User talk:Nonsenseferret

Disambiguation

Hiya. Well the school in Scarborough used be known as St Augustine's RC , and so I disambiguated the school in Lancashire in anticipation. However I then found that the school in Scarborough is now known as St Augustine's Catholic School. As it does not have 'High' in its name anymore, and the new school title was free and not even redirecting I thought I could go with that name. Bleaney (talk) 22:09, 7 July 2015 (UTC)

Hunt

I made comments on the talk page before undoing your deletion. It is quite inappropriate for you to assert that I did otherwise when the evidence is immediately before your comment. Tibetologist (talk) 10:45, 13 July 2015 (UTC)

@Tibetologist: Making comments is insufficient, you need to build a consensus by making an argument on the talkpage and getting the majority of interested editors to agree with the change BEFORE you make it. Anything else is edit warring, and I'm sure you don't want to go down that road. --ℕ ℱ 10:52, 13 July 2015 (UTC)

Come now, I have been on Wikipedia since 2005. It has never been the practice to have a vote on every single proposed edit and it is clearly also not what has happened (on the basis of the talk page) in the history of this article. You should presume that my edits are intended in good faith. I am happy to see that you allowed the removal of a lot of the POV 'only's and 'just'. I hope you will now agree to the mention of the University Council's decision, since I have pointed out that the article referred to about his non-reinstatement came before the University Council met. You also seem to not mind that I added (effectively at your invitation) mention of Paul Nurse's comment. It seems that it is only the comment to the Today Programme that you really don't want mentioned. If so, it is incumbent upon you to say why you think it is not appropriate. Tibetologist (talk) 11:00, 13 July 2015 (UTC)

As an experienced editor, you should be aware that it is for the person adding material to establish that there is a consensus for the change. If you boldly make a change which is not reverted then that is fine, you can assume that consensus is for inclusion of the material added. If however your boldy made change is reverted, then you can't simply start to engage in a battle of re-reversions. Instead you must establish in a discussion at the talkpage, engaging other editors, that there is a consensus for the change. Making a comment at the talkpage and immediately trying to re-revert does not show at all that there is a consensus. --ℕ ℱ 11:10, 13 July 2015 (UTC)

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Answer to my question

Thank you very much for your prompt answer and welcome.

I will definitely go "boldly" and fix the two articles I've run across. It was just a preliminary concern, as I've seen other somewhat not-so-nice discussions on other WMF sister sites and didn't want to get into an edit war with anyone. But I guess this is how I learn just how far I can go here.

Thanks again.

Humbug26 (talk) 20:34, 18 July 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Micro Bit

 — Chris Woodrich (talk) 12:22, 21 July 2015 (UTC)

Redirects from book to author

Hallo, I see that you created the redirect from Spirals in Time: The Secret Life and Curious Afterlife of Seashells to its author Helen Scales, but you didn't mention the book on her page. Any redirect should land on a page where it's clear why the reader has got there. I've added the book now. (I also made another redirect, from the shorter title Spirals in Time.) Another time, please add the book title to the author's article at the same time as making a redirect there. Thanks. PamD 13:24, 4 August 2015 (UTC)

Though in fact if the redirect is going to the author, in that list it would probably be more helpful not to link the book title, as having two links on one line gives the impression that there is information in two sources. It would also look better if all the book titles in the list were in italics, as that's the convention throughout the encyclopedia. PamD 13:28, 4 August 2015 (UTC)

All good points thanks. Although created as redirects, I will get round to starting articles for those quite soon. There is generally a sufficiency of independent coverage for books on the list. --ℕ ℱ 13:40, 4 August 2015 (UTC)

What is that image on your homepage?

This is a general inquiry if you like. What is that image that you have on your home userpage? It has sparked my interest  ' Olowe2011 ^Talk 22:16, 22 September 2015 (UTC)

See the file details page for full description. commons:File:Ferret_Mk1_'Delilah'_army_registration_'35_BE_22'_owned_by_Grahame_Robinson_pic6.JPG --ℕ ℱ 22:18, 22 September 2015 (UTC)

* Are you interested in these sorts of vehicles or something? I do not mean to pry just kindly curious  ' Olowe2011 ^Talk 22:21, 22 September 2015 (UTC)

Sorry there isn't a better story. No, it's a ferret. Simple as that. --ℕ ℱ 22:22, 22 September 2015 (UTC)

* Its a nice vehicle. I prefer birds myself.  ' Olowe2011 ^Talk 22:24, 22 September 2015 (UTC)

Administrator?

Hi Nonsenseferret. Looking at your editing history, I think that you would make a good administrator. Let me know what you think. If you agree with me, I'll create an RfA page for you. I am the WikiMan (Click here to contact me!) 00:16, 1 October 2015 (UTC)