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== England during 1650 == |
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Salutations, |
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I am writing a book that is set in Europe during the year 1650, and I would like to discover more about the Third English Civil War and how it affected the modern day region of North East England. |
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Any information about daily life there during this time would also be greatly appreciated! |
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Many thanks for your help! |
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House of Tudor
Could you please update and remove your request for references for each person on the family trees. They all have links to Wikipedia articles covering the personages, where the references are. I'm not sure what would be served by repeating them here. You would then need to put the same edit on every family tree listed in List of Family Trees. JMvanDijk (talk)
A bastion is not the same as a bulwark, except in metaphor.
Both , like dozens, perhaps hundreds of other words, can be used figuratively for protection, but their core meanings are quite different. Anmccaff (talk) 22:22, 14 March 2017 (UTC)
Your Teahouse response
I am not aware of anyone spelling "occasionally" as "occasionly" unless the second one is British English and you got them backwards.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 15:46, 18 March 2017 (UTC)
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This AWB edit by User:PBS-AWB introduced a cite error.
This, this, this, and this (and many more) modified citation styles, which should not be done according to WP:CITEVAR. I'm fairly certain AWB should not be used to modify articles according to your personal preferences. Also, changing "Bibliography" sections to "Further reading" or "External links" can be confusing.
I would kindly ask you to review your changes before saving them, and, if possible, fix the things you've messed up. ~barakokula31 (talk) 18:40, 7 April 2017 (UTC)
Greetings and...
Greetings PBS, and thanks for the ping re. the Guerrilla warfare... article I created. I reckon it's better to reply here, but just want to point out that while I have absolutely no objection whatsoever to your proposal regarding the convenience of WP:ENGVAR / MOS:TIES being applied, am slightly dismayed that you should consider that "this article uses American spelling" as that was certainly not my intention. The only instance I have found after a cursory review of the article is that doggone "center" in the first citation which I left in there intentionally 'cos of the source —a US literary review—. If you reckon it's better to modify it, notwithstanding its source, that's fine by me. Regards, --Technopat (talk) 18:06, 18 April 2017 (UTC)
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Mzilikazi1939 Talk
I'm afraid something has gone wrong with the change you made to my talk page. Archiving has not been automatic and items have been doubled, making the page unusable. I'd be grateful if you could sort it out for me. Mzilikazi1939 (talk) 06:32, 21 April 2017 (UTC)
Thx for sorting that out. Mzilikazi1939 (talk) 06:48, 21 April 2017 (UTC)
Checking a page
Hello User:PBS, I recently made an edit to the Maiorana article and hope you can have a look at it and make changes if needed, not sure if links are need in "surname" and "Norman French" for example, but if you can correct any mistake I made, please follow example of good surname pages please like: Evans (surname) • Howard (surname), etc. Hope you can help, appreciate it--Theo Mandela (talk) 01:59, 23 April 2017 (UTC)
Appolgy
Hello. I feel I must apologize again. You posted my last reply on a public page rather than on my own page: of course, this make me uncomfortable, because I speak of my health in that message. By this, it is easy to image that you attempt to make me feel uncomfortable. And so it did, because of my anxiety problems. If you can, I ask you to remove the message from me you pasted there. The formatting of references must never be more important than to treat people of respect, which I am sure you can agree. Please consider, that people on the internet is also people, like in real life; we do not get payed for the work we do here, we simply do what we can to our own ability, and we have no obligation to do more. Please understand, that I am fragile because of my anxiety problems, but I deserve to be treated with respect all the same. If you do not have the same conviction, then I would appreciate that you do not contact me again: this behavior has added to my anxiety problems. Thank you. --Aciram (talk) 11:38, 29 April 2017 (UTC)
- The reason as to why I am "not helpful" is because I suffer from anxiety, and your lack of respect for that has given me a panic attack. You give the impression of being completely cold, disrespectful and full of contempt for that, if I read you correctly? Your contempt for people with anxiety problems are truly frightening. You truly give the impression to expect people to act like machines and your attitude are extremely cold and inconsiderate. You have given me a panic attack. I would appreciate an apology, but considering the attitude you give the impression to have against people with anxiety diagnoses, I could hardly expect one. I am deeply grateful If you leave me alone now, and advice you to consider your attitude toward people with psychiatric diagnosis.--Aciram (talk) 12:03, 29 April 2017 (UTC)
Wavell
Where you have edited the Gazette with supp=y, it has generated Harv warning: There is no link pointing to this citation. The anchor is named CITEREFGazette37609. Perhaps something else needs doing? Regards Keith-264 (talk) 13:45, 2 May 2017 (UTC)
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Misleading edit summary
I've seen a few of these recently: [1] --Dweller (talk) Become old fashioned! 10:59, 4 May 2017 (UTC)
Incorrect edit summary using AWB
I noticed this on my watchlist, yet the edit appears not to have made any change to the categories. DuncanHill (talk) 10:59, 5 May 2017 (UTC)
German Summer Time 1945
Hi, You asked here, if Germany was on Central European Summer Time 1945? Not exactly, but it used its own German Summer Time, in German: Deutsche Sommerzeit.
