Hello, my friend. Our paths haven't crossed recently, but you were most helpful when I started out here, and I appreciated that. I just wanted to wish you and yours the merriest of Christmases. Take care. Regards,MarmadukePercy (talk) 04:30, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
That is too funny about the Baccarat Scandal! That thing just won't die, will it? lol MarmadukePercy (talk) 21:45, 23 December 2008 (UTC)
Greetings Motmit - Talk about coincidence! Hope you realise it ain't me that added that criticism! Catch up with you/Beat you to it somewhere. --Technopat (talk) 12:36, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
End-of-year greetings to ye! Can't bluff my way out of this one, so it's up to you:
experienced by Bowling since childhood make his past seem distant.
Regards, --Technopat (talk) 18:19, 30 December 2008 (UTC)
This should really be the year that we do that foxhunting piece we talked about. Highly controversial subject, but certainly a societal subculture worth exploring. And I'm not just saying that as a way to get you out of the dread Baccarat loop. ;-) Seriously, Happy New Year to you and yours! Best,MarmadukePercy (talk) 00:26, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
I'd've looked for 'em "Notable alumni" references meself if I'd 'ad the time, honest guv'! --Technopat (talk) 22:19, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for correcting me William M. Connolley (talk) 20:59, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
Hi Motmit Thanks for all your help. I am still quite a novice to Wikipedia and getting to grips with navigation. Are you receiving me? The designation of 'Richard Sharp (politician)' was suggested by my editor 'Victuallers' to distinguish him from the Rugby player of the same name. Many academics are likely to search for him as either Richard Sharp or Conversation Sharp. I can assure you that all the text supplied was my original work, as published, and therefore not copied/pasted from someone else's work. I intend writing a similar piece on the 'King of Clubs club' but my computer is unwell and will be out of action for a few days. Good wishes, Mariakinnaird (talk) 08:45, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
Re Derbyshire cricketers. I have noticed your articles on derbyshire cricketing sheriffs.... I never knew they existed. As for help... well I'm not into sports... but maybe listing the articles you intend to write at project derbyshire might assist. Particulrly if they have other interests which overlap with our other members "thing". Hope this helps. Oh and Maria Kinnaird is on the main page .... NOW! Victuallers (talk) 19:46, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
Cheers for the note on my Derbyshire redlinks talk page. I've piped the link through - if you ever notice anything amiss on the subpages before I do, please feel free to fix it - I thought that was part of the fun of getting there first! Bobo. 01:13, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
Greetings Motmit - didn't have time to pop over here earlier, but when you have a moment could you have look at the new section I added over at George Orwell. It seemed OK at the time, but with retrospect and seen from the outside it might look as if it needs more references and/or toning down a bit. I think adding such a section might help to reduce the tension. Ever-the-optimist... :) Cheers!--Technopat (talk) 20:07, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
Hello Motmit!
If you put ((boxtop)) and ((boxbottom)) (replacing "( )" with "{ }") at either end of your list of User boxes, that should do the trick.
Hope this helps! Hugh (talk) 23:59, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
---Thanks for pointing that out - I've fixed it now! :) Hugh (talk) 18:16, 01 February 2009 (UTC)
Hi Motmit
Just to say thanks again for helping to get my article into a presentable form. I have made a few more minor adjustments myself which you might like to cast an eye over. You will not find a more detailed account of this important club anywhere else and I'm glad it is now in the public domain. There are various images of the new (1815) building by Cubitts but I'm not sure I can lay my hands on it at the moment. Would it be a useful addition, or not ? Good wishes, Mariakinnaird (talk) 21:53, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
It's been a while since I checked my subpage User:Bobo192/Derbyshire redlinks, and since I last checked, you have created at least thirteen of the remaining names. Thank you for your dedication to the obscure remaining names.
