Harry Meacher

Harry Meacher is a British actor and director.

= Biography =

I have rewritten to try to demonstrate notability, and have checked articles on entirely comparable British actors and satisfied myself that such articles exist on Wikipedia.

I have listed source references, though I lack the expertise to 'hide' them in Wikipedia fashion. (Documentary references for actors' careers can in their nature be tricky.)

Do please help me to get this right, I would be so grateful for a response in simple language.

Thanks & regards Rogersansom (talk) 07:27, 14 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The removal of maintenance tags is discouraged, but it's not vandalism, and the removal of a prod tag should never be reverted. I'm disappointed you've been handled this way by three experienced vandal fighters. --Closedmouth (talk) 12:51, 14 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Many thanks to those above. This talk page has now somehow appeared on the internet, and as it contains discussion that contributed to articles that now exist, I hope I may properly delete it? Regards 82.16.224.196 (talk) 09:21, 29 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

See Wikipedia:Talk page guidelines#User talk pages. If you want to prevent search engines like Google from indexing this page then you can also place the magic word __NOINDEX__ on it (without the nowiki tags I used in the source here). Next time Google visits the page they should remove it from their index. PrimeHunter (talk) 11:46, 29 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I will try putting _NOINDEX_ here, as the easy accessing of contributory discussion seems undesirable. I am learning - thanks again.

82.16.224.196 (talk) 09:39, 1 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It has to be with two underscores on each side. When written correctly it is not rendered on the page but the software knows it's there. PrimeHunter (talk) 13:16, 1 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Rogersansom (talk) 13:07, 2 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

That worked. The html source of the rendered page now says:

<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow" />

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You must have known Barry Kyle at Beal as well. He's been the most successful of us all. Send me an email and let me know what you're doing if you like - you can find my home page easily enough. Ian R.79.65.56.87 (talk) 22:27, 11 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Your recent edit to Mike Walker is interesting – how do you know this? But if Joan O'Norman was given in the on-air and Radio Times cast credits then wouldn't it be better to leave Joan O'Norman in the cast (unlinked) with a note? E.g.

Joan O'Norman <ref group=Note>Joan O'Norman was included in the cast credits but is an anagram of [[Joanna Monro]] used to conceal one "character" being a disguise</ref>

I think maybe the wording of the end of the note could be improved.

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Thanks for that. I know it because I heard the dramatisation as well as being familiar with the short story, which is of course freely available and will confirm that the "two" characters are one. I do not remember what they did in the spoken credits at the end of the programme, when there was no further need to protect the ending. I do remember that in a comparable situation when anagrams were used for characters' identical twins, the announcer said "Cristo Luvac (an anagram of Victor Lucas)" and "Jonah Sendy (an anagram of Haydn Jones")". That may have happened in this case. You may well be right about doing the equivalent on Wikipedia.

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The list of screen credits is unsourced.

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This submission's references do not adequately show the subject's notability. Wikipedia requires significant coverage about the subject in reliable sources that are independent of the subject—see the guidelines on the notability of people and the golden rule. Please improve the submission's referencing (see Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners), so that the information is verifiable, and there is clear evidence of why the subject is notable and worthy of inclusion in an encyclopedia. If additional reliable sources cannot be found for the subject, then it may not be suitable for Wikipedia at this time.

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Seeing his filmography, I see only trivial and unconvincing works, nothing actually major and significant to suggest he had a longtime work, so also then considering this current article, he's not notable as an actor and I see nothing to suggest better as another occupation.

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The references here are not bolstering notability at all, as they're incomplete. References need to provide complete information about the specific content being cited: for instance, a citation to newspaper content has to include the title of the specific newspaper article being cited and the date it was published on, and cannot just be "Name of Newspaper"; book citations need, if possible, to include the specific page number on which the content in question is found; and on and so forth.

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Gordon Griffin

I spotted your note on Bearcat's page and have done a bit of work on the draft. If you're going to cite a newspaper article, you need to keep the cutting so that you can give date, page, article title - just as if you were writing a book or essay. I found it online. I've also found the MBE on the London Gazette - it's quite straightforward once you find out how to do it, though I've only just found a couple of the short cuts! Ditto the BFI database, which I hope counts as "Reliable" in a way that IBMD doesn't. But book sources are perfectly legitimate too: you just need to give more detail - author, title, publisher, ISBN, and page number for the specific fact you're citing. There are also quite a few links which lead to disambiguation pages - I have a "gadget" which paints them orange, which is really helpful (go to "Prefrences", "Gadgets" and look near the bottom of "Appearance", then tick the box). Good luck. I've left a note at User talk:Bearcat. PamD 09:20, 6 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm, I've tagged the links which go to disambiguation pages ... but have you checked all your other links to make sure that they go to the article you intend, and not another film or person of the same name? Worth doing. PamD 09:24, 6 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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