User talk:Parrot of Doom/Archives/2013/July

Why do you keep revising my edit on Anjem Choudary?
It's true; there are no citations for the claim that "He receives little support from mainstream UK Muslims", and why is it such a big deal if I give citations for the claim that he "has been largely criticised in the country's media"?
 * As I said, read WP:LEAD. That section is a summary only, it cannot contain information not present in the main body of the article. Parrot of Doom 07:49, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

Hanged, drawn and quartered
Why do you think that the execution of a Welsh prince and a Scots resistance leader should be included under the heading "Treason in England" ? The use of the English treason laws against people from Wales and Scotland means that the matter covers the whole of Great Britain, not just England. RGCorris (talk) 17:58, 10 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Great Britain is not the same thing as Britain, which is the edit I reverted. Parrot of Doom 18:47, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

Lee Navigation
I would like to thank you for removing my mention of Lee Navigation genuinely. However it is presumably mentioned in some of the sources on the Bridgewater Canal, many people who may not even know the latter is in not Somerset couples with others who continue to read the contemporary pro-industrialist canals propaganda stating it was the first "major canal" in Britain. Of course while I was tempted to add the Wey Navigation which made Guildford bigger than it was before and the powder works owners and landowners of Surrey very economically rich, I found the Lee Navigation far more grand a project, indeed it dates back to before its major separate channel dug under Elizabeth I to the early medieval times. The importance for London's grain supply was immense. While, of course, its existence is inconvenient to those seeking to rewrite history with WP:weasel I would ask if you might be bold enough to do the research from the sources on the Bridgewater Canal and see if it is mentioned anywhere as the correct UK precedent of major canal works. I hope this means we can avoid no original research and do the national popularity of canals for distribution of raw materials which well predates 1750 some justice. - Adam37   Talk  19:07, 29 July 2013 (UTC)


 * Most people would not consider a modified river to be quite the same thing as a purpose-built canal, the first of which is certainly the Bridgewater. Parrot of Doom 21:46, 29 July 2013 (UTC)


 * Doesn't the Fossdyke predate both by centuries? 78.149.172.10 (talk) 08:35, 30 July 2013 (UTC)


 * I have no idea. I only go from what the sources say, and many suggest that the Bridgewater is considered Britain's first proper canal. Parrot of Doom 19:51, 30 July 2013 (UTC)


 * About half of the Fossdyke is a canalisation of the River Till (at first sight, we don't have an article). All of it is flat.  Mr Stephen (talk) 20:16, 30 July 2013 (UTC)