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I have removed this from the lede a second time as it is excessive to coatrack a living persons bio sexuality on to the whole first player issue, I am available for discussion on the talk, regards. Off2riorob ( talk) 18:12, 19 December 2009 (UTC)
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Hi, in the references to this article a weblink does not work any more. Is it possible to fix it? Thank you very much in advance Peewit13 ( talk) 00:04, 27 December 2009 (UTC)
Hi FruitMonkey, Happy New Year to you too. I agree that 1750 should be a cut off - most sources seem to date the real industrial 'take off' in Wales / Britain as a whole to the late 18th c. I'm not so sure about 1914 though - the number of coalminers in Wales peaked in 1920, Rhondda's population peaked in 1924; the Post-World War I recession seems to me to be more significant in marking a shift from an era of demographic and economic expansion in Glamorgan to one of contraction. I don't know exactly what date we should choose though: 1920? 1925? Lots more work needed on the article, but it's coming along nicely and I think we have enough sources to get it to GA status eventually.-- Pondle ( talk) 10:33, 1 January 2010 (UTC)
Thank you for creating the above article. I had been meaning to do so myself, and will now merely have to improve on what you have done, with more detail on tinplate etc. Peterkingiron ( talk) 22:30, 3 January 2010 (UTC)
Hi FruitMonkey, I asked Daicaregos if he could pull something together on the early history of the Glamorgan area, which he's drafted here. Please check it out and see what you think. I reckon it looks really good.-- Pondle ( talk) 12:21, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
I've asked XrysD - who seems to be one of the best map creators on Wikipedia - to see if he can create a really top-quality map of Glamorgan (for an example of XrysD's previous Welsh work, see this file [1]). I was thinking that a modified version of the Glamorgan inset in that map would be great in the 'Administration' section of the article, but if you have any other ideas that XrysD could work on, please let him know.-- Pondle ( talk) 18:26, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
Hi - could you take a look at the article and its talk page to see that I have done all the necessary to prepare it for review when you get a chance. cheers Alvear24 ( talk) 19:32, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
Hello FruitMonkey. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Sean Davey, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: The "article" is a redirect, and doesn't qualify for deletion under A7; I'm going to PROD it. Thank you. — Malik Shabazz Talk/ Stalk 22:13, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
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A lot of Did You knows, that is really impressive. Thanks for your hard work. Ikip 10:15, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
This bot incorrectly links the above page to sv:Gwyn. Please rectify this. Thanks FruitMonkey ( talk) 22:31, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
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Hi FruitMonkey, I have now finished going through and verifying all the references again. It took a whole day so please don't think I'm doing this just to be awkward. I know that you would rather make any major changes yourself so I have listed what needs to be done here: Talk:Milford Haven/GA1. It's worth bearing in mind that while a GA rating is hard to get, a single stroke from the mouse of any picky visitor to Wikipedia can demote it - requiring the article to go through the whole process again.-- Kudpung ( talk) 09:01, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
The article appears to have ground to a halt from those attempting to ready the page for GA status. Not so much from the fact that people have given up, just that no one appears to have anything major to add anymore. If you could pop back to the page and drop the axe one way or another, I think the contributors would appreciate it. Thanks FruitMonkey ( talk) 19:43, 9 February 2010 (UTC)
O grief - the borders haven't been sorted out. Pain in the arse. Is Thornton in Milford Haven or not? SilkTork * YES! 19:55, 9 February 2010 (UTC)
This is old, but gives good info on the boundaries and when they changed - [3]. SilkTork * YES! 20:02, 9 February 2010 (UTC)
Same source also has this - [4]. SilkTork * YES! 20:03, 9 February 2010 (UTC)
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Gnevin ( talk) 13:06, 14 February 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for the response. I have been most impressed by the contribution to rugby history you have made. As with most subjects, recentism (I believe that is the wiki term) is prominent in rugby and work such as yours is helping to redress the balance. I, too, have a leaning towards the historical in terms of where I would tend to focus my efforts. As well as articles, I have attempted to drop in the odd template that is both informative but with a sub-agenda to prompt readers to fill in gaps (hence templates such as Template:English national rugby union team captains, Template:England Squad 1987 World Cup, Template:British and Irish Lions 1910, Template:Rugby Football Union Founding Clubs (and the same for Wales, Ireland and Scotland)) etc). The founding clubs of the RFU led me to fill in all the gaps myself...oh the irony. By the way, you may remembe that I created List of England national rugby union footballers. When I did so, I took elements from other like lists. It is more detailed than Ireland but less than Wales. Is there an accepted standard? Kwib ( talk) 13:53, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
I was thinking of putting up a list of SRU presidents at some point in the near future. I've really been working through the players just now, and there is a considerable overlap between the two. The one thing that makes me a bit apprehensive is that there's more or less one a year! (It's bad enough creating content for obscure players!)
One of the books with a list of SRU presidents in it, if I remember rightly, is Thorburn's "History of Scottish Rugby" (a very dry, and dully written book!) and the local library has a copy I've taken out in the past.-- MacRusgail ( talk) 14:31, 18 February 2010 (UTC)
This is the same guy basically edit warring the same type of content into two article where it is disputed, it is totally tiresome, its good to know I am not on my own resisting such tripe, thanks for commenting. Off2riorob ( talk) 23:19, 19 February 2010 (UTC)
Nice job. Sorry I jumped the gun and started editing before you were done. Can you do anything about Clara's article and Sidney's? They totally ignore the subjects' stage work, only describing their film work. All the best, -- Ssilvers ( talk) 23:07, 20 February 2010 (UTC)
I nominated your article Henry Bracy for DYK. Joe Chill ( talk) 23:28, 20 February 2010 (UTC)
Hi Fruitmonkey, it's been a long time since we discussed this, but there seemed to be a general consensus for a change of title. Unless anyone objects I'm going to make a bold move to Geography and identity in Wales and start making some radical changes along the lines we talked about many months ago.-- Pondle ( talk) 10:32, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
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Can you translate the Rob Terry page from english to welsh please if you cant dont worry Youndbuckerz ( talk) 10:15, 7 March 2010 (UTC) Okay, no worries
Hi FruitMonkey - I've placed comments on the talk page of this article and that of Geology of Wales suggesting that the two be merged but soliciting opinion, not least of yourself and Autodidcatylus who originated the two articles. I'm with you on upping Wales' presence on Wiki (weel done there by the way!) and I'm keen to do the same for geology. There's always the question of what works best and where there's overlap how best to deal with it. Geopersona ( talk) 20:28, 8 March 2010 (UTC)
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Many thanks FruitMonkey, no where near your legendary editing reputation yet though, just thought these articles were crying out for a bit more factual info. Will try an add some more soon. Thanks once again, keep up the good work. PS Sorry if this isn't the right place to reply, I'm still getting to grips with trying to understand the talk page functions. Wikeee wee ( talk) 21:33, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
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Materialscientist ( talk) 06:02, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
Hi,
