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Bristol Centre

Thanks for your work on this, it's coming on well. Andy Dingley (talk) 12:46, 28 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It's an obsession! Castle Park now done and up RedSquirrel (talk) 23:21, 1 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Castle Green

I was only aware it was a street from the images. I first came across the Castle Green reference to the park when i was looking up info for a London suburb. Feel free to change the captions. Oh and your link to the pre-war map is not working. Simply south...... 18:12, 3 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Which one? RedSquirrel (talk) 18:38, 3 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Btw, just nominated it at DYK if that is okay. Simply south...... 17:40, 6 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Excellent! More people should know about it! RedSquirrel (talk) 19:47, 6 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I added ALT3 to the template but is it right? Please check it out. Simply south...... 23:30, 8 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Castle Park, Bristol

On 10 March 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Castle Park, Bristol, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the ruins of St Peter's Church, Bristol, in Castle Park are a memorial to the victims of the 1940 Bristol Blitz? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

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Wording issues in copyright situations

I saw your note at this page where you said:

I have to say that it rather smarts to be wrongly accused - no, convicted - of 'flagrant abuse of copyright' after seven and a helf years of doing my best to do no such thing. Hey ho

I agree.

I have an item on my to do list to rewrite some of our template messages. While I take copyright issues very seriously, I don't think we need such language in cases where it is likely someone made an honest mistake. However, I don't see the specific language you quoted - can you tell me where it appeared?--SPhilbrick (Talk) 12:51, 22 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I was mis-paraphrasing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:CSD#F9; the actual word was 'blatant' which I accept is less incendiary than 'flagrant'. Actually I don't know how the image was tagged as it was deleted before I had an opportunity to respond! I do appreciate (more now than ever!) what a minefield this whole copyright issue is... RedSquirrel (talk) 14:08, 22 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I hope it didn't come across that I was criticizing your word choice - I want to make some changes, but want an inventory of the phrases in use, and didn't recognize the one you used, so wanted to make sure I wasn't missing a source. In fact, your response is helpful, as I had in mind to work on the templates, but of course, the templates provide links so that wording ought to be reviewed as well. Yes, copyright is a minefield. The more I work in it, the more I realize how much I don't know. However, that doesn't excuse the project- we need to be a little more AGF when it comes to inevitable, honest mistakes.--SPhilbrick (Talk) 14:23, 22 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

No, not at all - I am embarrassed to have so misquoted.RedSquirrel (talk) 15:06, 22 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Many thanks. Very intrigued to know what path you followed to Keynsham, but happy to have pointed you there! RedSquirrel (talk) 14:05, 28 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Apology

Just one thing - I'm sorry if I've offended you by drawing attention to your newness and making an unwanted edit in your specialist area. You do need to be fairly thick-skinned here, and choose your battles, in order to avoid upsetting yourself as well as other people, over issues that aren't particularly important in the grand scheme of things. I still get cross or upset several times a day and I just want to reassure you that, if ever you need help, I will be only too happy to offer it. Deb (talk) 16:41, 20 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

No problem at all, though after 13 years of editing I don't really consider myself new!RedSquirrel (talk) 16:50, 20 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, what are all those long gaps about? Were you editing anonymously in between? (I'm asking out of pure curiosity.) Deb (talk) 07:37, 21 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I edit Wikipedia when I have time and I think I have something useful to add; when I don't have time or I don't think I have anything useful to add I stop. I have one account, and I have never intentionally edited anonymously.RedSquirrel (talk) 08:50, 21 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I didn't mean to sound accusatory. There's no rule against editing anonymously. Deb (talk) 09:20, 21 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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