User talk:Charles01/Archive 43

Anthony Montague Browne & William Burges
An unlikely pairing? And why does the photo of AMB in the infobox make him look like he's starring in a Ray Cooney farce? Sorry if the recurrence of Billy Burges's name became a little repetitive - but it is his article! If AMB is of interest, you might also find Chartwell to your taste. I'm doing some work on it just now - all contributions gratefully received. Best regards. KJP1 (talk) 14:34, 4 July 2017 (UTC)
 * In a curious way I think that picture of AMB may in some ways capture his character quite well, not withstanding the gratuitously silly posture.  In any case,  for wiki-subjects who don't have the sheer human decency to have been dead for a very long time, there's quite a labyrinth of wiki-copyright discussion to be negotiated before uploading any portrait.   That said (written) ... if ever you (or I) should come across a better one ...
 * On clunky prose ... well, of course one fellow's clunky prose is another fellow's purple passage.  I know this well.   But I don't myself think it does any harm if we try and use the language in ways that encourage the marginally interested reader to read to the end of the para.   Otherwise we're in danger of just writing for ourselves, which slightly misses the point.   But it's not worth any level of wiki-p**sing contest and please infer no disrespect.
 * On Chartwell I'll take a look - just did. Not really my area of expertise, but it's a nice subject and a chance to look at Churchill through a slightly alternative prism.   My parents did actually invest in his six volume history of World War II which I've inherited but still not read.   But never say never.    Churchill's writing style certainly flows beautifully.
 * Success Charles01 (talk) 15:23, 4 July 2017 (UTC)
 * He did indeed write very well - but then he made his living at it for 70 years, and you don't win the Nobel Prize for Literature for nothing. I would strongly recommend his Second World War. Like the Gilbert biography, it is a bit daunting but, once begun, they are both unputdownable, as you probably wouldn't say. All the best. KJP1 (talk) 18:22, 4 July 2017 (UTC)

WikiProject assessment tags for talk pages
Thank you for your recent articles, including Ida Dehmel, which I read with interest. When you create a new article, can you add the WikiProject assessment templates to the talk of that article? See the talk page of the article I mentioned for an example of what I mean. Usually it is very simple, you just add something like to the article's talk, with keyword replaced by the associated WikiProject (ex. if it's a biography article, you would use WikiProject Biography; if it's a United States article, you would use WikiProject United States, and so on). You do not have to rate the article if you do not want to, others will do it eventually. Those templates are very useful, as they bring the articles to a WikiProject attention, and allow them to start tracking the articles through Article alerts and other tools. For example, WikiProject Poland relies on such templates to generate listings such as Article Alerts, Popular Pages, Quality and Importance Matrix and the Cleanup Listing. Thanks to them, WikiProject members are more easily able to defend your work from deletion, or simply help try to improve it further. Feel free to ask me any questions if you'd like more information about using those talk page templates. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 11:56, 17 July 2017 (UTC)

Chevette: Clocking Vs Chalking up wins
I don't care. Both are better than chocking, but clocking was what was there is all.

Graham.Fountain | Talk 11:32, 18 July 2017 (UTC)

Thaer
I've been looking forward to Albrecht getting his due, ever since I quoted him in the Passchendaele article. Regards Keith-264 (talk) 15:18, 21 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks for noticing.  I've not really started googling around to see what there is, but there's enough on wiki-de to justify taking a look.   Thus one (hopes to) learn(s).   Regards Charles01 (talk) 15:24, 21 July 2017 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

 * Wiki-appreciation always appreciated.  Thank you.   I hope things go well with you.   Regards  Charles01 (talk) 10:39, 4 August 2017 (UTC)

German trucks
Hi Charles, I know your primary interest isn't trucks (as with me), but I know that you have a great deal of German language sources. I made a few new articles as a result of buying a few German historic trucking magazines: Mercedes-Benz LP-series (cubic) (only just begun), Hanomag F-series, Ford FK. Please add your two cents! Naming the articles has been stressing me out the most so far.  Mr.choppers &#124;  ✎  15:33, 14 August 2017 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the alert.  I'm interested but ignorant, I fear.   It's always struck me as slightly odd, when you think how many people earn a living by driving vans and trucks, that there's not the same wide choice of magazines about classic vans on the news stands that you get about cars.   When you get to talk to people about their vans they generally seem interested and sometimes knowledgable, but somehow that doesn't very often translate into enthusiasm and collecting vehicles and spending weekends restoring them.   I started several English language wiki-entries on light vans from the years of my childhood by looking at the motorhomes articles that occasionally appear in motor magazines - or did in the 1960s and 1970s - at the start of the year when people start booking their camp sites.   I don't know how it was in Sweden, but on UK the package holiday industry and several allied businesses persuaded people to book everything six months in advance and send a large cash deposit.   Back then we had access to significant above inflation interest rates, and there were years when the interest earned on those customer deposits deposits was the difference between making a profit and making a loss for the UK's big holiday companies.   Anyhow, thanks for the invitation and I'll take a look at your commercial vehicle forays and jump in if I get inspired and get lucky with google for sources.   I was actually in Germany (barely across the frontier from Belgian&Dutch Limburg) for several hours last Friday for one or two bits of shopping, and it's at a bookshop in that city - Aachen - that some years ago I bought several volumes of Werner Oswald's wonderful "Deutsche Autos" books.   I might have wandered in if that book shop's still there if I'd known to see if they had any truck compendia.   But then again I might not.   The world of print is changing so fast, these days, but the interesting book shops do seem to survive, and the shop I am thinking of certainly deserves to.   I suppose you sometimes get interesting book stands at old timer shows, but the old timer show I was at at the weekend is in a Flemish-speaking part of Belgium and although there are stands with tools and toys and clothes and food and drink, I don't think I ever noticed a stand with second hand books and magazines there - even about passenger cars and even in Flemish.


 * Also thanks for the link to the Dutch license plate database.  You sent it - or someone did - a couple of years back and I used it.   Then I put it in a safe place where I'd never lose it.   Well, I haven't exactly lost it.  But I don't know where it is, either.   Go figure?   Well, the link of Eddaido's talk page is very timely for me.


 * Best wishes Charles01 (talk) 21:42, 14 August 2017 (UTC)


 * Plus you've made a seriously brilliant start.

Category:Mayors of Weimar has been nominated for discussion
Category:Mayors of Weimar, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to see if it abides with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Bearcat (talk) 05:46, 26 September 2017 (UTC)

Category:Mayors of Aschaffenburg has been nominated for discussion
Category:Mayors of Aschaffenburg, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to see if it abides with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Bearcat (talk) 05:51, 26 September 2017 (UTC)

WikiProject Women in Red/The World Contest
Hi. Thankyou for your participation in the challenge series or/and contests. In November The Women in Red World Contest is being held to try to produce new articles for as many countries worldwide and occupations as possible. There will be over $4000 in prizes to win, including Amazon vouchers and paid subscriptions. If this would appeal to you and you think you'd be interested in contributing new articles on women during this month for your region or wherever please sign up in the participants section. If you're not interested in prize money yourself but are willing to participate and raise money to buy books about women for others to use, this is also fine. Thankyou, and if taking part, good luck!♦ Dr. Blofeld  15:11, 27 September 2017 (UTC)