User talk:David Edgar

Helvellyn
Thanks for expanding the Helvellyn stub. Only a few hundred more lakeland fells to go :) --Auximines 15:28, 27 Apr 2004 (UTC)

London Cathedral
I've added some thoughts to Talk:St Albans Cathedral, concerning London Cathedral. - MykReeve 16:28, 7 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Happy Birthday
Happy Birthday David. Keep up the good work! Yardcock 06:41, Aug 26, 2004 (UTC)

Wastwater
Glad you like the photo. In case you are interested I took it climbing down Great Gable last aug/sep just after getting a good soaking. see also "mickledore" and "scafell pike" and I saw your Yardbirds site the other day which was cool. Chilepine 11 Jan 2005

Birthday
--User:Jenmoa 06:15, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Thank you! I did enjoy it! --David Edgar 23:16, 27 August 2005 (UTC)

County geo-stubs
Hi - good to see the new English county geo-stubs are being used less than an hour after I made them! Keep up the good work! :) Grutness...  wha?  09:29, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Now, what I'd really like to see are ones for Hertfordshire and Manchester... --David Edgar 16:37, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

Ben Lomond
Thanks for spotting my silly mistake with the "cut and paste". Grinner 10:31, 15 September 2005 (UTC)

Architecture timeline
I don't think one should add the stub template to articles that mainly collect links to other articles, especially if they will probably be filled over time, such as the year in sometopic articles. Burschik 07:57, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I agree - in fact I didn't add the stub template, I merely changed it to a more specific one to move it out of the top level Category:Stubs in which it had previously been placed. --David Edgar 08:22, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

VFD: Bracketed songs
Just a quick message to let you know that a page that you have contributed to in the past, List of songs with brackets in their titles, is up for deletion here :( David 5000 18:12, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks...
For the stub-sorting on Frank Lloyd (horn player) etc.

Brussels article
Hello ! Would you mind warning the people who vandalize the Brussels article ? That seems to be a prerequisite before starting a formal procedure and I'm getting tired of reverting vandalism every day or so. Thanks ! --Melodius 10:01, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

United Kingdom Planning Law
Hi, I've recently been expanding Town and country planning in the United Kingdom quite a bit and have started a subcategory called [Category:United Kingdom Planning Law]. I've really written up a bit of a skeleton for this area of planning. The planning acts, the new planning structure, PPS's, all those bloody new abbreviations LDF,LDD,RSS etc.etc. So far the majority of it are stubs and I was wondering if you might be interested in lending a hand in some way. Most of the articles so far are pretty dry statements of fact(I think) and could do with some context, structure/re-structure, debate, proof reading etc.etc. I'm a complete novice at Wikipedia and sure there's a heap of no-no's I've committed (Posting direct to talk pages?!?). Please let me know if your interested or not. Many thanks Russ --Mcginnly 09:50, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
 * I'll certainly take a look - I don't know much about the subject, but I can certainly do some proof reading etc. --David Edgar 11:15, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

County flowers
Following the AfD debate, you may wish to join in a discussion taking place at Talk:Plantlife. SP-KP 18:51, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

Category:Manchester University people
Hi. I notice you are tagging people into this category. I suggest that you slow down and think about this first, because the title is suspect. There are three or four institutions that may take the (informal) title Manchester University, and it is not clear which one(s) you mean. Can you make it clear on the category page, or stop and consider making multiple categories for the different possible usages? Noisy | Talk 11:31, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Hall of the Mountain Grill
David, thanks for the geography lesson and a more precise location for the cafe. Cheers, Ian Rose 13:14, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

Bike from Eddy Merckx
hallo, sorry for my bad englisch! I'm the user marcela in commons and http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Ralf_Roletschek in the german Wikipedia. I have change your Photo a little bit. Greetings 217.88.132.43 20:39, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Cool, glad it could be useful! --David Edgar 11:42, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

St Catherine's Chapel Abbotsbury
I've added a couple of things I know personally to this article which, I think, you started. If you haven't seen the chapel in the evening light with the Chesil and Portland in the background do try to if you're around there. Britmax 14:27, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

