User talk:Mapmark

Welcome![edit]

Howdy, Mapmark, Welcome to Wikipedia!

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Be Bold!![edit]

You can find me at my user page or talk page for any questions. Happy editing, and we'll see ya 'round.

Jo e I 00:21, 16 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Greater Manchester[edit]

Hi! I've noticed your excellent work you have been putting in on Wikipedia, particularly for those articles related to the Greater Manchester area.

I also put in simillar kind of work for this area and am most pleased with your contributions. You may wish to add (via copy and paste) the following to your user page (found at User:Mapmark)...

{{User Greater Manchester}}

It enables other users from this area to share knowledge and form a network specifically for the Greater Manchester area.

Hope that helps, keep up the good work. Jhamez84 15:02, 6 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Jhamez[edit]

Thats very kind of you notice my contribs and to send me a message. I dont seem to have a proper user page yet but when I get round to building one I will be proud to add the paste you suggest on Greater Manchester. I mostly use wikipedia late at night after I've done my other work and like many people get caught up in pages I'm interested in and happen to have a bit of knowledge about. I just hope that my contribs are useful and I try and stick to the guidelines but I dont really consider myself an expert so I'm happy to be re-edited! Very pleasing to see a lot of what I've put up has stayed there so I guess I must be doing something right! Also when I get a proper user page I can probably send a neater message back to you Jhamez, as opposed to pasting here where I'm not sure you will ever see it! But once again many thanks for your encouragment and all the best with you posts too. :-) Mark —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Mapmark (talk • contribs) 13:17, 7 December 2006 (UTC).[reply]

Not a problem! Indeed it is most encouraging seeing a new(ish) user contributing with prudence, expertise, and a level head (which is in my experience a rarity!).

Editing level and sophistication will improve with time (indeed I am still by no means an expert, but perhaps a novice), via looking at examples of Wikipedia's best work, and through consulting users for advice and input.

Given your contributions, I want to highlight some important and established practices found on Wikipedia, and answer some of your questions...

You can access your own user page by clicking here - it's yours to edit as and when you please - but does like all pages, ultimately belong to Wikipedia and is best not used to provoke other users.

In talk/discussion pages, don't forget to sign your comments. You do this by typing "~~~~" (4 x ~). It just lets users know who wrote what and when, and is considered good manners.

Another point for ensuring that other users know what and how you are editting, when contributing to an article, there is a small field labeled "Summary" under the main edit-box. It looks like this:

It is highly recommended that users fill in the edit summary field with a breif statement of how and what they are contributing, as it makes it easier for you and your fellow contributors to understand what has changed, and is helpful when going through the history of the page.

Finally, and somewhat sadly, vandalism is rife on Wikipedia, and should you take an interest in Greater Manchester and other divisions of England's lands like myself, there is a policy on how they should be treated. I've added a summery of a major policy of Wikipedia below for ease, outlining a ruling on how modern geography should be presented (naturally I am in agreement with this).

Wikipedia:Naming conventions (places) Counties of Britain

This page in a nutshell: All Wikipedia articles about an existing British settlement or locality should use the current, administrative, county (e.g. Greater Manchester). Metropolitan counties, and other such modern counties, should be treated as counties and as a primary geographic reference frame. We should not take the minority position that the historic counties still exist with the former boundaries.

Many thanks for the contact Mapmark. I hope a few of those points will aid you in your forthcoming additions on Wikipedia, and steer you away from some of the mistakes I made initially. If ever you would like advise or an answer to how to perform more technical edits, do please get in touch! Regards, Jhamez84 23:03, 7 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Beijing Subway Plan[edit]

Hi,

No, I'm not affiliated with either the Olympics or the Beijing Subway; I'm just an enthusiast. I've uploaded an updated version of the map without the watermark. As for permission, the image is under the GFDL license, essentially meaning that you can use it for anything as long as you also provide, along with the distribution, the source of the image and the GFDL license in some form. The full text is here:

Wikipedia:Text_of_the_GNU_Free_Documentation_License

-- ran (talk) 09:10, 5 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi,

I don't have any contacts with the Beijing Subway, and I don't have any photographs of the official Beijing Subway map. -- ran (talk) 18:31, 7 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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The reason I nominated the image for deletion is that it is not currently used in any articles. Wikipedia does not host orphan images. Can you add the image to an appropriate article? -Thanks Nv8200p talk 00:12, 28 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I also deleted Image:Metrolink 3a In-Car Diagram V4 new.jpg. a few days ago because somehow the image got corrupted. Maybe you are thinking about this image instead? If so, can you re-upload because something happened to the image and it would not display properly. -Regards, Nv8200p talk 00:18, 28 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

OK I can see what's happened now and after posting to you I understood what "orphaned" meant! Yep the image that got corrupted I will find again (cant right now as not on the correct machine) and re jupload. The one you deleted was indeed "orphaned" coz i'd found a better version (the one that got ssomehow got corrupted afterwards!) SO: thanks so much for pointing that all out and hope to have the new image back up in a day or two. Cheers, Mark talk 01:28, 28 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Just wanted to say[edit]

That I like your username! --Lamadude (talk) 14:26, 8 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Check this out[edit]

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2000s (Decade) | Names of the Decade[edit]

Would you be able to provide an opinion on the "Names of the Decade" rewrite debate?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:2000s_(decade)#Request_for_consensus_concerning:_Names_of_the_decade

Thanks. Artx (talk) 20:15, 3 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Twopenneth duly added! :-) --Mapmark (talk) 22:49, 3 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Jeremy Tankard[edit]

Hello, thanks for your edits to the Jeremy Tankard article. I see you and another account and IP have made a lot of changes, most of which are really good improvements.

However, I see that some details, like date and place of birth, are unsourced and I'm guessing are from personal knowledge - would I be right in thinking that you know Mr. Tankard? Unless there's a published source for this information (e.g. on Mr. Tankard's website or an interview), it might be best to remove it, since it's a problem if we have information on living people that can't be verified.

Let me know what you think. Blythwood (talk) 07:58, 26 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Yes indeed I did and thanks for your notes and appreciation Blythwood. Not helped with a living person's article for a while so hadn't realised that such verifications were needed and for sure I will attempt to find some. Wee bit busy for next week so if by chance you spot one in those places and can add before me do please go ahead. And thanks again for having started the article. (I do know him professionally yes). :-)

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