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15:22, 31 January 2016 (UTC)
Season's Greetings
Wishing you a Charlie Russell Christmas! 🎄 |
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Best wishes for your Christmas Is all you get from me 'Cause I ain't no Santa Claus Don't own no Christmas tree. But if wishes was health and money I'd fill your buck-skin poke Your doctor would go hungry An' you never would be broke." —C.M. Russell, Christmas greeting 1914. Montanabw(talk) |
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DYK for Cecil Thomas (sculptor)
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:01, 30 January 2016 (UTC)
War memorials
Hey Harry, many thanks for your work on war memorials. I noticed several of your edits and new articles popping up in various places. I'll try and add some additional material from the books I have when I have time. Good to see some more people working on this topic! Carcharoth (talk) 09:25, 31 January 2016 (UTC)
- Thanks Carcharoth, great to hear from you! I've long found war memorials to be fascinating, in a horrifically tragic sort of way (it's actually very upsetting to stand at a memorial in a small village and realise there are more names on the memorial than houses in the village). I bought a copy of Lutyens and the Great War at the end of last year and since then I've been slowly working my way to creating articles on all his war memorials, though I sort of fell down the rabbit hole in Richmond an ended up creating articles on various other things. It always amazes me how many articles we still don't have, even though we have five million of them already! HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 15:37, 31 January 2016 (UTC)
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- Good work! And reminded me of a proposed contest/editathon Awaken the Dragon focussing on adding to/improving articles about Wales. You might be interested in listing (or creating) articles for war memorials in Wales. A very brief bit of research resulted in this document from Cadw which you may find interesting/useful. Cheers Robevans123 (talk) 16:03, 31 January 2016 (UTC)
- I've seen it. I've also seen the "Awaken the Dragon" proposal—I've been drafting a couple of grant requests myself. ;) There is one Lutyens memorial in Wales, at Maindy Barracks in Cardiff, and I know there are lots of other interesting memorials. We could perhaps find a way to tie the two projects together and maybe involve Cadw. Are Cadw's listing available online like Historic England's? I can't find them anywhere obvious, which would be a stumbling block when it came to writing articles. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 18:31, 31 January 2016 (UTC)
- Cadw's listings are nowhere near as accessible as Historic England's - I've nagged them once or twice... Try this search. It doesn't seem to be possible to narrow the search to scheduled monuments or listed buildings of different grades... They are in the process of getting more digitised and online. I do have downloads of their databases and also know how to search through the various (4) archaeological trusts in Wales, and the council listings for listed buildings. Give me a few days and I should be able to create a list with links to the various listings and also sortable by type of grading/protection. It would be great if the Military history project could get involved. The "Awaken the Dragon" project coincides with WikiWomen's History Month, and is planned to give special consideration to articles improved or created in relation to that. Robevans123 (talk) 19:16, 31 January 2016 (UTC)
- I've seen it. I've also seen the "Awaken the Dragon" proposal—I've been drafting a couple of grant requests myself. ;) There is one Lutyens memorial in Wales, at Maindy Barracks in Cardiff, and I know there are lots of other interesting memorials. We could perhaps find a way to tie the two projects together and maybe involve Cadw. Are Cadw's listing available online like Historic England's? I can't find them anywhere obvious, which would be a stumbling block when it came to writing articles. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 18:31, 31 January 2016 (UTC)
- Good work! And reminded me of a proposed contest/editathon Awaken the Dragon focussing on adding to/improving articles about Wales. You might be interested in listing (or creating) articles for war memorials in Wales. A very brief bit of research resulted in this document from Cadw which you may find interesting/useful. Cheers Robevans123 (talk) 16:03, 31 January 2016 (UTC)
DYK for Bromhead Memorial
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:04, 1 February 2016 (UTC)
Legit to remove IP whois template?
Hi HJ, this guy keeps removing {{Whois}} from his talk page, which I was under the impression was not permissible, but after I warned him and he asked, "why not?", I have to admit, I'm confused myself. Any thoughts? I don't see anything at WP:TPG. Thanks, Cyphoidbomb (talk) 16:35, 1 February 2016 (UTC)
- I'd be inclined to leave it. The template doesn't tell us much and the information can easily be found by running the WHOIS query again. That might not be what the policy says, but in my experience the policies on talk pages rarely take account of what happens at the coal face. Besides, anything for a quiet life! ;) HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 17:15, 1 February 2016 (UTC)
- I guess I was trying to figure out what the policy actually says about this. I dunno that I'm any closer to that. :/ Cyphoidbomb (talk) 15:32, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
Thank you for supporting my RfA
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Hawkeye7 RfA Appreciation award |
Thank you for sponsoring, participating in and supporting my RfA. It was very much appreciated. I suspect the bureaucrats will kill it. But we tried. Hawkeye7 (talk) 21:48, 1 February 2016 (UTC) |