User talk:Arwel Parry/archive 2

Coinage

Hello. Why is the "P" in "Penny" capitalized in History part 1? It is not capitalized in the introductory chapter, and common nouns are not usually capitalized in Wikipedia article titles. Michael Hardy 02:11, 6 Dec 2003 (UTC)

I started moving these, but maybe I shouldn't do this so late in the day. Now I'm wondering if this should be an exception because of the other coin articles? I'll look again tomorrow. Michael Hardy 03:17, 6 Dec 2003 (UTC)

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Hi. I saw your British coin Twenty Pence article; I have one of those coins and I live in Juneau, Alaska, US!! Your coinage articles are very good. I am a collector of US and world coins, mostly US Cents (Lincoln, esp. Wheat Reverse). --Merovingian 12:33, Dec 10, 2003 (UTC)

Accidentally protected archives

Hmm - why is User talk:Arwel Parry/archive 1 protected? If you'r aim is to have a non-editable archive, the best way to do this is normally to link to a specific version in the page history - that way everyone can be sure it's accurate, and you don't have to use special sysop powers. Martin 18:33, 6 Jan 2004 (UTC)~

Dunno. You'll have to ask Angela who did it on 21 Dec - I wasn't even aware that it was protected, and the page history doesn't show any edits since it was created! -- Arwel 21:16, 6 Jan 2004 (UTC)

*laugh* must have been a mistake - fair enough! :) Thanks Arwel. Martin

Lol. I didn't protect it. I just listed it on Wikipedia:Protected page because I noticed you had protected it and not listed it there. I thought you'd just forgotten to list it, not that you'd protected it by accident. I often check the Protection log to see if there are pages people forget to list, and yours was one of them. :) Angela. 09:55, Jan 7, 2004 (UTC)

Oh! So I did.... I wonder how that happened! Arwel 12:38, 7 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Logos

Hi there! You posted a request on Brion's todo list on how to get a logo created. If you are comfortable with using graphics editing sofware, you might take a look at meta:Logo for some simple instructions. As for the graphics software, there are likely a few free ones floating around, such as Gimp. Hope that helps, -- Kowey 09:15, 9 Jan 2004 (UTC) (self-appointed garderner/secretary)

Sunderland flying boats

Arwel, just wanted to note, as Raul did at Talk:Main Page, that as far as we can tell, Short Sunderland is not a featured article. The featured articles category on the main page should only draw from the list of approved featured articles. :) Not a big deal, but I thought you might like to be reminded. Thanks for all the good work you do here! Jwrosenzweig 00:04, 7 Feb 2004 (UTC)

OK, sorry. It is a good one, though!

Definitely so. Why not list it? :) Jwrosenzweig 00:11, 7 Feb 2004 (UTC)

I would have if Raul hadn't beaten me to it :) Seconded it, though. Arwel 00:26, 7 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Casualty...

Sorry to read about your broken leg. Gwellhad buan (is that right?) - get well soon anyway :) Angela. 09:14, Feb 8, 2004 (UTC)

Dashes

Thanks for the bit on the dashes number, hadn't being paying much attention to the number. As for redirects, yes I know nested redirects dont work properly. I usually try to make sure they go to the original page and not another redirect, but as I rarely look in 'what links here' it still happens ( as with that case). Greyengine5 22:24, 29 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Madrid, 11 March 2004

I just wanted to thank you for your cooperation in the Madrid, 11 attacks article. You surely guess it is quite important for us in Spain. Pfortuny 17:58, 13 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Football

Arwel: I know you often edit pages related to football. Football (unqualified) has recently undergone quit a lot of editing. I merged in the History of football page, that I had written ages ago when all that fuss was going on about the naming of the game, because the history section of Football was expanding whilst History of football seemed to have been largely neglectedsince the early drafts. A new user User:Grant65 and myself have been editing this page over the last few weeks. I would be grateful if you would take a look at it to see if you could smarten up any obvious problems with the text. Cheers. Mintguy (T) 15:01, 18 Mar 2004 (UTC) Also there's barely a mention of Wales :-).

Madrid attacks

Hi there, Arwel Parry. We need your help in the Madrid attacks page. Go to the Talk page, and scroll to the last message "Admin needed...". Thanks. --Cantus 01:41, 22 Mar 2004 (UTC)~

More football

Hi Arwel,

Thanks for your updates to the Assistant referee page. A couple of (semantic) points though:

The change of name from "Linesman" to "Assistant Referee" wasn't primarily to do with geneder-neutral language; rather it was to better reflect the modern emphasis on the role of the AR.

It is for this reason that I have also put back the fact that "referee's assistant" is an incorrect term, as this term was deliberately avoided as it is not considered to reflect the task of the AR.

Please let me know of any comments :-)

Cheers, Dave. --DaveB 02:49, 4 Apr 2004 (UTC)

I think this ^^^ was intended for me Mintguy (T) 04:47, 4 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Hi, Yes - I was a bit doozy there - sorry about that :-) --DaveB 05:33, 4 Apr 2004 (UTC)

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Thanks for your attention to Hillsborough disaster. - Fennec 14:11, 6 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Moving Welsh Assembly article?

