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I can't see anywhere in Wikipedias guidelines, a guideline saying not to use .doc references. Even if there is how is one from an official local government website worse than one from a book, which most people can't access? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sheliaval (talk • contribs) 11:47, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
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Ha ha! No problem at all!.... don't tell anybody, but I stole mine in two halves from two other editors, so it's not really mine to own anyway! I say go for it!... I hope all's well with you? I must thank you for your continued watching of Shaw and Crompton! I don't know what I'd do without another editor there!... I've really got into things at the moment, and still can't believe I got Oldham to FA! Might do Middleton next, or Rochdale. -- Jza84 · (talk) 23:08, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi there,
Thanks so much for your sandbox table, that's exactly what i had in mind. I don't know about you, but i think that would look so much better. I'll add it to my sandbox version and see whether anyone else likes it. Then I'll spend another week trying to get my head around the code! Ged UK (talk) 20:31, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
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Thanks for the nudge! I hadn't noticed! I've since tackled the issues raised. I'm actually very well at the moment, which makes a change for me (thanks for asking!). I have noted your comment at Talk:Shaw and Crompton and haven't forgotten to make the changes that were proposed... infact, I may do it this afternoon! --Jza84 | Talk 14:36, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
I agree the article definitely needs a lot more real world context, as with the excellent article on Pauline Fowler, but I don't necessarily think the tense of the storyline summary will need to change as it does. I think the Pauline article does a good job of differentiating between tenses for out of universe and in-universe information, while still being very much readable. For instance, looking at the Max article as it currently stands, were the information in the Reception section to be integrated alongside the plot summary, it would still be correct for it to read:
- ...Tanya decides to kill him. She prepares a meal for Max, spiking his wine with crushed pills. When he collapses, she and Sean Slater take him in a van to some deserted woodland, where Sean has dug a hole and placed a coffin. They put Max in the coffin, and leave him to die. [...] This storyline prompted 167 viewer complaints, citing the inappropriate nature of the scenes, which aired prior to the 9.00 pm watershed. The BBC responded with the statement: "Whilst we appreciate that these episodes were dramatic..."[1]
I don't think it would be necessary to revert the plot summary to past tense for this to make sense - as I said, the Pauline article is structured similarly, by way of random example:
- Christine makes greater demands on Arthur, threatening to tell Pauline about their affair unless he does so himself. In September 1993, the situation finally reaches a climax on-screen.[2] The scriptwriters had many conferences about ways in which Pauline would find out about the affair; "should she work it out herself or should some third party tell her the truth?"[2]
Basically, it just seems to be a matter of past tense for real world perspective, and present for in-universe information. Alas, I seem to have been reverted again whilst writing this out, so it looks as though I might have to raise the issue on the EastEnders project page. Frickative (talk) 21:26, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
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Thanx for cleaning up the information on five life changing to Fiver :-)
I only changed the 9am to 10am slot. Do you know why Neighbours is on at 7.30pm on Monday on Fiver? I find it weird to show two new episodes of Home and Away at 6.30pm. Onshore —Preceding comment was added at 14:55, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
- No problem, glad I helped! The 7.30pm thing is weird I agree. It's even weirder that at the end of the 7pm showing on Five Life the announcer actually said that Neighbours would be back at the same time on Monday on Fiver, yet the schedule on both Radiotimes and Sky's EPG still say it'll be on at 7.30pm. I'm half expecting it to turn out to be a glitch which will suddenly disappear once the channel relaunches with no explanation. We'll see. ~~ Peteb16 (talk) 18:39, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
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Hello there Peteb16! I hope all is well with you; our paths haven't crossed for some time now! Just thought I'd give you a nudge that I've been doing a complete rewrite of the Royton article, and I'm hoping to expand this upto GA standard over the next few weeks. It would be great to have you on board to catch anything I might have missed. It's still work-in-progress, but I'm sure you'll agree that it's looking much better! Hope you're ok, --Jza84 | Talk 00:35, 26 July 2008 (UTC)
- Hi Jza84! Sorry it took me so long to respond. Not really done much here recently as I've been busy with other things. Congratulations on actually achieving GA standard for the Royton article, I definately think it's starting to resemble the standard of the Shaw and Crompton article. If I get some time I will of course contribute anything I can to get it to FA standard. Best wishes, hope you're well. ~~ Peteb16 (talk) 09:16, 2 August 2008 (UTC)
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Are you the Dungeon Keeper of Scala Inc.?? Mediatemple (talk) 15:01, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
- I have my reasons for wanting to keep the article which are mostly centered around protecting Wikipedia from bad faith editing, which is what I believe is really happening here. Since you've just described Scala Inc as a 'dungeon', I now know for sure that you have personal reasons for wanting the article deleted and they have nothing to do with contributing to the improvement of Wikipedia. ~~ Peteb16 (talk) 15:11, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
- What are your reasons to keep the article? I've called you Dugeon Keeper not because I have personal Interests in Scala. Inc. but you have deleted 2 independ AfD's. That's what I call Bad Faith!. I will inform some Admins about your strange behaviour, so that the proposal for deletion cannot deleted anymore. The article itself is only advertising, the company is not notable according to the Wikipedia Company guidelines. CU Mediatemple (talk) 15:46, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
- I've given my reasons for keeping the article on the Afd page for the article. I deleted the first template because this discussion did not exist and I disagreed, the conditions of the template allow any user to do this if they oppose deletion. The second template I deleted was an MFD template. MFDs are for 'problematic pages in the namespaces outside of the main article namespace', as this article is inside the main article namespace, the template was not valid here. According to conditions of notability this company has to have many secondary sources in order to be notable. A quick google for the company name suggests that there are many of these, they just haven't been applied to the article yet. I will personally try and find time to do this and urge you to do the same rather than simply condeming the article. ~~ Peteb16 (talk) 17:34, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
