Hi, Thanks for trying to mend this. The huge problem is that at present there is not a unique mapping formula from charity registration number to the URL for their info on the CC website - some charities are "CharityWithPartB" and some are "CharityWithoutPartB". I've contacted someone there who was helpful before, but he has not got back to me. At present the only fix would be to have two versions of the template, with instructions to try both... ah, how about a version which offered both links and a link to an explanation of the problem? Might have a shot at that! PamD ( talk) 21:59, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
It has nothing to do with being weak or afraid, it has to do with being responsible and blocking when appropriate. Anyhow, if you feel you can do a better job, RFA is thataway. But before you do that, you need to stop taking what vandals say so seriously. – xeno ( talk) 21:05, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
Thank you for your report on Gundog101 ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log). Reporting and removing vandalism is vital to the functioning of Wikipedia and you are encouraged to revert, warn and report inappropriate conduct. I have however declined to act on this report for the following reason:
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A bot has recently been adding {{coord missing|United Kingdom}} tags to various Somerset articles & as you are much better at these than I am, I was wondering if you had a time to take a look? The list includes:
Any help appreciated.— Rod talk 18:25, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
OK, maybe that sentence makes sense to you, but I can't figure it out, and I doubt if the general reader can either. I'm going to assume good faith and ask that you clarify it. So here are my problems:
There is a book at Google Books [1] that seems to clarify the situation. That said it dates from 1822, so scholarly standards may not be up to scratch. Anyway it says on page 44:
The Hundred of Taunton-Dean is divided into three parts or districts the hundred of Taunton Market, the infaring division and the outfaring division.
...and it then describes them. Infaring division "commonly called the Five Hundreds of Taunton Dean" was subdivided into five hundreds one of which was Holway. The parishes are also listed.
Looking at WP:UKCITIES:
Governance: Include the following
So this might come in under the third item. I don't think it belongs at the beginning, particularly as it is hard/impossible to understand at the moment. I'm sure it's interesting information, but I wonder does it belong in a Taunton Deane (hundred) article rather than here? What do you think? Lozleader ( talk) 13:54, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
Well done, you did a good job on that one fixing problems that essentially arose from the merging of old County articles into the region articles (Note: government regions not Scout Association regions as these articles cover all Scouting organisations, not just the SA). Care to have a go on the other region articles?
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Thanks for spotting my error I should have remembered Whitchurch/Lulsgate. Perhaps we need a proper article on Whitchurch! MilborneOne ( talk) 23:39, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
Thank you for your recent persistent [3] contributions [4] to the British Rail Class 373 article. Rail Management is published by "Keeping Track Publications Ltd", whose website is http://viking.eukhost.com/~keepingt, this provides a list of their publications, including Rail Management where potential readers are given the invitation "Click on cover to download". Linked on the left of that page is the RM Back file (back issues section) which provides PDF links for all the issues between Nos. 147–181. IIRC, No. 162 is the issue presently cited in the Class 373 article. Once again, thank you for your enthusiastic edits to Wikipedia. — Sladen ( talk) 17:45, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
I could have made my comment clearer nothing wrong with you having a vote but from what I could see of the discussion on the talk page I would have moved it myself but I was busy with something else. I intended to come back later and move it if nobody had objected. Sorry if I implied you were not following procedure, perhaps I should have just moved it instead of adding the comment! MilborneOne ( talk) 20:03, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
Hi, As you may have spotted I've been working my way through List of civil parishes in Somerset & have now added a Governance section (& often bringing more into line with WP:UKCITIES) all of the 5 non-met districts in Somerset, so I'm now turning my attention to the 2 unitaries, starting with North Somerset. As I made a couple of silly mistakes with the last ones, I'm taking this a bit more slowly & if you had a few minutes I'd like you to take a look at the Governance section. I've done Abbots Leigh & would welcome comments before I push on down the alphabet.— Rod talk 13:20, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
In the past you've given me some useful tips for geograph images etc - have you seen FIST? (from conversation on User talk:Magnus Manske) with direct upload if you have an account.— Rod talk 11:49, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
See new re on Scout list talk. — Rlevse • Talk • 11:29, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
I am not sure why this is removed. There are enough reliable sources to back this name being added. It only takes a google search or search of local media. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.144.58.225 ( talk) 00:26, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
Just curious as to why "Magners is not a UK cider" - I was under the impression it's made in Ireland, which I thought was part of the UK, and Bulmers, owners of the Magners brand, isn't a UK company? Red58bill ( talk) 03:31, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
If perry and pear cider are different, as you assert in this edit, could you show a source for that? -- Killing Vector ( talk) 13:59, 14 March 2009 (UTC)
On several occasions a link added to the VFR400 page has been removed as spam. This is in fact not spam and not advertising, the site being linked is one of the best and most popular NC30 sites/knowledgebases on the net, and has been for four years. Please take the time to review the site before yourself or your colleagues delete the link. The site has recently been moved from a different URL and I think others should be allowed to benefit from it in it's new location. Please reinstate the link to www.v4power.co.uk. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.84.216.137 ( talk) 14:42, 14 March 2009 (UTC)
Hi there,
with apologies, i've changed back of couple of changes you made, but want to explain it here.
