User talk:Robertvan1

Kennett etc
Robert, I just saw your name as someone who weas redoing templates. Well done. I reviewed the school and al;though not GA it is a B. I say you had played with colours in tables and had also tried to put a graph in. I have just returned from my hols near Beauvoisin, I did a quick review of the poor page and found a graph on the italian page which is pure html .... care to investigate? Your graph might improve in html? Victuallers 19:05, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

Template:Schools in Berkshire== ==

You moved Mary Hare Grammar School into the independent school section. Even though it's non-maintained, it is still a state school. Surely this means it should be in the grammar school section? robertvan1 18:54, 15 August 2007 (UTC)


 * sorry if I'm breaking etiquette by copying your message - but on occasions when I've browsed people's talk pages I find it very hard to follow one side of a discussion! Hopefully by including both sides, we can make this easy to follow for anyone who wants


 * I'd refer you to the Mary Hare website, specifically http://www.maryhare.org.uk/?id=about_secondary, which tells us 'Mary Hare School is a non-maintained special school with charitable status. We have 220 pupils from all over the UK. The pupils' fees are paid by their Local Education Authority.' So it's not a state school. It's a charity - and as such, it's independent. I can see that if all pupils have their fees paid by their LEA that it is like a state school - but it still isn't one!


 * If you're not comfortable with this, maybe this debate would sit better on the Schools in Berkshire talkpage? That way, more editors could give their opinion.

Cheers Grblundell 19:51, 15 August 2007 (UTC)


 * you wrote
 * The school's page shouldn't be taken as correct, the [{Department for Children, Schools and Families]] lists the school as such: [1] and directgov lists it as scuch: [2]. On the DCSF site, it states clearly 'IND' on the list and directgov states 'State, special school, non-maintained special'. I believe that the DCSF and directgov are both government related and more reliable sources that the school's own website, do you disagree? robertvan1 20:10, 15 August 2007 (UTC)


 * There's some interesting points here. Most importantly, having looked at the directgov page, I accept that that describes the school as 'state'. If you'd like to move Mary Hare back to the state lists on that evidence I think that it's a defendable position.


 * But to pick up your (rhetorical?) question - personally, I would choose to believe an organisation's own website over a government one on a question of documentable fact. In general, the closer a source we reference is to the fact, the more likely I would think it is to be right. The Mary Hare website is about one secondary school. The government sites aggregate information about every secondary school in the country. Purely in terms of typing mistakes, I would expect there to be more errors on the government sites - and I would suggest that there will be other errors resulting from the information being passed through many people before appeaing on the website.


 * I also think that you may have misinterpreted the DCSF website - I can see nothing on the page that describes it as 'state' (and I can't find the 'IND' reference you quote - I assume that this is a typo by you, as surely 'IND' would suggest independent?). The top line describes the school as being in West Berks LEA - but if you refer to the Eton College page, that is described as being in Windsor & Maidenhead LEA. Given that Eton is (AFAIK) still independent, I conclude that that line is purely a geographical statement.


 * None the less, thanks for doing the legwork to put this fact right - given that it's in a template on multiple pages, it is at least as important as anything else on wikipedia to be right! Grblundell 20:34, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

Joseph Rowntree Foundation
? Ok to removed the "Wikify" template from the jrf article now? Vernon White - T A L K . . . to me. 20:52, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

Font size
I happened to see your question in User talk:Victuallers (that's how wiki works). To increase font size, use text ; thus - text. Similarly, to use small text substitute "small" for "big". --Anthony.bradbury"talk" 10:34, 18 August 2007 (UTC)


 * No, it doesn't work in that context, does it? I'm working on it. --Anthony.bradbury"talk" 19:43, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

Using AWB
Hi. I have a small note. Per WP:AWB, edits like this should not be saved, as they accomplish nothing of substance and obscure watchlists and recent changes. Just a note. :) You can reply here. Thanks. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 22:13, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Also, edits like this do Wikipedia a dis-service I believe, since the article is no longer in any category. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 22:17, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

Yea sorry about that, I think I clicked save by accident on that one, and there was no point in rolling it back. As for the uncategorised one, bots regularly patrol articles and add need category templates, so that one would've been found soon enough. robertvan1 22:50, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Still, it is preferrable to have sports-stub rather than nothing at all, I think. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 06:41, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

Yea OK, I'll keep that in mind while editing. robertvan1 15:47, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

AWB, or just deleted stub
Just a note, this edit appears to have just deleted a stub tag (that I agree was in appropriate), but did you need AWB to do that. Also, I don't think the text, "clean up (sic) using AWB" was the best description of what you did. Pdbailey 00:05, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

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I have no problem with this.  robertvan1  talk 21:07, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

Mass category removal
Hey, I noticed that you were able to do mass category removal from the page history of The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. There is an anonymous IP adding the deleted category Category:Post-credits scene films to quite a few pages. I started to removed it manually, but I was wondering if you could use the AWB to take care of it or at least tell me how it would work so I can clean up. —Erik (talk • contrib) - 16:46, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

Kennet School
Take a look please. CR7 (message me) 21:32, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

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