In the arcticle Bedingungslose Kapitulation der Wehrmacht: Die bedingungslose Kapitulation [concerning the (preliminary) surrender in Reims] trat für alle Fronten am 8. Mai um 23:01 Uhr mitteleuropäischer Zeit in Kraft → Da im Deutschen Reich die Sommerzeit galt, war der Waffenstillstand tatsächlich am 9. Mai ab 0:01 Uhr.
So, the German Summer Time was the +2 as Greenwich Mean Time(=UTC±00:00), +1 as the Central European Time, same as the British Double Summer Time and the Eastern European Time (there were not any Eastern European Summer Time yet in 1945) and -1 as the Moscow Time.
--2001:999:22:A253:4142:4499:5BE9:DBED (talk) 22:22, 8 May 2017 (UTC)
London Gazette AWB and ref
this edit added a space in a "ref name" which broke the reference. Can you please add an exception for AWB "minor tweaks" so that it avoids ref names please? Cheers, Woody (talk) 19:11, 9 May 2017 (UTC)
I don't suppose you know why the article has Pages containing London Gazette template with deprecated parameters do you? I followed the link but all it has is something about postscript. Keith-264 (talk) 17:58, 15 May 2017 (UTC)
StringFunc
Thanks for pointing out the problem. I had created the module for sandbox testing of a template I was messing with, but apparently it has gotten picked up; (which I didn't check before making edits to it). I did fix the problem that you were seeing, and added some test cases on Module_talk:StringFunc; I am uncertain as to what the desired behavior should be on some of the test cases. Falconjh (talk) 04:22, 16 May 2017 (UTC)
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Notice of Edit warring noticeboard discussion
Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion involving you at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring regarding a possible violation of Wikipedia's policy on edit warring. Thank you. Display name 99 (talk) 01:21, 20 June 2017 (UTC)
- see Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/3RRArchive344#User:PBS reported by User:Display name 99 (Result: No violation) -- PBS (talk) 06:21, 27 June 2017 (UTC)
Battles of Zürich
Hi. I noticed that you reverted two sets of changes I made to two articles on the First Battle of Zurich and Second Battle of Zurich. In those changes I both renamed the articles, to First Battle of Zürich and Second Battle of Zürich, and also corrected the spelling of all the references to the city of Zürich within the article. As the correct spelling for the city of Zürich as far as WP:EN was concerned was established in a series of RMs (and with much fire & noise) back in 2013 (see Talk:Zürich), I rather thought that this was, by now, an uncontroversial move. However, as it obviously isn't, I have now raised RMs for both articles. I have left the spelling of Zürich as Zurich in references to the names of the battles, but have rereverted the spelling where it is the city that is being talked about, as that is well established and (in the absense of yet another RM) there should be no doubt on this. -- chris_j_wood (talk) 16:02, 28 June 2017 (UTC)
wstitle parameter ordering
I noticed that earlier in the year you had made some (much needed) edits: [2], [3], that give some EB1911 wstitle parameters in "first middle last" order, instead of "last, first middle" as in the actual EB1911 title. The links work because Llewelynll had previously established redirects. Still, it doesn't look right to me; shouldn't the text of the link be the same as the article name? I fixed the Angerstein one before I realized it was you.
