User talk:JonH

Welcome!

Hello,, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place  on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome! -- Roleplayer 11:13, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
 * The five pillars of Wikipedia
 * How to edit a page
 * Help pages
 * Tutorial
 * How to write a great article
 * Manual of Style

A river runs through it
No, not I. The first mention of the Lovat was way back at http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Leighton_Buzzard&oldid=5922632 I may have "corrected" it to say that the river is really the Ouzel (for same reasons as you found, except that you found even more) but didn't feel I could just delete the Lovat tag on the evidence I had, especially as the primary article was Lovat and the redirect article was Ouzel. I have no idea whether anyone locally really does call it that. Go ahead and delete it now, put the evidence in the talk and see who complains. Or you could tag if with "citation needed" for a week first, if you prefer to be polite. You'll notice that I've fixed a few other redirects that were Ouzel to Lovat. --Concrete Cowboy 16:48, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

LU Postal Area
I've found a site that could help you with the local LU postal areas and i've posted it on the LU postal area talk page, but i don't know how useful it is. I'd like myself to have this totally updated to include all the areas of Luton so data that I'm struggling to find can be put in. (I'm sure most of the post codes for areas in luton are wrong on their pages, so they need to be verified!) Thanks a lot if you can oblige to update the page, Random articles 16:48, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

Deletion of OS maps of Bedfordshire
Because while the front cover does indeed say published 1954 internaly it says "Reprinted with minor corrections in 1959" so it's status will remain as likely copyvio for another 2 years. I'm sorry for the original mistake.Geni 14:55, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I can get you a scan of a map of dunstable from 1944. Would that be any help?Geni 15:06, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I've added the 1944 map scan.Geni 18:54, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Bury Park
Hi JonH,

Thanks for your history etc on Bury Park. Do you have any further info on any of the otehr Luton areas as searching the web for most of them is tricky. If you do and would like to expand/start history sections it would be very helpful!! Many thanks--GazMan7 11:12, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Many thanks for your kind comments. There are a lot of people who want to put luton and the surrounding areas down all the time. Lutons not perfect, but i dont think its seriously worse than any similar places, its all about balance.--GazMan7 17:39, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Moggerhangen
What! I thought. Chalton sounds like a real place... some troll has invented a place named after his cat and has stolen a stub to make it look real. Good job I checked. The article could do with some etymology as I'm intrigued as to where Moggermanger comes from. Nordic I guess like Lillemammer. Thanks for the correction of my placing of Chalton Victuallers

Dunstaple
Hi Jon, my main qualm with the article and him himself wasn't his name. I just thought that his birth in Dunstable was too darn speculative. Lots of people have surnames of towns/cities but it doesn't neccessarily mean they were born there. The source which says he was born there says: "...probably born in Dunstable, Bedfordshire". I personally just don't think that's strong enough evidence. I've also been looking, albeit failingly, to look for the WP page on speculation. "Probably" is an assumption word - shouldn't be in an enclyclopedia. But that was my only quandary with him. Thanks anyways, friend. Scar ian Talk 15:01, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

University of Bedfordshire
Hi Jon,

some who edit the site of the University of bedfordshire sometimes insist on information being obtained that is independent of both the writer and the subject. I am not sure that this applies to your recent posting their.

thanks Alfred Vella (talk) 16:13, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

Bedfordshire
Hi, yes you are right i have found that in quite a few situations and unfortunatly not knowing the area very well i have to leave them for helpfull people like you to clean up. Many Thanks  D ew s t er  _^*'_ 17:43, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Help!!
Hi there, I've just read your comments at Dunstable and Whipsnade Downs and I must admit I've probably made a right royal cock up. To be honest I would support an article that would incorporate that that it's both a National Trust managed area and a SSSI, otherwise we would end up with two articles broadly saying the same thing. Info as to why the area is a SSSI can be easily obtained, from English Nature and added (you're right, it's the flowers and butterflies!). As for the actual article name, well I'm not sure who has the most clout the NT or English Nature so perhaps this is an article for WP:COMMONNAME. Incidentally the NT lists it as Dunstable Downs and Whipsnade Estate. However as an alternative, you could name it Dunstable Downs and have the full title in the intro like this school near me. What do you think? Regards --Starrycupz (talk) 22:19, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

Map
No problem. It's nice to be appreciated! The whole of England took me over a year to complete (I was promised support from two other users!). Thankfully it is done. I think it really helps Bedfordshire content, even if I say so myself!... thanks again, --Jza84 | Talk  17:31, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Merging station articles
Has there been any discussion anywhere regarding your merging of Luton Bute Street railway station and Dunstable Town railway station? Generally, stations are considered notable enough to have there own articles, and even though they may be stubs at present, they have the potential for future expansion. —  Tivedshambo  (t/c) 09:51, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

AutoRun changes
Yes, you are absolutely right - the AutoPlay term does predate Windows XP, I'd forgotten about the context menu. And it was never a specification (AutoPlay is I believe). I was never really happy with the introduction and I've rewritten it slightly to include what you said. See: User_talk:Carveone if you are interested.

I picked on you as you're the first person to add something of value!

Eg: "Windows may perform an initial action as designated on the media according to the AutoRun specification". That's getting chucked. Doesn't sound grammatically correct to my ears.

(And, as you are in the UK, I guess you'd (not) appreciate the "spelling correction" someone made. Apparantly "customisation" should have a "z". Grrrr!!).

Thanks for the kind words and the changes - little things like changing "With" to "For" do make the text flow better and I committed the changes as is. I'm not an English major but I've written enough documents to try and make them look well.

I was painfully aware that I was skirting the original research line; the section on Inf Handling required enough reading between the lines to make me spatter it with references and the notes on TweakUI use "apparantly" and "possibly" rather a lot! I stopped short of saying "Don't use TweakUI for AutoRun!" although I was rather tempted. Carveone (talk) 21:12, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

Response to dates proposal
Hi! I've left a response to your suggestion. I know very little about template programming, so please correct me if I've made any incorrect assumptions in my response. --UC_Bill (talk) 18:52, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Article Feedback deployment
Hey JonH; I'm dropping you this note because you've used the article feedback tool in the last month or so. On Thursday and Friday the tool will be down for a major deployment; it should be up by Saturday, failing anything going wrong, and by Monday if something does :). Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 23:49, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:56, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

Nomination of Lewsey Farm, Luton for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Lewsey Farm, Luton is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Lewsey Farm, Luton until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article.  Onel 5969  TT me 15:11, 17 April 2018 (UTC)

ArbCom 2022 Elections voter message
 Hello! Voting in the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23:59 (UTC) on. All eligible users are allowed to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2022 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. If you no longer wish to receive these messages, you may add to your user talk page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:27, 29 November 2022 (UTC)

ArbCom 2023 Elections voter message
 Hello! Voting in the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23:59 (UTC) on. All eligible users are allowed to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2023 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. If you no longer wish to receive these messages, you may add to your user talk page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:22, 28 November 2023 (UTC)