PLEASE PUT YOUR POST AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS PAGE, NOT AT THE TOP. THANKS.

Dear Adrian,

I need to use the head of your Lesser Flamingo given in

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flam.lesser.600pix_%28Pingstone%29.jpg

which you took in Slimbridge (I have visited it ages ago).

It is for a small regional field guide in Tamil Nadu; and I want to put the head (with beak) of this bird next to that of a Greater Flamingo painting, to help distinguish the species. I shall be grateful to receive your permission. You will be acknowledged.

Would love to have you come this side so you can go birdwatching with us. Stay with us. I am in Nagercoil, in India (Google it!). I am 67 but my two sons are a bit older than those of yours.

My email ID is rbgrubh@live.com

Warm regards, Robert (Robert B Grubh) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.92.104.250 (talk) 06:22, 2 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Please respond to my email ID. Thanks. rbgrubh@live.com

To Mr Adrian Pingstone

Dear Adrian,

I need to use the head of your Lesser Flamingo given in

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flam.lesser.600pix_%28Pingstone%29.jpg

which you took in Slimbridge (I have visited it ages ago).

It is for a small regional field guide in Tamil Nadu; and I want to put the head (with beak) of this bird next to that of a Greater Flamingo painting, to help distinguish the species. I shall be grateful to receive your permission. You will be acknowledged.

Would love to have you come this side so you can go birdwatching with us. Stay with us. I am in Nagercoil, in India (Google it!). I am 67 but my two sons are a bit older than those of yours.

My email ID is rbgrubh@live.com

Warm regards, Robert (Robert B Grubh) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.92.104.250 (talk) 06:26, 2 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi!! You are very welcome to use the picture anywhere you wish and to modify it in any way you wish. Luckily I live only about 15 miles from Slimbridge so I have been there often for photography. Best wishes from Adrian Adrian Pingstone (talk) 15:57, 2 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Adrian Just regarding your recent edit of the Robin Klein article, where you removed the words "well-known" with the comment "She's not well-known to me!". Is there another reason, related to Wiki-preferred style or something, for removing those words other than your own lack of familiarity with the subject of the article? Because I don't understand why a 70 year old non-Australian without a background in education, children's literature or Australia would consider his own lack of familiarity with an Australian author of children's books to be indicative of how well-known (or not) she is. Her bibliography of over forty books, her awards, and the adaptations of her books for plays, television and film would seem to be a better indication of how well-known she actually is. Eliahna (talk) 20:39, 10 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Eliahna, I apologise. My Edit Comment was way too flippant. What I meant was that "well known" is not a phrase that should be used because everyone in Wikipedia is well known to some degree or they would not be allowed to have an article. My Edit Comment was clumsily saying that but the Edit Comment line was too short to fully explain. So I usually remove "well known" when I meet it. (By the way what does my age have to do with the issue?) Sorry again, Best Wishes - Adrian Pingstone (talk) 22:52, 10 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the clarification. I wondered if the (actual) reason was something like that - and I mentioned your age because you're hardly her target audience ;) Eliahna (talk) 10:14, 11 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Your picture of the walrus at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Opal_Walros_figurine.jpg. Do you know what the rock surrounding the opal is? Is this type of stone (with opal insets) available to carvers? Thank you, Heather —Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.68.238.224 (talk) 14:34, 16 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hullo Heather, thanks for your question. Sorry to be slow in replying but I've had a computer virus that took hours to get rid of. I have the walrus in front of me now, it has a brown, streaky, base rock with the surface polished to show the opal within, it's very beautiful. I live near Bristol, England, and bought it for 110 UK pounds at a Gem Fair about 40 miles from my home, held at Cheltenham Race Course.

I remember that the uncarved walrus chunk was from an Australian opal mine, and I believe the seller said it was then carved in China. Sorry, I don't know the name of the brown base rock.

