic) source to present something meaningful in the article. Ehrman's work should also help to clean up the other mythycist articles in the category. In ictu oculi ( talk) 12:57, 13 December 2013 (UTC)
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Thanks for the thanks. I wrote an article Knights, baronets and peers of the Protectorate -- little more than list, but a useful vehicle to complement Cromwell's Other House to find some of the more notable men of the Protectorate and fill in some biographies for those names for which there was none. It took me some time to find the DNB article, because I did not know he was in favour after the Restoration and the trouble with this man was his name because Google search on ["John King" ... ] tends to throw up lots of information on King John and the Barons! Once I found that there was a DNB article on him -- I really should have checked there first! -- it was plane sailing. -- PBS ( talk) 10:38, 18 December 2013 (UTC)
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Just curious why "List of..." rather than just Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopaedia. Seems the List should come second -- and there's enough in the background section to justify a move. --— Rhododendrites talk | 06:06, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
Thank you for the article. Most of my two years on Wikipedia have been spent filling in masonic history, and Oliver is one of the forgotten bricks in the making of modern masonry (albeit not a terribly useful one). The article was needed, but so far down my to-do list that finding it written was a bit like a Christmas present. Can I ask what prompted you to write the article? Fiddlersmouth ( talk) 23:24, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
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Talk:Thomas Keightley (historian) to rename
Thomas Keightley (historian)→
Thomas Keightley since requirements of usage and lasting significance under
WP:PRIMARYTOPIC appear to be easily met. Also "Thomas Keightley (historian)" would seem to be a misleading label to many nowadays who recognize him as mythology/folklore writer primarily.
I see from earlier posts that you have also worked heavily on
Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopædia, to which Keightley was a history-related contributor. So perhaps we do not see eye-to-eye on this issue. I am planning to rewrite the biographical article based on two bio pieces of more recent make than the DNB, and since they are both by folklorists, the result will be shift of emphasis towards Keightley's mythology/folklore contributions, and consequently a downplay of his historical pieces. --
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Hi Charles Matthews,
Thanks for creating the article on William Bullein. Are you going to nominate it at DYK? NinaGreen ( talk) 18:31, 18 January 2014 (UTC)
Colin Chisholm (I don't envy you having to get this through. I did try to tell the ODNB, but they don't seem intersted. Douglas Hamilton's book on the Scottish-Caribbean nexus is based on his PhD thesis which says right out and correctly that Colin was Provost William's son, but the published edition doesn't, so there isn't a frontline authority.- The relationship to Provost William Chisholm thus remains bedevilled by A.W.Mackenzie who thought there was a son, William, who practiced in Bristol after 1800. This is what Colin did, though he probably didn't arrive in Clifton until after 1802 - there's a reference in the Reelig papers to him having said goodbye to the Caribbean around that time. No trace of a birth date, but on the whole Hosack's date is the likeliest because of the enlistment date. However, this is close to the date of his father's second marriage and he did not get on - according to her - with his father's second wife, Katherine Baillie. The memorial for his father he provided in the Old High Kirk of Inverness after 1807 makes no mention of her at all, though it does mention his mother. He doesn't even name himself or his half-siblings. If you check with 'Citizens of the World' you will find that Aberdeen University in the eighteenth century had various ways of producing doctors - the main figure of the book, Alexander Grant of Dalvey in the late 17teens had apparently done something like a corresponding course with them ; Chisholm was awarded a degree in 1792, but this was'graduation' only in a technical sense. Date of settlement in Bristol was probably before 1805 as youngest daughter Catherine is christened there 1805.
