User talk:Deb

Hello there, welcome to the 'pedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you need any questions answered about the project then check out Wikipedia:Help or drop me a line. BTW, you have been pretty busy with some British history artilces - Good work! Cheers! --maveric149

Hi Deb, just a note to say I'm quite chuffed about how well the Royal naming rules stuff is working. I have come across a few new 'royal' pages and it seems to to be working a dream, with everything fitting it well and names and titles fitting the one clear pattern. The two of us should patt each other on the back for a job well done. (And of course, immediately having written this, I'll find some monstrous problem cropping up! Hopefully not. Slán leat (gaelic for 'goodbye to you' ) JTD 20:29 Feb 11, 2003 (UTC)

Yeah. To think I have not been called a 'phoney', an 'asshole' etc in days. I'm in mourning for DW. (But not too much!) But I still have the delight of having Two16 to hurl insults about and throw tantrums. I think the new royal names consensus will work. So far no-one has rejected the idea, or even had major doubts, just qualifications or 'what ifs?'

I have been going through some articles, adopting them to fit the rules. JTD 22:29 Feb 1, 2003 (UTC)

Diwrnod Da!

Sorry if it seems I have overlooked your helpful comments, I appreciate the feedback from the wikicommunity, and have noted your work on my items in the history logs. I futher note you have a work in print.

I need to be a little more guarded about copyright problems that may arise from my contributions here. I am selectivly editing my items to remove any personalised references, and will have to remove some content. If objections to this process are raised I may object that my own copyright has been infringed, if the good wikifairy can not help.

Please feel free to comment on anything you feel is a must for reworking.

All the best, and diolch. Faedra 10:52, 22 Jun 2004 (UTC)

ideas?

I notice that you reguarly edit articles on opera topics and wondered whether you had any suggestions for: Wikipedia:WikiProject Opera. TIA. -- Viajero 09:53, 21 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Thanks

Deb, I've seen your commentary in several places here and there recently, and I just wanted to thank you for the time you take to make Wikipedia a kinder and more helpful place. I'm sure you don't get enough appreciation for it, and it occurred to me that perhaps a very brief note would be welcome. Thanks again and please do keep up the excellent work, Jwrosenzweig 17:46, 24 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Anne Kirkbride

Thanks for the addition! I didn't know her voice was due to the smoking. It had been like that for as long as I remember. Even on the flashbacks, when she was in love with Mike and Ken found out, her voice was like that, and she couldn't have even been 30 yet. Anyway, thanks again! :D Mike H 18:36, Jun 26, 2004 (UTC)

I completely forgot about that! Okay, added. Mike H 18:47, Jun 26, 2004 (UTC)

Question: Was Jerry Booth one of Deirdre's boyfriends? I know he wanted to date her and that he had bad luck with her and Mavis. Then the actor died. Mike H 21:15, Jun 26, 2004 (UTC)

Deirdre worked for Len after Ray left the country, because Len and Ray were in a business venture at the time, and it put both Deirdre and Len in a weird position to have him skip off to Holland. Mike H 16:25, Jun 27, 2004 (UTC)

Nah, I'm pretty sure she worked there because of Ray. Originally, Deirdre was supposed to marry Billy Walker but the actor left the country (ironic, eh?). They switched all the storylines rather abruptly so she married Ray. Mike H 16:31, Jun 27, 2004 (UTC)

I only started watching in 1995. My grandmother is from Birkenhead, and her friends knew a lot about the show so I got interested. Then, four years ago, CBC went digital and I haven't seen it since. I bought the DVDs and the books (40 Years, the Corrie novels), though. Mike H 16:38, Jun 27, 2004 (UTC)

Gary Pullman

I can usually find books and authors rather easily, using web based catalogs of national libraries such as the Library of Congress, and of course commercial resources such as Amazon (US but also in other countries) in order to add some basic bibliographical info (place of publication, publisher, date of publication, ISBN and sometimes other elements when olde books are involved) to any article about a book. But this time I was stumped by "Gary Pullman". Are you sure it is the correct spelling for his name? AlainV 06:54, 1 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Monica Bellucci

