User talk:Deb

Hello there, welcome to the 'pedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you need any questions answered about the project then check out Wikipedia:Help or drop me a line. BTW, you have been pretty busy (http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/special:contributions&theuser=Deb) with some British history artilces - Good work! Cheers! --maveric149

Hi Deb, just a note to say I'm quite chuffed about how well the Royal naming rules stuff is working. I have come across a few new 'royal' pages and it seems to to be working a dream, with everything fitting it well and names and titles fitting the one clear pattern. The two of us should patt each other on the back for a job well done. (And of course, immediately having written this, I'll find some monstrous problem cropping up! Hopefully not. Slán leat (gaelic for 'goodbye to you' ) JTD 20:29 Feb 11, 2003 (UTC)

Yeah. To think I have not been called a 'phoney', an 'asshole' etc in days. I'm in mourning for DW. (But not too much!) But I still have the delight of having Two16 to hurl insults about and throw tantrums. I think the new royal names consensus will work. So far no-one has rejected the idea, or even had major doubts, just qualifications or 'what ifs?'

I have been going through some articles, adopting them to fit the rules. JTD 22:29 Feb 1, 2003 (UTC)

Contents

1 Thank for improving my English

9 user page unprotected

10 Thanks

11 Ena

12 Re Swansea article

19 Music, music, music

27 List of architects

28 Reverse sexism

29 Vandalism

30 Administrator status

31 Wilson, Keppel and Betty

32 Scratch One Candidate

33 Wales Meets Ohio

34 NPOV: Drum {and | &} bugle corps

35 A Second Look

36 Official invitation

37 recent speedy deletion

38 On Madame de Lafayette

39 Soap couple history article

40 Dio vi Salve Regina

48 And hello to you...

49 Patrick Dylan Rich

50 User page unprotection

51 Invite

52 WP:LCOTW

53 Clémentine of Orléan

54 Sorry About That Chief

55 Sweepstakes

56 Moving French nobles

57 Thanks

58 Article Licensing

59 English Civil War reversion

60 soap opera

61 Hello

62 Need your help with horns and drums again...

63 List of songs with brackets in their titles

64 Roman-Latin work by Cicero

65 article Carl Drega

66 Adminship Again

67 RFC pages on VfD

68 Archaeology wikiproject

73 Stupid Newbie Tricks

80 Palace Theatre disambiguation

81 Long Time No See

82 Yaraborough/Yarborough

83 Richard III

84 Shock to the System

85 FAC check

86 Alrosking

87 Translating English articals into Welsh

88 Denholm Elliott

89 65.39.159.10

90 El Salon Mexico;

91 Holman Fred Stephens

98 User:Bastard on Wheels

99 Removal of blank category only pages.

100 Misspelling and Miscategorization of Adolph Wagner

101 Photographs of Siegfried Sassoon

102 Welsh people section?

Thank for improving my English

Hi Deb

I'm hoping someone to correct the formular, "English" is now good there due to your modification, but it may be deleted soon since the formular was wrong !

Thank you so much again.

Trieu

Diwrnod Da!

Sorry if it seems I have overlooked your helpful comments, I appreciate the feedback from the wikicommunity, and have noted your work on my items in the history logs. I futher note you have a work in print.

I need to be a little more guarded about copyright problems that may arise from my contributions here. I am selectivly editing my items to remove any personalised references, and will have to remove some content. If objections to this process are raised I may object that my own copyright has been infringed, if the good wikifairy can not help.

Please feel free to comment on anything you feel is a must for reworking.

All the best, and diolch. Faedra 10:52, 22 Jun 2004 (UTC)

ideas?

I notice that you reguarly edit articles on opera topics and wondered whether you had any suggestions for: Wikipedia:WikiProject Opera. TIA. -- Viajero 09:53, 21 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Thanks

Deb, I've seen your commentary in several places here and there recently, and I just wanted to thank you for the time you take to make Wikipedia a kinder and more helpful place. I'm sure you don't get enough appreciation for it, and it occurred to me that perhaps a very brief note would be welcome. Thanks again and please do keep up the excellent work, Jwrosenzweig 17:46, 24 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Anne Kirkbride

Thanks for the addition! I didn't know her voice was due to the smoking. It had been like that for as long as I remember. Even on the flashbacks, when she was in love with Mike and Ken found out, her voice was like that, and she couldn't have even been 30 yet. Anyway, thanks again! :D Mike H 18:36, Jun 26, 2004 (UTC)

I completely forgot about that! Okay, added. Mike H 18:47, Jun 26, 2004 (UTC)

Question: Was Jerry Booth one of Deirdre's boyfriends? I know he wanted to date her and that he had bad luck with her and Mavis. Then the actor died. Mike H 21:15, Jun 26, 2004 (UTC)

Deirdre worked for Len after Ray left the country, because Len and Ray were in a business venture at the time, and it put both Deirdre and Len in a weird position to have him skip off to Holland. Mike H 16:25, Jun 27, 2004 (UTC)

Nah, I'm pretty sure she worked there because of Ray. Originally, Deirdre was supposed to marry Billy Walker but the actor left the country (ironic, eh?). They switched all the storylines rather abruptly so she married Ray. Mike H 16:31, Jun 27, 2004 (UTC)

I only started watching in 1995. My grandmother is from Birkenhead, and her friends knew a lot about the show so I got interested. Then, four years ago, CBC went digital and I haven't seen it since. I bought the DVDs and the books (40 Years, the Corrie novels), though. Mike H 16:38, Jun 27, 2004 (UTC)

Gary Pullman

I can usually find books and authors rather easily, using web based catalogs of national libraries such as the Library of Congress, and of course commercial resources such as Amazon (US but also in other countries) in order to add some basic bibliographical info (place of publication, publisher, date of publication, ISBN and sometimes other elements when olde books are involved) to any article about a book. But this time I was stumped by "Gary Pullman". Are you sure it is the correct spelling for his name? AlainV 06:54, 1 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Monica Bellucci

I'm a little confused. You've made an edit to a page, where you changed [[Category:Italian actors and actresses]] to [[Category:Italian actors and actresses|Bellucci]]. Er, why? :o) — OwenBlacker 20:17, Jul 9, 2004 (UTC)

Sorry it's taken me so long to reply to your question on Monica Bellucci - I was away on holiday. I changed it so that she would be listed under "B" instead of "M". Deb 10:07, 18 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Aaaah, now I understand! Thanks for letting me know. Sorry about my delay; I've been avoiding Wikipedia whilst I concentrated on writing a response to the Home Office's ID card propsals (http://www.stand.org.uk/StandEvidenceToHomeOfficeOnDraftBill.doc) for Stand.org.uk (http://www.stand.org.uk), which has taken all my not-work time over the last fortnight. Thanks again for the clarification. — OwenBlacker 21:48, Jul 20, 2004 (UTC)

