User talk:Hassocks5489/Archives/2016/October

Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge

Hi there. I've started a new initiative, the Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge. It's a long term goal to bring about 10,000 article improvements to the UK and Ireland. Through two contests involving just six or seven weeks of editing so far we've produced over 1500 improvements. Long term if we have more people chipping it and adding articles they've edited independently as well from all areas of the UK then reaching that target is all possible. I think it would be an amazing achievement to see 10,000 article improvements by editors chipping in. If you support this and think you might want to contribute towards this long term please sign up in the Contributors section. No obligations, just post work on anything you feel like whenever you want, though try to avoid basic stubs if possible as we're trying to reduce the overall stub count and improve general comprehension and quality. So if working on Brighton/Southeast articles one day, place article improvements on the list! Thanks.♦ Dr. Blofeld 15:45, 30 August 2016 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject England/The South East England Challenge I'm going to do this in November I think. If you would rather the focus be on GA promotion rather than destubbing/general cleanup I guess we could build a core article list Wikipedia:WikiProject England/The South East England Challenge/Core articles of all the articles you think important for this area which need to be improved and then give a £200 or whatever to whoever promotes the most articles in a month? If you could begin working on a core list based on Wikipedia:WikiProject Wales/Awaken the Dragon/Core articles that would be useful long term anyway!♦ Dr. Blofeld 08:13, 5 September 2016 (UTC)

Hi, due to the African Destubathon which has been delayed a bit I think I'm going to have to push the South East England one back to January now. I want a break in December haha! In the meantime I've proposed a Mini challenge for Portsmouth area in Wikipedia talk:The 10,000 Challenge. Over the next month or two we could have some mini challenges, like 10 articles for different areas for people to work on. You're welcome to contribute to that or offer some mini challenge article ideas for targeting weak areas in South East England. Hopefully we can get more funding for the South East one in the new year, but we'll definitely run it by spring next year anyway! I'll do my best to make it January, providing that that is still convenient.♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:43, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

File:Doone Terrace Brighton 1880.jpg

Hi Hassocks. I was browsing Building News online, and came across the above image and remembered your work in this area. Is it any use to you? Storye book (talk) 17:44, 12 October 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply on my talk page; glad to be of service. There is a short paragraph about Doone Terrace attached to the above image, on page 269 of the Building News here. I've got a lot more browsing to do in that journal (trying to hoover up more William Swinden Barber churches) so if I spot any more Brighton-Hove stuff, I'll let you know. Storye book (talk) 19:56, 12 October 2016 (UTC)

Regency Town House

Hello. There appears to be a copyright violation in this article. It looks like they just copied and pasted from their own website if you look at the edit history. Could you please fix this and ideally replace it with more in-line referenced info?Zigzig20s (talk) 18:42, 10 October 2016 (UTC)

Hi – thanks for the notification. I have deleted the copyvio text and requested permanent deletion of the affected revisions from the article history. Hassocks5489 (Floreat Hova!) 11:44, 13 October 2016 (UTC)

Thanks. If you want to expand it, please do. I am too busy for it.Zigzig20s (talk) 22:23, 13 October 2016 (UTC)

Percy Stone, London architect

If he was active in 1887–88, the one described in the book you inquired about may very well be the same person. Here's what I found in Rose's book, The Circle, 'The Center of Indianapolis', pp. 45–46: The contest to submit designs for the Indianapolis Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument was an international one. The sponsors put advertisements in European newspapers to invite architects to enter the competition and Percy Stone of London submitted one. The deadline for submissions was January 12, 1888. Entries were numbered, so the selection committee didn't know who the designers were when they made their initial selection for finalists. Seventy were submitted and two were unanimously selected by the committee as finalists - Stone's was one of them. Percy Stone's entry, #68, was called "Acta non Verba." The commission making the selection commented, "Its merits were incontestable." Although the commission selected Bruno Schmitz's entry, #4, "Symbol of Indiana" as the unanimous winter, Stone's was the second-place winner. Stone received a $500 prize for the design. Sadly, the book's illustrations concentrated on the winning design, which was built at the center of downtown Indianapolis and is an iconic landmark for the city, and a very impressive one, so I'm not exactly sure what Stone's entry looked like (as least the book didn't show a drawing attributing it directly to him). Because Stone's entry wasn't the winner, it doesn't provide details about him, other than his name and that he was a London architect. Far more detail was provided on Bruno Schmitz of Berlin, who submitted the winning entry. I hope this helps. Good luck with the research. Rosalina523 (talk) 13:39, 14 October 2016 (UTC)