A while back you sent me a message about the Year/Club/Caps/points headings in this infobox potentially showing up when they weren't required. just to make sure I can fix this properly, could you add some example infoboxes to the test cases page for me to test on? I'm having difficulty getting a good set of test pages. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 14:49, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
Hi FruitMonkey, armed with "The British Rugby League Records Book", I'm planning to tackle the redlinks on the List of Wales national rugby league team players article in the coming weeks. There'll undoubtedly be some former Rugby Union footballers who went North, so I'd appreciate any information that you have on these players. Also, there are some footballers for who only the initial of the forename is specified, but I've added the club and year(s) that they won caps, so if you have any idea of the forenames, once again I'd be grateful. There are also a couple of Ebbw Vale footballers from 1911; ?. Hitchins, and ?. Smith, for who even the initial of the forename is unknown, so once again I'd be grateful of any information. Cheers. DynamoDegsy ( talk) 22:27, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
There's a couple of players with unusual forenames, i.e. Ponty Davies, and Tuss Griffiths, would you know whether they are likely to be nicknames, or contractions of more formal forenames? Also, Robert Ackerman appears to have won cap(s) for Wales RL while at Cardiff in the early 1990s, but as far as I'm aware there wasn't an RL club in Cardiff at the time, and although there appears to be a couple of players who have won RL caps while at an RU club, i.e. Thomas "Tom" Brown while at Coventry R.F.C., and Lenny Woodard while at Pontypridd RFC, I believe the early '90s would've been too early for this to happen, as I believe it pre-dates professional RU, any ideas? Also, according to the "The British Rugby League Records Book" there's a player called Alex Kersey to Brown, "Kersey to Brown" what kind of surname is that?!?!?, any ideas? DynamoDegsy ( talk) 07:57, 1 April 2010 (UTC)
Some sources state that; Billy Boston, Johnny Freeman, and Terry Holmes, have played for Wales RL. However, as they give no details of years, opposition, and number of caps, I'm doubful of the validity of these claims, but does your your Wales RL book have any details? Cheers. DynamoDegsy ( talk)
David Williams Club? 1995 2-caps is not Dave Williams (rugby league) as he was born in London in 1987, and it's not David Williams (rugby league) as he was born in Sydney in 1986. Any ideas who the 1995 David Williams might be? DynamoDegsy ( talk) 08:55, 9 April 2010 (UTC)
I'll update Billy Boston's article to reflect non-full internationals shortly. Are there any other Welsh players who played for Wales, but only in non-full internationals? Another question, a technical one this time, when I respond on my talk page to your answer on my talk page, do you automatically get a new messages prompt? DynamoDegsy ( talk)
After a brief sojourn creating articles for Rugby Union Internationals at what became Rugby League clubs, I'm back on message. I believe that you said there were five non-recognised Welsh internationals; 17 April 1927 versus Northern RL, 19 May 1951 versus British Empire XIII, and 19 May 1955 versus France 'B', do you have details of the non-full international players in the other two Welsh matches? Cheers. DynamoDegsy ( talk) 16:43, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
Would you know whether Lewis "Lou" Rees is the same guy who made his début for Wales (RU) on 11 March 1933 against Ireland? Cheers. DynamoDegsy ( talk) 14:46, 11 May 2010 (UTC)
Regarding, Wales vs France at Toulouse 17 February 1963, K. Coslett (St. Helens) is Kelvin "Kel" Coslett, R Glastonbury (Workington) is Raymond "Ray" Glastonbury, G Lewis (Leigh) is Gordon Lewis, CJ Dixon (Halifax) is Colin Dixon, J Freeman (Halifax) is John "Johnny" Freeman, BL Jones (Leeds) 'capt.' is Lewis Jones, C Evans (Leeds) is Colin Evans, SG Owen (Leigh) is Sidney "Sid" Owen, CH Winslade (Warrington) is Charles "Charlie" Winslade, R Morgan (Swinton) is Ronald "Ron" Morgan, L Fisher (Warrington) is Idwal Fisher, T Robbins (Bramley) is Terrence "Terry" Robbins, DG Vines (Wakefield) is Donald "Don" Vines. Cheers. DynamoDegsy ( talk) 13:56, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi there, FM—a wee favour please, if you can manage. I'm copy-editing Teifi Valley Railway and have hit the unlinked placename 'Conwyl Efed'. Searching around, I come across Cynwyl Elfed which also features on the template 'Communities of Carmarthenshire':
Can you advise whether 'Conwyl' is a variant spelling of the same place? If not, there's scope for a new article on it, and also on Henllan, Ceredigion since they're both on a tourist route. Cheers Bjenks ( talk) 07:03, 28 March 2010 (UTC)
Haven't been doing much editing lately, but have been reading a good book, which you might have already come across - called The Red & The White, by Huw Richards, a history of the England-Wales (or Wales-England if you prefer!), matches - lots of interesting stuff from the early days which I guess you probably already know, but worth a read anyway.-- Bcp67 ( talk) 06:50, 4 April 2010 (UTC)
Hi FruitMonkey. Would you be able to help me finish two of the principal area templates I started so long ago, but never finished? Both Neath Port Talbot and Bridgend are in danger of being deleted. I will work on them as well. Once completed, they will need to be added to the corresponding articles. Much appreciated if you can assist. ~ Geaugagrrl talk 06:27, 9 April 2010 (UTC)
Hi I have a photo of Cardigan I'd like to upload to insert into the WP article on Cardigan -- can you advise me how to go about this? Best wishes, Jprw ( talk) 12:45, 9 April 2010 (UTC)
Many thanks for the sound and painstaking advice. However, I jump through various hoops and then a message appears "license also required" -- this is a major stumbling block, it would appear. Jprw ( talk) 10:09, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
No, I fell at the last hurdle, as it were. I'll give it another go now though and then get back to you. Jprw ( talk) 10:16, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
This is the message: "You must give the original source of the file, the author of the work, and a license." Jprw ( talk) 10:20, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
No, it hasn't been uploaded -- because of the stumbling block mentioned above. I went down this route. Jprw ( talk) 11:03, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
Okay, many thanks for bearing with me. The photo can be found here. I suppose the next step would be to decide if we can use it in the article, i.e., is it good enough. Cheers Jprw ( talk) 11:57, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
I'll leave it up to you as to how best to use the image -- though it may need to be cropped in the foreground? Anyway, glad you like it. Cheers, Jprw ( talk) 05:33, 12 April 2010 (UTC)
With William McCutcheon staying with Oldham when they changed codes, after he retired, would you know whether he became a rugby union or, rugby league referee, or did he referee both? DynamoDegsy ( talk) 17:50, 9 April 2010 (UTC)
Hey thanks for creating a dab for William Bowen. Good call. I also found it was a bit curious that the article would redirect to the rugby player and was thinking of creating a dab for it myself, but then I didn't. - Frazzydee| ✍ 08:53, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
See you at wicipedia. Deb ( talk) 10:51, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
The quote from the book is "Tackle him? It was as much as I could do to get out of his way!". Refers to the the 1894 fixture at Birkenhead Park. We'll gloss over the result in the name of Anglo-Welsh cooperation.... The cite is; Richards, Huw (2009). The Red And The White. Aurum Press Ltd. p. 38. ISBN 9781845134051.. If you need anything else, give me a shout.-- Bcp67 ( talk) 20:40, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
Thank you for placing the photo correctly in the article. It looks pretty good. Cheers, Jprw ( talk) 13:13, 21 April 2010 (UTC)
Ah, you're watching. Now give me time to finish and then you can weigh in. But, in the interim, reflect on whether a dry recitation of facts, as opposed to facts enlived by informed opinion, makes for a more informative and valuable article. And don't take it personally. I've learn't not to.
KJP1 ( talk) 23:41, 23 April 2010 (UTC)
OK. Point taken and I shall amend accordingly when I can return to the article from dealing with a blizzard of comments on it. But we both want the same thing, a good article on an amazing and important building. can we try and help each other? Sorry that's a question.