I'll try and fill in any gaps you aren't happy with as best I can. But some are pretty big. Best wishes Delahays ( talk) 21:14, 21 January 2014 (UTC)
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Sorry, I didn't realise, until after I'd reverted, why you were (correctly) removing the link. I was going to link to Wiktionary's entry instead, but I agree that the adjective is unnecessary. Dbfirs 19:39, 27 January 2014 (UTC)
As you might have already noticed, Eric and I have begun expanding it. Aside from the additions you made to it a while back for such an author the content was really lacking, there was literally no coverage of her work. I've begun to start filling in some red links, National Froebel Foundation surprisingly was missing, can you add to it?♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:35, 26 January 2014 (UTC)
Nope.♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:55, 26 January 2014 (UTC)
Can you look into Bertie Meyer for me, I'm really not sure those are his own birth and death dates, I picked them up in a snippet but they would seem about right. I wonder if Bernard Meyer or B. A. Meyer might turn up anything. Also can you find anything on Bestime, a manufacturer of jigsaws and board games in the 1940s/50s who produced the first Enid Blyton jigsaws.♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:21, 26 January 2014 (UTC)
Yes, Tim's sent me the Times obit which states June 17 1877! I've just picked up another source which says June 1877, although neither mention the exact date of death but he was cremated on Nov 22 1967, so I've put mid November. Proof that wikimedia should be trying to make as many agreements with newspaper archives as possible... Makes you wonder why he doesn't have an ODNB entry. He was married to US actress Rosemary Ames. Amazes me how many of Blyton's really quite notable books don't have articles, Sunny Stories, one of the most popular children's magazines was missing until I started it earlier! I bet that there's rather a few thousand attics or storage rooms around the UK which have boxes with things like that in it!♦ Dr. Blofeld 22:16, 26 January 2014 (UTC)
Started Bestime, isn't there a category for games or jigsaws?♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:36, 28 January 2014 (UTC)
Ha, nearly 10 years ago.. I started Category:Jigsaw puzzle manufacturers which feeds into puzzle designers. I really think a list like List of board game and jigsaw puzzle manufacturers of the United Kingdom would be quite useful...♦ Dr. Blofeld 15:03, 28 January 2014 (UTC)
The article looks pretty comprehensive to me. I'll rootle round my collection of technical encyclopaedias and see what might turn up. Just realised I wrote a chunk of the Jacob Perkins article in about 2007!! Apwoolrich ( talk) 20:00, 28 January 2014 (UTC)
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Just thanked you for minor addition to History of Penkridge, but should really thank you for John de Derlington article, to which you linked it. Sjwells53 ( talk) 11:41, 14 February 2014 (UTC)
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Hi. Started this. Can you find any other sources and locate the url of the Far East Columbians PDF?♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:22, 14 February 2014 (UTC)
Can you find any other sources on Welsh Calvinist Isaac Hughes [2] ? I've added to Friedrich Adolph Lampe and have asked Yngvadottir to translate from Dutch wikipedia.♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:04, 19 February 2014 (UTC)
I think he might be worth starting. Just started Johannes d'Outrein, amazed he was missing.♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:52, 19 February 2014 (UTC)
Isaac Hughes will do I think, thanks.♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:56, 19 February 2014 (UTC)
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You strike me as somebody who'd be good at this sort of thing.
I have something to figure out
The number choices are 36, 54, 40, and 50
The numbers go before the letters which stand for some words so it would be
xx C in a PIJ and xx Y M for GWA
the last one I figured out was 21 S on a D =21 spots on a dice, the one before that was xx FO in a P =20 fluid ounces in a pint. So it would be something like 50 captains in a Palestine Islamic Jihad. Can you think what PIJ and GWA might stand for? ♦ Dr. Blofeld 09:46, 22 February 2014 (UTC)
I've got 54 Cards in a Pack Including Jokers thanks to Moswento, and 50 years married for a Golden wedding anniversary. Done it now! It wasn't as difficult as this I guess!
