Hello David, welcome to Wikipedia. I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian. You can learn more on the how to edit page. The naming conventions and manual of style pages are also useful. Feel free to experiment at the Wikipedia:Sandbox. If you have any questions about the project then check out Wikipedia:Help or add a question to the Village pump. Angela

Hi David. Welcome to the 'pedia and thanks for your contributions. I am living in Londoner so I think our interests overlap a bit. I was wondering if you could clear up the copyright status of the image of Bobby Moore atImage_talk:1966_final_bobby_moore.jpg - I know there are several similar pictures and it would be good to know that we aren't using a picture that is going to cause copyright problems. Thanks Pete 23:10 1 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome Angela and Pete. Having only just found Wikipaedia, I think it is absolutely fabulous (do the BBC own the copyright to that phrase?). I think that we are safe with the ubiquitous Bobby Moore image. It is very widely used, and is, for example, used on the BBC website. I took note of the Wiki Copyright paranoia advice before uploading. David Thrale 10:03 2 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Hi David. Saw your village pump Qu. If you start an article, make sure it is formatted as far as it goes, and that it is obvious that there is more to come, so we don't get duplication of effort with someone picking up where you had left off. Alternatively, create your own sandbox to play in. There is an example linked from my user page. jimfbleak 11:51 2 Jul 2003 (UTC)

I've stuck a sandbox and image on your user page, dump either or both if you don't want them.

Hi, David, Saw your village pump question about drafts. By the way, anything you add to village pump should go to the bottom of the page. I'm not sure what those who advocate only posting longer finished articles expect (I am definitely not of those who do). You could, I suppose. keep them stored on your own computer until they meet what is envisioned as the minimum standard. I personally would simply post any draft to the article then return to it later when I wanted to work on it more. Many times no one will have paid any attention to it anyway. Fred Bauder 12:17 2 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Many times though someone does take notice of it. I've lost count of the number of times i've gone to bed thinking " I'll finish such and such part of the article tomorrow" and found when coming back the next day, that someone has done a lot of the work for me. Of course YMMV depending on how popular the topic is. My advice to you David would be, by all means use a sandbox, (I do) but don't fret too much about getting it perfect. Concentrate on adding some solidly researched facts, as that is the most difficult bit. Everything else can be fixed later. Theresa knott 13:01 2 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Hi. I'm glad you're interested in expanding the 'how to keep food safe' article. I think part of the problem as it stands is that the article just needs to be longer. I'm of the opinion the list is good where it is, providing it's part of a longer article on food-borne diseases in general. 'How to keep food safe' would be an appropriate section in such an article, in my opinion anyway. One foodstuff not mentioned in the Food poisoning article is hamburger, which is a huge issue in North America. E coli poisoning has resulted in a number of deaths, and it is impossible to estimate how many thousands of people are made ill each year by eating improperly prepared hamburger. Good luck; I look forward to seeing the results. Denni 17:45, 2004 Mar 13 (UTC)

David, Thanks for you work on the SL-1200 page; it look much nicer now. Also thanks for adding the picture, i was planning on adding one myself, but now i don(t have to :). btw: I moved the page to Technics SL-1200, because it seams better to me to include the manufactorers name. Ddhuyvet 09:58, 12 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Hi David, I have added some more info in the Technics_SL-1200 page. I've added a few models and made some other small changes. Ddhuyvet 14:29, 13 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

I would strongly suggest that you remove any kind of font or font size specification on your user page. It makes your page very difficult to read, as it overrides any browser font specification that users with poor eyesight may have in place.

Darrien 12:15, 2004 Jul 2 (UTC)

Hi Darren. Thanks for the advice. I have fixed it. Does it look OK for you now? David Thrale

Yes, thank you.

Darrien 15:12, 2004 Jul 2 (UTC)

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

• Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
• Multi-Licensing Guide
• Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

OR

Option 2

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:

{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (| talk)

Thank you for uploading Image:Reading festival sticker 1976.png. However, it currently is missing information on its copyright status. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously. It may be deleted soon, unless we can determine the license and the source of the image. If you know this information, then you can add a copyright tag to the image description page.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thanks again for your cooperation. NOTE: once you correct this, please remove the tag from the image's page. STBotI (talk) 23:14, 31 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi David. I've recently created the page Hester Maria Elphinstone, Viscountess Keith, and have used and linked to the articles on her parents you created, and to your excellent resource at thrale.com. If there's any input you can make to improve Queeney's page, your knowledge and expertise would be very welcome.

One thing you might be able to help me with is her burial place. Mary Hyde is emphatic that she's buried in the Keith mausoleum in Overton Kirkyard, with her husband and daughter ([1] - see the footnote beginning on that page and spilling over onto the next one), and this article on the kirkyard appears to confirm that her plaque, at least, is there. However, your link at thrale.com puts her in Brookwood Cemetery in England, in another Keith family mausoleum - see here. Are you able to let me know which is correct? Many thanks, Karenjc 13:33, 30 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Karenjc Great new page on Queeney. I have, belatedly, made some changes, mainly to clarify your confusion around her writings. Thanks for the heads up on her place of burial. You are entirely right, Thrale.com had the wrong Keith family mausoleum. I have now put things right. Thanks David Thrale (talk) 09:23, 17 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

That's great, David, thanks a lot. It must be fun to come from such a fascinating and well-documented family! Karenjc 18:23, 17 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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