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I don't mind either way as to autochthonous/indigenous for the languages in question. I reverted because they're not all Celtic. If you think indigenous languages reads better, by all means go ahead and edit accordingly, as far as I am concerned. Authochthonously yours, Man vyi 18:12, 21 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Richard, thanks for the notes at my talk page; I had failed to take proper note of the first one - my apologies. I have recatted Taverner Consort and Players from Category:Musical groups established in 1978 to Category:1970s establishments. If a clear year for the group's establishment can be identified then it would be good to re-cat the article to the appropriate musical groups establishment cat. As and when I (or someone else) get around to building the decade cats for musical groups establishments then the problem, if it still exists, will be solved. Greenshed 19:59, 19 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Richard,

I see you made a few edits to How Buildings Learn last year. I'm playing around with a few paragraphs to add to the article. I've put them in the talk section for the time being. Would you take a look? Thanks, --Joesydney 11:59, 15 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Joe, can't find your paragraphs, where exactly are they? --RichardVeryard 14:07, 15 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ugh! Sorry Richard. I worked on these last night. I (thought I had) put them in the discussion section, rather than the article itself because I was treating them as a draft. I must have failed to save them. Should I get back to you if I have another go? --Joesydney 09:25, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, I look forward to it. I have How Buildings Learn on my watchlist, so I'll spot any changes there. --RichardVeryard 11:58, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I have added a "{{prod}}" template to the article Cape Clear (software company), suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but I don't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and I've explained why in the deletion notice (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). Please either work to improve the article if the topic is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia, or, if you disagree with the notice, discuss the issues at its talk page. Removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, but the article may still be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached, or if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria. Ioannes Pragensis 13:48, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I have put a note onto the Talk page for this article, and also added some references to an independent evaluation by Forrester Research. My view is that this company is at least as notable as others in the same category. --RichardVeryard 15:41, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I think it'd be polite for me to inform you that I have nominated Category:Service engineering, Category:Service engineering products and Category:Service engineering vendors for deletion. This is nothing personal, but I still fail to see any substantial proof that this concept of "service engineering" has any generally accepted meaning. --Pkchan 10:26, 10 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

These categories replaced by Category:Service-oriented (business computing) --RichardVeryard (talk) 19:28, 5 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Architectural critic, urban planner, and historian. Check out amazon.com for references to 18 of his books. Most important is probably Technics and Civilization (1934). Also, see Encyclopedia Britannica.

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Hi, the no 6 is marked under the bow hair, and yes, the Tudor rose is in many (but not all) of Bultitude's bows. Thanks! --Bowsbows 20:40, 6 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

An article that you have been involved in editing, The School of Computing (RGU), has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The School of Computing (RGU). Thank you. Carlossuarez46 16:54, 13 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• I notified all authors except anons who seem to never be who they were the next time they log in anyway, without regard to quantity of edits, so that no one would accuse me of canvassing. Carlossuarez46 17:16, 13 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for pointing out the inappropriate tagging of the article about Trevor Pinch with the Somerset wikiproject banner.

I have moved your comment to the talk page & responded:

Sorry for that. I agree that alumni of the University of Bath may well be outside the wiki project. I should have checked the categories more closely before requesting the bot to run. I have now asked for it to exclude:

• Category:People associated with Bath Spa University (2 subcats)
• Category:People associated with the University of Bath (2 subcats)
• Category:Somerset cricketers (1 subcat)
• Category:Yeovil Town F.C. managers
• Category:Yeovil Town F.C. players
• Category:Bath Rugby

Also the Bot will now exclude articles in the Devon wikiproject which fall within the Exemoor category. Again apologies I should have checked.— Rod ^talk 14:17, 17 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I enjoyed your Ghetto latte article. This is very interesting. Could you tell me more about the Arbitraged hamburgers, please? Jecowa (talk) 07:43, 28 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, I think I just found the forum that mentions this while reading the webpages you listed in the external links section of the Ghetto latte article.[1] It mentions a regular hamburger being upgraded to a Whopper Jr for about half the price. Jecowa (talk) 08:33, 28 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your comments. I have clarified the references to make explicit the source for the hamburger arbitrage. --RichardVeryard (talk) 11:23, 28 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there, Thought you'd be interested to know that I just added Category:Command and control as a parent cat for Category:Nuclear command and control, which I had created back in July '07. A nice matchup, if I do say so myself. I had my hands full with the nuclear aspects of the subject when I set up Category:Nuclear command and control and didn't take the obvious next step of creating Category:Command and control, so it was a nice surprise to find it just now. Cgingold (talk) 18:36, 10 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Another editor has added the "{{prod}}" template to the article User:RichardVeryard, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but the editor doesn't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and has explained why in the article (see also Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not and Wikipedia:Notability). Please either work to improve the article if the topic is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia or discuss the relevant issues at [[Talk:User:RichardVeryard|its talk page]]. If you remove the {{prod}} template, the article will not be deleted, but note that it may still be sent to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. BJBot (talk) 22:59, 29 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I had created some pages on Squidoo, as somewhere I could assemble links and other material on Service Engineering and other topics, which might not be appropriate for Wikipedia. (Some material I had added to WP on service engineering was deleted, on the grounds that service engineering was not notable enough.) I included a link to these pages from my User Page, in case anyone was interested in looking at what I was working on. Someone called JzG deleted this link on the grounds it was blacklisted (I was not aware of this), and added a PROD template for good measure, claiming that my user page was "apparently abandoned". Well it isn't, so there. --RichardVeryard (talk) 12:02, 30 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

