User talk:Nathanville

Haeremai, welcome, talofa, Willkommen, bienvenue, welkom
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I'm puzzled at how you managed to create a page with the same name as the one I told you I had created (which still exists). I'll have to check to find a subtle difference.

— Robin Patterson (Talk) 10:54, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

Onwards and upwards
You inserted a space before the hyphen. All OK now except that some of the automatically-generated categories are wrong - they should not end in commas. Not your fault! I've approached one of the more knowledgeable contributors and expect that to be fixed within 24 hours. Now past my proper bedtime. — Robin Patterson (Talk) 13:53, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

You are editing now. Unless you are a very early riser you're not in the United Kingdom as I thought! You may have noticed Thurstan fixed the display of second family with. — Robin Patterson (Talk) 04:07, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

Placenames and old photos
Placenames are best linked internally to existing or proposed pages on this site, and easiest to handle if we use the Wikipedia name exactly, allowing alsoWP to be added at the top for a direct link or usedwp if we want to copy stuff.

Old photos are probably public domain in every country that cares if the photographer died over 70 years ago. I'm not sure where to look that up, but I'll try. Can be changed later with no trouble.

— Robin Patterson (Talk) 04:48, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

Images from newspapers over 50 years old may be OK; I've really no idea. Check Help:Image copyright tags. At a guess, I'd say "fair use" might apply if you gave the newspaper full credit. — Robin Patterson (Talk) 22:57, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

Another space problem creating a near-duplicate
This time it's because of omitting a space. Definitely excusable here; a couple of websites I know don't have a space between the name and the opening bracket.

I might turn your second fellow into a disambiguation page. Or maybe you could move him to become an as-yet-uncreated sibling page if that might save you time?

Only admins can delete pages. At the rate you are going, you might be considered worthy quite soon, but not today. I'm delighted at how well you have taken to this site. You could give the folks back at the Multiply site an unbiased review of it!.

— Robin Patterson (Talk) 06:09, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

Your longer missive
I'll intersperse replies between its paragraphs. — Robin Patterson (Talk) 23:13, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

HumaN DISambiguation
See User:Nathanville/Baglin disambiguation. You may not find it useful immediately: I covered all the obvious duplicates. But there are another 600 Baglins on your site, so I expect more duplicate to appear. — Robin Patterson (Talk) 06:03, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Multiply
I reported briefly on your progress and invited people to look at a page that I'm awarding five stars to. — Robin Patterson (Talk) 06:03, 4 March 2009 (UTC)