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How can I correct a typo in an article title?
The article is :Bristol Bath Road Traction Maintenace Depot (sic)
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How do I propose undoing the renaming of an article? (Specifically List of Great Western Railway ships)
You did the right thing posting on the talk page. I put a message on the mover's talk page also asking them to come back and comment. – Grondemar 09:33, 4 December 2016 (UTC)
I put their "ISSN" into a WP template. Please check. You will find that WorldCat does not have Reflections. – S. Rich ( talk) 20:44, 2 May 2017 (UTC)
Putting the ISSN into google shows it. Murgatroyd49 ( talk) 20:55, 2 May 2017 (UTC)
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How do I propose an article to be locked against persitent wilful vandalism by an unregistered editor?
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A discussion is taking place as to whether the article COSCO fleet lists is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
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Hello, I saw that you added an infobox to Keppel's Column regarding its designation. Could you also add it to nearby buildings Hoober Stand and Needle's Eye? I would do it myself but I have limited knowledge on how to. Thanks – Ozankk 11:39, 9 June 2018 (UTC)
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The information was provided by the National Trust Dapdune Wharf group. I suspect their information is not complete so I will go with your change. The group (and me) are new to using Wikipedia and we are working out the best way to capture the great deal of information we have about the Wey Navigation. We will be creating more pages as we sift through the various documents we have. We will also be working on the providence of the information so we can cite the appropriate references. Thank you for your other amendments. Regards WNRGMike( Talk) 08:45 October 31st, 2018 —Preceding undated comment added 08:47, 31 October 2018 (UTC)
There is a group of volunteers called the Wey Navigation Research Group which I am part of. I am encouraging them to use Wikipedia as the place of record. We have a good amount of research but it is in folders which are not available to everyone and the research is often duplicated. By using Wikipedia we can create a central repository. — Preceding unsigned comment added by WNRGMike ( talk • contribs) 09:57, 31 October 2018 (UTC)
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Hi! Are you based in Southampton? I notice you uploaded a couple of the photos used in the article. If you're passing the cenotaph in the near future we could do with some more photos. We don't have any on Commons from the back or the sides. Merry Christmas. :) HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 23:53, 24 December 2018 (UTC)
@ HJ Mitchell: I used to be in Southampton, hence the photos. I'm occasionally back in town and will endeavour to take some more. Murgatroyd49 ( talk) 18:29, 26 December 2018 (UTC)
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Please help me with using italics in an article title.
Murgatroyd49 ( talk) 19:17, 15 January 2019 (UTC)
{{Italic title}}
-- do not modify the words "italic title". This will italicize the title.
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That may be, but Oates has no connection to Hampshire and therefore shouldn’t be under ‘Notable people’. It’s irrelevant. Tedster007 ( talk) 11:03, 10 February 2019 (UTC)
At least Lowry has a connection! There is only a museum to Oates at Gilbert White's house because a previous owner was interested in his family. Agreed it should be in the museum section.
You forgot to undo the reupload of the photograph that corresponds to your undoing of my date edit on Needle's Eye. – Ozankk 17:09, 25 February 2019 (UTC)
Hi Murgatroyd49, I noticed you undid my edits to the above article diff, which I'm not that bothered about. If you want to claim it's for consistency reasons, however, you'll need to undo all of my edits there because I changed the formatting of the entire article. By the way, your version of the the line break tag <br /> is not correct HTML markup; it is, and always was, <br>; see here. Cheers, Baffle☿gab 00:37, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
George Blake (novelist) wrote non-fiction as well as novels: please see [1] to confirm that he wrote about ship lines, Lloyd's of London etc. Charles Matthews ( talk) 20:21, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
Excellent work on Perseverance IV, but updating needed. See Talk:Perseverance IV for the problem.-- Dthomsen8 ( talk) 22:12, 7 July 2019 (UTC)
Hello. Help copy edit for article. Thanks you. Cheung2 ( talk) 08:34, 8 July 2019 (UTC)
Hello
I notice you reverted an edit I made here; I've opened a discussion
there if you'd like to comment. Regards,
Xyl 54 (
talk) 23:25, 13 October 2019 (UTC)
I've replied to your somewhat off-hand comments here; perhaps you could do me the courtesy of a proper answer, now? Xyl 54 ( talk) 20:49, 17 October 2019 (UTC)
thanks for that, I thought I was editing another article when I hit that - not sure how, JarrahTree 10:57, 16 November 2019 (UTC)
Hi, I reinstated the edit you undid on Caerphilly as it did not seem to warrant a complete reversal. It seems a good faith edit with some useful detail. -- Brian R Hunter ( talk) 18:52, 20 November 2019 (UTC)
Hi there, could you please review "the position" of the picture that you have moved again? In that place of the article it creates a blank gap of space of 7 cm, totally empty, that requires the readers to scroll down unnecessary, and makes the page design looking empty and incorrect. I am probably the user that improved this page the most in the years, and I would appreciate your help in keeping the page tidy. Additionally the picture you are moving, is related to a ship that in these recent years has been converted into a museum, so keeping it in between two age sections would make sense. Thank you Goodwillgames ( talk) 15:20, 9 December 2019 (UTC)
Hi, Sorry there is a misunderstanding. White and Poppe was closed when you imply Dennis Bros closed. Dennis Bros went to the dogs and was sold off in 1972 and the business has since had a very chequered history. I will separate out the Dennis Bros story from Dennis Specialist Vehicles but don't hesitate to point out if I seem to have gone wrong. it will take me a few days. Regards, Eddaido ( talk) 08:55, 30 January 2020 (UTC)
Are you happy about my proposed changes? Eddaido ( talk) 10:37, 30 January 2020 (UTC)
I edited for the first time in adding some info into the notes sections on certain ships on the Royal Caribbean International Page. Since the notes already list some ship refurbishment, I thought it would be appropriate to complete the list. Should the other ship refurbishments be removed from the article. I gather from your note the better place is on the individual ship pages. Thank you for any help/tips. Mrdewit ( talk) 15:44, 24 February 2020 (UTC)
Hi, Murgatroyd49! Thank you for proofreading yesterday. I ask you to suggest how to better insert deleted comments, they are important, but in order not to overload the main text. And I did not quite understand what was wrong with the shipyard' name. This is a valid name. Navy shipyard number 1. This is a small shipyard, but one of the first in Russia. [2].-- Pavel Goncharuk ( talk) 15:07, 14 April 2020 (UTC)
just thought i'd thank you for changing the colours of the table on the harry needle railroad company page, one quick question: how do you do it?
MJ9674 ( talk) 14:10, 17 May 2020 (UTC)
ah, ok thanks @ Murgatroyd49: MJ9674 ( talk) 11:16, 10 July 2020 (UTC)
Hello, than you for bringing the typo i committed in Category:Birmingham Museums Trust to my attention, and for fixing it. My question: Shouldn't the incorrect one Category:Brimingham Museums Trust be made into a redirect, rather than being speedily deleted? I'm unfamiliar with the policy for category redirects, and couldn't actually find the right guideline page for them.
YuriNikolai ( talk) 15:58, 4 June 2020 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for adding Twyford Brook to the list of tributaries on the River Loddon article. I think that River Broadwater probably ought to be removed. I have proposed it for deletion, as I am not convinced it is a real river. It might possibly be an alternative name for the section of the River Blackwater from the River Whitewater to the Loddon, though the evidence is very shaky, and even if it is, one sentence in the Blackwater article would cover it. Twyford Brook was also historically called the Broadwater, and indeed is still marked as Broadwater Brook on Openstreetmap, and the mouth location on the Broadwater article is actually much closer to Twyford Brook than to the Blackwater. I thought I would just mention it, as you have made numerous edits to the Loddon article. Bob1960evens ( talk) 22:56, 17 June 2020 (UTC)
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Thanks for your support over recent and no so recent issues. You may be interested in this SPI - if you can add any more names, that would be great. Many thanks Velella Velella Talk 08:48, 22 June 2020 (UTC)
Thanks, Murgatroyd49-- The phrase was used in an addition to the article May 1943 which gave no details about the number of people who died in the training accident, and it had been paraphrased from the HMS Untamed article; I wasn't able to find a mention of how many people had been on board, other than that the article said that there were no survivors. Mandsford 20:06, 24 July 2020 (UTC)
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How about OOCL Hong Kong is a large container ship. She was the largest container ship ever built ... and so on? I want to make sure that she IS, not WAS. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Konstantin Kosachev ( talk • contribs) 18:32, 2 September 2020 (UTC)
Don't revert a logical taxonomy! This is not an index to a paper encyclopedia, the very suborder setting of the tabulation lists was for tributaries as a prime example! What else would it be for, Fish & Chip shops in Birmingham? I mean really! Also to revert my river swift in favour of an at-best equal status Bourne Rivulet name which is not not borne out by the article. I mean one would think there was only one real source to river articles in the area.- Adam37 Talk 19:24, 5 September 2020 (UTC)
Hi Murgatroyd49. I thought you'd let you know (as a fellow Surrey enthusiast) that many research papers from the Surrey Archaeological Collections are now available from the Archaeology Data Service here:
ADS Library search and
Journal index. I may be telling you something you already know, but I've only discovered recently that these articles are 'open source' (i.e. no longer behind a paywall). I am not sure if this is a recent change, but I wasn't aware until this month and so thought I would spread the word.
Best wishes
Mertbiol (
talk) 09:59, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
Please forgive me for bothering you with a non-WP question. I quite understand if you do not wish to help. I am trying to find the numbers of the following UK locos. I don't know whether they are part of a group. They are The Institution of Civil Engineers, Wild Swan, Resilient, Magpie, Sea Eagle and Solway Princess. The numbers that I have found are 47540, 60021, 47741, 44806 (I don't trust that one), 60139/60028 (but which one, if either?), 57312. I believe the first one may be right, but I'm not at all sure about the rest. If they turned out to be part of a set, I might be more confident. Again, please forgive me for bothering you with a trivial question. I should add that I'm asking you because you have contributed to WikiProject UK Railways. Storye book ( talk) 16:10, 16 October 2020 (UTC)
Hi,
I reverted one of your edits on Norwegian Cruise Line for a couple of reasons. All other cruise lines still have their future ships second. Two the ships have not been cancelled. I also added a source. If you believe it still fits WP;CRYSTAL feel free to revert
-- Life200BC ( talk) 20:31, 19 October 2020 (UTC) @ Life200BC: All future cruise fleets come under WP:CRYSTAL at the moment. It is quite likely that many of the currently planned ships will not be built. Probably best to see what happens next year before adding anything to the page. Murgatroyd49 ( talk) 20:37, 19 October 2020 (UTC)
Hi Murgatroyd49. I wonder if I could ask another favour? I am in the process of creating an article
here about the above British Railways Board engineer who was involved in setting up the 1960s UK rail electrification system. I am not a rail buff as you know, so the rail tech stuff in the article really needs checking for talking-out-of-hatness before I publish.
There are citations for everything, except for one sentence identifying the trains (should I say locomotives?) used with the 1960s electrification system. I have made three guesses, but have not been able to find sources for that, at all. Is there any chance that you could shed light on it? If not, I'll simply strike the sentence out.
I found this chap while researching his parents. They are very notable, but sadly not notable on WP terms, because what they did has no citations. There is a large collection of their postcards, currently in private hands, all written in a unique cipher invented by them, while they were courting. It's a charming love story, but I can't make an article from that. The coded postcards are in the process of translation, and I plan to scan the lot and put them on Commons, because ciphers and postcards are always of interest there. Then perhaps one picture (and no more) can be added to the forebears section of the article at a later date. I'm just telling you this to explain why this non-railway-buff has written about a railway engineer - although actually I think Claxton deserves recognition for what he achieved.
I had asked User:Tom walker for assistance due to his interest in railway electrification, but I have now realised that he is not on WP all that often. I should add that I am not related to the Claxtons - their postcards were found around 1990 when rescued by charity workers following a house clearance in London. Cheers. Storye book ( talk) 16:58, 5 November 2020 (UTC)
You removed my edit which was not incorrect - Iestyn Llewellyn is a real policeman featured on road wars. Dissapointed. Chris wahlen ( talk) 21:07, 6 November 2020 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Verifiability does not limit the wikipedia use English citation only. Matthew hk ( talk) 11:21, 17 December 2020 (UTC)
Hi, When removing a category from the article it woud help if you replaced it with the correct sub-category. Murgatroyd49 ( talk) 10:29, 31 January 2021 (UTC)
Hi. I agree Twinkle was born in Surbiton but that is now a part of the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames. She moved with her family to Warren Cutting, off Warren Road in Coombe, also part of RBK, and lived there for some years. I lived near there and knew her briefly in the mid 1960s. Best wishes. Duncan Harrington — Preceding unsigned comment added by Duncanharrington ( talk • contribs) 15:24, 2 February 2021 (UTC)
Hi @
Murgatroyd49:
Hope all is well. I have been working on the
Dorking article over the past couple of months. Another editor (who knows the town fairly well) has kindly given me some feedback and I wondered if you would be willing to do the same? Please do leave any comments on the
talk page.
