User talk:Bretonbanquet

The re-instated info on Larry Van Kriedt and the sources you are quiting from are catagorically wrong. Larry Van Kriedt never re-joined AC/DC. Any publication saying he did is eroneous, sorry.

82.47.217.44 17:48, 23 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome!

Hello Bretonbanquet, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you have any questions, check out Wikipedia:Where to ask a question or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! Thanks again for your contributions, I see you have helped out quite a lot!! Mceder 02:26, 28 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! Bretonbanquet 14:34, 29 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Then Play On

I've put in bids on copies of the LP. I'll keep ya posted.... :) --Sojambi Pinola 17:36, 10 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Cheers! I appreciate it! Bretonbanquet 23:51, 10 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It just arrived...can't wait to get home. --Sojambi Pinola 16:19, 4 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Dang!! Different! Subtle, but yes. more soon. --Sojambi Pinola 23:19, 4 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Cool - let me know what the differences are! Bretonbanquet 00:50, 5 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Email me offline and I'll send a CD. --Sojambi Pinola 23:52, 5 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Having problems with the wiki email - it keeps telling me I'm not logged in. I tried the address on your user page but my mail came back to me. Bretonbanquet 17:58, 6 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Try again Saturday. I just updated it. --Sojambi Pinola 06:27, 8 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Still no luck - tried a few times. I activated my Wiki email now, but it tells me you're not available. Any ideas? Bretonbanquet 23:27, 12 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia survey

Hi. I'm doing a survey of Wikipedia editors as part of a class research project. It's quick, anonymous, and the data will be made available to the Wikipedia community later this month. Would you like to take part? More info here. Thanks! Nonplus 00:11, 2 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

F1 portal featured article

The F1 portal (in which I assume you have some degree of interest, as your name is listed on Wikipedia:WikiProject_Formula_One) is intended to have a regular rotation of a 'featured article'. I've swapped a few in and out over the last couple of months, but I think it would be better if there were more of a community attempt at deciding this, proposals, votes, that kind of thing. So - why not pop over to Portal_talk:Formula_One#Suggestions_for_Featured_Article: and make a suggestion. Ta. 4u1e 00:24, 26 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

License tagging for Image:Vibert.jpg

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Cock-up

from Evlekis; only this year, 20 years after Phil Lynott's tragic death have I started playing my old Lizzy music, and it totally escaped me that Darren Wharton's first contributions were on Renegade, not T&L. This leaves my recent edit erroneous! I shall make a slight adjustment. Feel free to chop and change it where you think it falters. 16 June 2006

Britain/England

I'd like to talk with the guy who insists on removing every reference to Britain or the UK that he sees, replacing it with "England". In case he's not aware, England is not an independent country, and people born in the UK are British. The nationality is British, these people are citizens of the UK.

He's not registered of course, so I'm asking him to register, be upfront and discuss it, rather than just reverting his crappy edits every single day.

Selected articles on Portal:F1

Hello again.

I dropped notes round a while back to those who have listed themselves at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Formula_One to ask for suggestions for selected articles on portal:Formula One. There was a pretty good response, both in terms of how it might work and of articles suggested. Damon Hill came out with the most support and was brought up to Good Article standard after a lot of work by Skully Collins before going on as the F1 portal selected article a couple of weeks ago. It is now at Featured Article Candidates as a Featured Article candidate (why not drop by and see if you can help polish it further?).

Several people who responded to the original request suggested that a monthly or bi-weekly 'Selected Article' could act as a catalyst for an improvement drive to get more articles up to a higher standard. Although it wasn't quite what I had in mind when I started, this seemed to work pretty well for the Damon Hill article, so I've drafted up a process for doing this more regularly. See Portal_talk:Formula_One/Management_of_selected_articles for details. Essentially the suggestion is that we vote for an article to improve every couple of weeks and at the end of the improvement process the article goes on the portal as the new 'Selected Article'. I'd be grateful for any comments on how this might work - I'm sure some of you are more familiar with things 'Wiki' than me - as well as your votes for the next candidate (by 16 July).

You may also want to help with the article Gilles Villeneuve, which was the next most popular after Damon Hill. The idea is to try and get it up to GA standard by 16 July and then put it on the portal as the 'Selected Article'. I hope you can help! 4u1e 15:05, 2 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Personnel / Credits

I was changing "Personnel" to "Credits" because I was asked to do so here. It seems that it became a standard at WikiProject Albums after rather brief discussion some time ago. To be honest, I'm indifferent to the matter bacause I'm not a native English speaker and I don't really know which term is better. I didn't mean to do anything controversial with AWB so I'm stopping to make this change for now. Please consider discussing this at WikiProject Albums because if the term "Personnel" is somehow more adequate it should be restored to the guideline. Regards, Jogers (talk) 20:24, 4 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

OK Thanks for your reply. My opinions aren't going to be of interest to anyone else, I suspect, but I'll try. Thanks again. Bretonbanquet 21:09, 4 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Citing Azdrubal Fontes Bayardo

