User:Grunners/archive

Anything up until June 2010:

Europe

Hi, welcome to Wikipedia. I redirected Nations of Europe to Europe because everything that you wrote was already there. RickK 00:36, 17 May 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply. RickK 03:24, 17 May 2004 (UTC)

Canals

Nice to know someone else is interested. Have fun on Wikipedia.Geni 13:53, 23 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Reply

Not sure really, It's probably OK as it is. But do whatever you think is best G-Man 23:34, 3 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Your image

Thanks for uploading

)[[]] 01:55, Oct 5, 2004 (UTC)

Football (soccer) stubs

I created a new stub footy-stub for association football (soccer) related stubs, I figure there are a lot of fans out there who might be interested in working on football related articles but don't have the time or patience to wade through the list of regular stub or bio-stub article titles. I hope you will help me populate this new stub category when you find suitable articles. Bob Palin 02:04, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Bias

I'd like your opinion at

. Thanks. Chameleon 12:10, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Economy of Europe

Sorry, but I can't support this for Collaboration of the Week right now. Part of the reason is that I'm less involved with CotW recently in general, working on other things. But the larger reason in this case, is that preparatory work backfires with CotW. The stated purpose of the project is to improve stubs or make articles on topics that don't have articles.

You might want to try one of the following: a Wikiproject, a CotW or Regional Notice Board for Europe, Requests for Expansion, or the new Forum for Encyclopedic Standards. Maurreen 01:17, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Immigration to the United Kingdom

You voted for

19:05, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Collaboration of the Week

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Article Licensing

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COTW

Congratulations, First Indochina War has been voted this week's Wikipedia:Collaboration of the week. Please edit it to help raise it to featured article status.

West End Theatre

You voted for

23:25, 19 Dec 2004 (UTC)

People Call Kingsmeadow Kingsmeadow!!

If you've observed their chat boards as closely as I have,you should know that

22:08, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Saw your reply at my talk page.Most important perhaps is that "The Fans' Stadium",full-stop,is not and never has been the formal name of the ground.I thought the hyphen was official but the person who moved the article to

The Fans' Stadium, Kingsmeadow says it's a comma.As for Valley Parade,I would oppose moving its article to the Bradford & Bingley naming rights name for the same reason the Isthmian League,Southern Football League,Northern Premier League,and other such English football entities are covered in Wikipedia by their underlying names by which their entire histories can be covered...they do not become brand-new entities when they sign up a new sponsor.To treat "sponsored names" with undue respect is in effect to give the sponsors free advertising in Wikipedia.--Louis E./[email protected]/12.144.5.2

04:20, 23 Dec 2004 (UTC)

New reply noted.I never follow Wikipedia policies I regard as bad,and one doesn't change such policies by working in accordance with them,only by agitating against them (in whatever talk channels) or by making them unworkable.I can name at least one stadium article that doesn't follow this policy and which you are apparently unaware of,but I'm not going to identify it to any apologist for the policy.--Louis E./[email protected]/12.144.5.2 18:10, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Sasso and stuff

Good job on the expansion. I sometimes wonder why people write these single sentence "articles". But good save. Anyway, if I came across two of your articles in a 30+ article random search then either you've written a hell of a lot or it was quite a coincidence. I guess since they were both football articles it was at least something of a coincidence. I've only come across one of my articles in a random search ever. And out of nearly half a million I thought that was unlikely too. Anyway, yeah, leaving a stub tag on after an article has undergone slow expansion isn't what annoys me. It's more people who can't tell the difference, or, worse, people who label every short article they see with a stub tag. -R. fiend 19:36, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Collaboration of the Week

League of Nations is the new Collaboration of the Week. Please join in helping make it a feature article.

