User talk:Bdog Drummond

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Do not put thumbnail images in infoboxes[edit]

Hey there, Bdog. Please follow the guidelines at Wikipedia:INFOBOXIMAGE and don't use thumbnail images in infoboxes. - Plandu (talk) 20:40, 17 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

My apologies Plandu! Thanks for your patience :) Bdog Drummond (talk) 21:08, 17 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

No worries! Keep up the good edits! - Plandu (talk) 21:33, 17 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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English families[edit]

Please stop these undiscussed and undoubtedly controversial moves to the un-English "House of Foo" style. I'm pretty sure the "House of ..." style was rejected for English families in an Rfc or something. There was certainly this Cfd. They will probably all have to be reversed, which is a considerable pain. Johnbod (talk) 02:36, 8 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Johnbod: are you referring to the United Kingdom section of the List of noble houses article? If so It would appear that numerous families listed link only to a title (which can over time be used by multiple families). I will make some adjustments to the page to reflect this. AndrewFletcher (talk) 10:04, 24 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Bdog Drummond: please see Talk:List of noble houses. AndrewFletcher (talk) 10:04, 24 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Depth[edit]

Re the Larman article, it's not a matter of asserting in an edit comment that a source provides depth - that's a matter only for dispute; the solution is to supply the actual depth by paraphrasing (or even quoting in brief) the source to prove that depth exists, and to state clearly what the in-depth interest, i.e. notability, the source provides. Otherwise the right response is to delete the sources as adding nothing of significance. All the best, Chiswick Chap (talk) 13:24, 8 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Cluster of citespam and astroturfing accounts[edit]

Per issues on Canford School, in particular this edit where you sourced a Brice Stratford link to a publication with incomplete publication data, which may not exist under the name you gave it (see article talk). You appear to have abandoned this account, which follows the pattern noted in the SPI, and noted on the pages listed below:

Admins and other Wikipedians in good standing, see:

Author they were spamming for's COI account that has same editing pattern, suspected sockmaster:

BriceStratford (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

(Hasn't edited in years, leaning towards blocking on principle)

Recent accounts:

Craneshore (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) - spam account. Indeffed.
Dennyala (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) - this account created and began identical spam edits after Craneshore was warned about spamming.
Jonto95 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) - created some of the articles those accounts were spamming, same editing patterns.
Cwhillubbyy (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) - created Brice Stratford BLP for author they are spamming for.

- CorbieVreccan ^☊ ☼ 19:59, 21 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]