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== Revived interest in Infernal Affairs ==

Invitation to participate in the poll for Infernal Affairs.

From your edits for the film ''[[Infernal Affairs]]'' there is presently a poll taking place on ''[[The Departed]]'' film Talk page regarding whether you believe a separate subsection should be included for (a) ''[[Infernal Affairs]]'' as a source for the plot of ''[[The Departed]]'' film, and/or (b) a second subsection for the recently captured crime figure [[Whitey Bulger]] as the source for the character played by Jack Nicholson in the film.

The recent capture of Bulger has revived the question from two years ago of ''[[Infernal Affairs]]'' from when it did have a separate subsection on ''[[The Departed]]'' film page which was deleted by User:RepublicanJ, now known as User:OldJ. Invite to visit ''[[The Departed]]'' Talk page, to the Bulger section at the end of the Page, to participate in the Poll currently taking place. [[Special:Contributions/208.120.96.227|208.120.96.227]] ([[User talk:208.120.96.227|talk]]) 11:12, 7 September 2013 (UTC)

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For earlier posts, see User:Mervyn/Archive01.

EW charity template (formerly UK charity )

As someone who's shown an interest in this template, please have a look at Template talk:EW charity and let me know what you think. Thanks. PamD (talk) 23:07, 28 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I think we've now got it cracked, having been told a URL formula by a new helpful contact at the CC - please check a few charities and let me know if any problems. Thanks. PamD (talk) 17:42, 5 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Wikimania Oxford bid

Some time ago you indicated your support of the Oxford 2010 Wikimania Bid, and it was recieved with much gratitude. I now ask if you could could help support our bid by contributing to the bid page that is located at: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2010/Bids/Oxford. Now is the critical period for work to continue on the bid as the official bidding period has now started and the jury has been formed.

I do not ask for huge swathes of time, just enough that with eveyrone working on this, it can be completed in time to the high standard required in a bid. For the bid page, an excellent source of information is the travel wiki article on the City of Oxford which is found at: http://wikitravel.org/en/Oxford. The chance of bringing Wikimania to the UK is the best so far and i expect the best chance for many years. With a fresh and stong UK chapter we have an amazing opportunity to put ourselves on the map. If you have any questions, please mail them to the Wikimedia UK mailing list, email me or post a message on my talk page and i will answer as quickly as possible.

I look forward to working with you on the bid page. Many Thanks. Seddσn talk 15:13, 31 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Mervyn

I am the Adam Nicolson whose page you keep re-editing for me. I am a professional writer and I don't want people who look me up on Wikipedia immediately to be re-directed to a page that announces in 5 foot high letters that I have, through no fault of my own, become 5th Baron Carnock. This is a labelling issue. Can I please ask you, as I don't know how to manipulate the title of a page in Wikipedia, to remove the redirect instruction from the page called simply 'Adam Nicolson', so that all the information currently to be found on the page entitled 'Adam Nicolson, 5th Baron Carnock' is found there instead.

with many thanks for your understanding

Adam

86.141.5.138 (talk) 17:36, 25 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Another WP user moved the page name - I cannot move it over the redirect, but will ask an admin to move it for you. --mervyn (talk) 19:47, 25 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks, Adam —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.141.5.138 (talk) 05:19, 26 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Adam, my apologies. I've moved your article back to the original title. We do usually mention noble titles in the first sentence (rather than the title) even for noblemen who don't use them—see Michael Ancram for instance—but I've noted that (if I understand your remarks correctly) you don't currently use the title. I hope you find this suitable; you can contact me at my talk page if you have any further concerns or objections and I'll do my best to accommodate you. Choess (talk) 13:25, 26 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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"Factory" museums without articles of their own are mentioned seperately at the top of the section. Johnbod (talk) 14:51, 12 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Proposed deletion of Bedford & Milton Keynes Waterway Trust

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No third party sourcing; no actual demonstration of notability. Charity registration and a self-produced video at YouTube are not enough to satisfy minimum notability requirements. Has the organization ever gotten a canal built? Or even gotten press coverage?

