User:Grunners/archive

Anything up until June 2010:

Europe
Hi, welcome to Wikipedia. I redirected Nations of Europe to Europe because everything that you wrote was already there. RickK 00:36, 17 May 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply. RickK 03:24, 17 May 2004 (UTC)

Canals
Nice to know someone else is interested. Have fun on Wikipedia.Geni 13:53, 23 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Reply
Not sure really, It's probably OK as it is. But do whatever you think is best G-Man 23:34, 3 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Your image
Thanks for uploading Image:SixthBuilding.jpg. I notice it currently doesn't have an image copyright tag. Could you add one to let us know its copyright status? (You can use if you release it under the GFDL, or  if you claim fair use, etc.) Thanks so much,    – Quadell (talk) (help)   01:55, Oct 5, 2004 (UTC)

Football (soccer) stubs
I created a new stub footy-stub for association football (soccer) related stubs, I figure there are a lot of fans out there who might be interested in working on football related articles but don't have the time or patience to wade through the list of regular stub or bio-stub article titles. I hope you will help me populate this new stub category when you find suitable articles. Bob Palin 02:04, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Bias
I'd like your opinion at Requests for arbitration. Thanks. Chameleon 12:10, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Economy of Europe
Sorry, but I can't support this for Collaboration of the Week right now. Part of the reason is that I'm less involved with CotW recently in general, working on other things. But the larger reason in this case, is that preparatory work backfires with CotW. The stated purpose of the project is to improve stubs or make articles on topics that don't have articles.

You might want to try one of the following: a Wikiproject, a CotW or Regional Notice Board for Europe, Requests for Expansion, or the new Forum for Encyclopedic Standards. Maurreen 01:17, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Immigration to the United Kingdom
You voted for Immigration to the United Kingdom, this week's UK Collaboration of the week. Please come and help it become a featured-standard article. -- Graham &#9786; | Talk 19:05, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Collaboration of the Week
Your vote for African art has helped bring about the article's selection as this week's Collaboration of the week. Please join in trying to make the article a feature.

Article Licensing
Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 1000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:
 * Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
 * Multi-Licensing Guide
 * Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the " " template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:


 * Option 1
 * I agree to multi-license all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

OR
 * Option 2
 * I agree to multi-license all my contributions to any U.S. state, county, or city article as described below:

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace " " with "  ". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

COTW
Congratulations, First Indochina War has been voted this week's Collaboration of the week. Please edit it to help raise it to featured article status.

West End Theatre
You voted for West End Theatre, this week's UK Collaboration of the week. Please come and help it become a featured-standard article. -- Graham &#9786; | Talk 23:25, 19 Dec 2004 (UTC)

People Call Kingsmeadow Kingsmeadow!!
If you've observed their chat boards as closely as I have,you should know that AFC Wimbledon fans,let along Kingstonian fans,refer to The Fans' Stadium - Kingsmeadow predominantly as Kingsmeadow,or KM for short.The adoption of "The Fans' Stadium" as a slogan for the fundraising drive and description of how they want it to serve all supporters has not changed common usage and never seems likely to do so.So I've expanded the article at the full title and reversed your "fix" of a link.--Louis E./le@put.com/12.144.5.2 22:08, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)


 * Saw your reply at my talk page.Most important perhaps is that "The Fans' Stadium",full-stop,is not and never has been the formal name of the ground.I thought the hyphen was official but the person who moved the article to The Fans' Stadium, Kingsmeadow says it's a comma.As for Valley Parade,I would oppose moving its article to the Bradford & Bingley naming rights name for the same reason the Isthmian League,Southern Football League,Northern Premier League,and other such English football entities are covered in Wikipedia by their underlying names by which their entire histories can be covered...they do not become brand-new entities when they sign up a new sponsor.To treat "sponsored names" with undue respect is in effect to give the sponsors free advertising in Wikipedia.--Louis E./le@put.com/12.144.5.2 04:20, 23 Dec 2004 (UTC)


