User talk:MatthewDalhousie

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 * Thanks @Pigsonthewing ! MatthewDalhousie (talk) 03:47, 26 July 2023 (UTC)

Systematic page
Hi mate For more info on Systematic you can drop one of their comms guys a line - he's on Twitter as securitysplat. He's a useful dude. Methna7 (talk) 12:24, 20 October 2023 (UTC)


 * Hello @Methna7 - and thanks for the kind suggestion. Will probably maintain a healthy buffer between self and subject. Appreciate the thought. MatthewDalhousie (talk) 00:58, 21 October 2023 (UTC)

Alliance for Responsible Citizenship
I also thank you for creating this article. Unfortunately I don't have much time right now. When I'll be less stressed, I'll create translations of the article in German, Spanish and maybe Portuguese, if they do not yet exist.

Best wishes

Tuncker


 * Portuguese? This will be a first for me!MatthewDalhousie (talk) 06:25, 31 October 2023 (UTC)

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 * I know that you're a Bot, not a Person, but all the same, thank you for making that fix up. MatthewDalhousie (talk) 01:27, 25 November 2023 (UTC)

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Pacific Equity Partners - article amendments
Dear User:MatthewDalhousie, LizziePEP from the Pacific Equity Partners Wiki article here. I left a comment responding to your helpful advice a little while ago. I have mocked up some proposed changes in my sandbox (link can be found at the comment!). It would be great if you had some time to provide feedback. Much appreciated, and I hope you enjoy the holiday period. Cheers, Lizzie PEP (talk) 05:11, 11 December 2023 (UTC)

Image on Danny Kruger
Hello there. I noticed you'd documented the 'ARC Forum' conference and used images placed by the conference in public domain. You captioned one upload 'Danny Kruger in conversation with John Howard, former Prime Minister of Australia, at the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship in October 2023.' What are you basing the caption on, please? It looks to me like Iain Duncan Smith, not John Howard, and the date of the image according to Flickr is actually August 2021. --Cedderstk 07:41, 22 January 2024 (UTC)
 * It could have been the wrong date set on the camera, but the other photos in the stream are all consistent with the date of the conference. My question is about verifiability.  There's also a lot of sourced work on ARC at https://www.desmog.com/alliance-for-responsible-citizenship-arc/ in case it helps. --Cedderstk 07:56, 22 January 2024 (UTC)
 * The caption is corroborated by a non-free image caption and a Guardian story.   However, I don't do much image work myself and wonder what sources you used. --Cedderstk 08:22, 22 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Hi there @Cedders. Yes, I noticed that the date on the Metadata is out of whack too. Some setting problem with their camera? But given that 2023 was the organisation's first conference, the date generated by the camera is clearly wrong. Yet the reliable sources indicate it was, indeed, Danny Kruger who interviewed John Howard at the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship, which is mentioned by the Straits Times for example. As to the date the report from SMH correspondent indicates the interview between Kruger and Howard was 31 October 2023. MatthewDalhousie (talk) 08:23, 22 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the reply and the Straits Times link. I mistook the identity of one of the subjects (that particular profile looked very similar to another UK Conservative MP) and then the date made me suspect the image on Flickr had been edited. I've never seen guidelines on verifiability of images. --Cedderstk 09:16, 22 January 2024 (UTC)
 * I wonder what would happen if I asked them to correct their image details? Wouldn't hurt. MatthewDalhousie (talk) 09:24, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

Welcome to the drive!
Welcome, welcome, welcome MatthewDalhousie! I'm glad that you are joining the drive! Please, have a cup of WikiTea, and go cite some articles. CactiStaccingCrane (talk)18:52, 1 February 2024 UTC //en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:MatthewDalhousie&action=purge refresh via JWB and Geardona (talk to me?)
 * You know what, I will!

start again
the categories in Steve Baird were so weird, I removed all of them (they have nothing to do with steve baird) - please make an effort to allocate relevant categories, thanks... JarrahTree 13:55, 18 February 2024 (UTC)


 * Oh, thanks for noticing that @JarrahTree. Must have been vestige from something else. My apologies. MatthewDalhousie (talk) 14:00, 18 February 2024 (UTC)


