User talk:Deben Dave

Horwood House
Hi I've just had a page I write ruined by the image police I see you uploaded it the image, could you fix the source - I'd appresiate it - thanks. Giano 14:18, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks - i saw your interest in telephones etc and guessed that was the connection - di d a toutr of Bletchley Park recently - fascinating stuff. Regards Giano 14:46, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Hi again - you have to put this template on it - (I've done it for you) {{PD-self} except adding the final "}" Regards Giano 14:50, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
 * about 2000 miles! Giano 14:58, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Sicily! you make the template by typing in PD-self between - if I do it here though it will make the template appear on your page. Giano 15:17, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Like this - - but without the "nowiki" tags. -- ALoan (Talk) 15:50, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Image:Phone Socket the principle of operation.jpg
Hi. I hope I'm not being the "image police" but is this image scanned in from a book? If so - who made the original diagram? You can't claim to release it under the GFDL if it's a copy of someone else's work. (sorry). Secretlondon 12:31, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

No its good to have some help in this area.

That is from a BT phamplet issued in the 1970s that does not conatin any copyright. For refernce it is ICS8.2.1 I took the photo of it so what copyright message should I use. This information is in the public domain but I did not want to take the time to create my own version but I will if I have to.

Also Image:Common control 1.JPG - is this your photo? If not, who took it? Secretlondon 12:41, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

I did indeed draw all the diagrams but the photos came from various sources but the ones with Tom Shiplee in came from him. He is an old friend and used to be my boss who has given me permission to use them. I would appreciate you telling me which type of copyright I can use as when I first put them in ages ago they were removed. Thnanks.

Image:Common control 5.JPG looks scanned in. Who is "Tom Shiplee of Tyne and Wear", is that where you got the photo from? I don't know if anyone has pointed you to the image use policy. You can make a case that historic images are irreplacable and hence can be used under fair use. Currently you are claiming you took the photos/drew the diagrams yourself as you are tagging them with the GFDL and cc-by-sa tags. If you've got any questions - ask me. Copyright_FAQ may also help. Secretlondon 12:52, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

GPO Telephones
From my own user page: Thnaks a bunch for reverting my edits and I had messed it up and jusrt sorting it out and you reverted it. Please check before destroying all my work. Deben Dave 21:26, 26 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Cant really see why i reverted that. In case you want to revert my revert, open the GPO Telephonie page, and select the "History" tab on top of that page. This will show all the previous versions of the page. Just select your correct version and save it again. This will overwrite my rollback. Sorry for the incorrect vandalism rollback. -- Excirial ( Talk, Contribs ) 21:30, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

BT Sockets
I took another look at the article after reading your comment, and I think I can see where you're coming from. Also, after your reorganisation, the section is looking significantly better and it is much easier to get info from now. Thanks for explaining your reasoning on the subject to me :) --Mouchoir le Souris (talk) 00:07, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

Horwood House
You're welcome; you've done a really good job with this article and I'm just happy to help with some tidying. I'm afraid I have no connection with Horwood House or knowledge of what became of the Denny family. ~ Scribble Monkey (talk) 10:40, 11 February 2008 (UTC)


 * I can certainly do that. ~ Scribble Monkey (talk) 15:47, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

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I am a personal friend of the author and he has given permission to use it. Deben Dave (talk) 10:02, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
 * In my experience that explanation is unlikely to be satisfactory - the owner of the copyright needs to fill out the rationale themselves, on the grounds that anyone could state that they have been given permission to do something. Ghmyrtle (talk) 13:30, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