Anglicanism and the Anglican Communion
Hello! I noticed that you have been a contributor to articles on Anglicanism and the Anglican Communion. You may be interested in checking out a new WikiProject - WikiProject Anglicanism. Please consider signing up and participating in this collaborative effort to improve and expand Anglican-related articles! Cheers! Fishhead64 23:30, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

Bike of Eddy Merckx
hallo, excuse please, my english is very bad. I'm user marcela in commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Marcela I use your Photo from the Bike of Eddy at my private Homepage: http://www.fahrradmonteur.de/stundenweltrekord.php - your Name is listed in: http://www.fahrradmonteur.de/impressum.php Is this correct for you? I dont want write the complete GFDL License in the picture. I have change the picture al little bit more :). greetings Ralf 217.88.135.150 01:00, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

ISBN
It is indeed Seabirds. by Peter Harrison. jimfbleak 08:02, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject Belgium
Hi,

I've started WikiProject Belgium, come take a look and consider joining!

--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 00:07, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

GR 11 (France)
Hi David- Is it incorrect procedure for me to link to the fr: article the way I did? Also: I'm new at all this, so please let me know what's up. -Eric (talk) 18:32, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
 * though I can see the link to the fr: article in the page code, it doesn't show up in the article;
 * I don't see how the page to which the Category link points is helpful.
 * fr link: Look on the left-hand side of the page. You'll see a box titled "In other languages" - in there, there's now a link called "Français" which links to the relevant page. This is the standard way to link a page to its counterparts in other languages. (Have a look at a page like Brussels and you'll see the same thing done for virtually every different major language wikipedia.)
 * category: You mean the category Category:Hiking trails in Europe? I think this is the best category to include the page GR 11 (France) in. I don't think there's a more specific one that's better at the moment. Do you disagree? It's helpful because it allows people to easily locate articles on related hiking trails. --David Edgar 09:49, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
 * fr link: I see now! Hadn't noticed that before--wasn't looking in the sidebar. So, simply typing GR 11 (France) adds the "in other languages" box to the sidebar and populates it with "Français"? I thought only templates did tricks like that; I'll have to learn that stuff.
 * category: Oops, of course the hiking trails link is helpful; I didn't have my brain on and only followed the link on the word "Category."
 * Thanks for the clue-ins! btw, did you notice that the French Wikipedia layout has all of a sudden changed drastically, and not for the better? -Eric (talk) 13:22, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Er, no, I didn't notice any drastic change. On the other hand I haven't been looking at it too frequently...
 * You could check on fr:Wikipédia:Le Bistro or fr:Wikipédia:Bistro des non-francophones/en and see if there's any discussion?
 * (Oh, and yes, it's clever, the wikimedia software!... it handles all those things with the languages. Check out Interlanguage links for more details). --David Edgar 15:11, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Good idea, looking on the Bistro--found a mention right away that they've implemented a new version of Wikimedia on fr that looks all wrong in Firefox--which I use--but looks normal in IE. Thanks for your help! -Eric (talk) 16:31, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

Dog Spinning
Thanks for helping me with the article, I think you did the POV better than I could. I wondered what you thought about adding those images I found that I put on the Talk page, I don't know how, or if it is against the rules. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ratherhaveaheart (talk • contribs)
 * I added a response to Talk:Dog spinning. --David Edgar 09:49, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

List of castles in France
I came acroos the List of castles in France page you created with interest. However, I'm disappointed to see that most of the places listed are not actually castles. As I'm sure you know, the French word château can be translated as "castle", but much more often "palace" or "stately home" would be better. Compare, in the UK, Kenilworth Castle and Blenheim Palace: to the French they are both châteaux, but to call both castles in English would be silly. The French also refer to just about every vineyard as a château whether on the site of a castle, a palace, a stately home or a 20C farm, which only adds to the confusion

On your page, I have identified the following which should not be described as castles:


 * Azay-le-Rideau
 * Beauregard
 * Blois
 * Boisclaireau
 * Bourdaisière
 * Chambord
 * Chaumont
 * Chavaniac
 * Chenconeau
 * Cheverny
 * Fontainebleau
 * Mont Saint Michel (a fortified town)
 * de la Muette (20C)
 * Oiron
 * Pécany
 * Plessis-Bourré
 * Rambouillet
 * Saint-Aubin (vineyard)
 * Valençay
 * Vaux-le-Vicomte
 * Versailles
 * Villandry

