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Thomas Edward Barnsley OBE FCA (1st September 1919 - 31st August 1992) was a british businessman. He was Managing Director, Tube Investments 1974–1982 and Director, H.P. Bulmer Holdings, 1980–1987. He was the son of Alfred E. Barnsley and Ada F. Nightingale. He married Margaret Gwyneth Llewellin, they had one son and a daughter, Victoria Barnsley. He was awarded OBE in 1975. During the Second World War he was a member of the Friends' Ambulance Unit.

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The article Thomas Barnsley has been proposed for deletion because under Wikipedia policy, all biographies of living persons created after March 18, 2010, must have at least one source that directly supports material in the article.

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He's pretty clearly dead. Bobble hobble dobble (talk) 15:16, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

Did I forget to lol at you lots? Bobble hobble dobble (talk) 17:25, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

Contested changes

Hi, if you make a change and somebody reverts it, it's usually best to discuss it rather than just making the change again.

The naming of former pupils' categories has been DEEPLY contentious - see this HUGE and inconclusive discussion for many of the issues and these three smaller ones which each struck out the "Old Fooians" form. (See also this one which removed similar forms from several Australian schools categories.) Any further proposed change should be run through the category discussion process before making it. Timrollpickering (talk) 19:43, 28 April 2011 (UTC)

OK, yes, good point. Thanks for reverting. You seem awfully committed and intent on not trying to use the most logical system. I hope the small victory makes you proud. btw, "Deeply contentious" largely just to you it seems? I'm not too bothered either way; it just wanted to use the logical system and keep it consistent with the other public school articles. The Old Edwardians discussion is a red herring as it discusses three with the same name, which is clearly not the case here. The Australian schools category appears to be a slightly larger victory for this bizarre view of yours, (I think it is telling that although you agree that the most logical system should not be used, you can't decide on what should be used instead (and indeed the plural of person is persons, not people), but I think we can take some heart in the fact that the big battle appears to be a draw. Keep up the crusade - you might win this bizarre crusade of yours. Bobble hobble dobble (talk) 21:30, 28 April 2011 (UTC)

There's nothing bizarre about preferring category names that say to all what they are over what is largely internal jargon - and you will see many others in the debate with similar views. I am flexible on the precise form because of the differing opinions on using terms like "pupils", "students" and "alumni" but that does not detract from the central point of not using the obscure terms. And "people" is the standard plural, "persons" is largely restricted to formal legal contexts and hypercorrection pedantry. Timrollpickering (talk) 10:51, 29 April 2011 (UTC)

Prince William, Duke of Cambridge

All you had to do was provide the evidence in the form of a reference. Why do you call others breathtakingly stupid? Are you some kind of toff who does nothing else but thinks about this stuff? Nasnema  Chat  18:55, 1 May 2011 (UTC)

Interesting that your name spellchecks to nastiness. Bobble hobble dobble (talk) 19:34, 1 May 2011 (UTC)

I thought it was nausea. The fact is that you should provide references to any claim you make regardless of how OBVIOUS it might be. Nasnema  Chat  21:13, 1 May 2011 (UTC)

No. What happened was I corrected a statement that was false. You then undid that because you were unknowledgeable about the subject and too incompetent to check your facts before reverting. An apology would be nice. Bobble hobble dobble (talk) 12:57, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

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