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Dickin Medal

Yep, I'm a softie at heart, and I think this is going to be a nice list. Any suggestions? I think also it'd do a decent DYK in due course. Any suggestions? Oh, and I saw a naked bronze lady by your Porters' lodge... what's with that? The Rambling Man (talk) 16:31, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

I guess this has assured that it really is possible for me to learn something every day...! The Rambling Man (talk) 18:33, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Washington & Jefferson College alumni/archive1

Hey Bencherlite, can you take a second look at this FLC? Thanks, Dabomb87 (talk) 23:30, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Savilian Professor of Geometry

Updated DYK query On March 7, 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Savilian Professor of Geometry, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits your article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check ) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Materialscientist (talk) 18:03, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

My animals

They await your return...! The Rambling Man (talk) 18:05, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

Classical cellists

Hi Bencherlite

re: your comment on my talk page: "Just in case you're thinking of adding all categories "Fooian classical cellists" directly into Category:Classical cellists – please don't; they're already in the appropriate intervening category of Category:Classical cellists by nationality, and these categories are all part of a larger scheme of classical music categories"

Sorry, yes - I fully intended to undo the changes I made, but got distracted. (I have now done so.)
The problem, however, is that the intervening category of 'Category:Classical cellists by nationality' is poor data structuring if you just want to see a category list of classical cellists, regardless of nationality, without having to go through each of dozens of nationalities separately - a manually created list is not a good solution, as it's redundant data and only likely to fall out of sync with the cellist articles. The fact that a cellist may happen to be Russian or Argentinian is rather incidental, and their cellist-nationality could be deduced from the fact they're a) a cellist (sub-category:classical) and b) a specific nationality.
Is there any way that an A-Z list of cellists can be automatically generated within Wikipedia from the classical cellist articles that exist?
§piderJon (talk) 16:41, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

Yeah, I know.

Lighten up, bro. This can be fun and productive. Kafziel Complaint Department 17:45, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

French battleship Jean Bart (1911)

With due respect, the pending hook is badly in need of at least one comma. Regards,

Derek R Bullamore (talk) 20:00, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

Eliot Spitzer at help desk

Heh. You must have beat me to the rollback by seconds. There was nothing telling me my rollback failed, so I left the warning on the IP's talk page. And then you beat me to the further reply on the help desk by a minute or two. Great minds think alike. --Floquenbeam (talk) 22:03, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

Poets Corner

I finally got round to making a start on Poets’ Corner. If you remember, I asked about it back in January here, and you said you might be interested. Would you be able to take a look at what I've done and advise on what else should be included, and whether I'm focusing on the right sort of things? I'm aiming to have details of the funerals for each burial, which feels right, if a bit ambitious. For the memorials, ideally there would be a description and/or picture, the date it was unveiled/erected, and the name of the designer/sculptor/architect. There are a few pictures of those on the list missing, but nearly all the entries have pictures (though many of the pictures need the paperwork tidying up for them). The other things I thought of included: (a) photos of the memorials and stone slabs (but last time I went, Westminster Abbey didn't allow photography in that area); (b) partial or full quotes of the epitaphs and other inscriptions on the memorial slabs and memorials. Oh, I'm also trying to work out how to get the names to sort alphabetically by surname, and how to get "circa" years to sort correctly. Finally, it is currently three lists, but should those be combined or is keeping them as three separate lists sensible (I also need to find out whether the lists are complete)? If you do have any advice or thoughts, would you be able to put them on the talk page (I can add a diff to what I've said here), and leave me a note on my talk page pointing me there? Thanks. Carcharoth (talk) 04:38, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the tip and offer to get the booklet. I had been planning a trip there myself, and it was good to know about that booklet. I went today and it was unfortunately a bit dark in places (the lighting is not great - by this I mean to even see some of the memorials, as photography is forbidden), so I may go back in the daylight at some point. I did manage to buy three books and booklets on Poets Corner from the Abbey Shop, including the one you suggested. It is a fabulous little booklet (do get a copy yourself, it is well worth the £5). There is also a very nice section in a book from 1914 which is available on the web. I'll post more about all these sources on the article talk page, as the booklet is the most comprehensive list, but there are other sources that allow Wikipedia's list article to be more than just a regurgitation of what the booklet author did. Carcharoth (talk) 22:52, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

