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...to say that I think you're doing a great job over at the List of castles in England article. It's been long overdue for a revamp, and it's looking so much better. Cheers! Hchc2009 ( talk) 18:56, 11 March 2011 (UTC)
I want to encourage you, along with many other readers, to be diligent about reading any article that you add to, and putting stuff in the right place. There was already a sentence about other interesting buildings in the precinct, at the bottom of the "Architecture" section, rather than in the "History". Your information fitted that section, which already mentioned the deanery.
Amandajm ( talk) 13:17, 20 May 2011 (UTC)
Please don't adjust caption sizes in infoboxes, there is no need to do this on an article by article basis. If you think the text should be small then go to the template talk page and propose that the template be changed. -- Simple Bob a.k.a. The Spaminator ( Talk) 16:24, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
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Thank you, almost done at last! - Paravane ( talk) 16:01, 19 June 2011 (UTC)
Hello, Could you have a look at the Liverpool Castle article as it has a good section on the folly. The two accounts should preferably complement each other which is not true now. The structure of the folly is based on an architectural blend of knowledge about medieval castles and documentary evidence devised 10 years earlier by E. W. Cox.-- Felix Folio Secundus ( talk) 08:52, 26 June 2011 (UTC)
If you don't want to do it your self, I would like to convert the map templates in List of castles in England from {{ Location map start}} to {{ Location map+}}. It is the only page on which {{Location map start}} is used. Its just easier to maintain fewer templates and if {{Location map start}} is orphaned (not used), it will be easier to get it deleted.
Including the link to coordinates function you mention is possible but it might be easy for me to write a simple template that would take a UK grid reference and generate a link to the geohack page. It might look something like {{gbmlink|SU9701977005}}. – droll [chat]
I don't object to the links from labels and markers. There is just something about it that feels strange to me and I can't put my finger on it. As for why some might object, read the OS coord documentation. The warning has been there since December 2006. It might not be up to date. We'll see. – droll [chat] 00:24, 19 July 2011 (UTC)
[1] There are some serious aspersions in your comments here that are in breach of WP:ETIQUETTE. For the record, I'd like you to quote these so called "personal attacks", strict definition being - name calling, hate crime, abuse, or violent remarks, per WP:NPA#WHATIS. Questioning another editors behaviour is not on the list, you'll find. Should you fail in that, I will have an admin look into it as I find your remarks despicable. Bear in mind that the main contributor to the linked Peer Review was myself, with considerable input, half of which you dismissed for more unsightly bulkier alternatives, IMO. If you are protesting my edits, you are only incriminating yourself as intolerant of other contributions, and WP:OWN applies to you once again. Your attempt to reiterate that I increased the filesize due to adding date sorted is noted. Your point - if not callous? I remind you again that I was not aware of WP:SIZERULE at the time, and even if I was, you welcomed the edit at the time, to quote you: "Sortable dates is plainly another task to be added to the todo list, your example works well." If I hadn't have done it, you, or someone else would. Once again, you raise a moot argument.
I'd also like to remind you of this comment you made: "If the sizes of columns are fixed, I'm not confident that this will not have adverse consequences for smaller format devices such as tablets." If you think table columns have an affect, don't you think the huge page size will have an even bigger effect? Of course it will.. I think you pick, choose and conceive arguments to suit your own purposes. This clearly shows that there is no constant logic to it, however.
I'm too tired to bother with this nonsense you're attempting just now. I think on the weekend I'll look to WP:RFC for thoughts.. your spin is underhanded, and not appreciated. Nor are your insinuations. If you can support your offensive "some other agenda" remark, please do so - until then, your adversarial attitude is not welcome. Wiki works through open communication. You treat this article so much as your own, quote "the result of a great deal of work by me", you forget that others have given you the ideas through the Peer Review, including myself. That others have contributed, and you often revert or rewrite a little later. I do not appreciate your dishonesty in order to swing the consensus into some form of sympathy vote. If you cannot accept my concerns for this article are in good faith, you are either not competent to edit in a collaborative environment like Wikipedia, or need to take a wiki-break and enjoy some time offline. I suggest you fine-tune that last post, if you don't want a fuss made of it. Name calling is for children. I respect the fact that you put effort into the article, but you have to respect that Wiki does not allow ownership, or oversized pages - and you clearly want both. If you feel I'm in your way, then use my talk page - but don't ever make off=hand remarks about me like that again. I question your own agenda.
