User talk:Alan Pascoe

DYK!

On 30 August, 2006, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Underwater explosion, 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.

Congratulations on behalf of User:Blnguyen --Bravada, talk - 03:28, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Category:Articles with invalid ISBNs

You mentioned Category:Articles with invalid ISBNs in VP. I just wanted to point out an unrelated oddity: The category text has some Template:tl usage which is not being transcluded. I don't know if it is supposed to behave that way, thus don't know the desired types of fixes, so I'm just pointing it out to you as someone who is active with the category. (SEWilco 06:40, 30 August 2006 (UTC))

Cristina Odone

Dear Alan Pascoe

This is Edward Lucas, Cristina's husband. I am trying to clear up the problem with her place of birth. I have written to Wikipedia and received the following answer

Dear Edward Lucas,

Thank you for your mail.

The essential problem is that Alan Pascoe cannot know whether you are really the person who you pretend to be, or some prankster. That is, he prefers a statement in a magazine to some messages left by people he has no means to identify.

Perhaps you should try having an email exchange with Mr Pascoe using Mrs Odone's official email address in her newspaper. This would settle it.

Sorry for the inconvenience, but we receive claims by pranksters fairly often, and we have guidelines on biographies of living people not to include information without credible sources.

Yours sincerely, David Monniaux

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Cristina, as a freelance doesn't have a work e-mail. However, I do and I am on the site as Cristina's husband. Could you e-mail me at edwardlucas@economist.com? I can send you a faxed copy of her passport

Regards Edward LucasEdwardlucas 10:53, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

Penwith stuff

Hi -I've noticed your edits recently across some of the Penwith geography pages, and hope you're having fun editing. A lot of these pages need quite a bit of work and I recently set up a wikiproject to deal with it. Just wondered if you would consider joining us and pooling efforts? take care Mammal4 08:18, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

I would also like to welcome you to the Penwith Project, and to comment that I used to belong to the same athletic club as your namesake (although we never met). LessHeard vanU 21:18, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

Infoboxes

Hi Alan, thanks for all the detail regarding Gwithian - much appreciated. I would recommend however that the info box be changed to be more in line with other Cornish info boxes ie Newlyn as the display of flags will lead to another inevitable edit war. take care 195.92.67.75 10:38, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

It is good that you want to avoid an edit war, however I notice from User Contributions that you are likely to be the person who removed the infobox from the Gwithian article yesterday, with the edit summary "rv England infobox not required on Cornish articles". So, if you want to avoid an edit war, don't remove justifiable content. Newlyn does not have an infobox, just a map. The infobox in Gwithian has been arrived at by the consensus of many editors. There are variants for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Cornwall is a county in one of these, England. You may wish that were not so, and you have the right to hold that view. You also have the right to promote that view, but not on Wikipedia. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a soapbox. Alan Pascoe 11:40, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

Please desist from adding new info boxes to every Cornish town and village before a general agreement has been reached! There is a discussion on Talk:Cornwall#New Cornish Town/Village info boxes concerning implementing the established UK infobox pattern - please discuss before any more amendments - thank you. 217.134.71.58 17:58, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

I think an approach that was more civil than a 'demand to desist' wouldn't have gone amiss. However, I will delay adding further infoboxes while the issue is being discussed. Alan Pascoe 20:23, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

Reading

Hello. I see you made an article Reading (district). It says "it is named after its main town, Reading". can you tell us what other towns area in the district?

actually, that's a rhetorical question: the answer is, there are no other towns in the district. this makes that sentence nonsensical. the borders of Reading have remained identical since Caversham and other bits were added in 1911, as far as i can tell, so we are presented with somewhat of a problem here. With cases such as Wokingham (district), obviously this latter article only covers the 1974-present district : however, what exactly is the scope of Reading (district)? is it covering the post-1974 district of Reading, which had exactly the same borders as the county borough of Reading from 1911 to 1974? is it covering the Reading county borough after 1911 until 1974? what about the county borough of reading between 1889 and 1911, what article is about this? Morwen - Talk 22:46, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

