User talk:Al kirtley

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Blackett Family
Hello, I just wanted to let you know you may want to start filling out the pages with content otherwise someone may come by and start speedily deleting them. Make sure you reference other sites than your own so as to avoid original research claims! Spryde 12:30, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

A tag has been placed on Sir Hugh Blackett, 12th Baronet, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article providing little or no context to the reader. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself. If you plan to expand the article, you can request that administrators wait a while for you to add contextual material. To do this, affix the template   to the article and state your intention on the article's talk page. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this.  Wikidudeman  (talk) 12:34, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

Your submission at AfC John Erasmus Blackett was accepted
 John Erasmus Blackett, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created. The article has been assessed as Stub-Class, which is recorded on the article's talk page. You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article. You are more than welcome to continue making quality contributions to Wikipedia. . Thank you for helping improve Wikipedia! MatthewVanitas (talk) 19:26, 17 September 2013 (UTC)
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 * Nice work, just a few cleanup points you need to attend to at John Erasmus Blackett now that it's published.
 * Add WP:Categories, as narrow as possible (i.e. not "England" but "English businessmen" or whatever applies). Easiest way is to look up a bio of a similar person and just work off of the categories the other bio used.
 * The page is an WP:Orphan, so see if you can find mentions of this person in other articles, so you can link to your new article from them.
 * If there are any portraits of him, they should be well into Public Domain and thus can be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. So if such illustrations exist, please add them if available.
 * Great work, hope to see more from you! MatthewVanitas (talk) 19:31, 17 September 2013 (UTC)

Mining Institute Editathon
This event may be of interest to you. The Mining Institute will assuredly have much that is relevant to the Blackett family. https://wiki.wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Editathon,_North_of_England_Institute_of_Mining_and_Mechanical_Engineers. By the way I have had a brief gander at your progress with Blackett material. My hot tip: anything you are in process of creating make sure you save a copy in a sandbox (you can keep multiple sandboxes) or on your own machine. That way if someone is cruel and deletes what you submit you always have security of having a copy. I would not destroy any backups until I was sure a new article had really "taken". I have no problems in seeing the importance of the Blackett family. Robertforsythe (talk) 18:50, 14 October 2013 (UTC)

Your submission at AfC Christopher Blackett was accepted
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Apologies for sloppiness. Now fixed. Al Kirtley

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Help needed
Hi, I'm in need of a bit of help re the page on Pete Kirtley. I've just seen the two page issues (closeness to subject and style issue)flagged up, and have removed the Honours and Awards para as that seems to be the part of the page that doesn't comply with the Wikipedia style. The other issue is that most of the page was written by me, the father of Pete Kirtley. I didn't realize at the time (some years ago) that my close connection to the subject should have ruled me out, though I now see why that makes sense. My problem is that if I ask anyone else to re-write the article they'd probably have to use the same material I have, including references (all of which should stand up to checking). I imagine that's not a unique problem for Wikipedia, and that people get around it by writing under a pseudonym. I apologize for all this. If you still think the page should be rewritten could you suggest how I might best go about this? Al kirtley (talk) 10:46, 27 April 2016 (UTC)


 * Al, we are all in need of a bit of help, in every article we ever contribute to, by whoever can kindly collaborate and invest the time to improve. I think you are to be congratulated for your honesty here - I suspect most people get round conflict-of-interest issues by editing anonymously or by simply inventing an anonymous user name. If other editors choose to re-edit the article, using the same material as you did, that will simply suggest that you chose well. I hope you, or anyone else, can find sources to support Pete's awards. Martinevans123 (talk) 21:37, 27 April 2016 (UTC)

Many thanks for the reply, Martin, and for being so understanding. I'll try to find someone else who can reintroduce the awards with proper references, although that could take some time. Meanwhile I hope the page is OK as it is. Thanks again. Al kirtley