User talk:Felix Folio Secundus/Greater Manchester

As of 13 September 2013 FFS has resigned from WikiProject Greater Manchester; thank you to User:Nev1 for the deletion from the list of Participants
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"Interested?"

Hello, Felix Folio Secundus/Greater Manchester! Thank you for your recent contributions to one of Wikipedia's Greater Manchester-related articles. Given the interest we're assuming you've expressed by your edits, have you considered joining WikiProject Greater Manchester? It's a user-group dedicated to improving the overall quality of all Greater Manchester-related content. There is a discussion page for sharing ideas as well as developing and getting tips on improving articles. The project has in-house specialists to support and facilitate your ideas. If you would like to join, simply add your name to the list of participants.

If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask at the project talk page. We hope to be working with you in the future!

^┌_Joshii^┐_└^chat_┘ 12:23, 26 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

"Welcome!"

Hello, Felix Folio Secundus/Greater Manchester, and welcome to Wikiproject Greater Manchester! Thank you for your generous offer to help contribute. I'm sure your input will be much appreciated. I hope you enjoy contributing here and being a Greater Manchester Project Wikipedian!

As a project we aim to have all our articles compliant with the various editing policies and guidelines. If you are contributing an article, it is good practice to ensure that it’s properly referenced with reliable sources, otherwise any contentious content may be removed by another editor. A good starting point for articles about settlements in Greater Manchester is the WP:UKCITIES guideline.

If you have any questions, feel free to discuss anything on the project talk page, or to leave a message on my own talk page. Please remember to sign all your comments, and be bold with your ideas. Again, welcome, and happy editing!

--Jza84 | Talk 21:38, 17 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

"Stretford"

Thanks for trying to improve the notable people section on the Stretford article, but could you please undo your changes. It's standard (as established by many GAs and FAs under the UK and Greater Manchester wikiprojects) to use prose instead of lists. Also there are a couple of unreferenced additions to the sections, it's important to include sources whenever making changes to an article to maintain it's quality. Thanks for your time and happy editing. Nev1 (talk) 19:40, 19 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Alexandra Park Aerodrome

Left opinion on talk page 2009-03-28

Harrison Ainsworth

I see that you have wandered over to the Ainsworth pages. Malleus Fatuorum‎ and I are planning to fix him. The poor fellow has gone without a page, or anything devoted to his 40+ novels. Thankfully, I will be putting out about 20 or so pages in the next month on the topic. However, it is always nice to have an interested individual as another set of eyes or even as a contributor. Seeing as how you are interested, I hope you will keep an eye out and possibly jump in to lend a hand. I think Septemberish would be the time when the work shall be pushed forth and started. Ottava Rima (talk) 04:54, 24 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

This may save you some work. Originally, I was going to build that list to have it on DYK but someone decided to move it to mainspace, which caused problems. Ottava Rima (talk) 21:12, 25 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the pointer: I have added all the Ainsworth information I have at the moment. I will leave him alone now and probably have a look occasionally to see when he gets thoroughly revised.--Felix Folio Secundus (talk) 07:37, 26 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

MANCH (Manchester Museum Herbarium)

The Index Herbariorum figure of 1,000,000 for the University of Manchester herbarium was last updated in 2005. It is therefore a more recent figure than the "several million" of the alternative source you've located (published 1985). --EncycloPetey (talk) 02:42, 5 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The larger number might reflect the total specimens of the museum, rather than the botanical holdings of the herbarium. It is also possible that the museum includes more than one herbarium (The Museum in Paris does), and it's even possible that a significant fraction of the collection was sent to another herbarium, such as happened for the LA County Museum. Further research is definitely needed. --EncycloPetey (talk) 03:07, 5 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Barnstar

		The Original Barnstar
		For your expansion of articles like Manchester Museum and John Rylands University Library, I award you this Barnstar. Please keep up the great work! Mike Peel (talk) 08:09, 14 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

IMDB

Hi, I noticed this edit at List of people from Salford. I thought I'd best let you know that the IMDB is not a reliable source. It's content is added, unchecked, by annoymous voluteers - a bit like Wikipedia, but without citing their sources. I found out the hard way when I used it to verify someone's place of birth and was enlightened about where the material comes from and it's dubious quality at a featured article review. I'll try and find a replacement source at the Salford list. I'm not sure if you've been using it on a large scale, but thought I'd best let you know asap so as not to disappoint. --Jza84 | Talk 15:17, 19 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Manchester and formatting references

Thanks for adding references to the Manchester article. In future, it would be helpful to include other information such as the publisher and the date the website was accessed on (if you're using a web page). It would also be useful if you could format the references you add in the same style as the article already has to ensure consistency within individual articles. Thanks, Nev1 (talk) 16:33, 15 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Of course in general well-formatted citations are much better but since the system changes last February I have lost the special citation facility from the editing space. (In fact I now have none of the top row of buttons in the English Wikipedia, I do not know exactly why but it could be to do with Preference settings.) The extra button on the right used to make adding complicated citations very easy; now it is very difficult to use citeweb, citebook, citenews, citejournal in exactly the right way and identifying the publisher of a website is not always straightforward. However in most cases I do try and format citations more fully but it does make for rather slower editing. The reason for adding citations there was to provide evidence that those four without articles of their own were real Manchester venues.--Felix Folio Secundus (talk) 19:04, 15 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Manchester High School for Girls

Hi, I reverted this edit because the claim implicit in the categorization is not in the article, nor did you supply a source. I noticed you've added that category to a few different articles - do you have a source for it? If so, I can help you add the source to the articles in question, thanks!--Jimbo Wales (talk) 14:07, 28 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Thank you for your message. I accept that it was a mistake to add those categories without reliable sources to support them. This page http://www.manchesterhigh.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=187&Itemid=170 may be an adequate source for Baroness Hamwee but the school website does not provide a convenient list of former pupils so I will take the categories off where they are unsourced.--Felix Folio Secundus (talk) 07:33, 30 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

List of mills

Thanks for the helpful edit on the Manchester talk page- the list of Mills in Manchester is in a category Category:Lists of textile mills in the United Kingdom would it be helpful to cut and paste your additions to each of these page- or are you suffering from too much time on your hands? :) --ClemRutter (talk) 21:19, 29 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The Book of Manchester and Salford

Hi, I noticed from the North Manchester General Hospital article that you seem to have had access to The Book of Manchester and Salford by E. M. Brockbank (Manchester:George Falkener, 1929). Do you have a physical copy or was it a library job? I could make good use of some info from it and while I can buy a used copy for around £15, I'd rather not spend yet more money on research for Wikipedia unless I have to! - Sitush (talk) 11:06, 20 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]