User talk:Dr Steven Plunkett/Archive 3

Archiving (from my useful friend Cumbrowski)

 * Here is a quick primer:


 * 1) Create a new User Talk Page with the suffix "/Archive 1". Here is the link to it.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Username/Archive 1 
 * 2) It will say that the page does not exist yet. Go and press edit.
 * 3) Add at the top the following code.  
 * 4) Open your default talk page at  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Username  and press edit.
 * 5) Select everything you want to archive and cut it out of the page ("Ctrl-X")
 * 6) Paste the content into the new talk page after the   template
 * 7) Add a link on your standard talk page to the Archive page   *  * You can also use    instead to make the linke to the archive pages on your main talk page include the word "Archive X" in the anchor text instead of just "X".
 * 8) Save the standard talk page and you are done


 * Notes
 * The next archive pages would work the same, just call them .../Archive 2 ..../Archive 3 etc.
 * The template is a modified version of the  template and adds the little box to the archive which you can see here User_talk:Cumbrowski/Archive 1. It creates a link to your current talk page automatically (that's why the specific name .../Archive X). It also adds a little navigation to the previous and next archive page. In addition to that (my custom part) does it add a reference to your user page and shows your name (that it is your user talk archive) and the  at the bottom. I also changed the font sizes and colors to emphasis the important parts.
 * The on your main user talk page creates a little "Archive" box with links to all your archive pages automatically. You don't have to change that one anymore. It automatically detects, if new archive pages were created.

The updated primer! Your Archive 2 page is fixed. I left you a note at my talk page too --roy&lt;sac&gt; Talk! .oOo. 10:12, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

Greece Runestones
Thanks for you kind comments! As for the word "husbandman", I have been considering it, but there is probably not much to do about it. It is the translation decided upon by the researchers in the Rundata project, and the reason is that the Old Norse word bóndi meant both "farmer" and "husband". I think they decided that to a Scandinavian ear husbandman combines both "farmer" and "husband" in a single word. Best,--Berig 07:42, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Just a question about your opinion as a general reader. At the moment I am only adding transliteration, transcription into the runic Swedish kind of Old Norse and translation. I am considering adding the normalized spelling of Old Norse to the articles. "Normalized" spelling is the kind you find in modern publications of the Old Icelandic sources and it constitutes a standardized Old Norse that you can also find in transcriptions of Swedish runic inscriptions, like here. As it is now the English translations use the normalized spelling, but I prefer the runic Swedish/Danish transcriptions since they are closer to the transliterations of the runes. Do you think adding the normalized spelling would make the articles look cluttered or would it only add to the informativity?--Berig 08:17, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
 * I think I have found the solution. I have begun to add a link to an online dictionary at the University of Nottingham. I has entries in both the Swedish/Danish forms and in the normalized forms and it gives examples of all runic attestations in Rundata. It serves the purpose of verifiability that I had in mind. Best wishes,--Berig 09:15, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks for leaving a comment on Talk:Eric of Good Harvests. It seems like our friend Rursus has lost interest, however, and the tag can be removed in a few days.--Berig 20:46, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

Change of Wikipedia User Name
I left you some suggestions at User_talk:Cumbrowski --roy&lt;sac&gt; Talk! .oOo. 10:51, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

Raedwald and user names
Hi -- just a note to say I've posted a note to the Rædwald talk page and will follow up there when I've made the changes you suggested. I also wanted to mention, since I saw your note above, that you might want to look at WP:CHU which gives information on how to change your username without losing your contribution history and so on. Hope that's useful. Mike Christie (talk) 15:23, 1 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Thanks Mike, I am planning to wind down my operations here anyhow, so this has nothing to do with raedwald. You will notice I haven't written any new Saxoniana for quite some time. I am through the first phase of recovery from my medical troubles of this spring and need to prise myself away from the laptop. It wld also help me to make a fresh start but I shan't cast off old acquaintances in doing so. I will look in at Raedwald and what you are doing in a day or so - okay? Best wishes, Steven . Dr Steven Plunkett 23:34, 1 July 2007 (UTC)


 * I saw your recent notes -- thank you for such a detailed reply. I am busy finishing another article but am nearly done and will try to respond over the weekend, if other obligations don't intervene.  Thanks -- Mike Christie (talk) 10:57, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