I'm a little confused. You've made an edit to a page, where you changed [[Category:Italian actors and actresses]] to [[Category:Italian actors and actresses|Bellucci]]. Er, why? :o) — OwenBlacker 20:17, Jul 9, 2004 (UTC)

Sorry it's taken me so long to reply to your question on Monica Bellucci - I was away on holiday. I changed it so that she would be listed under "B" instead of "M". Deb 10:07, 18 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Aaaah, now I understand! Thanks for letting me know. Sorry about my delay; I've been avoiding Wikipedia whilst I concentrated on writing a response to the Home Office's ID card propsals for Stand.org.uk, which has taken all my not-work time over the last fortnight. Thanks again for the clarification. — OwenBlacker 21:48, Jul 20, 2004 (UTC)

Hedd Wyn

Do you think it would be better if Hedd Wyn was classified among the Hs in his categories, rather than the Ws? It's not as if "Hedd Wyn" is a forename-surname pair, after all. Marnanel 03:02, 15 Jul 2004 (UTC)

user page unprotected

I have unprotected your user page along with several other user pages that do not have a history of vandalism. Policy (talk) does not permit user pages to be protected unless a history of vandalism justifies protection. UninvitedCompany 20:00, 21 Jul 2004 (UTC)

You're mistaken on both counts. My user page has previously been amended by other users without my consent. And there is no policy which says that user pages cannot be protected; the policy states only that user talk pages should not be protected. Deb 20:06, 21 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Thanks

Hi Deb, Thanks for tweaking the Farey piece. As an editor in my day job I know its a thankless task. Meanwhile I have e-mailed the URL of your book review site to the publisher I am involved with. We have a number of Welsh-interest non-fiction books in the list. Apwoolrich 17:58, 24 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for yours. Its good to know there are others interested in the same things. I have just emailed a contact at the DNB office to ask if the orginal DNB will be put on line in public domain once the Oxford DNB comes out in September. The new work has both the old text and the updated stuff together, so users can compare and contrast. I hope this will not mean they will be able to get another 73 years copyright on the original stuff. The CD of the DNB makes its easy to get a text on a PC, and I would have thought everything pre 1923 is fair game for further use. The new one is available for a fee of course, which is quite steep for the independent scholar.

My local library has a copy of the microfiche British Biographical Index and its easy to get printouts of individual pages, once on paper but now in PDF format.

I am currently rejigging the layout of the Encyclopadias page to make it more logical and be the means for adding stuff about C19 ones I know about. Hopefully others will be able to slot more in. I feel the Dictionary page should be ordered in the same sort of format. The Architecture page is very similar to what I have done. The only problem I am having is that for every new encyclopaedia entry, I generate several pages about personalitis for which there are no articles. And then have to write them!

Thank you for cleaning up Roger Dudley who is a personage of great interest to many, but who is difficult to write about due to the lack of corroborating facts. I have fixed the link to his father Henry Sutton Dudley, and re instated the para:

Yet it was in 1586, four years earlier, that the Reverend Cotton Mather of Boston wrote: "Thomas Dudley's father was Captain Roger Dudley, -- slain in the wars, when -- his son, and one only daughter were very young".

This is important to indicate that some historical inaccuracy seems to exist, and has been repeated on the page Thomas Dudley, a good article by another user. Faedra

Ena

I can't wait until I can get screenshots from my DVDs. I have a shot from when the Corrie cast went to Australia in 1966, and Violet Carson was wearing the most exquisite hairdo. Very pretty and very different from Ena. Thanks for the cleanup on the articles! Mike H 15:10, Jul 29, 2004 (UTC)

That would be nice to see. I'm jealous. And yeah, Ken Barlow would be more boring.

There are nice little snippets of interviews from the Australia trip, and Doris Speed seems to have the same stick up her bum that Annie Walker did. Arthur Leslie seems to be such a nice man. Patricia Phoenix had a nice laugh. But that hairdo on Violet Carson! I don't want to say it was like a '60s beehive, but it was very high, and she was very well made-up. But then they went to shots of the motorcade driving through Adelaide, I think it was, and she was in hairnet and jacket costume. Mike H 16:55, Jul 29, 2004 (UTC)

I started a stub on Margot Bryant but couldn't write much. Do you have anything about Margot the person? I already wrote something on Minnie Caldwell. Mike H 19:17, Jul 29, 2004 (UTC)

Re Swansea article

Hi, is my memory failing me, or have my notes in Talk:Swansea, regarding the inclusion of Swansea Insitute students in the student population, been deleted? I think my name would have been down as either Tom or Pomegranate.

