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Proposal to split Jeremy Bamber

Exok objects to the closure of the discussion about whether to split Jeremy Bamber into two articles — one about the murders and one a biography. He has requested that I make a formal proposal to split the articles on the talk page. I'm very sorry to ask this, but it would be appreciated if everyone who commented at the BLPN here could offer their opinion again at Talk:Jeremy_Bamber#Proposal_to_split_this_article_into_a_murders_article_and_a_biography. (Also, for some reason, that link isn't going directly to the subsection, so please scroll up a little to find it.) Many thanks, SlimVirgin ^{TALK|CONTRIBS} 21:45, 20 February 2012 (UTC)

Joel Brand

Thanks for your note about this. I don't think I did know about the BBC's play. When you say the programme no longer exists, you mean it was lost or destroyed? Pity, if that's the case; I would have loved to try to track down a copy. SlimVirgin ^{TALK|CONTRIBS}

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Blunt force solution to a disagreement that probably needs an admin with more tact

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p.s. Also, the IP's edits weren't vandalism. --Floquenbeam (talk) 18:02, 21 May 2012 (UTC)

• Yes. Can I reiterate this? Do NOT call edits vandalism if they're not. If you are not aware of the "vandalism" means here, read Wikipedia:Vandalism#What_is_not_vandalism. Drmies (talk) 15:44, 23 May 2012 (UTC)

Behave

Nick and 89.100 – I would encourage both of you to refrain from further contentious discussion on Talk:List of Olympic-size swimming pools in the Republic of Ireland and allow the RFC to run its course. You both have made your positions clear, and repeatedly badgering each other or other editors with your positions is not productive. I moved the article back to its pre-RFC title and move protected it for 30 days. It is also edit protected. Additionally, I have sought input from the Olympic Wikiproject to resolve the 50 meter, Olympic sized and Olympic standard discussion. Thanks -- Mike Cline (talk) 13:00, 23 May 2012 (UTC)

Nick - of course the Talk page is not off-limits, but the repeated badgering every input that you disagree with (same applies to 89.100) is not productive. Allow the RFC to run its course, let others weigh-in without challenging their every word and see how this plays out. This is a 2-3 item list. It is inconsequential in the scheme of ~4M articles. Don't fall into a trap of contentious discussion, it never solves anything. --Mike Cline (talk) 13:19, 23 May 2012 (UTC)

Police brutality discussion

Hi, I notice that you contributed to the Cfr dicussion concerning Category Police brutality in England. If I read you correctly your reasons for maintaining the status quo seem to be a) Keep it because Police brutality exists as a phenomenon and b) Incidents are seen as police brutality, "in the eyes of the wider public" and c) It is a useful category.
My point in making the nomination was that labelling anything, whether by the police or anyone else, as "brutality" does not comply with Wikipedia's policy regarding NPOV. To put an article in that category the editor has to make the value judgement that the article is about an example of police brutality, whilst being neutral in our point of view suggests not labelling incidents in that way.
The point, therefore, is whether or not the label "brutality" is POV or not. If it is then we should change the name.
No one is denying that some people get injured by the police (we are not talking about deaths, they are covered under Category:Deaths in police custody). All we are saying is that when people get injured by the police it is not Wikipedia's policy to label those incidents as "brutality" because that is a subjective POV. Therefore, your three reasons do not address the central issue which is: Is calling it "brutality" POV or not? If it is, then we need to change the name.
In light of this, would you be prepared to review the discussion and your contribution to it? If you choose to reply, please do so on the page where the Cfr discussion is taking place. Thank you. Cottonshirtτ 07:34, 4 June 2012 (UTC)

Ian Tomlinson

Hi Nick, I seem to recall that you commented on this issue before, and it has come up again, unfortunately during the police officer's trial.

• The lead currently begins: "Ian Tomlinson ... was an English newspaper vendor who collapsed and died in the City of London on his way home from work ... The trial of PC Simon Harwood, a police officer accused of Tomlinson's manslaughter, opened on 18 June 2012 at Southwark Crown Court, and is expected to last up to five weeks."

• An anon wants to change this to: "Ian Tomlinson ... was an English newspaper vendor who was unlawfully killed on his way home from work ... The trial of PC Simon Harwood, a police officer accused of Tomlinson's manslaughter, opened on ..." etc (my emphasis).

