User talk:EdH

Welcome
Hello there EdH, welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you ever need editing help visit How does one edit a page and experiment at Sandbox. If you need pointers on how we title pages visit Naming conventions. If you have any other questions about the project then check out Help or add a question to the Village pump. MB 15:43 16 May 2003 (UTC)

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia!

When creating an article, could you take care to highlight the title phrase or title word very early in the article (typically on the first line)? (See how I edited your Coulson article.)  Michael Hardy 21:42 16 May 2003 (UTC)

Lawrence Brockett
Hi. Please see Talk:Lawrence Brockett. Mintguy 10:33 23 May 2003 (UTC)

Empire
Hey, thanks for the Empire link! Ark30inf

Jan Lukasiewicz
Hi EdH, I see that you have done a lot on Jan Lukasiewicz. You seem to know more than I, but I am concerned that we have a spelling conflict over one of the names in the Warsaw School. (See the "studied with" sentence near head of Alfred Tarski. My Source (I can look it up and provide if you like) has Le&#347niewski. How confident are you in your spelling? Thanks, vanden 07:07, 5 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Hi EdH, got your message, saw the update, and I don't mind in the least that you put the exchange onto the talk page. A pleasure working with you! vanden 08:46, 8 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Philosophy of perception
Your work on Philosophy of perception is excellent – thank you. Banno 12:44, 5 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Louis Kahn
Louis Kahn: please check that I didn't eliminate anything trying to fix our edit conflict just now. Thanks. Wetman 07:15, 19 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Dick Clarke
You broke the path from Dick Clarke (and thus from Dick Clark) to Richard Clarke), replacing it with a closed loop. If your intentions were good, please forgive my writing in an insistent tone. In any case, please explain those intentions for the record, in a reply here on your own talk page. --Jerz y(t) 22:13, 2004 Jun 24 (UTC)


 * Please see Talk:Dick Clarke EdH 20:07, Jun 26, 2004 (UTC).

Thanks, Ed, now that you describe it, i can see how i could have done that myself, and have confidently failed to check my work. BTW, i admire --Jerzy(t) 02:14, 2004 Jun 27 (UTC)
 * your clear exposition of the situation (it's under GFDL, so there's no point agonizing about whether it's an idea or the expression of an idea, so i will steal it someday without hesitation!) and
 * your clean and effective structure for solving the underlying problem, which is substantially better than what i could come up with.

Haileybury
I notice that you have done most of the work on the article about my alma mater Haileybury. What's your connection with the old place? Or are you just interested? --Phil | Talk 12:56, Jun 25, 2004 (UTC)

excellent edit in puberty
I didn't go back to see if the tautology was my own sparkling prose because I would be severely embarrassed if it were. Seriously. Alteripse 19:24, 26 Jul 2004 (UTC)

GB/UK
Ed, why are you changing all of the UK links to GB? GB is just an island and has been irrelevant for centuries, UK is the country. The links should be changed the other way. --Steinsky 12:56, 7 Jul 2004 (UTC)

You might want to look at user talk:Bobblewik and Requests for comment/Bobblewik Mintguy (T)

Those darn lights
Ed, see Talk:Marfa light. Moriori 01:27, Aug 14, 2004 (UTC)

Please note I have no interest in this subject, for which information was supplied by user edh and not user EdH. EdH 14:06, Aug 20, 2004 (UTC)
 * Apologies EdH. It was confusing having a Edh as well. Moriori 20:35, Aug 20, 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing
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lots of edits, not an admin
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Please check your WP:NA entry
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Philip Pope
Are you sure he is an Old Haileyburian? Cjc13 (talk) 20:11, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

I notice that you have not responded to this request for additional information. Was it unreasonable? I, too, would welcome some clarification as to whether or not Philip Pope can properly be described as an 'Old Haileyburian'. On what grounds have you included him in that category? What I am aware of is that between, and including, the years 1971 and 1974 (I could be inaccurate here by one year in either direction) he was a pupil at another school.(CtznofRvna (talk) 14:34, 13 November 2008 (UTC))

Not unreasonable, I don't log in here very often these days. Possibly there is a name confusion here; in case there are two Philip Popes I have removed the categorization. EdH (talk) 17:12, 7 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Many thanks for providing a reply. It is much appreciated. Thank you also for removing the categorisation on the page for P. Pope.  It is my intention to add information concerning his education, but I have preferred to refrain from doing so until this discussion has been resolved.


 * It is my understanding from the information that you have posted that there is another person, also called Philip Pope, who may be called correctly an 'Old Haileyburian'. This is worth recording because it could well be that such a misunderstanding may occur again, particularly if someone should create a Wikipedia page for that other person.


 * There is also another possibiliy. Following the posting which I made above I went to the web-site of Haileybury College.  It informed me that the College has the equivalent of a preparatory school  (possiby more than one - it has some connection with a school at another location).  I was not previously aware of this.  Could it be that Philip Pope ('the musician', the subject of the Wikipedia page with which we are concerned) was a pupil at one of these two schools before going on to his 'secondary' school?  CtznofRvna (talk) 01:50, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

See Talk:Philip Pope for any further discussion/speculation on this topic. EdH (talk) 16:13, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of The Tip Sheet
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Ahmadinejad
I see you have improved Ahmadinejad's article quite a lot. Thanks for your work. However I think the leading paragraph has to be more focused on his policies as Iran's president, before anything else. Please see the leading page of other world leaders. The first paragraph has to include all major decisions he made and his main impact on Iran. Sina Kardar (talk) 18:24, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

I agree completely. There is too much muddled controversy at the moment. I have been trying to reformat without altering the content significantly. I removed nothing from that part of the article except a small piece of text about the current temporary problem with the cabinet which is relocated in the appropriate section below.

I don't think the first paragraph can include all major decisions, but only the most important. I will pose this question in the Talk:Mahmoud_Ahmadinejad page. Which are the most important things that absolutely have to be in the first section above the table of contents? I would appreciate any help you might offer in making a list of what should be there.EdH (talk) 18:39, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

Monier Monier-Williams
You were the original author of his page. Do you have your sources? Alatari (talk) 09:10, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

I copy below my response.

I don't specifically recollect the sources I used at the time of writing in 2004, which was before the emphasis on references in Wikipedia developed. At that time I added references in the External links section, so you may wish to explore those links.

The Encyclopedia Britannica 1911 article has been copied into the article's talk page, and Google Books has now scanned an obituary that should serve to confirm anything you need. Please see The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland for 1899 pages 730ff. EdH (talk) 23:25, 13 November 2009 (UTC)

Malvern College
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Unreferenced BLPs
Hello EdH! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot alerting you that 2 of the articles that you created  are tagged as Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons. The biographies of living persons policy requires that all personal or potentially controversial information be sourced. In addition, to ensure verifiability, all biographies should be based on reliable sources. If you were to bring these articles up to standards, it would greatly help us with the current Category:All_unreferenced_BLPs article backlog. Once the articles are adequately referenced, please remove the unreferencedBLP tag. Here is the list:

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 * 2) Elisha Collier -

My comment:

Elisha Collier invented a revolver 200 years ago. Probably not still living. The article on Clive Martin has been very adequately referenced by others.EdH (talk) 17:19, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

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