User talk:Johnsoniensis/2015

Isabel Bolton

Thanks for fixing my error re. Bolton's first name in the 'biography' template I had added to the her page. Careless mistake on my part while copy-pasting the template from another page. - Xenxax (talk) 12:21, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

Thanks much!

I appreciate your help on the List of Cornish dialect words page.

Frankly, I hope that there comes a time in which Wikipedia is the first place people will go to when they wish to learn about dialectal terms.

Y'see, I'm more active on Wiktionary, where my efforts have helped to fight off the systematic bias present for North American dialects there (my dialect of North American English, a variety of New England English, is very conservative [even so far as to not having adopted Noah Webster's respellings] and maintains a strong connection to the historical dialects of the British Isles [particularly Sussex dialect, the West Country dialects and Hiberno English. Which one was more influential depends upon which dialect of New England English is being spoken, which depends upon which part of New England the speaker is from]).

I am glad to see another fellow who is trying to balance the dialectal scale of a Wikimedia project.

Wassail, my friend! Tharthandorf Aquanashi (talk) 15:31, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

Vistula delta Mennonites

Hello Johnsoniensis, there was a small problem in your assessment of this article - "B-class" for some projects can only be set, when all B-class criteria are checked and set as parameters in the project templates. I have left a note with more information on the article's talkpage, if you want to check this article again. I have not assessed the article myself, just handled the technical aspect. Best regards. GermanJoe (talk) 20:08, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

B-class assessment

Apologies for bothering you again :), but doing a few more assessments I noticed, that you rated some articles as B, that had significant gaps in their referencing (e.g. Council of Frankfurt and Thomaskantor). Of course those B-criteria are not set in stone, considering every article on its own merits, but whole paragraphs, key statements and quotes usually should have some kind of referencing on B-level to verify their information. If an article has some weaknesses in one or more areas, it's usually better to leave it as C (for the moment) and mention the problem in a short edit summary. Thank you for your efforts to tag and assess new articles. GermanJoe (talk) 23:08, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Cornwall Domesday Book tenants-in-chief

Hello, Johnsoniensis. I wanted to let you know that I’m proposing an article that you started, Cornwall Domesday Book tenants-in-chief, for deletion because I don't think it meets our criteria for inclusion. If you don't want the article deleted:

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You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. Stifle (talk) 12:05, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

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Places in Cornwall

Hi. I came across an edit you made to an article on a (maybe) place in Cornwall. If you have interest in improving the articles - and getting rid of the fakes, and non-notable places, I have a few suggestions: it would be great if somehow or another if there is a difference between a village and a hamlet, to make sure each article is properly in the right category; if not, perhaps a merger of the two categories into Category:Populated places in Cornwall, as is common elsewhere on Wikipedia. Also, it would be good to know in which civil parish these villages or hamlets are - most don't bother informing a reader. Also, any help finding references or coordinates would be appreciated. Happy editing. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 23:15, 17 February 2015 (UTC)

Cornwall:-Yeah, it twasn't a good idea to stub them all, I took for granted they were all settlements as such but a lot appear to be farms. I'm all for coverage of tiny hamlets/farms which only appear on OS maps like Goldsland as I think it makes us more valuable as a resource, but only of course if sources can be found. I think a lot of the farms should probably be redirected to nearby villages. I've created Category:Farms in Cornwall anyway, might have missed some from the geography cat, if you could catch those I'd be grateful. Always open to working with you on any expansion of any Cornwall article, sure Gilderien and Rosiestep would also be keen. Just let me know what you want to work on! Regards♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 10:44, 2 December 2012 (UTC)

A large part of the articles for smaller places in Cornwall were made automatically by User:Dr Blofeld. I am not sure what he used as a method for compiling that list. (There are still many hamlets which can be found on 1:60 000 OS maps which were not included then.) When I was User:Felix Folio Secundus I improved many of them. I would not be in favour of deleting very many of the more insignificant Cornwall places articles as time spent looking for evidence could be better used on other work. I think the distinction between villages and hamlets is very important because of Cornwall's unusual pattern of settlement; the smallest hamlet would have only two or three houses and the largest villages several thousand (e.g. St Agnes). I am slowly going through Category:Cornwall geography stubs looking for deficiencies in articles but it is a long list. Explore Britain is a good source for civil parishes; I prefer to find the places on printed maps if possible and it is not so easy to pick up the civil parishes that way. I do not know why Treburley now has refimprove tag since every fact there is verifiable by the OS map.--Johnsoniensis (talk) 11:16, 18 February 2015 (UTC)

• The map makes no distinction between village and hamlet. The claim that Treburley is the former rather than the latter cannot be ascertained from the map alone. I think that our notability guideline WP:GEOLAND keeps all hamlets and villages safe from deletion. Individual houses and farms, however, really need to have more than "it exists" or "it's on a map" as nearly every neighborhood, subdivision, housing estate, apartment block, McDonald's is on some map somewhere if you find the right scale and the tourist maps they hand out at resorts have every trinket shop on them, which does not mean they merit an article. We're a WP:GAZetteer, not a chamber of commerce directory or real estate guide. :-) Have you got a copy of "An Index to the Historical Place Names of Cornwall" a 2-volume book that seems to be rather comprehensive. Sold out on this side of the pond, it seems. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 17:52, 18 February 2015 (UTC)