528 names down, 87 to go! Bobo. 01:39, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
Gatoclass (talk) 14:46, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
(Hand-clapping smiley) --Technopat (talk) 21:02, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
I see you're still busy here. Glad to see it. Hope you're well, and that our paths will cross again one of these days. Best, MarmadukePercy (talk) 21:32, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
I've deleted User talk:Bobo192/Derbyshire redlinks, to which you had posted two comments. I deleted all my user subpages of this nature and have replaced them with the rather vaguely titled User:Bobo192/first-class players lists, to which I will eventually add all the other countries' first-class players lists, particularly those of Zimbabwe and Pakistan, and probably the List A teams at the bottom of the list, for the purposes of space conservation.
All the best. Bobo. 06:07, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
Royalbroil 05:43, 14 March 2009 (UTC)
Does this help? It looks like he retired to an estate at Glenrinnes. "The Country Gentlemen's Estate Book" of 1905 (presumably based on data from the year of his death) calls him "of Glenrinnes, Banffshire and Barrow Hall, Derby". Choess (talk) 02:34, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for this fantastic article; always good to find someone writing old British political bios other than myself :). Keep up the good work! Ironholds (talk) 09:58, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
I really do not understand what your problem is with accepting that the tide can reach pass Teddington Lock and it clearly matters more to you than to me so I'll let the inaccurate statement stand. I live 200m from the Thames and about 500m from Teddington Lock but if you think that you know the area better than me then good luck to you.
The citation states that the tide can pass Teddington Lock and London does flood regularly, i.e. several times a month, just do a google for something like "flood richmond thames" and see what you get. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Reesmf (talk • contribs) 14:15, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
The document states at the very bottom of page 1, "The tidal limit of the Thames is within the Borough, at Teddington Lock (although it is noted that this can be breached on extreme high tides)." Thanks to Global Warming this is an increasing problem. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Reesmf (talk • contribs) 20:12, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
I too have been trying to get more confirmation of what I know to be true (I live here and can see it) and while I've yet to find something else online I have swapped some emails with the man who knows, Jason Debney of the Thames Landscape Strategy (http://thames-landscape-strategy.org.uk/contact) and he said, "Just go and have a look at what the river does at high spring tide coinciding with a high fluvial flow. It is by means official - just what is being observed. I doubt therefore that you would find anything on line. Jason". —Preceding unsigned comment added by Reesmf (talk • contribs) 11:56, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
I took before and after photos of the tide going over the weir yesterday. I'll put them online in a couple of days and send you the links. And you do see a tide line above Teddington Lock, Canbury Gardens is a good place to see this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Reesmf (talk • contribs) 21:38, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
Thanks I appreciate you posting on my talk, but I take issue with your assertions.
Again, your feedback is welcome. Please post on my talk if you have any. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 15:33, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
I don't suppose you know of any photos? The best one I've seen so far seems to be this one. Pterre (talk) 22:49, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
... for this edit. I have no idea what happened, there, but it looks like I started a stub, pasted in a load of text from another article and then abandoned it. :(
You're right -- the result was a complete mess. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 23:02, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
Still enjoying the work you're doing on former Derbyshire cricketers. Thank you for helping me out with these. 552 down, 64 first-class names remaining! I think I've run out of all the useful work I can do on various names. Bobo. 21:08, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
Hi Motmit
Congratulations on all the articles you are writing on MPs. I have been running through constituencies checking succession boxes and have come across quite a few of them!
