User talk:Wordhewer

Re: Richard Attenborough as the "older brother" of David Attenborough — barring a Wikipedia convention to the contrary, I would prefer "•elder• brother".

N.B. that I'm a Canadian journalist of Anglo-Celtic stock, with a strong language influence from British colonial roots on my mother's side, via British Guiana (now Guyana). 😊

Cheers! — Steve in Toronto

(I apologize that I don't remember how I'm supposed to sign this remark in order to identify myself as Wordhewer@Gmail.com. 😶)

A belated welcome!

Here's wishing you a belated welcome to Wikipedia, Wordhewer. I see that you've already been around a while and wanted to thank you for your contributions. Though you seem to have been successful in finding your way around, you may benefit from following some of the links below, which help editors get the most out of Wikipedia:

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Again, welcome! Bencherlite ^Talk 17:31, 6 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Talking about T/the Beatles etc

You've been here for nearly 5 years and nobody has said hello, I see. That's a shame. I've left you a box of links above which you may find useful if you've not already seen the information through your own research. As for whether Wikipedia should write "He was a member of the Beatles" or "He was a member of The Beatles", the consensus and guideline is recorded at WP:BANDNAME: to use "the" in lowercase mid-sentence. It's been the subject of much discussion over the years, as shown by (for instance) [Wikipedia_talk:Requests_for_mediation/The_Beatles#Closure]] in 2012, and although I don't often edit in this area I doubt there's any appetite to revisit the approach. If this is different to the approach to which you are accustomed elsewhere, well I'm afraid you'll just have to look upon it as one of Wikipedia's quirks - in a multi-national English-language project, it simply isn't possible to find a way of keeping everyone happy all the time! Best wishes, Bencherlite ^Talk 17:31, 6 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Belated Welcome Is . . . Welcome

Bencherlite:

Regrets that my edit wasn't SOP
Yet I risked it
But thanks for the welcome —
I enjoyed the biscuits.

Stephen F. White ['Word' / Steve] — Toronto — ❝Diagona//y parked in a para||el universe❞ (talk) 14:41, 9 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]