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[edit] Towns and villages of the Peak District

Hi - the current definition is at the top of the category: "Towns and villages in the Peak District area, whether falling within the boundary of the National Park or not". There's certainly room for discussion, and in some respects, limiting it to places within the National Park would make sense, but this would exclude places such as Buxton or Matlock which are closely associated with the Peak District.

Using the current definition, I would say that it definitely included Meltham (I didn't realise you'd removed it from the cat, or I would have discussed this first). Holmfirth could be included, but the case is less clear-cut.

With regard to a category for Holmfirth, does Category:Holmfirth & the Holme Valley cover this, or do you mean something more specific to the town itself? Warofdreams talk 01:13, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, I didn't realise that this discussion was ongoing on your talk page; I've been putting comments on the Holmfirth talk. I've just reinstated Holmfirth according to the recent discussions on the Peak District talk page, though I do agree it's rather marginal. Perhaps you'd care to weigh in at the general discussion on the Peak District talk page, so that we can attempt to come to a consensus on where the boundary of the broader Peak District should be drawn. Thanks. Espresso Addict 15:05, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 33rd Regiment of Foot

Please see the article's talk page --Awiseman 14:02, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

I like the Guilford Courthouse part! I fixed a couple of links but otherwise I agree. Thanks. --Awiseman 18:33, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Yorkshire Ambulance Service

Working in medicine, do you know anything about the Yorkshire Ambulance Service? Since ambulance services were included in Template:Infobox England place everywhere in the YAS's area of responsibility has a red link in its infobox. I hoped you might know enough to start the article... Yorkshire Phoenix 07:35, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

Hi Yorky! It is not a subject of which I am sufficiently knowledgable, other than having used their services a number of times both as a patient and as a nurse in casualty. However there is effectively no 'Yorkshire Ambulance Service' as the various NHS ambulance services are split up into regions, see:- List of ambulance services in the United Kingdom. For an example the West Yorkshire Metropolitan Service, known as WYMAS, also covers part of North Yorkshire, see:- WYMAS Website. Richard Harvey 07:56, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

Are you saying that these regional services, such as the YAS, supposedly formed on 1 July 2006 only exist in theory? Yorkshire Phoenix 08:14, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

Well this goes to prove my comment; that "It is not a subject of which I am sufficiently knowledgable". I was totally unaware of Yorkshire Ambulance Service National Health Service Trust, to give it its full title, having been formed until your question was mooted. Then again its a few years since I retired from Nursing, so I don't follow their activities to much. However an amble through the NHS website relating to the Trust Yorkshire Ambulance Service National Health Service Trust shows very little information on the subject. I am aware that the ambulances stations and vehicles in my area of West Yorkshire still sport the WYMAS Logo and Name. and the NHS website, as noted in my last message to you, still refer to the seperate regions and names. Possibly they are not included in the trust as neither of the ambulance stations at Marsh, in Huddersfield, or the one in Honley, near Holmfirth, are named on the list of sites from which they operate, on their website, see:- here. Obviously I will not therefore be starting an article on them. Richard Harvey 13:37, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

Fair enough: I knew you'd retired from the army but didn't realise you'd retired from nursing as well. I've noticed we still have Two Shires ambulances in Northants, but this is covered by the East Midlands Ambulance Service article: I expect a similar situation exists in the west of Yorkshire, but writing that in an article would be pure speculation. Yorkshire Phoenix 13:50, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

Its worth noting that I am now 'fully retired from everything' (No I don't have a bus pass) my work with the Duke of Wellington's Regimental archives being on a Voluntary basis! It does seem the matter of NHS trusts is very complex, a trip through a minefield would be comparable to getting it right, just in time for it to be changed again, as further merges and aquisitions take place. There are seperate trusts for Hospitals, Primary Care and Ambulance services, Some of which are independant of government control. The Huddersfield and Calderdale Hospital trust also includes what is probably the largest specialist medicine production unit, at Huddersfield, in the NHS. So it is a subject that requires a lot of knowledge and research. Which is not something I have the time to do anymore. Richard Harvey 14:24, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Spammy stuff

Morning Richard (nice to talk to someone in my time zone!)

The trouble is catching him I guess - I know from past experience IP reports to AIV won't get much done if they are not "currently" offending. The Peak page is on my watch list anyway (hence the revert and the previous ones) and I'll hope to get lucky. Having done a spam4im a block should be granted if I can catch it happening. Enjoy the day --Nigel ^(Talk) 08:32, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

& read the top of the page after posting - sorry! --Nigel ^(Talk) 08:33, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Commercial Link

Thanks for trying to keep Wikipedia free of commercial links, but would you please try to find a new source so the information in Manta ray can be preserved? --Gray Porpoise 22:54, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Victoria Tower Castle

Hi - thanks for your message; it does look rather odd to me, but I am no expert on images. You might be better off raising this at talk:Huddersfield, or even at the Wikipedia:Help desk. Warofdreams talk 17:25, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image copyright violations

Thanks for your message on my talk page. After you posted at the Help Desk, I investigated that image and a number of others uploaded by Usman_uk. He removed the "no source" tag from several of them, indicated the source of some (which despite the assertion of PD, GFDL, or CC status, appear to be infringements), and ignored others. I appreciate your finding the original of Image:Castle hill.jpg and it can then be processed and deleted as a copyvio. Best, --MCB 20:41, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fresh water

Hi there, I notice you redirected the List of fresh water islands in Scotland. It's a triviality, but this came about 24 hrs after I had persuaded RobotG to amend the category I had created to Category:Freshwater islands of Scotland to be consistent with the page Freshwater and the above list. I don't pretend to any specialist knowledge of the subject, and I don't think it is vital, but for the record was the difference simply 'adjective' rather than 'noun'. Ben MacDui 13:31, 1 November 2006 (UTC) (Pls reply below).

