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Hope your break was good. Listed Buildings Online has "gone" and Heritage Gateway has changed all its URLs to incorporate the new list entry number. It's been spotted by others, see my talk page for more details. I feel that we have no choice but to continue using HG, as IoE gets more out of date. Is there a simple solution to life? --Peter I. Vardy (talk) 10:49, 16 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Come to think of it, can we now use just English Heritage as publishers, rather than including all the promoters, or whatever they are? --Peter I. Vardy (talk) 11:04, 16 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Hassocks5489,

I am commissioned to write a book for railway modellers about civil engineering structures. I realise the above photograph has been placed in the Public Domain by your good self. Nevertheless, I feel it is a matter of courtesy to seek your formal permission to use the photograph. Please, therefore, may I have your permission to include it? I will, of course, provide a suitable attribution.

Incidentally, I worked for 30 years in the County Surveyors Department of West Sussex County Council and spent many happy hours inspecting the bridge both by boat and canoe. I am pleased to see that it has been renovated now, it is certainly a structure well worth preserving.

Best wishes.

Brynduke2006 (talk) 14:34, 19 April 2011 (UTC) (Spain)[reply]

On 24 April 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article St Mary Magdalene's Church, Tortington, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that St Mary Magdalene's Church in Tortington has "an amazing congregation of grotesque monsters"? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

The DYK project (nominate) 06:02, 24 April 2011 (UTC)

Hassocks5489, Thank you for rearranging the photos I inserted on Sompting Church page. It looks much better! Incidentally I have uploaded the image below to Wikimedia Commons. Is this the "abbott" referred to in the text of the article? (See Nairn & Pevsner p 331). If so do you think it is worth inserting?
Kinnerton (talk) 18:08, 1 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Hassocks!

Thanks again for your suggestions, which improved the article. The muse belatedly whispered in my ear, and now a second hook does describe the surveyors' measuring device, the theodolite, pictured. Thanks again for your suggestion.

I assume that the DYK administrator shall choose the second hook but if you would add an okay and second the second hook then all would be well.

Best regards,  Kiefer.Wolfowitz 11:37, 2 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks again! BTW, the Project Euclid article by Nordstrom is open access, if you'd like to check the details. (JSTOR, however, requires a subscription.)  Kiefer.Wolfowitz 12:45, 2 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

• ... that, after his fiancée died, Gustav Elfving joined a surveying expedition to Greenland, where he developed the optimal design of experiments while trapped in his tent for three days by storms?

• Reviewed: Engine Company 2 Fire Station ([1])

Created by Kjs50 (talk), Kiefer.Wolfowitz (talk). Nominated by Kiefer.Wolfowitz (talk) at 13:43, 29 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

• Good work on this bio. Date, creation details and length are fine; partly verified by online abstract, and otherwise on good faith. Two points: the pic, which is of a generic theodolite, is difficult to create a (pictured) caption for within the hook; and there is an incomplete sentence in the "Other statistical contributions" paragraph. Hassocks5489 (tickets please!) 14:36, 1 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

• Thanks for catching the incomplete sentence, which I fixed. I agree that the theodolite is hard to caption for this hook, although the roll-over text is accurate. May the muse inspire a WP editor to find a better hook. Thanks again! :-)  Kiefer.Wolfowitz 19:36, 1 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

• HOOK2  Kiefer.Wolfowitz 11:33, 2 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

• ... that Gustav Elfving invented the optimal design of experiments, and so minimized surveyors' need for theodolite measurements (pictured), while trapped by storms in his tent in Greenland?

I wasn't really sure how else to get a message to you. I see you are particularly active in representing local churches on Wikipedia, and wondered whether you could develop my church pages. I have done the very basics for St Margaret's Church, Halstead and St Katharine's Church, Knockholt in Kent, but don't really know enough about Wikipedia to expand them any further. I do hope you are able to help.