 * New reply noted.I never follow Wikipedia policies I regard as bad,and one doesn't change such policies by working in accordance with them,only by agitating against them (in whatever talk channels) or by making them unworkable.I can name at least one stadium article that doesn't follow this policy and which you are apparently unaware of,but I'm not going to identify it to any apologist for the policy.--Louis E./le@put.com/12.144.5.2 18:10, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Sasso and stuff
Good job on the expansion. I sometimes wonder why people write these single sentence "articles". But good save. Anyway, if I came across two of your articles in a 30+ article random search then either you've written a hell of a lot or it was quite a coincidence. I guess since they were both football articles it was at least something of a coincidence. I've only come across one of my articles in a random search ever. And out of nearly half a million I thought that was unlikely too. Anyway, yeah, leaving a stub tag on after an article has undergone slow expansion isn't what annoys me. It's more people who can't tell the difference, or, worse, people who label every short article they see with a stub tag. -R. fiend 19:36, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Collaboration of the Week
League of Nations is the new Collaboration of the Week. Please join in helping make it a feature article.

Collective security and NPOV
I've added a comment to Talk:Collective security. AndyL 00:05, 2 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Unverified image
Thanks for uploading the image I notice it currently doesn't have an image copyright tag. Could you add one to let us know its copyright status? (You can use if you release it under the GFDL, or  if you claim fair use, etc.) If you don't know what any of this means, just let me know where you got the image and I'll tag it for you. Thanks, Kbh3rd 02:42, 13 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Image:Old College.gif

re: redirect
No worries. When doing tedious stuff, stuff sometimes slips through the cracks. Thanks! Inter 11:35, 20 Jan 2005 (UTC)

In the news
When you edited the in the news template, it got very screwed up. I'm not quite sure what's wrong, so you may want to take a look at it again. Cheers. CryptoDerk 01:10, Jan 23, 2005 (UTC)
 * I don't have any problem with it being listed there, it's just that it screwed up the box. The Belize image is on top of some text and the text for the Belize part is written straight down in a line.  I've confirmed that other people are seeing this as well.  I am going to try to fix it, but you may want to give it a go as well.  CryptoDerk 01:15, Jan 23, 2005 (UTC)
 * OK, whew, figured it out I believe. The div stuff was opened/closed at the wrong places, and the image wasn't right aligned.  Should look OK now!  Thanks for the addition, too. CryptoDerk 01:22, Jan 23, 2005 (UTC)
 * Although I fixed the box so that it looks right, I just noticed that someone removed the link because the description of it wasn't formatted properly. Amongst other things it wasn't bolded.  There are additional criteria here Template_talk:In_the_news. CryptoDerk 02:26, Jan 23, 2005 (UTC)

St. George's Day
You voted for St. George's Day, this week's UK Collaboration of the week. Please come and help it become a featured-standard article. -- Francs2000 | Talk 19:11, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Edit summary
That was a major slip-up on my part - Sorry about that. It should have said "move meta tag to talk page ; it has no meaning on third party mirrors and is meta info ; that is what talk pages are for; replaced with HTML comment". --mav 03:11, 12 Feb 2005 (UTC)

You've put up a copyright image
I notice your image of the New Forest is actually from BBC Online. Best to delete it I'd suggest, unless you really do have their permission. There is already a graphic which is essentially identical on the New Forest page, so it won't really compromise the article. Nice graphic, though! Naturenet 19:14, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Gentlemen's Clubs
Hi: I am not sure why you moved Gentlemen's club to Gentlemans' club so I thought that I should explain why I chose that title for the article. The London clubs to which I have belonged have all called their former incarnations "Gentlemen's clubs". Similarly, the equivalent private clubs for women called themselves "Ladies' clubs" (cf the New Cavendish Club]. A quick check of the various forms on Google shows a fairly even spread between the two phrases but I have not analysed the associations of this name: for example, I know that various strip joints call themselves "Gentleman's clubs". Anthony Lejeune, who wrote a definitive book on the subject, called them gentlemen's clubs.

