User talk:Andreww

Welcome!

Hello Andreww, 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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Bear Grylls

Hello, it appears the entry about Bear's parachuting accident is incorrect. The accident actually happened in Zimbabwe. This is confirmed on page 283 of his autobiography "Mud, Sweat and Tears". Here are a couple of webpages that have the same info: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1389519/Bear-Grylls-How-climbing-Everest-perfect-cure-BROKEN-BACK.html https://www.driving.co.uk/news/interview/bear-grylls-on-land-rover-his-first-car-and-adventuring/

On page 275 of his autobiography, Bear said he learnt Arabic in the S.A.S. If you want to added that to the page. Many thanks. Davidsmith2014 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Davidsmith2014 (talk • contribs) 15:37, 14 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop creating constituency articles

I'm in the process of creating all 500-odd missing ones for the 2005 election news coverage, and the lists of names that you are working from are both wrong and cause conflicts with other projects, such as the Canadian constituency project. See User talk:80N#Please_stop_creating_constituency_articles for a full explanation. Uncle G 13:38, 2005 Apr 26 (UTC)

Districts of Sheffield

Hi! I have attempted to answer your question at Talk:Districts of Sheffield. It is a little long and rambling but I hope that the answer that you are looking for is in there somewhere. JeremyA 9 July 2005 04:26 (UTC)

Just to let you know that I have replied to your most recent comment at Talk:Districts_of_Sheffield. Thanks, JeremyA (talk) 01:30, 31 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Kek Lok Si, Air Itam

I actually wasnt sure about the pictures. I can't access them now through the article or by searching for the direct image on wikipedia. I just thought one of them looked kind of similar to one I found on google. I could be wrong though. --ScottyBoy900Q 14:52, 3 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

FYI

A task has been added to your Cleanup Taskforce desk. -- Beland 04:55, 28 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Intellectual Dishonesty

Hi. Thanks for the cleanup assignment. It's kind of a mess. I'm thinking of nominating it for deletion. It's a rather generic, not to say loaded, term that may not be suitable as an article, kind of like an article on Bad Manners. In any case, it's still just a stub at this point. Think I should try to salvage it? — J M Rice 06:34, 7 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Cleanup Taskforce

Hello, Andreww- thanks for letting me know about the item on my desk. I'll see what I can do in the next few days. Flcelloguy | A note? | Desk | W_S 19:15, 24 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Cleanup taskforce

Hi Andreww. Fortunately I didn't have to go into the wikibreak at the end. Thanks for letting me know about the new item, I'll get around it soon. -- Rune Welsh ταλκ 17:44, 25 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Geology of Zanskar

Dear Andrew(w), thank you for your comments and for taking care of the article Geology of the Himalaya. The reason why I haven't tagged the images yet, is because I haven't been able to find a tag or licensing term that, in my opinion, really applies to these illustrations. Basically these images are released to the public for free (as in beer) (re)use or modification. The only quirk, maybe, is that both I and the original author of the paleogeographic reconstructions (see notice on [1])insist that reference is being made to their original web-site or publication(s). These is not merely for self glorifying purposes but also because, as it should be for any scientific illustrations or articles, it is essential to know from what original sources these where based upon. This "tracability" should not get lost and this is also the reason why there are so many references cited in the "Geology of the Himalaya" Wikipedia article and illustations.

Just so that you know for this lisencing issue, all images have been redrawn and modified by me.

Any suggestions are welcome on how to deal with these images so as to license them in a way that both meets the requirements of Wikimedia and scientific integrity.

I do appreciate your suggestion that this could be a featured article. However, you have to know that even if the article says "Geology of the Himalaya", the content itself mostly focuses on the Geology of NW Indian Himalya. A lot more could be said to cover the geology of the entire Himalayan mountain belt and thus make it truly "encyclopedic". Moumine 20:01, 29 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Vandalism at Edict of Nantes

The first paragraph was deleted and a juvenile graffito added 14:16, 2 October 2005, User:142.59.104.79, an anonymous passer-by. In erasing the graffiti, the next editor (14:22, 2 October 2005, User:156.143.138.178, another anonymous passer-by) did not revert the page, and the opening paragraph remained lost. Then, a "cleanup tag' was applied 04:49, 4 October 2005 by User:Andreww and a "Wikify tag" followed, 17:27, 4 October 2005, added by User:Acjelen. I have restored the original version, but some editorial care needs to be exercised before applying those tags, which have been so trashed by their mis-usage. --Wetman 05:36, 5 October 2005 (UTC).[reply]