A man hit this author over the head with an axe I kid you not and is severely handicapped. It is very difficult for him to even send an email. In fact you can see him sitting in the wheel chair with the Duke of Edinburgh on this page. I have all his contact details so can you helps me by telling me how we go about getting his authorisation in the manner that you require?
 * It's not what "I" require, it's to do with guidance - - to ensure that Wikipedia is not caught out by expensive legal claims over copyright.  US (Florida) law is pretty strict on this, and all I was suggesting is that the guidance on uploading images should be adhered to.  If you think images are safe from deletion, have a look at my own talk page! Ghmyrtle (talk) 15:50, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Percy Thrower
Dave, you're doing a great job with the Percy Thrower and Horwood House articles, but any chance you could add your sources, so that other editors can reference them? Thanks ~ Scribble Monkey (talk) 15:58, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Well I actaully met him so some is from my own head. The other stuff is from a biography of hims and his own memoirs.Deben Dave (talk) 21:35, 19 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Hi Dave, thanks for the references. I've added some formatting to them. If you need any help with adding further references just let me know. ~ Scribble Monkey (talk) 00:27, 21 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Nothing personal, but I've tagged the Percy Thrower article - very few references at present, unencyclopedic style in my view, and if some of the information is based on personal contact it shouldn't really be in there - not verifiable. Ghmyrtle (talk) 13:28, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Commons:File:TXE3Reed Relay.JPG
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Registrar (software)
You seem to be unfamiliar with Wikipedia (and other encyclopedia) requirements for sourcing on articles. I suggest that you read the Wikipedia policy on verifiability and the guideline on reliable sources. You cannot source a Wikipedia article from your memory, what other people have told you, etc. Facts in a Wikipedia article must be cited to a reliable source. This is particularly true for claims, such as being first, or being better, recognized, etc. Things like number of installations need a source, or the claim should be omitted.

You say on the article talk page that there are no sources, but that's simply not true. A simple Google search turns up quite a few pages which may have the citations you need.

In any case, please do not simply remove tags. They are not directed specifically at you but at the whole Wikipedia community. Someone else my have the needed citation if you don't, but they won't know it's needed unless you leave the tag on. You do not own the article. Another Wikipedia editor may tag it, add to it, or even remove any claims they feel are unsupportable. The article could grow or it could end up being reduced to a single paragraph if no sourcing is found for most of the material. You agreed to this when you created the article. Yworo (talk) 13:23, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

Categories
You'll want the leave the categorization to experts. Take a look at Category:Silicon Valley and see what's in it. Not software. If there was an article on SBS, it might go into a category called something like Category:Defunct companies based in California. But the Registrar (software) article doesn't belong in either, because it is not a company, it's a piece of software. Yworo (talk) 00:25, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion nomination of TapToTalk
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 * I have moved the page to User:Deben Dave/TapToTalk, where you may work on developing it. The user who tagged this didn't tag it correctly, but he was right that the article currently is not ready to be in article space and might be deleted as advertising if it remains there. Once you feel the article meets the notability guidelines, you may try moving it back. r ʨ anaɢ talk/contribs 02:07, 5 November 2009 (UTC)

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Proposed deletion of TapToTalk


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AfD nomination of TapToTalk
An article that you have been involved in editing, TapToTalk, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Articles for deletion/. Thank you.Please contact me if you're unsure why you received this message. r ʨ anaɢ talk/contribs 20:28, 8 November 2009 (UTC)

Your article in userspace
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March 2010
Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did to Oleg Penkovsky. Your edits constitute vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. TREKphiler  any time you're ready, Uhura  13:10, 11 March 2010 (UTC) Gf mistake. TREKphiler  any time you're ready, Uhura  20:48, 12 March 2010 (UTC)


 * This suggests otherwise.  TREKphiler   any time you're ready, Uhura  23:39, 11 March 2010 (UTC)


 * No worries. I've misread who was actually vandalizing & who wasn't, 'cause I find those summary pages display oddly sometimes, so I was half-prepared to apologize, too. ;D In retrospect, I shouldn't have slapped you.  TREKphiler   any time you're ready, Uhura  20:48, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

"Lipmann Kessel"
I see that you worked on the article on this fellow, which I have just moved/redirected to "Alexander Lipmann-Kessel" -- which I believe, without certainty, to be his correct name. Did you happen to know this guy, by chance? His name seems to be a bit of a mystery -- my speculation is that the "long" name is correct and the "short" name may result from his having abandoned the "Alexander" late in life on some books he wrote, but the situation isn't clear. This is one where some original research would actually be a handy thing! -- Bill-on-the-Hill (talk) 22:48, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

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TXE
Dear Dave: Regarding the TXE article, I'd first like to congratulate you on your excellent work in documenting the topic. It really is an excellent article, and I like it immensely, and found it most interesting. I do somewhat regret, however, your removal of the cleanup tags from the article that I added (regarding the two main article issues, a lack of inline citations and excessive detail). In addition, you also reinstated the Acknowledgements section that was present in the article that I had removed. I'd like to discuss these points with you, if I may:


