User talk:Tonybarlow

JHB
I never expected to find the talk I heard in Friends House today already written up in Wikipedia! As an admin, I have to say that we do not like userspace drafts hanging around too long. But in this case, I shall be happy to help in getting it into mainspace. What we desperately need is links to online references - just slap them in as naked URLs, I will do the rest. (And if you are, I have to say that multiple accounts are also strongly deprecated.)

My wife and I are spending a few days in southern Ireland soon and the itinerary for me is based around folk songs. Musically The Boys of Kilmichael is a rousing, energetic song. Unfortunately it commemorates a particularly bloody indicident. It struck me that a small pacifist action would be to stick a copy of JHB report of 5 October 1920 on the back of the memorial.

Incidentally, the first meeting I attended is the one in Stramongate, Kendal. &mdash; RHaworth (talk · contribs) 22:30, 17 May 2014 (UTC)

2014 Oct 04
I have reduced the lede (ie. the text preceding the Table of Contents) to a more reasonable length. I am very pleased with the result - five sentences, each of which links to a Wikipedia article and two of them already contain his name.

The stuff removed from the lede is in a temporary section called Ex-lede. I find editing an article this long a daunting experience - you have to be thoroughly conversant will all the text to avoid creating duplications and other style violations. So I am going to be a real heel and ask you to distribute the text of the Ex-lede section to other sections (but obviously not back into the lede) - or delete it altogether if it is a duplication.

Other things you could do:
 * the Military Service Act 1916 makes no mention of conscientious objection. This needs to be added, and if you can provide a decent ref, add JHB's name
 * Friends' Ambulance Unit - possible quote JHB as one of the founders.

&mdash; RHaworth (talk · contribs) 22:36, 4 October 2014 (UTC) updated 00:25, 29 October 2014 (UTC)

2014 Oct 30
Just to spell it out: the Ex-lede section is to be eliminated - it is utterly non-standard and has a name which is utterly meaningless to non-Wikipedians. Please go through the Ex-lede section sentence by sentence: &mdash; RHaworth (talk · contribs) 13:10, 30 October 2014 (UTC)
 * If the sentence completely duplicates information further down the article, delete that sentence.
 * If the sentence fully or partially contains information that does not appear in later sections, move the text to an appropriate point lower down and integrate it in such a way that "the joints don't show".