User talk:Coldupnorth/Archive3


My California Star

Hey. I want to thank you for recognizing my efforts to improve Ronald Reagan's article, and awarding me the California Barnstar. It just so happens that I live in California, which makes it very special. Again, Thank You! Best, Happyme22 17:01, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

Revert tag edit war (for Portsmouth Schools)

Thanks for your kind words regarding the Revert tag edit war (for Portsmouth Schools). I thought I would give it 24 hours or so to see if the Pompey-phobic gives up rather than make an early call for page protection. My hope being that the unhelpful edits will stop when the user realises that hiding on the internet is not as simple as (s)he may think and that it is possible and relatively easy to track and revert edits. -- Drappel 17:59, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

All of the links you have reintroduced into the Portsmouth article are red links or redirects to the Portsmouth article, which is the reason they were removed originally. If you are about to create articles on the schools fair enough, but otherwise circular references are to be avoided. Nuttah68 08:39, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

It seems to be getting bloody now. But guerrilla wars so often are. I am a resident of Southampton and have no great love of Portsmouth but do not see this as reason to sit back while Portsmouth (through its Wikipedia page) is being belittled. -- Drappel 12:18, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

A quick note of thanks for the Barnstar: Users are enjoined to be bold and get involved and while an immeasurably small percentage of people will ever know of the merge tag episode I am ticked pink by the award. -- Drappel 18:10, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

Honours of Winston Churchill

Updated DYK query On 10 April, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Honours of Winston Churchill, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

--howcheng {chat} 06:11, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Churchill passport

Hi, I put in a request at Wikipedia:Graphic Lab/Images to improve and Interiot has uploaded a clearer version, modifying your image. Just thought you should know. Thanks.--Pharos 23:17, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Third way edits

Hi LordHarris, thanks for your help with the Third Way (centrism) page. I've made more comments there, on the talk page.Drernie 21:28, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the Barnstar.

It is my first. I actually was in there for a different article, Pokey Chatman, saw Monica's name, and not Bill's. After all my changes, CfD's, compromises and moderations, new articles created, etc. it is funny that adding a category is what finally got me a BarnStar. Thank you. CodeCarpenter 23:39, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Harry Pregerson

Thank you for the review. I'll probably research more and expand it, by then I would try again nominate it. But now I'm kinda busy in real life, so I don't know when will that happen. Anyways, thanks again. Cheers! WooyiTalk, Editor review 00:31, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

Category renaming

I've nominated Category:Royal Navy First Sea Lords to be renamed Category:First Sea Lords. Since the title "First Sea Lord" is a byproduct of the unique structure of the pre-1964 Admiralty (wherein the Board acted as Commissioners for the office of Lord High Admiral) and has no exact counterpart, as far as I know, in other navies, "Royal Navy" seems to be redundant.

Incidentally, as you seem to be interested in RN admirals, I'd appreciate any help you can give with List of Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, Vice-Admiral of the United Kingdom, and Rear-Admiral of the United Kingdom. The first is essentially complete post-Restoration (and I think I know where to look up the pre-restoration commissions), but I'm missing dates of some of the commissions from 1897 through 1914, which either weren't gazetted or aren't indexed properly at the Gazette site. The latter two are pretty well in hand, except for a round of promotions in 1984, but then they seem to have stopped gazetting appointments to these offices after 2001. The current Navy List shows only the Vice-Admiral of the UK, Sir James Burnell-Nugent, but doesn't identify when he was appointed or who, if anyone, holds the office of Rear-Admiral. Yours, Choess 02:18, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

Breyer

Hey -- many thanks for the pass and the great suggestions for Stephen Breyer. I was already thinking I should work on the lead next thing, to try to beef it up a little. Anyway, I'm quite impressed if you put this much thought into each one. Best, Mackan79 21:49, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

British Museum

Looking at the BM article, I can't to see where further references are required. Could you please go through the article and add individual fact tags to those pieces of information or claims which you feel require a reference.