Just one small point relating to George William Latham. You had written that he "lost the seat in the 1886 general election.", citing Rayment as a source. I was puzzled, because Rayment just gives succession info, and doesn't say why an MP no longer held the seat ... so I checked Craig, and found that Latham had not contested the 1886 general election. I just thought I'd point this out, because while a lot of Liberals were defeated in 1886, it's a mistake to assume that any who didn't make it into the next Parliament were defeated. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 01:23, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
Reply moved from User talk:BrownHairedGirl to keep thread together
Thank you for your messages. I am very sorry that in a hundred or so new articles which I created I made a couple of mistakes. I tried to conclude their parliamentary career with a neutral statement, except where from various sources other than Leigh Rayment (which doesn't say) it appeared that that they had lost or stood down. Obviously I got some wrong. This problem should only occur within the last 20 or so articles for six-month-wonders which I created so it should be containable. The great thing with wiki is that those with better knowledge of a subject or access to more information can correct simple good faith errors so thank you for doing that. You will be glad to know that there are only six more English 1885 MPs who need articles and I will try to take more care when I do them. That is as far as I am going, as I have no intention of following Gladstone into the quagmire of Hibernian politics. Motmit (talk) 13:31, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi there Motmit. Enjoyed your latest Derbyshire article on Arthur Morton (cricketer, born 1883) - just a note though:
When you created the page, User:Radiofan quickly moved it to Arthur Morton (cricketer). However, this confuses the issue as regards the other Derbyshire cricketer, Arthur Morton (cricketer, born 1882). I am awaiting his okay with regards to moving the article you created back to Arthur Morton (cricketer, born 1883) before I turn Arthur Morton (cricketer) into the necessary disambiguation page.
Keep up the awesome work. Bobo. 13:38, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
On User talk:Bobo192, Motmit said:
Thanks for sorting out the redirects. Regards.
No worries. I much prefer to use disambiguation pages when, in the real-world, there is no particular sense of WP:PRIME, that is, someone who knew little about cricket would not be expecting there to be two players from the same team with the same name and therefore, as both are obscure if only to them, rather than to us cricket folk, I feel it much easier to have two pages under what look to us to be "more complicated titles".
Of the 61 Derbyshire articles left, how many more do you have in the pipeline? I'm still waiting for a Derbyshire player this season to make a first-class debut, by the looks of it the only player on their books not to have picked up a first-class appearance as yet is Edward Jones (this guy) who is listed in this year's Playfair.
Thank you again. Bobo. 08:41, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
Not to worry - I'll redirect Richard Sale (cricketer, born 1919) through to Dick Sale - that should do the trick. Bobo. 17:29, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
By my reckoning, there are only nine post-WWII Derbyshire players who don't have articles - the rest had relatively short careers, some of whom I took care of writing the original article - a lot of which you've since expanded! Bobo. 08:51, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
Thankyou for your kind message about railway bridges over the Thames on Template:Cherwell Valley Line. I've added names and links for Thames railway bridges on Template:Wycombe Railway RDT as well. Railway route diagrams are fiddly and take me hours. It's nice to know it's appreciated! Motacilla (talk) 18:57, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
Many thanks for the excellent and original material you have added to William Bass (Brewer). It did not occur to me that there might be some good stuff for this article at British History on-line. Dormskirk (talk) 11:16, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
You mentioned this to me sometime ago, but I thought nothing of it until I just looked. These were not on my list, for obvious reasons, but here is a list of cricketers who played in non-first-class cricket for Derbyshire between 1888 and 1893:
As I remember, you mentioned perhaps combining these into an article — I have had it mentioned to me whether it would be useful to make an article Early history of Derbyshire County Cricket Club) or similar. Bobo. 11:18, 30 June 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for pinging me back, Motmit, and it's good to hear from you once again.
I haven't touched it for a long, long time, but I have written a subpage at User:Bobo192/Derbyshire 1895, which I hope is factually accurate, but is very heavily stats-based — and is essentially a run-down of the results and statistics of the season.
I should do a quick run-through to check it's all factually and statistically accurate, but that's what I hashed out essentially in an early afternoon — over 18 months ago! What do you think? Bobo. 16:54, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
Hey, my friend, thanks for fiddling with that page. It looks a lot better. I hope all goes well these days. Anything new on the Bass's? :-) MarmadukePercy (talk) 22:24, 2 July 2009 (UTC)
You raised the issue of the two George Yates on WT:CRIC in May and I don't know if you're aware but the records on CA have been changed. I wasn't sure whether you emailed them but I did last month with what I believed to be the problem. Can you take a look at this to see if it is fixed or whether I have simply confused things further. Can I also add a well done on all the great work you've done improving the articles of Derbyshire cricketers. --Jpeeling (talk) 13:15, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi there Motmit. Looks like an interesting read. Personally I would move it to Derbyshire County Cricket Club season 1871, as per, for example, Manchester United F.C. season 2007–08.
