How do my edits to The Germans (made when I wasn't logged in – the ones about the silly walk) not make sense? Cleese was goose stepping in a manner similar to that of the silly walk. Esszet (talk) 20:08, 14 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
It wasn't similar to "the silly walk" (which silly walk?), it was a silly walk. "Goose-stepping" gets mentioned later in the article, so I see no need to mention it in the summary in the opening paragraph. It just seems like an overly complicated and unclear way to describe a simple concept. -- Dr Greg talk 20:18, 14 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I've made a couple more changes to the article. Is that better? -- Dr Greg talk 20:40, 14 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
That is better, but the silly walk is Cleese's silly walk from The Ministry of Silly Walks Monty Python sketch. So no, they're not the same thing. Esszet (talk) 00:09, 15 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Lancaster and Preston Junction Railway....the response from the academic to whom doubts were cast on his veracity of information.
Please refer to the now-updated body text matter of the Wikipedia article as the elderly retired professor who knows the detailed history of the line very well and of the period up to 1845 where his access to the company minutes has revealed much in the way of previously unpublished matter. He visited me yesterday and noting that someone at Wikipedia has cast doubts on the veracity of his long-known information, used my own HP compueter system to enter all his information on both Crow Hall Halt and Roe Buck Halt and the reasons why both of these were relocated in a very short period of time and the position to where they were both relocated. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Paul Sidorczuk (talk • contribs) 09:00, 15 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I wouldn't want to edit anyone else's comment on a talk page, but I think on User talk:Fraserisepic2 you typed "Falkirk is listed as part of the Greater Glasgow Urban Area" when you meant "Paisley is listed...". --Deskford (talk) 18:57, 23 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Oops, thanks for pointing that out! -- Dr Greg talk 19:21, 23 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I see he came back and changed Falkirk to Paisley again. I'll try to keep and eye on the page, but I'm not always online much. --Deskford (talk) 21:38, 23 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Location map templates/modules - help?
I see that you revised 'Infobox GB bus station' "for compatibility with newer location maps implemented as modules instead of templates".
I'm trying to do a location map for Milton Keynes (to use e.g. at Milton Keynes Coachway) but I haven't been able to find any doc page to tell me how. I wonder if you would be willing to help me (a) to do it or (b) tell me where to find the doc.
I've created a suitable map at File:Location map United Kingdom Milton Keynes.png in Wikicommons
If I try just to barge in and create a template page, I get a message telling me to create a module first.
You shouldn't need to do anything else. No template is required; the module takes its place. But you have made a mistake in the coordinates for "left" and "right". According to Milton Keynes the town centre is at lat=52.04 long=-0.76 which does not lie within the boundaries you specified. Where did you get them from? Sorry I don't know what the correct values should be.
To get the map, right, to work, I had to use a false value ((Location map|United Kingdom Milton Keynes|lat=52.04|long=-0.875)).
In fact, looking again where my red spot is, the "top" and "bottom" can't be right, either.
When I created my map of Preston, I made careful note of the map limits displayed by Openstreetmap when I exported the image. -- Dr Greg talk 19:16, 15 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
That's probably it. I didn't make "careful note of the map limits displayed by Openstreetmap when I exported the image". So I had to do it by eyeballing the image and using Google mapping to find the equivalent geodata. I'm annoyed with myself for not doing the basic sanity check that you did. I'll send myself to bed without any supper and look at it again tomorrow if poss. Thank you. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 22:31, 15 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
The easiest solution might be to upload a new version of the map image (exported with known limits) on top of the old one.
P.S. I now think there's no need to include the ", Buckinghamshire" disambiguator within the module. I've just removed the ", Lancashire" disambiguator from inside Module:Location map/data/United Kingdom Preston on the grounds that the context in which these maps are used will provide the disambiguation, if needed. The 'name' field is used to provide default captions and default alt text, e.g. "Milton Keynes Coachway is located in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire" -- Dr Greg talk 00:02, 16 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
New map done, with precise data for edges. ', Buckinghamshire' deleted. Milton Keynes Coachway updated with new map, and it works [though I think it very odd that if users click on the map expecting to see a full screen map with a large pin on it, they will be sorely disappointed and surprised. Can we do anything about this?]. Thanks for your help! --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 14:39, 16 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Greg. Using one of your maps, I made a quiz teaching English counties: https://hickford.github.io/counties-quiz/ . What do you think? The cool part is the code takes all the information from the svg, so potentially one could make quizzes from any svg map. matt me (talk) 00:58, 27 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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Preston photos
DrG. Just a big thank you for taking and adding the photos to the relevant articles on Preston (my birthplace, but I am now in Cheshire). More will be welcome - when you have the time. Cheers. --Peter I. Vardy (talk) 07:53, 11 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the appreciation. Preston's also my birthplace, but I now live at the other end of the country. But I have family there and visit regularly. I'll probably do more during some future visit. -- Dr Greg talk 17:45, 11 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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Sorry for the revert, but precision looked okay as it was. Converting small numbers sometimes needs a little false precision for clarity and congruence. Thanks for keeping an eye out. Bleakcomb (talk) 04:58, 8 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I disagree. A distance rounded to the nearest half-mile does not imply 100 m precision. It would have been different if the figures had been rounded to the nearest 0.1 mile, but they weren't. -- Dr Greg talk 13:11, 8 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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02:11, 13 November 2014 (UTC)
You removed the reference i
Hi, You stated that it was inappropriate to put that link on the page however that's where I found the information on how to correctly spell the candidates name. Candidates have the right to have their proper names used. I confirmed that is how he spells his name on the official UKIP West Lancs site, and then used it as a reference-I think that's entirely appropriate. Thanks
Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.145.147.204 (talk) 23:35, 27 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
On the West Lancashire page, all you added was a link to a website. You didn't add any other information, so how can that be a "reference"? -- Dr Greg talk 23:43, 27 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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I nominate Dr Greg as Editor of the Week. I've only just spotted this user and was amazed to see he's been around for such a long time with almost no recognition. He consistently gets on with the work, focussing on articles in the North West UK. He's mostly a gnome, but does great work and keeps plodding on - and has done so consistently for years. It's people like Dr Greg who are the unsung heroes of the encyclopedia - they're the ones that keep it going, by keeping their heads down and just doing the work. User:John Carter in his second to the nomination said: According to this page, he has about 13,000 edits, with about 10,000 of them in article space. An editor with about 70% of his contributions to main space is extremely valuable. By the look of his user page he also does a lot of work on the development of closely related articles. That is another big plus for us, having people who know something about a topic in general contributing to the development of all the closely related articles on a given topic.
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