What do you think about moving the Welsh Assembly article to National Assembly for Wales? My reason is that we have the devolved bodies in Scotland and NI under the names used in the acts that created them. Since the Goverment of Wales Act calls the body the National Assembly for Wales and not the Welsh Assembly, should we move it? --iHoshie 23:26, Apr 8, 2004 (UTC)

Seems a reasonable idea! No problem. Arwel 23:34, 8 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for fixing the messy way I f'ed up the NAfW transfer. However, I tried to do a clean redirect. However the MediaWiki software gave errors saying the move could not work due to content being present for National Assembly for Wales (that is, the old redirect to the Welsh Assembly article). Mea Culpa! -- iHoshie 11:50, Apr 9, 2004 (UTC)

Labour rose

Do they do a Llafur version? Marnanel 20:23, Apr 9, 2004 (UTC)

Funny you should ask that -- see cy:Delwedd:Llafur_redrose_blacktext_greenstem.jpg and cy:Delwedd:WalesRedSquare.jpg ;)

Latin

No offense intended, but I thought I'd let you know that your memory of Latin is, in fact, in need of at least one minor refresher. :-) As noted at Wikipedia:Reference desk, aspera means "harsh things" in Latin ([1]). I hope you won't mind my correction, or my letting you know. Always nice to expand one's knowledge, I think -- I find mine often expanded by your comments and additions to articles, and figured I'd return the favor. :-) Thanks for your hard work here, and your positive attitude! Jwrosenzweig 19:59, 12 Apr 2004 (UTC)

No offense taken, thanks for putting me right. I'm a little surprised you've not come across "per ardua ad astra" before as it's commonly seen over here from its' RAF association, and Google shows it as occurring slightly more commonly than "per aspera..."! Arwel 21:41, 12 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Apparently we prefer the "ad aspera" here in the U.S. -- I've seen it in connection with state mottos and in several pieces of fiction. Yet another sign of a need for increased cultural exchange! :-) Jwrosenzweig 21:46, 12 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Country / Region Naming of all UK/GB/NI/Ire Rail & Rail History Pages

Arwel, you maybe interested (or not) in Talk:Rail transport in the United Kingdom#Country / Region Naming of all UK/GB/NI/Ire Rail & Rail History Pages. Best wishes --Tagishsimon

And we're off & racing at: Talk:Rail transport in the United Kingdom/Alternate naming schemes --Tagishsimon

Great Central Railway

Just asking your opinion about something. I was considering moving the present article about the Great Central Railway to something like Great Central London Extension seem as the present article is about the main line rather than the GCR company. Because the GCR company owned more railway lines than just the London extension.

Just wondering whether you thought this was a good idea, or had any thoughts?. G-Man 21:33, 23 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Hmm, I agree that the article as it stands is about the Extension rather than the GCR company, though I think most "Great Central Railway" is a more likely title that someone will enter when looking for something about the line, than "Great Central London Extension" — to tell the truth, I wouldn't have thought of that title! It would be nice if the article could be expanded to include more on the MS&L / GCR company, though. Arwel 21:54, 23 Apr 2004 (UTC)

I've done some experimenting and have attempted to merge the MS&LR and GCR articles at User:G-Man/misc although I think its a bit messy, what do you think? G-Man 22:38, 23 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Rough and Ready

Yeah, that Pony Express thing has to be wrong. I cleaned up the article a lot last night, but I missed that one. Thanks for catching it. -- Decumanus | Talk 14:11, 24 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Granada, from where? (The North, of course)

I wrote Anglia Television yesterday and I'd like to illustrate it with one of the knight logos, but I don't know about the copyright status of any of them-- where did you find Image:Granada-tv-70logo.PNG? Or is it a fair use thing? Marnanel 14:42, Apr 25, 2004 (UTC)

I think it's fair use. Arwel 18:17, 25 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Election notice translation

Hi! Can you please translate the election notice * into Welsh and post it prominently on the Recent Changes page of the Welsh Wikipedia. Once you have done that, please let me know, and leave me a link where I can find it. Thanks. Danny 00:23, 6 May 2004 (UTC)

Done... cy:Wicipedia:Etholiadau_i_Bwrdd_Ymddiriedolwyr_y_Sylfaen_Wikimedia -- Arwel 21:00, 6 May 2004 (UTC)

BBC Sports Personality Award

Hi Arwel,

I've fixed the link that you had removed from the Manchester United FC page. There are currently 8 separate awards in BBC Sports Personality of the Year but user JB82 failed to distinguish that the award he referred to was the team award.Scraggy4 11:54, 9 May 2004 (UTC)

Interwiki links

Hi, just a note: Please do not "correct" Interwiki links without checking first in the target Wikipedia. ([2]) An article Ruslana Lyschitschko has never existed in the German Wikipedia; sh, though not normally found in German, is used in cyrillic transcriptions to express the voiced fricative (zh), while sch stands for the voiceless counterpart. (The current name of the German article is, after some discussion, de:Ruslana Lyshytschko.) --Chirlu 11:37, 2004 May 16 (UTC)