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Please note I have archived my barnstars and DYK nominations here: Motacilla/Archive awards & DYKs
I see you already have the usual posse of pedants looking over your shoulder, and while it may be disconcerting at first, it is all in the interest of getting as many capable authors as possible that don't need to be edited further with sources by others, or even be deleted. (not that I do as much as I used to, and the guidelines keep changing as Wik develops.) You do need to include sources or references in articles, or you will get the dreaded "citation needed" inserted in your text on anything the reader deems debatable. I haven't researched Meguro, but knew about the BSA A7 copy, but not about the Motosacoche connection.
Found this: The "1937 Meguro Z97, which utilized a 500cc rocker-valve motor that may have been based on the Motosacoche Jubilée Sport's 498cc OHV engine made in Switzerland. The Meguro Z97 was the first Japanese motorcycle that was built entirely in-house, from-the-ground-up." "In 1939, the Meguro Z97 was adopted as the official motorcycle of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, and was used until the start of WWII. In 1941 the Tokyo Meguro Works was converted into a munitions factory, and all motorcycle production was halted." See http://www.khulsey.com/motorcycles/vintage_motorcycle_meguro.html for more. My son has just come back from being an exchange student in Japan, has a Japanese girlfriend and speaks the language fluently enough to embarrass his teachers. I can try to get him to translate the Japanese web page, and then pass it on to you. Seasalt ( talk) 12:00, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
With respect to references and verifiable, a forum may not be considered definitive enough as a source and it is (to me) annoying to get those "citation needed" tags long after I've prepared an article. A reference to a book is best as websites can disappear when their creators lose interest and fail to pay their domain fees. If the others on that forum can help with references, vunderbar. Great detail stuff. Australia had a lot of the Meguro/Kawasaki 650 BSA copy, which is the only reason I was familiar with the name. Seasalt ( talk) 00:53, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
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talk) 22:10, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi. I undid the redirect in the Combe Longa, Oxfordshire article, redirecting the page to Combe Longa and made the Combe Longa page a redirect. The chances are that an article at Combe Longa, without the Oxfordshire modifier, would be acceptable, but a copy and paste edit of the old article at the new title means that the edit history of the article is lost. You might want to run the move through requested moves. FlowerpotmaN·( t) 17:54, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for creating these. Will have a look through and add anything that springs to mind. Note that the 3 halts on the line were not original stations and were opened by the GWR in the 20th century. Chipping Norton deserves a detailed article which I will give some thought to. Hook Norton (where I live) is also complex with all the various ironstone companies operating their own lines. There is an article for Brymbo, perhaps a second article for all the smaller companies? Bruern Crossing ( talk) 17:24, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
Brymbo was the biggest system but there was also the Partnership quarry which pre-dated Brymbo. This had its own standard-gauge line which ran from the station and down under the viaduct to a tipping dock where cable-hauled narrow-gauge tubs were unloaded. The narrow gauge line ran through a small tunnel under the Milcombe road, still existing. The tipping dock and explosives hut have also survived. The Earl of Dudley's quarries had a large calcining kiln near No.2 viaduct, with a cable-worked tramway system. This connected to the B&CDR via a cable-worked incline from the Swerford Road. These were the main quarries but there were some smaller operations at various times.
I'm not a great geology expert but an article on the Oxfordshire ironstone seems a good idea as it would pull together the various quarry articles and could include the proposed North Oxfordshire Ironstone Scheme. Yes, Hornton stone gets its red colour from the iron.
Eric Tonks defines the oxfordshire ironstone as "The Oxfordshire Field", including parts of Warwickshire and Northamptonshire. "The area thus defined was isolated geographically from the other Midlands ironstone fields and developed independently of them, with its own markets..." Bruern Crossing ( talk) 21:17, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
Thankyou for moving St Mary's church, North Leigh to St Mary's Church, North Leigh while preserving its editing history. I'm sorry to trouble you when you already do so much, but how can I do that? I need to move Clapton Crabbe Rolfe to Clapton Crabb Rolfe. The historian Sir Nikolaus Pevsner seems to have mistakenly added the "e" to Rolfe's middle name, and when I created Rolfe's article I copied Pevsner before realising that every other authority, including C.C. Rolfe's father, spells "Crabb" without a final "e". Motacilla ( talk) 15:34, 3 November 2009 (UTC)
Thankyou for moving Clapton Crabb Rolfe to his rightful place. I've amended all spellings of his middle name to "Crabb", both in his article and in articles that link to it. Motacilla ( talk) 22:14, 6 November 2009 (UTC)
I see that you've spotted the photo that I put on Barford St. Michael. It's not the best that could be done, basically I was visiting my mother last weekend, and we were walking around the village - I decided to take a few photos (some of the others may appear on Commons in the next few weeks). Unfortunately my flash didn't go off, so that the actual Norman tympanum, which is of primary interest, is in shadow; it really needs photographing by somebody who has a decent lighting rig for outdoor use. -- Redrose64 ( talk) 23:21, 8 November 2009 (UTC) (amended Redrose64 ( talk) 16:13, 16 November 2009 (UTC))
No problem with that; however a few days ago I spotted a user (can't remember who, or in which article) linking dates in the "[[11 November]] [[2009]]" fashion. Is there a policy doc which I can point the user at, next time I spot it happening? -- Redrose64 ( talk) 19:13, 11 November 2009 (UTC)
Hi. On my talk page, you wrote:
I agree, mea culpa.
I fundamentally disagree. I (under my current and a previous identity) have been editing Wikipedia since before infoboxes were common, and I'm still not totally convinced by them, but have come to accept them. However they are not a substitute for textual information and (IMHO) should be regarded as part of the article lede; containing a summary of information found elsewhere in the text of the article.
There are several reasons for this, some stylistic and rooted in the belief that WP is fundamentally a textual medium, but not least because of accessability issues (the software that reads web pages to the visually impaired is much happier with text than tables). As far as I can see, this is the norm on WP articles; if you think it is against policy I'd appreciate a pointer to the appropriate policy.
Incidentally, the text did say more than the infobox does. It put the information on other settlements in the parish in the correct contextual place, rather than having it the lede. It gave the number of households. It clarified that the population was that of the parish and not that of the village. It gave the reader unfamiliar with UK local government practice a clue that parishes, districts and counties are (in this case at least) involved in local government. And it gave cites for information not previously cited (other settlements in parish; constituencies).
For these reasons, I have re-reverted your removal of the civil parish information.
I prefer to include to include title because it avoids ambiguity if, as is quite often the case, the same author has written more than one citable reference. However this isn't the case here, and I'm happy not to cite the title. I'm less happy with your reversion to an ad-hoc citation style, rather than using the appropriate cite book template. I've therefore put back in the templates but without the titles.
I'm rather tempted to write mind your own business to this one, but that wouldn't be very polite, so I won't. Each of my edits was a self-contained and perfectly reasonable change (with the caveats above). I find this way of working the best way for me, and I don't see that it does any harm to the project.
I doubt it very much. I've been editing here since 2004, and a little criticism every so often (some justified, some not) is good for the soul. But thanks for the encouragement. -- Starbois ( talk) 16:39, 14 November 2009 (UTC)
{{
Infobox UK place}}
, there are |country=
, |region=
, |constituency_westminster=
, |civil_parish=
, |metropolitan_borough=
, |metropolitan_county=
, |shire_district=
, |shire_county=
, |unitary_england=
, |lieutenancy_england=
, |london_borough=
- every single one of which is optional. Only the relevant ones should be filled in; the irrelevant ones should be left blank - or omitted.<ref></ref>
tags - but in an article with two-stage referencing, such as Mapledurham, the proper place for the citation templates is gathered together late on in the article - the section here headed as "Bibliography". The <ref></ref>
may contain plain text; linked text; or one of the special templates designed for short footnotes, such as {{
harvnb}}
. For example, <ref>
{{
harvnb|Sherwood|Pevsner|1974|pp=693-694}}
</ref>
produces
{{
cite book}}
also contained |ref=harv
, the footnote would be linked to its citation template. Have a look at
Charwelton railway station, references [2] and [3]. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 17:34, 15 November 2009 (UTC)As I understand it the various Grim's Ditchi are pre Roman invasion while Aves Ditch is probably Roman. The references are vague using helpful terms like 'believed' or 'thought to be' so one can't be definitive.
Rsloch ( talk) 14:46, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
The new reference for the Palestine Railway, Brendon Judd's "The Desert Railway" has 260 pages in the 2003 privately printed edition which I have from the local library, but the 2004 Penguin edition has 328 pages. Hence I cannot give page refs to the Penguin edition. Perhaps chapter references instead? Hugo999 ( talk) 13:02, 28 November 2009 (UTC)
I see that you deleted this project banner from a couple of articles. I know it says "cities" and the 2 settlements that I saw aren't cities, but the usage is an American one which is much broader. The project scope includes all settlements, regardless of size, even those which are parts of larger urban areas. I've replaced the WPCities banners on Chieveley and East Garston. Folks at 137 ( talk) 14:05, 5 December 2009 (UTC)
Yesterday I put forward a proposal at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Oxfordshire. I'm not at all sure how to go about gaining recruits; but since you have demonstrated a strong interest in Oxfordshire topics, I thought I'd start by asking if (a) you are interested; (b) if you know how best to continue, who to invite, etc. -- Redrose64 ( talk) 15:41, 5 December 2009 (UTC)
That's very kind of you, but I did fail to answer your suggestion and I have been feeling guilty about it. At the time I didn't know how to answer your question (b) how best to continue, so I left it to one side intending to find out and get back to you, and... er... failed to get any further for three months, then got no further, then got distracted... oops! Now let's see how the discussion of your proposal progresses! :o) Motacilla ( talk) 13:33, 22 March 2010 (UTC)
Point taken re canal/railway - have amended. Don't see a lot of point in repeating Pevsner refs for a new page when is just a case of a single section over four pages though. Anyway cheers Cj1340 ( talk) 15:23, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
Great work on expanding the Ambrosden article. I spent two years working at the MoD RAOC depot just down the road from there, so I have many fond memories of sessions in the Turner Arms. The reference to "Ambrosden Court Ltd" in the Economy section looks a bit dodgey to me though, but as this is a public forum I'll say no more. -- Malleus Fatuorum 23:41, 9 March 2010 (UTC)
PS. I'm not suggesting you put that in, just making a comment. -- Malleus Fatuorum 23:46, 9 March 2010 (UTC)
Just wanted to say thanks for your hard work on this article, which looks really good now. Best wishes, Boleyn3 ( talk) 00:16, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
Hello, Motacilla. I see you have contributed to the article Steeple Aston. The article is currently a Good Article candidate; unfortunately, the nominator has retired. I was wondering if you would be able to step in for the review; otherwise, I'm afraid I may have to quick-fail it. Intelligent sium 00:32, 16 March 2010 (UTC)
Steeple Aston is way off GA Status at the moment. Motacilla I have to say though I'm very impressed at your work on villages in Oxfordshire. It is nice to browse and find mostly half decent articles even if shortish. Now if we could get all of the villages in the UK up to a similar level... I'll add some photos to some of the villages.. Dr. Blofeld White cat 11:37, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
I've made some improvements to Ambrosden. If you could kindly fix the book citations to the actual pages instead of the 15-30 thing e.g. Lobel (1957), page 17 etc. and add a citation and fill the british army section out a little I think this is ready for GA. I'd be happy to help you promote some of these articles. Dr. Blofeld White cat 12:21, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
Yeah, I think more research is needed in the library. Its of GA quality I think but the sources used could be much more abundant. Its on hold at the moment but I think its probably best to withdraw the nomination until it can be made more comprehensive. Dr. Blofeld White cat 12:41, 4 April 2010 (UTC)
Ambrosden is now a GA. Dr. Blofeld White cat 10:37, 13 April 2010 (UTC)
Hi Motacilla, please do not delete the template {{Coordinate}} from any articles as it is used for data extraction (e.g. for Google Maps). You can get a map of England instead of the UK by adding "maplevel=adm2nd" to this template (see my reverts of your edits). -- тнояsтеn ⇔ 10:34, 9 April 2010 (UTC)
In the light of your comments on Disused railway stations (Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Railway), perhaps you might like to have your say on the proposals that have been made here which would, if implemented, see many more individual station articles merged into one single page. Lamberhurst ( talk) 13:05, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
In the infobox for Stratton Audley, the "Website" link which points to "The Stratton Audley Village Web Site" redirects through http://www.strattonaudley.com/ to the Red Lion Inn. Is this acceptable? Modal Jig ( talk) 19:10, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
Thanks very much for your work. I'll try not to leave so much of the housekeeping to others. I'll take your reference style in this entry as a pattern and try to supply the absent page references where I can. One thing that I would like to have done was to set the sample poem in single spacing like the rest of the text. How can that be done? Bmcln1 ( talk) 15:31, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
There is the <poem></poem>
tag pair, you would use it like this:
<poem>Think how her sister, dear 'Urania' [i. e. Anne], fell, When ev'ry Arte'ry, Fibre, Nerve and Vein Were by Convulsions torn, and fill'd with Pain...</poem>
which produces
Think how her sister, dear 'Urania' [i. e. Anne], fell,
When ev'ry Arte'ry, Fibre, Nerve and Vein
Were by Convulsions torn, and fill'd with Pain...