WP:CP

Hi, you've reported copyright infringements to WP:CP in the last week, a new measure was recently passed to allow the speedy deltion of new pages that are cut and paste copyvios. Please follow these instructions if you come across this type of copyvio. Thanks. --nixie 00:07, 6 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Blatant copyright infringements may now be "speedied"

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Cleanup job done

Hi Andreww - I've cleaned up the article on Captain George Shelvocke that you left on my desk, but as it's the first time I've had anything on the desk I'm not sure if I've succeeded in removing it from everywhere I need to, lists of things to be cleaned up and so on. Is there a way I can check that? Thanks in advance if you could help me out with that. C i d 6 October 2005 16:51 (UTC)

2005 Indian subcontinent earthquake

Thanks for being at 2005 Indian subcontinent earthquake -pradeepsomani

Student Loan

Thank you! Finally someone has given me something to do for the clean-up project! I will start on cleaning that up today around 5:00 EST. Thanks again for the task! — Moe ε 19:27, 8 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

2005 South Asia earthquake

Thank you for your contribution at 2005 South Asia earthquake. Please keep it up!!! Pradeepsomani (talk)

WikiMedia UK

Hi, saw that you added your name to the list. Hope you can join the IRC session on Sunday. LoopZilla 08:39, 15 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

cleanup taskforce /meta

Accept. (I'll try, we'll see how well I do). RJFJR 04:02, 16 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Prekmurska gibanica

I have expanded the article somewhat. It's still limited to a basic definition though, not much more is possible on an article about food. A recipe is best for wikibooks, and a link has been provided to that page. In the future would it be possible to assign me more science related articles? I understand that I signed up for "Anything", but have more experience with the scientific world (esp. Biology etc.). I have edited the page and relisted myself under the appropriate sections. Thank You. P.S. Good job on the earthquake report. Dariusthegreat88 21:20, 19 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, that looks fine - I have closed the article. You should feel free to pick up any articles you think look intresting from the "unassigned" section of the taskforce page. Articles only get dumped on desks if they have been hanging around for too long! At present I'm not looking after this job (see the Meta refresh task) but will try to remember your request if I do this again. In any case you should always feel free to move tasks from your desk to any other taskforce members desk. Cheers, Andreww 21:12, 19 October 2005 (UTC) (By the way, it's good form to sign your comments to talk pages with four tildas (~~~~).[reply]

Resigned comment. (Odd verb usage, I mean to sign again.)Thank you for the advice. Dariusthegreat88 21:27, 19 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Bduke

Thanks for your comments. What is your interest in computational chemistry and what is your interest in Sheffield - I was born there, but live in Australia now. Bduke 01:32, 1 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Small world - I was also born in Sheffield and I now work in Australia. I use methods from computational chemistry in my research but I'm not going to tell you exactly what that is (because the world realy is far too small). Andreww 08:34, 1 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

World War

Thanks for your comment! I didn't actually intend to go that far, though. I was merging content from an overlapping article, then decided that the exising content of World War was basically crap and decided to be bold and redo the whole thing... -- ChrisO 22:49, 6 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Wikimedia UK

You have expressed an interest in Wikimedia UK. Just to let you know I've posted a draft Memorandum of Association and Articles of Association of the proposed "Wikimedia UK" charitable company on Wikimedia UK/Memorandum of Association and Wikimedia UK/Articles of Association. It is proposed that these will receive initial approval by interested parties at a meeting on 27 November. I will put together a brief agenda for the more formal aspects of that meeting soon. Memo and Arts of Association are a company's constitution, and need to be agreed before the company is formed (though they can be changed at a later date). Please feel free to comment on the relevant talk pages (I'd rather the proposed drafts are left unedited so that it is easy to see what is going on) - particularly if there is something there that you would disagree with at the meeting, details of which can be found on the Wikimedia UK page on Wikimedia Meta-Wiki. Kind regards, jguk 19:17, 15 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Another computational chemist?

