User talk:Laurie Coster

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-- Sango  123  17:35, July 18, 2005 (UTC)

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Contributions
Large cut-and-pastings of Babelfish-translated text or of GEDCOM output are not suitable for Wikipedia. Please try to arrange your contributions in encyclopedic format (one individual per article, etc.) and be sure not to add copyrighted text. Thanks. Choess 04:17, August 11, 2005 (UTC)

Gen. Daniel Stewart
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as General Daniel Stewart 20 Oct 1761, but we regretfully cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material. For more information about Wikipedia's policies and guidelines, take a look at our Five Pillars. Happy editing! Choess 03:57, August 12, 2005 (UTC)

William Bentinck, 2nd Duke of Portland
Hi Laurie

I'm trying to understand your edits to William Bentinck, 2nd Duke of Portland - removing a lot of information but not saying why in your edit summaries or on the talk page of the article.

If you could explain your edits, they would have more chance of surviving - 3 editors have been involved reverting them so far and we could all be doing better things with a little bit of explanation from you!

If you're confused about editing or need any type of help, please drop me a line by editing my Talk page (click "hello" in the following signature) and I'll be happy to help you out! Cheers!  ●R EDVERS  HELLO ●  EMAIL  ●  DOINGS 19:19, 30 October 2005 (UTC)


 * To Redvers. It seemed obvious to me. The article contained a lot of badly formatted crap about the descendants of William Bentinck right down to Phil the Greek. Laurie has quite properly cut it back to William Bentick and his immediate offspring. -- RHaworth 20:06, 30 October 2005 (UTC)


 * To Laurie. Redvers makes a valid point above - use the edit summary (or talk page) to explain yourself. You do need to work on the quality in your articles. I have just rescued Charles Augustus Ellis, 6th Baron Howard de Walden from speedy deletion but he needs a lot of work: full stops at the end of sentences!; wikification; format, eg. proper layout of his children (now fixed); category; incoming links, etc. -- RHaworth 10:17, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

Useful tools
Hi Laurie

I mentioned on Talk:Charles Augustus Ellis, 6th Baron Howard de Walden some useful tools you might like to have a read through that give help and advice to new Wikipedians. I see Sango123 has provided you with them already, but if it helps, here are the main ones again (this is produced by an automatic Template, so it'll spend the first few words welcoming you again!):

Welcome!

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~&#126;); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you have any questions, check out Where to ask a question or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome!
 * The five pillars of Wikipedia
 * How to edit a page
 * Help pages
 * Tutorial
 * How to write a great article
 * Manual of Style

The point about signing all your entries on Talk pages is very important, by the way!

As ever, please get in touch with me (click "hello" in the following signature and edit my talk page) if there's anything I can do to help or any advice I can give - or even just to say hi! Cheers!  ●R EDVERS  HELLO ●  EMAIL  ●  DOINGS 20:14, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

HRH Prince Muhammad bin Nawaf
Hi Laurie. Thanks for the email about HRH Prince Muhammad bin Nawaf. I have no idea what you want me to do with this information, as I have no interest in Saudi Arabia, especially not "news" that appears to be over 3 months old. Thanks anyway. ➨ ❝REDVERS❞

I was looking through the imforamtion of Embassies in the UK added to that, the names of theor Ambassaadors, the Saudi one has been changed from Prince Turku who has left London and now taking up the position of Ambassador to the USA It was trying to get the data updated by someone who may be in a position to do so on Geovernmental data.


 * Okay. Wikipedia is the encyclopedia that anyone can edit. If you've got new information, just add it (or change the original) to List of Ambassadors and High Commissioners to the United Kingdom and equivilant articles. Hope this helps. ➨ ❝REDVERS❞ 19:15, 12 November 2005 (UTC)