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@Andrew Davidson hi, I sent you an email about a day ago, just wanted to send a reminder here again. Thank you so much for your time! Looking forward to hear from you, and have a great weekend! Phoebezz22 (talk) 18:34, 10 January 2025 (UTC)

:Yes, I saw the email, thanks, and will reply directly. Andrew🐉(talk) 19:14, 10 January 2025 (UTC)

::Sounds great, Thank you so much! Will wait for your response then =) Phoebezz22 (talk) 22:18, 10 January 2025 (UTC)

:::Having looked, I'm not sure I'm ready for an interview yet. My activity is currently experimental and today's recent update is a typical example. See Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy)#Request_for_closure where I tried using Gemini to summarise a discussion. Andrew🐉(talk) 23:47, 10 January 2025 (UTC)

::::@Andrew Davidson Thank you for the thoughtful reply, I really appreciate it! I also took a look at the examples you provided, and I still believe your interactions in such discussions with examples of LLM outputs will provide very valuable insights - and in fact, I think you'll provide a very interesting perspective. Please let me know if you are interested in participating! And if you don't mind, we can also change to emails. Have a great weekend =) Phoebezz22 (talk) 02:31, 11 January 2025 (UTC)

Hi and... Black Middens

Hi Andrew Davidson!

In due deference to your seniority, you should have been the first editor I bothered in my quest for info, but it has only just occurred to me to check who created the article on the Black Middens. To cut a long story short, I'm trying to tie up a couple of loose ends I've come across regarding the Spanish Battery Rocks, at the estuary of the River Tyne, as an oft-mentioned hazard to shipping in the area. However, I have come up against a series of doubts which render that redlink (or simply a section at another article, a non-starter, at least for the moment. I [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3ABarabbas1312&diff=1276038654&oldid=1276012678 have already bothered] another user, Barabbas1312 who, though kindly tolerant of my imposition has, so far, been unable to shed further light on the matter at hand, beyond confirming that the "name doesn't appear to be used on the relevant Admiralty chart, though the battery itself is marked".

Not knowing the area at all, and as sources are few and far between, one of my main doubts is whether said rocks refer to "your" Black Middens or to the rocks on other side of the headland, where the actual artillery battery was located. If the former, since that article already exists, it might just be a matter of adding/finding a couple of sources that link the two sites, or not, as the case may be. Thanks for your time and, as I commented to Barabbas1312, please don't feel obliged to do anything regarding this matter. Happy Editing! Technopat (talk) 17:08, 16 February 2025 (UTC)

:I started the Black Middens as a spinoff from the Lights of North Shields.

:[https://co-curate.ncl.ac.uk/spanish-battery-tynemouth/ This page about the Spanish Battery] shows a map derived from Google. This labels the Black Middens and other specific features fairly clearly and also shows the coastal rocks. My impression is that the Black Middens usually means the reef of rock in the channel where the name label is. The rocks which form the shore around the headland seem to be a more general coastal feature and don't have particular names. So, the rocky shore near to the battery might be considered distinct but I doubt that it warrants a separate article.

:We could use an article about the battery as the article Tynemouth Priory and Castle doesn't mention it. We could also use an article about the Tynemouth Volunteer Life Brigade Watch House which was built there specifically because shipwrecks were common. I'll make a start on that now.

:A person who might be able to help is {{u|Ojsyork}} who is active in the RNLI and RNLI task force here.

:Andrew🐉(talk) 18:01, 16 February 2025 (UTC)

::@Andrew Davidson@Technopat

::Sorry chaps, can't help. I can find histories of Lifeboat Stations, but any ref. to wreck locations etc I just assume they're correct, and add a link if an article exists.

::All the RNLI stations are now done, but I'm still on with List of former RNLI stations, whilst fending off the nonsense created by one other member of the RNLI group!

::And then there are RNLI Fleet pages to update constantly - I'm unlikely to get to Volunteer Rocket Brigades, sorry. Ojsyork (talk) 18:55, 16 February 2025 (UTC)

:::Greetings All! Many thanks for your prompt replies. As this is your talk page, Andrew Davidson, I hope you don't mind that I respond here also to {{u|Ojsyork}} so as not to have too many loose ends lying around. Yes, regarding that Spanish Battery link, thanks, I have that one and I agree with you regarding the specific reef versus the rocks under the battery and yes, the Watch House merits an article, so if you're happy to do that, great! Look forward to checking it out!

:::Regrading the RNLI, Ojsyork, I have just started using its [https://rnli.org/find-my-nearest/lifeboat-stations/tynemouth-lifeboat-station/station-history-tynemouth Tynemouth's Station history page] as a reference to pages on the :Category:Lists of shipwrecks by year. Hope you manage to fend off the nonsense-peddler. In the absence of 10-foot bargepoles, boathooks are quite effective, as are sculls... (I once had the privilege of seeing a Thames waterman —and ex-British commando— smack a drunken idiot who had fallen into the Thames on the dodgy ebb tide over the head with a scull so as to stun him and stop him from capsizing the skiff we had gone to rescue him in. One of the highlights of my youth! Sorry, off on one of me tangents... --Technopat (talk) 21:25, 16 February 2025 (UTC)

ITN recognition for [[Melsonby Hoard]]

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Thank you for a truly interesting news item! - I also liked your look at Britannica for Satie. - My story today: Jörg Streli, an architect to whom you can listen (in German, though) and the Jahrhundertring, nominated for GA (both hidden on the same main page). --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:58, 26 March 2025 (UTC)

ITN recognition for [[2025 Grand National]]

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The BBC Radio 4 series ''[[Book of the Week]]''

I saw the banner on your user page about being a deletion patroller. I wonder if you have any views on the current deletion discussion for Book of the Week at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Book of the Week. Snowman (talk) 23:01, 30 May 2025 (UTC)

:I’m interested in such radio topics and will see how I can help. Am busy today so more later… Andrew🐉(talk) 12:07, 31 May 2025 (UTC)

:I found a good detailed source which is visible to me at [https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Reading_Radio_4/q5SkDQAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Book+of+the+Week+bbc&pg=PA130&printsec=frontcover Google Books] so you may be able to read it there too. I have made a variety of other smaller edits and will do more as and when more occur to me.

:We ought to start an article about Di Speirs using sources such as [https://rsliterature.org/fellows/di-speirs/ this].

:And, if you're interested in radio please check out the List of longest-running radio programmes. We should add a Book at Bedtime to that as it's older than the Archers though it did have a break of three years, it seems.

:Andrew🐉(talk) 20:03, 31 May 2025 (UTC)

::I have been thinking about an article for Di Speirs too. I am very much a part-time editor, though. Thanks for your work on the Book of the Week article. The delete discussion has been closed with no overall discussion, so the article is retained. Snowman (talk) 09:17, 2 June 2025 (UTC)

:::I saw that Eddie891 had noticed the book that I added as a source and was expecting this to produce a no-consensus result. That's good enough so we can move on to Speirs now. Some people don't like stubs but I'm quite keen on them. The way to get a job done is to start it... Andrew🐉(talk) 09:25, 2 June 2025 (UTC)

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Re: [[Case Notes (radio show)]]

I see that this BBC Radio show has been turned into a redirect (effectively deleted) following a merge discussion earlier this year. I would like to restore this article. Do you know how to go about this? Snowman (talk) 10:28, 6 June 2025 (UTC)