User talk:Gregg~enwiki

Welcome to the 'pedia Gregg!. Always good to see the ranks of the heavily-outnumbered Brits swelled by just one .Your interests appear to be tenuously connected to a few of mine. I'll look forward to reading your contributions ( I found you via your Roy Porter, who amazingly( at least to me) omits Sir T.B. from his tome 'The Greatest Benefit'). I hope you will find this cyberspace project full of many helpful wiki's and not too many v. frustrating people, depending on your weltanschauung. All the best Norwikian 06:53, 1 May 2004 (UTC)

Hello from Berlin

Hi there, thanks for the wording of Peter Hounam. I read that you published short stories. I am a big fan of that form of fiction, my favourites are Heinrich Böll, Wolfgang Borchert, Ernest Hemmingway, Edgar Allen Poe, Roald Dahl, Robert Louis Stevenson, Luigi Pirandello, Julio Cortázar, and Ethan Coen.
Harold Pinter, Heinrich von Kleist and Franz Kafka also wrote brilliant short fiction, even if I would not call it short stories. Have you heard of Bernhard Schlink?
I guess we both do not belong to that class of authors, but would you send me some of your stories? I have published only one in German, I guess that would not be of much use to you. I always dreamed of translating it, but it turns out to be really difficult.
I have started a project for learning, mainly languages. It is described and discussed on my page, if you are interested please let me know there. Get-back-world-respect 16:08, 28 May 2004 (UTC)

List of ministries

One of the reasons we made a List of British ministries was to move the ministries off the PMs' pages, because that clogged up their pages. I think we may just move all of the prime ministers' cabinets onto different pages, and instead of having that long list at the bottom of the ministers' pages, simply link to the ministry's page. But I dunno, if you have any other suggestions, feel free to voice them. ugen64 17:45, Sep 18, 2004 (UTC)

Was it really the Godolphin/Churchill Ministry? Wasn't Churchill off fighting the War of the Spanish Succession at that time? And just out of curiosity, where are you getting the ministry names? Because I'm having a few problems locating exactly whom the members of a specific ministry are... ugen64 19:50, Sep 18, 2004 (UTC)

Does Coalition Ministry look all right now? What party was Churchill in, Whig or Tory? I'm positive Godolphin was a Tory, and the article on Harley says he was a Whig, but I don't know about Churchill... I might actually go get the biography on him written by Winston Churchill, which I've wanted for a long time, now that I have a 25% coupon... but anyway, yeah. Good work! ugen64 20:34, Sep 18, 2004 (UTC)

I think the system you've used (Privy Council Ministry) works nicely. Unfortunately, I have no references at my house that deal even remotely with the British government, so I can't tell if, say, the Secretary at War sat in Walpole's cabinet, or if the Master of the Horse sat in a certain cabinet... what references do you use? Just wondering, because if they're easily accessible or inexpensive, it'd be extremely helpful... ugen64 20:37, Sep 24, 2004 (UTC)

That's quite all right, and giving me a source would be incredibly helpful :-). Also, I've adopted one of your suggestions (the "Throughout" "From April" thing), and I've added a navigation box on the bottom of the first three ministries (the first three finished, that is) that might be helpful and hopefully looks pretty. ugen64 02:29, Oct 11, 2004 (UTC)

First Rochester Ministry: I assume we're not including the Duke of Richmond and Lennox, who was age three when he became Master of the Horse (don't know how you can master horses if you are about 1/3 their height)... ugen64 02:38, Oct 15, 2004 (UTC)

Spanish Civil War

Figured I'd ask you here rather than raise a red flag (so to speak) on Talk:Spanish Civil War. You recently changed "...government supported by the parties of the left and opposed by those of the right and center" to "...government supported by the parties of the left and centre and opposed by those of the right." As far as I know, the government was not supported by the parties of the center. They were a loyal opposition, were they not? Merely not being in rebellion is not the same as being parliamentary supporters of a government. Or do I have my facts wrong? -- Jmabel 05:44, Oct 11, 2004 (UTC)

Both Azana (who put the PF together) and Barrio lead parties that were centrist, in the context of the political spread in the Spanish Republic and, I think, in the sense we'd use today. Azana's party, which included Quiroga, inclined to the left in terms of who it was willing to work with, but was (classically) liberal in its beliefs; Barrio's party was formed by members of the main right-wing republican party, who had split when Lerroux formed a coalition with the CEDA. It's possible that there were other centrists parties, but I'm not aware of any. Do you think it would be useful for this article if I added a list of the PF parties, leaders and policies? -- Gregg 10:57, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Yes, being clearer on the makeup of the PF would be very useful. I think it's also very important to spell out exactly which parties were not part of the PF, but nonetheless remained loyalist in the face of rebellion. -- Jmabel 18:07, Oct 11, 2004 (UTC)

Yes, my Spanish is generally pretty decent. How's yours? If there's something in particular you want me to look at, I will. It's not a matter of "not picking a side": the Republic was a parliamentary government and I'm pretty certain there were parties that remained as a loyal opposition in wartime. They were militarily on the side of the Republic, though not politically allies of the government (in the British sense of that word). -- Jmabel|Talk 22:27, Oct 12, 2004 (UTC)

What you are doing looks good. I made a few tiny edits. One question, why "...the rump of the union..."? -- Jmabel|Talk 00:41, Oct 13, 2004 (UTC)

"Standard" nomenclature in succession boxes.

