User talk:Steinsky/Archive2

Removal of Epigenome NoE tag fom Chromatin & Epigenetics

RESPONSE:

Hi Joe,

thanks for discussing the Epigenome NoE tag on my Wiki discussion page. The use of it in two articles (Chromatin and Epigenetics) has been only of piloting character so far.

I agree that the Image:Epigenome NoE tag1.gif might better be a template. But as an "academic" I have no clue of how to make a template out of our Epigenome NoE tag. Your step-by-step help would indeed be highly appreciated, and we should do it together with Susan Bale. 1. How do we create a sub-page e.g. User:Lankenau/Epigenome ? 2. the template/image should be placed on an entry's talk page - Could you explain details and help out on this?

3. The image was created by the webmaster of the Epigenome NoE and myself. Thus, no licensing problem. 4. To your information: We also received confirmation from the WikimediaFoundation granting the Epigenome NoE to use the Wikipedia globe logo.

Dear Dirk Lankenau, Thank you for your kind words about Wikipedia. We hope that you continue to find the site a useful resource. I doubly appreciate your interest as I graduated in the biotechnology field and worked for a while in flower plant improvement research (somaclonal variations). Your site appears most useful and I'll be glad you help improve Wikipedia in your field or specialization. The Foundation gives you the permission to use the Wikipedia-globe logo for tagging weblinks on the site http://www.epigenome-noe.net/ to specific articles in Wikipedia as requested in the mail below. Best regards Florence Devouard

best regards, Lankenau 20:06, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

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lots of edits, not an admin

Hi - I made a list of users who've been around long enough to have made lots of edits but aren't admins. If you're at all interested in becoming an admin, can you please add an '*' immediately before your name in this list? I've suggested folks nominating someone might want to puruse this list, although there is certainly no guarantee anyone will ever look at it. Thanks. -- Rick Block (talk) 14:26, Jun 25, 2005 (UTC)

Monobook.css

Hi. Shall I put that coding in for you now? smoddy 13:56, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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University Challenge

Sorry, I meant to get to you earlier about this, but you said that the programme got Wikipedia's launch year wrong. What year did they give? --Michael Snow 05:17, 27 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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About Lyme Bay Map

I responded @ Talk:Lyme Bay Thanks, WikiDon 28 June 2005 06:02 (UTC)

Moving E. O. Wilson

I moved the page by cut and paste becuase the destination article already existed. I did not realize that it was still possible to move the article with the rename function. Perhaps you could take care of this since you understand the intracacies of preserving history pages better than I do. The reason for the move is that the subject of the article is more commonly known as E. O. Wilson, and thus the move complies with Wikipedia:Naming conventions. This was up for discussion on the talk page with little comment. After a few weeks I felt like it was fair to take action based on the naming conventions without further discussion. Dystopos 29 June 2005 23:29 (UTC)

Category:UK Wikipedians

Hi, just to let you know that the list of UK participants at the UK notice board was getting rather long, so I have replaced it with the above category which I have added to your user page. -- Francs2000 | Talk 30 June 2005 20:57 (UTC)

Radio podcast history

See my notes on the podcasting and list of radio stations with podcasts discussion pages. Hope you can help! Thanks. BobStepno 5 July 2005 16:57 (UTC)

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Re: Thanks

No problem :-) Will => talk 21:20, 9 July 2005 (UTC)

UK COTW: Winter of Discontent

Just to let you know, an article you've voted for, has became this week's UKCOTW - Winter of Discontent. Cheers -- Joolz 19:07, 10 July 2005 (UTC)

Happy anniversary

May they put all your favourite shows on podcast Saint|swithin 22:02, July 14, 2005 (UTC)

The Surreal Barnstar

This barnstar is given to you for your good work. Leave me back a comment (or even a barnstar?) if you like. Also, if you don't bother to, move this barnstar to your user page! Deryck C. 16:52, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

Thank you sir! Two nicest comments I've had come in a row! Joe D (t) 16:54, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

Talk style

Responding to your comment at Talk:Podcasting, I fear I have been surpassed by events. The non-threading aspect of Wiki Talk meant that comments at the bottom was once the style - I was scolded for not using it, way back in 2003 - but it certainly no longer is. (annoyingly, IMHO, since it means you can't just scrolll to the bottom of the page if you see a new comment has been added, but have to hunt or go to the history). I've removed my comment and your response. - DavidWBrooks 17:56, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

Yet Another London Wikimeet

Heya,

We're organising another London meetup, for Sunday the 11th of September; specifics still to work out, but it will probably be fun as ever, and involve a few drinks and a nice chat in a pub. We'd love to see you there...

James F. (talk) 22:08, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

Sources for Norfolk settlements

Thanks for your comment regarding the population sources. The figures are as per the Demographic Information Note pdf which is referenced at the Costessey page. I've seen that there is more up-to-date information than this via the Terrington St. Clement page, so I'll make sure the figures are accordingly revised. Vinoir 22:41, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

Expansion template

I'm not sure why you removed the expansion template from Sexual reproduction. From Wikipedia:Requests for expansion, "Please... add {{expansion}} to the top of the article or its talk page." What's more, having the template on the article itself makes it more likely that people will expand it and also serves as a warning to readers, who likely wouldn't check the talk page, that the information is incomplete. 16:59, July 20, 2005 (UTC)

In spite of the template's wording, the policy on Wikipedia:Requests for expansion explicitly states that it can be on the article and no consensus has been reached at Wikipedia:Template locations. In the lack of a consensus, please leave pages as they are. You're imposing a non-existent policy. James 18:21, July 20, 2005 (UTC)

The expansion template's status as an editorial template is questionable. While editors find it useful, the template is definitely also useful for readers, as it informs them that the article they are reading is not considered complete. It is much the same as the stub template, which goes on the article. James 21:55, July 20, 2005 (UTC)

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Open Tech 2005

On Wikipedia:Meetup/London you said, "I'm in town on Saturday". Are you coming here for Open Tech 2005? Just wondering because I'll be there and I guess there might be some other wikipedians as well. Edward 21:51:15, 2005-07-20 (UTC)

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Rock cycle

Hey,

Just letting you know that the Rock cycle is now the Science Collaboration of the Week. Since you voted on it, feel free to contribute. --ZeWrestler ^Talk 13:21, 27 July 2005 (UTC)