Have reapplied {{ very long}} - as long as it's oversize, it's legit and within wiki policy to display. Removal by you may be deemed WP:COI. Don't play " wiki-lawyer" either, it's frowned upon.
Ma®©usBritish talk 00:50, 3 September 2011 (UTC)
Instead of all this R1, R2, to R5 mumbo-jumbo in the Refs - why don't you just put "PSC" with no period, with the key saying "PSC Pastscape - Retrieved <all the same date>"
That's going to save you something like ~450 times: dot space R# dot - 5 bytes per ref. Couple of Kb of junk, gone in a flash, plus those 5 lines in the key. There's taking referencing for what it is, and taking it way too literally - little white lies - no ones going to check or even know the actual date you retrieved each ref, and if you verify a ref on a later date, it counts as retrieving - so simply pretend you got them all on the same day, to cut the bloat and pointless R# key riff-raff. All you really need to do is verify say 40 or so evenly distributed from the refs, to leave little doubt the rest still exist.. no reason why EH would remove them, right.. can you think of any logical reason why they would?
Either way, I can tell you editing the full article can still be very slow - and it's not just connection and server that gets overloaded - figured its Twinkle too: that runs on Javascript, and ~2Mb of wiki-markup to highlight and all that it does in the edit box is a lot, given that Javascript is quite cumbersome per se. All well and good trimming bits out here and there.. but that lawn needs mowing more where it counts.
If you want me to do it, with regex, say so.. saves you pissin' around doing each one at a time for hours. Otherwise, have fun!
Ma®©usBritish talk 21:18, 16 September 2011 (UTC)
![]() | A consensus is taking place at Talk:List of castles in England. You are invited to participate. Ma®©usBritish talk 21:22, 19 September 2011 (UTC) |
Hi! Hope all's well. I was wondering if you fancied working in a joint effort to create a "List of town walls in England and Wales" article? I've been doing some work on the individual fortifications and a list article is starting to look attractive, but I lack the discipline to write one on my own. There are around 40-50 in total I think, and most have decent pictures of some sort. Let me know what you think. Hchc2009 ( talk) 18:16, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
Sorry, we were purging everything introduced by a particular blocked user who has used literally hundreds of sockpuppet accounts. You're free to restart that article; I'll relay the information to you later today. DS ( talk) 18:06, 4 November 2011 (UTC)
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please explain your to me. It is clearly that BT Tower is much taller than the Blackpool Tower. Besides of this: also the Blackpool Tower is not a pure observation tower because it is also used as a radio transmission tower. -- Alabasterstein ( talk) 15:46, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
hi, i saw some of your comments on the location map page and am assuming you have some knowledge about it. how do i make a name appear on mouseover to a marker:
you can see my code here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Misconceptions2/sandbox, it has a part which says "link=Rayyis", but it does not say rayyis on mouse over to the marker which has the label= Exp. of Zaid ibn Haritha (Al-Is)-- Misconceptions2 ( talk) 21:51, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
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Hello Paravane, I hope you're well. Just to let you know, I've raised the issue of the number of floors that The Shard has over on Talk:List of tallest buildings in Europe. Your recent edit there made me aware of a potential discrepancy to do with how we decide how many floors each building has, but your edit is otherwise unrelated.
Nonetheless, you're more than welcome to come over to the Talk page and contribute, if you are that way inclined. Regards, -- ThunderingTyphoons! ( talk) 22:49, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
According to you what Chambord castle is? Phamnhatkhanh ( talk) 08:58, 22 December 2013 (UTC)
Hi Paravane, many thanks for the clarification, which is very logical. I've also left a response on the talk page. Must confess, I wasn't entirely sure when I placed this – possibly it's worth adding in similar clarification on the page lede/intro? I think the idea of classification of lesser notable buildings by borough (or era or purpose) might work well and would also avoid the above page becoming a catch all. Libby norman ( talk) 20:19, 19 February 2014 (UTC)
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...to say that I think you're doing a great job over at the List of castles in England article. It's been long overdue for a revamp, and it's looking so much better. Cheers! Hchc2009 ( talk) 18:56, 11 March 2011 (UTC)
I want to encourage you, along with many other readers, to be diligent about reading any article that you add to, and putting stuff in the right place. There was already a sentence about other interesting buildings in the precinct, at the bottom of the "Architecture" section, rather than in the "History". Your information fitted that section, which already mentioned the deanery.