To indent it, the usual colon at the start of the line doesn't work, so you need to enclose the whole thing in a <blockquote></blockquote>
ie:
<blockquote><poem>Think how her sister, dear 'Urania' [i. e. Anne], fell, When ev'ry Arte'ry, Fibre, Nerve and Vein Were by Convulsions torn, and fill'd with Pain...</poem></blockquote>
which produces
Think how her sister, dear 'Urania' [i. e. Anne], fell,
When ev'ry Arte'ry, Fibre, Nerve and Vein
Were by Convulsions torn, and fill'd with Pain...
-- Redrose64 ( talk) 16:35, 21 May 2010 (UTC) Thanks, Redrose64, I'll work on those lines. Bmcln1 ( talk) 21:36, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
Well, actually, it still doesn't work for me, but I haven't lost heart yet. At the moment it's still in 1.5 line spacing. Always was a troublesome girl, that Anne Wharton! Bmcln1 ( talk) 15:10, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
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Hello, I have expanded Ashendon Junction which you started. I thought you might like to cast your eye over it. It still needs sources and is still under threat of being deemed non-notable. I think it is notable in terms of the history of the Great Central. Maybe that could be explained at greater length if a more detailed history of the GCR were to hand. Alarics ( talk) 20:38, 21 June 2010 (UTC)
eek! My bad. -- Redrose64 ( talk) 11:11, 28 June 2010 (UTC)
I've expanded this a bit, and given it some structure. The Plimsoll Ship Data website is useful for ships in service between 1930 and 1945. Mjroots ( talk) 11:04, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
The displacement field is incorrect, it should be tonnage and coded -
|Ship tonnage = {{16,622|GRT|first=yes}} (1936-45) 17,362 GRT (1945-80)<br>9,572 [[deadweight tonnage|DWT]] (1936-45), 9,790 DWT (1945-80)
Plenty of info on Pretoria
here and Empire Doon
here. Empire Doon's tonnage was reassessed when she was taken as a prize.
Mjroots (
talk) 05:12, 19 July 2010 (UTC)
I don't know how I missed this one. Will create article on it soon as I'm currently waiting for the Clydesite website to get back online before I can write the Empire Conrad article. Mjroots ( talk) 11:10, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
What do you think of a template for all Counties Ship Management ships? See {{ Seatruck Ships}} and {{ Irish Shipping}} for examples. Mjroots ( talk) 09:56, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
Many thanks for the appreciation and guidance about the South Newton article, ?stub, you put on my talk-page. I had an itch to do an article of some sort and I will admit (only to you) that I went into this a little less prepared than I should have, but that's a lesson learned. I heed your advice and concur. Again thanks for your support. best. Richard Avery ( talk) 18:35, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for your further kind words, advice and church bell source. I shall certainly be using that in the future. Richard Avery ( talk) 07:00, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
As you may have noticed I have now added a (not very good) photo of the church in South Newton I was passing through but the day was a bit cloudy. I'll improve it when I am next by there on a sunny day! Thanks for your pointers on the bell foundries. I have put them on my projects list! What an excellent idea to make a refs page like that. I have one but I have it in Microsoft Word, putting it in WP makes it accessible for all and easier to access oneself. Best wishes. Richard Avery ( talk) 07:07, 16 August 2010 (UTC)
Hello Motacilla. I have come across your good work on a number of ship articles. One request: Gross tonnage, gross register tonnage, and net tonnage are specialized measures of volume, not of displacement, which is mass. Accordingly conversion templates should not be used; there is no way to convert, for example, grt (which is volume) to long, short, or metric tons/tonnes (which are units of mass). Many other websites erroneously list the weight or displacements of merchant ships; in most cases the proper measure is grt, gt, or net. ( Deadweight tonnage, which is a measure of weight capacity, is used for tankers.) Regards, Kablammo ( talk) 16:41, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi, User:Redrose64 has described you as "hot on churches and villages in Oxfordshire" and suggested you may be able to help with St John the Baptist Church, Inglesham. I generally work on WikiProject Somerset but since its creation I have been helping out with WikiProject Wiltshire, adding the project banner to lots of relevant article talk pages and also been writing articles on redundant churches in Wiltshire under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. I've now started work on St John the Baptist Church, Inglesham which is a bit out of the ordinary! I have nominated it for DYK, but think it could go on to GA status. I would be grateful for any help you can offer:
Any help appreciated.— Rod talk 19:24, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for your message. I am quite familiar with Anglo-Saxon architecture and the numerous claims of various churches to incorporate Saxon remains, often either very minor or entirely incorrect. As it stood, the article didn't make a claim of any significant Saxon remains, beyond the two sculptures. I don't count the section heading, as the text did not cite any reference to support it. However, the new detail from Pevsner which you have now added makes the case plainly, so I have no objection to you re-adding the category. Warofdreams talk 02:18, 11 November 2010 (UTC)
Re your post re citation format. I can't see what the problem is. The citations given are quite adequate, that is they enable the reader to locate the source material. I was unaware that WP requires use of a template when citing sources. If you wish to alter the format of my basic but adequate citations, feel free to do so. For your benefit I have added a URL link to the JSTOR publication in which I found the article by Elizabeth Whittle. I am at a loss as to what more you want for the Gervase Markham citation. I have supplied all relevant details. ( Lobsterthermidor ( talk) 15:15, 1 January 2011 (UTC))
Hi. I see you removed a link from Upton, Vale of White Horse because the link is also in the infobox. I do not think that is right. Help:Infobox says that infoboxes "are only supposed to summarize material from an article—the information should still be present in the main text, because it may not be possible for some readers to access the contents of the infobox". -- Mhockey ( talk) 17:49, 18 January 2011 (UTC)
I've no idea - I'm just repeating what it says in Help:Infobox. I think more generally it is anyway useful to have the info in both places, because many people do not look first in the infobox. -- Mhockey ( talk) 11:02, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi Motacilla, I noticed that you removed the compass-table from the Horsham article, your comment said it was "pointless", I've decided to re-added it, and have explained why on the discussion page. Grim23 ★ 23:02, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi Motacilla,
I have edited the comments regarding Hugo Ellis because the sources cited do not refer to the exact nature or cause of Hugo's death, the nature of which is not recorded in either of the sources you refer to. Your original statement is not verifiable. This is a sensitive issue and many people feel a more neutral reference to Hugo's death is appropriate particularly at this particular time.
Barneystjohn — Preceding unsigned comment added by Barneystjohn ( talk • contribs) 20:21, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
I've expanded the TS Pretoria article, which you created. A couple of facts have been marked as needing a citation. They are probably in one of the two book sources you used when you originally created the article. Maybe you could check and reference these. Mjroots ( talk) 10:25, 17 May 2011 (UTC)
Hello Motacilla
I notice you wrote an article on convoy OA 178. It’s a welcome addition, as most of the ones we have already deal with the U-boat campaign.
There were a couple of things at variance with the sources I know, though (
this one, for example, and
this) I was minded to make some changes, but thought I’d check with you first, to see if you preferred to do them.
Also you listed some of the ships tonnages (e.g. MV Dallas City 4,952 long tons (5,546 short tons; 5,031 t) GRT). I’m not sure if you are aware now , but
GRT doesn’t equate to
tons like that; it’s a measure of capacity, not weight. That’s why, for example, a ship like Eastmoor can have a GRT of 5,812, but be carrying 7,500 tons of cargo when she was finally sunk (
here)
Xyl 54 (
talk) 00:23, 24 May 2011 (UTC)
Just a note to say that there is an alternative way to do ship infoboxes. Compare SS Burgondier to SS Polar Chief. The infobox in the latter article is more compact, but still has all the info. Mjroots ( talk) 15:17, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
Chzz ► 03:08, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
Hi Motacilla! Firstly, thank you for your amazing work on the article Palestine Railways and others. I have a question: Do you know where I can get access to some of those railway books you used? I have the ones that can be easily bought, but not the more rare ones. In particular, I am interested in: Hughes, Hugh (1981). Middle East Railways. Harrow: Continental Railway Circle. pp. 34–44. ISBN 0-9503469-7-7. If you are located in Israel, do you know which library in the center has this book? Or even better, where I can buy it? Thanks, Ynhockey ( Talk) 19:25, 2 June 2011 (UTC)
The Mariners website gives Empire Pacific as being built by Burntisland (builder 04). The ship currently listed as Empire Pacific seems to be Empire Palace! I'll sort that one out in a mo. As for Windsor Trader, it is entirely possible that there were two or more motorships with this name. In which case it MV Windsor Trader can be turned into a shipindex page, and Windsor Trader will need to be retargeted. Mjroots ( talk) 13:01, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
I'd recommend Convoyweb (which often does not show up in searches), Mariners, The Ships List and Warsailors as good sources for researching ship articles. Other sources that may be worth using are listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Ships/Sources. Mjroots ( talk) 09:40, 17 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi, re
this edit - where a book citation has a description of a point within the book, and that point doesn't correspond to an actual page number, it's better to use |at=Diagram 13B
because that suppresses the "p." which |page=Diagram 13B
generates. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 17:14, 14 August 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I'm wondering why you are altering {{
stnlnk}}
to {{
rws}}
, as
here, since rws is merely a redirect to stnlnk? --
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talk) 19:49, 20 August 2011 (UTC)
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I've just added to the works list for this article - cite 19. I'd be grateful if you could reformat the ref to the article style - not within my competence at the moment. Many thanks. Acabashi ( talk) 23:21, 26 October 2011 (UTC)
{{
sfn}}
which is essentially the same as <ref>{{
harvnb}}
</ref>
with the benefit that you don't need to worry about naming the <ref>
tags when referencing the same page in a given book in two different places. If you give {{
sfn}}
exactly the same permutation of authors/year/page two or more times, it merges them automatically. You can see it in action on
NBR 224 and 420 Classes. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 14:26, 28 October 2011 (UTC)Hi, I saw a couple of your edits and I would dispute your description of vandalism - WP:Vandalism has a specific description here and a good faith attempt to protect of edit in a similar vein would not fit the description of vandalism - more or less - any good faith edit is not vandalism - would you agree? Youreallycan ( talk) 01:00, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
If you give an editor a warning, you need to wait and see if it is effective before requesting that they be blocked. Also, it is never a good idea to edit war and then report the other guy because he made more reverts than you. In this case you were both wrong. Please use dispute resolution instead of repeating disputed edits. Jehochman Talk 01:23, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi - Good luck with it, I wouldn't hold out much hope though, as the apparently neutral contributors to the current discussions have already had things to say about that particular user: Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Giano_II. My own experience (for example at Mentmore Towers ) has been pretty unrewarding (even though he's stopped editing that, for the moment) as there's clearly a GiacomoReturned fan club which is happy to turn a blind eye to his repeated incivility, article ownership issues, and disregard for reliable sources. Ghughesarch ( talk) 02:40, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi, you recently removed the second mention of the village of Oakley from Template:Aylesbury Vale. I have undone it for the moment.