The following are partly castle, partly stately home:
 * Brissac
 * Canaples
 * Loches
 * Ussé

And, off the top of my head, here are some genuine castles that are not listed (some with Wikipedia pages of their own or shown in the relevant town page):
 * Beaugency
 * Biron
 * Beynac
 * Boulogne (though Castle not mentioned in Wikipedia)
 * Castelnau
 * Florac
 * Foix
 * Fougères
 * Gannat
 * Gruissan
 * Josselin
 * Montsegur
 * Peyrepertuse
 * Queribus
 * Robert-le-Diable, nr Rouen
 * (Fort de) Salses
 * Vincennes
 * Vitré, Ille-et-Vilaine

Can I make some suggestions? 1. Rename the page to reflect its content. 2. Turn the page into two lists, separating palaces from proper castles. 3. Restrict the page to genuine castles, adding in any others that can be found (and there's loads).

I would be happy to help with this if you want.

Emeraude 15:50, 4 December 2006 (UTC)


 * When I "created" this page, actually all I did was to move the content out of the page List of castles which was getting much too long. (I created many other similar country-specific pages in the same way.) I didn't have a lot to do with which entries had previously been added to the list.
 * I certainly agree with you, there's a big distinction between castles and palaces; there isn't really yet a standard way to handle them in the context of these lists. For example, for Denmark there's a page List of castles and palaces in Denmark which includes both, but for England there's a list of Castles in England and a separate List of historic houses in England.
 * Places like Chenonceau and Versailles definitely merit inclusion in a list somewhere... so I would tend to suggest creating a new page for them, rather than simply removing them - List of palaces in France, perhaps? (It would be the list counterpart to the Category:Palaces in France. You might also check the existing French list within List of palaces.) Or maybe call them manor houses or stately homes if that makes it more inclusive?
 * As you indicate, there are a lot of the stately home / palace variety of châteaux... so probably separating the lists would make for better clarity than renaming the existing list to include both.
 * And of course, you're more than welcome to help! You obviously know more about the subject than I do! --David Edgar 16:45, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

Random Smiley Award
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Thanks for the 'name' attribute
I supposed there must be some way of avoiding the need to repeat a reference, but couldn't find out how to do it. Thanks for the pointer! Matthew 12:47, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Soon to be ex Local History Glossary
Can you link from Wiki articles to Wikibooks?

If a glossary is specific to an article, then what is wrong with the glossary that was attached to the Dalgarven Mill article?

Rosser 21:15, 16 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Yes, you can certainly link to wikibooks. Just type the following:
 * Scottish Rural Life, History Dictionary
 * to get a link that looks like:
 * Scottish Rural Life, History Dictionary
 * Of course you can also pipe it in the usual way - type:
 * the glossary
 * to get a link that looks like:
 * the glossary


 * As for the glossary on the Dalgarven Mill page, it seemed inappropriate. For example, there's no need to explain what a cart or a maiden is - the words 'cart' and 'maiden' can be considered quite basic, and weren't even used in the text of the page. There's no problem explaining on a particular page a small number of terms relevant to the subject, but I don't feel it's helpful to add huge lists of terms. And for terms which already have pages on wikipedia / wiktionary / wikibooks, the best way to explain them is just to link to the appropriate page. --David Edgar 12:31, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Soon to be ex Local History Glossary
Thanks for the information Rosser 19:10, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Incidently - even secondary school kids do not know the definition of either a cart or a maiden. I asked!

Rosser 10:40, 20 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Yes, I'm sure you're right, and many of them don't. Nevertheless, if we had to explain what these and other words meant on each page they were used on, we would have to start attaching dictionaries to thousands of articles throughout wikipedia. --David Edgar 16:42, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

National Three Peaks Challenge
Dear David,

You added "He is going to be attempting the National Three Peaks Challenge, with good friend and Bassmonkeys DJ Danny Bond in 2007." to my Wiki entry at Stewart Stevenson. Alas my somewhat aged joints make this an unlikely prospect.

I haven't spoken to my nephew Jamie Stevenson for a while and it sounds much more like his "bag". You might have got to my page because a reference to his Wiki entry is on my page and I am also formally James, albeit known as Stewart.