Amandajm ( talk) 13:17, 20 May 2011 (UTC)
Please don't adjust caption sizes in infoboxes, there is no need to do this on an article by article basis. If you think the text should be small then go to the template talk page and propose that the template be changed. -- Simple Bob a.k.a. The Spaminator ( Talk) 16:24, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I saw your comment that you feel talk page messages must remain forever. They don't. If you don't like a talk page message (with a few minor exceptions, like block notices), then just delete it. If you like, I can set up talk page archiving for you, so that talk page messages (here) will be removed to an archive automatically, once they have not been replied to for 7 days, or 14 days, or however many days you choose. -- Demiurge1000 ( talk) 02:10, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
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Castle Barnstar | |
For excellence in articles on English castles. - Hchc2009 ( talk) 07:50, 19 June 2011 (UTC) |
Thank you, almost done at last! - Paravane ( talk) 16:01, 19 June 2011 (UTC)
Hello, Could you have a look at the Liverpool Castle article as it has a good section on the folly. The two accounts should preferably complement each other which is not true now. The structure of the folly is based on an architectural blend of knowledge about medieval castles and documentary evidence devised 10 years earlier by E. W. Cox.-- Felix Folio Secundus ( talk) 08:52, 26 June 2011 (UTC)
If you don't want to do it your self, I would like to convert the map templates in List of castles in England from {{ Location map start}} to {{ Location map+}}. It is the only page on which {{Location map start}} is used. Its just easier to maintain fewer templates and if {{Location map start}} is orphaned (not used), it will be easier to get it deleted.
Including the link to coordinates function you mention is possible but it might be easy for me to write a simple template that would take a UK grid reference and generate a link to the geohack page. It might look something like {{gbmlink|SU9701977005}}. – droll [chat]
I don't object to the links from labels and markers. There is just something about it that feels strange to me and I can't put my finger on it. As for why some might object, read the OS coord documentation. The warning has been there since December 2006. It might not be up to date. We'll see. – droll [chat] 00:24, 19 July 2011 (UTC)
[1] There are some serious aspersions in your comments here that are in breach of WP:ETIQUETTE. For the record, I'd like you to quote these so called "personal attacks", strict definition being - name calling, hate crime, abuse, or violent remarks, per WP:NPA#WHATIS. Questioning another editors behaviour is not on the list, you'll find. Should you fail in that, I will have an admin look into it as I find your remarks despicable. Bear in mind that the main contributor to the linked Peer Review was myself, with considerable input, half of which you dismissed for more unsightly bulkier alternatives, IMO. If you are protesting my edits, you are only incriminating yourself as intolerant of other contributions, and WP:OWN applies to you once again. Your attempt to reiterate that I increased the filesize due to adding date sorted is noted. Your point - if not callous? I remind you again that I was not aware of WP:SIZERULE at the time, and even if I was, you welcomed the edit at the time, to quote you: "Sortable dates is plainly another task to be added to the todo list, your example works well." If I hadn't have done it, you, or someone else would. Once again, you raise a moot argument.
I'd also like to remind you of this comment you made: "If the sizes of columns are fixed, I'm not confident that this will not have adverse consequences for smaller format devices such as tablets." If you think table columns have an affect, don't you think the huge page size will have an even bigger effect? Of course it will.. I think you pick, choose and conceive arguments to suit your own purposes. This clearly shows that there is no constant logic to it, however.
I'm too tired to bother with this nonsense you're attempting just now. I think on the weekend I'll look to WP:RFC for thoughts.. your spin is underhanded, and not appreciated. Nor are your insinuations. If you can support your offensive "some other agenda" remark, please do so - until then, your adversarial attitude is not welcome. Wiki works through open communication. You treat this article so much as your own, quote "the result of a great deal of work by me", you forget that others have given you the ideas through the Peer Review, including myself. That others have contributed, and you often revert or rewrite a little later. I do not appreciate your dishonesty in order to swing the consensus into some form of sympathy vote. If you cannot accept my concerns for this article are in good faith, you are either not competent to edit in a collaborative environment like Wikipedia, or need to take a wiki-break and enjoy some time offline. I suggest you fine-tune that last post, if you don't want a fuss made of it. Name calling is for children. I respect the fact that you put effort into the article, but you have to respect that Wiki does not allow ownership, or oversized pages - and you clearly want both. If you feel I'm in your way, then use my talk page - but don't ever make off=hand remarks about me like that again. I question your own agenda.