The EB9 links are a whole other matter; the Wikisource name is "F M L" although the article itself is "L, F M". David Brooks (talk) 14:14, 2 July 2017 (UTC)
- Got it (I think). I can fairly easily write code that will identify articles that you changed in that date range, have one of the 1911 templates, and have a wstitle without commas that indicates a WS redlink or redirect (phew). As to the ref/harvid things - that's lower on the priority list (it's not actually wrong, just silly) so we'll probably get to it some time in the 24th century. By the way, I prefer kudos. Kudzu doesn't grow here in the northeast anyway :-) David Brooks (talk) 22:32, 2 July 2017 (UTC)
- Cheers! How did you know it's my birthday? :-) David Brooks (talk) 12:41, 3 July 2017 (UTC)
- Anyway... I found 53 candidate articles from that date range (excluding the 3 I already fixed). Most of them are due to links to wikisource EB1911 redirects, but there are a few true redlinks. I can fix them some time (probably not this week), or leave them to you. Of course, the redirects are pretty low priority because they at least do the right thing. See my sandbox. David Brooks (talk) 20:41, 4 July 2017 (UTC)
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Template:Rayment etc
Hi PBS
I have just been looking again at Template:Rayment, and its associates {Rayment-bd}}, {{Rayment-bt}}, {{Rayment-hc}}, {{Rayment-hc-ie}}, {{Rayment-pc}}.
I see that it was you who tagged them in 2012 as self-published etc, e.g.[4].
I strongly disagree with that assessment. This isn't the place for the substantive discussion, but I was wondering if there was any discussion anywhere before you deprecated the templates? If so, please can you give me a link to it?
Thanks. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 13:30, 7 July 2017 (UTC)
- Sorry, I just found it myself. Notification at WP:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive_116#Leigh_Rayment.27s_Peerage_Pages of substantive discussion at WT:WikiProject Peerage and Baronetage/Archive_10#Leigh_Rayment.27s_Peerage_Pages, as well as a parallel discussion at Template talk:Rayment#Reliability.
- I see no way that there was a consensus there to treat Rayment as unreliable. Imperfect, yes; unreliable, no.
- I note too that neither discussion was formally closed.
- Unless there is evidence of a consensus, I propose to remove the self-published and better source tags. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 13:46, 7 July 2017 (UTC)
copied from a message posted to mytalk[5]:
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There is a discussion at Template talk:Rayment#Reliability which includes a link which I have updated to the archive: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Peerage and Baronetage/Archive 10#Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages that took place in 2012, and to which you contributed. That archived section includes a collapsed list of links to 16 previous discussions. As the talk page of the template is fairly low volume, I would suggest that if you want to discuss it further that you start a new section at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Peerage and Baronetage. If you do please put a see also at the top and link to the old archived discussion and please inform me about it. You have just beaten me to it. But I will leave this here. -- PBS (talk) 14:00, 7 July 2017 (UTC)
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PBS, you have just pissed me off replying on my talk when my editnotice specifically asks you not to do that, and a furthe little red box at the bottom of the page repeats the message ... and then by keeping on editing my talk, generating edit conflicts as I tried to close the discussion here. Per WP:MULTI, please keep discussions in one place ... and on my talk, pls respect my editnotice. </well-fed-up> --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 14:18, 7 July 2017 (UTC)
PBS, the issue here is that the 2012 discussions reveal no consensus for the changes you made. If you want the templates to be tagged in that way, feel free to open a discussion in seek a consensus ... and this time, let someone uninvolved close it, rather than just acting unilaterally. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 14:21, 7 July 2017 (UTC)
Your unwanted conversion of an RfC to an RM
There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Batternut (talk) 08:45, 19 July 2017 (UTC)
- Now archived at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive959#Unwelcome conversion of RfC to RM -- PBS (talk) 09:57, 26 July 2017 (UTC)
- The discussion at WP:ANI#Unwelcome conversion of RfC to RM among
neutral adminsneutrals is leaning decidedly against you. More contributions may of course be made, or you may decide to appeal at arbcom or somewhere, but perhaps for now you might consider reverting your RfC->RM conversion edits. Batternut (talk) 23:56, 19 July 2017 (UTC)- Nee inexperienced users don't talk about Arbcom appeals. Batternut is no rookie and knows exactly how he is trying to shoehorn a major change against all consensus via a two step process. Legacypac (talk) 14:55, 20 July 2017 (UTC)
- I am doubly flattered! First by PBS's "Machiavellian" suggestion, and now with LP's "no rookie"! My edit count is now 5,061, which seems like a ton to me, though nothing to PBS's, and probably your too LP. Listen people, I know you both have put in shed-loads of work on this ISIL article. I just think that, though PBS has done loads of good for the article, this move was wrong. Anyway, if I do ever kick off an RM which looks likely to succeed it will get a heap of good scrutiny as well as the noise - so it might as well be a sensible RM with sensible debate. Then if/when shot down, it can be followed with another moratorium. Anyway, what prompted me to write - everyone knows about arbcom because every election triggers a huge banner about it at the top of every article; there's no escaping it! Batternut (talk) 22:52, 20 July 2017 (UTC)