It doesn't seem like there have been any edits to that page since my last one in March 2004 (see history page), so maybe your comment was on the talk page for some other related article. It's not easy to reply to you, because you don't seem to have a user name, so I have to hope you read this. Deb 11:38, 30 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Don't worry, I've been checking back regularly...I figured it out, I was confusing the discussion page with the history page, where I had noted my addition. Time-wasting newbie error, apologies. Pomegranate 17:40, 31 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Hi!!! Nice to received from you message. Honestly it is my username, my real name is Veronika. But I am glad that my user name is the same as your real:-)))

Nice to meet you anyway. --Debora 16:24, 30 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Hello Deborah

Thanks for cleaning up my it on Audrey Munson. My interest is promarily in sculpture [hence all the sculpture modeling for Ms Munson and none of the murals, paintings. photographs etc]. I am wondering how much sculpture there is in your Welsh Artists book? I am always looking for more/new information.

carptrash Carptrash 22:31, 30 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Hello Deborah

Thanks for cleaning up my it on Audrey Munson. My interest is promarily in sculpture [hence all the sculpture modeling for Ms Munson and none of the murals, paintings. photographs etc]. I am wondering how much sculpture there is in your Welsh Artists book? I am always looking for more/new information. I am still new as a poster here and appreciate all the help that you can give.

Carptrash 22:33, 30 Jul 2004 (UTC)

whoooops

Great example of newbie behavoir, no doubt. Carptrash 22:34, 30 Jul 2004 (UTC)

We must share a common interst in the history of the bods Maclellan, Thanks for jumping in at the deep end again! Work is ongoing and I will try to fit the jigsaw together. At least I know its not time waisted, and someone out their is trying to work it out as well! Cheers, Im a bit out of my depth with these lads, so your patience will be appreciated.... do keep watching the Maclellan pages.. All the best Faedra

Transportee(s)

N Transportees; 04:44:59 . . Deb (Talk) (Transportees moved to Transportee)

Thanks. -- orthogonal 10:01, 1 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Nesebâr

No offence taken. However, I began a rewrite of the article on this town at Nesebâr because I believe that is the correct transcription from the Bulgarian Cyrilic alphabet, even if it only gets 1000 Google hits. Nessebur which you give as the most common English spelling only gets 6000 as opposed to Nessebar with 60,000, which is currently a redirect. The Bulgarian 'ъ' is a schwa which corresponds roughly to the 'a' in English 'about' or 'o' in 'harmony', and is usually transcribed as 'â'. Nesebâr isn't the most common spelling encountered in English language tourist literature because the authors of such material are just looking for a simple phonetic representation, which either an 'a' or a 'u', along with a double 's' do well. If we are striving for encyclopedic accuracy though we should have Nesebâr as the main article with common spellings as redirects. This is also the spelling I encountered most on signs and bus timetables in the area itself. — Trilobite 16:58, 3 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Betty Driver

I figured that I wanted to have a bit of information on Betty Turpin in Betty Driver (actress's range), but I wanted to go more in-depth on the character herself in Betty Turpin, with a redirect at Betty Williams as necessary. Can you start Betty Turpin for me? You seem to know more about Corrie than I do. Mike H 01:43, Aug 5, 2004 (UTC)

Music, music, music

Hi Deb

Thanks for your note. You have done great work in standardising the format of the Year in Music pages (among all your other great work).

I would like to hear your thoughts on how various cross-linking pages should work. If we list Music-Lyric-Book credits in the "Musical theater" section of each Year in Music should we repeat them in the List of Musicals page?

My own thoughts are that the List of Musicals might serve as a starting page e.g. The Maid of the Mountains London 1917, Broadway 1918, London revival 1921, London revival 1930, London revival 1942, London revival 1971. The year would link to the Year In Music page where the credits for film or stage productions could be found.

