Archive up to August 2014 Have archived old talk. Richard Nowell (talk) 09:43, 2 August 2014 (UTC)Reply[reply]

A file that you uploaded or altered, File:A Montage of Six Extreme Green Pea Galaxies.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why it has been listed (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry). Feel free to add your opinion on the matter below the nomination. Thank you. . . Jim - Jameslwoodward (talk to me • contribs) 10:24, 2 August 2014 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Now deleted. Richard Nowell (talk) 11:29, 12 August 2014 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I'm pretty sure we have a press release image that is under a different license. Let me know if it will be useful Chrislintott (talk) 15:58, 13 September 2014 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Richard, I really like the work you've done on Citizen science, expanding it and working on the citations. I think the article is significantly better thanks to your contributions. Well done! 1bandsaw (talk) 16:38, 6 October 2014 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Thanks! No worries! There are still some odd bits in the article and info that could be added. Some citations need work on... Richard Nowell (talk) 16:42, 6 October 2014 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hi, I noticed that you were responsible for starting the article Savile Row tailoring. I've been editing it some and will continue to do so, but I thought you might like to glance over it. There appears to be a lot of repetition and dead links. Also, a lot of self-referencing seems apparent.Richard Nowell (talk) 14:35, 15 October 2014 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Well done. Keep up the good work! SilkTork ^{✔Tea time} 16:20, 15 October 2014 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hi Richard, you are hereby invited to the South Coast Meetup.

Kind Regards -- Marek.69 ^talk 23:01, 22 October 2014 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I saw elsewhere that you made a link to a Wikipedia policy by copying the URL like this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:External_links

This is appropriate and you can do things this way. You may also see that policy pages often have shortcuts available to copy. The one on that page is "Wikipedia:External links", which you can make a wikilink by putting into double square brackets. [[Wikipedia:External links]]

If you stay around long enough to remember that a policy exists, then you might expect a shortcut to exist when you cite it. The shortcut for the external links policy is [[WP:EL]].

Personally, I am amazed at all the terms of art like "external link" that I have learned on Wikipedia because before I came here I was not sensitive to the distinction of how an external link represents a change in point of view and an endorsement of one site for another. Seeing a community abbreviate these kinds of odd terms made me realize how often it is useful to notice these things. Blue Rasberry (talk) 18:47, 7 November 2014 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Thankyou for your advice. The shortcuts should be used. Richard Nowell (talk) 20:02, 7 November 2014 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Onel5969 (talk) 19:57, 7 March 2015 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hi, Richard. Wikipedia notified me that you had left a message on my talk page, even though you subsequently removed it, so I took a look in the history. I can certainly see your sandbox - as far as I know, every single page on Wikipedia is visible to anybody.

I think you've done quite a good job of neutrality. The parenthetical " - and confusingly written - " jumped out at me as something that should never appear in Wikipedia's voice. I see that it is in fact a quotation, and should be presented as such. On another subject, I find that using abbreviations in the Quotations section is really unhelpful, and I would advise you to edit them out before submitting. --ColinFine (talk) 12:05, 5 January 2016 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Thanks for the effort. I submitted the draft article this morning and will bear in mind your comments.Richard Nowell (talk) 14:25, 5 January 2016 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Kerry (talk) 22:36, 25 March 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Although the comment above was an automated one, I do agree with its suggestion that you don't need to use Article for Creation. Just "move" your sandbox into the main article space to publish. Clearly you know how to write an article and AfC is pretty backlogged so your article could have languished there for months. Kerry (talk) 22:42, 25 March 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

OK thankyou for your help. New articles can always be problematic and are not usually given the nod so quick. Worth a beer... Richard Nowell (talk) 06:38, 26 March 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Ah, you had the magic word Australia in the article. I do a more-or-less daily sweep through the Articles for Creation to push all the Australia-related articles into a dedicated reviewing queue, so I tend to notice any "no brainer" acceptances and act immediately. Kerry (talk) 07:27, 27 March 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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The RfC discussion to eliminate portals was closed May 12, with the statement "There exists a strong consensus against deleting or even deprecating portals at this time." This was made possible because you and others came to the rescue. Thank you for speaking up.

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I think the material you’ve added about the Planetary Society podcast already duplicates information in the article. Maybe take a closer look? Viriditas (talk) 02:26, 14 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

• Thankyou for interest. Sure there are references to these results in a nearby paragraph, but I think that the interview merits a paragraph in Wikipedia: a NASA astrophysicist talking about planetary science and K2-18b. It would be good to find out whether the image of spectrum could be uploaded to Wiki Commons and so to this article. (BTW, other information in the article is also duplicated).Richard Nowell (talk) 10:31, 14 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

  Noting here that I opened a discussion about the addition at Talk:K2-18b#Online radio interview, my concern being that one particular podcast isn't really something so important that we'd give it an entire paragraph in a Wikipedia article. Regarding the spectrum, is it on a webpage anywhere so that we can see its licence and format? Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 07:28, 15 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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