Collective security and NPOV

I've added a comment to Talk:Collective security. AndyL 00:05, 2 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Unverified image

Thanks for uploading the image

• Image:Old College.gif

I notice it currently doesn't have an

. Could you add one to let us know its copyright status? (You can use {{gfdl}} if you release it under the , or {{fairuse}} if you claim , etc.) If you don't know what any of this means, just let me know where you got the image and I'll tag it for you. Thanks, Kbh3rd 02:42, 13 Jan 2005 (UTC)

re: redirect

No worries. When doing tedious stuff, stuff sometimes slips through the cracks. Thanks! Inter 11:35, 20 Jan 2005 (UTC)

In the news

When you edited the in the news template, it got very screwed up. I'm not quite sure what's wrong, so you may want to take a look at it again. Cheers. CryptoDerk 01:10, Jan 23, 2005 (UTC)

I don't have any problem with it being listed there, it's just that it screwed up the box. The Belize image is on top of some text and the text for the Belize part is written straight down in a line. I've confirmed that other people are seeing this as well. I am going to try to fix it, but you may want to give it a go as well. CryptoDerk 01:15, Jan 23, 2005 (UTC)

OK, whew, figured it out I believe. The div stuff was opened/closed at the wrong places, and the image wasn't right aligned. Should look OK now! Thanks for the addition, too. CryptoDerk 01:22, Jan 23, 2005 (UTC)

Although I fixed the box so that it looks right, I just noticed that someone removed the link because the description of it wasn't formatted properly. Amongst other things it wasn't bolded. There are additional criteria here

Template_talk:In_the_news. CryptoDerk

02:26, Jan 23, 2005 (UTC)

St. George's Day

You voted for

[[]] 19:11, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Edit summary

That was a major slip-up on my part - Sorry about that. It should have said "move meta tag to talk page ; it has no meaning on third party mirrors and is meta info ; that is what talk pages are for; replaced with HTML comment". --

mav

03:11, 12 Feb 2005 (UTC)

You've put up a copyright image

I notice your image of the New Forest is actually from BBC Online. Best to delete it I'd suggest, unless you really do have their permission. There is already a graphic which is essentially identical on the New Forest page, so it won't really compromise the article. Nice graphic, though! Naturenet 19:14, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Gentlemen's Clubs

Hi: I am not sure why you moved Gentlemen's club to Gentlemans' club so I thought that I should explain why I chose that title for the article. The London clubs to which I have belonged have all called their former incarnations "Gentlemen's clubs". Similarly, the equivalent private clubs for women called themselves "Ladies' clubs" (cf the New Cavendish Club]. A quick check of the various forms on Google shows a fairly even spread between the two phrases but I have not analysed the associations of this name: for example, I know that various strip joints call themselves "Gentleman's clubs". Anthony Lejeune, who wrote a definitive book on the subject, called them gentlemen's clubs.

Either way, "Gentlemans' club" is grammatically incorrect. Please may I revert to the "Gentlemen's clubs" title and restore the various links to that name?

What is your interest in the subject? I am planning to contribute articles in this area so we may be able to collaborate.--Theo (Talk) 19:39, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your message. I spent the entire afternoon fixing those links so I now feel a warm glow of achievement. Just two more names for WCOTW! --Theo (Talk) 18:43, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)

List of places in Cambridgeshire

did you add

to the list of places? thats not a real place is it? i cant find any record of it.

rehash of UK CotW

Hiya, I've made a few modifications to the UK Wikipedians' Collaboration of the Week, and I thought you'd be interested in the new page and helping out again with it, as you have contributed in the past! :) Talrias | talk 21:09, Mar 14, 2005 (UTC)

UK geography

Hi, thanks for the input. I've created a new WikiProject for it at Wikipedia:WikiProject UK geography. Joe D (t) 11:19, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

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Images on PUI

Please don't remove images from PUI until such time as they can be checked as good by someone else. You can remove the tags from the image itself, just not from the page. This allows those who move and check the images to make certain that everything is good.

The reason I say this, is that your tagging of Image:E8 route map.png and Image:E2 route map.png is incomplete and inaccurate. To tag them as CopyrightedFreeUse-User, add {{CopyrightedFreeUse-User|Grunners}}. Thanks Burgundavia (✈ take a flight?) 10:03, May 31, 2005 (UTC)

Image copyright

The following images uploaded by you do not have tags or sources. Could you please remedy that? Cheers. Burgundavia (✈ take a flight?) 10:09, May 31, 2005 (UTC)

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my 'vandalism'

hey mate! I meant no vandalism or something. just misunderstanding... I think just googled the mate.. yeah he is at Boro now.. my fault there is an error in the text then. look closely

cockney 14:12, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC) ps don't throw away words like "vandalism" everytime you like

Category:UK Wikipedians

Hi, just to let you know that the list of UK participants at the

30 June 2005 19:33 (UTC)

UK geography COTM

Hi all, July's collaboration of the month is

30 June 2005 22:59 (UTC)

Hi, the new COTM is Norfolk! Joe D (t) 23:09, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

The

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contact

Hi, Grunners

I've just found the article on Halaib Triangle, to which you contributed. I was in Shelatin last December as a traveller. Can I talk to you somehow? My address is titus_atomicus at spymac.com. I use ichat/AIM/ICQ/Skype, too.

