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River Stour

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  Hi Sjwells53! An article you have been involved with has been tagged by its parent project as needing either a little attention to style, updating, or further development. If you can help with these minor issues please see Talk:River Stour, Worcestershire and leave any comments there.--Kudpung (talk) 12:10, 26 June 2009 (UTC)Reply

Saint-Thégonnec

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Hi Sjwells53, your picture "The church and entrance to parish close" is a bit too dark. If you wish, I could improve it and upload a new version. And thanks for having tidied up the captions for my photos. Tango7174 (talk) 22:55, 22 July 2009 (UTC).Reply

List of rivers of Europe

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Hi, you've been adding some rivers to the List of rivers of Europe. Please note that this list is only for the most notable rivers of Europe. See the lead of the list: "For clarity, only rivers longer than 100 km (or very significant in another way) are shown in this list." Markussep Talk 12:50, 17 February 2010 (UTC)Reply

WikiProject Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms

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Hello, Sjwells53! We are looking for editors to join WikiProject Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms, a collaborative effort which aims to create, expand, and maintain articles related to the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms of England. Thanks!

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Mercia/Mercian religion

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Hi, Sjwells53. You made some edits in Mercia under the section "Penda and the Mercian Supremacy". This section is a summary of a historical period focusing on its most powerful kings, and is intentionally lacking in detail - detailed changes should be added under the main articles.

Rather than undoing your edits I've moved the two paragraphs you produced into a new section entitled "Mercian religion" which you may want to clean up. There is not yet a main article for Mercian religion, but if you have a larger number of edits to make you might want to consider creating one and expanding your contributions there/

Finally, can you include citations for all the sources you have used? Many thanks! Metabaronic (talk) 20:43, 11 May 2010 (UTC)Reply

Just to let you know that a Mercian Religion article has now been created, incorporating most of your previous contributions to Mercia.Metabaronic (talk) 17:19, 21 May 2010 (UTC)Reply

Thank you

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Thank you for the catch on the Littleton portrait. My error. MarmadukePercy (talk) 19:40, 25 June 2011 (UTC)Reply

The graph of Brewood

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Dear Sjwells53 you graph on Brewood is cited as an example on the page Wikipedia:How_to_create_graphs_for_Wikipedia_articles#Gnumeric. Can you provide the source gnumeric file that you made to generate that graph? I'd like to use gnumeric to make similar graphs but I'm not sure how. Spundun (talk) 22:20, 13 September 2011 (UTC)Reply

Thank you, can you please email it to me? my address is <myusername> at gmail --Spundun (talk) 19:38, 15 September 2011 (UTC)Reply

A barnstar for you

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  The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
For your work on improving Penkridge and related articles.  An optimist on the run! 15:12, 12 January 2012 (UTC)Reply

Tom Butler & Dr John

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Hullo! You commented on Talk:Thomas Butler (bishop)#Drunkeness that Butler "vocal[ly] support[ed]" Dr John (this first time presumably). I'd love to add that information, but I can't find a source. Do you know where we can find one? Cheers DBD 22:56, 11 March 2012 (UTC)Reply

Staffs MPs

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Do not hesitate to seek my help on issues such as arose with Thomas Whorwood. Peterkingiron (talk) 16:30, 31 March 2012 (UTC)Reply

I have just written an article on Prestwood (Kinver). If you can improve this from the sources that you have eben using please do so. However the dispute of 1597 was certainly not concerned with ironmaking: there were no ironworks at Prestwood. There was a wireworks on the other side of the Stour, but much later and Greensforge is nearby. Peterkingiron (talk) 15:45, 3 April 2012 (UTC)Reply

Wombourne/Wombourn

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Please see Talk:Wombourn railway station. Thanks. Keomike (talk) 15:27, 15 October 2012 (UTC)Reply

Humphrey Swynnerton

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Hello, just wanted to say that's a nice piece (with accompanying photographs) on Humphrey Swynnerton. Best, MarmadukePercy (talk) 11:04, 3 March 2013 (UTC)Reply

You are most welcome. I love stumbling upon the little corners of wikipedia, especially the ones with well-done local history. I enjoyed the piece, and I imagine quite a number of others have, too. Keep up the good work! Best regards, MarmadukePercy (talk) 18:48, 3 March 2013 (UTC)Reply

A barnstar for you!