Use of {{TOCright}}

You have ben writning on several palces about the "guidelines" for the use of this template as if they were both clear and absolute. I don't think that you have correctly characterized the situation regarding {{TOCright}}. It was brought up on WP:TFD. There was a consensus to keep it, after considerable discussion. Several people in that discussion said that this template (and the coresponding {{TOCleft}}) should not be used on all pages, but only where it improved the page. There were various suggestions for what kinds of pages would be so improved, and what kinds would not, but nothing that has achieved the level of consensus that deserves the name of "guideline". It is not at all the case that the template was kept only on "condition" that it be used only on very large articles. There is ongoing discussion at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style#Template:TOCright, where several users hope to formualte an MoS entry on the use of floating ToCs. But note that a) we haven't got as far as making an entry in the MOS yet -- this is still all on the talk page, and b) the MoS is explicitly not binding on editors anyway. Thus it is simply not correct to say that any article "did not fit the guidelines for its use" as there are no such guidelines, except for the overall guiidelines on writing a good and well-formattted article, and there are not IMO likely ever to be guidelines or policies on the use of {{TOCright}} so strict that violating them wopuld be dishonest, or should be automatically recverted, like vandalism. DES 02:18, 31 July 2005 (UTC)

If there is a dispute on whether {{TOCright}} is a good idea or a bad one on a particular page or pages, that dispute should be settled like any other editing dipute over formatting -- on the talk page of the article involved, with no particular answer automatically assumed to be correct. The ideas discussed at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style#Template:TOCright may be helpful, but should not be regarded as guidelines or policy, much less holy writ. I was an active participant in the debate over {{TOCright}} on TfD, and in the subsequent discussion on its use, and i created {{TOCleft}}. So I think my opnion is of some value on these issues. DES 02:18, 31 July 2005 (UTC)

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Somerset-geo-stub

Hi Joe - just thought you'd like to know that Somerset-geo-stub is up and running, if you're still making those stub articles. Looks like there are now close to 200 geography stubs about Somerset, so it was needed. Grutness...wha? 13:00, 5 August 2005 (UTC)

Actually, there are quite a few counties being broken out that way now, but Somerset was the one you'd expressed most interest in. It'll hopefully reduce the load on the UK- and England-geo-stubs. Grutness...wha? 01:23, 12 August 2005 (UTC)

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Birthday

User:Jenmoa/birthday --User:Jenmoa 01:44, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

When you get back...

When you get back from your wikibreak, if you're still interested in adminship, I'd be happy to nominate you. Let me know! Grutness...wha? 09:09, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

Hope you're having a wonderful break from Wikipedia. But come back soon - we need you!

If you can, take a look at the raging discussion about British county names and articles. How are we going to bring a little sanity back into this? Chris Jefferies 09:41, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

University of Cinicinnati

Why did you remove the Bearcats from the infobox? Rkevins82 - TALK 04:11, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

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Image:Lulworth Cove, Dorset-(Aerial).jpg

This photo is missing a source who reliably can verify your claim about copyright. Please add one as quickly as possible. Thuresson 07:07, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

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Adminship

Hi Steinsky. Last November, you were the person who first greeted me to wikipedia on my talk page following my first couple of edits. Now, 13k+ edits later, I am myself an administrator, and would like to return the favour by having the honour of nominating you for adminship... As a member of the hallowed 15k club, it is long overdue, and we really could use more admins that understand why rigor and scepticism are such important elements in a project of this nature. Believe me, the rollback button alone is worth the price of admission. Fawcett5 21:26, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

Glucose image

I think your image of glucose is in actual fact galactose. I might be wrong, but I have been spending some time editing lac operon and have been making some structures of glucose, lactose and galactose myself. According to my bacterial genetics book you have galactose (Fundamental Bacterial Genetics by Nancy Trun and Janine Trempy).
My structures.
File:Glucose(lac).png File:Galactose(lac).png
Your structure.

If you check out the galactose article, the structure there looks suspiciously like yours. The OH groups on the 1 and 4 carbons should not both be pointing in the same direction, one should be pointing up and the other down (if that makes sense). I'll change it if you agree. Cheers. Alun 14:49, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the prompt reply and the explanation. I'll leave it as it is then. Alun 04:48, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

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Dorset Census data

Hi there. I'm thinking of starting to use an infobox as I work through (some of)the Dorset-geo-stubs, which has a place for the 2001 Census data and link built into it. As you put so much work into adding this data to the present stubs, before I start going through and moving it into the infobox, I thought it would be civil to ask whether you had any thoughts about it. I've done one - Toller Porcorum - as a specimen, should you feel like taking a look. All best, Staffelde 23:30, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the rapid response and comment, which makes good sense. All best wishes, Staffelde 00:29, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

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"Trivia" in Farnham

Could you explain a bit more fully why you immediately reverted the link I added (fairly unobtrusively, I thought) from a little-known Farnham to the better-known town? I ended up at the small Farnham's page (can't remember if it was a link or a search or what) when I should have been at the large one - only because I used to live near the larger Farnham did I recognise that I was in the wrong place. I added the link as a signpost to anyone else in the same situation who's not in a position to spot the difference.

Removing it, particularly with "rv trivia" instead of a proper explanation, seems somewhat unjustified. Is there something I don't know? PeteVerdon 00:38, 24 November 2005 (UTC)

"If an article discussing "Farnham, X" linked to "Winchester" by mistake you'd correct the link, not add a link "Farnham, X" to the "Winchester" article"

True, but if a Google search for Farnham, X sent me to Winchester¹, I'd be glad of a link in the "See Also" section pointing me where I needed to go - I can't edit Google's index for them.

You seem to have strong views on this, though, which I'm not interested in arguing with. Leave it out if it makes you happy. PeteVerdon 01:20, 24 November 2005 (UTC)

1. Not that it's likely to, seeing as this is an analogy rather than a real situation, but let's say Farnham was mentioned a lot in the Winchester article for some reason.

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Sturminster Newton disambig

You have removed a disambig note I put on the SN page to distinguish SN the village from SN the hundred, with the remark "this not what disambig is for". In fact it is EXACTLY what disambig is for, telling apart two things which have the same same, but if it upsets you, I will instead set up a separate page, to which I trust you will not object. Best,.Staffelde 17:00, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

and ditto Corfe Castle, I see: do you object to disambiguation on principal?Staffelde 17:08, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the explanation, but while I see the principle I don't agree it applies here - Sturminster N the village and Sturminster N the hundred are/were two quite different things, if only because the latter was much larger than the former and had different admin functions - and how much more so when we get to Poor Law Union of the same name. But I don't want to spoil the appearance of these very attractive pages, so I will take take the disambigs elsewhere.Staffelde 17:44, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

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Image:West Bay, Dorset.jpg has been listed for deletion

An image or media file that you uploaded, Image:West Bay, Dorset.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please look there to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you.

