User talk:Paul W/Archive 1

Championship(s)

Hi Paul. Thanks for your help on my pieces in the past. I notice on the British League of Racing Cyclists story you have reverted "national championship" to "national championships", plural. Is there a reason? There was only one championship that I know of, not two. People sometimes say "I'm riding the national championshipS" but isn't that simply slop-speak? What do you think? Not important in itself, but... - les

Les woodland (talk) 20:59, 11 December 2007 (UTC)les woodland

Les - my intention was nothing to do with plurals, but to create a link to the already-existing British National Road Race Championships article. I've edited and piped the link to make this clear. Paul W (talk) 12:58, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

Architecture

hi, paul, I am an architectural history student at UCL. thanks for your contribution, and I'll try to have them made into simplified chinese version. please feel free to visit my photoblog at http://tiantian.fotopages.com

Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 1000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

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Redirects

Hello Paul. Please don't blank redirects without explanation. If you think something should be deleted, you can list it on Wikipedia:Redirects for deletion. Thanks. Angela. 11:14, Apr 26, 2005 (UTC)

Naming convention: La Fleche Wallonne

Hi Paul. Thanks for putting up the article on the Fleche Wallonne bike race. One question: you used a foreign character in the title (è I believe). Perhaps a plain English "e" should be used. In any case, when a user types in "La Fleche Wallonne" (plain English e), they don't arrive at the page with the foreign "e" in it, so maybe both versions should be used with a redirect between them. JFPerry 17:32, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Great work!

Hello Paul. Thanks for your great work on all things cycling!! Keep up the good work! — Phlebas 19:54, May 15, 2005 (UTC)

Also thanks for the great cleanup job on many of the articles that I edited! Julius.kusuma 14:31, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Re Graaeme Obree

Hi Paul Thanks for your info on Graeme Obree, sorry my entries make me appear to have written him off prematurely! Where is Fullerton by the way? Best

TonyClarke 16:33, 25 May 2005 (UTC)

lots of edits, not an admin

Hi - I made a list of users who've been around long enough to have made lots of edits but aren't admins. If you're at all interested in becoming an admin, can you please add an '*' immediately before your name in this list? I've suggested folks nominating someone might want to puruse this list, although there is certainly no guarantee anyone will ever look at it. Thanks. -- Rick Block (talk) 14:32, Jun 22, 2005 (UTC)

Old Truman Brewery

Thanks for the article. I added a picture. Have you got a reference for the history, it would be nice to have one. I dont have a copy of Pevsner London 5 which I guess it is in too. Justinc 21:27, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

references also added in Benjamin Truman articlePaul W 12:58, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Giles Gilbert Scott & Mersey (Queensway) Tunnel

Hi,

This is going back a while (to 11:12, Jan 15 2004), but can you remember where you found the reference that prompted you to add "ventilator shaft buildings for the Mersey Tunnel" to the list of works by Giles Gilbert Scott?

The reason I ask is that, over time, other users have morphed the text into a statement that Scott designed vent buildings for the Queensway Tunnel and more recently, that he designed the New Quay ventilation building there. The sources I've looked at (mostly from the 1930s) all say that the (six) vent buildings for Queensway were by Herbert Rowse. Did Scott perhaps work in Rowse's architectural practice?

I can't find anything else on the web to support the claim, so I have a mind to re-edit both Mersey Queensway and Giles Gilbert Scott. I thought I'd check with you first, though.

Ecb 22:37, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

Myddleton

Thanks for your additions to his article; I couldnt find much. I have been collecting together stuff in Category:London water infrastructure prior to writing a history of fresh water and sewage in London; if there is anything else you know that should be there please add it. Justinc 12:09, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

Look at this link - it talks about papers at the University of Aberystwyth too.Paul W 13:12, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

Indeed, good job on this and the New River piece. Meant to expand the latter myself, but have been taking pix instead. Have more from Stamford Hill and Stokie and I've a pic of the old MWB HQ already on commons, correspondingly roughly to the old New River Head. Also keep meaning to get Stokie reservoir/castle shots. Don't want to overburden the existing text with pix, though... Tarquin Binary 16:11, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

Brunel

Hiya, noticed you've done a bit on Isambard Kingdom Brunel, it's submitted for Peer Review now, [1] aiming to get it Featured! Comments appreciated, cheers. --PopUpPirate 00:43, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

Sourcing

Hi I saw you added an article on Robert Milligan. It looks good but you need to try and find some sources for the information. It would be handy to establish him as a notewirthy person to mention too as some people don't like biographies of people on wikipedia unless they are 'really deserving' :-( -- Errant  ^talk(formerly tmorton166) 10:41, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

Reference added Paul W 16:34, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

Woodland House

Hi paul Im interested in where you got the information you added stating woodlands house was closed in 2003. As far as i can see your wording was taken from one website, the milesfaster one. Should you not cite the website you quoted rather than look for a couple of others? 86.129.76.6 17:43, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

I live very close to Woodlands and visit Mycenae House nextdoor regularly, so I get information first-hand from staff and users of the buildings. As a local resident, I also get the usual free newspapers and community newsletters, and I referenced an article from one of these which was available online. I had never seen Milesfaster before it was linked to the article. IMHO, I think the info on Milesfaster (which is not particularly well-written or encyclopaedic in tone) is based on info from Wikipedia or other sources.Paul W 10:04, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