"An Index to the Historical Place Names of Cornwall" sounds like a useful resource but I do not have a copy. The best way of getting all the hamlets and villages right would be if more people with local knowledge would edit Wikipedia but in practice they do not. In the last few years very little editing has been done on the smaller Cornish places. If Ordnance Survey get-a-map was consulted in every case it would be obvious which were hamlets and which villages but I won't be doing that. I do have this book Weatherhill, Craig (2009) A Concise Dictionary of Cornish Place-Names. Westport, Mayo: Evertype which includes etymological entries for Cornish towns and settlements (66 pages); it does not help with distinguishing villages and hamlets. The problem has been made worse by the automatic creation of "village" articles based on a list of Cornish place-names. I have altered village to something else when evidence has been found but time to do this is not unlimited.--Johnsoniensis (talk) 18:23, 18 February 2015 (UTC)

• Cornwall has only recently been an interest of mine - I hope to visit there this coming Summer. Reading the guidebooks, there's lots to see & do but they are well short of real geographic references. <sigh> I have an etymological dictionary but again it's limited as you indicate. Cheers. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 18:39, 18 February 2015 (UTC)

Thanks

Hi I just wanted to give you a thanks in person in addition to thanking you through the alerts system. Thankyou for all the work that you have put in to the Zenana missions, and CEZMS articles, I wouldn't have thought to have searched through wikisource for supporting materials myself, though I should have known better and to have done a search of Commons though. I've just noticed that in a previous incarnation thatnyounwas the user who originally merged Church of England Zenana Mission into the Zenana article, as an explanation for demerging, the material that had been added to that article subsequent to the merge was overwhelming the core subject of the article, and I felt a demerge was needed.-KTo288 (talk) 14:31, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

Ballymaloe House

You have added a rather vague request for more references in the article Ballymaloe House. What is it that you want references for? The Banner talk 21:44, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

Richard III of England

Just out of curiosity, in what way is this a "Death article"? Deb (talk) 11:41, 5 April 2015 (UTC)

Bet it's cos he's dead!_Fortuna ^{Imperatrix Mundi} 17:28, 5 April 2015 (UTC)

Not really.--Johnsoniensis (talk) 10:24, 7 April 2015 (UTC)

Assessment

Archives of Republika Srpska might be beyond Start now. Vladimir (talk) 16:35, 14 April 2015 (UTC)

St Clements Church Chorlton

Thank you for the clarifications. Sometimes I miss stuff. 212.121.210.45 (talk) 12:49, 27 April 2015 (UTC)

The University of Manchester Library

What you say isn't true, the universities merged together in 2004 so it means the history and collections of the libraries merged together. The first collection from these libraries as 1824 so that is the date we are going with. The current library isn't just based on John Owen's college library of 1851. Please leave my text as it is. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Joccay (talk • contribs) 14:48, 28 April 2015 (UTC)

Demosthenes the Laconian

Hi! Demosthenes of Laconia and Demosthenes the Laconian ist the same article. Please repair it, thank you.--Luppus (talk) 07:15, 3 May 2015 (UTC)

St. Clement's Church, Chorlton

Thank you for your clear answers. 212.121.210.45 (talk) 14:00, 13 May 2015 (UTC)

On a related topic: Do you think it will ever be possible to discover why both Sir William Cunliffe Brooks and Samuel Mendel worshipped at this church ? Both their houses were outside the 1845 Parochial boundary, and would have been much closer to the new St.Margaret's in Whalley Range, Manchester. 212.121.210.45 (talk) 11:32, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

The article on Brooks (Sir William Cunliffe Brooks, 1st Baronet) says he was resident for a time at Barlow Hall so old St Clement's would have been close. His loyalty to that church may have been connected to the fact that two of his daughters (born 1851 and 1852; both died aged one day) were buried in the churchyard. (A Short History of St. Clement's Church, Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester, p. 6.) Perhaps there were differences in the style of worship at the two churches which affected their decisions.--Johnsoniensis (talk) 15:52, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

Thank you. I assumed, wrongly, that he lived at Whalley House, his father's residence at Whalley Range, Manchester, a short walk from St.Margaret's. As for Mendel, its clear that he was able to play a squirarchical role at St. Clement's, which he presumably found appealling. 212.121.210.45 (talk) 13:07, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

The original editor of this article is engaging in an editing war. How can we stop her ? 212.121.210.45 (talk) 15:43, 21 August 2015 (UTC)

Philately project banner

Can you please stop using the old redirect banner {{WP Philately}} and use the updated {{WikiProject Philately}} instead? It reduces the amount of work for assessors and keeps things cleaner and consistant. Thanks ww2censor (talk) 10:20, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

Thanks

Just wanted to say thank you for rating all the islands articles I wrote last year. PaintedCarpet (talk) 21:34, 22 June 2015 (UTC)