No action was taken.

Merry Christmas

I would like to wish you and your family a Merry Christmas and all the best for the New Year. Guettarda 17:12, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

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Barnstar: thanks

Hi. Thanks for the barnstar, and apologies for my impoliteness in not replying earlier: I was off in NZ [1] and somewhat lost track of the real world... :-)

And since I'm here: Happy Christmas to you and yours, and best wiki-wishes for the New Year. William M. Connolley 09:20, 24 December 2005 (UTC).

Podcasting

I noticed that you are working on the Podcasting article. The external links are also in need of major cleaning, to rid of spam. Please help, if you'd like. I'm going to tag the article with {{Cleanup-spam}}, which will also add it to the WikiProject Spam watchlist. ---Aude 00:13, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

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Thanks...

... for expanding the Cabot Tower (Bristol) stub. TerraGreen 18:55, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

Image:050123 61.jpg

You tagged this for speedy deletion, but it's being used in a few places. If you've also uploaded to Wikimedia Commons, please consider using the {{NowCommons}} or {{NCT}} templates. Regards, howcheng {chat} 08:08, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

Reference attribution on Aylsham

Hi.

I noticed you edited Aylsham, to move the reference footnote to the census spreadsheet back a sentence. Not quite sure why you did this, but its apparant effect was to make it appear that the article was not referencing a source for its statement on local authority coverage. As the spreadsheet was actually the source for this coverage statement, as well as for the census figures, I have reverted your change so that the footnote covers the whole para.

Apologies if I've misunderstood what you were trying to do here. -- Chris j wood 11:50, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

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2004 US Census

You're right, of course, there was no 2004 census. And one of the references in the African-American article clearly refers to this non-existent event.

I missed that, when I read it, but I did see the first reference to 2004 Census figures. I let that slide because in fact, the Bureau does release interim figures regularly between decennial censi, and that first reference may well have been correct. I suspect that the original writer may have seen a reference to some 2004 figures and ignorantly assumed that a census had taken place, instead of the mere extrapolation that the Bureau does to help justify its perpetual existence.

I only bring this up in case, when I am not looking, someone reverts, and a spat begins. You should know what's what--that's all. (And of course I am being quite arrogant--you may well have known all this, but nonetheless very correctly reverted on the basis of the blanket reference to the actual 2004 census. If so, sorry.)

Unschool 06:42, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

Former employee, United States Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census

Conditional templates

Hi. I saw you added a conditional template thing to the English place thingy. I'm not entirely sure about this, having not been following it very closely, but I'm of the understanding that conditional templates are currently the subject of great argument (see that articles's talk page) and people are working to rip them out where they are already exist. So it would probably make more sense to wait for a consensus to be established, to see whether they'll be staying long term or not, than to expend effort needlessly making more work for future. Morwen - Talk 13:06, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

No worries. Personally, I think they are quite nifty, and hope that they can be made a built-in (and therefore apparently better for the server), as soon as possible - but thought I'd let you know about the quicksand. Morwen - Talk 13:15, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

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Shaftesbury High School

• Hey Steinsky, I noticed that you rv my entry for Shaftesbury High School. Sorry about that, I did not know that it has to be with the same name and not part of it. Now, I learned my lesson. Gadig 05:29, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

• Not at all (I understand the concept of sarcasm). I learn new things every day. :p Gadig 05:39, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

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External links improvement

Good catch! -- rv vandalism that slipped through a few edits back.

Where is the original before deletion, IOW, "WHO did it?"

I have given notice of my editing. You are welcome to participate there.

-- Fyslee 10:44, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

Re-direct

Steinsky - I don't understand your "over-disambiguation" of pages reasoning re: Bristol West and others. The UK Parliamentary constituency pages all have - or should have - the same style of name to ensure they all appear to belong to the same project. To have some articles with different names looks haphazard and lacking an overall style. doktorb | words 09:55, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

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you smell

i hate your work arsehole —Preceding unsigned comment added by Eel kavanagh (talk • contribs)

Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spoken Wikipedia/rss

Hi - I've got a question regarding the rss page. Thanks! -SCEhardT 04:23, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

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Your nomnation

.**My Cat inn @ (talk)** 02:35, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

so I was expecing this nomination! - you might want to revisit that sentence - it might not be English! -- Francs2000 18:32, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

Re: The Vale

It's not the same place as Castle Vale. It's in the Edgbaston area, located at 52.45N 01.92W. Birmingham University student halls of resisdence are there. Although Google Maps claims it's only a street, our list of UK locations has it down as a 'location' (the list isn't restricted to towns and villages, it has everything). I'm pretty sure this is the correct interpretation as the whole area, not just the street, is referred to as 'The Vale'... OK, it's not the pinnacle of notability, I'll grant you that. (Though it looks big from where I'm sitting). Hence why I haven't written an article on it yet. Remove it from the list if you like, it's not important -- Gurch 18:51, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

question about references

Can you give me a link to documentation for the references format you are using at Richard Dawkins? --JWSchmidt 23:02, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the link you left at my talk page. --JWSchmidt 23:21, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

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Regarding Template:Spoken Wikipedia

Hi Steinsky/Joe D. I reverted your edit to Template:Spoken Wikipedia because the heading text was colliding with the "Please read Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales's personal appeal" notice that only non-logged in users see. I'm not sure how you would edit the positioning so that it appears lower (and therefore below the notice) only for non-logged in users, but if you can figure it out, please go ahead and do it. I just thought that we should avoid having the header text there until we can figure out a solution. ~MDD4696 05:13, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

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Congratulations!

