User talk:Rbrwr

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Messages about Joseph Chamberlain, a couple of welcome messages, Stereolab, the FA Cup, Pantomime, New Imperialism, the Today Programme, Football and Football (soccer), Allan Dwan (a rant by Ron Davis), front derailleur, the never-built Bull and Bush tube station, House of Commons being moved to British House of Commons, Clifton Suspension Bridge pictures and other related issues including image resizing, Postmaster General, roundabout intersection, Statutory Instrument, the Severn Bridge and its counties and the WikiProject Peerage discussion can be found in the history of this page prior to 26 May 2004.

Messages about the London meetup in June 2004, my adminship nomination, The definite article in the titles of articles about British political parties, Jo Moore, a user's technical problems, Topbanana's reports, Resonance FM, Images of Clifton Cathedral, A Bristol-related collaboration, various copyvio issues, The Internationale (album), A levels, Cornell Chimes, cc-by-sa licensing, more copyvios, Tristar and Red Sector Inc. (demogroup), a now-deleted category, Still's disease, cleanup tags, Diane Duane, Goa trance music, Image:Wills Memorial Building (600px).jpg, constituency names, a tedious clash of personalities, some template-based vandalism, Darryl Ponicsan, Category:UK Wikipedians, and a long conversation with a new Wikipedian are to be found in the history prior to 4 August 2005.

Just seeking some guidance

Hi Rob. I was only messing around with the welcome message, I wanted to see whether it would add your name or not. It did. That's my experiment over with. With regards the Renamed London Underground Stations article, I'm still creating that, my estimate is I'll have completed it by next week. Thank you for changing the title, I had wanted to do that but didn't know how to. Are there any other London Underground related articles I could create or expand on for the project that you know of? I would like to help out as best I can. I have found I do have a photograph of my own of a Piccadilly line train, I will be uploading it soon. When I upload it, to ensure all users know it is my own, what am I meant to do? Please reply on my talk page. Thanks. Greaterlondoner

Why remove important picture of Chief Vann House?

Well, it was perfect picture of Chief Vann House that I can show but i do have two pictures. one was from digital camera but it was took in winter time and I have scanned old picture of Chief Vann from archives at Murray County Library. Murray County is home of my great grandfather. I need to know if Wikiacc accepts that I have a picture in my digital camera where the Battle of Adairsville happened. he removed the image of marker about 1800's adavirsville including information on the battle. My picture is two markers stood in the front of cemetry about the battle that was happened. Please let me know. I am not happy that the picture was removed by you and him because it was most important key to this information of chief vann house. I do not do "constributes" for wikipedia because I am not paid. I only do for people who seek for education and knowledge. "Uneducated persons are learning to be educated persons when they understand what the world meaning to them."

Cculber007

Joseph Chamberlain

Thanks for the compliments regarding the detail being added to this article - I hope to eventually include more information on all aspects of Chamberlain's career, right through his Colonial Secretaryship and the Tariff Reform Campaign. The article would look somewhat lopsided without such an expansion.

• The NLF was founded at Bingley Hall on 31st May 1877, not 31st February, so I am glad that you pointed out the error.
• I will edit passages surrounding Chamberlain in the shoe business.
• I shall include the quote you have supplied in the section regarding Chamberlain's attitude to Irish Home Rule.
• And I shall give a brief synopsis with each edit.

Regards,

InfectedWithRage 20:25, 28 August 2005 (UTC)

Renamed London Underground Stations/Tube station Images

Hi. Has the Renamed London Underground Stations article I started been deleted? If so, how come? On a related note, I'm a little confused with images of tube stations taken from the tube map that I have uploaded. I scanned the tube map onto my computer and then selected each station for each tube station article page. At the time I was unsure as to whether the GFDL code was the tag to use but thought that since I had created each image, since I had scanned it, then it would be the best tag. Now User:Sapient has contacted me to say he thinks one of those images Image:Heathrowstns.PNG is not a GNU. I have replied to him telling him what I have told you, plus that I would contact you to see what you think. For the time being I will change the tag for the image I have given you the link to to this {{verifieduse}}. Greaterlondoner

Thanks for your help. I will consult some other admins and for the time being remove all the tube map station images I have uploaded from their respective articles but not delete the actual images as yet. Greaterlondoner

For the time being I'll be using this tab on all the images of stations from the tube map.