Hi, I noticed you asked for assistance for citing sources in the Bayardo article. I'm no expert on the matter, but I think the best places to look are Wikipedia:Citing sources (a guide to when, where, how to cite) and Wikipedia:Citation templates which gives a good guide for the usage of various templates available for citing things like books, websites, etc. For specific citations that would require footnotes (eg for a direct quote or exact figure for something), have a look at m:Cite/Cite.php, which is for the new footnote style (basically where you want the little number you put <ref>(...citation...)</ref> and where you want the full list of references, you type <references/> and it is automatically generated). If you need a specific example, have a look at the source of the Mark Webber article. Hope this is of some help. – AlbinoMonkey ^(Talk) 11:41, 30 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Drivers Championship final standings 1981–90

Please see my most recent entry on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Formula One#Drivers Championship final standings 1981–90 – I hope you'd like to comment. --Fred Bradstadt 08:35, 9 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Request for comments

Feel welcome to add your statement to Talk:English people#Request for Comment: Peoples related to the English. This is a necessary step in dispute resolution. Regards, E Asterion ^{u talking to me?} 20:41, 12 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for inviting my comments :o) Bretonbanquet 23:07, 12 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Leo Kinnunen

Thanks for your compliments but I must direct them to the author of the Forix article, which I found very interesting. Thanks also for updating the results table and improving the grammar. It was one of my first major edits on Wikipedia, so I was hoping someone would correct my biggest mistakes. Prolog 12:14, 13 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

AC/DC Rock N' Roll Hall of Fame Induction

Hi, This is with regard to the portion of the AC/DC page dealing with their induction into the Hall of Fame.I'd included the quote from Steven Tyler, who inducted them and also the quote from Brian Johnson (part of the acceptance speech). Both or the latter one, keep getting removed due to one reason or the other. I have included both citations on the discussion page and also removed the portion referring to 'audience laughter', in the hope that the quotes would then merit inclusion. I would like your views on this, as you are a regular contributor to the article. The Archer 22:01, 18 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

England/UK

Please don't be offended - for what its worth I don't think the situation at present is ideal either and this isn't the way I would phrase things if I was writing this for myself. I completely sympathasie with your position but it would be a shame if this disuaded you from contributing to other Cornwall articles, many of which are in need of attention. I think that the best way of promoting Cornwall is to improve the articles - I started a wikiproject some months back for this very purpose. We would be happy to listen to any suggestions you have on the discussion page. Take care Mammal4 19:35, 20 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your message, I appreciate it. I also appreciate that my mood may have shown through in my comments somewhat - I don't mean to sound quite as stroppy as that. It does bother me though that I write an article, albeit a very minor one, which no-one else was interested in writing, and some unconnected busybody alters it to suit him/herself, despite being totally disinterested in the substance of the article itself. Still, you're right of course. I will check out the portal. Thanks again. Bretonbanquet 19:42, 20 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

AC/DC edits

Thanks for noticing my edits :) You've made quite a lot of great edits yourself. I've just been going along and changing things that I think improve the flow of various articles. Could you tell me which articles you think didn't need it? I'd be happy to discuss it with you. As for the years, I'm not sure if it's policy or not, but in articles relating to music just like to wikify the years to show, for example, 2006 in music. I've seen it done on countless other articles and I think it's useful showing what else happened in that year, music-wise. HK51 20:16, 30 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, I see where I've been a bit of a nuisance! You don't sound like an a$$hole, far from it. I'm just a perfectionist by nature and can be a bit pedantic at times. Sorry for being annoying! I'll remember not to be like this in the future. Upon thinking about it, it must be rather irritating to have someone going round doing really really minor edits like that! Sorry. Hope to see you around :) HK51 20:33, 30 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

No problem, thanks for understanding. Keep up the good editing, and keep enjoying it too! Bretonbanquet 22:24, 30 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Tom Pryce

Hey There - Thanks for the comments about the Pryce article. Being Welsh, I thought we'd lost a true champion and in my personal opinion: he was much better in the rain then Senna and Schumacher - If you read the legacy part of the article. Anyway, glad your liking how the article is coming along and thanks for your copyediting (4u1e usually copyedits for me!) ...and no, I perfectly don't mind you copy editing the article. Once again thanks for the compliments. --Skully Collins _{Review Me! Please?} 18:54, 9 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

AC/DC/Moxy vocalist link

I don't edit the AC/DC article very often but it pops up in my VandalProof window quite often so I check in to see what's happening from time to time. I had never noticed the "Moxy mention" before and when you pointed out that a ref was needed I thought I'd dig to see if one was available. There is a brief mention of the Bon-Buzz connection here. You can use it if you want. I noticed after you tagged it, User:No-Bullet rm'd it completely. It's not really that important but...since a cite was avilable...it adds some flesh to the paragraph. My own personal interest???...In the late 70's a very young Anger22 played in a band that opened shows for a long list of Canadian Hard rock bands including Triumph, April Wine, Frank Marino & Mahogany Rush, Teaze, Goddo and also a few with Moxy. So seeing them ref'd into an AC/DC article was rather interesting.(to me anyways) Cheers Anger22 23:57, 10 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Formula edits

