User talk:Stephanie (Oxford)

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And it's always nice to see another Oxford user editing well. That small change to the external url on Champneys is excellent, much more informative - with great pictures of the building's details to boot, readers will appreciate that. Thanks.-- Alf melmac 12:58, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Link to Headington.org.uk site
Stephanie,

I have removed the external link you added on the Cornmarket page, on the grounds that it is not really suitable to link to your own website. (Hopefully in view of this previous edit summary, it is uncontroversial for me to claim that it is indeed your own site.) But if you have suitable content from that site that you are willing to add to Wikipedia itself, that would be great.

Regards, &mdash; Alan✉ 10:25, 19 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Re: "(What slightly annoys me is that on the Cornmarket page you have left in a long-dead link to a tedious county council report that constitutes the only external link you have. I am not going to remove it myself, as it will look too peevish.)" -- good point, I've removed it now. &mdash; Alan✉ 17:19, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

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Ways to improve Thomas Rayson
Hi, I'm Mduvekot. Stephanie (Oxford), thanks for creating Thomas Rayson!

I've just tagged the page, using our page curation tools, as having some issues to fix. Information supplied by the daughter of Thomas Rayson, unless published in a reliable source is not verifiable, and should be sourced per Citing sources

The tags can be removed by you or another editor once the issues they mention are addressed. If you have questions, you can leave a comment on my talk page. Or, for more editing help, talk to the volunteers at the Teahouse. Mduvekot (talk) 17:56, 21 December 2016 (UTC)

Help me!
Please help me with making multiple changes to a website domain name For reasons too complicated to explain, the Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Board has changed its domain name from: www.oxfordshireblueplaques.org.uk to www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk

Before killing off the former site, I wanted to change all the links in Wikipedia, but I am surprised at how many there are. Doing them one by one is a painful process. I can understand how dangerous it would be if Wikipedia allowed us amateurs to do a search & exchange of the whole site, but is there any chance an editor could do a search for www.oxfordshireblueplaques and change it to www.oxonblueplaques -- please, please, please? Stephanie (Oxford) (talk) 08:05, 21 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi, thanks very much for your concern for Wikipedia's referencing. Wikipedia has a noticeboard for just these sort of requests, so I've put a notice up over there - you can feel free to track the request if you like over at Link rot/URL change requests. If you need any more help, just let me know :) Naypta ☺ &#124; ✉ talk page &#124; 09:19, 21 May 2020 (UTC)

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You created this article, mostly copied and pasted from who knows where, and put a list of alleged sources at the end without adding a single inline reflink in the entire article to indicate what sources confirm what text. 107.122.161.39 (talk) 03:08, 25 December 2022 (UTC)


 * I created the article about Evan Evans because when I tried to find information about him, there was none available anywhere: he wasn’t even in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. The idea that it is “mostly copied and pasted from who knows where” is a joke, as no material whatsoever was available when I wrote it in 2010; if there is some now, I would be grateful if you would show me where it is. (The only additional contribution of any substance made to the page by anyone else in the last twelve years has been the photograph of his memorial.)
 * I researched the biography using only original sources. It’s pretty obvious from the list of references where I found all the material, but I will admit that there are no inline references. If I can find the energy I will go back and throw some in to please you and Wikipedia, but I really dislike them.
 * I have written thousands of pages on my Oxford History website and have never copied and pasted anything there either. What is ironic is that when people take a page of mine from the web and rewrite it as a Wikipedia entry in their own words, giving my page as the sole inline reference, Wikipedia think that this is just fine. Stephanie (Oxford) (talk) 07:43, 25 December 2022 (UTC)
 * I have written thousands of pages on my Oxford History website and have never copied and pasted anything there either. What is ironic is that when people take a page of mine from the web and rewrite it as a Wikipedia entry in their own words, giving my page as the sole inline reference, Wikipedia think that this is just fine. Stephanie (Oxford) (talk) 07:43, 25 December 2022 (UTC)
 * I have written thousands of pages on my Oxford History website and have never copied and pasted anything there either. What is ironic is that when people take a page of mine from the web and rewrite it as a Wikipedia entry in their own words, giving my page as the sole inline reference, Wikipedia think that this is just fine. Stephanie (Oxford) (talk) 07:43, 25 December 2022 (UTC)

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