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Hello!

Talk to me - don't be afraid to let me know what you think of my contributions and/or additions and corrections. 20:01, 30 March 2008 (UTC)20:01, 30 March 2008 (UTC)20:01, 30 March 2008 (UTC)20:01, 30 March 2008 (UTC)20:01, 30 March 2008 (UTC)20:01, 30 March 2008 (UTC)20:01, 30 March 2008 (UTC)20:01, 30 March 2008 (UTC)~~

Very good edit!

I read your edit on the Good News Translation article. Thanks for the really insightful edit! I didn't know Graham and oths used the GNT in crusades until the 80's. When I went to the 1995 Franklin Graham crusade in Wilmington, North Carolina, the NIV was used. -- iHoshie 12:05, 11 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for your comments, Hoshie - much appreciated as it's my first contribution. On thinking about it, I'm going to change 'eighties' to 'early eighties'. I believe the same was probably true of the Billy Graham Mission England crusade in 1984. Agendum 00:05, 12 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Welcome. Nice to know you. Deb 18:52, 14 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Peel towers

Hi, welcome to Wikipedia. I was trying to figure out what you were aiming to do with Peel towers and Peel tower. They were both the same. I've redirected Peel tower to Peel towers now. Is that you wanted? Or should it be the other way round? Angela. 00:11, Jan 28, 2004 (UTC)~

Thanks, Angela.

Peel tower was a mistake - it should be Peel towers. I was truying to redirect from Pele tower (incorrect - or less-used - spelling). Thanks for your help. Agendum 00:53, 28 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Clan map

Thanks. If you have any suggestions or corrections, let me know. It was not an easy map to do and I am not entirely happy with the result. At some stage, I intend to do another version that is a bit less wasteful of space so that I can zoom in a little. I was also thinking of doing custom maps for each of the clan articles with the corresponding clan region coloured in. Geoff/Gsl 04:10, 15 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the comments, Bruce. I will make the changes you suggested and consult the sites you mentioned when I revise the map.

I use The GIMP for all my maps. My maps are all traced so my "original" contributions are limited mainly to colouring. I am a bit nervous about the copyright issues. While each pixel I produce is original, the designs are largely derivative. Most of the military maps are taken from fairly old sources under Crown Copyright which are probably pretty safe. The clan map at the moment is pretty faithful to the source so I'll be happy to see it revised away from the original.

I am happy to make my source file (in GIMP's XCF format) available if you or anyone else wanted to make use of it. Geoff/Gsl 01:53, 16 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Methinks your comment on my talk page "What Dave has done seems to be a good compromise" shoud be what Geoff has done, meaning his splendid map. The clan page has come on, hope you're happy with develp[ments. p.s. read Herald today, Glasgow variety, no relation to the Daily H. dave souza 19:06, 13 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I agree the map is superb. I've now deleted the original clan list, transferring legitimate links up to the chart of Scottish Clans. Some links were not to clans but to placenames, etc, so I've ignored those. I've included the Stewart Clan (aware that there are several who claim to be the 'real' Stewarts - or Stuarts - but it needed to be represented.

Which article in the Glasgow Herald? - I had a look on the website but couldn't find anything, apart from a fascinating article entitled 'The remarkable tale of Indian Peter'.... Bruce, aka Agendum | Talk 00:48, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)

apologies, meant I'd read it, just my little jape about the lamented daily Herald before the dreaded Murdoch Sun got to it. However, by coincidence the Sunday Herald yesterday had a supplement with the "top 50 clans" - clan Brown at no. 2 and clan Smith at no. 1! Some useful info in it, but I'm off to sort out the British Isles. - dave souza 20:59, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)

History of British Newspapers

How could we have omitted the Daily Herald? Thanks for rectifying that - I remember it well when I was a young lad! Bruce, aka Agendum | Talk 23:27, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Not a problem. It seems to have been almost universally forgotten except as the paper that ultimately spawned The Sun. Very sad indeed. I think it merits an entry of its own and will probably add one when I get the chance. Cheers, Mattley 10:36, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Good idea, Mattley - as an important part of the Labour movement in the UK it should not be allowed to be forgotten. Bruce, aka Agendum 13:23, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)

The Grid

I found the actual grid project at CERN. Replied to you at Talk:World Wide Web#The Grid.