- PBS is uninvolved in the ISIL topic. I'm still a major contributor to the topic and have a high degree of understanding of the issues. The editors that really understand the topic from working on it generally insist on keeping the existing name. Uninvolved editors see something in the news and jump to the idea we need a name change. Precedent shows your name change has been rejected many times. Given nothing has changed since the last round of failed renames, your latest efforts are disruptive and pointless. You also may not realize that this is really a proposal to rename several dozen pages and would involve thousands of edite to effect, if we are to remain internally consistent. Legacypac (talk) 00:21, 21 July 2017 (UTC)
- I am doubly flattered! First by PBS's "Machiavellian" suggestion, and now with LP's "no rookie"! My edit count is now 5,061, which seems like a ton to me, though nothing to PBS's, and probably your too LP. Listen people, I know you both have put in shed-loads of work on this ISIL article. I just think that, though PBS has done loads of good for the article, this move was wrong. Anyway, if I do ever kick off an RM which looks likely to succeed it will get a heap of good scrutiny as well as the noise - so it might as well be a sensible RM with sensible debate. Then if/when shot down, it can be followed with another moratorium. Anyway, what prompted me to write - everyone knows about arbcom because every election triggers a huge banner about it at the top of every article; there's no escaping it! Batternut (talk) 22:52, 20 July 2017 (UTC)
- Nee inexperienced users don't talk about Arbcom appeals. Batternut is no rookie and knows exactly how he is trying to shoehorn a major change against all consensus via a two step process. Legacypac (talk) 14:55, 20 July 2017 (UTC)
Domino effect
Hey PBS, I saw your edit this morning in my watchlist and it jarred my memory and allowed me to make a connection leading to the filing of this SPI case. Bet you a beer that's him. ;)
— Berean Hunter (talk) 16:32, 21 July 2017 (UTC)
- Okay, it's a really hot day so I've poured you a tall one.
— Berean Hunter (talk) 19:00, 21 July 2017 (UTC)
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User Name
How do you have that user name? It is misleading that you might be editing on behalf of Public Broadcasting Service. Spshu (talk) 12:38, 8 August 2017 (UTC)
Citation styles
Your advice would be good if it was an option in the Cite drop-down list which offers web, news, book and journal. There is no cite web, which you wish me to use. So how do I follow your example? Shipsview (talk) 18:31, 21 August 2017 (UTC)
August 2017
Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "PBS", may not meet Wikipedia's username policy because PBS is a well known non profit, so using it as a username implies shared use. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. As an alternative, you may ask for a change of username by completing this form, or you may simply create a new account for editing. Thank you. Tornado chaser (talk) 02:27, 23 August 2017 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) Tornado chaser, check the history on this user's user page. You'll see where the three letters come from. – Jonesey95 (talk) 04:38, 23 August 2017 (UTC)
- PBS has explained that these letters are their initials, so I don't think there is a problem with the username. Tornado chaser (talk) 13:23, 23 August 2017 (UTC)
House of
Hi PBS,
the term "House of" in English as a general rule only applies to ruling and sovereign dynasties, not some noble family. Otherwise any family could call themselves "House of" and where would we end with that? Thank you for your understanding. Gryffindor (talk) 14:26, 24 August 2017 (UTC)
- I respectfully disagree, see WP:BOLD. Within the Holy Roman Empire by law no one was sovereign except the emperor himself. The same applies to Kings of England, France, etc. and their dynasties. Therefore we have House of Windsor, or do you want to propose we rename Category:Wellesley family to "House of Wellesley"? Giving everyone (including their dog as you said) a "House of" format is out of bounds and needs to be corrected. Gryffindor (talk) 14:40, 24 August 2017 (UTC)
- Can we please keep the conversation on your talk page, Gryffindor? thank you--Carolus (talk) 14:57, 24 August 2017 (UTC)
- Again, if these are families that were not ruling, hereditary dynasties of a sovereign and independent country, they are not a "House of", as opposed to the Windsors, Romanovs, Medici, Bourbons, etc. I already gave the example with the Wellesley family. On what basis are you arguing in favour of using it? Gryffindor (talk) 15:03, 24 August 2017 (UTC)
- I would agree with Gryffindor on this point. In the discussion about moving the pages this Library of Congress heading manual tends to back up his point of view. [6]. Common name may be important but so is consistency. There are enough sources to point towards the fact that House of is a usage reserved for royal families and not for any noble family. In French Maison de is only used for ruling dynasties [7]. Domdeparis (talk) 17:01, 24 August 2017 (UTC)
- Again, if these are families that were not ruling, hereditary dynasties of a sovereign and independent country, they are not a "House of", as opposed to the Windsors, Romanovs, Medici, Bourbons, etc. I already gave the example with the Wellesley family. On what basis are you arguing in favour of using it? Gryffindor (talk) 15:03, 24 August 2017 (UTC)
- Can we please keep the conversation on your talk page, Gryffindor? thank you--Carolus (talk) 14:57, 24 August 2017 (UTC)
Move the conversation to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Royalty and Nobility#House of -- PBS (talk) 18:33, 24 August 2017 (UTC)
Not hyphenating the compound modifier "light[-]rail" (something), just because "we don't do that"?
