User talk:Scribble Monkey/Archive 2

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Re my edit at Buckinghamshire

Apologies for re-adding info that was already included elsewhere, my concern was merely that an IP user was removing content without leaving an edit summary comment as to why. Now that you have explained the situation I can see that their intentions were solid and that it was indeed the right thing to do. -- role^player 11:57, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

No problem. ~ Scribble Monkey (talk) 12:16, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

Sorry about that, I'm sure I typed out a reason, but for some reason it didn't seem to make it.94.193.255.112 (talk) 19:18, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

Merge and delete

Re [1], please see Wikipedia:Merge and delete. Cheers.--Chaser2 (talk) 04:28, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the info. - Scribble Monkey (talk) 09:32, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

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Thanks

for adding the template to Talk:Stokenchurch Gap. JesseW, the juggling janitor 05:46, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

You're welcome. Scribble Monkey (talk) 09:34, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

Great Marlow School

Hi, I'm afraid I don't know the correct process so I'm approaching you as I know you are an admin. A user appears to have moved Great Marlow School to James tucker and then to Great Marlow school. Any chance you could sort it out?

Thanks - Scribble Monkey (talk) 17:04, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

Sorry, my previous edit had the wrong edit summary. - Scribble Monkey (talk) 17:23, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

Should be sorted now. There isn't really any established procedure for things like this. You can either find any admin who is on (checking Special:Log is probably the fastest way to find someone) and ask them on their talk page, or if you want, you can just leave a note on the administrators' noticeboard. Cheers! J.delanoy^gabs_adds 17:36, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

Thanks - Scribble Monkey (talk) 17:38, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

You are now a Reviewer

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Talk:Darlaston Community Science College

Hi, I see you are an admin and currently active. Assuming it's genuine, it looks like an eleven year old has posted her email address on the Talk:Darlaston Community Science College page. Personally, I think the page should be deleted, would you agree? - Scribble Monkey (talk) 21:10, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

• Done. — RHaworth (talk · contribs) 21:12, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
  • Thanks. - Scribble Monkey (talk) 21:43, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

Please don't describe your edit as an "undo" if it's not

Re this edit. I don't mind the fact that you knew enough information about the individual concerned to be able to link to an article about her. However please don't describe it as an "undo" in your edit summary if it's not one. It makes me look bad as an editor. -- role^player 09:26, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

I am truly sorry, I used the "undo" link to retrieve the earlier text to modify it, but forgot in my haste to change the edit summary. - Scribble Monkey (talk) 09:29, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

Hey I'm sorry for "shooting from the hip" like that. There are worse things in the world to worry about! -- role^player 09:36, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

Template:Infobox UK school

Hi. Thought you might be interested in this: Template_talk:Infobox_UK_school#Unnecessary_parameters.3F. Thanks! Mhiji (talk) 00:08, 22 November 2010 (UTC)

Schools

Hi Scribble Monkey. Please bear with me if you are already aware of this. In early September changes were made to an infobox template that affected the display of hundreds of school crests/logos in the UK schools infobox. This is now being taken care of and you may find the discussions on this page interesting: Template talk:Infobox UK school, do however leave a message here or here if you come across any that are still not displaying correctly.
If you are still actively interested in schools and and are not already a member, and would like to help out on school pages and school templates, you may wish to consider joining the WP:WPSCHOOLS project where you can also stay abreast of developments by adding its talk page to your watchlist. Happy editing!--Kudpung (talk) 03:31, 22 November 2010 (UTC)

Great Marlow School

Hi, I reverted your addition of the fictional alumna Miss Lee to the article Great Marlow School, because the book was published 10 years before the school opened. Could the Marlow school be the Sir William Borlase's Grammar School instead? - Scribble Monkey (talk) 12:24, 14 December 2010 (UTC)

No, that wasn't coed until 1987. I wonder where girls went to school in say 1910?Nankai (talk) 19:40, 14 December 2010 (UTC)

Missee Lee

Well spotted! I had no idea. I'll have to do more research... In good faith, Nankai (talk) 19:33, 14 December 2010 (UTC)

Dunsmore

I have edited the Dunsmore page to reinstate the source of the English place name and clarify that the title Baron Dunsmore derives from the Warwickshire place name. As this is a disambiguation page, I think you should consider creating a separate Dunsmore (surname) article for the content you have added to the Surname section and replacing the section with a short description and a lionk to the surname article. - Scribble Monkey (talk) 10:22, 17 June 2011 (UTC)

Lack of references for the suggestion that Dunsmore is a English name of Anglo Saxon origin

As you so kindly have pointed out, in your earlier post, the use of the name Dunsmore in England derives from one Francis Leigh, Baron Dunsmore, who was granted the name in 1628AD by Charles I.

You have removed my references for the circumstances under which Charles I granted this Scottish name to an Englishman.

You do give one very dubious reference for the source of the name Dunsmore in England (Oxford Dictionary of Place Names.) I have checked this reference and it is not considered to be reliable. Moreover, the first date for the use of the name in England is 1628AD. There are numerous references to both a family name and a place name for Dunmore in Scotland dating back to the 12th century. There are also numerous written, in Fife, Scotland references showing that this name was spelt differently depending on the language it was recorded in: Dunmore and Dunmuir in Gaelic, Dundemore in French and Dunsmore, Dinsmore, Dunsmoor, and Dinsmoor in English. Again, the earliest written references for the name date to the 12th century, fully five hundred years before its appearence in England. Moreover, it was clearly given as a title of rank from Charles I. As Charles I was descended from Scots, specifically Mary, Queen of Scots, he would certainly have been familiar with the prestigious name Dunsmore, derived from the Dunsmore family of great antiquity, of Fife, as described under "Forfeiture of the Isle of May" from "Lindores Abbey and its burgh of Newburgh."

In short, the single dubious reference you have given (Oxford Dictionary of Place names) for the name Dunsmore is extraordinary weak, compared to the multiple sources for the Scottish origin of the name dating to a much earlier time.

At various times, you have written that the name is an Anglo Saxon name. Clearly, based on even a passing knowledge of Celtic place names, this is highly unlikely.

A further point, which makes your claim that the Scottish name Dunsmore is *not* the source of English place names is the fact that virtually all descendants and geneologies bearing the surname Dunsmore, Dunsmuir, Dinsmoor, Dinsmore, Dunmore and Dunmuir document that they are from county Berwick, county Fife, Glasgow, and Dundee. It is a clan sept of the Murray Clan. Direct father to sun geneologies tracing Dunsmore ancestry to Lowland Scotland predate 1628 by several centuries.

Therefore, Dunsmore is both a surname and a placename, with the origin of the name belonging in Fife. The name may have been borrowed by others, but the origin of the name lies in Fife.

Finally, archaeological evidence on the Isle of May and other locations suggests that the name has been in use in Fife since at least the late Bronze Age. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Castlebythesea (talk • contribs) 22:15, 17 June 2011 (UTC)

--Castlebythesea (talk) 23:08, 17 June 2011 (UTC)

I am struggling to keep up with posts on your talk page, my talk page and the Dunsmore talk page, so I suggest we confine our discussion to the article talk page, which will also allow any other interested parties to participate. - Scribble Monkey (talk) 23:13, 17 June 2011 (UTC)

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