User talk:Newprogressive

Votes for Deletion
Thanks for the compliment over on VfD. So much weirdness comes and goes on that page that it's actually refreshing to read something that made me laugh out loud. Now that you have a user name, why not take a look at some of the guideline pages like Manual of style and What Wikipedia is not? As for the sockpuppet comment left by myself and others, those are a pretty common occurance as well. It simply refers to a rash of "keep" votes (and sometimes "delete" votes) from anonymous users or new users with no prior edits. Anyway, I'm sure I speak for a number of users when I say "welcome." Now, have fun with some real articles! I know you will. - Lucky 6.9 02:01, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Election results
I'll try to remember to add the sources. As a guide, while I've usually looked at multiple sources, the first place I look is the Guardian website for results from '92, psr.keele.ac.uk for results from '51 to '87, Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page for lists of MPs and the F. W. S. Craig books for results from 1832 to 1950. Warofdreams talk 09:18, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

Lewes
Have you looked at the PDF Talk:Lewes (UK Parliament constituency) (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Lewes_Parliament_1295-1885.pdf) I uploaded this some time ago but I haven't had time to go through it. Jooler 23:09, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

Replied here


 * I'm sure I can get the actual results for 1885-1955 from the library (which is where I found that booklet) at the weekend. Jooler

I spent some time going through and checking the OCR, so the searchable version should be reasonably accurate Jooler 23:26, 10 January 2006 (UTC)


 * I discovered yestersday that if you have a local authority library card (certainly for East Sussex anyway), that you can access the digital archives of The Times for free by using the subscription of the library. Using this information I have been able to fill in most of the results for the Lewes constituency between 1885 and 1950, see User:Jooler/sandbox. I still need to make some corrections to it before I add it to the article. Do you live in the UK? Jooler 18:59, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

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I think I read somewhere that Fitzroy switched sides... in fact I've just remembered where. It's in a book about Lewes... just hunting it down .... 5 minutes later... got it. He first stood as a Conservative and then became a Liberal (no dates), became Lord of the Admiralty in 1845. if it's not online elsewhere I'll look at the Times obituary. It's bloody useful having discovered that I can access that. Do you have a library card for your local authority? Jooler 19:54, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

I can also access the Encyclopaedia Britannica and the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography through the library membership subscription and the later has a biography for him, but it is copyright so I can't post it. It says "He joined the Peelites, was quite close to Gladstone, and ultimately became a Liberal" - no dates. I can't access Britannica at the moment due to "high traffic levels" or so it says. Erm.. there may be some question as to the date of his death. The DONB gives 22 December 1859 as does the Wikipedia article, but I am looking at an edition of The Times from Tuesday 20th December 1859, which states "We deeply regret to announce the death of the Rt. Hon. Henry Fitzroy ... on Sautrday last ..." - that would mean he died on 17th December 1859. Unfortunately there doesn't appear to be a full obit. In the edtion for 17th Jan 1860 there is a report of the unopposed election of his successor on 16th January, 1860, one John George Blencowe (apparently maternally descended from another former Lewes Liberal MP Sir. Francis Poole who sat as the MP 100 years before (or so the article says) 22:12, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

British Peoples Party
Thanks for the reply - I've created British Peoples Party, 2005 with a link on the original British Peoples Party. After all this I hope they don't follow the usual pattern of minority parties by splitting before the elections! =) doktorb | words 11:12, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

Baronetage
Great work recategorizing all those baronets! Mackensen (talk) 23:11, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
 * You can also check against hereditarytitles.com or thePeerage. All else fails, see if the local library has Burke's or something similar. Mackensen (talk) 23:44, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Martin Conway seems to be a mistake; see . Mackensen (talk) 23:47, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

East Hampshire
Thank you for the note - I was deleting a few redirects which had been created to different constituencies. I intended to delete Petersfield (UK Parliament constituency) but accidentally deleted East Hampshire (UK Parliament constituency) instead, and failed to notice this. I've now undeleted it, so many thanks for the warning. Warofdreams talk 13:28, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

Crispin Agnew of Lochnaw
Hey...I see that you moved this article to Crispin Agnew. The way that I understand Scots Law (which is not very well, mind you), the "of Lochnaw" is an integral part of Sir Crispin's name. Is it OK if I move it back to the original title? For other examples of this, see Thomas Innes of Learney and Malcolm Innes of Edingight. Thanks.-- E va   d  b  10:54, 7 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Any thoughts on this yet?-- E va   d  b  10:56, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Heraldry Portal?
Hey. I've proposed the creation of an heraldic portal. If you think that such a thing would be helpful, you can voice your support HERE and hopefully we can get the heraldry category items organized better. Thanks for all your hard work on heraldic topics.-- E va   d  b  08:54, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Great maps! (Oxford Council election 2006)
A rather belated thank you for the very good vote distribution maps you made for Oxford Council election 2006. I was going to try to make a map showing distribution of seats but yours was so much better that I gave up on mine! Tamino 08:18, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

Charles Lemon
Thanks for the expansion. You've saved me the trouble!--Runcorn 19:31, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