KJP1 ( talk) 23:49, 23 April 2010 (UTC)
I appreciate that. And I appreciate my enthusiasm for Burges, and ignorance of Wikipedia conventions and editing formats, can lead me into error. I shal try to do better. But "dry"? It's hard to write anything about Burges that is dry because he, and his works, were the antithesis of dry. Does an encyclopedia have to be dry? Sorry, another question. KJP1 ( talk) 00:02, 24 April 2010 (UTC)
How is beer culturally important you ask? Beer is an important element of any culture and not everything that is in an image needs to be explicitly mentioned in an article. -- RegentsPark ( talk) 06:27, 25 April 2010 (UTC)
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Hi. could you have a look at
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For your information, I've added WikiProject Rugby union again. Not to be confused with Wikipedia:WikiProject Rugby union articles/Unreferenced BLPs or Wikipedia:WikiProject Rugby league/Unreferenced BLPs. Regards, SunCreator ( talk) 13:08, 5 May 2010 (UTC)
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Materialscientist ( talk) 00:03, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for your contribution to the Flag of Wales article. I've put a bit of effort into it recently, but I'm still not too happy with my edits. The problem I find is seperating the flag from the Red Dragon, do you think the articles should be merged? FruitMonkey ( talk) 17:29, 9 May 2010 (UTC)
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Could David B. Davies and David Harris Davies be the same guy? Although they appear to have a different middle name/initial, the orl-heritagetrust website has the 'B.' initial in quotes. Cheers. DynamoDegsy ( talk) 22:02, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
The mystery of Tuss Griffiths has been solved, it's Tyssul "Tuss" Griffiths, the rugby union and rugby league fullback of the 1940s and '50s for Wales (RL), Newport RFC (RU), Hunslet, Doncaster, Halifax, and Dewsbury. There's mention of Tuss being a wartime Wales (RU) cap, do you have any information to support this? Cheers. DynamoDegsy ( talk) 19:53, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
In the Welsh stars still had a rugby ball in wartime article at WalesOnline, there's mention of a WE ‘Billy’ Williams defecting to the 13-a-side game, I don't believe he's; William Edward Osborne Williams, William Henry "Buller" Williams, Billy Williams, nor William "Billy" Arthur Williams. Any idea who he might be, and what club(s) he played for? Cheers. DynamoDegsy ( talk) 14:56, 15 May 2010 (UTC)
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Congratulations for reaching the milestone of 50 articles that you created or expanded listed at "Did you know?" on the Main page. Your articles, primarily on Welsh topics, are a real asset to the encyclopedia. Iechyd da! Binksternet ( talk) 21:04, 17 May 2010 (UTC) |
Similar to W.J. Jones (Llanelli) who played in the Wales versus British Empire XIII game at Llanelli 19th May 1951, when there doesn't apppear to have been an RL team in Llanelli Circa-1951, there's a Roy Lambert Neath, Dewsbury, and Warrington 1950…1952 7-caps, when there doesn't apppear to be an RL team in Neath Circa-1950…1952, and a Mel Ford Aberavon 1951 1-cap, when there doesn't apppear to be an RL team in Aberavon Circa-1951. Once again, if they had been RU players, I would have thought the RU/RL antagonism would mean that playing RL would prevent them from ever playing RU again, which would explain why Roy Lambert went on to play for Dewsbury, but where did Mel Ford, and W.J. Jones go to? Do you have any details of Roy Lambert, Mel Ford, or W.J. Jones going north? Cheers. DynamoDegsy ( talk) 15:13, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
Would you know whether John "Jack" Foley of Wales (RL), and Ebbw Vale (RL) circa-1908…1911, could be the Jack Foley of Monmouthshire, and Brynmawr RFC circa-1906? Particularly as Brynmawr and Ebbw Vale being only 2½-miles apart by road (less if you nip over the hill). ★★★Breaking News★★★ in the same Monmouthshire team... could Pontypool's Dai Beynon, be David Beynon of Wales (RL), and Oldham (RL). Cheers. DynamoDegsy ( talk) 20:04, 22 May 2010 (UTC)
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It is, by all Wikipedia standards, close to vandalism to insert a link to the Welsh Rugby Union - http://www.wru.co.uk/14196.php - disguised as a BBC story in the biography of the said scientitist, who weren't Welsh and certainly not a rugby player. Come on ... Hhbruun ( talk) 19:45, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
Cheers for commenting on BACRC's afd discussion. The article has been removed from deletion. Thanks a lot! Saebhiar Adishatz 02:59, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
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Hi, I was browsing your talk page and saw your thoughts about an image of the royal coat of arms with a dragon. How's about this http://image18.webshots.com/18/9/43/41/2897943410041465975JMclIO_fs.jpg ? It is the entrance to Sherborne School Dorset, which was (re-)founded in 1550 by Edward VI. Hope this helps, I've left a similar message for User:Ham. Oh, and by the way I never said thanks for your encouragement of my early edits... what didn't you agree with by the way? :-) Mbwa mwitu ( talk) 14:47, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
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I put in a request for someone to write an article Thomas Ranken Lyle two years ago and now you've done it!
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According saints.org.uk, there was no Bob Jones playing for St.Helens circa-1948, but there was a Dicky Jones who had signed for St. Helens from Swinton, and "my" Bob Jones had played for Swinton, so I think it's the same man. According to saints.org.uk, Dicky played for Aberavon, Glamorgan County, and Wales XV ("my" Bob Jones played for Wales RL in 1947), this seems to infer a 'Victory International' rather than test match, and I can't find a Bob/Dicky Jones on WRU, however the only non-Test playing Jones' in the Welsh stars still had a rugby ball in wartime article are; WG (Bill) Jones, Elvet Jones, Glyn Jones?, and Hubert Jones. Do you think Bob/Dicky are the same man? Do you have any information? Cheers. DynamoDegsy ( talk) 22:16, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
I've been chomping through the
List of Wales national rugby league team players, and although I'm not there yet, I'm closing in on those players for whom I don't have a forename. Do you have any clues as to the forenames of… Aberdare = W. Hopkins; Batley = H. R. Davies; Treherbert = D. Galloway; Pontypridd = T. Davies; Merthyr Tydfil = D. Lewis, J. Paddison, and R. Rees; Hull Kingston Rovers = A. Sandham; Ebbw Vale = ?. Hitchins, W. E. 'Chick' Jenkins, J. Saunders, H. Smith; Keighley = W. Jones, and L. Orchard; Bradford Northern = H. Francis; Leeds = R. Green; Warrington = W. G. Chapman, and W. Dowell; Huddersfield = D. Evans, E. Hughes, and G. Parker? At least Ebbw Vale's W. E. 'Chick' Jenkins' nickname is known, but a proper forename would be better. Cheers.
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I've found an useful function of the "Infobox rugby league biography", by adding "|first = RU" into the infobox, the rugby union statistics appear before the rugby league statistics, which is often chronologically more representative. DynamoDegsy ( talk)
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I've got hold of copies of 'Gone North Vol.1', and 'Vol.2', and I've been checking the ' Welsh Rugby Union Caps Who Turned Professional' Appendix VII, to see if I could find any dual-code internationals, I've found that some players that I'd created as solely rugby league internationals, are in fact dual-code, but I've yet to update their articles. Anyhow, I thought I might as well create articles for all the remaining 'Welsh Rugby Union Caps Who Turned Professional', I've tried to match all players to existing articles, but to prevent me creating inadvertent duplicates, would you please be able to check the remaining redlinks on my talkpage? Cheers. DynamoDegsy ( talk) 10:04, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
If you get the chance, can you please take a look at my lengthy note on the Iorwerth Evans article, and see if you can do a Sherlock Holmes on it? Cheers. DynamoDegsy ( talk) 19:02, 25 June 2010 (UTC)
Well, I went and took the bull by the horns and compiled new assessment guidelines for the Rugby Union Project. Do you want to weigh in and help us get this done? Cheers. SauliH ( talk) 06:21, 28 June 2010 (UTC)
According to 'Gone North - Volume 2', the 'Errata to (Gone North) Volume 1' states... "MOORE William J. joined Rochdale H., not Oldham." At the moment the article mentions neither Rochdale Hornets, or Oldham, but Bradford, would you know whether this is a typo, or did he in fact play for Bradford Northern? Cheers. DynamoDegsy ( talk) 20:22, 29 June 2010 (UTC)
I've added this note to Jere Blake, and William Morris' articles... In 'Gone North - Volume 2', the 'Errata to (Gone North) Volume 1' section states that "Detailed research now indicates that Jere Blake and William Morris appear never to have signed for Salford or any other professional club although they do appear to have trialled Northern Union clubs"., but just in case there are other references that mention Salford, I've not removed the references to them, but you might want to remove them if 'Gone North - Volume 1' is the only reference. Cheers. DynamoDegsy ( talk) 16:11, 23 June 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for editing. From where I'm from in Wales we still refer to them as the Llanelli Scarlets which technically they are along with the Cardiff Blues and Newport Gwent Dragons. However I am going to tweak further the Ifan Evans page as he has yet to represent the Scarlets. From what I am aware with him I don't think he has even yet to appear on the bench for them. Welshman25 ( talk) 22:37, 29 June 2010 (UTC)
Hugh Lloyd-Davies seems an " interesting" character. The Welsh stars still had a rugby ball in wartime reference states that "The 13-a-side game had also seen the defection of Hugh Lloyd-Davies...", the On This Day - 5 January 1946 external link confirms Hugh Lloyd-Davies kicking a penalty for Wales XV against New Zealand Armed Forces, and the This Day - 29 November 1947 external link has Hugh Lloyd-Davies kicking two penalties for Cambridge University RFC against Oxford University RFC. I assumed that those players who had 'Gone North' had been given temporary dispensation to play RU for the Wales XV, but returned to RL after the "Victory Internationals", but Lloyd-Davies appear to have played RU for the Wales XV while at Barrow RL, and then gone onto play RU with Cambridge University, is this plausible? Cheers. DynamoDegsy ( talk) 18:56, 4 July 2010 (UTC)
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No worries, I'm slowly working through them! I was going on the tables from the main Six Nations Championship article as to champions, which state those years as incomplete... Nouse4aname ( talk) 18:39, 6 July 2010 (UTC)
It would make sense that those tournaments should be considered complete, as all scheduled games took place. Could you add the ref to the main article at some point and update accordingly?! Cheers, Nouse4aname ( talk) 18:50, 6 July 2010 (UTC)
William Arnold Bowen and William 'Billy' E. Bowen (who went on to play RL with Leeds), both played for Swansea RFC about 20-years apart, which could infer a father/son or similar relationship, is there any evidence to support this assertion? Cheers. DynamoDegsy ( talk) 11:12, 5 July 2010 (UTC)
In the David and Evan James articles, it says "In 1892, James and his brother supposedly turned out for professional rugby league team Broughton Rangers...", should this be 1895, or later, as this is when the NU breakaway took place, or were they actually illegally paid to play rugby union for Broughton Rangers? Cheers. DynamoDegsy ( talk) 20:53, 6 July 2010 (UTC)
Me again... could you please check out William Herbert "Bert" Jones for me? 'Gone North' says he won caps while at Llanelli, but saints.org.uk says Neath. Also, he only played 14-matches for St. Helens, would you know whether he returned to Wales and/or RU? Cheers. DynamoDegsy ( talk) 21:06, 7 July 2010 (UTC)
I've just created an article for Danny Harris, I believe he won Wales caps while at Pontypridd RFC, and Cardiff RFC, and from 'Gone North' I assume the caps were won in that club sequence, but I'm not sure when he swapped clubs. Would you please be able check? Cheers. DynamoDegsy ( talk) 10:26, 8 July 2010 (UTC)
I've nothing to link Harold James Jones, and Harold Jones as the same person, but they did play in a similar era, and if he left Wigan in 1933, and went to Keighley, he could have won caps for Wales (RL) in 1935…36 as he'd have only been 28…29. He was a Lock in his union days, a second-row in his Wigan days, so it's not implausible that he could have played Prop, or Hooker for Wales (RL) after this. I'd welcome any information you might have.