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Thanks for picking up on this ad making it an articleDjflem (talk) 09:24, 18 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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are you naked

In case you did not listen to the podcast, are you naked is the literal translation of a greeting in an African language. --JWSchmidt (talk) 03:22, 24 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Possible move of Nazi plunder

I have started a discussion on possibly moving Nazi plunder. As you are currently a reasonably active editor, as well as a past contributor to the article, I hope you can find some time to make comments at renaming Nazi plunder. Unschool 17:47, 4 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Welda

Thanks for the translation of the article. How did you find/select it?-- Regards--Warboerde (talk) 19:58, 26 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I have a friend who lives there, so was interested in putting it into English. Have left out many paragraphs for now, hope to expand it. Thanks,--mervyn (talk) 21:46, 26 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

A friend in Welda? If you need some help on the article, please let me know. By the way, there was another military event in 1703, I try to find more info about it. Regards--Warboerde (talk) 22:48, 26 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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William Chaloner

Hello Mervyn, I would appreciate a few moments of help from you. I started an article on William Chaloner, a forger of notes and coins, but have got my syntax/grammar/readability knotted up by his habit of forging coins by forging metal, both molten and with a hammer and dye. If you can improve the readability I will be grateful. Thanks. Autodidactyl (talk) 13:39, 8 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Autodidactyl (talk) 14:56, 8 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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I created the English language wikipedia page for Klee by translating the German one using Google and some guessing, however, I'm at de-0. You may want to take a look at what I've done (and *please* correct).Naraht (talk) 17:35, 28 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Unblock

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Mervyn (block logactive blocksglobal blockscontribsdeleted contribsfilter logcreation logchange block settingsunblockcheckuser (log))


Request reason:

I am a long established User

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You're not directly blocked, chances are you've been caught in an autoblock. Follow the instructions it gives in your block message Jac16888Talk 13:31, 10 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]


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Ship help?

Hello, doing a link check I noticed an article I just published had a link from your list of ships page. If you have a moment, could you take a quick look at Cleopatra's Barge for a review? I am a landlubber myself but the ship happened to intersect some other topics I was working on. An interesting story I think. Thanks for any help, e.g. if I got the nautical terminology right etc. W Nowicki (talk) 01:35, 11 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Roald Dahl task force

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sillybillypiggytalk to me sign! 16:02, 12 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Mervyn. You know enough about school articles by now to have probably been able to make a proper job of this. Take this one as an example: HCGS, and if you show willing I'll look in and help the article along. --Kudpung (talk) 11:38, 6 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, just a quick start for now! --Mervyn (talk) 12:29, 6 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Newsletter September 2010

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Newsletter October 2010

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Newsletter November 2010

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  • The project's most popular page in September was Harry Potter which received 481902 views throughout the month. That means that it received on average 16063 views each day. It's a GA which is Top importance within the project's scope. To see more popular pages head over to the list now.
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Conversion of old monetary values to modern equivalents

Hello Mervyn,

I have a question that I don't even know the right words to use to ask of Wiki, so I wonder if you know the best way to appreciate/convert old monetary values. Is there a template(s), a table(s), a page(s) that I have never found?

  • How much would 1,000 dollars from 1900 be worth today? .... in dollars? ...in pounds sterling?
  • How much would 1,000 French Francs from 1900 be worth today? .... in dollars? ...in Euros? ...in a working man's wages? ...in loaves of bread?

I'm not asking for the answers to the above, I am interested in the method/tables etc.

Many thanks Chienlit (talk) 13:49, 9 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, You need an "inflation calculator" - have a look at the links here... http://projects.exeter.ac.uk/RDavies/arian/current/howmuch.html
Hope that helps, --Mervyn (talk) 15:05, 9 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you. Very interesting. I assume there is no magic page in Wiki, but at least I now know which ball-park to search in and which words to use. Many thanks. Chienlit (talk) 21:17, 9 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
... I thought you might like to know how useful the "inflation calculator" link is already (Léon Lemartin) although the article still needs a bit of polishing. Many thanks (in advance )Chienlit (talk) 13:27, 10 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Sid Ferris

Hello Mervyn, I have received this note from Ohconfucius about Sid Ferris. ...

I would just like to compliment you on your nice little article on the above. As the cigarette card image is now PD, I have put it onto Commons. I also note that the UK National Archives has 9 pages of autobiographical notes by Sid Ferris, written on headed notepaper of the Vegetarian Cycling & Athletic Club donated to it by Raleigh. I don't know if it is possible for you or someone else in the UK to go and access this (Archives record number:DD/RN/4/86/2/2-10) --Ohconfucius ¡digame! 06:25, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

... Do you know how to get at the National Archive records that he links to? Regards. Chienlit (talk) 10:29, 10 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