I would be grateful if you would consider grading the article for
WP:Surrey. It is currently rated as 'C class', but I am hoping that it is now sufficiently complete to have reached 'B class' standard.
Thanks and best wishes,
Mertbiol (
talk) 11:56, 3 February 2021 (UTC)
Why did you revert and delete my link to Double-Cross System? It is exactly about the topic! -- SchmiAlf ( talk) 15:40, 4 February 2021 (UTC) @ SchmiAlf: You removed a valid reference and your addition was inaccurate. Murgatroyd49 ( talk) 16:50, 4 February 2021 (UTC)
Hi, could you please give me a tip about using {{
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? I assumed that it is always helpful to provide a link to a page in other languages because editors can get some info from it, but you reverted my edit.
Le Loy 09:34, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
Thanks for your help with the LT&SR article and this one. I was thinking about copying this one into my sandbox to carry out a comprehensive re-write as its still a bit of a dogs breakfast in places. Before I get started, are you planning any more changes or do you want to help?-- Davidvaughanwells ( talk) 13:30, 21 March 2021 (UTC)
I've been having fun finding little bits to add to the above, but if you want to change any of my edits you are welcome. We have hit the 5x expansion mark today, so you are welcome to have that for DYK if you wish - I'm not doing DYK on my own behalf right now - having a rest from that for a little while. I have searched on Geograph, Google, Flickr and Ebay for images, and the only one I can find is the copyright one attached to the English Heritage listing. I still have to go through the old newspapers, but I don't have much hope. My daughter lives in West Sussex - I can possibly set her on it, if and when the lockdown will permit. Let me know if I can help any more. Storye book ( talk) 19:36, 22 March 2021 (UTC)
Forgot to say: I have also searched here for pictures, but it's a bit of a labyrinth. Didn't find any, anyway - you might have more luck? Storye book ( talk) 19:41, 22 March 2021 (UTC)
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How do I prevent a particular editor repeatedly vandalising a page? Murgatroyd49 ( talk) 18:18, 3 April 2021 (UTC)
I totally agree with you. I've tried to research a suitable source as to why they are there but can't find anything that is worthy to cite except "it is thought to have been a firing squad" which obvious isn't factual. I'm ashamed that the information is speculative, but I can't think of any other plausible reason as to why the holes are there, hence the "unsubstantiated" at the end and gone with what a lot of sources say albeit nothing in a factual way. Feel free to amend it though to disregard firing squad or put the disclaimer about them being scattered around. – Ozankk 17:30, 14 April 2021 (UTC)
@ Ozankk: Could be something as daft as the local militia using the structure for target practice. Murgatroyd49 ( talk) 19:10, 14 April 2021 (UTC)
Thankyou for coming to my rescue where I had messed up the Ref on that bit about Gas Factory Junction. I'm newish to this process of editing Wikipedia, and it was my first Ref, so I'm not surprised I got it wrong. I still don't know what I did wrong, but hopefully, next time.....
Grumpyxch ( talk) 07:46, 18 May 2021 (UTC)
I did use Cite. The trouble was I found the Ref/Ref thing before I found Cite, so maybe that put something in that I didn't delete before I used Cite. Grumpyxch ( talk) 11:49, 18 May 2021 (UTC)
Hi @ Murgatroyd49: Hope life is treating you well. I'm contacting you because you have edited the Grey Wings, Ashtead article in the past. I have proposed a merger of the page into the main Ashtead article. I would very much welcome your input into the discussion on the talk page. Please feel free to support or oppose the merger. Thanks and best wishes, Mertbiol ( talk) 19:50, 19 May 2021 (UTC)
I notice you reverted an edit on the BR class 50 page citing unsourced, however the source was given in the comment section of the update. The reverted version has the oposite claim, but with no source apparent at all. If the update is redone with an inline source would you revert it? If there is a source for the opposite claim perhaps both views need to be in the article.
Hi there. I noticed you removed the addition I made to the facilities section on the Leyton page. I'm somewhat new to editing so would be keen to better understand why you didn't feel it was appropriate? Conscious of making the same mistake again, otherwise! Thanks.
Hi. I see in a recent addition to River Churn you included material from a webpage that is available under a compatible Creative Commons Licence. That's okay, but you have to give attribution so that our readers are made aware that you copied the prose rather than wrote it yourself. It's also required under the terms of the license. I've added the attribution for this particular instance. Please make sure that you follow this licensing requirement when copying from compatibly-licensed material in the future. — Diannaa ( talk) 01:42, 29 July 2021 (UTC)
Hi @
Murgatroyd49:
Hope all is well with you. I've been working on the
Epsom article over the past few months and I am thinking about submitting it for
WP:GA. I'm not sure how familiar you are with the town, but I wondered if you'd be willing to take a look and let me know your thoughts as to how I could improve the article before nomination? I have set up a
new section on the talk page for interested parties to discuss what additional work is required. I will ask a few others to chip in with their feedback and suggestions.
Thanks and best wishes,
Mertbiol (
talk) 08:41, 6 August 2021 (UTC)
Hello
You reverted a change I made here
a few days ago. I added the names and links of the Big Four liners because the term 'Big Four' was present without obvious explanation. If the ships are linked elsewhere, then I can see links are not needed (though by the same token, we wouldn’t need the Big Four link either) but I suggest it is still worth adding the names, for clarity. Otherwise someone like me is left wondering what they are. Do you object to the names being replaced?
Xyl 54 (
talk) 22:19, 11 August 2021 (UTC)
@ Xyl 54: There is a whole section about the Big Four where the liners are named already. Murgatroyd49 ( talk) 07:32, 12 August 2021 (UTC)
PS: Also, on the subject of the Big Four, I've posted on the talk pages here and here, if you wish to comment. Regards, Xyl 54 ( talk) 22:21, 11 August 2021 (UTC)
Thank you for reverting the edit tp Leyton on Ancient Counties. I am currently in a frustating discussion with an editor who wants to put this fact in the first sentence of the lede of everywhere in East London, that used to be part of Essex. Moving it to the second para was a compromise. Personally, I think Norman boundaries can be in the article, though not of primary relevance in the lede. Please join their talk page User talk:PlatinumClipper96 of you have a POV on this. Jonnyspeed20 ( talk) 18:10, 19 August 2021 (UTC)
Hello It's me, N1TH Music the guy who's been writing individual locomotive articles, I've read the Section you and Black Kite have made to "Project UK Railways" and I understand that you don't really want me making more of these, I think if I'm not mistaken that it's ok to make articles about the most notable individual locomotives so the way I see it, stuff like 442 001, 314 209 390 033 "City of Glasgow, ect. but I have a few questions. 1. It's hard to see what is the line between a useful article about and individual locomotive and a useless one, does it have to be preserved or does there have to just be something special about it warranting an article, for example 314 209 is the only remaining 314 unit and it's being hydrogen converted, is that enough? is my existing article about 02 003 which Black Kite called "more interesting" enough or are neither of them enough. In addition I read the Wikipeida instructions that say what articles should be on wikipedia and stuff like that. It makes a point saying that just because something is true and is sourced does not mean it should have an article, just because it can does not mean it should, but it also said that articles on wikipedia shouldn't be too long. If I were to take all the information and sources I put on 02 001, 02 003 and 02 004 and put it all on the Class 02 article, the article would be very long and wouldn't be very user friendly and I only wrote aritcles about the 3 units that got TOPS classifications, If I wrote about all 20, the article about class 02 would be immense. You might tell me then it's too much information but the way I see it, there are some people who only want skin deep information about the class but there are others who might want to learn about a single unit. In this case the person who wants to learn about the class will be confused and maybe even lost about the Giant article that has a lot of information and the person who wants something specific must go searching through said giant article for the little specific information they want. There are 2 solutions, one is to just not jam pack the article with tons of information, but then the person who wants to find out something specific will have to look through the source material or go on FlickR and I know from experience, trying to find information that only Wikipedia's source material has is incredibly annoying. And that's the soul reason I began editing on wikipedia, I wanted to add information so if someone added it it's there, I felt it would be better to make new articles about these locos then it would be to make the existing articles titanic in size. The other solution is what I did, but I understand your point, not all Locomotives need an article, there are 996 Class 08 locomotives, most of those don't matter, maybe a list simply listing and talking about the simple most basic facts would be a simple Idea, I know you did that twice with the class 47 and class 37 and those are great articles, maybe that's a solution, but I would please like you to reply to me on my talk page what you are ok with me writing and what you're not because I don't want to be a rulebreaker N1TH Music ( talk) 14:25, 5 September 2021 (UTC)
I know what you mean about "this is an encyclopedia", but this encyclopaedia has over 6 million articles in just English, it's like no other but I still understand and accept the points you are making and I will cease to make an article about every single Locomotive. But for the LU standard stock vehicles, I'm only writing about the preserved/formerly preserved ones which there are 13 which I wanted to make an article at least the size of teh smallest one for each of those, and looking at the article about Standard Stock, It's already huge, nearly 60 cited sources, and external links, and further reading it is full of serveral section each with different subsections and thousands and thousands of words more and as much as there is much more to say, I felt it would be much better to write 13 articles about 13 different cars as oppose to Putting 50,000 bytes worth of new information in the existing article. And back to the class 02s is making an article about every preserved unit too much or not, because well Black Kite said that the article about the preserved one is ok and said that more like that are fine, I get now that I'm not allowed to make articles constantly about individual Locomotives and Train carriages but am I allowed to make one about every Preserved one? You haven't told me, I please would like you to tell me exactly where the boundaries are so that I know what to make, lastly as unnecessary as the other articles might be, I would like them to stay up as they took me a lot of time, and It will take me a while to transfer the information to the main articles or to consolidate them, and I can't do that to deleted articles. N1TH Music ( talk) 15:08, 5 September 2021 (UTC)
It's me again N1TH Music ( talk) 14:03, 10 September 2021 (UTC) I'm writing to ask if a certain topic I plan on creating is "notable" enough to be worthy of a wikipedia article, I figured you're the right person to ask as you're familiar with some of the stuff I've created, I want to make in on unit 314 209 as it is the only 314 unit to remain and is also being hydrogen converted which I consider important. Thanks N1TH Music ( talk) 14:03, 10 September 2021 (UTC)
Please assume good faith and take care when reverting. My first recent edit at Buxton did two things: it fixed a broken citation and it moved a wikilink (from a picture caption into the text). My thinking was that since there was a duplicate link in the section anyway, it would be better in the text than in the picture caption. You seem to have taken exception to the latter and reverted the whole edit (with the edit summary "already linked in previous section of text"), thus reinstating the broken reference as well as the wikilink in the picture caption. I accepted your position that there should be no duplicate links, so my second edit was actually to remove the wikilink from the picture caption (which I assume it what you wanted) and to fix the broken reference (again). You reverted that edit too – so ironically you were increasing the number of duplicate links to Buxton Opera House (as well as reinstating a clear error that I'd fixed in the reference). I've fixed the reference (for the third time) now but I've left the duplicate link in the picture caption. Dave.Dunford ( talk) 07:04, 22 October 2021 (UTC)
I have started a conversation about Brighton and Hove images on the [ Talk pages]. Paolo Oprandi ( talk) 19:12, 8 November 2021 (UTC)
Hi @ Murgatroyd49: I have been working on the Haslemere article in the past few weeks and would like to submit it as a Good Article candidate in the next few weeks. I have left a note on the talk page asking for some help with a few issues that have arisen. Would you be able to have a read through and to give some suggestions as to how the article could be improved please? I would very much value your wise counsel and input into the discussion. Thanks and best wishes Mertbiol ( talk) 21:28, 17 November 2021 (UTC)
RE [4], because I am working on this article and in the middle of converting those entries to a table. Can you stop reverting me please? — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 21:05, 27 November 2021 (UTC)
Hi, I’ve made corrections to the Wiki entry for Kingston upon Thames and you have twice reverted them! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MobileDiff/1058262896 I live in Kingston and I am keen that the page is accurate - it’s is currently incorrect. Can you explain why you keep reverting the changes? 2A02:C7F:F880:4400:B034:8084:849E:AB4D ( talk) 22:59, 5 December 2021 (UTC)
Hi, I appreciate that you need sources…albeit I’d argue a source has to start somewhere! Regardless, you’ll see I linked to Wikipedia articles on Kingsmeadow, Chelsea Women AFC and the Women’s Super League. Surely those are sources? If not, can you explain what constitutes an “official” source? EdGossage ( talk) 23:20, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
Read that - particularly “when and why to cite sources” which suggests sources are required “for material that is challenged or likely to be challenged”. Not sure any of my edits constitute that? In fact, I’m challenging the current content which is factually wrong (sorry - no debate on that one!). There’s plenty of content on the page which doesn’t appear to have any sources - generally where it’s factual (e.g. the Thames runs through Kingston…). I’ll leave it with you - if you’re happy to leave the page as is, so be it… EdGossage ( talk) 15:48, 7 December 2021 (UTC)
Not sure quite where the debate or challenge is about where AFC Wimbledon play (or don’t play)! Anyway, I’ll leave it with you as I’m clearly not qualified to navigate through the red tape. EdGossage ( talk) 17:57, 7 December 2021 (UTC)
