User talk:Chris j wood/2008

England related articles writing

I would like to award you this Barnstar for your tireless work in improving articles, in particular England related articles.

		The English articles barnstar
		This is for your tireless work in England related articles. Tbo ¹⁵⁷(talk) 21:33, 11 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Infobox Hospital and Affiliation

My appologies, totally missed your suggestion at Template talk:Infobox Hospital on my watchlist. Quite agree and I have implemented the change and associated template documentation - so a belated thank you. David Ruben ^Talk 02:58, 13 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Reading Festival Chorus

See Talk:Reading Festival Chorus :-) Guy (Help!) 23:56, 15 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Dates on image copyright templates

Hi, I think you might have been a bit careless with some of the dates on image copyright templates. For instance, this one claims that you took it on 1 April 2005, which I doubt somehow(!!). Maybe you could fix this..... Regards, --RFBailey (talk) 22:21, 25 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Oops. Fixed. -- Chris j wood (talk) 13:15, 26 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion of Loch Fyne (restaurant)

Speedy deletion request withdrawn

Be more than glad to. Sorry, I didn't realize you were still working on the article. Good luck with it! Hersfold ^(t/a/c) 20:36, 12 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Preview Button

Hi Chris. Could you please get into the habbit of using the preview button? Doing as you're doing to the Reading Transport article is somewhat frowned upon, as it cloggs up the watchlist of those that have watchlisted a page, as well as the recent changes list. Please try and do all your edits in one or two lump-sums, using the preview button, and then submit just once or twice. Thanks, _Talk Islander 19:12, 27 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sigh. I do try, honest. But every time I think I've finished editing, I see something else I need to change. I guess with 30+ years in the computer industry and getting on for 4 in Wikipedia I ought to know better. -- Chris j wood (talk) 19:55, 27 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Incidentally, I've just checked, and my watchlist only contains the latest update to any given page, so I don't really understand your comment on clogging up watchlists. It seems to make no difference to the watchlist whether I do a change in one edit or a hundred, there is only entry in the watchlist for it. -- Chris j wood (talk) 20:42, 27 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

By "clogging up the watchlist", I mean that Reading Buses (or whatever article you're editing) stays permanently near the top. I have a watchlist of around 1000 articles, so changes are constatly being made. If Reading Buses or any article is constantly floating near the top, then I'll check it regularly, only to see that it's another tiny edit from the same user. Please don't feel I'm having a go at you - it's just slightly irritating, yet something that can easily be changed. _Talk Islander 15:17, 28 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I see. You obviously work your watchlist quite differently to me. I've also got many articles in it (more or less every article I've ever edited), but I tend to only look at it once a day, and work through all the articles changed since I last looked. I can see that if you continually monitor the top of the list, you must find frequent small changes quite annoying. I am currently trying to minimise edits, but I'm not finding it easy. -- Chris j wood (talk) 16:54, 28 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Royal Tunbridge Wells - use of bolding

Hi Chris I have just seen your two comments on what I take to be my editing of the above. The original, it seemed to me, was often like a tourist pamphlet-cum-fanmail (except where it took it for granted that everyone knew about Tunbridge Wells as a derogatory term!), especially where the shopping/restaurant section was concerned. I honestly didn't consider that "emboldening", as you put it, constituted shouting: just as a means of bringing out the paragraph subject and avoiding separate headings. I just feel that an article about a town etc has much more important things to talk about without main ( or even sub-)headings for "Shopping"; "Hospital"; "Restaurant" et al, unless there is something pretty special about each of them, and then I suppose there might be a case for a separate paragraph. After all, every town, even Royal Tunbridge Wells has them!. I always think about our readers: OK, so we mention there is shopping, but don't go into chapter and verse for our world-wide audience. And they are all amenities ... I guess it's my writing style and it just looked to me to be more efficiently put.

Having written that I thought I should see what the Manual of Style had to say and find that bolding is not normally used at all for this purpose but that "Italics are used sparingly" for the purpose of emphasis. So, since I want to bring out each of the amenities, I want the reader's eye to see each kind of amenity. Does that constitute a Wiki sin?