Either way, "Gentlemans' club" is grammatically incorrect. Please may I revert to the "Gentlemen's clubs" title and restore the various links to that name?

What is your interest in the subject? I am planning to contribute articles in this area so we may be able to collaborate.--Theo (Talk) 19:39, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your message. I spent the entire afternoon fixing those links so I now feel a warm glow of achievement. Just two more names for WCOTW! --Theo (Talk) 18:43, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)

List of places in Cambridgeshire
did you add America, Cambridgeshire to the list of places? thats not a real place is it? i cant find any record of it.

rehash of UK CotW
Hiya, I've made a few modifications to the UK Wikipedians' Collaboration of the Week, and I thought you'd be interested in the new page and helping out again with it, as you have contributed in the past! :) Talrias | talk 21:09, Mar 14, 2005 (UTC)

UK geography
Hi, thanks for the input. I've created a new WikiProject for it at WikiProject UK geography. Joe D (t) 11:19, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

Image:E2_route_map.png

 * As you created this, you need to mention that on the image page and add a copyright tag. After you have done that, you can remove the other tags on the image. Burgundavia (&#9992; take a flight?) 14:16, May 30, 2005 (UTC)

Image:E8 route map.png
Burgundavia (&#9992; take a flight?) 08:46, May 31, 2005 (UTC)

Images on PUI
Please don't remove images from PUI until such time as they can be checked as good by someone else. You can remove the tags from the image itself, just not from the page. This allows those who move and check the images to make certain that everything is good.

The reason I say this, is that your tagging of Image:E8 route map.png and Image:E2 route map.png is incomplete and inaccurate. To tag them as CopyrightedFreeUse-User, add. Thanks Burgundavia (&#9992; take a flight?) 10:03, May 31, 2005 (UTC)

Image copyright
The following images uploaded by you do not have tags or sources. Could you please remedy that? Cheers. Burgundavia (&#9992; take a flight?) 10:09, May 31, 2005 (UTC)
 * Image:Bulgaria admin.png
 * Image:DinenageFred.jpg
 * Image:Jimmydickinson.jpg
 * Image:Alanknight.jpg
 * Image:Harry redknapp.jpg
 * Image:Sirgordon.jpg
 * Image:Sheepst.jpg
 * Image:Old College.gif

my 'vandalism'
hey mate! I meant no vandalism or something. just misunderstanding... I think just googled the mate.. yeah he is at Boro now.. my fault there is an error in the text then. look closely

cockney 14:12, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC) ps don't throw away words like "vandalism" everytime you like

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 19:33 (UTC)

UK geography COTM
Hi all, July's collaboration of the month is Northumberland, which needs quite a lot more work than last month's. I've listed some basic places to start on Talk:Northumberland, and will get to work looking up the statistics this week. (If you're not interested in further COTM updates, amend your listing in the table on WP:UK geo.) Joe D (t) 30 June 2005 22:59 (UTC)

Hi, the new COTM is Norfolk! Joe D (t) 23:09, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

The WP:UK geo collaboration of the month for October 2006 is Rutland. 80N 20:58, 1 October 2006 (UTC) (P.S., if you don't want to continue getting COTM updates, just change your settings at WP:UK geo.)

contact
Hi, Grunners I've just found the article on Halaib Triangle, to which you contributed. I was in Shelatin last December as a traveller. Can I talk to you somehow? My address is titus_atomicus at spymac.com. I use ichat/AIM/ICQ/Skype, too. Regards TA

Portsmouth FC
I have in turn responded to both of your comments on Portsmouth FC's talk page. Aecis 18:15, 11 July 2005 (UTC)

Panathinaikos
At present, the article is a bit of a mess, because it's formatted in a strange way. I'm going to work on it as soon as the mood takes me there, but I think we need separate boxes for each of the clubs. That's what I'm going to work towards, anyway. Bobo192 | Edits