DYK nomination of List of Honorary Fellows of Keble College, Oxford

Hello! Your submission of List of Honorary Fellows of Keble College, Oxford at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! cmadler (talk) 19:27, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

Honorary Fellows

Hello, The list looks very good and I am willing to support the nomination. Best wishes.--Felix Folio Secundus (talk) 15:26, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

Do you have the page number and section title (e.g. "Letter from the Warden", "(List of) Honorary Fellows") mentioning the award of Hon Fellowship to:
  • David Wilson, Baron Wilson of Tillyorn, from the 1987 Record
College elections and appointments, on p. 9
  • Lodwrick Cook, from the 1993 Record
College elections and appointments, on p. 11
  • Ghillean Prance, from the 1994 Record
College elections and appointments, on p. 75
  • Desmond Watkins, from the 1994 Record
College elections and appointments, on p. 75
  • Victoria de Breyne, from the 2002 Record
College elections and appointments, on p. 67
  • Ronald Reagan, from the 2004 Record
College elections and appointments, 1994, on p. 75
The life of the College, 2004; "Ronald Reagan, Honorary GCB" on p 15
  • James Martin, from the 2005 Record
he appears as last in the list of HFs on p. 74 but is not listed under College elections and appointments
Best wishes.--Felix Folio Secundus (talk) 14:06, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Featured list candidates/List of Washington & Jefferson College alumni/archive1

Looks like your concerns have been addressed; could you take another look? Thanks, Dabomb87 (talk) 14:59, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

  • Thanks for all of your help! By the way, I went ahead and worked on the ALT text, even if it isn't a criteria anymore. I think this article is greatly improved thanks to your help and keen proofreading eye. -GrapedApe (talk) 02:05, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

DYK for List of Honorary Fellows of Keble College, Oxford

Updated DYK query On March 19, 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article List of Honorary Fellows of Keble College, Oxford, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits your article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check ) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Materialscientist (talk) 12:04, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

Sorry

Just wanted to let you know that I didn't mean to roll you back on that FLC. Just a slip of the finger, I assure you. KV5 (Talk • Phils) 20:07, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

I was actually looking at that on my lunch break today, with the intent of a review tomorrow evening. So hopefully I can get to it amongst my myriad projects. Cheers! KV5 (Talk • Phils) 20:27, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

All yours

[1] [2]

— Rlevse • Talk • 18:35, 28 March 2010 (UTC)
See your Dabomb87 post. If you care so much about the lists, you nominate them. I don't care anymore. — Rlevse • Talk • 23:32, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

Ping

Would you mind uploading cropped copies of the Baker/Judge photo you have, for each article? In particular I'd like to nab the Baker pic for my Pepper v Hart article before it goes to FAC in a few days. Thanks! Ironholds (talk) 14:51, 3 April 2010 (UTC)

Smashing, thanks kindly. If said missus is legal history-ing the Assizes or the Exchequer, you can tell her there will be some excellent articles up in the next few days :P. Ironholds (talk) 16:17, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured portal review/Disasters

The world will not end if the discussion is kept open, or closed, or neither. There is no need for this sense of urgency, exclamation points, "cough", etc. Please try to tone it down, at least just a tad teensy weensy little bit. Thanks. -- Cirt (talk) 00:02, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

You seem to have something personally vested in this. Please tone down the emotion. I have left one more note for the two editors who have expressed interest in improving the portal. -- Cirt (talk) 00:16, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

I left notices for J Milburn (talk · contribs) and Yomangan (talk · contribs). (Both were listed as previously being involved with the portal, at Wikipedia:Portal/Directory) Cheers, -- Cirt (talk) 00:24, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