Hedd Wyn

Do you think it would be better if Hedd Wyn was classified among the Hs in his categories, rather than the Ws? It's not as if "Hedd Wyn" is a forename-surname pair, after all. Marnanel 03:02, 15 Jul 2004 (UTC)

user page unprotected

I have unprotected your user page along with several other user pages that do not have a history of vandalism. Policy (talk) does not permit user pages to be protected unless a history of vandalism justifies protection. UninvitedCompany 20:00, 21 Jul 2004 (UTC)

You're mistaken on both counts. My user page has previously been amended by other users without my consent. And there is no policy which says that user pages cannot be protected; the policy states only that user talk pages should not be protected. Deb 20:06, 21 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Thanks

Hi Deb, Thanks for tweaking the Farey piece. As an editor in my day job I know its a thankless task. Meanwhile I have e-mailed the URL of your book review site to the publisher I am involved with. We have a number of Welsh-interest non-fiction books in the list. Apwoolrich 17:58, 24 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for yours. Its good to know there are others interested in the same things. I have just emailed a contact at the DNB office to ask if the orginal DNB will be put on line in public domain once the Oxford DNB comes out in September. The new work has both the old text and the updated stuff together, so users can compare and contrast. I hope this will not mean they will be able to get another 73 years copyright on the original stuff. The CD of the DNB makes its easy to get a text on a PC, and I would have thought everything pre 1923 is fair game for further use. The new one is available for a fee of course, which is quite steep for the independent scholar.

My local library has a copy of the microfiche British Biographical Index and its easy to get printouts of individual pages, once on paper but now in PDF format.

I am currently rejigging the layout of the Encyclopadias page to make it more logical and be the means for adding stuff about C19 ones I know about. Hopefully others will be able to slot more in. I feel the Dictionary page should be ordered in the same sort of format. The Architecture page is very similar to what I have done. The only problem I am having is that for every new encyclopaedia entry, I generate several pages about personalitis for which there are no articles. And then have to write them!

Thank you for cleaning up Roger Dudley who is a personage of great interest to many, but who is difficult to write about due to the lack of corroborating facts. I have fixed the link to his father Henry Sutton Dudley, and re instated the para:

Yet it was in 1586, four years earlier, that the Reverend Cotton Mather of Boston wrote: "Thomas Dudley's father was Captain Roger Dudley, -- slain in the wars, when -- his son, and one only daughter were very young".

This is important to indicate that some historical inaccuracy seems to exist, and has been repeated on the page Thomas Dudley, a good article by another user. Faedra

Ena

I can't wait until I can get screenshots from my DVDs. I have a shot from when the Corrie cast went to Australia in 1966, and Violet Carson was wearing the most exquisite hairdo. Very pretty and very different from Ena. Thanks for the cleanup on the articles! Mike H 15:10, Jul 29, 2004 (UTC)

That would be nice to see. I'm jealous. And yeah, Ken Barlow would be more boring.

There are nice little snippets of interviews from the Australia trip, and Doris Speed seems to have the same stick up her bum that Annie Walker did. Arthur Leslie seems to be such a nice man. Patricia Phoenix had a nice laugh. But that hairdo on Violet Carson! I don't want to say it was like a '60s beehive, but it was very high, and she was very well made-up. But then they went to shots of the motorcade driving through Adelaide, I think it was, and she was in hairnet and jacket costume. Mike H 16:55, Jul 29, 2004 (UTC)

I started a stub on Margot Bryant but couldn't write much. Do you have anything about Margot the person? I already wrote something on Minnie Caldwell. Mike H 19:17, Jul 29, 2004 (UTC)

Re Swansea article

Hi, is my memory failing me, or have my notes in Talk:Swansea, regarding the inclusion of Swansea Insitute students in the student population, been deleted? I think my name would have been down as either Tom or Pomegranate.

It doesn't seem like there have been any edits to that page since my last one in March 2004 (see history page), so maybe your comment was on the talk page for some other related article. It's not easy to reply to you, because you don't seem to have a user name, so I have to hope you read this. Deb 11:38, 30 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Don't worry, I've been checking back regularly...I figured it out, I was confusing the discussion page with the history page, where I had noted my addition. Time-wasting newbie error, apologies. Pomegranate 17:40, 31 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Hi!!! Nice to received from you message. Honestly it is my username, my real name is Veronika. But I am glad that my user name is the same as your real:-)))

Nice to meet you anyway. --Debora 16:24, 30 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Hello Deborah

Thanks for cleaning up my it on Audrey Munson. My interest is promarily in sculpture [hence all the sculpture modeling for Ms Munson and none of the murals, paintings. photographs etc]. I am wondering how much sculpture there is in your Welsh Artists book? I am always looking for more/new information.

carptrash Carptrash 22:31, 30 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Hello Deborah

Carptrash 22:33, 30 Jul 2004 (UTC)

whoooops

Great example of newbie behavoir, no doubt. Carptrash 22:34, 30 Jul 2004 (UTC)

We must share a common interst in the history of the bods Maclellan, Thanks for jumping in at the deep end again! Work is ongoing and I will try to fit the jigsaw together. At least I know its not time waisted, and someone out their is trying to work it out as well! Cheers, Im a bit out of my depth with these lads, so your patience will be appreciated.... do keep watching the Maclellan pages.. All the best Faedra

Transportee(s)

N Transportees; 04:44:59 . . Deb (Talk) (Transportees moved to Transportee)

Thanks. -- orthogonal 10:01, 1 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Nesebâr

No offence taken. However, I began a rewrite of the article on this town at Nesebâr because I believe that is the correct transcription from the Bulgarian Cyrilic alphabet, even if it only gets 1000 Google hits. Nessebur which you give as the most common English spelling only gets 6000 as opposed to Nessebar with 60,000, which is currently a redirect. The Bulgarian 'ъ' is a schwa which corresponds roughly to the 'a' in English 'about' or 'o' in 'harmony', and is usually transcribed as 'â'. Nesebâr isn't the most common spelling encountered in English language tourist literature because the authors of such material are just looking for a simple phonetic representation, which either an 'a' or a 'u', along with a double 's' do well. If we are striving for encyclopedic accuracy though we should have Nesebâr as the main article with common spellings as redirects. This is also the spelling I encountered most on signs and bus timetables in the area itself. — Trilobite 16:58, 3 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Betty Driver

I figured that I wanted to have a bit of information on Betty Turpin in Betty Driver (actress's range), but I wanted to go more in-depth on the character herself in Betty Turpin, with a redirect at Betty Williams as necessary. Can you start Betty Turpin for me? You seem to know more about Corrie than I do. Mike H 01:43, Aug 5, 2004 (UTC)

Music, music, music

Hi Deb

Thanks for your note. You have done great work in standardising the format of the Year in Music pages (among all your other great work).

I would like to hear your thoughts on how various cross-linking pages should work. If we list Music-Lyric-Book credits in the "Musical theater" section of each Year in Music should we repeat them in the List of Musicals page?

