User talk:Icarusgeek

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St Laurence's Church, Frodsham

Active, as distinct from "redundant" - for example All Saints Church, Harthill; that is the general understanding of the term. Peter I. Vardy (talk) 17:05, 19 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Talkback

Hello, Icarusgeek. You have new messages at RashersTierney's talk page.
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Referencing

Would you have any objection to using the 'reflist' system at Irish International Exhibition (1907). I added my minor contrib. with this system and assumed it was correctly ref'd, but the cite did not appear because of formatting incompatibility. Reflist seems now to be usual practice across the 'pedia. I'll 'rejig' your refs in accordance, if you agree with this change. Best. RashersTierney (talk) 23:32, 11 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

No objection at all :-) Icarusgeek (talk) 18:16, 12 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Reverted

Please take care to look at dates and years. Fyodor Schechtel, who died in 1926, had nothing to do with the pavilion built for the 1939 exhibition (which was designed by V. A. Ashastin). The 1923 exhibition was held at a different location (present-day Gorky Park). Schechtel's pavilion represented not Turkmenistan but Turkestan, i.e. Central Asia in general.

"Several brightly coloured buildings" at the 1901 Glasgow exhibition need more research. All contemporary images that I saw don't look like "brightly coloured" - just ordinary log buildings, but then of course it's black and white photographs. Schechtel's own drafts show quite a bunch of colours, but these were dark colours (dark crimson, purple, dark blue) mixed with natural untreated wood. NVO (talk) 01:06, 14 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Take Fat

I've taken your hangon off because there wasn't a speedy tag there. Speedy was declined in December 2010. There is a multiple maintenance tag, but those sometimes stay there for years. Peridon (talk) 13:30, 9 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Research survey invitation

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Vallée d’Aoste Jambon de Bosses

Thankyouthankyouthankyou--finally someone visited my article! *snif* Drmies (talk) 18:24, 1 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

BB 2011

Updates to this article take a lot of time and care. Kindly avoid reverting other's text unless there is an obvious mistake in the facts. Duration is perfectly apt term. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.182.98.14 (talk) 17:41, 11 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Maintenance categories and HotCat

I saw you recently added Category:Orphaned articles to Brogramming using HotCat. That category and other maintenance categories listed under Category:Wikipedia maintenance categories sorted by month should not be added directly to articles; instead you should use the corresponding maintenance templates such as {{Orphan}}. HTH. Anomie ⚔ 03:39, 19 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

OK Will do. Thanks Icarusgeek (talk) 16:33, 20 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Nuto mileva

Hey, thanks for helping out with new page patrol, as you did on Nuto mileva. FYI, articles that aren't written in English actually don't fit the criteria for speedy deletion unless the same content exists on another Wikimedia project. In this case would have been better to tag the article with {{not english}}. See WP:CSD#A2 for more information. Thanks again! causa sui (talk) 19:03, 27 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Canadian World's Fairs architecture

Category:Canadian World's Fairs architecture, which you created, has been nominated for discussion. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 19:08, 13 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Great Wheel

Re this edit: A bit about its last use (already supported by existing citation) - which citation? Thanks. 92.40.42.106 (talk) 21:13, 22 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Oh that was sloppy of me. My last link in, and I didn't recheck. Thank you for pointing it out. I have now rectified it (I hope) Icarusgeek (talk) 17:33, 23 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! 92.40.210.226 (talk) 18:36, 23 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

WikiThanks

In recognition of all the work you’ve done lately! 66.87.0.254 (talk) 13:53, 3 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

That's so nice of you. Thank you Icarusgeek (talk) 15:56, 3 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved White (Mayflower Passenger)

Please correct the changes you did to my styling of references back to what they were. Yours is not the recommended style and for good reason because and it causes problems with the programming and the articles, especially when other editors come in to it with their own styling of referencing as well. What happens is that the article is a combination of referencing styles and it looks a complete mess. They also edit (in between) the other references and that too causes problems. There was no reason to change them. Your preferred method does not work on Wikipedia very well. It is also against Wikipedia policy guidelines to change other editor's valid references.

I have been here a long time and I know what happens so please change them back. Thank you. Mugginsx (talk) 20:25, 5 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

An award for you

Golden Wiki Award

You are among the top 5% of most active Wikipedians this past month! 66.87.2.96 (talk) 20:04, 13 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]