Comment: Maybe you were just a bit frustrated, and understandably so. I apologize for coming off a bit brash above, that was a mistake. Thanks for getting on top of us regarding this portal. Yours, -- Cirt (talk) 00:28, 9 April 2010 (UTC)
Apology accepted, best wishes to you too, again, I'm sorry about coming off the wrong way earlier. Cheers, -- Cirt (talk) 00:30, 9 April 2010 (UTC)
(edit conflict) I agree with Cirt. Please watch your tone when posting these messages especially when you're asking for service from another editor. Calling people "ignoring" your message is already assuming bad faith and is definitely not constructive to any kind of conversation. As for why I'm on extended leave from featured portals, I would like to keep my reasoning private but I'm still involved in the process (see User talk:Moxy#Portal:Music of Canada) OhanaUnitedTalk page 00:35, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

Portal:Disasters

Well, I'm scratching my head thinking of other editors and/or WikiProjects to notify. I suppose if no one else comments or takes action on improving the portal in another week, I can de-feature it. Feel free to remind me then. Sound reasonable? -- Cirt (talk) 00:32, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

Ha! That was Sharks, not Disasters. I got confused. Okay, I will de-feature it now. -- Cirt (talk) 01:01, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

Portal:Featured content/Portals

Can you check to make sure I adjusted the numbers correctly? Helps to have an extra set of eyes. Thanks. -- Cirt (talk) 01:11, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

Oh, thank you!!! -- Cirt (talk) 01:22, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

Rating Thames articles

As one of only two people to have written a River Thames FA (cough), you might be interested in commenting on how we tidy up the current mess here. The input of someone working on the west half of the river would probably be useful; I have no real sense of what is and isn't considered significant in Oxfordshire and beyond, where the river obviously exists but isn't the same focal-point-of-a-thousand-years-of-history that it is in London and the Estuary towns. – iridescent 20:47, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

Request for comment

Hey there. You've done a lot of work with the Oxford people lists in the past year, so you may be able to add some perspective on GrapedApe's comments at Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Phi Kappa Psi brothers/archive1. Thanks, Dabomb87 (talk) 00:17, 21 April 2010 (UTC)


Happy Bencherlite's Day!

User:Bencherlite has been identified as an Awesome Wikipedian,
and therefore, I've officially declared today as Bencherlite's day!
For being such a beautiful person and great Wikipedian,
enjoy being the Star of the day, dear Bencherlite!

Peace,
Rlevse
00:40, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

A record of your Day will always be kept here.

For a userbox you can add to your userbox page, see User:Rlevse/Today/Happy Me Day! and my own userpage for a sample of how to use it. — Rlevse • Talk • 00:40, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

FAC

Yadayadayada I'm back yadayada this is back yadayada hai :) ResMar 00:40, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

List of Washington & Jefferson College buildings

I'd love to hear your thoughts at Wikipedia:Peer review/List of Washington & Jefferson College buildings/archive1.--GrapedApe (talk) 05:24, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

Assistance required for user in clear violation of Wikipedia Neutral point of view policy

Hi there. Need assistance with distruptive/openly biased user Gwillhickers whose admittance of national bias and disproportionate national imagery on the Alexander Graham Bell article is a breach of WP:NPOV. Had to point out to him that Bell invented the telephone as a British citizen (which is dealt with in the article intro). Inspite of having advocated fair/balanced/proportional representation that meets neutrality standards (ie.equal national commemorative images from Scotland, US and Canada), the user has continued to be disruptive and breach fundamental NPOV wikipedia policy. Furthermore commemorative image placement is in the legacy/honors section (of which there is one from the US), so placing disproportionate images with no relevance to the text in other sections is also breach of WP:MOS. Thanks for your assistance.Gold coast surf (talk) 08:30, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

RFPP

Just to point out that I had already annotated 2 of the 5 reports that you marked in this edit; you overwrote one of my edits (One Time) and unnecessarily duplicated a second (Louis Mountbatten), so I assume that you didn't get an edit conflict for some strange reason. (As it happens, I got an edit conflict with you when about to annotate a third report). So the situation wasn't quite as bad as you thought! Regards, BencherliteTalk 23:07, 24 May 2010 (UTC)

I did get an edit conflict, but I intentionally copied my version of the text over the present text at the time because it would have taken awhile to copy the notice one by one into each section again (and because the result would have effectively been the same). The duplication for the Louis Mountbatten occurred, I'm certain, because I just put the {{RFPP}} in on the last line without realizing you had placed one there just seconds before me. The situation is still as bad as I thought, though. You didn't protect any of those pages; the admins who respond to the requests should note that they have been handled so others don't waste their time. -- tariqabjotu 23:13, 24 May 2010 (UTC)

Main page bias...

