User talk:Charlesdrakew/Archives/2011/April

DYK for George Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont

The DYK project (nominate) 12:02, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

American bison

Hi Charles, I thought this change in the book title was unwarranted as well. It turns out that "Bison" was indeed correct. So I undid your revert. I do wish people would explain their edits though. Regards.  BC  _{talk to me} 23:17, 2 March 2011 (UTC)

an the indefinite article

Hi Charles

I see that you have been having a bit of a minor edit war over the indefinite article in Sussex, I have put the following on the discussion page. I hope that it clarifies things a bit?

We have been having a dispute whether it should be a historic county or an historic county.

An is used before nouns or adjective noun combinations beginning with a vowel sound and a is used before nouns and adjective noun combinations beginning with a consonant sound.

eg:

an hour and a half

Note that with most adjectives and nouns beginning with the letter h, the h is pronounced, making it a consonant sound. Where the h is silent as in honest and hour, :these words start with a vowel sound, thus requiring an rather than a before the adjective or noun:

The word historic takes the indefinite article a/an depending upon its pronunciation.

If pronounced is-storic then "an historic".

If pronounced his-storic then "a historic".

Both forms are correct, in which case we should stick with what the original editor wrote. ie: an historic county. In any case An historic is the more common form in British English.

Regards. Wilfridselsey (talk) 10:58, 6 March 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for elucidating that. Old Moonraker also agrees with this. I was taught at school, a very long time ago, to use "an" before words such as hotel, but I expect that is outdated now. I suppose there was a time when h was not generally pronounced. Regards.--Charles (talk) 11:20, 6 March 2011 (UTC)

I think with examples like hour and hotel, the 'h' is very definitely silent, whereas with historic, the pronunciation can vary based on your regional accent so either form would be correct. Like you I had many an hour at school learning grammar and can still remember this particular lesson! Sad I know! Regards Wilfridselsey (talk) 11:48, 6 March 2011 (UTC)

Thanks re: Shoreham Redoubt

Charles - This is just to say thanks for the tip about "See also" links on this page. I will try to remember it!" --Kinnerton (talk) 20:50, 11 March 2011 (UTC)

It takes time to learn the ropes. I am still learning.--Charles (talk) 21:01, 11 March 2011 (UTC)

Lists of bus routes

Hi there, I just wanted to say that I think your prods on the pages I created have no reason to be there. I have created several of them and everyone else has accepted them as a good idea or at least not as something that is not for Wikipedia. If you think you still have a better argument, please reply on my talk page. Thank you 86.134.103.168 (talk) 19:18, 18 March 2011 (UTC)

If everyone else had accepted them as a good idea they would not get deleted. I expect there are other websites that would accept lists of trivial or unsourced information on buses that is not needed in a world encyclopedia. If not then the wiki software is free and you could make your own transport wiki.--Charles (talk) 20:41, 18 March 2011 (UTC)

I need mentoring

Hi Charles,

I need a mentor to work in wiki. My talk page will show I am new to wiki and came into editing because I saw a totally biased article in my area of expertise - hinduism, vaishnavism. I was advised by one administrator to go to adopting area.

I have a decent subject matter expertise in the area in which there is a huge NPOV issue (Iyengar). In a related article there has been a huge vandalism (Thengalai _ on 4th Jan 2011 this editor has virtually wiped out a whole set of contribution by others with a single sentence not relevant , which is not true) The editor who is doing this has enough wiki knowledge and using it to the advantage of putting his totally biased view in.

I want to have a fair approach and use the normal wiki route and have enough faith in wiki systems to eliminate such happenings. I need a mentor to guide me through the correct path in doing so. The alternative is a more winding self learning route.

Will you be my guru? I work at EST timing.

You can reply to me by email(ramanujamuni£gmail.com) or at my talk page.

Please let me know of your response.

Thanks. Ramanuja 22:48, 22 March 2011 (UTC)

Not a sockpuppet

Hello again, you are suspecting my IP address to be a sockpuppet of Wilbysuffolk. This is not true. This is my address and I only use it if I forget to log in. We do know each other and are real life friends, who have TWO SEPERATE INDEPENDENT ACCOUNTS THAT THE OTHER HAS NOT GOT ACCESS TO, and share the same interests so we would be editing the same sort of pages, often at similar times. I have notified another administrator about this and included that you are likely to bully as I found previous acts of that. '''Adam mugliston''' (talk) 19:32, 23 March 2011 (UTC)

And also, I hope your happy with the deletion of List of bus routes in Lowestoft & Great Yarmouth. Just wanted to tell you that you wasted 5 days of my hardwork and valuable time. Thanks for that.

I was confused as to which of you was posting anonymously here. If you logged in that would not arise. As for Wilbysuffolk being identified as a sockpuppet of another troublesome editor, that was a surprise to me and I doubted it but assumed that the admin had done enough research to confirm this; it seems he had not and I am glad that has been cleared up.

I am happy that the list of bus routes has been deleted as this stuff is not notable or encyclopedic for this site. I hope you can find somewhere else to host it. Perhaps create your own wiki using the copyright-free software?--Charles (talk) 23:01, 23 March 2011 (UTC)

Creating my own wiki? Who's going to find that? There have been several debates on whether these pages are notable, and everyone else (I think it's about 10 million people) consider it either notable or notable enough to stay. And as I mentioned you wasted my work and I would have to redo it. '''Adam mugliston''' (talk) 22:09, 24 March 2011 (UTC)