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Royal Society journal archive made permanently free to access

This is superb news for researchers. See the news story here or immediately start your search here. Try the contents page to the first ever issue on Monday, March 6, 1665. Have fun --Senra (Talk) 20:07, 31 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Currently Unavailable, The search service is temporarily unavailable. I guess many are using this new tool! Regards, SunCreator (talk) 20:11, 31 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I found the same until I put a known DOI in or restricted my search to a narrow period. Do look at the contents page. I'm having fun reading the first volume using "Searching journal content for 1665 in year, 1 in first page, and 1 in volume" though it seems a little hit-and-miss whether the search returns before the query times out --Senra (Talk) 20:26, 31 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Francis Alfred Broad

The DYK project (nominate) 00:03, 1 November 2011 (UTC)

The Signpost: 31 October 2011

Re: Ely, Cambridgeshire

Hi Senra. Thanks for your note on my page and I'd be willing to help in any way I can. However, I should mention that I'm not actually very good at writing articles. I haven't managed to get anything to featured status as yet - though I'm still hopeful of getting Doom Bar up there. I don't see any particular problems in your collaboration abilities, so don't worry about that too much :) WormTT · (talk) 10:22, 4 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Great news. Thank you. What is next? Perhaps find me a suitable feedback volunteer could be pointed at my request for feedback? Perhaps not you as if you are in it for the long haul you may wish to reserve yourself for the GAN or FAC :) --Senra (Talk) 10:27, 4 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Perhaps leave a note at WP:WikiProject UK geography or WP:WikiProject Cities, asking for the feedback? You may get a more helpful response. WormTT · (talk) 10:35, 4 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Note left at WikiProject UK geography (Ely) and WikiProject Cities (Ely)  Done. Oh wait! You said or :( --Senra (Talk) 19:52, 5 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the note about this article. I think you are doing really well with it and have identified the areas which need more work. Re the template - I'm not quite sure what you are asking. I'm not aware of any way to use the template syntax to put the articles into a category as each article needs to have cat:X added. I think the template itself should be in Category:Cambridgeshire subdivision navigational boxes.— Rod talk 12:59, 13 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

apparently not according to WP:TEMPLATECAT via Redrose64 (talk · contribs) --Senra (Talk) 14:45, 13 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 7 November2011

John Speed

I'm sorry, I don't have anything by John Speed, it would be well beyond my means. Nor do I have access to any such maps. Maproom (talk) 23:03, 9 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Fair enough --Senra (Talk) 23:10, 9 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Would this be the map you are looking for?. As it was made c. 1676 it is reasonable to assume the artist has been dead for more than 100 years.— Rod talk 17:18, 23 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Indeed it is the one I was looking for. I would not pay £110 for it—original though it may be—when a copy is available (unframed) from Cambridge University Library (Ely plan is top right-hand corner of Huntingdonshire map) for only £30 or even better, the free out-of-copyright scan of a non-derivative version from a modern book --Senra (Talk) 18:22, 23 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 14 November 2011

Senra, the Diplomat

The Barnstar of Diplomacy
My humble respects for your intervention at Talk:Re-establishment_of_British_rule_on_the_Falkland_Islands.
Your openness and efforts to make people understand each other says a lot about the person behind the nickname.
TY! :) --Langus (talk) 20:49, 15 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Erm. My reward will be the continued civility between all involved editors though your above sentiment is welcome --Senra (Talk) 21:53, 15 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I know, that's exactly why you deserve this barnstar. As for civility, you have my word I'll continue to do my best to keep a cool head. --Langus (talk) 21:20, 16 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 21 November 2011