Clearly the IP missed the previous section, where there is a current discussion about pro-Superman bias on the main page ;-) TFOWRpropaganda 13:08, 27 May 2010 (UTC)

Congrats! Or should I say, good luck?! Dabomb87 (talk) 02:39, 27 May 2010 (UTC)

I'll keep an eye on it... The Rambling Man (talk) 09:35, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
That's about right but, of course, I wouldn't use bold links per WP:MOS....! The Rambling Man (talk) 09:52, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
The topic piqued my interest, and I must say that I don't randomly take up reading the TFA very often, but I was impressed, and I knew from the topic that the history would have Bencherlite all over it. Cheers and well done! — KV5 • Talk • 01:59, 29 May 2010 (UTC)

G6 Images

Full reason is ' Image present on Commons, but for which a local description still apparently exists' Previously this would have been F2, but the wording of that apparently doesn't cover the housekeeping that I'm tagging for..

BTW If you want to help I'm using a report on toolserver to find them: http://toolserver.org/~erwin85/shortpages.php?lang=en&family=wikipedia&namespaces=6&filter=notemplates&submit=Submit

If you want to handle them more directly, feel free :) Sfan00 IMG (talk) 11:32, 2 June 2010 (UTC)

Adding a heading and resisting the temptation to be amusing

June 2 2010 Deletion of Worldpol files in violation of Worldpol War On Terror requirements. Please verify that you read the Talk Page [logs show that you spent time to read the talk page and then actioned the deletion of it despite warnings contained within the main page and talk page - you have now been added to terror watchlists and your actions in relation to this matter are part of public record in the ongoing 9.11 investigations] on the Kerry Willis article. You are required to restore the page an you are required to send a reason for why you felt compelled to delete the page to FBI Washington Field Unit within 72 hours. The page must be restored within 24 hours or your will face fines and possible imprisonment. washington.field@ic.fbi.gov

Worldpol (talk) 13:27, 2 June 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 123.186.241.136 (talk) 13:14, 2 June 2010 (UTC)

That's you told. – iridescent 13:40, 2 June 2010 (UTC)

For you

The WikiJaguar Award for Excellence
For saying the same thing I was about to say... on my own talk page. — KV5 • Talk • 19:26, 2 June 2010 (UTC)

Supper

...please Sir... can I have... some... more... ? Appreciate it. The Rambling Man (talk) 21:58, 2 June 2010 (UTC)

Beautiful. Tidy. (Just don't worry if the editing carries on within the collapsed template!). The Rambling Man (talk) 22:11, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
Sorry sir. As long as he gets the last word, which, ironically he did... The Rambling Man (talk) 18:28, 3 June 2010 (UTC)
All part of the job description sir. You're welcome. It didn't get too much untoward attention, and, in fact, one or useful comments, additions etc (despite my minor altercation over some alt text... did you see that?!) The Rambling Man (talk) 18:52, 3 June 2010 (UTC)
Did I ever mention that I coxed our 1st VIII for one term? Including two Olympic gold medallists, for heaven's sake. I went "novice" -> "first VIII" in one term. But yep, elated/happy/smiling etc, silly but there you go. The Rambling Man (talk) 19:03, 3 June 2010 (UTC)
Heh, def better view. I only got 1st VIII 'cos our best cox was doing "something less exciting instead" but it was a blast, we got into the first division for the first time in 20 years on the final race of the last day of Bumps, so I led the parade of boats up for the last race of the whole Bumps, despite having bread rolls thrown at me by some Polytechnic types.... (or maybe they were Oxon?!) The Rambling Man (talk) 19:13, 3 June 2010 (UTC)
Bugger off, caviar rolls! Nah, these were wrapped around breeze blocks. I guess it was the poly! The Rambling Man (talk) 19:20, 3 June 2010 (UTC)