Philanthropist

I've added the "{{prod}}" template to the article Philanthropist, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but I don't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and I've explained why in the deletion notice (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). Please either work to improve the article if the topic is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia, or, if you disagree with the notice, discuss the issues at Talk:Philanthropist. You may remove the deletion notice, and the article will not be deleted, but note that it may still be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached, or if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria. — Sebastian (talk) 03:34, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Project Invite

Diez2 16:23, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Rookeries

Liked the introduction of the article. I seem to remember reading somewhere that a crucial aspect of Rookeries were that they had a single (defendable) entrance, this meant that the inhabitants could control admittance of the authorities. In that way they were beyond the reach of police and landlords. The court design of 16th century London - with dwellings being established as infill in the 'gardens' of plots with street frontage - helped their development.

I remember vaguely reading of a large (70+) family of Irish in Whitechapel who held a rookery against the attentions of the authorities for nearly a hundred years. I'll try to look it out. Kbthompson 13:49, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. My first updates were to extend the article beyond London (found references to Southampton, Sydney and New York). Will also look for other info on Rookery 'fortresses'.Paul W 14:47, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Mountain Biking on Mount Tamalpais

Hello, An article that I created, Mountain Biking on Mount Tamalpais, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mountain Biking on Mount Tamalpais. Thank you, Bob in Las Vegas -  uriel8  (talk) 09:19, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

Greenwich Peninsula edits

Paul, congratulations on the excellent edits on the Greenwich Peninsula article on 8 Feb 2007. --TGC55 03:55, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Active user verification

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Samuel Lysons

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Further work done. Paul W 19:37, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

London Meetup - January 12, 2008

Hi! There's going to be a London Wikipedia Meetup coming Saturday January 12, 2008. If you are interested in coming along take part in the discussion over at Wikipedia:Meetup/London7. The discussion is going on until tomorrow evening and the official location and time will be published at the same page late Thursday or early Friday. Hope to see you Saturday, Poeloq (talk) 03:29, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Invitation to Wikipedia meetup in London

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I noticed that you have listed yourself as a Wikipedian in London, so I thought you might like to come to one of our monthly social meetups. The next one is going to be on Sunday 10 August, which might well be rather short notice, but if you can't come this time, we try to have one every second Sunday of the month.

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Oxford Wikimania 2010 and Wikimedia UK v2.0 Notice

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Levett Landon Boscawen Ibbetson

Hello. Glad to see that you created an entry for this fascinating man. I had contributed the information about him to the William Fox Talbot page but hadn't gotten around to creating an entry for him. Glad you did. Good work.Regards,MarmadukePercy (talk) 16:06, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

Waterloo church

Hello Paul. Please see the query here. I note that you started the article on Waterloo church. I must confess that I had never heard the churches referred to as Waterloo churches, despite doing an OU degree which included two modules on Victorian religion in Britain; which is why I started the article on Commissioners' Church. Could I ask two things of you: would you please add inline citations to the material you wrote in the article; and what do you think about the title? All the books in the Buildings of England series (Pevsner et al) I have seen refer to "commissioners' churches", as does a book on Victorian Architecture I have borrowed. Do you think it might be more "encyclopedic" to use "Commissioners' Church" rather than "Waterloo church" for the merged article? Cheers. Peter I. Vardy (talk) 16:20, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

Hi, Peter. I have no worries about merging the two articles (we are talking about the same topic, after all). Can't remember what prompted me to write the original article three years ago, but I suspect I was creating articles on architects whose work included the so-called 'Waterloo' churches. As for a citation linking the two terms - how about James Stevens Curl (2000) A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, see extract at http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O1-Commissionerschurches.html. The term recurs in various articles about specific examples of such churches too - I've seen it used for Nash's All Souls Church adjacent to Broadcasting House in central London - http://livedesignonline.com/venues/topstory/all_souls_church_and_ltp/. Hope this helps (and glad to help a fellow Cheshireman, though I now live in London!) Paul W (talk) 23:12, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

Thanks, Paul, especially for the links. Are you happy then for the merged article to be titled Commissioners' Church? It would be good to incorporate your text in the merged article; are you able to give refs? (Actually I am a Lancastrian, and came to Cheshire via London.) Peter I. Vardy (talk) 16:09, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

Quite happy for it to be Commissioners' Church. If you start the merge, I will add refs where I can to the new text. (I'm a bit of a mix - born in London, raised in Cheshire (father from Lancashire), before finally returning to London in my 20s).Paul W (talk) 20:35, 1 January 2010 (UTC)

Paul, I've had a go at combining the two articles. It's in my sandbox here. Are you happy with it; I think it covers all the former relevant material with a bit added. I also think that the list in Waterloo church should be a separate list-article (although with 600+ possible items, it will be a bit big!). Are you happy for me to upload this to the main space and make a redirect for Waterloo church? Peter I. Vardy (talk) 12:43, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

(outdent)I've expanded Commissioners' church and made a redirect from Waterloo church. I hope you find this OK. I'm working on a list here. This promises to be rather large and may have to be split, possibly into a north/south divide. Cheers.--Peter I. Vardy (talk) 10:27, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

I seem to have stirred things up. See here and here.--Peter I. Vardy (talk) 12:09, 6 March 2010 (UTC)