Keep up the good work,

Stewart Stevenson

(P.S. As a bit of a Wiki tyro, have I put this in the correct place?)


 * No problem with commenting here! You can add your signature to your talk-page comments by using four tildes like this: ~
 * But actually, I didn't add this statement at all. What I did do was the opposite - I added a 'fact' tag which requested a citation for it as I didn't see any source for the claim. The statement was added by user 194.221.133.211 in this revision. --David Edgar 18:07, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for expanding my knowledge - Zsstevens 07:01, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

Genderqueer
Much better. Thanks. --Damifb 21:45, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

Peer review/Harisu/archive1
I've just requested a peer review of Harisu, following my recent attempt to get it up to GA standard. I'd certainly appreciate any comments you might have. Thanks! PC78 22:42, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

Question
Hi. I've seen your photo taken (Image:DiegemChurchSpire.jpg) and it's in Machelen categorie. I've doing a little article about that city of Belgium and my quetion is, what is that church and its relationship with that city. By the way, I'm a Spanish wikipedia user but you can answer me in my English wikipedia page. Thanks. Millars 19:51, 26 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Answered here. --David Edgar 17:44, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

Fond du Lac, Wisconsin population


Good job reverting that incorrect number. I must have missed the addition somehow. I live relatively close, and I'd guess its population is between 40,000 and 60,000. Royal broil 17:36, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

Admiral's Cup
Hi. I may be wrong, but it seems you wrote the article on the Admiral's Cup. The text of the page seems to be a verbatim copy of copyright text on http://www.solarnavigator.net/events/the_admirals_cup.htm. Could you write the page with non-copyright text, or is there permission to use the text? (Or did that website rip of WP content?) Wotapalaver (talk) 08:32, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
 * I believe that that page is using the wikipedia content without mentioning the source or licensing conditions.
 * When I first created the page, I didn't include the winner's table, and I used several phrases which have since been changed ('the United Kingdom' -> 'England', 'two nations', 'countries' -> 'teams') (see http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Admiral%27s_Cup&diff=201457697&oldid=19091235).
 * Since the Solar Navigator site content reflects the current content, I'd suggest that it was most likely that it was taken from the WP page. I'm fairly sure I wrote the text myself from a number of different sources (unfortunately I didn't note which, though).
 * Thanks for pointing it out. I wonder if other pages on that site also use wikipedia content. (For example, http://www.solarnavigator.net/geography/london_england.htm includes a tell-tale line: "Main article: History of London" without any link.) --David Edgar (talk) 11:08, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Jumping in with both feet
I just noticed that a translation I started 'improving' on the canal from Brux to the Scheldt is one that you only started working on today. Sorry for my (inadvertent) rudeness here. I'd assumed the entry had been sitting there for much longer. I hope you don't disagree violently what I already did, but I will lay off for now. Regards  Charles01 (talk) 19:42, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Don't worry! Thanks for the corrections! I didn't get a chance to check everything yet. --David Edgar (talk) 20:09, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

Notability of the Carmarthen Dragons
Hi David,

Could you please take a look at Carmarthen Dragons? The original author has removed the notability tags without discussion, and I would like some independent opinions about the issue.

Thanks, --Slashme (talk) 05:49, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

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Oak House
You edited my changes regarding oak house as not referenced. I don't need to reference them I am the Assistant Warden of the hall so i think I know what I wrote was correct. Why is it people like yourself have to keep undoing this article! You have ruined a factually correct article you should leave well alone! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Eenuuk (talk • contribs) 18:17, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

'''Hmmm, it told me you had revised somethings regarding the 'second largest hall' comment I made, but then when I went to undo your changes it said you had changed comments regarding 'southern rahs' and 'uggs' etc. Which was a correct edit to do. My apologies.''' —Preceding unsigned comment added by Eenuuk (talk • contribs) 19:21, 12 September 2008

Light green
Thank you. There are many other mistakes in this page Wallonia (but on the other hand, I believe it, good informations and references). Can you help me sometimes? I am aware that my English is very bad. And I am gain writing this evening. Sincerely, José Fontaine (talk) 18:23, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

List of windmills in Belgium
Thanks for adding the WSL windmill picture. I see you are in Belgium, any chance of adding more pictures to the various lists? Mjroots (talk) 12:43, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
 * I'll see what I can do! --David Edgar (talk) 16:44, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

