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Awarded to Les Woodland because everyday I wake up wondering which cycling article he will have created or transformed. A stellar effort, don't get off. Autodidactyl (talk) 10:45, 9 October 2008 (UTC) |
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Awarded to Les Woodland. I am amazed by the quantity and quality of his cycling-related contributions. When do you sleep??? :P EdgeNavidad (talk) 08:45, 19 December 2008 (UTC) |
--BorgQueen (talk) 08:00, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
BorgQueen (talk) 16:54, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
just type ((reflist))
under the "References" heading, or wherever you wanted the list to appear. Note that it has to be two curly braces, no other kind of brackets will do. SpinningSpark 17:23, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
Keep up the good work! ~ User:Ameliorate! (with the !) (talk) 16:07, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
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Dravecky (talk) 18:30, 18 January 2009 (UTC)
approaching someone with so many bells and whistles on his page with this sort of comment, but your edit here to Paris-Roubaix was not salutary. WP:LEAD - Introductory text. As explained in more detail at Wikipedia:Lead section#Introductory text, all but the shortest articles should start with introductory text (the "lead"). The lead should establish significance, include mention of notable criticism or controversies, and be written in a way that makes readers want to know more. The appropriate length of the lead depends on that of the article Clearly, an article over 100K in size cannot have a suitable lead that is only one paragraph in length. Most GA and FA have leads of 2-4 paragraphs in size, and they are supposed to be slightly redundant to the article (may be better to say they're meant as a summary, though they're not exactly a summary, either). If the GA reviewer had gotten to the article when the lead was as short as you made it (it was that way when I started working with the article), it would have definitely been something he listed as needing improvement. All right, I think I've made my point. Nosleep break my slumber 11:49, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
Hello Les,
It's a long time since we spoke but I hope you are well, I read your edits regularly. My self-imposed wiki-break has slowly faded...
I was recently tidying up aspects of the Dreyfus affair and so started an article on Le Vélo, but it is now in a state where you are 'the only person in the world who can help' :) please. pretty please. :) It was a successful newspaper that thrived for 12 years, but the hundreds of mentions on the web only focus on 'Dreyfus - Giffard - De Dion - L'Auto-Vélo - Le Vélo - Le Tour.
Le Vélo's connection with Paris-Roubaix is obvious, but do you have any other information (and images) about its milestones, events, promotions, achievements, relationship with Le Petit Journal etc.
Materialscientist (talk) 01:43, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
Hello Les, I have taken the liberty of adding your article, Émilien Amaury to Did You Know. I assume that you are OK with that, but please visit DYK to review my synopsis. Regards. Peter Chienlit (talk) 11:36, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
And, you described a worker occupation of the town hall in Saint Etienne north of Paris. Are you able to clarify where/which one? The disambiguation page has dozens of St Etiennes, but none in north Paris. (Marne hardly counts as north). I also found a reference in CineArc but the location is not clear, and it doesn't mention Paris. Regards Chienlit (talk) 16:12, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
Hello Les, I have cleaned up Freddie Grubb a bit, but I may have overstepped the mark and taken liberties with the truth. I may have wrongly attributed some of Mick Butler's comments to Les Woodland in the Notes section. If you let me know I will happily fix/unravel it, or you can feel free to correct it yourself. Thanks. Peter Chienlit (talk) 11:15, 3 December 2009 (UTC)
⇌ Jake Wartenberg 16:08, 4 December 2009 (UTC)
Materialscientist (talk) 10:49, 5 December 2009 (UTC)
Hello Les, I have recently started an article about Adolphe Clément. It is a bit short of cycling, bikes, tracks, and tyres (Dunlops? Clements?) details and references, so any contributions that you can make would be greatly appreciated. Regards. Peter. Chienlit (talk) 15:24, 31 December 2009 (UTC) (By 1890 Clément was the leading cycle brand in France should be worth at least a para if not an article, not the measly 10 words that I have written.)