Ely

It's about the value to the reader in the lead. The lead is supposed to provide a short summary, and I didn't think it was particularly helpful in this regard – areas like that are not easily quantified by the reader and it seems like a less relevant detail. If the lead has to get shorter, which it does, then that seemed a sensible thing to skip. Grandiose (me, talk, contribs) 17:11, 23 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Fair enough. Much appreciated --Senra (Talk) 17:49, 23 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Feel free to revert. On my screen, 30em produces a single column. I'm not sure whether or not that is the intention, but that is the result. BTW, I've left a pointer to a source of images on the article's talk page. Mjroots (talk) 17:13, 25 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I hate reverting :( and whilst I do do it when necessary I prefer to discuss. As a matter of interest, what is the horizontal resolution of your device monitor? The one I am currently sat it is 1366 pixels which renders 30em in three columns though I also use an iPad which renders 30em in two columns --Senra (Talk) 18:33, 25 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I've reverted. Not sure about this monitor as am not on my own computer atm. Mjroots (talk) 19:07, 25 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]


Much appreciated. As a matter of interest, I ran a little experiment and discovered that {{reflist|colwidth=30em}} renders one column up to 1024 pix, two up to 1280 and three above 1280 --Senra (Talk) 00:21, 26 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Adelaide Curve now has an opening date! The book used has further details of railways round Ely, but it's going to take me a while to soak up the info. Ning-ning (talk) 22:20, 29 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Nice comment

I'm glad to see someone other than me is watching it :) Geometry guy 00:11, 26 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I thought I might have gone too far but for me at least, the comment worked on so many levels --Senra (Talk) 00:26, 26 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Can you wait to see how it will turn out? Geometry guy 00:33, 26 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Meetup

Cambridge 13 is a week today (m:Meetup/Cambridge/13). Hope to see you there. (BTW do your interests stretch to Wisbech?) Charles Matthews (talk) 13:51, 26 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I will try and make the meetup. Wisbech in Northeast Cambridgeshire is 21 miles (34 km) north-northwest of Ely in East Cambridgeshire, the article I am helping with now. If you have a specific query shoot. If I can help in anyway, shoot --Senra (Talk) 16:00, 26 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I have been working today on Wisbech Stirs. But Wisbech Castle might be more your kind of thing. There seems to be quite a bit of mystery as to what the castle there was from the 1480s onwards for 300 years (brick, stone, ground plan etc.). Charles Matthews (talk) 21:14, 26 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
"Wisbech is one of the most attractive towns of East Anglia"—Pevsner (1977)[1954] p 494. ibid. p. 497—Did you know that George Gilbert Scott designed the 1881 Clarkson Memorial just before his death? ibid. p. 502—The castle, west of the church, was built 1072. John Thurloe built a mansion, in the style of Thorney Abbey, on the site of the castle c. 1658. In 1663, Samuel Pepys said it was "a fine house" but still, it was demolished in 1816. For the castle, see also CHER record and Historic England. "Wisbech Castle (354806)". Research records (formerly PastScape). Retrieved 26 November 2011. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |access-date= (help) --Senra (Talk) 21:48, 26 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I also have Edward Miller's The Abbey & Bishopric of Ely: The Social History of an Ecclesiastical Estate from the tenth century to the early fourteenth century - Cambridge UP, 1951 (reprinted 1969) (resulting from Ealdgyth#Ely Cambridgeshire) which has four entries in the index on Wisbech Castle AND in Savage (2002) pp. 48–49 we read that in 656, Wulfhere, son of Penda granted lands including Wisbech to St Peter's Monastery (Medeshamstede?) --Senra (Talk) 22:28, 26 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
There is also a lot about Wisbech Castle in Hampson, Ethel M; Atkinson, T D (1967) [1967], "Wisbech Hundred: Wisbech: Castle", in Pugh, Ralph B (ed.), The Victoria History of the Counties of England: A history of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely, vol. Vol. IV, London: for The University of London Institute of Historical Research by the Oxford University Press, pp. 351–354 {{citation}}: |volume= has extra text (help) and also Recusants in the castle, Wisbech and the civil war and Later history of the castle --Senra (Talk) 17:52, 27 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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