Hi. I hope this finds you well? I'm hoping you might enjoy this enquiry - a great picture with a loco crossing the edge of a lake, but I don't know the location. Of course I'm not asking you to do any work on my behalf, but is there any chance that (with your interest in railways) you might already know where it is? The artist Bernard Walter Evans visited Scotland - and as far as I know, he visited no other country with big mountains and lakes like that. And he died in 1922, so the railway might be a defunct one. His commons category is here so you can get an idea of his painting locations. I'm currently working up an article about Evans, and that really is quite a good picture to use at DYK, with its loco and its drama - if only I can find out where it is. Cheers. Storye book ( talk) 17:14, 7 December 2021 (UTC)
Did you ever find the answer to this question, which I just saw? I wouldn't know how to answer it but the people who might can be found at WP:VPT.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 23:06, 8 December 2021 (UTC)
@ Vchimpanzee: Hi, no I never did, I'll try your suggestion, thanks. Murgatroyd49 ( talk) 13:16, 9 December 2021 (UTC)
The scope of Wikipedia:WikiProject Cities is not cities. Per the project scope, it covers "cities, towns, villages, hamlets, townships, unincorporated communities, sections of municipalities, and neighborhoods". Dimadick ( talk) 13:41, 9 December 2021 (UTC) @ Dimadick: apolgies, note to self, read past the first line! Murgatroyd49 ( talk) 16:03, 9 December 2021 (UTC)
I was interested in your edit to Haslemere railway station. You seem to have interpreted the BBC report as saying that the signal box would not be in use after next week's line closure. My understanding was that the box replacement would come in a later phase of the works which continue until late 2024. The BBC report says that "During the nine-day closure until 20 February, engineers will start work on the new signalling system" but I don't think that "start work" means removing the old box at this stage. Hopefully we'll find another source which isn't as ambiguous as that BBC page. -- David Biddulph ( talk) 13:12, 11 February 2022 (UTC)
I see you have reverted my change here. Fair enough, but do you happen to know how to put them on the other side of the running line, as my personal knowledge backed up by maps tells me that it's where they should be? Thanks. Britmax ( talk) 17:42, 15 February 2022 (UTC)
You would be much more useful to the objective of having an accurate reference if you researched news on a subject instead of destroying accurate information. The Santa Fe Group no longer exists there are now two separate firms under different ownership one being EAC Invest A/S the successor to the East Asiatic Company the other being Santa Fe Relocation which is part of Proventus. The two articles that should still be up are in bold. You don't need to read Danish there are articles on the company in English and there are translation aps. RichardBond ( talk) 23:50, 16 February 2022 (UTC)
I've left the owner a welcome and coi notice on his talk page. Have watchlisted the article for a month. PBLOCK is available to be used if necessary. Mjroots ( talk) 15:15, 19 March 2022 (UTC)
This is well known amongst Canadian Irish suggest you allow the edit as it is of general interest Mendelso ( talk) 23:42, 9 April 2022 (UTC)
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I recently edited Template:British Rail Locomotives to include a new section, Dual-mode. This version shows up on the appropriate page, British Rail Class 99, but on other class pages the older version still appears. I've obviously done something wrong but can't fathom what! Murgatroyd49 ( talk) 11:00, 29 April 2022 (UTC)
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I note that you have reverted my insertion. I am a demographer, working regularly with the population of local government areas and postcode areas, as stated in Office of National Statistics figures published online. I regret not having explained the source, and will now restore the reverted entry, accompanied by a statement of that source. I have deliberately rounded the precise figure given by ONS, as obviously the actual figure is an estimate based on a combination of the populations (as at the 2011 Census) for the following postcodes, taken from the ONI website:
Farnham: GU9 (29,684) and GU10 (22,238)
Aldershot: GU11 (23,292) and GU12 (31,479).
Farnborough: GU14 (54,994)
Camberley: GU15 (34,778), GU16 (23,767) and GU17 (11,101)
Yateley: GU46 (14,829) and Sandhurst: GU47 (18,852). Before 2011, these were formerly part of GU17
Fleet: GU51 (23,604) and GU52 (15,953); before 2011, these were formerly GU13.
You will be able to calculate for yourself that these total 304,581. The population of this region has slightly increased since 2011 (the results of the 2021 Census have still to be released, but I have deliberately rounded off the total to "about 300,000" as my main intention is to give the reader some approximate idea of the scale of the overall population in the highly urbanised Blackwater Valley. Incidentally, I used Postcode areas rather than local government areas because the former more closely coincide with the boundaries of the Blackwater Valley. I hope this is now clear. Regards from Rif.
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I see that you have just given The West Indian Company Ltd. the wrong name and linked it with a company to which it is not a successor. RichardBond ( talk) 17:34, 27 August 2022 (UTC)
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Why revert my changes? Has the loco been returned to the Avon Valley? Railwayfan2005 ( talk) 22:15, 26 September 2022 (UTC)
You cannot simply take a photo dated 1999 and say that's proof that the car float in question was operating in 1999. That is original research, and we can't just assume the photo alone is sufficient evidence. A reliable source is needed to establish that as a fact. Trainsandotherthings ( talk) 19:37, 18 November 2022 (UTC)
Hi Murgatroyd49; I'm enquiring why my recent edit of British Rail was undone? I only ask as there were a few grammar checks that were undone, and I was in the process of adding two new sections (services and regions) in line with DB, SNCF and OSE... also there has been debate about making the History section smaller, and I feel that would be a step in the right direction... if the issue was the section on privatization needing to be at the end, it's important to know, the article is not linear and can go back and forward. but I can just leave it there, but I'm one of those who know we can make this article Good article and more work still needs to done. Thank you ✠ Emperor of Byzantium ✠ (talk) 00:25, 25 November 2022 (UTC)
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Hi, I'm not going to make any changes to the D of L infobox re: it current situation, I did actually visit it last week and it was originally beached in the late 1970s but now it certainly is now landlocked.
If you haven't seen this Youtube channel "Ship Happens" it shows the ship's exterior and it was worth a visit!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftU_YhwnWo0
Hope that you and your family have a good Christmas!
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I don't think Cullercoats were the first, just the first for that station. I remember Cardigan Lifeboat Station launching an all-female crew in 2011. The news item could have been clearer. Best wishes, Tony. Tony Holkham (Talk) 12:37, 16 December 2022 (UTC)
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Hello. There is a discussion at Metropolitan line#Magenta or maroon for something which you were involved in. Thank you. Roads4117 ( talk) 11:57, 22 December 2022 (UTC)
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I'm saddened by your deletion of James Seeds yesterday (and also Forsyth) - whilst I understand your reason only about one name a year has been added so I don't think the list was in danger of becoming unwieldy - James was my father;s brother - he died when he was 20 before I was born - but I have a little suitcase of all his school exercise books, photos and letters and am reluctant to throw them away...adding his name seemed a good way of my honouring his memory - so I am saddened and wish you would reconsider and only delete if loads of people asked to add names - which they haven't Corinna seeds ( talk) 07:52, 28 December 2022 (UTC)
For the current state of the house, see instagram post of @amy_boyington, (3 january 2023) with 10 pics and history . Beautifully restored by Charles and Lila Pearson, owners since 1997 151.38.241.191 ( talk) 21:32, 3 January 2023 (UTC)
Hi I'd appreciate it if you'd be willing to remove the part where you claim "I didn't like it" on the talk page for County Durham as nowhere in my edits did I say I don't like them. That's a misconception and your own interpretation not factual. Please be so kind as to remove your claim about me. Thanks DragonofBatley ( talk) 19:42, 5 January 2023 (UTC)
Hi Murgatroyd49,
At Newlands Corner and Sheepwalk Lake, challenged information was re-added without an inline citation directly supporting the (present-tense) content. This is incompatible with the verifiability policy (specifically WP:BURDEN).
Doing so with an edit summary complaining about a lack of sources is rather strange.
It is also not sockpuppetry to register after having edited as an IP address.
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"Newlands Corner is no longer managed by Surrey Wildlife Trust, management was handed back to Surrey County Council in April 2020"; sorry for my misinterpretation.
"It is managed by the Surrey Wildlife Trust."by removing it together with a broken, outdated reference, there was no need to revert the change. By doing so, you took full responsibility for the content (see "Responsibility" at the Terms of Use). After [11], the article content contained an outdated statement, and it had been added by you with a broken citation.
Out of genuine curiosity, how would you provide a reference supporting these? I don't necessarily disagree with your removing them, but I want to know how their presence might be supported all the same. Thanks. XAM2175 (T) 12:35, 27 February 2023 (UTC)
Please tell me why you reverted without discussion thanks ProfDEH ( talk) 17:03, 28 February 2023 (UTC)
That's not a reason to immediately revert, it's not wronhg information. I was working on that. ProfDEH ( talk) 17:13, 28 February 2023 (UTC)
I do think you are being unduly inflexible about this. This is my local park so I have some interest in raising the standard of the current article, and spent some time looking up facts. The list of facilities is straightforward and is mostly covered already by the Historic England reference. Redevelopment of the park is not mentioned at all and I refrained from going into that only because the history is complicated and needs quite abit of research. Your response is not encouraging. ProfDEH ( talk) 09:14, 1 March 2023 (UTC)
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Why are you linking the disambiguation page SPS in edit summaries? DuncanHill ( talk) 22:12, 8 March 2023 (UTC)
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Thank you for your work creating pages on historical mills. Horse Eye's Back ( talk) 21:38, 19 March 2023 (UTC)
If anyone wants evidence to the facts that I include on this page, please add Citation required in the relevant locations within the text - and I'll provide it.
I have a website page full of MOD files and manuals for the Stalwart, and I have letters from Alvis, etc to give further evidence - which will answer any and every query that you have.
There is no point in Wikipedia if it's full of false information because Wiki keyboard warriors keep deleting fact instead of bothering to ask for the relevant evidence.
If Wiki was that good, then why is there no way to add images here to provide evidence ? Darzet boy ( talk) 11:16, 7 April 2023 (UTC)
Are you sure about this? Several of the reliable sources (the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, CNN, The Australian) say SS in their article titles, as do many others that are not included in the article, e.g. Commonwealth War Graves Commission, MSN, U.S. News & World Report. Clarityfiend ( talk) 11:17, 23 April 2023 (UTC)
Any chance you can have a look at recent contributions to Eurostar by IP and new user (presumably the same person). I'm not going to go 3RR but at the same time the image added is very poor quality. This IP and user so far only seems to be focused on putting their own images on as many articles as possible. Mostly I don't care, but this is a rail article and the image is bad. Thanks in advance. 10mmsocket ( talk) 20:32, 8 May 2023 (UTC)
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You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Dennis Dart. This means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be although other editors disagree. Users are expected to collaborate with others, to avoid editing disruptively, and to try to reach a consensus, rather than repeatedly undoing other users' edits once it is known that there is a disagreement.
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Your recent editing history at Dennis Dart shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war; that means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be, when you have seen that other editors disagree. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you are reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war; read about how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection.
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Hello... I've a problem Can you please let me adding fixed more information to the Royal Caribbean topics Enmanuelgac ( talk) 01:04, 1 June 2023 (UTC)
Now blocked for socking - Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Enmanuelgac. Mattdaviesfsic ( talk) 20:19, 1 June 2023 (UTC)
How do you go about contacting members of the crew from 1952 who have survived? My Dad Francis John Elderfield was on this ship.Joining the Navy as an Apprentice engineering artificer, age 15.Leaving at the age of 30 as a Chief Petty Officer.He is now 88 years old and will be 89 in September this year..Colin. Colin Elderfield ( talk) 22:19, 3 June 2023 (UTC)
I have tried to copy-edit, remove some information that are written like an advertisement for the Lister Mills; however, I have seen that you reverted my edit. I have removed unnecessary information, like "cut a ribbon across the entrance to the mills" and "It was a sell out and a great boost for the project". I may have done other minor edits, like small gaps, but my main contribution was to remove such advertisement-like information and to improve the neutral point of view, which is an issue for this section (see the template). Chiserc ( talk) 19:18, 6 June 2023 (UTC)
Thanks for the thanks at Stoneleigh, Surrey. I was following up on a sock that has edited pages about this place and neighbouring cities for a few years. Please see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/EpsomGentleman/Archive, and a new one yesterday, Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/EpsomGentleman. Cheers! Magnolia677 ( talk) 11:14, 13 June 2023 (UTC)
This information is only partially true. The culprit, Alex Gurteen started editing in 2010 on the oscar1994alex1999 account, which was banned in 2012. I am his old school friend and has long been subjected to his juvenile attempts at humour. The TinyTemper account was also banned for vandalism in September 2012, before the long term account Oscar248 was set up at the end of the year. This was banned in December 2017 after Alex wrote an article about himself before quickly adding some trolling edits. The sock rampage in earnest began in early 2018, with spectacular trolling from 'do your balls hang low', to Mike Hocks Hucker (renamed Michael Hucker before too being blocked). Mr Gurteen usually edits constructively but does not possess the temperament to avoid trolling the site at timed. He does not mean harm and is a big fan of the site. Epsomgentleman et.al (2021-present) is also Gurteen. He says he will be be editing again soon. Apologies.