{{PUIdisputed}}

That way it gives everyone 30 days to decide what the best option is before it gets deleted (if they can't). Greaterlondoner

RLUS - Whoops, sorry

Oh, sorry, just seen that the article is listed with a small s for 'Stations' not a capital. My mistake. Question about the station images remains though. Greaterlondoner

Posy

Just a quick note of thanks for your work on the Posy Simmonds page - I was half expecting it to be empty or a stub so was pleasantly surprised. Peteashton 01:27, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

NaSTA

Thank you for applying your wiki-skills to my rough and ready NaSTA history! Vanky 18:57, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

Novak

Hi Rob. Just created a stub for Novak (band) and since I based it on your Novak page figured I'd let you know about it. Peteashton 06:58, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

Football World Cup move

As a regular contributor to football articles you may wish to vote at talk:Football World Cup Jooler 10:37, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Meetup/Birmingham

This is just a reminder that the Birmingham meetup of UK Wikipedians that you have expressed an interst in is happening tomorrow. Sorry for the short notice. Thryduulf 15:21, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

Workers Playground

Thanks for the correction, and noticing that this title was wrong elsewhere in the article. I actually Googled it to see if it was "Worker's Playground" or "Workers' Playground" and the hits I got were wrong as well. Opps! ~CS 08:07, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

county town

I don't suppose you'll remember as it has been a couple of years but when you made this edit do you happen to know where you sourced the list? There is a discussion about the county town of sussex on User talk:Molly Mockford. Jooler 22:19, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

Chew Valley Lake

Hi Rob,

Thanks for sorting the river chew link from the Chew Valley Lake page. As you may have seen I put this up for peer review & then FAC which failed because not enough people commented/supported it (although it did get listed as a good page). As you've obviously got lots of experence (& local interest) is there anything else you think should be done on the page before we put it up for FAC again? Rod 13:25, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

Bristol: Red House/Lodge

Yes, you are right, I got the name wrong for the museum in Bristol, however I now see the whole places of interest section has been removed. I have put a section on the Bristol Talk page asking about this. I think it would be good to be reinstated, but don't want to do it only to have it deleted again!

--Kylet 21:40, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

Avon

Hi, thanks for the info-I did'nt know Avon doesn't exist anymore. Well, you live and learn! Cheers, Lion King 23:34, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

Flikr

Thanks for the link to their policy. I wrote up on the page about their archiving policy, you may want to edit it. So what's the best service to use to get better archiving? Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) 18:37, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

Image:Clifton suspension bridge from clifton 600.jpg listed for deletion

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Hello and Goodbye

Hi Rob. Hope you remember me, Greaterlondoner. You were the first person I met properly here on Wikipedia. I thought it best to tell you that I am leaving today and thank you for the kindness you showed me by helping me learn how to edit and use all the many facilities available here. One last thing, could you delete the image at Ickenham tube station as I uploaded it wrongly from a website. Sorry. I know in my time here I made a mess of things, uploading things wrongly when I shouldn't have, and annoying people unnecessarily. Therefore, could you make it so that my userpage and talkpage are somehow blocked from being edited from anyone? I would like them to stay with the messages that have now from me. I hope you have had a very merry christmas with your family and wish you a healthy and prosperous new year. All the best, Greaterlondoner 19:15, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

I can't delete the image because it's on commons and I'm not an admin there. You'll just have to let the commons speedy/copyvio procedure take its course. I don't see any grounds under WP:PPOL to protect your user page or user talk page, but I will watch them. --rbrwr^± 21:29, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Bristol project & your grade I listed buildings list

Hi, As you've probably seen the Wikipedia:WikiProject Bristol has been getting busier of late - you could always join? anyway I've linked to your list at User:Rbrwr/Grade I listed buildings in Bristol however some of these have now been created with slightly different names - see Category:Grade I listed buildings in Bristol. May I edit you list to point out what has been done & what is still needed? — Rod ^talk 21:12, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Sir Richard Hadlee

Hi. I have edited the article to remove reference to his being knighted while playing, which I think you put there, for the reasons that I give in the article. --Adam Brink 04:29, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Marcus Stewart

Thanks for that - I've added the reference. Fingers crossed for a good result on Saturday - I can't cope with the playoffs again. Paddy 08:54, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Template:Football kit/temp

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Society of Merchant Venturers

Hi, As an admin who has previously edited Society of Merchant Venturers I wonder whether you could take a look at todays edits to see if NPOV is being maintained.— Rod ^talk 15:20, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Crossrail

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Speedy deletion nomination of Fanclub

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Meeting in Bristol this weekend?