My own thoughts are that the List of Musicals might serve as a starting page e.g. The Maid of the Mountains London 1917, Broadway 1918, London revival 1921, London revival 1930, London revival 1942, London revival 1971. The year would link to the Year In Music page where the credits for film or stage productions could be found.

Cheers

John Rogers

I think you are correct. The title of a musical is the best starting point. But many entries would be classified as stubs. Should we forget the list of musicals and years in musicals and create individual pages regardless?

Cheers

John Rogers

Anne Kirkbride

I've added pictures to Anne Kirkbride, among others. Check the other Corrie-related pages to see the screencaps I've finally been allowed to procure, thanks to my new computer! Mike H 16:31, Aug 8, 2004 (UTC)

Well, since they were released in the United States, I am allowed to make fair use screencaptures of the material. I don't think it works the same way in Britain, but the material I have was legitimately released for purchase in America.

I've also added lots of captures from Another World, which were aired on SOAPnet. Mike H 17:39, Aug 8, 2004 (UTC)

How Do You?

Deb,

You had a kind word for my attempt at a disambig page for the two John McLean's--the one who was the Supreme Court justice is from my hometown. How do you put the comments like your "Nice try" that show up on the history page? Ave! PedanticallySpeaking 18:17, 11 Aug 2004 (UTC)

My User Name

Deb,

Thanks for the help. My user name is the name of my award-winning column in my high school newspaper. My fellow students never seemed able to pronounce it, however, adding an extra "n" into it, making it "Pendantically," as if it were a jewelry column.

Ave! PedanticallySpeaking 15:25, 12 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Another Question

I was contemplating what to put up on my profile page. I'm thinking most of it will be listing my interests (U.S. Supreme Court, movies and television, Ohio history, among others). Glad to know someone is interested in me.

Another question for you. Is there an easy way to generate the vertical bar? I've been cutting and pasting it in since the way I remembered from my days using DOS and BASICA of using alternate and typing in the ASCII code number doesn't seem to work anymore.

Ave atque vale! PedanticallySpeaking 13:13, 13 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Vertical Bar

I posted a question on the help section and Meelar replied. It's on the backslash key just above "enter." On mine, that looks like an elongated "colon" but sure enough shift-backslash produces the vertical bar. Thanks for your help. Ave! PedanticallySpeaking 17:30, Aug 13, 2004 (UTC)

Chuvashs

Hi! Chuvashs are the nation, so using Chuvashs for article name is more logical. Why you deleted items about Tatars, Islam and Miggle Ages? --Untifler 12:27, 25 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Wallace Breem

Saw from your edit comment on Eagle in the Snow that you have met Wallace Breem. I wish I had! I am collecting some biographical notes about him at: http://www.cary.demon.co.uk/breem/ (from which I distilled the Wikipedia Wallace Breem entry) – anything you can add/correct/suggest for the notes would be very welcome! mfc 11:58, 29 Aug 2004 (UTC)

OK, thanks anyway :-) (skeleton :-)) mfc

List of architects

Hi Deb. I noticed you removed a number of architectural firms from the List of architects citing "removing refs to computer architecture" [1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=List_of_architects&diff=5551980&oldid=5541366). In fact, these are true architectural firms and not related to Computer architecture. If there has been an error, I am going to reverse the modification. --Junesix 04:10, Sep 1, 2004 (UTC)

Hi Deb. Thanks for the comment. Maybe something like a separate List of architecture firms would be appropriate? --Junesix 15:33, Sep 1, 2004 (UTC)

Reverse sexism

Good evening, Deb. I always, always appreciate that I don't know how busy people on Wikipedia may be, but if you have the time, it would be great if you could describe your more specific objections to having an article on the concept "reverse sexism". I mean, I suppose you don't just object to the state of the article when you listed it (and of course not to the absurd stub it has recently become, courtesy of Anthony), but to having an article at all? I'm not sure how I feel about that. I agree that "reverse sexism" is an illogical concept, and frequently an abusive one, but well, then, don't you think there should be an article anlysing/unmasking it? I've voted Neutral about deleting it, and I've undertaken to clean it up some. (And also, having wasted people's time by being drawn into an unprofitable argument with Anthony, I've vowed to shut up.) But I keep feeling that you probably had more reasons than you expressed, and that they might change my mind for me. (Maybe you thought they were obvious. :-)) Anyway, if you do have the time and the inclination, a bit more input from you in the discussion would be very welcome. Best wishes, Bishonen 22:20, 4 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Vandalism

Someone with IP 213.76.29.20 keeps deleting the Linux and Unix articles. Daviis

Administrator status

I was looking at the voting for administrator status and contemplated nominating myself but thought before I did so I should get someone else's opinion about whether I've made enough of a contribution to be worthy of the designation. Any thought? Ave! PedanticallySpeaking 19:36, Sep 20, 2004 (UTC)

My dear Deb,
One of the frustrations in writing these articles is how rarely I get any feedback on them. Even one I put up on peer review got only a single comment. If I put myself forward for administrator, perhaps then I could find out if anyone's reading my stuff and whether its any good. So I would be most grateful for a nomination. Ave atque vale! 66.213.119.98 19:46, 20 Sep 2004 (UTC)

That last comment was me, somehow I got logged out. PedanticallySpeaking 19:47, Sep 20, 2004 (UTC)

So no news is good news, eh? Well, I'd still be grateful for the nomination. Ave atque vale! PedanticallySpeaking 19:58, Sep 20, 2004 (UTC)

Wilson, Keppel and Betty

Hi, Wilson, Keppel and Betty has been on my to do list for a while. It is definitely Keppel I read something written by the chap's grandson or something. Mintguy (T) 17:58, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Confirmation here [2] (http://www.peopleplayuk.org.uk/images/objects/cropped2/700/sch200302101130-010.jpg). Mintguy (T)

Scratch One Candidate

Thanks for your kind words on my nomination for administrator. Since there is great opposition, I've asked for it to be withdrawn. I've posted an explanation of frequent edits on Wikipedia:Requests for adminship. Ave! PedanticallySpeaking 18:40, Sep 22, 2004 (UTC)

Wales Meets Ohio

My dear Deb:
When I saw you were from Wales, I'd meant to drop you a note about the British food store we have right here in Ohio of all places. The proprietor is a nice fellow from Cwmgwrach, Wales, which I managed to find on my A-Z road atlas, has a store in Huber Heights, Ohio, just north of Dayton. I learned about the store because I'm a big fan of As Time Goes By, which the local PBS station runs, and he advertises on the show. He's got a site: [3] (http://www.wisechoiceuk.com). When I was in his store one question I asked was how to say "Plaid Cmyru", which I encountered from watching Prime Minister's Questions on C-SPAN; that was one of several things I learned from my visit to his shop. Ave atque vale! PedanticallySpeaking 21:06, Sep 23, 2004 (UTC)