  • Hi Mervyn, Sorry I troubled you. It appears that I would have to travel to Nottingham and ask a dusty old archivist to find a dusty old shoe box containing the papers. Only the index is online. ...and they charge 50p per click if I use my own camera. I hope that you didn't waste any time on this. Regards Chienlit (talk) 16:43, 10 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Citation for Tiffany Blue RGB?

hi Mervyn, you created the InfoBox for the Tiffany Blue article back in 2007. Is there a public source documenting that the Tiffany Blue color is RGB #0ABAB5? The Tiffany Blue-ish graphics on the tiffany.com website are RGB #81D8D0. Runtime (talk) 04:53, 29 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Not sure I can find anything now. May just have been my best guess at the time! Those carefree days of 2007! Feel free to change. Thanks.--Mervyn (talk) 08:42, 29 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Sounds good. Thanks! Runtime (talk) 07:26, 3 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Hiallt

Hello Mervyn,

May I ask you for a small favour, please? I have created the page on Hiallt, an obscure Viking whose DNA has had a disproportionate(ly bad) effect on the world, but I am not confident of the veracity of my reading of the chart of his ancestral lineage. The reference Google books, The British Chronicles, Volume 2 By David Hughes, Page 527 shows his family chart, and I believe it shows that Hiallt was the great, great, great, great, great grandson of Ogier the Dane (aka Holgar "Danske"). But I am not familiar with such charts, and I am not sure if the minimal entries for Ivar and Magnus represent full generations, &/or illegitimacy, &/or insufficient information, or something else. Could you please take a look and explain/correct any misunderstanding. Many thanks Chienlit (talk) 16:43, 7 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

p.s. I am also uncomfortable with writing great great great ... but regard it as 'work in progress' that some kind soul ( :-) ) may also improve.

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Hi, I am writing a Norwegian article about the poet, and I am wondering if you can help me with a problem. His wife is said to be Salina Robinson Henley, but in the article about their daughter, Margaret Henley, she is named as Anna Boyle, a sister of a former school mate of him. I have found references to both. So, did he have two wives, or is one of the names wrong? --Finn Bjørklid (talk) 01:10, 7 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Oxford Meetup 4

Thank you for attending the third Oxford Meetup, and it was a pleasure meeting you. We hope to keep this as a regular event, every two months, on the first Sunday of the month (in order not to clash with London [second Sunday]). A page has been created about the fourth Oxford Meetup; please sign up if you think that you are able to attend - if the date or venue are unsuitable, please comment at its discussion page.

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The Bugle: Issue LXXXIV, March 2013

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The Bugle: Issue LXXXV, April 2013

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Oxford Meetup 6

Thank you for attending the fifth Oxford Meetup, and it was a pleasure meeting you. I intended to send this message on Monday, but I've been a bit busy, sorry.

Several of us would like to continue with the monthly plan, since trying to make a two-monthly cycle fit into the University terms doesn't work very well. A page has been created about the sixth Oxford Meetup; please sign up if you think that you are able to attend - if the date or venue are unsuitable, please comment at its discussion page.

Please spread the word to anybody else who you think might be interested. The next UK meetups are at: London, 16 June; Manchester, 22 June; and Coventry, 7 July. --Redrose64 (talk) 14:10, 5 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, it was pointed out to me that 7 July 2013 collides with Coventry 8, who have a prior claim to the date. Since nobody has (yet) claimed 14 July for any UK meetups, I have decided that Oxford 6 should be held on 14 July 2013, and not 7 July as previously advertised. In this way, those who wish to attend both may do so. I hope the revised Oxford date is convenient for you; and if it isn't, why not give Coventry a try? --Redrose64 (talk) 15:45, 15 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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The Bugle: Issue LXXXVII, June 2013

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The Bugle: Issue LXXXVIII, July 2013

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The Bugle: Issue LXXXIX, August 2013

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Revived interest in Infernal Affairs

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From your edits for the film Infernal Affairs there is presently a poll taking place on The Departed film Talk page regarding whether you believe a separate subsection should be included for (a) Infernal Affairs as a source for the plot of The Departed film, and/or (b) a second subsection for the recently captured crime figure Whitey Bulger as the source for the character played by Jack Nicholson in the film.

The recent capture of Bulger has revived the question from two years ago of Infernal Affairs from when it did have a separate subsection on The Departed film page which was deleted by User:RepublicanJ, now known as User:OldJ. Invite to visit The Departed Talk page, to the Bulger section at the end of the Page, to participate in the Poll currently taking place. 208.120.96.227 (talk) 11:12, 7 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]