User talk:William Leadford

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 * Thanks for the welcome Technopat. I was just looking at a few H. G. Wells articles and thought they could do with a bit of buffing up. I'll certainly take the time to look through your links, and try to make sure I do it right. --William Leadford (talk) 22:55, 19 April 2010 (UTC)


 * Greetings William Leadford - thanks for the thanks. There's plenty of buffing up to be done, so enjoy it! Just two bits of advice: don't let it become habit-forming, and don't let 'em get you down! Cheers!--Technopat (talk) 23:14, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

British Motorcycles
Thanks for the work you are doing on British bike manufacturers it's good to see someone else taking an interest. When you've got a moment have a look at the WikiProject Motorcycling/British Motorcycles (we've not got many members) and the Outline of motorcycling we've just started. Thruxton (talk) 18:21, 19 October 2010 (UTC)


 * That's a relief. I thought when I saw the orange bar that someone might be coming here to tell me off for something. :-) I'm interested in old machinery in general, not just motorbikes, so I doubt I'd be much help with the project to be honest. I'll keep gnoming away at the older stuff though. William Leadford (talk) 19:03, 19 October 2010 (UTC)


 * Any help is very welcome - especially the attention to detail stuff you are good at. I'm a fan of HG and had a look at In the Days of the Comet. It is unreferenced (the facsimile doesn't count) but The War of the Worlds has got 49 good refs so its worth thinking about?  I did find it on Project Gutenberg so added it as an 'external link' Thruxton (talk) 20:38, 20 October 2010 (UTC)


 * Comparing it to similar articles it seems to me there's an awful lot missing from that article, as it doesn't really cover anything except the plot. William Leadford (talk) 14:07, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

Lodi_Road
Thanks for copyediting Lodi_Road - you've made a decent job of it, which I couldn't get my head round. I'm not sure why you removed the references tag as well as the copyedit one, though. It still needs references per WP:RS and WP:Verify, so I've added that tag back. Cheers. - Sitush (talk) 17:21, 13 February 2011 (UTC)


 * It was rather difficult to follow, so I did the best I could with it. I removed the unreferenced tag, which was no longer true, but of course you're right in saying that it needs more. William Leadford (talk) 18:40, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

Amby
Good work fixing the Amby article. Keep it up!  ⊂&#124; Mr.choppers &#124;⊃  (talk) 00:09, 18 February 2011 (UTC)

Friedrich Wilhelm Mengelberg
If you have time, could you proofread this article above I just wrote. Thanks.--Doug Coldwell talk 17:02, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks, great job! --Doug Coldwell talk 22:05, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
 * I'm afraid that I've edit conflicted with you, so some of your intermediate edits have been lost; I should probably have put that template on the page warning that there was a large edit underway. Sorry about that. William Leadford (talk) 22:23, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
 * I'll fix tomorrow. It will give me something to do. Mostly I just changed some pictures. You copyedit a lot better than I do.--Doug Coldwell talk 22:26, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks. That's a nice little article, but the lead obviously needs to be expanded a bit still. William Leadford (talk) 22:29, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
 * This article is kind of important, since it then puts me at 200 DYKs. It has been approved and in the long clue to come up in a couple of weeks as an actual DYK. If you see any other improvements, I'll not edit it for a day or so, so you can make any changes. The pictures I can change anytime. They show the interiors of the churches he worked on.--Doug Coldwell talk 22:36, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
 * I'm done now, time for bed anyway. All I'd suggest is expanding the lead. William Leadford (talk) 22:41, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
 * I'll think on it and see what I can come up with.--Doug Coldwell talk 22:42, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
 * I've seen others suggest that a good general rule is to include something from each section of the article in the lead, and that seems to make sense to me. William Leadford (talk) 22:53, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Took a sentence from another section and added to lead.--Doug Coldwell talk 23:04, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
 * ✅ --Doug Coldwell talk 23:21, 1 May 2011 (UTC)

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