User talk:Charlesdrakew/Archives/2009/November

Changes to Lancing, West Sussex
The changes I recently made to Lancing, West Sussex were not vandalism, as Lancing is also covered by the postcode BN99. I would advise you check this, and then change the infobox as appropriate.

80.229.16.243 (talk) 18:21, 18 October 2009 (UTC)

Sorry. We get a lot of IP vandalism. Consider creating an account.--Charles (talk) 18:34, 18 October 2009 (UTC)

Gyeongju FA thanks
Thank you for your wonderful copy-editing to Gyeongju, which successfully survived from WP:FAR since October 15, 2009 --Caspian blue 05:36, 22 October 2009 (UTC)

Christ's Hospital: Number of Boarding Houses
Good Morning, I recently edited the number of houses at Christ's Hospital School on the Wikipedia page devoted to it. I changed the number from 16 to 19. The houses of Christ's Hospital School are as follows. Peele A, Peele B, Thornton A, Thornton B, Middleton A, Middleton B, Coleridge A, Coleridge B, Lamb A, Lamb B, Barnes A, Barnes B, Maine A, Maine B, Leigh Hunt A, Leigh Hunt B, Hertford, Grecians West and Grecians East. These are all boarding houses currently present on the grounds Christ's Hospital. Kind Regards —Preceding unsigned comment added by Willbexr (talk • contribs) 11:51, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Hi Willbexr, welcome to Wikipedia.

I changed the number back because there was no reason given in the edit box for the change and no source with which to verify it. As you are a new user with no record of positive editing it seemed safer to treat it as vandalism, of which we get plenty. Please don't take it personally, and feel free to change it back. If you can find a reference it would help. You should sign edits on a talk page by clicking in the edit tools.--Charles (talk) 12:57, 25 October 2009 (UTC)

Tarrant
I've no problem with the old name being there - I've been trying to find references to put it back myself. What I don't think is established is that it was called Arun "after the town". I've found one reference that suggests it's a back-formation - just because Arundel exists in records earlier than Arun - and another suggesting that Tarrant is equivalent to "t'e Arun". Have you a more definitive source? I'd like to word it less positively otherwise. They do look like alternative forms of the same name to me. --Ian Dalziel (talk) 15:48, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
 * I added the only passing reference I can find online, but I suspect that many hours of searching the county archives, or the Duke of Norfolk's estate records, would be needed to find a definitive answer. How about sticking a citation needed tag on it and hope some local person comes up with something?--Charles (talk) 17:41, 25 October 2009 (UTC)

Spanish Armada
Please don't delete sourced results. The quote from Holmes is included in the citation; it was a propaganda victory, not a military one. Dapi89 (talk) 12:15, 26 October 2009 (UTC):
 * Clicked on rollback by accident, then undid it. Richard Holmes' is only one opinion. Since English harassment, and particularly the damage inflicted at Gravelines prevented the Spanish achieving their objective of landing an army on English soil I think that can be called a victory. Whether it did much to change the strategic balance in Europe is another matter.--Charles (talk) 13:37, 26 October 2009 (UTC)