- What are your reasons to keep the article? I've called you Dugeon Keeper not because I have personal Interests in Scala. Inc. but you have deleted 2 independ AfD's. That's what I call Bad Faith!. I will inform some Admins about your strange behaviour, so that the proposal for deletion cannot deleted anymore. The article itself is only advertising, the company is not notable according to the Wikipedia Company guidelines. CU Mediatemple (talk) 15:46, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
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You up for it again this year? Do you know if there's there any way we can mark the page so others know we're on it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pedgeth (talk • contribs) 21:55, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
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Hi, Pete; could I ask that you take care not to mark edits such as this and this as minor? There's a handy list of when not to mark edits minor here. Thanks, ╟─TreasuryTag►Africa, Asia and the UN─╢ 17:54, 27 April 2011 (UTC)
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I nominate friends as a featured article.Beacause you are one of the most contributors of the article, please help me in the nomination procedure.--nijil (talk) 18:05, 5 November 2011 (UTC)
It's normal practice not to provide citations in the lead for uncontentious facts that are referenced in the main article - WP:LEADCITE. Ghmyrtle (talk) 12:15, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks, but my citation request was specific to the end part which I would describe as contentious. As it says in WP:LEADCITE, "Some material, including direct quotations and contentious material about living persons must be provided with an inline citation every time it is mentioned, regardless of the level of generality or the location of the statement." I know Savile is dead but his accusers aren't. ~~ Peteb16 (talk) 12:31, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
- You tagged the statement: "In October 2012, the Metropolitan Police began an assessment of the allegations." What's contentious about that? Ghmyrtle (talk) 12:39, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
- I was tagging the whole paragraph, but you're right the end bit isn't contentious. I should've specifically tagged "After his death, allegations were made that Savile had raped and sexually abused girls at the height of his fame in the 1960s and 1970s". ~~ Peteb16 (talk) 12:48, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
- OK, but it's surely not contentious that those allegations have been made - again, fully referenced in the article. Ghmyrtle (talk) 12:50, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
- We're saying that there are allegations made that a man who was regarded as a hero for 40 odd years and made millions of pounds for charity was actually a child sex offender all along. Somehow the whole article seem very contentious all of a sudden. But I do believe that having a citation next to that particular part is a requirement of WP:LEADCITE, which also states "Complex, current, or controversial subjects may require many citations". ~~ Peteb16 (talk) 13:14, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
- I don't get it. We are saying that allegations have been made. That is true and not in dispute. We are not saying, anywhere, that they are either true or false. They are allegations - no more, at present. We are certainly not saying or suggesting that he "was actually a child sex offender all along." He may have been, but we don't know that with a sufficient degree of certainty to say so. Ghmyrtle (talk) 13:21, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
- Okay, I went a bit too far with my analogy, I realise we're not literally saying that I was using how we've gone from good guy to bad guy in one sentence to illustrate how contentious a subject this is. You keep saying that the fact allegations have been made aren't contentious, controversial or disputed, but the allegations themselves are contentious, controversial and under dispute, so the fact that they have been made no matter how indisputable still needs to be cited in the lead section as per WP:LEADCITE. ~~ Peteb16 (talk) 13:56, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
- I don't get it. We are saying that allegations have been made. That is true and not in dispute. We are not saying, anywhere, that they are either true or false. They are allegations - no more, at present. We are certainly not saying or suggesting that he "was actually a child sex offender all along." He may have been, but we don't know that with a sufficient degree of certainty to say so. Ghmyrtle (talk) 13:21, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
- We're saying that there are allegations made that a man who was regarded as a hero for 40 odd years and made millions of pounds for charity was actually a child sex offender all along. Somehow the whole article seem very contentious all of a sudden. But I do believe that having a citation next to that particular part is a requirement of WP:LEADCITE, which also states "Complex, current, or controversial subjects may require many citations". ~~ Peteb16 (talk) 13:14, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
- OK, but it's surely not contentious that those allegations have been made - again, fully referenced in the article. Ghmyrtle (talk) 12:50, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
- I was tagging the whole paragraph, but you're right the end bit isn't contentious. I should've specifically tagged "After his death, allegations were made that Savile had raped and sexually abused girls at the height of his fame in the 1960s and 1970s". ~~ Peteb16 (talk) 12:48, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
- You tagged the statement: "In October 2012, the Metropolitan Police began an assessment of the allegations." What's contentious about that? Ghmyrtle (talk) 12:39, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
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Hi Pete!
I have replied to you here Cheers! -- Gareth Griffith-Jones/The Welsh Buzzard 12:55, 23 November 2012 (UTC)
- Well done for finding and editing the template. -- Gareth Griffith-Jones/The Welsh Buzzard 19:40, 23 November 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks! I stumbled across it looking for relevant categories to add the article to, but then realised it was on the James Herbert article all along. Not sure why I missed it now. lol. ~~ Peteb16 (talk) 19:49, 23 November 2012 (UTC)
- Replied by e-mail. -- Gareth Griffith-Jones/The Welsh Buzzard 20:03, 25 November 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks! I stumbled across it looking for relevant categories to add the article to, but then realised it was on the James Herbert article all along. Not sure why I missed it now. lol. ~~ Peteb16 (talk) 19:49, 23 November 2012 (UTC)
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