That's all the Welsh Rugby Union Caps Who Turned Professional done, so unless you have a list of Welsh rugby union club footballers who turned to rugby league, then I'm all finished… phew. DynamoDegsy ( talk) 17:03, 8 July 2010 (UTC)
'Gone North' indicates (with an asterix) that David Morgan Jenkins won GB (RL) caps, but I believe it was actually David Rees Jenkins, do you concur?
I've thought of one group of Welsh rugby league footballers on which we might be able to co-operate, and that's those that played for the Other Nationalities rugby league team, e.g. David "Dai" Harris, and Eli Davies, do you have any details on these or any others players, or details of a publication that has information of the Other Nationalities players? Cheers. DynamoDegsy ( talk) 15:05, 12 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi FruitMonkey, just wondered if we could/should get back into the work on the Glamorgan article. We've both stalled over recent weeks and months, but it must be v. close to GA, surely?-- Pondle ( talk) 22:57, 12 July 2010 (UTC)
Page 169 of Robert Gate's 'Gone North - Volume 1' mentions both Cardiff RFC, and Cardiff I.A.C., would you know who I.A.C. are? Cheers. DynamoDegsy ( talk) 13:23, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
I hear you. It is my bad as I copy/paste the WPRU banner I sometimes have been negligent to change the default 'stub' class designation... Blair Swannell being one of a couple (I forget which other one I had ballsed up). One interesting source of information I stumbled across recently is the NLA newspaper archive, where it possible to bring up all the contemporary articles from their day. Blair Swannell has quite a few articles that can be mined for further data possibly. I am beginning to put search links on the talk pages for these stubs I am putting up - you will find a few on Blair Swannell's talk page. You might want to double check these to see if anything is missing from a well rounded GA article. SauliH ( talk) 01:11, 19 July 2010 (UTC)
According to page-158 of 'Gone North - Volume 1', George Thomas, is called George (Ponty) Thomas, and played for Pontypool, which seems to contrdict other references. Any ideas? Cheers. DynamoDegsy ( talk) 09:00, 19 July 2010 (UTC)
Similar to the above, according to page-159 of 'Gone North - Volume 1', Emlyn Jenkins played for Cardiff, which seems to contradict 'Fields of praise : the official history of the Welsh Rugby Union, 1881-1981, David "Dai" Smith, Gareth Williams (1980) ISBN 0708307663'. Any ideas? Cheers. DynamoDegsy ( talk) 15:51, 19 July 2010 (UTC)
According to the Leeds Rhinos Website, Glyn Prosser is the brother of Dai Prosser, and circa-1936, both of them played for York (RL). Do you have any details of Glyn and Dai being siblings, and of Glyn "Going North"?. Cheers. DynamoDegsy ( talk) 20:11, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
Once again, according to page-159 of 'Gone North - Volume 1', Dai Prosser played for Neath. Your thoughts? DynamoDegsy ( talk) 16:34, 19 July 2010 (UTC)
According to page-159 of 'Gone North - Volume 1', Arthur Daniels not only came from Llanelli, but he played for Llanelli, is this true? Cheers. DynamoDegsy ( talk) 13:02, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
There's no getting rid of me... according to page-159 of 'Gone North - Volume 1', Glyn Moses played for Maesteg? Cheers. DynamoDegsy ( talk) 13:40, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi, have you got any references to the extra info you added to the above article e.g. his clubs and rugby league career. Eldumpo ( talk) 20:16, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
In your edit summary here, you said you undid my previous edit because "James Marsh is the disambiguation page." Well, yes, it is, but that's not the point. WP:INTDABLINK specifically says that when you want an intentional link to a disambiguation page, you should link to the page that has "(disambiguation)" in the title, even if that is a redirect. So the reason for the edit is not that the old link was wrong, but that it didn't meet the criteria for an intentional disambig link. -- R'n'B ( call me Russ) 21:17, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
Removing the history section of Gibbonsdown gave the article a strong POV slant. Which is why I reverted your reversion.
-- *Kat* ( talk) 12:21, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
I have found out that Galloway's ( Treherbert RLFC) first name was David, and then I came across this (lot 120). Do you have any info as to which club he joined, Hull or Halifax? Ta FruitMonkey ( talk) 21:00, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
My last contribution before I jet off... I wonder if Bradford Northern's Howell Francis, is the same guy as Wigan's Howell de Francis? It's the correct era, and the correct position. Cheers. DynamoDegsy ( talk) 10:37, 1 August 2010 (UTC)
Hello. Aber is my local club and I have a history book which they brought out to celebrate the club's 50th year. I'll help edit the page as much as possible. Any help would be much appreciated. Welshman25 ( talk) 18:48, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi again, I need help with the kit. I got a couple of photos that you could use that could help. Email me / msn me at ycymro@gmail.com Welshman25 ( talk) 19:39, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
Hello, I hope you're doing fine and I sincerely apologize for this intrusion. My name's Claudi Balaguer (User Capsot from the Catalan Wikipedia and Occitan Wikiccionari) I've just read your profile and since you're Welsh I suppose you know very well what are a minorized language and culture and maybe I am not bothering you and you will help us... (I'm glad your culture and nation can provide people like Hywel Williams!) I'm a member of a Catalan association "Amical de la Viquipèdia" which is trying to get some recognition as a Catalan Chapter but this hasn't been approved up to this moment because Catalan is not supported by a state even though our Association is working real hard. We would appreciate your support, visible if you stick this on your first page: Wikimedia CAT and/or sign the list of "Members and Supporters" that can be reached through the link inside the template. Thanks again/diolch for your attention, I wish you a wonderful, warm and sunny summer, take care! Capsot ( talk) 11:49, 7 August 2010 (UTC) PD: You're absolutely right about local history and villages, they deserve much more and have lived longer than some shows!
