User talk:93gregsonl2

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WP:LANCS

Hello there 93gregsonl2! Thanks for your contributions to England's northwest. I have suggested a strategy for the WP:LANCS WikiProject you set up to incorporate Cumbrian content also. This is, by chance, inline with a discussion about lapsed county projects at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_England#Wikipedia:WikiProject_Greater_South_East. I would welcome your input at the WP:LANCS talk page. --Jza84 | Talk 15:17, 14 September 2009 (UTC) I would be happy to contribute things to the Lancashire project, but I don't have very much time to edit nowadays.AFCR (talk) 13:18, 14 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You beat me to it!

Just noticed Southport gas holder. I was going to create this article a few weeks back, but never got around to it. :) Small-town hero (talk) 23:31, 15 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I created it quite a few weeks back, but please try to improve it. I am looking forward to your contributions. 93gregsonl2 (talk) 07:43, 16 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

If nothing else I've got some photos of the demolition. Speaking of which, has Greaves Hall been demolished now? Small-town hero (talk) 22:26, 16 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yes Greaves Hall has been demoilshed, due to it being a hazard. Look on the Wikipedia page for more infomation.--93gregsonl2 (talk) 22:28, 16 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

And yes I would love to see some photos of it. I have some phots taken from the top. I may upload them when I have time.--93gregsonl2 (talk) 22:29, 16 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

WP:Good Articles

Hi, I just noticed this edit. Anyone can assess an article from stub-class to B-class, but anything above that, such as Good Article or [[WP:FA|Featured Article], needs to undergo community assessment via WP:GAN or WP:FAC. Unfortunately, we can't assess articles ourselves as GA or FA. Also, thanks for the award on my talk page. I'll try to help out as much as I can with the project and it's good to see some enthusiasm on the talk page. Nev1 (talk) 18:04, 16 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

On a related note, I've just downgraded a couple of other quality assessments of yours. Unfortunately I worded my edit summaries rather strongly, so I apologise. To explain, I had momentarily forgotten the scale goes up from C to A and thought it went up from A to C. Stupid of me. So I thought things were much worse than they really were. I can't go back and reword my summaries. Sorry.

However, as far as I can tell, you are still relatively new to Wikipedia so I'd like to suggest you take a back seat from quality assessment for a little longer until you have a bit more experience under your belt, and then start at the bottom and work your way up. In my own case, even though I've been editing for several years now, I feel qualified only to issue "stub" and "start" assessments. I feel I haven't yet studied the assessment criteria closely enough to issue higher assessments.

Although it's not against the rules, I would also suggest, as good practice, that inexperienced assessors ought not to assess any article they have made a significant contribution to, except at the lowest levels of the scale.

I hope you are not offended by my mentioning this. It is my personal view and others might disagree. I welcome your enthusiasm, and as soon as I've finished writing this, I'm going to sign up to the Lancs & Cumb wikiproject. -- Dr Greg talk 18:30, 16 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Barnstar

Thanks for the barnstar, that's my second one now :-) Just improved the Lostock Hall article with even more extensive details. Hopefully the article is looking better for readers doing research. Cheers! Gareth aka Pr3st0n (talk) 20:03, 16 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

September 2009

Please do not replace Wikipedia pages with blank content, as you did to Sollom. Blank pages are harmful to Wikipedia because they have a tendency to confuse readers. If it is a duplicate article, please redirect it to an appropriate existing page. If the page has been vandalized, please revert it to the last legitimate version. If you feel that the content of a page is inappropriate, please edit the page and replace it with appropriate content. If you believe there is no hope for the page, please see the deletion policy for how to proceed. Alan (talk) 20:15, 19 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Lostock Hall's GAN

Hi, just thought I'd let you know I've submitted Lostock Hall article up for GA nomination, posted a comment about it on here, and the nomination itself can be found here. Would it be ok to write something in the news section of Wikipedia:WikiProject Lancashire and Cumbria? Cheers! Gareth aka Pr3st0n (talk) 21:35, 19 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thst is great that you have submitted the article for GA status. I really hope it goes well as the whole point of this WikiProject group is to get as many articles as we can onto GA status.

