User talk:Oldfaw

I've managed to create a new user box (for alumni of Cuths, Durham) - mostly by trial and error, but still haven't quite got the hang of it. Like many other Wiki-things, the "helpful" information is scattered, and not tremendously helpful to novices. Or maybe it's just me being dim. (I'll try again some other time). John Hamilton (talk) 23:49, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

It is not easy to discover how to correct a license tag if it was incorrectly stated or omitted while uploading an image. I tried (hard) to understand the various guidance - and failed. Then made matters worse by trying to upload the same image again! John Hamilton 16:31, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

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Excellent work on Wild Boar Fell
I stumbled onto the Wild Boar Fell through the "Random article" link, and I really enjoyed reading it. It's entertaining, well-written and informative. Good work on it. I hope you contribute a lot more. Exeunt (talk) 16:44, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

Sean Connery & Cuths
It is tiresome to see the myth/error is still being recycled that Sean Connery is an alumnus of St Cuthbert's Society, Durham. I write as an admirer of Sir Sean - whose early life included a time working as a milkman for the St. Cuthbert's Co-operative Society dairy - and I also write as a (genuine) alumnus of Cuth's (St Cuthbert's Society, one of the colleges of Durham University). Both institutions do share the name of St Cuthbert, but are otherwise difficult to confuse. I have corrected this twice before and others have also done so, over a period of two or three years. Even the most sloppy "contributor" could at least spare the time look up the Wiki article on Sean Connery! John Hamilton (talk) 12:38, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

Hi
Greetings from the shadow of Cross Fell Northernhenge (talk) 13:33, 3 March 2008 (UTC).

Ralph Vaughan Williams's Ninth
I've been listening lately to my far-too-long-neglected Andre Previn recording of this work, and I have to agree (I'm at liberty to admit this here, I think) with this assessment you've recently provided us: "It can now be seen as not just the most powerful musical expression the composer had made since the Sixth symphony - with which it shares the key of E minor - but as one of the most powerful he ever made", except that I don't understand why this couldn't be seen in 1958. (I very much envy your having attended the first performance, by the way. I've attended exactly no performances and don't recall any one ever programmed by local orchestras.)

The 1959 Murray Shafer review I've just incorporated bits from into the article amounts, in my opinion, merely to scarcely disguised prejudice, and I have to admit (only here!) that this amuses me. TheScotch (talk) 06:08, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

Whinfell Forest
This page has now been edited to include details of the new 'Made' Restaurant at Center Parcs. Arthur7171 (talk) 16:22, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

Lists
Hi Oldfaw, the lists were removed from the St Cuths article as they simply do not belong in Wikipedia. By all means mention notable people associated with the society, but full lists such as those are a matter for the societies own records. I note that as a former member of the society, you appear to have a conflict of interest in this case. While this should not prevent you from cleaning up and copyediting the article, I would suggest you refrain from any behaviour that could be interpreted as ownership of the article.  Dei z  talk 15:11, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

Hi Deiz There have been several petty examples of vandalism in the entry for St Cuths - and, as Cuths is the only one of the Durham Colleges that you have singled out for improvement, the removal of the list of Principals & Presidents seemed to me to come into the same category. But perhaps you just started with Cuths and intend to improve all the other College articles in the same way? John Hamilton (talk) 10:28, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

Kirkby Loki
I've left a comment at Image talk:Loki-GerryMillar.jpg. Nice image. Haukur (talk) 16:48, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

I have left a reply there - I haven't got time (or patience) to haggle about this - it's quicker and easier to replace the image.John Hamilton (talk) 15:56, 6 September 2008 (UTC)


 * That sounds great. Thank you. Haukur (talk) 16:26, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

RVW 9
You were at the premiere? YOU WERE AT THE PREMIERE!!! Good heavens. I am seriously impressed, and yes, you can very much leave me a message! Thank you, I'm honoured. I'm intrigued by this business about the "novel" orchestration perhaps overshadowing, in the press coverage, other aspects of the work. My source for this was a rather wonderful interview with David Mason in a brass players' mag - David says that the review he saw was mostly on about the flugel (especially as he had a "technical moment" at that first performance) and then just a line or two about the work itself - which sounds irritating but not perhaps surprising. And yes, we do seem to have a bit of a track record in undervaluing composers - I think it's a sort of national inferiority complex that we're not German, or something! Cheers, and thanks again for the lovely message, DisillusionedBitterAndKnackered (talk) 00:00, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

Kirkby Stephen
I was aware that Kirkby won the best village award but as it is described as a town in the rest of the article and in related articles I was just trying to make it consistent Penrithguy (talk) 18:10, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

Re: "twenty five & 20th century are not typos"
Wikipedia allows for variations in spelling between Commonwealth countries and the US, but does not allow for variations in punctuation. There is one style guide for numbers. WP:NUMERAL, bullet point 6, says "Centuries are given in figures or words using adjectival hyphenation where appropriate: the 5th century BCE; nineteenth-century painting. Neither the ordinal nor the word "century" should be capitalised.". Below that, under the "Typography" heading, bullet point 1, says "Spelled-out two-word numbers from 21 to 99 are hyphenated (e.g. fifty-six)". Happy editing! Chris the speller  yack  15:41, 9 June 2012 (UTC)

Manners
Using phrases like "carried away", "degenerate", "self-important nit-pickers" or "self-appointed instructor" in reference to other editors is liable to make you unpopular. Please read WP:CIVIL, which is a page on Wikipedia policy. Chris the speller  yack  15:49, 9 June 2012 (UTC)

Your comment
Thank you for commenting on my talk page - I have responded there. Best wishes. Acabashi (talk) 01:34, 11 June 2012 (UTC)

Hello, i removed the categories of "English Socialists" and "English Humanists" from RVW's page because i found no passage in the page that said he was either of those. --Goalisraised (talk) 04:03, 30 July 2012 (UTC)

Yo!
Shifted those images to the left on those Mallerstang articles, brotha. Yeah I came out of retirement just because settlements without infoboxes really irritate me... It's a form of Wiki-OCD I expect. Cacolantern 19:30, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

Alterations to Articles on Kirkby Stephen and its Parish Church
I have two suggestions re. the new article on St Stephen's Church, and I have added a Talk page to this new article listing them.

In particular I feel that the "Loki Stone" is more generally relevant to the original article about the town, and that it is not merely a feature of the church. So I would like to restore this section, and the image of the Stone, to the original article - after any comments. John Hamilton (talk) 10:33, 8 May 2014 (UTC)

Talkback
M. Caecilius (talk) 10:06, 11 May 2014 (UTC)

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It may well be necessary to make things so complicated in order to preserve the authority of Wikipedia - but it deters those who, like me, have some things to say but who do not have a geek-like mindset. The "rules" may seem straightforward to someone steeped in the technicalities of Wikipedia but it is an impenetrable, foreign world to most of us!John Hamilton (talk) 16:36, 21 June 2015 (UTC)

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