Have a nice day! Kim Bruning 08:05, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Eric Gill

Thanks for including the link to Eric Gill's headstone. I noticed that you got the inscription just slightly wrong - 'Stone Carver' not 'cutter'. Do you think he carved it himself prior to his death? - although the bottom part he could not have done, of course.... Bruce, aka Agendum | Talk 01:08, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Also a good catch. To be fair, it was the anon before me who found the link. It didn't occur to me that the correction would also be wrong, but I guess the misdirection comes from the caption next to the photos on that link. I'm afraid I don't know whether Gill carved any of his own headstone - this link suggests it was at least his own design. -- Solipsist 07:06, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Clan list

apologies for adding back the deleted list, my error in editing offline. I did notice Armstrong wasn't on the new list, it's in the Collins book (it's a borders family): there are some odd omissions from the new list, and I did add in Hamilton. No doubt ot will fill out in time... dave souza 00:46, 26 Nov 2004 (UTC) ...Have looked at history and will aim to restore your edits asap, prooably over the weekend..dave souza 06:59, 26 Nov 2004 (UTC)

That wasn't too painful, have now tried to restore the list with careful checking to avoid errors. I do try to make sure that any changes don't overwrite recent edits, but it went wrong that time. Did omit the link to Wallace and Gromit, apologies of that was your joke. As to separate lists, as discussed on the Scottish clan talk page this is a bit of a minefield, with Lord Lyon Court apparently not seeing any distinction. A quick google gave several Clan Armstrong pages, including one with the proud claim Acknowledged by Lord Lyon. Another case is Hamilton, who are a major lowlands family and also appear as a clan with territory in Arran, safely into the Highland area. Both have their tartans, of course. The column with (I'd suggest) H, L, H+L or L+H seemed a good compromise, still empty at the moment. Will try to have a look at this clan talk bit, dave souza 22:50, 26 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Look forward to the page - I wouldn't worry about the overlap, agreed there's a significant difference between Highland clans and Lowland/Borders clans/families, but they're all Scottish and obviously a lot from completely lowland families want to think of it as a clan with a right to tartan. The side column should clarify the Highland/lowland distinction on the Scottish clan page, the Families page can expand on their particular histories etc. .dave souza 00:32, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Hi - noticed your changes to Armigerous families. Jardine has a Chief and is correctly placed on the Scottish Clans page. I note that Veitch doesn't feature on the myclans list of armigerous families - is there evidence it was ever had a chief and therefore should be considered armigerous? I suspect not, in which case it should probably be removed. Best wishes Mark Nesbitt 16:30, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

Wikimeet London Dec 3

I just noticed your note on Jimbo's page saying you were sorry that you missed the last Wikimeet. This invite is a bit last minute, but hopefully you can make it Wikipedia:Meetup/London Theresa Knott (The snott rake) 22:11, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Holkham Hall

Hi, thanks for your kind words on Palladian architecture, if you know Holkham Hall you might like to check it, (I've only just finished it) for accuracy and detail, as it has been written from very long distance! Giano 10:07, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I don't suppose you have any fotos of the interiors of Holkham that are not copyright? Just a long shot, I don't bother usually too much about interiors, but the ones at Holkham are quite important architecturally. Next time you take a dog for a walk (hire one if necessary) a photo of the whole composition of Holkham would be nice too. Thanks for your comments on Palladian architecture, it seems to read now, much as it did before the 50 odd edits! Giano 21:48, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

• Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
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To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

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I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:

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Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

Journalism

Hi, I saw you made some edits to the Newspaper article. I thought you might be interested in a new wiki about [journalism]. Maurreen 06:12, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Clapham Sect

Was Daniel Wilson, Bishop of Calcutta a member of the Clapham Sect?--PeterR 20:36, 27 August 2005 (UTC). What about Richard Cecil ? --PeterR 20:43, 27 August 2005 (UTC) Since I asked the question I think I read that Wilberforce and some others were regular attenders at his church (perhaps members there, not sure if membership in a local church is possible in Anglicanism, but I guess they could have been pew-renters etc.--PeterR 08:01, 19 September 2005 (UTC)

Rowan Williams

Thank you for the compliment. However, on reflection it seemed to me that the ¶ was disproportionately long, given the relative brevity of the article. So I've done my best to trim myself (with only patial success), using the chance to add today's updated news. Cheers-- Doops | talk 18:31, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

Some of the primates may in fact be opposed to women bishops; but it's not discussed in their letter. Doops | talk 04:21, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

Who Ate All the Pies?

