I think this might interest you since you commented in the first deletion attempt. Please visit Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/George Jackson (conductor) (2nd nomination)--Karljoos (talk) 01:04, 23 September 2015 (UTC)
Dear Chris
Have you been recruited into the Wiki Theatre Project as yet? If you look at recent sections of User talk:Theolimeister you will see what he/she is up to, and it may help our endeavours to have this handsome label on the discussion pages, while fearing the worst about the ratings that will be added: ((WikiProject Theatre)) Best wishes, John Thaxter (talk) 15:21, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
As a journalist who is normally restricted to 250 words for a review and 500 for a feature I think the comment that your Drowning on Dry Land synopsis is too long is merited! I was thinking of subbing it down from its 1,200 words to around 700 (although I think it could lose another hundred) and came up with this much shorter draft, which I leave you to edit or use as you please:
I will look at the review situation later. Best wishes, John Thaxter (talk) 16:34, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
This discussion has been moved to Talk:Private Fears in Public Places. Chris Neville-Smith (talk) 18:59, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
Dear Chris, You have already provided a link to the Ayckbourn site which reproduces all the major reviews of If I Were You. But there was also a British Theatre Guide review for the post Scarborough tour, written by Sheila Connor reviewing in Guildford - see it at [1].
BTG also has a review of the North West 2008 'premiere/revival' which might shed further light on the play to readers!
Of the Damsels in Distress trilogy, although I was writing for The Stage for they commissioned a 600 word review to cover the three. So even I cannot break it up into three separate pieces! Sorry about that. Best wishes, John Thaxter (talk) 11:22, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
You will want to know about this:
Salisbury Playhouse Autumn Main House Press Nights 2008
Press night Friday 5 September, 8pm
DROWNING ON DRY LAND
By Alan Ayckbourn
Thursday 4 – Saturday 27 September
Directed by Sarah Esdaile
This, only the second professional production of Ayckbourn’s DROWNING ON DRY LAND explores society’s current obsession with celebrity status and fascination with the ordinary people who desperately try to achieve their fifteen minutes of fame. It is directed by Sarah Esdaile whose previous work includes KAFKA’S DICK, Watford Palace Theatre; THE GROUCH, West Yorkshire Playhouse.
Press night Friday 3 October, 8pm
Best wishes John Thaxter (talk) 14:28, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
I didn't see If I Were You. I reviewed Damsels in Distress for The Stage at the Duchess and, like everyone else, wrote a portmanteau notice — which thanks to the inadequate Stage indexing is now lost forever, somewhere in the archive. I am recovering from an op at the mo' but when I feel better I will have another look at the two articles although I am sure you have written two excellent pieces.
As far as reviews are concerned, I personally prefer to see them linked directly to the Stage, Times, Teleg, Guardian and BTG website from the article about the show to which they refer. Best wishes John Thaxter (talk) 18:15, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
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Hi. Seen you around a few Ayckbourn articles. Good stuff. Maybe now he's approaching retirement, we'll be able to keep up with his output! Hope you're OK with the changes I made to the Plays of Ayckbourn footer template you made. I know it looks a little ugly with all that red, but I think it's important to show what is left to be done. Also, it means that if someone comes along and spontaneously creates an article, it'll be linked to immediately.
