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 * PS - So that's the official welcome template (second time I think it's ever been used!). Meanwhile, I'll peek in on those those articles you recently created, and tagged for the project - great work. Thanks! Zue Jay (talk)  01:10, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

Shakatapuram
Hi,

I noticed that you have supported this article's nom for delete. I have cleaned up the article now. Can you please have a look and review it to see if the article looks in a good shape to keep? Thanks -- ¿Amar៛ Talk to me / My edits 06:56, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

CS Faraday
No problem at all, it was so well written in the first place that very little tweaking was needed. Keep up the good work! Benea (talk) 03:31, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

tekphoto
Hello Dumelow, This article (Thomas Krueger) is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedia's deletion policy. The references have been added to the page making it and the artist notable. This page no longer Fails WP:BIO. This is also not a probable vanity page. This is simply a Biography of the artist. All of the references and External links verify this artist. Please help me resolve this problem. Thank you. --Tekphoto (talk) 05:38, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

tekphoto
This artist has been "published" in JPG Magazine which is distributed nationally in major bookstores (Barnes & Noble, Borders, ETC) as well as on Filemagazine.com which the artist has no primary control having his/her work on that site. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.17.238.9 (talk) 18:56, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Archimedes bridge and Immersed tube
Hello, Dumelow!

I noticed you have been quite active in the Civil Engineering wikiproject, and I thought you might be ablre to help me. I have a particular interest in Archimedes bridges, but the article currently doesn't go into much detail. I know nothing about civil engineering, but since I'me Cape Verdean, I'm curious to know if such a bridge is feasible between the islands there. Can you help me figure out some facts on this subject? In any case, a little expansion would be good to the article.. :) Oh, by the way, would you tag it as covered by the project?

In another issue, I have read about immersed tubes, also in the scope of my interest in the possibility of connecting the islands of Cape Verde, and the article wasnt quite clear to me. I asked Yupi666 to make an illustration, and he did a great job, as you can see. The text, however, could still be expanded. For instance, see what Yupi asked me in my talk page. Evidently, I couldn't answer to his questions... So, could you give this one article a hand too? :D

Finally, I'd like to call your attention to the duplicate civil engineering project template engineering. I marked it with merge, but i left the task to be done by someone closer to that project. I assume you might be interested in taking care of that. disregard this, I didn't notice I was misinterpreting the scope of those two different tags. 20:48, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

Well, I guess it's all. Cheers, Waldir talk 21:35, 16 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Thanks a lot! I will too be doing some research on the subject, and hope to be able to add some content to the article. Namely, I'm going to add english subtitles to the videos in the italian company website and upload them to youtube, and link them from the article, among other simler things like bringing content from websites that talk about the subject. If I had some time I'd even make a 3D animation myself, but I can't promise that, since I have a huge workload on school due to be finishing my course. Oh, and btw, probably the best now is for us to communicate through Talk:Archimedes bridge. And finally, I do have one more question -- I assume you might not be able to respond without some research, but then again, I am not in a hurry :) -- which is: what is the possibility of the application of an archimedes bridge in Cape Verde? In terms of length, sea depth, etc... I'm curious about this. Maybe if I become rich some day I'd build one :D Waldir talk 09:55, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

Edinburgh Zoo
Hi! I noticed you voted for Edinburgh Zoo to be the next ACID article. Thanks for your vote, and I was wondering if you could take a while to look over the Zoo's article, to see if you can add/correct information, or generally improve on the article? Any help you can offer would be great, as I'm currently pushing for Good Article status! Thanks again :) — Jack · talk · 03:24, Thursday, 3 January 2008

Premier Basketball League
The only top level basketball league in the US is the NBA. The Premier Basketball League is considered a "developmental" league, and such leagues receive virtually no coverage outside their home markets. Some don't even get that. These leagues rate far below college basketball on the notability scale. Hope this helps. DarkAudit (talk) 16:53, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

William Henry Barlow image
Hi there, I have uploaded an image of Barlow. For your other work on the ICE presidents, I presume you've checked with the ICE library? I'll dig around and see if there's anything I can find to help. --Mrussell78 (talk) 11:35, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

son of engineer
"I'm a rambling wreck, and a hell of a tech, and the son of an Engineer" sung to Georgia Tech Fight song by Saltysailor (talk) 14:24, 16 April 2008 (UTC)  1968

thanks for the greeting, now  I need to see if I can get my dad, the retired Engineering Professor, to join up. Saltysailor (talk) 14:24, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