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Thankyou. The written community is very different to a face-to-face one, in that it can be so easy to step over the line into brashness/or rudenes. Good to know that my attempts at controlling myself are showing as civility. Logical - well thanks for the compliment there too. SauliH ( talk) 23:17, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
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According to 'Gone North - Volume 1', a Welsh rugby union international Rees Thomas left Pontypool RFC for Warrington, would you know if this is Rees Thomas? Cheers. DynamoDegsy ( talk) 13:08, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
The International caps section of Glynneath RFC has a red-linked T.C. Lloyd, do you think this could actually be Thomas John Lloyd? Cheers. DynamoDegsy ( talk) 10:11, 19 August 2010 (UTC)
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Hi, in the references to this article a weblink does not work any more. Is it possible to fix it? Thank you very much in advance Peewit13 ( talk) 00:04, 27 December 2009 (UTC)
Hi FruitMonkey, Happy New Year to you too. I agree that 1750 should be a cut off - most sources seem to date the real industrial 'take off' in Wales / Britain as a whole to the late 18th c. I'm not so sure about 1914 though - the number of coalminers in Wales peaked in 1920, Rhondda's population peaked in 1924; the Post-World War I recession seems to me to be more significant in marking a shift from an era of demographic and economic expansion in Glamorgan to one of contraction. I don't know exactly what date we should choose though: 1920? 1925? Lots more work needed on the article, but it's coming along nicely and I think we have enough sources to get it to GA status eventually.-- Pondle ( talk) 10:33, 1 January 2010 (UTC)
Thank you for creating the above article. I had been meaning to do so myself, and will now merely have to improve on what you have done, with more detail on tinplate etc. Peterkingiron ( talk) 22:30, 3 January 2010 (UTC)
Hi FruitMonkey, I asked Daicaregos if he could pull something together on the early history of the Glamorgan area, which he's drafted here. Please check it out and see what you think. I reckon it looks really good.-- Pondle ( talk) 12:21, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
I've asked XrysD - who seems to be one of the best map creators on Wikipedia - to see if he can create a really top-quality map of Glamorgan (for an example of XrysD's previous Welsh work, see this file [1]). I was thinking that a modified version of the Glamorgan inset in that map would be great in the 'Administration' section of the article, but if you have any other ideas that XrysD could work on, please let him know.-- Pondle ( talk) 18:26, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
Hi - could you take a look at the article and its talk page to see that I have done all the necessary to prepare it for review when you get a chance. cheers Alvear24 ( talk) 19:32, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
Hello FruitMonkey. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Sean Davey, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: The "article" is a redirect, and doesn't qualify for deletion under A7; I'm going to PROD it. Thank you. — Malik Shabazz Talk/ Stalk 22:13, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
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A lot of Did You knows, that is really impressive. Thanks for your hard work. Ikip 10:15, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
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Hi FruitMonkey, I have now finished going through and verifying all the references again. It took a whole day so please don't think I'm doing this just to be awkward. I know that you would rather make any major changes yourself so I have listed what needs to be done here: Talk:Milford Haven/GA1. It's worth bearing in mind that while a GA rating is hard to get, a single stroke from the mouse of any picky visitor to Wikipedia can demote it - requiring the article to go through the whole process again.-- Kudpung ( talk) 09:01, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
The article appears to have ground to a halt from those attempting to ready the page for GA status. Not so much from the fact that people have given up, just that no one appears to have anything major to add anymore. If you could pop back to the page and drop the axe one way or another, I think the contributors would appreciate it. Thanks FruitMonkey ( talk) 19:43, 9 February 2010 (UTC)
O grief - the borders haven't been sorted out. Pain in the arse. Is Thornton in Milford Haven or not? SilkTork * YES! 19:55, 9 February 2010 (UTC)
This is old, but gives good info on the boundaries and when they changed - [3]. SilkTork * YES! 20:02, 9 February 2010 (UTC)
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Gnevin ( talk) 13:06, 14 February 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for the response. I have been most impressed by the contribution to rugby history you have made. As with most subjects, recentism (I believe that is the wiki term) is prominent in rugby and work such as yours is helping to redress the balance. I, too, have a leaning towards the historical in terms of where I would tend to focus my efforts. As well as articles, I have attempted to drop in the odd template that is both informative but with a sub-agenda to prompt readers to fill in gaps (hence templates such as Template:English national rugby union team captains, Template:England Squad 1987 World Cup, Template:British and Irish Lions 1910, Template:Rugby Football Union Founding Clubs (and the same for Wales, Ireland and Scotland)) etc). The founding clubs of the RFU led me to fill in all the gaps myself...oh the irony. By the way, you may remembe that I created List of England national rugby union footballers. When I did so, I took elements from other like lists. It is more detailed than Ireland but less than Wales. Is there an accepted standard? Kwib ( talk) 13:53, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
I was thinking of putting up a list of SRU presidents at some point in the near future. I've really been working through the players just now, and there is a considerable overlap between the two. The one thing that makes me a bit apprehensive is that there's more or less one a year! (It's bad enough creating content for obscure players!)
One of the books with a list of SRU presidents in it, if I remember rightly, is Thorburn's "History of Scottish Rugby" (a very dry, and dully written book!) and the local library has a copy I've taken out in the past.-- MacRusgail ( talk) 14:31, 18 February 2010 (UTC)
This is the same guy basically edit warring the same type of content into two article where it is disputed, it is totally tiresome, its good to know I am not on my own resisting such tripe, thanks for commenting. Off2riorob ( talk) 23:19, 19 February 2010 (UTC)
Nice job. Sorry I jumped the gun and started editing before you were done. Can you do anything about Clara's article and Sidney's? They totally ignore the subjects' stage work, only describing their film work. All the best, -- Ssilvers ( talk) 23:07, 20 February 2010 (UTC)
I nominated your article Henry Bracy for DYK. Joe Chill ( talk) 23:28, 20 February 2010 (UTC)
Hi Fruitmonkey, it's been a long time since we discussed this, but there seemed to be a general consensus for a change of title. Unless anyone objects I'm going to make a bold move to Geography and identity in Wales and start making some radical changes along the lines we talked about many months ago.-- Pondle ( talk) 10:32, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
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Ucucha 18:02, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
Can you translate the Rob Terry page from english to welsh please if you cant dont worry Youndbuckerz ( talk) 10:15, 7 March 2010 (UTC) Okay, no worries
Hi FruitMonkey - I've placed comments on the talk page of this article and that of Geology of Wales suggesting that the two be merged but soliciting opinion, not least of yourself and Autodidcatylus who originated the two articles. I'm with you on upping Wales' presence on Wiki (weel done there by the way!) and I'm keen to do the same for geology. There's always the question of what works best and where there's overlap how best to deal with it. Geopersona ( talk) 20:28, 8 March 2010 (UTC)
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Many thanks FruitMonkey, no where near your legendary editing reputation yet though, just thought these articles were crying out for a bit more factual info. Will try an add some more soon. Thanks once again, keep up the good work. PS Sorry if this isn't the right place to reply, I'm still getting to grips with trying to understand the talk page functions. Wikeee wee ( talk) 21:33, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