Have reapplied {{ very long}} - as long as it's oversize, it's legit and within wiki policy to display. Removal by you may be deemed WP:COI. Don't play " wiki-lawyer" either, it's frowned upon.
Ma®©usBritish talk 00:50, 3 September 2011 (UTC)
Instead of all this R1, R2, to R5 mumbo-jumbo in the Refs - why don't you just put "PSC" with no period, with the key saying "PSC Pastscape - Retrieved <all the same date>"
That's going to save you something like ~450 times: dot space R# dot - 5 bytes per ref. Couple of Kb of junk, gone in a flash, plus those 5 lines in the key. There's taking referencing for what it is, and taking it way too literally - little white lies - no ones going to check or even know the actual date you retrieved each ref, and if you verify a ref on a later date, it counts as retrieving - so simply pretend you got them all on the same day, to cut the bloat and pointless R# key riff-raff. All you really need to do is verify say 40 or so evenly distributed from the refs, to leave little doubt the rest still exist.. no reason why EH would remove them, right.. can you think of any logical reason why they would?
Either way, I can tell you editing the full article can still be very slow - and it's not just connection and server that gets overloaded - figured its Twinkle too: that runs on Javascript, and ~2Mb of wiki-markup to highlight and all that it does in the edit box is a lot, given that Javascript is quite cumbersome per se. All well and good trimming bits out here and there.. but that lawn needs mowing more where it counts.
If you want me to do it, with regex, say so.. saves you pissin' around doing each one at a time for hours. Otherwise, have fun!
Ma®©usBritish talk 21:18, 16 September 2011 (UTC)
![]() | A consensus is taking place at Talk:List of castles in England. You are invited to participate. Ma®©usBritish talk 21:22, 19 September 2011 (UTC) |
Hi! Hope all's well. I was wondering if you fancied working in a joint effort to create a "List of town walls in England and Wales" article? I've been doing some work on the individual fortifications and a list article is starting to look attractive, but I lack the discipline to write one on my own. There are around 40-50 in total I think, and most have decent pictures of some sort. Let me know what you think. Hchc2009 ( talk) 18:16, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
Sorry, we were purging everything introduced by a particular blocked user who has used literally hundreds of sockpuppet accounts. You're free to restart that article; I'll relay the information to you later today. DS ( talk) 18:06, 4 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi,
please explain your to me. It is clearly that BT Tower is much taller than the Blackpool Tower. Besides of this: also the Blackpool Tower is not a pure observation tower because it is also used as a radio transmission tower. -- Alabasterstein ( talk) 15:46, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
hi, i saw some of your comments on the location map page and am assuming you have some knowledge about it. how do i make a name appear on mouseover to a marker:
you can see my code here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Misconceptions2/sandbox, it has a part which says "link=Rayyis", but it does not say rayyis on mouse over to the marker which has the label= Exp. of Zaid ibn Haritha (Al-Is)-- Misconceptions2 ( talk) 21:51, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
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Hello Paravane, I hope you're well. Just to let you know, I've raised the issue of the number of floors that The Shard has over on Talk:List of tallest buildings in Europe. Your recent edit there made me aware of a potential discrepancy to do with how we decide how many floors each building has, but your edit is otherwise unrelated.
Nonetheless, you're more than welcome to come over to the Talk page and contribute, if you are that way inclined. Regards, -- ThunderingTyphoons! ( talk) 22:49, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
According to you what Chambord castle is? Phamnhatkhanh ( talk) 08:58, 22 December 2013 (UTC)
Hi Paravane, many thanks for the clarification, which is very logical. I've also left a response on the talk page. Must confess, I wasn't entirely sure when I placed this – possibly it's worth adding in similar clarification on the page lede/intro? I think the idea of classification of lesser notable buildings by borough (or era or purpose) might work well and would also avoid the above page becoming a catch all. Libby norman ( talk) 20:19, 19 February 2014 (UTC)
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