NPOV: Drum {and | &} bugle corps

Hi Deb: You NPOV'd Drum & bugle corps a few days ago for a contributor. Unfortunately the page is a Frankenstein edit... Drum and bugle corps existed previously with significantly different content, and introduces quite a nasty disagreement in views. I hope to resolve this tomorrow by some redirection, renaming and disambiguation, if you could pass your eye over Drum and bugle corps and the two disambig articles tomorrow (Wed 29/9) evening once I've dealt with them tomorrow for NPOV going both ways, I'd appreciate! Best wishes, and thanks in advance. MattJ 23:27, 28 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Due to "circumstances beyond my control" -- didn't get to do the edit. I hate servers crashing. :-( It'll happen in the next few days I guess. Thanks for the response. 62.255.64.5 21:37, 29 Sep 2004 (UTC)

A Second Look

Deb,
After much tribulation--this computer and the Wikipedia servers kept crashing--I've finished the article on the Model State Emergency Health Powers Act. It has a good bibliography and many web-links for more information. I wonder if you could cast an eye over it and see what you think. Ave atque vale! PedanticallySpeaking 16:27, Sep 30, 2004 (UTC)

Official invitation

Hi!

This is a message to let you know that there is now a UK-specific Wikipedia community page at Wikipedia:UK wikipedians' notice board. It would be great if you could come and get involved! -- Graham ☺ | Talk 22:58, 1 Oct 2004 (UTC)

recent speedy deletion

Your deletion of Paula Kelly doesn't seem to conform to the speedy deletion guidelines. The information is factual, and verifiable. If you question its inclusion, you need to follow up with a Wikipedia:Votes for deletion submission. Other recent deletions seem questionable as well. You might want to brush up on the guidelines, to avoid any problems. -- Netoholic @ 20:44, 2004 Oct 3 (UTC)

Looking at the Special:Whatlinkshere/Paula Kelly should be enough to show not only the relevance and context for the article, but also offers a way to fix the "offending" terms (see current version). Keep in mind that there are very specific definitions for CSDs, which is why inclusion debates go to VFD. Please keep that in mind when evaluating future deletions. Thanks for talking. -- Netoholic @ 21:23, 2004 Oct 3 (UTC)

On Madame de Lafayette

Hi. Firstly I must thank you for reverting some changes on Madame de La Fayette, an article which I wrote and which I have no idea there was a duplicate article.

After realizing that the existing article was almost ad verbatim taken from the 1911 Encyclopedia Brittanica, I think I have to make a certain request concerning the article. Is it possible to excise the 1911 EB extracts from the article and revert completely back to my article? Despite the high claims of Wikipedia on the 1911 EB I must admit I'm no total fan of the edition, especially the arch language and the sometimes POV tone used (after all it's written nearly 1 century ago). I also think it much better for Wikipedia's repute not to rely to much on past EB, despite its copyright having expired. I have gone through remaining and I must say I don't agree with a lot of them. For instance:

After the birth of her two sons her husband disappeared so effectually that it was long supposed that he died about 1660, though he really lived until 1683.

is problematic (supposed to be dead by who?). What does "contracted an intimacy" mean, in 21st century language? And the remaining criticism is outdated (the readings offered are all late 19th century) and often POV.

I'm certainly not of the idea of "more is better" always in Wikipedia. What do you think? Mandel 22:08, Oct 3, 2004 (UTC)

Soap couple history article

While they would not be deemed a supercouple per se, I would really love to write a Ken and Deirdre Barlow article on par with what I wrote in Cliff and Nina Warner. Would you help me to start it? Mike H 15:59, Oct 6, 2004 (UTC)

But this is different...this would focus on the two together. Mike H 21:56, Oct 6, 2004 (UTC)

At the very least, could you take a stab at summarizing the Ken/Deirdre/Mike triangle under "most controversial storylines" in the Corrie article? Mike H 04:37, Oct 7, 2004 (UTC)

Dio vi Salve Regina

Just to let you know: I restored it so it can be sent over to Wikisource. (P.S. I think it's in Italian.) —No-One Jones ^(m) 22:11, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)

(from user talk:Mirv) You're right, it is Italian - but what does it mean? Deb 22:13, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)

I don't know—my Italian is fragmentary at best. It's apparently the national anthem of Corsica, though. —No-One Jones ^(m) 22:17, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)

It means "God save the Queen." The literal translation is; Dio = God, vi = you Salve = save, and Regina = Queen. Now how does one say that in Welsh? Wjbean 00:42, 2005 Apr 26 (UTC)

Mika Boorem

Someone listed this article as a copyright violation on September 22d and now two weeks have passed. Is this something I can go ahead and delete or is this a task only administrators such as yourself should be doing? Ave! PedanticallySpeaking 17:32, Oct 8, 2004 (UTC)

Fred Feast

Would you happen to know which cancer Fred Feast (Gee on Corrie) died from? IMDB says abdominal cancer but corrie.net suggests throat cancer. Mike H 20:16, Oct 8, 2004 (UTC)

Indeed he did. He died on the same day as the American soap Another World ended. Mike H 20:19, Oct 8, 2004 (UTC)

Gordon Reid

Thanks for moving it from Professor. Don't know what I was thinking. Drew Devereux 23:33, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Jimmy Deuchar

Hiya. Thanks for doing that 'redirect'. I'll know how to do it for next time :-) Adambisset 23:54, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)

odd VfD entries

I noticed some text on VfD with your tags on it, eg "Deb 17:19, 17 Oct 2004 (UTC)" that appears under "Watermyn" but is seemingly unrelated to that candidate article (judging by the text and by the fact that the text doesn't show up when that section is edited). I don't know quite what the trouble is; maybe you would.

Alfred Beckley

Hi, do you know what happened to Alfred Beckley? General Alfred Beckley links there, and the history page sez you moved it, but there isn't there any more.... Noel 20:13, 17 Oct 2004 (UTC)

That's OK, I was only asking because General Alfred Beckley had been listed on WP:RfD. Now that I know what the story is, I'll go ahead and zap it. Noel 20:29, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC)

de Ros

nice work on cleaning up all those new pages. Wolfman 18:09, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)

And hello to you...