Hi! Funny how things work out? I had just spotted the query on User talk:DeLargeafter following up something else. I took a look at the initial post on User talk:MCB then took a look at the relevant pages and figured that it was possibly some US editors that were not to sure about the strange language known as 'British English'. I then went through the related articles and category, amending things to match. As the wording Freshwater is a more descriptive phrase of Fresh water, within freshwater lochs and rivers, as opposed to sea lochs and river estuaries, I believe it is an adjective. The Oxford dictionary also describes it as such. Adjectives and nouns can be strange, take a look at Eats, Shoots & Leaves for a stress relieving break. Richard Harvey 20:34, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

Hello, Richard. I have redone the page move as a proper page move. Cut-and-paste page moves are not the way to move a page (the page's edit history is lost, and contributors are entitled to have the history of their contributions preserved). The category move is slightly more complicated: you will see that I have submitted the category for discussion, because it is customary for categories not to be moved without consensus (and anyway, the redirect was incorrectly done). I hope you don't mind. Best wishes, RobertG ♬ talk 09:15, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Hi Robert! No problem. I wish I had known it was as simple as getting the page name changed, saving the extra work. Thanks for sorting it.:-) I have added a Rename to the CFD. Richard Harvey 13:10, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Upper Holme Valley.JPG

I was admiring your image of the Upper Holme Valley today and somewhat automatically thought it to be of the Holmbridge area. However, upon closer inspection it appears to show my house — albeit just the roof! Tell me, was the photo taken from the footpath that is above the small hamlet of Meltham House? --R.carroll 21:37, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for the comment. Your close!. The photo was taken from halfway along Scar End Lane, the rough track just below the top of the hill, which I always knew as Tenter Hill, Though actually is called Mount and the area facing Jackson Bridge is called Bullock Bank. As a young lad I used to live in the old farmhouse on Butterly Lane, which has now had the barn and mistle turned into a house. I used to help out milking and shoveling up after the cows at Mearhouse farm and delivering the milk, from the back of a tractor, to the houses around those fields and roads. Plus of course, mowing and baling those green fields during the school holidays. Richard Harvey 23:11, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Passenger rail services

Hi, Richard. I don't wish to get involved in any reversion silly-billies over the "Services" section of the Berry Brow railway station article, but I would just like to make the following points for the record re your Mondays to Saturdays there is an hourly service in both directions, during operating hours, with a two hourly service on Sundays and Bank holidays.

• You made the point in an earlier edit that it wasn't necessary to state the destinations of services when the end points of the line on which a station is situated have already been mentioned. I disagree: the rail services serving a station very frequently run beyond one or both ends of the line on which the station is situated. This is the case, too, with Berry Brow, whence southbound trains continue beyond Barnsley to Sheffield. What confuses matters here (and bedevils a lot of the discussion in Wikipedia about railway routes in GB) is the use of the term "line" to mean a passenger train service as opposed to ...a railway line. West Yorkshire Metro calls the Huddersfield - Sheffield train service the "Penistone Line". Network Rail, the Department for Transport (and, earlier, the Strategic Rail Authority) all define the Penistone Line as Huddersfield - Barnsley: they are, of course talking about the railway line itself. (The Huddersfield - Sheffield passenger train service actually follows three lines: route 15a to Barnsley, route 15 from Barnsley to Wincobank Junction, and route 17 from there to Sheffield.) The existing Wp article on the Penistone Line typically muddles up both definitions: it starts by saying that the Penistone Line is a rail service -- and then goes on to discuss the physical line.
• I also think that it is not out of place to mention the train operating company when detailing the services. Although it does happen to be so at Berry Brow, it is by no means always the case that the TOC which manages a station also operates all the trains calling there.
• On the other hand, I do think that the mention that trains only operate when they are operating could safely be dropped ;)
• Re "Sundays and bank holidays": British railway timetables just do not work like that; bank holidays are not treated like Sundays. The usual provsions are: on Bank Holiday Mondays a normal weekday service is operated except for those trains marked BHX in the national timetable; on Good Friday a normal Friday service is operated; on Christmas Day and Boxing Day no trains run at all; on New Year's Day there is usually a special timetable. And all of the foregoing can be changed by special holiday timetables issued a few weeks before the holidays concerned. In short: it's probably safest not to mention bank holidays at all! -- Picapica 23:22, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

Hi! Agreed! I am not in the busines of reverting battles. I just wanted to condense what I thought was too long a comment.