By the way, I'm in preparations to direct Intimate Exchanges so will be doing some research over the coming months - but the play is performed so rarely (it seems) that I can't find much. If you come across anything, send it my way and I'll put it all together into an article. GDallimore (Talk) 14:34, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I noticed your comments on the talk page for Peruvians in the United Kingdom which I have since attempted to expand. I would appreciate further comments of these changes. Thanks Stevvvv4444 (talk) 11:25, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
thanks for redirecting the page i created. I want to know how can i put the entire content of the Fazail-e-Amal to Fazail-e-A'maal. Because being a native urdu speaker i believe that the correct pronunciation is represented by the latter. Its the same difference as Quran and Qur'an. Muhammad Hamza (talk) 13:33, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
You have redirected the article Lantern Waste to List of places in The Chronicles of Narnia#L which has very less information about Lantern Waste in the fictional place Narnia. The article Lantern Waste is a stub and will expand someday. You are not supposed to redirect it so soon. This is very disruptive behavior. Do not do it again. Srinivas G Phani (talk) 03:38, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
I won't start an afd, if you believe the 2 lines worth an article to be satisfactory, that works for me. --Rmzadeh (talk) 09:21, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I was wondering what were your suggestions for making the articles about Winchester bus routes more encylopaedic. If you could tell me I would be pleased.--Adam mugliston (talk) 18:49, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
Hi, just thought you might want to take a look to my thoughts on the Fowler AFD that you commented on here. I've proposed a combination of keep/merge/delete for each of the winners. Esteffect (talk) 02:56, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
No, old bean, I haven't actually read the guideline, actually! Troublemaker1949 (talk) 07:47, 1 September 2009 (UTC)
Dear Chris,
Thank-you for commenting on my article so politely - ie given the context (proposed deletion due to it not complying).
My article is 'The Gate Church International, Dundee'. I completed it yesterday.
The reason you gave for the proposed deletion, was that it fails to fulfil the Notability criterion.
What do you suggest? Should I trawl through newspaper cuttings in the local library? I know there have been various articles about The Gate (eg something about a dance event hosted there, obituary article about the death of the former pastor, etc.)
I am aware it's risky submitting an article about an organisation you are involved with. Yes, you've guessed it, this is the church I belong to.
I would be grateful for any help you can give. By the way I'm quite thick-skinned, even though I am a newcomer to Wikipedia.
Rachel Chown (talk) 19:19, 17 October 2009 (UTC).
Chris,
Thank-you for your comments. I've thought about it, and decided not to persist with trying to make this article comply, as it clearly does not fulfil the notability criterion. I don't believe that enough has been written about The Gate in the press to provide the necessary reference material.
Your suggestion about adding something about the church to the existing Dundee page (in the Religion section) seems the best way forward to me, and I am planning to act on that.
Thanks for your help.
Rachel Chown (talk) 08:37, 19 October 2009 (UTC).
And what about "The New Shaolin Temple", it's in pre-production stage tooVilnisr (talk) 13:37, 3 January 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for flagging Posth just now; but when you speedy-tag an article, you should copy to the author's talk page the warning that is generated as part of the speedy template on the article. Otherwise he doesn't know what has happened, thinks he must have pressed the wrong button, and often just puts the article in again. Also, if it is a new author who has not yet had a Welcome template, I think it's important to give him one before the speedy warning; it's less BITEy than just a warning. ((subst:firstarticle)) is a good one, which points him to links like Your First Article. On the actual tagging, read WP:CSD carefully - many of the tags are misused. There's good advice at WP:10CSD and WP:A7M. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 16:19, 3 January 2010 (UTC)
Hi Chris, thanks for speaking up (at the George Lee AfD) the inappropriateness of making speculations about voters' political leanings. But in your edit you also made some minor changes to another user's comment. This was probably just an honest mistake, but anyway, please be careful not to modify others' comments. Best, rʨanaɢ talk/contribs 23:52, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
Just dropping you a line to say I'll be starting an article on Ayckbourn's Intimate Exchanges in a couple of weeks. I'm directing a production and my programme notes should make a good start to an article: I've written a brief production history and synopses of all 16 possible variations (without copying the Ayckbourn website). Will let you know when it's up if you want to develop it from there. GDallimore (Talk) 10:08, 10 April 2010 (UTC)
Please take a look at the article now. You may wish to make further comments at the AfD page. Mjroots (talk) 10:34, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
Hello, I am working on a project for London film premieres for a summer sponser and see Mark had a page before though it was deleted for lack of notability. However, I would like to add a new page for Mark Boardman and have already citiated below many missing articles regarding his TV, radio and other work which make me positive he should have a permanent page here. He would be a big asset to Wikipedia and a great resource. There are a number of people rallying for him to get one and his recent press in the papers and magazines should attribute this.
