User talk:Alfietucker/Archive 1

Sir John Horsey
Thanks for this fantastic article :). I've moved it to just John Horsey; we have a rule about not sticking titles like "sir" at the beginning of article names. Have you considered seeing if you can expand it a bit and then sending it to WP:DYK? Ironholds (talk) 10:37, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

Hi Ironholds. Thank you for your very kind feedback. Alas, I don't think I have enough information to make the article stretch to the 1500 words needed to be considered for WP:DYK. But I appreciate your kind suggestion. Alfietucker (talk) 12:04, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 1,500 characters of prose, not words :). It is currently at 1263. Do you have access to the Oxford Dictionary of National biography? It has information on his father (also Sir John Horsey) son (the same) and grandson (the same) which could act as quite a good DYK hook: Did you know... that Sir John Horsey had the same name with his father, son and grandson? In fact (and this might be a stretch) we could try and write articles on all of them and have a DYK with four subjects. Ironholds (talk) 12:10, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
 * FWIW, I've now renamed the article 'John Horsey III', and have written another article on his father 'John Horsey II'. Not sure whether these qualify for WP:DYK, though I think the new article is easily the right length... Alfietucker (talk) 20:23, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
 * The new article is fine, but there is a problem with the references in both articles. Most of them are from genealogy forums and posts, which is a problem because the info was gathered by amateurs and therefore probably fails WP:RS. I'll try and replace the refs with those from the ODNB (the definitive reliable source) where possible and, with your permission, submit it to DYK. In future I'd advise avoiding forums and genealogy sites at all costs; they aren't considered reliable 99 percent of the time. Ironholds (talk) 21:54, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
 * A styling hint, by the way; references go directly after the punctuation rather than directly before. Ironholds (talk) 21:58, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Many thanks for the pointers (all noted) and for improving the article. I'd be very honoured if you submitted this to DYK. Alfietucker (talk) 19:20, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
 * No problem; submitted and accepted, both :). Do you work on this sort of article a lot? Ironholds (talk) 03:30, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Thank you. Erm, not sure whether you mean 'did you do a lot of work on the Horsey articles?': the answer is I knew just a bit about the family, but I spent maybe 2-3 hours at the most researching them - mostly on the internet (there is also a family tree I consulted, but that's not published) - for those articles; or 'do you write these kinds of articles outside Wikipedia?' (no: professionally I write mostly about music, so my interest in the Horseys is purely amateur). Anyway, I'm very touched by the interest you and Shimgray have shown in these budding articles. Alfietucker (talk) 10:08, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Ehh, no problem; I write a lot about that sort of person on Wikipedia. What I actually meant was "do you write about this sort of thing a lot on Wikipedia". Ironholds (talk) 10:21, 15 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Marvellous articles, but I'm a little concerned with the names of these - using "II" and "III" seems rather unusual for a sixteenth-century knight, if not faintly anachronistic. The DNB only seems to use it in a "disambiguating" sense - in square brackets in the names - and in running text they use things like "the younger Sir John". Would you mind if I moved them to things like, say, John Horsey (d. 1564)? This way we avoid giving the impression it's their actual names... Shimgray | talk | 10:48, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes, please do rename as you suggest. Alfietucker (talk) 19:20, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Done! Shimgray | talk | 19:44, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

DYK for John Horsey (died 1564)

 * Congratulations man :). Feel free to prod me if you'd like some help with an article you are working on or just some extra eyes. Ironholds (talk) 10:00, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Thank you, and thank you for your very kind help with the articles. The demands of my 'day job' means that it will probably be a while before I start another new article, but I will most certainly remember to let you know when I do. Alfietucker (talk) 19:12, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
 * No problem, it was a pleasure. If my schedule (and my projects) give me the time I'll browse back through your contributions and see if there is anything I can tweak/maybe send to DYK. Ironholds (talk) 19:14, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

RE:Two more articles by Alfietucker
No problem; I'll take a look this afternoon (preparing for a moot, sorry) and expand/reference/send them to DYK/whatever. Thanks, Ironholds (talk) 10:39, 26 April 2009 (UTC)

Image
Hi Alfie,

I'm afraid the image isn't allowed to be used on Wikipedia, because it is not available under a free license. Please see Copyrights.

(Sorry this is brief -- I'm in a bit of a hurry -- do ask me any questions if you're confused.)

[[Sam Korn ]] (smoddy) 14:02, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

Clifton Maybank
Are you sure that the entire house was not being demolished? I understood that it was. Giano (talk) 16:23, 11 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Quite sure - you can see what remains of the original Tudor mansion of Clifton Maybank standing today; quite a sizeable building still, though with one facade that was added at the beginning of the 20th century Alfietucker (talk) 16:31, 11 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes, I was just on my way back to you, seems the National Trust as a source cannot be trusted. Sorry about that; it seems the demolition team missed a corner and the house was rebuilt in 1906. Giano (talk) 16:43, 11 October 2009 (UTC)

Feminist movement
I started work on the copyediting needed over there. I'm probably going to start deleting a lot of the stuff in the theology section. It's just too much. Any ideas would be welcome. Zujine (talk) 14:48, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
 * I can't claim any expertise, though I'm very flattered that you should ask my advice. I may just 'pop in' to cut the more illiterate sentences (perhaps transferring them to the talk page so someone more versed than I am can tidy them up and reinstate them). Alfietucker (talk) 20:54, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

Sergei Rachmaninoff
Just an FYI, I reverted your edits to this page, and added a proper source for American citizenship. The article's talk page has details. Cheers!THD3 (talk) 18:34, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Thank you. I have added my argument for not calling Rachmaninoff a "Russian-American composer" on the talk page, and have shunted the info about his citizenship - a step made less than two months before his death and years after he had ceased composing - into an appropriate spot in the article. IMHO it doesn't belong to the article's intro. Alfietucker (talk) 20:23, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

Marathon Man (film)
Must have been a mistake. With so many reverts, I'm bound to make some ;-) I've blanked and deleted the ip's talk page. Feel free to restore the specific content.  Snowolf How can I help? 23:35, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

Re: Adrian Boult article
Thanks for the note and your explanation. I so far encountered "avowed" to negatively assign crassness, not just openness, but if you say it might be normal usage for other purposes, then that's a new thing learned. Best wishes Hekerui (talk) 20:50, 20 April 2010 (UTC)

Michael Jaffe
The Independent source does specify 'Yeovil' as his place of death (see the potted biblio at the bottom of the obit). I realise this might be 'newspaperese' for Clifton Maybank itself, but equally he could have died in Yeovil Hospital, say. I don't know, but am not going to stress about putting the sourced 'Yeovil' back in. Jasper33 (talk) 12:34, 13 July 2010 (UTC)