1) In Emergency medical services in the United Kingdom, i removed the reference to Battenburg markings for two reasons. Firstly, the relevant legislation covering Battenburg is the Road Vehicle Lighting Regulations (not the Road Traffic Act), and secondly, enforcement of this is on hold as there is a consultation just closed on the use of retro reflective green (yellow is already permitted) by private and voluntary ambulance services - the NHS currently act under an exemption to the RVLR issued by letter from the secretary of state. The consultation stated that the governemnt was minded to permit the use on all ambulances, so this legal status may well change in the very near future.
2) For Community first responder i have moved it back to the uncapitalised variant for a couple of reasons. Firstly, its in worldwide use, and not capitalised everywhere. Secondly, it represents a wide variety of skill levels (even within the UK, let alone worldwide) and lacks a formal legal definition - These are very similar to the reasons that emergency medical services is not capitalised. Lastly, if you look at similar articles, as per the WP:MOSCAPS rules, even things like registered nurse are lower case.
Hope that sufficiently explains my reasoning, and thanks for the other contributions on these articles!
Regards, OwainDavies ( about)( talk) edited at 13:31, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
Hello!
It is I who edited yesterday the article on the Honda CB900F.
I was disappointed to see that you have reverted the information in the article to be focused instead on the Honda 919.
While many people have referred to the 919 as a modern CB900F, it is in fact not that. If anything, the article should be renamed Honda 919 (or Honda Hornet) and a new article should be created to pay proper respect to the true CB900F.
I would also support creating a page for 'Honda CB-F Super Sport' motorcycles, which would include information on the DOHC CB750F, CB900F, CB1100F, and possibly the CBX.
Alternatively, there could be an article on all of Honda's Super Sport motorcycles, though I fear this would be a very broad topic covering many highly diverse motorcycles.
Another option would be to have a combined article covering either the CB900F+CB900, the CB900F+CB900+CB1000+CB1100F, or even all of Honda's DOHC CB750-based motorcycles (CB750F/Custom, CB900F/Custom, CB1000, and CB1100F/R). [Oh silly me, how could I forget to also include the CB750 Nighthawk as well as the CB700SC -- there may even be other related bikes I'm unaware of.]
Thank you...and sorry for not being an official member. -Jon —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.196.95.30 ( talk) 00:51, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
Hi Tim. I have reverted your reversion of my edit to Bristol International Airport. Although the airport may be no closer to Wrington than "any other village", it is in the Civil Parish of Wrington as shown here Ordnance Survey : Election Maps. Skinsmoke ( talk) 15:11, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
I did read the reference. Since there is no talk (or if there is I stupidly missed it) I made the edit.
To my understanding, you cannot enter a box junction if impeded by a vehicle in front of you wishing to turn right. That is kinda the point. Yes you may be impeded by an oncoming vehicle wishing to turn right (i.e. generally going offside to offside but that is implied by the word "oncoming".