On the wiki front I'm now a member of WMUK,. I'm planning on using the grant system to buy books. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:07, 22 February 2014 (UTC)
Can you find the url for the adobe source used in Mount Shungol? ^ Development concept of an appropriate and sustainable agroforestry, Digbib.ubka.uni-karlsruhe.de is the link. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:10, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
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Check out Wikipedia:WikiProject Women artists, also. Charles Matthews ( talk) 16:28, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
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Greetings. Can you remember what page of the Enid Blyton Society that list of games and manufacturers was on? I remembered it was 178 or something. Need some sources on her puzzles and games for the article.♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:57, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
I think I've got it now.♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:22, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
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A very good point. The comment was supposed to convey the fact that I, together with colleagues, were unable to locate anything other than (in many cases pitifully) brief bits of info – I accept that it could/should have been worded in a different manner. The whole article was really intended to be a list of the persons who now had an entry, and the “left overs”, and it was these that I didn’t want to dismiss but could not find sufficient info to make an entry viable. By all means, please amend the phrase Alanfromwakefield ( talk) 19:32, 23 March 2014 (UTC)
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I've begun preparing this using the book from the grant. The historical /architectural coverage in it is a bit sketchy even if a great book though but I can glean some useful facts from it at least. I'#ve begun brainstorming for sources in the talk page, can you help find some decent sources on its history/architecture and list them there?♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:33, 30 March 2014 (UTC)
In the Rees article I have a red link to Samuel F. Bradford, printer of the American edition. There is an article about him in the French Wiki, and my query is, how to make a direct link to it from my piece. I have tried adding fr:in front of Samuel, but that has the effect of disappearing the entire wording between the square brackets when saved. I suppose the easiest thing will be for me to write a new article about him, cribbing the info from the French one, but it would be nice to make proper acknowledgement. Thanks. Apwoolrich ( talk) 18:34, 30 March 2014 (UTC)
Hello, I don't know how to message you directly Charles, so I hope you don't mind that I do it this way and that it gets to you. With regards to your comments about the Toynbee Hall page and the need for there to be two seperate pages for the building and the charity, I don't think you fully understand the history. The building was built specifically for the charity. They go hand-in-hand. Therefore having two seperate pages would not be an honest reflection of either history. I am happy to remove the emotive tone to reduce the conflict of interest. So will start on that today. Many thanks, Alexandra08w — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alexandra08w ( talk • contribs) 10:21, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
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The William addition at this edit probably needs a citation. I can see it in the birth registration but not sure what was your (non-research) link would be. Quick look doesn't find an obit. — billinghurst sDrewth 14:40, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
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Couldn't find an entry in DNB, only Arthur Graham.♦ Dr. Blofeld 08:12, 7 April 2014 (UTC)
Was just about to start it and realized I'd already created Arthur Tomson! BTW I started List of Finnish writers the other day out of curiosity of what was missing!♦ Dr. Blofeld 08:21, 7 April 2014 (UTC)
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I suppose you're already aware of the claims on what discourages people from editing Wikipedia, as reported by the BBC, but it might serve as a checklist to see whether the VLE modules cover the key points...
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Hi Charles. Good to see William Pryce on here. Do you have access to the online ODNB article? It has some significant changes from the old version – I can email you a copy of the text if it would be useful. — SMALL JIM 20:31, 1 December 2013 (UTC)
Yes, use it all the time. I have moved onto William Gwavas now, though. Charles Matthews ( talk) 20:39, 1 December 2013 (UTC)
Hi can you give me the full citation for this.♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:52, 29 November 2013 (UTC)
Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 7 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. Charles Matthews ( talk) 13:02, 29 November 2013 (UTC)
Thanks. Hope you're well.♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:27, 29 November 2013 (UTC)
Yes, not too bad. Incidentally my collaborator on Copenhagen did a lot of work on List of women photographers a while back, I suspect he might be interested. I've been meaning to start some more DNB entries but I've been concentrating on general cleanup of things like Indian cities and focusing on getting articles like Aalborg, Skagen and now Copenhagen to GA. Mughal-e-Azam is at FAC and I'm also helping prepare Trichy for FA, I didn't do the majority of the work though as I feel my time is best put into editing those articles which desperately need even basic editing. I've also been working with Rosiestep on translating articles on Benedictine monasteries in Catalonia which is quite interesting.So much work needed on existing articles aside from all the missing ones, sometimes difficult to know where to start! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:31, 29 November 2013 (UTC)