List of Presidents of Washington & Jefferson College

Would you mind taking a preliminary look at List of Presidents of Washington & Jefferson College, to see if you can spot any problems with it, before I take it to FLC? Thanks!--GrapedApe (talk) 04:36, 3 June 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for doing that. I may call on you in the future for help. :P -- Cirt (talk) 21:18, 8 June 2010 (UTC)

Ping

I'm going to try to get Stack v Dowden up to Featured standard; if I give you some journal citations and the like that I can't get my mitts on, would you be able to email me the ones you can access? Ironholds (talk) 18:45, 10 June 2010 (UTC)

Brilliant! Could you send me whatever you can get out of:
  1. "Applicability of Stack v Dowden extends beyond cohabitees" S.J. 2007, 151(33), 1103
  2. "Intention, fairness and the presumption of resulting trust after Stack v Dowden" M.L.R. 2008, 71(1), 120-131
  3. "Stack v Dowden: imputing an intention" Fam. Law 2008, 38(Mar), 249-251
  4. "Stack v Dowden" J. Soc. Wel. & Fam. L. 2006, 28(2), 171-179
  5. "Cohabitee disputes and the determination of "shares" after Stack v Dowden" Wel. & Fam. L. & P. 2007, 14(2), 30-35
  6. "Stack v Dowden revisited" Fam. L.J. 2007, 67(Jun), 7-10
  7. "The Stack presumption" Fam. L.J. 2008, 80(Oct), 17-20
  8. "Stack v Dowden - do as we say, not as we do?" J. Soc. Wel. & Fam. L. 2008, 30(1), 49-61
  9. "Stack v Dowden - the implications" P.L.J. 2007, 190, 22-24
  10. "Defending Stack v Dowden" Conv. 2009, 4, 309-325
  11. "Ownership of the family home: Stack v Dowden in the House of Lords" C.F.L.Q. 2008, 20(2), 255-264 Ironholds (talk) 20:12, 10 June 2010 (UTC)

Thank spam!

Hello, Bencherlite. You have new messages at User:TFOWR/Thankspam.
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

TFOWR 21:24, 11 June 2010 (UTC)

DYK for St Pabo's Church, Llanbabo

Wizardman Operation Big Bear 06:02, 12 June 2010 (UTC)

DYK for St Cristiolus's Church, Llangristiolus

-- Cirt (talk) 00:03, 16 June 2010 (UTC)

DYK nomination of St Cwyllog's Church, Llangwyllog

Hello! Your submission of St Cwyllog's Church, Llangwyllog at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 10:33, 17 June 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Peer review/List of Presidents of Washington & Jefferson College/archive1

I posed a question for the peer review at Wikipedia:Peer review/List of Presidents of Washington & Jefferson College/archive1. Would you kindly check it out, and tell me what you think?--GrapedApe (talk) 05:21, 14 June 2010 (UTC)

Stack

Brilliant, thanks! You might want to chip in at the Pepper FAC as well, although I'm not sure if it's an area you work with. Ironholds (talk) 18:18, 17 June 2010 (UTC)

3 RR

Thanks for this. For future problems - it's a difficult page - what to do with editors who add information with subpar sources and are reluctant to discuss. Obviously what I did was wrong. I suppose I could have left the claim, but I don't like leaving poorly sourced information. Truthkeeper88 (talk) 21:10, 17 June 2010 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for the suggestions from Peter Vardy's page. I've never tried a list before. I only wanted a bit of encouragement to go "live". I like the template thingy. I'm probably the least technical editor on here, I can never remember what things are.:-) I looked at your list, it will be impressive when finished. I never thought of taking it anywhere. I find the nit picking, well...... a bit over the top mostly. Thanks for the compliment though, made my day.--J3Mrs (talk) 21:49, 17 June 2010 (UTC)

DYK for St Peulan's Church, Llanbeulan

— Rlevse • Talk • 12:02, 18 June 2010 (UTC)