Regards

TA

Portsmouth FC

I have in turn responded to both of your comments on Portsmouth FC's talk page. Aecis 18:15, 11 July 2005 (UTC)

Panathinaikos

At present, the article is a bit of a mess, because it's formatted in a strange way. I'm going to work on it as soon as the mood takes me there, but I think we need separate boxes for each of the clubs. That's what I'm going to work towards, anyway. Bobo192|Edits

Economy of India

Hi, you have done some great work on creating articles related to national economies . We have been working on the Economy of India and it would be great if you help us in making it a featured article. It is currently on Peer review, so probably you can comment on it there. BTW, I have based the article's structure mainly on the Economy of the United States & Economy of Africa articles. pamri 09:23, August 9, 2005 (UTC)

Flag of Norway

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Hello again! Thanks for your note; no problem at all! I've been 'accused' of worse, and I've also been known to dot my Ts and cross my eyes now and then. ;) Take care! E Pluribus Anthony 17:16, 16 September 2005 (UTC)

User Categorisation -- in case you're interested

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Guantanamo Bay detainees

Are you still interested in the nationalities of the Guantanamo Bay detainees. I started an article List of Guantanamo Bay detainees 16 days ago.

A malicious vandal put it into the copyright violation queue. Grrr. But the claim is so bogus I trust the administrators will dismiss it.

The article still points to my sources. And you can use the history mechanism to see our wikipedia version. There are approximately 60 detainees or former detainees who have articles devoted to them. -- Geo Swan 21:03, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

Family Tree Drawing Programmes

I have one too, I just don't know how to use it. I tried for example to re-draw the family tree that can be found on

00:31, 25 November 2005 (UTC)

Beech

Hi Grunners - hope you won't mind I removed the 'beechnut' redlink you'd added - I think they're better dealt with as a paragraph on the Beech page, rather than a page of their own (the Beech page isn't overly long, and compared to e.g. acorns, beech nuts don't have very much importance (or a real name of their own!). But please do add any more info about the nuts that you have! - MPF 14:48, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

Thanks! - excellent idea on the redirect, should've thought of that myself! - MPF 21:37, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

Sources for Barry Geraghty

Hello, good work on

22:55, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

UK geography COTM

OK, so I finally found time for some Wikipeding (after about five months of Northumberland!) and have picked Nottinghamshire for the next COTM. I've added a to do list to the talk page and have already started work adding some of the basic data. Joe D (t) 04:30, 11 December 2005 (UTC) P.S. To stop receiving updates, unsubscribe at

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Hi, this month's COTM is

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Freddy Adu

Thanks. That section doesn't belong, and I was worried I was going to go past 3 reverts before I convinced the guy to stop. --AW 19:46, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

central bank

Hi,

I realize you have made changes to "see also" to all the central banks in Europe. I found that you added links to currencies, but with the unit capitalized. Currency units should be lower case because they are not proper name, just like you don't capitzalize "meter". Also, you added euro to some of the central banks in the eurozone, eurozone to some, and none to the others. Please make changes that are consistent. --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 00:29, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

Eagley F.C.

Thanks for your comments on my West Lancs League club articles. Actually there is a method in my madness. This season I have set myself a target to watch a home league game at each of the 16 Premier Division clubs. So far I've been to 10, and subsequently I have written up an article for each club. Hopefully I will get to Eagley fairly soon, and when I do I'll expand your article. Thanks also for the information about the List of Football Clubs in England - I just wonder if West Lancs League clubs are too minor to be included. Higherwiki (talk) 21:40, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Marshall Milton Keynes AC

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13:10, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

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James Milner Career section

Not really asking for full feedback on this article (although I wouldn’t mind it). I’d just like to know what you feel the best way the divide up the Career section is, by Club, by season, not at all or some other way. Please leave your reply under the section in my talk page named “Milner Career section”.

