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Talk:Langton Green

message: The actor David Niven used to live in a still standing house in Holmewood Ridge (not far from the school mentioned in the article) in Langton Green. I know this from information from the current owners, however, I can find no online source to verify/collaborate this. If anyone could find evidence, or believes this is trustworthy enough to add to the article, I'd be appreciative!
Carty239 (talk) 21:58, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  David Niven 
Talk:London Array

message: Per MOS, it's incorrect to say 1,800 million. The correct way is 1.8 billion.
When I edit the page, cannot find where this information is, it's not on the edit page anywhere. If anything has the knowledge to fix this, thank you. Ninjalectual (talk) 10:39, 13 February 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. The figure was brought in from Wikidata, and the conversion automatically applied to Wikidata's 1,800,000,000 is not optimal. --Wire723 (talk) 13:57, 13 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Can someone edit the construction cost? It's formatted wrong I can't figure out how to edit
Talk:East Kent Light Railway

message: This article appears to duplicate East Kent Railways Biscuittin 15:56, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I think I have sorted out the multiple East Kent Railway articles. Biscuittin 20:52, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Duplication 

message: There seems to be some confusion about Elvington. Mitchell & Smith state that Tilmanstone Colliery was renamed to Elvington in 1925, and the 1938 OS map only shows one station between Eythorne and Knowlton. Others suggest that a new station called Elvington Village was built in 1925. Can anyone confirm whether this is a separate station? If so, then I'll create a page for it. Mjroots (talk) 17:13, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Tilmanstone Colliery Halt / Elvington / Elvington Village

message: This IP user has added quite a lot of info to the article, unfortunately most of which seems to be unreferenced. I'm particularly intrigued by the references to Ripple Colliery and Wickhambreaux Colliery as I greatly expanded the Kent coalfield article and found no mention of either proposals when researching online. Mjroots (talk) 22:45, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Recent additions by IP user 92.4.122.157

message: That's me. I based most of the additions on Course's book, which contains the best map of the Kent coalfield and EKLR proposals that I've come across. I also live locally, so can access hard copies of contemporary maps in libraries and visit sites.
The map distinguishes between boreholes and proposed collieries. Unfortunately he doesn't say where he got it from, but his list of proposed railways looks as if it depends on the Light Railway Orders which would be in the Public Records Office.
There was only one station called Elvington.
Basil Watkins 12:15, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Recent additions by IP user 92.4.122.157

message: I've found a source on Richborough Port, and can also (hopefully) access the original LRO's for the proposed lines. So I hope to be adding bits over the following months. Also, I could look at some of the station sites when I'm passing by in the area, to check their current status.
Basil Watkins Basil Watkins (talk) 11:22, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: More material to come
Talk:Midrash Tehillim

message: "Midrash Tehillim" is Midrach Psalms not "Midrash Proverbs", which is Midrash Mishle. MLL
: So where is the error?  —Dfass 12:44, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

message: I think that in this case the traditional ktiv khaser is preferable, therefor תהלים and not תהילים (although both are acceptable in principle). DrorK 14:05, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Hebrew Name
Talk:Vale of Holmesdale

message: Don't you mean Vale of Holmesdale? I've not got a copy of Dudley Stamp, but Trueman (Geology & Scenery in England & Wales, revised 1971 by Whittow & Hardy), the Bartholomew Gazetteer etc call it the Vale of Holmesdale, as do various websites such as this one. Pterre (talk) 21:06, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Holmesdale? 

message: I have put navigation boxes along all villages that have sprung up below the North Downs along much of the route between Winchester, Hampshire and Canterbury, Kent as far as I can, if anyone else would like to add any more then that would be appreciated, especially near Chilham and Lenham and on to Folkestone. Adam37 (talk) 17:32, 5 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Navi/Compass boxes along the route
Talk:Snave

message: It shouldn't be merged, it was a parish in its own right until 1934 and I have expanded the article. Crouch, Swale (talk)  17:44, 15 February 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Closing, given the uncontested objection and no support. Klbrain (talk) 16:54, 6 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge
Talk:Thanington

message: The first sentence of the main article reads:
Thanington Without is a parish of Canterbury—supposedly the only one of its type.
I haven't a clue what this means.   Could the writer (JohnMorr?) please explain what
"type" of parish it is - and preferably provide verification that TW is the "only one".
Eebkent (talk) 10:28, 21 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Description of parish

message: I have removed large quantities of copyrighted material copied and pasted from here http://www.thanington-pc.gov.uk/history/history1.html TeapotgeorgeTalk 13:44, 10 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I have checked and virtually all the material you added was copied and pasted from http://www.thanington-pc.gov.uk/history/history1.html. That is not how Wikipedia works.TeapotgeorgeTalk 13:51, 13 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyrighted material 

