User talk:Rmackenzie

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D. H. Lawrence
Great to see your work on all things DHL. Just a hint; it is convention to place the title of an article in bold in the first sentance of an article. Your Aaron's Rod article should realy start:

Aaron's Rod is a novel by D H Lawrence, started in 1917 and published in 1922.

Also as a title it should be italicised. MeltBanana 15:21, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

Dear MeltBanana,

Thanks for your writing tips. I'm new to Wikipedia and still trying to get the hang of editing for a screen based reference work. Practice makes perfect...perhaps. I'm also away from my academic library - which means that I'm not always able to follow up references or source materials, so some of my contributions are working drafts, subject to amendment. Please feel free to amend any obvious errors or leave a note here.

Making of the English Working Class/EPT articles
I've commented on the EPT talk page on whether the quotation from MotEWC intro should not go better in the MotEWC article. You may wish to respond there. Bob aka Linuxlad 07:52, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

Nick Cohen
Good edits to the above. Thanks for making them! SlimVirgin (talk) 21:56, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

Christchurch, New Zealand
There's two (Cloisters and Academy) in the Arts Cetre - showinging similar art-house fare. Snori 02:16, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the reminder. I was last in Christchurch in 2003, so my memory has gaps. Do you want to add a bit more about these two screens? Rmackenzie 07:32, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

Sorley MacLean
Well done on the article about Hallaig. I enjoyed reading Seumas Heaney's translation. Palmiro | Talk 11:10, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

Regarding the article on Ted Wragg
Thanks for clarifying that for me, Rmackenzie. I appreciate it. It looks as if, in all honesty, Teachers TV have bogged something up. I left the first post on the rticle talk page as I was watching the show, so what I put in there, was what they had said. It may be worth one or the other of us getting in touch with Teacher's TV, since they are currently doing a week long feature on Ted Wragg throughout half-term. Thor Malmjursson 02:00, 14 February 2006 (UTC) Thor's pet yack

New Zealand portal
An article you made a major contribution to, Timaru, is currently the selected article on the New Zealand portal. You're welcome to nominate other articles at Portal_talk:New_Zealand, or to view the archive of selected articles at the article archive.-gadfium 19:37, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

Magic Mountain
Thanks for cleaning up my prose in my ongoing translation of the Magic Mountain article. I write English confidently enough, but whenever I try to translate from other language, it is difficult for me to distance myself from the idioms of the original. It's a lot easier for me to just write crappy English and trust you to massage it into readable prose. So please carry on, I will translate this bit by bit whenever I feel like it.

Specifically, I couldn't find anything in Narratology or related articles (narrative structure, etc.) about the relationships between Erzählzeit and erzählte Zeit ("narrationtime" and "narrated time", i.e., the correspondance between the time needed to tell the story, and the time that passes in the story). I have no idea what they are called in English. Arbor 12:01, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
 * If you have an English translation handy, I suspect Ziemßen becomes Ziemssen? Similarly, is it Přibislav Hippe or just Pribislav? Arbor 13:30, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

The Lowe-Porter translation from German into English, published by Secker (England) and Knopf (USA), was approved by Mann and published in 1927. It employs "Ziemssen" and "Pribislav Hippe". It strikes me that the use of continental accent marking is inconsistent in this particular translation, with some characters with names, for example,retaining their "umlaut". I hope this helps--Rmackenzie 18:23, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

Lawrence image
Hello again, glad to see your still fighting the good fight over at Lawrence's page. There is an immanent problem you should be aware of and you might be able to help with. The image is scheduled for deletion as I did not include copyright details when I uploaded it. Unfortunately I haven't got the time or inclination to deal with this at the mo so I am bringing this to your attention. I can not remember which webshite I pinced this from nor do I know the original picture credit. Fair use my not be good enough for this, and PD-age probably is not tied to 75 years since the death of Lawrence but 75 since the death of the photographer. Sorry about dumping this on you. MeltBanana 20:05, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

Pbil m/40
Hello, nice article but I made some changes, hope you don't mind. I think it should be moved to Pansarbil m/39, or maybe Lynx (armoured car). 83.248.25.169 12:40, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Self report study
hi there! i noticed you sired self report study, and wanted to ask if you could make it less science/topic specific; a self report is any interview/questionnaire that is about the subject being investigated. it would make it less POV, which im sure you'd be a fan of. thanks, and cheers. JoeSmack Talk (p-review!) 23:28, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

Unreferenced BLPs
Hello Rmackenzie! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot alerting you that 1 of the articles that you created  is an  Unreferenced Biography of a Living Person. Please note that all biographies of living persons must be sourced. If you were to add reliable, secondary sources to this article, it would greatly help us with the current Category:All_unreferenced_BLPs article backlog. Once the article is adequately referenced, please remove the unreferencedBLP tag. Here is the article:

Thanks!--DASHBot (talk) 20:16, 2 January 2010 (UTC)
 * 1) Eva Figes -

The Timaru Herald
I see that you did some work on the The Timaru Herald article. Any chance of digging out some inline references? Cheers. -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 19:56, 12 May 2011 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!
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Victory Day (film) moved to draftspace
An article you recently created, Victory Day (film), is not suitable as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of " " before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. (t &#183; c)  buidhe  17:58, 24 May 2022 (UTC)

Concern regarding Draft:Victory Day (film)
Hello, Rmackenzie. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:Victory Day (film), a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months may be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, please edit it again&#32;or request that it be moved to your userspace.

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 09:13, 30 October 2022 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Victory Day (film)


Hello, Rmackenzie. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Victory Day".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. If you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz Read! Talk! 18:10, 24 November 2022 (UTC)