Could you pass an eye over User:Bobo192/Derbyshire 1895? What do you think to the prose? It's pretty much entirely stat-based, so there is little in terms of continuous prose. There are no tables, currently, but I can deal with those in time. Bobo. 21:35, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
On User talk:Bobo192, Motmit said:
Re your 1895,I find it a little overwhelming with text, but perhaps with the tables that could be reduced a bit.
I was curious as to what tables I could include. Perhaps either a complete County Championship table of that year, or Derbyshire's position and the position either-side, to compare. Of course if we did this for every team, we could make them navigable between each other.
And would the season's batting/bowling averages be of use? Bobo. 01:22, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
If we were to have a season article for every season of every County Championship team, though, that would be 1,964 articles! And presumably a lot of them would be quite prose-y. Bobo. 01:31, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
I see you've added the season table. Just the way I would have formatted it, too. Should we change the heading "winning margin" to "margin"? That way it refers merely to the result and does not mention eitherway that the result was either a win or otherwise.
Feel free to go ahead and make this change or otherwise leave it as is if you disagree with my opinion. Thank you for your work. Bobo. 21:07, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
I finished up the season's figures, based on Cricket Archive data. Do you think we should cite http://cricketarchive.com/Derbyshire/Seasons/Seasonal_Averages/1895_f_Batting_by_Player.html and http://cricketarchive.com/Derbyshire/Seasons/Seasonal_Averages/1895_f_Bowling_by_Player.html in the uppermost cell, or do citation 21 and 22 cover this?
Looking forward to hearing your feedback on the tables. Bobo. 16:58, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi Motmit, thanks for your query. I work for the EA so I have insider information :) These new directorates were implemented a couple of months ago but they haven't really been fully embedded yet. I think the big changes are that all non-flood related water work (e.g. water resources) has moved over (from what was Water Management) to the Environment & Business directorate (formerly Environmental Protection). Also, the Evidence directorate has been set up to more sensibly house those bits of the business that were more cross-cutting, such as Science, Reporting and Data & Information.
I could have got some of that wrong (I don't generally deal with such high-level stuff), so I will see if I can find out some more information for you. It'll probably be off our intranet though, and so not really referencable in the article. I was hoping that there'd be something on the EA website by now, but I can't find anything yet. Bazonka (talk) 18:46, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi there. Hope you're doing well.
I've made a start on Derbyshire's 1936 season. I wanted to get the first part of the job done, so that it felt like I had at least started the task. I hope you think this is okay, so far. I have not started citing as yet, and certain parts need filling out, but I will get to that as soon as necessary.