Saltash Tunnel
Many thanks for your work - the article is much improved by it. I've done a little tidying to the first section. Now we just need a photo! I'll have a look on Commons and Geograph to see if I can find one. Best wishes, DuncanHill (talk) 13:19, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Have found two pgotos and added tham. DuncanHill (talk) 13:56, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

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Inglis
no problem, it would have been easier if they're weren't another C. E. Inglis in the Royal artillery at the same time. I still hope to track down his OBE too. David Underdown (talk) 08:32, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

User: 89.31.50.36
Hi, I'm not the one who made the edits you reverted, and it wasn't on the computer I am using, but I saw the message when I was logged out. I'm assuming this is because, as I'm using a student internet connection, it could've been anyone of a number of people connecting to my network using Wikipedia. Just to let you know, and any other admins and whatnot! --Nightfreak (talk) 22:36, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

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You may find User:David Underdown/Honours useful - the Gazette search isn't always perfect because of the way the text has been scanned in, but I've been noting down the New Year and Birthday Honours for each year as I come etc them. The gazette search is here if you haven't found it. To make sure you've got as much as possibl eit's usually necessary to search on full names, first names, middle initials, surname and all initials + surname. David Underdown (talk) 22:45, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

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John Frederick Bateman
Oops, sorry, I should have looked to see if there was an article under his later name before creating this one. I guess I didn't look as hard as I might have done because there are so many of these great Victorian engineers without wikipedia articles, so I wish you luck with your project. Thanks for doing the merger; I'll be happy to do what I can to tidy up and provide citations.

Good luck with the exams! --Malleus Fatuorum (talk) 13:12, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Revert on List of civil engineers
My revert was specifically to get rid of someone without notability -- the "* 67.82.114.175 (talk) 14:08, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

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DYK
And it's a fantastic expansion! - Mailer Diablo 19:28, 23 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Great work! I was actually thinking of expanding the article when I was writing List of Sultans of Zanzibar, but I never got around to it. Again, good work! Nishkid64 (Make articles, not wikidrama) 19:39, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

Yes indeed I enjoyed it too. The Bald One     White cat 08:26, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

I've done a lot of work on African geography and history myself. I wondered if you had any books or anything on Mozambique history particularly conficts with Rhodesia. I;ve managed to find the occasional scrap from google but I can't accomplish anywhere as near as I wish to unless I have the books The Bald One      White cat 17:40, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

That would be good. The Portuguese and trading history on Mozambiques coast has a vast amount of info missing. From the 1550s through to the victorian period. Inhambane for instance could only be expanded so much the scraps of online info. I'll love to find a large meaty book on the history of that area. Then of course those towns in Tanzania need expanding! The Bald One     White cat 18:08, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I've got access to some more sources, so I'll be expanding/referencing the article in the coming days. I'll be sure to cover all the MoS and formatting issues as well. Nishkid64 (Make articles, not wikidrama) 13:01, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
 * By the way, if you have Hernon's book, could you format the references with specific page numbers. I just personally prefer if a footnote provides you with a specific page number, rather than a page range (Hernon 2003, p. 397 instead of Hernon 2003, pp. 396-404). It's alright if you don't have the book or don't feel like doing this. :) Nishkid64 (Make articles, not wikidrama) 14:12, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I was going to do it, but neither my university library nor the other ones in the area have the book. Nishkid64 (Make articles, not wikidrama) 14:45, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm in the process of replacing all BBC h2g2 (a wiki) and Zanzibarhistory.com (a self-published site) references, as they don't meet WP:RS. I suspect some of this material can be found in Hernon; could you help re-source some of this material? Nishkid64 (Make articles, not wikidrama) 02:11, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Very strange. Last week, I thought I didn't have access to this journal, but I guess I was wrong. I can send the pdf via email if you want. Just send me an email, and I'll reply with the pdf. Nishkid64 (Make articles, not wikidrama) 12:23, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Some of your images have dubious licensing. Since the author's date of death is unknown, these images would not apply under PD-art, and probably are not part of the public domain. However, if these images you scanned from Hernon appeared in publications, then PD-UK-unknown would apply. For example, I fixed this tag, since you had indicated that it was published in Illustrated London News in 1896. Nishkid64 (Make articles, not wikidrama) 14:41, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