When I was developing those templates we had a discussion here about just this issue. The way I had been doing them before was listing them as, for example, Oakley ( Addingrove • Little London ). I.e. as Parish ( Other places ). The difficulty with this is that in some cases the parish and main village do not share the same name, for example at Stone with Bishopstone and Hartwell ( Bishopstone • Hartwell • Lower Hartwell • Sedrup ) what do you then do with Stone? And in some cases the lead article was not just a redirect: the civil parish had its own article separate from the main village.
So what we decided to do was to list it as it is: to have the parish name at the start, then each place name within that parish in the parentheses, even if it meant listing the same article twice. Because these articles have not been formed in a consistent manner, unfortunately there is no consistent approach to listing them in a single template, just a "best fit" approach. -- role player 23:17, 24 January 2012 (UTC)
I shouldn't edit your user page so will leave a note here. There was a Warminster and Westbury Rural District, but no Warminster and Westbury, until 1974 each of them was an urban district. Moonraker ( talk) 21:59, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi, apparently the church at Warkworth, Northamptonshire now has a steel roof because the lead was stolen, and the eight regular churchgoers couldn't afford to replace like with like. English Heritage gave it the go-ahead. Might I suggest this for your to-do list? -- Redrose64 ( talk) 21:47, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi, Motacilla. You may be interested in Talk:Ufton Nervet rail crash/Archives/2023/May#Petition, a discussion I started to gain consensus on the Ufton Nervet rail crash page. Your input would be appreciated. All the best, matt ( talk) 10:49, 7 July 2012 (UTC)
Hi Motacilla. Nice work on those CIA-related articles, I really never knew the Agency was active in Indonesia in that way. Really good stuff. The lead on the bios are fine now, good summaries. I got the ship info from Miramar Ship Index, which is a generally quite reliable source (unlike wrecksite.eu, I might add). Miramar is subscription only access, but if you like I can add the Miramar stuff to the articles when and if you create them. The ship articles you already have created look fine, they shouldn't be challenged. As for Ammonia, if you register at Miramar you get a 7-day free trial. Manxruler ( talk) 22:37, 5 August 2012 (UTC)
Hello there. I noticed a few edits of yours like this where you are adding books after the fact. This implies that they were used to create the article when they weren't. -- Merbabu ( talk) 10:15, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
Actually, from my reading of the history, you didn't add material to the article. yet you added a book in a manner that implies it was used to contribute to the article. -- Merbabu ( talk) 10:31, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
When using this souce, it is better to actually cite the individual page of the Lloyd's register entry, rather than the page that turns up using the search term. Mjroots ( talk) 08:52, 17 August 2012 (UTC)
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Hi, Motacilla. I notice you have just gone for "Harvard"-style citations on the Ansty, Wiltshire, page. For myself, I find the machine-gun fire of full stops irritating, and I don't understand why that style has become so favoured on the English Wikipedia. Clearly, being American gives it an advantage, but surely even in the US it is used mostly in the sciences, and the styles the British prefer are commonly used in the arts? I may be wrong, but I don't think there is a firm Wikipedia policy which imposes "Harvard", and to me the main thing is to have consistency within an article. Articles here begun by me consistently use a more old-fashioned kind of citation (unless someone has added something I haven't noticed!) Anyway, I just came here to say that if you were to overturn that style in any articles I have created, I should want to discuss it. Regards, Moonraker ( talk) 23:14, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
{{
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template), nor enclosed in parentheses. Motacilla has used
Shortened footnotes, albeit using the <ref>{{
harvnb}}</ref>
form rather than the more versatile {{
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. Such footnotes are far more widespread in Wikipedia than Harvard (parenthetical) referencing - you just need to compare the transclusion count - {{
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(which is where {{
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redirects) has
3436 transclusions, whilst {{
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(which is where {{
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redirects) has
16185. The template {{
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has a misleading name, which may possibly be one reason why {{
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is gaining ground with its
9915 transclusions. --
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talk) 12:21, 2 October 2012 (UTC)Hi. As a major contributor to List of lost settlements in the United Kingdom, you might be interested to see a discussion that's just opened on "How to Write about... Deserted Medieval Villages" at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject UK geography/How to write about settlements. GrindtXX ( talk) 02:37, 11 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi Motacilla,
I thought the article you wrote about the SS Patria (1913) was pretty interesting. I decided to nominate it to appear on the Did You Know section of the main page. However, it is unlikely to appear as long as not every paragraph (except for the lede) is referenced with a footnote, so I was wondering if you could add sources to some of the unreferenced paragraphs. You can observe the nomination process here.-- Carabinieri ( talk) 02:30, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi - I notice you are adding some excellent material to Furness Withy. Please could you add some in-line references because it is not clear which of the sources referred to support each of the facts you have inserted. Or is all the material about the Nova Scotia and the Newfoundland also from "the ships list"? Thanks in anticipation. Dormskirk ( talk) 09:17, 30 March 2013 (UTC)
You are always welcome! Those are quite interesting articles and I will surely translate into Italian language, thank you! Just a question about the SS London Valour she was a steam turbine ship, so why do you use "SS"? E.g. in Italian language "SS" acronym for steamship is reported as "P/fo" wich stand for "piroscafo" and for "steam turbine ship" we have "T/n" => "turbonave", like Michelangelo and others, so is it possible that there is no equivalent in English? -- Nicola Romani ( talk) 10:51, 23 April 2013 (UTC)
I found TSS for "turbine steam ship", anyway we have the same problem in Italian language, especially with ferry-boat (Mototraghetto =>M/t very often called with M/n prefix =>motonave, probably due their last decades projects and design wich have transformed them in large ferry-cruise boat). Ciao! -- Nicola Romani ( talk) 10:56, 27 April 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for your hard and expert work on Augusta Victoria (ship) - in many ways it looks much better but I really wish you hadn't formatted the cites. I find that format, as well as the older citation templates, impenetrable and bulky, and the article had a consistent citation format already. Please consider not reformatting citations on articles that do not have conflicting formats. Yngvadottir ( talk) 14:26, 1 May 2013 (UTC)
In Dec 2011 you added the following to the BS article: 'St. Helen's is one of a number of Oxfordshire parish churches that has a timber-framed tower' replacing Moreau's suggestion that a timber-framed tower was 'remarkable'. On the parish church website Liam Tiller follows Moreau, describing it as 'unusual'.
Is there a citation to support your change, please? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sherwin35 ( talk • contribs) 22:10, 17 May 2013 (UTC)
Many thanks. Sherwin35 ( talk) 12:20, 19 May 2013 (UTC)
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An interesting story you've found there about Bowles. Now that you've written an article about him, I wonder whether it would better to give the full detail about the Court of Arches case only at his article, with only a summary at St Beuno's Trefdraeth? To give the same details in four different articles, in virtually identical language, strikes me as overkill... I'll post a possible version on the talk page. Bencherlite Talk 14:56, 18 June 2013 (UTC)
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Please don't change the word "period" to "era" in the context of art or architectural history. The word "era", correctly used, is a scientific term e.g. Jurassic era. While it is also often applied to historical periods e.g. Victorian era, it doesn't sit very well on art history. What we are talking about here is a period of specifically architectural history that is not defined by any historic era. It is the same with Gothic architecture. There is no such thing as a "Gothic era".
I particularly dislike the change from "during this period" to "in this era" because the word "during" implies a frequent event or continuous process e.g. "developments in vaulting occurred during this period."
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I've reverted the changes you made to List of shipwrecks in the mid-Atlantic Ocean as unnecessary. The {{ ship}}, {{ sclass}}, etc, templates are editing shortcuts, and make no difference at all to the functionality of the link or the way that it's displayed. Converting the link into a template is at best pointless, and in some cases may be detrimental. I'm very active on these "list of shipwrecks" pages, and the main reason I take the time to type out the links in full is that these lists are often edited by new users, unfamiliar with the complexities of wikicode, who tend to copy the format of the other entries on the list. Wikilinks are fairly easy to grasp, while the ship templates are impossible to understand without knowing how to find the documentation (and even then, it's not exactly straightforward). In addition, these lists take a long time to load as it is, and adding hundreds of unnecessary templates to the page doesn't help. So, unless there's a compelling reason to use these templates that I'm not aware of, I'd advise you to find something more constructive to do with your time. DoctorKubla ( talk) 12:35, 8 July 2013 (UTC)
Can you double check my addition to SS Patria (1913) to make sure it is the correct ship.
I noticed your edits on German submarines simplifying <br> punctuation. I was under the impression from Wikipedia:WikiProject_Ships/Guidelines#Infoboxes that we were to use <br />. Now I am a bit confused. Could you help me out there? ÄDA - DÄP VA ( talk) 17:19, 13 December 2013 (UTC)
<br />
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to <br>
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HTML Tidy converts one to the other in any case), but it creates an old revision of the page which will always occupy more space than the elimination of the space-and-slash will "save". But if the article contains both <br />
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I've corrected the Canadian Navy flag and wikilink on the German submarine U-74 (1940) article. {{ Navy}} has examples of useage for various navies. Mjroots ( talk) 20:54, 13 December 2013 (UTC)
Heythrop Park eh? I went there (for one day) in 1982 or thereabouts, when it was a NatWest training establishment. — Redrose64 ( talk) 11:37, 15 December 2013 (UTC)
There were three ships of this name. You should consider moving the article and converting the current title into a shipindex page. Mjroots ( talk) 07:10, 20 December 2013 (UTC)
parish churches and ships
Thank you, green wagtail, for quality articles on your many fields of interest "wildlife, merchant shipping, canals, railways, motorcycles, history, architecture, modern languages and photography", such as SS Oropesa and Madeira Firecrest, for images of parish churches and biographies of related people such as Edward Miller, for diligent maintenance with matching edit summaries. - you are an awesome Wikipedian!