SimonTrew ( talk) 20:43, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
Can you look at this, the related talk page, and perhaps help out? I want to give him a 3RR, so I'm looking for a cooler head to sort it out. You might also want to look at my talk page, we had a discussion there too. tedder ( talk) 02:05, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
I'm aware of a Wikipedia guideline of not linking the same article more than once in an article. However, the rationale given for these edits [6] [7] beats logic. Please explain. -- 128.211.201.161 ( talk) 16:55, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
Hi, Thanks for trying to mend this. The huge problem is that at present there is not a unique mapping formula from charity registration number to the URL for their info on the CC website - some charities are "CharityWithPartB" and some are "CharityWithoutPartB". I've contacted someone there who was helpful before, but he has not got back to me. At present the only fix would be to have two versions of the template, with instructions to try both... ah, how about a version which offered both links and a link to an explanation of the problem? Might have a shot at that! PamD ( talk) 21:59, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
It has nothing to do with being weak or afraid, it has to do with being responsible and blocking when appropriate. Anyhow, if you feel you can do a better job, RFA is thataway. But before you do that, you need to stop taking what vandals say so seriously. – xeno ( talk) 21:05, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
Thank you for your report on Gundog101 ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log). Reporting and removing vandalism is vital to the functioning of Wikipedia and you are encouraged to revert, warn and report inappropriate conduct. I have however declined to act on this report for the following reason:
User has been incorrectly or insufficiently warned. Re-report if the user resumes vandalising after being warned sufficiently.
The Guide to administrator intervention against vandalism might be a helpful read if you wish to improve your future reports. If you have further questions, please don't hesitate to ask me on my talk page. Cheers! -- lucasbfr talk 07:54, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
A bot has recently been adding {{coord missing|United Kingdom}} tags to various Somerset articles & as you are much better at these than I am, I was wondering if you had a time to take a look? The list includes:
Any help appreciated.— Rod talk 18:25, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
OK, maybe that sentence makes sense to you, but I can't figure it out, and I doubt if the general reader can either. I'm going to assume good faith and ask that you clarify it. So here are my problems:
There is a book at Google Books [1] that seems to clarify the situation. That said it dates from 1822, so scholarly standards may not be up to scratch. Anyway it says on page 44:
The Hundred of Taunton-Dean is divided into three parts or districts the hundred of Taunton Market, the infaring division and the outfaring division.
...and it then describes them. Infaring division "commonly called the Five Hundreds of Taunton Dean" was subdivided into five hundreds one of which was Holway. The parishes are also listed.
Looking at WP:UKCITIES:
Governance: Include the following
So this might come in under the third item. I don't think it belongs at the beginning, particularly as it is hard/impossible to understand at the moment. I'm sure it's interesting information, but I wonder does it belong in a Taunton Deane (hundred) article rather than here? What do you think? Lozleader ( talk) 13:54, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
Well done, you did a good job on that one fixing problems that essentially arose from the merging of old County articles into the region articles (Note: government regions not Scout Association regions as these articles cover all Scouting organisations, not just the SA). Care to have a go on the other region articles?
You are invited to participate in
WikiProject Scouting, a project dedicated to developing and improving articles about
Scouting. You may sign up at the project
members page.
More information |
-- Bduke (Discussion) 11:34, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for spotting my error I should have remembered Whitchurch/Lulsgate. Perhaps we need a proper article on Whitchurch! MilborneOne ( talk) 23:39, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
Thank you for your recent persistent [3] contributions [4] to the British Rail Class 373 article. Rail Management is published by "Keeping Track Publications Ltd", whose website is http://viking.eukhost.com/~keepingt, this provides a list of their publications, including Rail Management where potential readers are given the invitation "Click on cover to download". Linked on the left of that page is the RM Back file (back issues section) which provides PDF links for all the issues between Nos. 147–181. IIRC, No. 162 is the issue presently cited in the Class 373 article. Once again, thank you for your enthusiastic edits to Wikipedia. — Sladen ( talk) 17:45, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
I could have made my comment clearer nothing wrong with you having a vote but from what I could see of the discussion on the talk page I would have moved it myself but I was busy with something else. I intended to come back later and move it if nobody had objected. Sorry if I implied you were not following procedure, perhaps I should have just moved it instead of adding the comment! MilborneOne ( talk) 20:03, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
Hi, As you may have spotted I've been working my way through List of civil parishes in Somerset & have now added a Governance section (& often bringing more into line with WP:UKCITIES) all of the 5 non-met districts in Somerset, so I'm now turning my attention to the 2 unitaries, starting with North Somerset. As I made a couple of silly mistakes with the last ones, I'm taking this a bit more slowly & if you had a few minutes I'd like you to take a look at the Governance section. I've done Abbots Leigh & would welcome comments before I push on down the alphabet.— Rod talk 13:20, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
In the past you've given me some useful tips for geograph images etc - have you seen FIST? (from conversation on User talk:Magnus Manske) with direct upload if you have an account.— Rod talk 11:49, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
See new re on Scout list talk. — Rlevse • Talk • 11:29, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
I am not sure why this is removed. There are enough reliable sources to back this name being added. It only takes a google search or search of local media. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.144.58.225 ( talk) 00:26, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
Just curious as to why "Magners is not a UK cider" - I was under the impression it's made in Ireland, which I thought was part of the UK, and Bulmers, owners of the Magners brand, isn't a UK company? Red58bill ( talk) 03:31, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
If perry and pear cider are different, as you assert in this edit, could you show a source for that? -- Killing Vector ( talk) 13:59, 14 March 2009 (UTC)
On several occasions a link added to the VFR400 page has been removed as spam. This is in fact not spam and not advertising, the site being linked is one of the best and most popular NC30 sites/knowledgebases on the net, and has been for four years. Please take the time to review the site before yourself or your colleagues delete the link. The site has recently been moved from a different URL and I think others should be allowed to benefit from it in it's new location. Please reinstate the link to www.v4power.co.uk. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.84.216.137 ( talk) 14:42, 14 March 2009 (UTC)
Hi there,
with apologies, i've changed back of couple of changes you made, but want to explain it here.