Congratulations! It's my pleasure to let you know that, consensus being reached, you are now an administrator. You should read the relevant policies and other pages linked to from the administrators' reading list before carrying out tasks like deletion, protection, banning users, and editing protected pages such as the Main Page. Most of what you do is easily reversible by other sysops, apart from page history merges and image deletion, so please be especially careful with those. You might find the new administrators' how-to guide helpful. Cheers! -- Francs2000 17:56, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

Congrats! Guettarda 21:14, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

Yes, congrats! Now we don't have to bug others to fix Monobook.css! :) ~MDD4696 21:55, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, y'all. Joe D (t) 00:08, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Chew Valley Lake etc

Hi Steinsky, Thanks for your comments on Chew Valley Lake. I've added some stuff about the dam construction etc - could you see if it is the sort of stuff you wanted? Also I see from your page you do maps & I'm trying to getone done for the lake - any help appreciated. BTW I work for UWE but in a different faculty. Rod 20:48, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Richard Dawkins

Re your recent changes to the Dawkins article: well done! I think you've improved it quite dramatically... Mikkerpikker ... 12:33, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

James Cameron

Thanks for the disambiguation page! I was too lazy. This is what it needed. Bruxism 00:29, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Commons:Dartmoor

Hello,

Don't you think it would be better to transform that page into a category (sub-category of Commons:Category:Devon), like Commons:Category:Plymouth? --Teofilo talk 02:27, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Maybe we can define a clearer rule. I initiated a discussion at Commons' village pump : Commons:Commons:Village_pump#page_or_category_? Teofilo talk 15:23, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

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User:Psychomelodic

Hes already broken 3RR --Spook ^{(my talk | my contribs)} 15:01, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

London, England

If overdisambiguation is NOT the "correct form" as you put it, then why are American city articles listed with their respective state? SushiGeek 08:59, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

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Chew Valley Lake FAC

Hi, I've resubmitted Chew Valley Lake as a featured article candidate, because it didn't receive enough support last time.

As you have edited this page in the past I wondered if you would be willing to visit and comment/support on the nomination? Rod 20:19, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

Dorchester

Hi I see you have sorted the Dorchester page out before, but it has been vandalised and I do not know how to revert a page so I would appreciate it if you could do so.

Many Thanks User:Dtfcdev(Dtfcdev 22:26, 7 March 2006 (UTC))

Bristol's parks

Excellent work, well done ... that's my fastest-expanding stub ever! SP-KP 01:23, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

Image Tagging Image:BBC Broadcasting House 400.jpg

This media may be deleted.

Thanks for uploading Image:BBC Broadcasting House 400.jpg. I notice the 'image' page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you have not created this media yourself then you need to argue that we have the right to use the media on Wikipedia (see copyright tagging below). If you have not created the media yourself then you should also specify where you found it, i.e., in most cases link to the website where you got it, and the terms of use for content from that page.

If the media also doesn't have a copyright tag then you must also add one. If you created/took the picture, audio, or video then you can use {{GFDL-self}} to release it under the GFDL. If you believe the media qualifies as fair use, please read fair use, and then use a tag such as {{Non-free fair use in|article name}} or one of the other tags listed at Wikipedia:Image copyright tags#Fair_use. See Wikipedia:Image copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

If you have uploaded other media, please check that you have specified their source and copyright tagged them, too. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that any unsourced and untagged images will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Doco 23:10, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

Reference mechanism in BBC Broadcasting House article

Hi Joe. I had added to the Broadcasting House article some new material from the BBC programme today on its history, etc. I used an accepted mechanism for footnotes, rf/ent, and you went in and changed it without discussion! The rf/ent mechanism is used all over for footnotes in Wikipedia! I was once corrected when I used the other style in an article I wrote. It was seemingly fine as it was. It worked and was easier to internally modify the article further. Can you please help explain why you modified the article? Also, they are Footnotes or Notes and not simply references. Thanks. --- (Bob) Wikiklrsc 00:04, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Cheers, Joe. Thanks for your kind reply and explanation of your change. I have written in a number of articles which put scholarly material in Footnotes, in the rf/ent template form, and Wikipedians still go and change the footnotes style in an article all the time to the rf/ent template or to another system they particularly like, even though I had already written the article. We have a tiny bit of difference, in that find it better sometimes to separate out a long footnote with a quotation and scholarly discussion from the article body, as it makes it, for me, harder to read the text to be edited in future. But that's me. I have to think about what you have done and are saying. Is the ref, /ref, references/ system now the only official way we are supposed to do footnotes and references? Thanks for any further ideas. And what does one do when someone changes an existing article using the new system, back to the template system, saying it's a better style? One doesn't want to get into an edit war in such cases. Thanks for any further ideas. --- (Bob) Wikiklrsc 00:36, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

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Free Will Recording

Hey Joe. I was thinking of tackling the recording of Free Will for Spoken Wikipedia. Have you already done that? Does it just need editing? Let me know! Chadley99 03:54, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

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Pillar box

I see you removed the UK stub from Pillar box. Tell me what criteria you use to decide when an article like this is no longer a stub. I am confused by stubs and, to me, that article is not anywhere near complete, but maybe I need to think about it a different way. Your comments and advise appreciated. ww2censor 03:54, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

Your reply sounds reasonable enough to me. ww2censor 04:03, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

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Hall & Woodhouse

Hi. I just noticed an odd revert of my last edit on Badger Brewery. I uploaded the company logo, corrected some errors, added a link and did some general tidying. Did you object to all of those things, or did you just mistake me for a vandal? No hard feelings, just curious. Cheers! SilkTork 23:20, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

I have changed the title now to Hall & Woodhouse. I had intended to do that at the time, but never completed it. It was when I went back to make the change that I noticed your revert. The info box is a matter of personal choice, and is a matter I will be bringing up with others on the beer project very soon - but I am still undecided as to the right use for the box. I see other info boxes that are useful, but I am yet to be convinced that our current use of the beer box is helpful or attractive. All too often I see brewery articles which consist of little more than lists of beers in a beer info box. I have been experimenting with different usage of the beer info box to see what elements work best. My current thinking is that it is useful as an address box placed centrally at the bottom of the page, and should perhaps be designed to be wider. It might also be good to include one of those things that link people to other breweries in the immediate area. Anyway.... Cheers! SilkTork 23:53, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

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Black Books - duty-to-do

Regarding your revision to Black Books, I think "duty-to-do" is correct and "dootity-doo" is incorrect. I'm posting here to avoid an edit war. My qualification on this topic is that I've seen the episode in question many times. —midg3t 10:15, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

Continued at Talk:Black Books.