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At
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(as with
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caption. If you can spare a moment, would you try to identify my error? (It is not a talk page artefact, the same error appears when I test it on the live page.) --
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I see that you undid my recent edit, claiming that it is "no improvement". Of course it was an improvement; it got rid of unnecessary wording and made the whole thing clearer. The rest of the article needs similar improvement - it's way too wordy and pseudo-"learned" for this project, and I'll be continuing in this vein. Deb ( talk) 09:34, 31 July 2023 (UTC)
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I noticed that you edited the
G Live article today. I wondered if you would be supportive of merging the
Guildford Civic Hall article into the
G Live article? As I’m sure you know, the Civic Hall was closed in 2004 and the site was redeveloped for G Live, which opened in 2011.
I don’t think there’s very much more information available that could be added to the Civic Hall article, which seems destined to remain a stub. Obviously there is considerable
WP:OVERLAP and the closure of the Civic Hall and opening of G Live are dealt with in both articles at the moment. What do you think?
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The link provided by RailAdvent was a genuine link and a reliable source so please do not revert. 77.103.154.52 ( talk) 21:05, 15 September 2023 (UTC)
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You reverted an accurate edit made this article is now out of date as you have reverted its to an old chief fire officer who has retired but reinstate the changes to ensure the article is accurate 2A02:C7C:DA4B:D600:11BA:6CCC:3115:2F60 ( talk) 14:51, 29 September 2023 (UTC)
The wikidata tag added in the "ridership" paramether ( see) does not provide the information required so the message "error" appears at the "references" section.
This item should be added manually indicating reliable sources. That's why I removed it. If you disagree, it can be discussed on the article's talk page. Fma12 ( talk) 10:18, 9 October 2023 (UTC)
you asked @what wrestling field is referred to?@ This is a well known field in Porthleven - it has a plaque. It is the only field in Porthleven called the wrestling field, its coordinates are SW 62409 25785 - this seemed like too much detail for the article
Hi, I wasn't sure if you meant to add this back in again? I had removed it as unsourced (and puffery as you say); another editor reverted my removal; I took it out again and you have added it back in, but with an edit summary that suggests that you think it should be removed. Thanks. Tacyarg ( talk) 12:48, 30 October 2023 (UTC)
The article stating that one of Tyseley's residents is possibly to be oil fired doesn't rule out 4965 as while not gauge friendly the article does say they may look at narrowing it's cylinders. They said that ONE of their engines is possibly being converted due to the ongoing coal crisis. It's not stated if it's to be either 4965 or one of their resident castle's. Until it's been confirmed that it wont be 4965 that's converted the article is to remain as it is with the interview from Michael Whitehouse. A reference was included too. 77.103.154.52 ( talk) 15:40, 31 October 2023 (UTC)
Might as well delete the Carnival Liberty, it's off of the Carnival website, the Carnival symbol up top would be copyrighted, and any image of the ship in the middle of the ocean or taken from a bird's eye view, is probably copyrighted. So lets get to some deletion requests! Am I right? 2601:4C1:837F:E620:D066:E6E:3182:92B9 ( talk) 20:57, 31 October 2023 (UTC)
I'm aware that there is a point of view that a pre-reformation CofE church changed denominations at the reformation. There is also a point of view that the present CofE is the same denomination founded by Augustine of Canterbury. Per WP:NPOV, Wikipedia cannot endorse one point of view over another-- so, please, stop restoring POV content to articles. Marnanel ( talk) 16:23, 10 November 2023 (UTC)
I'm not sure you understand the point of WP:NPOV: other than fringe opinions, Wikipedia cannot endorse one opinion over another. I don't care whether you think the Church of England's website is an unbiased source (of course it isn't): the question is whether it's a fringe opinion, which it clearly isn't. Therefore, Wikipedia cannot endorse it. Therefore, we cannot assert that any pre-reformation Anglican church had a previous denomination.
Augustine didn't found another "denomination" because that concept didn't exist in his time. Nor did it exist in its modern form during the Reformation. This is why we cannot assert that there was a previous denomination. Am I going to have to take this to WP:NPOV/N? Marnanel ( talk) 21:59, 12 November 2023 (UTC)
Just a quick message to say sorry for reverting your edit at British Rail Class 707, in a rush I did not notice you had reverted the edit from the user using Flickr as a source. Maurice Oly ( talk) 01:15, 19 November 2023 (UTC)
Hiya - I put the In Use flag on The Vyne as you've suggested previously. Could you please give me a bit more time to complete my expansions before editing? I believe I indicated I'd be an hour, and I will remove the flag when done. Unless I've missed something else? Thanks. Isaksenk ( talk) 17:30, 20 November 2023 (UTC)
See User:Mndata2#November 2023 and earlier. This editor appears to be running a campaign to change thumbnail sizes, from the trivially pointless 1.1 upwards. I expect this to end in a WP:ANI referral, if so I will need to refer to your reversion. The editor has ignored all invitations to justify their behaviour. But perhaps adding your voice may give them cause to reflect before it gets that far. 𝕁𝕄𝔽 ( talk) 17:06, 24 November 2023 (UTC)
Hi there, may I ask for advice about having this article approved from draft version? Montague Birrell Black, was a renowned painter, illustrator and poster artist. He produced lithographs for the White Star Line (Titanic), the British Underground Group, and the British Railway Lines. I continue to receive messages that he was not notable enough, however his works are some of the most iconic and well known in the maritime/rail/London underground categories. Thank you Goodwillgames ( talk) 17:15, 27 November 2023 (UTC)
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Hi Murgatroyd – I found a folder of Surrey photos from 2014 and 2015 which had not been sorted for uploading, and there were about 70 station photos (15 different stations across the county), all of which I have uploaded today. Have a look at my latest Commons uploads and see if there's anything useful for station articles. Cheers, Hassocks 5489 (Floreat Hova!) 14:35, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
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The pages are being cleaned up. See Category:Pages using infobox organization with motto or pledge. Motto is no longer a used parameter in Infobox Organization. Naraht ( talk) 11:48, 18 December 2023 (UTC)
Hi,
Thanks for improving the link I shortened at " Hailes Abbey".
The IP editor who edited that page today is a blocked user known as "Harry the house". Would you mind keeping an eye open for him? He usually changes concise redirected links to "piped" links, overlinks the names of political figures, and his trademark is changing the word "after" to "following". He mainly edits pages on British politics and television, and Hampshire. He's very mobile, but often returns to the same IP addresses periodically. A few recent addresses he's used are: 92.26.174.243, 82.132.184.17, 82.132.184.248, 212.88.54.161, 82.132.187.53, 82.22.100.60, 86.135.23.27, but there are many more.
Best wishes, Jean-de-Nivelle ( talk) 19:12, 21 December 2023 (UTC)
Hi. Firstly, thanks for your help the other day. I would like your advice please. I have someone who is taking all my updates, and then reformatting pages, and rewriting text, within hours of my updates. As a good comparison, I would request you check out both the 46ft Watson class, and 47ft Watson class lifeboats, esp check the code behind the page. and please advise if I'm being overly sensitive etc. Martin Ojsyork ( talk) 23:21, 22 December 2023 (UTC)
As a thought, while you are doing a succession of edits on a page, put { {In use} } (remove spaces between brackets) in the header of the page (under the short description) before you start, that will let other editors know there is work in progress.
Merry Christmas Murgatroyd49 ( talk) 16:37, 23 December 2023 (UTC)
Regarding Leeds. Do you think some of the images could now be updated? Considering the old gallery is now removed (which we couldn't update); now the current one allows us to update each image.
I hope you liked my recent changes to the page!
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Hi there, as noted in the intial page creation log and now on the Talk:Edgar Samuel page, this is from an Open Access cc-by article (as you can also see from the copyvio tool, which also shows this licence on the text it compared. Could you resolve this and remove the notice? Jim Killock (talk) 10:46, 9 January 2024 (UTC)
My wife and I completed our seventh Viking cruise yesterday. All seven cruises (in Europe, the Americas, and Asia) were dominated by "affluent retired Americans". FYI, Buaidh talk e-mail 16:14, 20 January 2024 (UTC)
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Hi, I notice that you changed United Kingdom to 'England' in the article. Please note that Wikipedia uses the proper name of a country to help identify or locate a place, and in this instance the country is the UK, not England. Amitchell125 ( talk) 22:08, 22 February 2024 (UTC)
Hi there, I just wondered why you'd reverted the addition of the category "Grade II* listed buildings in Greater Manchester", as Manchester is also part of Greater Manchester and its entries were missing from the category of II* listed buildings for the rest of the county? I'm not sure what "supercat" refers to in the edit description. Happy to learn more for future editing. Thanks. Mmberney ( talk) 13:08, 2 March 2024 (UTC)
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Sorry for using your talk page, but I couldn't think of a better way to access you. You have shown an interest in British (Country House) Architectural History. I have suggested that Wikipedians gain access to the Country Life Archive on The Wikipedia Library ( https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/suggest/). Please feel free to support this suggestion (titled "Country Life Archive (Proquest)" on the above page) if you think this is a good idea.
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Hi Murgatroyd49, Thank you for your interest in my clarification of the term "Turkish" bath. You are quite correct, of course, chronologically the bath was built in the Edwardian period, but the type of bath was a "Victorian-style Turkish bath", which is the term I should have used, and have been using elsewhere on wiki in such cases. The article referred to in the wikilink, which has also been lost, explains that "Hot-air baths of the same type, built after Queen Victoria’s reign, are known as Victorian-style Turkish baths, and are also covered in this article."
While I'm not prepared to go to the stake over your revert, I am interested to know your thinking. There is increasing unhappiness in the Islamic world about the use of the phrase "Turkish baths" as it implies that this originated in Turkey whereas it is an intrinsic part of Islamic culture worldwide, including Turkey, of course. Furthermore, today's casual use of "Turkish baths" in The West can include anything from Russian steam baths to gay saunas and day spas. This is one of the reasons why—following a discussion in 2020 between R Prazeres and myself on /info/en/?search=Talk:Hammam a couple of years ago—it was decided to split the article on Turkish baths into two: 1. "Hammam" and 2. "Victorian Turkish baths", the hot dry air bath. I was merely bringing a specific phrase into synchronisation with current wiki practice. If you've searched wiki recently for "Turkish baths" you will probably have found a redirect to "Hammam". Clearly, the bath on the Adriatic was not a hammam. I thought it important to ensure that the type of bath is clear. However, perhaps I should have taken even this small change to a talk page first. I did not do so since similar changes, with updating the wikilinks accordingly, has raised few objections in other articles.
What I now propose, unless you object, is that we change "Turkish bath" into "Victorian-stye Turkish bath" with its earlier wikilink to the article Victorian Turkish baths. Best wishes Ishpoloni ( talk) 11:31, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
I have declined your speedy deletion nomination of Jim Pope, not because I think it necessarily shouldn't be deleted, but because it doesn't satisfy any of the speedy deletion criteria. You may like to try one of the other deletion methods; my own first choice to try would be WP:PRODBLP, second WP:PROD, and WP:AFD as a last resort, but obviously your choice may be different. JBW ( talk) 13:17, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
Hi,
Sorry if I changed the main image description on Westminster Abbey for the capture date, I didn’t know that wasn’t needed in big articles for iconic buildings like this.
What I’m only trying to do is improve Wikipedia articles for better experience for different users, I’m not trying to vandalise pages.
But I thanked you for your edit on reverting my edit I made.
