User talk:PeterBiddlecombe

Unblock Request
The above is at least my second attempt to gert unblocked. I CANNOT SEE THE SENSE in applying "range blocks" when users are logged in. It seems like a great way to discourage participation. I'm also unimpressed by replies to unblock requests that appear to amount to "I'm not unblocking you even though that seems the right thing to do, because you've failed to jump through the correct set of hoops."


 * Hi, I am the admin that placed this rangeblock (after an investigation by multiple admins and checkusers). I apologise for the inconvenience, but we have a very persistent vandal on your range who vandalises from a number of logged in accounts. This range block is intended to deter his activities and it unfortunately has some bad side effects. Which includes your being caught in it... again, I am sorry, we did not take this step lightly. I have checked and I see no technical reason not to grant you an IPBE. ++Lar: t/c 14:53, 1 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Ok, based on Lar's review, I've granted you IP block exemption. You should now be able to edit.  Please be aware that while IP block exemption would allow you to edit Wikipedia via open proxies, you are not being permitted to do so.  Further, the IP block exemption may be reviewed or removed at some point in the future (say, when the range block expires).  Mango juice talk 16:44, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

Success! PeterBiddlecombe (talk) 16:49, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

trombone questions
Hello Peter, you can call me 74. I plucked your name from the Trombone and Types of trombone article. Do you have some time to mess with these things nowadays? There is a beginning-editor person trying to write up something on an annual trombone festival held in Hong Kong; the topic is close to being WP:NOTE enough for a dedicated article, and is definitely WP:NOTEWORTHY for inclusion in some existing article. However, unlike baritone and brass_band, the trombone-articles don't list the major festivals, except as raw external links e.g. Types of trombones has a couple of the festival-organizers as external links (which makes little sense). Anyhoo, if you would like to help Stanley and myself, it would be appreciated. I've also done some research on our existing trombone-festivals, both of which are stubs, and added the sources to their talkpages, if you feel like working on that stuff.


 * 1)  User_talk:Stanleywlchen, needs analysis of whether enough WP:RS exist, plus help drafting prose neutrally
 * 2)  Talk:International_Trombone_Association, needs sources integrated into the existing article
 * 3)  Talk:Eastern_Trombone_Workshop, needs sources integrated into the existing article
 * 4)  Trombone, possibly needs a new section on festivals/soloists/professors/symphonies/etc (cf baritone and brass band)

Thanks for improving wikipedia. p.s. If you reply here, please leave me a message on my talkpage, so I'll know you did. 74.192.84.101 (talk) 00:30, 2 January 2014 (UTC)


 * Not really my field - suggest asking at http://tromboneforum.org/ PeterBiddlecombe (talk) 10:11, 2 January 2014 (UTC)


 * I might try that. :-)    Definitely not  my field either, but browsing wikipedia's existing entries plus a bit of WP:GOOG helped me generate mild-clue.  Actually, though, my main goal is to find a neutral editing-buddy who likes trombones, and is willing to work with ... since I suspect Stanley has COI issues.  His username is the same as the name of the human who is in charge of the trombone-festival he's attempting to create an article for...  might be unrelated, but seems more likely he is  either a family member or the person themselves.
 * Anyhoo, I very strongly suspect that Stanley can provide us all the international-trombone-festival-expertise necessary, but to do so without crossing Jimbo's bright-line, they'll need somebody to cast a neutral eye over their suggestions, and verify their sources and such. Stanley seems to edit about once a month, so it will not be a heavy workload; I have a friend from Malaysia that edits twice a day, very strong wikithuisiasm.  :-)     Would you be interested in being Stanley's conduit, and watchlisting the Talk:SliderAsia page, if it makes it through AfC and into mainspace?  Not WP:REQUIRED of course, totally up to you.
 * Stanley seems friendly and intelligent, and I'm giving them my patent-pending WikiJungle Survival Course which explains WP:COI and WP:RS and WP:TONE and WP:NPOV and WP:NICE and all the rest. Once the schooling is done, though, I'd like Stanley to have some folks that can drop in every couple of months to help with article-maintenance, and questions that WP:TEAHOUSE doesn't handle.  Thanks for the reply, appreciate it.  p.s.  Happy proleptic gregorian increment.     &mdash; 74.192.84.101 (talk) 14:28, 2 January 2014 (UTC)