There's a discussion here on the BLP noticeboard in case you have any interest in commenting. All the best, SlimVirgin ^(talk) 22:15, 21 June 2012 (UTC)

No user group yet

What are you doing? You are not a sysop, rollbacker, reviewer, or autopatrolled user and you have edited more than Jimbo Wales (talk · contribs). Get your permissions now! Adjkasi (discuss me) 10:53, 24 June 2012 (UTC)

Gun politics in the United Kingdom

There is a discussion on the article's talk page which may interest you regarding the wording of the beginning of the lead section. Please feel free to comment there. I won't be watching this page so if you want to leave a comment here please leave a {{talkback}} template on my talk page. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 15:06, 28 June 2012 (UTC)

7/7 bombings

Hi, I noticed that you just made this edit [1] on the 7 July 2005 London bombings article. I have to say that I do have sympathy for the IP's edit here. I have not seen the programme in question so have no personal opinion on the matter. However whether or not it achieved its objective is clearly a matter of subjective opinion. Even if a signicant number of third party sources could be found which supported that claim, a proper neutral wording would be something like 'it was widely described in the media as having successfully debunked a number of the theories'. At present however we have a bald statement of fact with no third party sources at all. That undermines the credibility of the article, and WP. Rangoon11 (talk) 00:50, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

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Stephen Poliakoff

The statement that he is "widely judged amongst Britain's foremost television dramatists", which you have reinstated in this article, needs substantiating. Can you reference this? I acknowledge that SP has a big reputation, but I don't think it is enough simply to assert it.--Agarpp (talk) 14:01, 24 October 2012 (UTC)

Reverts on Common Purpose article

I notice you reverted an edit I made to this article (deleting the section "Press coverage related to the Leveson Inquiry") without much explanation, just "deleted conspiracy theory nonsense". Have you got a fuller explanation? I don't believe the fact that you view (maybe rightly) the content of the press articles to be wrong is a justification. Alexbrn (talk) 14:47, 26 November 2012 (UTC)

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Gun politics in the United Kingdom revisited

Hi Nick.

I'm a bit puzzled as to why you reverted my edit to Gun politics in the United Kingdom. I added handguns to the list of prohibited weapons, which they most certainly are under the Firearms Act. I'm sure your revert was in good faith and I've probably misunderstood something about the article structure, but I'd be grateful if you could let me know your reasoning. I will check here for your response so as to preserve the dialogue context. Best regards, --Ef80 (talk) 22:40, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

The "Prohibited weapons" list is for items that cannot be posessed under any circumstances. Some types of handguns are still legal, while there are specific exemptions for other types not generally allowable (e.g. a vet may possess a centre-fire handgun for the purposes of humane killing), so to place handguns as a whole in the list is misleading. Nick Cooper (talk) 23:04, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the response. Surely the 5(1)(aba) prohibition of any firearm which either has a barrel less than 30 centimetres in length or is less than 60 centimetres in length overall prohibits all handguns? I'm not going to argue the toss over this though, and won't be taking it up on the article talk page. --Ef80 (talk) 00:44, 19 December 2012 (UTC)

The length restrictions do not apply to black powder/muzzle-loading pistols or revolvers, but even in the case of cartridge pistols, there are exemptions if it is a trophy of war, of historic interest, or used for starting races, humane killing or signaling. Smooth bore pistols chambered for .410 and 9mm cartridges are also exempt. Nick Cooper (talk) 09:50, 19 December 2012 (UTC)

OK, understood. --Ef80 (talk) 11:15, 19 December 2012 (UTC)

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Dear Nick Cooper, here I reverted this edit you made at Yangtse Incident, because your edit stopped the redirect from working. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask. Regards. -- Toshio Yamaguchi 19:04, 19 January 2013 (UTC)

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H. G. Wells

I see you reverted my edit to H. G. Wells, on the basis that the term 'the leading charity' is likely a statement of fact rather than promotional as I had considered. It seems to me that such a term may be subjective and could be seen in the same light as terms such as 'the best' or 'the no. 1' etc., who has or would decide if Diabetes UK is the leading charity? Personally I think it is an imprecise term that would be difficult to attach factual basis to (though it is likely the most well known), and I'm not entirely sure it is necessary in the article anyway. Feel free to disagree however, after al there is just as much disagreement as there is agreement here at times. --wintonian ^talk 14:28, 15 May 2013 (UTC)

