A.C. Norman

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Spoken article review

Hello! I have provided a review of your Isaac Newton spoken article. Hassocks5489 (tickets please!) 15:40, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

stub template

Hello A.C. Norman,

I saw your new University of Cambridge stub template. Did you know that there's a procedure you're meant to go through before creating new stub types? The idea is that there should be enough articles to make a good-sized category, and that the name chosen should conform to various precedents. If you didn't go through this procedure (which is very straightforward), you should do so now. See WP:STUB for more details.

Stephen Turner (Talk) 11:09, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

I didn't know that, and just went ahead and created the stub type, but you can see that there are plenty of articles here. I think that it would be a good thing for the Wikiproject if we create a Cambridge stub type. I've now duly apologized and asked permission at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals/2008/August, so do please edit that discussion to lend your support, so that Cambridge University stubs don't get deleted! A.C. Norman (talk) 11:46, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

Re: Cambridge University Wikiproject

Thanks for your note. You wrote:

Are you still active in the University of Cambridge Wikiproject? If you look at the history, you'll see that I removed an "inactive" sign placed on it by a Bot, so I'm not sure whether it's fizzled out or not.

To be honest, I'm not sure it ever fizzled in. I do keep an eye on several of the University of Cambridge articles, and I would contribute to WikiProject discussions if it ever got going, but there's never really been any activity on the project page.

PS By convention, new discussions always go at the bottom of talk pages. I noticed a couple of places where you put them at the top.

Stephen Turner (Talk) 15:33, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

ACC Tool

Someone, probably you, requested access to the account creation tool. For security purposes could you please confirm that it was you who made the request so we can approve you, thanks. FunPika 15:59, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

Yes, it was I. Thanks. A.C. Norman (talk) 16:03, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

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Request for IP editing ban

Thanks for your note. The age of the pupils at the school means that they are unlikely to add anything of use to wikipedia - please look at the User contributions to see the vandalism that has gone on. Those older pupils who could potentially add something of significance to an article could do so under their own username. The pupils are educated on the use of wikipedia, but we would prefer that the option is not there for them to perform edits under the IP/Name of the school. Perhaps I could ask your advice on what official steps one should now take. --Browsw (talk) 20:56, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

{{University of Cambridge stub}}

Hi - a stub template or category which you created has been nominated for deletion or renaming at Wikipedia:Stub types for deletion. The stub type, which was not proposed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals, does not meet the standard requirements for a stub type, either through being incorrectly named, ambiguously scoped, or through failure to meet standards relating to the current stub hierarchy or likely size, as explained at Wikipedia:Stub. Please feel free to make any comments at WP:SFD regarding this stub type, and in future, please consider proposing new stub types first! Grutness...wha? 00:17, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for that, and I've added some comments at WP:SFD as you suggested. I'd be happier to see the stub type renamed, rather than got rid of entirely, especially since it is the primary stub type of WikiProject University of Cambridge. A.C. Norman (talk) 06:26, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Email

Did you get my email that I sent a few days ago? Just wondered whether I'd got the right address! Mrh30 (talk) 15:14, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

Rollback

I saw that you asked how to receive rollback, and the page is Wikipedia:Requests_for_permissions. Cheers :D DARTH PANDA^talk 19:57, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

I have given you rollback. Please remember to only use it for blatant vandalism. See Wikipedia:Rollback feature for more info. -- zzuuzz ^(talk) 20:06, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

A mistake?

I presume this was an accidental mistake perhaps? It's probably your first time trying out the new tool. Good luck on using it, and remember to revert vandalism only. Regards, SchfiftyThree 21:46, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

Yes, it was an accident, and I rolled back my own edit immediately afterwards. I'd opened the vandalism diff and its reversion in two tabs on my browser, and I got confused. Apologies. A.C. Norman (talk) 21:49, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

That's okay. It still might have been your first time using rollback anyway (I've had it for 7+ months). I wasn't trying to let you know in a bad way, as I was assuming good faith to let you know about the mistake. As I said before on this post, good luck with rollback! SchfiftyThree 21:54, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

FLC for Wranglers

Can you take a look at Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Wranglers of the University of Cambridge and add your thoughts? Mrh30 (talk) 08:04, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

Sorry - I was on holiday. I'm delighted that the Wranglers' list has been promoted to featured list status, though. Well done for all your efforts on it. A.C. Norman (talk) 19:11, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

Proposed Cambridge meetup

Wikipedia:Meetup/Cambridge 1. Charles Matthews (talk) 11:40, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject History of Science newsletter : Issue V - January 2009

It's here at long last! The January 2009 issue of the WikiProject History of Science newsletter is ready, with exciting news about Darwin Day 2009. Please feel free to make corrections or add news about any project-related content you've been working on. You're receiving this because you are a participant in the History of Science WikiProject. You may read the newsletter or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Yours in discourse --ragesoss (talk) 03:14, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

