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snoyes 15:39, 28 Nov 2003 (UTC)

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I redirected the song title to Don't Cry For Me, Argentina. Mike H 22:42, Jul 22, 2004 (UTC)

Oh, hi again! I redirected Dawn (band) to Tony Orlando and Dawn. They were known as that name for longer, plus Dawn was mentioned at Dawn (disambiguation) as being their initial name only. Also, the Tony Orlando and Dawn article had been in existence for a month or so before you started Dawn (band). Mike H 22:57, Aug 1, 2004 (UTC)

Contents 1 Radio station substubs 2 Answer the true/false quiz at... 3 Roy of the Rovers 4 Hybrid Grape 5 Grape Stubs 6 Strictly Come Dancing 7 Article Licensing 8 Radio station infoboxes 9 Lat/long 10 Lat/Lon 11 French communes 11.1 Bot 12 list of AOCs 13 London Underground Trivia 14 Call for consensus on fan site list on Andy Murray page 15 Quick clarification on the dates 16 Did you know 17 WikiProject France 18 English vs. French spelling

[edit] Radio station substubs

Perhaps your radio station articles would be much improved if you added some content to the article, as opposed to simply copying infoboxes. It's best to keep substubs to a minimum. Besides, we want to know more about these stations! :) --Slowking Man 20:00, Sep 3, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Answer the true/false quiz at...

Answer the true/false quiz at Category_talk:UK Radio Stations. 66.245.107.72 20:00, 3 Sep 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Roy of the Rovers

Well done. Did you see that this was on my to do list? Mintguy (T) 21:52, 20 Sep 2004 (UTC)

No no... I'm very busy at the moment and probably wouldn't have got round to writing it for a long time. Mintguy (T)

[edit] Hybrid Grape

I returned Rubired and Ruby Cabernet to the red wine section of List of grape varieties. They are not hybrids in the sense used when talking about grapes. That is they are hybrids of two Vitis vinifera varieties but they are not hybrid grapes which are crosses of Vitis vinifera (European) grapes with any of the American grape species (usually Vitis lambrusca or Vitis riparia). Rmhermen 14:28, Oct 22, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Grape Stubs

Please don't make stub articles for every variant spelling of every grape variety. That is what redirects are for. One article at a popular name variant with appropriate redirects is prefered. Rmhermen 21:08, Oct 30, 2004 (UTC)

Please keep working on grape varieties. To further explain I wouldn't expect to find different short entries for dog, chien, hund because different countries have different names for one animal. Wikipedia is a general encyclopedia (well, sort of). The Alverhao thing appears to go back to mid-September when User:129.130.245.161 added the incorrect information. That user's only contributions appear to be badly formatted cut-and-paste jobs from online wine encyclopedias, leaving lots to clean up and copyright concerns in some cases. Rmhermen 13:51, Oct 31, 2004 (UTC)

I listed Category:Vititculturists on Wikipedia:Categories for deletion so it should go away. User:Justinc set up both the categories, wineries and vineyards. I believe it was with the idea that wineries would cover the business entities that produce wine often owning several plots of land which may have their own names. These named plots would be listed on category vineyards. But I can't find where I may have read that. Certainly neither category has many entries yet. Rmhermen 18:06, Oct 31, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for your work on grape varieties, had started on some of them when I was working on German wine but were lots missing, and I have since moved onto comprehensovely doing the French AOC system, because it was easier to work out what to do than German classification, but today stumbled on Müller-Thurgau which I had meant to write before. Added a bit to it. Justinc 18:40, 4 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I am not too bothered about the wineries and vineyards categories, was just trying to tidy up some things that seemed badly classified before. DO whatever you like, not sure it matters until there are lots more entries. Justinc 18:40, 4 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Some of the stub articles for different spellings was my fault, when I started Germany I put info on German pinot noir under spatburgunder. Later I split pinot noir by country to put this information in and think that works pretty well for cases where there are interesting things to say about how its used in different countries Justinc 18:40, 4 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Someone has listed all the sherry entries as candidates to be merged with sherry. I am not so sure about this, maybe they should just be expanded???

[edit] Strictly Come Dancing

Very NICE formatting. I tweaked the dates, as I know that series 2 ends in December. There will be a Christmas special on Dec 22 with couples from series 1 vs couples from series 2. Probably top 4 celebrities of each, but still no decision on professional partners. Martin TB 16:35, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] 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:

• Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
• Multi-Licensing Guide
• Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

OR

Option 2

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:

{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

[edit] Radio station infoboxes

Perhaps when you have time you could go over some of the stubs you created with the messy blue-box code and replace them with the concise syntax for Template:Radio station (see Template_talk:Radio station). There's a very long list to get through! ed g2s • talk 13:32, 16 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Lat/long

Hi, i got the lat/long numbers from multimap ([1] and on there it labels them as north and west, not east. Seems very odd - thanks Bluemoose 07:56, 19 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Lat/Lon

I noticed that you have changed some lat/lon figures from west to east. I think they are now not correct. I have got my own figures (example: Clifton Reynes from paper ordnance survey maps. Longitude is measured in degrees from the grenwich meridian. It never goes more than 180 degrees. If it is 20 degrees west then it is also 340 degrees east but it is called 20 degrees west as 340 is more than 180. Borb 12:12, 24 May 2005 (UTC)