...fellow warrior against text-dumps! No, I don't believe we've met, but I've certainly seen you about. Best wishes. Mackensen 01:56, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Patrick Dylan Rich

Hi, please don't change tag this as a speedy delete--I don't believe it fits into the criteria, which are rather strict. This is a perfect example of why we need an intermediate step between vfd and speedy, but as it doesn't fulfill the criteria, I feel it must go to Vfd. Maybe this way people will actually get motivated to do something about the state of our deletion policy ;). Best, [[User:Meelar|Meelar (talk)]] 17:12, Oct 28, 2004 (UTC)

Well, obviously, this is a border case, and you're well within your rights to disagree. I just don't like seeing speedy deletion "creep", as it's seeming to more and more, and the only way to avoid that is to be a strict constructionist. Would you mind just leaving this on vfd? I'd appreciate it. Keep up the good work and best wishes, [[User:Meelar|Meelar (talk)]] 17:22, Oct 28, 2004 (UTC)

User page unprotection

Hi, I unprotected your user page based on a request by UninvitedCompany, on the grounds that protection is generally considered un-wiki and should be reserved for situations in which it is seriously needed. I decided to unprotect because the history shows that your page has never actually been vandalized. I think any isolated instances can be reverted without serious harm; if vandalism does become a serious problem for you in the future, perhaps we could reconsider the question. --Michael Snow 22:32, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)

As I've said on the Protection page Talk page, it's nobody else's business whether my pages are protected or not. So far as I KNOW, nobody has unprotected my pages, but the instant they do, I'll file an RfC on them. You should do the same thing. Rick K 20:11, Oct 31, 2004 (UTC)

With all respects, Deb, your user page is not a target of vandalism, and any changes you disagree with can be easily reverted. You page may be about you, but it does belong to the Wikipedia. Casual user page protection is not an option for non-admins, so it should not be for you either. To quote Wikipedia:Protected page:

User pages and their subpages are frequently targets for vandalism, and may be protected upon request of the user associated with the page if there is a history of vandalism. Add protected user pages to this list. User pages should not be protected unless there is a history of vandalism, and should be unprotected as soon as practicable -- see Wikipedia:User page for more.

If you continue to re-protect this in the face of standard practice and other people's opinions, it can be construed as a misuse of your privileges. -- Netoholic @ 17:43, 2004 Nov 1 (UTC)

I want to assure you that the above was not an attempt to "start a fight" or to "get noticed". I am writing because the "protection war" over your page needs to stop, and right now it looks like policy and practice are on the side of not protecting your page. Also, please don't "vandalize (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=User:Schneelocke&diff=7035764&oldid=7035425)" other people's pages just to make a point, even if you think it's silly. -- Netoholic @ 18:30, 2004 Nov 1 (UTC)

Let's get this straight - are you calling me a liar when I tell you that my page was vandalised and that was why I protected it? If not, kindly leave it alone from now on. Deb 18:35, 1 Nov 2004 (UTC) (copied from User talk:Netoholic

When a page (any page) is vandalized repeatedly, we protect it for a short time – not indefinitely. I looked at the edits made to your page just before you protected it. I am not calling you a liar at all, but those edits seem minor and quickly resolved without resorting to protection.

Here is one log entry you made when you re-protected it - 20:04, 21 Jul 2004 Deb protected User:Deb (To prevent other users from using it by mistake for my talk page and/or amending my personal details).

I checked your page history (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=User:Deb&action=history), and before July 21, the last edit made by anyone but you was on June 21. Indeed, there were three days between your edits of the page, and your decision to protect it.

Prior to that, you protected it in response to that Jun 21st edit with "11:50, 21 Jun 2004 Deb protected User:Deb ((replace this with a reason))". Before Jun 21st, the last edit by anyone but yourself was on April 20th. You really have no case to make for this being "persistently vandalized". Please don't make this into a hostile fight, but take the community's word at face value when they say you are not right to keep that page protected. -- Netoholic @ 19:20, 2004 Nov 1 (UTC)

Thanks for mail Deb. no it wasn't a joke though not too serious either. i think nippylegs as a phenomena is widespread/universal though i appreciate as a name/colloquialism it is pretty obscure. it was an important part of who derek taylor was (see accurate reference ) and i thought it a reasonable addition but if it's inappropriate for context then i am grateful for steer as total beginner with instant enthusiasm for this obviously GOOD THING wikipedia. (didn't sign off with name) regards nippylegs ps got a note from someone (wikipedia itself?) to my original temporary id saying stop vandalising. fairly sure i haven't. slight addition to derek taylor entry but that's it. should i be concerned?

Since you insist on having your user page protected, I have reprotected it now, and hopefully we can leave it that way pending a resolution to the general question. I still do not see any vandalism in its history, only a couple messages that were erroneously left on the user page rather than your user talk page. In that light, may I suggest that your edits to Schneelocke's page have not been helpful and violate the principle of Don't disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point. --Michael Snow 20:09, 1 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Deb, I have put forth a proposal on the Village Pump that wouild make official the policy that I imagine we would agree would be ideal on this matter. I hope I have your support. --Improv 22:12, 1 Nov 2004 (UTC)

It's Netoholic doing his usual trolling again. I've commented on it on his request for adminship page. Rick K 22:41, Nov 1, 2004 (UTC)

What the hall has it got to do with anyone whether users protect the pages within their own namespace. I don't understand why anybody should be concerned about it. Let people do what the like in their own backyard (within reason of course). Mintguy (T)

Hi Deb. Thanks for reverting my vandalised user page. I quite agree with your points about users being able to protect their own page (and have just protected mine!). -- Arwel 15:04, 2 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Oh, it's a mindless vandal who uses IPs in the 213.232.79.xxx range (all owned by a software company about 10 miles from here...) who seems to have had it in for me ever since I blocked his User:Wiggles for vandalism. I know it's the same person because the vandalism's often identical, even though it comes from different IP addresses. Checking up on the address' activities, there were vandal attacks over a period of about 6 months and hardly any (if any) good edits. I'm sorely tempted to compile a dossier of all the vandalism and send it to the registered user, as it's obviously a company's range of addresses and someone's pissing around in company time! -- Arwel 20:27, 2 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Salve, Deb!
I absolutely agree with you that one's own user page should be sacrosanct. I believe everyone, not just admins, ought to be able to protect their own page. I've posted a comment on the Wikipedia talk:Protection page. Ave! PedanticallySpeaking 19:04, Nov 2, 2004 (UTC)

I notice that this user page does not contain the protected or vprotected templates as noted in Procedure section of Wikipedia:Protected page. I suggest it be added. -- 66.159.216.215 02:56, 3 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I agree with you – this is quite a pointless discussion. To me, it doesn't matter at all on which domain a user keeps her page. Just one thing: It would be nice if your page had links, e.g. to this talk page, and to the places you mention. And thank you for your continuous effort on the "x in music" pages. Sebastian 19:37, 2005 Mar 19 (UTC)

Invite

I'm posting this to invite you to participate in WP:LCOTW , a project you may be interested in. Please consider nominating and/or voting for a suitable article there. Filiocht 12:29, Nov 8, 2004 (UTC)

Noticed you voted for Oscar Wilde. User:The Anome and I have been adding to the article since yesterday, if you'd like to join in. Filiocht 10:25, Nov 9, 2004 (UTC)

WP:LCOTW

Template:CurrentLCOTW

Filiocht 10:37, Nov 10, 2004 (UTC)