An article that you have been involved in editing, Sparx Enterprise Architect, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sparx Enterprise Architect. Thank you. - CobaltBlueTony™ _talk 21:33, 19 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

RichardVeryard...I am currently in the process of writing a user box for all of the colleges that are part of Oxbridge. This template is meant to replace your current college template. Please take a look at the work in progress and comment on it. My main concerns are college abbreviations and color choice. I am using scarf colors for the colleges. Thank you. - LA @ 17:14, 9 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Richard! It would be great if you could contribute your ideas to the debate on the worthiness of deleting the article TomKat, as you have previously discussed it on it's discussion page. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/TomKat Thanks! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.141.163.150 (talk) 23:08, 8 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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I capitalised it because the article is about a specific gharana, not a type of gharana, and it is capitalised within the article. Deb (talk) 16:52, 2 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Just to let you know I've nominated Category:Mathematical components for deletion on CFD. --Salix alba 18:27, 24 September 2008 (UTC)

Hi. I think the latest arguments are correct and watertight on WP:OC policy grounds, so I'm thinking of changing my "vote". Is there anything else to say? - Fayenatic (talk) 21:35, 26 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Music students by teacher, which you created, has been nominated for deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. Cgingold (talk) 02:47, 4 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Re: your query on the CfD page: If you can tell me what the name of the deleted category was that housed the J.S. Bach students, I can find out what the contents were by examining the contributions of the bot that deleted the category. I'm happy to do that for you and provide you with a list, I'm just not sure what the category name was. Alternatively, do you know approximately when it was deleted? Good Ol’factory ^(talk) 00:16, 7 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Never mind, I found the discussion. It was posted by the nominator in the current discussion (duh). I hope to get back to you shortly with the list. I'll post it here. Good Ol’factory ^(talk) 00:20, 7 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