 * Acknowledgement sections are not appropriate for an encyclopaedia project such as Wikipedia, in the sense of acknowledging article contributors. Wikipedia contributors, nor those who have advised them, are not acknowledged for their work in contributing to the article; all articles are collaborative efforts. If, alternatively, the individuals named are sources of content for the article on the TXE system, they must be properly cited as to where that information was published, in what format, and other bibliographic details. For more on how to do this properly if people are primary or secondary sources of information, and not article contributions such as photographs or copywriting, I would like to draw your attention to Citing sources on how to do this. Please note that if that information they have contributed is not published in a reliable source, this is classed as original research and is not appropriate for Wikipedia; please see No original research for more information on why this is Wikipedia policy and how to tell the difference between types of sources. Statements that are either not referenced at all or are not referenced to a reliable source published externally to Wikipedia, in the sense that WP:RS defines it, must sadly be removed as original research or unreliably sourced material.
 * References on Wikipedia must be directly attributed to the text that the information is from. Inline citations gives more information on how to do this. I understand the volume of text in the TXE article makes this an extremely difficult endeavour; therefore, I tagged the article as needing work in this area so that other individuals can assist in the research process of documenting the explicit sources for each factual element, as the page thus gets added to the appropriate cleanup category.
 * Granularity out of proportion to relevance is a serious issue also (for which I will not go into the guidelines; WP:MOS et cetera likely contain all you can stand). The style and depth of detail of the article, as it stands, is comprehensive and interesting, but would be more appropriate to a book on the subject rather than encyclopaedia article. The article needs, as good articles on Wikipedia do, to be correctly geared to Wikipedia's target audience. This means that the very explicit technical detail in the article may need toning down a shade, and the style be brought more in line with other articles on Wikipedia.

I fear, a shade, that you may have developed the article as an island unto itself rather distanced, perhaps, from the general method of writing employed in Wikipedia. I would like to invite you to have a look at some of the featured articles elsewhere on Wikipedia as a guide for the style and approach, and how sources must be correctly referenced. I would also like to invite you to reinstate the two cleanup tags and (re) remove the inappropriate acknowledgements section, drawing your attention to the notion that Wikipedia articles are not owned by those editors who have invested the most time on them, and external editing and criticism are not only to be expected but are an intrinsic part of our editing process.

Once again, thank you for your hard work and application of your indepth expertise in developing an excellent article, albeit one that will be more excellent with editing. I place myself, as all "janitors" of Wikipedia do, at your service. I look forward to working with you on this. --NicholasTurnbull | (talk) 01:47, 27 October 2010 (UTC) Corrected --NicholasTurnbull | (talk) 01:55, 27 October 2010 (UTC)


 * As I observe this is an issue which other editors have raised with you on multiple occasions (above), I have rolled back your edit removing the tags and reinserting the "acknowledgements". I trust you will discuss this with me before you repeat your reversion. --NicholasTurnbull | (talk) 01:55, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

Dear Dave: Please do not simply revert the addition of cleanup tags to Wikipedia articles, nor revert the removal of unsourced original research; instead, please discuss the issues with the article on the article's talk page. Contributions to Wikipedia are made on the understanding that it will be edited by others. With regard to your edit summary, you must understand that it does not matter how well you know about TXE exchanges; what counts is the verifiability, sourcing and appropriateness of article content. Wikipedia does not accept unsourced content on the basis of editor expertise or credentials. Please do not act as if you own the TXE article by reverting changes by others without rationale; should you continue to do so, you may be subject to administrative enforcement and may potentially be briefly blocked from editing Wikipedia. --NicholasTurnbull | (talk) 21:30, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

Ownership behaviour on TXE
Please stop assuming ownership of articles. Doing so may lead to disruptive behavior such as edit wars and is a violation of policy, which may lead to your being blocked from editing Wikipedia. --NicholasTurnbull | (talk) 02:18, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