I also own a tiny piece of uncarved opal, with opal flashes showing, only about 2 cms by 2 cms, weighing 4 grams, and that cost 17 UK pounds! (the walrus weighs 145 grams). So you can certainly buy the rough opal stone at UK Gem Fairs but its extremely expensive. I don't know where else you can buy it. Just a disclaimer: I collect gem animals and am not a gem or geology expert (just seen how poor that picture is, I'll upload a better one soon). Best Wishes - Adrian Pingstone (talk) 11:28, 17 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Adrian, I've noticed that you've added loads of great pictures to Somerset articles & I've reused some of them on Portal:Somerset which I've been trying to improve - hope that's OK. If you have or know of others which would be suitable for the Portal:Somerset/Selected picture section could you let me know or add them? Also I've been working my way through Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Somerset and wondered if you might have any suitable photos for those articles which are missing them?— Rod ^talk 09:32, 20 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Rod! Thanks for writing. You are very welcome to use any of my pictures anywhere you wish, I enjoy seeing them reused. I'll have a look at what's required and see if I can help. Best Wishes - Adrian Pingstone (talk) 09:27, 21 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

		The Education Barnstar
		For your tireless contributions to numerous Indian Education Articles! Keep at it! Amog | Talk • contribs 14:46, 23 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'm thrilled! I had no idea anyone was noticing my endless work on the Indian school, college and university articles. I edit a few of them everyday. The main two problems witrh them are the self praise they contain, and the Vision and Mission statements. Thanks again, your Barnstar is highly appreciated (I'll transfer a copy to my Talk Page). - Adrian Pingstone (talk) 16:25, 23 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I have quite a few of them on my watchlists, and I've been following your work for a week or so! And yes, loads of the Indian articles have a long way to go before they can become remotely encyclopedic. Maybe you could take a look at this sometime? It was an article I worked on nearly a year ago. - Amog | ^{Talk • contribs} 18:48, 23 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Done (but with 42 edits, all minor). Unlike many other Indian education articles I didn't have to remove any unencyclopedic chunks so that was refreshing! Best Wishes - Adrian Pingstone (talk) 19:31, 23 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Adrian! I tried getting that article onto GA status 2 years ago. It never came to be, and I eventually gave up! But thank you for all the wonderful work you've been doing so far. Cheers! - Amog | ^{Talk • contribs} 19:37, 23 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. Re [1], see Number sign. (personally, I prefer octothorpe, purely for its mellifluousness.) Either way should be fine, but I'm going revert it, just in case the author used the original wording elsewhere in the book. HTH. :) -- Quiddity (talk) 20:34, 23 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hey! Thanks for editing on the Griffin-Spalding County School District‎ page. I, being a bored kid with half a life, created over 150 school district article pages for the state of Georgia on Wikipedia during the summer holiday. There were only a few pages started previous to my enormous task that I set for myself. So, with your tip that you added by putting the country tag into the introductory paragraph, could you do this to the other 150 something other articles that I started? If not, that is perfectly fine with me. I was just wondering since you suggested it in your summary of editing; just let me know what you decide. Thanks again though! Tamer_of_Hope talk 00:26, 27 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi from England, thanks for writing. The prospect of adding "USA" to 150 articles is a little scary but I'm happy to do it. I'l take it slowly (over, say, a month, at five a day). You think you've got "half a life!! Well I've been editing and adding photos since 2002 for about 340 days of each year! However, because I'm retired, life is one long holiday (happily) and so I've plenty of time. Best Wishes - Adrian Pingstone (talk) 16:38, 27 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, it is quite a bit but it's something to do for a month. I spent all of June working on them, creating the pages. I got maybe five or seven created each day. I worry about what my "retirement" days will be but that's way into the future. Why I say this? Because I have a neighbour that is retired and he spends all of his day raking pine straw and keeping his yard really nice. It just seems so boring. I want to thank you for adding the pieces of Wikipedia together for so long, it's people like you and I that make Wikipedia what it is, even when scholarly people look down upon it. :] Tamer_of_Hope talk 19:13, 27 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