Hello Les, I have recently started an article about Charles Terront and it has garnered the editorial comment that 'the French references would benefit from independent review by a French speaker', so naturally you came to mind. If you have any free time, or are in need of displacement activity away from your latest tome, any contributions that you can make would be greatly appreciated. Regards. Peter. Chienlit (talk) 16:18, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
Salut, je suis en train de traduire en français la biographie de Bernard Thévenet que tu as réalisé. Tu pourras jeter un coup d'oeil pour vérifier si je n'ai pas fait de faute ainsi que les citations qui ont subies une triple traduction. Merci @+. Damonking (talk) 10:33, 7 February 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I'm trying to grow the article about Paolo Bettini on the French Wikipedia into a Good Article. It seems you added most of the references on the English version. Do you own scanned versions of the ProCycling and Cycling Weekly articles, or at least do you have more detailed references (title, author, ...). Thanks a lot. Tilbud (talk) 13:42, 9 February 2010 (UTC)
Hello Les,
I will try not to behave too inconsiderately and boorish by using poor language when I am only an uninvited guest chez vous. :-) (I actually know what Mind your Ps and Qs means.)
I have gathered together a few snippets about Tom (Jeb) Gascoyne, but sadly the web is devoid of many facts about him. If you have the time and inclination and sources to enhance the article sometime then I am sure that the world will be a slightly better place. Regards. :) Chienlit (talk) 11:46, 17 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi. Nice to hear from you again. I don't know much - anything, really - about Tom Gascoyne, I'm afraid. I shall read your article with interest and start burrowing about. No promises but if I come across anything, I shall be your faithful servant as usual. Les woodland (talk) 06:25, 22 February 2011 (UTC)les woodland
Hi Les, busy old day today for Jeb Gascoygne - at dawn you start to cast a very welcome eye, and at noon (GMT) he will be the headline/pictured item on DYK. I am hopeful that some improvements will ensue. When I wrote to you I thought I had exhausted every Google search, but then 'Daemonic Kangaroo' alerted me that his nickname was Jeb and the wonderful Otago Witness beckoned from the other side of the world - it transformed the article. But his early English and European career is still under-documented. Anyway, many thanks for whatever you can do. I hope that you are keeping well, it sounds as if you completed many miles and many kilometres in 2010, plus a tome or two. Regards. Peter Chienlit (talk) 10:55, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
Salut de la part de la wiki française ! Aurais-tu ne serait-ce qu'une ou deux infos sur l'enfance de Charly Mottet ? On essaye de compléter l'article sur le french wiki mais on a très peu d'infos sur cette période. Merci. Damonking (talk) 20:51, 14 November 2011 (UTC)
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Hi! I just read the article and think it is a great one, really well written and filled with interesting facts. I was gripped by it. I noticed you wrote it before his death, and there was only a cheap sentence to say he was dead, so I went in the history of the article and realized it was you who wrote it. I added some details to his death, feel free to add more if you know more. Once again, it was a great read, good job! Mattaidepikiw (Talk) 12:09, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
Thank you for your copy edit on Bradley Wiggins. I'll be expanding Tom Simpson, with the aim of getting it to good article status. I noticed you've already made a large contribution, so any help with it would be appreciated. Also I take it that you wrote this article back in 2007? BaldBoris 11:27, 8 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi, I've just posted a query about Jean Robic's nickname on Talk:Jean_Robic. My opinion is that Latour has confused Robic with Jean-Marie Goasmat: no other French sources seem to refer to Robic as "Le Farfadet". I think you're the originator of the material in question. I'd value your input.
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Hi. I have temporarily reverted your edits to Tom Simpson pending the addition of more precise citations. Referencing "Oxford National Biography, UK" is not sufficient, because it does not give the reader enough details to locate the source. The article is a featured article, and we need to maintain the highest level of referencing to protect this status. Could you provide more details of the source? Cordless Larry (talk) 08:19, 22 January 2016 (UTC)
Hi. Thanks for that. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography is a collection of more than 55 000 obituaries published by the Oxford University Press in England. I'd love to give you the ISBN and page number but the collection costs $US2 660.00, which is a shade more than I can afford. It is, though, available on-line through libraries in Britain. I can read it here in France through a university site, but that's not generally available. I was at a loss, therefore, how to reference it. Does any of this help? - les Les woodland (talk) 06:41, 23 January 2016 (UTC)les woodland
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