Further to this, I have posted a question at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_UK_subdivisions about this issue and invite comments. Morwen - Talk 23:01, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

Also, could you please explain edits like this, which in this case makes an anachronistic link to the post-1974 non-metropolitan district of Wokingham from a list of boroughs in the 19th century. Morwen - Talk 09:26, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Paul Staines

Hi there, sorry for the slow reply, I've been away for a few days. I take your point; we do have no proof that it actually is Paul/Guido posting as himself. However, if it were a hoax, it'd be a pretty dull and pointless one; as such, I'm inclined to make the assumption that User:Paul.staines is actually him. I agree that Guido has in the past been dismissive of attempts to unmask him, but it could be simply a matter of curiosity or blasé arrogance that led him to post under his own name. DWaterson 21:29, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

Guardian article

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,1939895,00.html

Zanimum 21:52, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

James Underwood

Thanks for formatting the images. part 18:57, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

Peter Stanford

I have added my response to the AfD discussion with my vote being Keep. However, this Peter Stanford is in fact a different person to whom I wanted an article created for. The other Peter Stanford was a reverend and the first black Minister for Birmingham [1]. Otherwise, I support the article you have significantly expanded. - Erebus555 16:45, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

Your Vote

Hi! I read your vote in the Arbitration Committee election and appreciate your feedback. Are there any questions that I might answer that will help you trust me for a position on the Committee? If so, I will be glad to answer them here or you can place them on my Election Question page. [2] Take care, FloNight 21:45, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

Hello and thank you for answering my query. I appreciate you taking the time to explain your vote. First off I want to assure you that I am very serious about my bid for a seat on the Arbitration Committee. I decided to make my Candidate Statement concise because by the time I threw my hat it ring (about 11 days into the nomination process) there was already a large number of questions and a growing concern about the volume of information that the voter needed to read. I felt that my statement covered all of the basics and that my user page and question page would provide details. But different people have different preferences and I can see your perspective also. I do hope you will reconsider because I think I have the qualities that you are looking for in a candidate.

In addition to clerking (which has given me a good nuts and bolts understanding of Request for arbitration) I also have both on wiki and off wiki experience that should give me the skills to be a good arbitrator. I have made comments on the workshop pages of arbitration cases and proposed principles, findings of fact, and remedies. I have helped with mediation in cases that were brought to RFAr and rejected. (will provide some details by email if you so desire), served as a juror in 3 real life trials, and have training and experience dealing with difficult people in difficult situations through my occupation. I have honed my research and assessment skills which I plan to use to help write decisions.

As I noted in more detail in question # 4 here [3], I feel that transparency is important, and in question # 1 here [4] that policy is best made by the community not through arbitration.

Again thank you for your reply and I hope my follow up will give you confidence in my ability to fill this trusted role. Take care, FloNight 18:32, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

deregistering as participant of Geography of Penwith wikiproject

I have made some comments on the talk page regarding why I think the project is not made redundant by the Cornwall wikiproject, and mentioned you as the catalyst. As such, you may wish to read (and comment if necessary) on what I said. In any event, thanks for the work you have done for the Penwith project. LessHeard vanU 00:15, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

Survey Invitation

Hi there, I am a research student from the National University of Singapore and I wish to invite you to do an online survey about Wikipedia. To compensate you for your time, I am offering a reward of USD$10, either to you or as a donation to the Wikimedia Foundation. For more information, please go to the research home page. Thank you. --WikiInquirer 13:02, 9 March 2007 (UTC)^{talk to me}

How to Know

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Penwith Wikiproject & Cornwall Wikiproject

Hi, I see you are a member of the Cornwall Wikiproject. A proposal has been made to merge the Penwith Wikiproject into it. You can join in the debate here. Best wishes, DuncanHill (talk) 12:27, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Joanne Lees

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"Guido Fawkes (blogger)" listed at Redirects for discussion

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