User talk:Johnny Cyprus

A belated welcome!
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Again, welcome! --Demiurge1000 (talk) 19:56, 18 August 2011 (UTC)

Cecil Chisholm
Hi welcome to Wikipedia, your article Cecil Chisholm is a good start. Can I suggest you add ISBN numbers to the books. That will then add a link so anyone interested will be able to locate them on the web. See below for an example of how it works, just click on the blue link. If you need any help just ask. Jim Sweeney (talk) 18:59, 24 August 2011 (UTC)

Thanks I will put the ISBN numbers in. I am still confused about the transfer from my Sandbox to Wikipedia. Do I need to do anything? The article doesn't seem to be in the Wikipedia index of articles (it doesn't show up when I put Cecil Chisholm in the search box).

Regards Johnny Cyprus  24 Aug 2011

I now see that the article is there; but I have not done anything. Maybe it takes time to get registered? Did I do the right thing with moving it, or did you take care of things.

I'll get on with the ISBN numbers, but it would be nice to know the ropes.

Regards Johnny Cyprus  24 Aug 2011


 * It there see number 3 on the list here must just have been a time lag. Jim Sweeney (talk) 19:21, 24 August 2011 (UTC)

Your recent edits
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all the best.

--Johnny Cyprus (talk) 20:15, 24 August 2011 (UTC)

New Article and Categories
I have created the article 'Mabel Capper'. I hope that it OK. I wanted to put her in a category 'Suffragettes', but it seems there is not one. Maybe there should be because it is not the same as 'Suffragists'. Can anyone help please?

Johnny Cyprus (talk) 14:09, 29 August 2011 (UTC)


 * From a quick check, the category "Suffragettes" seems not to have ever existed. This may be because, according to our article Suffragette, in the USA the term was mainly used only as a pejorative. However, it may be the case that to categorise certain activists as having been "Suffragists" is misleading, since in the UK the term was used solely to refer to members of the NUWSS. Perhaps the category should be created. I suggest you discuss it at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Feminism, as the people at that project may have views on the advantages and disadvantages, or may have some background knowledge of why the one category exists and the other doesn't.


 * Incidentally, your article Mabel Capper says that she campaigned against "bad luck" - is there a better way of phrasing this? --Demiurge1000 (talk) 14:49, 29 August 2011 (UTC)

Thank you I will see what they think.

I did wonder about 'bad luck'. However it was a phrase Mab used herself. I think she meant people who might have been unlucky through illegitimacy and so on, or had fallen on hard times. Any alternatives appreciated.

--Johnny Cyprus (talk) 15:01, 29 August 2011 (UTC)

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