Economy of India
Hi, you have done some great work on creating articles related to national economies. We have been working on the Economy of India and it would be great if you help us in making it a featured article. It is currently on Peer review, so probably you can comment on it there. BTW, I have based the article's structure mainly on the Economy of the United States & Economy of Africa articles. pamri 09:23, August 9, 2005 (UTC)

Flag of Norway
Hello! Thanks for your note. Unfortunately, you are mistaken: the Norwegian flag(s) I uploaded have blue in them, not black; specifically: R,G,B=0,0,101. Different monitors may render colours differently (e.g., too light/too dark) and presents a particular challenge when exhibiting materials on-screen that are normally printed or stitched (as with flags, for example); you may want to check your monitor settings. Alternatively, I could lighten the flag blue and make it 'true' blue (0,0,255). Thoughts? Thanks! E Pluribus Anthony 06:44, 16 September 2005 (UTC)


 * Hello again! Thanks for your note; no problem at all!  I've been 'accused' of worse, and I've also been known to dot my Ts and cross my eyes now and then. ;)  Take care!  E Pluribus Anthony 17:16, 16 September 2005 (UTC)

User Categorisation -- in case you're interested
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Guantanamo Bay detainees
Are you still interested in the nationalities of the Guantanamo Bay detainees. I started an article List of Guantanamo Bay detainees 16 days ago.

A malicious vandal put it into the copyright violation queue. Grrr. But the claim is so bogus I trust the administrators will dismiss it.

The article still points to my sources. And you can use the history mechanism to see our wikipedia version. There are approximately 60 detainees or former detainees who have articles devoted to them. -- Geo Swan 21:03, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

Family Tree Drawing Programmes
I have one too, I just don't know how to use it. I tried for example to re-draw the family tree that can be found on Adolf Hitler's article, but got very frustrated and came close to throwing the computer out of the window. -- Francs2000 00:31, 25 November 2005 (UTC)

Beech
Hi Grunners - hope you won't mind I removed the 'beechnut' redlink you'd added - I think they're better dealt with as a paragraph on the Beech page, rather than a page of their own (the Beech page isn't overly long, and compared to e.g. acorns, beech nuts don't have very much importance (or a real name of their own!). But please do add any more info about the nuts that you have! - MPF 14:48, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks! - excellent idea on the redirect, should've thought of that myself! - MPF 21:37, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

Sources for Barry Geraghty
Hello, good work on Barry Geraghty, and thanks for the contribution. However, you did not any references to the article. Keeping Wikipedia accurate and verifiable is very important, and as you might be aware there is currently a push to encourage editors to cite the sources they used when adding content. From what websites, books, or other places did you learn the information that you added to Barry Geraghty? Would it be possible for you to mention them in the article? You can simply add links, or see WP:CITET if you wish to review some of the different citation methods. Thanks! Lupin|talk|popups 22:55, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

UK geography COTM
OK, so I finally found time for some Wikipeding (after about five months of Northumberland!) and have picked Nottinghamshire for the next COTM. I've added a to do list to the talk page and have already started work adding some of the basic data. Joe D (t) 04:30, 11 December 2005 (UTC) P.S. To stop receiving updates, unsubscribe at WP:UK geo.

Hi, this month's COTM is Dartmoor. I have added some suggestions to Talk:Dartmoor to get things started. Joe D (t) 01:06, 7 February 2006 (UTC) (P.S., if you don't want to continue getting COTM updates, just change your settings at WP:UK geo.)