Clémentine of Orléan

Thanks for the feedback. It never ceases to amaze me that while Wikipedia has swathes of information on obscure fictional characters, there are people who either ruled or held great influence over nations that have been ignored. Cheers. --Roisterer 03:55, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Sorry About That Chief

Salve, Deb!
Sorry to see so few sympathized with you wanting to protect your user page. Don't understand how that could be so controversial. But so much that goes on this world is a mystery to me.
Saw Shania Twain's new video for her song "Party for Two", which is shot in London for some reason. (The Royal Albert Hall serves as a backdrop to one sequence.) That made me wonder, is country music popular in Britain? And by country, I mean real country music, e.g. Patsy Cline, Hank Williams, Jr., Marty Robbins, Buck Owens, Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs, et alia. Ave! PedanticallySpeaking 18:26, Nov 12, 2004 (UTC)

Sweepstakes

Did you move Sweepstakes to sweepstake? I know all about the plural rule, but in this case it's incorrect to place it at sweepstake. The word only exists in plural as far as I know and even if it isn't it is used far more often in its plural form. If you know more than I do, then please let me know. -- [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|^(talk)]] 20:53, Nov 18, 2004 (UTC)

I barely know some of the Wikipedia conventions such as this plural rule! But in this case I believe that the non-plural form is clearly a back-formation. The term originated with horse-racing where each entrant put up a stake, and the winner would sweep all stakes. Compare famous horse race names such as the Belmont Stakes. Wait, I should add that as a note, shouldn't I? Anyway, thanks for both your input. I've wiki'ed before but only recently decided I couldn't stand using the Wikipedia and skipping over known elisions .... --Dhartung 21:52, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Moving French nobles

Could you hold off for a moment on moving the French nobles' pages I'm working on? I'd like to discuss what you're doing rather than get in a tug-of-war ;) --Tkinias 22:55, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the note. If you have concerns about anything else, just let me know on my Talk page. I'm friendly :) --Tkinias 11:22, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I put some thoughts up on Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (names and titles). Comment away! --Tkinias 11:56, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Thanks

Hi Deb, thanks for leaving your welcome message. --Frankie Roberto 00:29, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 1000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
Multi-Licensing Guide
Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

Option 2

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. – Ram-Man ^{(comment (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=User_talk:Ram-Man&action=edit&section=new)) (talk)}[[]] 23:42, Dec 8, 2004 (UTC)

English Civil War reversion

Understood and accepted. Benn M. 17:48, 2004 Dec 2 (UTC)

soap opera

I did a major overhaul of the article, and now most of it is skewed toward the US soap form. Could you possibly add (a lot) more about British soaps? Mike H 05:24, Dec 3, 2004 (UTC)

Another thing that got my attention was the tacky purported "webcam picture" of Leslie Grantham. Please tell me what you think of its placement in the article. I find it purely disgusting and not at all encyclopedic. Mike H 02:05, Dec 6, 2004 (UTC)

Hello

Hi Deb. It's a common mistake (as a matter of fact I was searching on yahoo and I got several hits that had nothing to do with Governor John Sparks. By the way I LOVE your website! :)--[[User:Marie Rowley|Marie | Talk]] 00:39, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Need your help with horns and drums again...

Hi Deb. A full-blown revert war seems to have broken out on Drum and bugle corps (modern) and Drum Corps International... Various anonymous IPs are constructively vandalizing the page. Could these pages perhaps be protected in their current state, and, well, where do I go from here in dealing with the problem?

Thanks, Matt.

MattJ 20:00, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)

List of songs with brackets in their titles

I noticed you've contributed to this page in the past. It is now on Votes for Deletion. Would you consider taking part in the vote? Thanks. David 5000 16:01, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Roman-Latin work by Cicero

Hi Deb -- I just wanted to confirm that it was I who sent you an email today regarding The Swan and Marcus Tullius Cicero. Warm regards, —RaD Man (talk) 23:18, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Any leads on the Cicero concrete poetry? :-) (Happy New Year by the way) —RaD Man (talk) 10:09, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)

For what its worth, I wanted to touch base with you once more — were you able to find anything regarding The Swan and Cicero? —RaD Man (talk) 08:16, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)

article Carl Drega

Hi Deb, thanks for your interest in this article. Your help is appreciated. But the problem is: The article as it was first created was a direct copy-paste job from a homepage, and again, the text there seems to be the copy of a mailinglist posting, and it isn't clear how the site owner is related to the original poster. Now that text is in the history forever. I thought policy was to avoid such things? I know it's my fault, i should have listed it as copyvio first and ask then, but i was in a hurry ahd had the faint hope that i can avoid the hassle with listing a copyvio this time. What do i do now about this? My proposal: save your text to my disk, revert to copyvio version, list as copyvio, copy your text int carl derga/temp. What do you think? Sorry for all this. Lady Tenar 22:54, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Adminship Again

Salve, Deb! Well, after my unsuccessful candidacy back in September, I've been working away and have now decided to try again, nominating myself. I'd appreciate your vote at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/PedanticallySpeaking2. Ave atque vale! PedanticallySpeaking 18:53, Dec 9, 2004 (UTC)

Salve, Deb!
I wanted to drop you a line to thank you for your support in my successful RFA candidacy. It was very gratifying to see the kind remarks posted in the debate. And as someone who has run for office in the real world, I can't accept your statement that perhaps I didn't need your vote. Every vote is important, contrary to what some elements would have us believe. Ave! PedanticallySpeaking 17:34, Dec 21, 2004 (UTC)

RFC pages on VfD

Should RFC pages be placed on VfD to be deleted? I'm considering removing Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Slrubenstein, Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Jwrosenzweig and Wikipedia:Requests for comment/John Kenney from WP:VFD. Each of them was listed by CheeseDreams. Your comments on whether I should do this would be appreciated. - Ta bu shi da yu 03:33, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Archaeology wikiproject

Thanks for signing up Deb. I've got no set ideas about what we should be covering and just sketched out the current page to make it look busy. Any suggestions you have will be gratefully received even if you don't feel like writing anything. There's certainly lots of Welsh stuff that could be added and categorised like all those lovely megalithic and Roman sites. As a side thought, could you check the English translation of Bryn Celli Ddu if you have a moment? Cheers adamsan 13:54, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)

WP:VfD

Heya Deb -- good finds for VfD, but I note you pretty consistantly do the header wrong on your VfD entries. Please remember it is ===[[Title]]=== -- three equal signs -- otherwise one or another of us has to go in and fix it. --jpgordon ∇∆∇∆ 17:50, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Leonora

Hi Deb. Some time ago I wrote an article entitled "Leonora". You moved it to Leonora, Western Australia and made Leonora a disambiguation page. However your entry "Leonora is a girl's name" will never have a link and could be argued against from the "wikipedia is not a dictionary" point of view; and your link to "original name of, and name of character from, Fidelio" appears to be incorrect, since the article on Fidelio refers only to "Leonore" not "Leonora". I left it as a disambig page for a couple of weeks to see if any other links got added, but they haven't. I have now converted Leonora into a redirect to the Leonora, Western Australia. Drew Devereux 02:20, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)

My comment that it will "never have a link" was poorly expressed. What I meant was that Wikipedia does not, and is unlikely ever to, have an article on Leonora in the sense of a girl's name; therefore the entry "Leonora is a girls' name" will never be wikified to point to an article.

