User talk:Rmallett

Wimbledon

 * Like I said in the emails the problem was the dash, for example 2011 US Open - Men's Singles is different from 2011 US Open – Men's Singles. The problem with the moving was for example you were moving a page here 1883 Wimbledon Championship - Singles which was already created and was redirecting to the 1883 Wimbledon Championship article, what I changed was where it redirected to and then moved the User page into 1883 Wimbledon Championship – Singles. In short its all to do with the ndash. Afro  ( Don't Call Me Shirley ) 18:13, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
 * I tried changing 1884 Wimbledon Championship - Men's Singles from #REDIRECT1884 Wimbledon Championship to #REDIRECT1884 Wimbledon Championship - Men's Singles and similarly for 1884 Wimbledon Championship - Gentlemen's Singles, but neither allowed me to move my page from the user space to the public space. I still don't understand what you are saying about the dash - which dash do I have to change, and what do I have to change it to ? Rmallett (talk)
 * I guess the easiest thing for you to do would to when moving a page would be to replace the "-" with &*ndash*; (without the stars) then redirect the other page to the one you just moved. Afro  ( Don't Call Me Shirley ) 23:25, 6 December 2010 (UTC)
 * I have done this for 1885 and 1886 - please let me know if I have done it right. At first, I forgot the semi colon after &ndash, but hope that it is now OK. Rmallett (talk)
 * Yep, you are adding it correctly when you include the semi colon. Afro  ( Don't Call Me Shirley ) 22:59, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

links
Just wanted to let you know, you don't need to worry much about links to other languages, the bots will take care of those. Afro ( Talk ) 15:14, 12 January 2011 (UTC)

Many thanks for that, Andrew, I was wondering how to handle that when it came to the ladies' results.Rmallett (talk) 18:15, 12 January 2011 (UTC)
 * I've removed the Interwiki links from your Userpages where you're working on for the 1896 draw, once again no need to fret about adding these as a bot can manage it, just giving you another heads up regarding this. Also regarding the women's draws I added the 1890 Wimbledon Championships – Ladies's Singles and was just wondering if the 100 Years of Wimbledon covered the draw so I can add a source. Afro  ( Talk ) 18:15, 1 February 2011 (UTC)


 * Thanks for that, I wasn't sure if that was covered by the bots. Yes, 100 Years of Wimbledon (for 1/4 finals onwards) and The Official History (for all rounds) give scores for the Ladies' (note - Ladies's is incorrect English) Singles from 1884. Rmallett (talk) 19:52, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
 * I don't know where my heads been with that. Afro  ( Talk ) 22:03, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

1886 Wimbledon Championships
Just wondering by referee do you mean umpire? Afro ( Talk ) 01:55, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

No, the referee is in overall charge of the tournament. Allan Mills did it for many years in recent times. In the days of 'bad boy' McEnroe, he was often telling the umpire of the match to call the referee.Rmallett (talk) 11:34, 16 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Ok, I was just checking encase it was some type of mistype. Afro  ( Talk ) 11:48, 16 January 2011 (UTC)

Article names
It seems only best to name the draws the same as all the rest, example 2011 Australian Open - Men's Singles, I'll move the previous. Afro ( Talk ) 11:56, 6 February 2011 (UTC)

Officially, the event at Wimbledon has always been called the Gentlemen's Singles or Gentlemen's Doubles. See for example http://2010.wimbledon.org/en_GB/index.html. The general article at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Championships,_Wimbledon refers to Gentlemen's Singles and Gentlemen's Doubles.Rmallett (talk) 12:59, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
 * If this was the case with Naming Conventions then 2010 Wimbledon Championships - Men's Singles would be Gentlemen's singles and 2010 Wimbledon Championships - Men's Doubles would be Gentlemen's doubles. To elaborate WP:NAME does say "Consistency – titles which follow the same pattern as those of similar articles are generally preferred. Many of these patterns are documented in the naming guidelines listed in the Specific-topic naming conventions box above, and ideally indicate titles that are in accordance with the principal criteria above." Afro  ( Talk ) 15:03, 6 February 2011 (UTC)


 * Certainly it's not worth arguing about :-) I have now started on the ladies.Rmallett (talk) 15:16, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
 * I'll make the changes for the naming of the articles. Afro  ( Talk ) 15:29, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Talking of the ladies, both the official history and 100 years of Wimbledon books spell Lilian Watson's name as I have done, rather than the LL on her Wikipedia page.Rmallett (talk) 20:54, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
 * The USTA lists it as double l. Afro  ( Talk ) 00:01, 8 February 2011 (UTC)


 * Page 9 Year 1884 Champion Maud Watson Runner Up Lilian Watson Score 68 63 62 - you're seeing double, Andrew :-)Rmallett (talk) 10:29, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
 * I probably mistook one of the i's for an l, I'd bring this up at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Tennis before any changes are made. Afro  ( Talk ) 17:43, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
 * OK I have raised it there.Rmallett (talk) 18:10, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

1882 Wimbledon Championship – Singles
I thought I'd let you know, theres a clarification tag on this page, the problem appears to be that a bye competed in a match, I thought I'd let you know so this can be cleared up asap. Afro ( Talk ) 10:06, 25 February 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for that. I inadvertently copied the score from the Murray-Hill vs. Lawford match of 1881 from the draw for that page. I have now cleared out the score from the 1882 page. Rmallett (talk) 18:59, 25 February 2011 (UTC)