As ever, if you think anything needs adding beyond what I have already, feel free to do so. Bobo. 11:57, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
On User talk:Bobo192, Motmit said:
Hi Bobo - coincidentally I have just pulled out the data to build the tables for 1936. If you are ahead of me on this, carry on as there's not much lost, but if not I am happy to continue with them. Regards
Hi Motmit. Don't know whether you went to the Thames Trad Rally last month (we've been meaning to go for years to see the "proper" boats but still haven't made it) but I came across some really good pictures on the Yachting and Boat World website which I thought you might like - http://www.ybw.com/gallery/thames-trad-rally/aas Best, Nancy talk 05:45, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
Greetings, Motmit: I'm pleased to find your entry for Richard Sykes and hope you will entertain some additions to it from someone in North Dakota who has had a long-time interest in his presence and influence here in the "outback" of America. Most of my contributions will have to do with Sykes in the U.S. and particularly with his activities in Dakota Territory during the 1880s. PlainsArchitecture (talk) 17:55, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
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Thanks for improving that article on the Umpteenth Earl of Whatever that I AfD'd. It is a far better entry now and clearly shouldn't be deleted. Dmz5*Edits**Talk* 22:28, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
Hi. Cricketarchive and his Wisden obit in 1977 have him as having been born as Walter Reader, not Walter Blackton, as you have him. There's patently quite a bit of mobility about his name, because Wisden 1921 has him as Mr W. Reader-Blacton with no 'k' and Wisden 1922 calls him Mr W. R. Blackton. I don't have Wisden 1915 to know what he was called then. Cheers. Johnlp (talk) 18:52, 19 August 2009 (UTC)
You're quite right - my apologies for running amuck. I cannot promise to turn many of the red links blue, but will undertake to try one in expiation. Tim riley (talk) 19:45, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
Hi Motmit, this may need further research but there seems to be a family link. http://www.genealogy.amay.co.uk/main.php?p=HF2b gives William Henley Stout and references his father, who won the Diamond Scull, and his want to name his children after boat races. The start of this article also gives more info http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-14502557.html and Percy also had a middle name connected to boatracing, Wyfold. http://www.scrum.com/england/rugby/player/1295.html
I may need a bit more hunting but there seems to be a connection, here (somewhere). FruitMonkey (talk) 14:18, 26 August 2009 (UTC)
I had a feeling it would end this way. Just one more Derbyshire redlink remaining. Thank you for covering Laurie Johnson for me - as ever, a very interesting read.
What is our next task? Fleshing out articles on Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1895, 1936, and.. what was the other year you suggested to work on first? My brain has gone blank! It was a year in which they had performed somewhat disastrously.
All the best, and we can start work on the season articles soon! Bobo. 10:28, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
On User talk:Bobo192, Motmit said:
There was always a chance that a Hampshire cricket fan would take KS out. Actually I have come across two Derbyshire players who were not on your redlist, so there may be more. You will see I have set up Derbyshire County Cricket Club seasons and have redlinked some of the seasons which I have in the pipeline.
Intriguing. I would be interested to know who I am missing. I knew there was a chance I would have missed a couple of names out by accident.
Thanks for the report. I will ponder some more on the intervening seasons which I have not yet planned to write about.
As a matter of interest: I'm not much of a reader in real life - do you know any moderately-widely-available books that deal with the history or other information about Derbyshire CCC? Perhaps we could get a portion of information from other literature rather than just pure stats. "1936 - and all that"? ;D Bobo. 11:30, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
There was always the chance that I had missed out one one-match wonders while scanning scorecards and the individual years' stats. Thank you for clarifying.
Mmm. I don't know whether I feel satisfied that this is a task nearly-finished or sad that the task is almost done and dusted. Thank you as ever for your assistance. Not much more for us to do before I start working on, perhaps, User:Bobo192/Derbyshire 1896, or closing out User:Bobo192/Derbyshire 1936.
Good work, as ever. Three teams (nearly) down, 15 to go! Bobo. 01:05, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
Thank you for finishing our list off! Now to find those other phantom names and add them! And to work on all the other teams' players. I am, as we speak, writing a list for South African domestic team North West, which will be added to my list soon. Bobo. 00:47, 9 September 2009 (UTC)
Greetings Motmit- long time since our swords paths last crossed. It just occurred to me that you might find the WP:ROLLBACK feature useful. Someone suggested it to me recently and I must admit to having been a bit reluctant to use it, but it does save time that can be better employed making more constructive edits. The link above names admins who grant it, but zzuuzz (talk) was the one who granted mine. Have fun with yer editing. Cheers! --Technopat (talk) 22:01, 28 September 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for the assist, my friend. The other thing that needs doing is changing the title of the piece to Wychnor Park. Someone named it Wychnor Hall in the beginning, but as you can see from my posts to the talk page, it's never been known as 'the Hall'; it was always 'Park,' and the name needs to be changed to reflect that. I have never renamed an existing piece and don't know how to do it. Hope all is well on your end. Best, MarmadukePercy (talk) 19:10, 29 September 2009 (UTC)
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Thanks again, mot. Always a pleasure. MarmadukePercy (talk) 21:24, 29 September 2009 (UTC) |
First of all Sheffield and Corrigan are not 'apologists'. Perhaps you should read their work (more thoroughly?). Neither of these two authors defends Haig unduly. Infact they do attack Haig over the Somme and various other failures. Moreover, their position that the British Army Generals were on a (even if somewhat jagged) learning curve is undeniable. And I have to remind you; this position is the dominant academic position in this regard.