Metronomy
I'm just wondering about some the edits you've made to this page. I think that the bold text you removed should be replaced as it makes that part of the article difficult to read. Also you have added a part about weasel words, would you like to find a source that refers to the Metronomy live show and light and dance routines? Thanks 81.149.77.53 (talk) 14:43, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Some of the phrases definitely should not be in bold. For example album titles should always be in italics. (See WP:ALBUM.)
 * For other uses of bold, it's generally best to follow the Manual of Style. WP:MOSBOLD says:


 * ... Use boldface in the remainder of the article only for a few special uses:
 * Table headers
 * Definition lists (example: Proof)
 * Volume numbers of journal articles, in some bibliographic formats


 * Take a look at some well-developed articles (eg. The Beatles), and you'll see this reflected. I think following this principle makes it nicer to read, and more like an encyclopedia than like some advertising blurb.


 * As far as the 'by whom' tag goes, that phrase seems a lot like some opinion from an unkown source. If it's 'charming' then I'd expect a reference from (for example) a professional reviewer stating that this was what they thought of it.
 * Alternatively, a phrase like, perhaps, "Metronomy live shows prominently feature dance routines and light shows." would be better. --David Edgar (talk) 15:35, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

Wallonia
Thank you for your corrections.You are right for Ardennes. I wanted to put an image with Tintin in order to illustrate some sentences in the section In the North a N-W of Hainaut, linked to Casterman (the puhlisher of The Adventures of Tintin). Fram found that decorative (at this moment the sentences about Casterman didn't exist). I recognize that I am doing so in ortder to underline the importance of Wallonia. But... What do you think of that? Sincerely, José Fontaine (talk) 20:25, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

Cantu a Tenore (HANDS)
The tenores used to put the and in the earing in order to ear at the same time his own voice while listening the other voices. Sincerely, Fpittui —Preceding unsigned comment added by Fpittui (talk • contribs) 17:26, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

Kneiff
Hello, In the Kneiff article you mentioned a map (ACT, scale 1:20000) for reference. Do you personally have this map or just saw it? If you have it - could you scan the Kneiff - Buurgplatz part of it and send it to me by e-mail? Cheers. Kószab (talk) 15:39, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I do personally have the map, yes. I'll do a scan later (this evening, hopefully). --David Edgar (talk) 16:01, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Thank you in advance. I am not sure how to give you my e-mail address. Could you help me about the proper way to do it here on Wikipedia? Kószab (talk) 17:24, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes, if you go into your preferences (Special:Preferences) you can tick an option "Enable e-mail from other users". Then users will see a link "E-mail this user" in the "toolbox" section when they look at your user or talk page. You should also set your email address on the same page.
 * Or you can send me a mail - you should be able to see the "E-mail this user" link on the left of this page. (You may want to set your email address in your preferences so that I can reply directly to you.) --David Edgar (talk) 17:42, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

Wikiproject Geographic Coordinates
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YHA (England & Wales)
Thanks for the style corrections and correcting the typos.Nthep (talk) 15:43, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Youth Hostel Association of New Zealand
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Miranda
Thank you for bringing up the issue of Copyright infringement within this article. This was my fault. I'll re-write the episode summaries, so they are no longer in breach of WP:COPYVIO and add them. Even though I've been a member of Wikipedia, I am still learning about how it works. This has definitely been a learning curve. Thank you again. :) - JuneGloom07 (talk) 15:28, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

Unreferenced BLPs
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Image request
If Brussels Airport is convenient to your location, would you mind photographing the Brussels Airlines head office (b.house, Airport Building 26)? The Brussels Airline article needs a pic of its corporate headquarters. Thank you WhisperToMe (talk) 18:44, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes, the airport's quite close. I'm not quite sure of the exact location of the building at the moment, but I'll try and search it out. --David Edgar (talk) 17:54, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
 * I uploaded File:8990brusselsAirlinesHQ.jpg and File:8992brusselsAirlinesHQentrance.jpg, and added one to the Brussels Airlines page. --David Edgar (talk) 11:31, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Thank you for taking the photograph :) WhisperToMe (talk) 08:32, 25 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Also I found that you are right - b.house is in Diegem, and I found the map from the Machelen municipality website that proves it. WhisperToMe (talk) 09:55, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