Will you please see my proposal at talk:light rail?
Thanks if so, 97.117.19.208 (talk) 19:24, 25 August 2017 (UTC) for now.
Category:Pages containing London Gazette template with parameter supp set to y has been nominated for discussion
Category:Pages containing London Gazette template with parameter supp set to y, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to see if it abides with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. —МандичкаYO 😜 06:33, 26 August 2017 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – September 2017
News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2017).
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- ACTRIAL, a research experiment that restricts article creation to autoconfirmed users, will begin on September 7. It will run for six months. You can learn more about the research specifics at meta:Research:Autoconfirmed article creation trial, while Wikipedia talk:Autoconfirmed article creation trial is probably the best venue for general discussion.
- Following an RfC, WP:G13 speedy deletion criterion now applies to any page in the draftspace that has not been edited in six months. There is a bot-generated report, updated daily, to help identify potentially qualifying drafts that have not been submitted through articles for creation.
- You will now get a notification when someone tries to log in to your account and fails. If they try from a device that has logged into your account before, you will be notified after five failed attempts. You can also set in your preferences to get an email when someone logs in to your account from a new device or IP address, which may be encouraged for admins and accounts with sensitive permissions.
- Syntax highlighting is now available as a beta feature (more info). This may assist administrators and template editors when dealing with intricate syntax of high-risk templates and system messages.
- In your notification preferences, you can now block specific users from pinging you. This functionality will soon be available for Special:EmailUser as well.
- Applications for CheckUser and Oversight are being accepted by the Arbitration Committee until September 12. Community discussion of the candidates will begin on September 18.
Template:Infobox noble house
Thank you for all of your very thoughtful edits on various articles, and I would like to get your opinion about a matter. An editor is proposing to merge Template:Infobox noble house into Template:Infobox family. After looking at those two templates, I noticed that Template:Infobox noble house has many fields (parameters) that do not appear in Template:Infobox family, and vice versa. Some examples are: Parent house, Titles, Styles, Founded, Founder, Current head, Motto, Dissolution, and Cadet branches. Most of those fields can be very important for articles about noble families, but they are usually not applicable at all to non-noble families. If the two templates were fully merged, I feel that some editors could get confused when confronted with a large number of fields to choose from. As a result, a future editor of the template might well decide to delete those "noble" fields from Template:Infobox family at some point, because those fields don't generally apply to non-noble families. Because of these concerns, my feeling is that it would be better to keep Template:Infobox noble house and Template:Infobox family as separate templates, one for use with noble families and the other for non-noble families. That way, each template can serve its specific purpose with the fields that are the most appropriate ones. You have in-depth knowledge about all things noble and royal, and I have great respect for your opinion, so I would be grateful if you could please let me know your very brief thoughts on this issue. Many thanks for your kind help! -- Blairall (talk) 04:38, 6 September 2017 (UTC)
Speedy deletion nomination of Wikipedai:edited mercilessly
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England during 1650
Salutations,
I am writing a book that is set in Europe during the year 1650, and I would like to discover more about the Third English Civil War and how it affected the modern day region of North East England. Any information about daily life there during this time would also be greatly appreciated!
Many thanks for your help!
~ Occurrence of Magic Occurrence of Magic (talk) 04:38, 11 September 2017 (UTC)