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[edit] Crossbow
I can't find anything about a 10th century Norse crossbow and I can't find this book you use as a reference. Do you have some other sources as well? Haukur 20:35, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
I found it on a website,which gave this book as its source,homepages.tesco/~tinyclanger/fitzgreyve/albini_equipment_crossbows-lockbow.htm or just google "skane lockbow". The battle of Hjorongavagr is also well known- as I am sure you know- and there may be information from accounts of this too
Streona 13:06, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
- That page doesn't mention the battle of Hjörungavágr. What's your source for that? Haukur —Preceding comment was added at 18:36, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
Chronology of the Crossbow from http/www.thebeckoning.com/medieval/crossbow/chronology This in turn cites W.F.Paterson "A guide to the Crossbow" Society of Antiquary Archers,1990- which is why I originally cited it on the stub, but has since been removed.Streona 21:58, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:Cross04.jpg
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[edit] Lane End, Isle of Wight
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[edit] Little context in Hale Common
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[edit] Your Isle of Wight articles
Hi, thanks for the message you left me. You accidentally left it on my user page though, not my talk page! Easily done; I've made the same mistake myself in the past.
Regarding your short Isle of Wight articles; just make sure to indicate in the article that they refer to a place on the Isle of Wight, and include {{IsleofWight-geo-stub}} at the bottom if they're stubs. That way, you provide enough context.
Happy Wiki-ing!
--stephenw32768<user page><talk> 11:48, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Cunnan
Hi Streona, and thanks for the message. Looking at that site, they are definitely using the Wiki software, which is freely available for anyone who wants it. This availability, and frustration with Wikipedia's rules on what does/doesn't belong in an encyclopedia, has led to people setting up hundreds of independent Wikis, many of them hosted on the same server (Wikia) but all of them separate from Wikipedia (some of the best known are Wookieepedia (the Star Wars wiki) and the World of Warcraft Wiki). This means the Cunnan Wiki is completely unrelated to Wikipedia; it just happens to use the same software - it was very good of you to correct the articles there, and hopefully it's appreciated, but obviously we have no oversight there.
As far as content goes, all Wikipedia articles are freely available for anyone to do anything they want with, including copy/change/try to sell/whatever. The only real restrictions are that any derivative work must be released under a similar free license to Wikipedia, and we must be credited somewhere. If the Cunnan site has used Wikipedia articles, or portions of them, they must give attribution somewhere on the site (usually a mention on each page that "this site contains material from Wikipedia..." is sufficient). If not, we can follow this up further as they would be in breach of copyright. Stuff that you've added to their site is licensed under their rules, so that wouldn't be covered. However, I think your note was more concerned with accuracy than plagarism - as I said, we have no say in how they run their Wiki, but from your message it's easy to see why they'd want to host their own stuff rather than fight through Wikipedia policies on accuracy and verification to get it on here ;)
Hope this helps, EyeSereneTALK 12:04, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
- I'm not familiar with Conservapedia beyond what I've seen in various papers (the Guardian seems to love it!). You've shattered my illusions regarding Ann Widdecombe though - are you certain? Oh well... Merry Christmas to you too :) EyeSereneTALK 19:32, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Dinosaur
Why have you just removed all the interwiki links? Hut 8.5 17:32, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
Because my 9 year old son has got at my account. Sorry.
Streona (talk) 00:11, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
- Never mind, I've seen worse... Hut 8.5 10:24, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] AfD nomination of Derek Beackon
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[edit] Pirates
Hello there, and welcome to Wikipedia. I don't know if "Frontal lobe damage would cause a lack of inhibition in speech and behaviour often associated with pirates." is meant as a joke, but that whole section is more appropriate for the general article on Pirates, than for International Talk Like a Pirate Day. It'd also be good if you could mention the source that you were drawing the information from, so that other editors could find out more about it. Thanks. --McGeddon (talk) 00:39, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
- If you've got a source, that's great, but this whole section should definitely be moved to the pirates article (or possibly pirates in popular culture, which has a section about piratical speech). It's only about the international day in the sense of background information - it's really about pirates. --McGeddon (talk) 11:22, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Your recent edits
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[edit] I'm sorry
Hello,
I don't know if you noticed (I hope not), but I briefly blocked your account. It should be unblocked now; please try to edit the WP:Sandbox to see if you're unblocked. If there is a stray autoblock, please follow the directions on the autoblock notice, and someone will be by soon to help.
Explanation: you posted a reply on User talk:SineBot directly under a message from a known, serial vandal. Her style of writing is very distinctive. Since you posted "inside" her thread, so to speak, your edit summary had the title of her previous heading in it. I'm watching the page, saw that heading, and stupidly jumped to the conclusion that you had created the header. I just blocked out of reflex. When I went to see what else she had edited that I needed to revert, I noticed that everything looked, well, written by a rational human. Only then did I actually check the text of your message on SineBot's talk, and realize my mistake.
Hope you'll accept my apologies, and that this doesn't cause any complications in your editing. Sorry! --barneca (talk) 15:08, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Speedy deletion of Pondwell
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