Granted Leonora, Western Australia is a very minor and largely unknown town, but I still find it a little difficult to accept that people who search for "Leonora" on Wikipedia are more likely to have have intended "Leonore" than what they actually typed. And regardless of their intentions, "... Fidelio, in which the heroine is named Leonora" is a false statement.

Since I'm pretty new around here, I'll leave the final decision to you. If you revert to a disambig page, I won't argue. But if you do revert, I think the Leonore/Leonora issue should be addressed. Something like "The name Leonora may be confused with Leonore, the original title of Beethoven's opera, Fidelio" would do the job. Drew Devereux 22:41, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Port of Napier

Hi Deb, I'm in the process of creating a substub and adding links as we speak. Thanks. Christiaan

Abraham Goldfaden

I don't necessarily object to your removing the stub notice from Abraham Goldfaden (which is mostly my work) but it still has almost nothing about his life after 1876: the bio currently cuts off before he founded the first professsional Yiddish theater. I'm planning to work on it over the next few weeks, but I didn't feel I was yet out of stub territory. -- Jmabel | Talk 01:04, Jan 3, 2005 (UTC)

Stupid Newbie Tricks

Hi Deb: I'm a newbie and you left a welcome note on my page. Hope I'm not bothering you. I uploaded an image, Image:Hebron.jpeg that needs to be deleted. The image is of Hebron, Labrador. After hitting the key, I realized like a dolt that there is a much more famous Hebron in the world. I re-uploaded the image as Hebronlabrador.jpg, but I couldn't get rid of the earlier version. Thanks, and sorry to make work for you... wiegee 02:10, Jan 4, 2005 (UTC)

re: disambig

I should have checked first. Thanks. Inter 21:36, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Gangtok

Hi! On Dec 31, you had marked Gangtok as a geo stub. Well the page is now fully mature and on Peer Review. If you want you may check it out. Regards, Nichalp 19:39, Jan 19, 2005 (UTC)

styles

Hey Deb,

I've made a proposal for dealing with the issue of using styles on the talk page about Naming Conventions (names and titles). I'd welcome your imput. FearÉIREANN 17:25, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC)

LCOTW

Hi deb, nice to find a fellow Celt (my username is the Irish word for poetry). I like your external user page; fortunately I do so little around here, and most of it on such minority interest subjects, that nobody has ever vandalised my user page, but if they did, I'd want to protect it thereafter. I've updated the LCOTW to Scottish literature; sorry for the delay and the lack of activity. The lesson seems to be: beware of Greeks bearing candidates. I will try to do some work on the Scottish artice, but most of my time here is currently going into The Cantos, which involves a lot of reading and care, especially as, by my standards at least, this is a controversial subject. I'm also trying to cut back on my wikiwork so as to leave some time for my own writing.

Anyway, I've taken up enough of your time. Thanks for the prod, I'd actually been meaning to change the collaboration but just not getting around to it. Take care. Filiocht 08:40, Jan 25, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the kind words. I still have a lot of work to do on the Cantos article. Two more volumes to read through and write up, a Legacy section to add and a re-write of the introductory sections, plus a general tidy-up. And lots to add to List of cultural references in The Cantos, the sort of thing that does actually show the strengths of the Wikipedia model (so few red links so far!). I hope to take my volumes of Scottish Chaucerians off a shelf over the next few days and see if I can write anything useful on them. Filiocht 13:06, Jan 25, 2005 (UTC)

Mary Ann Caws

Thanks for the copy edit. Stirling Newberry 22:05, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Wisin y Yandel

Sorry, I guess right after you deleted I had saved my edit where I added the speedy deletion template. Aequo 17:47, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Palace Theatre disambiguation

Thanks for disambiguating! I will write a stub for Palace Theatre, Manchester soon. –– Constafrequent ^{(talk page)} 22:23, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Long Time No See

Salve, Deb!
Hope this message finds you well. We haven't communicated lately, but I've not been as busy as I once was, plus the library cut down the time patrons can spend on the computers.
When I stood for admin, I was pleased to say I'd never been involved in an editing kerfuffle. And now I'm in my first one. See Julia Stiles and Talk:Julia Stiles. I wonder if you might give me your opinion of the objections on the talk page? Ave! PedanticallySpeaking 18:05, Feb 11, 2005 (UTC)

Deb,
Thanks for your reply. This morning I went and created a nice bibliography in anticipation of incorporating new material in the Julia Stiles article and he just completely deleted it, said it wasn't necessary, Wikipedia:Cite your sources notwithstanding. See Talk:Julia Stiles for what I'm talking about. Articles are supposed to have bibliographies, right? PedanticallySpeaking 19:32, Feb 12, 2005 (UTC)

Yaraborough/Yarborough

Somebody (not you) just created a short, inadequate page on Ralph Yaraborough. We already have a good one on the real Ralph Yarborough. If I knew how to do it, I'd put this new page out of its misery. Perhaps you can. 24.126.41.116 13:15, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC) (aka Italo Svevo when I'm able to log in.

Richard III

You wrote: Just to let you know, out of courtesy, that I reverted your latest changes to this controversial article, because they seemed to infringe the NPOV rule. Ironic, since both the things I wrote (which are easily verifiable facts) were put there because what was already there seemed to be non NPOV. The article mentioned that he was frequently referred to as deformed, but made no attempt to show that this was almost certainly untrue. It also referred to the fact that he had means available to kill the princes, but made no attempt to mention that he was not the most likely culprit (in fact, he had to put measures in place after the deaths in order to maintain his position) Grutness|^hello? Missing image
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22:00, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Shock to the System

Several months ago you suggested that Shock to the System (a plot summary for a Static Shock episode) be deleted, but that never happened. It's currently under consideration for deletion, and I thought you might want to cast a vote for it. Tverbeek 12:57, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)

FAC check

Salve, Deb!
After completely rewriting the Julia Stiles article we discussed previously, I've posted it as a WP:FAC candidate here. I'd welcome any comments and (hopefully) your vote supporting it.
Hey, did you see my article Cincinnati, Lebanon and Northern Railroad got Featured status?
Ave! PedanticallySpeaking 18:56, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)

Alrosking

Put it back.--The person who made "Alrosking" 17:34, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Translating English articals into Welsh

Hello! I do not myself speak Welsh- but am atempting to learn. I have recently discovered Wikipedia and have contributed to some articals. I would really want these articals translated into Welsh, with the hope fo indirectly contributing to the Welsh side. I recognize that you are a prolific contributer yourself, but I was hoping that you might translate some of my articals for me. Or maybe direct me to someone who might like to translate?

