Talk:Balham/Archive 1

message: I like the way the main article is written by someone who obviously has moved there and is trying to bigup the area - 20 years ago the place was a bit of a nogo area, but like Tooting really.
Yeah - talk of period Victorian housing, Waitrose and gentrification defintely gives that impression. Was this page edited by an estate agent?
--81.19.57.130 13:07, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, but the sad fact is that the article is correct - Balham is going that way.  No point trying to hide the truth. --Richardrj talk email 09:25, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

text: There's a plaque in Balham tube station commemorating the 64 people who died in the tube station bombing on Oct 14th 1940. This is mentioned in Balham tube station. I think that Atonement talks about a water pipe being hit, not a water works. That sounds far more likely. Davorg 21:46, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  10 Years ago 

message: :Image:Peter Sellers - Balham - Gateway To The South excerpt.ogg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.
Please go to the image description page and edit it to include a fair use rationale. Using one of the templates at Wikipedia:Fair use rationale guideline is an easy way to insure that your image is in compliance with Wikipedia policy, but remember that you must complete the template. Do not simply insert a blank template on an image page.
If there is  other fair use media, consider checking that you have specified the fair use rationale on the other images used on this page.  Note that any fair use images lacking such an explanation can be deleted one week after being tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you.
BetacommandBot (talk) 07:20, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Peter Sellers - Balham - Gateway To The South excerpt.ogg

message: Sorry to be pedantic, but as someone else suggested, the following sentence sounds like it was written by an estate agent: 
 Balham is an inner London suburb containing many Victorian terraced houses now highly prized as family homes.
It's not even correct: 
* much (most?) of Balham is Edwardian or later: the Hyde Farm estate, central streets like Oakmead Road and Ravenstone Street, DuCane Court, Ravenstone School (I think), and so on
* much of Balham is not 'family homes'
* I don't like the word 'containing' :-).
I say get rid of it! Any objections? 
Sam Dutton (talk) 10:40, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  'Victorian terraced houses now highly prized as family homes' 

message: :Image:Peter Sellers - Balham - Gateway To The South excerpt.ogg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.
Please go to the image description page and edit it to include a fair use rationale. Using one of the templates at Wikipedia:Fair use rationale guideline is an easy way to ensure that your image is in compliance with Wikipedia policy, but remember that you must complete the template. Do not simply insert a blank template on an image page.
If there is  other fair use media, consider checking that you have specified the fair use rationale on the other images used on this page.  Note that any fair use images lacking such an explanation can be deleted one week after being tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you.
BetacommandBot (talk) 14:16, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Peter Sellers - Balham - Gateway To The South excerpt.ogg

message: According to an interview in the Times on June 15th 2008: "They moved from Balham to a big house in Hampshire two months ago." So I've removed them from the list of notable people. Davorg (talk) 08:45, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Rupert Penry-Jones and Dervla Kirwan