3RR reviews

Hi. As a friendly reminder, please remember to add the result to the section header (eg [3]). This lets other admins quickly see from the table of contents which reports still need admin attention. Thanks. --B (talk) 14:43, 18 June 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Peulan

Courcelles (talk) 15:16, 18 June 2010 (UTC)

DYK for St Mary's Church, Tal-y-llyn

-- Cirt (talk) 18:03, 18 June 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Iestyn (saint)

— Rlevse • Talk • 18:03, 20 June 2010 (UTC)

DYK for St Iestyn's Church, Llaniestyn

— Rlevse • Talk • 18:04, 20 June 2010 (UTC)

Anglesey churches

Hi Bencherlite – thanks for your note. This sounds like a good "mission"; will you go round and photograph them all as well? That's one of the bits I find most enjoyable, personally (and Commons gets some PD photos out of it as well). Having embarked on these projects a few times, as you say, I have a few thoughts and suggestions on how to proceed; will add them here as they come to me! Cheers, Hassocks5489 (tickets please!) 22:01, 16 June 2010 (UTC)

Look forward to them. I took some photos of Llangristiolus on the way past the other day and hope to get the closed church at Llanidan at an open day on Sat. All but a few have Geograph images of the outside which helps (particularly when trying to follow the listed building description!) BencherliteTalk 22:29, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
I'm surprised you asked me for comments (although honoured of course), because I consider your church articles to be much better than mine. Part of my excuse is that the sources available to me seem to be either out of date, or limited in detail. The "big" book on Cheshire churches was published in 1947, and it only deals with the "top" churches; Pevsner has not been updated since 1971, and it's the old rather slim version (a new one is promised soon). I admire your mission to write articles on all the listed churches in Anglesey and create a FL (I think all the listed churches in Cheshire have some sort of article now). I like the layout of your sections and may change some Cheshire ones to this if and when I have good-enough material.
Re infoboxes; I see you use a "limited" one. Some people love them, some hate them. After a lot of thought, I personally use the full infobox: I know that this duplicates information. It's thinking about the sort of people who will be looking at the articles. Some will want to read the full text (and can skip the infobox); others may want just a glance to get a bit of info without struggling through all the text; and some, having seen what is in the box, may be tempted to read more. But it's all personal of course.
I very much like the info provided by Cadw in the links to your articles. How do you get to it? I've tried all ways and being relatively techno-illiterate have failed to get there. Is there a search page somewhere? I suspect so but cannot find it. The Cadw info is much better than any I have found provided by English Heritage. In the past I have had to resort to sending e-mails to Cadw for info; frustrating for them and me. Incidentally I have strayed into "your" territory once again in List of Commissioners' churches in Wales with St Seiriol, Holyhead. As you will see from that page, the "Grade" column is largely empty and I want to fill it.
All power to your project! Peter. --Peter I. Vardy (talk) 10:57, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for your kind words. (1) With the infobox, I've used a full infobox unless I have additional images I want to use, in which case I've cut down the infobox to the bare essentials to avoid squashing the text between images and infobox. As in most cases the material is limited, I've not been able to pad the text out much to get the bottom of the article much below the bottom of the infobox. I'll have another look at this, though, and see how good/bad it looks. I too have mixed feelings about them, but perhaps a consistent style between the articles would be best. (2) The Cadw website is very unfriendly. As far as I can tell, you can't search by text such as "St Mary's Church". You can, however, select the town / village into which the map should zoom, and set the display so that it only shows you listed buildings. You then click on a dot and hope for the best, as far as I can tell... Fortunately, Cadw had already sent me the listed building specs for the churches, with the reference numbers, and so I've been able to avoid the cumbersome map search process by finding one church and then changing the reference number at the end of the url each time! BencherliteTalk 11:06, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for your comments on the Cadw website. I can't even find the search page! Could you let have the URL if possible please. --Peter I. Vardy (talk) 11:29, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for the invite to take a look at St Cristiolus's Church, Llangristiolus. I'm not going to get into the peer review as I'm going to be away for most of this week (Glastonbury Festival) but will put a few comments here if that is OK?