• • As the trains going from Sheffield through Berry Brow travel to Huddersfield then turn around and return to Sheffield, without requiring the passengers to get off and board another train, I didn't think it beyond a persons own reasoning to realise the train went in both directions, Without having to state it in such a way. Perhaps I assume too much! Perhaps its just we have a different way of saying it?
  • I am aware that the eventual destination of trains using the line through the day do change, as they are rerouted, whilst at Sheffield or Huddersfield, though not from stations between. An example being that I got on a Merseyrail train, from Sheffield, on the Penistone Line to Huddersfield. That arrived in Huddersfield on a different platform to the normal one and was then used to take passengers on to Bradford via the Caldervale line.
  • With regard to operating times, that was stated as the trains do not run 24 hours a day, which the article does not mention, therefore they only run during the rail services operating hours!
  • As for Bank Holidays? That was my error! Richard Harvey 00:04, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Miln(e)sbridge

Hello, Richard. Are you sure about the spelling? Google returns >32000 hits for +"Milnsbridge" and <150 for +"Milnesbridge". The external link spells it without the e. Given this, I'd advise submitting a name change request, although it seems that to convince anyone you will have to provide a photo of a roadsign! Best wishes, RobertG ♬ talk 09:25, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for detecting and fixing Vandalism to k-server problem

Hi Richard,

As a newbie, I would not know how to fix it properly: I hope to learn. Thanks. Vegasprof 11:12, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

Err! x = ? Richard Harvey 11:18, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

My error, sorry. I meant to say, "Thanks for detecting and fixing Vandalism to online algorithm" (Those two pages are related.) Vegasprof 09:06, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

Now I understand:) I am one of many anti vandalism patrollers using Wikipedia VandalProof. The edit to the page came up on my monitor and indicated an edit to the article from an unregistered editor. I checked it and noticed the Book author's name had been amended. A quick check of the internet confirmed who the correct author should be, so I simply rolled-back the new edit to your original format with the VandalProof software and placed a mild warning on the editors talk page Here. Glad to have been of some use. Richard Harvey 16:58, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Edit counter

My edit counter now has an entry for 'Tool-generated warnings' as per your request, which should show up under the full details view. --ais523 08:56, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Lowerhouses

Hi Whohe! I just noted your edit to the article, whilst patrolling with wiki VandalProof, and wondered why you removed the infobox template from the article. The general idea is to put those in every article that is about a place/location. So it may just end up getting put back by some editor in the future? Richard Harvey 19:05, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

Richard Harvey,

Ta for your comment.

The infobox yes is a noble idea but Lowerhouses is not relevant enough to warrant it. It's really a district of Hudds. Villages and towns, yes of course they should have infoboxes.

--Whohe! 15:13, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fitzharrys School

Hi, Richard,

Thanks for the message about the reverted edits to the article on Fitzharrys school that were done without my knowledge from one of my computers (IP address 85.240.156.140). It turns out they were done by my son, who hadn't realised they would be picked up. I've made it clear in no uncertain terms that he is not to do this again. As a matter of interest, would the blocking of the IP address just block edits or would it have blocked access to Wikipedia entirely? I'm intrigued as to how the system works, because I just saw the "new messages" pop up on a random article that I accessed.

I think you will find that there is more evidence of vandalism on the Fitzharrys article, e.g. in the current version, under "Fitzharrys code" in the section "We will listen to each other when we speak" I found the entry:

I won't allow other people to finish talking and interuppt frequently.

(which clearly isn't correct!).

The headteacher is very unpopular at the school (with staff and pupils), and I think many of the pupils mess around with the article. (One of the previous entries in the history showed a picture of the Nurembrerg rallys as a "typical school assembly"). I don't quite know what you do to preserve the integrity of this article - a major revert, especially in the "school code" section, and then block further edits to the page, I guess? Alan1507 17:56, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

Update - I managed to find the text of the school code from the school's website, and have changed that section back to the original. I can't vouch for the accuracy of the rest of the article. I think the article should be protected from edits by anonymous users in the light of the amount of vandalism that has take place (largely kids messing about). Alan1507 18:43, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

Replied on your Talk page. Richard Harvey 11:30, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Photo requests

Good morning, Richard.

As a regular contributor of photos, I was wondering if you have any suitable images of various Holme Valley villages. Do you, for instance, have any for New Mill, Thongsbridge, Wooldale, Netherthong, Upperthong, Scholes or Hepworth? I'm considering updating and expanding (and creating, where necessary) these articles shortly and I think a photo always gives context and colour to an article.