Wikipedia survey

Hi. I'm doing a survey of Wikipedia editors as part of a class research project. It's quick, anonymous, and the data will be made available to the Wikipedia community later this month. Would you like to take part? More info here. Thanks! Nonplus 00:59, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

Glastonbury Festival

Hi, i notice you've worked on this article. It's up for featured article status. Please join in in helping if you can. Ta Logan1138 18:21, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

Cornish Disambiguation Page

Hi there, I recently edited a college into the Cornish disambiguation page and you edited the entry out stating that the disambiguation pages don't work like that, referencing my edit summary. Cornish College of the Arts, the school that I added to the page, is very typically referred to as Cornish, and as such it would be quite normal for someone searching for the college's entry would type just that, leading them to the disambiguation page where (currently) Cornish College of the Arts would not be listed, probably ending their search here on Wiki. This makes the article that concerns the college in the backends of Wiki and difficult to access. Also, I would like to cite (as an example) the Willamette disambiguation page, where Willamette University is quite plainly listed. I can't see any difference between the two cases, except for that the term Cornish is used as an adjective to refer to many different things, which I think is a moot point in this case because Cornish is used because it was the name of the founder of the college (a Nellie Cornish), as opposed to the school being located in Cornwall or the founder/faculty being Cornish. As it stands, I would like to request that Cornish College of the Arts remains in the Cornish disambiguation page so that it will be more accessible to those who may be looking for it. However, if you still feel after the explanation that it goes against the workings of the disambiguation pages, that's perfectly alright of course, but I would request that you either respond here or in my user talk page with the reasons so I have a better understanding of the matter. Teliis 06:50, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

Continued at Talk:Cornish.

England/Uk

A number of points concerning the definition which I will cover on Talk:St Just in Penwith where the other discussion has crystalised.My other comments I will post here. First I DID NOT delete the term England from the Penzance introduction. If you look at the history you will see that I actually put the term England into the definition for Penzance as part of a suggested compromise. Are you actually reading these, or the discussion that is going on at Talk:St Just in Penwith? I have only ever tried to make the articles more accurate, I do not have an axe to grind nor am I a member of any Cornish separatist movement. Even if I was, I wouldn't let it affect my work on Wikipedia, because, I leave my opinions at the door and act like a professional. If you look at my contributions, you will see that I myself spend time reverting vandalism from Cornish pressure groups myself (Team Kernow) when I think it biased. I resent the continued references that I might be acting without neutral point of view - I have never acting in a way that might suggest that. I am entitled to not agree with your interpretation of the definition, I have given my reasons for this, which I think are acceptable (I have not spouted on about Cornish independence). I am not anti England - I have even used the term in the factbox Admin section that I have added to many Penwith pages. With regards the Sennen/Lands End issue - I have apologised for changing this, but these towns are often described by their residents as furthest west in Britain, probably to make it more impressive as a tourist lure - I was not aware of the other village in Scotland when I changed it - Will you please stop lumping me in with these loonies, and respect that I might actually have something intelligent to say? Mammal4 07:16, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

St Just

Hi Steinsky thanks for clearing up the St Just article business etc - Still new to this so I thought I had done something stupid!! Many thanks again - Simon user:Reedgunner

Penzance

Steinsky If you think that there needs to more context in the map box, then maybe something that shows Cornwall would be more useful? Maybe something adapted from the Cornwall page itself, which has a map of Penwith in Cornwall, and of Cornwall in England? I appreciate that you are trying to ensure that no information is lost, but I am actually trying to improve the article and I don't really appreciate the sniping comment you leeft on the history page Mammal4 16:54, 30 April 2006 (UTC)(t)

Eden Project

Stop ranting on my talk page. Wikipedia is not the place for essays and editorials, and my talk page is especially not the place for essays and editorials. Joe D (t) 23:24, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Hampshire

Not wanting the fact about the county flower in the summary is one thing — fine, move it to where you think is more appropriate. Removing the fact altogether is rather different, though, and much less acceptable. Two or three editors have a rather unhealthy obsession with the county flower concept, trying to remove the article, trying to remove all mention of it from other articles, slapping disruptive {{fact}} templates on it, etc. Don't let them harry you into acting hastily. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 09:03, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

Replied at Talk:Hampshire.

I'd second this, Steinsky. I have a lot of respect for you & your editing, but here (and at Dorset) I think you've been unduly rash. As you say, there is a good case that this isn't an important enough fact for the intro - so the appropriate thing to do would be to move it somewhere else in the article. How about reinserting the mentions in a place you feel would be appropriate? All the best. SP-KP 17:18, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

I have mentioned the Dorset flower at Geology of Dorset#Heathland. I personally do not see it as being notable enough to go in the main Dorset article - googling '"Dorset Heath" "county flower"' finds four pages: Plantlife, Wikipedia, a message board post and a short news item on the Poole local government/services partnership site.

The appropriate thing to do would be to spend the time to make additions to articles properly, rather than semi-automatically dump facts without consideration to the existing structure of the articles. Joe D (t) 18:19, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

We'll have to agree to disagree on whether the county flower belongs in the main article; I'm happy to respect your decision. I think your second paragraph is a little unfair, however. A well-structured article is probably well structured because it has a number of good quality editors regularly checking it to ensure it stays that way. Adding county flower to the end of the lead was done deliberately so that someone like you would notice it and move it somewhere sensible. This was a conscious effort on my part to add this content to the encyclopaedia in a manner which made efficient use of my time. The above (and your comments at Talk:Hampshire) almost equate my edit with vandalism, which I don't think is a proportionate reaction. SP-KP 19:02, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

I have to agree (I've said more at Talk:Hampshire). --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 22:23, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

Sennen

Steinsky - I apologise if this isn't the right place to save comments, but I've only recently started contributing and am still finding my way around! Could you clarify for me why you think it is factually inaccurate to say Great Britain instead of England? I wasn't trying to make some PC point about Cornish nationalism or separateness. I was using Great Britain in a geographical sense (Great Britain being the name for the largest of the British Isles) not a political one (in which case I think United Kingdom is better?). I changed it to Britain not because England is wrong (although I think it should be 'in' England rather than 'on') but because it gives slightly more information. Do you think it would read better if it said"The village is the most westerly on Great Britain, being less......" or 'the island of Great Britain'? Would be great to hear what you think - Mammal4 (10Apr06)

Replied at Talk:Sennen.

Solar eclipse

Hi,

I thought you might want to take a look at my changes in Solar eclipse since you commented in the FA discussion.

