User talk:Charles.rcahmw

Connection with the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales
Hi, welcome to Wikipedia. I am concerned that your username suggests that you have a connection with the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales (RCAHMW). This is supported by the edits that you have made that relate to the RCAHMW. You have not disclosed any connection on your user page.

If you have a connection with the RCAHMW then your have a potential conflict of interest, please see Conflict of interest and Plain and simple conflict of interest guide. As I understand it, a potential conflict of interest will not usually preclude you from editing if you make the appropriate disclosures.

Please also see Username policy, although your username may be sufficiently cryptic to not fall under this rule.

If you do not have a connection with the RCAHMW then your username should not suggest that you do, see WP:MISLEADNAME. You can change your username, see Changing username.

If you need any advice on this you could ask at the Help desk. Feel free to ask me, but I'm not an expert on this. Thanks, Verbcatcher (talk) 03:02, 29 November 2016 (UTC)


 * Thank you for addressing this. When editing talk pages to request others to make edits please provide sources for them to use. You could use use the Template:Request edit facility, but I don't know how effective this is.


 * I am concerned about your new material in Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales. Your new text cites few if any sources, and I suspect some of it may have been copied from elsewhere. This tool report shows that the "Archive" section is identical to this RCAHMW page. When editing Wikipedia you should normally get the facts from a reliable source, give these facts in your own words and cite the source. Is any other text copied from elsewhere? Text copied from elsewhere is usually covered by copyright, the RCAHMW Archive page says "© Crown copyright 2016". See FAQ/Copyright, which says:


 * "Only text that is licensed compatibly with the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License (CC BY-SA 3.0) or in the public domain can be freely copied onto Wikipedia."


 * I have not read your new text in detail, but it does not appear to be over-promotional, except possibly the mission statement which looks out of place.


 * I hope that you continue to contribute to Wikipedia. You job and your location in the NLW give you access to resources that are less readily accessible by other editors. Please cite sources, preferably using a template such as Cite book, Cite journal, Cite news or Cite web, and give a link if possible. Thanks, Verbcatcher (talk) 22:32, 29 November 2016 (UTC)

Castell Coch
Dear Charles - can I sound a small note of caution re. changing titles. I recently came upon the Castell Coch article, to which I contributed in the past, and found a number of broken references relating to material from RCAHMW. After staring at it for a considerable time trying to work out why the links were broken, I noticed the "in-line" reference was to the "Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments in Wales" while the citation in the reference section was to the "Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales", (my bold italics). As a consequence the links from one to the other didn't work. I'm not sure how this arose, it certainly wasn't a problem when the article appeared on Wikipedia's front page, but I think you may have amended the citations in the reference section, correctly using "of Wales" but not amended the corresponding in-line references.

It's not a problem - Wiki referencing still confuses me after 10 years - and I've fixed the broken links, but if you are changing titles in future, make sure you change both the in-line reference and the reference in the Reference section - if they don't match exactly, they won't work.

While I have your attention, can I ask a question re. Coflein. Coflein, and the corresponding Historic England site are invaluable tools for Wikipedia, as is the British Listed Buildings Online site, although that is sadly no longer updated. But I have to say that the Coflein site lacks a very great of information that can be found on the English sites. Compare, as an illustration, the Coflein entry for St Mary's Church, Tregare, here with the BLBO entry, here. A particular peeve of mine is that the Coflein site doesn't give a building's listed building status, e.g. Grade II*. Does Coflein intend to develop the site moving forward? I have emailed them directly with this question but never had a reply.

Best regards. KJP1 (talk) 14:18, 7 January 2017 (UTC)


 * Charles, absolutely no apology necessary. As I said, the technical aspects of Wikipedia continue to confound me after a decade on the site.  If, at any stage, you have a question, just ask.  If it's Wiki architecture-related, I may know the answer.  If it's Wiki technical, I'll know where to go.  I will also follow up your Coflein suggestion.


 * Regards. KJP1 (talk) 11:44, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

NPRN number
Hi Charles,

Please check the paragraph that I have just added to Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales with this edit. Is there a relevant RCAHMW source?