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An IP block seems a very blunt instrument to use against an IP linked to a government organisation with around 4,000 staff! Nick Cooper (talk) 08:35, 17 May 2013 (UTC)

Unfortunately, we don't know where these users are coming from, so inadvertently inappropriate autoblocks are bound to occur. At least you don't get something like this nowadays... ;-) King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 09:54, 18 May 2013 (UTC)

Re Christians

Sorry about the wording of my comment. I should have put the offending words into inverted commas. I have responded on the talk page. I am Christian myself, and having studied Islam, I am continually horrified by the way Christians and Jews are represented, both in the Quran and common belief. So far, I have only read one Muslim cleric who has been prepared to acknowledge that Muslim teaching constitutes a blasphemy against Christianity.

Well, you'd better read my current mention of "the Book" and the so-called "Prophet Jesus" on the talk page. You will either be offended or you won't. Amandajm (talk) 07:04, 2 June 2013 (UTC)

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This is vandalism. I have read The Dam Busters (book), and the dog is definitely called Nigger (because he was a black dog) and not "wikt:Sambo" which is another racial epithet that some anonymous troll decided to add to the talk page. Please do not feed the trolls.

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Gun politics in the United Kingdom

I'm not going to edit the article for content because I want to be able to act administratively if warranted. However, I suggest you look again at the material added by the other editor to the lead that you have since moved to the body. I looked at it briefly earlier. Although it's possible I misread it, I believe the report was completed in 2006, which makes it kind of tough to have commissioned it in 2012.--Bbb23 (talk) 21:35, 18 August 2013 (UTC)

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Thanks for fixing this, I see now I didn't scroll down far enough. Paul MacDermott (talk) 12:44, 5 December 2013 (UTC)

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Gun politics in the United Kingdom

Why do you insist on your recent edits? The citation simply indicates that crime statistics and their calculation does not show the full story. It's well documented that gun crime in the UK increased in the years following legislation in 1997. Stephenjh (talk) 17:58, 6 April 2014 (UTC)

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Theatre 625

Could you please add you source(s) for the format of the surviving episodes, presumably the "Kaleidoscope" guide.

I have also worked on the [[Play of the Month article recently which probably could also do with some fine tuning as regards the survival issue. Philip Cross (talk) 13:51, 14 May 2014 (UTC)

Planet of the Daleks

Why is it "self evident"? It's an exceptional claim, and exceptional claims require exceptional sources. --Redrose64 (talk) 12:34, 15 May 2014 (UTC)

It's "self evident" because no b/w episodes were shown on BBC1 after 1969. All the repeats on that channel were colour episodes, and any repeats of b/w episodes were on BBC2. The Planet of the Daleks episode was so exceptional that the mini-documentary preceeding it - about archive recoveries - was designed to explain exactly why BBC1 was showing a b/w programme in primetime. Nick Cooper (talk) 12:40, 15 May 2014 (UTC)

That is not self evidence. What is your source that says that no b/w episodes were shown on BBC1 after 1969, and that all the repeats on that channel were colour episodes? --Redrose64 (talk) 12:45, 15 May 2014 (UTC)

You just deleted it from your own page. You are, of course, welcome to identify a b/w story/episode on that list being repeated on BBC1 before 1993. The reality is that there were hardly any terrestrial repeats, so deducing that PotD#3 was the first b/w one since 1969 is hardly rocket science. Nick Cooper (talk) 12:48, 15 May 2014 (UTC)

If you mean this - I only deleted it because I moved what I assumed was the whole post here, in order to avoid fragmented discussion. That page only gives the channel for some of the repeats, not all; it also fails WP:SPS. Rocket science or not, making deductions which cannot be supported by reliable sources is a WP:NOR violation. --Redrose64 (talk) 12:57, 15 May 2014 (UTC)

Sorry, but are you disputing that that is a complete list of UK terrestrial repeats, or that it is clear which channels each story was shown on? You are, of course, welcome to identify which b/w story you think was shown on BBC1. This page also shows that no b/w episodes or stories were repeated on BBC1 before 1993. The only b/w repeats after 1969 and before 1993 were An Unearthly Child, The Krotons, The Time Meddler, and The Mind Robber, all on BBC2. End of. Nick Cooper (talk) 13:13, 15 May 2014 (UTC)