Please have a good day. PEPSI697 ( talk) 09:18, 25 April 2024 (UTC)
Hi @ Murgatroyd49: Hope all is well with you. I thought you might be interested in this BBC article about the installation of a new road bridge at Ash. There'll be an opportunity next weekend to watch the works from a special viewing platform that's being built. Unfortunately I'm fully booked on 4 and 5 May so won't be able to go, but I thought I'd let you know in case you were able/interested in going along. Best wishes Mertbiol ( talk) 10:18, 27 April 2024 (UTC)
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How do I propose undoing the renaming of an article? (Specifically List of Great Western Railway ships)
You did the right thing posting on the talk page. I put a message on the mover's talk page also asking them to come back and comment. – Grondemar 09:33, 4 December 2016 (UTC)
I put their "ISSN" into a WP template. Please check. You will find that WorldCat does not have Reflections. – S. Rich ( talk) 20:44, 2 May 2017 (UTC)
Putting the ISSN into google shows it. Murgatroyd49 ( talk) 20:55, 2 May 2017 (UTC)
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Hello, I saw that you added an infobox to Keppel's Column regarding its designation. Could you also add it to nearby buildings Hoober Stand and Needle's Eye? I would do it myself but I have limited knowledge on how to. Thanks – Ozankk 11:39, 9 June 2018 (UTC)
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The information was provided by the National Trust Dapdune Wharf group. I suspect their information is not complete so I will go with your change. The group (and me) are new to using Wikipedia and we are working out the best way to capture the great deal of information we have about the Wey Navigation. We will be creating more pages as we sift through the various documents we have. We will also be working on the providence of the information so we can cite the appropriate references. Thank you for your other amendments. Regards WNRGMike( Talk) 08:45 October 31st, 2018 —Preceding undated comment added 08:47, 31 October 2018 (UTC)
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Hi! Are you based in Southampton? I notice you uploaded a couple of the photos used in the article. If you're passing the cenotaph in the near future we could do with some more photos. We don't have any on Commons from the back or the sides. Merry Christmas. :) HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 23:53, 24 December 2018 (UTC)
@ HJ Mitchell: I used to be in Southampton, hence the photos. I'm occasionally back in town and will endeavour to take some more. Murgatroyd49 ( talk) 18:29, 26 December 2018 (UTC)
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That may be, but Oates has no connection to Hampshire and therefore shouldn’t be under ‘Notable people’. It’s irrelevant. Tedster007 ( talk) 11:03, 10 February 2019 (UTC)
At least Lowry has a connection! There is only a museum to Oates at Gilbert White's house because a previous owner was interested in his family. Agreed it should be in the museum section.
You forgot to undo the reupload of the photograph that corresponds to your undoing of my date edit on Needle's Eye. – Ozankk 17:09, 25 February 2019 (UTC)
Hi Murgatroyd49, I noticed you undid my edits to the above article diff, which I'm not that bothered about. If you want to claim it's for consistency reasons, however, you'll need to undo all of my edits there because I changed the formatting of the entire article. By the way, your version of the the line break tag <br /> is not correct HTML markup; it is, and always was, <br>; see here. Cheers, Baffle☿gab 00:37, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
George Blake (novelist) wrote non-fiction as well as novels: please see [1] to confirm that he wrote about ship lines, Lloyd's of London etc. Charles Matthews ( talk) 20:21, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
Excellent work on Perseverance IV, but updating needed. See Talk:Perseverance IV for the problem.-- Dthomsen8 ( talk) 22:12, 7 July 2019 (UTC)
Hello. Help copy edit for article. Thanks you. Cheung2 ( talk) 08:34, 8 July 2019 (UTC)
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I've replied to your somewhat off-hand comments here; perhaps you could do me the courtesy of a proper answer, now? Xyl 54 ( talk) 20:49, 17 October 2019 (UTC)
thanks for that, I thought I was editing another article when I hit that - not sure how, JarrahTree 10:57, 16 November 2019 (UTC)
Hi, I reinstated the edit you undid on Caerphilly as it did not seem to warrant a complete reversal. It seems a good faith edit with some useful detail. -- Brian R Hunter ( talk) 18:52, 20 November 2019 (UTC)
Hi there, could you please review "the position" of the picture that you have moved again? In that place of the article it creates a blank gap of space of 7 cm, totally empty, that requires the readers to scroll down unnecessary, and makes the page design looking empty and incorrect. I am probably the user that improved this page the most in the years, and I would appreciate your help in keeping the page tidy. Additionally the picture you are moving, is related to a ship that in these recent years has been converted into a museum, so keeping it in between two age sections would make sense. Thank you Goodwillgames ( talk) 15:20, 9 December 2019 (UTC)
Hi, Sorry there is a misunderstanding. White and Poppe was closed when you imply Dennis Bros closed. Dennis Bros went to the dogs and was sold off in 1972 and the business has since had a very chequered history. I will separate out the Dennis Bros story from Dennis Specialist Vehicles but don't hesitate to point out if I seem to have gone wrong. it will take me a few days. Regards, Eddaido ( talk) 08:55, 30 January 2020 (UTC)
Are you happy about my proposed changes? Eddaido ( talk) 10:37, 30 January 2020 (UTC)
I edited for the first time in adding some info into the notes sections on certain ships on the Royal Caribbean International Page. Since the notes already list some ship refurbishment, I thought it would be appropriate to complete the list. Should the other ship refurbishments be removed from the article. I gather from your note the better place is on the individual ship pages. Thank you for any help/tips. Mrdewit ( talk) 15:44, 24 February 2020 (UTC)
Hi, Murgatroyd49! Thank you for proofreading yesterday. I ask you to suggest how to better insert deleted comments, they are important, but in order not to overload the main text. And I did not quite understand what was wrong with the shipyard' name. This is a valid name. Navy shipyard number 1. This is a small shipyard, but one of the first in Russia. [2].-- Pavel Goncharuk ( talk) 15:07, 14 April 2020 (UTC)
just thought i'd thank you for changing the colours of the table on the harry needle railroad company page, one quick question: how do you do it?
MJ9674 ( talk) 14:10, 17 May 2020 (UTC)
ah, ok thanks @ Murgatroyd49: MJ9674 ( talk) 11:16, 10 July 2020 (UTC)
Hello, than you for bringing the typo i committed in Category:Birmingham Museums Trust to my attention, and for fixing it. My question: Shouldn't the incorrect one Category:Brimingham Museums Trust be made into a redirect, rather than being speedily deleted? I'm unfamiliar with the policy for category redirects, and couldn't actually find the right guideline page for them.
YuriNikolai ( talk) 15:58, 4 June 2020 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for adding Twyford Brook to the list of tributaries on the River Loddon article. I think that River Broadwater probably ought to be removed. I have proposed it for deletion, as I am not convinced it is a real river. It might possibly be an alternative name for the section of the River Blackwater from the River Whitewater to the Loddon, though the evidence is very shaky, and even if it is, one sentence in the Blackwater article would cover it. Twyford Brook was also historically called the Broadwater, and indeed is still marked as Broadwater Brook on Openstreetmap, and the mouth location on the Broadwater article is actually much closer to Twyford Brook than to the Blackwater. I thought I would just mention it, as you have made numerous edits to the Loddon article. Bob1960evens ( talk) 22:56, 17 June 2020 (UTC)
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Thanks for your support over recent and no so recent issues. You may be interested in this SPI - if you can add any more names, that would be great. Many thanks Velella Velella Talk 08:48, 22 June 2020 (UTC)
Thanks, Murgatroyd49-- The phrase was used in an addition to the article May 1943 which gave no details about the number of people who died in the training accident, and it had been paraphrased from the HMS Untamed article; I wasn't able to find a mention of how many people had been on board, other than that the article said that there were no survivors. Mandsford 20:06, 24 July 2020 (UTC)
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How about OOCL Hong Kong is a large container ship. She was the largest container ship ever built ... and so on? I want to make sure that she IS, not WAS. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Konstantin Kosachev ( talk • contribs) 18:32, 2 September 2020 (UTC)
Don't revert a logical taxonomy! This is not an index to a paper encyclopedia, the very suborder setting of the tabulation lists was for tributaries as a prime example! What else would it be for, Fish & Chip shops in Birmingham? I mean really! Also to revert my river swift in favour of an at-best equal status Bourne Rivulet name which is not not borne out by the article. I mean one would think there was only one real source to river articles in the area.- Adam37 Talk 19:24, 5 September 2020 (UTC)
Hi Murgatroyd49. I thought you'd let you know (as a fellow Surrey enthusiast) that many research papers from the Surrey Archaeological Collections are now available from the Archaeology Data Service here:
ADS Library search and
Journal index. I may be telling you something you already know, but I've only discovered recently that these articles are 'open source' (i.e. no longer behind a paywall). I am not sure if this is a recent change, but I wasn't aware until this month and so thought I would spread the word.
Best wishes
Mertbiol (
talk) 09:59, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
Please forgive me for bothering you with a non-WP question. I quite understand if you do not wish to help. I am trying to find the numbers of the following UK locos. I don't know whether they are part of a group. They are The Institution of Civil Engineers, Wild Swan, Resilient, Magpie, Sea Eagle and Solway Princess. The numbers that I have found are 47540, 60021, 47741, 44806 (I don't trust that one), 60139/60028 (but which one, if either?), 57312. I believe the first one may be right, but I'm not at all sure about the rest. If they turned out to be part of a set, I might be more confident. Again, please forgive me for bothering you with a trivial question. I should add that I'm asking you because you have contributed to WikiProject UK Railways. Storye book ( talk) 16:10, 16 October 2020 (UTC)
Hi,
I reverted one of your edits on Norwegian Cruise Line for a couple of reasons. All other cruise lines still have their future ships second. Two the ships have not been cancelled. I also added a source. If you believe it still fits WP;CRYSTAL feel free to revert
-- Life200BC ( talk) 20:31, 19 October 2020 (UTC) @ Life200BC: All future cruise fleets come under WP:CRYSTAL at the moment. It is quite likely that many of the currently planned ships will not be built. Probably best to see what happens next year before adding anything to the page. Murgatroyd49 ( talk) 20:37, 19 October 2020 (UTC)
Hi Murgatroyd49. I wonder if I could ask another favour? I am in the process of creating an article
here about the above British Railways Board engineer who was involved in setting up the 1960s UK rail electrification system. I am not a rail buff as you know, so the rail tech stuff in the article really needs checking for talking-out-of-hatness before I publish.
There are citations for everything, except for one sentence identifying the trains (should I say locomotives?) used with the 1960s electrification system. I have made three guesses, but have not been able to find sources for that, at all. Is there any chance that you could shed light on it? If not, I'll simply strike the sentence out.
I found this chap while researching his parents. They are very notable, but sadly not notable on WP terms, because what they did has no citations. There is a large collection of their postcards, currently in private hands, all written in a unique cipher invented by them, while they were courting. It's a charming love story, but I can't make an article from that. The coded postcards are in the process of translation, and I plan to scan the lot and put them on Commons, because ciphers and postcards are always of interest there. Then perhaps one picture (and no more) can be added to the forebears section of the article at a later date. I'm just telling you this to explain why this non-railway-buff has written about a railway engineer - although actually I think Claxton deserves recognition for what he achieved.
I had asked User:Tom walker for assistance due to his interest in railway electrification, but I have now realised that he is not on WP all that often. I should add that I am not related to the Claxtons - their postcards were found around 1990 when rescued by charity workers following a house clearance in London. Cheers. Storye book ( talk) 16:58, 5 November 2020 (UTC)
You removed my edit which was not incorrect - Iestyn Llewellyn is a real policeman featured on road wars. Dissapointed. Chris wahlen ( talk) 21:07, 6 November 2020 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Verifiability does not limit the wikipedia use English citation only. Matthew hk ( talk) 11:21, 17 December 2020 (UTC)
Hi, When removing a category from the article it woud help if you replaced it with the correct sub-category. Murgatroyd49 ( talk) 10:29, 31 January 2021 (UTC)
Hi. I agree Twinkle was born in Surbiton but that is now a part of the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames. She moved with her family to Warren Cutting, off Warren Road in Coombe, also part of RBK, and lived there for some years. I lived near there and knew her briefly in the mid 1960s. Best wishes. Duncan Harrington — Preceding unsigned comment added by Duncanharrington ( talk • contribs) 15:24, 2 February 2021 (UTC)
Hi @
Murgatroyd49:
Hope all is well. I have been working on the
Dorking article over the past couple of months. Another editor (who knows the town fairly well) has kindly given me some feedback and I wondered if you would be willing to do the same? Please do leave any comments on the
talk page.
I would be grateful if you would consider grading the article for
WP:Surrey. It is currently rated as 'C class', but I am hoping that it is now sufficiently complete to have reached 'B class' standard.
Thanks and best wishes,
Mertbiol (
talk) 11:56, 3 February 2021 (UTC)
Why did you revert and delete my link to Double-Cross System? It is exactly about the topic! -- SchmiAlf ( talk) 15:40, 4 February 2021 (UTC) @ SchmiAlf: You removed a valid reference and your addition was inaccurate. Murgatroyd49 ( talk) 16:50, 4 February 2021 (UTC)
Hi, could you please give me a tip about using {{
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? I assumed that it is always helpful to provide a link to a page in other languages because editors can get some info from it, but you reverted my edit.
