User talk:Johncosgrave

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February 2020

Image:Information.svg Welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate your contributions, but in one of your recent edits to :William Joseph Cosens Lancaster, it appears that you have added original research, which is against Wikipedia's policies. Original research refers to material—such as facts, allegations, ideas, and personal experiences—for which no reliable, published sources exist; it also encompasses combining published sources in a way to imply something that none of them explicitly say. Please be prepared to cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. You can have a look at the tutorial on citing sources. Thank you. --Animalparty! (talk) 20:23, 1 February 2020 (UTC)

:What this means is, we can't analyze or compare the works of Lancaster with G. A. Henty unless they have been explicitly analyzed or compared by secondary sources. Wikipedia is not a place to publish novel ideas or interpretations, it is a summary of existing established knowledge, presented in proportion to its prominence in the published record. --Animalparty! (talk) 20:29, 1 February 2020 (UTC)

Thanks you for the detail - yes, I accept that what you say is correct. I will remove it.Johncosgrave (talk) 15:26, 2 February 2020 (UTC)

Nomination of [[:Horace William Petherick]] for deletion

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[[Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion|Speedy deletion]] nomination of [[:Category:Members of Royal Institute of Oil Painters]]

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Please delete this page, it was was not empty but empties when the category links were removed from individual articles and changes to :Category:Members of the Royal Institute of Oil PaintersJohncosgrave (talk) 14:10, 16 February 2020 (UTC)

February 2020

File:Information.svg Hi, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you tried to give :Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books a different title by copying its content and pasting either the same content, or an edited version of it, into another page with a different name. This is known as a "cut-and-paste move", and it is undesirable because it splits the page history, which is legally required for attribution. Instead, the software used by Wikipedia has a feature that allows pages to be moved to a new title together with their edit history.

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Yes, I keep forgetting about the Move option- It was only after posting the article that I remembered about the MOS advice on definite articles on page titlesJohncosgrave (talk) 15:30, 17 February 2020 (UTC)

File:Information.svg Hi, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you tried to give :The Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books a different title by copying its content and pasting either the same content, or an edited version of it, into :Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books. This is known as a "cut-and-paste move", and it is undesirable because it splits the page history, which is legally required for attribution. Instead, the software used by Wikipedia has a feature that allows pages to be moved to a new title together with their edit history.

In most cases, once your account is four days old and has ten edits, you should be able to move an article yourself using the "Move" tab at the top of the page (the tab may be hidden in a dropdown menu for you). This both preserves the page history intact and automatically creates a redirect from the old title to the new. If you cannot perform a particular page move yourself this way (e.g. because a page already exists at the target title), please follow the instructions at requested moves to have it moved by someone else. Also, if there are any other pages that you moved by copying and pasting, even if it was a long time ago, please list them at Wikipedia:Requests for history merge. Thank you. Johncosgrave Johncosgrave (talk) 15:37, 17 February 2020 (UTC)

[[Draft:Charles Mills Sheldon (soldier)|Charles Mills Sheldon (soldier)]] moved to draftspace

An article you recently created, Charles Mills Sheldon (soldier), does not have enough sources and citations as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. GPL93 (talk) 01:35, 16 April 2020 (UTC)

Your submission at [[Wikipedia:Articles for creation|Articles for creation]]: [[Draft:Charles Mills Sheldon (soldier)|Charles Mills Sheldon (soldier)]] (April 22)

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Your sandbox

Please note that per WP:USERNOCAT, user sandbox pages are not allowed to be filed in mainspace categories. You may include categories in disabled form, such as with a leading colon before the word category or wrapped in "nowiki" tags so that they are functioning strictly as text rather than as category declarations, but you absolutely must not simply include them so that the page files in the category as if it were already a completed article. I'm mentioning this to you because I see that User:Johncosgrave/sandbox has needed other editors to come in and disable or remove the categories eight times in just two months — so I need to be clear: as long as the page is in sandbox, your choices are "disabled categories" or "no category declarations at all". Please note as well that you can potentially receive a temporary or permanent block from editing Wikipedia, on grounds of disruptive editing, if you disregard this and continue to leave your sandbox page filed in articlespace categories. Thanks. Bearcat (talk) 22:19, 30 April 2020 (UTC)

[[Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion|Speedy deletion]] nomination of [[:Category:Members of the Society of British Artists]]

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Yes, please delete this. It was replaced by the Category:Members of the Royal Society of British Artists reflecting the current name of the society.Johncosgrave (talk) 11:27, 1 May 2020 (UTC)

Alice Corkran

Hello, I have commented out some text which you added to Alice Corkran in [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alice_Corkran&diff=prev&oldid=944064440 this edit], under "Later life and death".

The text is:

"Exhibition Road, South Kensington, London. Her leg was badly injured and she suffered from shock, and recovered only slowly."