Wimbledon competition dates
I now have the dates for all the major Wimbledon competitions from 1877 to date, as published in the 2010 Wimbledon Compendium, so I will be adding these to the appropriate pages. I also see that the women's match scores in the early years are much sparser than the men's, so I will continue with those for the moment, as time permits.Rmallett (talk) 19:52, 30 March 2011 (UTC)

Lilian Watson
The guys at Tennis talk seemed unwilling to make a decision about Lilian v. Lillian. I have now received the 2010 Wimbledon Compendium by Alan Little, which (in the section on Wimbledon finalists) lists Lilian Mary Watson, born 17th. September 1857, Harrow, Middlesex, England, died 27th. May 1918 Berkswell, Warwickshire, England, singles 1884. That makes two publications authorised by the All England Club (Barrett and Little) and your (Andrew's) USTA reference in favour of Lilian. I propose that we follow the example of Amelie Mauresmo, where the wrongly titled page (without the accent) redirects to the correctly titled page (with the accent). Please let me know if any further evidence is required.Rmallett (talk) 10:59, 3 April 2011 (UTC)

1914 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles
The infobox does not match the rest of the article... I don't know which one is wrong, but maybe it's a simple error to fix for you, as you made the article. --EdgeNavidad (Talk · Contribs) 20:16, 20 July 2011 (UTC)

Sorry, please clarify. In 1914, they were still operating the Challenge Round system, by which the winner of the All Comers Final faced the previous champion in the Challenge Round. Ethel Larcombe (nee Thomson) beat Elizabeth Ryan 6-3, 6-2 in the All Comers Final; then the reigning champion, Dorothea Lambert Chambers, defeated Ethel Larcombe 7-5, 6-4 in the Challenge Round. What did I get wrong ? Rmallett (talk) 00:18, 21 July 2011 (UTC)
 * I am very ashamed... I knew about the challenge round system, but I forgot it and didn't read the intro that well. You got it right, I was wrong. Thanks for clarifying! --EdgeNavidad (Talk · Contribs) 17:56, 21 July 2011 (UTC)

1887 Wimbledon Championships – Ladies' Singles
Hey dude I've become less active on Wikipedia but if you do want to get in touch with me post a message on my talk page, as always. Anyway on this page J Shackle got defeated in the 1st round even though she had a Bye. Afro ( Talk ) 10:06, 6 August 2011 (UTC)


 * Thanks for that, I guessed you were probably busy with studies. It's good to hear from you again.  Now corrected. Rmallett (talk) 10:25, 6 August 2011 (UTC)

=&ndash= You realize it's supposed to be an actual "–" in titles, not &ndash. Is that the problem? Fyunck(click) (talk) 18:30, 4 August 2012 (UTC)


 * I think I typed "–" in the title; but when I typed the same in the tennis talk page, it appeared as a long hyphen, so I will try again with the next draw that I do. Is there another way of getting "–" to appear, other than by typing ampersand, ndash, semi colon ?  When I tried it in the article title, I received back a page full of red text about "invalid character in article title" Rmallett (talk) 19:46, 4 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Sure. Windows has a character map in accessories where you can find it. But when you edit in wikipedia you see a menu for special characters where you can simply click on the ndash under symbols. Or at least my wiki edit has it. It's right next to the "m³" box. Fyunck(click) (talk) 09:02, 5 August 2012 (UTC)
 * I have a pull down that currently says Insert, followed by – — ‘’ “” ° ″ ′ ≈ ≠ ≤ ≥ ± − × ÷ √ ← → · § but I wasn't sure which was the ndash.  Is it the first of these or the second ? Rmallett (talk) 13:16, 5 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Yep, it's the first one. Put a hyphen next to it and see... - –. You can't tell in edit format but you can in the final product. The second is an Mdash. Fyunck(click) (talk) 20:05, 5 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I will try that in the next title. Rmallett (talk) 21:34, 5 August 2012 (UTC)

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 * Neither of the Margaret Lewis pages refer to tennis players, so that link is erroneous, and I will remove it. The married name of Anita Lizana was Mrs. RA Ellis, according to Barrett, while it was Mrs. RT Ellis who competed in 1939.  However, the page for Anita Lizana de Ellis says she reached the second round in 1938 and 1939, so I will link to that. Rmallett (talk) 15:02, 9 September 2012 (UTC)

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 * Now linked to Charles P. Dixon, Henry Pollard (tennis) and Kenneth Powell (tennis) and removed link to James Powell, since none of them are tennis players. Rmallett (talk) 14:02, 16 September 2012 (UTC)

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 * Corrected Charles Dixon to Charles P. Dixon, corrected Kenneth Powell to Kenneth Powell (tennis), removed links to George Thomas, James Powell and Henry Marsh. Rmallett (talk) 15:17, 23 September 2012 (UTC)

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 * Removed both links. Rmallett (talk) 15:12, 1 October 2012 (UTC)

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 * Changed Bill Johnston to add (tennis), John Masterman to add middle name Cecil, Alexander Drew to add (tennis) though he doesn't have a page. Rmallett (talk) 15:54, 4 December 2012 (UTC)

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