		The Copyeditor's Barnstar
		Thanks for patiently reading each and every line of several articles and doing a fantastic copyediting job! JovianEye (talk) 01:28, 8 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You've made my day! Thank you so much for the Barnstar. I assume you refer to the Indian school articles that I'm working on at the moment. I've edited many hundreds and there are hundreds to go. It's a task that particularly needs doing because English is probably not the native language of the writers of these articles so sentence construction is often a little odd. Other problems are padding words like "also", "various", and "currently". I usually have to remove Mission, Aim and Vision statements that are so generalised that they could apply to any school in the world! Every lab and library is "state of the art" or "modern" or "well-equipped". However I don't mean to make fun of the writers because they have done all the real work, just leaving me make the article properly encyclopedic. Best Wishes - Adrian Pingstone (talk) 18:22, 8 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for cleaning up articles of Indian Colleges and Schools Sir, I really appreciate that. Yes I know that Indian articles usually contain words like the ones you've mentioned above, and this is usually because the articles are based on the official websites, and many articles are just mildly reworded in order to avoid copyvios. I am on a drive to clean up and organise Indian college articles myself, and its good to know that you are doing the same! By the way, I noticed your user page, and I must say, I dream of becoming an aerodynamicist like you one day! You have found yourself a fan! Good day Sir. MikeLynch (talk) 18:46, 13 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Sir, I guess you missed my earlier comment on your talk page. Nevertheless, I appreciate your work in cleaning up Indian College articles. I wanted your opinion regarding an article R.V. College of Engineering. There is a section 'Student Activities'. Right now, it is a bulleted list, but I feel it doesn't look very elegant. I thought of converting it into prose, but that didn't turn out very elegant either. At the same time, most of the matter there is notable, and are properly sourced, so I can't delete them. It would be helpful if you could give me some inputs on how to rearrange the material. Good day. MikeLynch (talk) 08:19, 16 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Mike, thanks for writing. No, I didn't miss your nice comments about me (above) but I did forgot to reply. Sorry!

On the subject of the RVCE article, I agree that the bulleted list looks a little odd for the extracurricular items so I now think that it should be returned to a straight set of paragraphs. Will you do that? I can see only those two ways of formatting that section i.e. asterisks or no asterisks. Thanks to you for all your work, Best Wishes - Adrian Pingstone (talk) 17:22, 16 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I have done some rearrangements rewordings, and some cleanup as well. Have a look at this article now. Waiting for your opinion. Good day! MikeLynch (talk) 18:25, 16 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I will start working on PESIT and BMSCE next! MikeLynch (talk) 18:34, 16 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations! I had not thought of your clever idea of adding new headings to subdivide the Student Activities. Very clever, and it looks good too. I think the article is good now. Best Wishes - Adrian Pingstone (talk) 18:47, 16 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

User:Patelurology2/Fort Convent School Mumbai- Thanks for your edit. Will seek help again to launch the page.Patelurology2 (talk) 19:59, 16 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Have launched a page before but because of details seeming like adverisiting, it was reverted to Userpage, so seeking help.

• User:Patelurology2/Fort Convent School Mumbai CJM Alumni > to Fort Convent School Mumbai CJM Alumni - this alumni list page is likely to be much longer and hence best to use two page format; school is more than 150 years old. If single page is appropriate, info can be merged. All discussion type comments can be transferred to discussion page, but is it appririate to tell visitors to check the discussin page also?

• User:Patelurology2/Fort Convent School Mumbai > to Fort Convent School, Mumbai

Patelurology2 (talk) 22:01, 17 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• May be a comma before Mumbai would be appropriate in Fort Convent School, Mumbai, so I am changing that on the list page.

