User talk:Geoff soper

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AfC notification: Draft:Greybull Capital has a new comment[edit]

I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:Greybull Capital. Thanks! Rankersbo (talk) 08:08, 5 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Greybull Capital (December 18)[edit]

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Bjelleklang was:

There are several issues with this article.

Ignore the companies they own or have shares in. At most, list only a few of the most notable ones.
Focus on why Greybull Capital is notable. Find relevant references that primarily discuss the company and not companies they own or the owners of Greybull. Avoid articles mostly related to investors, and look in WP:CORP to find good advice on what to look for.
Clean up the article and remove contact info and contents not directly related to the company. Give a brief overview of the company in the lead, a quick history in the first section, and then address any major topics.

Keep the article short and focused and build it from there.

You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.

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Bjelleklang - talk 19:53, 18 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! Geoff soper, I noticed your article was declined at Articles for Creation, and that can be disappointing. If you are wondering or curious about why your article submission was declined please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! Bjelleklang - talk 19:53, 18 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Draft:Greybull Capital concern[edit]

Hi there, I'm HasteurBot. I just wanted to let you know that Draft:Greybull Capital, a page you created, has not been edited in 6 months. The Articles for Creation space is not an indefinite storage location for content that is not appropriate for articlespace.

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Your draft article, Draft:Greybull Capital[edit]

Hello, Geoff soper. It has been over six months since you last edited your WP:AFC draft article submission, entitled "Greybull Capital".

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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. JMHamo (talk) 08:32, 11 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for Greybull Capital article[edit]

Hi Geoff soper

I just wanted to say thanks for creating the Greybull Capital article. The Articles for Creation process is, in my opinion, too critical. It sets the bar high when considering an article can be created directly in (main) space. I was able to retrieve it because Speedy deletion Wiki automatically archived it here:

http://speedydeletion.wikia.com/wiki/Draft:Greybull_Capital

Regards, Jonpatterns (talk) 21:12, 18 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Jon[edit]

Sorry can't work out how to reply properly. Many thanks again for the artificial respiration given to the dead article and the polishing done to Wikify it. I was amazed how little info there was out there on Greybull and thought a page was warranted on this dynamic company on Wikipedia. Regards Geoff 19 Apr

Your submission at Articles for creation: HMS Vautour (1810) has been accepted[edit]

HMS Vautour (1810), which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.

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Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 19:26, 10 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Geoff Soper, Glad to see a new article on vessels from the Age of Sail. I have made some edits to your article and if you do other articles on other vessels you might look at what I have done. In particular, you might find some of the templates I use, particularly those for converting measurements and for referencing the London Gazette, useful. Cheers, Acad Ronin (talk) 22:55, 27 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

How do we know that "glorious" was ironic? You and I know it was a debacle, to put it politely, but are we sure that Larpent meant it ironically? Having read a number of things from that period by both British and French chroniclers, it is clear that they and we may see things differently. "The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there." Regards, Acad Ronin (talk) 19:57, 31 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Acad, & thanks for the work making a professional job & making a proper biog of this forgotten boat. I'm no boat researcher, but a Lieut Soper may have died on it.

I seem to remember reading it has extra cannonade port squeezed in, in the UK, but are likely wrong, I'll have a look.

re 'glorious' debacle, I can see you're right, thanks. But I put that quote in, and re-reading it months later I realise that because I cropped the quote from an article, my quote offered 100% the wrong meaning. I'll look at the 'glorious' line again & either add factual content about the quote or remove it entirely. (& sorry still can't work out how to reply properly to messages like this). Regards Geoff

Hi Geoff, No worries re replying. I haven't worked out what standard etiquette is, and I've been on WP for over a decade. Great to hear that you may have had an ancestor on her. I like to think that one of the audiences I am writing for are genealogists who will be delighted when they discover that there is an article on the obscure vessel their ancestor served on. Cheers, Acad Ronin (talk) 14:05, 1 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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