Richard ^{( T | C )} 11:06, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

Morning Richard! I have, so far, already put images on:- New Mill, Netherthong, Scholes, Holmfirth, Kirklees and Hepworth, West Yorkshire. I have put this image shown here on the Holmfirth article which partially shows Upperthong, though I think a better one could be obtained from somewhere up above Cinderhills looking across the valley. I do not have anything of Wooldale or Thongsbridge, though once this insatiable wind and rain dies down I will see what I can do, though a wet and leafless view is not really suitable. Perhaps I could sort out some aerial images from my list as well. You could check through my Wiki Commons photo contributions to see if there are any close, as some of my wideangle images could be cropped and enlarged for specific areas. Richard Harvey 11:54, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

Sorry for the delay in replying: I have been off Wikipedia for a few days. Thanks for your reply. I have seen some of your contributions already on the articles and have followed your advice and looked at your Commons gallery. I think we have a good selection of images to use and if you are able to add to these that would be most helpful. I do, however, understand what you mean about the current weather. It truly has been diabolical lately. I must have got soaked four times out of five on my short, two-mile commute to work in Holmfirth town centre in the past week! We must show our valley in a more favourable light.

Richard ^{( T | C )} 21:13, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your welcomes

Some of your welcomes include an unclosed comment tag. This causes problem with subsequent comments, see for example the invisible contributions of other users at User talk:Macpdi. Please check and fix all the user talk pages on which you caused this problem, which can be very confusing especially for newbie editors. Thank you, and happy editing, Kusma (討論) 14:39, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

I have fixed the template. Please fix the pages you used it on. A related point: Why do you welcome registered users with the message "Welcoming anonymous user"? That seems odd to me. Kusma (討論) 14:49, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

No, you have to fix every user talk page you edited to fix the problem. You substituted the template, so changing the template does nothing to the pages you used it on before the template was changed. You can see that on User talk:Lelladalleave, where your signature is invisible. Only later uses will benefit from the change. And please fix the edit summary you use, which says "anonymous user", which is very strange especially if people use their real name. Kusma (討論) 15:02, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Very good! Thanks for cleaning all of this up. Kusma (討論) 15:58, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] township

I would think probably not at the moment, as there are all sorts of other articles Township (South Africa), Township (United States), which Township links to. I could see the content of township (England) being at Township, but I feel Township would have to be radically re-written to not be in a disambiguation page format, for that to work out. Morwen - Talk 10:08, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] sigur ros wikipedia article's changes

hola, no sé a que cambio te refieres, sólo agregue un considerado, a mi juicio importante para la banda sigur rós: en primer lugar poner como estilo el nugaze, que es una versión actualizada de shoegazing, caracteristica que todos los críticos de música se han percatado por las distorsionada guitarra que ocupa Jón Þór Birgisson. No sé si te has percatado. Si lo que hice fue vandalismo, tu concepción de dicho término es muy personal y tan distorsionada como la guitarra de Jónsi. Creo que tu comentario sólo está sujeto a la ignorancia sobre el término en cuestion.

Hi! I don't know what you're talking 'bout, i've just added an important detail 'bout Sigur Rós: I've incorporated a style of music, this is nugaze. Nugaze is a new word which is refered to shoegazing, a stile with distorted guitars, like Jónsi's guitar. It sound like My Bloody valentine's guitar, like Slowdive guitar, so on. Many Criticals've said that Sigur rós has a shoegazing sound, but we're in the new century, and shoegazing turns into Nugaze. If what i did is vandalism, you conception of the word is so personal and distorted like jónsi's guitar. I think your message was born in the lands of darkness, and darkness is only knew when the thing aren't known, and ignorance is prowling your head. Research before criticize. Bye Sorry if my english is bad, but this language isn't my first language. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Sebdumb (talk • contribs) 23:19, 18 December 2006 (UTC).

Copy of reply entered on User Talk:Sebdumb:-

Hola User:Sebdumb Hi! No problemo! Your english is better than my Spanish. I think you are referring to the message you would have received whilst I was using the Vandal Proof software WP:VP. A message came on my screen to indicate a link to an article had been entered. That link was red Nugaze which means it is a link to an article that does not exist, when an article exists the link shows blue. Some vandals enter their names, or non-english swear words, on articles in this manner. I first checked to see what the word Nugaze was linked to. As there is no such word on any article in wikipedia, nor in any dictionary, and this was your very first edit, I judged it to be in that category. If you wish to redo the link please first create an article page called Nugaze with an explanation of what the word means. That will ensure a repeat deletion is not made. ATB:) Richard Harvey 11:03, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Mitsubishi Delica production figures

You asked me ages ago if I had any ideas about this. Well, I've subsequently found a .pdf document on MMC's website which includes all production and sales figures overall, by region and by individual model, although it only covers the period 2000–2004.[1]

I'll be contacting MMC myself as I'd like figures for all their vehicles, as I'm especially interested in some of their longstanding models (Lancer, Minica, etc), but I'll ask about the Delica as well. --DeLarge 01:07, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the information. Excellent! Richard Harvey 09:03, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] St. Mark Catholic School

Hi Richard. I received your email and have decided to block the school's IP address indefinitely. I wasn't totally comfortable doing this, but it seems there is precedent for this kind of request. Let's just hope the address isn't reassigned anytime soon. If you would, please send a message back to Philip Starr letting him know what has happened, and cc me.

