User talk:DuncanHill
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[edit] Thanks and some suggestions
Thanks for your edits to Augustus Matthiessen, William Mitchinson Hicks and Thomas Lewis (cardiologist). Would you mind if I asked how you found the articles? I created several others at the same time, and I've been asking those who edit them how they found them. The others (one, the last one, created a long time ago, the others more recent) are: George Fownes, Thomas Snow Beck, Martin Barry, John Allan Broun, Henry John Carter, Arthur William Rucker, Walter Gardiner, William Carmichael McIntosh, Harold Baily Dixon, and Ramsay Heatley Traquair. I also noticed you added Category:Recipients of the Copley Medal. There have been discussions before about whether lists or categories are best for awards. Copley Medal has both. Royal Medal only has a list. What do you think should be done for awards? Both or just a list? Carcharoth (talk) 12:37, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
- Hicks I found while dabbing Launceston. Matthiessen and Fownes I found because I still had User talk:Stone watchlisted after suggesting a link correction to him recently. Lewis I found because your message on Stone's talkpage interested me - so I got nosey and had a look in your contributions! I think "history of science biographies" are really important for the Wikipedia.
- As to categories or lists for awards - for really significant awards (and I would include the Copley and the Royal medals in this) I like both. I suppose my rule of thumb would be - if it is a major award by a national learned society then it should have a category. Minor awards (e.g. research funds) or awards by sub-national societies then probably a list would suffice. I don't know if there is any policy or consensus on this, that's just my feelings. DuncanHill (talk) 12:47, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
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- That's my feelings as well. Nobel Prize is the obvious category one. Also needs to be established and ideally every winner will have an article for there to be a category. The list is the chronological and annotated content. The category is the alphabetical index, though if the list is a sortable table, that can be done at the list rather than a category, though the category can be useful for other reasons. Carcharoth (talk) 12:51, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] distubing the natives...
Hi Duncan .... I have tried to clear this up by amending the article. The Mundys are a strong Derby family ... this particular one was born in Leicestershire. I think you get "nationality" from parentage, birthplace and by living there .... he gets it from parentage vand ancestral home. OK? Victuallers (talk) 12:11, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
- Hmmm.... but nativity is birth. One's native county is where one was born, surely? DuncanHill (talk) 12:13, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Thanks man.....
Thanks man,for helping me out.--Ichozo (talk) 22:36, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
- That's quite alright! Wikipedia can be hard to find your way around at first. Best wishes, DuncanHill (talk) 22:47, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] WP:AN
Your comment got my back up and I may have responded in such a way that might escalate a disagreement of opinion, rather than cool it. I imagine that our opinions of this situation will remain different, nevertheless, please accept my apologies. Seraphim♥Whipp 21:08, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
- Thank you - of course they are accepted. DuncanHill (talk) 21:10, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Your suggestion
DuncanHill, your suggestion here [1] was priceless. I had myself a wonderfully satisfying laugh. Thank you! Cheers, --SimpleParadox 23:02, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Penzance Natural History and Antiquarian Society
Reverend Canon Rogers - presumably John Rogers (divine), Carew Davies Gilbert, grandson of Davies Gilbert - hope this project goes well Vernon White . . . Talk 15:33, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
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- Thanks. DuncanHill (talk) 21:31, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