DYK
Thank you for your contributions! - Mailer Diablo 16:08, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

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HHS Glasgow

 * Nice article! Just popping by to say that this needs to be added to the List of shipwrecks in 1896 article. I'm on a library computer and nearly out of time otherwise I'd do it myself!  Mjroots (talk) 14:02, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

Texel Disaster
I really thought the article Texel Disaster is a great contrib to WP. Thanks :) Paranormal Skeptic (talk) 15:02, 24 September 2008 (UTC)

Zanzibar Revolution
Great to see you are still editing well. COuld you perhaps wave your magic wand and get this article up to a decent standard? Cheers The Bald One     White cat 15:54, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

Cool. 1964 seems to be the year of revolution in Africa. 1964 Gabon coup d'état is currently an FA candidate which for an article on Gabon (which has little on the web at present) is quite remarkable <font style="color:#fef;background:black;">The Bald One     <font size="-4"><font color="Black">White cat 16:08, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

Best of luck I look forward to seeing the result <font style="color:#fef;background:black;">The Bald One     <font size="-4"><font color="Black">White cat 16:35, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

Thanks!
Thanks for the warm welcome. I hope to make some meaningful edits over time, in between labs and time-consuming homework of course. Wadester16 (talk) 17:33, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

Barnstar for Anglo-Zanzibar War
I see it has received well deserved Featured status. Excellent. Dhatfield (talk) 20:07, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

Re:Welcome to WP:CEng
Hi, I am not a civil engineer yet and my knowledge in this field is extremely limited, infact i haven't even started my degree yet. However, I am sure that I will be of some use to this project soon. Right now I would like to work on expanding some projects here. I know there are not many civil engineering topics related to Pakistan, but I can be of some help if you find one. I will start with the ones that I am comfortable with! Marsa Lahminal (talk) 08:13, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

Map
Another point on the map: the fonts shouldn't be sized until you know what size you want it displayed it. Right now the fonts are unreadable in a thumbnail. So let me know about that too.

If you have access to a graphics program capable of overlaying text onto the background map, then you can do that part yourself if you want -- I can send you the raw graphic by email, or upload it for you to grab. Let me know. Mike Christie (talk) 16:05, 19 October 2008 (UTC)


 * No problem; I'm happy to do it. Can you let me know what size you think you want the image in the article?  My feeling is that if you thumbnail it, which technically you're supposed to, then it's unreadable anyway, so the best thing is to make it readable when clicked on and not worry about too much readability at the thumbnail level.  I'll proceed on that basis.  It's easy to change if you want me to.  Mike Christie (talk) 16:14, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Abeid Karume
Hi I wondered if you could improve this? Dr. Blofeld (talk) 13:12, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Excellent work! (I admittedly had forgotten) LOL. Keep up the smashing work! Warmest congrats on the FA. I knew when I saw it on the DYK it was actually not that far away as it is rare to see such high quality at DYK. Best <font style="color:#fef;background:black;">Count Blofeld  18:31, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

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Great work
Just wanted to compliment you on your great work on that article - really good stuff. Stevage 01:10, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

Richard Mohun copy-edit request
Thanks for the message on my talk page. I will try to take a look at the article in the next few days. – ukexpat (talk) 16:47, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Hi, Dumelow. I noticed a remark on the project's talkpage which may have been in response to a remark I made. The remark has nothing to do with anything.  But I apologize for it anyway.  Richard Mohun is a very good article.  Hag2 (talk) 14:04, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

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Richard Mohun copy-edit - done!
✅ - I have just completed my copy edit. No significant changes - just a couple of typos, fixed a few wikilinks, and a little extra punctuation. Hope this helps. – ukexpat (talk) 16:45, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

Triple Crown jewels
Thank you for contributions to the project, Great work, especially on Anglo-Zanzibar War - quite meticulous and comprehensive sourcing throughout, nice job! May you wear the crowns well. Cirt (talk) 23:50, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

Charles Douglas Fox DYK
Hello! there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath and respond there as soon as possible. Truthanado (talk) 16:46, 27 December 2008 (UTC)