By the way, if you're interested in more of this kind of work, I'm sure they could use your help over at Wikipedia:Abuse reports. ×Meegs 06:24, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks Meegs! e-mail sent. Richard Harvey 10:28, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] South Yorkshire

What I mean when discussing the KOYLI is that its recruiting area would have been taken over by the Light Infantry on its formation, which will be taken by The Rifles when it is formed. From what I have read, "South Yorkshire" (as in the south of Yorkshire) was covered by the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry and the York and Lancaster Regiment. Would you agree this is the case? If so, is it the case that the recruiting area occupied by the York and Lancaster has now been incorporated into the Yorkshire Regiment (presumably having been adopted by one of the three antecedents in 1968, in much the same way that the King's Own Scottish Borderers took over the Cameronians recruiting area)? Hammersfan, 27/01/07, 20.40 GMT

Hi! Effectively when the KOYLI and the Y&L disbanded the personnel were allowed to choose which other regiment they wanted to transfer to. The Majority of those from Yorkshire chose DWR, PWO and to a smaller degree the GH. The DWR had always recruited down through Penistone and Sheffield as far as Doncaster and across to Wakefield. Plus as part of the old West Riding was transferred to Greater Manchester there was still some recruiting across the border from Holmfirth to Greenfield and Mossley. In fact the DWR also have the Freedom of Mossley. since the early 70's, I even have the video of the Parade:). Though as their Regimental association Branch is now without any DWR members it will be closing down in 2007 with the Asociation Standard being returned to us in Halifax. We will also be laying up some DWR regimental colours in Halifax over the next few months. As you will see this is causing some problems over area recruiting boundaries and as such we are currrently sorting this out. I am awaiting a definitive recruiting area map from the Kings Div Recruiting Team. I hope to have this sometime in the next week. Additionally the GH's recruiting area was traditionally the North Riding which now includes parts of Northumberland and the PWO recruited from the East Riding. Which has become confused over time with county changes to North Humberside, South Humberside and now East Yorkshire. The light infantry have a rather diverse area of recruiting, IE: Northumberland, Durham, London, Cornwall. If you hold fire for a week or two I will let you know what is happening before making any further changes to the article. Richard Harvey 17:36, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks! Hammersfan 22.30 GMT, 29/01/07

[edit] Liskeard

Re spamlink should the text that the same person added also be deleted? The economy of the town is slowly improving as identified by The Property Letting Company - "The market for flats and houses for rent in and around the town is very strong and in constant demand". They identify lack of quality properties the most limiting factor! Teapotgeorge 11:27, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Yurakucho Line

Sorry. I write English very little.

I live in Japan and I use Yurakucho Line.

• Now 07 Series 3 trains exsist so Tokyo Metro 07 series 10-car trains x 2 sentence is wrong. Surely in the future 07 Srease will 2 trains. But it isn't performed.

• Seibu 6000 Seriese are 25 trains. But 7 trains are can't come to Yurakucho line (use only Seibu Line). Five 6000 trains are newly remodeled for Subway. But they haven't come to Yurakucho line until now. So Seibu Railway 6000 and 6050 series 10-car trains x 18 is right.

Wikipedia isn't a future place to predict.　

Sorry but please check again.--219.125.56.214 11:51, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 62.254.173.99

Blocked for 2 months. Anon only. --Woohookitty^Woohoo! 12:26, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism from 81.145.240.17 (talk · contribs)

Copied for continuity - With regard to your decision to refuse to unblock the user on the 10th of Feb (31 Hour block). Regrettably as soon as the block expired he made 9 edits to 3 different articles entering false details. Could you please consider re-imposing the block for a further 30 days. Richard Harvey 00:58, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

It's an AOL IP. I doubt it's static. The person who made those edits is likely not on that IP any more. --BigDT 01:07, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Holmfirth Flood

I've replied, belatedly, on my Talk Page. Regards, Richard ^{( T | C )} 18:09, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] My username

Hi, and thanks for trying to help me out?

Are you saying that all my categories should list me with a capital E? I tried to create a username with a lowercase e, but the MediaWiki software automatically changed it to uppercase. Thanks! east.718 02:53, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the help! east.718 08:19, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 70.132.150.91

Hi Richard, you reported the IP 70.132.150.91 for blocking at AIV. However, seeing as the IP hasonly had one warning at roughly 10.00 this morning, and has not vandalised since (in fact not vandalised since about 7.30 (as of the time of this message) I'm afraid I don't think it justifies a block. If the IP vandalises again please feel free to report it, but I'm sure you understand why this time a block isn't suitable. Thanks! SGGH 10:24, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Huddersfield

Richard, yes, i am happy with what you've done ! --Whohe! 16:43, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Hi! Apologies! without having my brain in gear I reverted your last edit to the Huddersfield article, whilst I was browsing through in history mode. When I realised what I had done I took another closer look and decided to add a section to include nearby places, in addition to the local suburbs. This I hope will help save some confusion over what is or isn't part of Huddersfield. Could you take a look and see what you think? Richard Harvey 19:32, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Meltham House

Evening Richard! I have a member reuested information about Meltham House in Jackson Bridge on my Talk page. I wonder if you can provide any further assistance? Richard ^{( T | C )} 20:26, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

