User talk:Martin TB

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OBE

I just saw your note about OBE on my friend Blankfaze's talk page. I'm just dropping a note to second no OBE in the title. See Julie Goodyear to have a sample in mind. Mike H 16:01, Jul 10, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks. I have had a look at that page. I have just returned from a short holiday and will be working on Arlene's page this week. I still need to check a few facts but she is in Las Vegas atm. --Martin TB 13:40, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC)

thanks M

thanks, Martin: for leaping right in a helping wikify my Jules Guerin effort. I saw a need for it when I ran into a RED Jules Guerin. elsewhere, Lincoln Memorial , and sort of threw it together. In fact it's not done yet, so perhaps you can have at it again? Carptrash 20:33, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)

• I'll be happy to help. I'm still getting to know how many wiki-links to put in which is why I only did the obvious ones. Martin TB 20:47, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Image widths

Well... "regulation" is a bit of a joke/exaggeration on my part, but there is a general guideline that most images should be 225px wide, unless there's some special reason. It's only a guideline though: feel free to break it if it improves an article. However, the use of similar widths for images tends to give an unobtrusive neatness to the layout of articles; for example, if all album covers are 225px wide, they all look nice and regular. -- The Anome 18:15, Nov 11, 2004 (UTC)

Image permission

Hi Martin, getting permission for the image would be great, but make sure you ask for permission to use it under the terms of the GFDL. Images with permission granted only for Wikipedia are likely to be deleted. It needs to freely usable by reusers of Wikipedia's content.

You could put a copy of the email on the image description page, although perhaps something more organised should be started, such as storing it in one of the non-public mailing lists. If you get the permission via email, try forwarding it to info-en@wikimedia(dotorg) and it could be saved in there. Angela. 23:42, Nov 11, 2004 (UTC)

Kate Bush

I don't think there's any hard and fast rules. It might be simplest to have the one albumbox and a lvl 2 "Track listing" with two lvl 3 "Volume I" & "Volume 2", especially if the details are going to be nearly identical. Just remember to put the release dates for the original releases, and not the boxset, in the table. But really, just do it the way you think will look best, if it doesn't you can always change it after. You could, of course, just do two separate articles, one for each volume, and then just mention that each was also in a boxset with the other, if you wanted. (Oh, and song titles should go in "quotes" not italics ;) - 16:28, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC) Lee (talk)

Well, I can't offer much in the way of justification for the decision regarding song titles, I can only point to Wikipedia:WikiProject Music#Albums, bands, and songs#4 as the place where it's located (it's also mentioned at Wikipedia:WikiProject Albums#Style). - 17:28, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC) Lee (talk)