User talk:Ned of the Hills

Hello

Castlereagh
Hello, Ned, and welcome to Wikipedia. I've added the box for County Down as you requested. Hopefully I've got the link right; there's no article for the Irish constituency of Down yet. I've let the Limavady return lie; I think it's worth indicating that he was returned by the constituency, even if he chose not to sit for it. Choess (talk) 14:32, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

Much thanks for your help.

Ned of the Hills (talk) 09:38, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

WP:EAR
I've replied at WP:EAR. --AndrewHowse (talk) 19:31, 10 September 2008 (UTC)


 * and again, as well as at my talk. --AndrewHowse (talk) 14:26, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

No trouble at all
I see you've been having some trouble over at Reform Act 1832. I'm not sure I'll be able to look at it right away, but I'll see what I can do to help resolve the issue. The social dynamics of Wikipedia can be strange, to say the least—the "consensus-driven" model requires a certain amount of suffering fools (or at least the misguided) more or less gladly, which isn't necessarily natural to academics. Unfortunately, there can also be something on an over-emphasis on judging verifiability through citations to published sources. This tends to grow out of our policy on original research. This serves the rather imporant purpose of keeping the encyclopedia from becoming a repository for crank theories, but it can be very galling to see people demand citations for things that appear, as a subject matter expert, to be patently obvious.

You might want to get in touch with ; he's an economic historian specializing in the early British iron history, but he's done quite a bit of editing of articles on MPs and constituency lists lately. You might enjoy talking to him.

I notice you mention doing research in the National Archives at Kew. Are you often at the PRO? Choess (talk) 14:37, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

Sadly my visits to Kew are but an annual event - if that. I live about as far away from Kew as its possible for someone to live and yet still live in England. It's a very exciting place to visit. I was assuming though that you yourself was resident in the New World.

Ned of the Hills (talk) 19:49, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

How Mr. Howse reponded
I presume by this you are instructing me to delete the line in question - then give my sources on the discussion page. And I'm also presuming the line will be re-instated. What then? You say that "Chrissieboy could and would be sanctioned if s/he were to reinsert it." Would this happen automatically? Or do I have to bring the issue to WP:EAR again?

Ned of the Hills (talk) 07:44, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

I saw it. My previous suggestion stands, and I didn't see much value in repeating myself. If you didn't find it helpful the first time, then I wasn't hopeful that it would be any better received the second time. But, since you raised the matter here, I've responded at WP:EAR. I'm not instructing you to do anything; I simply offer a suggestion for your consideration. There's no need to remove that which has already been written, but editors who are active at a particular article probably won't be watching WP:EAR and hence won't see your sources there. As to what Chrissieboy would or would not do, I have no idea. If s/he made edits that conflicted with a source then we could decide how to address that. I'll add the page to my watchlist and follow the action.

--AndrewHowse (talk) 14:24, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

Manchester MPs
Nice piece of reseach Ned. If you have the names by all means add them to the article. Cheers - Gallo glass  09:35, 11 October 2008 (UTC)