Apologies for seeming unhelpful to you but the complexities of setting up a new article are too much for my tiny brain! I just do edits on existing articles which is what I enjoy. The actual process of setting up the page in the first place is unknown to me. Sorry again, best Wishes - Adrian Pingstone (talk) 10:11, 18 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your tremendous and much needed clean-up of Institute of Technology, BHU article. If you ever visit Varanasi, I would gladly throw you a party! Amazing work, best of luck and a happy new year! Gaurav Verma, IT BHU, Electronics Engg. (2012) 117.199.181.238 (talk) 15:53, 10 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

This one of the nicest comments I have ever received, thank you so much Gaurav!! Editing the Indian engineering institute articles had made me nervous because the number of edits needed on each article was (usually) large. I had expected to receive a few complaints about the amount I've had to edit but have received none. Once again, thanks for your lovely comment. Sadly I won't be able to come to Varanasi. Happy 2011 to you, and thanks again - Adrian Pingstone (talk) 21:36, 10 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

A tag has been placed on File:Eilmers.flight.arp.jpg requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section I2 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is an image page for a missing or corrupt image or an empty image description page for a Commons-hosted image.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hang on}} to the top of the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion, or "db", tag; if no such tag exists, then the page is no longer a speedy delete candidate and adding a hang-on tag is unnecessary), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Logan _Talk ^{Contributions} 23:49, 25 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Adrian, You haven't got any pictures of Avon Valley Country Park and/or the Strawberry Line (Miniature Railway) that you would be willing to share have you?— Rod ^talk 15:59, 4 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Rod! Thanks for writing. I have some of the Park but they were taken years ago, and doubtless the place has changed (for example, I've not heard of the railway). I'll have a look and upload any that are "timeless". Best Wishes - Adrian Pingstone (talk) 17:44, 5 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

i wish to say Thank you for beautiful photo of lilac,my favorite flowers.As i see you are very creative person,your presentation here is amazing,and i shall try to learn something of that and apply on my own wiki page. Best regards, Slavica Todorovic —Preceding unsigned comment added by 178.223.114.43 (talk) 13:06, 9 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. Was your aircraft taken on 12 September 2009 (G-OZBU). If it was, what time was it taken. If it was taken first thing in the Morning, It was off to Malaga as ZB654. If it was taken in the afternoon (around 4:00), It was off to Alicante as ZB676. Have any More Monarch photos. Any aircraft with the following registration would be nice as they are not on Wikimedia Commons:

• G-OJMR (A300)
• G-MONS (A300)
• G-MONX (A320)
• G-OZBE (A321)
• G-OZBR (A321)
• G-EOMA (A330)
• G-MONK (B757)

Thanks. --MKY661 (talk) 20:14, 22 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The date the camera reads for that photo is 12th September as you say (which was a Saturday), yet my handwritten notes say it was taken on 13th September 2009 (which was a Sunday) So I don't know for sure if I took it on the 12th or the 13th. However since I usually go photographing on a Sunday (less traffic on the motorways) it was almost certainly the 13th. I know it was taken at 10.17 in the morning and the aircraft was taking off from Manchester Airport. Sorry I don't have any more Monarch photos. Best Wishes - Adrian Pingstone (talk) 22:19, 22 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

March 21, 2011

Hi Adrian,

I have been doing some online research trying to find the original information about this particular picture of the Nut Goddess. There are numerous pictures like this on the internet, I came across your picture and thought I'd ask a real person that may be able to help me. I am painting this picture of Nut on a large canvas but I can't seem to find the image's origin and I need to enlarge without distortion or find where I can see the hierglyphics better in order to paint them properly. Thank you!

