User Talk: Dave.Dunford

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Happy First Edit Anniversary Dave.Dunford 🎉

Hey @Dave.Dunford. Your wiki edit anniversary is today, marking 21 years of dedicated contributions to English Wikipedia. Your passion for sharing knowledge and your remarkable contributions have not only enriched the project, but also inspired countless others to contribute. Thank you for your amazing contributions. Wishing you many more wonderful years ahead in the Wiki journey. :) -❙❚❚❙❙ GnOeee ❚❙❚❙❙ ✉ 16:00, 30 November 2025 (UTC)

Released players

In the English system, contracts end on 30 June (so players leave clubs on that date) and begin on 1 July (so players join new clubs on that date). Please wait until those dates before editing. Giant Snowman 17:49, 23 June 2026 (UTC)

:Fair enough - but I was going by (a) press announcements that players have signed elsewhere (e.g. Negru) and (b) the players listed on the Oxford United website. Dave.Dunford (talk) 17:51, 23 June 2026 (UTC)

British Listed Buildings website

Hi Dave.Dunford, hope you're well. I wanted to check the position on using BLB in listed building articles. I know it's a mirror of the NHLE and republishes that data under the Open Government Licence ↗, and that its identifiers are used on Wikidata for cross‑referencing. Given this, is BLB acceptable as a convenience link only, or is there any circumstance in which it could be cited directly? I also notice that BLB often includes additional photos that aren't available on the NHLE, so it may add value as a supplementary resource in some cases. Welcome your thoughts. Mmberney (talk) 10:18, 24 June 2026 (UTC)
: Hi there {{reply to|Mmberney}} – valid question. My two main reasons for preferring NHLE over BLB is (a) it just seems logical to link directly to the original, official text rather than to a third-party copy; and (b) NHLE is (in my subjective experience) updated rather more regularly and reliably than BLB – I frequently report minor errors in listings to Historic England that get changed on NHLE immediately but it takes a while for BLB to be updated. It's true that BLB sometimes has photos that NHLE doesn't have, but the opposite is also true, and my hunch is that the vast majority of citations are to the text rather than to the photos anyway. (On both sites, the photos are crowd-sourced, so they could in principle fall foul of WP:USERGENERATED ↗, though it would be pedantic to suggest that a photograph of a structure could be considered misrepresentative.) To be honest, my edit at Castle Hotel, Manchester ↗ was more about tidiness and consistency than any strong preference for one site over the other.
:More generally, I don't think there's anything wrong with citing BLB, but for the reasons above I prefer NHLE and generally change BLB references to NHLE when I happen to notice them (particularly if there isn't already an NHLE reference elsewhere, as I think having a link to the official government agency's documentation somewhere is critical for any article about a listed building, scheduled monument, etc., since the listing is part of the reason for the subject's notability). Dave.Dunford (talk) 11:43, 24 June 2026 (UTC)