  • The very long infobox means that the two other pictures pinch the text - perhaps a case for a gallery (but some GA reviewers might argue)
  • The reputed date in the infobox might need a ref - but I see it is referenced in history
  • Chancel is wikilinked in history but not on the 1st use in the lead
  • The sentence "the combined benefice of Llanfihangel Ysgeifiog (Gaerwen) with Llangristiolus with Llanffinan with Llangaffo, which is part of the deanery of Malltraeth, within the archdeaconry of Bangor in the Diocese of Bangor." is probably correct but seems complex to me
  • Both Perpendicular style and Decorated style redirect to English Gothic architecture which may be confusing to the reader
  • First World War could be wikilinked
I couldn't work out which list you were referring to on my talk page. Hope these comments are helpful & good luck as you push towards GA.— Rod talk 21:17, 21 June 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for your comments, Rod. It's a choice between various unattractive options when I've got extra photos: a cut-down infobox, which makes for inconsistency between the articles; text sandwiched between photos and infobox, which doesn't look greater on smaller monitors though is bearable on larger ones; a gallery, which would probably fall foul of WP:IG; or a simple link to a Commons category, which would probably be ignored! Sadly, the best option (of expanding the text massively to get it much longer than the infobox) is denied to me by the lack of greater detail in the sources. I've made a few further tweaks based on some of the rest of your comments. I had noticed that both styles link to the same article, but I thought that was better than leaving one of them unlinked, which might also cause puzzlement. The list is still in my userspace as a slow-work-in-progress, which would be why you didn't spot it. Have fun at G'bury! BencherliteTalk 22:23, 21 June 2010 (UTC)
Some comments from me finally as well (sorry for the delay in getting back to you). I have taken the liberty of poking about and looking at the list; the format looks fine (I believe it's the same as the one Peter uses), and you're doing well with images! I would advise naming the first column Dedication instead of Name, as you are abbreviating the full name of the church ("St Beuno's Church" etc.) to its dedication only. Full-sentence notes would probably be preferred at a FLC as well. On individual articles, you look to have extracted the maximum possible from your sources, by and large; I would recommend searching as widely as possible for books, even those that seem only indirectly related. Down here, somebody wrote a very useful book called the "West Sussex Village Book", with anecdotes etc. about almost every village; invariably they included some church info as well. Maybe something similar might exist for Anglesey? Another useful source which Wales lacks is the Victoria County History of England—vital for Sussex church articles, with their lengthy descriptions of histories and fittings. Has anything similar ever been undertaken for Welsh counties? The layout of individual church articles looks good, and I concur with Peter's and Rod's comments. One small tweak I would suggest: "Architecture and fittings" may be better than "...and contents": more appropriate word for internal things like fonts. I'll keep my eye on it all! Best of luck, Hassocks5489 (tickets please!) 20:47, 22 June 2010 (UTC)

(outdent) Just a minor comment on the list of Anglesey churches. At one of my FLCs I was persuaded to dispense with a separate column for Refs. They don't really merit a column, and so I have changed "my" lists by moving them to the end of the notes (where they normally appear anyway for text). It also gets rid of some white space.--Peter I. Vardy (talk) 22:02, 22 June 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the suggestion, Peter, I've done away with it. I started with them in the "Grade" column, for some reason, then made a new column instead of taking the obvious step of moving them to the notes column. I've taken up Hassocks's suggestions about "fittings" rather than "contents", and "Dedication" rather than "Name"; and I'll keep hunting for books with useful info. I've bitten the bullet and ordered the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales volume on Anglesey (1968). Come to think of it, Peter, that should have information about the now-demolished St Seiriol, Holyhead (one of your Commissioner churches) which won't be covered in my plans otherwise... BencherliteTalk 23:17, 22 June 2010 (UTC)

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Nice work!

Good job copy editing Jacob Barnet affair, it looks much better now. BTW I will be in Oxford on July 3rd and 4th for Wadham's 400th anniversary activities... – ukexpat (talk) 14:06, 22 June 2010 (UTC)

DYK for St Cwyllog's Church, Llangwyllog

— Rlevse • Talk • 00:03, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

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