User talk:Parrot of Doom/Archives/2019/January

East Lancashire Railway poor photo
I know this is an old debate, but I’ve been away for a long time and I just wanted to mention a few things.

I didn’t even lean out the window to take it. It was also secondary to something else I was doing at the time. I didn’t have photoshop at the time either. I don’t really believe in so called standards for photographs. Good composition doesn’t require that. I took it as my father had a model of it and wanted an unusual view.

On that day, I took significantly better photos that I just didn’t choose to upload to Wikipedia. My interest back in the day was editing articles and photography was secondary. Incidentally, although I am a published photographer now, I’m not here to do that. I’m coming back to edit

Thank you for your kind words and defence of the photo against anonymous editors. Incidentally, and having read your user pages, I like your style. I’m also quite knowledgeable about Pink Floyd if that helps. TorstenGuise (talk) 23:20, 6 January 2019 (UTC)

Radcliffe, Greater Manchester scheduled for TFA
This is to let you know that Radcliffe, Greater Manchester has been scheduled as WP:TFA for 9 February 2019. Please check that the article needs no amendments. If you're interested in editing the main page text, you're welcome to do so at Today's featured article/February 9, 2019. Thanks! Ealdgyth - Talk 16:54, 26 January 2019 (UTC)

TFA
Thank you for Ambrose Rookwood, introduced as "one of the less important conspirators enlisted by Robert Catesby into the 1605 Gunpowder Plot, but his story deserves telling, if only to highlight how naive he was to have thought that it could ever have worked. A well-dressed, somewhat showy individual, his love of the Catholic faith was not the most important consideration for Catesby. Rather, it was his stable of fine horses, essential for the planned uprising, that proved essential to the plot. Despite declaring his love (nothing unusual) for Catesby at his arraignment in January 1606, he was regardless dragged to the scaffold, hanged, castrated, disembowelled and then chopped into bloody pieces on a freezing cold English winter morning. So now you're feeling all warm and cozy about Stuart-era English justice, hopefully you won't subject me to the same fate..."! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:29, 31 January 2019 (UTC)