User talk:The Traditionalist/Archive 2015

Adam Nicolson

FWIW, he doesn't use his title as Lord Carnock and seems a bit abashed about the whole business. Choess (talk) 23:11, 19 January 2015 (UTC)

Gershon Ellenbogen

Your edits are disruptive to the ongoing deletion discussion. You should also not make an assumption about a discussion's outcome. Please stop. Graemp (talk) 17:28, 24 January 2015 (UTC)

Thomas Bedford Bolitho

Thanks for the picture of Thomas Bedford Bolitho. I don't suppose you could find one for Edward Hain or Robert Verdin? Emeraude (talk) 15:15, 3 February 2015 (UTC)

Seal of Maryland and its uses

Hi, I am new to the Wiki editing and I dont want to step on anyone's toes. But the graphic we use for the Maryland Seal is terrible. Is there any way we can use a better graphic for the seal of maryland? The colors are totally off and it's not even graphically accurate. Was wondering if you could use this one? You are far more experienced with all of this. BTW, as for copyrights, it is the same image source that is currently in use for the Maryland seal (reverse) (Calvert on the horse). Here's the image on this link ---> [1] And thank you for contributions to the pages. Chris Cpetty9979 (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 15:42, 24 March 2015 (UTC)

Response

If you cannot understand my message, or the point (of which I elucidated in the above message), there is no point. I misunderstood you as a seasoned editor. Thanks Cpetty9979 (talk) 03:03, 25 March 2015 (UTC)

Apology and thanks: Baron Sugar of Clapton

I think this is one that will run and run for Baron Sugar of Clapton: the comma, we agreed, was the sticking point. I don't know where you're from but Alan Sugar is a well-known figure in the UK for hosting The Apprentice as well as doing the Amstrad (Alan Michael Sugar Trading) line of 8-bit and 16-bit machines in the 80s and early nineties. (Actually I have a Sinclair 128 or whatever he called it when he bought that line of machines, and it still works rather well, and have some games for it, but it's in a box somewhere in the mulyhegy/workshop). I am sorry of that is patronising you, but I don't know where you're from or would know that.

All I do know is that you contribute an enormous amount of good work to Wikipedia, and I sincerely thank you for it. I tend to argue very vigorously, but I hope always politely: Neither of us swore, neither of us had a spat, we are arguing the case not a personal attack, May that long continue, I shall not always agree with you, but if I feel differently from you I will say so. I don't win very often, but when I do, it tends to be with a WP:SNOWBALL when I have hit the nail exactly on the thumb.

Unfortunately something said face to face with a smile is often taken the wrong way written. I know that, but I still do it – one of my many faults. I can only apologise for that since the way to achieve consensus is through discussion (or argument, i don't make much distinction between the two words) and that is exactly what we are doing. I was a bit annoyed that something listed yesterday was retargeted without discussion. We need consensus and the way to get that is through discussion/argument, and I am glad your intelligent contributions at RfD help that process.

So I can only say sorry again if I offended you. Please keep going. You are a credit to Wikipedia and your listings at RfD are very valuable, to make this encyclopaedia better. I will disagree with you again, I am sure, but never personal: it's only what makes WP better. Si Trew (talk) 06:33, 18 April 2015 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Barnstar of Diligence
	For getting all those redirects! Great job. JZCL 19:52, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

RfC: Guidance on commas after Jr. and Sr.

Following the closure of a recent RfC you participated in, I have started an RfC on the separate but related issue of commas after Jr. and Sr.. Please see Wikipedia:Village pump (policy) § RfC: Guidance on commas after Jr. and Sr. and feel free to comment there. Thanks! —sroc 💬 06:03, 14 May 2015 (UTC)

Blimey you are in a hurry

I am leaving some of your noms at WP:RFD alone not because I haven't read them but they go delete by default, and for me to bung in, even to agree with you, makes them contentious in the strict sense of the discussion. Some are so loopy, you are damned right to list them, but I am standing back on purpose. Si Trew (talk) 11:17, 22 June 2015 (UTC)

@SimonTrew: Agreed!--The Theosophist (talk) 04:21, 23 June 2015 (UTC)

My old user name

My old user name was BigDT. I changed it years ago because of real-world privacy concerns. Please remove it from your AN request - it has nothing to do with what you are trying to achieve. The page does not exist here. Rather, non-existent user pages now show the corresponding page at meta. If you delete your own user page, but have a user page at meta, then the meta page will show through. --B (talk) 00:36, 1 July 2015 (UTC)

@B: Done.--The Theosophist (talk) 00:39, 1 July 2015 (UTC)

Thanks, but can you just remove the sentence completely? There is no need for action on that page or for attention to be called to it. I have removed the protection so that it will not show up in the database report that you are running. --B (talk) 00:43, 1 July 2015 (UTC)

@B: (e.c.) Sure. I thought that the removal of the name would be sufficient and that the rest had to remain for archival purposes.--The Theosophist (talk) 00:46, 1 July 2015 (UTC)

Thanks. To answer your question about archiving, while it is generally preferred to archive rather than delete, there is no iron-clad rule and certainly if there is a good reason to remove something, then that's an exception to the general preference to archive rather than delete. And in any event, as a general rule, it is acceptable to edit or remove your own comments if nobody has replied to them (after someone has replied, you obviously don't want to do anything that might mislead about what it was they replied to). --B (talk) 00:46, 1 July 2015 (UTC)

Lord Mountevans

Hi The Traditionalist

Thanks for your assistance ref Maj-Gen Egerton & you may have spotted my flagging up another article requiring attention, namely that of Alderman The Lord Mountevans, now Jeffrey Evans, 4th Baron Mountevans? It would be good to know that having made best endeavours the article is now or will be correctly styled! Many thanks & awaiting your advice.