I respectfully disagree with your comments about unsourced content the information I have given is based on my professional involvement at the centre of the project whilst working for GPO/BT from 1966 until 1986. So I cannot give comprehensive sourcing but then again non of it is hearsay either. Any part of my input that not referenced is based on my own personal experience at the very centre of the TXE development team. Deben Dave (talk) 16:36, 1 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Hi there Dave: Thanks so much for replying to me, at least; I'm grateful for you talking. I do, of course, understand that you have a wealth of personal experience in this subject and indeed, I don't actually doubt that the sourceless information is probably correct. Unfortunately, however, Wikipedia doesn't publish information based on personal experience -- this is, in fact, the definition of original research, as No original research talks about. It's regretful, but we can't actually accept information just on the basis of your experience. This is non-negotiable Wikipedia policy, as Wikipedia is a so called "tertiary source" -- all material must come from referenced sources. Please read the following for more information:
 * No original research, Verifiability, Citing sources, What Wikipedia is not
 * Thankfully I fully suspect that the actual technical detail about TXE actually can be sourced as it is reasonably well discussed. It may well be that the material you have added to Wikipedia that can't be sourced might have a better home outside of Wikipedia. This is why the tags need to go there, as other editors who work on cleanup can then hunt down sources with which to reference the claims.
 * Now, as for the Acknowledgements section -- please understand that whilst I appreciate your desire to thank and recognise your collaborators, Wikipedia does not credit article contributors, but it does cite sources. It can't stay there, as personal content on Wikipedia pages is considered vanity publication. You simply cannot have it in the article. I'm sorry if you think I'm being a "jobsworth" by insisting on this, Dave, and please be assured that I am neither the only administrator to be accused as such. The content standards of Wikipedia are what they are, until such a time as the community decides to modify them by consensus. Neither of us can overrule community standards.
 * Finally, and most importantly; please do not revert the removal of content that does not adhere to Wikipedia policies. I really do not want to be heavy handed with you, Dave, as I know you are a committed and valuable editor who has indepth personal knowledge of your topic. You must understand that Wikipedia does not accept information on the basis on its contribution by experts. However, reinsertion of inappropriate content is considered disruptive editing, as discussed in Ownership of articles. The reinsertion of your personal acknowledgements and the unsourceable material has once again been reverted. Please don't simply reinsert it, as you will be blocked for disruptive editing if you continue. Let's keep talking instead, as I'm very happy to discuss this with you and explain anything you need me to. --NicholasTurnbull | (talk) 19:03, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

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 * I do look forward to your response at the Admin Noticeboard - Verifiability is not an option on Wikipedia. ( talk→  BWilkins   ←track ) 20:53, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

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NicholasTurnbull &#124; (talk) 18:25, 6 November 2010 (UTC) Updated --NicholasTurnbull &#124; (talk) 18:46, 6 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Gracious sakes; this is alarming. Yes, Wikipedia has rules, and rules are to be followed, but I hope this article and its pictures can find a way to survive within the rules.  Jim.henderson (talk) 16:06, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

I've done some work to help you with the above
Dear Dave: I think it would be really, really sad for all of these great, historically-valuable images to be deleted from Wikipedia (as listed above). I totally take onboard what you say about people being more willing to simply tag things than assist with article work. I also believe you have genuinely received permission from the image contributors for these images, but the sad problem is that we do not have any evidence on Wikipedia of this other than your word. Therefore, I've gone the extra mile in this case, and have cross-referenced a list of the above images with copyright problem by their named contributor, so we can work together to stop them being deleted. It has taken me quite a lot of work to do this.

This means you can:
 * Write a "round robin" email addressed to all of the following names:
 * BT Archives, Mick Gallagher, Christopher White, Andy Knott, Harvey Berry, John Vickers, Ken Coulson, Graham Bonson, Peter Eyre, Tom Shiplee.


 * Copy and paste the list of images by contributor, below, into the body of the e-mail.
 * Ask them to reply to ', carbon copying ', making the following declaration:
 * I hereby give unconditional permission to the Wikimedia Foundation to use the images listed for any purpose, including relicensing under the GNU Free Documentation License and CC-BY-SA 3.0, unless otherwise specified.

For those contributors who reply to the "round robin" message, the images will not be deleted -- as the list contains which contributors provided which images, and the OTRS team can then tag the appropriate images as having received authenticable permission.