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Hi,
A while back you sent me a message about the Year/Club/Caps/points headings in this infobox potentially showing up when they weren't required. just to make sure I can fix this properly, could you add some example infoboxes to the test cases page for me to test on? I'm having difficulty getting a good set of test pages. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 14:49, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
Hi FruitMonkey, armed with "The British Rugby League Records Book", I'm planning to tackle the redlinks on the List of Wales national rugby league team players article in the coming weeks. There'll undoubtedly be some former Rugby Union footballers who went North, so I'd appreciate any information that you have on these players. Also, there are some footballers for who only the initial of the forename is specified, but I've added the club and year(s) that they won caps, so if you have any idea of the forenames, once again I'd be grateful. There are also a couple of Ebbw Vale footballers from 1911; ?. Hitchins, and ?. Smith, for who even the initial of the forename is unknown, so once again I'd be grateful of any information. Cheers. DynamoDegsy ( talk) 22:27, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
There's a couple of players with unusual forenames, i.e. Ponty Davies, and Tuss Griffiths, would you know whether they are likely to be nicknames, or contractions of more formal forenames? Also, Robert Ackerman appears to have won cap(s) for Wales RL while at Cardiff in the early 1990s, but as far as I'm aware there wasn't an RL club in Cardiff at the time, and although there appears to be a couple of players who have won RL caps while at an RU club, i.e. Thomas "Tom" Brown while at Coventry R.F.C., and Lenny Woodard while at Pontypridd RFC, I believe the early '90s would've been too early for this to happen, as I believe it pre-dates professional RU, any ideas? Also, according to the "The British Rugby League Records Book" there's a player called Alex Kersey to Brown, "Kersey to Brown" what kind of surname is that?!?!?, any ideas? DynamoDegsy ( talk) 07:57, 1 April 2010 (UTC)
Some sources state that; Billy Boston, Johnny Freeman, and Terry Holmes, have played for Wales RL. However, as they give no details of years, opposition, and number of caps, I'm doubful of the validity of these claims, but does your your Wales RL book have any details? Cheers. DynamoDegsy ( talk)
David Williams Club? 1995 2-caps is not Dave Williams (rugby league) as he was born in London in 1987, and it's not David Williams (rugby league) as he was born in Sydney in 1986. Any ideas who the 1995 David Williams might be? DynamoDegsy ( talk) 08:55, 9 April 2010 (UTC)
I'll update Billy Boston's article to reflect non-full internationals shortly. Are there any other Welsh players who played for Wales, but only in non-full internationals? Another question, a technical one this time, when I respond on my talk page to your answer on my talk page, do you automatically get a new messages prompt? DynamoDegsy ( talk)
After a brief sojourn creating articles for Rugby Union Internationals at what became Rugby League clubs, I'm back on message. I believe that you said there were five non-recognised Welsh internationals; 17 April 1927 versus Northern RL, 19 May 1951 versus British Empire XIII, and 19 May 1955 versus France 'B', do you have details of the non-full international players in the other two Welsh matches? Cheers. DynamoDegsy ( talk) 16:43, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
Would you know whether Lewis "Lou" Rees is the same guy who made his début for Wales (RU) on 11 March 1933 against Ireland? Cheers. DynamoDegsy ( talk) 14:46, 11 May 2010 (UTC)
Regarding, Wales vs France at Toulouse 17 February 1963, K. Coslett (St. Helens) is Kelvin "Kel" Coslett, R Glastonbury (Workington) is Raymond "Ray" Glastonbury, G Lewis (Leigh) is Gordon Lewis, CJ Dixon (Halifax) is Colin Dixon, J Freeman (Halifax) is John "Johnny" Freeman, BL Jones (Leeds) 'capt.' is Lewis Jones, C Evans (Leeds) is Colin Evans, SG Owen (Leigh) is Sidney "Sid" Owen, CH Winslade (Warrington) is Charles "Charlie" Winslade, R Morgan (Swinton) is Ronald "Ron" Morgan, L Fisher (Warrington) is Idwal Fisher, T Robbins (Bramley) is Terrence "Terry" Robbins, DG Vines (Wakefield) is Donald "Don" Vines. Cheers. DynamoDegsy ( talk) 13:56, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi there, FM—a wee favour please, if you can manage. I'm copy-editing Teifi Valley Railway and have hit the unlinked placename 'Conwyl Efed'. Searching around, I come across Cynwyl Elfed which also features on the template 'Communities of Carmarthenshire':
Can you advise whether 'Conwyl' is a variant spelling of the same place? If not, there's scope for a new article on it, and also on Henllan, Ceredigion since they're both on a tourist route. Cheers Bjenks ( talk) 07:03, 28 March 2010 (UTC)
Haven't been doing much editing lately, but have been reading a good book, which you might have already come across - called The Red & The White, by Huw Richards, a history of the England-Wales (or Wales-England if you prefer!), matches - lots of interesting stuff from the early days which I guess you probably already know, but worth a read anyway.-- Bcp67 ( talk) 06:50, 4 April 2010 (UTC)
Hi FruitMonkey. Would you be able to help me finish two of the principal area templates I started so long ago, but never finished? Both Neath Port Talbot and Bridgend are in danger of being deleted. I will work on them as well. Once completed, they will need to be added to the corresponding articles. Much appreciated if you can assist. ~ Geaugagrrl talk 06:27, 9 April 2010 (UTC)
Hi I have a photo of Cardigan I'd like to upload to insert into the WP article on Cardigan -- can you advise me how to go about this? Best wishes, Jprw ( talk) 12:45, 9 April 2010 (UTC)
Many thanks for the sound and painstaking advice. However, I jump through various hoops and then a message appears "license also required" -- this is a major stumbling block, it would appear. Jprw ( talk) 10:09, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
No, I fell at the last hurdle, as it were. I'll give it another go now though and then get back to you. Jprw ( talk) 10:16, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
This is the message: "You must give the original source of the file, the author of the work, and a license." Jprw ( talk) 10:20, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
No, it hasn't been uploaded -- because of the stumbling block mentioned above. I went down this route. Jprw ( talk) 11:03, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
Okay, many thanks for bearing with me. The photo can be found here. I suppose the next step would be to decide if we can use it in the article, i.e., is it good enough. Cheers Jprw ( talk) 11:57, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
I'll leave it up to you as to how best to use the image -- though it may need to be cropped in the foreground? Anyway, glad you like it. Cheers, Jprw ( talk) 05:33, 12 April 2010 (UTC)
With William McCutcheon staying with Oldham when they changed codes, after he retired, would you know whether he became a rugby union or, rugby league referee, or did he referee both? DynamoDegsy ( talk) 17:50, 9 April 2010 (UTC)
Hey thanks for creating a dab for William Bowen. Good call. I also found it was a bit curious that the article would redirect to the rugby player and was thinking of creating a dab for it myself, but then I didn't. - Frazzydee| ✍ 08:53, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
See you at wicipedia. Deb ( talk) 10:51, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
The quote from the book is "Tackle him? It was as much as I could do to get out of his way!". Refers to the the 1894 fixture at Birkenhead Park. We'll gloss over the result in the name of Anglo-Welsh cooperation.... The cite is; Richards, Huw (2009). The Red And The White. Aurum Press Ltd. p. 38. ISBN 9781845134051.. If you need anything else, give me a shout.-- Bcp67 ( talk) 20:40, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
Thank you for placing the photo correctly in the article. It looks pretty good. Cheers, Jprw ( talk) 13:13, 21 April 2010 (UTC)
Ah, you're watching. Now give me time to finish and then you can weigh in. But, in the interim, reflect on whether a dry recitation of facts, as opposed to facts enlived by informed opinion, makes for a more informative and valuable article. And don't take it personally. I've learn't not to.
KJP1 ( talk) 23:41, 23 April 2010 (UTC)
OK. Point taken and I shall amend accordingly when I can return to the article from dealing with a blizzard of comments on it. But we both want the same thing, a good article on an amazing and important building. can we try and help each other? Sorry that's a question.