Paula P. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.186.103.118 (talk) 18:46, 21 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Paula, thanks for writing. Regrettably I can't help you! I have no memory of how I helped with this picture but my guess is that I cleaned it up in some way, maybe by altering the contrast, colours or tilt. I wasn't the uploader of the pic so have no idea where it was found. Sorry! - Adrian Pingstone (talk) 10:01, 22 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Adrian, a user has questioned if File:USAF C-130J Super Hercules at RIAT 2010 arp.jpg is actually of a C-130J. As far as I can tell, from the angle of the 4 visible blades, these are 6-bladed props. Do you remember the aircraft, or have a way to check its tail number to confirm that it is indeed a C-130J? Thanks. - BilCat (talk) 08:03, 31 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

BilCat, thanks for letting me know of the users deletion. Yes, this is most certainly a J model, it so happens that the other 2 blades lie up with the nacelle and can't be seen. This is proven if you look at picture http://www.abpic.co.uk/popup.php?q=1244860 on Air Britains website, which is the exact same aircraft (serial 78613). I will give the Anon the Air Britain link, and make a note on the Image Description Page that it IS 6-bladed. Best Wishes - Adrian Pingstone (talk) 16:20, 31 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! I also asked about the image at WT:AIR#C-130 identity, and got some great responses. It's actually a C-130J-30 stretched model, so if you can update the file comments to reflect that, it would be good. Thanks again. - BilCat (talk) 17:04, 31 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Help for the articles to make for the institution page.---16:42, 4 April 2011 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.205.177.83 (talk)

Sorry, it's hard to tell what your question is. I assume you want help with that article, but the article has no content so there's nothing there for me to edit. I can't add to the article because I only do editing not writing. Sorry! - Adrian Pingstone (talk) 21:22, 4 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, my name is Natalia Ioana Olaru and I am a final year master student in the Corporate Communication programme at the Aarhus School of Business, Aarhus University, Denmark. I am currently working on my final paper on the topic of user motivation to create content on collaborative media websites, the focus being Wikipedia. As a sample I chose the English and Danish portals. I would like to invite you for an online interview on the topic of what motivates you, to participate in editing and creating articles for this platform. I plan on doing the actual interviews in the period between 1st and the 15th of May via Skype, MSN or Yahoo Messenger. I am, however, open to other channels of communication too. Please let me know if you would like to participate in this interview and the preferred channel, Thank you, Natalia Olaru
Email removed MulgaEscu (talk) 13:59, 11 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I can't take part - Adrian Pingstone (talk) 06:48, 19 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I have nominated your photograph of a single Red Arrow at speed as a featured picture. I think it's an excellent shot of the Hawk, and hopefully it will pass. Harrison49 (talk) 18:26, 28 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

An article that you have been involved in editing, Winterbourne, Gloucestershire , has been proposed for a merge with another article. If you are interested in the merge discussion, please participate by going here, and adding your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. Skinsmoke (talk) 10:24, 1 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

An article that you have been involved in editing, University of Roorkee , has been proposed for a merge with another article. If you are interested in the merge discussion, please participate by going here, and adding your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. Muhandes (talk) 10:20, 2 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

As someone who has contributed content in the past - you may be interested in noticing this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:History_of_astrology#Deletion_of_unreferenced_content Cheers, Zac Δ talk 00:45, 22 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Good evening; I am impressed with your photography. I am the pilot of the Bristol Balloon and remember the flight well that you captured landing at Yate. I had flown to 8,000' from Bath and had a granny, her grandson (16) and the BBC presnter Sally Chanoller and her partner on board. A very memorable flight and lovely to see it recorded.