I have just discovered that you have talked to bluemoose about this matter and I think what you have done is in fact correct. I thought you were just arbitrarily chaning W to E becasue you thought it was standard. My mistake. A negative W values does equal the positive east value. Borb 12:18, 24 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] French communes

Thank you for creating so many articles for communes in the Ain département. When you get the chance, would you be interested in jumping down the alphabet to Lot département? Communes of the Lot département, which looks at lot like Communes of the Ain département (no pun intended) has been in cleanup since October 2004, and having more blue links would go a long way toward cleaning it up. Thanks, NatusRoma 22:28, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your work on the communes. You might want to join the Wikipedia:WikiProject French communes, which definitely needs some traction. olivier 00:35, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Bot

I've a plan to write a bot to create decent stubs for French Communes. I've done some manual work on the Le Puy series which shows the sort of thing (with additional human editing). The output side of the bot is largely complete and I've some work done on screen-scraping for input. Haven't got around to looking for permission to run it yet! I've you're interested in discussion or collaboration leave a note on my talk page. Dlyons493 Talk 19:36, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

• • OK I've joined and left some stuff on the talk page there. Talk to you again.

[edit] list of AOCs

Er, I think you listed the entries from the Hachette wine library Dictionary of wine. Actually this is a very bad list of AOCs, as things like "Alsace pinot ou klevner" are not AOCs, just the way the book does things. While it is a good listing, please use the official AOC list of possible, especially for the list (which I see only as a temporary matter before we get all the AOCs done). If you use that book, use the official AOCs it lists in the entries (and bear in mind that while it is a good fill in, not all the details are that accurate).

But I would love any help in filling in the AOCs - its hard work and there are lots to do...Justinc 23:45, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

or possibly you used another source. Not sure. Removed some of the Alsace bogus ones anyway as a start. Justinc 23:49, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

I will check the officisl sites, but anything you write is helpful Justinc 23:36, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

Note that All the Rhone ones have (albeit stubby) entries, as do Alsace, Champagne, Jura, Provence. I did all the articles as xxx AOC to distinguish from the places. I will remove redlinks later - going out now. Justinc 13:56, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

The INAO website sucks. I think the Appellation is "Vin de Savoie" (for example) and the rest are just variants and shouldnt appear on our list, but still not sure... Justinc 17:58, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

I think I have worked out how to use the INAO site now. If you click through the terrible flash menu system to an individual item, when the actual popup appears it does tell you the real AOC at the bottom. I think all the mousseaux etc ones are bogus, and I think there is only one Savoie, not all the subdivisions, but I think you are allowed to show the more specific ones on the label (hence they have entries on their site). I will try to edit them all out in one edit so it is easy to revert if this isnt correct and label it in the history, once I have finished browsing INAO and my other references (Alsace I am sure about which is why I deleted them before). The Hachette book is missing some Rhone appelations that have been there since 1975 that are on this list which really annoys me, as its not that old and I only bought it (very cheaply) to help fill them in. And I realised that my attempt to de-redlink all the grape varieties in the AOCs I had done before was not complete. Ah well. Justinc 23:47, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] London Underground Trivia

I was looking at the St John's Wood tube station page at read the bit about the trivia. Looking at the history I noticed you had added it in!

Obviously the "mackrel" bit is quite common, but I was fascinated to read about all the others you mentioned - particularly other stations' words...

Long story short - I think that is a great topic area and it'd be great if you could make a page about it - illustrating examples. It'd definitely bring contributions from others, but it'd be a great source of trivial information. Do let me know if you take up the offer! Deano 15:29, 22 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Call for consensus on fan site list on Andy Murray page

Hello Smb1001,

You've probably noticed my (probably foolhardy) attempt to resolve the edit war on the Andy Murray page regarding fansites. The protagonists do not look about to resolve it among themselves, so I'd appreciate it if you and other regular editors could express your views on this part of the page, so that we can stop the war going forward, or at least block a protagonist who persists in it. Please come to the talk page here

The questions I've put are:

Please can I have the opinions of those who regularly edit this site:

1.Should there be a list of fansites?

2.Should it be ordered

a) alphabetically

b) by site's popularity or quality

c) by some other factor

3. If by popularity/quality how to judge this?

Thanks RobbieC 21:11, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Quick clarification on the dates

Howdy, I just ran across your article Notre-Dame de Boulogne in Special:Newpages and wished to nominate it to run on the Main Page as part of the DYK section. I was hoping to use the selling off and demolishing of the old cathedral as the hook, but could use a clarification on the exact date worship there was prohibited, or when the building was sold off, or when it was demolished. Does the literature provide any of these? I ask because the revolutionary governments were kind of short-lived, and it'd be nice to pin one of the events down to either the National Convention, Directory, or Consulate (since the Empire is excluded due to the date.) Any idea on any of the dates? If not, don't worry, I'll find something to use to bring in the punters :) GeeJo ^(t)⁄_(c) • 00:57, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Did you know

On 8 November 2006, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Notre-Dame de Boulogne, which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

--GeeJo ^(t)⁄_(c) • 22:42, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject France

A proposal has been made for the above WikiProject at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Proposals#France. Would you be interested in contributing to it? STTW (talk) 20:41, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] English vs. French spelling

Because of your past work on the Wikiprojects for French "régions", "départements" or "communes", I thought you might be interested in contributing to the current discussion over French vs. English spelling of those very words taking place at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_France#Anglicisation. Cheers. --NYArtsnWords 23:53, 18 January 2007 (UTC)