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Freddy Adu
Thanks. That section doesn't belong, and I was worried I was going to go past 3 reverts before I convinced the guy to stop. --AW 19:46, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

central bank
Hi,

I realize you have made changes to "see also" to all the central banks in Europe. I found that you added links to currencies, but with the unit capitalized. Currency units should be lower case because they are not proper name, just like you don't capitzalize "meter". Also, you added euro to some of the central banks in the eurozone, eurozone to some, and none to the others. Please make changes that are consistent. --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 00:29, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

Eagley F.C.
Thanks for your comments on my West Lancs League club articles. Actually there is a method in my madness. This season I have set myself a target to watch a home league game at each of the 16 Premier Division clubs. So far I've been to 10, and subsequently I have written up an article for each club. Hopefully I will get to Eagley fairly soon, and when I do I'll expand your article. Thanks also for the information about the List of Football Clubs in England - I just wonder if West Lancs League clubs are too minor to be included. Higherwiki (talk) 21:40, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Marshall Milton Keynes AC
The current legal name of the club is Marshall Milton Keynes AC. They are getting a fat sponsorship for the privilege. I've reverted your change to Sport in Milton Keynes. --Concrete Cowboy 13:10, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Nonsense of British Football League
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James Milner Career section
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AfD nomination of Coningsby Club
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Jonathan Yeo
FYI. See also Talk:Jonathan_Yeo and Talk:Johnny_Yeo. Best regards User:Dorftrottel 02:01, January 14, 2008

Question
I'm sorry but are you going to write an article about Russians in Georgia? Alæxis¿question? 07:51, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Oh, ok. It'll be great if you write such an article. I was just somewhat surprised after you had inserted red links to a couple of articles in my watchlist. Alæxis¿question? 17:32, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Hi! You know, I don't find this topic sufficiently interesting (for me, that is). However, if you are still interested I could write you an outline of this article and find some sources. Alæxis¿question? 08:03, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Extramural
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Coasham railway station
Finally! I have been trawling through the history trying to find the person who requested this and you did over 2½ years ago. I just thought it was a typo of Cosham and a quick search seems to confirm that. Therefore i am going redirect this to Cosham railway station. I just thought that you should know. Simply south (talk) 19:27, 27 January 2008 (UTC)


 * It seems to be a common typo actually so it makes sense to leave it as a redirect anyway. For creating the railway stations, i think all you need to do in the least is include something about the location, what serves it and possibly the layout. You can watch some grow after a while, as long a the links from the other relevant pages are in place and that. Simply south (talk) 22:09, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

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Russians in Georgia
First, here's some statistics (all the Soviet censuses) for Georgia proper, South Ossetia and Abkhazia. It's in Russian but you shouldn't have any difficulties with these tables (Russians are "русские" in Russian, just find appropriate columns).

Georgia
Ethnic Russians appeared in Georgia in significant numbers after Georgia became part of the Russian Empire in 1803 (Kartli and Kakheti) - 1878 (Ajara). There were 79082 and 19273 people who indicated Russian as their mother language in Tiflis Governorate and Kutais Governorate  respectively. Dukhobors have to be mentioned as well.

As you can see from the census data the Russian population had risen from 83 to the maximum of 319 thousand between 1926 and 1959 and then began to decline slowly to 266 thousand in 1989. Migration and lower birth rates were the main reasons of this decline.

Obviously, many Russians left Georgia during the 1990s due to economic hardships (mainly, imho) and other reasons.

Abkhazia
A great part of its indigenous population emigrated to Turkey after (see Muhajir (Caucasus)) so a lot of people of many ethnicities were settled there. Russians were among them(source - ТРАПШ Н.А. РУССКАЯ ОБЩИНА АБХАЗИИ: ИСТОРИЯ И СОВРЕМЕННОСТЬ. СОБРАНИЕ ТРУДОВ "ЮЖНОРОССИЙСКОЕ ОБОЗРЕНИЕ", # 10, 2002) and made up 2% of the 100,000 population of Abkhazia by 1897. Here Russian population also rose between 1926 and 1970 and declined thereafter. Post-independence decline was particularly steep due to the War in Abkhazia.