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Great work on improving Jürgen Moltmann back in 2009. Was just reading it earlier and I learned a lot from it.
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River Tame, West Midlands

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Thanks for the message about the Tame, glad you liked the new Geobox - it was the first time I had done one with a twin source so I was concerned it would look a bit large, but it does fit into the article quite well. Jokulhlaup (talk) 16:35, 30 April 2013 (UTC)Reply

My edit on the Tame, has been used to justify a change in the use of the Geobox-river. Please see Template_talk:Infobox_river#Geobox.2C_again if you want to comment, as you may have a view. Jokulhlaup (talk) 17:09, 1 July 2013 (UTC)Reply

Regarding your recent edits to Richard_Morgan_(16th-century_judge)

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I noticed that you seem to have attempted a move of the Richard Morgan page by copying and pasting the entire content of the page, however, this is not the preferred method. Please see WP:MOVE - if the whole content is to be moved it is much preferred to do a proper page move which will preserve the history of edits and attributions in the correct location. The page in question has already been rectified. I hope this makes sense, do let me know if I can help further. --nonsense ferret 19:55, 26 July 2013 (UTC)Reply

With regards to this comment (diff):

No-one will be fooled by the apparent naivety with which you have made an ethnocentric and ideologically-motivated change of this sort. Sjwells53 (talk) 07:39, 16 October 2013 (UTC)

I have no idea what you mean (I must be naive)! So please explain further. -- PBS (talk) 16:08, 18 October 2013 (UTC)Reply

A cheeseburger for you!

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  For the creation of Richard Ottley, very interesting Lgcsmasamiya (talk) 17:08, 12 November 2013 (UTC)Reply

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Edward Bromley

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Any time - always happy to be of help. Especially regarding such a well-formed article; excellent work.

Happy editing! --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 20:55, 19 May 2014 (UTC)Reply

Haughmond Abbey

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Can I ask why you have undone the edits I made to the Haughmond Abbey page, despite including references? regards Cbowsie (talk) 21:49, 12 January 2015 (UTC) -The reference given did not contradict previous work. Rather it clarified sentences with precise dates and names which only stated 'probably around' and the like. The book was written in 1995 by a well known and elderly historian in County Down and therefore it is understandable that a webpage for his book does not exist. regards Cbowsie (talk) 17:10, 16 February 2015 (UTC)Reply

My apologies re Littleton/Lyttleton

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Sorry, that was me being sloppy: should've read the history/talk page(s) before blithely adding the image. Thanks for fixing it. SamKlai (talk) 19:37, 25 May 2015 (UTC)Reply

I get your point

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Regarding your edit comment: "The point is there is a contradiction in the secondary sources, although O and B always deserve respect." To be clear, my tag was not meant to suggest that you're incorrect, not to make any real assertion at all—hence my used of question marks in my own preceding edit comment. I'm just not sure to what degree it is kosher under Wikipedia's original reserch policies for us editors to draw this sort of attention to inconsistencies in the referenced sources without citing a source for the inconsistency as well, which is what seems to be implied in my reading of WP:ORIGINALSYN. That in itself is somewhat frustrating. (BTW, the extensive work you've done on several articles about such fairly obscure Protectorate figures is rather impressive. And probably also rather thankless. So thanks.) —Geoff Capp (talk) 00:11, 25 June 2015 (UTC)Reply

Biography articles

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I'm not really a member of the WikiProject - I just saw a spate of talkpages that wanted creating and went for it. I may well have made a mistake in marking some of them as stub class, as I don't remember off the top of my head how I generated the article list I used; I'd say just go ahead and remove that assessment if you're not sure it belongs. --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 16:53, 13 August 2016 (UTC)Reply

I'll take a look and see if I can isolate the offending articles and scrub it from them. --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 17:24, 13 August 2016 (UTC)Reply

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Offline Friendship

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I am very interested in the same subjects as yourself. The Medieval history of Wolverhampton. The river tributaries and the mysteries of the area. I think your line of inquiry is matching my own thoughts, that I dare not articulate for fear of ridicule. Our research overlaps by looking at your entries on Wikipedia. Mariegriffiths (talk) 21:54, 6 August 2017 (UTC)Reply

Dudley Sutton Hobart

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I think you have been working on Edward Sutton, 5th Baron Dudley and Theodosia Harington - please ignore if this is not you. Their third daughter Margaret married a Miles Hobart, but not it seems the Buckinghamshire one or yet another Miles Hobart who was MP, but someone more obscure from the Blickling family, who lived in Norwich and nearby, where Margaret's mother Theodosia stayed and her older sister Mary Countess of Home visited from Scotland. This I find in Theodosia's will, which includes three children of Margaret and Miles Hobart, TNA Prob/11/215. May be of interest. Unoquha (talk) 14:14, 14 October 2017 (UTC)Reply

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Phenomenal work adding that endowments table, thank you. I have subsequently created the Ewan Christian category, thanks for your prompt. No Swan So Fine (talk) 11:48, 26 May 2019 (UTC)Reply

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