User talk:MichaelMaggs/Archive/2013


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Query

Dear Michael, for our student textbook about Charles Darwin we want to use two of your nice photos: Lyme-regis sediments; Chtalamus stellatus. Although you are bothered with copyright issues we will appreciate if we can kindly ask you for permission to use your two photos. Of course your name appears in the list of figures together with a hint of the licence conditions. With best regards Paul

Prof. Paul Wrede Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin Molekularbiologie und Bioinformatik Arnimallee 22 14195 Berlin (Germany) Tel.: 030-8387-1349 --Paul wrede (talk) 16:12, 19 August 2012 (UTC) --Paul wrede (talk) 15:23, 1 September 2012 (UTC)

 
Galanthus nivalis (snowdrop) flower
Yes, that's fine. MichaelMaggs (talk) 16:41, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

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Your response to the current Signpost's op-ed

Hi MichaelMaggs, it is good to see you around active back again. I noticed your draft for a response and I would like to see it published. I'm in particular fond of the historical reference to the Tragedy of the Commons, this makes it a really good read right from the beginning. It is also good that you take some time to elaborate how Commons serves also other projects with other needs. I am not sure whether its length is a problem and if it is good to attempt to summarize the main strands of argument of two important debates. But it is definitively good to invite the readers to the current discussion at Commons. Best regards, AFBorchert (talk) 18:45, 19 June 2013 (UTC)

Hi again, many thanks for your kind comments. I'm not sure if the Signpost editor will accept the piece, but I expect he will make a decision timorrow. In the meantime, any suggestions you may have for improvement are welcome at Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Boneyard/Newsroom/Submissions#A response to 'The tragedy of Wikipedia's commons'. --MichaelMaggs (talk) 21:11, 19 June 2013 (UTC)

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Uploading images on Listed monuments for Wiki Loves Monuments competition

Hi Michael,

I thought I would have a look at what is needed on the Grade I Listed Buildings list for Buckinghamshire for St Mary's Church Chesham. All fine on the text boxes but despite all my efforts I could not get the chuch image from Commons to format properly in the table. It seems to require a different configuration than the usual tables I am familiar with. I also tried the info box approach without success. Despite being pretty experienced and used of a 'try until it work's approach I am stumpted this time! Any ideas on the formate required for images? Tmol42 (talk) 17:44, 9 August 2013 (UTC)

Hi, have a look at Grade I listed buildings in Bristol for a list that has embedded images. Each row in the template looks something like this:
{{EH listed building row
| name = [[Avon Bridge]] 
| location = Whitby Rd, Brislington
| type = Bridge
| completed = {{sort|28|1839}}
| show_architect = yes
| architect = [[Isambard Kingdom Brunel]]
| show_listed = yes
| date_listed = 8 June 1990
| grid_ref = ST613724
| lat = 51.449707
| lon = -2.557578
| uid = 1219892
| show_img = yes
| image = Avonbridge.JPG
| show_ref = yes
| reference = <ref name="avonbridge">{{cite web | title=Avon Bridge | work=Images of England | url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details /default.aspx?id=380854 | accessdate=2007-03-16}}</ref> 
}} 

Hope that helps. --MichaelMaggs (talk) 18:56, 9 August 2013 (UTC) =

Yes it did, the minimalist approach which I failed to try!,thanks.Tmol42 (talk) 23:39, 9 August 2013 (UTC)

WLM & listed building dates

Please note the issue I have raised at User talk:Nev1#Listed building dates. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:18, 9 August 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know. --MichaelMaggs (talk) 21:05, 9 August 2013 (UTC)

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Listing building row

Hi, I was wondering what the |upload_desc= in the {{EH listed building row}} template is for. Is it it be edited as per the |name= field or should it remain as a record of what was uploaded? Keith D (talk) 15:05, 11 August 2013 (UTC)

Not sure I'm afraid, as I have not been doing the uploads myself. Where do you find that field in use, as it doesn't appear in the finished list at Grade I listed buildings in Bristol (see the example given in the section above). If you could let me know I'll have to go away and find out the answer for you. --MichaelMaggs (talk) 15:42, 11 August 2013 (UTC)
It is in the pages loaded by Nev1 as an example see Grade I listed buildings in the East Riding of Yorkshire Keith D (talk) 11:13, 13 August 2013 (UTC)
OK, I see it now. That field is not actually needed (or used), and I believe was just included by default by one or two uploaders. You can safely ignore it, or even delete it if you're feeling really helpful :) If you look at Commons:Commons talk:Wiki Loves Monuments 2013 in the United Kingdom/Organizers' help desk you can see details of the typical format (which is the same as mentioned above). --MichaelMaggs (talk) 12:44, 16 August 2013 (UTC)

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Scandale Beck

I created Scandale Beck last year, and other streams connected with Packhorse bridges. I have worked on or created several bridge articles. I am in Pennsylvania, but I know I can work on the databases and particular bridges in England. I suggest that you expand the notice you posted on the bridge project about editors who are not local, but can help, given the proper direction. I will poke around myself, but expand your call for help to the whole world.--DThomsen8 (talk) 17:37, 22 August 2013 (UTC)

Thanks. Help was requested from a number of international projects, including Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Architecture, but anything you can do to spread the word more widely would be great. Regards, --MichaelMaggs (talk) 07:50, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

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The Wales Coast Path WikiProject

 

As a member of WikiProject Wales, WikiProject Cardiff or an user who has contributed to Welsh articles we invite you to contribute to a new project, Living Paths!: articles, images, translations... Lonely Planet rated the coast of Wales "the best region on Earth" in 2012, yet there is a very low number of articles on the history and culture of places along the Coastal Path. This promises to be an exciting project as it gathers momentum with many Users joining in across the world.

If you are interested in training groups in Wales, please leave a message on the Talk Page.
Let's make this WikiProject, like the path itself, the best on earth! And let's put Wales back on the map!

Diolch Michael!

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