I hope you'll find this information useful. Feel free to ask questions. Alæxis¿question? 21:39, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

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Boat club article
Hello Grunners, I don't think we've met before, but given your edits I wondered whether you might be interested in casting your critical eye over Jesus College Boat Club (Oxford) with a view to advising what the article might still need to get GA status. No particular rush... Regards, BencherliteTalk 23:51, 22 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the look; I'll see what's mentioned in my last few college mags, and add a few lines about how it's all gone to the dogs since my day recent news... Cheers, BencherliteTalk 23:05, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

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Yo,
So what parts are you editing, we seem to be over-lapping on stuff. Govvy (talk) 23:18, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

k, I might goto bed in a min anyway, hopefully the articles wont get vandalized so much now. Govvy (talk) 23:23, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

btw, it's now wiki policy to not link to dates in the context of articles. Govvy (talk) 23:27, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

Well dam, the minority is rash! I would like Harry as manager know, :) Sounds like a good choice. Govvy (talk) 23:38, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

Association Football Variants News Sources
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 * Oh well. Just thought I'd ask. There really is low coverage of some sports! DeMoN  2008  11:59, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

Football Variants
Hi. I'm TurboGUY and I am also part of the taskforce on football variants. You recently added your user name to the participants section of the taskforce page which is great. However could you also add it to this page too, which is the main page for participants and were you can also display the club you support. WikiProject Football/Taskforce on Association Football variants/Participants Thanks TurboGUY (talk) 11:27, 23 December 2008 (UTC)
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WP hants userbox
I've just created a new one: - which looks like this:   Enjoy! waggers (talk) 09:37, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

Table in European long-distance paths article
Hi! I just added a table to the article European long-distance paths, and it is missing an image! Paths E1, E2, and E4 - E11 all have images, which (though I'm not sure) you seem to have been the creator of. Now I assume if you made images for the rest, you wouldn't just leave E3 hanging; however, I just can't seem to find its image! Wondering if you'd have any clue to its whereabouts, or know how to make another similar-looking image so that it would fit appropriately into the table? Thanks for your time, Chris b shanks (talk) 09:07, 16 March 2009 (UTC). (P.S. This is the first time I've ever worked with images or tables in Wikipedia and I just tried to teach myself tonight, so it may have been that there's a simple solution that I overlooked.)

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John Perceval, 3rd Earl of Egmont
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United Hospitals - clarification of importance sought
Hi. I'm a bit confused by the information that you've added in the first paragraph of the London medical schools articles saying they are a member of the United Hospitals. From its prominence I'd assume this was an important piece of information: yet I've worked at one of those schools for rather a long time and never heard the expression. The United Hospitals article doesn't really help me - it tells me they "are known" as that but not by whom, nor what the organization actually is or does, what its status is, and so on. It would be really good to have this clarified so that it's possible to understand why the fact is important enough to be almost the first thing we're told about any school. Can you help out, please? Thanks and best wishes, DisillusionedBitterAndKnackered (talk) 18:47, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Hi. Thanks very much for the reply. No, I'm not involved with sports at my place of work and my social involvement hasn't strayed into these areas! I'm guessing, though, that I could quite possibly ask all the employees of my Dept what it means and draw a blank: maybe one or two might know (medical profs perhaps??) but I suspect not many. I'm not there at the moment but it might be amusing to try it. Anyway, I'm most grateful for the information but it does leave me still feeling that the lead paragraph is perhaps too prominent a place for it: it's (I feel) an interesting fact but not a vital one concerning the, er, core business of these places, and while I'm sure it should be included, I honestly think the lead isn't the place. Having said that, I've moved it from the first instance I saw and I really don't have the stomach/argumentive capacity/whatever for a big campaign on this - life's too short! - so I think I'll leave the others to take their chance and see how it goes. Thanks again for the explanation. Armed with these new facts, I'm going to keep an eye out for the term from now on! Cheers DisillusionedBitterAndKnackered (talk) 02:01, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Heheh! Yeah, maybe... I will try it on a couple of people (I'm back in the UK now) and see if they bite! Cheers DisillusionedBitterAndKnackered (talk) 14:36, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

New Cross and New Gate Gate
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John Jackett
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