Gallifreybase also fails WP:SPS. Verifiability and No original research are core policies. --Redrose64 (talk) 13:21, 15 May 2014 (UTC)

Still waiting for you to ID the b/w story/episode shown on BBC1 between 1969 and 1993. I'll not hold my breath. Nick Cooper (talk) 13:30, 15 May 2014 (UTC)

That is not my WP:BURDEN. --Redrose64 (talk) 13:31, 15 May 2014 (UTC)

Sure it is. Terrestrial repeats were incredibly sparse. Only four b/w stories were repeated between 1969 and 1993, all on BBC2, not BBC1. The GB page confirms it, and you have no evidence that it is inaccurate or omits anything. Nick Cooper (talk) 13:39, 15 May 2014 (UTC)

Allow me to quote from Wikipedia:Verifiability, which you obviously haven't read. "The burden to demonstrate verifiability lies with the editor who adds or restores material, and is satisfied by providing a citation to a reliable source that directly supports the contribution." In other words, if you want to add the material, it is your job to prove it, not someone else's job to disprove it. G S Palmer (talk) 14:01, 15 May 2014 (UTC)

I didn't add it, someone else did. You've also been presented with two separate webpages showing the same information, i.e. only four b/w stories plus the pilot episode repeated between 1969 and 1993, all of them on BBC2, not BBC1. Do you think two completely separate sources would just make up the exact same information? Nick Cooper (talk) 14:51, 15 May 2014 (UTC)

That doesn't prove anything. One could easily be mirroring the other. G S Palmer (talk) 16:43, 15 May 2014 (UTC)

No, it shows that the number of terrestrial repeats between 1969 and 1993 before the one in question was actually very small - only 47 titles in fact - and not hard to document. Working out that 42 were all colour, and that none of the remainign five were shown on BBC1 is as easy as 47-42-5=0. Nick Cooper (talk) 10:20, 16 May 2014 (UTC)

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Hi. I was just wondering whether this was meant to read "support" or whether it was meant as humour. Scolaire (talk) 21:05, 3 June 2014 (UTC)

One of those days.... Nick Cooper (talk) 21:24, 3 June 2014 (UTC)

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Thank you, Nick, for finding a better way of putting the "dominance" aspect in the RNLI article. I am neutral on the topic, but found it difficult to write it in a neutral way. Cheers... Tony Holkham (talk) 13:52, 6 June 2014 (UTC)

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I note that you've un-done a number of wedding anniversary changes to revert to a very old edition of pears. Search inside http://www.amazon.co.uk/Pears-Cyclopaedia-2011-2012-Chris-Cook/dp/1846143756/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1401133154&sr=8-4&keywords=pears+cyclopedia for "wedding anniversary", matches the edit's you're undone. It looks like they've changed their mind, but if both this and debretts are saying this is correct, surely the page should reference the current british, not only a 1960's-1970's view? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.153.244.48 (talk) 20:26, 13 June 2014 (UTC)

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Yes, the Radio Times for 11-17 September 1993. 10:25, 28 September 2014 (UTC)

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The reason I marked the IMDB reference as 'failed verification' is that while it does confirm the program existed, it does not confirm the contents of the program, a transcript of the program would confirm that.

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Graham1973, I'm not aware of any Wikipedia policy that says a programme can only be cited as a reference an available transcript, any more than the text of a obscure book needs to be online somewhere before it can be referenced. Such a citation can only fail verification if someone views a programme (or reads a copy of the book, etc.) and determines that it does not show or say what the citation suggests it does. Nick Cooper (talk) 10:32, 17 January 2015 (UTC)

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Nick, please watch "With Love From Adolf" again. I believe that although a case could be made for a conscripted laborer having left, the note was in fact left by Ivor Rodgers, as I said. Here is my line of reasoning to support my hypothesis.

1. It was established that the bomb in question was dropped on November 5, 1940, at the start of the Blitz. That date is relevant because ...

2. At that time, the Nazis were not employing a lot of forced labor in their factories, and certainly not their munitions factories.

3. At that time, the Germans saw themselves as winning the war. They had overrun all of Western Europe except Britain, and the German people were convinced Der Fuehrer would conquer England as soon as the Luftwaffe finished bombing it flat. If a German worker had left that note, it would be more likely to say, "With Love From Der Fuehrer." The German people used that title the same way the wizarding world refers to Lord Voldemort as "the Dark Lord." It had the effect of reinforcing his demigod status with the population.