Cheers

John Rogers

I think you are correct. The title of a musical is the best starting point. But many entries would be classified as stubs. Should we forget the list of musicals and years in musicals and create individual pages regardless?

Cheers

John Rogers

Anne Kirkbride

I've added pictures to Anne Kirkbride, among others. Check the other Corrie-related pages to see the screencaps I've finally been allowed to procure, thanks to my new computer! Mike H 16:31, Aug 8, 2004 (UTC)

Well, since they were released in the United States, I am allowed to make fair use screencaptures of the material. I don't think it works the same way in Britain, but the material I have was legitimately released for purchase in America.

I've also added lots of captures from Another World, which were aired on SOAPnet. Mike H 17:39, Aug 8, 2004 (UTC)

How Do You?

Deb,

You had a kind word for my attempt at a disambig page for the two John McLean's--the one who was the Supreme Court justice is from my hometown. How do you put the comments like your "Nice try" that show up on the history page? Ave! PedanticallySpeaking 18:17, 11 Aug 2004 (UTC)

My User Name

Deb,

Thanks for the help. My user name is the name of my award-winning column in my high school newspaper. My fellow students never seemed able to pronounce it, however, adding an extra "n" into it, making it "Pendantically," as if it were a jewelry column.

Ave! PedanticallySpeaking 15:25, 12 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Another Question

I was contemplating what to put up on my profile page. I'm thinking most of it will be listing my interests (U.S. Supreme Court, movies and television, Ohio history, among others). Glad to know someone is interested in me.

Another question for you. Is there an easy way to generate the vertical bar? I've been cutting and pasting it in since the way I remembered from my days using DOS and BASICA of using alternate and typing in the ASCII code number doesn't seem to work anymore.

Ave atque vale! PedanticallySpeaking 13:13, 13 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Vertical Bar

I posted a question on the help section and Meelar replied. It's on the backslash key just above "enter." On mine, that looks like an elongated "colon" but sure enough shift-backslash produces the vertical bar. Thanks for your help. Ave! PedanticallySpeaking 17:30, Aug 13, 2004 (UTC)

Chuvashs

Hi! Chuvashs are the nation, so using Chuvashs for article name is more logical. Why you deleted items about Tatars, Islam and Miggle Ages? --Untifler 12:27, 25 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Wallace Breem

Saw from your edit comment on Eagle in the Snow that you have met Wallace Breem. I wish I had! I am collecting some biographical notes about him at: http://www.cary.demon.co.uk/breem/ (from which I distilled the Wikipedia Wallace Breem entry) – anything you can add/correct/suggest for the notes would be very welcome! mfc 11:58, 29 Aug 2004 (UTC)

OK, thanks anyway :-) (skeleton :-)) mfc

List of architects

Hi Deb. I noticed you removed a number of architectural firms from the List of architects citing "removing refs to computer architecture" [1]. In fact, these are true architectural firms and not related to Computer architecture. If there has been an error, I am going to reverse the modification. --Junesix 04:10, Sep 1, 2004 (UTC)

Hi Deb. Thanks for the comment. Maybe something like a separate List of architecture firms would be appropriate? --Junesix 15:33, Sep 1, 2004 (UTC)

Reverse sexism

Good evening, Deb. I always, always appreciate that I don't know how busy people on Wikipedia may be, but if you have the time, it would be great if you could describe your more specific objections to having an article on the concept "reverse sexism". I mean, I suppose you don't just object to the state of the article when you listed it (and of course not to the absurd stub it has recently become, courtesy of Anthony), but to having an article at all? I'm not sure how I feel about that. I agree that "reverse sexism" is an illogical concept, and frequently an abusive one, but well, then, don't you think there should be an article anlysing/unmasking it? I've voted Neutral about deleting it, and I've undertaken to clean it up some. (And also, having wasted people's time by being drawn into an unprofitable argument with Anthony, I've vowed to shut up.) But I keep feeling that you probably had more reasons than you expressed, and that they might change my mind for me. (Maybe you thought they were obvious. :-)) Anyway, if you do have the time and the inclination, a bit more input from you in the discussion would be very welcome. Best wishes, Bishonen 22:20, 4 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Vand

Vandalism

Someone with IP 213.76.29.20 keeps deleting the Linux and Unix articles. Daviis