User talk:ClemRutter/Archives/2009/June

WikiProject Greater Manchester June Newsletter, Issue XVI
Nev1 (talk) 14:13, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

Highs
Hi, I found the Thomas Highs article some time ago and found it interesting but I didn't know it was still such a controversial topic. I referenced the "throstle" sentence when I saw that someone was asking where it had come from - a quick search on google books came up with the goods. As for the cotton interest group, I don't really know. The best thing to do would be to ask on the GM wikiproject talk page if anyone's interested. On the subject of cotton I think the Lancashire Cotton Famine deserves a better article than it's got at the moment. My interest in that was piqued by the beautiful stained glass window they have in Crumpsall hospital commemorating it, that was salvaged from a convalescent home in Blackpool built from cooton famine charity funds. I took some pictures of it to add to the article but they didn't turn out too well due to reflections from the lights on the corridor and me only having a compact digital camera and not using a tripod. I'm hoping one of my mates who's into photography might make a better job of it one day. That's another article on my list of things to do when I have the time. I've copied the pictures below. At the moment I've been working on Broughton Suspension Bridge, which I've expanded from a stub and put up for DYK. Richerman (talk) 23:25, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

Wikiproject
You may be interested in WP:HSITES. Mjroots (talk) 08:34, 12 June 2009 (UTC)

Category:Defunct truck manufacturers
Isnt this for defunct companies, not companies that doesnt make trucks anymore? --Typ932 T&middot;C 15:02, 13 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Not wishing to put up the stress level but I am disputing the cat Defunct truck manufacturers of the United Kingdom for several reasons. The item you are refering to is a lorry- truck is either slang or an Americanism, which is not appropriate to a UK cat tree. Secondly the title is ambiguous. Thirdly shouldn't the title be either Manufacturers of defunct vehicles in the United Kingdom or Defunct manufacturers of vehicles in the United Kingdom. Most adjective can be used to qualify a noun and as a stand alone description- some can only be used in the second way- I have only heard defunct used that way. Now on to Aveling and Porter, as a manufacture principally of road rollers. The name is defunct, the company has been merged beyond recognition, it never manufactured trucks- only an occasional Steam Waggon, I am reverting the tag.--ClemRutter (talk) 16:38, 13 June 2009 (UTC)


 * As a Brit, I wouldn't normally use the words "defunct" or "truck" - but those are the chosen existing formats for Wikipedia! So either we end up using words which mean more to some, or follow the existing Wikipedia category forms. Having been through such a series of debates before, I conclude under the forms and guides of Wikipedia on categories, that: (1) the existing category forms which are in place set a precedence; (2) are also the more globally used terms; (3) and hence followed existing protocol. The category covers both defunct and former truck manufacturing companies. Rgds, --Trident13 (talk) 23:48, 13 June 2009 (UTC)

June 2009
Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but your recent edit removed content from. When removing text, please specify a reason in the edit summary and discuss edits that are likely to be controversial on the article's talk page. If this was a mistake, don't worry; the text has been restored, as you can see from the. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia, and if you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. ''I noticed you removed content regarding Beverly Cotton Manufactory back to it showing as Water Powered. That is not correct, and I meshed my older version with the current article. Please don't deface Wikipedia content, edit the content for appropriateness, don't blatantly delete cited facts.'' Silivrenion (talk) 21:10, 19 June 2009 (UTC)

Beverly Cotton Manufactory
I commented back on the talk page for the article in question. Please check it out. I added an issues tag to the section to encourage people to expand on Horse Power. Please don't delete the section, but rather expand on it and help to improve the article.Silivrenion (talk) 00:46, 20 June 2009 (UTC)

Packwood Windmill photo

 * Hi, it's been deleted as it was identified as Shrewley (the bowed crosstree was the giveaway) and therefore out of copyright. I uploaded it to Commons, and it appears in the List of windmills in Warwickshire under Shrewley.


 * PS. I had a senior moment and posted this elsewhere instead of here, sorry for delay in your receiving it. Mjroots (talk) 18:46, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

Mills task force
It's decision time, see WT:HS Mjroots (talk) 07:39, 23 June 2009 (UTC)
 * I'll leave you to add in priorities for cotton mills to the proposed scope statement. A new image would be ok, but see my comments at WT:HS re image name. Mjroots (talk) 11:41, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

Re. Peak District
Hi Clem, the only reason I had un wikilinked the articles you mentioned is because they were already linked earlier on in the article. Someone once told me that pages should only be linked when they are mentioned for the first time. Is this correct? Feel free to revert if I am wrong. Thanks for the fantastic work you have done on the Peak District, and I am sure many other articles too :) Regards, Schumi  555  16:42, 30 June 2009 (UTC)


 * The relevant policy can be found at WP:Linking. In essence, if links are spaced far apart it's ok to link them more than once. You're doing some fine work on the Peak District by the way Clem, keep it up :-) Nev1 (talk) 16:46, 30 June 2009 (UTC)