HelioSmith

Comments you requested on Redgrave and Lopham Fen

Hi. This is a copy of the request you had for comments on this article. I'll just add that I'd prefer the photos were slightly larger in the article, and also, if possible, that there is a photo demonstrating the damage the Trust seeks to fix. That said, adding photographs to Wiki involves a complicated copyright procedure: Essentially, the easiest way is to take a picture yourself, then give it away to the public domain. I can help with that.

What you added is interesting and well-written. My concern that you might be using Wikipedia to further a political agenda, however, was strengthened by your heavy use of www.suffolkwildlife.com as a reference. This leaves the material open to getting an WP:NPOV tag, or perhaps even being deleted entirely by someone who disagrees. Since being neutral is one of Wikipedia's three core content polities, it would be better to recast some of your language slightly so that it is clear that the text is expressing a particular (perhaps very common) point-of-view.

This sentence is a example of *beginning* to depart from Wiki guidelines: "In 1961 the Suffolk Wildlife Trust gained control of the site but limited resources meant the large scale work required couldn't be carried out." If I was a detractor of the Trust, I'd question what "limited resources" meant, and especially what "large scale work required" meant. Required to accomplish what goal? Is there any upper limit for how much money the Trust would be willing to spend? Do all the locals agree about the goals?

Again, just a little more caution would be appropriate. Overall, yours seems like a very worthwhile contribution. Regards, Piano non troppo (talk) 09:30, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

East Anglian transport

Hi. I see you've added List of future transport developments in the East of England to the 'see also' section of a lot of Eastern counties. I don't think that this is appropriate as the link is too vague for the topics, so I'm undoing these edits. If the page was, for example, List of future transport developments in Suffolk, then that would be OK. The section is not for links to everything regarding (in this case) the county in question. Dancarney (talk) 13:28, 26 June 2009 (UTC)

Accepted. Will attempt to incorperate my intentions into more specific and relevent info. -HelioSmith (talk) 14:37, 26 June 2009 (UTC)

Great raft spider

Hello! Your submission of Great raft spider at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Simon Burchell (talk) 08:54, 17 January 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for sorting my concerns about the article, nice expansion. I've suggested an alternate hook on T:TDYK. Best regards, Simon Burchell (talk) 18:13, 17 January 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Great raft spider

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Materialscientist (talk) 12:00, 20 January 2010 (UTC)

Hi HelioSmith - congratulation on your first DYK, I thought I'd let you know that your article got a massive 7400 hits as a result, making it onto the January 2010 leaderboard (see Wikipedia:DYKSTATS#January 2010). Well done! Simon Burchell (talk) 00:44, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Auchencairn

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Materialscientist (talk) 18:02, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

First off, I can only find the word at the Undiscovered Scotland page; which of the other two has it? As to the substance of the question — I've never seen the term used in a Presbyterian context except with the sense of evicting the demon out of a person. Exorcism has no sources for its usage for evicting the demon out of a place, except for a Methodist usage that is significantly later than the situation at Auchencairn. Moreover, I'm finding multiple references to John Knox's writings as having criticised the Catholic practice of exorcism (see here, search "Early Reformation Days 63"), so I'd say that it's quite unlikely that this term would have been considered properly to apply in this situation. As contemporary society is markedly different in religion from the society of the time, most contemporary sources really aren't the best for representing the religious beliefs of the Covenanting period. This is not to say that I disagree with your usage of this source; I simply think that we need to be careful with the details. Nyttend (talk) 22:33, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

That's funny: when I ran a search for "exor" before leaving the first message, I found nothing. Please forgive me if I seemed to be overbearing; it strikes me that I might have been needlessly forceful. Nyttend (talk) 23:22, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Newbourne

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Materialscientist (talk) 00:03, 15 April 2010 (UTC)

Ursula Vernon - Digger (Webcomic) merge

Feel free to revert if you think my edit was in error, it was done boldly without discussion. I've being doing a bit of cleaning up in the area of webcomics / webcomic authors (there is a lot of content, poorly sourced content, borderline notable content, trivial content, original research, etc.) which has involved merging authors in comic articles, comics into author articles and plain redirection in some cases. In this particular case I took the view that since the comic was the only of her works with an article dedicated to it, it was what she was most widely known for and would be a good place for people to find the information about her. I take your point that the author has achieved other things and the reverse merge or no merge at all might have been equally or more appropriate. Again feel free to revert, regards, Guest9999 (talk) 16:14, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

No problem, I'll leave the page alone and let it be improved. Regards, Guest9999 (talk) 16:32, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Havergate Island

Materialscientist (talk) 08:02, 2 May 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Minsmere RSPB reserve

Thanks for the article Victuallers (talk) 06:03, 23 May 2010 (UTC)

Capitalisation of vernacular names

Hi. Further to our discussion on my talk page, there is yet more discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mammals#Capitalization and WikiProject Primates and Wikipedia:Naming conventions (fauna)#Capitalization of common names of species (redux). Regards, Richard New Forest (talk) 20:14, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

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