User:Joeblakesley/2006 Talk

Welsh Wikipedians' notice board
I've created a fairly simple Welsh Wikipedians' notice board (shortcut WP:WWNB) to try to get things started. Please have a look and consider signing on, adding it to your watchlist and helping to make sure any users with an interest in the subject know about it. Also please feel free to add things and to change anything you feel needs changing – I'm not under the impression that I own it! Rhion 20:36, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

Copy of template talk
here --pgk( talk ) 22:15, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

Bionic Team Wikipedia
Hi, I am also running bionic and I would like to join team Wikipedia. But I can not find the information about how to join. Only those stats; stats team Wikipedia. Can you point me to the right place please? Greetings, --Walter 15:53, 19 February 2006 (UTC) (RE here is fine)

WPTL
Welcome to WPTL, sucks that you had to drop out of UWB :( Anyway, just dropping a note :) - FrancisTyers 22:11, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

Sections in disambiguation pages
Yo, Joe, your change to RMS is well intentioned, but be warned that it is counter to MoS:DP, which specifies sections only for disambig pages with more than about 30 entries, and bold for breaking up shorter pages by subject. Some of the disambig editors get hot over issues like this. Your taste is repected, but uniform style counts for something, and if you change a lot of disambig pages like this, you'll be hearing from them, and I like to think that not all of them are as nice as I am. Thanks for all your other fine work. Chris the speller 17:19, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Ysgol Bryn Elian
I do not recall ever having met you or what your interest may be in my conflict with the Bryn Elian governors. However, I was annoyed to read your statement in Wikipedia that I "assaulted" a repoprter. I was acquitted of that charge and another related matter. I have subsequently suffered persecution by governors and their supporters in the police, courts and freemasons. Are you any of those, or just a busybody? Jim Whippe.

Image Tagging Image:Firefox plush toy.jpeg
Thanks for uploading Image:Firefox plush toy.jpeg. 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.

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Dafydd Elis-Thomas
I found the following two references:


 * http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/rolls/peerage/lifebarons.htm
 * http://www.archivesnetworkwales.info/search/thesaurus/persons/list4.shtml

A good place to look would be in Hansard when he was "introduced" into the House of Lords, but unfortunately they only have issues back to 1994 online and we need 1992.

Of course, normally he doesn't call himself Dafydd Elis Elis-Thomas, that sounds silly! He was born Dafydd Elis Thomas (unhyphenated) with Elis presumably being a given name, not part of his surname (perhaps you can explain Welsh names to me!) The "Garter King of Arms" who is in charge of titles etc. only allows peerage titles to be created from surnames, so he had to change his surname to Elis-Thomas to allow his title to be Lord Elis-Thomas. For a similar example and discussion, see George Brown, Baron George-Brown.

So on the web you can see references to both Dafydd Elis Thomas (pre-1992) and Dafydd Elis-Thomas. On Wikipedia, the convention is to begin an article with a full, legal name, so we have to use the full version, even though this would normally only be used on formal documents such as the House of Lords biography. The title of the Wikipedia page, on the other hand, is usually the name they are commonly known by (e.g. Tony Blair not Anthony Charles Lynton Blair) so Dafydd Elis-Thomas is correct for the page title. JRawle 13:50, 14 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your reply. I'm actually puzzled about his choice of title. Do people who know him personally call him Dafydd or Elis? If it's the latter, it makes sense. If it's the former, why didn't he choose to be Lord Dafydd-Thomas or even Lord Dafydd-Elis-Thomas? He's usually referred to by all three names. That's why I wondered if the "Elis" is some sort of name passed down in his family. I did find and  where he's Dafydd Thomas, although I'm not sure we can trust Wikipedia or the CIA World Factbook. JRawle 17:30, 15 March 2006 (UTC)


 * You could well be right about Elis-Thomas sounding more like a surname (even if Elis, or Ellis in English, is a given name). Perhaps, rather than wanting to include his forename in his title, he simply wanted an unique title to avoid having to be Lord Thomas of Somewhere, there having been a Lord Thomas before. JRawle 18:31, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

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Email and stuff
Hi Joeblakesley,

Can you fixup or repost your public key? Also, can you confirm and enable your email address? Thanks, Alphax &tau;&epsilon;&chi; 04:39, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
 * I couldn't extract your key from it is what's wrong with it. Try re-posting it and wrapping the entire thing in &lt;pre&gt;&lt;nowiki&gt; tags. Cheers, Alphax &tau;&epsilon;&chi; 10:17, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

Caron
There is an ongoing dispute on the talk page about whether it should be called caron or háček/hacek. It has been suggested that professional linguists' advice would be beneficial. Would you please consider participating in the vote? --85.70.5.66 23:38, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

UK MP categorisation bot?
Thanks for your note: see reply on my talk page (and please feel free to delete this message here if you see fit). --BrownHairedGirl 07:31, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Dylan Eil Ton
Sorry, but that was a long time ago. The information probably came from the Encyclopedia Mythica, but I can't really be more specific. Delete it if you think it's inaccurate. Tuf-Kat 01:22, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Image Gallery
Joe, not sure if you can be reached by email, would you do me a favour and take a look at Ffestiniog Railway and see if you receive all the images (six I think) in the gallery, then look at the last item on the talk page? Regards, Noel - by the way good work on the Cape Town issue - I don't recall seeing it mentioned in the Llandudno article at any time but I have always given it a mention on my own Llandudno website. I have given Llandudno, Cape Town a link back. Regards, Noel@llandudno.com NoelWalley 06:45, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

The Holiday
If you're going to move this, I thought I'd point out that The Holiday (film) hasn't been discussed as an option and might be better as there are numerous books with the name. Joe Llywelyn Griffith Blakesley talk contrib 00:41, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Doesn't sound like a bad idea but I'm going to stay impartial and go by the result that was decided. Feel free to bring it up in the Talk page after it's moved.  —Wknight94 (talk) 00:46, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Arthur C. Clarke quotation on Phoenix dab page
This is what I would go by, from MoS:DP:


 * For every style suggestion above, there's some page which has a good reason to do something else. These guidelines are intended for consistency, but usefulness to the reader is the principal goal. So ignore these guidelines if you have a good reason.

The Arthur C. Clarke quotation is directly relevant to the disambiguation page. --Usgnus 16:50, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Re: Franz Ferdinand (disambiguation)
I'm not terribly concerned about recreation, actually. If it turns out to be a problem, the page can be replaced with deletedpage and protected with a note on its talk page explaining the protection. theProject 21:30, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

Dylan
Hiya (again), Joe. Just saw your suggestion on Talk:Dylan that the page needs tidying. I agree completely. But I tried that once and one user took it extremely personally, which is why I left it alone after that. But if you go for it, good luck! Incidentally, on the etymology of the name, have we any references we can quote? Telsa (talk) 17:18, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

Hilton Paris
Hi. Not that I deeply care but just thought I'd let you know why a disambig page was created for that page. It seemed to me (and the guy who wrote the disambig) that people not so familiar with wikipedia might use Hilton Paris as a search somehow thinking that the last name should come first. Sure not so likely but probably as unlikely as someone coming here for info on the Hilton in Paris. Cheers. Pascal.Tesson 23:52, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

Peer review/Socialist Studies (1989)/archive1
I note from WikiProject Politics that you're a member of WikiProjects Politics and are based in the UK. I was wondering if you might be able to contribute to a peer review of Socialist Studies, a political group in the UK active since 1991. The request for peer review can be found at Peer review/Socialist Studies (1989)/archive1. —Psychonaut 05:48, 9 November 2006 (UTC)