User talk:RLamb

Welcome!

Hello, RLamb, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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Vandalism?

I undid recent changes to a page I created on a 17th c. author, George Hakewill, as the new contributor (88.108.216.22) had added middle names for both him and his wife, and I think he/she did this without basis in fact. (Hakewill is not shown to have a middle name in any biographical dictionary, in contemporary references, on the title page of his works or in the signature on his will. Middle names were very rare at this period - I only know of three persons who used them - and for two people with middle names to find and marry each other sounds pretty fluky to me.) When I checked, over a very short time the same contributor appears to have made a series of similar minor changes to several pages covering a wide range of topics - adding middle names, changing dates and numbers by one digit etc. Is this deliberate vandalism, and should I report it? Or should I have left a message on the contributor's page before I undid his/her contribution? RLamb (talk) 19:50, 27 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

William Peryam - reference to third wife

I feel as if I am just learning to talk...Can someone help with this: if a woman has been married three times, how do I identify her? By her maiden name? If so, and her maiden name coincides with that of another entry in Wikipedia, how do I distinguish between them? In the article on Sir William Peryam I would like to point out that he married Sir Francis Bacon's eldest half-sister Elizabeth. But if I put 'Elizabeth Bacon' the link redirects to a page on Elizabeth Bacon Custer.

I hope this is the correct page to raise this?

RLamb 23:12, 21 February 2007 (UTC)RLamb[reply]

Normally, you'd use the name by which someone is most commonly known in English (for instance, George W. Bush for the current American president); see the naming conventions. If there's an article at that name already, you need to disambiguate the articles; the process can be a bit complicated, so I'd recommend reading Wikipedia:Disambiguation and Wikipedia:Manual of Style (disambiguation) instead of me trying to describe it here. And yes, your user talk page is the correct place for a {{helpme}}; you can also ask questions at the Help Desk if you prefer (helpmes will send you a new message when your question is answered, though, and you'll have to check back to the helpdesk if you try there). I hope that helps! --ais523 09:32, 22 February 2007 (U T C)

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Help Me Request

{{helpme}}

Hi there, please provide us with information about what you require help with. Thanks, -- The Helpful One ^(Talk)^{(Contribs) (Review)} 19:57, 27 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Never mind, all taken care of. Happy editing!`--omtay38 19:58, 27 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, haven't got the hang of this at all yet. I hope I am posting my request in the right place now. It's this:

I just undid recent changes to a page I created on a 17th c. author, George Hakewill, because the new contributor (88.108.216.22) had added middle names for both him and his wife, and I think he/she did this without basis in fact. (Hakewill is not shown to have a middle name in any biographical dictionary, in contemporary references, on the title page of his works or in the signature on his will. Middle names were very rare at this period - I only know of three persons who used them - and for two people with middle names to find and marry each other sounds pretty fluky to me.)

When I checked, over a very short time the same contributor appears to have made a series of similar minor changes to several pages covering a wide range of topics - adding middle names, changing dates and numbers by one digit etc. Is this deliberate vandalism, and should I report it? Or should I have left a message on the contributor's page before I undid his/her contribution? RLamb (talk) 19:50, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

Distasteful?

{{help me}} I was adding to the Thomas Nashe page and put in something about the content of his erotic poem, A Choise of Valentines. Have I been too detailed? It's difficult to know how to inform without offending.RLamb (talk) 19:06, 6 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]