KJP1 ( talk) 23:49, 23 April 2010 (UTC)
I appreciate that. And I appreciate my enthusiasm for Burges, and ignorance of Wikipedia conventions and editing formats, can lead me into error. I shal try to do better. But "dry"? It's hard to write anything about Burges that is dry because he, and his works, were the antithesis of dry. Does an encyclopedia have to be dry? Sorry, another question. KJP1 ( talk) 00:02, 24 April 2010 (UTC)
How is beer culturally important you ask? Beer is an important element of any culture and not everything that is in an image needs to be explicitly mentioned in an article. -- RegentsPark ( talk) 06:27, 25 April 2010 (UTC)
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Hi. could you have a look at
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of rugby union players banned for eye gouging again. I've changed my vote from delete after reworking the article to try and address a lot of the issues there were raised. cheers
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For your information, I've added WikiProject Rugby union again. Not to be confused with Wikipedia:WikiProject Rugby union articles/Unreferenced BLPs or Wikipedia:WikiProject Rugby league/Unreferenced BLPs. Regards, SunCreator ( talk) 13:08, 5 May 2010 (UTC)
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Materialscientist ( talk) 00:03, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for your contribution to the Flag of Wales article. I've put a bit of effort into it recently, but I'm still not too happy with my edits. The problem I find is seperating the flag from the Red Dragon, do you think the articles should be merged? FruitMonkey ( talk) 17:29, 9 May 2010 (UTC)
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Could David B. Davies and David Harris Davies be the same guy? Although they appear to have a different middle name/initial, the orl-heritagetrust website has the 'B.' initial in quotes. Cheers. DynamoDegsy ( talk) 22:02, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
The mystery of Tuss Griffiths has been solved, it's Tyssul "Tuss" Griffiths, the rugby union and rugby league fullback of the 1940s and '50s for Wales (RL), Newport RFC (RU), Hunslet, Doncaster, Halifax, and Dewsbury. There's mention of Tuss being a wartime Wales (RU) cap, do you have any information to support this? Cheers. DynamoDegsy ( talk) 19:53, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
In the Welsh stars still had a rugby ball in wartime article at WalesOnline, there's mention of a WE ‘Billy’ Williams defecting to the 13-a-side game, I don't believe he's; William Edward Osborne Williams, William Henry "Buller" Williams, Billy Williams, nor William "Billy" Arthur Williams. Any idea who he might be, and what club(s) he played for? Cheers. DynamoDegsy ( talk) 14:56, 15 May 2010 (UTC)
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Congratulations for reaching the milestone of 50 articles that you created or expanded listed at "Did you know?" on the Main page. Your articles, primarily on Welsh topics, are a real asset to the encyclopedia. Iechyd da! Binksternet ( talk) 21:04, 17 May 2010 (UTC) |
Similar to W.J. Jones (Llanelli) who played in the Wales versus British Empire XIII game at Llanelli 19th May 1951, when there doesn't apppear to have been an RL team in Llanelli Circa-1951, there's a Roy Lambert Neath, Dewsbury, and Warrington 1950…1952 7-caps, when there doesn't apppear to be an RL team in Neath Circa-1950…1952, and a Mel Ford Aberavon 1951 1-cap, when there doesn't apppear to be an RL team in Aberavon Circa-1951. Once again, if they had been RU players, I would have thought the RU/RL antagonism would mean that playing RL would prevent them from ever playing RU again, which would explain why Roy Lambert went on to play for Dewsbury, but where did Mel Ford, and W.J. Jones go to? Do you have any details of Roy Lambert, Mel Ford, or W.J. Jones going north? Cheers. DynamoDegsy ( talk) 15:13, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
Would you know whether John "Jack" Foley of Wales (RL), and Ebbw Vale (RL) circa-1908…1911, could be the Jack Foley of Monmouthshire, and Brynmawr RFC circa-1906? Particularly as Brynmawr and Ebbw Vale being only 2½-miles apart by road (less if you nip over the hill). ★★★Breaking News★★★ in the same Monmouthshire team... could Pontypool's Dai Beynon, be David Beynon of Wales (RL), and Oldham (RL). Cheers. DynamoDegsy ( talk) 20:04, 22 May 2010 (UTC)
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It is, by all Wikipedia standards, close to vandalism to insert a link to the Welsh Rugby Union - http://www.wru.co.uk/14196.php - disguised as a BBC story in the biography of the said scientitist, who weren't Welsh and certainly not a rugby player. Come on ... Hhbruun ( talk) 19:45, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
Cheers for commenting on BACRC's afd discussion. The article has been removed from deletion. Thanks a lot! Saebhiar Adishatz 02:59, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
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Hi, I was browsing your talk page and saw your thoughts about an image of the royal coat of arms with a dragon. How's about this http://image18.webshots.com/18/9/43/41/2897943410041465975JMclIO_fs.jpg ? It is the entrance to Sherborne School Dorset, which was (re-)founded in 1550 by Edward VI. Hope this helps, I've left a similar message for User:Ham. Oh, and by the way I never said thanks for your encouragement of my early edits... what didn't you agree with by the way? :-) Mbwa mwitu ( talk) 14:47, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
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I put in a request for someone to write an article Thomas Ranken Lyle two years ago and now you've done it!
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According saints.org.uk, there was no Bob Jones playing for St.Helens circa-1948, but there was a Dicky Jones who had signed for St. Helens from Swinton, and "my" Bob Jones had played for Swinton, so I think it's the same man. According to saints.org.uk, Dicky played for Aberavon, Glamorgan County, and Wales XV ("my" Bob Jones played for Wales RL in 1947), this seems to infer a 'Victory International' rather than test match, and I can't find a Bob/Dicky Jones on WRU, however the only non-Test playing Jones' in the Welsh stars still had a rugby ball in wartime article are; WG (Bill) Jones, Elvet Jones, Glyn Jones?, and Hubert Jones. Do you think Bob/Dicky are the same man? Do you have any information? Cheers. DynamoDegsy ( talk) 22:16, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
I've been chomping through the
List of Wales national rugby league team players, and although I'm not there yet, I'm closing in on those players for whom I don't have a forename. Do you have any clues as to the forenames of… Aberdare = W. Hopkins; Batley = H. R. Davies; Treherbert = D. Galloway; Pontypridd = T. Davies; Merthyr Tydfil = D. Lewis, J. Paddison, and R. Rees; Hull Kingston Rovers = A. Sandham; Ebbw Vale = ?. Hitchins, W. E. 'Chick' Jenkins, J. Saunders, H. Smith; Keighley = W. Jones, and L. Orchard; Bradford Northern = H. Francis; Leeds = R. Green; Warrington = W. G. Chapman, and W. Dowell; Huddersfield = D. Evans, E. Hughes, and G. Parker? At least Ebbw Vale's W. E. 'Chick' Jenkins' nickname is known, but a proper forename would be better. Cheers.
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I've found an useful function of the "Infobox rugby league biography", by adding "|first = RU" into the infobox, the rugby union statistics appear before the rugby league statistics, which is often chronologically more representative. DynamoDegsy ( talk)
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I've got hold of copies of 'Gone North Vol.1', and 'Vol.2', and I've been checking the ' Welsh Rugby Union Caps Who Turned Professional' Appendix VII, to see if I could find any dual-code internationals, I've found that some players that I'd created as solely rugby league internationals, are in fact dual-code, but I've yet to update their articles. Anyhow, I thought I might as well create articles for all the remaining 'Welsh Rugby Union Caps Who Turned Professional', I've tried to match all players to existing articles, but to prevent me creating inadvertent duplicates, would you please be able to check the remaining redlinks on my talkpage? Cheers. DynamoDegsy ( talk) 10:04, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
If you get the chance, can you please take a look at my lengthy note on the Iorwerth Evans article, and see if you can do a Sherlock Holmes on it? Cheers. DynamoDegsy ( talk) 19:02, 25 June 2010 (UTC)
Well, I went and took the bull by the horns and compiled new assessment guidelines for the Rugby Union Project. Do you want to weigh in and help us get this done? Cheers. SauliH ( talk) 06:21, 28 June 2010 (UTC)
According to 'Gone North - Volume 2', the 'Errata to (Gone North) Volume 1' states... "MOORE William J. joined Rochdale H., not Oldham." At the moment the article mentions neither Rochdale Hornets, or Oldham, but Bradford, would you know whether this is a typo, or did he in fact play for Bradford Northern? Cheers. DynamoDegsy ( talk) 20:22, 29 June 2010 (UTC)
I've added this note to Jere Blake, and William Morris' articles... In 'Gone North - Volume 2', the 'Errata to (Gone North) Volume 1' section states that "Detailed research now indicates that Jere Blake and William Morris appear never to have signed for Salford or any other professional club although they do appear to have trialled Northern Union clubs"., but just in case there are other references that mention Salford, I've not removed the references to them, but you might want to remove them if 'Gone North - Volume 1' is the only reference. Cheers. DynamoDegsy ( talk) 16:11, 23 June 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for editing. From where I'm from in Wales we still refer to them as the Llanelli Scarlets which technically they are along with the Cardiff Blues and Newport Gwent Dragons. However I am going to tweak further the Ifan Evans page as he has yet to represent the Scarlets. From what I am aware with him I don't think he has even yet to appear on the bench for them. Welshman25 ( talk) 22:37, 29 June 2010 (UTC)
Hugh Lloyd-Davies seems an " interesting" character. The Welsh stars still had a rugby ball in wartime reference states that "The 13-a-side game had also seen the defection of Hugh Lloyd-Davies...", the On This Day - 5 January 1946 external link confirms Hugh Lloyd-Davies kicking a penalty for Wales XV against New Zealand Armed Forces, and the This Day - 29 November 1947 external link has Hugh Lloyd-Davies kicking two penalties for Cambridge University RFC against Oxford University RFC. I assumed that those players who had 'Gone North' had been given temporary dispensation to play RU for the Wales XV, but returned to RL after the "Victory Internationals", but Lloyd-Davies appear to have played RU for the Wales XV while at Barrow RL, and then gone onto play RU with Cambridge University, is this plausible? Cheers. DynamoDegsy ( talk) 18:56, 4 July 2010 (UTC)
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No worries, I'm slowly working through them! I was going on the tables from the main Six Nations Championship article as to champions, which state those years as incomplete... Nouse4aname ( talk) 18:39, 6 July 2010 (UTC)
It would make sense that those tournaments should be considered complete, as all scheduled games took place. Could you add the ref to the main article at some point and update accordingly?! Cheers, Nouse4aname ( talk) 18:50, 6 July 2010 (UTC)
William Arnold Bowen and William 'Billy' E. Bowen (who went on to play RL with Leeds), both played for Swansea RFC about 20-years apart, which could infer a father/son or similar relationship, is there any evidence to support this assertion? Cheers. DynamoDegsy ( talk) 11:12, 5 July 2010 (UTC)
In the David and Evan James articles, it says "In 1892, James and his brother supposedly turned out for professional rugby league team Broughton Rangers...", should this be 1895, or later, as this is when the NU breakaway took place, or were they actually illegally paid to play rugby union for Broughton Rangers? Cheers. DynamoDegsy ( talk) 20:53, 6 July 2010 (UTC)
Me again... could you please check out William Herbert "Bert" Jones for me? 'Gone North' says he won caps while at Llanelli, but saints.org.uk says Neath. Also, he only played 14-matches for St. Helens, would you know whether he returned to Wales and/or RU? Cheers. DynamoDegsy ( talk) 21:06, 7 July 2010 (UTC)
I've just created an article for Danny Harris, I believe he won Wales caps while at Pontypridd RFC, and Cardiff RFC, and from 'Gone North' I assume the caps were won in that club sequence, but I'm not sure when he swapped clubs. Would you please be able check? Cheers. DynamoDegsy ( talk) 10:26, 8 July 2010 (UTC)
I've nothing to link Harold James Jones, and Harold Jones as the same person, but they did play in a similar era, and if he left Wigan in 1933, and went to Keighley, he could have won caps for Wales (RL) in 1935…36 as he'd have only been 28…29. He was a Lock in his union days, a second-row in his Wigan days, so it's not implausible that he could have played Prop, or Hooker for Wales (RL) after this. I'd welcome any information you might have.
