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Revision as of 22:07, 23 March 2004

Hi Angela, thanks for the welcome. I dipped my toe in the water the other day with Dunsfold, and thought I'd get a log in and attempt something more.

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Hello, welcome to Misplaced Pages. I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian.

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If you have any questions, see the help pages or add a question to the village pump. Angela 23:07, 29 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Thanks for the page-splitting. I hope you like the compact TOCs I added. Phil 16:17, Oct 31, 2003 (UTC)

Warofdreams, I see you wrote articles on Helensburgh and Dumbarton. You from that part of the world. My old man'd family are from Dumbarton, and my gran now lives in the Vale of Leven? Big Jim Fae Scotland

Thank you for merging and improving entryism/entrism. I wrote the original draft of the entryism article - I had no idea that the entrism article existed as I had not heard the term used before. Do you know of any other groups that practice this tactic? The links to entryism are the British left, the links to entrism the French left. I wonder where else this goes on and what they call it ;) Secretlondon 14:11, Nov 7, 2003 (UTC)

Hi. Re List of British newspapers - I think there was a point for it to have separate local and regional things, in that the regional papers covered more than just one town/city, but a whole area - and the local ones just cover one town/city. If that's true, then it could have been clearer... Morwen 17:55, 13 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Regarding your edits in Architectural style, it is good that you have removed the short descriptive sentences(which I have been wanting to do for some time).

But your categorisation is not accurate, though you have claimed it to be. I think the earlier categorisation was better and more accurate, probably because I ordered it out of the confusion which existed earlier:-)

Some of the mistakes as of now are - 1.You can't classify something as Western tradition, probably under Western architecture 2.Islamic architecture is not under Western tradition. 3. Deconstructivism is not usually classified under Postmodern architecture, it is one of the many directions after modernism. Or you should use post Modern Modern with a gap, in the sense of after.

You have also removed links by changing the names, if you do that you have to use the disambiguation technique so that the links still are valid.

Will be changing it shortly. If you have anything to clarify, let's discuss in Talk Page of article. KRS 15:51, 15 Nov 2003 (UTC)

I like your articles on the WRP and one of the 4th internationals. Someone made a List of Communist Parties some time ago and we've been debating how to actually categorise the revolutionary left. If you've any ideas on how categorise the various schools of trotskyism (if thats the right word) please let me know!

Hi. I don't if you've seen my List of Trotskyist internationals - feel free to edit/contribute. Secretlondon 20:00, Dec 2, 2003 (UTC)

Thanks - I was getting my list from http://www.broadleft.org/inter.htm and picking out the ones that I knew were Trotskyist. I didn't check them all. Secretlondon 20:16, Dec 2, 2003 (UTC)

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hi saw you edited the crucible theatre page i started today. im from sheffield too. toodles.

Yes I get my info from there as well. I've been sorting out the australian and new zealand parties - and found the SPGB's international. Definitely not trostkyist - I stuck it on the talk page whilst I decide what to do with it. Secretlondon 22:12, Dec 16, 2003 (UTC)

I don't feel confident to write an article on left communism. (or even whether that is a POV term). I'll have to leave that one for you. Secretlondon 22:26, Dec 17, 2003 (UTC)

I've produced the following: List of organisations associated with the British Labour Party which you may want to add to. Secretlondon 23:02, Dec 27, 2003 (UTC)

Hi - we have a policy to use English names (ie translations) for things such as political parties. Your edit to International Socialist Tendency has reversed this (and broken some of the links). I'll have to revert your changes. Secretlondon 18:33, Jan 12, 2004 (UTC)

See Misplaced Pages:Naming conventions (use English)

From the above:

Convention: Name your pages in English and place the native transliteration on the first line of the article unless the native form is more commonly used in English than the anglicized form.

User:Morwen and I have been using this convention for all political parties - look at List of political parties for examples. Basically articles under translated name with (blah language: name in orginal language) in the first line. I consider this to be in compliance with policy. Secretlondon 18:53, Jan 12, 2004 (UTC)

See Morwen's comments on my talk page. It's probably better that we continue this discussion in one place.Secretlondon 19:24, Jan 12, 2004 (UTC)

Republican communism

Republican communism has been put on Misplaced Pages:Votes for deletion. As it stands it is an awful article. However the debate on VfD seems to be that people don't believe it exists - however there is a Republican Communist Network in the UK etc. It also seems to be used in the CIS - but I'm sure what they are actually meaning by it.