message: I don't see the problem Thaningtonclerk is raising when he or she writes, on the Thanington Without (TW) editing notes "We do not want links to our web site on your pages. Please do not replace them again. TW Parish Council is a government site".  I presume "your pages" means "Wikipedia pages", and "our web site" means the "TW Parish Council website".  But the present Wikipedia entry for TW is, not surprisingly, very bare, and it is helpful to readers to give links to relevant websites, especially as (as Teapotgeorge has pointed out) Wikipedia is not able to include other people's copyrighted material.  I simply don't see the relevance of a site being a "government site"; surely, anything of that sort makes it *more* useful as a link.   Thaningtonclerk's view seems to be that the TW Wikipedia page is there as a publicity vehicle for the use of whatever organisation he or she is clerk, rather than a
"neutral" encyclopaedia to which others can contribute; if that's so, I would beg to differ.  Unless a consensus indicates that the external links are inappropriate, I propose to restore them. 
On a closely related matter, the action to remove the external links, with the "external links" header being retained, is clearly wrong.   It was partly this which persuaded me that the links had been accidentally removed. (See my edit of  15:39, 11 November 2010.)    Eebkent (talk) 15:28, 12 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: The external link was added by User:Peter Shearan and is entirely relevant and should not be removed.TeapotgeorgeTalk 10:04, 13 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links 

message: Stuppington is currently a one-sentence stub. Given that it doesn't even get a mention on the OS map and its only feature is a phonebox, it seems sensible to merge it in.Le Deluge (talk) 12:13, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stuppington merger
Talk:Angels Costumes

message: This seems to be a valid article.  BBC News has many pages about the company, and confirms that it has been trading for the last 150 years.  --Tomhannen 10:39, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It's valid, but it's completely unreferenced and reads a hell of a lot like advertising copy. Eesh. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.153.98.48 (talk • contribs) 2008-03-30T19:31:20
I have tried to improve the article by adding inline citations and removing anything which is subjective.If possible I would like the error messages to be removed? If not then please let me know what else I should change and I will try and work on it again. Many thanks.  Please don't delete the page as I think it does contain a lot of interesting and factual information (Ecvv123 (talk) 14:29, 3 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Valid.

message: Which movie?  There are several - see here The_Great_Gatsby#Film.2C_TV_or_theatrical_adaptations  --Tomhannen 10:42, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Great Gatsby 

message: The proper name of the company appears from its website to be Angels The Costumiers - shouldn't the article be moved to that title? – ukexpat (talk) 15:19, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: The company now styles itself Angels Costumes, so I have moved the article again. (The change may have occurred in 2015, as the logo refers to "175 years".) GrindtXX (talk) 23:36, 7 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move/rename 
Talk:Robert Smith (Cabinet member)

message: Apparently Smith opposed it. What on earth is it? --KarlFrei 10:40, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Restrictive system?

message: No mention of slave-owning anywhere in the article. I think this category should be restricted to people whose slave-owning history was notable in itself. Valetude (talk) 11:37, 13 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Category:American slave owners
Talk:Jonathan Edwards (the younger)

message: To Jonathan Edwards, Jr.. It's a redirect to here, and this article's name seems odd; the younger? This is an encyclopedia after all. I'm going to propose a merger, and if there are no objections in a week or so it should be done. RoyalMate1 23:20, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Reply - Perhaps then there should be some sort of mention of that in the article, a simple "best known as Jonathan Edwards the younger" after the indrotuctory sentence? It mentions his father as "the elder", and yet this article is not Jonathan Edwards (the elder), although I don't know or think that that was how we was best known as. The corresponding article on Spanish Wikipedia is titled Jonathan Edwards Jr, with no mention of a "the younger". The article doesn't explain why Edwards is referred to as "the younger", other then what I have mentioned above. If you could add this mentioning to the article with reliable sources then it'll be fine. Thanks. RoyalMate1 01:35, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry, but wp:burden is on you to prove he was referred to as "junior", and then that could be put in as you mentinon. It only takes a simple google search (or, heck, Amazon) to show this *was* the way he was referred to, and is still referred to. Therefore it's how he is disambiguated on Wikipedia. Yes, his father's article doesn't say "the elder" because that's not how he was/is referred to. Best, Markvs88 (talk) 13:03, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Move
Talk:Minster, Swale

