User talk:Interesting wiki

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Alfred's Tower[edit]

Thank you for your suggestion regarding King Alfred's Tower. When you feel an article needs improvement, please feel free to make those changes. Wikipedia is a wiki, so anyone can edit almost any article by simply following the edit this page link at the top. The Wikipedia community encourages you to be bold in updating pages. Don't worry too much about making honest mistakes — they're likely to be found and corrected quickly. If you're not sure how editing works, check out how to edit a page, or use the sandbox to try out your editing skills. New contributors are always welcome. You don't even need to log in (although there are many reasons why you might want to). - CobaltBlueTony™ _talk 15:06, 8 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Since the subject of the article appears to be notable it is much preferrable to rewrite the text now, rather than deleting the article. Deletion is only warranted if it qualifies under WP:CSD or WP:AFD. You are invited to take the initiative to rewrite it. Weclome again and happy editing! - CobaltBlueTony™ _talk 15:15, 8 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Deleting the article to erase its history is very diagreeable and contrary to the editing practices here at Wikipedia. The history of the editing of notable subjects is of interest to many more Wikipedians than you may suspect! - CobaltBlueTony™ _talk 15:23, 8 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I went ahead and picked a direction for you. You are welcome to take your time working on the temp page article to make it salvageable. - CobaltBlueTony™ _talk 16:06, 8 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I hate distributed discussion threads! The article has survived over two years with copyvios in place. Read Chris Nelms' message on the alfredstower website and email them at the address at the bottom of the page. I suspect Chris will be perfectly happy for Wikipedia to use the text - indeed, looking at the initial creation of the article, it might well be Chris who posted it anyway!

Conversely if you want to re-write it at Talk:King Alfred's Tower/Temp, feel free but I would say wait to see what Chris Nelms says. -- RHaworth (Talk | contribs) 16:46, 8 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

A few other hints:

Assuming Chris Nelms says OK, you should lodge copies of your e-mails at permissions-en at wikimedia dot org and make a note in Talk:King Alfred's Tower. Someone will come along eventually and add an OTRS number to your note.
I don't know whether User:Interesting wiki/monobook.js works for you but it don't work for anybody because it is personal to you. tag it {{db-author}} if you want it killed.
Re this edit and the same on the other image. Tony's advice above applies here {{sofixit}}! Uploads to the Commons are no more difficult than uploads here.

-- RHaworth (Talk | contribs) 17:41, 8 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I have e-mailed Chris myself. If you enable email here, I will let you have a copy of the e-mail. -- RHaworth (Talk | contribs) 17:36, 11 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]