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Your edit to Benjamin Walworth Arnold House and Carriage House

Re this: Thanks for catching the typos (which is actually, IMO, sort of the point of putting articles up for DYK; I've had many typos I otherwise missed cleaned up by both registered users and anons that way (I admit, it was a little embarrassing to have missed not one but two right in the lede ... Ouch!) Daniel Case (talk) 19:42, 12 October 2011 (UTC)

I didn't mean to criticize your work − I know from experience how hard it is to spot typos in my own work. But I assumed that those who select articles for DYK checked them first. Now that I know otherwise, it explains my impression that DYK articles have more errors than Random Articles. Maproom (talk) 11:25, 13 October 2011 (UTC)

People do check them—in fact the guy who reviewed mine did a little cleanup—but it's not as systematic as it would be at a GA or FA. When I've done it, it's always been, if I see something that needs copy editing I'll do it, but I don't make a point of a full copy edit. Daniel Case (talk) 15:30, 13 October 2011 (UTC)

Yeah, I did a little clean-up. I missed those typos though. I'm not perfect, sue me. IvoShandor (talk) 11:33, 14 October 2011 (UTC)

John Speed

I am looking for a digital image of John Speeds map^[1] of Ely, Cambridgeshire as Dorman's image is rather small. I intend to upload this map to Wikimedia Commons under a {{PD-old}} tag. Do you have access to or are you able to obtain a copy of this map?

References

^ Dorman, B E (1986) [1945], The story of Ely (7 ed.), Norwich: Black Horse, p. 54, This illustration appears by kind permission of the Trustees of the British Museum where the original is to be found, and also by courtesy of Cambridge University Press from the reproduction in T. D. Atkinson's Architectural History of the Benedictine Monastery of St. Etheldreda at Ely

--Senra (Talk) 22:51, 9 November 2011 (UTC)

Meetup

Cambridge 13 is a week today (m:Meetup/Cambridge/13). Hope to see you there. Charles Matthews (talk) 13:53, 26 November 2011 (UTC)

[1] Dorman, B E (1986) [1945], The story of Ely (7 ed.), Norwich: Black Horse, p. 54, This illustration appears by kind permission of the Trustees of the British Museum where the original is to be found, and also by courtesy of Cambridge University Press from the reproduction in T. D. Atkinson's Architectural History of the Benedictine Monastery of St. Etheldreda at Ely

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