User talk:Markmclellan

Royal Baths, Harrogate
Sorry about that; got a bit carried away - Royal Baths, Harrogate. Seemed easier to finish your article than to start mine (Ben Rhydding Hydro) ... the sources overlapped so I had quite a bit of info to hand. --Tagishsimon (talk) 00:24, 29 November 2023 (UTC)


 * Wow! Thanks so much for doing that. Impressive amount of content of quality. How do you do it? This was my first ever complete page after lots of minor editing elsewhere. I was unsure how far to draft and how the submitting for review process worked. I still have so much to learn. Markmclellan (talk) 10:56, 29 November 2023 (UTC)


 * I just got lucky this time. (And I'm glad you're not annoyed that I hijacked your article; very rude of me.) First, Internet Archive is an excellent resource for books, both ancient and modern. Second, I'd already been deep into one of them, the Richard Metcalfe tome on  The rise and progress of hydropathy, as I was winding up to do the Ben Rhydding article (which I've still not started), so I knew the hydrotherapy background (Claridge, Malvern, Ben Rhydding) and I spotted it had a good account of Harrogate. Then I got lucky with a couple of other books on Internet Archive which gave me the corporation of Harrogate background (Exclusively Harrogate), and then the use & demise (Spas that heal). Plus I've been on WP for about 20 years.
 * Had you submitted your draft - this version - I think it would have been approved. References 1 & 2 are reliable sources & demonstrate notability. The article was in good shape, albeit brief (which is fine). Or you could have kept on adding more to it before submitting.
 * There's plenty more that could be added, I suspect; a much richer story to be told about why the corporation decided to build it. And I'm interested in Baggerley Bristow - I've found little or nothing on the internet about them which is odd. So to the extent that either of us scours the sources, it can be improved. But at least it has the bones of a complete article; we know where it came from, roughly what it was, and where it went.
 * I was interested to note you'd worked briefly on the Huguenot Burial Site; I'm familiar with that place; have walked past it many times. Wandsworth, between it & the river, seems to have changed fast over the last few years ... huge number of new blocks of flats. --Tagishsimon (talk) 12:22, 29 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Hi. It was me who got lucky, you saved me a shed load of work. Not rude but bold. Isn’t that one of the Wikipedia motto? Be bold! It’s a team effort :-)
 * Thanks for the tip about the Internet Archive. The draft was small but perfectly formed and I was struggling to think about what to add. I’ve only ever used it for looking up old versions of websites. Didn’t know all that other stuff was there as well.
 * I lived in Wandsworth for 16 years and also often walked past the Huguenot cemetery. I used to volunteer pulling shopping trolleys out of the river Wandle which is where I learned more about the Huguenot connection. Thanks again. Markmclellan (talk) 17:10, 29 November 2023 (UTC)