Manxy3

2010 Changes in Manx Government

I have recently made amendments to the pages for Annie Craine and the IOM treasury, taking account of her appointment as Treasury Minister in April 2010. I just thought that you might like (and have the skills I don't have) to update the Politics and Government of the Isle of Man box that appears down the right hand side. Jamesfranklingresham (talk) 14:40, 14 June 2010 (UTC)

Manx elections

Only Onchan to go for 2006. Meanwhile, have you heard of "Isle of Man Election Results 1919-1979" by Tom Sherratt? It 'does exactly what it says on the tin', and I've got a copy which might complete the results. Fys. “Ta fys aym”. 23:36, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

Yes that would be great. Sounds exactly what is needed....Manxy3 12:41, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

Mike Kerruish

Hi, I'm the French writer for the page of fr:John Michael Kerruish. I have noticed you produced a picture of him. Unfortunately I'm unable to use it for the French WP. Would you accept to put it on Wikimedia Commons ? Thanks in advance. Jmdesbois 09:23, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

William Christian (Manx)

The version that you keep reverting to is inproperly formatted and is, as it is, worthless. It gives almost no information on the second person that you say should be at the name. It cites zero references for him that show that what is stated on the page, which is almost nothing, is correct. It also thus has no references, or indications, as to why this second person meets the requirements at WP:NOTE for being included on the project. All these problems need to be dealt with. The page cannot be left in the state you are trying to put it in. I will, when done typing this, revert once more to the redirect, so that the page will be a proper functional pointer to at least one of the people in question until you have the time to create a proper page on the second person of the similar name.

Basically, with two people with similar names, the project needs to figure out a distinguishing difference between them that will let them each have a separately named page. Then a disambiguation page is created at the common name that applies to both. In this case, based on your changes, the common page appears to be William Christian (Manx). If so, this would be where the disambiguation should be built. And the new page for your second William should be given anothe page name that has something to distinguish it from either the disambiguation page or the other William.

But the disambig is not really needed yet. Disambiguation pages are a navigation tool between similarly named pages on the project. Until you are able to create a proper page for the second William, there is no real point to building a disambig at William Christian (Manx), and so it really should remain as a redirect. But when you have a page up somewhere else for the second William, then it would be quite proper to turn William Christian (Manx) into a disambig page. - TexasAndroid 18:19, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

Let's take this discussion to the talk page of William Christian (Manx). This is looking to turn more from general "Wiki how to" to specific discussion of the specific case. I'll write my next comment over there shortly. - TexasAndroid 19:11, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

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Hey manxy3, great work on padding out Manx officials, your work so far shows much-needed wiki-dedication! Just a couple of thoughts for next time you start a biographical article, to integrate it better with the rest of the encyclopaedia:

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Otherwise, congratulations on your good work, and good luck in the future! Hard or good work never goes unnoticed! Jdcooper 18:44, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

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Mark Wilkes

I am afraid that this article duplicates the existing article under the heading of Mark Wilks.

Regards

Plucas58 (talk) 21:29, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

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