User talk:GregRobson/archive1

Archived messages from 30 May 2003 to 6 April 2005 in date order.

Hello

Hello there Greg, welcome to wikipedia. I see you live in Southam, small world isn't it, I live just up the road in Rugby.

If you have any questions about anything about the wikipedia or need help with anything, see village pump.

By-the-way, where did you get the information that the population of Southam is 12,000, according to my sources its about 4,500?. User:G-Man 30th may 03.

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Hi there G-Man, I had noticed you on the UK lists of users and that you had worked on the Southam article. I think I've got the hang of Wikipedia (studying Computer Science helps!)

My info on Southam is based upon a book on the history of Southam that I have at home (written by a distant cousin), this is going back some 5 or more years, but it said then that the population was 10,000 or so. I'm heading home later this week, so I'll pop into the library and check with them, they're sure to know. It's definitely more than 4,500 as several new estates have been added in recent years. Southam had a population of around 1,250 a hundred years ago - then it was a few streets.

If you need any help with articles of Southam and the area, I'm quite keen on local history, my grandparents have lived here all their adult lives, and my mother's side of the family can be traced back to the 1700s and further!

I also notice that you have an interest in the railways, I do as well. I have the belief that the government should be expanding (not shrinking) the railway, and that it should come under the control of one company (both tracks and rail).

Nice to here from a fellow Wikipedian :) Greg Robson June 2nd 2003

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I got my information from a book called "A History of Warwickshire" written in 1981, which says that Southam has a population of 4,435. It has probably grown by a few thousand since then, but 12,000 sounds a bit much to me.

Maybe 10,000 is the population of the borough, including all the surrounding villages, and not the population of the town itself.

The official statistics say that Rugby borough (including all the surrounding villages) has a population of something like 87,000 even though the town itself has a population of about 62,000. It's an easy mistake to make. G-Man 2/6/03.

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When I find out, I'll ask whether it includes the borough or not. I'll probably rewrite it as "Southam has a population of X, but serves around Y people when the nearby villages are included".

btw If that book is the one I think it is (landscape with a green and white picture on the front and written by a Griffin), then that's the distant cousin of mine. I think it's that one which has a picture of my Gramp (David Duckett), when he was serving in the fire service. (It's a small world)

Boo.com

Hello there, I have expanded upon your Boo.com article, a decent picture of the storefront webpage is needed, the one in the Internet Archive is not pleasing to say the least with a missing jpeg. Foriskak August 7, 2004

Greg Robson June 3rd 2003

WikiProject Categories

I think you should move User:GregRobson/Categories/Draft Project Page to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Categories and list it on Wikipedia:WikiProject.

Once it gets listed people will become aware of it and start to join. Don't worry if the project details aren't perfect yet; they will evolve as people join the project.

You can list the project as "in development" if you want. - Pioneer-12 23:12, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for jogging my memory — it is now visible at Wikipedia:WikiProject Categories — Greg Robson 23:14, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)

RE: Spelling tip

Thank you for the spelling tip. I spell-checked with micro. word and didn't recognize the UK-English. — LeaMaimone 22:36, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Data Management Wiki Committee

Thank you for your contribution to one, or more, articles that are now organized under Data management.

Because of your previous intrest, you are recieving an invitation to become a founding member of the Data Management Wiki Committee.

The members, of course, will form and solidify the purpose, rules, officers, etc. but my idea (to kick things off) is to establish a group of us who will take responsiblity to see that the ideas of Data management are promoted and well represented in Wikipedia articles.

If you are willing to join the committee, please go to Category_talk:Data_management and indicate your acceptance of this invitation by placing your three tilde characters in the list.

KeyStroke 01:16, 2004 Sep 25 (UTC)

Purge of "Public School" to "public school"

I see that you have quite comprehensively, and no doubt with rather a lot of effort, changed pretty much every reference on Wikipedia to use the lower case version of the above; I was always under the impression that it was normally considered correct to use the capitalised version...
James F. (talk) 18:00, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Hi there, yes I believe I'm on right if I've read these guidelines correctly: Wikipedia:Naming_conventions#Lowercase_second_and_subsequent_words, Wikipedia:Naming conventions (capitalization) and Proper_noun

As school is not capitalised normally and "public school" is not trademarked a specific naming then it should be lower. i.e. Schools can be private, public, grammar etc. However a particular school may use captials as it is part of their unique name. It has been a while since I did GCSE English though so feel free to correct...

And yes - it was a lot of effort - all because my friend pointed out how empty the category was - I now find myself categorising the whole of Category:Education in the United Kingdom! Oh well - it looks better for it! GregRobson 18:19, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)

To quote and then paraphrase from noun:

"there can be many gods, but there is only one God"

"There can be many different types of schools that are public, but there is only one type of Public School" - that is, I'm suggesting that the term is used as a proper noun.

Just a thought.

James F. (talk) 23:59, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)

University people categories

After reading through all you've written, I can't tell what your vote is. Could you clarify whether you want university people categories (we're not talking about university categories, just university people categories) to be kept or deleted? Also, maybe you can consider first reading new arguments people wrote on the Categories for deletion page, if any of them were placed there after your last visit there. Thanks. —Lowellian (talk) 10:50, Feb 28, 2005 (UTC)

Never mind, I mistakenly missed your bottom comment because I thought it was written by User:Flamurai. Your vote is clear. —Lowellian (talk) 10:55, Feb 28, 2005 (UTC)

On the page, you have two comments in boldface: first you have Keep "...alumni" and main university categories and then later, near the bottom, you have My vote: Keep 'alumni' categories and 'list of people...' articles, remove 'people' categories - as they are not categorising data. Could you please deboldface one of those so it doesn't look like two separate keep votes are coming from you? They're spread out far enough along the page that they look like separate votes. Maybe you could strike out the first boldfaced statement and move the second boldfaced statement, which sets out your position more clearly, up to the top? Thanks. —Lowellian (talk) 11:08, Feb 28, 2005 (UTC)