User talk:DuncanHill/Archives/2008/May

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Good going....and a barnstar!

(barnstar moved to userpage)

I quite like quiet work :) and thats why the barnstar. Have been putting up articles on many British doctors who have done quite some work on Indian natural history and found this guy who didnt have an article. It now looks good with decent categories! Cheers. Prashanthns (talk) 16:31, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
THanks for the watchful eye! :) THis one in vain though.... Prashanthns (talk) 21:38, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

Schools-wikipedia link

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Thank you for your welcome

Thanks for the welcome note. I lived in St Austell as a child. I am interested in editing Cornwall/Devon articles. C.harrison1988 (talk) 09:15, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Scouting for Boys

I thought you might be interested to know that Ian Hislop is presenting Scouting for Boys on BBC Four tv on Thursday 22 May, 9:00 - 10:00 Best wishes Vernon White . . . Talk 23:33, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image (Image:Image:Bizarre.jpg)

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The bot meant to link to Image:Bizarre.jpg DuncanHill (talk) 21:54, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

Georgia

Thanks for catching that. I will go back and make corrections. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Aducci (talk • contribs) 21:15, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks very much for the reversion on my talk page, that vandal was a real pain ——Ryan | t • c 23:41, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

I was getting very frustrated because I witnessed many other vandalism reports being resolved and users banned just not the guy causing me grief!. Thanks again ——Ryan | t • c 23:45, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

Essay

No worries. I'm not really looking at editors anyway, to be honest, just trying to pick apart arguments to get at underlying assumptions that might explain things. =) Mainly, I want to check that discussion before it gets into "Blame the victim" territory, e.g. "They were rude to X! Clearly BOTH SIDES are the problem!" when the rudeness only happened after they discovered X was misrepresenting sources, in an effort to get them into the article, or after long-erm disruption, unchecked by admins. Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 10:32, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

Parliament and Cornwall

Thanks for initiating the re-naming of this category. Apologies for causing unnecessary work. Is it possible to automate the renaming of the reference to this category in articles on MPs for constituencies in Cornwall? Vernon White . . . Talk 21:05, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

Dab

Thanks for the dab fix on Anandite! Cheers, Razorflame 16:09, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

No problem! DuncanHill (talk) 17:06, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
Please let me know if there are any articles under 10,000 bytes that you would like to be copyedited. I would be honored to copyedit articles for you. And yes, I am a member of the LoCE. Cheers, Razorflame 18:13, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

JzG RFAR merged with Cla68-FM-SV case

Per the arb vote here the RFAR on User:JzG is now merged with this case and he is a named party. Also see my case disposition notes there. — Rlevse • Talk • 21:19, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

Very unhappy with this. The two cases are not directly related, and this, together with the refactoring of comments and statements in the JzG RfA undermine confidence in the ability of the Arbcom to address satisfactorily the issues raised relating to JzG. DuncanHill (talk) 21:22, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
You'd need to take that up with the arbs. It was their vote. I'm just the clerk. — Rlevse • Talk • 21:25, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
I have commented on the talk page. DuncanHill (talk) 21:29, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks and some suggestions

Thanks for your edits to Augustus Matthiessen, William Mitchinson Hicks and Thomas Lewis (cardiologist). Would you mind if I asked how you found the articles? I created several others at the same time, and I've been asking those who edit them how they found them. The others (one, the last one, created a long time ago, the others more recent) are: George Fownes, Thomas Snow Beck, Martin Barry, John Allan Broun, Henry John Carter, Arthur William Rucker, Walter Gardiner, William Carmichael McIntosh, Harold Baily Dixon, and Ramsay Heatley Traquair. I also noticed you added Category:Recipients of the Copley Medal. There have been discussions before about whether lists or categories are best for awards. Copley Medal has both. Royal Medal only has a list. What do you think should be done for awards? Both or just a list? Carcharoth (talk) 12:37, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

Hicks I found while dabbing Launceston. Matthiessen and Fownes I found because I still had User talk:Stone watchlisted after suggesting a link correction to him recently. Lewis I found because your message on Stone's talkpage interested me - so I got nosey and had a look in your contributions! I think "history of science biographies" are really important for the Wikipedia.
As to categories or lists for awards - for really significant awards (and I would include the Copley and the Royal medals in this) I like both. I suppose my rule of thumb would be - if it is a major award by a national learned society then it should have a category. Minor awards (e.g. research funds) or awards by sub-national societies then probably a list would suffice. I don't know if there is any policy or consensus on this, that's just my feelings. DuncanHill (talk) 12:47, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
That's my feelings as well. Nobel Prize is the obvious category one. Also needs to be established and ideally every winner will have an article for there to be a category. The list is the chronological and annotated content. The category is the alphabetical index, though if the list is a sortable table, that can be done at the list rather than a category, though the category can be useful for other reasons. Carcharoth (talk) 12:51, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

distubing the natives...

Hi Duncan .... I have tried to clear this up by amending the article. The Mundys are a strong Derby family ... this particular one was born in Leicestershire. I think you get "nationality" from parentage, birthplace and by living there .... he gets it from parentage vand ancestral home. OK? Victuallers (talk) 12:11, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Hmmm.... but nativity is birth. One's native county is where one was born, surely? DuncanHill (talk) 12:13, 30 May 2008 (UTC)