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Thanks! I've now finished creating SS Abukir, SS Clan Macarthur and SS Gasfire, and had better go and belatedly get ready for Christmas . Best wishes, Motacilla ( talk) 01:13, 21 December 2013 (UTC)
Hello Motacilla. Please be aware that there are two moat sites near Bardon Hill. One of them (the oval one) lies to the east of the hill. It is the other one (a square or rectangular moat) that lies to the south of the hill. The oval one is indeed a scheduled monument. Kellam's Farm lies eastward of the summit of the hill, and (as the official citation states) the oval moat site lies eastward of Kellam's Farm. It is the moat island southward of the hill that was the site of the old hall. Old Hall Cottage (sometimes called Old Hall Gardens Cottage) now stands on this moat island, and Old Hall Farm stands very nearby.
I have taken the liberty of amending the entry on the Bardon wiki page and I hope you don't mind.
Incidentally, the map that is annexed to the 1947 Bardon Estate sale catalogue refers to the oval site by the name or description "Castle Mound".
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In your recent edits to the Griffin article you almost completely eliminated the term "the ship" in favor of more "she"s, thus restricting the alternatives to her actual name to just "she". You may not have realized that I carefully alternated between "Griffin", "she" and "the ship" to avoid over using any one of those. Your changes now severely overuse "she", to the detriment of the article's overall readability. While I appreciate the addition of new info to the article, I ask you to restore the original uses of "the ship". And if you've done this to the other RN destroyer articles, please restore them as well. Most of these are Good Articles and their existing language was deemed acceptable by other editors, regardless of your own preferences.-- Sturmvogel 66 ( talk) 00:53, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
Writing should be clear and concise. Plain English works best; avoid ambiguity, jargon, and vague or unnecessarily complex wording.
is a generic term for communication in English that emphasizes clarity, brevity, and the avoidance of technical language...
Thanks for this correction. I should have spotted it when the error was made. -- Redrose64 ( talk) 14:39, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
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I'm coming up to my 900th new article. As usual with a milestone, I try to put a bit more effort in. Take a look at this, but don't touch. Any suggestions either ping me or via my talk page. Mjroots ( talk) 16:29, 15 August 2014 (UTC)
I am not quite sure why you have amended the unit for the steam pressures from "psi" to "lbf/in2".
In deciding to use "psi" I took into consideration the following:
Did you have any particular reason for this edit? Thanks, ThoughtIdRetired ( talk) 22:30, 26 September 2014 (UTC)
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Hi, please don't italicise Latin loan words and phrases like "per", "via" or "en route"; see MOS:FOREIGN#Common usage in English, MOS:TEXT#Foreign terms and MOS:ITAL#Foreign words. -- Redrose64 ( talk) 23:36, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
Hi, please would you look over recent edits to Adderbury? There seems to be somebody who wishes to plug a few organisations, as well as having an axe to grind about heavy lorries. -- Redrose64 ( talk) 17:55, 31 August 2015 (UTC)
As noted on the talk page, there is more than one Buster. I suppose different dogs are mixed up in the article. Greetings, Stefan64 ( talk) 12:26, 11 September 2015 (UTC)
Please see my proposal to speedily rename Category:Ships of Union Steam Ship Company to Category:Ships of the Union Steam Ship Company and Category:Ships of Blue Star Line to Category:Ships of the Blue Star Line Hugo999 (compare them in Category:Ships by company ) ( talk) 14:22, 21 September 2015 (UTC)
Hi, sorry to disturb you - I have to log off (for work). There have been some (strange??) edits to the above article today. Can you check them - it seems to me that they are about a settlement and not about the loch. Thanks Denisarona ( talk) 14:25, 7 October 2015 (UTC)
Hi Motocilla. All bound up in my own interests I have just noticed it is barely two weeks since you were working on this article. You may have much more up your sleeve to lay out for the reader. Please feel free to adjust what I have written. It isn't complete and the financial story gets more complicated so there is more to insert but I don't mean to discourage you. Regards, Eddaido ( talk) 09:13, 13 October 2015 (UTC)
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Can I ask why you deleted all the wikilinks from the ship descriptions? Murgatroyd49 ( talk) 12:25, 12 May 2017 (UTC)
Please ignore, I misread what you'd done, apologies. Murgatroyd49 ( talk) 12:30, 12 May 2017 (UTC)
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At this edit you evidently had a source attributing construction to Newport News. Could you show where you found that info? There is a longstanding problem with the construction dates being uncited, and the article showed it as laid down after its launch! LeadSongDog come howl! 17:34, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
Hi, you and me were within five minutes' walk of each other yesterday. We could have gone to the pub. Do you have any idea why this bus is pulling out of the short-stay car park/taxi rank?
Trivia: you photographed the entire class - Thames Travel own just two of these Wright StreetLite buses, nos. 441 & 442: they were purchased at the beginning of September 2016, specifically for use on Route 98. Until last week, they were the newest vehicles in the fleet (TT have a policy of acquiring most vehicles second-hand from City of Oxford Motor Services). TT have since purchased at least one new double-decker, no. 623 (BN68 XTO) which is, I think, a Wright StreetDeck, also purchased specifically for use on Route 98 and the new Route 99 which was introduced on Monday 3 Sep. -- Redrose64 🌹 ( talk) 14:33, 8 September 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for coming on Sunday, it was great to finally meet you at last. We talked of many things, and I made some notes which I'm trying to work out. The beer which I was drinking (Purple Moose Brewery "Dark Side of the Moose") may have affected my handwriting. It is now available in the Wetherspoons in Abingdon, so I had a few today. Anyway, in no particular order:
Sorry for taking a few days to come back on this. -- Redrose64 🌹 ( talk) 20:27, 21 September 2018 (UTC)
Yes Motacilla, I completely agree with you that there needs to be consistent wording with all of the settlement pages. Therefore, the historic county should be mentioned clearly in the introduction sections of all the remaining settlements left to edit. I have discussed the historic counties with you on my talk page, and also separately on the talk page Wikipedia talk:WikiProject UK geography/How to write about settlements. For other users who haven't seen this, I have copied part of my response to Motacilla, showing my reasons for the edits:
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Here, I have copied part of my input in that said discussion (dated 15 October 2017), and I hope it will be constructive " Wikipedia:WikiProject UK geography/How to write about settlements, says that we can cover the Historic County in the Lead section (I think that saying 'Historically' seems to refer to a time parameter, whereas 'Historic County' is more like a noun). Similarly, the Infoboxes on some city/town pages (such as Manchester and Birmingham) clearly state the Historic County."
Thank you. Acapital ( talk) 09:37, 4 November 2018 (UTC)
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See Commons:Commons:Village pump#Defaultsort for UK buildings RFC, if you don't want to comment there yourself I can post of you're behalf. Crouch, Swale ( talk) 12:16, 1 May 2020 (UTC)
Hi, , this is a bit weird. You are relying mostly on a self-published source. We do not do that. - Sitush ( talk) 11:26, 3 July 2020 (UTC)
PM Heaton is a pretty reliable author on merchant ships. Certainly more so than the National Museums Liverpool's dodgy fact sheet. And I have corroborated from Lloyd's Register, uboat.net and Wrecksite wherever possible. Motacilla ( talk) 11:33, 3 July 2020 (UTC)
@ Sitush Reverting a piece of work that took me a week and is corroborated from other sources is unduly negative. I suggest you refer this for discussion in WP:Ships rather than just destroy a fellow-contributor's hard work. Motacilla ( talk) 11:39, 3 July 2020 (UTC)
Eleven years ago, you were the very first person to answer one of my talk page posts - I had posted on other talk pages before that, but none of those posts were answered (they still haven't been). -- Redrose64 🌹 ( talk) 23:37, 7 July 2020 (UTC)
The latest batch of buses are now all in service, nos. 901-909 - their numbers indicate that they are barred from passing through Oxford station bridge, and their plated height of 14′6″ confirms this - the previous batch, nos. 621-623, are plated 13′10″. Besides the increased height, the 901 class differ from the 621 class in having diagonal staircase windows and reduced seating capacity upstairs. This is because four tables have been added - to fit them in, three pairs of seats are removed and four more pairs reversed, giving a capacity of H39/29F; downstairs, the four rear-facing fixed seats behind the rear axle are replaced by tip-up seats giving more legroom for those on the bench. Registrations are as follows:
Number | Registration | Licensed to |
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901 | NK20 EKT | City of Oxford Motor Services |
902 | NK20 EKW | City of Oxford Motor Services |
903 | NK20 EKX | City of Oxford Motor Services |
904 | NK20 EKO | Thames Travel |
905 | NK20 EKP | Thames Travel |
906 | NK20 EKR | Thames Travel |
907 | NK20 EKY | Thames Travel |
908 | NK20 ELU | Thames Travel |
909 | NK20 ENJ | Thames Travel |
The registrations may indicate the order of delivery, those of nos. 908/9 suggest late delivery, and indeed I didn't spot these until some weeks after no. 907. All nine are normally seen on the Oxford-A34-Abingdon corridor, with nos. 901-903 painted a very impressive black and red - these are used on route X13 but the livery is not dedicated to it, whereas nos. 904-909 are painted in "Didcot Connector" two-tone grey - these are used on routes X2 and X32 but do migrate to the 33/X33. -- Redrose64 🌹 ( talk) 08:29, 17 September 2020 (UTC)
I think that your edit on SS Lichtenfels from Belgian Congo to Belgium maybe incorrect. I don't have access to relevant reference: Dunn, Laurence (1973). Merchant Ships of the World in Colour 1910–1929. London: Blandford Press Ltd. p. 191. ISBN 0-7137-0569-8., but it makes sense that in 1918/19 heavy lift ships were used to move locomotives from Europe to Africa, but not between Britain and Belgium, which would have had established factories and rail networks by then? Wanted to check-in here on the reason for your edit, in case you have access to Dunn 1973 and know more about it than my assumptions? Vauxhall Bridgefoot ( talk) 13:01, 20 November 2020 (UTC)
"Not long after the war, Armstrong Whitworths' had to deliver 200 heavy locomotives and tenders to the Belgian State Railways... Captain Christen Smith, an officer of the Norwegian Navy and an expert in heavy lifts, saw his opportunity."
Back in 2013 you added the prefix HMHS to all the WWI entries in this list. Do you have a source for that or was it a presumption? I believe the majority continued to use their existing civil prefixes but may have used HS (for Hospital ship) as they were contracted by the War Office (not the Admiralty) and were not therefore ships of the Royal Navy. I cannot find any definite source with regard to the use of HMHS or even if they did use that prefix if they were Royal Naval ships. Any help you could offer would be gratefully received Lyndaship ( talk) 15:40, 29 November 2020 (UTC)
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I see you are fond of using this template. It might save a bit of typing but I think it makes a bad link to the List of Ships launched in yyyy as it's not very relevant and is rather Easter eggish. I intend to put it up for deletion (along with the similar ones which have no usage at all) once I have changed all the articles it appears in - I suspect you are the only editor to make use of it since it was created in 2006. Lyndaship ( talk) 19:00, 16 January 2021 (UTC)
Hi - I don’t think our paths have crossed. I understand that you contribute photographs of Oxfordshire villages to Commons. I am very keen to have an image of Fritwell Manor to accompany the article. As far as I can see from Google Earth, it appears to face North Street, which runs out of the village, so it should be pretty accessible if one makes it as far as Fritwell. If you have the opportunity at any stage, I would be hugely grateful. If it’s not possible, or in any way inconvenient, don’t trouble at all. I shall make a point of ending up in the village myself at some time in the future. With many thanks and best regards. KJP1 ( talk) 15:43, 13 November 2021 (UTC)
Hi Motacilla, you have access to Miramar, don't you? If so, could you check the entry for Chantal, IMO 5352408 and make any improvements you can to German trawler V 303 Tannenberg. Have seen a quoted 8kn for her after being re-engined, but the source is not useable on Wikipedia. Mjroots ( talk) 15:04, 14 June 2022 (UTC)
Dear Motacilla, you tend to change or "correct" articles in the german Wiki saying "Bitte Englischer Artikel sehen." To check with the article in this (english) Wiki is no reasonable proof or source for any edit. As your co-operation is more than welcome, please add proper sources to your edits. Many thanks / vielen Dank Landkraft 08:08, 20 July 2022 (UTC)
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I see you already have the usual posse of pedants looking over your shoulder, and while it may be disconcerting at first, it is all in the interest of getting as many capable authors as possible that don't need to be edited further with sources by others, or even be deleted. (not that I do as much as I used to, and the guidelines keep changing as Wik develops.) You do need to include sources or references in articles, or you will get the dreaded "citation needed" inserted in your text on anything the reader deems debatable. I haven't researched Meguro, but knew about the BSA A7 copy, but not about the Motosacoche connection.