Arwel Perry offered yorself as someone who might be able to assit me... or know someone who would want to increase the Welsh Wikipedia by translating good articals.

Though I do not yet know Welsh enough to write in it, I do want to contribute to Welsh Wikipedia, even if indirectly. Any help you might be able to give will be greatly appreciated! Drachenfyre

Denholm Elliott

Hi, Deb. Way back in Jan 2003 you wrote the initial Denholm Elliott article. The claim that he was gay is now being debated, so I was wondering if you could remember where you got this info from? Thanks! Jihg 08:47, Apr 6, 2005 (UTC)

65.39.159.10

Thank you for blocking 65.39.159.10. Great help --Bucephalus 17:43, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Oh dear, these "naming conventions"! Thanks anyway Peter Shearan 05:25, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)

El Salon Mexico;

My apologies — I didn't realise that I'd overridden your edits. The History shows that we were three minutes apart, so I don't see how it could have been an edit conflict, yet I was completely unaware of what you'd done. Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 18:21, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Holman Fred Stephens

Hello Deb In much the same vein as one of the comments above I cannot quite see why you moved the article entitled Colonel H.F. Stephens to Holman Fred Stephens. As a fan of Col Stephens (and although I knew his full names) I know he would never be recognised as such within the context of his railways (see Colonel Stephens Railways article). In fact his whole life was tied up with "his" railways, and I was about to merge his name with the much longer (and in some cases inaccurate!) article on them when I came across your redirect. Indeed, if the new article were re-entitled Colonel Stephens and his railways it would make much more logical sense: we could then include his full name within the biographical details which need doing anyway. Peter Shearan 12:17, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Chocolate chips

I'd be happy to feature this in DYK, but it's still stubby. Could you please expand it first? Mgm|^(talk) 11:48, Apr 13, 2005 (UTC)

MJ Coldwell

Deb, why did you move this article from Major James Coldwell to James Coldwell? As the article says, he was commonly known as MJ, not James. Ground Zero 21:15, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thanks muchly. But don't be so hard on yourself, being a Corrie fan makes you alright in my books. Ground Zero 21:21, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Hello, yourself

Thanks for the note. I've had a wiki account for months and months and months, but um, it's only now that I have dared make a real live edit to a page that is not a sandbox :) Telsa 17:07, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)

And yes, that's me (wince). Haven't touched that page though. Whilst I know you're there, can I ask a quick question? I have just got side-tracked following links, and ended up reading an argument about "frequent edits", which some people seem to consider a bad thing. Is what I have been doing to the Swansea page (a series of changes one/a group at a time) a bad thing? I have read about 20 pages on wikipedia policy and almost-policy today trying to find out, but I can't find anything about it. I'm not trying to get my edit count up; it's just old habit so that if any single change is a problem, it can be removed singly. Erm. Only perhaps wikipedia doesn't work that way? Telsa 17:30, 1 May 2005 (UTC)

Phew, thanks! Ymlaen, 'te, and onto the further splendours of Swansea... Telsa 17:44, 1 May 2005 (UTC)

Hi Deb!

Hey,

Long time no see. I hadn't seen you around. I was worried you had gone. Don't know how long I'll be on, but I have been bitten by the wikipedia bug and 'tis a hard bug to shed! Hopefully I'll be around for the long haul. I am already getting my teeth into it. Even spending 'all nighters' :( I was working last night on Papal Tiara til the wee hours. BTW I've nominated it for as a featured article candidate. I'd welcome your views.

So what have you been up to?

I've realised that kicking wikipedia is like kicking smoking. I haven't the willpower to do both!!!

Lots of love, FearÉIREANN 19:12, 2 May 2005 (UTC)

Possible impostor

I've been doing some impostor hunting lately, seeing as how we've had a rash of them lately and all, and you got the following hits: DeB (talk • contribs). Of course, this may be nothing, but I thought I would let you know. – Clockwork Soul 04:43, 11 May 2005 (UTC)

Quick advice?

Hey, I want to make a major proposal — to replace AD/BC with CE/BCE. I am not asking if you agree (though of course I appreciate your views) but I wonder if you have any idea how I should make this proposal? There has been a long debate on the Jesus page, and my explanation for my proposal is very very long. It affects many pages, not just Jesus. And my proposal is I think too long to put on all the relevant talk pages. Is there any convention? Thanks, Slrubenstein | Talk 20:54, 15 May 2005 (UTC)

User:Bastard on Wheels

Please block. Sjakkalle 12:42, 26 May 2005 (UTC)

Removal of blank category only pages.

I disagreed with your "It's not a good idea to create pages consisting of a template and no content. These will be deleted.". I think it is a good idea, as the incomplete page then appears in more places and thus more people will see it and increase the chance of people editing. blob 15:21, 28 May 2005 (UTC)

Misspelling and Miscategorization of Adolph Wagner

To place the entry for Adolph Wagner under Adolf is certainly wrong, it is ill-advised and makes research more difficult; I wonder why it was done, and apparently without checking the facts? The German "ph" in names does not mutate into, or is ever transliterated into, "f", in proper names. It is not a general rule, neither in English nor in Wikipedia (I don't see an entry on "Fotografy". In this case, it is especially counter-productive, because the name exists in both spellings. Adolph Wagner always spelled his name the correct way, in all letters, in all publications. And finally, there actually exists an economist (of minor importance, but still) by the name of Adolf Wagner. I hope someone can revert this. Clossius 11:01, 29 May 2005 (UTC)

Photographs of Siegfried Sassoon

Deb please review the talk page on the above subject. Wjbean 18:45, 2005 Jun 2 (UTC)

Welsh people section?

Hi again. I've been plodding through the "What links here" stuff for Welsh and trying to disambiguate a lot of links. Looks like you're doing exactly the same at the same time. I was wondering about some of the remaining ones. It's easy to redirect some links to Welsh language or Wales, but I was starting to wonder whether it was worth creating some sort of category or page for Welsh people, too, for the pages where the links aren't really relevant to the language or the place..? --Telsa 00:13, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Well, I have now found a whole heap of other places to send them: Welsh mythology, Welsh literature, Welsh poetry, Culture of Wales and the rest, which is helping. I don't know much about how to make categories, and Welsh and Wales already seem to suffer from a lot of "Welsh something" and "Something of Wales" articles which aren't heavily linked-to and overlap as it is. When I saw the Welsh people article (pre-redirect) I did think of actually giving it some content. If that helps, I could do that. Or does the removal of the redirect mean you're working on that? Failing that, I start to think that unwiki'ing Welsh where there's no useful link might be simplest, although not the ideal solution! --Telsa 16:22, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Eep. I'll see what I can do :) --Telsa 16:45, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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