I have replied on your talk page for continuity of subject. Richard Harvey 07:35, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] User:62.254.173.99

I blocked the IP for 6 months. I really really don't like indefinite blocks of IPs. But this time I will keep a closer eye on the situation as it gets closer to expiring. --Woohookitty^Woohoo! 13:31, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image:DWR_Regimental_Mag_01_(Custom).jpg listed for deletion

An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, Image:DWR_Regimental_Mag_01_(Custom).jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please look there to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. User:Gay Cdn (talk) (Contr) 22:15, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Image no longer required as it was uploaded for a users talkpage and is now obsolete, please delete. Richard Harvey 17:03, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Location of Thurstonland

It looks spot on. One useful way to check is using a map browser, such as Multimap http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?scale=10000&lon=-1.75&lat=53.59 [2] gives a map centred on Thurstonland. Warofdreams talk 16:04, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Images on Huddersfield Narrow Canal page

I've added a note re the appropriateness of the images displayed on the page (I removed them, you reverted) to the related Discussion page. Perhaps you could take a look. Regards Zin92 21:19, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] RCD

Ta muchly Hammersfan 04/05/07, 17.21 BST

[edit] Possibly unfree Image:8th Duke of Wellington.jpg

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Please speedy delete It has been replaced with Image:8thDoW(RLH).JPG and is no longer required. Richard Harvey 22:11, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Oldham categories at Cfd

The question of whether 'Oldham' cats should be renamed to 'Metropoloitan Borough of Oldham' has been taken to CfD, see Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2007_June_9#Oldham. As far as I can tell, this renaming proposal would apply to Wigan, Stockport and all other metropolitan boroughs - UK-wide - that share a name with a town. Your contributions would be welcome. Mr Stephen 15:36, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Huddersfield

Hello, Richard Harvey! I do remember yes! I hope all is well with you?

I was just about to pop to bed to be honest (as much as I'd love to stay up and edit!), but planned to contact you in the morning on how we can best solve this. In short, my concern is that even if I see the e-mail (I'm sure the list is accurate), it still doesn't satisfy WP:REF and WP:V, as I'm sure you can appreciate.

I do think it's a great addition, but I'm just concerned that this list could easily be tampered with and we wouldn't have a copy to verify against. Are their no local history books that can help us out here? Does Kirklees Council not have this infomation published anywhere?

I'm more than happy to leave the content in (I'm certainly not disputing it); I was hoping the verify tag would prompt someone with the knowledge to insert a source sometime to strengthen this infomation and article. Jza84 01:44, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

Hi Jamez, Thanks for the quick response. I was unable to obtain any book source at all. From what I can gather there was never any formally published document other than a scroll to the recipients, similar to the one for the Duke of Wellington's Regiment that I photographed and put on the article. That is probably why it took the Mayors office a couple of weeks to collate the information for me. There would of course have been articles in the local media, such as the Huddersfield Examiner. It should also be noted that there will be no further awards after the last one to Alderman Clifford Stephenson on 5 March 1973, as Huddersfield Borough Council then ceased to exist and Huddersfield became part of Kirklees Borough Council. I suppose as a possible reference source we could quote the reference section of the Huddersfield Public Library? That is next to the Town Hall and probably their source for the information passed on to me. Richard Harvey 07:54, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

I think any kind of source from the published realm would be suitable here. Indeed Kirklees MBC must have a source themselves. I wonder if there is actually something kept more centrally in the UK on these matters - I'm thinking the UK national archives? Jza84 00:09, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

It was the Kirklees Mayors office that supplied the information to me, which is located in Huddersfield Town Hall, so I think we have already ruled that out. I did take a look through the index at Kew but was not able to find anything. Richard Harvey 19:15, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

My apologies about the "largest town" claim on Huddersfield - I had heard it many times in the past, but wasn't aware it was a myth. Well spotted, Jza84 23:20, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Spain

I inform you that the Canary Islands and Catalonia are a part of Spain. It is not a dependence but a Spanish region. Please, excuse me my English level. Arzautz 13:12, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

Thats quite alright, my Spanish is not brilliant either. I am quite aware that they are both Autonomous communities of Spain, having been visiting them for many years, especially Catalonia. I don't quite understand why you mention it, as at no time have I ever made a claim that they are dependencies. I assume that it is something to do with the fact that you vandalised mine and other userpages by changing flags around a few days ago, which was reverted by User:Kevin McE? Editing a users page is not a nice thing to do, please do not do it again. Richard Harvey 19:11, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] General Robert Bray

Hello, I saw your upload of 16 May of an image, emailed by son Brigadier Bray.

I am son of Rasmus Skov. The two families were befriended in 1960ies, both being sailors. Skov (an artist painter by profession)in 1965 offered the Brays a painting (by R Skov).

I am researching for a R Skov catalogue of works and would be interested in contact with the son of Sir Bray for information about the painting.

Please will you communicate my plea and e-mail.

I apologize if I violate any code of conduct by this request. It is due to ignorance not il will.

