User talk:Motacilla/Archive awards & DYKs

Barnstar

		The Article Rescue Barnstar
		For saving Watlington and Princes Risborough Railway from Proposed Deletion. Excellent work! BencherliteTalk 18:58, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

If you see anything else in this user's contributions that you can save, please help... Bencherlite^Talk 20:47, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

No problem. Incidentally, the only text of that other deleted article was "This concern operated ironstone mining at Hook Norton in Oxfordshire" - so not much to work with, alas! Bencherlite^Talk 15:47, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

DYK for St Mary's Church, North Leigh

On November 4, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article St Mary's Church, North Leigh, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits your article got while on the front page (here's how) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Bencherlite^Talk 20:42, 4 November 2009 (UTC)

DYK for St Peter ad Vincula, South Newington

On November 20, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article St Peter ad Vincula, South Newington, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits your article got while on the front page (here's how) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Materialscientist (talk) 07:00, 20 November 2009 (UTC)

DYK for St Matthew's Church, Langford

The DYK project (nominate) 06:02, 21 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK for T. Lawrence Dale

—HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 16:04, 22 March 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Palestine Railways H class

Materialscientist (talk) 12:02, 10 June 2011 (UTC)

DYK nomination of SS Wandle (1932)

Hello! Your submission of SS Wandle (1932) at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Article OCNative (talk) 05:59, 22 June 2011 (UTC)

DYK for SS Lanthorn

Materialscientist (talk) 16:05, 8 July 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Westcott Barton

Casliber (talk · contribs) 16:02, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	Thank you for the excellent article on the flat-iron collier WANDLE, which I would like to use as a basis for a chapter in my book about Admiralty Rescue Towage and Salvage, with credits. I have three photographs of WANDLE which you may like - they are: as the salvage ship found her, alongside and shoring up the bulkhead. Droxford Navigator (talk) 15:22, 16 April 2012 (UTC)

Thankyou very much for the barnstar and message. I apologise for my delay in replying. Unfortunately in the last two months I have had rather too much to handle in the real World for me to keep up with developments on Wikipedia as well.

Most of the SS Wandle (1932) article simply re-tells the account of her war service in the Central Office of Information book British Coaster: The Official Story that was published in 1947. You are welcome to cite Wikipedia but the COI book is the primary source. If you don't have a copy, it is worth seeking via http://www.bookfinder.com.

Your photographs of SS Wandle sound highly relevant to her history. If you would agree to adding them to the Wikipedia article, I am sure they would improve it. If the photos are non-copyright or if you can obtain copyright waivers for them, please will you upload them to WikiMedia? This is the repository of millions of photos and other materials that contributors use to illustrate Wikipedia articles. Thankyou, Motacilla (talk) 00:13, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

DYK for John Knibb

Orlady (talk) 16:07, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

Congratulations on the good work on the above article! If you have any material which may be of use to expand the article of another clockmaker, your assistance would be very much appreciated. Regards, --Ohconfucius ^¡digame! 22:09, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

Thankyou for the message and kind words. I have only a few references to Thwaites & Reed. Cyril Beeson in his Clockmaking in Oxfordshire says Aynsworth Thwaites, John Thwaites or their successors supplied turret clocks for Garsington parish church (1796), Merton College, Oxford (1813), Balliol College, Oxford (1838) and Worcester College, Oxford (1856). Beeson says there is a biography of John Thwaites by Buggins and Devereux in the June 1956 edition of Antiquarian Horology and the Proceedings of the Antiquarian Horological Society.

Due to demands in the real World my Wikipedia contributions are currently rather intermittent. It may be a few weeks before I manage to add the above details to the Thwaites & Reed article. Best wishes, Motacilla (talk) 00:53, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

DYK for William Beale (aviator)

Graeme Bartlett (talk) 16:03, 29 July 2012 (UTC)

DYK for SS Patria (1913)

Chamal ^T•C 16:37, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

DYK for SS Anselm

Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 15:17, 16 December 2013 (UTC)

DYK for SS Oropesa

Harrias ^talk 13:48, 19 December 2013 (UTC)

DYK for SS Gasfire

Harrias ^talk 12:03, 23 December 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the DYK nomination! If you like reading about old coasters at war, did you see the new SS Abukir article I added? I found its final voyage quite poignant. Best wishes, Motacilla (talk) 10:06, 24 December 2013 (UTC)

DYK for SS Abukir

The DYK project (nominate) 00:04, 3 January 2014 (UTC)

DYK for SS Umona

The DYK project (nominate) 16:03, 4 January 2014 (UTC)