Found this: The "1937 Meguro Z97, which utilized a 500cc rocker-valve motor that may have been based on the Motosacoche Jubilée Sport's 498cc OHV engine made in Switzerland. The Meguro Z97 was the first Japanese motorcycle that was built entirely in-house, from-the-ground-up." "In 1939, the Meguro Z97 was adopted as the official motorcycle of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, and was used until the start of WWII. In 1941 the Tokyo Meguro Works was converted into a munitions factory, and all motorcycle production was halted." See http://www.khulsey.com/motorcycles/vintage_motorcycle_meguro.html for more. My son has just come back from being an exchange student in Japan, has a Japanese girlfriend and speaks the language fluently enough to embarrass his teachers. I can try to get him to translate the Japanese web page, and then pass it on to you. Seasalt ( talk) 12:00, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
With respect to references and verifiable, a forum may not be considered definitive enough as a source and it is (to me) annoying to get those "citation needed" tags long after I've prepared an article. A reference to a book is best as websites can disappear when their creators lose interest and fail to pay their domain fees. If the others on that forum can help with references, vunderbar. Great detail stuff. Australia had a lot of the Meguro/Kawasaki 650 BSA copy, which is the only reason I was familiar with the name. Seasalt ( talk) 00:53, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
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Hi. I undid the redirect in the Combe Longa, Oxfordshire article, redirecting the page to Combe Longa and made the Combe Longa page a redirect. The chances are that an article at Combe Longa, without the Oxfordshire modifier, would be acceptable, but a copy and paste edit of the old article at the new title means that the edit history of the article is lost. You might want to run the move through requested moves. FlowerpotmaN·( t) 17:54, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for creating these. Will have a look through and add anything that springs to mind. Note that the 3 halts on the line were not original stations and were opened by the GWR in the 20th century. Chipping Norton deserves a detailed article which I will give some thought to. Hook Norton (where I live) is also complex with all the various ironstone companies operating their own lines. There is an article for Brymbo, perhaps a second article for all the smaller companies? Bruern Crossing ( talk) 17:24, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
Brymbo was the biggest system but there was also the Partnership quarry which pre-dated Brymbo. This had its own standard-gauge line which ran from the station and down under the viaduct to a tipping dock where cable-hauled narrow-gauge tubs were unloaded. The narrow gauge line ran through a small tunnel under the Milcombe road, still existing. The tipping dock and explosives hut have also survived. The Earl of Dudley's quarries had a large calcining kiln near No.2 viaduct, with a cable-worked tramway system. This connected to the B&CDR via a cable-worked incline from the Swerford Road. These were the main quarries but there were some smaller operations at various times.
I'm not a great geology expert but an article on the Oxfordshire ironstone seems a good idea as it would pull together the various quarry articles and could include the proposed North Oxfordshire Ironstone Scheme. Yes, Hornton stone gets its red colour from the iron.
Eric Tonks defines the oxfordshire ironstone as "The Oxfordshire Field", including parts of Warwickshire and Northamptonshire. "The area thus defined was isolated geographically from the other Midlands ironstone fields and developed independently of them, with its own markets..." Bruern Crossing ( talk) 21:17, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
Thankyou for moving St Mary's church, North Leigh to St Mary's Church, North Leigh while preserving its editing history. I'm sorry to trouble you when you already do so much, but how can I do that? I need to move Clapton Crabbe Rolfe to Clapton Crabb Rolfe. The historian Sir Nikolaus Pevsner seems to have mistakenly added the "e" to Rolfe's middle name, and when I created Rolfe's article I copied Pevsner before realising that every other authority, including C.C. Rolfe's father, spells "Crabb" without a final "e". Motacilla ( talk) 15:34, 3 November 2009 (UTC)
Thankyou for moving Clapton Crabb Rolfe to his rightful place. I've amended all spellings of his middle name to "Crabb", both in his article and in articles that link to it. Motacilla ( talk) 22:14, 6 November 2009 (UTC)
I see that you've spotted the photo that I put on Barford St. Michael. It's not the best that could be done, basically I was visiting my mother last weekend, and we were walking around the village - I decided to take a few photos (some of the others may appear on Commons in the next few weeks). Unfortunately my flash didn't go off, so that the actual Norman tympanum, which is of primary interest, is in shadow; it really needs photographing by somebody who has a decent lighting rig for outdoor use. -- Redrose64 ( talk) 23:21, 8 November 2009 (UTC) (amended Redrose64 ( talk) 16:13, 16 November 2009 (UTC))
No problem with that; however a few days ago I spotted a user (can't remember who, or in which article) linking dates in the "[[11 November]] [[2009]]" fashion. Is there a policy doc which I can point the user at, next time I spot it happening? -- Redrose64 ( talk) 19:13, 11 November 2009 (UTC)
Hi. On my talk page, you wrote:
I agree, mea culpa.
I fundamentally disagree. I (under my current and a previous identity) have been editing Wikipedia since before infoboxes were common, and I'm still not totally convinced by them, but have come to accept them. However they are not a substitute for textual information and (IMHO) should be regarded as part of the article lede; containing a summary of information found elsewhere in the text of the article.
There are several reasons for this, some stylistic and rooted in the belief that WP is fundamentally a textual medium, but not least because of accessability issues (the software that reads web pages to the visually impaired is much happier with text than tables). As far as I can see, this is the norm on WP articles; if you think it is against policy I'd appreciate a pointer to the appropriate policy.
Incidentally, the text did say more than the infobox does. It put the information on other settlements in the parish in the correct contextual place, rather than having it the lede. It gave the number of households. It clarified that the population was that of the parish and not that of the village. It gave the reader unfamiliar with UK local government practice a clue that parishes, districts and counties are (in this case at least) involved in local government. And it gave cites for information not previously cited (other settlements in parish; constituencies).
For these reasons, I have re-reverted your removal of the civil parish information.
I prefer to include to include title because it avoids ambiguity if, as is quite often the case, the same author has written more than one citable reference. However this isn't the case here, and I'm happy not to cite the title. I'm less happy with your reversion to an ad-hoc citation style, rather than using the appropriate cite book template. I've therefore put back in the templates but without the titles.
I'm rather tempted to write mind your own business to this one, but that wouldn't be very polite, so I won't. Each of my edits was a self-contained and perfectly reasonable change (with the caveats above). I find this way of working the best way for me, and I don't see that it does any harm to the project.
I doubt it very much. I've been editing here since 2004, and a little criticism every so often (some justified, some not) is good for the soul. But thanks for the encouragement. -- Starbois ( talk) 16:39, 14 November 2009 (UTC)
{{
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, there are |country=
, |region=
, |constituency_westminster=
, |civil_parish=
, |metropolitan_borough=
, |metropolitan_county=
, |shire_district=
, |shire_county=
, |unitary_england=
, |lieutenancy_england=
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- every single one of which is optional. Only the relevant ones should be filled in; the irrelevant ones should be left blank - or omitted.<ref></ref>
tags - but in an article with two-stage referencing, such as Mapledurham, the proper place for the citation templates is gathered together late on in the article - the section here headed as "Bibliography". The <ref></ref>
may contain plain text; linked text; or one of the special templates designed for short footnotes, such as {{
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{{
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, the footnote would be linked to its citation template. Have a look at
Charwelton railway station, references [2] and [3]. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 17:34, 15 November 2009 (UTC)As I understand it the various Grim's Ditchi are pre Roman invasion while Aves Ditch is probably Roman. The references are vague using helpful terms like 'believed' or 'thought to be' so one can't be definitive.
Rsloch ( talk) 14:46, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
The new reference for the Palestine Railway, Brendon Judd's "The Desert Railway" has 260 pages in the 2003 privately printed edition which I have from the local library, but the 2004 Penguin edition has 328 pages. Hence I cannot give page refs to the Penguin edition. Perhaps chapter references instead? Hugo999 ( talk) 13:02, 28 November 2009 (UTC)
I see that you deleted this project banner from a couple of articles. I know it says "cities" and the 2 settlements that I saw aren't cities, but the usage is an American one which is much broader. The project scope includes all settlements, regardless of size, even those which are parts of larger urban areas. I've replaced the WPCities banners on Chieveley and East Garston. Folks at 137 ( talk) 14:05, 5 December 2009 (UTC)
Yesterday I put forward a proposal at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Oxfordshire. I'm not at all sure how to go about gaining recruits; but since you have demonstrated a strong interest in Oxfordshire topics, I thought I'd start by asking if (a) you are interested; (b) if you know how best to continue, who to invite, etc. -- Redrose64 ( talk) 15:41, 5 December 2009 (UTC)
That's very kind of you, but I did fail to answer your suggestion and I have been feeling guilty about it. At the time I didn't know how to answer your question (b) how best to continue, so I left it to one side intending to find out and get back to you, and... er... failed to get any further for three months, then got no further, then got distracted... oops! Now let's see how the discussion of your proposal progresses! :o) Motacilla ( talk) 13:33, 22 March 2010 (UTC)
Point taken re canal/railway - have amended. Don't see a lot of point in repeating Pevsner refs for a new page when is just a case of a single section over four pages though. Anyway cheers Cj1340 ( talk) 15:23, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
Great work on expanding the Ambrosden article. I spent two years working at the MoD RAOC depot just down the road from there, so I have many fond memories of sessions in the Turner Arms. The reference to "Ambrosden Court Ltd" in the Economy section looks a bit dodgey to me though, but as this is a public forum I'll say no more. -- Malleus Fatuorum 23:41, 9 March 2010 (UTC)
PS. I'm not suggesting you put that in, just making a comment. -- Malleus Fatuorum 23:46, 9 March 2010 (UTC)
Just wanted to say thanks for your hard work on this article, which looks really good now. Best wishes, Boleyn3 ( talk) 00:16, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
Hello, Motacilla. I see you have contributed to the article Steeple Aston. The article is currently a Good Article candidate; unfortunately, the nominator has retired. I was wondering if you would be able to step in for the review; otherwise, I'm afraid I may have to quick-fail it. Intelligent sium 00:32, 16 March 2010 (UTC)
Steeple Aston is way off GA Status at the moment. Motacilla I have to say though I'm very impressed at your work on villages in Oxfordshire. It is nice to browse and find mostly half decent articles even if shortish. Now if we could get all of the villages in the UK up to a similar level... I'll add some photos to some of the villages.. Dr. Blofeld White cat 11:37, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
I've made some improvements to Ambrosden. If you could kindly fix the book citations to the actual pages instead of the 15-30 thing e.g. Lobel (1957), page 17 etc. and add a citation and fill the british army section out a little I think this is ready for GA. I'd be happy to help you promote some of these articles. Dr. Blofeld White cat 12:21, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
Yeah, I think more research is needed in the library. Its of GA quality I think but the sources used could be much more abundant. Its on hold at the moment but I think its probably best to withdraw the nomination until it can be made more comprehensive. Dr. Blofeld White cat 12:41, 4 April 2010 (UTC)
Ambrosden is now a GA. Dr. Blofeld White cat 10:37, 13 April 2010 (UTC)
Hi Motacilla, please do not delete the template {{Coordinate}} from any articles as it is used for data extraction (e.g. for Google Maps). You can get a map of England instead of the UK by adding "maplevel=adm2nd" to this template (see my reverts of your edits). -- тнояsтеn ⇔ 10:34, 9 April 2010 (UTC)
In the light of your comments on Disused railway stations (Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Railway), perhaps you might like to have your say on the proposals that have been made here which would, if implemented, see many more individual station articles merged into one single page. Lamberhurst ( talk) 13:05, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
In the infobox for Stratton Audley, the "Website" link which points to "The Stratton Audley Village Web Site" redirects through http://www.strattonaudley.com/ to the Red Lion Inn. Is this acceptable? Modal Jig ( talk) 19:10, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
Thanks very much for your work. I'll try not to leave so much of the housekeeping to others. I'll take your reference style in this entry as a pattern and try to supply the absent page references where I can. One thing that I would like to have done was to set the sample poem in single spacing like the rest of the text. How can that be done? Bmcln1 ( talk) 15:31, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
There is the <poem></poem>
tag pair, you would use it like this:
<poem>Think how her sister, dear 'Urania' [i. e. Anne], fell, When ev'ry Arte'ry, Fibre, Nerve and Vein Were by Convulsions torn, and fill'd with Pain...</poem>
which produces
Think how her sister, dear 'Urania' [i. e. Anne], fell,
When ev'ry Arte'ry, Fibre, Nerve and Vein
Were by Convulsions torn, and fill'd with Pain...
