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Just thought you might like to know that the new ITV article is looking great so far. Well done! BillyH 22:55, 10 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Your edit to the regional variations section of the BBC article is most definitely an improvement. Thanks. --rbrwr
Here's a link to your talk page at Simple in case you didn't spot that I had created it: User talk:Marknew. Angela 13:33, Oct 19, 2003 (UTC)
Re BBC: "how can the changing of a news set be as significant as the launch of a new channel" Perhaps this does not justify such a position in the article but what I was getting at was the first major (and radical) change to network news in six years and the RELAUNCH of News 24. Seeing where its been moved to shows that I put it in the wrong place - just giving you my thoughts. Regards Mark 11:42, 1 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Article Licensing
Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:
- Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
- Multi-Licensing Guide
- Free the Rambot Articles Project
To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:
- Option 1
- I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:
- {{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}
OR
- Option 2
- I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:
- {{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}
Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (| talk)
Anti-BBC blog
Hi Mark. I've made a couple of edits to the BBC page recently. I rewrote the criticism section. Just spotted your reorganisation of the links, which is definitely a good idea. I hadn't spotted the link to the "Biased BBC" blog in there until now. I've removed links in the text to this blog a couple of times. Have you looked at it? I'm not at all sure links to blogs should appear in most Wikipedia articles. But in this case I think there are extra reasons it should be removed. They print or quote comments such as "The British people are being forced to pay money to a corporation which suppresses free speech - publicising views they don't necessarily agree with.", and their comments sections seem to be filled with racists, and people who call organisations that monitor prison conditions "pro-criminal", and arguing they should be made illegal. Sorry to fill your talk page with such a big blob of text! -- Robertbyrne 22:18, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
Glad you agree with me about the blog. It seems to be hard to find reasonable anti-BBC commentary, but maybe there's a reason for that :) -- Robertbyrne 15:01, 4 August 2005 (UTC).
Infobox Radio Station
Hi. Some anonymous contributor put "class" back into the Radio station infobox. It messed-up every article that referenced the infobox, including ones I am working on. I reverted to your version with class commented out, for now. Cf. Template:Infobox_Radio_station -- (Bob) Wikiklrsc 20:56, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
I have to persist with this one: She was born on Channel Islands, but she has lived in England since she was a little girl, according to biographies I have read. This makes her English, does it not? RadioKirk talk to me 14:26, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
- Ok - if you want to change the Karen Dotrice article to say that she is English, I won't revert it. :-) --Marknew 15:31, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
- Well, apologies, that's not really the point; I want to be correct. I believe I am but, if I'm wrong, I'd like to know. :) RadioKirk talk to me 15:44, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
UWS
Hello Mark,
Unfortunately, the Waterfront site appears to be broken at the moment, but it has carried many articles on the issue of Williamson and his suspension. If I can get at those articles I will post them as sources.
As far as the student panel is concerned, I admit that I'm not able to provide a written source regarding its disparagment. I'm a student at Swansea and I posted the dissatisfaction with the survey because I have heard it.
Yes, that's not a verifiable source. However, it is a fact that the sample is self-selected and I feel this should be pointed out in the article. Should I change it to "the survey may not be scientific as it is self-selected"? Or what?
from the panel's website: The Student Panel now numbers over 20,000 members. Our core aims are to keep our panellists motivated and ensure they represent the UK student body. We verify all members’ academic email addresses (issued by universities and ending ‘ac.uk’.) This helps exclude 'web trawlers' and ‘professional’ on-line respondents. Panellists are recruited solely to take part in our service so have no worries about marketing scams or spam. We use the latest panel-management systems to ensure the seamless integration of survey data with sample selection to make participation easy, secure and non repetitive...
The only criterion that the Panel uses is that you have a British uni email address. Students are given amazon vouchers in exchange for participating. This is self selection.
May I ask whether you're also a student at Swansea? Thanks a lot. BillMasen 17:57, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
I think you were being little humourless when you removed the reference to "competitive marmalade-making" as a contemporary issue on the Archers page.
Hi, The correct, legal, historical name for the railway was spelt with an ampersand, rather than the word 'and', which is why I had used that in the displayed link. There is a redirect from & to and, for the L&B article, but I have been removing links to that, replacing them with the correct displayed name, but the longer Wiki page name, so I'd like to change this back, if that is okay? Lynbarn 14:07, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
We need some wikitongues in wikicheeks and I thought that particular reference showed remarkable endurance to last as long as it did. I don't know who inserted it, but any chance you might opt to revert it? - Stevecov 12:18, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for your recognition as a good article, and I look forward to my first featured article soon! RadioKirk talk to me 15:16, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
- Thanks for catching a bad edit. On the talk page, meantime, the Good Article tag is appropriately gone; should the {{peerreview}} tag remain? RadioKirk talk to me 13:59, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
- It appears that many also feature in , which indicates that most people haven't removed the archived peer review template from the article's talk page even after it had achieved Featured Article status. However, I can't really comment as to whether the box should be removed; I'd suggest posting a message on either the peer review talk page or at the village pump if you want opinions from more experienced editors than myself! :-D --Marknew 16:05, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
- Thanks! RadioKirk talk to me 16:15, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
- It appears that many also feature in , which indicates that most people haven't removed the archived peer review template from the article's talk page even after it had achieved Featured Article status. However, I can't really comment as to whether the box should be removed; I'd suggest posting a message on either the peer review talk page or at the village pump if you want opinions from more experienced editors than myself! :-D --Marknew 16:05, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
Radio Stations in Scotland
Mark
Apologies, but I think I may have screwed up your stub-template in a failed attempt to add a new entry for Two Lochs Radio to the radio stations in Scotland stub. I obviously didn;t understad the instructions for how to add a new entry.
If you care to create a new entry, I'd be happy to edit in the nfo.
Alex
Bideford
What the hell do you think you're doing, you total fucking prick! i spend time doing these articles you twat. Who the hell do you think you are? Maybe you should take a look in the mirror once in a while, before belittling my research. Have you ever seen Fawlty Towers? How would you feel if I deleted you? You are a moron! (Paul Fountain 01:35, 30 January 2006 (UTC))
The Cure
What the hell do you know about the Cure you penis factory? My edits to that where perfectly valid! Get a life! If you're going to delete some of what i've worked on why don't you delete it all! You could at least have the courage of your convictions!