User talk:Flaming Ferrari

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Vandal Fighting

If you want to read up more about Vandal fighting I suggest you take a look here Intinn^Talk! 13:26, 27 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

UEA User Box

Thanks for the heads-up. It might be worth contacting the Vice-Chancellor's department about getting the two logos (the UEA logo and the coat of arms) released on a CC licence for use on here; it's not that difficult to do and there's a form letter kicking around somewhere, prolly linked from Wikipedia:Fair use.

I've made a couple of tweaks to the template:

I closed the DIV you opened on the first line, so it didn't screw with the layout of my user page; and
I added the category directly to the userbox.

Thanks again :o)

PS: Personally, I'd prefer the UEA logo on there… — OwenBlacker 10:41, 3 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Random greeting

Well if you have edited Ardingly and Ardingly College then I'm pretty sure that you know my dad, and thus me. I have to say your userpage is less of a giveaway... Do you have a surname? I do like "out of the blue" greetings - although I thought Facebook was the only place that happened. Why the participation in WP Oxford? Anyhow, hello, good guess, and have a nice Tuesday! Cricketgirl 12:56, 3 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Surname sounds vaguely familiar... No, my father's not teaching at Ardingly any more - my family moved to Germany in July 2005. I'll pass on the message though! Cricketgirl 14:34, 3 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to VandalProof!

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Re: your message

Hi James. Thanks for your message and words of support. I am really happy that so many things are still accessible to me as a blind person, particularly compared to even a few years ago. You seem like a great contributor also. Academic Challenger 00:10, 22 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sunderland A.F.C. has its own wiki.

You can register on it if you liked, to improve it.register here. Sunder land 06 19:25, 15 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

About your edit at KCL article

Today you edited or deleted few stuff in KCL article. Could you please explain why did you delete those stuff? In case you feel doubt about any un-cited information, you may ask for a reference. Moreover, you did some major edit without an edit summery. Hope in future you will use it. -- Niaz ^{(Talk •}^Contribs) 19:04, 8 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your message. You are absolutely right about the trivia section. Last year I nominated KCL article as GA nominee but it failed and one of the main reasons was Trivia. Anyway, I found you are from KCL and I am sure you can improve this article with proper images and citations. Just one request, try to explain your edit through edit summery. Otherwise someone may re-edit them (already happed, see KCL page). In addition, please sign your name with four tilde symbol (~). It will automatically generate your signature and date including time as well. Cheers. -- Niaz ^{(Talk •}^Contribs) 12:36, 9 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

King's College London as a British University

Yesterday you edited KCL article and replace it's title as a University. It may create a debate regarding KCL's status as a university. Last year I tried to do the same and faced huge arguments from different wikipedians. You may visit this link to see the debate - Click. Well, still I am sticking on my old point and believe that KCL is a university on its own right. If Imperial can claim them as a university then why not King's? I am carefully observing that no one have raised any point on this issue this time, but still this edit is on the risk. Could you please collect some third party references/citations either from any magazine or Uni of London page supporting KCL's status as a university? It will help us to face upcoming debate regarding this issue. Cheers. -- Niaz ^{(Talk •}^Contribs) 15:53, 17 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

King's College London

Hi, you just removed the notable information that the trio of extremely influential geographers, Stamp, Wooldrich and Linton (who collaborated with each other and are therefore closely associated) were King's alumni, with the cryptic edit summary "fix tags". Would you care to elucidate? Pterre (talk) 13:31, 19 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hello? In the absence of a reply I'm left with the impression that you meant "I don't care about geography so I'll just delete the information and references and disguise it as a typo fix". If you meant "King's has loads of alumni more famous than these" it should be discussed, not just deleted. It is my contention that the well documented fact that three of the most influential British geographers of the 20th century studied at King's within a short period, knew and influenced each other, is noteworthy - certainly more notable than Reginald McKenna (whohe? - Ed.). Professor Stamp for example, besides being professor at LSE and a leading light on numerous committees, wrote lots of popular books, and was knighted. Professor Wooldridge and Professor Linton were hugely influential on geomorphology; Wooldridge was a CBE and an FRS and Linton has a BSG award named in his honour. Pterre (talk) 19:18, 20 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

OK, now I'm starting to get seriously peeved with you. You have not had the common courtesy to reply, explain or undo your deceitfully disguised vandalism in over a month, and now you are doing the same to List of King's College London alumni‎. If you have a problem with geography and geology as academic subjects worthy of your consideration that is you problem. Please desist from destructive editing of Wikipedia. Pterre (talk) 18:01, 23 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi James, thanks for your response and expanation, and I'm sorry if my message was a bit intemperate - felt I was banging my head on a wall. As regards references, simply removing information is not really constructive - you could have followed the links and added references from the articles, moved the information to the talk page, or as I did, moved it to the largely unreferenced 'Alumni' article; it is hardly controversial that this trio studied geology at King's. I'm not quite clear why you feel geology is too narrow a heading - I added it as a sub-heading under the main heading of Science, Technology etc. I would agree with you if I had added say Stamp as "Regional Geography", or Wooldridge and Linton as "Geomorphology", but in what sense is the scientific study of the history of the earth over the past 4.6 billion years any narrower than any other discipline, eg Computer Science (a branch of applied mathematics)? A narrow field would be "Invertebrate Palaeontology", "Igneous Petrology", or any of a few dozen other branches of geology. I would not have a problem with it being widened to 'earth sciences etc' or something similar, if you know of any suitably notable additions, but this loses the information that these men studied geology at King's. I re-emphasise that these three are not just 'any old geologists who studied at King's': they collaborated, were known internationally and became hugely influential in other fields, one being knighted and another being the last geographer for 50 years to become an FRS. Stamp single-handedly and successfully organised and directed the only complete land use survey of Great Britain ever (before or since). Pterre (talk) 11:22, 24 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

King's College London

I would be happy to review the article. However, I am very busy and will be very busy till the end of the month. So, I will try and get around to it as soon as I can, but it could be a little while. KnightLago (talk) 15:03, 10 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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George Brann

Thanks for the kind comments - it's always nice to see one's efforts are appreciated. Cheers. --Daemonic Kangaroo (talk) 15:15, 7 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Walter Robert Adams

Added one reference. To help your article, please find some more supportive material and add as references. Wikipedia:Citation templates Kind Regards SriMesh | talk 02:19, 12 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ardingly College Assessment

This is a solid C-class article. It just needs more references in proper format to qualify for B-class. Has there been any news coverage of the school? Be sure to reference this too. Review GA-class articles to see what you're shooting for. All in all great work. Calebrw (talk) 02:16, 29 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Help desk question

I've added a further suggestion, in case you haven't seen it. I have the same problem with maintaining List of alumni of Jesus College, Oxford. Regards, Bencherlite ^Talk 10:38, 9 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

There is no doubt certain career paths lead to the Bishop's chair. Near me is a large church called St Mary's Portsea[1]. Dozens of its clergy have gone on to episcopal success. Further up the scale Archdeacon of Northampton is another post that seems to be a stepping stone. I went to LSE myself, and I do not think I have ever encountered a single clergyman at any level who studied there. Read into that what you will! With best wishes, Bashereyre (talk) 17:05, 9 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]