message: At the risk of stirring up a can of worms, I must admit I was surprised to find this article under this name. Frankly this is an example of blind adherence to WP:NC:CITY creating a nonsense - WP:COMMONNAME should predominate. Ultimately - WP:IAR. It's interesting that User:Tafkam is from Sussex, whereas the Kent mob are the ones protesting about using Swale. I'd agree, because there are two disambiguations already in common use. Sure, locals may refer to it as simply Minster - but local abbreviations are common. In Warwickshire Stratford-upon-Avon becomes just "Stratford" and in the Potteries Newcastle-under-Lyme is just "Newcastle" - but they're not very helpful for a more global audience, you need some kind of disambiguation that makes sense to outsiders. I can live with Minster-in-Sheppey but am 60:40 in favour of defining the article as being about the civil parish and so it becomes Minster-on-Sea as the unarguable name for that specific definition. Unarguable is always good! Just anything but the current name... Le Deluge (talk) 21:07, 24 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Naming again
Talk:Meeting of the minds

message: Bearian 22:31, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

message: Wikipedia is not a textbook (or a casebook).  This train wreck needs to be rewritten in modern language and quote only sparingly from old cases.  --Coolcaesar (talk) 00:03, 8 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Too many blockquotes in this article 
Talk:Neal Blewett

message: After days of research, I have been unable to find the name of the person who preceded Dr Blewett as Australian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom. I would be very grateful if someone could find out and fill in this detail. --Canley 13:36, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: High Commissioner to the UK
Talk:Leadholder

message: I have recently looked up the word leadholder and thankfuly discovered the entry! 
I think it would be a positive move to combine this entry with Mechanical pencil, as long as there is redirection from "Leadholder" or "lead holder". I feel that any "pencil" (especialy the 'clutch pencil') is naturaly called a lead holder, and thus an entry or redirection for this saying/device should be availible. 0 10:59, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
Talk:PS Kingswear Castle

message: Are we sure that the photo is OK? 86.27.171.145 (talk) 18:00, 29 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Photo copyright
Talk:A127 road

message: As Southend is to the east of London , surely the caption (Looking east with Southend bound traffic closest to camera) is wrong. Either the picture is looking west, with Southend bound traffic going east, or is looking East and the traffic is London bound. Daemonic Kangaroo 11:00, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Good point, should we change it then? FM  Talk to Me Show Contributions 18:55, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Abeit I have done. FM [ talk to me | show contributions ]  18:43, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Caption to picture 

message: The Southend Arterial, like the original East Lancs road, was a post-war highway development consisting almost entirely of new road. (at least from Romford to Rayleigh) That is a rare and wonderful thing and surely deserves a mention?  I remember the opening ceremonies.  Construction was part of the same development wave that included the new towns and 
it was built with a cycle track on the north side, that went all the way.  We used it for charity walks during rag weeks in the 1960s.
I notice that the Fortune of War is mentioned, but not the HalfWay House--Brunnian (talk) 10:50, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Building

message: It isn't - Victoria Avenue between West Street and Fairfax Drive is 4-lane single carriageway. AndyB (talk) 14:13, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Continuous dual carriageway... I think not
Talk:Spa Valley Railway

message: Can anyone verify that this loco is at the Spa Valley?  I cannot find any information to verify it being there, including the Railway's own website.
Slaffter (talk) 10:07, 25 June 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: The first image, is, yes, a locomotive there. It's idle at Eridge. PrcwRail (talk) 17:16, 24 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  TKh 2871
Talk:A Balladeer

message: I believe that the article is suitable enough for staying. I might be the original creator, but don't think I'm ticked off or anything, it's just that I check 'my' articles from time to time. Anyway, the criteria on which the article was deleted don't seem to match up with the article. It is written in a formal encyclopedic style, good for Wikipedia. The fact that a balladeer isn't all that known, doesn't add anything. There are tons of articles not worthy of having, and I believe this is one of worth of keeping. I'm not trying to advertise this band, I just happen to make an article about them. --Soetermans 11:10, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Don't delete the PROD tag yourself, please. Betaeleven 13:54, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

text: Perhaps you're correct.  I've deleted the PROD tag in favor of AFD.  Betaeleven 20:28, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  No reason for deletion
Talk:Red-bearded bee-eater

message: Hello! This is a note to let the editors of this article know that :File:Nyctyornis amictus - Kaeng Krachan.jpg will be appearing as picture of the day on July 13, 2015. You can view and edit the POTD blurb at Template:POTD/2015-07-13. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page. Thanks! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 23:50, 21 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[:File:Nyctyornis amictus - Kaeng Krachan.jpg]] to appear as POTD
Talk:Bruchko

message: Not the original author of this article and have never read the book but agreed the page could do with a rewrite.  Yes it was seriously unencyclopedic, but hopefully the rewrite turns it into a stub.  The book seems to have received a good amount of attention, based on a simple Google search for the title, having been reviewed in a number of sites.  I think it's a borderline keeper. Tt 225 11:14, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
Talk:David Fabricius

message: Citation:
:and was eclipsed (so to speak)
ROTFL!! Humor must be allowed in the text. Said: Rursus (☻) 11:57, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Hehe!

