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Molyneux

If you need help with William Molyneux, I have many real sources (i.e, non-encyclopedias) to fill in details. Just drop me a line if you find yourself stuck. Ottava Rima (talk) 12:59, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

Hello. I saw your comment on Bardcom's talk page. I discovered with great pleasure the WP article on William Molyneux. I found this Jstor Royal Society biographical sketch . The sketch in particular mentions an article published in the Philisophical Transactions of the Royal Society which compares the weather in Dublin and Oxford. I don't know what the article says, but it might help in resolving the impasse on Thames frost fairs. There is a slight problem about using the term United Kingdom because it only came into existence in 1707; and Britain is a disambiguation page. I hope this helps. I have no views either way, but it is hard to find a geographical term which is not a disambiguation page. I'll try to dig out the reference, but, if it's between 1683 and 1686 as the article indicates, it might not be that easy. Cheers, Mathsci (talk) 10:02, 20 July 2008 (UTC)

All of Phl. Trans. have been digitized on jstor, but it seems the article on the weather was just an apparently unrecorded paper read to the Royal Society. I did find an interesting article from 1684 by John Evelyn where he details the plants and trees lost as a result of the severe winter in England and "countries to the South". Mathsci (talk) 10:46, 20 July 2008 (UTC)

A little more investigation showed that Molyneux for 2 years or so from 1683-1685 sent his "weather diary" to William Musgrave, FRS, of New College, Oxford. He was using a grid designed in England and apparently one example of such a page is in the 3rd volume of Robert Gunther's "Early science in Oxford". Perhaps these diaries are kept in an archive of the college or a History of Science Museum in Oxford. Mathsci (talk) 14:56, 20 July 2008 (UTC)

Here is Plot's plot on jstor , a giant foldout from Vol 15 of Phil Trans (1685). The rest of the article contains the daily weather reports for each month of 1684. I now know why I live in the South of France. :-) Mathsci (talk) 13:05, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

Arthritis

Concerning your addition of William Musgrave to the "History" section in arthritis, could you clarify Musgrave's contribution to the understanding of arthritis? Just because he wrote a book about it doesn't mean it is notable... There is plenty of scope for more talk about Garrod, Landré-Beauvais, etc. JFW | T@lk 14:23, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your message. One of the problems of arthritis is that it deals with a number of conditions that all cause inflammation (and often destruction) of the joints. It is therefore very hard to write a history of all of those at the same time. If Musgrave was notable for identifying Devon colic then surely his opinions on arthritis, even if now considered wrong, will have had some weight at the time. It would be immensely helpful to have a secondary source confirming this, but your contribution is appreciated.

Have you a specific interest in medical history? I am strictly an amateur but always try to equip my articles with decent history sections, insofar as they are sourceable. JFW | T@lk 15:30, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

Global Warming

Answered (and apologised) on my talk page. --BozMo talk 13:32, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

The Three-revert rule and the Shakespeare authorship question

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Shakespeare authorship question. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions on a single page within a 24 hour period. Additionally, users who perform a large number of reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring, even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing. Please do not repeatedly revert edits, but use the talk page to work towards wording and content that gains a consensus among editors. If necessary, pursue dispute resolution.

I'll comment on the talk page. AndyJones (talk) 07:00, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

WP:AE

Hi, can you please stop clogging up the AE page with your complaints about a completely uninvolved administrator. My comment about "No one likes to issues blocks and bans" were referring to the regular admins on the Troubles articles, not any random admin that you happen to have an issue with. If you believe someone is acting problematically, the correct venue is WP:RFC. Thanks, Black Kite 14:21, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

lol Lucian Sunday (talk) 14:22, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks (on Pytheas)

I approve of the map. I was looking for pics but couldn't settle on any. I'm on this because people seemed to be having trouble with the scholarship involved and kept making generalities taken from generalities etc until it seemed anyone could say anything about Pytheas with equal certitide and some were beginning to portray him as mythological. I didn't expect to find this much. I'm finishing up on Britain and then will go on to Thule and the Baltic. But now that I've gotten into Strabo and the name of the British I see there are about 15 more articles still in crude shape. Anyway, when I've gotten to the point where Pytheas appears as a definitive person I will stop. The article will be longer, say 50 KB, but everyone seems interested in Pytheas and nothing it seems can be easily said. He is however in a good many articles. Thank you for your positive reaction, which encourages me to finish up the minimum. If you see any more pics we could probably use them. Best wishes.Dave (talk) 01:18, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

More on Pytheas

I took a good look at this source - unfortunately you could give us only one page so we don't really know what the author's theory was. In any case, all this is only theory. We don't know know if Ptolemy based his map on Pytheas; it is only a theory. Morover, Ptolemy is distorted in a lot of places that can have nothing to do with Pytheas, so accounting for the distortion in this way is one theory among many. This is one of the issues I want to present in a plodding, careful way, but I have not got to it yet. I did get to the perimeter or coastline theory. The basic problem is to account for Strabo's dissatisfaction. We KNOW Pytheas could take a precise latitude. Why then does Strabo give us figures that are wildly off? I was going to get to that below and still will. Meanwhile the only objection I have to your insertion is that you present it as fact and not theory. So I believe I will soften your language slightly for now until I can get to this (after the Baltic). It is a legitimate concern and one I hope address more clearly. Thanks.Dave (talk) 10:03, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

Pseudunio auricularia/ Spengler's freshwater mussel

{{help}} Help needed to correct merge templates. Lucian Sunday (talk) 20:11, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

 Done. Dendodge|Talk 20:15, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Thank you

...for flexing your mussels. Lucian Sunday (talk) 21:14, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Player of the month

Hi, when you update footballers' articles with them having won Premier League Player of the Month, please would you also add a source for them having done so. thanks, Struway2 (talk) 22:26, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

The relevant premier league site page is currently under construction. I intend to add the sources then. As you know Premier League Player of the Month is unsourced and untagged. A more consistent approcah would be to tag that site if you feel there is a problem migrating the information

I have now tagged that list as unreferenced, thank you for suggesting that. Was unaware of its existence until checking it in vain for a source for the addition you made to Marcus Bent, who is on my watchlist. Are there no other sources listing this award? if not, the media certainly report it at the time. Though for the older awards, where media archives may no longer be available, perhaps it would be better waiting for the relevant page on the Premier League site to be constructed, rather than adding unsourced material to player articles. There's generally enough unsourced stuff on them as it is. cheers, Struway2 (talk) 08:09, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

In the News

I saw your comment about the news on the Misplaced Pages front page. That is actually a very good point you make. It definitely weakens any argument that Misplaced Pages is not a news service. --Jameboy (talk) 01:18, 17 October 2008 (UTC)