Thanks, Nick Mks 14:24, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Bermuda

Hi Steinsky - I notice that you added a line about Lyme Regis being a twin town to St. George's Parish, Bermuda. You also added a weblink to the town's site online. But the parish and the town are different things! Is Lyme Regis the twin town of the parish, or of St. George's, Bermuda? As with the parishes of the Channel Islands, the parishes of Bermuda are analogous to counties and - as the map on the article shows - the town isn't actually part of the parish. Grutness...wha? 22:48, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

OK - I'll move the info to the town article - sorry for the confusion! Grutness...wha? 23:24, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Chew Valley Pages

I've put the article on the Chew Valley up for peer review along with some of the villages eg Chew Stoke and Chew Magna. As you've done some work on these & related eg Chew Valley Lake & Stanton Drew, I wondered if you'd be willing to take a look and make any comments. Thanks. Rod 08:22, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

Cornwall

Steinsky.... By replacing context from Cornish place articles, which makes the articles less concise and less useful to Wikipedia readers, you give the impression that your motive in editing is not to improve the encyclopedia. Why is it so necessary to emphasise Cornwall is in England all the time? Surely using "United Kingdom" is neutral enough to suit both POVs, and is still factual. Also the continual badging of Cornish articles with English flags is not helpful. Please stop! Pediac (t) 20:10, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

Ok guys - calm down! This England/United Kingdom issue keeps cropping up again and again see Talk:Carbis Bay. Neither England nor Uk is wrong. However, unlike other England geography articles, most writers for Cornwall entries use Uk. This is the consensus, and this opinion should be respected. I have tried to come up with some compromise on this, by using both England and Uk in the description (e.g St Just, Cornwall, England; a constituent of the United Kingdom. I think that this is the fullest answer, and covers both points of view, however, I have had no feedback on this. Unless some sort of agreement is reached, then this will continue to crop up again and again. I'm sure we could all spend our time better by improving the depth of content in these articles, rather than reverting back and forth over this small point! :) Mammal4 20:40, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

Parliamentary constituency titles

Hi Stiensky, I notice that you've moved a number of pages on UK Parliamentary constituencies to shorter title versions. I agree that tagging (UK Parliament consitutency) onto the end of each makes the titles quite long, but AFAIK it does appear to be an established naming convention. The problem is that there is now rather a lot of inconsistency - Rugby and Kenilworth or Portsmouth North etc might work fine, but you can't do the same for constituencies with the same name as the town they represent - Sutton Coldfield or Exeter for example. Any thoughts? DWaterson 00:52, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

Hmm, I've just checked the talk page at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_UK_Parliament_constituencies#Article_Moves_-_advice_sought, and I notice that this issue has already been discussed extensively. In that case, there's not much point my reopening another debate, so please ignore my comments above. DWaterson 01:27, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

Re:Meaning of Liff

Yup - I'd forgotten about that one (someone did mention it previously on one occasion, but it was long after I'd started using the word :) Grutness...wha? 01:48, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for making the spoken Wikipedia article

I listened to your article today and enjoyed it. It must have taken a lot of effort to make this and other recordings, and I appreciate the work you've put in. I'm quite interested in spoken articles and will try to take part in the area in future. For now though I would just like to say 'thanks' Richard001 10:30, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

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Flash audio

I just read your thoughts about Spoken Wikipedia and think you're definitely on the right track. The Flash audio is something I'm particularly keen on, because when I started recording a couple articles for the spoken project recently, probably my biggest concern was the OGG format and whether, as (THX? Dolby? one of them) says, "the audience is listening". Not sure how if at all the Flash format could be incorporated into WP in such a way as to allow people to upload files and somehow do a server-side conversion (only other option would be to encourage them to pirate Flash), but it's a great idea. Moulder 08:21, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

Why did you remove section?

You have removed economy section from Dorset. Why? Anwar 21:07, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

Blaskets photo

I posted a photo to Spanish Armada in Ireland#Landfall. You left a message on the photo file, looking for something better. The photo suits the article, as it shows a particular piece of coast where a naval manouevre was performed. Is the photo yours, and did you come up with something better? Thanks.--Shtove 22:45, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

BTW: I also left this message, not realising it was to the same user -

• I posted your Blaskets in the sunshine photo to Spanish Armada in Ireland#Landfall. Excuse me for not asking permission, but I got it through the German WP article on the Blaskets, and have only just traced it back to you. I take it the photo shows the Blasket sound, where a particular naval manouevre was performed in 1588. Is it OK to keep?--Shtove 22:52, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

That stop sign

Now, that is one tag I haven't seen in a while! :-) --HappyCamper 20:48, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

Yes, really! I haven't used those in a while - I've been doing a number of CAT:CSDs of late. --HappyCamper 20:53, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

My hats off to you! See you around the Wiki :-) --HappyCamper 20:55, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

New user apologies

Dear Steinsky, Many apologies. As a new user I didn't intend to spam. I will take care to give direct info addresses to related subjects in the future. I can see this will obviously be of greater value to another browser than having to find the info themselves.

Many apologies again.

Divercol.

Barnstar

Minor Barnstar

		The Minor Barnstar
		Awarded in recognition of your many minor edits on Cornwall geography pages Mammal4 21:28, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

Bristol/Greater Bristol

Hi there. As you're involved (understatement!) in Project Bristol I thought you might have a view on this. Suggestbot suggested I beef up Greater Bristol, but on looking at it I can't help wondering whether it shouldn't be merged with Bristol. Anyway, I've put the merge tags on both pages, and started a discussion on both talk pages. Your input, and that of other Bristol-interested editors, would be a great help. Thanks. Duncshine 11:24, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

local map for Bishopsworth

Hi, On the Wikiproject Bristol your name is volunteered to make local maps. Ive done an article for Bishopsworth but don't have the software/expertise to make the map - can you help?— Rod ^talk 08:36, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

Cornwall edits

Steinsky - please can you provide more descriptive edit summaries when you are reverting edits that you disagree with. As I'm sure you know this is generally considered to be good Wikipedia practice. I'm sure many regulars on this page will know why you've reverted it but newer editors will not. I realise it must be irritating to have to keep repeating yourself but it generally helps to reduce antagonism if you at least explain what you are doing. thanks Mammal4 09:32, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