I will be flying the balloon tomorow morning (10/08/11) for the Press launch of the Bristol Balloon Fiesta whihc takes placve this weekend. The balloon is now 9 years old and has 310 flying and 60 hours tethering. Kind regards, Derek Maltby Derekm@globalmsc.net — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.216.131.241 (talk) 20:32, 9 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for writing, how interesting to hear about my photo! I remember it well, partly because of your daring manoevre to hop the inflated balloon across the field hedge and onto the Westerleigh road verge (a very busy road!) for easier transport later. Sally offered me a trip round the studios but foolishly I never got round to going. Best Wishes - Adrian Pingstone (talk) 08:02, 6 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

[removed my message, left in error]

Dear Marek69, your reversion of EVERY edit I made to that Kenya school article is a very odd thing to do. I have been editing Wiikipedia since 2002 so I do not need to "learn more about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia". I can justify every single edit I made but life is too short for that. So your reversion of every edit I made, back to the previous low quality article, will remain. Best Wishes - Adrian Pingstone (talk) 22:22, 11 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Adrian, I am sorry, my revert on Kakamega High School was a mistake. I completely mis-read your edit.

I have now reverted my own edit and removed the message I left you in error. Please accept my sincere apologies for this error. I'm not quite sure what I was thinking.

Wishing you all the best. :-)

Kind Regards -- Marek.69 ^talk 00:28, 12 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Happy Wiki-ing, Adrian :-) Marek.69 talk 00:47, 12 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks for the bowl of strawberries. I live near an an area of England known for its strawberry growing (Cheddar in Somerset). Your strawberries were sweet, just as I like them, so thanks. No problem with your edit, anyone can have a glitch so all is well and thanks for explaining. Best Wishes, - Adrian Pingstone (talk) 08:09, 12 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Are you sure this is your own image? I've got a journal article (by Eli Yablonovitch) from the Scientific American dated 2001 that lists a reference for the same image as being "THE PURCELL TEAM Corbis". 94.224.18.221 (talk) 19:17, 5 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, it most certainly is my picture. My wife has the bracelet in her collection and I took the picture myself in February 2003. I declared it Public Domain (as with all my several thousand pictures on Wikipedia) so maybe my note of the photo date is wrong and maybe the magazine was careless and attibuted it to the wrong person. Puzzling! For anyone who wants to see the image go to Opal (it's the lead picture). Thanks for writing - Adrian Pingstone (talk) 20:52, 5 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I am very interested in learning about the snowflake obsidian pig carving-I rescue pigs and would love to know if there is a place I could purchase said carving. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pig.snowobsidian.jpg Cheers! Catsanctuary17 (talk) 20:18, 15 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for writing. I bought the pig in 1995 at a shop called Crystals in a shopping centre called The Galleries, in Bristol (England). However, none of that really matters because the shop's stock changes regularly so there is no chance that pig will ever appear again. I still have it, it's 4 inches long and cost £100 at the time. I can't sell it to you because I like it too much! Best Wishes - Adrian Pingstone (talk) 18:05, 16 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

	The Original Barnstar
	For your fine contributions and cleanup work, I, Hallows AG, hereby award you the Original Barnstar. Feel free to wear it at all times at your lapel. Keep up the good work! Hallows AG (talk) 11:06, 8 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Many, many thanks, for your thoughtfulness in awarding me a Barnstar. I am working my way through the schools of the world and hope to finish in 2020 :-) (and that does not mean just before half past eight!). Thanks again, Best Wishes - Adrian Pingstone (talk) 16:05, 8 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Howdy Arpingstone, In as much as I accept your right to edit the Accra Academy article, I do not appreciate the manner in which you hastily did it, especially since it was a major clean up you were performing. At first glance it seemed as if you had done a perfectly good job, however I find myself now and then correcting mistakes which would have been avoided had you edited the whole article one step at a time. After-all our contributions are to improve the quality of information on Wikipedia. I hope you will understand. (Osy 06:31, 29 March 2012 (UTC)) User: Osy

Because you give no examples of my supposed errors I can't reply properly to you (just one or two examples would have been enough). I have been editing for ten years and am highly experienced at it so a significant number of editing errors is highly unlikely. Whenever people have given me examples of errors I have been able to show that most were correct edits. The critic has usually not understood that this is an encyclopedia and not a school brochure. PS I have a reasonable command of English because I live in England - Adrian Pingstone (talk) 17:36, 29 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Fine. (Osy 22:40, 29 March 2012 (UTC)) User: Osy