The list of images by contributor

 * BT Archives: File:TXE4 A to B Switching Model.JPG, File:TXE2 Hullbridge Supy.JPG, File:TXE2 Hullbridge.JPG, File:TXE4 Muswell Hill Exchange.JPG
 * Mick Gallagher: File:TXE4E_002.JPG, File:TXE4E_001.JPG
 * Christopher White: File:TXE4A 001.JPG, File:TXE4A 003.JPG, File:TXE4A 002.JPG
 * Andy Knott: File:TXE4_scrapped.JPG, File:TXE2 MDR graticule.JPG
 * Harvey Berry: File:TXE4 Pulse Generator.JPG, File:TXE4 MCU Panel.JPG
 * John Vickers: File:TXE4 Register Racks.JPG, File:TXE4 Cyclic Store Racks.JPG
 * Ken Coulson: File:TXE3Rack1.JPG, File:TXE3MCU1.JPG, File:TXE1 console.JPG ‎
 * Graham Bonson: File:TXE2 Control Alarm Panel.JPG
 * Peter Eyre: File:Ambergate CNG and COS.jpg
 * Tom Shiplee: File:Outgoing junctions 4.JPG, File:Data store translator.JPG, File:Data Store.jpg, File:Common control 1.JPG, File:Common control 5.JPG, File:Siwtching 8.JPG, File:Siwtching 9.JPG

Let me know if you need any help with this. All the best, --NicholasTurnbull &#124; (talk) 19:08, 6 November 2010 (UTC)

Sample e-mail
To: BT Archives, Mick Gallagher, Christopher White, Andy Knott, Harvey Berry, John Vickers, Ken Coulson, Graham Bonson, Peter Eyre, Tom Shiplee

Dear contributors to the TXE article:

I am contacting you because you kindly contributed one or more image(s) to the Wikipedia article on the TXE exchange systems, located at the following URL:



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To affirm your permission, please reply to the following e-mail address:



and cc the following address:



making the following declaration:

I, the copyright holder of one or more image(s) listed below, hereby give unconditional permission to the Wikimedia Foundation to use those images attributed to me for any purpose, including relicensing under the GNU Free Documentation License and CC-BY-SA 3.0, unless otherwise specified.

File:TXE2 Hullbridge.JPG, File:TXE4 Muswell Hill Exchange.JPG File:Common control 1.JPG, File:Common control 5.JPG, File:Siwtching 8.JPG, File:Siwtching 9.JPG
 * BT Archives: File:TXE4 A to B Switching Model.JPG, File:TXE2 Hullbridge Supy.JPG,
 * Mick Gallagher: File:TXE4E_002.JPG, File:TXE4E_001.JPG
 * Christopher White: File:TXE4A 001.JPG, File:TXE4A 003.JPG, File:TXE4A 002.JPG
 * Andy Knott: File:TXE4_scrapped.JPG, File:TXE2 MDR graticule.JPG
 * Harvey Berry: File:TXE4 Pulse Generator.JPG, File:TXE4 MCU Panel.JPG
 * John Vickers: File:TXE4 Register Racks.JPG, File:TXE4 Cyclic Store Racks.JPG
 * Ken Coulson: File:TXE3Rack1.JPG, File:TXE3MCU1.JPG, File:TXE1 console.JPG ‎
 * Graham Bonson: File:TXE2 Control Alarm Panel.JPG
 * Peter Eyre: File:Ambergate CNG and COS.jpg
 * Tom Shiplee: File:Outgoing junctions 4.JPG, File:Data store translator.JPG, File:Data Store.jpg,

Thank you for providing this valuable educational material on the TXE exchanges. My apologies for any inconvenience caused.

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Location of the Highgate Wood telephone exchange
I'm trying to find the location of the Highgate Wood telephone exchange in order to geocode the article. Is there any information in the sources? The Muswell Hill exchange exchange code LNMUS is fairly near Highgate wood google maps streetview and used to pilot new technology news. Could they be the same exchange? Grim2</b><b style="color:#FF0000">3</b> ★ 19:17, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

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Thanks for your TXE edits!
The Wiki article on the TXE is one of the most fascinating articles I've read, so I just wanted to say thanks ever so much for your contributions to it! toresbe (talk) 17:38, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks from this corner too - also for your work on Horwood - I was a BTS 82 there. Andy Dingley (talk) 21:59, 25 September 2013 (UTC)

Lise Meitner
Hi, just saw you took out "German-" from Lise Meitner, thanks. The IP also made a similar edit to Otto Robert Frisch, but I wasn't sure if they were right or wrong in doing so. Regards, Eric:  Esowteric + Talk  21:16, 27 October 2012 (UTC)

Pleasure been a fan of Lise for a while and even been to her grave where I took the picture that is on her page. Deben Dave (talk) 20:25, 28 October 2012 (UTC)

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And also: ✗ plicit  11:48, 11 November 2022 (UTC)
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