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Hi! Thanks for your new article. It looks great. If you would like to start a "draft" of an article, the directions are at Wikipedia:Subpages. For example, you could start your article in User:Concord113/Chateau de Pompignan. The article you did was actually in the main space (i.e., it has been "submitted"), so I have moved it to its correct title... I hope you don't mind! Please keep working on it, it's very good. Thanks for your work and welcome to Wikipedia! -IceCreamAntisocial (talk) 01:19, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

ICA - Thanks for noticing (how...?), and comments. I hadn't realised it was in the main space yet, as I'm still working on basic input and learning markup, and I didn't want obvious corrections at this stage as I've just put some notes in later as markers for me. I just lost a messy link & comment while it was changed. Suppose I should put up a work-in-progress template, but haven't found the right one yet. But thanks again, nice to know someone cares. Concord113 (talk) 01:29, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

ICA - Later - added link successfully from edit conflict page, and learned a bit more, including about you. Fair do's! Concord113 (talk) 01:43, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

I hope you speak French a bit!

Concord mon vieux,

I noticed you did a lot of work at French landscape garden. It is good I think but I have added a lot of links and so forth, and tried to tie it up with the article at René Louis de Girardin and Botanical gardens which we got to GA about a year ago. It seems to me that it is not quite so good idiomatic English as my French is comme une vache espanol, so I have reworded it a little but I hope I have not changed anything to be wrong, so if you could please cast your eye over it some time that would be great. I will continue to work on the article but please, s.v.p., anything I have changed wrongly, please change it back.

Thank you

S.

Hi Simon, nice to hear from you. I'm still new at this, so bear with me. I've reverted your edit, and reworded my original a bit. I've given a ref for their friendship, and while it's not proof, there is more (but no time now).

I've kept most of my words, and hope I can justify them. The buildings weren't really odd, or even eyecatching as such, though they may appear so now to us. They were designed into specific areas of the parc a fabriques (I've called this the park; to distinguish between the entire demesne on the one hand, and the several different types of gardens within the demesne on the other). The follies each created little scenes or evoked moods such as inspiration or melancholy. I've used 'walks' rather than 'paths', because they were specific routes designed in line with whatever was being attempted in the way of affect or effect. Mount Parnassus - the home of the Muses - was interpreted with some literalness, for example: there was a mound all right, and with a good view, but it was surrounded by a typical estate wall and pillared gateway, as if it were a perfectly ordinary (for the times) manor house. You had to have a key to get in.

As for picturesque, what can I say? It seems appropriate; and some follies were designed to be (and remain) mysterious - a 'Gaulish' temple, for example, evoking reverence, but without a known (actually non-existent) religious background ...

I hope this is OK with you, but feel free to improve. Or discuss.

I like the page on French landscape gardens, and may have refs and things to contribute to it later.

PS - I do actually claim to be a native English speaker, though of a non-British dialect. Also French to a useful level.

PPS We need to standardise section heads to minuscules after first cap.

A plus - A (Concord113 (talk) 02:36, 10 February 2011 (UTC))

Ayesha al-Gaddafi — Idi Amin marriage

Can you please tell me the reason you removed my additions regarding the marriage between Ayesha al-Gaddafi — Idi Amin? Was it breaking any Wikipedia policies? Do you have references indicating it wasn't true? Gabiteodoru (talk) 12:15, 28 April 2011 (UTC)

Sorry, G, meant to drop you a line on this. Ayesha was born in 1976 and Amin stayed from April 79 to sometime in 1980. Unlikely that they were married, and no evidence. Just can't see the Colonel marrying his 3-yo daughter to a dictator - no matter how wonderful - who had just lost his country and was lucky to find permanent exile.

Your reference is not directly accessible, so I don't know what it says, but if it claimed they were married I'd have to question its reliability. I'm still trying to find out the name of the guy she did marry, at the age of 30. In Wikipedia it's not really a question of showing that something isn't the case, more the provision of evidence that it is. Hope that's OK - It would be very interesting indeed to the whole world if there were any credible evidence of this marriage. Concord113 (talk) 15:22, 28 April 2011 (UTC)

The reference I added is: http://www.yalibnan.com/2011/03/06/who-are-gaddafi%E2%80%99s-children/ -- is this not working for you? If it does work, is it not trustworthy enough?

Although I'm starting to think that maybe somebody added it to Wikipedia as a joke, and used an offline reference for it, and now many websites just quoted the Wikipedia one. Anyway, I think I'd best leave it up to you -- if you do decide that the sources aren't good enough, please also remove it from the Idi Amin page. Gabiteodoru (talk) 17:16, 28 April 2011 (UTC)

I had checked out the Ya Libnan website before deleting. Again, I just can't see it as reliable. It reads: "Muammar Gaddafi was a close supporter of former Ugandan President Idi Amin. In gratitude, Amin married Gaddafi’s daughter Aisha while in Libya, but she then divorced him." No author is credited, and no source given for the information. It's just so unlikely, and so remarkable if true, that I think it needs much harder evidence before being mentioned at all. I've removed it from the Amin page as well. Hope that's OK; I'd be happy to look at more evidence.Concord113 (talk) 23:00, 28 April 2011 (UTC)

What are your credentials to categorize a website as unreliable for Wikipedia's purposes? Tapered (talk) 23:06, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

Sorry, didn't mean to categorise the whole website as unreliable, merely this unsourced, uncorroborated and unlikely info. I'd be the last person to assert any link between guilt and association. More generally though, I do feel myself qualified to pronounce on the reliability of any website, because I can test it for myself, against other sources and on its own track record over time. And haven't we all read about living people and reliable sources? Concord113 (talk) 00:40, 18 August 2011 (UTC)

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