Do you have a decent definition or understanding of the term - I *think* in the UK it is referring to Irish/Scots republicanism - however I may be wrong. I'd appreciate your help with this. Thanks. Secretlondon 22:40, Jan 15, 2004 (UTC)

Requested articles

Just to let you know, you made an edit to the requested articles which I had to revert. The edit deleted a huge swath of the article, and put much of the rest out of order. I suspect this was an accident. Any legit changes you made to the article were also lost, so you'll have to put them in again. Let me know if you have a problem with what I have done. →Raul654 05:32, Feb 3, 2004 (UTC)

RESPECT Unity Coalition - needs NPOVing. Dunno if you want to have a go. Secretlondon 10:32, Feb 10, 2004 (UTC)

I think your edit is fine. I expect it won't be enthusiatic enough for the SWP but we will see. Secretlondon 23:05, Feb 11, 2004 (UTC)

• List of islands of the United Kingdom - dunno if you've seen this. Secretlondon 19:50, Feb 13, 2004 (UTC)

Congratulations! You are now a sysop! I recommend adding your name to the list at Misplaced Pages:Administrators. Tuf-Kat 22:01, Feb 17, 2004 (UTC)

Nice to meet you. I may see you over at the French wikipedia, where I also practise my French. Deb 18:56, 19 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Tell me more about the archaeology of the Shetlands. I'm going there in August. Deb 16:56, 22 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Hi Warofdreams, I just saw your changes to the list of rulers in the Mercia article. Do you think it is necessary to identify all of these names further as "of Mercia"? IIRC, many are unique & do not need further identification. -- llywrch 21:27, 23 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Re MediaWiki:Yorkshire - I'm uncomfortable with it using Humberside in the same message text as East Riding of Yorkshire, considering one was abolished at the time of the creation of the other. This is annoying as it is one of only cases in which region and ceremonial county boundaries clash. (the other being Cleveland, which is all in North East England but half ceremonially in North Yorkshire.) Maybe the Humber? Morwen 17:20, Feb 24, 2004 (UTC)

Fair enough. By the way, in case you are interested, I've started a list of boroughs/districst that need to be split from their main article - see User:Morwen/districts. Morwen 18:02, Feb 24, 2004 (UTC)

Trailing / in URL

Hi - in South West Trains, why do we need to lose the trailing "/" in the external URL? I'm very confused about this not least because I think I remember not all that long ago that people on the wiki used to shriek if there wasn't a / on the end. All enlightenment gratefully received! :) Nevilley 17:12, 25 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Oh! Heheh. Oh well, it doesn't seem to be needed anyway so I suggest we leave it and see if anything happens .... :) Nevilley 17:21, 25 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Region box things

As I've already said to Morwen but had little reply to, those region box things you and Morwen have been adding are very ugly, and in many cases are larger than the entire text on the article. Do you think it might be possible to make them collapsible or something, so they are collapsed as defualt but can be opened up? just an idea.

Also many of the maps dont make a distinction between local government districts and towns which share the same name, and maps of districts have been added to articles about towns, which if you ask me is not terribly helpful and likely to confuse readers. G-Man 18:51, 27 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Addictive, isn't it? Morwen 22:12, Mar 2, 2004 (UTC)

Replied on my talk. Morwen 22:46, Mar 2, 2004 (UTC)

Hi, could you please delete Fluoranthene again? Looks like you deleted it while I was adding a {{msg:delete}}, and now it's there again... Lupo 14:09, 3 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Apparently it is because sysops keep missing this fact. Anthony DiPierro 15:36, 3 Mar 2004 (UTC)

vfd

Regarding: . Keep in mind that, in my idea, it's better to let all vfd entries stay there for at least 5 days before deletion, especially when there are votes to keep it (no matter by who). No need to take action on this, it should stay deleted. Optim 17:44, 3 Mar 2004 (UTC)

• Deformed workers' state - in case you haven't seen it. Needs lots. Secretlondon 23:13, 3 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Recentchanges

I think WP:RC should include a link to all available Wikipediae, as there is no link to the full list. --Monsieur Mero 18:46, Mar 12, 2004 (UTC)

My response is there. --Monsieur Mero 18:50, Mar 12, 2004 (UTC)

Islamic Party of Britain

Warofdreams, I see you moved the IPB from the miscellaneous party section of List of political parties in the United Kingdom to the fascist/far-right section. What is the justification for this? Big Jim Fae Scotland

Cheers for getting back to me. I will probably move it, as to be honest I don't think the IPB are particularly what you could call a religious fundamentalist group. Also, even if they were, could that be considered as 'far-right'. I am not so sure. Perhaps this also means that the CPA should be moved too. What do you think? Big Jim Fae Scotland

Re: the changes to the List of political parties in the United Kingdom that you referred to - good thinking. This seems a sensible way to approach this area. Big Jim Fae Scotland

Thank You!

I want to thank you DEEPLY for your support in the vote to promote me to a sysop. I promise to do my best to be as helpful, sensible, and neutral as possible. Your friend, Ryan.

Region boxes

Regarding the district/region boxes, how exactly do I edit them, because I would like to try making the font smaller so they arent so enormous. G-Man 14:56, 18 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Thats an improvement to the district box things. BTW how did you decide that Bulkington wasn't a town, it is certainly large enough to be a town (population 8000).

Regarding Marxism, I think if you compare the impact of Marxism in Britain with that in other European countries it is fairly tiny. I think British socialism has alwys been more influenced by Methodism, non-conformism etc them Marxism. G-Man 20:32, 18 Mar 2004 (UTC)

City Beautiful

Thanks for your comments. They are very much appreciated. :) -- Decumanus | Talk 17:55, 23 Mar 2004 (UTC)

--- I think it's fine now as it no longer reads as a hagiography of the Labour Party. The problem now will be what do the social democrats think? Secretlondon 22:07, 23 Mar 2004 (UTC)