Le Loy 09:34, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
Thanks for your help with the LT&SR article and this one. I was thinking about copying this one into my sandbox to carry out a comprehensive re-write as its still a bit of a dogs breakfast in places. Before I get started, are you planning any more changes or do you want to help?-- Davidvaughanwells ( talk) 13:30, 21 March 2021 (UTC)
I've been having fun finding little bits to add to the above, but if you want to change any of my edits you are welcome. We have hit the 5x expansion mark today, so you are welcome to have that for DYK if you wish - I'm not doing DYK on my own behalf right now - having a rest from that for a little while. I have searched on Geograph, Google, Flickr and Ebay for images, and the only one I can find is the copyright one attached to the English Heritage listing. I still have to go through the old newspapers, but I don't have much hope. My daughter lives in West Sussex - I can possibly set her on it, if and when the lockdown will permit. Let me know if I can help any more. Storye book ( talk) 19:36, 22 March 2021 (UTC)
Forgot to say: I have also searched here for pictures, but it's a bit of a labyrinth. Didn't find any, anyway - you might have more luck? Storye book ( talk) 19:41, 22 March 2021 (UTC)
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How do I prevent a particular editor repeatedly vandalising a page? Murgatroyd49 ( talk) 18:18, 3 April 2021 (UTC)
I totally agree with you. I've tried to research a suitable source as to why they are there but can't find anything that is worthy to cite except "it is thought to have been a firing squad" which obvious isn't factual. I'm ashamed that the information is speculative, but I can't think of any other plausible reason as to why the holes are there, hence the "unsubstantiated" at the end and gone with what a lot of sources say albeit nothing in a factual way. Feel free to amend it though to disregard firing squad or put the disclaimer about them being scattered around. – Ozankk 17:30, 14 April 2021 (UTC)
@ Ozankk: Could be something as daft as the local militia using the structure for target practice. Murgatroyd49 ( talk) 19:10, 14 April 2021 (UTC)
Thankyou for coming to my rescue where I had messed up the Ref on that bit about Gas Factory Junction. I'm newish to this process of editing Wikipedia, and it was my first Ref, so I'm not surprised I got it wrong. I still don't know what I did wrong, but hopefully, next time.....
Grumpyxch ( talk) 07:46, 18 May 2021 (UTC)
I did use Cite. The trouble was I found the Ref/Ref thing before I found Cite, so maybe that put something in that I didn't delete before I used Cite. Grumpyxch ( talk) 11:49, 18 May 2021 (UTC)
Hi @ Murgatroyd49: Hope life is treating you well. I'm contacting you because you have edited the Grey Wings, Ashtead article in the past. I have proposed a merger of the page into the main Ashtead article. I would very much welcome your input into the discussion on the talk page. Please feel free to support or oppose the merger. Thanks and best wishes, Mertbiol ( talk) 19:50, 19 May 2021 (UTC)
I notice you reverted an edit on the BR class 50 page citing unsourced, however the source was given in the comment section of the update. The reverted version has the oposite claim, but with no source apparent at all. If the update is redone with an inline source would you revert it? If there is a source for the opposite claim perhaps both views need to be in the article.
Hi there. I noticed you removed the addition I made to the facilities section on the Leyton page. I'm somewhat new to editing so would be keen to better understand why you didn't feel it was appropriate? Conscious of making the same mistake again, otherwise! Thanks.
Hi. I see in a recent addition to River Churn you included material from a webpage that is available under a compatible Creative Commons Licence. That's okay, but you have to give attribution so that our readers are made aware that you copied the prose rather than wrote it yourself. It's also required under the terms of the license. I've added the attribution for this particular instance. Please make sure that you follow this licensing requirement when copying from compatibly-licensed material in the future. — Diannaa ( talk) 01:42, 29 July 2021 (UTC)
Hi @
Murgatroyd49:
Hope all is well with you. I've been working on the
Epsom article over the past few months and I am thinking about submitting it for
WP:GA. I'm not sure how familiar you are with the town, but I wondered if you'd be willing to take a look and let me know your thoughts as to how I could improve the article before nomination? I have set up a
new section on the talk page for interested parties to discuss what additional work is required. I will ask a few others to chip in with their feedback and suggestions.
Thanks and best wishes,
Mertbiol (
talk) 08:41, 6 August 2021 (UTC)
Hello
You reverted a change I made here
a few days ago. I added the names and links of the Big Four liners because the term 'Big Four' was present without obvious explanation. If the ships are linked elsewhere, then I can see links are not needed (though by the same token, we wouldn’t need the Big Four link either) but I suggest it is still worth adding the names, for clarity. Otherwise someone like me is left wondering what they are. Do you object to the names being replaced?
Xyl 54 (
talk) 22:19, 11 August 2021 (UTC)
@ Xyl 54: There is a whole section about the Big Four where the liners are named already. Murgatroyd49 ( talk) 07:32, 12 August 2021 (UTC)
PS: Also, on the subject of the Big Four, I've posted on the talk pages here and here, if you wish to comment. Regards, Xyl 54 ( talk) 22:21, 11 August 2021 (UTC)
Thank you for reverting the edit tp Leyton on Ancient Counties. I am currently in a frustating discussion with an editor who wants to put this fact in the first sentence of the lede of everywhere in East London, that used to be part of Essex. Moving it to the second para was a compromise. Personally, I think Norman boundaries can be in the article, though not of primary relevance in the lede. Please join their talk page User talk:PlatinumClipper96 of you have a POV on this. Jonnyspeed20 ( talk) 18:10, 19 August 2021 (UTC)
Hello It's me, N1TH Music the guy who's been writing individual locomotive articles, I've read the Section you and Black Kite have made to "Project UK Railways" and I understand that you don't really want me making more of these, I think if I'm not mistaken that it's ok to make articles about the most notable individual locomotives so the way I see it, stuff like 442 001, 314 209 390 033 "City of Glasgow, ect. but I have a few questions. 1. It's hard to see what is the line between a useful article about and individual locomotive and a useless one, does it have to be preserved or does there have to just be something special about it warranting an article, for example 314 209 is the only remaining 314 unit and it's being hydrogen converted, is that enough? is my existing article about 02 003 which Black Kite called "more interesting" enough or are neither of them enough. In addition I read the Wikipeida instructions that say what articles should be on wikipedia and stuff like that. It makes a point saying that just because something is true and is sourced does not mean it should have an article, just because it can does not mean it should, but it also said that articles on wikipedia shouldn't be too long. If I were to take all the information and sources I put on 02 001, 02 003 and 02 004 and put it all on the Class 02 article, the article would be very long and wouldn't be very user friendly and I only wrote aritcles about the 3 units that got TOPS classifications, If I wrote about all 20, the article about class 02 would be immense. You might tell me then it's too much information but the way I see it, there are some people who only want skin deep information about the class but there are others who might want to learn about a single unit. In this case the person who wants to learn about the class will be confused and maybe even lost about the Giant article that has a lot of information and the person who wants something specific must go searching through said giant article for the little specific information they want. There are 2 solutions, one is to just not jam pack the article with tons of information, but then the person who wants to find out something specific will have to look through the source material or go on FlickR and I know from experience, trying to find information that only Wikipedia's source material has is incredibly annoying. And that's the soul reason I began editing on wikipedia, I wanted to add information so if someone added it it's there, I felt it would be better to make new articles about these locos then it would be to make the existing articles titanic in size. The other solution is what I did, but I understand your point, not all Locomotives need an article, there are 996 Class 08 locomotives, most of those don't matter, maybe a list simply listing and talking about the simple most basic facts would be a simple Idea, I know you did that twice with the class 47 and class 37 and those are great articles, maybe that's a solution, but I would please like you to reply to me on my talk page what you are ok with me writing and what you're not because I don't want to be a rulebreaker N1TH Music ( talk) 14:25, 5 September 2021 (UTC)
I know what you mean about "this is an encyclopedia", but this encyclopaedia has over 6 million articles in just English, it's like no other but I still understand and accept the points you are making and I will cease to make an article about every single Locomotive. But for the LU standard stock vehicles, I'm only writing about the preserved/formerly preserved ones which there are 13 which I wanted to make an article at least the size of teh smallest one for each of those, and looking at the article about Standard Stock, It's already huge, nearly 60 cited sources, and external links, and further reading it is full of serveral section each with different subsections and thousands and thousands of words more and as much as there is much more to say, I felt it would be much better to write 13 articles about 13 different cars as oppose to Putting 50,000 bytes worth of new information in the existing article. And back to the class 02s is making an article about every preserved unit too much or not, because well Black Kite said that the article about the preserved one is ok and said that more like that are fine, I get now that I'm not allowed to make articles constantly about individual Locomotives and Train carriages but am I allowed to make one about every Preserved one? You haven't told me, I please would like you to tell me exactly where the boundaries are so that I know what to make, lastly as unnecessary as the other articles might be, I would like them to stay up as they took me a lot of time, and It will take me a while to transfer the information to the main articles or to consolidate them, and I can't do that to deleted articles. N1TH Music ( talk) 15:08, 5 September 2021 (UTC)
It's me again N1TH Music ( talk) 14:03, 10 September 2021 (UTC) I'm writing to ask if a certain topic I plan on creating is "notable" enough to be worthy of a wikipedia article, I figured you're the right person to ask as you're familiar with some of the stuff I've created, I want to make in on unit 314 209 as it is the only 314 unit to remain and is also being hydrogen converted which I consider important. Thanks N1TH Music ( talk) 14:03, 10 September 2021 (UTC)
Please assume good faith and take care when reverting. My first recent edit at Buxton did two things: it fixed a broken citation and it moved a wikilink (from a picture caption into the text). My thinking was that since there was a duplicate link in the section anyway, it would be better in the text than in the picture caption. You seem to have taken exception to the latter and reverted the whole edit (with the edit summary "already linked in previous section of text"), thus reinstating the broken reference as well as the wikilink in the picture caption. I accepted your position that there should be no duplicate links, so my second edit was actually to remove the wikilink from the picture caption (which I assume it what you wanted) and to fix the broken reference (again). You reverted that edit too – so ironically you were increasing the number of duplicate links to Buxton Opera House (as well as reinstating a clear error that I'd fixed in the reference). I've fixed the reference (for the third time) now but I've left the duplicate link in the picture caption. Dave.Dunford ( talk) 07:04, 22 October 2021 (UTC)
I have started a conversation about Brighton and Hove images on the [ Talk pages]. Paolo Oprandi ( talk) 19:12, 8 November 2021 (UTC)
Hi @ Murgatroyd49: I have been working on the Haslemere article in the past few weeks and would like to submit it as a Good Article candidate in the next few weeks. I have left a note on the talk page asking for some help with a few issues that have arisen. Would you be able to have a read through and to give some suggestions as to how the article could be improved please? I would very much value your wise counsel and input into the discussion. Thanks and best wishes Mertbiol ( talk) 21:28, 17 November 2021 (UTC)
RE [4], because I am working on this article and in the middle of converting those entries to a table. Can you stop reverting me please? — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 21:05, 27 November 2021 (UTC)
Hi, I’ve made corrections to the Wiki entry for Kingston upon Thames and you have twice reverted them! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MobileDiff/1058262896 I live in Kingston and I am keen that the page is accurate - it’s is currently incorrect. Can you explain why you keep reverting the changes? 2A02:C7F:F880:4400:B034:8084:849E:AB4D ( talk) 22:59, 5 December 2021 (UTC)
Hi, I appreciate that you need sources…albeit I’d argue a source has to start somewhere! Regardless, you’ll see I linked to Wikipedia articles on Kingsmeadow, Chelsea Women AFC and the Women’s Super League. Surely those are sources? If not, can you explain what constitutes an “official” source? EdGossage ( talk) 23:20, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
Read that - particularly “when and why to cite sources” which suggests sources are required “for material that is challenged or likely to be challenged”. Not sure any of my edits constitute that? In fact, I’m challenging the current content which is factually wrong (sorry - no debate on that one!). There’s plenty of content on the page which doesn’t appear to have any sources - generally where it’s factual (e.g. the Thames runs through Kingston…). I’ll leave it with you - if you’re happy to leave the page as is, so be it… EdGossage ( talk) 15:48, 7 December 2021 (UTC)
Not sure quite where the debate or challenge is about where AFC Wimbledon play (or don’t play)! Anyway, I’ll leave it with you as I’m clearly not qualified to navigate through the red tape. EdGossage ( talk) 17:57, 7 December 2021 (UTC)
Hi. I hope this finds you well? I'm hoping you might enjoy this enquiry - a great picture with a loco crossing the edge of a lake, but I don't know the location. Of course I'm not asking you to do any work on my behalf, but is there any chance that (with your interest in railways) you might already know where it is? The artist Bernard Walter Evans visited Scotland - and as far as I know, he visited no other country with big mountains and lakes like that. And he died in 1922, so the railway might be a defunct one. His commons category is here so you can get an idea of his painting locations. I'm currently working up an article about Evans, and that really is quite a good picture to use at DYK, with its loco and its drama - if only I can find out where it is. Cheers. Storye book ( talk) 17:14, 7 December 2021 (UTC)
Did you ever find the answer to this question, which I just saw? I wouldn't know how to answer it but the people who might can be found at WP:VPT.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 23:06, 8 December 2021 (UTC)
@ Vchimpanzee: Hi, no I never did, I'll try your suggestion, thanks. Murgatroyd49 ( talk) 13:16, 9 December 2021 (UTC)
The scope of Wikipedia:WikiProject Cities is not cities. Per the project scope, it covers "cities, towns, villages, hamlets, townships, unincorporated communities, sections of municipalities, and neighborhoods". Dimadick ( talk) 13:41, 9 December 2021 (UTC) @ Dimadick: apolgies, note to self, read past the first line! Murgatroyd49 ( talk) 16:03, 9 December 2021 (UTC)
I was interested in your edit to Haslemere railway station. You seem to have interpreted the BBC report as saying that the signal box would not be in use after next week's line closure. My understanding was that the box replacement would come in a later phase of the works which continue until late 2024. The BBC report says that "During the nine-day closure until 20 February, engineers will start work on the new signalling system" but I don't think that "start work" means removing the old box at this stage. Hopefully we'll find another source which isn't as ambiguous as that BBC page. -- David Biddulph ( talk) 13:12, 11 February 2022 (UTC)
I see you have reverted my change here. Fair enough, but do you happen to know how to put them on the other side of the running line, as my personal knowledge backed up by maps tells me that it's where they should be? Thanks. Britmax ( talk) 17:42, 15 February 2022 (UTC)
You would be much more useful to the objective of having an accurate reference if you researched news on a subject instead of destroying accurate information. The Santa Fe Group no longer exists there are now two separate firms under different ownership one being EAC Invest A/S the successor to the East Asiatic Company the other being Santa Fe Relocation which is part of Proventus. The two articles that should still be up are in bold. You don't need to read Danish there are articles on the company in English and there are translation aps. RichardBond ( talk) 23:50, 16 February 2022 (UTC)
I've left the owner a welcome and coi notice on his talk page. Have watchlisted the article for a month. PBLOCK is available to be used if necessary. Mjroots ( talk) 15:15, 19 March 2022 (UTC)
This is well known amongst Canadian Irish suggest you allow the edit as it is of general interest Mendelso ( talk) 23:42, 9 April 2022 (UTC)
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I recently edited Template:British Rail Locomotives to include a new section, Dual-mode. This version shows up on the appropriate page, British Rail Class 99, but on other class pages the older version still appears. I've obviously done something wrong but can't fathom what! Murgatroyd49 ( talk) 11:00, 29 April 2022 (UTC)
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I note that you have reverted my insertion. I am a demographer, working regularly with the population of local government areas and postcode areas, as stated in Office of National Statistics figures published online. I regret not having explained the source, and will now restore the reverted entry, accompanied by a statement of that source. I have deliberately rounded the precise figure given by ONS, as obviously the actual figure is an estimate based on a combination of the populations (as at the 2011 Census) for the following postcodes, taken from the ONI website:
Farnham: GU9 (29,684) and GU10 (22,238)
Aldershot: GU11 (23,292) and GU12 (31,479).
