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[edit] Famous Thanetians

This category only included one name, the railway engineer Thomas Webster Rammell, so I expanded it with the more notable names connected with Thanet. However, I've just noticed that the Ramsgate and Broadstairs pages have their own 'notable residents' sections, though Margate doesn't - is it worth scrubbing the famous residents section on the Thanet page entirely and just assigning everyone to one of the three towns? Pitt the elder 10:12, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

There was a fair bit of repetition and the section was getting unwieldy so I created a separate article with content moved from Thanet, Ramsgate, Broadstairs: List of people from Thanet. Pgr94 (talk) 12:11, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Request for page protect?

An IP editor is making substantial changes to the article with little regard to WP guidelines. I have tried numerous times to contact him/her, but the IP number keeps changing. There is a similar situation on the Broadstairs article. Should we request that Thanet be semi-protected which would prevent anonymous editing? We could cancel the protection as soon as the IP editor registers. Does anyone agree/disagree? Pgr94 13:55, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

  • It might be a good idea. It is not a good use of our time cleaning up after him/her. He/she is making the same mistakes over and over. Ground Zero | t 16:13, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Antoher approach, which I have begun using, is to revert any changes that are not consistent with WP:MOS. That might get the anon editor's attention. It is not aour responsiblity to accept his/her changes and clean them up. Ground Zero | t 17:03, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
I have done that too on a few occasions but then sometimes good material was getting lost. It would be better the editor became contactable than be put off altogether by the reverts. But I completely agree with you that it is a pain to have to clean up after him/her. Pgr94 17:14, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

Have now put in a semi-protect request and will let administrator decide. Pgr94 17:14, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

This page has been totally locked. Is this the intention? --Lord Matt 15:11, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
I requested semi-protection but the administrator went for full[1]. I don't know why. Pgr94 15:32, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

I have changed the protection to semi-protect so than registered users can edit if they have been registered for at least one week. This should be sufficient to deal with the unregistered user who has been making a mess of things. Ground Zero | t 16:20, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

Well done. You might want to consider moving Broadstairs to semi-protect too as it was full-protected for the same reason. Thanks. Pgr94 16:55, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Links needed on locked page

inward migration needs to be linked. Ideally we also need some sources for the claims. Can we have a citation needed tag. Thanks --Lord Matt 15:39, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Scenic Railway Fire

I've made an edit to the bullet point under future. I've possible been a little clumsy with the level of citation and so this might need to be thinned. Also I have added a fact tag to the statement that it was the first structure to get grade 2 listing status - I don't doubt it but I'd like a primary source.

In addition to this I feel the scenic railway might merit it's own page. There is enough material on it out there and it does seem to be notable. What do other editors think?

--Lord Matt (talk) 11:36, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Scenic Railway (Dreamland)? I agree that this detail is a bit excessive for an article on Thanet; I'd suggest it's more suitable in the article on the the scenic railway itself. Pgr94 (talk) 12:27, 8 April 2008 (UTC)