1) In Emergency medical services in the United Kingdom, i removed the reference to Battenburg markings for two reasons. Firstly, the relevant legislation covering Battenburg is the Road Vehicle Lighting Regulations (not the Road Traffic Act), and secondly, enforcement of this is on hold as there is a consultation just closed on the use of retro reflective green (yellow is already permitted) by private and voluntary ambulance services - the NHS currently act under an exemption to the RVLR issued by letter from the secretary of state. The consultation stated that the governemnt was minded to permit the use on all ambulances, so this legal status may well change in the very near future.
2) For Community first responder i have moved it back to the uncapitalised variant for a couple of reasons. Firstly, its in worldwide use, and not capitalised everywhere. Secondly, it represents a wide variety of skill levels (even within the UK, let alone worldwide) and lacks a formal legal definition - These are very similar to the reasons that emergency medical services is not capitalised. Lastly, if you look at similar articles, as per the WP:MOSCAPS rules, even things like registered nurse are lower case.
Hope that sufficiently explains my reasoning, and thanks for the other contributions on these articles!
Regards, OwainDavies ( about)( talk) edited at 13:31, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
Hello!
It is I who edited yesterday the article on the Honda CB900F.
I was disappointed to see that you have reverted the information in the article to be focused instead on the Honda 919.
While many people have referred to the 919 as a modern CB900F, it is in fact not that. If anything, the article should be renamed Honda 919 (or Honda Hornet) and a new article should be created to pay proper respect to the true CB900F.
I would also support creating a page for 'Honda CB-F Super Sport' motorcycles, which would include information on the DOHC CB750F, CB900F, CB1100F, and possibly the CBX.
Alternatively, there could be an article on all of Honda's Super Sport motorcycles, though I fear this would be a very broad topic covering many highly diverse motorcycles.
Another option would be to have a combined article covering either the CB900F+CB900, the CB900F+CB900+CB1000+CB1100F, or even all of Honda's DOHC CB750-based motorcycles (CB750F/Custom, CB900F/Custom, CB1000, and CB1100F/R). [Oh silly me, how could I forget to also include the CB750 Nighthawk as well as the CB700SC -- there may even be other related bikes I'm unaware of.]
Thank you...and sorry for not being an official member. -Jon —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.196.95.30 ( talk) 00:51, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
Hi Tim. I have reverted your reversion of my edit to Bristol International Airport. Although the airport may be no closer to Wrington than "any other village", it is in the Civil Parish of Wrington as shown here Ordnance Survey : Election Maps. Skinsmoke ( talk) 15:11, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
I did read the reference. Since there is no talk (or if there is I stupidly missed it) I made the edit.
To my understanding, you cannot enter a box junction if impeded by a vehicle in front of you wishing to turn right. That is kinda the point. Yes you may be impeded by an oncoming vehicle wishing to turn right (i.e. generally going offside to offside but that is implied by the word "oncoming".
SimonTrew ( talk) 20:43, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
Can you look at this, the related talk page, and perhaps help out? I want to give him a 3RR, so I'm looking for a cooler head to sort it out. You might also want to look at my talk page, we had a discussion there too. tedder ( talk) 02:05, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
I'm aware of a Wikipedia guideline of not linking the same article more than once in an article. However, the rationale given for these edits [6] [7] beats logic. Please explain. -- 128.211.201.161 ( talk) 16:55, 24 March 2009 (UTC)