Farnborough: GU14 (54,994)
Camberley: GU15 (34,778), GU16 (23,767) and GU17 (11,101)
Yateley: GU46 (14,829) and Sandhurst: GU47 (18,852). Before 2011, these were formerly part of GU17
Fleet: GU51 (23,604) and GU52 (15,953); before 2011, these were formerly GU13.
You will be able to calculate for yourself that these total 304,581. The population of this region has slightly increased since 2011 (the results of the 2021 Census have still to be released, but I have deliberately rounded off the total to "about 300,000" as my main intention is to give the reader some approximate idea of the scale of the overall population in the highly urbanised Blackwater Valley. Incidentally, I used Postcode areas rather than local government areas because the former more closely coincide with the boundaries of the Blackwater Valley. I hope this is now clear. Regards from Rif.
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I see that you have just given The West Indian Company Ltd. the wrong name and linked it with a company to which it is not a successor. RichardBond ( talk) 17:34, 27 August 2022 (UTC)
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Why revert my changes? Has the loco been returned to the Avon Valley? Railwayfan2005 ( talk) 22:15, 26 September 2022 (UTC)
You cannot simply take a photo dated 1999 and say that's proof that the car float in question was operating in 1999. That is original research, and we can't just assume the photo alone is sufficient evidence. A reliable source is needed to establish that as a fact. Trainsandotherthings ( talk) 19:37, 18 November 2022 (UTC)
Hi Murgatroyd49; I'm enquiring why my recent edit of British Rail was undone? I only ask as there were a few grammar checks that were undone, and I was in the process of adding two new sections (services and regions) in line with DB, SNCF and OSE... also there has been debate about making the History section smaller, and I feel that would be a step in the right direction... if the issue was the section on privatization needing to be at the end, it's important to know, the article is not linear and can go back and forward. but I can just leave it there, but I'm one of those who know we can make this article Good article and more work still needs to done. Thank you ✠ Emperor of Byzantium ✠ (talk) 00:25, 25 November 2022 (UTC)
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Hi, I'm not going to make any changes to the D of L infobox re: it current situation, I did actually visit it last week and it was originally beached in the late 1970s but now it certainly is now landlocked.
If you haven't seen this Youtube channel "Ship Happens" it shows the ship's exterior and it was worth a visit!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftU_YhwnWo0
Hope that you and your family have a good Christmas!
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I don't think Cullercoats were the first, just the first for that station. I remember Cardigan Lifeboat Station launching an all-female crew in 2011. The news item could have been clearer. Best wishes, Tony. Tony Holkham (Talk) 12:37, 16 December 2022 (UTC)
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Thanks o much for your help with the referencing on the Stowe Gardens page - it is very much appreciated! Lajmmoore ( talk) 18:25, 20 December 2022 (UTC) |
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I'm saddened by your deletion of James Seeds yesterday (and also Forsyth) - whilst I understand your reason only about one name a year has been added so I don't think the list was in danger of becoming unwieldy - James was my father;s brother - he died when he was 20 before I was born - but I have a little suitcase of all his school exercise books, photos and letters and am reluctant to throw them away...adding his name seemed a good way of my honouring his memory - so I am saddened and wish you would reconsider and only delete if loads of people asked to add names - which they haven't Corinna seeds ( talk) 07:52, 28 December 2022 (UTC)
For the current state of the house, see instagram post of @amy_boyington, (3 january 2023) with 10 pics and history . Beautifully restored by Charles and Lila Pearson, owners since 1997 151.38.241.191 ( talk) 21:32, 3 January 2023 (UTC)
Hi I'd appreciate it if you'd be willing to remove the part where you claim "I didn't like it" on the talk page for County Durham as nowhere in my edits did I say I don't like them. That's a misconception and your own interpretation not factual. Please be so kind as to remove your claim about me. Thanks DragonofBatley ( talk) 19:42, 5 January 2023 (UTC)
Hi Murgatroyd49,
At Newlands Corner and Sheepwalk Lake, challenged information was re-added without an inline citation directly supporting the (present-tense) content. This is incompatible with the verifiability policy (specifically WP:BURDEN).
Doing so with an edit summary complaining about a lack of sources is rather strange.
It is also not sockpuppetry to register after having edited as an IP address.
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"Newlands Corner is no longer managed by Surrey Wildlife Trust, management was handed back to Surrey County Council in April 2020"; sorry for my misinterpretation.
"It is managed by the Surrey Wildlife Trust."by removing it together with a broken, outdated reference, there was no need to revert the change. By doing so, you took full responsibility for the content (see "Responsibility" at the Terms of Use). After [11], the article content contained an outdated statement, and it had been added by you with a broken citation.
Out of genuine curiosity, how would you provide a reference supporting these? I don't necessarily disagree with your removing them, but I want to know how their presence might be supported all the same. Thanks. XAM2175 (T) 12:35, 27 February 2023 (UTC)
Please tell me why you reverted without discussion thanks ProfDEH ( talk) 17:03, 28 February 2023 (UTC)
That's not a reason to immediately revert, it's not wronhg information. I was working on that. ProfDEH ( talk) 17:13, 28 February 2023 (UTC)
I do think you are being unduly inflexible about this. This is my local park so I have some interest in raising the standard of the current article, and spent some time looking up facts. The list of facilities is straightforward and is mostly covered already by the Historic England reference. Redevelopment of the park is not mentioned at all and I refrained from going into that only because the history is complicated and needs quite abit of research. Your response is not encouraging. ProfDEH ( talk) 09:14, 1 March 2023 (UTC)
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Why are you linking the disambiguation page SPS in edit summaries? DuncanHill ( talk) 22:12, 8 March 2023 (UTC)
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Thank you for your work creating pages on historical mills. Horse Eye's Back ( talk) 21:38, 19 March 2023 (UTC)
If anyone wants evidence to the facts that I include on this page, please add Citation required in the relevant locations within the text - and I'll provide it.
I have a website page full of MOD files and manuals for the Stalwart, and I have letters from Alvis, etc to give further evidence - which will answer any and every query that you have.
There is no point in Wikipedia if it's full of false information because Wiki keyboard warriors keep deleting fact instead of bothering to ask for the relevant evidence.
If Wiki was that good, then why is there no way to add images here to provide evidence ? Darzet boy ( talk) 11:16, 7 April 2023 (UTC)
Are you sure about this? Several of the reliable sources (the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, CNN, The Australian) say SS in their article titles, as do many others that are not included in the article, e.g. Commonwealth War Graves Commission, MSN, U.S. News & World Report. Clarityfiend ( talk) 11:17, 23 April 2023 (UTC)
Any chance you can have a look at recent contributions to Eurostar by IP and new user (presumably the same person). I'm not going to go 3RR but at the same time the image added is very poor quality. This IP and user so far only seems to be focused on putting their own images on as many articles as possible. Mostly I don't care, but this is a rail article and the image is bad. Thanks in advance. 10mmsocket ( talk) 20:32, 8 May 2023 (UTC)
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There's a
discussion on my talk page about adding the author
Leonard Arthur Bethell as a notable person on the
Dorking article. I am concerned that only primary sources (letters and electoral roll entries) are being used to support a connection between Bethell and the town. (There is an almost complete lack of secondary sources on him.)
Could I ask you to have a look in on the discussion please? Am I being unreasonable in asking for a decent secondary source? Unfortunately the other editor involved appears to be a little confused between policies on notability and source reliability. I would very much value your opinion and input. Best wishes
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You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Dennis Dart. This means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be although other editors disagree. Users are expected to collaborate with others, to avoid editing disruptively, and to try to reach a consensus, rather than repeatedly undoing other users' edits once it is known that there is a disagreement.
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Hello... I've a problem Can you please let me adding fixed more information to the Royal Caribbean topics Enmanuelgac ( talk) 01:04, 1 June 2023 (UTC)
Now blocked for socking - Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Enmanuelgac. Mattdaviesfsic ( talk) 20:19, 1 June 2023 (UTC)
How do you go about contacting members of the crew from 1952 who have survived? My Dad Francis John Elderfield was on this ship.Joining the Navy as an Apprentice engineering artificer, age 15.Leaving at the age of 30 as a Chief Petty Officer.He is now 88 years old and will be 89 in September this year..Colin. Colin Elderfield ( talk) 22:19, 3 June 2023 (UTC)
I have tried to copy-edit, remove some information that are written like an advertisement for the Lister Mills; however, I have seen that you reverted my edit. I have removed unnecessary information, like "cut a ribbon across the entrance to the mills" and "It was a sell out and a great boost for the project". I may have done other minor edits, like small gaps, but my main contribution was to remove such advertisement-like information and to improve the neutral point of view, which is an issue for this section (see the template). Chiserc ( talk) 19:18, 6 June 2023 (UTC)
Thanks for the thanks at Stoneleigh, Surrey. I was following up on a sock that has edited pages about this place and neighbouring cities for a few years. Please see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/EpsomGentleman/Archive, and a new one yesterday, Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/EpsomGentleman. Cheers! Magnolia677 ( talk) 11:14, 13 June 2023 (UTC)
This information is only partially true. The culprit, Alex Gurteen started editing in 2010 on the oscar1994alex1999 account, which was banned in 2012. I am his old school friend and has long been subjected to his juvenile attempts at humour. The TinyTemper account was also banned for vandalism in September 2012, before the long term account Oscar248 was set up at the end of the year. This was banned in December 2017 after Alex wrote an article about himself before quickly adding some trolling edits. The sock rampage in earnest began in early 2018, with spectacular trolling from 'do your balls hang low', to Mike Hocks Hucker (renamed Michael Hucker before too being blocked). Mr Gurteen usually edits constructively but does not possess the temperament to avoid trolling the site at timed. He does not mean harm and is a big fan of the site. Epsomgentleman et.al (2021-present) is also Gurteen. He says he will be be editing again soon. Apologies.
