User talk:Arwel Parry
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Nice to meet you, Arwel, and I hope you stay. There are several other Welsh people here, including me -- but I can't remember much about TWW. Deb 21:55 Feb 5, 2003 (UTC)
S'mae Deb! I remember "Tinker and Taylor" on TWW when I was a kid (though reception was terrible, we had a badly-sited mountain between us and the transmitter); my main memory of TWW was their coverage of the Aberfan disaster when I was 8 :-( ... Arwel 03:10 Feb 6, 2003 (UTC)
...and I was ten! (So perhaps I was a little old to be watching "Tinker and Taylor" every Saturday morning.) Deb 22:59 Feb 6, 2003 (UTC)
Hi. I just want to say that it's great work you're doing on ITV etc.. a gentle reminder though to use wiki markup, and follow the manual of style. Cheers. Mintguy
Thanks for the hints, and your updates to the ITV page. I think I'm starting to get the hang of this thing now, and I'm disambiguating some of the company names -- there are too many "ABC Television"s in the world! Arwel 03:10 Feb 6, 2003 (UTC)
Corrie's the only soap I watch, I'm pleased to say. I did go to the studios in 1976 and saw Ena Sharples in full costume, standing around in the canteen. And my sister once had her birthday read out by Gus Honeybun... Deb 19:17 Feb 7, 2003 (UTC)
Spot on with the Pobol y Cwm article! Hasn't it been sold to lots of other countries as well? Deb 22:22 Feb 19, 2003 (UTC)
- Thanks! I'm not sure where it's been sold to, so I didn't mention it -- feel free to add to it! How on earth did you find I'd created the entry within 3 minutes of my doing it?! Arwel 22:53 Feb 19, 2003 (UTC)
- You do know about Recent changes, don't you? Deb 22:57 Feb 19, 2003 (UTC)
- Sure, but the "last 50 changes" is only about 10 minutes' worth usually! You must be looking at it all the time :-) Arwel 01:59 Feb 20, 2003 (UTC)
Nice catch at 9/11. :-) Koyaanis Qatsi
--- Hi Arwel! You can ask for the last 500 changes, which is a little more useful (though even that scrolls past pretty quickly). You can drop me an email with questions if you like. Vicki Rosenzweig
Hi there. About your commen on the dates on Talk:Jodrell Bank -- I'm not sure. I started that article as one of those "I can't believe Wikipedia doesn't have an article on this!" things, so it's very much a quick fix. Feel free to completely rewrite it :-) -- Tarquin 23:28 Feb 21, 2003 (UTC)
- I just had a look at the website the Jodrell Bank links to - it says the first telescope was built in 1947, but the big dish went live in 1957, just in time for the first artificial satellites! I'll hack the item around a bit :) 158.152.70.105 23:36 Feb 21, 2003 (UTC) (oops - this is me, I'm just not logged in at the moment!)
- BTW, just taken a look at your homepage. You may be interested in http://cy.wikipedia.com/ ... :-) -- Tarquin 23:59 Feb 21, 2003 (UTC)
- hmmm... it looks really busy, doesn't it? I might try something later, but I've got enough ideas for the English version right now! Arwel 00:17 Feb 22, 2003 (UTC)
Hi again. The railway line articles you're writing look great. There's a British railway system article which gives an overview; it would be good to link the line articles back to that to give readers a "parent" article link. -- Tarquin 22:42 Feb 22, 2003 (UTC)
- Hmm. I'll have to see how many of these articles I write before I try to tie them in to the main article -- I didn't mean to write all these, I was just doing an article on my home district Crewe and Nantwich, and the history of the place just sort of snowballed!! Arwel 23:01 Feb 22, 2003 (UTC)
Oh dear... sounds like the early stages of Wikipediholism... ;-) don't worry, many of us manage to lead constructive lives in spite of it! -- Tarquin 10:30 Feb 23, 2003 (UTC)
- Oh drat! I read the entry on the Second World War and suddenly got the urge to expand the Battle of the River Plate! Is there no hope? Arwel 12:17 Feb 24, 2003 (UTC)
Hi Arwel - saw you were having a bit of trouble with redirecting Nationalisation - the correct format is #REDIRECT [[article title]]. Good stuff you're writing, by the way! --Camembert
Ta! I knew I'd get it right eventually! :-) Arwel
Hi there Arwel and thanks for your exhaustive contributions to UK, List of labor unions. The list was started to be a resource for http://www.consumerium.org/ , we are doing most of our research in Wikipedia in order to benefit others too. If you have knowledge on how to figure out who owns which companies in the UK your contribution to http://www.consumerium.org/wiki/wiki.phtml?title=Research would be greatly appreciated. Cheers --Juho 15:18 Mar 16, 2003 (UTC)
Hi, I was wondering what you thought about this:
The obverse of the coin depicts the Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell as a laureated Roman emperor, with the inscription OLIVAR D G R P ANG SCO HIB &c PRO, while the reverse shows a crowned shield depicting the arms of the Commonwealth with the inscription PAX QVAERITVR BELLO 1656.
There's just something jarring about all-caps. :) I think I've seen it in this style in numismatic books, but I don't have one at hand to check. - Hephaestos
- Ah! That looks like a good idea :-) Looks neat. I've just altered all the coin descriptions I put in tonight. For now though, to quote Zebedee of The Magic Roundabout it's time for bed as it's gone 2 a.m. here! -- Arwel 02:17 Mar 18, 2003 (UTC)
You're quite welcome on the 5 pence image; I intend to work on it more later. I'd like to have it look more "mint condition." I'm also working on the reverse of the Noble.
I should clue you in about my project. I've been grabbing images off of ebay. To avoid possible (though remote) copyright issues, and since I've been wanting to brush up on my Photoshop skills, I've been taking out the flaws in the coins in Photoshop before posting them here, thus making the image a derivative work (there's little doubt that the pattern itself is public domain).
As you can probably imagine, the Noble is a bit of a wreck after 600 years, which is why it's taking me longer. :) My main concern is that I don't add or erase anything I shouldn't. (This is a lot of why I asked the diameter question by the way, but I guess it doesn't really matter much, given that people run different screen resolutions.)