User talk:David Biddulph

Thank you for explaining "Minor Edits"

Dear David Biddulph,

Thank you for your note of 21 June on my talk page in explanation of Minor Edits regarding my having mislabelled an edit of the Yvonne Wilder page. That particular fault of mine was ongoing from day one, so I appreciate finally having been corrected. I am certainly not as well versed in all the Wiki rules and guidelines as I should like to be, so I very much appreciate any guidance and/or correction that anyone has to offer. I am sure you have better things to do than to follow everything I might write or edit on Wiki, but if you did happen to notice I have never made that mistake regarding a Minor Edit since.

Thank you again for taking the time to shed light on the subject; any and all guidance on writing or editing Wikipedia is most appreciated. And apologies for not having written back to thank you sooner.

Sincerely, Christian Gregory (talk) 02:02, 2 August 2020 (UTC)

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Friend505 11:31, 7 August 2020 (UTC)

rollback not far enough

I don't think this edit achieved what you expected. PamD 12:02, 8 August 2020 (UTC)

Indeed. Thanks for tidying it up. --David Biddulph (talk) 12:04, 8 August 2020 (UTC)

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National Championships

Hi user David Biddulph, just need to check the Kenny Dwan situation, the Times says R V Durham in 1975 and the 1990 reports state Larkin set a new record of four wins, however the Times could have been checking their own records that contained this random name R V Durham so maybe they did not know about the Dwan four wins. I have changed the 1990 note about the record because I presume you are right. let me know if I have missed anything. P.S I hope to some information from British Rowing regarding the Winners Book, they have said they will look into it. Regards Racingmanager (talk) 14:57, 10 August 2020 (UTC)

The late Jim Railton knew Ken Dwan very well, so I'm sure that it wasn't his mistake, but I know from experience that the copy-takers who took telephone reports from correspondents often got things wrong as they obviously don't know the individuals or the subject. [Skulls instead of sculls is one of their favourite errors.]. Although the British Rowing Almanack is not devoid of errors it is generally a more reliable source than The Times. I hope that you are successful in getting BR to reinstate the Nat Champs winners book; Helena Smalman-Smith (of rowingstory.com) was bemoaning its loss just this morning, and I know that one member of the Nat Champs Committee worked hard to get it all scanned. --David Biddulph (talk) 15:14, 10 August 2020 (UTC)

LTA question

Is there a report relating to this editor you reverted? They specialise in adding lengthy lists of attendees to events, generally messing up the job titles of most of the people concerned. I'm just working on an ANI post and I saw that revert when checking the history of an article relating to my complaint. Thank you. FDW777 (talk) 21:30, 11 August 2020 (UTC)

Obviously same as User talk:112.210.60.157, but that was 3 years ago. The admin who gave that IP the 2nd block & referred to LTA may know, but hasn't been active this month. --David Biddulph (talk) 23:27, 11 August 2020 (UTC)

mizoram 2020 august

Sir i am a beginner and am practising and learning many new things on wikipedia day by day . I didnt thought about the problem it can creat . Im really sorry for it . Appreciate your contribs.. on wikipedia . Hope we understand each other . Puipuianunuibuangpuia1 (talk) 16:58, 19 August 2020 (UTC)

what the heck did I do to break that?

... at Talk:KHive? I could have sworn I checked to make sure it looked okay after I finished, but maybe I got distracted and just thought I did? :D Thanks for fixing! —valereee (talk) 17:35, 24 August 2020 (UTC)

Easily done. Computers have minds of their own.  :-) --David Biddulph (talk) 17:57, 24 August 2020 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

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	For reply in Teahouse RIT RAJARSHI (talk) 18:14, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

Kingston

Hi David, Re- Kingston, other events are going to follow but it is much easier to edit them by event rather than search every event for each individual club so please don't revert the honours edits. The plan is to go through all events and add, I hope that makes sense. many thanks Racingmanager (talk) 18:37, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

While it is incomplete you ought to include a note that says so. Perhaps {{under construction |section= yes }}, which you can remove when you've finished? I wonder whether other editors will feel that the length of section that such lists will entail for the successful clubs would be excessive; Leander, for example, have (I think) 80 (or more than 140 including composites), and more in small boat events. --David Biddulph (talk) 18:46, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

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Page Role Back Request

Hello, I was wondering if you could role back East Midlands Railway to my edit at 16:09 on 4 September 2020. User Eyeondevis has removed several sources. A bot has labeled information with citation needed even though this information did have a citation on my last edit. In total this user made 7 edits to remove sources. Thanks E.Wright1852 (talk) 12:29, 5 September 2020 (UTC)

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Page move

I was actually wondering how you moved it back? I was clicking undo on the history page for the Road Roller page but it said the action had already been done or something like that. I then went to the redirect page and there was no way for me to undo it from there. Would you mind if you could tell me how you did it so for next time if it happens, which probably won't, or if I see something like this, I could revert it back? LucasA04 (talk) 20:05, 13 September 2020 (UTC)

Oh never mind, just saw your response on the teahouse. LucasA04 (talk) 20:05, 13 September 2020 (UTC)

I went to Roadrollerda and moved it back from there. --David Biddulph (talk) 20:05, 13 September 2020 (UTC)

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British Rowing Championships

Hi David Biddulph, I wonder if you can help fill in any of the following gaps -

• 1980 MenL8+ RN? maybe Royal Navy
• 1990 Women J16 8+ GW Academy? not College!, is that right
• 1997 Women J8+ N? and KI?,
• 2001 Men L4x Geo? / Women L4x UTC?
• 2005 Open J18 4x UT U?
• 2006 Open U23 2x G?
• 2008 Open L4- W? / Open J18 4- Q?

Many Thanks Racingmanager (talk) 19:54, 16 September 2020 (UTC)

@Racingmanager:

1980 MenL8+ RN? maybe Royal Navy

• yes, Dave Hosking - that crew won the World Champs that year.

1990 Women J16 8+ GW Academy? not College!, is that right

• No; College

1997 Women J8+ N? and KI?,

• Gold: Aberdeen Schs/ George Heriots/ Nithsdale/ George Watsons
• Bronze: Lady Eleanor Holles/ King's Worcester

2001 Men L4x Geo? / Women L4x UTC?

• Men: Aberdeen University/ Leander/ George Watsons/ Marlow
• Women silver: Mortlake Anglian & Alpha/ Globe /Upper Thames

2005 Open J18 4x UT U?

• Llandaff/ Wycliffe College/ Monmouth RC/ Upper Thames

2006 Open U23 2x G?

• Edinburgh University/ Glasgow University

2008 Open L4- W? / Open J18 4- Q?

• OL4- silver: London RC/ Leander/ Durham University/ Wallingford
• OJ18 4-: Durham School/ Bradford GS/ Queen Elizabeth HS

--David Biddulph (talk) 07:37, 17 September 2020 (UTC)

Great help, many thanks Racingmanager (talk) 08:41, 17 September 2020 (UTC)

Military

Hi.Check that article Military. User changed that rankings of militaries, blanked credit suisse source what is kind of academic and added some blog called globalfirepower as a source. I think to it is wrong and to it is just a blog and it looks like a mess. Also on talk page I saw to credit suisse list is used until new relevant source make a new list. So check it maybe it is just some vandalism and that article is protected and me as IP can't revert it or change it. I saw you at talk page about military so for that I contacted you... 178.222.117.254 (talk) 17:24, 24 September 2020 (UTC)