Best regards hroarsHroars 22:15, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

I will pass on your message to Brigadier Michael Bray. As you can appreciate I cannot post his e-mail address here. Could you please e-mail me, your e-mail address, so that he can contact you direct? My e-mail link is in the toolbox to the left. Richard Harvey 08:51, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Various Yorkshires

Hi. I see you put the list back in Yorkshire Regiment. To me it makes no sense (the areas did not exist at the same time and there are overlaps in area):

• East Riding of Yorkshire A ceremonial county and a unitary council area with different areas. And then there is the historic county which is different again....
• North Riding of Yorkshire Historic county
• West Riding of Yorkshire Historic county
• East Yorkshire This was a borough in Humberside from 1981 to 1996. Doesn't exist any more (it's part of the East Riding now). There was never a county by that name.
• North Yorkshire Similar to East Riding there is a non-met and a ceremonial county, one being bigger than the other (the ceremonial county includes York and the bit of what was Cleveland south of the Tees)
• West Yorkshire No problem
• South Yorkshire No problem

As far as I can see the regimental district is the (modern) ceremonial counties of:

• East Riding of Yorkshire
• North Yorkshire
• West Yorkshire
• South Yorkshire

Per the maps at [3] and [4]

The alternative is the historic counties of:

• East Riding of Yorkshire
• North Riding of Yorkshire
• West Riding of Yorkshire

Which is not supported by the maps...

(That's why I put "Yorkshire": to avoid confusion. It also reflects the claims on the regiment's site to be "the only single county named regiment in the British Army" And also "Our home is Yorkshire up to the historic boundary of the River Tees")

What do you think? Lozleader 20:25, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

Hi Lozleader! This issue has arisen before with User:Hammersfan. Which resulted in some in depth e-mailing with the MOD and our regimental recruiting Officers and teams. I understand your reasoning, but the army does not exactly work to modern geographic boundaries alone, Both tradition and Historical issues are involved combining the various freedoms of towns enjoyed by the 4 battalions. The two maps you refer to are not quite exact being general in nature for the MOD website and ease of viewing. I suppose the simplest way to explain it is that the regimental area covers the current Yorkshire Geographic Boundaries, plus the Historical boundaries, plus the traditional areas that the original foot regiments recruited in, plus the areas of regiments that have been disbanded, where they generally recruited in and area where the antecedent regiments of the Yorkshire regiments were at that time established, which may have been split up at that time as the regiments personnel were transferred into the then active regiments of their choice. The most glaring of issues for historical areas is shown by the fact that the 3rd Battalion (Duke of Wellington's) have the freedom of Mossley where there is also a Duke of Wellington's (West Riding) Regimental Association Branch in the town. That freedom effectively permits the Regiment to march through the town with 'Bayonets Fixed Flags Flying and Drums Beating' and recruit from there. Mossley is now part of Greater Manchester. There are other anomalies with North Yorkshire, Cleveland, Cumbria, Lancashire and Northumberland borders via the 2nd Battalion (Green Howards) and partially the 3rd Battalion in Lancashire. Additionally other regiments, such as the various Guards regiments, can actively recruit anywhere in the Yorkshire area and 'The Rifles' may recruit from specific areas overlapping the Current Yorkshire area and surrounding counties. Having checked with both the MOD and regimental recruiting authorities the list shown is the easiest way to show the areas involved. The MOD is currently looking at the issues of recruiting and hopefully we will shortly be issued with a more definative set of recruiting areas. With regard to our regiments claim to be the only county named regiment, that is correct! Unless of course you are aware of a currently active British army regiment that is named after a county that we don't know about? Richard Harvey 19:01, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the explanation: it would be pretty difficult to condense that into a paragraph! Mossley, of course used to be in three counties (Lancs/Ches/YWR) so you may have some competition there!

You are of course quite correct: as of Saturday week the Yorkshire Regiment will indeed be the only single-county named regiment. I think that's when the Cheshire and Staffordshire Regiments get merged... :-)

Incidentally, who took over the York and Lancaster's recruiting area round Sheffield in 1968?Lozleader 10:41, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

That, along with the area covered by the Kings own Yorkshire Light Infantry, would have been the Duke of Wellington's Regiment with regard to Regular forces. In respect of Territorial units it would have changed between 1968 and 1999:- as units were reorganised. Initially as:- 1971 D Company (Hallamshire), 1st Battalion, Yorkshire Volunteers, in TAVR II, at Endcliffe Hall, Sheffield with dets at Rotherham and Barnsley. 1975 D Coy 3rd Battalion YR. 1978 4th Battalion YR. 1992 HQ (Hallamshire) Company, 3rd/4th Battalion, Yorkshire Volunteers reduced to single company at Endcliffe Hall, Sheffield, by amalgamation of HQ Coy and D Coy 4th Battalion and HQ Coy 3rd Battalion; (A Coy 4th Battalion amalgamated with B Coy (Sheffield Artillery Volunteers) and its Hallamshire lineage ceased). 1993 HQ (Hallamshire) Company, 3rd Battalion, The Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding) (Yorkshire Volunteers). 1999 amalgamated with B Coy (Sheffield Artillery Volunteers), to form Fontenay Company, The East and West Riding Regiment, and Hallamshire lineage ceased. Currently covered by 4th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. The area is currently part of the county overlapping area in which 'The Rifles' is permitted to recruit, both as Regular and TA units extanding out to include Bbarnsley. I hope that explains it? I now need to sit down in a dark room with a cup of strong tea! Richard Harvey 12:45, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