Having researched, I have used sources and the below is the draft I would like to submit for a new WIkipedia page.
[Snipped as now included on page created by JohnCD]
Tvstarlondon (talk) 12:07, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
JohnCD (talk) 15:01, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
I noted your "weak keep" at the AFD. Please take a look at the latest version of Fox Jackson-Keen. Do you have any advice for further improvements? Thanks, Schmidt, MICHAEL Q. 02:11, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
Re your comments at AfD, we have a guideline - WP:AIRCRASH, which is not as widely supported as it once was. My own thoughts are at User:Mjroots/Notability of Aircraft Accidents, you are welcome to comment on that page's talk page. Mjroots (talk) 08:58, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
That was an attack page not a nonsense page. Access Denied – talk to me 11:08, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
TPH has NAC'd the AfD you contributed to and moved the article to The Chair (Grand National) and established The Chair as a disamb. I have no problem with that but don't think the current name is quite right. Please contribute to the discussion at Talk:The Chair (Grand National)#Rename. Thanks, Bigger digger (talk) 22:08, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
You'll want to revisit your rationale there. Uncle G (talk) 15:59, 19 December 2010 (UTC)
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As we just find out that the hotel in question is a Grade II listed building, i wanted to ask you to maybe revise your voice. Thanks. --WhiteWriter speaks 10:18, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi Chris, it's been a while since I last contacted you but I just wanted to raise something and see what you thought. I was having a rare wonder through wikipedia today and came across your page on Things That Go Bump and it raised an interesting question. While there was a Things That Go Bump season at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, there is no such thing as a Things That Go Bump trilogy by Alan. Things That Go Bump was just the title the SJT came up with for a season of three Ayckbourn plays. Alan himself has never actually labelled the three plays as Things That Go Bump largely because they're such a loose trilogy written, as you correctly note, over such a disparate time. He doesn't refer to them as the Things That Go Bump trilogy. I'm not keen to edit wiki pages as I've been there before and it wasn't particularly a good experience for me and I suspect we'd end up going back and forth on this anyway; but as you put a good deal of time and care into your Ayckbourn wiki pages, I thought I'd raise the issue and see what you thought. It might be as simple as noting in the intro that it was the name of the season rather than the three plays. Whatever you feel, I just wanted to raise it for your thoughts. Best Wishes. Simon Murgatroyd — Preceding unsigned comment added by Smurgatroyd (talk • contribs) 15:53, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for taking the time to respond and for altering the page. As far as I'm aware (and certainly as far as I can tell from Google), there's only one specific reference to the Things That Go Bump trilogy which was a mistake on an out-of-date commissions page (oops!). There are references to the three plays being considered a trilogy and being part of the things that go bump season, but not a trilogy which has a name. Anyway, as always thanks for considering my suggestions, it's always appreciated. Hope you're well and keep up the good work. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Smurgatroyd (talk • contribs) 15:55, 24 June 2011 (UTC)
Hello Chris. There has been a history of edit warring over the infobox location details in 2011 England riots. To try to stabilise this, and raise another closely related issue, I've started a discussion topic here: Talk:2011 England riots#Location details, widespread pattern of arrests. Since you've made many contributions to the article, I'd be grateful if you would come and comment. Thanks. Rubywine . talk 01:33, 31 August 2011 (UTC)
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Can you point me towards the source of the "providing scholarships to about 100 women worldwide", I think you may be getting this confused with Rhodes Scholarship ? Mtking (edits) 21:30, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
Back in December 2009, you contributed to a deletion discussion for this article. The result was 'no consensus', but two years later, I still believe he is non-notable by our standards, and have re-nominated it for deletion. Your comments are welcome at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jamie Hanley (2nd nomination). Robofish (talk) 21:30, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
How exactly was these two posts insulting? One was a reply to me, and I certainly don't see an insult. They were a few minutes after the closure, but that's another issue. Dougweller (talk) 12:02, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
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