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I see that you undid my recent edit, claiming that it is "no improvement". Of course it was an improvement; it got rid of unnecessary wording and made the whole thing clearer. The rest of the article needs similar improvement - it's way too wordy and pseudo-"learned" for this project, and I'll be continuing in this vein. Deb ( talk) 09:34, 31 July 2023 (UTC)
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I noticed that you edited the
G Live article today. I wondered if you would be supportive of merging the
Guildford Civic Hall article into the
G Live article? As I’m sure you know, the Civic Hall was closed in 2004 and the site was redeveloped for G Live, which opened in 2011.
I don’t think there’s very much more information available that could be added to the Civic Hall article, which seems destined to remain a stub. Obviously there is considerable
WP:OVERLAP and the closure of the Civic Hall and opening of G Live are dealt with in both articles at the moment. What do you think?
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The link provided by RailAdvent was a genuine link and a reliable source so please do not revert. 77.103.154.52 ( talk) 21:05, 15 September 2023 (UTC)
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You reverted an accurate edit made this article is now out of date as you have reverted its to an old chief fire officer who has retired but reinstate the changes to ensure the article is accurate 2A02:C7C:DA4B:D600:11BA:6CCC:3115:2F60 ( talk) 14:51, 29 September 2023 (UTC)
The wikidata tag added in the "ridership" paramether ( see) does not provide the information required so the message "error" appears at the "references" section.
This item should be added manually indicating reliable sources. That's why I removed it. If you disagree, it can be discussed on the article's talk page. Fma12 ( talk) 10:18, 9 October 2023 (UTC)
you asked @what wrestling field is referred to?@ This is a well known field in Porthleven - it has a plaque. It is the only field in Porthleven called the wrestling field, its coordinates are SW 62409 25785 - this seemed like too much detail for the article
Hi, I wasn't sure if you meant to add this back in again? I had removed it as unsourced (and puffery as you say); another editor reverted my removal; I took it out again and you have added it back in, but with an edit summary that suggests that you think it should be removed. Thanks. Tacyarg ( talk) 12:48, 30 October 2023 (UTC)
The article stating that one of Tyseley's residents is possibly to be oil fired doesn't rule out 4965 as while not gauge friendly the article does say they may look at narrowing it's cylinders. They said that ONE of their engines is possibly being converted due to the ongoing coal crisis. It's not stated if it's to be either 4965 or one of their resident castle's. Until it's been confirmed that it wont be 4965 that's converted the article is to remain as it is with the interview from Michael Whitehouse. A reference was included too. 77.103.154.52 ( talk) 15:40, 31 October 2023 (UTC)
Might as well delete the Carnival Liberty, it's off of the Carnival website, the Carnival symbol up top would be copyrighted, and any image of the ship in the middle of the ocean or taken from a bird's eye view, is probably copyrighted. So lets get to some deletion requests! Am I right? 2601:4C1:837F:E620:D066:E6E:3182:92B9 ( talk) 20:57, 31 October 2023 (UTC)
I'm aware that there is a point of view that a pre-reformation CofE church changed denominations at the reformation. There is also a point of view that the present CofE is the same denomination founded by Augustine of Canterbury. Per WP:NPOV, Wikipedia cannot endorse one point of view over another-- so, please, stop restoring POV content to articles. Marnanel ( talk) 16:23, 10 November 2023 (UTC)
I'm not sure you understand the point of WP:NPOV: other than fringe opinions, Wikipedia cannot endorse one opinion over another. I don't care whether you think the Church of England's website is an unbiased source (of course it isn't): the question is whether it's a fringe opinion, which it clearly isn't. Therefore, Wikipedia cannot endorse it. Therefore, we cannot assert that any pre-reformation Anglican church had a previous denomination.
Augustine didn't found another "denomination" because that concept didn't exist in his time. Nor did it exist in its modern form during the Reformation. This is why we cannot assert that there was a previous denomination. Am I going to have to take this to WP:NPOV/N? Marnanel ( talk) 21:59, 12 November 2023 (UTC)
Just a quick message to say sorry for reverting your edit at British Rail Class 707, in a rush I did not notice you had reverted the edit from the user using Flickr as a source. Maurice Oly ( talk) 01:15, 19 November 2023 (UTC)
Hiya - I put the In Use flag on The Vyne as you've suggested previously. Could you please give me a bit more time to complete my expansions before editing? I believe I indicated I'd be an hour, and I will remove the flag when done. Unless I've missed something else? Thanks. Isaksenk ( talk) 17:30, 20 November 2023 (UTC)
See User:Mndata2#November 2023 and earlier. This editor appears to be running a campaign to change thumbnail sizes, from the trivially pointless 1.1 upwards. I expect this to end in a WP:ANI referral, if so I will need to refer to your reversion. The editor has ignored all invitations to justify their behaviour. But perhaps adding your voice may give them cause to reflect before it gets that far. 𝕁𝕄𝔽 ( talk) 17:06, 24 November 2023 (UTC)
Hi there, may I ask for advice about having this article approved from draft version? Montague Birrell Black, was a renowned painter, illustrator and poster artist. He produced lithographs for the White Star Line (Titanic), the British Underground Group, and the British Railway Lines. I continue to receive messages that he was not notable enough, however his works are some of the most iconic and well known in the maritime/rail/London underground categories. Thank you Goodwillgames ( talk) 17:15, 27 November 2023 (UTC)
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Hi Murgatroyd – I found a folder of Surrey photos from 2014 and 2015 which had not been sorted for uploading, and there were about 70 station photos (15 different stations across the county), all of which I have uploaded today. Have a look at my latest Commons uploads and see if there's anything useful for station articles. Cheers, Hassocks 5489 (Floreat Hova!) 14:35, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
An article that you have been involved with ( MTL (transport company)) has content that is proposed to be removed and moved to another article ( Merseybus). If you are interested, please visit the discussion. Thank you. Hullian111 ( talk) 20:38, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
The pages are being cleaned up. See Category:Pages using infobox organization with motto or pledge. Motto is no longer a used parameter in Infobox Organization. Naraht ( talk) 11:48, 18 December 2023 (UTC)
Hi,
Thanks for improving the link I shortened at " Hailes Abbey".
The IP editor who edited that page today is a blocked user known as "Harry the house". Would you mind keeping an eye open for him? He usually changes concise redirected links to "piped" links, overlinks the names of political figures, and his trademark is changing the word "after" to "following". He mainly edits pages on British politics and television, and Hampshire. He's very mobile, but often returns to the same IP addresses periodically. A few recent addresses he's used are: 92.26.174.243, 82.132.184.17, 82.132.184.248, 212.88.54.161, 82.132.187.53, 82.22.100.60, 86.135.23.27, but there are many more.
Best wishes, Jean-de-Nivelle ( talk) 19:12, 21 December 2023 (UTC)
Hi. Firstly, thanks for your help the other day. I would like your advice please. I have someone who is taking all my updates, and then reformatting pages, and rewriting text, within hours of my updates. As a good comparison, I would request you check out both the 46ft Watson class, and 47ft Watson class lifeboats, esp check the code behind the page. and please advise if I'm being overly sensitive etc. Martin Ojsyork ( talk) 23:21, 22 December 2023 (UTC)
As a thought, while you are doing a succession of edits on a page, put { {In use} } (remove spaces between brackets) in the header of the page (under the short description) before you start, that will let other editors know there is work in progress.
Merry Christmas Murgatroyd49 ( talk) 16:37, 23 December 2023 (UTC)
Regarding Leeds. Do you think some of the images could now be updated? Considering the old gallery is now removed (which we couldn't update); now the current one allows us to update each image.
I hope you liked my recent changes to the page!
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Hi there, as noted in the intial page creation log and now on the Talk:Edgar Samuel page, this is from an Open Access cc-by article (as you can also see from the copyvio tool, which also shows this licence on the text it compared. Could you resolve this and remove the notice? Jim Killock (talk) 10:46, 9 January 2024 (UTC)
My wife and I completed our seventh Viking cruise yesterday. All seven cruises (in Europe, the Americas, and Asia) were dominated by "affluent retired Americans". FYI, Buaidh talk e-mail 16:14, 20 January 2024 (UTC)
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Hi, I notice that you changed United Kingdom to 'England' in the article. Please note that Wikipedia uses the proper name of a country to help identify or locate a place, and in this instance the country is the UK, not England. Amitchell125 ( talk) 22:08, 22 February 2024 (UTC)
Hi there, I just wondered why you'd reverted the addition of the category "Grade II* listed buildings in Greater Manchester", as Manchester is also part of Greater Manchester and its entries were missing from the category of II* listed buildings for the rest of the county? I'm not sure what "supercat" refers to in the edit description. Happy to learn more for future editing. Thanks. Mmberney ( talk) 13:08, 2 March 2024 (UTC)
Hi,
Sorry for using your talk page, but I couldn't think of a better way to access you. You have shown an interest in British (Country House) Architectural History. I have suggested that Wikipedians gain access to the Country Life Archive on The Wikipedia Library ( https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/suggest/). Please feel free to support this suggestion (titled "Country Life Archive (Proquest)" on the above page) if you think this is a good idea.
Feel free to @ me here with any questions.
Cheers, EPEAviator ( talk) 02:46, 9 March 2024 (UTC)
Hi Murgatroyd49, Thank you for your interest in my clarification of the term "Turkish" bath. You are quite correct, of course, chronologically the bath was built in the Edwardian period, but the type of bath was a "Victorian-style Turkish bath", which is the term I should have used, and have been using elsewhere on wiki in such cases. The article referred to in the wikilink, which has also been lost, explains that "Hot-air baths of the same type, built after Queen Victoria’s reign, are known as Victorian-style Turkish baths, and are also covered in this article."
While I'm not prepared to go to the stake over your revert, I am interested to know your thinking. There is increasing unhappiness in the Islamic world about the use of the phrase "Turkish baths" as it implies that this originated in Turkey whereas it is an intrinsic part of Islamic culture worldwide, including Turkey, of course. Furthermore, today's casual use of "Turkish baths" in The West can include anything from Russian steam baths to gay saunas and day spas. This is one of the reasons why—following a discussion in 2020 between R Prazeres and myself on /info/en/?search=Talk:Hammam a couple of years ago—it was decided to split the article on Turkish baths into two: 1. "Hammam" and 2. "Victorian Turkish baths", the hot dry air bath. I was merely bringing a specific phrase into synchronisation with current wiki practice. If you've searched wiki recently for "Turkish baths" you will probably have found a redirect to "Hammam". Clearly, the bath on the Adriatic was not a hammam. I thought it important to ensure that the type of bath is clear. However, perhaps I should have taken even this small change to a talk page first. I did not do so since similar changes, with updating the wikilinks accordingly, has raised few objections in other articles.
What I now propose, unless you object, is that we change "Turkish bath" into "Victorian-stye Turkish bath" with its earlier wikilink to the article Victorian Turkish baths. Best wishes Ishpoloni ( talk) 11:31, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
I have declined your speedy deletion nomination of Jim Pope, not because I think it necessarily shouldn't be deleted, but because it doesn't satisfy any of the speedy deletion criteria. You may like to try one of the other deletion methods; my own first choice to try would be WP:PRODBLP, second WP:PROD, and WP:AFD as a last resort, but obviously your choice may be different. JBW ( talk) 13:17, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
Hi,
Sorry if I changed the main image description on Westminster Abbey for the capture date, I didn’t know that wasn’t needed in big articles for iconic buildings like this.
What I’m only trying to do is improve Wikipedia articles for better experience for different users, I’m not trying to vandalise pages.
But I thanked you for your edit on reverting my edit I made.
Please have a good day. PEPSI697 ( talk) 09:18, 25 April 2024 (UTC)
Hi @ Murgatroyd49: Hope all is well with you. I thought you might be interested in this BBC article about the installation of a new road bridge at Ash. There'll be an opportunity next weekend to watch the works from a special viewing platform that's being built. Unfortunately I'm fully booked on 4 and 5 May so won't be able to go, but I thought I'd let you know in case you were able/interested in going along. Best wishes Mertbiol ( talk) 10:18, 27 April 2024 (UTC)