That's all the Welsh Rugby Union Caps Who Turned Professional done, so unless you have a list of Welsh rugby union club footballers who turned to rugby league, then I'm all finished… phew. DynamoDegsy ( talk) 17:03, 8 July 2010 (UTC)
'Gone North' indicates (with an asterix) that David Morgan Jenkins won GB (RL) caps, but I believe it was actually David Rees Jenkins, do you concur?
I've thought of one group of Welsh rugby league footballers on which we might be able to co-operate, and that's those that played for the Other Nationalities rugby league team, e.g. David "Dai" Harris, and Eli Davies, do you have any details on these or any others players, or details of a publication that has information of the Other Nationalities players? Cheers. DynamoDegsy ( talk) 15:05, 12 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi FruitMonkey, just wondered if we could/should get back into the work on the Glamorgan article. We've both stalled over recent weeks and months, but it must be v. close to GA, surely?-- Pondle ( talk) 22:57, 12 July 2010 (UTC)
Page 169 of Robert Gate's 'Gone North - Volume 1' mentions both Cardiff RFC, and Cardiff I.A.C., would you know who I.A.C. are? Cheers. DynamoDegsy ( talk) 13:23, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
I hear you. It is my bad as I copy/paste the WPRU banner I sometimes have been negligent to change the default 'stub' class designation... Blair Swannell being one of a couple (I forget which other one I had ballsed up). One interesting source of information I stumbled across recently is the NLA newspaper archive, where it possible to bring up all the contemporary articles from their day. Blair Swannell has quite a few articles that can be mined for further data possibly. I am beginning to put search links on the talk pages for these stubs I am putting up - you will find a few on Blair Swannell's talk page. You might want to double check these to see if anything is missing from a well rounded GA article. SauliH ( talk) 01:11, 19 July 2010 (UTC)
According to page-158 of 'Gone North - Volume 1', George Thomas, is called George (Ponty) Thomas, and played for Pontypool, which seems to contrdict other references. Any ideas? Cheers. DynamoDegsy ( talk) 09:00, 19 July 2010 (UTC)
Similar to the above, according to page-159 of 'Gone North - Volume 1', Emlyn Jenkins played for Cardiff, which seems to contradict 'Fields of praise : the official history of the Welsh Rugby Union, 1881-1981, David "Dai" Smith, Gareth Williams (1980) ISBN 0708307663'. Any ideas? Cheers. DynamoDegsy ( talk) 15:51, 19 July 2010 (UTC)
According to the Leeds Rhinos Website, Glyn Prosser is the brother of Dai Prosser, and circa-1936, both of them played for York (RL). Do you have any details of Glyn and Dai being siblings, and of Glyn "Going North"?. Cheers. DynamoDegsy ( talk) 20:11, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
Once again, according to page-159 of 'Gone North - Volume 1', Dai Prosser played for Neath. Your thoughts? DynamoDegsy ( talk) 16:34, 19 July 2010 (UTC)
According to page-159 of 'Gone North - Volume 1', Arthur Daniels not only came from Llanelli, but he played for Llanelli, is this true? Cheers. DynamoDegsy ( talk) 13:02, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
There's no getting rid of me... according to page-159 of 'Gone North - Volume 1', Glyn Moses played for Maesteg? Cheers. DynamoDegsy ( talk) 13:40, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi, have you got any references to the extra info you added to the above article e.g. his clubs and rugby league career. Eldumpo ( talk) 20:16, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
In your edit summary here, you said you undid my previous edit because "James Marsh is the disambiguation page." Well, yes, it is, but that's not the point. WP:INTDABLINK specifically says that when you want an intentional link to a disambiguation page, you should link to the page that has "(disambiguation)" in the title, even if that is a redirect. So the reason for the edit is not that the old link was wrong, but that it didn't meet the criteria for an intentional disambig link. -- R'n'B ( call me Russ) 21:17, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
Removing the history section of Gibbonsdown gave the article a strong POV slant. Which is why I reverted your reversion.
-- *Kat* ( talk) 12:21, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
I have found out that Galloway's ( Treherbert RLFC) first name was David, and then I came across this (lot 120). Do you have any info as to which club he joined, Hull or Halifax? Ta FruitMonkey ( talk) 21:00, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
My last contribution before I jet off... I wonder if Bradford Northern's Howell Francis, is the same guy as Wigan's Howell de Francis? It's the correct era, and the correct position. Cheers. DynamoDegsy ( talk) 10:37, 1 August 2010 (UTC)
Hello. Aber is my local club and I have a history book which they brought out to celebrate the club's 50th year. I'll help edit the page as much as possible. Any help would be much appreciated. Welshman25 ( talk) 18:48, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi again, I need help with the kit. I got a couple of photos that you could use that could help. Email me / msn me at ycymro@gmail.com Welshman25 ( talk) 19:39, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
Hello, I hope you're doing fine and I sincerely apologize for this intrusion. My name's Claudi Balaguer (User Capsot from the Catalan Wikipedia and Occitan Wikiccionari) I've just read your profile and since you're Welsh I suppose you know very well what are a minorized language and culture and maybe I am not bothering you and you will help us... (I'm glad your culture and nation can provide people like Hywel Williams!) I'm a member of a Catalan association "Amical de la Viquipèdia" which is trying to get some recognition as a Catalan Chapter but this hasn't been approved up to this moment because Catalan is not supported by a state even though our Association is working real hard. We would appreciate your support, visible if you stick this on your first page: Wikimedia CAT and/or sign the list of "Members and Supporters" that can be reached through the link inside the template. Thanks again/diolch for your attention, I wish you a wonderful, warm and sunny summer, take care! Capsot ( talk) 11:49, 7 August 2010 (UTC) PD: You're absolutely right about local history and villages, they deserve much more and have lived longer than some shows!
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According to 'Gone North - Volume 1', a Welsh rugby union international Rees Thomas left Pontypool RFC for Warrington, would you know if this is Rees Thomas? Cheers. DynamoDegsy ( talk) 13:08, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
The International caps section of Glynneath RFC has a red-linked T.C. Lloyd, do you think this could actually be Thomas John Lloyd? Cheers. DynamoDegsy ( talk) 10:11, 19 August 2010 (UTC)