Cambridge meetup

The second Cambridge meetup is confirmed for this Saturday, 3pm, at CB2 on Norfolk Street: Wikipedia:Meetup/Cambridge 2. Hope to see you there. Charles Matthews (talk) 15:58, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

Community sanctions

All articles related to The Troubles, defined as: any article that could be reasonably construed as being related to The Troubles, Irish nationalism, the Baronetcies, and British nationalism in relation to Ireland falls under WP:1RR. O Fenian (talk) 22:19, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for comment here. As a new editor in this area, I did not realize that community sanctions were involved. I see that you have reverted my edits to the article in question. I had not read WP:TERRORIST, but still feel that "volunteer" is an inappropriate replacement. I shall not edit war, but could we perhaps agree on "bomber"? A.C. Norman (talk) 22:29, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

Bomber is a problem, as he was convicted of conspiracy to cause explosions not actually causing any. But I have no objection to say "IRA member". O Fenian (talk) 22:35, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

OK, I'll agree to that. I just posted on the article's talk page as well - so much more civilized than fighting it out via edits - so perhaps you would lend your support for "member" there, and change the article accordingly. Many thanks. A.C. Norman (talk) 22:38, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

RE:Thanks

No problem :) Jozal ^(talk) 16:12, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

New Article

I am trying to add a new Article, a biography of my father. He is a notable retired Professor in Dentistry in Turkey. His academic books are still yet to be read in all Dentistry Faculties in Turkey. I have the following note on my entry (Mustafa Ülgen - Mustafa Ulgen) could you please help me. "This article may not meet the notability guideline for biographies. Please help to establish notability by adding reliable, secondary sources about the topic. If notability cannot be established, the article is likely to be merged or deleted" Alpsays (talk)

Hi, A.C. Norman. Thanks for your help. I have find a reference on Who's Who in Turkey 1985-1986. Apparently that was the first time Who's Who in Turkey was published. It is not an online resource and written in Turkish, what do I need to do about this (do I need to upload hard copy for reference?) Will this be a credible reference? I also find out that they have an entry about Mustafa Ülgen at the Inegöl Kent(City) Museum, but I need to investigate this further myself (I have heard it as a word of mouth). I have one more question about how to index his work, some of his work is in English, some in Turkish and some in German (Am I suppose to keep the article name as the language it was published or put all of them in English and cite which language they were written in). Thanks for your support --Alpsays (talk) 20:52, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

University of Cambridge GAR notice

University of Cambridge has been nominated for a good article reassessment. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to good article quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status will be removed from the article. Reviewers' concerns are here.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 23:33, 13 June 2009 (UTC)

Looking to be adopted.

I really am having trouble navigating around the site. I am brand new. My goal is to write an article on Modular Fixturing for Welding and need help doing this. Can you help me get started? I have lots of good source material for the article, I can't seem to figure out how to request to write a new article or to create a sub-category, which I assume this would go under welding as Welding Tables or Modular Fixturing?

Any help is appreciated. Thank you.

Kari (bluco1) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bluco1 (talk • contribs) 14:21, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

Latin grammar

Your Latin (vide quoque pagina usoris mea) leaves me confused; paginam usoris meam, surely? --The Sage of Stamford (talk) 21:49, 19 June 2009 (UTC)

mea culpa: homo stupidus sum! A.C. Norman (talk) 12:48, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

Meetup

FYI, the fourth Cambridge meetup will occur on the afternoon of Saturday 1 August. Charles Matthews (talk) 19:12, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

Thank you, but I am out of Cambridge on vacation at present. I must try to make it to one of these meetups at some point! A.C. Norman (talk) 22:05, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

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In need of your help?

Hi, I was wondering if you could give me some tips on editing pages? I'm new to wikipedia (I've visited countless times, but only just made an account). I'm having trouble navigating around the site - theres so much to do! Please respond soon? —Preceding unsigned comment added by LynxxFur (talk • contribs) 12:18, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

Replied to your talk page. A.C. Norman (talk) 16:48, 2 September 2009 (UTC)

Hi my name is Ilya Gazman, I developed new technology which I am selling now and I wont to post an article speaking about my invention. I am new to Wikipedia and would like you to help me with the article.

This is the link to it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Godilya/Zeptouch.

I am not sure where to look for your reply so it may be the best if you will email me a link to the place where you reply to my question.