Hi Adrian - I'm just checking whether it would be ok to use your nice picture of Pen y Fan in a book that I am having published next year. I will of course credit you in the book and also send you a free copy.
Yours Sincerely, Julian Heath jmheath putanATsymbolhere fsmail putoneDOThere net — Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.253.29.156 (talk) 08:47, 8 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I would be delighted if you used the picture. Just get the largest possible version on your screen, then do "right-click copy" and it's yours. An acknowlegement in your book saying something like "Photo by Adrian Pingstone" would be good. Please ask me for my address (by email) when the book is published. By the way. I have cunningly disguised your email address above because spam harvesting programs will collect it and who knows how large your spam emails will get! Best Wishes - Adrian Pingstone (talk) 19:03, 8 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Ben.charles.arp.250pix.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Bulwersator (talk) 13:07, 9 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks Adrian - no problem you will be acknowledged in the book. Also could you send me your address so that I can get a copy of the book to you when it's published - that is if if you're interested in prehistoric hunter-gatherers in Wales!

All the Best,

Julian — Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.253.29.156 (talk) 09:57, 12 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there, I did a painting of a mandarin duck for my dad as a birthday gift when he started breeding them. I used your photo as ref for the painting since it was the best one that came up on the google search.
The painting is here if you are interested in seeing it: duck
Anyway i did not worry about copyright etc when i made it since it was a gift for a family member. This was a couple of years ago.

I have recently been approached to have the painting included in a a book. Since the image is a driect copy i thought i would ask your permission rather than just say no to the oportunity. Do you mind if the image of the painting is included in the book? I do not know anything about the book company but they provided a link to their website if you are interested: http://skillism.com/ If you find the time to reply to this can you reply via email: jakegumbleton (at) hotmail.com (no spaces and an @ in the middle)
Cheers Jake — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.5.59.254 (talk) 12:09, 8 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! I just noticed that this file was attributed to another user... If you ever find files like that just let me know and I will try to fix it. --MGA73 (talk) 20:13, 7 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I just noticed your edits on the Wiki entry. Thank you for your nice restructuring of the entry, a job well done. But I do have some comments on the edits, first being the pictures of the stairs. In the entry, there was a part: ".... The stairs from the front of the Badminton Hall to the Canteen were upgraded, as were the stairs from the Canteen to the field", and the pictures of the stairs were added to illustrate the upgrade, but I couldn't provide a before/after picture. Next, it seems that the school's vision and mission were omitted, was that accidental? Third, it is orderly to arrange all the pictures on one side, but the original layout could have been slightly improved instead, as they were arranged according to their respective years which they occurred.WHZhang (talk) 10:23, 26 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for writing to me. I know that those photos took a lot of effort to prepare and add to the article (I have put several thousand aircraft pics on Wikipedia since I began editing in 2002). However, despite the effort, those pics are not encyclopedic. School pics might be of classrooms, buildings, sports, school activities, school staff or founders, but definitely not of steps or roofs. Those pics I removed looked strange in the article and I have never met anything like them in my editing of many thousands of school articles. It's not enjoyable to remove other people's hard work, but sadly it had to be done for the sake of a better encyclopedia

My removal of the Vision and Mission statements was intentional. Such statements aren't allowed on Wikipedia because they can apply to any school in the world so carry no information to the reader.

I changed the pics to be in a vertical strip because there are now a lot fewer pics on the article. You are, of course, welcome to rearrange them

Thank you for writing in such a pleasant manner, Best Wishes - Adrian Pingstone (talk) 20:24, 26 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, I see what you mean. Well, I guess it can't be helped, maybe different photos on next time. Oh, now I know about the Vision and Mission, so I'll guess that's that of them. I'll see to rearranging the pics soon, Thank You for your edits and pointers :) WHZhang (talk) 06:37, 27 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Adrian!
I have found the following facts regarding your past which excited myself:
"I'm retired, after working at British Aerospace Filton for 36 years. My work included Concorde noise measurements (as an acoustics engineer), then studies of the effect of Concorde on the environment (as an assistant environmental scientist), and finally Airbus A320, A330 and A340 wing design (as a senior aerodynamicist)."