M Mabelina (talk) 01:08, 15 July 2015 (UTC)

• Many thanks & how does one get the language links to work in the new article?
  PS. I'm having probs with Wiki image licensing - do you know about such matters? Very many thanks again. M Mabelina (talk) 02:00, 15 July 2015 (UTC)

Lina Wertmuller

I actually wasn't paying attention to Wertmuller, it was Alice Ghostley who caught my eye as she was born in 1923, not 1926. It came out after she died. Wertmuller's year of birth has been given as 1926 for as long as I can remember but that doesn't mean anything, I have come to realize, considering other cases, although people usually make themselves younger not older.

If Wertmuller's year of birth remains debatable we can just add footnotes. Yours, Quis separabit? 16:36, 14 August 2015 (UTC)

Infobox names

Hi. I've reverted again your change to the info box of Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister. Could you please explain your thinking on this edit? Thanks. --Escape Orbit ^(Talk) 14:11, 20 September 2015 (UTC)

Could you show me where this standard practice is documented? It might make sense for a British peer when their notability is mostly about being a peer, but it makes little sense for people like Lister, whose notability has almost nothing to do with him being made a peer in later life. Thanks. --Escape Orbit ^(Talk) 19:11, 26 September 2015 (UTC)

Thatcher

Sir, I am not sure if this is in keeping with the etiquette, but having seen that you had joined battle with Zacwill16 over the Baroness/Lady question in the Baroness Thatcher’s infobox, I wanted to wish you a successful outcome in the contest. Contributing as I do very seldom, I thought the following observations would be better lodged in your hands. It seems to me that Zacwill16 fails to appreciate the different contexts in which “the Baroness” and “Lady” are used, and that edit summaries are unlikely to teach him. In those contexts where we call ordinary people “Mr Surname” (context 1) no doubt he is right in thinking that her Ladyship preferred the correct “Lady Thatcher” to the questionable “Baroness Thatcher”. Yet that user appears not to realise that, in those contexts where we call ordinary people “Firstname Surname” (context 2), it by no means follows that her Ladyship desired incorrectly to be called “the Lady Thatcher” where only “the Baroness Thatcher” is correct. To take his indiscriminate reasoning to its logical extent, if hypothetically the Countess Mountbatten of Burma got tired of uninformed people calling her “Countess Mountbatten” in context 1 and desired to be called “Lady Mountbatten”, Zacwill16 would insist on calling her in context 2, and therefore in her infobox, “the Lady Mountbatten of Burma”, which perhaps you agree would be in the worst possible taste. Allow me therefore to express my support, for what it is worth, for “The Right Honourable The Baroness Thatcher” in the infobox, wishing you well again in taking on that Lochness monster, Zacwill116, and better success at any rate than Mr Robin S Taylor has had, and believe me, sir, your very obliged humble servant 74.15.3.94 (talk) 01:43, 15 August 2015 (UTC).

Indeed I had very little success at fighting Zac's madness (which definitely does not appear to be limited to the Baroness Thatcher here). I must congratulate you on what so far resembles success. Robin — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.100.219.177 (talk) 18:19, 10 October 2015 (UTC)

MOS:IDENTITY is being revisited: How should Wikipedia refer to transgender individuals before and after their transition?

You are being contacted because you contributed to a recent discussion of MOS:IDENTITY that closed with the recommendation that Wikipedia's policy on transgender individuals be revisited.

Two threads have been opened at the Village Pump:Policy. The first addresses how the Manual of Style should instruct editors to refer to transgender people in articles about themselves (which name, which pronoun, etc.). The second addresses how to instruct editors to refer to transgender people when they are mentioned in passing in other articles. Your participation is welcome. Darkfrog24 (talk) 02:26, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

Irish general election, 1918

Please do not move articles without checking whether there was previous discussion of the title, as you did with Irish general election, 1918. Controversial moves can only be done after an RM. --Scolaire (talk) 09:43, 25 October 2015 (UTC)

Help required on wikicommons template please

Hi looking to get the image below on the same template as your

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Lord_Hinton_of_Bankside.jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sir_(Frederick_Herbert)_Stanley_Brown_(1910-1997),_Engineer.jpg

Any help appreciated

Ukengineer (talk) 13:27, 2 November 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!

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More lists of freemasons

Hi, thank you for your superb work on List of Presidents of the United States who were Freemasons. I'd be grateful again if you would consider similar work on the smaller categories with a similar decision at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2015_October_24#Category:Monarchs_who_were_Freemasons. – Fayenatic London 00:11, 15 December 2015 (UTC)

Con Keegan deletion

• 2015-12-21T12:21:17 Deryck Chan (talk | contribs | block) deleted page Con Keegan (Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2015 December 2#Con Keegan closed as delete) (view/restore)

Fixed. Thank you for notifying me via Twinkle. Occasionally a connection error occurs in one page of a batch deletion and makes me miss a page, my apologies. Deryck C. 12:25, 21 December 2015 (UTC)