User:Rjm at sleepers/Sandbox
Bridgeman and Baur seem to be arguing that there is no such thing as Scientific Method. As far as I can see, apart from Feynman, only Simanek mentions textbooksRjm at sleepers (talk) 08:47, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
Elections to Thurrock Council in Essex, England were held on 3rd May 2007. One third of the council was up for election and the council stayed under no overall control.
After the election, the composition of the council was
- Conservative 24
- Labour 22
- Independent 3
Ward results
[edit]Ward Conservative Labour BNP Liberal Democrat Independent UKIP Aveley and Uplands 671 436 562 146 Belhus 618 645 407 121 Chadwell 395 973 738 141 Chafford and North Stifford 564 233 228 447 73 Corringham and Fobbing 837 560 303 East Tilbury 220 286 923 Grays Riverside 473 720 398 130 Grays Thurrock 555 1011 445 128 Little Thurrock Blackshots 735 279 243 106 207 Little Thurrock Rectory Ockendon 1016 806 422 Orsett 1103 420 330 South Chafford 547 188 111 149 Stanford East 1069 949 344 98 Stanford West 718 450 275 165 Stifford Clays The Homesteads 1203 901 542 Tilbury Riverside 144 463 530 192 Tilbury St Chads 139 519 458 West Thurrock 586 668 386 Total 11900 10416 6827 1265 1213 372 Percentage 37.2 32.6 21.3 4.0 3.8 1.2
References
[edit]- 2008 Thurrock election result
- Full results
- Conservatives hold onto power in Thurrock
- Tory chief's delight at two more years
- Thurrock election 2008 review
| Preceded by Thurrock Council election, 2006 |
Thurrock local elections | Succeeded by Thurrock Council election, 2008 |
Category:Council elections in the East of England Category:English local elections, 2007 Category:Politics in Thurrock
GA Review
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Hi there, I have reviewed this article against the Wikipedia:good article criteria and I am not prepared to pass the article for GA immediately, as I think it requires quite substantial work. To assit with this, I have listed below the principle problems which prevent this article from achieving GA status. The article now has seven days to address these issues, and should the contributors disagree with my comments then please indicate below why you disagree and suggest a solution, compromise or explanation. Further time will be granted if a concerted effort is being made to address the problems, and as long as somebody is genuinely trying to deal with the issues raised then I will not fail the article. I am aware that my standards are quite high, but I feel that an article deserves as thorough a review as possible when applying for GA and that a tough review process here is an important stepping stone to future FAC attempts. Please do not take offence at anything I have said, nothing is meant personally and maliciously and if anyone feels aggrieved then please notify me at once and I will attempt to clarify the comments in question. Finally, should anyone disagree with my review or eventual decision then please take the article to WP:GAR to allow a wider selection of editors to comment on the issues discussed here. Well done on the work so far.--Jackyd101 (talk) 02:36, 26 July 2009 (UTC)
Issues preventing promotion
[edit]- It is reasonably well written.
- a (prose):
b (MoS): 
- a (prose):
- It is factually accurate and verifiable.
- a (references): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR):
- a (references):
- It is broad in its coverage.
- a (major aspects): b (focused):
- a (major aspects):
- Overall:
- a Pass/Fail:
- a Pass/Fail:
Main text:
- "the court case between the two regicides in the 1650s" - you are getting way ahead of yourself. At this stage of the text the reader doesn't know who was a regicide or even why, either give more context or save this information for further down the article.
- Don't use euphamisms like "feathering his own nest" unless they are part of a direct quote. They don't make sense to many foreign readers.
- Although its not something that will fail the article alone, I don't get any real sense of what James Temple was like as a person - the facts are quite dry. Are there any additional anectdotes or quotes that would allow a reader to get a better sense of the kind of man he was?
- Please explain how the following source conforms to WP:RS and if it does not then please replace it with a source that does. www.british-civil-wars.co.uk
Notes
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Randal Bingley (23rd November 1937 - 11th August 2014)[1] was an author, museum curator, archaeologist and local historian, with a special interest in Thurrock. His work was cited or mentioned in books,[2] scholarly articles[3] and on the UK National Archives web site.[4]
Career
[edit]Bingley came to Thurrock from Surrey as Museum Assistant in 1966 after serving as a Junior Lecturer with the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. He was appointed the Borough's first Curator in 1975, designing and fitting out the museum in the Thameside Complex.[5] He was editor of Panorama, The journal of the Thurrock Local History Society for ten years.[6] Bingley was a keen archaeologist and conducted an emergency excavation during the restoration of the Woolmarket at Horndon-on-the-Hill.[7]
His Thurrock research included establishing the location of the site at which Queen Elizabeth I gave her Armada speech.[8]
In his annotations to the diary of Martha Randall he "plays shadow to the daily activities of farmer's daughter, Martha Randall of Orsett, during her 4 years' diary keeping (1858-61). He has managed to identify most of the nearly 200 - contemporary people about whom she speaks (frequently by mere intials) and leads us through her times with the sure hand of one who knows the local countryside and its old family structures in surprising detail."[9]
He was born, Randal Bingley Doyle but changed his name.
Books
[edit]- Bingley An English Family Notebook. 1978.
- Where Dips the Sudden Jay: A Rowhill boyhood. 1979.
- Bingley: The Second Notebook. 1981.
- South Ockendon: echoes from an Essex Hospital. 1994.
- Fobbing Life and Landscape. Lejins Publishing. 1997.
- The Nightingales Were Singing: the Diary of Martha Randall of Orsett, 1858-61. Thurrock Unitary Authority. 2000. (Ed)
- Behold the Painful Plough: Country Life in West Tilbury, Essex, 1700-1850. Thurrock Unitary Authority Museum Service. 2010.
- A Brief Historical Guide to Mucking. Thurrock Local History Society. 2013.
Notes
[edit]- ^ Echo web site
- ^ The English farm wagon: origins and structure by John Geraint Jenkins
- ^ Essex Archaeology and History
- ^ UK National Archives
- ^ Obituary, Your Thurrock
- ^ Thurrock Local History Society Web site
- ^ Thurrock Museum "factfiles"
- ^ Written up in Elizabeth’s Armada Camp : A Locational Report published in Panorama, the Journal of the Thurrock Local History Society No.29 (1988) and acknowledged in Eliot, Colin (1987). Discovering Armada Britain: A Journey in Search of the Sites, Relics and Remains Which Tell the Story of the Defeat of the Spanish Armada 400 Years Ago. David & Charles. p. 137.
- ^ Back cover of book
Category:History of Thurrock Category:1937 births Category:2014 deaths