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16:41, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

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Jonathan Yeo

FYI. See also

Dorftrottel 02:01, January 14

, 2008

Question

I'm sorry but are you going to write an article about Russians in Georgia? Alæxis_¿question? 07:51, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

Oh, ok. It'll be great if you write such an article. I was just somewhat surprised after you had inserted red links to a couple of articles in my watchlist. Alæxis_¿question? 17:32, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

Hi! You know, I don't find this topic sufficiently interesting (for me, that is). However, if you are still interested I could write you an outline of this article and find some sources. Alæxis_¿question? 08:03, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Extramural

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Coasham railway station

Finally! I have been trawling through the history trying to find the person who requested this and you did over 2½ years ago. I just thought it was a typo of Cosham and a quick search seems to confirm that. Therefore i am going redirect this to Cosham railway station. I just thought that you should know. Simply south (talk) 19:27, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

It seems to be a common typo actually so it makes sense to leave it as a redirect anyway. For creating the railway stations, i think all you need to do in the least is include something about the location, what serves it and possibly the layout. You can watch some grow after a while, as long a the links from the other relevant pages are in place and that. Simply south (talk) 22:09, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

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Russians in Georgia

First, here's some statistics (all the Soviet censuses) for Georgia proper, South Ossetia and Abkhazia. It's in Russian but you shouldn't have any difficulties with these tables (Russians are "русские" in Russian, just find appropriate columns).

Georgia

Ethnic Russians appeared in Georgia in significant numbers after Georgia became part of the Russian Empire in 1803 (

Dukhobors

have to be mentioned as well.

As you can see from the census data the Russian population had risen from 83 to the maximum of 319 thousand between 1926 and 1959 and then began to decline slowly to 266 thousand in 1989. Migration and lower birth rates were the main reasons of this decline.

Obviously, many Russians left Georgia during the 1990s due to economic hardships (mainly, imho) and other reasons.

Abkhazia

A great part of its indigenous population emigrated to Turkey after (see

Muhajir (Caucasus)) so a lot of people of many ethnicities were settled there. Russians were among them(source - ТРАПШ Н.А. РУССКАЯ ОБЩИНА АБХАЗИИ: ИСТОРИЯ И СОВРЕМЕННОСТЬ. СОБРАНИЕ ТРУДОВ "ЮЖНОРОССИЙСКОЕ ОБОЗРЕНИЕ", # 10, 2002) and made up 2% of the 100,000 population of Abkhazia by 1897. Here Russian population also rose between 1926 and 1970 and declined thereafter. Post-independence decline was particularly steep due to the War in Abkhazia

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Speedy deletion of Alex Cisak

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Hammersmith tube stations

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Boat club article

Hello Grunners, I don't think we've met before, but given your edits I wondered whether you might be interested in casting your critical eye over

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Thanks for the look; I'll see what's mentioned in my last few college mags, and add a few lines about how it's all gone to the dogs since my day recent news... Cheers,

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Barnstars 'R' U

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		I award you one for finding Trekphiler's page for people who always think that "new message" bar is real. Aren't you glad you checked your mail? TREKphiler hit me ♠ 21:06, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

Yo,

So what parts are you editing, we seem to be over-lapping on stuff. Govvy (talk) 23:18, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

k, I might goto bed in a min anyway, hopefully the articles wont get vandalized so much now. Govvy (talk) 23:23, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

btw, it's now wiki policy to not link to dates in the context of articles. Govvy (talk) 23:27, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

Well dam, the minority is rash! I would like Harry as manager know, :) Sounds like a good choice. Govvy (talk) 23:38, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

Taskforce on Association Football Variants

Grunners, we would like you to become a member of the WikiProject Football .

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In the News!

On In the news candidates page .

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Association Football Variants News Sources

Do you know any news sources for beach soccer, indoor soccer etc? -

DeMoN2008

14:42, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

Oh well. Just thought I'd ask. There really is low coverage of some sports!

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Football Variants

Hi. I'm

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New Hampshire stubs

Hi Grunners - good to see a couple of new stubs appearing for Hampshire villages. A suggestion though - you could save a little work by using {{Hampshire-geo-stub}} rather than just {{geo-stub}} - all English counties now have their own geography stub templates. Thanks - and keep up the good work! Grutness...wha? 23:11, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Marc Burrows

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AfD nomination of Marc Burrows

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WP hants userbox

I've just created a new one: {{

WikiProject Hampshire.

Enjoy! waggers (talk