Thanks --ImperialCollegeGrad 22:51, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

Hi LordHarris,
Firstly, apologies if the above and the supposed reaction to the British Museum reference request appears as a rebuttal attempt on my behalf, this is not the case. In a nutshell, I'm looking at the articles which I'd like to work on in future, since UCL was a place I briefly studied before heading off to Imperial College, I was considering working on this. However, I noticed there were claims as such which were unreferenced.
I appreciate your enthusiasm for the BM article and the need for references, I also understand that these things should come rapidly, however as you can see the references are forthcoming, the notes section is expanding and a new reading list has appeared.
Also, there are numerous other articles that I have had a hand in, and suffice on occasion I have taken from the website, that way I can begin editing the content, expanding where necessary and reducing likewise. An example here is the Royal Collection, which I noticed you rightfully removed some content which was taken directly from the website. This is incorrect, plagiarism is not my intent, I required source material to begin my work from and since there isn’t much available on the Royal Collection. Since the BM article is nearing completion, the Royal Collection is my next port of call, and then followed by the V&A.
I will cite the places I think References are needed, namely the trivia section, and any numerical claims to start off with.
Iindeed I'd appreciate working together on these articles and apologise for any antagonism felt.
Thanks
--ImperialCollegeGrad 12:21, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

GA Palanga Amber Museum

Hello, I answered and asked some questions regarding this article on its talk page. Cheers, M.K. 13:33, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

Captions explained :) M.K. 13:58, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
Hey, thank you very much for encouragement and Barnstar! M.K. 14:09, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

Flagstaff, Arizona

Thanks for the review on the article. Your comments are helpful. I was also planning to take this through a round of peer review and then nominate for WP:FAC. Cheers! Dr. Cash 19:27, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

Asser GA

Thanks! Both for the GA and the helpful comments. I'll implement some at least; I'll leave more detailed notes on the talk page, if you're interested. I appreciate you taking the time to do the review. Mike Christie (talk) 01:45, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

Rock Springs Massacreee

Thanks so much for the review at GA, your comments are inciteful, I wonder if you had some specific ideas, I want to make sure that it is clear that there were events specifically connected to those events at Rock Springs, the discussion on that topic led to part of the aftermath section being summed up in Post Massacre violence, I think it would be a general disservice to history to remove that section. Some thoughts I had (and what I think you might have been referring to specifically):

  • Background/Prior anti Chinese sections: Shorten Background, cut non relevant info in prior section, i.e. people in San Fransisco had a riot before this one)
  • Anti Chinese rhetoric, mrege with outcome, remove irrelevant info (anything not connected to Rock Springs or its immediate aftermath)

Is this a fair assessment? Thanks again for your review and your comments. I wondered if it might be a good FAC at some point. I have some other ideas that include more information about what happened in Rock Springs in the days and months following the riot as well as some other perspectives on events. IvoShandor 07:31, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the pointers and encouragement. I must admit I have been somewhat intimidated by FAC, which is why I have been dragging my feet on doing anything with this article as well as my other big project National Register of Historic Places. Right now I feel better about the formers chance rather than the latter, which is why I asked for more info. : ) Thanks again.
In addition I have acquired a couple new sources which will help me with a planned rewrite/addition to the actual description of the events of the riot. Anyway, this was just supposed to be a short thanks so I'll stop now. : ) IvoShandor 14:21, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

Archimedes

Thank you for yor comments on Archimedes. There are some useful points here to take on board. The main point on which I would would wish to reply is that the article is not strictly, or first and foremost, a biography of Archimedes. Everything that is known reliably about the life of Archimedes fits in a single paragraph, and even the best print enyclopedias say little more than is available here.--Ianmacm 12:16, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

I have renominated the article after addressing the points raised.--Ianmacm 19:02, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

Best response

Thanks for reviewing the GA candidate. Cheers, Pete.Hurd 13:38, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

GA nomination of The Technique

Thanks! I think the peer review really helped get it to GA status. —Disavian (talk/contribs) 16:56, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

The WikiProject Biography Newsletter: Issue II - April 2007

The April 2007 issue of the WikiProject Biography newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you BetacommandBot 18:59, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

Rock Springs Massacre

I have made some pretty significant cuts, and left some comments on the talk page, if you have the time, do take a look. Thank you. IvoShandor 14:41, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for the comments, the review and the barnstar! I like shiny! Hopefully you will be willing to take a look at Rock Springs again in the near future, I just need to go to a library and grab some sources that I found and then I will finish it up for FAC. Whew. This one has been in the works for a long time, it'll be really nice to be done one day. : ) IvoShandor 05:59, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Hezbollah

Hi, Finally after 40 days you reviewed this article. I appreciate you and invite other wikipedians to improve it as soon as possible En Sha Allah.--Sa.vakilian(t-c) 19:34, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Jonathon Band GA on hold

 GA on hold — Notes left on talk page. Nehrams2020 20:24, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

I listed a few more things that need to be fixed. --Nehrams2020 22:46, 30 April 2007 (UTC)