User talk:Jim Shead

Hello, Jim Shead, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Our intro page provides helpful information for new users - please check it out! If you need help, visit Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place  on this page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Famous name in UK waterways: any connection? Happy editing! Old Moonraker (talk) 11:03, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

February 2009
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 * As far as I can see these are good-faith, indeed helpful, edits. Contributors, me included, have used web pages from Jim Shead as references. Some are now suffering from linkrot and User:Jim Shead is fixing them. The contributor should be thanked! --Old Moonraker (talk) 12:09, 22 February 2009 (UTC)


 * I agree that the majority of edits have been good faith and very helpful. WP is clear on conflict of interest. I do acknowledge that this users has fixed some links, but I warned him because he reinstated a Jim Shead link that I deleted on Galton's Canal, a link to a website that contained virtually no content - far less than was on the wikipedia page itself. Reinstating one's own link to an article is a clear conflict of interest when good reason has been given for deleting it. While some of Jim Sheads web pages contain a great deal of useful data and form good citations, others such as the external links to Galton's and Anson Branch contain very little information and fall foul of the very first criteria in WP:LINKSTOAVOID. --TimTay (talk) 12:46, 22 February 2009 (UTC)


 * I hope this isn't biting a newcomer. --Old Moonraker (talk) 12:49, 22 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Of course not. Pointing out the COI policy is hardly biting a newcomer. Assume good faith! --TimTay (talk) 12:55, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

link repair
Jim,

is there some particular pattern to the link changes that need to be made? If so, drop me a note, and I'llsee if I can automate the changes. Mayalld (talk) 22:56, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

June 2010
Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, but when you add or change content, as you did to the article Tom and Jerry, please cite a reliable source for the content of your edit. This is particularly important when adding or changing any facts or figures and helps maintain our policy of verifiability. Take a look at Citing sources for information about how to cite sources and the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. If you could provide refs for that statement I'd find it absolutely fascinating! Etrigan (talk) 09:12, 13 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Fixed. Thanks for the contribution!--Old Moonraker (talk) 13:37, 13 June 2010 (UTC)