Happy Birthday (2010)
Armbrust Talk  Contribs  00:41, 26 August 2010 (UTC)

Castles in Belgium
It was agreed some time ago in relation to French castles - User:Emeraude can doubtless point you to the reference - that because the word château is wider in meaning than the English word "castle", it was decided to leave châteaux in their French-language form. There was no discussion at the time about Belgium, but it seems entirely logical that châteaux in Wallonia should also keep their French-language form. This was my thinking behind what I had started to do, if time had allowed, with List of castles in Belgium. (As it stands it is very flawed but nevertheless better than what was there before). HeartofaDog (talk) 13:27, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
 * I've no problem with châteaux being used instead of 'castle' where it's more appropriate. My issue with List of castles in Belgium is that it has a huge number of red links, even though many of the pages actually exist (and are listed in Category:Castles in Belgium) under different titles. That's what I've been changing; I've generally only changed the names in the list to follow the names currently used for the articles. --David Edgar (talk) 13:39, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

Copyright
Hi, I'm new and I am learning the ropes, you recently sent me a warning about the edit on the article Siula Grande because I posted a reference containing a documentary that is posted on Youtube. So I can't post references about what I write even though it is obvious the documentary is 100% factual and that I took my information from it? Even if it is on Youtube for everyone to see? Thanks for answering me, I don't even know where the answer will appear :) Mattaidepikiw (talk) 14:55, 31 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Hi! You can't link to something like that which has just been posted on youtube, for copyright reasons. But that doesn't mean you can't reference a documentary - you can add a reference, naming the film (possibly adding a date, title of a DVD edition, quotation etc. if these make it clearer) to identify the source of a particular fact. (You can even use the cite video tag if you like, by writing something like this: )
 * However, you should also be careful with the reliability of sources; probably in this case it's reasonable to assume that the documentary attempts to be reasonably accurate, although of course it's largely based on the first person account in Joe Simpson's book. Ideally objective secondary sources are always best.
 * You might read Video links and WP:YOUTUBE for some more information. --David Edgar (talk) 15:39, 31 December 2010 (UTC)

Thank you, I'll dig on this info. Happy New Year! Mattaidepikiw (talk) 16:06, 31 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Happy New Year! Feel free to ask if you have other questions, I've been around for a while so maybe I can help, or at least give some pointers of where to look... --David Edgar (talk) 16:12, 31 December 2010 (UTC)

I sure will David, when I am not sure about a particular "rule" of WP and can't find it by myself, I'll ask. Thanks for your help, as you can see, I am not a l337 programmer lol. For now I am gonna concentrate on easy edits, until I'm good enough to write a whole article (I'd especially like to write one about Mal Duff (mountaineer)). I guess when a name is lightened red it means an article would be appreciated? (Mal Duff was) Speaking of such, could you point me out to a place where I can have an overview of WP "hierarchy"? Are you a mod? I am also gonna make some contribution in French, which is my maternal language. Later friend.Mattaidepikiw (talk) 14:25, 8 January 2011 (UTC)

Hi David, I hope you're doing good, I am starting to get the hang of editing and that is pretty cool! In addition to my above question, I need an info. I recently reverted some vandalism on the pretzel article, how do I report those damn vandals? The guy was 92.25.44.154. Mattaidepikiw (talk) 00:53, 22 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Hi - I'm sorry, I didn't reply to your earlier questions earlier.
 * Regarding vandalism - in this case, it seems this anonymous user only made this one edit. So it might not be worth reporting it. What you might want to do is put a warning on the user's talk page (User talk:92.25.44.154 in this case) - for example Template:Uw-vandalism1. (You can find a full list of these template messages for user talk pages at WP:WARN.) If a particular user makes (or has already) more vandalism edits, you can add further more serious warnings to their talk page, and/or report the user at Administrator intervention against vandalism, which will notify an administrator to take action.
 * Red links - a name or other text in red simply means the article doesn't exist. Sometimes this does indeed mean an article would be useful; other times, the linked subject isn't really notable enough for an article of their own, in which case it can be appropriate to simply unlink the name. For people, they should satisfy the criteria listed at Notability (people).
 * In the particular case of Mal Duff, I think there's a good case for asserting notability. There are quite a few reliable secondary sources (eg. books, newspaper articles talking about him). Make sure to add these as references.
 * Re hierarchy - you mean as in different categories of wikipedia editor? User access levels lists the different user levels and what actions each can take; of these, the ones you'll mostly come across are either anonymous users, autoconfirmed users (basically regular logged in users) and administrators. Most things you'll want to do can either be done with standard editor rights, or can be done by an administrator (eg. page deletion, blocking users, normally in response to a particular request or deletion discussion). But it's not really a hierarchy - administrators don't have any real authority over other users, when it comes to editing articles; they simply have the ability to do certain additional things. I'm just a regular user, not an administrator or anything else. --David Edgar (talk) 21:14, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