Looks a sizable task to sort out! One of the problems of course is lack of priority on here. I've seen GAs even FAs on churches or small monuments or something and you find the village it is in is an unsourced stub or the town article too haphazard and bloated and unsourced. Of course all good content contributed here is a positive thing but I've noticed that people generally pick topics which are narrower in scope and easier to research, which is why we have so many minor roads and TV episodes being presented at GAN when the major highways and TV programmes are often in a shocking state and poorly sourced. I'm trying to balance my work between the three areas as you say New articles, basic general cleanup and sourcing and Good Article quality work, four if you include identifying notable topics which is also pretty important. Indian and Pakistani settlements tend to be among the worst on wikipedia in general because those countries have a fair access to the Internet at least in the cities and articles tend to get hijacked by people with a very poor command of English or understanding or what wikipedia is and spam them with lists of "famous" locals and schools and businesses and POV. A lot of Indian cities just require a basic cut and a source or two. I've also been meaning to go through the top level admin divisions of the African countries on things like regions, provinces and departments and ensuring it at least as sourced data or some info. Some of the countries have articles on regions which cover thousands of square miles and they contain next to nothing.♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:02, 29 November 2013 (UTC)
I started Walter Field but can't remember what the attribution and source template was.♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:51, 4 December 2013 (UTC)
Thanks, I'll try to find a PD photo.♦ Dr. Blofeld 15:13, 4 December 2013 (UTC)
Oddly couldn't find anything in google books, but I started John Finnie (painter) and managed to find quite a bit more. Started Francis Parsons (painter) too but there is an error with the volume.♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:09, 4 December 2013 (UTC)
You don't mind me creating the ones you've listed on your user page do you? I wasn't sure if they were meant only for you.♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:01, 4 December 2013 (UTC)
Charles, I read your comment at NAN talk. While I extracted comments from John Vandenberg, I didn't write most of the story, and I don't know what a djvu file is, sadly. But the text does say "pdf or djvu". Is it still wrong or misleading? Tony (talk) 11:34, 5 December 2013 (UTC)
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Many thanks for this. What a squat, solid building it was. I'm not familiar with the topographical resources for C18 London buildings, but I know someone I can ask. I've not been in touch recently since I've been very busy here with a couple of long term projects running simultaneously. One is to list all of Burney's musical biographies and general articles from Rees. I done a 1/3 of the work so far, and will aim to finish it around the middle of next year. I've had to read up a great deal about Burney and his times. While working at it I amuse myself by listening to baroque music on YouTube. The other is to finalise the editing of a list of all the news articles from my local paper the Bridgwater Mercury for each week of WW1. This is to inform the design of displays about the War at the Blake Museum, Bridgwater, of which I am Hon Curator. We've had a team working on it for the past year. Its really very harrowing stuff, since numerous letters from the front were published. Kind regards Apwoolrich ( talk) 22:29, 13 December 2013 (UTC)
One way or anther I think that this thread Wikipedia talk:Citing sources#Using full names of authors may be of interest to you. -- PBS ( talk) 23:03, 13 December 2013 (UTC)
Sorry, only just checked email and got your message. Yes the article could do with pruning. No I don't think it'd be a good merge into Christ myth theory. Now that Ehrman has dedicated 4 or 5 pages to Acharya S./Dorothy Murdock's works the academic world has a reliable (and agnostic) source to present something meaningful in the article. Ehrman's work should also help to clean up the other mythycist articles in the category. In ictu oculi ( talk) 12:57, 13 December 2013 (UTC)
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Thanks for the thanks. I wrote an article Knights, baronets and peers of the Protectorate -- little more than list, but a useful vehicle to complement Cromwell's Other House to find some of the more notable men of the Protectorate and fill in some biographies for those names for which there was none. It took me some time to find the DNB article, because I did not know he was in favour after the Restoration and the trouble with this man was his name because Google search on ["John King" ... ] tends to throw up lots of information on King John and the Barons! Once I found that there was a DNB article on him -- I really should have checked there first! -- it was plane sailing. -- PBS ( talk) 10:38, 18 December 2013 (UTC)
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Just curious why "List of..." rather than just Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopaedia. Seems the List should come second -- and there's enough in the background section to justify a move. --— Rhododendrites talk | 06:06, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
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Talk:Thomas Keightley (historian) to rename
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Thomas Keightley since requirements of usage and lasting significance under
WP:PRIMARYTOPIC appear to be easily met. Also "Thomas Keightley (historian)" would seem to be a misleading label to many nowadays who recognize him as mythology/folklore writer primarily.