Wagner singers
As you will see I've had another go at getting this in order. I wonder if we should now delete all the singers lacking first names as these seem impossible to identify? -- Kleinzach 07:37, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

Very sorry to see you go!
All the best. Johnbod 02:30, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

Peter Dawson
Hi Steven (or Dr Plunkett). Thanks for that info. However I still don't think it's an important fact, encyclopedically speaking. That Dawson mentions this in his autobiography would reflect, I think, the more fawning and subservient attitude that some Australians of earlier days had towards British Governments. The Union Jack was almost as often flown here as the Australian Flag was. Even Robert Menzies, who retired as Prime Minister as late as 1966, famously (and offensively to all the millions of post-war non-British migrants) said "We Australians are British to the bootstraps". So I see Dawson's mentioning the British PMs who owned his records as a reflection of the post-colonial times, no more. For the purposes of a 21st century encyclopedia, however, to single out these prime ministerial purchases as somehow conferring greater importance to his recordings than might otherwise have been the case, would be jingoistic and reactionary in the extreme. Their merit is musical, not political. (By the way, I absolutely love Dawson's singing and I have many of his records. In fact, I think I'll go off now and play some his LPs - yes, I still have LPs). All the best. -- JackofOz 04:06, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

Breedon-on-the-Hill images?
Hello! I hope you're fully recovered. I have a little question on Eardwulf and Breedon-on-the-Hill. I am trying to find public-domain (which probably means Edwardian or Victorian in practice) images of the statuary and such at the church of St Mary & St Hardulph. I'm away from home for a bit, so I can't check your article in The St Andrews Sarcophagus. Do you know of any old books which contain illustrations of this kind? Very many thanks in advance, and all the best! Angus McLellan (Talk) 10:44, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

Eardwulf
Thanks for the note, and of course for the additional material in the article. Much appreciated. The article is almost entirely Angus's work, in fact, so he deserves the credit; I just added the map and did some copyediting. Any pictures you can find would be great. Of the text you added, there's just one sentence you didn't cite directly, and I was wondering what the source was: it's the statement "It is suggested that the (dedication) Hardulph's feast day was 21 August." Can you tell me where this comes from? It would be nice to have a ref for it. Thanks again -- Mike Christie (talk) 01:19, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

Nice to see you
Hi, I am glad to see you around again :-).--Berig 07:05, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

Delius
Sorry, I missed your note somehow. I read Warlock & Fenby many years ago, and don't remember anything about occultism or astrology: my books are in England, where I never nowadays visit - more of an exile than Delius in fact.

Many thanks for your note: I think the article is fine now.

By the way, I've started a Delius article at Citizendium. Rothorpe 23:11, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Don't approve? Sorry, but I must ask why - Rothorpe 12:45, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

I certainly remain devoted to WP, but at CZ, it’s nice not to have to worry about sources, and there’s also the ‘fresh start’ aspect’ - though it’s a bit on the quiet side, no reserved acidity as yet... Rothorpe 21:59, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Ah, but I read it last night!

It's a long time since I googled stubs; most seem to come up fairly high. Ditto Altavista (which I sometimes think is better than Google).

Portuguese Wikipedia is even sleepier than Citizendium.

Whatever it is you need a break from, I hope you get it soon. (I'd put a smiley there, but I don't approve of them.) Rothorpe 12:55, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

Viglund the Fair
The original Icelandic name is Víglundar saga, and you can read it in translation here.--Berig 18:02, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
 * I hope that you'll start contributing here again. Wikipedia needs great editors like you.--Berig 20:16, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas to you as well!--Berig (talk) 22:01, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

Happy New Year!
I hope 2008 is an improvement! For Xmas I bought myself a copy of your Anglo-Saxon Suffolk book. Haven't had a chance to read it yet though. All the best, Angus McLellan (Talk) 10:59, 4 January 2008 (UTC)


 * That's a good question. User:AlexNewArtBot/Music is the list of keywords that Alex's bot uses to identify music articles. Seems very incomplete, no "soprano", no "composer", no "arranger". It might be best to ask Alex Bakharev to add more keywords to the list for musical articles. Is this any use? I'm not quite sure what you meant by "a search using one of the keywords" ... Angus McLellan (Talk) 16:45, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

Greetings - Rothorpe (talk) 21:50, 28 January 2008 (UTC) - & the same to you - Rothorpe (talk) 23:06, 28 January 2008 (UTC)