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Message from Victuallers
(This section title was added by User WiKID Daryl for the page'sneatness' sake)

Made a reply on your excellent (but unreffed) Foremarke page Victuallers 19:38, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Oh ... do you know why its foremarkE and not foremark ? Victuallers 19:38, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

haha not too sure im afraid, but from my memories i think it was just a mere spelling that created the variation, like the variations of surnames you get.

I couldn't which one is genuine. It is very hard to determine what was the original, as neither are! The earlier known version of the name was 'Forte Mark', recorded in some directories.

It could be that, upon completion of the estate, Sir Robert Burdett 4th Bart. decided Foremarke was more elegant and 'French or latin-like' than Foremark, just a speculation! ROFL.

again forgot my signature..........

--WiKID Daryl 19:50, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Schools
Repton prep page v. Foremarke Hall Page

I see you have created a Repton Prep page which I think makes a lot of sense. Is it possible to divide the building (with its long history) from the prep. school? I think this would make sense. You could still have a link from Foremarke Hall to the prep page for anyone who wasn't interested in the building.

We have also been discussing the ghost memoirs. Is it possible to publish these eleswhere and then link them to the wikipedia article if there is not a published source already? All your hard work should see at least one "B" article. Could you suggest another way? Victuallers 10:07, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

Oh and I see you have a Foremark, Derbyshire page ... well done

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Oh that's strange cuz i chose a "logo of an organisation" license...well i've updated it and made sure it was the correct license anyways. Thanks O :) --WiKID Daryl (talk) 00:09, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

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About section headers
I noticed your edits to the Francis Burdett article. You might want to read Wikipedia:Headings#Section_headings]]; you can make smaller headings by using larger numbers of =s, which is preferable to making headings manually using the formatting tools. Hope this helps! Sorry if you already know or something, not meaning to be patronising. --Tombomp (talk/contribs) 19:39, 8 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your advice, I forgot the codes for a smaller heading; just the help I needed :P.


 * The larger headings were a bit abused on that page! lol The sections aren't big and the titles are strangely-named...


 * I think we need to emphasize more on the private life and the "Myth" encircling around Francis Burdett and his early  wife Sophia.


 * (Rumour has it that Francis chopped her arm off after discovering her cheating on him; with his best friend; which is why he re-married. I used to go to school at Foremarke and it's almost a recongized fact there; sadly I can't find any published work that describe it...)


 * --WiKID Daryl (talk) 19:45, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
 * To be totally honest, I have no idea about the guy and only came across him while recent change patrolling :) Sounds like an interesting character though. It does suck when you can't find reliable sources about this sort of thing. Tombomp (talk/contribs) 19:57, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
 * You don't need to sign up for anything, just read Special:Recentchanges and revert any vandalism :) See WP:RCP. You can install tools like WP:HUGGLE and WP:TWINKLE to make it easier. Tombomp (talk/contribs) 20:24, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Isnt Francis Burdett ie one born born in 1770 ... the picture doesnt look like a teenager? You are right Francis Burdett born 1743 died before his father and the title went to his grandson. Do you agree? Victuallers (talk) 20:16, 8 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Thank Victs :P you just answered the biggest doubt I got- why did Francis Burdett not succeed the Baronetcy! I'll add this into the Foremarke Hall and Sir Francis Burdett, 5th Baronet pages.


 * So you saw what I wrote in the Talk page? It was quite frustrating to have written something established so clearly only to be ruined by somone who doesn't even know the matter clear enough. :(


 * And you are right, the photo on the Francis Burdett page seem to look like the portrait found on Franis Burdett (1743), i think it was just that the Francis Burdett was so "factually vandalised" XD that even I got confused....lol


 * And nice to hear from you after so long ;), can't believe someone did something like that to the article I worked so hard on, although I'm sure he/she was not intentional; so I don't hold any grudges. :)


 * --WiKID Daryl (talk) 20:32, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

Francis Burdett (1743)

 * I'm a bit confused Daryl. The paintings I loaded onto commons for the article about Francis Burdett (1743) are I think both of him and not his son. I could be wrong but the dates seem to sit better with him and there are other indications that these were paid for by Francis Mundy and Robert Burdett as there are matching photos of other people in existance. Your comments about "someone" are ambiguous. Do you mean me or someone else? There is nothing wrong with telling the truth as you see it. If I have made an error then tell me. I would not have looked for the comment you made on Foremarke Hall if you hadnt prompted me. Can you explain if you are upset and why? Apologies if I have caused it. Cheers Victuallers (talk) 20:58, 8 July 2008 (UTC)


 * No i wasn't referring to you of course lol; I was talking about someone who edited the content so that everyone who sees it would get confused; even someone who knows the history like you.


 * You probably were wrong if you thought the guy in the photo was "Sir Francis" (which I was too :P); as Francis Burdett (1743) hsd two portraits painted for him and the guy in the painting looks identical to the portrait on Francis Burdett (1743).


 * Actually I thought you were trying to tell me I was wrong about the guy being an older Sir Francis Birdett; but then inceidentally; that got me thinking and now it's obvious it's not Sir Francis but his father in the painting. (I went to Repton Prep myself but had never seen a painting of Sir Francis as such.


 * And from my experiences of walking past the dozen portraits of Sir Francis I think I'm sure that the person in the painting is not Sir Francis; although I don't rule out the possibility of it being a painting of an older Sir Francis- even though It just doesn't look like him.


 * --WiKID Daryl (talk) 21:09, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

Some pointers

 * wiki is a language .... it doesnt include the "br" tag. The inventor decided that there were parts of html that were unessential. Wiki means quick in Hawaiin (really!). Thats what makes wikipedia not htmlipedia
 * Do check the dates and spelling on your last edit. You say 1743 when you mean 1794 (the date he died) .... you say "did" not "died"
 * using === to mean a title is also part of the wiki language
 * Have a look at other articles ... we need to give these articles lots more refs.
 * Hope this helps Victuallers (talk) 21:22, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

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