4. After Ivor sends Brian off to defuse the Hermann, he phones Susan to inform her of the fact that he'd sent Brian out on a job and "One way or another, soon we'll know." He and Brian have served together for the best part of four years. He knows him. He also knows (as do we viewers) that Brian wants to remain with 97 Company as a bomb disposal officer. BDOs are rare birds, and ones with Brian's experience -- remember Ivor, back when he was a first lieutenant, commenting that the average life expectancy of a bomb disposal officer was on the order of 10 weeks? -- are rarer still. No commanding officer wants to lose his best people, much less lose them to a nothing assignment. His sending Brian out is a combination of "getting him back on the horse" to see if he's lost his nerve, and coming up evidence and with an argument he can make to Group to keep Brian where he is. (As Ivor was plainly grooming Brian for command when he was injured in "The Pier," he may want him as his XO, with an eye toward either taking over 97 Company when he himself is promoted or getting him a company of his own. But I am going afield.)

5. When Brian shows Ivor the note, Ivor does not look surprised. Amused, yes; surprised, no. In fact, Ivor looks rather like a schoolboy caught playing a prank. If he were seeing the note for the first time, he'd have been at least startled. Ivor's reaction is key to my argument.

6. Finally, there is the note itself. It is written on a piece of cigarette paper. This is relevant.

A. In Germany in 1940, things were not so bad that the civilians had to roll their own smokes. Cigarettes were still available. The military had first call on tobacco products, but the German cigarette factories were still making cigs from domestic, Turkish, and Russian tobacco. Plus which, in 1940 America was neutral. Tilted British, true, but neutral. We were still exporting cigarettes and pipe tobacco, and such products, carried in neutral ships under, say, the Spanish or Swedish flags could have delivered cigarettes literally by the boatload. Things would not get bad enough on the German home front that smokers had to roll their own coffin nails for another couple of years.

B. However, in England it was another story. The British government being more concerned with importing war materiel, did not allocate a high shipping priority to tobacco in 1940. What was imported was raw tobacco, not finished product. Oh, some cigarettes made it to market, but they were manufactured in England, not imported from America. And remember how poorly British "other ranks" were paid. They had to roll their own. If you study LCpl Wilkins, you will notice that when he is shown smoking his butts look a lot more like joints than like machine made cigarettes. (And by all reports, the Brits stretched their tobacco by adding things like chopped hay to the mix, but that's not important.) We can infer from that look that Wilkins is rolling his own. This in turn means cigarette papers were available in the NAAFI store and/or at the tobacconists. Cigarette paper being very thin, it would be less likely to interfere with the threads in the gaine, meaning Ivor would have been able to put it in place where it would be found by Brian with little difficulty.

C. And there is this. That bomb has been sitting in the ground for four years. If that note had been put in the fuse by a German, the folds would have had four years to set. They would be impressed into the paper.But the note is smooth. Thus, it could not have been sitting in the gaine for very long.

These six facts lead me to the conclusion that it was Major Ivor Rodgers who hid that note, not a patriotic German munitions worker.

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I saw your edit adding some popular culture trivia. This might be a good material for some other wiki, like http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/TheDayOfTheTriffids — Preceding unsigned comment added by TvojaStara (talk • contribs) 09:37, 13 February 2016 (UTC)

Hi Nick, just wanted to say I'm glad you're taking improving that article section seriously. Too often people are content to let trivia lists languish and clutter up articles. It's happened before in that article, discussed on its talk page. I hope you understand I'm not some vandal going around deleting things willy nilly. I absolutely agree that per WP:MOS and WP:TRIVIA, yes, it is better to turn a list like that into a paragraph or two, though removing anything that is just trivia; it looks like you're best placed to do that in terms of motivation and, I hope, time and resources. It's an important piece in sf and it deserves a better assessment of its impact than it currently has. I wish you well and all the best with that project. Thanks, ZarhanFastfire (talk) 22:06, 13 February 2016 (UTC) 22:05, 13 February 2016 (UTC)

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Just seen your recent edits. What I don't see is your evidence. 86.149.141.166 (talk) 16:41, 13 April 2016 (UTC)

