User talk:Roleplayer

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Contents 1 Requested move at Talk:Water Eaton 2 Dorney 3 Spam at Gerrards Cross 4 River Ouzel 5 Re: Word Association 6 Change to Bierton made on 18th October 2006 7 Template talk:Lord Lieutenancies 8 Watermead 9 Geoffrey Palmer

[edit] Requested move at Talk:Water Eaton

OK, the name were confusing me. See my response on the talk page. If my suggestion fixes the problem, I can make those changes. Vegaswikian 23:14, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Dorney

Why is the information about the local parish church being dedicated to St James valid and important? Unless it has some unusual local significance (e.g. some story that it was dedicated to James because he miraculously appeared to save the village from a flood or something) then it seems to me to be no more significant than the information that the local school is named after King Edward or the local supermarket is a Tesco. --Spondoolicks 11:37, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Spam at Gerrards Cross

Thanks for your comment. I've seen the "thebestof" link inserted into numerous different articles about different towns and cities, always by an anonymous IP user. I've seen it deleted/reverted on a number of occasions on the grounds of spam; I'd agree likewise in this case. Looking back over the page history for Gerrards Cross, I see it has in fact already been deleted as spam once before [1]. The user who inserts it has used numerous different IPs (hence violating WP:SOCK), and has contributed nothing to any page except to insert that link ([2] for just a few on that particular IP); hence, I think it is reasonable to assume it is commercial spamming. As a matter of principle, WP discourages too many external links being inserted into articles, unless they are absolutely essential to the article, or provide a particularly detailed coverage of the matter in question. In this case, "thebestof" websites fail this test too, as they are basic at best and provide minimal relevant content. That's my opinion on the matter, at least. :) DWaterson 16:48, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] River Ouzel

Thanks for welcoming me to Wikipedia. And thanks for moving River Lovat to River Ouzel; I thought of that, but wasn't bold enough to make the change. JonH 11:53, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Word Association

SpongeBob always says "I'm Ready!" which sounds a lot like "Unready". I was just trying to make it interesting. AKKIfokkusu^TaLk 18:17, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Change to Bierton made on 18th October 2006

Thank you for your cryptic critique of my sociological piece on Great Lane. Having lived there for 32 years I feel as though my research was extensive and although it may have strayed a little from the bland objectivity normally portrayed in encyclopaedias, I felt that the comment "nonsense" portrayed a lack of appreciation for my intimate affection for my subject matter. I would welcome suggestions as to how I can contribute in a more acceptable manner.Tedtaylor1 22:42, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Template talk:Lord Lieutenancies

Ho, I have answered you on the above. ~~ Phoe _talk 15:29, 1 November 2006 (UTC) ~~

[edit] Watermead

It seems you have cancelled my page about the parish council which I had not yet finished as I did not have the time and made other changes to Watermead. However you have left in the Watermead photo and the link to Watermead Country Park which was Watermead Park which did not go anywhere as there was no page there. When I have the time I will be doing a lot more editing and I would be grateful if you could not make changes to my work. Thanks. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 84.13.135.234 (talk) 18:52, 16 December 2006 (UTC).

Several points.

First, what you did was to copy and paste a move from one page to another, which should be avoided because it invalidates the licence under which information is held on Wikipedia. That's why your edits were reverted. Second, the Watermead Parish Council page was nothing more than a sub-stub, which should have gone in the main Watermead article, which is why it was merged and redirected. Finally you cannot ask other editors not to make changes to "your" work - this is an open source encyclopedia, and you cease ownership of any information you upload the moment you press the "save" button. Thank you. -- Roleplayer 01:38, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Geoffrey Palmer

I admit that I did not thoroughly read the article about Great Missenden. I "scanned" it, and obviously very carelessly. Sorry!

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