User talk:Westminsterboy
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Raine Spencer[edit]
I don't think her latest husband was the title holder of "Comte de Chambrun". As you know, French nobility is quite different from the British Peerage. Any descendant of a French 'peer' can use the title, but is not the title holder, and thus are not considered a 'peer' by British standards. Raine's third husband, I believe, was not the actual title holder, and thus she did not marry a 'peer' by British standards, and therefore retains her courtesy title of Countess Spencer. British widowed peeresses retain their title unless they marry a peer. Courtesy title-holders are not considered peers. Eddo Widowed peeresses lose their title on marriage to a commoner as well as to a peer, so as the divorced wife of a commoner she would be Mrs Raine de Chambrun. As you say, french nobility is complex and I will do more reseaerch on Mr de Chambrun.--Westminsterboy 08:09, 8 November 2005 (UTC) Jean Pierre Francois Joseph Pineton, Marquis de Chambrun, had three sons, Charles the Comte de Chambrun (heir to the title marquis), Comte Jean Francois de Chambrun, who briefly married the widow of the 8th Earl Spencer and Comte Pierre Antoine de Chambrun. --Westminsterboy 10:14, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
Debrett on remarried widows[edit]
Widows
A widow who re-marries loses any title or precedence she gained by her previous marriage, and is not recognised as having claim to bear the title of her deceased husband (e.g. at a coronation or other State ceremonial the widow of a Peer would not be summoned as a Peeress if she had subsequently married a commoner and, if having married a Peer of a lesser degree than her former husband, would only be recognised by the rank acquired by her last marriage.). See:- http://www.debretts.co.uk/etiquette/correct_forms_of_address.html#W
--Westminsterboy 10:18, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
- During the French marriage, she was not Countess of Chambrun, she was Countess Jean-Francois de Chambrun, since her husband was a younger son, and, as per French usage, would be referred to as Mme de Chambrun, with the title used only by servants and so-called inferiors.
Cats[edit]
All categories should really belong to the larger network of categories to that the categories are navagable in and of themselves. Now that Special:Uncategorizedcategories is back down to a manageable size, so Categories in that report will tend to stick out. Fplay 14:24, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
Hi Westminsterboy. More 'new editors' on Iain Lee are continually inserting a claim that he is engaged. Slightly more believable than the claim that he is gay, but it's completely unsourced and the modus operandi of the editors inserting it is very similar to those that were inserting the gay claims. They claim that Iain Lee said in an email that he said he was engaged, but this is dubious and unprovable anyway, so it's not a reliable source.
Basically I'm asking you, to put it bluntly, to back me up on this. I can't keep this out by edit warring, and I can't start dispute resolution if it's only me taking the position that this information is dubious, unsourced and should stay out. If more than one editor tries to point out the meaning of 'reliable source' to the 'new editors', we can progress to RFC if they refuse to acknowledge it. Or, of course, you could tell me that you know the thing about him being engaged is actually true, and I'd take your word for it.
I've considered requesting CheckUser for the 'new accounts', but I don't think their edits are obvious enough vandalism to justify it for the moment.
I've posted similar messages to Arniep and JamieHughes (the real one). --Sam Blanning (formerly Malthusian) (talk) 23:07, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi Westminsterboy, I notice that you have been making a number of edits to the Nick Ferrari article. Please refrain from editing in the way that you have done: it is considered vandalism. I realise that the NPOV rule is more for interpretation and subsequent appropriate application than for adhering to blindly: however, what you have been doing is bang out of order and untrue to Nick's character, unlike an edit I made to Steve Allen's article - Steve is a self-confessed bitch - Nick is not a self-confessed bigot. Nick's article will be on my watchlist for some time: if I see that you've been up to your usual antics again, I shall report you to the notoriously block-happy ChrisO, as, unfortunately, I do not have the power to block you myself. Nonetheless, if you repent of your sins, you will be welcome to make constructive edits to Wikipedia. -- RichardHarrold 20:48, 4 July 2006 (UTC) User:RichardHarrold/Signature.
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Hi Westminsterboy, I see that you have refrained from vandalising the Nick Ferrari article and started making helpful edits instead. Please continue in this vein. Should you ever feel like vandalising an article, go instead to the ironic Wikipedia spin-off Uncyclopedia - they positively encourage that sort of thing. --RichardHarrold 22:16, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
Your edit to Raine, comtesse de Chambrun[edit]
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The 1909 edition of the Catholic Encyclopedia is open source.
The Oratory School logo[edit]
Um, i think the pic u uploaded, is not the oratory's logo. please remove it. Dingyv03 02:36, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
The arms were awarded to the school in 2001--Westminsterboy 11:27, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
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Unreferenced BLPs[edit]
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