According to the logs I looked at, the only article in the category when the discussion was closed was Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach. The closer manually removed this category from that article and then deleted the category. No other articles were removed from the category by the closer or his bot. That's probably why a list was not created—usually it is not done for very small categories that are deleted. Hopefully this information helps you out. Good Ol’factory ^(talk) 01:21, 7 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Oh dear. I distinctly recall that Category:Students of Johann Sebastian Bach was very well populated, at least 25 or 30 articles I believe (perhaps as many as 40-45). Category:Students of Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, which should also be listified, was smaller, perhaps 15-20 articles as I recall. Cgingold (talk) 12:46, 7 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hm, well if so, the articles weren't removed by Kbdank71 or his bot, the user who closed the discussion. Someone else must have emptied the categories prior to the discussion being closed. That's bad—and, of course, impossible to track unless we know who it was. :( Good Ol’factory ^(talk) 21:09, 7 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, I just combed through the bio article, and found links to 3 people identified as students. He also had 4 or 5 children who became notable composers, and they of course were among his students, as well. (I'm a bit surprised that there isn't at least a modest paragraph about his influence as a teacher -- it gets just a passing reference in the "Legacy" section.) I checked the edit histories for the non-relatives and found that 2 of them (Johann Christoph Altnickol and Lorenz Christoph Mizler) had been included in the category. Both were removed by Kbdankbot on August 1, 2008, here and here -- so I would presume the others were, as well. No idea why they don't show up in the logs for the bot. PS - I could be wrong about the numbers I estimated, but I feel pretty certain that there were considerably more than the 6 or 7 that I've accounted for. Cgingold (talk) 22:02, 7 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'm going to check that log again ... Good Ol’factory ^(talk) 22:23, 7 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• OK, I found a bunch in the log. The problem was that the log states that they were removed pursuant to a 26 July CfD rather than a 25 July CfD, which means they are kind of hidden if you're looking for ones removed from a category deleted on a 25 July set. Anyway, here are the ones the bot removed:
  • Students of Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
    • Paul Siefert
    • Melchior Schildt
    • Samuel Scheidt
    • Gottfried Scheidt
    • Heinrich Scheidemann
    • Jacob Praetorius
    • Peter Hasse
    • Andreas Düben
  • Students of J.S. Bach
    • Johann Caspar Vogler
    • Johann Gottfried Müthel
    • Lorenz Christoph Mizler
    • Johann Ludwig Krebs
    • Johann Christian Kittel
    • Johann Kirnberger
    • Johann Peter Kellner
    • Gottfried August Homilius
    • Johann Gottlieb Goldberg
    • Wilhelm Friedemann Bach
    • Johann Christian Bach
    • Gottfried Heinrich Bach
    • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
    • Anna Magdalena Bach
    • Johann Christoph Altnickol
    • Johann Friedrich Agricola
    • Carl Friedrich Abel
    • Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach (removed manually, not by bot)
• That's all I see in the log. Not as many as you are referring to Cgingold, but a handful. I'm unsure how to find the others. (If there are, indeed, others. But these seems to be the ones the bot removed prior to deletion. Someone else may have manually taken some out.) — Good Ol’factory ^(talk) 23:03, 7 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, hey! Nice work. Btw, I believe these are probably the full lists. I guess they loomed larger in my memory -- probably owing to the way they're spread out across the page in categories. Once they're turned into list-articles, they can both go in the renamed parent category. I'll try to get to it some time in the next day. Cgingold (talk) 23:29, 7 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• I've created articles for these now. The articles can be viewed at Category:Lists of music students by teacher. Obviously, the lists need better referencing, but now at least we have them. Good Ol’factory ^(talk) 07:19, 5 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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I found this note in the talk page for Category:SOA-related products:

I created this category as a subcategory of Category:Software. Someone just removed this without explanation. I certainly think it needs a link to this category, but perhaps to one of its subcategories, so I have added it to Category:Software systems instead. --RichardVeryard 19:15, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

It was probably me that did the deed (there is now no history), although I would normally leave an edit summary. Me, or not, I can explain the edit. You're right, subcategory is correct. Category:Software is the top of the tree and SOA did not belong at the top; it is a subcat of business. The tree structure for SOA is: Software -> Application software -> Business software -> SOA related products. The edit you saw was probably changing "Software" to "Business software". If you're curious, look at Category:Application software for an outline (of sorts) of the application software categories. You can see why subcategories are so necessary. (btw, happened onto your note only because a robot just changed the name, from ... product to ... products and I had to repair that outline and chanced to look at the talk page)

And, having found your note, I'll delete the "Software systems" category. That is a junk category; an appealing name that attracts categorizations just as a blank wall attracts graffiti! Apologies for the 2007 confusion. tooold (talk) 23:00, 8 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Dear RichardVeryard, my name is Vinesh Patel, a 5th Year medic at Imperial. I'm trying to start an Imperial College Wikipedia society, presenting to the union by the end of the month. Would you be interested?

I got your username from the Category: Wikipedians by alma mater: Imperial College London page.

Here is a link demonstrating my work so far: http://www2.imperial.ac.uk/blog/reporter/2011/01/21/wikipedia-society/

My team and I want to get people working in groups for edits. Non-academic and academic edits would be great to work on in groups – an IC Wikipedia soc would be cool! This has already been achieved in the States but we would be the first student society in the UK. http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_student_clubs. We are also pursuing lots of other things – research into Wikipedia use, GLAM wiki stuff with local museums, using Wikipedia in teaching.

Whether you are a current student or alumnus, I think it would be great to get a community linked together from Imperial, which can give so much to the world’s free information because of the knowledge base here – and have fun doing it!

Myself and 6 other students are holding events at South Kensington campus Wed 9th and 16th; please get in touch at my talk page or e-mail to get into the movement in whatever capacity you can – you would be most welcome.Vinnypatel (talk) 02:07, 4 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks for the warning. I am sure you will have noticed that I created the article as a stub. You may also have noticed that there are substantial articles on Gaston Salvatore in German, Spanish and Italian. I have now quickly added a couple of references - I hope this will be enough for the time being. RichardVeryard (talk) 23:51, 7 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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When I created the category, the parent category didn't exist. I agree that it needed reorganization.--RichardVeryard (talk) 09:33, 29 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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