Thank you, it makes things a lot clearer. Later. Mattaidepikiw (talk) 09:04, 25 January 2011 (UTC)

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Khaled Hosseini´s Genre
Hi,

I saw you changed the genre of Khaled´s book back to fiction. Take a look at the disk.-page. His books are results of his life experience. They are based on true events that are part of Afghanistan´s society, it´s culture and people. Thus, I changed it back to History. Again, please take a look on the Disk.-Page.--94.219.196.21 (talk) 22:47, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
 * I see what you've written on the talk page, but I disagree with you that 'history' is an accurate genre. Just because something is based on true events does not make it history.
 * He himself says his writing is fictional, for example in this interview: "The story line of my novel is largely fictional. The characters were invented and the plot imagined."
 * I don't doubt that some elements of his stories are autobiographical (as is the case with very many authors) but don't mistake that for an attempt to accurately narrate particular events in the past, which is what historical writing would do. --David Edgar (talk) 07:27, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

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On March 3, you gave a last warning on User_talk:212.219.16.7. On March 14, 212.219.16.7 was at it again. 204.210.242.157 (talk) 02:16, 15 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Different day, same stuff: On March 18, 212.219.16.7 was at it again.  204.210.242.157 (talk) 21:13, 18 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Reported to WP:AIV and subsequently blocked for a month. --David Edgar (talk) 06:46, 22 March 2011 (UTC)

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Re : Presumably the date listed is when the comic was drawn, and there's a reference to it somewhere. Wenttomowameadow (talk) 01:40, 25 March 2011 (UTC)
 * I have great doubts that the original 1999 date was when the strip was drawn. If you look at of the page, you'll see that both references to different xkcd comic strips are both dated with the same 1999-02-22 date, which looks suspiciously like some default chosen value. Additionally, I don't think Cory Doctorow had started blogging at that time, or at least wasn't well known. And they're certainly not done in the style of the earliest xkcd strips, suggesting both strips were made much closer to their publication dates.
 * So in the absence of any reference for these original dates specified, I replaced them with the publication dates. For the one you refer to, I found the version of the archive on waybackmachine.org where it was displayed on the xkcd front page and used the Friday immediately before. Incidentally this corresponds well to the date in the URL of the blag.xkcd.com reference. --David Edgar (talk) 11:58, 25 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Okay, that sounds sensible. Oddly enough, every xkcd comic features the RDF namespace declaration URI http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#, which is perhaps the source of the date due to some bizarre scripting/comprehension accident. Wenttomowameadow (talk) 14:55, 25 March 2011 (UTC)

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Sport in the United Kingdom
I don't know why you have put on my page that my edit to the aforementioned page was inappropriate. I have never visited said page hitherto, much less made any edits. Bostart
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Names for castles in Belgium
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Good catch
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Marry — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.102.164.179 (talk) 14:57, 30 August 2015 (UTC)
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Strictly forbidden to remove. I reiterate: sources used in Asian. This is just a reference. You have no authority to change. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 42.113.154.97 (talk • contribs)


 * Wikipedia doesn't work on such a notion of "authority" as you suggest. Instead it works on consensus.


 * On the topic itself, my primary reasons for reverting were nothing to do with the languages of the sources. Instead, I felt that the reason for the section's inclusion was poorly explained, there was no explanation as to where this variation was used (or by whom), and the English was not good. If you still feel it is important, I would suggest you discuss it on the article's talk page. --David Edgar (talk) 20:58, 6 April 2016 (UTC)

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