To indent it, the usual colon at the start of the line doesn't work, so you need to enclose the whole thing in a <blockquote></blockquote>
ie:
<blockquote><poem>Think how her sister, dear 'Urania' [i. e. Anne], fell, When ev'ry Arte'ry, Fibre, Nerve and Vein Were by Convulsions torn, and fill'd with Pain...</poem></blockquote>
which produces
Think how her sister, dear 'Urania' [i. e. Anne], fell,
When ev'ry Arte'ry, Fibre, Nerve and Vein
Were by Convulsions torn, and fill'd with Pain...
-- Redrose64 ( talk) 16:35, 21 May 2010 (UTC) Thanks, Redrose64, I'll work on those lines. Bmcln1 ( talk) 21:36, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
Well, actually, it still doesn't work for me, but I haven't lost heart yet. At the moment it's still in 1.5 line spacing. Always was a troublesome girl, that Anne Wharton! Bmcln1 ( talk) 15:10, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
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Hello, I have expanded Ashendon Junction which you started. I thought you might like to cast your eye over it. It still needs sources and is still under threat of being deemed non-notable. I think it is notable in terms of the history of the Great Central. Maybe that could be explained at greater length if a more detailed history of the GCR were to hand. Alarics ( talk) 20:38, 21 June 2010 (UTC)
eek! My bad. -- Redrose64 ( talk) 11:11, 28 June 2010 (UTC)
I've expanded this a bit, and given it some structure. The Plimsoll Ship Data website is useful for ships in service between 1930 and 1945. Mjroots ( talk) 11:04, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
The displacement field is incorrect, it should be tonnage and coded -
|Ship tonnage = {{16,622|GRT|first=yes}} (1936-45) 17,362 GRT (1945-80)<br>9,572 [[deadweight tonnage|DWT]] (1936-45), 9,790 DWT (1945-80)
Plenty of info on Pretoria
here and Empire Doon
here. Empire Doon's tonnage was reassessed when she was taken as a prize.
Mjroots (
talk) 05:12, 19 July 2010 (UTC)
I don't know how I missed this one. Will create article on it soon as I'm currently waiting for the Clydesite website to get back online before I can write the Empire Conrad article. Mjroots ( talk) 11:10, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
What do you think of a template for all Counties Ship Management ships? See {{ Seatruck Ships}} and {{ Irish Shipping}} for examples. Mjroots ( talk) 09:56, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
Many thanks for the appreciation and guidance about the South Newton article, ?stub, you put on my talk-page. I had an itch to do an article of some sort and I will admit (only to you) that I went into this a little less prepared than I should have, but that's a lesson learned. I heed your advice and concur. Again thanks for your support. best. Richard Avery ( talk) 18:35, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for your further kind words, advice and church bell source. I shall certainly be using that in the future. Richard Avery ( talk) 07:00, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
As you may have noticed I have now added a (not very good) photo of the church in South Newton I was passing through but the day was a bit cloudy. I'll improve it when I am next by there on a sunny day! Thanks for your pointers on the bell foundries. I have put them on my projects list! What an excellent idea to make a refs page like that. I have one but I have it in Microsoft Word, putting it in WP makes it accessible for all and easier to access oneself. Best wishes. Richard Avery ( talk) 07:07, 16 August 2010 (UTC)
Hello Motacilla. I have come across your good work on a number of ship articles. One request: Gross tonnage, gross register tonnage, and net tonnage are specialized measures of volume, not of displacement, which is mass. Accordingly conversion templates should not be used; there is no way to convert, for example, grt (which is volume) to long, short, or metric tons/tonnes (which are units of mass). Many other websites erroneously list the weight or displacements of merchant ships; in most cases the proper measure is grt, gt, or net. ( Deadweight tonnage, which is a measure of weight capacity, is used for tankers.) Regards, Kablammo ( talk) 16:41, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi, User:Redrose64 has described you as "hot on churches and villages in Oxfordshire" and suggested you may be able to help with St John the Baptist Church, Inglesham. I generally work on WikiProject Somerset but since its creation I have been helping out with WikiProject Wiltshire, adding the project banner to lots of relevant article talk pages and also been writing articles on redundant churches in Wiltshire under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. I've now started work on St John the Baptist Church, Inglesham which is a bit out of the ordinary! I have nominated it for DYK, but think it could go on to GA status. I would be grateful for any help you can offer:
Any help appreciated.— Rod talk 19:24, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for your message. I am quite familiar with Anglo-Saxon architecture and the numerous claims of various churches to incorporate Saxon remains, often either very minor or entirely incorrect. As it stood, the article didn't make a claim of any significant Saxon remains, beyond the two sculptures. I don't count the section heading, as the text did not cite any reference to support it. However, the new detail from Pevsner which you have now added makes the case plainly, so I have no objection to you re-adding the category. Warofdreams talk 02:18, 11 November 2010 (UTC)
Re your post re citation format. I can't see what the problem is. The citations given are quite adequate, that is they enable the reader to locate the source material. I was unaware that WP requires use of a template when citing sources. If you wish to alter the format of my basic but adequate citations, feel free to do so. For your benefit I have added a URL link to the JSTOR publication in which I found the article by Elizabeth Whittle. I am at a loss as to what more you want for the Gervase Markham citation. I have supplied all relevant details. ( Lobsterthermidor ( talk) 15:15, 1 January 2011 (UTC))
Hi. I see you removed a link from Upton, Vale of White Horse because the link is also in the infobox. I do not think that is right. Help:Infobox says that infoboxes "are only supposed to summarize material from an article—the information should still be present in the main text, because it may not be possible for some readers to access the contents of the infobox". -- Mhockey ( talk) 17:49, 18 January 2011 (UTC)
I've no idea - I'm just repeating what it says in Help:Infobox. I think more generally it is anyway useful to have the info in both places, because many people do not look first in the infobox. -- Mhockey ( talk) 11:02, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi Motacilla, I noticed that you removed the compass-table from the Horsham article, your comment said it was "pointless", I've decided to re-added it, and have explained why on the discussion page. Grim23 ★ 23:02, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi Motacilla,
I have edited the comments regarding Hugo Ellis because the sources cited do not refer to the exact nature or cause of Hugo's death, the nature of which is not recorded in either of the sources you refer to. Your original statement is not verifiable. This is a sensitive issue and many people feel a more neutral reference to Hugo's death is appropriate particularly at this particular time.
Barneystjohn — Preceding unsigned comment added by Barneystjohn ( talk • contribs) 20:21, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
I've expanded the TS Pretoria article, which you created. A couple of facts have been marked as needing a citation. They are probably in one of the two book sources you used when you originally created the article. Maybe you could check and reference these. Mjroots ( talk) 10:25, 17 May 2011 (UTC)
Hello Motacilla
I notice you wrote an article on convoy OA 178. It’s a welcome addition, as most of the ones we have already deal with the U-boat campaign.
There were a couple of things at variance with the sources I know, though (
this one, for example, and
this) I was minded to make some changes, but thought I’d check with you first, to see if you preferred to do them.
Also you listed some of the ships tonnages (e.g. MV Dallas City 4,952 long tons (5,546 short tons; 5,031 t) GRT). I’m not sure if you are aware now , but
GRT doesn’t equate to
tons like that; it’s a measure of capacity, not weight. That’s why, for example, a ship like Eastmoor can have a GRT of 5,812, but be carrying 7,500 tons of cargo when she was finally sunk (
here)
Xyl 54 (
talk) 00:23, 24 May 2011 (UTC)
Just a note to say that there is an alternative way to do ship infoboxes. Compare SS Burgondier to SS Polar Chief. The infobox in the latter article is more compact, but still has all the info. Mjroots ( talk) 15:17, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
Chzz ► 03:08, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
Hi Motacilla! Firstly, thank you for your amazing work on the article Palestine Railways and others. I have a question: Do you know where I can get access to some of those railway books you used? I have the ones that can be easily bought, but not the more rare ones. In particular, I am interested in: Hughes, Hugh (1981). Middle East Railways. Harrow: Continental Railway Circle. pp. 34–44. ISBN 0-9503469-7-7. If you are located in Israel, do you know which library in the center has this book? Or even better, where I can buy it? Thanks, Ynhockey ( Talk) 19:25, 2 June 2011 (UTC)
The Mariners website gives Empire Pacific as being built by Burntisland (builder 04). The ship currently listed as Empire Pacific seems to be Empire Palace! I'll sort that one out in a mo. As for Windsor Trader, it is entirely possible that there were two or more motorships with this name. In which case it MV Windsor Trader can be turned into a shipindex page, and Windsor Trader will need to be retargeted. Mjroots ( talk) 13:01, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
I'd recommend Convoyweb (which often does not show up in searches), Mariners, The Ships List and Warsailors as good sources for researching ship articles. Other sources that may be worth using are listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Ships/Sources. Mjroots ( talk) 09:40, 17 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi, re
this edit - where a book citation has a description of a point within the book, and that point doesn't correspond to an actual page number, it's better to use |at=Diagram 13B
because that suppresses the "p." which |page=Diagram 13B
generates. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 17:14, 14 August 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I'm wondering why you are altering {{
stnlnk}}
to {{
rws}}
, as
here, since rws is merely a redirect to stnlnk? --
Redrose64 (
talk) 19:49, 20 August 2011 (UTC)
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I've just added to the works list for this article - cite 19. I'd be grateful if you could reformat the ref to the article style - not within my competence at the moment. Many thanks. Acabashi ( talk) 23:21, 26 October 2011 (UTC)
{{
sfn}}
which is essentially the same as <ref>{{
harvnb}}
</ref>
with the benefit that you don't need to worry about naming the <ref>
tags when referencing the same page in a given book in two different places. If you give {{
sfn}}
exactly the same permutation of authors/year/page two or more times, it merges them automatically. You can see it in action on
NBR 224 and 420 Classes. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 14:26, 28 October 2011 (UTC)Hi, I saw a couple of your edits and I would dispute your description of vandalism - WP:Vandalism has a specific description here and a good faith attempt to protect of edit in a similar vein would not fit the description of vandalism - more or less - any good faith edit is not vandalism - would you agree? Youreallycan ( talk) 01:00, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
If you give an editor a warning, you need to wait and see if it is effective before requesting that they be blocked. Also, it is never a good idea to edit war and then report the other guy because he made more reverts than you. In this case you were both wrong. Please use dispute resolution instead of repeating disputed edits. Jehochman Talk 01:23, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi - Good luck with it, I wouldn't hold out much hope though, as the apparently neutral contributors to the current discussions have already had things to say about that particular user: Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Giano_II. My own experience (for example at Mentmore Towers ) has been pretty unrewarding (even though he's stopped editing that, for the moment) as there's clearly a GiacomoReturned fan club which is happy to turn a blind eye to his repeated incivility, article ownership issues, and disregard for reliable sources. Ghughesarch ( talk) 02:40, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi, you recently removed the second mention of the village of Oakley from Template:Aylesbury Vale. I have undone it for the moment.