I should have been happier not to have discovered your somewhat terse comments by accident, incidentally!!! It might have saved me from doing it again and being completely unaware of the rules. Hope that doesn't sound too rude ... Peter Shearan (talk) 19:25, 28 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your explanation - noted for future use! Regards Peter Shearan (talk) 10:06, 29 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Mapledurham

Hi Chris - yes it should be furthest upstream - I have to keep correcting myself as well from saying things like "the bridge is above the lock" when I mean upstream of it. Will fix . Regards Motmit (talk) 17:26, 29 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

AfD nomination of Radio Station M1IOS - Islands of Scilly

An article that you have been involved in editing, Radio Station M1IOS - Islands of Scilly, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Radio Station M1IOS - Islands of Scilly. Thank you. Denelson 83 00:22, 4 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy Delete of 3 articles

I tagged Queen City Yacht Club (Toronto), Toronto Island Sailing Club, Island Yacht Club for speedy deletion as clubs whose articles did not establish their notability. They have been up for about a month, plenty of time to show they are notable. Obligatory notice for one of the three follows. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail) 05:36, 9 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Notability of Toronto Island Sailing Club

A tag has been placed on Toronto Island Sailing Club requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article appears to be about a real person, organization (band, club, company, etc.), or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not indicate the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable. If this is the first page that you have created, then you should read the guide to writing your first article.

If you think that you can assert the notability of the subject, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of the page (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the article's talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would confirm the subject's notability under Wikipedia guidelines.

For guidelines on specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for bands, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail) 05:36, 9 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comparative Distance Links

There is a question about the old edit [1] by you at Wikipedia:Help desk#Comparative Distance Links. The links look a little odd to me. Any comments? PrimeHunter (talk) 00:45, 10 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Linking England

Hi CJW - Thanks for the ferry updates. For the record, I find the Related Changes option very valuable, but this is rendered almost useless when the list is swamped with changes to very generic entries like England, United Kingdom or dates. As this is English wiki I question whether readers need to go link to England from every small English place, especially when there are linked intermediates like counties. That is why you will not find such Wikilinks on articles which I have created unless they indispensible and I may sometimes remove them. Regards Motmit (talk) 12:09, 10 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Smile!

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Notability of March Information Systems

A tag has been placed on March Information Systems requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article appears to be about a real person, organization (band, club, company, etc.), or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not indicate the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable. If this is the first page that you have created, then you should read the guide to writing your first article.

If you think that you can assert the notability of the subject, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of the page (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the article's talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would confirm the subject's notability under Wikipedia guidelines.

For guidelines on specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for bands, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Kubanczyk (talk) 21:41, 12 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

See AfD in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/March Information Systems. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 13:02, 13 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Studio Building (Berkeley, California)

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Thouet

Hi Chris, common Wikipedia practice for rivers in France, Germany and several other non-English speaking countries is to use the plain name (e.g. Thouet) if there's nothing else that carries that name. Otherwise, X River is used, like in the USA, Canada, Australia etc. See the Category:Rivers of France for more examples. You can find more about river naming at Wikipedia:WikiProject Rivers, and there must be discussions about that at the project talk page, but I couldn't find it. Must be in one of the archives. Markussep ^Talk 12:30, 2 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

London Paddington station

As you are a major contributor to London Paddington I wanted to draw your attention to the GA Sweeps review that has just been carried out this article, which can be found on the article's talk page. --Malleus Fatuorum (talk) 13:29, 28 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for all the work you did on this. I know it's inevitably irritating when someone parachutes in like I did, but it's done with the best of intentions. I looked in on the article earlier, more in hope than expectation, fully expecting to have to delist it, when, lo and behold, I saw that you'd fixed citation problem! Excellent work! --Malleus Fatuorum (talk) 12:33, 4 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

invite to Somerset wikiproject

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— Rod ^talk 20:21, 10 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Runnymede

Hi CJW - I really liked the pics you added to the Runnymede article, so I am disappointed that someone has removed them - (if you haven't noticed). I suggest opening it up on the talk page. Regards Motmit (talk) 17:33, 20 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]