On my part – I am in the Aeronautical Engineering educational filed – working more than 50 years permanently as a staff member – initially Warsaw TU, then Rzeszow TU, then 9 years teaching Flight Mechanics in Tripoli at the Aeronautical Engineering Department, then returning to Rzeszow TU eventually I reached the professorship (from the hands of the late President – Prof. Lech Kaczynski - on April 17, AD 2008). I decided to close my educational field where I left behind me some few books by writing two volume opus on Aeroelasticity – being my narrow field of specialization (where I took both scientific degrees: Dr and Habilitation) - presenting the subject restrained to the problem of the interaction between an airplane and atmospheric gusts. The first book on the gust response studies is now ready for printing. And there is a one interesting topic. Leading to something common between us if we have in mind your photographic hobby.

I decided to expose and commemorate with this book a one single airplane - the bomber B-52 which at the early designing stage underwent catastrophic accidents in the gusty conditions causing tragic casualties due to the faulty design of its rudder. In those accidents always has been damaged the vertical tail. After five such accidents 1963-64 – the Boeing discovered the technical fault: the vertical tail had to be redesigned and after that - the incidents have been definitively ceased. Having this in mind I came to the idea that B-52 can be understood as a symbol of the fight between Man and the Nature. Therefore I place on my book covers pictures presenting only this airplane in different configurations. One of such pictures (I still did not fix how many I will place there – but it seems 6-8 pictures will play the game) has been taken by you, the other are pictures made by some military photographers – due to the fact that they can be freely copied – one more by Timothy Beach who kindly allows me to use it.

Thinking that all stated may become interesting for you – I decided to write this letter and will be grateful if you respond to it.
With best regards, sincerely
Prof. Ludomir M. Laudanski
Rzeszow TU, Poland – on August 31, AD 2012 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 178.43.57.67 (talk) 15:23, 31 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi from England!

Thanks for writing to me, your letter was very interesting.

I joined British Aerospace at Filton in 1960 as an aircraft electrician but found no "intellectual stimulation" in wiring Brittania aircraft (!) and so worked my way up the company, ending with the post of Senior Aerodynamicist (I am now retired). On the way I got a B.Sc degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Bath in 1966.

In Aerodynamics I had a very narrow specialisation on Parasitic Drag Control which, as you will know, is control of the drag of excrescences, bumps, misfitting rivets, out of alignment control surfaces, rough paint, waviness, gaps etc. So I received every Airbus drawing from the Filton design office that involved the standard of the wing exterior surface, calculated the drag penalty and, if necessary, changed the design to reach the standard of fit that my department demanded. I only dealt with the wings - the fuselage, fin and tail Parasitic Drag was looked after by Aerodynamicists of the Airbus partners in Spain, France and Germany.

Luckily I had to personally check the wing build quality that was achieved so went frequently to Chester in Wales to check wing sets, and to Toulouse (36 times) and to Bremen and Hamburg (6 times) to check completed A320, A330 and A340 aircraft.

My best job in Acoustics Lab (that I was Head of) was to measure interior Concorde noise in flight, in the cabin and on the flight deck. Of course, I gave myself that job!! So I went on five Concorde test flights (to a total of nineteen hours of flight) with my portable sound level meter and portable tape recorder.

I think my favourite aircraft in all the world is the B52, I only saw one flying once at departures day at the Fairford Air Show (Fairford is about 50 miles from where I live). A most majestic machine!

Thanks again for writing, Best Wishes - Adrian Pingstone (talk) 18:31, 6 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]