User talk:Chris Warburton Brown

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William Newton (architect)
I would like to suggest this page is renamed William Newton (architect 1730-1798, Newcastle) to distinguish it more clearly from the page Wiliam Newton (architect 1735-1790, London), as this understandably seems to be causing confusion, especially with attribution of works.

I have added a lot of new content; some biographical and stylistic info, and a lot of attributed and potentially attributed buildings. This was my first experience of editing a Wikipedia page, and I made many of my early changes using 'minor change' at first, which I then couldn't remove, so sorry about that. I'm not sure about correct referencing, I'm used to Harvard but that doesn't seem common here, any suggestions for a useful guide/page? Chris Warburton Brown (talk) 17:05, 21 April 2019 (UTC)
 * This suggestion you should better post on the article's talkpage (The link next to Article above the main text). For images, please note that it's not possible to use images hosted elsewhere on the web because most of them are copyrighted and the Wikimedia Foundation staff doesn't want to answer takedown requests all the day. For the core questions, please read WP:Uploading images and Picture tutorial. Jannik Schwaß (talk) 18:32, 21 April 2019 (UTC)
 * We do use Harvard for the academics. When you put in a reference you can put |ref=harv.--Biografer (talk) 15:54, 22 April 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for the suggestions and tips. Jannik Schwaß (talk I tried using the talk page but it just gave me this message, with no option to add content: 'This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography, a collaborative effort to create, develop and organize Wikipedia's articles about people. All interested editors are invited to join the project and contribute to the discussion. For instructions on how to use this banner, please refer to the documentation.'

Help me!
So, I created my first draft page following the instructions provided. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:David_Stephenson_(architect) It's finished and ready to move from 'draft' to 'live'. Now what happens? I guess somebody needs to sign it off? But who, how and when? Thanks! Chris Please help me with...

Chris Warburton Brown (talk) 13:12, 16 May 2019 (UTC)


 * Hi, thank you very much for your submission. I have now submitted the article for review; this may take about two months. Feel free to edit the article at any time if there's something you would like to change. Face-smile.svg ~ ToBeFree (talk) 13:20, 16 May 2019 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: David Stephenson (architect) has been accepted
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David Stephenson
Thank you for your good work on David Stephenson. I hope that you don't let the pettifogging (both on the article's talk page and [via templates] within the article itself) get you down. Some editors tend to work like that, and with the best of intentions. (At times, I'm one of them.)

And now ... allow me to pettifog for a moment. You write for example:


 * The Buildings of England: Northumberland. (1992) Grundy, J., McCombie, G., Ryder, P., Welfare, H. & Pevsner, N., Penguin Books

There are of course various ways of presenting this kind of information, but yours is unfamiliar to me -- in particular, having authors' names follow the title. One of several far more familiar orders would be


 * Grundy, J., McCombie, G., Ryder, P., Welfare, H. and Pevsner, N. (1992) Northumberland. 2nd ed. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth, Middx: Penguin.

but perhaps things are different when writing about architecture. -- Hoary (talk) 09:39, 21 May 2019 (UTC)

No, you're 100% correct. I always use Harvard. No idea what happened here, I must have had a brain fart. I am actually really impressed with wikipedia's editing support, and strict content rules, so far. So please petifog away all you like!

Chris Warburton Brown (talk) 12:36, 21 May 2019 (UTC)

I'm confused about page referencing. One of the editors has requested page refs, though that doesn't seem to be on other wiki pages. I can include them, with a bit of faff, but how? If I add them it will tell me that the multiple references no longer match. I didn't create the multiple refs, that was another editor, and I don't really understand how they work. In Harvard you should put the page in the brackets e.g. (Hoary 2019, 6) but that doesn't work here. Advice please.


 * Please see what I wrote yesterday (or thereabouts) within Talk:David Stephenson (architect) about the "rp" template. -- Hoary (talk) 21:42, 21 May 2019 (UTC)