Hi, I didn't realise that the England / Cornwall edits were actually part of the English nationalist wiki policy. Please forgive me. With back-up like that, you can say practically anything that offends people. We are used to it. I'm sure you'll understand that I didn't initially see the importance of the inclusion of 'England' in the location details of a certain place, given that the county and country were already mentioned. But then I forgot the obsession of putting 'England' and 'English' on any article with even a slight connection to it. I'm sure you and your colleagues will continue to stamp out any hint of a non-English identity with your little edits. Bretonbanquet 16:40, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

I can understand why it is helpful to INCLUDE England in Cornish places, but do not understand why you DELETE United Kingdom - especially as you don't seem to explain these edits. DuncanHill 00:01, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

system of hatching

My name is Laszlo. I have read a very interesting Polish article on Wikipedia about the system of hatching (szrafowanie). The Polish hatching (szrafowanie) for the tictures szary, naturalny, cielisty, and furs (futer) łasica, and soból is very interesting to me, because its quite different from the systems found in other countries. I am writing now a comprehensive article about tinctures in heraldry. Do you know something about this way of hatching? Is it a genuine Polish system or applied from other country? Please, let me know or write to checkerr@post.sk.

Request for arbitration

Hi Joe. I have requested help from both you and Dave Souza to arbitrate a dispute at The Root of All Evil? I would be most grateful if you would cast your eye over the "Tidy up" section on the talk page, and then let me know whether or not you are willing to help. With thanks. Laurence Boyce 21:14, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Happy Birthday!

Just a happy Birthday message to you, Steinsky/Archive2, from the Wikipedia Birthday Committee!!! Have a great day!

Many happy returns and enjoy the day! Thistheman 01:11, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Just a happy Birthday message to you, Steinsky/Archive2, from the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day!

Have a good one! -Ladybirdintheuk 06:37, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Map/plan for floating harbour

Do you have/could you do a map or plan of the floating harbour for the Bristol Harbour article showing locks & wharfs (& possibly attractions etc)? — Rod ^talk 16:34, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

Looks OK to me - I think it just needs a key to match 1-16. I'm away for 2 weeks from tomorrow so can you add it into the floating harbour page. — Rod ^talk 21:16, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

Image:BBC_Broadcasting_House_400.jpg

Hi Steinsky. I was wondering if you could perhaps define which PD tag should be used for the image listed above on Commons, in order to confirm the image's status. I have an account under the same name at Commons which I rarely use so it would be best if you could reply to my talk page on here. Thanks! Wikiwoohoo 14:50, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

Please unprotect Edinburgh

See Talk:Edinburgh#Three Revert Rule. I'd unprotect it myself, but I'd rather you did. Thanks/wangi 20:45, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

OpenStreetMap

Joe, if you come to the Rutland mapping party with your bike and camera, I'll lend you my spare GPS unit for the weekend. 80N 09:29, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

Hi

Shall I tell him? LOL -- thunderboltz^{a.k.a.Deepu Joseph |TALK}15:11, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

Bourne, Lincolnshire

Hello. You have put a Wikiproject UK Geography notice on the Bourne talk page. Can you tell me what 'Cite sources inline' means, particularly the 'inline' bit? (RJP 19:41, 28 August 2006 (UTC))

Thanks for your prompt and useful reply. (RJP 19:51, 28 August 2006 (UTC))

Arlesey

I see you did an overhaul on the Arlesey page. I realise that some of the data was a bit dubious, but I left it there as I am wary of removing other people's contributions and am still fairly new at editing pages. As an Arlesey resident I'd like to see the entry expanded. I welcome suggestions of what should be there. I see there's new stuff on the Talk page that I will take into consideration. I intend to add some history when I have time. --Steevc 11:08, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Enzyme inhibitor

Thanks for the suggestions, I got a bit mixed up with GA versus peer-review and put this page up before it had been reviewed. I will work on the new section you mentioned. Thanks again! TimVickers 22:33, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Home nations debate (Wikiproject UK Geography)

Could you tell me where you've moved the debate to please? I can see from the history that you have moved it, however it is not at all clear where it is now. Thank you. DuncanHill 10:23, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for getting back so quickly, I've found it now! I've made a slight edit to the page which makes the TOC clearer, so it should be easier for people to find the archived debate. DuncanHill 10:35, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Sevilla (disambiguation)

I fail to understand why have you removed the disambiguation links to Sevilla (disambiguation) from other geographic articles. Disambiguations are paths leading to different topic pages that share essentially the same term in their title. I would appreciate an explanation. Regards, E Asterion ^{u talking to me?} 22:06, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

By the way, you should only use revert in case of vandalism. A proper edit summary is always welcome. E Asterion ^{u talking to me?} 22:12, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply. Please note that the link you provided me with is for a proposed policy, which has not been accepted yet by the Wikipedia community. While I understand your reasons, there is no consensus and I cannot share your opinion. On the other hand, the example provided on the proposed policy page is not about geographical names but of different concepts. Indeed the current Wikipedia:Disambiguation does not discourage the use of disambiguation links for similarly named places, quite the opposite: Most of the examples given for {{Otheruses}} templates show the example For other places with the same name, see. Nonetheless, I will not revert your edits. Regards, E Asterion ^{u talking to me?} 22:43, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Unspecified source for Image:BBC Broadcasting House 400.jpg

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Severn Crossing

It is ignorant to revert people's edits without bothering to view them properly. Your edit summary here is factually incorrect - I did not replace any of the existing images, but added a new one which is taken from a different viewpoint, under different conditions and at vastly higher resolution (6880x1190 downsampled panorama vs. 750x536 with severe jpeg artifacting). I also made changes to the text (corrected typo, clarified a sentence) which you reverted along with the image. If you would like to take a second to view the full-size version of the image I uploaded, I think you'll find there is some difference between it and any of the existing images. --Yummifruitbat 00:27, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

I'm sorry that you thought I wasn't assuming your good faith. I hope you can appreciate that - from my point of view having just spent my entire evening making a 25-mile round trip to take this photo specifically for use on Wikipedia, and then processing it and uploading it to Commons with an informative caption under a best-practice license, and then adding it to what I believed were appropriate articles, and fixing errors in the text of one of them while I was at it - to have someone completely revert my changes 6 minutes later with a terse summary that it 'adds nothing to the article' when the only other picture of the subject is an artifact-ridden 0.5-megapixel shot from a different location, seems rather like poor faith on the part of the reverter. Especially so, when the reversion is tagged as a minor edit and no attempt is made to discuss the new image with its contributor or on the talk page of the article in question. In future, please WP:Assume good faith yourself and bear in mind the effort that goes into others' contributions before arbitrarily reverting them. --Yummifruitbat 02:18, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