message: Fabricius is said to have been German and Frisian in the text. He cannot have been both.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.194.34.71 (talk) 16:47, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not
Talk:Chiddingstone Castle

message: ==Untitled==
I am a member of staff at Chiddingstone Castle, hoping that I can help to improve this article and resolve the multiple issues that have existed on the page for some time without resolution but also noting Wikipedia's policies regarding conflict of interest. I would suggest that it is difficult to amend the current content as it is such a large body of text interwoven with unverified material and subjective language. I believe that a more positive way forward would be to start again, replacing the entire text with a simplified, but well-referenced, version. I appreciate that this is not a normal Wikipedia practice, but I hope you will share my belief that most editors may be put off of improving the current article and that my proposed changes would provide a strong basis for the Wikipedia community to improve through collaboration. Please see below for my requested edit to replace the current text content of the article and do not hesitate to contact me if you have any queries or suggestions. Gwentio (talk) 12:33, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: The "Collections" section comes off as a bit too detailed and I see a few primary source, but this is definitely a vast improvement and one of the better submissions I've seen. Thank you for taking the time to make a thoughtful, well-researched submission. CorporateM (Talk) 02:04, 3 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Rationale for requested edit

message: I am a member of staff at Chiddingstone Castle, hoping that I can help to improve this article and resolve the multiple issues that have existed on the page for some time without resolution but also noting Wikipedia's policies regarding conflict of interest. I would suggest that it is difficult to amend the current content as it is such a large body of text interwoven with unverified material and subjective language. I believe that a more positive way forward would be to start again, replacing the entire text with a simplified, but well-referenced, version. I appreciate that this is not a normal Wikipedia practice, but I hope you will share my belief that most editors may be put off of improving the current article and that my proposed changes would provide a strong basis for the Wikipedia community to improve through collaboration. Please see below for my requested edit to replace the current text content of the article and do not hesitate to contact me if you have any queries or suggestions. Gwentio (talk) 12:33, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: The "Collections" section comes off as a bit too detailed and I see a few primary source, but this is definitely a vast improvement and one of the better submissions I've seen. Thank you for taking the time to make a thoughtful, well-researched submission. CorporateM (Talk) 02:04, 3 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Chevening

message: One or two bits in this text read slightly awkwardly to this (British) reader:
*"noted 17th-century British architect Inigo Jones" - why on earth does "British" need to be specified there?
*"Lord Stanhope was apparently impressed by the young Charles, Prince of Wales" - "Prince Charles" would read much more smoothly, never mind what his official style might be.
*"Chevening's being placed at the disposal of Britain's Royal Family" - why not simply "the Royal Family", with the appropriate wikilink?
*"Prime Minister Thatcher" - now that really does look American!
*"While Margaret Beckett stayed in her Government flat at Admiralty House." - this is not a proper sentence in either British or American English!
For some reason Wikipedia will let me edit this Talk page but not the main article, or I'd have made a couple of these changes already. 86.136.255.33 02:34, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. Can't believe it took nearly three years, but I don't see a problem in making the change92.236.151.82 (talk) 12:12, 30 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Slight Americanisms? 

message: This reads like some sort of monarchy obsessive wrote it. It's just "Foreign Secretary" in the UK. The phrase "Britannic Majesty" is only used on the first page of our passports. Edited.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.76.8.33 (talk) 02:25, 18 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Her Britannic Majesty etc. etc.
Talk:Oxon Hoath

message: OK, OR time - a relative lived at Oxon Hoath in the 1960s and 1970s, living in the converted stable block. From recollection, at the time the house was owned by a Lady Bayne-Powell. A search on the net bring up an obituary for Robert Bayne-Powell, stated to have died at Borough Green in 1994 (about 3 - 4 miles from Oxon Hoath). Was he the owner? Is there any editor who is able to fill in the history from 1944-99? Mjroots (talk) 14:57, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Recent history

message: Are there any references for including this building is Category:Châteauesque architecture? It looks to me to be straightforward late 18th century/early 19th century English country house, with a couple of tacked on mansard roofs from a later date, which doesn't quite make it chateauesque. Giano   (talk) 20:15, 25 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Chateauesque
Talk:List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Kent

message: thanks for your recent edits. I have reverted showing Aylesford Pit as an LNR. This is an error by Natural England who are wrongly showing all Kent GCR sites as also LNRs. Dudley Miles (talk) 16:57, 2 February 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh alright, good to know Hecseur (talk) 17:05, 2 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recent edits
Talk:Mount Stromlo

message: Does anyone know where the name Stromlo comes from? Splette :) How's my driving? 03:45, 26 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Well as the article says, Mount Strom.  There is also a Mount Strom in British Columbia, perhaps named after Stromboli? Graeme Bartlett (talk) 05:19, 26 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name