Hello! I just wanted to stop by and say a word of greetings! Nice to meet another computational chemist. Would you be able to help expand the article on coupled cluster and vibronic coupling? --HappyCamper 00:44, 3 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Meetup/Birmingham

This is just a reminder that the Birmingham meetup of UK Wikipedians that you have expressed an interst in is happening tomorrow. Sorry for the short notice. Thryduulf 15:23, 20 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Grid computing

Hi Andrew, nice to see others participating in the Grid Computing revision, doing it on my own would have somehow been against the Wikipedia ethos. Nice lead suggestion, though I would say it follows the bias (which i share) toward multi organisation Grids over intragrids or enterprise Grids. That said I hadn't actually started putting in new text yet so I am hardly complaining :). I look forward to collaborating on this, I should have a fair bit of time the next 4 days so will take a stab at some of the other sections. Cheers! ora 23:32, 24 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Anglicanism and the Anglican Communion

Hello! I noticed that you have been a contributor to articles on Anglicanism and the Anglican Communion. You may be interested in checking out a new WikiProject - WikiProject Anglicanism. Please consider signing up and participating in this collaborative effort to improve and expand Anglican-related articles! Cheers! Fishhead64 22:25, 11 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Merging Manchester Councillors

Please stop merging Manchester councillors' entries onto the wards they represent. These councillors are elected representatives on a large metropolitan council and are notable. See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Manchester councillors for more information. I am reverting the mergers that you made without allowing people to discuss them. Thegraham 09:09, 2 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Image copyright problem with Image:Antonioruberti.jpg

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London meet is TUESDAY 9th, not Wednesday 10th!

Update: Jimbo got his days of the week confused. This is now happening TUESDAY 9th, same place. You may care to sign up again or not - David Gerard 10:42, 8 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

HMS Cornwall

Nope, Image:HMS Cornwall F99 July 2006.jpg is a pretty useless shot... just from the dock at a low angle, and only representing the forward facing superstructure and bow. I introduced Image:HMS_Cornwall.jpg because it is a good shot of the entire ship. bad·monkey _{talk to the {:()} :: 03:43, 9 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

History of Sheffield

Hi, just a quick note to say thanks for your work on History of Sheffield. You started this article, so I'm sure that you will be pleased to know that it is now a FA. —Jeremy (talk) 03:15, 13 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wikimedia UK Membership query

Hi, I just have a quick query that it would be great if you had time to answer. (I didn't post this on meta as that page is particularly active, but feel free to post your answer there as I'm sure others would be interested in the answers to these questions.)

The concessionary rate currently only seems to apply to under 18s or those on benefits, whereas many charities also allow students to claim the concessionary rate. Was this a deliberate decision? Neither rate is excessive I guess but it would certainly be good if I could pay the lower of the two. (Even that is more say than the student rate of a certain major political party.)

Also just to confirm, as a guarantor member the most I would ever have to pay out in an hypothetical worst case scenario is £1, right?

Thanks in advance,

--cfp 23:32, 15 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

A note that I've answered this on cfp's talk page - I'll put membership FAQ's on meta a little later.

Thanks Andreww. Let me know when you get confirmation that students are entitle to concessionary membership. --cfp 19:22, 16 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I posted the forms last week so you should have them by now hopefully. Let me know if they haven't turned up. --cfp 11:55, 26 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Andrew, you probably need to clarify whether receipt of tax credits, a state benefit, confers eligibility, as well. Steve block Talk 15:08, 22 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yes - receipt of tax credits does imply eligibility for the reduced rate. Andreww 08:13, 29 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The forms have been on my desk under the insurance renewal ones for a couple of weeks - I'll get around to them soon, honest... Shimgray | talk | 17:28, 22 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Andreww 08:13, 29 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I think a mistake has been made; I'm Dutch, yet I recieved a message on my talkpage informing me about Wikimedia UK :-) --Robster1983 14:24, 31 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wikimedia UK

Will sign up next week. Still on holiday. Will talk to you then. Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 23:12, 22 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wikimedia UK

Hi Andreww. I replied to your message on my talk page. --HughCharlesParker (talk - contribs) 20:23, 2 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Singing up.


Hi LoopZilla,

At some point you expressed an interest in supporting Wikimedia UK. We're now ready to begin receiving applications from prospective members. If you would like to join, application forms and further information can be found at: http://www.wikimedia.org.uk/join. Feel free to ask me if you have any questions, either via my user page at the English Wikipedia or by email (andrew.walker@wikimedia.org.uk).

Thanks, Andreww 19:25, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

(Membership officer, Wikimedia UK)

Well, yes, I looked. Gordo 14:10, 30 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of PIE root words

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ArbCom elections are now open!

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Proposed deletion of New Puritans (social movement)

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