User talk:Frendraught

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Welcome!

Hello, Frendraught, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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Articles from Boase

Regarding the articles you are adding from Boase, thank you for taking the trouble. Could you also format them in accordance with the Wikipedia Guidelines on How to Edit an Article and Wikipedia:Guide to Layout? This makes them a great deal more useful and accessible. Thanks. HeartofaDog (talk) 09:10, 27 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not familiar with the formatting and categories here, but I will try my best - afterwards. For now I have to add hundreds of Boases articles (by the way, he died in 1897, they are all in the public domain now) and my time to do this is very limited. So I have to do this first. Greetinx, Frendraught 09:17, 27 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Where are you getting the text from / why are you concentrating on G. C. Boase? The best source I've found for DNB is the Internet Archive ... but you'd have to thread through all 65 or so volumes to get your Boases. --Tagishsimon (talk) 09:22, 30 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

http://www.oxforddnb.com/ - They've got the "old" DNB articles, which are in the public domain, in their archive. I am concentrating on GC Boase because his articles are not outdated. The new ODNB itself recycles them with very little correction. --Frendraught 09:28, 30 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Gosh. I've been scraping badly OCRd text. But help me out: I cannot fathom the ODNB user interface sufficiently to find the DNB entries. If you would, take Renton Nicholson, for instance. Where is he on ODNB (or, rahter, where is his DNB entry)? (Yes, I am logged into that site). thanks --Tagishsimon (talk) 09:39, 30 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Open the person's entry you are looking for and you will find a link "DNB Archive" on the left side of your screen, in the yellow navigation area. A click will open a new smaller window. (javascript required). Voila. --Frendraught 09:42, 30 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Doh. As you wrote, I spotted it. Well, I take my hat off to you, a) for adding so much from DNB b) for showing me a better way than scraping Internet Archive and c) for doing all of this despite having died in 1650. I guess at least you'll have stopped smelling by now :) --Tagishsimon (talk) 09:46, 30 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

My father died in 1650. I'm still alive, I'm the Highlander. ;-) --Frendraught 09:52, 30 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright problems

Hello. Concerning your contribution, Edwin John James, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material without the permission of the author. This article or image appears to be a direct copy from http://books.google.com/books?id=Wt2OHg8EFjwC&pg=PA206&lpg=PA206&dq="dealing with common juries he freely appealed with conspicuous success to their ignorance"&source=web&ots=l1QKwOosfj&sig=VLq0MA_mEByx-jw7FI5ZlKOVEqY. As a copyright violation, Edwin John James appears to qualify for deletion under the speedy deletion criteria. Edwin John James has been tagged for deletion, and may have been deleted by the time you see this message. For text material, please consider rewriting the content and citing the source, provided that it is credible.

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However, for text content, you may want to consider rewriting the content in your own words. Thank you, and please feel free to continue contributing to Wikipedia. WWGB 10:38, 29 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You may want to consider rethinking. The author of this text died 1897. The text is in the public domain. --Frendraught 10:44, 29 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Barnstar

		The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
		I've never seen Special:Newpages without one of your articles from Boase. Thank you very much for taking the time to contribute so much. east.718 at 16:48, 10/30/2007

Unspecified source for Image:Oliver,_Martha_Cranmer_(1834-1880),_by_Herbert_Watkins,_late_1850s.jpg

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John Farrar

I reverted your move from John Farrar to John Farrar (musician). When you do moves such as these, please check Special:Whatlinkshere and fix any existing inbound links, else they just point to the disambig page. —Moondyne 00:34, 1 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You may be interested in

Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/DNB. Or not. --Tagishsimon (talk) 15:15, 9 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the invitation, but my ODNB-subscription is closed since 2 November and I can't afford the fee for another month. I have no library subscription and have to pay for it myself. --Frendraught 18:24, 9 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Found this - the ODNB isn't the focus, and what we're doing is to proof-read the old, public-domain DNB to make it more available, and place its content suitably edited into articles here. Charles Matthews (talk) 11:49, 3 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

File:G Bradshaw.jpg

Hi, you uploaded a new version of this image 2 years ago, and I was just wondering where you got the new version. It looks like it is from a source newer than 100 years old, and as such, would not be under public domain. (X! · talk) · @079 · 00:54, 22 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Articles for deletion nomination of Robert Durie Osborn

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File:Clutterbuck, Henry (1767-1856), by John Cochran, pubd 1840 (after Henry Room).jpg listed for deletion

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Proposed deletion of File:Oliver, Martha Cranmer (1834-1880), by Herbert Watkins, late 1850s.jpg

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