Is there any material available on the National Monuments Record of Wales, as this probably merits an article. Is every monument in it either a listed building or a scheduled ancient monument?

Can you help with Talk:Lists of scheduled monuments in Wales?

Thanks, Verbcatcher (talk) 17:57, 24 April 2017 (UTC)

Piercefield House
Dear Charles, can I ask you a question, addressed partly to you as an editor, and partly as a RCAHMW staffer. I've been doing a little bit on Piercefield House, a very interesting building. I came across an apparent discrepancy between the traditional attribution of the main block to John Soane and CADW's attribution, here,, which states "His (Soane's) design was not used, but the house as built, designed by the local architect G V Maddox, is very dependent on Soane's ideas.." Assuming G V Maddox means George Vaughan Maddox, it can't be right, as Maddox wasn't born until 1802 and the central block was built c. 1791-93. It is possible CADW means another Maddox, George Vaughan was from a family of architects, but even then CADW's attribution doesn't follow John Newman, or any of the traditional sources I'm aware of.

It would be very interesting to know the source for CADW's claim. I have raised the issue with them directly. I can give you the details of the staff member I spoke to if you mail me, but I don't think I should plaster his name on here! I'd be very interested in your thoughts. All the best. KJP1 (talk) 10:03, 3 September 2017 (UTC)

Historic Wales map search website
Hi Charles, I hope you’re keeping well. Can you tell me if your map search site is down at the moment? I can’t get it on any of my devices and it’s an incredibly useful resource for Wales-focussed architecture articles. Best regards. KJP1 (talk) 08:03, 7 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Hi Charles, me nagging again. Are the CADW/Coflein sites down at present? I can't get them and I've a bunch of new Grade II* listed buildings in Monmouthshire articles to do, on the back of a recent visit which gave me some 18 further images. All the best. KJP1 (talk) 08:43, 25 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Hi KJP1, I'm sorry Coflein is down, we will endeavour to rectify this a.s.a.p. All the best. Charles.rcahmw (talk) 08:36, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

Ceredigion Historical Society
Hi Charles, thanks for creating the articles on the Ceredigion Historical Society which I just reviewed. I hope the redirect makes sense to you - we don't need to maintain two separate articles about a single organisation that simply changed its name. Let me know if you have any questions about that.

You may have noticed that another reviewed added a tag to Ceredigion Historical Society, noting that it doesn't cite any sources. I've no doubt that the organisation is notable, but at the moment the article doesn't establish that - it would be brilliant if you could find a couple of independent secondary sources discussing the society - perhaps an independent book discussing its history, or information about it on the website of an independent body? I thought, given the information on your userpage, that you might be able to dig up a couple of refs more easily than me - let me know if you need any assistance adding them to the article. Cheers Girth Summit  (blether)  13:52, 24 July 2019 (UTC)

Some of the material was copied from another website, and thus was a violation of Wikipedia's copyright policy. Please don't add copyright material to Wikipedia. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 13:38, 25 July 2019 (UTC)

Richard Owens and the National Library of Wales photograph collection
Dear Charles - I hope you are keeping well in these difficult times. In the roundabout way that makes Wikipedia so interesting, we’ve ended up with an article on Richard Owens. I learn that he was the second-most prolific chapel architect in 19th century Wales. It would be wonderful to replace the pencil drawing we currently have with this splendid image,. I see that is in the collection of the National Library. Do you know what their position is on copyright? Would they be willing to upload this image to Wikipedia? I should say that, if they do, they will lose whatever copyright they may currently have on the image. Any advice would be much appreciated. Best regards. KJP1 (talk) 10:30, 17 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Not my talk page, but since this cropped up on my watchlist it occurred to me that might be able to answer your question. Richard Nevell (WMUK) (talk) 15:51, 17 April 2020 (UTC)
 * - Many thanks, most helpful. I shall toddle off and ask. KJP1 (talk) 16:32, 17 April 2020 (UTC)