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Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopædia, to which Keightley was a history-related contributor. So perhaps we do not see eye-to-eye on this issue. I am planning to rewrite the biographical article based on two bio pieces of more recent make than the DNB, and since they are both by folklorists, the result will be shift of emphasis towards Keightley's mythology/folklore contributions, and consequently a downplay of his historical pieces. --
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Hi Charles Matthews,
Thanks for creating the article on William Bullein. Are you going to nominate it at DYK? NinaGreen ( talk) 18:31, 18 January 2014 (UTC)
Colin Chisholm (I don't envy you having to get this through. I did try to tell the ODNB, but they don't seem intersted. Douglas Hamilton's book on the Scottish-Caribbean nexus is based on his PhD thesis which says right out and correctly that Colin was Provost William's son, but the published edition doesn't, so there isn't a frontline authority.- The relationship to Provost William Chisholm thus remains bedevilled by A.W.Mackenzie who thought there was a son, William, who practiced in Bristol after 1800. This is what Colin did, though he probably didn't arrive in Clifton until after 1802 - there's a reference in the Reelig papers to him having said goodbye to the Caribbean around that time. No trace of a birth date, but on the whole Hosack's date is the likeliest because of the enlistment date. However, this is close to the date of his father's second marriage and he did not get on - according to her - with his father's second wife, Katherine Baillie. The memorial for his father he provided in the Old High Kirk of Inverness after 1807 makes no mention of her at all, though it does mention his mother. He doesn't even name himself or his half-siblings. If you check with 'Citizens of the World' you will find that Aberdeen University in the eighteenth century had various ways of producing doctors - the main figure of the book, Alexander Grant of Dalvey in the late 17teens had apparently done something like a corresponding course with them ; Chisholm was awarded a degree in 1792, but this was'graduation' only in a technical sense. Date of settlement in Bristol was probably before 1805 as youngest daughter Catherine is christened there 1805.
I'll try and fill in any gaps you aren't happy with as best I can. But some are pretty big. Best wishes Delahays ( talk) 21:14, 21 January 2014 (UTC)
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Sorry, I didn't realise, until after I'd reverted, why you were (correctly) removing the link. I was going to link to Wiktionary's entry instead, but I agree that the adjective is unnecessary. Dbfirs 19:39, 27 January 2014 (UTC)
As you might have already noticed, Eric and I have begun expanding it. Aside from the additions you made to it a while back for such an author the content was really lacking, there was literally no coverage of her work. I've begun to start filling in some red links, National Froebel Foundation surprisingly was missing, can you add to it?♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:35, 26 January 2014 (UTC)
Nope.♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:55, 26 January 2014 (UTC)
Can you look into Bertie Meyer for me, I'm really not sure those are his own birth and death dates, I picked them up in a snippet but they would seem about right. I wonder if Bernard Meyer or B. A. Meyer might turn up anything. Also can you find anything on Bestime, a manufacturer of jigsaws and board games in the 1940s/50s who produced the first Enid Blyton jigsaws.♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:21, 26 January 2014 (UTC)
Yes, Tim's sent me the Times obit which states June 17 1877! I've just picked up another source which says June 1877, although neither mention the exact date of death but he was cremated on Nov 22 1967, so I've put mid November. Proof that wikimedia should be trying to make as many agreements with newspaper archives as possible... Makes you wonder why he doesn't have an ODNB entry. He was married to US actress Rosemary Ames. Amazes me how many of Blyton's really quite notable books don't have articles, Sunny Stories, one of the most popular children's magazines was missing until I started it earlier! I bet that there's rather a few thousand attics or storage rooms around the UK which have boxes with things like that in it!♦ Dr. Blofeld 22:16, 26 January 2014 (UTC)
Started Bestime, isn't there a category for games or jigsaws?♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:36, 28 January 2014 (UTC)
Ha, nearly 10 years ago.. I started Category:Jigsaw puzzle manufacturers which feeds into puzzle designers. I really think a list like List of board game and jigsaw puzzle manufacturers of the United Kingdom would be quite useful...♦ Dr. Blofeld 15:03, 28 January 2014 (UTC)
The article looks pretty comprehensive to me. I'll rootle round my collection of technical encyclopaedias and see what might turn up. Just realised I wrote a chunk of the Jacob Perkins article in about 2007!! Apwoolrich ( talk) 20:00, 28 January 2014 (UTC)
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Just thanked you for minor addition to History of Penkridge, but should really thank you for John de Derlington article, to which you linked it. Sjwells53 ( talk) 11:41, 14 February 2014 (UTC)
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Hi. Started this. Can you find any other sources and locate the url of the Far East Columbians PDF?♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:22, 14 February 2014 (UTC)
Can you find any other sources on Welsh Calvinist Isaac Hughes [2] ? I've added to Friedrich Adolph Lampe and have asked Yngvadottir to translate from Dutch wikipedia.♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:04, 19 February 2014 (UTC)
I think he might be worth starting. Just started Johannes d'Outrein, amazed he was missing.♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:52, 19 February 2014 (UTC)
Isaac Hughes will do I think, thanks.♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:56, 19 February 2014 (UTC)
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You strike me as somebody who'd be good at this sort of thing.
