User talk:Boatbuff

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Fishing vessel
Hi Boatbuff. Thanks for your useful contributions. However the material you added on the Lancashire Nobby doesn't belong in the article on fishing vessels. That article is an overview of different types of fishing boats, but doesn't go into any detail on specific types. If the Nobby is a notable type of boat then it would warrant its own article. However google returns only 25 hits if you search on "Lancashire Nobby" (with quotes). This doesn't suggest notability. Likewise "Manx Nobby" returns only 32 google hits. There may be a case for starting a new article called "Nobby (boat)", which deals with all the Nobby boat types (I don't know enough about them). You would be very welcome if you think they warrant an article to have a go at that yourself. I would be happy to give you a hand if you wanted it. Otherwise, I'll leave your additions in the "fishing vessel " article for a little while and then delete them. Cheers. --Geronimo20 (talk) 05:39, 19 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Okay, so would you like to have a go? You may need to research it beyond Marsh by seeing what else you can find on google and in reference libraries. I'm happy to stay in touch with what you do and lend a hand as you go along, if you would like that. (Bye the way, have you got some personal investment in "Nobby"? - it's okay if you do). --Geronimo20 (talk) 10:41, 19 June 2008 (UTC)


 * If you go to your user page you will see I have created a sandbox there. Click on that, and you will find two pages where you can work on your draft versions of the Lancashire and Manx nobby. These are your personal working pages, basically private pages (though anyone can look and theoretically edit) where you can experiment and store things. I have also created a beginning Wikipedia article on the nobby here. So I'm now passing this over to you. I'll be around and lend a hand whenever you want it. Happy editing! --Geronimo20 (talk) 12:12, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

License tagging for Image:F Brooks at Nora's mast.jpg
Thanks for uploading Image:F Brooks at Nora's mast.jpg. You don't seem to have indicated the license status of the image. Wikipedia uses a set of image copyright tags to indicate this information; to add a tag to the image, select the appropriate tag from this list, click on this link, then click "Edit this page" and add the tag to the image's description. If there doesn't seem to be a suitable tag, the image is probably not appropriate for use on Wikipedia.

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Nobby update
That's good stuff you added to nobby. It's shaping up quite well, so I will nominate it to appear in four days time in the "Did you know?" section on the front page. It would be good if you can first clear up the image license issue above, otherwise the image will be removed. Two more points...
 * can you provide a suitable caption for the photo, maybe something along the lines of "Lancashire nobby at Morecambe Bay in 1935".
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Waterway?
Hi Boatbuff - Question, you put the below paragraph in the list of nartical terms. Is that correct? I've always known it first as a watered canal. See ya...

Waterway - A strake of timber laid against the frames or bulwark stanchions at the margin of a laid wooden deck, usually about twice the thickness of the deck plank. = Dinkytown (talk) 20:09, 10 July 2008 (UTC)