Invitation

I note with thanks that you reviewed Talk:Doug_Beattie,_British_Army_Officer. I invite you to do so again since I have expanded the article today into what I believe now constitutes a "start class" page rather than the stub it was yesterday. SonofSetanta (talk) 12:27, 12 July 2015 (UTC)

A favour

Thank you for your intervention at [[1]]. Can you desist from putting a "bareurl's" tag on the Doug Beattie, British Army Officer page while it is under construction please? The page is 24 hours old and will be seeing quite a bit more work this week. when complete I will run the relevant tools to make sure there are no bare url's or link rot. SonofSetanta (talk) 17:01, 12 July 2015 (UTC)

Smooth Island (Tasmania)

Hi, thanks for your rating on Smooth Island (Tasmania).

Can I ask, what improvements would make the page eligible for an A-grade?

Thank you for your feedback,

Jkokavec (talk) 13:10, 15 July 2015 (UTC)

Thanks

Have you looked at Talk:Penwith? He's also claiming at my talk page he couldn't revert me as the page is locked, which it isn't. I hope he goes to RSN, but I expect a revert. Doug Weller (talk) 18:48, 21 July 2015 (UTC)

Thank You

... for all the work you do related to WikiProject and article assessment. Much appreciated! ---Another Believer _(Talk) 21:00, 21 July 2015 (UTC)

Graphics lab request

I've moved your request to the photography workshop, where hopefully you'll be more likely to find some help. NikNaks _{talk - gallery} 20:21, 5 August 2015 (UTC)

Thank you.--Johnsoniensis (talk) 20:24, 5 August 2015 (UTC)

St Clements Church Chorlton-cum-Hardy

Thanks. That clears it up nicely and comprehensively. 14:09, 21 August 2015 (UTC) 212.121.210.45 (talk) 14:10, 21 August 2015 (UTC)

Your alerts

The "Your alerts" box has gone red and shows "1"; however nothing happens when it is clicked on.--Johnsoniensis (talk) 19:21, 12 September 2015 (UTC)

Try clearing your cache, that should work. --I am Kethrus ^{Talk to me!} 19:38, 12 September 2015 (UTC)

Help me!

Please help me with "Your alerts"; it has gone red and shows "1" but clicking on it produces nothing. I tried clearing the browser cache as suggested by User:Kethrus yesterday but this had no effect.

Johnsoniensis (talk) 19:24, 13 September 2015 (UTC)

Have you tried using a different browser? What browser are you currently using? --I am Kethrus ^{Talk to me!} 19:39, 13 September 2015 (UTC)

I am using Internet Explorer 8 and do not not have any other browsers installed at present. I have tried GoogleChrome and Mozilla Firefox in the past but found the appearance of the text on them comparatively poor. I am reluctant to upgrade IE as this is a very old computer. I could install one of them just to see the alerts perhaps.--Johnsoniensis (talk) 19:49, 13 September 2015 (UTC)

Problem no longer occurs; alert & message alert now work properly.--Johnsoniensis (talk) 19:15, 21 October 2015 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Donative (canon law)

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"speedy delete" not available for WP links to Wiktionary.--Johnsoniensis (talk) 19:13, 21 October 2015 (UTC)

Expand German tag on Oti Mabuse article

Hi there, I created the Oti Mabuse article and used the German article de:Otlile Mabuse as the source. I don't think there is much more in the German article that can be used in the English article, so I'm suggesting the Expand German tag is removed. Wayne Jayes (talk) 13:22, 23 October 2015 (UTC)

Marie Serneholt

If you want to, please take a look at the article about Marie Serneholt, which is this weeks selected TAFI article. Regards,--BabbaQ (talk) 16:21, 13 November 2015 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Sale catalogue

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Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. This is a notice to inform you that a tag has been placed on Sale catalogue requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is an article with no content whatsoever, or whose contents consist only of external links, a "See also" section, book references, category tags, template tags, interwiki links, images, a rephrasing of the title, a question that should have been asked at the help or reference desks, or an attempt to contact the subject of the article. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. —Largo Plazo (talk) 18:57, 18 November 2015 (UTC)

Contact the deleting administrator and ask them to restore the page. If they don't respond or don't resolve the issue to your satisfaction then file a request at Wikipedia:Deletion review asking for the page to be restored. Soft redirects are a perfectly legitimate use of a page so you have a very good case. Hut 8.5 09:52, 19 November 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!

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Bare Urls

Hi. I was wondering if you were aware of the existence of the WP:REFLINKS tool. In pretty much one click, we can use this tool to automatically expand/improve "bare urls". The script checks for any bare urls in an article, reads the subject or title of the page to which the url is linked - and fills in some suggested cite tags/refs. Tagging an entire page has some value - but I wonder if you might find it more satisfying to use a tool like this to address any problems you come across... Guliolopez (talk) 13:42, 1 December 2015 (UTC)

Von Teese, Dita listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Von Teese, Dita. Since you had some involvement with the Von Teese, Dita redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Slashme (talk) 22:59, 5 December 2015 (UTC)