Yes please do add it to the news section as it is news afterall. Good luck! --93gregsonl2 (talk) 21:38, 19 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks I will add the news ASAP. I'm nervous now, but hopefully this will be the first of many GA's to come for the project. Pr3st0n (talk) 21:40, 19 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It may take a while to get some feedback. I have recently looked at your work and it does look good. I have not yet looked at the requiements for GA status in full, so I'm not exactly sure what you need to do. Don't get your hopes up to much though as it's very strict and recently Blackburn was denied GA status, So have a quick look at that article to see what you need to compete with. I wish it all goes well though. My fingers are crossed.

Meanwhile, as you are from near Preston why don't you try and help get that article to GA status as Preston is a top priortiy yo get to GA. --93gregsonl2 (talk) 21:45, 19 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I will see what I can do to help. Doing Lostock Hall is like a starter block for me, time for the bigger projects like Preston, and possibly the other surrounding areas too. Pr3st0n (talk) 21:47, 19 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

New name

Hi, I just noticed that you moved your user page to User:93gregsonl. If you're attempting to change your user name, I'm afraid editors can't do it themselves and have to make a request at WP:RENAME. Nev1 (talk) 23:35, 20 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Have you requested a name change yet? It's not strictly necessary as you could create the User:93gregsonl account, but you need to make a decision whether to stick with this account, abandon it for User:93gregsonl, or request that the edits attributed to this account be moved to User:93gregsonl and that account's log in be created for you. Nev1 (talk) 21:24, 21 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'll explain, I made an account called '93gregsonl' a long time ago and it went weird so I abandoned it and soon after I created '93gregsonl2', but now I want to go back to my orignal user name of '93gregsonl' but using this acount (93gregsonl2). Sorry if I have confused you. I can not explain it in a simpler way. --93gregsonl2 (talk) 21:29, 21 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

In that case, WP:USURP would be your best bet. The contribution histories of each account would be merged. It's a hassle, I know, but other people will be wondering when when they click on your sigature it takes them to User:93gregsonl. That in itself is not a big problem, more of an inconvenience as the names are so similar it's pretty obvious you're the same person. However, the problem is that if someone leaves a message at User talk:93gregsonl, there's the chance you could miss it as you won't get the orange bar at the top of your screen informing you of new messages. Even then it's not a big thing, it would be ok for you to edit from this account, but it would be easier in the end if you filed a request at WP:USURP. Once the edit histories are merged, they could then e-mail you a new password for the account. Nev1 (talk) 21:37, 21 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks I will have a look at that tommorow. I have problems now as I can not access this user talk page unless someone messeges me. I can only access my old '93gregonl' user talk page, not this one anymore (93gregsonl2). Anyway thanks, you do know your stuff. I don't know where I would be without you. I'll get to it as soon as I can. Doing... --93gregsonl2 (talk) 21:42, 21 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Talkback

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West Lancashire Council election, 2008

Hi, in reference to your message on the talk page of the above article a summary of the results can be found at this page and the detailed ward results off this page. I have kept meaning to add them in myself but never get round to it. Hope the above links are helpful. Davewild (talk) 21:53, 11 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks...

...for the barnstar! :D

BTW, I took the liberty of converting {{The WikiProject Lancashire and Cumbria Award}} into an actual barnstar-style award. Hope you don't mind. Small-town hero (talk) 02:57, 14 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

That is fantastic. It looks great. I was going to do it myself but never got round to do it. Thanks.93gregsonl2 (talk) 17:35, 14 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Puzzled

I'm puzzled. Putting together information you have supplied on several pages, when you were about 5 years old, you flew in a plane over Banks and took this photograph. Is that really true? Maybe it is, but if it isn't, I suggest you sort out the error immediately, otherwise you could end up with the same problem Pr3st0n had. -- Dr Greg talk 23:50, 25 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

New to Wikipedia

Hi there, I noticed on a project talk page that you discussed an issue regarding a former Wikipedia user Pr3st0n, who is now blocked. Not sure if it was brought to your attention, I believe that the user has died. Not sure if it is true or not. Anyways, as I live in the City of Preston, I am willing to help out on any local project articles, and if you like, would love to work on that Lostock Hall article which the aforementioned user once worked on, in their honour. Please let me know if this is OK. Cheers! FriargateFairy (talk) 17:21, 26 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]