Image:BBC Broadcasting House 400.jpg

The website you sourced the images from doesn't actually say the images are PD. It says they are from some books published in 1932 by the BBC and I quote "In these web pages you can find most of the photos from the books (hopefully out of copyright!).". I don't think they are - as far as I can tell copyright exists for life of the author + 70 years. Therefore I've listed it as a possibly unfree image, in order for someone with more experience to make a decision on it. Alexj2002 13:04, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

Map for K&A canal

I see you are taking a well earned wikibreak & wondered whether, on your return, you might be able to help with a map. It's not actually Bristol, but not far away. I've been doing some work on the Kennet and Avon Canal & have put it up as a FA candidate. One of the comments made was that it would be improved by a map. I've seen maps here, here and here but don't have the knowledge or skills to create one. — Rod ^talk 19:58, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

This is now being kindly done by user User:SFC9394 so please cancel the request. — Rod ^talk 16:54, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Bristol

Hello. Just wanted to let you know that your project is being listed on the WikiProject Directory, so you might be expecting a bit more activity soon. One suggestion. One of the criteria which is used to determine is a project is eligible for deletion is the lack of any listed members. Right now, your project has no member list and, thus, no members. I think you might want to change that situation. Good luck and I hope you had some fun and relaxation over your break. Badbilltucker 18:44, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

UK geography COTM

The WP:UK geo collaboration of the month for October 2006 is Rutland. 80N 21:01, 1 October 2006 (UTC) (P.S., if you don't want to continue getting COTM updates, just change your settings at WP:UK geo.)

Constituency page moves

Hi Joe, I have left reply on my talk and on the project page. --BrownHairedGirl ^{(talk) • (contribs)} 12:29, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

Steinsky BrownHairedGirl's moving of pages to XXX (UK Parliament constituency) does have the support of the vast majority of those of us who are working in this area. Simpy moving the pages to vague georgraphic names such as South Dorset is too non specific and we prefer to standardise on 'South Dorset (UK Parliament constituency) as a given example for clarity. Also in the likes of 'West Lancashire', the District council is already on that page as as are the vast majority where the councils and the constituencies share the same same, hence our use of 'West Lancashire (UK Parliament constituency)' for that page and also many others like it.

So please come into line with the rest of us on this subject as I am sure you will realise with further consideration, that you own formula is unworkable on the vast majority of constituencies. Galloglass 13:11, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

I think you'll find it is very much the case. Your own formula is just too vague I'm afraid Galloglass 13:23, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

Rather patronising of you to say I'm unfamiliar with the arguments steinsky, Having been a part of this debate for a long time now. Galloglass 13:28, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

wp: uk geography

You rated Banbury a 'start' article on the discussion page, now i know that it isn't fully complete but i think it is at least a B grade article because although it can be improved it has a lot of info, Thatperson 21:37, 29 November 2006 (UTC).

New Photo Matching Service

Hi there,

I'm contacting you because you listed yourself at Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Photographers. You might be interested in a new wikiproject page that lists photographers and articles that need photos by location. The page is located at Wikipedia:Photo Matching Service or WP:PMS GabrielF 00:26, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

RE: Shaftesbury page

You recently removed a link on the shaftesbury page under the reason "removed spam link" this is vandalism of the Shaftesbury page as the link was to http://shaftesburytown.co.uk the towns completely free website, nothing on that website charges and its the only place where the official where to stay and where to eat tourism guides are kept as well as the shaftesbury and district chamber of commerce business directory. While there have been recent spam by commercial websites relating to shaftesbury attacking its only non-profit one which has a great standing in the community and has served the town well is a great mistake.

Please do more research before damaging pages.

Also the gold hill article links were a bit much, the original 1 link to the gold hill section on shaftesburytown was enough however vandels and spamers removed that last week and replaced it with the 2 links, which for benefit of users were altered to point at the non-profit community and tourism website. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by --Shaftesbury 09:23, 7 January 2007 (UTC)81.129.208.199 (talk) 08:55, 7 January 2007 (UTC).

PS: It now seems you have tried to damage links to this website all over wikipeida, this is vandalism at its worse, many many of the articles that link to shaftesburytown were WRITTEN by shaftesburytown or its members and the links are not spam. Kindly refrain from this kind of action. A complaint has been made against you. --Shaftesbury 09:23, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Lyme Regis

Way back in May 2006 you added Coords for Lyme Regis church. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lyme_Regis&diff=51134854&oldid=51020194 When I follow the link through this location appears to be in the sea. Is there some sort of convertion corruption happening? If you have a source I might be able to unpick it, otherwise I'll find a new one. GameKeeper 17:32, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Hello

Regarding the article Ash (near Yeovil) - you have edited, have you got any green idea about the origin of the name Ash?

Eliko 00:19, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

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Image:Longshore drift.jpg listed for deletion

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Maps and infoboxes on pages

Steinsky, how do you create the maps and infoboxes like the one you put in Bishopston, Bristol? Fig 16:04, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

Cheers for that. To make the close-ups do you just edit the map image and re-paste a blown up portion, and then flood-fill it? Fig 21:00, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

Image:050123 61.jpg ? make PD

Hi, I've just done an article on St Pauls Church, Bristol & illustrated it with Image:050123 61.jpg which you took in 2005. I've added a fact from the article to Template talk:Did you know (22nd Feb) & would like to illustrate it with your pic but I don't think Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 1.0 License are allowed on the front page - would you be willing to make it PD or do you have another suitable image?— Rod ^talk 09:39, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Survey Invitation

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Re: St Paul's church

Never too late for a better photo :-) I just used your old one which was illustrating the St Pauls, Bristol article. If you are going down there (when the rain stops) could you also take some more general ones of Portland Square, Bristol. I presume you've seen that quite a lot of the Bristol articles & have been rated & categorised by the work needed, listing 78 in Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Bristol.— Rod ^talk 19:24, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Main page

Hi Steinsky - D'you see you have a picture on the main page today :-) Giano 10:51, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

Mendip Hills FAC

Thanks for your edits of Mendip Hills. I have now put it up as a Featured Article Candidate & comments, support or opposition is being recorded at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Mendip Hills.— Rod ^talk 10:50, 11 March 2007 (UTC)