William Lithgow
Hi - Hope you won't mind if I say I was quite surprised to see you had re-titled the article on Sir William Lithgow. My impression is that WikiP likes to keep honorifics out of page titles if possible and I wonder if the '2nd Baronet' bit is really necessary - since it doesn't seem to be generally used and there are no other Sir WLs to confuse him with. But perhaps you would interpret the MoS differently? Originally I felt disambig'ing him with the word 'industrialist' was quite a suitable description - it's something he says about himself, and something journalists say about him. Anyway - not of earth-shattering importance - but I'd be interested to hear your take on this. Thanks --HJMG 21:10, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your note - yes, I see what you mean - but I'm still not sure that the bit you quoted is completely clear! In context it could be read as a description of how to disambig one Bt from another. I suppose I also have in mind guidelines favouring simple page titles. Anyway, as long as things are clear for the reader, it doesn't matter much. And thanks for catching the birthday - don't know why I hadn't included it first time round.--HJMG 07:01, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

William Philip Colfox
I'm a little confused about your removal of the OR template on this article. I'm guessing you can clear up what I'm missing more easily than I can figure it out myself, so I'm asking for your assistance in that regard. The article appears to have been started by a descendant of the subject written from his memory per the edit summary. That's why I added the template. Did I misunderstand? Erechtheus 18:27, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject Baronetcies
Great to have you on board. What do you mean by categorising baronets please? - Kittybrewster 19:55, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Again, terrific. All help is much appreciated and your contributions to date are excellent. Sadly, there are too few of us. - Kittybrewster 21:13, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

David Scott (MP)
I see that back in January this year, you challenged the factual basis of the article at David Scott (MP). I agree, so I have tagged it as a proposed deletion. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 20:44, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

British Nobility and Thomas Cochrane
Why did you remove the British Nobility tag for Lord Admiral Thomas Cochrane? Are you some kind of Scottish Nationalist? I demand you reinsert it immediately. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Dickscotts (talk • contribs) 16:17, 8 May 2007 (UTC).
 * I removed a category from this article, yes. This is because the category indicated that the article was a stub: It is not a stub and is now a fully fledged article. I do not deny he is a member of the British nobility, and in fact I left in tact categories to indicate this. New Progressive 16:23, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

Ralph Regula
Is the second longest currently serving Republican Representative after Bill Young. Don Young became a Congressman in March 1973 after a special election, this was 2 months after Regula took the oath. Please look at their pages or the List of current United States Representatives by seniority for more details.  mind you... that's just currently serving Representatives, Robert H. Michel served longer than any of the currently serving Republican Representatives and both William Broomfield and Joseph M. McDade have served less time than Bill Young but more time than Regula. So Regula is probably 5th overall among living Republican Representatives.  Then there's the fact that those names are from my list of Congressmen who served 36 years or more so I don't know if there are any others who served between 35 years (Regula's tenure) and 36 years but that won't matter with regards to Regula in another year anyway.. Am I anal enough for you?--Dr who1975 (talk) 20:26, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

Genealogy of nobility and others
Hello. Your pages on the Genealogy Wikia have largely survived with little change while you have been absent from the editing group. But there are numerous clever devices now to simplify and improve linkages and reduce duplication of effort. I hope you come back to have a look and improve the pages you created and do some more. Robin Patterson (talk) 11:54, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

Unreferenced BLPs
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Oxford City Council election, 2006
Hello. I was hoping you could help with the article on Oxford City Council election, 2006. A citation has been requested for the section "Nomination form controversy". I Googled a bit myself, but couldn't find anything suitable, and judging by the article's talk page, you were active on Wikipedia at the time and informed as to what went on, and are in a better position to provide references. Thanks, VeryCrocker (talk) 18:41, 28 September 2014 (UTC)

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Inigo Hare
The obituary for Lord Blakenham's mother-in-law may just have gone dead,but his sister's dedication in the last "How to Train Your Dragon" book lists the whole extended family by name.I've even found a picture of his not-in-reference-books wife Melissa Mohr holding the allegedly-nonexistent boy.12.144.5.2 (talk) 06:32, 29 January 2018 (UTC)
 * I have found language in writing by Caspar describing himself as Melissa's husband and a file using Melissa's being married to Caspar as the answer to a Trivia question.I don't have a date for either the marriage or the birth of Inigo.(Their address and phone number in Somerville are also turned up in Google searches but I haven't felt so forward as to ask).12.144.5.2 (talk) 21:39, 29 January 2018 (UTC)

On peerages etc.
The new Debrett's reportedly says that Lord Ilchester's heir born in 1972 is deceased. As far as the 7th Marquess of Downshire goes he succeeded to the peerage the month after his 24th birthday and died the month before his 95th so there is no "surely later" about his entering the Lords in 1918 unless he chose to defer taking the oath.LE (talk) 19:41, 1 February 2019 (UTC)

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Royal record page endangered
After a dozen years Surtsicna, bane of genealogies and lists, has listed the List of British monarchy records for deletion. If so inclined you might support or archive it? LE (talk) 21:36, 13 April 2019 (UTC)
 * "Bane of genealogies and lists"! I wonder if I can somehow include that in my signature. You might add "canvasser" to yours. Surtsicna (talk) 22:42, 13 April 2019 (UTC)

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Peerage heirs
That's OK for he comment, I added the flags as they are the Peerage of those countries.Mr Hall of England (talk) 13:54, 3 November 2020 (UTC) My main area is the UK and GB Peerages.

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