Brookie here - I have seen your criticism on the talk page - but also note that you haven't edited the main article page - why not do that to improve what you see as deficiencies - that way we all gain! :) Brookie: A collector of little round things 14:15, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

Re: your message on my talk page

You had a fair use image in one of your userboxes. I removed it. --Durin 22:04, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Fair use image removal notification

I've previously removed fair use images from your userspace, and you have raised a concern about it. I've started Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Durin and fair use image removals. You may wish to review and comment. --Durin 13:48, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

Sandbox

Hi. I have moved your sandbox from the article namespace into your userspace, you can find it here. I've done this because the article namespace should only contain encyclopedic content. For more information on namespaces please see here. Cheers TigerShark 12:11, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

Cockaigne

I've made a note at Talk:Cockaigne querying yourtext: "some have argued that it was the original pre-Roman name for the city,". Linguistically, is this possible? Perhap you can report where this was read. Thank you. --Wetman 07:24, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

janteloven translation

your stated almost two years ago that you needed a translation of janteloven. well, it happened to be in my calender so I will translate it for you, it might sound strange cause i'll try to do the translation as precise as possible. The Jante Law 1. You shall not think, you are anything 2. You shall not think, that you are just as much as us 3. You shall not think, that you are wiser than us 4. You shall not delude yourself, that you are better than us 5. You shall not think, you know more than us 6. You shall not think, you are more than us 7. You shall not think, that you are (good/usefull) to anything 8. You shall not laugh at us 9. You shall not think, that anyone cares about you 10.You shall not think, that you can teach us anything (notes: you can replace think with believe since both means "tro". But since it is my impression that "believe" is majorly a word used in fairy tales and religion, I'll go with "think". In verse 7 I had a problem with the word "dur" since it's un-translateable, atleast in one word, but I think "are usefull" is the best shot.. so, now... don't get to depressed.

RE:Response

I'm also at a loss on what thread or query this came up on as I don't remember it, but if you're asking how articles get the Biography tag that shows on the Talk page, that gets added in one of two ways. Individual editors like yourself add it to the Talk page themselves (See Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Project banner for instructions on how to add). Another way it gets added is when one of our bots auto-adds it. We just started doing the latter and so have only finished tagging any article that was in the category Category:Living people. We started going through the politician category, but it's slow going as there's only one person with a bot account, and then just a couple of us doing it manually using AWB. See Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Automation for a list of which categories we've hit and ones that are "on the plate", etc. Hope this answers your questions! If not, let me know. --plange 23:58, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

Userpage vandalism

Hey! Just letting you know I've reverted some dumb vandalism on your userpage (sorry about that, by the way) and am sending the vandal off to Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism for making bad edits after a fourth-level warning. Just in case you wondered who was fooling around on your userpage. Switchercat ^talk_cont 22:41, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Unblock please

Netsnipe, it's happened again. Please unblock. – Agendum 00:53, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

Unblocking, give me a couple of minutes. KillerChihuahua^?!? 01:03, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, KillerCh. – Agendum 01:08, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

Ok, check - there have been problems with undoing the sutoblock on you before, I want to confirm it worked this time. Oh, and you can call me KC. KillerChihuahua^?!? 01:10, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

It looks alright now. Thanks for your help, KC. I had to go to bed immediately after sending the earlier message, so sorry for the delay in responding – it was gone 1.10am here and I'm not as young as I used to be.... See Baby boomer! – Agendum 13:31, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

Your user page

Your user page has been semi-protected to prevent vandalism. _JD^talk 21:45, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

I've also done this page. If you want me to unprotect any of them, just ask. _JD^talk 21:52, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your help, JD. Much appreciated. – Agendum 00:06, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

I've unprotected your user talk page, but I'll be watching it for more vandalism/abuse. J Di ^talk 15:52, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

When disambig'ing pages...

Please move the existing page to its new title and then change the former page into a disambig page, rather than creating a new page through a cut-and-paste move, as you did with John Thornton. When you make cut-and-paste moves, you break the GFDL chain, and make it impossible for people to determine who added what information. -Hit bull, win steak^(Moo!) 18:03, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

Henry Phillpotts surfaces in Jamaica

You´ll be interested to know that Henry Phillpotts has appeared in the Jamaica lists..we were focused on looking for him in Barbados..so, looks like there is no involvement with Codrington, nor the SPG.. The payment was split between the four partners, not known yet how much the Bishop got..Cheers, Kbservices 19:45, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

fishy edits to biography of Anna Anderson

(diff) (hist) . . Anna Anderson‎; 05:03 . . (-15,029) . . 209.136.70.48 (Talk) These edits look fishy. Can you look at it? --Markisgreen 05:26, 26 May 2007 (UTC)