I agree hat "Born in London, he took part etc." is poor style. It could be changed to "He was born in London. He took part etc.". Anyway, the format for dates/places of births is clearly stated at Wikipedia:Manual of Style (biographies) in the way I put it. No need of consensus, I seem. Sorry also for the lack of comments, sometimes I go too fast. Ciao and good work. --Attilios 11:42, 30 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I remember that somewhere was exactly explained that the place of birth was to be put otherwere than the initial lines, but frankly I can't find it anymore. Maybe it's been changed. Anyway, in the section Wikipedia:Manual of style (dates and numbers) are shown clearly the ways to put dates of birth/death, and they don't contain the places. Further, I'm not planning to change all 900 F1 articles. I you check my contrib pages, you'll see I'm changing some random articles, mainly adding flags to GP articles; I change the style of some biographies of people I don't know the nationality while adding flags. Ciao and thanks.--Attilios 11:57, 30 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

quitting WPF1?

sorry to hear you've chosen to quit WikiProject F1... hopefully you will still be contributing to the F1 articles at least. For what it's worth I think you are doing a great job. – AlbinoMonkey ^(Talk) 13:42, 30 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Problems with Wikipedia

Hi. Just read your talk page. I know exactly what you mean regarding some editors, but I think (hope!) you will find that the Michael Schumacher article is improving steadily at the moment. I'm sure there will be problems again in the future, but with several of us working at it and administrators intervening to cool things down when appropriate it's coming along nicely.

Whenever I find it all too stressful I retreat to editing Brabham - a team that's been dead for 14 years doesn't seem to excite much interest from the disruptive individuals! 4u1e 17:33, 3 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for that - the Schumacher article has certainly improved lately, and I am still watching it and all the other articles I worked on. You're right about quieter articles being easier to work on, though I did experience many problems with articles on drivers so forgotten that they had no article at all, yet as soon as I wrote one, people wanted to come along and change it all around... Bretonbanquet 14:35, 5 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'm probably guilty of fiddling with 'other people's' article myself, but I hope that at least I'm open to discussion on it! Hope you'll feel you want to return to contributing at some point (you've made a lot of helpful contributions, as I remember), but as I say, I can understand the frustration. Regards. --4u1e 15:20, 5 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

F1 tamplate

Please reply to the discussion topic I have started on the template on the talk areea of the F1 project.--Lucy-marie 23:55, 11 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

User page vandalism

No problem, I think the guy's fairly new so have been keeping a watch on the edits he's doing because he doesn't seem familiar with policies/customs here yet (it flagged up when he changed something in the 94 San Marino article as well as changing Tom Pryce to Welsh nationality from British and other F1 related stuff). I don't think it was intended to be malicious however as he has made some edits that have improved articles. Alexj2002 20:32, 30 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Midnight In San Juan

Hi, can you go back and fix what you did to the Midnight In San Juan page, please? It now reads "Midnight n San Juan", which is clearly wrong. Thanks. Bretonbanquet 13:37, 2 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sheesh, how dumb of me. I moved it (and its talk page) back to the old name, then to the title I'd meant to move it to — Midnight in San Juan — in order to leave a logical edit history and to quickly get rid of the useless typo'd name. Sorry about the confusion. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 16:15, 2 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ricardo and Pedro Rodríguez

Hello! May be you can help me. Please see the brothers Ricardo Rodríguez (Formula One) and Pedro Rodriguez (racing driver). I think Pedro is also written with "í" Martin

Yes, you're right - it should be with an "í". I can't change it myself but I will ask someone who can do it quickly. Thanks for letting us know! Bretonbanquet 22:23, 19 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Fermín Vélez

Sorry, that I write to you again... But I have no idea, whom I can ask... Do you know, who can change Fermin Velez to "Fermín Vélez"? Thanks Martin

Van Kriedt article

Hey, I noticed you're edits to the Larry Van Kriedt article and was wondering if you were aware of User:82.47.217.44 (Talk • Contribs)? He was deleting portions of text and adding in unsourced information into the article the other day and after I left him a talk page comment...he claims he is actually Van Kriedt! I was wondering how we approach this?

He claims a large amount of the text (the stuff he deleted) was false, and well, I'm not sure whether it's best to go with what the sources say or whether to go with him (if he can prove he is actually Van Kriedt). Because, well, he was there at the time and stuff...then again, I'd expect him to be a bit biased, as this diff shows: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Larry_Van_Kriedt&diff=95940215&oldid=95939870. Cheers. ĤĶ51→^Łalk 16:47, 23 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yeh! This is quite exciting! I'll leave a comment on his talk page asking for proof of who he is. If he can prove he is Van Kriedt, you're right, an admin would need to be involved I think. We'll see where this goes though. Merry Christmas! ĤĶ51→^Łalk 17:50, 23 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. I am Larry Van Kriedt. How would you like me to prove it to you. I'd be happy to. I am not sure how to do that on the net...

My sign in name is here... Jazzbacks 18:15, 23 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]