All Alan Clark and other uneducated, agenda driven journalists and politicians have done is to write books like the donkeys and pass it off as factual history. This feeds the myths and bull shit fed to your average Joe Blogs in the street. Is it any wonder the gap between academic opinion and public perception of the war is widening? 86.144.111.199 (talk) 13:21, 16 October 2009 (UTC)
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Hi. Nice to see these articles taking shape: good stuff. When you say that, for instance, 1929 was Derbyshire's thirty-fifth season in the County Championship, are you counting the four First World War years, because strictly they probably ought not to be. Cheers. Johnlp (talk) 23:06, 11 November 2009 (UTC)
With all due respect, are you accusing my edits to George Orwell of being vexatious litigation? To regard my edits as only being done in the name of harassment is highly uncivil and breach of assuming good faith. It could certainly be interpreted as doing so. Regards. Sir Richardson (talk) 21:24, 29 November 2009 (UTC)
I am not a troll. That's all I'm saying. Sir Richardson (talk) 14:39, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
Certainly not. I have a great admiration and understanding of Orwell's belief in the clarity in language, and am perfectly happy in cooperating with you and others to find resolve in improving the quality of his article. I only make edits in good faith. Quoting myself from Wingspeed's talkpage: I see no redundancy of lack of clarity in "language [linking to vernacular], and lexicon." They are two separate things of which Orwell's terms have become a part of linguistically. To be perfectly frank, without meaning to be uncivil, there's clarity in language, and then there's dumbing it down. And on a minor note, "of the" Spanish civil war seems more grammatically and aesthetically correct than "in the". Regards. Sir Richardson (talk) 07:44, 29 December 2009 (UTC)
Hi. I was using a comparison between the Debrett's Guides to the House of Commons and Judicial Bench, which have the parish breakdowns of constituencies, for 1881 and 1886. 88.211.192.151 (talk) 16:51, 23 December 2009 (UTC)
Should be here: http://www.archive.org/details/debrettshouseo1881londuoft - otherwise I will have to find some maps. 88.211.192.151 (talk) 17:04, 23 December 2009 (UTC)
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Hi. Thanks for reply. Sorry for being late in answering- technical problems.(Northmetpit (talk) 14:24, 28 December 2009 (UTC)).
Hi Motmit
I have reverted your reversion] of my changes to Sir Charles Hamilton, 1st Baronet, because the Hansard 1803-2005 site is not a reliable source for the periods when someone was an MP.
So far as I can see, http://hansard.millbanksystems.com has accurately reproduced the text of Hansard, but it is an experimental site (see its froint page) and its indexing is flawed. It misses many contributions by MPs, and it list of MPs-by-constituency are wrong in lots of places: see for example http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/constituencies/dorchester , where it omits Henry Sturt, 1st Baron Alington's time as MP from 1847-1852 (see rayment or Craig). Or see discussion at [User talk:BrownHairedGirl#Charles_Gilpin_.28politician.29]]
Having been adding ((Hansard-contribs)) to lots of MPs articles, I have encountered dozens of such glitches in the Hansard site, and in each case Rayment's data matches Craig.
So while I think it's a great idea to have an external link to the Hansard 1803-2005 site to help readers gfind some of that MP's speeches, it is not a reliable source for indicating when someone was an MP, or how many contributions they made in Parliament. It's a work-in-progress, which many flaws. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 15:36, 14 January 2010 (UTC)
but