Blimey. Thanks, now take it easy! Lozleader 13:20, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Categories for canals

Thanks for your message. I don't think that there's a right answer to this; to my mind, either approach would be within policy. However, I'd tend towards keeping the two categories. I understand why you are considering upmerging them, but it's not necessary where there are only two subcategories, particularly as these give some extra information about the canal's location. On the other hand, it would be inappropriate to categorise the Grand Union Canal by every local authority area it passes through. Warofdreams talk 16:29, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Scapa Flow & italics

Please reply on my talk page. Ship names are supposed to be in italics as per: Wikipedia:Manual of Style (text formatting)#Italic type. I have restored the Vanguard's italicization and checked the rest of the article for un-italicized ship names. All appear to be in order. cOrneLlrOckEy 16:03, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Clearly I'm not very good at noticing other ship names. It has been corrected. Thanks! cOrneLlrOckEy 18:09, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Football Article page Links

Well spotted! I've restored the link change on the Meltham article. The links should all point to Football (soccer) as was correctly edited by Achangeisasgoodasa. To demonstrate this, in the Meltham page Football (soccer) is clearly intended to disambiguate from Rugby league since both sports are mentioned in the same sentence. Both sports would be covered by the generality of Football. Football covers a wide range of very different sports and the use of this link in articles would rarely be correct. I have explained the situation on the IP's talk page and reverted a whole bunch of erroneous linking. If the IP doesn't listen then I think that it would cross the line between an editorial dispute and vandalism. BlueValour 02:46, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Scottish Islands project

I thought from your past edits, you might be interested in Wikipedia:WikiProject Scottish Islands - come on over and have a look. --MacRusgail 13:41, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Halifax Joint Committee

Thanks for your message. As I'm sure you noticed, the article is currently pretty poor. To me, it reads fine up until "ex-London buses" - although it's in need of references to verify the content and demonstrate notability. After that, it looks like a collection of random facts some of which are unlikely to be verifiable and most of which are of no real interest. The article might have been written by someone from the company attempting to assume a neutral point of view, or just have been put together by someone looking at company material, but it doesn't look like blatant spam, and provided references can be found, a bit of cleanup on the text should produce a basic but decent stub. Warofdreams talk 20:35, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Flagicon

There was an agreement that only the service/branch and alligence would be returned you have returned tha birth place flag as well please be more careful in future. (Electrobe 16:55, 2 December 2007 (UTC))

If you look at the date/time stamp of the post on this post by the Admin Kirill on the Project Talk Page:-

Assuming this general view holds—a couple of days probably isn't enough for everyone to comment, so I expect we'll be getting additional input for some time yet—do we want to leave this as an implicitly understood convention, or would we want to explicitly note this point in our style guide? Kirill 16:37, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

You will note that my edit to the Richard Dannatt article was done at 16:15, 1 December 2007, a full 24 hours before the partial consensus was made and also more than 3 hours before the actual talk page item was started at 16:15, 1 December 2007. I was the first editor to post a comment on it!

You really need to check your facts/dates more carefully in the future, before making such a comment. Though I would also like to thank you for reverting your pre-emptive deletion of all the flag icons that started the request for the consensus in the first place. Richard Harvey 00:20, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Assesments

I've updated the assessments on those three articles, including the new B-Class checklists. Overall, they're quite good; but all three need, in my opinion, more thorough inline citation. Once that's added, they'll easily be B-Class, and can move up to the top levels of the assessment hierarchy through the appropriate reviews.

Hope that helps! Kirill 16:06, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Advice

I'm not entirely sure of the history, but I suspect the article may have been located at that title at the time the campaignbox was created. In practice, I don't think the underlying title of the template matters all that much, since the actual text displayed to readers is "War in Afghanistan". Kirill 02:20, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Your recent report to WP:AIV

Thank you for making a report about 86.3.6.204 (talk · contribs · block log) on Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism. Reporting and removing vandalism is vital to the functioning of Wikipedia and all users are encouraged to revert, warn, and report vandalism. However, administrators are generally only able to block users if they have received a recent final warning (one that mentions that the user may be blocked) and they have recently vandalized after that warning was given. The reported user has not yet been blocked because it appears this has not occurred yet. If this user continues to vandalize even after their final warning, please report them to the AIV noticeboard again. In this case the editor hadn't received a final warning at all. Also when reporting to AIV it's not really accepted that anonymous IP's are known as accounts let alone a vandalism only account. This rationale is only really applied to a registered editor who's sole aim is to disrupt Wikipedia, and having only vandalism edits to the account, we would then block the account indefinitely as a vandalism only account. As we are unsure if it's the same editor behind an IP address at any given time we cannot issue a permanent blocks to anonymous IP's. cheers ^Khukri 16:08, 12 December 2007 (UTC)