When I was developing those templates we had a discussion here about just this issue. The way I had been doing them before was listing them as, for example, Oakley ( Addingrove • Little London ). I.e. as Parish ( Other places ). The difficulty with this is that in some cases the parish and main village do not share the same name, for example at Stone with Bishopstone and Hartwell ( Bishopstone • Hartwell • Lower Hartwell • Sedrup ) what do you then do with Stone? And in some cases the lead article was not just a redirect: the civil parish had its own article separate from the main village.
So what we decided to do was to list it as it is: to have the parish name at the start, then each place name within that parish in the parentheses, even if it meant listing the same article twice. Because these articles have not been formed in a consistent manner, unfortunately there is no consistent approach to listing them in a single template, just a "best fit" approach. -- role player 23:17, 24 January 2012 (UTC)
I shouldn't edit your user page so will leave a note here. There was a Warminster and Westbury Rural District, but no Warminster and Westbury, until 1974 each of them was an urban district. Moonraker ( talk) 21:59, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi, apparently the church at Warkworth, Northamptonshire now has a steel roof because the lead was stolen, and the eight regular churchgoers couldn't afford to replace like with like. English Heritage gave it the go-ahead. Might I suggest this for your to-do list? -- Redrose64 ( talk) 21:47, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi, Motacilla. You may be interested in Talk:Ufton Nervet rail crash/Archives/2023/May#Petition, a discussion I started to gain consensus on the Ufton Nervet rail crash page. Your input would be appreciated. All the best, matt ( talk) 10:49, 7 July 2012 (UTC)
Hi Motacilla. Nice work on those CIA-related articles, I really never knew the Agency was active in Indonesia in that way. Really good stuff. The lead on the bios are fine now, good summaries. I got the ship info from Miramar Ship Index, which is a generally quite reliable source (unlike wrecksite.eu, I might add). Miramar is subscription only access, but if you like I can add the Miramar stuff to the articles when and if you create them. The ship articles you already have created look fine, they shouldn't be challenged. As for Ammonia, if you register at Miramar you get a 7-day free trial. Manxruler ( talk) 22:37, 5 August 2012 (UTC)
Hello there. I noticed a few edits of yours like this where you are adding books after the fact. This implies that they were used to create the article when they weren't. -- Merbabu ( talk) 10:15, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
Actually, from my reading of the history, you didn't add material to the article. yet you added a book in a manner that implies it was used to contribute to the article. -- Merbabu ( talk) 10:31, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
When using this souce, it is better to actually cite the individual page of the Lloyd's register entry, rather than the page that turns up using the search term. Mjroots ( talk) 08:52, 17 August 2012 (UTC)
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Hi, Motacilla. I notice you have just gone for "Harvard"-style citations on the Ansty, Wiltshire, page. For myself, I find the machine-gun fire of full stops irritating, and I don't understand why that style has become so favoured on the English Wikipedia. Clearly, being American gives it an advantage, but surely even in the US it is used mostly in the sciences, and the styles the British prefer are commonly used in the arts? I may be wrong, but I don't think there is a firm Wikipedia policy which imposes "Harvard", and to me the main thing is to have consistency within an article. Articles here begun by me consistently use a more old-fashioned kind of citation (unless someone has added something I haven't noticed!) Anyway, I just came here to say that if you were to overturn that style in any articles I have created, I should want to discuss it. Regards, Moonraker ( talk) 23:14, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
{{
harv}}
template), nor enclosed in parentheses. Motacilla has used
Shortened footnotes, albeit using the <ref>{{
harvnb}}</ref>
form rather than the more versatile {{
sfn}}
. Such footnotes are far more widespread in Wikipedia than Harvard (parenthetical) referencing - you just need to compare the transclusion count - {{
Harvard citation}}
(which is where {{
Harv}}
redirects) has
3436 transclusions, whilst {{
Harvard citation no brackets}}
(which is where {{
Harvnb}}
redirects) has
16185. The template {{
harvnb}}
has a misleading name, which may possibly be one reason why {{
sfn}}
is gaining ground with its
9915 transclusions. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 12:21, 2 October 2012 (UTC)Hi. As a major contributor to List of lost settlements in the United Kingdom, you might be interested to see a discussion that's just opened on "How to Write about... Deserted Medieval Villages" at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject UK geography/How to write about settlements. GrindtXX ( talk) 02:37, 11 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi Motacilla,
I thought the article you wrote about the SS Patria (1913) was pretty interesting. I decided to nominate it to appear on the Did You Know section of the main page. However, it is unlikely to appear as long as not every paragraph (except for the lede) is referenced with a footnote, so I was wondering if you could add sources to some of the unreferenced paragraphs. You can observe the nomination process here.-- Carabinieri ( talk) 02:30, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi - I notice you are adding some excellent material to Furness Withy. Please could you add some in-line references because it is not clear which of the sources referred to support each of the facts you have inserted. Or is all the material about the Nova Scotia and the Newfoundland also from "the ships list"? Thanks in anticipation. Dormskirk ( talk) 09:17, 30 March 2013 (UTC)
You are always welcome! Those are quite interesting articles and I will surely translate into Italian language, thank you! Just a question about the SS London Valour she was a steam turbine ship, so why do you use "SS"? E.g. in Italian language "SS" acronym for steamship is reported as "P/fo" wich stand for "piroscafo" and for "steam turbine ship" we have "T/n" => "turbonave", like Michelangelo and others, so is it possible that there is no equivalent in English? -- Nicola Romani ( talk) 10:51, 23 April 2013 (UTC)
I found TSS for "turbine steam ship", anyway we have the same problem in Italian language, especially with ferry-boat (Mototraghetto =>M/t very often called with M/n prefix =>motonave, probably due their last decades projects and design wich have transformed them in large ferry-cruise boat). Ciao! -- Nicola Romani ( talk) 10:56, 27 April 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for your hard and expert work on Augusta Victoria (ship) - in many ways it looks much better but I really wish you hadn't formatted the cites. I find that format, as well as the older citation templates, impenetrable and bulky, and the article had a consistent citation format already. Please consider not reformatting citations on articles that do not have conflicting formats. Yngvadottir ( talk) 14:26, 1 May 2013 (UTC)
In Dec 2011 you added the following to the BS article: 'St. Helen's is one of a number of Oxfordshire parish churches that has a timber-framed tower' replacing Moreau's suggestion that a timber-framed tower was 'remarkable'. On the parish church website Liam Tiller follows Moreau, describing it as 'unusual'.
Is there a citation to support your change, please? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sherwin35 ( talk • contribs) 22:10, 17 May 2013 (UTC)
Many thanks. Sherwin35 ( talk) 12:20, 19 May 2013 (UTC)
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An interesting story you've found there about Bowles. Now that you've written an article about him, I wonder whether it would better to give the full detail about the Court of Arches case only at his article, with only a summary at St Beuno's Trefdraeth? To give the same details in four different articles, in virtually identical language, strikes me as overkill... I'll post a possible version on the talk page. Bencherlite Talk 14:56, 18 June 2013 (UTC)
Does Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/Newsroom/WikiProject_desk/Interviews6 interest you? Bencherlite Talk 11:52, 19 June 2013 (UTC)
Please don't change the word "period" to "era" in the context of art or architectural history. The word "era", correctly used, is a scientific term e.g. Jurassic era. While it is also often applied to historical periods e.g. Victorian era, it doesn't sit very well on art history. What we are talking about here is a period of specifically architectural history that is not defined by any historic era. It is the same with Gothic architecture. There is no such thing as a "Gothic era".
I particularly dislike the change from "during this period" to "in this era" because the word "during" implies a frequent event or continuous process e.g. "developments in vaulting occurred during this period."
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I've reverted the changes you made to List of shipwrecks in the mid-Atlantic Ocean as unnecessary. The {{ ship}}, {{ sclass}}, etc, templates are editing shortcuts, and make no difference at all to the functionality of the link or the way that it's displayed. Converting the link into a template is at best pointless, and in some cases may be detrimental. I'm very active on these "list of shipwrecks" pages, and the main reason I take the time to type out the links in full is that these lists are often edited by new users, unfamiliar with the complexities of wikicode, who tend to copy the format of the other entries on the list. Wikilinks are fairly easy to grasp, while the ship templates are impossible to understand without knowing how to find the documentation (and even then, it's not exactly straightforward). In addition, these lists take a long time to load as it is, and adding hundreds of unnecessary templates to the page doesn't help. So, unless there's a compelling reason to use these templates that I'm not aware of, I'd advise you to find something more constructive to do with your time. DoctorKubla ( talk) 12:35, 8 July 2013 (UTC)
Can you double check my addition to SS Patria (1913) to make sure it is the correct ship.
I noticed your edits on German submarines simplifying <br> punctuation. I was under the impression from Wikipedia:WikiProject_Ships/Guidelines#Infoboxes that we were to use <br />. Now I am a bit confused. Could you help me out there? ÄDA - DÄP VA ( talk) 17:19, 13 December 2013 (UTC)
<br />
and <br>
are completely interchangeable, use whichever you prefer.<br />
to <br>
(or vice versa) when no other changes are made is counterproductive, since not only is the rendered page identical (partly because they are identical in effect, partly because
HTML Tidy converts one to the other in any case), but it creates an old revision of the page which will always occupy more space than the elimination of the space-and-slash will "save". But if the article contains both <br />
and <br>
, and you're making other changes as well, you can harmonise them without controversy. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 22:12, 13 December 2013 (UTC)Aside from that: are either of you near Oxford? If so, do you think that you could make the upcoming meetup? -- Redrose64 ( talk) 22:12, 13 December 2013 (UTC)
I've corrected the Canadian Navy flag and wikilink on the German submarine U-74 (1940) article. {{ Navy}} has examples of useage for various navies. Mjroots ( talk) 20:54, 13 December 2013 (UTC)
Heythrop Park eh? I went there (for one day) in 1982 or thereabouts, when it was a NatWest training establishment. — Redrose64 ( talk) 11:37, 15 December 2013 (UTC)
There were three ships of this name. You should consider moving the article and converting the current title into a shipindex page. Mjroots ( talk) 07:10, 20 December 2013 (UTC)
parish churches and ships
Thank you, green wagtail, for quality articles on your many fields of interest "wildlife, merchant shipping, canals, railways, motorcycles, history, architecture, modern languages and photography", such as SS Oropesa and Madeira Firecrest, for images of parish churches and biographies of related people such as Edward Miller, for diligent maintenance with matching edit summaries. - you are an awesome Wikipedian!
-- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 07:35, 20 December 2013 (UTC)
Thanks! I've now finished creating SS Abukir, SS Clan Macarthur and SS Gasfire, and had better go and belatedly get ready for Christmas . Best wishes, Motacilla ( talk) 01:13, 21 December 2013 (UTC)
Hello Motacilla. Please be aware that there are two moat sites near Bardon Hill. One of them (the oval one) lies to the east of the hill. It is the other one (a square or rectangular moat) that lies to the south of the hill. The oval one is indeed a scheduled monument. Kellam's Farm lies eastward of the summit of the hill, and (as the official citation states) the oval moat site lies eastward of Kellam's Farm. It is the moat island southward of the hill that was the site of the old hall. Old Hall Cottage (sometimes called Old Hall Gardens Cottage) now stands on this moat island, and Old Hall Farm stands very nearby.
I have taken the liberty of amending the entry on the Bardon wiki page and I hope you don't mind.
Incidentally, the map that is annexed to the 1947 Bardon Estate sale catalogue refers to the oval site by the name or description "Castle Mound".
New Year greetings. Habizhpeh ( talk) 13:55, 31 December 2013 (UTC)
In your recent edits to the Griffin article you almost completely eliminated the term "the ship" in favor of more "she"s, thus restricting the alternatives to her actual name to just "she". You may not have realized that I carefully alternated between "Griffin", "she" and "the ship" to avoid over using any one of those. Your changes now severely overuse "she", to the detriment of the article's overall readability. While I appreciate the addition of new info to the article, I ask you to restore the original uses of "the ship". And if you've done this to the other RN destroyer articles, please restore them as well. Most of these are Good Articles and their existing language was deemed acceptable by other editors, regardless of your own preferences.-- Sturmvogel 66 ( talk) 00:53, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
Writing should be clear and concise. Plain English works best; avoid ambiguity, jargon, and vague or unnecessarily complex wording.
is a generic term for communication in English that emphasizes clarity, brevity, and the avoidance of technical language...
Thanks for this correction. I should have spotted it when the error was made. -- Redrose64 ( talk) 14:39, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
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Thanks for your edit to Dunster. I noticed that, as part of the changes you made, you removed the "alt text" describing the image in the infobox. My understanding (per Wikipedia:Alternative text for images) was that these were useful for visually impaired user, and I wondered if there was any particular reason for the removal?— Rod talk 19:34, 9 July 2014 (UTC)
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Cas Liber ( talk · contribs) 19:38, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
I'm coming up to my 900th new article. As usual with a milestone, I try to put a bit more effort in. Take a look at this, but don't touch. Any suggestions either ping me or via my talk page. Mjroots ( talk) 16:29, 15 August 2014 (UTC)
I am not quite sure why you have amended the unit for the steam pressures from "psi" to "lbf/in2".
In deciding to use "psi" I took into consideration the following:
Did you have any particular reason for this edit? Thanks, ThoughtIdRetired ( talk) 22:30, 26 September 2014 (UTC)
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Hi, please don't italicise Latin loan words and phrases like "per", "via" or "en route"; see MOS:FOREIGN#Common usage in English, MOS:TEXT#Foreign terms and MOS:ITAL#Foreign words. -- Redrose64 ( talk) 23:36, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
Hi, please would you look over recent edits to Adderbury? There seems to be somebody who wishes to plug a few organisations, as well as having an axe to grind about heavy lorries. -- Redrose64 ( talk) 17:55, 31 August 2015 (UTC)
As noted on the talk page, there is more than one Buster. I suppose different dogs are mixed up in the article. Greetings, Stefan64 ( talk) 12:26, 11 September 2015 (UTC)
Please see my proposal to speedily rename Category:Ships of Union Steam Ship Company to Category:Ships of the Union Steam Ship Company and Category:Ships of Blue Star Line to Category:Ships of the Blue Star Line Hugo999 (compare them in Category:Ships by company ) ( talk) 14:22, 21 September 2015 (UTC)
Hi, sorry to disturb you - I have to log off (for work). There have been some (strange??) edits to the above article today. Can you check them - it seems to me that they are about a settlement and not about the loch. Thanks Denisarona ( talk) 14:25, 7 October 2015 (UTC)
Hi Motocilla. All bound up in my own interests I have just noticed it is barely two weeks since you were working on this article. You may have much more up your sleeve to lay out for the reader. Please feel free to adjust what I have written. It isn't complete and the financial story gets more complicated so there is more to insert but I don't mean to discourage you. Regards, Eddaido ( talk) 09:13, 13 October 2015 (UTC)
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Can I ask why you deleted all the wikilinks from the ship descriptions? Murgatroyd49 ( talk) 12:25, 12 May 2017 (UTC)
Please ignore, I misread what you'd done, apologies. Murgatroyd49 ( talk) 12:30, 12 May 2017 (UTC)
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At this edit you evidently had a source attributing construction to Newport News. Could you show where you found that info? There is a longstanding problem with the construction dates being uncited, and the article showed it as laid down after its launch! LeadSongDog come howl! 17:34, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
Hi, you and me were within five minutes' walk of each other yesterday. We could have gone to the pub. Do you have any idea why this bus is pulling out of the short-stay car park/taxi rank?
Trivia: you photographed the entire class - Thames Travel own just two of these Wright StreetLite buses, nos. 441 & 442: they were purchased at the beginning of September 2016, specifically for use on Route 98. Until last week, they were the newest vehicles in the fleet (TT have a policy of acquiring most vehicles second-hand from City of Oxford Motor Services). TT have since purchased at least one new double-decker, no. 623 (BN68 XTO) which is, I think, a Wright StreetDeck, also purchased specifically for use on Route 98 and the new Route 99 which was introduced on Monday 3 Sep. -- Redrose64 🌹 ( talk) 14:33, 8 September 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for coming on Sunday, it was great to finally meet you at last. We talked of many things, and I made some notes which I'm trying to work out. The beer which I was drinking (Purple Moose Brewery "Dark Side of the Moose") may have affected my handwriting. It is now available in the Wetherspoons in Abingdon, so I had a few today. Anyway, in no particular order:
Sorry for taking a few days to come back on this. -- Redrose64 🌹 ( talk) 20:27, 21 September 2018 (UTC)
Yes Motacilla, I completely agree with you that there needs to be consistent wording with all of the settlement pages. Therefore, the historic county should be mentioned clearly in the introduction sections of all the remaining settlements left to edit. I have discussed the historic counties with you on my talk page, and also separately on the talk page Wikipedia talk:WikiProject UK geography/How to write about settlements. For other users who haven't seen this, I have copied part of my response to Motacilla, showing my reasons for the edits:
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Here, I have copied part of my input in that said discussion (dated 15 October 2017), and I hope it will be constructive " Wikipedia:WikiProject UK geography/How to write about settlements, says that we can cover the Historic County in the Lead section (I think that saying 'Historically' seems to refer to a time parameter, whereas 'Historic County' is more like a noun). Similarly, the Infoboxes on some city/town pages (such as Manchester and Birmingham) clearly state the Historic County."
Thank you. Acapital ( talk) 09:37, 4 November 2018 (UTC)
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Hi, , this is a bit weird. You are relying mostly on a self-published source. We do not do that. - Sitush ( talk) 11:26, 3 July 2020 (UTC)
PM Heaton is a pretty reliable author on merchant ships. Certainly more so than the National Museums Liverpool's dodgy fact sheet. And I have corroborated from Lloyd's Register, uboat.net and Wrecksite wherever possible. Motacilla ( talk) 11:33, 3 July 2020 (UTC)
@ Sitush Reverting a piece of work that took me a week and is corroborated from other sources is unduly negative. I suggest you refer this for discussion in WP:Ships rather than just destroy a fellow-contributor's hard work. Motacilla ( talk) 11:39, 3 July 2020 (UTC)
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The latest batch of buses are now all in service, nos. 901-909 - their numbers indicate that they are barred from passing through Oxford station bridge, and their plated height of 14′6″ confirms this - the previous batch, nos. 621-623, are plated 13′10″. Besides the increased height, the 901 class differ from the 621 class in having diagonal staircase windows and reduced seating capacity upstairs. This is because four tables have been added - to fit them in, three pairs of seats are removed and four more pairs reversed, giving a capacity of H39/29F; downstairs, the four rear-facing fixed seats behind the rear axle are replaced by tip-up seats giving more legroom for those on the bench. Registrations are as follows:
Number | Registration | Licensed to |
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901 | NK20 EKT | City of Oxford Motor Services |
902 | NK20 EKW | City of Oxford Motor Services |
903 | NK20 EKX | City of Oxford Motor Services |
904 | NK20 EKO | Thames Travel |
905 | NK20 EKP | Thames Travel |
906 | NK20 EKR | Thames Travel |
907 | NK20 EKY | Thames Travel |
908 | NK20 ELU | Thames Travel |
909 | NK20 ENJ | Thames Travel |
The registrations may indicate the order of delivery, those of nos. 908/9 suggest late delivery, and indeed I didn't spot these until some weeks after no. 907. All nine are normally seen on the Oxford-A34-Abingdon corridor, with nos. 901-903 painted a very impressive black and red - these are used on route X13 but the livery is not dedicated to it, whereas nos. 904-909 are painted in "Didcot Connector" two-tone grey - these are used on routes X2 and X32 but do migrate to the 33/X33. -- Redrose64 🌹 ( talk) 08:29, 17 September 2020 (UTC)
I think that your edit on SS Lichtenfels from Belgian Congo to Belgium maybe incorrect. I don't have access to relevant reference: Dunn, Laurence (1973). Merchant Ships of the World in Colour 1910–1929. London: Blandford Press Ltd. p. 191. ISBN 0-7137-0569-8., but it makes sense that in 1918/19 heavy lift ships were used to move locomotives from Europe to Africa, but not between Britain and Belgium, which would have had established factories and rail networks by then? Wanted to check-in here on the reason for your edit, in case you have access to Dunn 1973 and know more about it than my assumptions? Vauxhall Bridgefoot ( talk) 13:01, 20 November 2020 (UTC)
"Not long after the war, Armstrong Whitworths' had to deliver 200 heavy locomotives and tenders to the Belgian State Railways... Captain Christen Smith, an officer of the Norwegian Navy and an expert in heavy lifts, saw his opportunity."
Back in 2013 you added the prefix HMHS to all the WWI entries in this list. Do you have a source for that or was it a presumption? I believe the majority continued to use their existing civil prefixes but may have used HS (for Hospital ship) as they were contracted by the War Office (not the Admiralty) and were not therefore ships of the Royal Navy. I cannot find any definite source with regard to the use of HMHS or even if they did use that prefix if they were Royal Naval ships. Any help you could offer would be gratefully received Lyndaship ( talk) 15:40, 29 November 2020 (UTC)
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