User talk:Alexgray

Welcome! (reply to message on my talk page)

First, I'll post the standard welcome message...

Welcome!

Hello, Alexgray, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you have any questions, check out Wikipedia:Where to ask a question or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome!

Ok - about the Two Lochs Radio article: I have fixed the page for you - check the page to see if you think it is ok. Some of the links posted above will help you to use the Wikipedia software properly; it can be a bit confusing to start, especially with things like templates and categories, but if you decide to continue editing this site you'll soon get to know how it works.

One more thing: I've noticed that the content of the Two Lochs Radio article is pretty-much a copy of the text on the station's website. Unfortunately, Wikipedia can only accept copyrighted work from elsewhere if the original author agrees to it being on Wikipedia and any other site which agrees to the copyright licence. I'm guessing that since the designer of the website is a person called Andrew Gray, that you are in some way related? If this is the case, and you do have links with the station, then you'll need to do the following:

Contact the copyright owner of the text (the radio station) and ask their permission to use the text on Wikipedia. (some sample letters are available at Wikipedia:Boilerplate request for permission if you need to write to them).
If they agree, get them to send an e-mail to permissions at wikimedia.org, stating that they agree to the text at http://www.2lr.co.uk/ being licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.
Once that's done, insert the following text at Talk:Two Lochs Radio:

{{{confirmation|url=http://www.2lr.co.uk/}}}

(copy and paste the line above)

If you can't get their permission, then unfortunately you'll have to rewrite the article in your own words. I'll leave the text on the page for now, but if there's no change within a week or two, I'll have to remove it (but someone else may see it before and remove it).

If you want any more help, or have any other questions, then please don't hesitate to leave a message on my talk page. --Marknew 14:25, 25 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

PROD Warning

I've added the "{{prod}}" template to the article Community owned, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but I don't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and I've explained why in the deletion notice (see also Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not and Wikipedia:Importance). Please either work to improve the article if the topic is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia, or, if you disagree, discuss the issues raised at Talk:Community owned. If you remove the {{dated prod}} template, the article will not be deleted, but note that it may still be sent to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. James084 23:47, 19 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Image copyright problem with Image:Maternal grandparents.jpg

Image Copyright problem

Thank you for uploading Image:Maternal grandparents.jpg. However, it currently is missing information on its copyright status. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously. It may be deleted soon, unless we can determine the license and the source of the image. If you know this information, then you can add a copyright tag to the image description page.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thanks again for your cooperation. B (talk) 05:42, 18 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

James L Gray

I've done a major cleanup on this article, and I hope you like it; but one thing it is missing is sources. I haven't got the time or inclination to go hunting for those, since you probably know exactly where to look. Could you please go through the article and add references for anything that you can? To do so, immediately after the phrase in question type <ref>, then the source, then close it with </ref>. If you need any help, come to my talk page, or email me. -- Zsero (talk) 06:06, 1 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

To be honest the edits don't look necessary and to me they give the article an unnecessarily cold tone, but may that's what you mean by Wikifying it! At a brief look through, I can't see any changes that make it wrong or have lost significant meaning, so I won't argue the toss over it. Regarding references, it is generally all factual information known to me, but if there are specific facts that you feel would be much better with third-party references cited, let me know which they are and I'll see what I can do.

Incidentally, your revised version doesn't appear when I just go to the article itself, but does when I look at its revision history - is there a time delay or approval process that delays the appearance of the edited page? I only ask because I previously had the impression that edits appear immediately. -- Alexgray (talk • contribs) 10:22, 1 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It's an encylopaedia, not story time. Encyclopaedias report in a neutral tone, don't refer to their subjects by their nicknames, and don't twaddle on about trivia. Have a look at a few featured articles to see how they're written. Or have a read of the Manual of Style, and in particular the Biography section and you'll see what sort of thing we're looking for on Wikipedia.

And just about everything significant needs sources. "Factual information known to you" is not enough; we, the readers, don't know who you are or how reliable you are. If he's important enough to be in an encyclopaedia (and from your biography he certainly seems to be) he must have been written up somewhere, perhaps in newspaper articles or in professional publications. His awards must have been mentioned somewhere, as well as what they were for. If he's so prestigious then any of his colleagues who've published memoirs probably mention him. And of course if he's published anything himself that should go in. Basically anything that will tell us this person really existed and really is famous in his field, because most of us are not power generation engineers, and will never have heard of him until we read the article, so we need to know it's not all made up.

About the new version of the page not showing up, try refreshing the page (F5 on most browsers). It could be that your browser has the old version in its cache and is serving that up to you. -- Zsero (talk) 20:41, 1 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Unreferenced BLPs

Hello Alexgray! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot alerting you that 1 of the articles that you created is tagged as an Unreferenced Biography of a Living Person. The biographies of living persons policy requires that all personal or potentially controversial information be sourced. In addition, to ensure verifiability, all biographies should be based on reliable sources. If you were to bring this article up to standards, it would greatly help us with the current 382 article backlog. Once the article is adequately referenced, please remove the {{unreferencedBLP}} tag. Here is the article:

James L. Gray - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Thanks!--DASHBot (talk) 05:03, 15 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Recording

Hello,

I'm helping to plan a possible oral history of the electricity industry in the UK and I stumbled across your entry for James Grey. I noticed that you mention a recorded interview in the footnotes and I was wondering if it had been deposited anywhere?

Thanks,

Tom — Preceding unsigned comment added by Reggitsti (talk • contribs) 11:07, 10 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Tom

No the recording has not been deposited anywhere public. It's in my possession. If you are interested in it, tell me a bit more about your project. I should say that it is more of a personal life history and only relates to the electricity supply industry in so far as that was Jim's career.

I don't know if this is the right place to reply, but hopefully you will see this.

Alex --Alexgray (talk) 11:38, 10 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Alex,

Thanks for getting back to me - could you drop me an email at leantom@yahoo.com please? - It's connected with the project mentioned on http://www.oralhistory.org.uk/vacancies/showjob.php?id=227 but would rather not say too much more on a public forum and I can't find a personal message option on wikipedia!

Thanks,

Tom — Preceding unsigned comment added by Reggitsti (talk • contribs) 11:42, 10 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]