User talk:Dknauss

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Happy editing!

Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 18:02, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)

== Creating Articles == Good work creating new articles. When you create things, it helps tremendously to assign them to an accurate category (see WP:CG for info). If you're really not sure about categories, at least assign your new articles a stub category (see WP:SC for info). By assigning a category, you help make sure your new articles don't get lost as 'orphans' that are not associated with related topics. Feco 19:56, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Plowman

I agree I really didnt look too hard, did a Google images search on Piers Plowman and picked the first one that had a plowman (it's one of the greatest hits medieval images). The article could easily benefit from 4 or 5 images, and this one could be superceeded by somthing else, it's a start. BTW your additions are excellent, the previous article was sadly lacking for a long time. Also welcome to the Medieval group. Stbalbach 01:49, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Robert Crowley

Why did you blank and mark for deletion the article Robert Crowley (c.1517–1588)? Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 22:45, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Because I created it, forgot how I distinguished it from the Robert Crowley (20thC dude) entry, couldn't find it in the search engine, and started a new one: Robert Crowley (printer). Someone else actually just changed it to that last designation, which is interesting in light of the fact that the small amount of scholarship on Crowley says he was not a printer but just a bookseller--though it's a specious argument (and one I reject) in the view of the leading and unparallelled expert on the early English print trade. He'll publish on the matter eventually, and I doubt anyone here is going to contest calling RC a printer.

Anyway, the old info is edited and moved over there. Dan Knauss

I'm a bit confused. I renamed the article Robert Crowley (printer) (on the basis of the article), and there wasn't yet an article of that name; had it been deleted? I've also moved the other Robert Crowley to Robert Crowley (CIA), and made Robert Crowley into a disambiguation page.

Incidentally, the standard format for for dates is: "(bbbb–dddd)", not "(born bbbb, died dddd)". Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 08:53, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Sorry for the confusion. The page you renamed was the second of two pages on the same man; I started it after losing the first. When it started showing up in the search engine, I marked it for deletion and consolidated the info on the newer page that you have renamed (which is fine). I'll work on expanding it in the future.