If you can complete the sentence, please do - otherwise, it needs to be removed. Thank you, Jessicapierce (talk) 23:18, 7 May 2020 (UTC)

Thanks very much for your badly needed edits - and for spotting the orphan. I really need a better way of editing articles as in-line citations often lead to missing the wood for the trees. Thanks againJohncosgrave (talk) 15:48, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

May 2020

Image:Information.svg Thank you for your edit to the disambiguation page Darley. However, please note that disambiguation pages are not articles; rather, they are meant to help readers find a specific article quickly and easily. From the disambiguation dos and don'ts, you should:

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Thank you. Julietdeltalima (talk) 22:08, 13 May 2020 (UTC)

I was preparing a page on Francesca Maria Steele at the time. It is up now, so I have restored the disambiguation element. Thanks. Johncosgrave (talk) 11:47, 14 May 2020 (UTC)

[[:Category:Illustrators of work by G. A. Henty]] has been nominated for deletion

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Your draft article, [[Draft:Harry Collingwood]]

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Citation styles

Hello! Please don't change citation styles as per WP:CITEVAR. Thanks, Gaia Octavia Agrippa Talk 18:22, 12 August 2020 (UTC)

I have changed citation styles mostly on articles that I have created, converting them to LDR format because the resulting text is a lot less cluttered, and maintenance of citations is easier. I have done in also where I have been adding dozens of citations to stubs with less than a handful of citations. For future reference: what is the procedure for seeking consensus for such changes.Johncosgrave (talk) 09:53, 13 August 2020 (UTC)

I have sent you a note about a page you started

Hello, Johncosgrave

Thank you for creating George Wright (artist).

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Gazal world (talk) 17:49, 12 September 2020 (UTC)

{{Re|Gazal world}}Yes, you are probably right. It is not just this page but the pages for Gilbert Scott Wright, and Louise Wright (illustrator). I have moved the bio detail to footnotes, as some may be interested. Basically I was trying to achieve a balance between the three siblings I have written articles on and the other four siblings, two of whom were artists. Johncosgrave (talk) 18:14, 12 September 2020 (UTC)

Changing citation style

Hi, Please do not change the citation style of an article without prior discussion, as for example, you have done at William Rainey.

Please see WP:CITEVAR. Hope that helps. 14GTR (talk) 17:54, 15 September 2020 (UTC)

I did not think it would be an issues as:

  • I originally created the page.
  • I am the only one to have added citations to the page.
  • I wanted to tidy up where there were references to different pages in the same source.

Johncosgrave (talk) 11:28, 16 September 2020 (UTC)

Date ranges

Hi, I noticed that you had used {{tl|snd}} between years on the page Robert Leighton. Please note that MOS:DATERANGE specifies that we use unspaced en-dashes for date ranges. I've changed that page, but you might want to check for similar edits that you might have made. – Fayenatic London 09:24, 25 September 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for the tip - Yes, this may cover quite a few of my edits. Is there any tool for automatically checking and correcting?Johncosgrave (talk) 11:27, 25 September 2020 (UTC)

Possible typo in quote

Please see my note on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Richard_Pryce#Typo_in_quote%3F talk page here]. Thanks. --LilHelpa (talk) 23:38, 21 October 2020 (UTC)

Need spelling check.

Hi, and thanks for your contributions to the project. I ran across Walter Ernest Webster today and wonder about the spelling of his father's name. Can you check it please? If it is shown correctly it should be marked with Template:Not a typo. Thanks --LilHelpa (talk) 20:13, 8 November 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for this. I have checked and his father's third given name is spelled Waithman on his baptismal cert. I have corrected the article.Johncosgrave (talk) 09:16, 9 November 2020 (UTC)

[[Dimsie Moves Up]]

Hi! The edit you made [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dimsie_Moves_Up&diff=976585103&oldid=779866269 here] has some poor grammar or typos in the quote which beg correction (proved→prove; make→made). Are they transcribed wrong or actually in the quote? --LilHelpa (talk) 13:17, 18 November 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for this. I have corrected proved to prove, but makes is makes.Johncosgrave (talk) 14:02, 18 November 2020 (UTC)

Gilbert Scott Wright

Could you take another look at your edits at Gilbert Scott Wright? I've corrected what appear to be typos in your edits. I hope (but haven't checked) that what I assume to be carelessness isn't repeated elsewhere. Ghmyrtle (talk) 12:04, 23 November 2020 (UTC)

Thanks. I obviously pasted in an infobox from another page I was working on and did not correct the dates. Thanks again.Johncosgrave (talk) 13:49, 23 November 2020 (UTC)

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Your draft article, [[Draft:Charles Mills Sheldon (soldier)]]

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[[Samuel Walkey]]

Please check the spelling on the source: St. James's Church. "Marriages solmenized in St James' in the Parish of Torpoint in the County of Cornwall in 1897". Thanks. --LilHelpa (talk) 18:37, 28 November 2020 (UTC)

Thanks again for this. I have now corrected the spelling of both solemnized and St. Jame's.Johncosgrave (talk) 12:30, 29 November 2020 (UTC)

Manual of style

Thanks for your attention to the R. Austin Freeman article. I'm not sure I read the manual of style section on capitalizing book titles the same way you do, so I've asked for additional input here. I'd welcome any comments might have as well. Best regards, Newyorkbrad (talk) 17:11, 1 December 2020 (UTC)

:Never mind, the confusion over the "undo"s has been pointed out to me. Thanks again for your work on the article. Regards, Newyorkbrad (talk) 17:55, 1 December 2020 (UTC)

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