I have something to figure out
The number choices are 36, 54, 40, and 50
The numbers go before the letters which stand for some words so it would be
xx C in a PIJ and xx Y M for GWA
the last one I figured out was 21 S on a D =21 spots on a dice, the one before that was xx FO in a P =20 fluid ounces in a pint. So it would be something like 50 captains in a Palestine Islamic Jihad. Can you think what PIJ and GWA might stand for? ♦ Dr. Blofeld 09:46, 22 February 2014 (UTC)
I've got 54 Cards in a Pack Including Jokers thanks to Moswento, and 50 years married for a Golden wedding anniversary. Done it now! It wasn't as difficult as this I guess!
On the wiki front I'm now a member of WMUK,. I'm planning on using the grant system to buy books. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:07, 22 February 2014 (UTC)
Can you find the url for the adobe source used in Mount Shungol? ^ Development concept of an appropriate and sustainable agroforestry, Digbib.ubka.uni-karlsruhe.de is the link. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:10, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
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Check out Wikipedia:WikiProject Women artists, also. Charles Matthews ( talk) 16:28, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
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Hi Charles. I've just discovered that my list of long biographies in Rees has just been deleted, seemingly by a Bot. Any thoughts on what I might to to retrieve it, please. I don't want this to happen with the other lists already published and the music ones I am working on. Thanks. Apwoolrich ( talk) 14:30, 12 March 2014 (UTC)
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Greetings. Can you remember what page of the Enid Blyton Society that list of games and manufacturers was on? I remembered it was 178 or something. Need some sources on her puzzles and games for the article.♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:57, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
I think I've got it now.♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:22, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
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A very good point. The comment was supposed to convey the fact that I, together with colleagues, were unable to locate anything other than (in many cases pitifully) brief bits of info – I accept that it could/should have been worded in a different manner. The whole article was really intended to be a list of the persons who now had an entry, and the “left overs”, and it was these that I didn’t want to dismiss but could not find sufficient info to make an entry viable. By all means, please amend the phrase Alanfromwakefield ( talk) 19:32, 23 March 2014 (UTC)
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I've begun preparing this using the book from the grant. The historical /architectural coverage in it is a bit sketchy even if a great book though but I can glean some useful facts from it at least. I'#ve begun brainstorming for sources in the talk page, can you help find some decent sources on its history/architecture and list them there?♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:33, 30 March 2014 (UTC)
In the Rees article I have a red link to Samuel F. Bradford, printer of the American edition. There is an article about him in the French Wiki, and my query is, how to make a direct link to it from my piece. I have tried adding fr:in front of Samuel, but that has the effect of disappearing the entire wording between the square brackets when saved. I suppose the easiest thing will be for me to write a new article about him, cribbing the info from the French one, but it would be nice to make proper acknowledgement. Thanks. Apwoolrich ( talk) 18:34, 30 March 2014 (UTC)
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The William addition at this edit probably needs a citation. I can see it in the birth registration but not sure what was your (non-research) link would be. Quick look doesn't find an obit. — billinghurst sDrewth 14:40, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
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Couldn't find an entry in DNB, only Arthur Graham.♦ Dr. Blofeld 08:12, 7 April 2014 (UTC)
Was just about to start it and realized I'd already created Arthur Tomson! BTW I started List of Finnish writers the other day out of curiosity of what was missing!♦ Dr. Blofeld 08:21, 7 April 2014 (UTC)
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I suppose you're already aware of the claims on what discourages people from editing Wikipedia, as reported by the BBC, but it might serve as a checklist to see whether the VLE modules cover the key points...
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here Greetings — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.191.117.151 ( talk) 03:45, 21 April 2014 (UTC)