User talk:Dr Janet Fairweather

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Somehow my problem today with referencing has been cleared up in my logged off absence and I am glad of it. Thank you to whoever was responsible. Please, now that I have rewritten this article could someone also reconsider the importance of St Sigfrid as a historical figure and his achievement as a topic of study under the various headings that Wikipedia recognizes.Dr Janet Fairweather (talk) 15:55, 27 June 2018 (UTC)

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Thank you to the editor who enlarged and emboldened my sectional titles and added a table of contents today. I was really worried by the news of a conflict of editing, but took time off before dealing with instructions which utterly baffled me,then cut my losses by logging out and redoing my last series of references and all now seems to be well. Dr Janet Fairweather (talk) 15:43, 20 June 2018 (UTC)

I wasn't so pleased today to notice reinsertion of old material alleging that Saint Sigfrid was a monk of Glastonbury (not true, so far as we can tell); and perpetrating a confusion between Rimbert and St Anskar. I have deleted this material and hope that deletion will be allowed to stand. Dr Janet Fairweather (talk) 15:51, 21 June 2018 (UTC)

From St Sigfrid of Sweden (11th century AD to Seneca the Elder (1st centuries BC and Ad) is a long step. My additions and revisions of the Wikipedia article on the latter have been made on the strength of my doctoral work of the period 1967-77, which gave rise to a book, Seneca the Elder published in 1981. I was prompted to look back at this old research after reading reports of a papyrological discovery relating to the elder Seneca's long lost Histories. I was able to locate the academic article to which these reports referred, and have included a brief summary of it, which the author has now approved. Dr Janet Fairweather (talk) 10:50, 6 August 2019 (UTC)

Conflicts of interest
Hi - I'm Girth Summit, an administrator here. I'm also an editor with an interest in the history and architecture of buildings, particularly churches, and I've written quite a few articles about them. I noticed the recent edits you made at St Peter-in-Ely, and then I realised that you have made quite a few edits to that article over the last few years, and not many to other church buildings. This made me wonder whether you were connected to the building in some way. This is not necessarily a problem, but I wanted to draw your attention to our guidance on managing a conflict of interest. If it is of interest to you simply because it's the church in the village where you live, or similar, then that is not any kind of problem; if, on the other hand, you are employed at the church, then there are some steps that you need to take to declare situation with regards to the church. I hope that's clear enough; feel free to leave a message on my talk page if you have any questions. Thanks Girth Summit  (blether)  13:19, 9 November 2022 (UTC)


 * Regarding the Church of St Peter in Ely, I do not receive a salary there, and am well over 'retirement' age. I have how ever been its organist (paid at a piece-work rate) since 2004 and have for two periods been one of its chapel wardens (an annually elected officer).
 * Janet Fairweather. Dr Janet Fairweather (talk) 16:08, 3 October 2023 (UTC)