 * very very weird, always better to start anew than lift from elsewhere, it can be dangerous to do that - if you accidentally leave things like that, it reduces your credibility very quickly... JarrahTree 14:03, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Sound advice. Honestly I don't feel that confident to start with a blank sheet, but perhaps I should be brave and just do that anyway. Again, apologies for the trouble and thanks for fixing. MatthewDalhousie (talk) 14:07, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
 * apologies are pointless, correcting it yourself is more likely to get it right - you simply lifted his sisters cats, (Julia) (very funny from this point of view) and I havent fixed it at all, the best  advice  is to reverse engineer a male compatriot's and  adjust - for instance I wouldnt try Dan_Bourchier is a crap set of cats, whereas his brother's is very average Mike_Baird JarrahTree 14:19, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
 * So, that's the first time I've ever added categories to any article. Had never actually spotted those three horizontal lines before. Added 11 categories. Thanks for alerting me to this. MatthewDalhousie (talk) 02:37, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

Infoboxes
I saw your comment at Talk:Noël Coward about an infobox. Just a heads up, the topic of infoboxes on certain featured article biography articles can be highly contentious. The editors who have spent significant time editing those articles are sometimes very passionately opposed (as you can see from the discussion) to adding infoboxes. If you decide to move forward with a RFC make sure to separate the survey into yes/no/discussion otherwise the arguing back and forth will discourage comment. Thanks! Nemov (talk) 15:36, 21 February 2024 (UTC)


 * Hi @Nemov! Thanks for stopping by. When it comes to Wikipedia, I'm a lover, not a fighter. Not my style to move to RFC. I like interacting with people and seeing what can be done. But I did feel it was okay to share my view of how the article could be improved. Happy to leave it at that. Appreciate the note! MatthewDalhousie (talk) 01:26, 22 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Awesome, probably wise. You're welcome! Happy editing! Nemov (talk) 02:46, 22 February 2024 (UTC)

Miriam Cates
A citation is necessary for "After a friend asked her to stand" which you added at the beginning of Member of Parliament. Mcljlm (talk) 16:24, 28 February 2024 (UTC)


 * Thank you! Appreciate the improvements you have made to the article too. MatthewDalhousie (talk) 21:34, 28 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Yes it comes from that article in The New Statesman, which is in the footnote at the end of that first sentence in the subsection you mentioned. MatthewDalhousie (talk) 21:37, 28 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Where in the article is a friend mentioned? Mcljlm (talk) 01:08, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Correction, it comes from the "Women with Balls" podcast, at approximately 7 minutes and 50 seconds. Citation updated accordingly. MatthewDalhousie (talk) 11:33, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

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 * Thank you for the welcome @Pickersgill-Cunliffe! And thank you for the incredible amount of Navy material you have contributed!
 * MatthewDalhousie (talk) 03:46, 4 May 2024 (UTC)

Jonathan Pageau
Pageau is one of the few public figures I love. I have yet to see a single negative character flaw in the man. His work is valuable and important. I may meet him in August 2024. I hope we can continue to collaborate on his Wiki page. Tfdavisatsnetnet (talk) 02:01, 21 May 2024 (UTC)


 * He seems to have many fans. And wiki welcomes anyone who can contribute to a given subject, if they have a genuine interest, but can keep within the parameters of an encyclopaedic tone, with plenty of reliable sources. Happy to keep working on the page too. I've done a bit of a purge of some of the fawning language, and removed stuff that was using non-reliable articles as sources. (Am about to removed goodreads.com as a source right now!) So I think it's in much better shape that it was last year. MatthewDalhousie (talk) 02:22, 21 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Yes, I was turned off by the 'peacock language' in the earlier versions of the page. Thanks for addressing that. Tfdavisatsnetnet (talk) 10:56, 21 May 2024 (UTC)

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 * I know you're a bot, but because I like being polite, be aware that I took note, and I believe I fixed the bare URL problem. Thanks! MatthewDalhousie (talk) 08:45, 21 May 2024 (UTC)

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 * For the record, there were two versions of this logo uploaded, and, ultimately of course only one used, so naturally I accept the deletion of the unused version. MatthewDalhousie (talk) 03:39, 20 June 2024 (UTC)

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