Actually, you were right the first time. We're perhaps overly formal in succession boxes.
Sorry.
James F. (talk) 20:35, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Fascism

Hey, we're getting work started again on the long-stalled fascism page, and it'd be great to have some fresh minds come back around to have another look so we can get it right! Wally 06:43, 19 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Harry Dexter White

Some months ago, you responded to a query I made about Harry Dexter White. I was wondering if you might want to comment on the discussion I have been having with User:Nobs01 on the subject of whether White was a Soviet spy or not. Given that this is far outside my area of expertise, I'm feeling a bit uncertain of myself, but it's fairly clear that Nobs has a pretty strong POV that he's trying to push here. Whether or not he's pushing it in this particular instance, though, seems unclear. At any rate, the discussion can be found at Talk:Harry Dexter White, but even more so at User talk:Nobs01 and User talk:John Kenney. You seem to know a fair bit about this, so I'd appreciate if you'd intervene. john k 05:42, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Labour Government 1945-51

You've made a number of amendments to this page, most of which I am sure are accurate. However you've change two of the links for John Strachey to point to a Victorian civil servant rather than the right John Strachey. I'm not quite clear why you did this.--George Burgess 20:13, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

Amir Peretz

Well done! I enjoyed cooperating. RCSB 18:58, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

Hello

Spotted you editing Jack Straw. :-) —Whouk (talk) 13:10, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

I don't stamp books - I'm the sort of librarian who works in IT :-) —Whouk (talk) 13:35, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

Cabinet List

Why did you repeatedly remove the additional information I added to this list? I put in an e-mail address for the cabinet minister, where known, and the web site for his/her department. I can only assume that you would wish to hide these people's contact details.

Do you realise that this information is available NOWHERE on the Internet. It's time that the cabinet ministers were made personally accountable and personally contactable. The page provides a way to do that. Thanks. 91.171.214.48 21:55, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

The contact information you have added can be usefully added to the individual entries for each Minister in the section for External Links, if it is not already there. But Wikipedia is not a directory and there's no reason for that information to be included in the Cabinet list. -- Gregg 10:17, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

Croydon

Hi, I'm Jordan and I also live in Croydon. Recently I was cleaning up and requesting a move for the Croydon facelift article, and couldn't help but notice your entry on the archived debate on whether to keep or delete that page.

Not because it's offensive to the people of Croydon (after all, nobody forces us to live in the arse end of Greater London), but because it really doesn't merit its own article and could easily be summarised on a list of slang terms or something similar.

I hope that your term arse end, refers to Geography and not to the crap end of London. Come on be proud of where you live! Croydon's a fantastic place if you just explore it a little more. Pafcool2 16:51, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

Your ArbCom vote

Too young ?? How old do you think I am? --ROGER DAVIES ^talk 09:52, 14 December 2008 (UTC)

Nope, I said 21+++ ie 21 plus lots. To give you a clue, I've been working in the media for over twenty years (some tv, mostly press, in the UK and France). Oh, and I share your view of Croydon, I drove through it yesterday :) --ROGER DAVIES ^talk 09:58, 14 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! I was interested to see you've worked on the Invergordon Mutiny: I wrote one of my first (embarrassingly bad) articles on one of the ringleaders, Fred Copeman --ROGER DAVIES ^talk 10:18, 14 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the support. Very unexpected!

I actually knew Fred quite well, via his son who is a contemporary of mine, and used to chat to him a lot about the Spanish Civil War.

Invergordon would make an excellent book: there's surprisingly little in print about it. I suppose that will have to wait until the navy releases the personnel files. I believe Jock Cunningham's letters are in an archive somewhere though. I don't know what happened to Fred's paper. I really should find out ...

All the best, and thanks again, --ROGER DAVIES ^talk 16:19, 14 December 2008 (UTC)

Jack Lawson

From the history (and your user page) I infer that you were the main author of Jack Lawson. I'm sure it's substantially accurate, but it doesn't seem to contain any sources or references whatever. It would be really helpful if you could add something to make clear where you got your information. Thanks. SamuelTheGhost (talk) 09:28, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

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