User talk:AndyJones

Welcome!

Hello, AndyJones, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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P.S. I've answered your question at the help desk. If you have any more questions, do not hesistate to ask me (click on the "A note?" link in my signature, and edit that page). Once again, welcome! Flcelloguy | A note? | Desk 23:16, 5 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Inheritance Tax (United Kingdom)

Looks great! Remember that you should always be bold when updating pages. Because I am not an expert in that field, I cannot judge it; however, Wikipedia does have a peer review process where other editors will leave input for you. In addition, I commend you for leaving some notes at the talk page; this is extremely helpful! While a justification isn't required for every edit, it's great that you did so. Happy editing, and don't hesistate to ask me anything! Flcelloguy | A note? | Desk 01:24, 10 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Only just seen this - good stuff: it is nice to see some tax professionals contributing. You may like to add a link to it at Taxation in the United Kingdom, and expand the summary paragraph there ion IHT. There should probably also be a short summary paragraph at Inheritance tax, which is meant to cover all jurisdictions, not just the US as it does at present. Finally, query whether it should be moved to United Kingdom inheritance tax, like United Kingdom corporation tax. But, once again, well done. -- ALoan (Talk) 12:34, 30 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, and thanks for the articles on Furniss v. Dawson and the Ramsay Principle, but query whether they ought to be merged, probably at the latter; and some discusion of later cases, particularly Macniven v. Westmoreland and Barclays v. Mawson, would be welcome. -- ALoan (Talk) 12:39, 30 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Abstain?

Why did you vote abstain when you could have voted me a pony? After things wikisettle for me a bit, I'll see what I can do about restarting the HS discussion. I bet we can get buy-in. Hipocrite - «Talk» 20:22, 23 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

On Trust (Law)

I think a link to Trust (Law) USA, should be in the disambiguation page Trust (I don't know if it is right now), and then from there a link to the current Blind trust page, which I think is more of a stub right now. Go ahead with the change you think fits better, I'm sure you are better qualified for doing this since you are a lawyer. I'm just a computer programmer. Thanks Homerotl 01:36, 30 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

The Ramsay Principle

thanks for starting this article. I removed the following text from the top of the article:

I am in the process of writing this page. I am saving it in small blocks to the internet as I go. If you are seeing this message you are looking at an intermediate version of the article. (If you are seeing this message after, say, 3 October 2005, I have died, or got bored, or something and you should remove it.) AndyJones 20:11, 27 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

The reason being articles aren't supposed to contain anything but encyclopedic information - you can post messages mentioning the status of the article on the talk page but the idea with articles is to pretend wikipedia is a real encyclopedia - just as you wouldn't find notes in Brittanica saying "I haven't finished this section yet!", you shouldn't be able to find them in wikipedia. Of course my analogy is a bit odd, because you wouldn't find incomplete articles in Brittanica anyway, but the policy with wikipedia is that even the pages that aren't yet nearly finished shouldn't lapse from an encylopedic tone or refer to themselves. After all, all articles here are works-in-progress.

Keep up the good work. --81.154.236.221 18:42, 2 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Re:"Snow"

Again, my current proposal is to merge all the stubs into a general article about the Poetry of Mao Zedong which is a broad topic you could really expand on then link to Wikisource which is where all source documents SHOULD be. Sasquatcht|c 22:24, 4 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Bryants etc.

Liked your approach on the Bryant afd. Good work. AndyJones 23:23, 12 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, just trying to do due dilligence and actually support my arguements.--Isotope23 00:44, 13 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Shakespeare on screen

Great work!! Very impressive. The Singing Badger 20:29, 15 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Userfied?

I saw you use the term userfied on AfD. What does it mean?—Gaff ^ταλκ 02:33, 18 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Destiny

I'll talk to him, perhaps via email. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. Flcelloguy | A note? | Desk | W_S 23:28, 26 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

a belated barnstar

Hey, thanks for the cudos! Funny, I only just noticed it now. That's very kind of you. Cheers! --PullUpYourSocks 03:50, 9 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome. Very good work!AndyJones 12:48, 9 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Good Humour

Thanks for the Barnstar of Good Humour! — TheKMan^talk 00:36, 16 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Spam reversion

No, you did quite right. I gave the guy fair warning, and he did nothing, so that's what happens. BDAbramson T 22:46, 16 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Paul Mooney (Blogger)

Hi AndyJones. Just a quick word with regard to the Paul Mooney (blooger) thing. I hadn't realised that there was already a discussion going on on the matter. I was using CryptoDerk's vandal fighter and saw it come up. I took one look at it and thought "nonsense!". I'll try to be a bit more thorough in my investigations before marking as Afd in the future. So, thanks for setting me straight on the matter! Much appreciated! KC. 17:58, 18 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Foo

Hi Andy, when I say "collapse [[foo|foo]]", I mean that I take any wiki link where the description part and the article to link to are the same, and remove the redundant description part. So [[Buffy the vampire slayer|Buffy the vampire slayer]] is redundant, it can be replaced by [[Buffy the vampire slayer]]. Foo is a metasyntactic variable commonly used in programming. Hope this helps. Cmdrjameson 19:00, 22 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Paul Mooney (blogger)

All right, I understand what you're saying, but I still think a speedy could have worked better. Now you have to wait a week before things can progress, but if it was speedied you could report the guy for vandalism as soon as he tried to touch the Paul Mooney the comedian article. In any case, it doesn't really matter now, you've got the consensus already and I hope you won't have to waste any more time on that blogger guy. Flyboy Will 19:53, 22 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Internet legal resources in UK

Saw your comment that there was no internet resource for UK court decisions on the Case citation page. Thought you may like to check out BAILII. Maybe an email to the council of law reporting about releasing the copyright on the backsets to BAILII would be good if you are in the UK.

Regards FedLawyer 03:05, 29 December 2005 (UTC).[reply]

BAILII

AndyJones,

It saddens me that you would find it more appropriate to delete a link to annother free info database because it has been denied public documents (judgments) by the Incorporated Council of Law Reporting, rather than write to the Council and use your efforts to have them release the copyright. AustLII had similar problems until enough people supported it - indeed even Wikipedia was limited to start with. Is it not time to send people to the site so that they can complain that the common law of England is copyrighted to the Incorp council of law reporting who (with your favoured commercial link sites) will charge them a fee if they want to know the law (which, of course, they are presumed to know).

But, it is not for an Australian lawyer to emancipate the Brits. I leave it for you to restore the BAILII link, unless you think that we should all be denied awareness of the free access legal database of the UK because it is presently crippled by the Incorp Council.

Regards FedLawyer 13:44, 30 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Newbie

I see Raul's answered your question, but thanks for thinking of me! By the way, we usually get lots of new users with an email address as the username; most never edit or make only one or two edits. I'd mainly be concerned about the ones that will become regular contributors. Thanks! Flcelloguy (A note?) 22:31, 30 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]