Hi this is Steve Virgin from Wikimedia UK. I am a fellow Bristolian and we have a Wikimedia Conference in town this weekend.

We are getting some of the Bristol Wikipedians together at the Watershed on Saturday night for a Wiki Meet at around 6.30pm. This is a good opportunity to meet people from the national chapter, the Wikimedia Foundation and chapters around the world. Bristol City Council has kindly offered a bar tab to help proceedings and we would be very keen to see you there.

Please let me know if you are able to come and feel free to invite any other local Wikipedians in Bristol.

Steve virgin (talk) 18:56, 12 May 2010 (UTC)

Hi, you may have noticed that the message above was actually posted by User:AndrewRT.[1] It all seems rather strange. –– Jezhotwells (talk) 20:25, 12 May 2010 (UTC)

Apologies I was doing it on Steve's behalf - should have made that explicit in the note above. Please contact Steve for more information on Saturday's event or see WP:Meetup/Bristol_1 AndrewRT(Talk) 23:33, 12 May 2010 (UTC)

Oh, well, thanks for the invitation, and for the clarification. I'm not really much of a Wikipedian these days, though. I'd feel like a gatecrasher. rbrwr^± 17:09, 13 May 2010 (UTC)

Audio theatre an article to audio dramas

Please if you have time and you know anything to it (I have seen that you have made edits in the article area which owns relations on it) , please look on the article Audio theatre, somebody placed a erase discussion on it. after we have had a merge discussion. It would be interesting what you would say to the merge and the delete discussion. And possibly it could help to contact other people that they should help also. )-: Merry Xmas --Soenke Rahn (talk) 10:13, 22 December 2010 (UTC)

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MSU Interview

Dear Rbrwr,

My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the communityHERE, where it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.

So a few things about the interviews:

• Interviews will last between 15 and 30 minutes.
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Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your nameHERE instead.

If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.

Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.

Sincerely,

Jonathan Obar --Jaobar (talk) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.11.206.39 (talk) 03:52, 21 February 2012 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of List of life forms

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Speedy deletion nomination of Cock sucker

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Hmm. Well, I only created it as a redirect to Cocksucker, which did exist, after a fashion, at the time. That was eight and a half years ago, though. "Hello, and welcome..." is a slightly strange response to such an ancient edit! I suppose I must have my reasons for thinking it appropriate, but I have no idea what they were or what the context was. --rbrwr^± 19:21, 9 January 2013 (UTC)

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Invitation to join the Ten Year Society

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I'd like to extend a cordial invitation to you to join the Ten Year Society, an informal group for editors who've been participating in the Wikipedia project for ten years or more.

Best regards, — Hex (❝?!❞) 14:18, 15 April 2013 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion nomination of Cock sucker

Hello Rbrwr,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Cock sucker for deletion, because it doesn't appear to contain any encyclopedic content. Take a look at our suggestions for essential content in short articles to learn what should be included.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. Devopam (talk) 04:48, 27 December 2016 (UTC)

I refer the hon. member to the answer I gave above. --rbrwr^± 16:04, 30 December 2016 (UTC)

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Administrator account security (Correction to Arbcom 2019 special circular)

ArbCom would like to apologise and correct our previous mass message in light of the response from the community.

Since November 2018, six administrator accounts have been compromised and temporarily desysopped. In an effort to help improve account security, our intention was to remind administrators of existing policies on account security — that they are required to "have strong passwords and follow appropriate personal security practices." We have updated our procedures to ensure that we enforce these policies more strictly in the future. The policies themselves have not changed. In particular, two-factor authentication remains an optional means of adding extra security to your account. The choice not to enable 2FA will not be considered when deciding to restore sysop privileges to administrator accounts that were compromised.

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Portway park and ride

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		For being nice....

Just wanted to say a big thanks for not only putting back in the word "million" that I had dropped accidentally, but mainly for the very neutral way you phrased your edit summary. So many others would have been quite caustic with it. Cheers. The joy of all things (talk) 10:04, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

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Thank you! I can't say my first-hand knowledge of Durham is particularly up-to-date (I lived there for a year several decades ago) but I like to keep an eye on it. rbrwr^± 08:18, 2 December 2024 (UTC)