User talk:Big Jim Fae Scotland
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Hi, welcome and thanks for the corrections. ;) Morwen 18:06, 5 Nov 2003 (UTC)
Hi Jim, thanks for your comments re: the communist articles i've been writing. I got my information from using google and the web pages of the parties themselves. I've done all of the communist/non social democrat socialist parties in the European parliament (European United Left - Nordic Green Left) and am working on the List of communist parties and Comintern article. I don't know if you want to collaborate on this - there's lots of stuff that needs doing. The History of British Socialism article has nothing on Scotland on it. Tommy Sheridan doesn't have an article etc. Secretlondon 11:51, Nov 6, 2003 (UTC)
What a great user name. :-) Evercat 13:15, 6 Nov 2003 (UTC)
I'm not actually from the area, I just had a happy holiday in Glasgow last year, visited some of these places, and thought I'd fill in a couple of articles on it. Thanks for the extra info. Warofdreams 17:50, 6 Nov 2003 (UTC)
Could you add some stuff on Red Clydeside on the History of British Socialism page? I've mentioned that the right wing press thought they were "bolsheviks", but I've not done any more, as I don't know a lot about it. Thanks.
Alun Ephraim 12:15, 7 Nov 2003 (UTC)
My apologies ;) I'll leave NI politics free for you if you like. Morwen 16:30, 7 Nov 2003 (UTC)
Hallo; I was thinking, perhaps you'd like to take a look at 'articles requested for over a year' page: there's a request there for an article about Scottish freedom movements that you might like to look into, but then again maybe not. I read your (übercool) name and the sort of articles you wrote in the recent changes list, and I thought you just might be interested. I had some trouble finding the page, and I'm not sure my link works: It may be found visiting Community Portal, following the link Create (in the Things you can do-box), and then Articles requested for over a year-link. Sietse 12:42, 8 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Hi - regarding your question about the Edward Hunter article. The article is certainly interesting, but I'm afraid I can't think of anywhere to put a link to it. There's almost nothing in Wikipedia about socialism in New Zealand, except for something I wrote about the Communist Party of New Zealand (which I don't think he had much to do with). Eventually, I hope to write something about the history of New Zealand socialism (it's highly confusing at present - so much splintering it's hard to keep track of the various factions). If/when that happens, Hunter will surely get a mention, but until then, I can't really think of anywhere to refer to him. Sorry about that - there are still a lot of gaps in the New Zealand politics pages. -- Vardion 04:41, 21 Nov 2003 (UTC)
Well, you may already have seen it, but did you see the article about him in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography? It's a government service, and is available online at www.dnzb.govt.nz - just select Find, click on H, and look for "Hunter, Edward". I don't think there's anything there you don't have already, but it might be worth a look if you haven't already seen it. I will, however, see if I can find some more information about him off-line - there are a few books I know of that he'd probably be mentioned in. I'm not sure how soon I'll be able to do that, but I'll get back to you when I've done it. - Vardion 13:21, 21 Nov 2003 (UTC)
- Quick update - I haven't been able to get at the books yet, but I had a bit of free time, so I wrote something brief about Socialism in New Zealand. I've mentioned Edward Hunter, and put a link to the new page in Hunter's article (hope you don't mind). The new article doesn't say very much about him yet, since I still need to collect my information. - Vardion 12:14, 22 Nov 2003 (UTC)
- Sorry it's taken me so long to reply, but I've had difficulty getting at the book I remembered. I'm not sure when I'll be able to track it down. I do know, however, that there's at least a chapter about him, so there should be plenty of information once I can get to it. But from what I can find, your article on him seems quite adequate. The book itself is called "On the Left: Essays on Socialism in New Zealand" - see this Amazon.co.uk page (hoping that the link works), or this IALHI page. Whether that's of any use to you, I don't know. There are probably other sources as well. -- Vardion 05:27, 27 Dec 2003 (UTC)
I've produced the following: List of organisations associated with the British Labour Party which you may want to add to. Secretlondon 23:02, Dec 27, 2003 (UTC)