Tnx a lot,

Ilya Gazman —Preceding unsigned comment added by Godilya (talk • contribs) 09:14, 2 September 2009 (UTC)

I shall reply to your talk page. Just follow the link to there. A.C. Norman (talk) 16:48, 2 September 2009 (UTC)

Possible Rfa

I have seen quite a bit of your work and I believe that you would make a great admin. From what I can tell at the Rfa discussion page they have a shortage of active administrators and are looking for more to fill in the gaps. I would be very willing to nominate you but first I would like to see whether or not you are interested? Go ahead and send me a message at my talk page and I will get back to your shortly.

Regards, Gaelen S.^{Talk • Contribs} 04:28, 21 September 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for your kind comments -- what you have said is a high compliment indeed. I toyed with the idea of putting myself forward for adminship a little while ago, as I think I could make good use of the tools, and would be a suitable candidate, who wouldn't abuse the extra bells and whistles, and so on. However, my knowledge of all the Wikipedia policies is probably not up to scratch (I'm not sure I want to spend the necessary time to answer questions which would come up in an RfA), and my edit count would almost certainly preclude a successful RfA, and again, I don't want to make thousands of vandalism reverts to push it up. In short, I don't think I can be bothered to make the effort to go though RfA, simply to gain a couple of extra buttons which I might then only use occasionally! A.C. Norman (talk) 11:55, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

I understand what you mean. If you ever want a nomination, just let me know. Good Luck!

Regards, Gaelen S.^{Talk • Contribs} 23:27, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

Somewhat new user

Hey, I have been a user on Wikipedia for a some months but I've edited for about 2 months total. I still don't know much about many things here. I do have many questions. Such as How do you delete a REFERENCE...I have deleted sentences that don't really add anything useful in articles and when I delete the ref it gives some weird error message on the bottom of the paragraph. I have asked on the articles talk page but they ignore my question. Also, can you put this persons [1] template on my page. It would have help me a lot when I first got here. Or can I do this myself? and replace the name to the editor who first put my greeting template on my page.AdenR (talk) 07:36, 30 October 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the Template. It helps. I'm currently in a dispute and the consensus article is helping.AdenR (talk) 10:26, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

If you don't mind, I am going to copy your piano userbox.AdenR (talk) 10:35, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

Cambridge meetup 14 November

Another Cambridge meetup is set for the afternoon of Saturday 14 November. Please contribute to the page and come along if you can. Charles Matthews (talk) 20:34, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

I am looking for a Science or Engineering oriented Mentor

I am looking for a mentor who is analytic and science oriented, like an engineer or hard science type, who may know about some or all of these topics - engineering in general, petroleum engineering, geology, botany, ecology, sustainable real estate development, civil engineering, architecture, landscaping, structural engineering, ecological engineering, or has a general engineering background. I would like a mentor who likes articles with an overuse of outline format, with numbers and bullet points to find information for use as a REFERENCE encyclopedia, NOT one who likes expository writing styles written for enjoyment or to be easy to read from start to finsh. I am currently writing an article on Louis Lesser, whose achievements are so vast that EVERY other editor accused me of being a "fraud", "hoax", or "liar" when I first wrote it (and almost all generously changed their minds, one even saying it was the first time they ever did so on an AFD nomination, and others apologizing, after I added reliable sources, organized the article, and deleted the best parts, which I still can not yet find any reliable sources on, per the talk page). HkFnsNGA (talk) 00:40, 2 December 2009 (UTC)

Adoption

adopt me plsJigglyfidders (talk) 20:45, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

I've taken care of it at User talk:Airplaneman#Request, but you're welcome to co-adopt :). Regards, Airplaneman ^talk 22:07, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

Cheers, Airplaneman. I'm mightily busy at the moment, so shan't co-adopt on this occasion. A.C. Norman (talk) 16:01, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

That's fine. Nice to meet you! Airplaneman ^talk 17:50, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:WP UCam cite SO

Template:WP UCam cite SO has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 13:16, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

HELP!

Anti-lasar needs your help! Chrisrus (talk) 02:36, 29 August 2010 (UTC)

Dear sir,

There are several pages which need coordination.

• I started a new page on MFA in response to a need expressed in the Glossary for Resource stocks and Resource flows.
• I discovered that there is already another page on MFA .
• I am aware of many potential links, which need coordination by someone better than I am at Wikipedia editing.
• Therefore will you help me / us?

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Isaac Newton

Plummy accent mate. Wish i could speak as well as you. I learned how to pronounce Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica from your audio. Thank u — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.152.71.113 (talk) 01:07, 19 November 2013 (UTC)

GA nominee

Hai, I have nominated the film article Loham for GA-status. Which is currently on "Hold on" time and there are some corrections to be done before it ends. Mainly copy editing for grammer and writting style. So kindly help me to make it a good article by contributing to the suggestions referred in Talk:Loham. Charles Turing (talk) 18:46, 17 October 2015 (UTC)

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