Having checked it seems that the two models in question recorded in PAL from SECAM sources. If you Google "VR2025" and "SECAM" there are plenty of sources stating it is a dual-standard (or rather dual-tuner) machines, and the same for the VR2026, although inevitably few are in English. Nick Cooper (talk) 09:32, 14 April 2016 (UTC)

Indeed. I was not able to dig up much, but I was able to discover that the VR2025 and the recorder part of the VR2220 were able to accept SECAM into their SCART inputs. This means that the SECAM to PAL transcoder must be in the recorder part of the recorder/tuner pair. I was not able to discover if the recorder transcoded the PAL recording back to SECAM, though as none of the the S-VHS and Hi8 units released in the late 1980's had any SECAM capability at all would suggest that TV sets capable of displaying PAL video signals were well established in SECAM countries by this time. In any case, external PAL to SECAM transcoders were readily available by this time. 86.149.141.166 (talk) 12:09, 14 April 2016 (UTC)

Virtually all TV sets sold in France were dual SECAM/PAL, and that was certainly my experience staying in avrious hotels in 1999 & 2000 and being able to play back PAL camcorder footage I'd been shooting at the time. It could have been that the VCR transcoded SECAM to PAL for recording, and then PAL back to SECAM for playback, but the latter was probably not actually needed. IIRC, there was no separate PAL or SECAM S-VHS, but rather S-VHS 625, a common recording standard regardless of the signal input. Nick Cooper (talk) 12:28, 14 April 2016 (UTC)

By 2000, virtually every TV set sold was able to display PAL, SECAM and NTSC (not to mention PAL-M and PAL60). This was because they all used standard colour decoder chips that were capable of interpreting all of the colour standards. But in 1988, this was not yet necessarily the case, but TV sets sold in France (and most other SECAM areas) by now included a PAL colour decoder circuit (though rarely a tuner unit capable of receiving PAL broadcasts). The actual recording on S-VHS tape (and Hi-8) was encoded in PAL in the 625 line versions. SECAM had to be converted (transcoded) to PAL for recording if not already in PAL (i.e. in a camcorder). Replay could either replay the PAL directly on a compatible TV or be transcoded back to SECAM (usually with a third party transcoder). 86.149.141.166 (talk) 13:47, 15 April 2016 (UTC)

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Please copy my appeal to the arbitration enforcement noticeboard or administrators' noticeboard. Yesterday I reverted an edit of User:John's on Janet Street-Porter (JSP) which removed a large amount of content on the grounds of "tabloid" sourcing. I noted in my edit summary that not all the sources deleted were "tabloid." In response John reverted my edit and issued spurious warnings on my talk page. I then reinstated a single section from the previous material removed from the JSP page, about controversy over the subject's comments in a Daily Mail article. Accordingly, the first cite was to the article itself on the Daily Mail website, with all other cites being from the likes of the Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, and the BBC. In response John reverted my edit, and blocked me. I believe that John has abused their administrator privileges to "punish" me for disagreeing with their own edits, and that as they were personally involved in the editing in question, they should not have imposed this block themselves. I would suggest that this should be investigated as a matter of urgency. Nick Cooper (talk) 15:39, 20 March 2018 (UTC)

Decline reason:

Procedural decline - block has expired. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 11:41, 22 March 2018 (UTC)

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DoRD - Is there a point to appealing to a block if nobody addresses it until after it has expired? Is there any point in complaining about the original Admin's abusive behaviour? Nick Cooper (talk) 13:01, 22 March 2018 (UTC)

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Dear Nick,

I am an Old Collegian (Tranby School now) and was quite intrigued some years ago when I found your allegations of faked lineage. I must question part of what you said:

c.1330 - Hull Grammar School founded
1988 - name changed to William Gee School for Boys
2001 - name changed to Endeavour High School
2005 - closed

Was that last year a typo? When I read Endeavour High School's own page and the citations from it the closure is clearly shown to have taken place in 2015 not 2005. Robin S. Taylor (talk) 16:29, 10 September 2021 (UTC)

Hi Robin. Yeah, you're right, it should be 2015 for that bit - 2005 was the year the Hull Grammar School ver 2.0 merged with the Hull High School. I haven't lived in Hull since 1984 (although will be moving back in a few years, and still have relatives in the city), so I hadn't noticed the more recent name change. Funnily enough, I seem to recall that the old High School was often referred to colloquially as "Tranby Croft" back in the day. Nick Cooper (talk) 17:19, 10 September 2021 (UTC)

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