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First to Damian: Night editing had started by the time I could get back to you on Sunday. Strangely, the edit button didn't show all day Monday; now at six-something on a cold Thursday I have the time to answer. Yes, its not boring to you, nor me. None of the reigns of the medieval monarchs is boring - but what I tried to do in these mini-essays was give a quick pen-portrait of those that were not already covered here - which was most of them; English medieval history was hardly touched when I started. So instead of just writing articles on the kings, I surrounded them with links, so if a place is mentioned, a battle or a person who has a bearing on the narrative I wrote about it - admittedly many are stubs, but I found this as a way of filling in the almost tabula rasa that had been this place and its times in this wiki. In this article I thought the subject of Edward's sexuality to be important enough for a mention but not so important as to go into the supposed manner of his death or, for that matter, that of Hugh Despenser. My intentions in most of my articles on the various subjects I know about has been to pique the interest of the readers as mine was when I was in my early teens and starting out on this adventure over 50 years ago. It's why I tend to use the odd vernacular phrase (like "state of play") or throw in a song, or poem or a quote from "1066 and All That". It's also why I never use the wiki style of subject headings, but write them like they appeared in the venerable reference books I grew up with. I have the resources - here in this room - to go on and on about these subjects, but I am not an academic and I try and give a base of information that people can build on if they like.

First to Damian: Night editing had started by the time I could get back to you on Sunday. Strangely, the edit button didn't show all day Monday; now at six-something on a cold Thursday I have the time to answer. Yes, its not boring to you, nor me. None of the reigns of the medieval monarchs is boring - but what I tried to do in these mini-essays was give a quick pen-portrait of those that were not already covered here - which was most of them; English medieval history was hardly touched when I started. So instead of just writing articles on the kings, I surrounded them with links, so if a place is mentioned, a battle or a person who has a bearing on the narrative I wrote about it - admittedly many are stubs, but I found this as a way of filling in the almost tabula rasa that had been this place and its times in this wiki. In this article I thought the subject of Edward's sexuality to be important enough for a mention but not so important as to go into the supposed manner of his death or, for that matter, that of Hugh Despenser. My intentions in most of my articles on the various subjects I know about has been to pique the interest of the readers as mine was when I was in my early teens and starting out on this adventure over 50 years ago. It's why I tend to use the odd vernacular phrase (like "state of play") or throw in a song, or poem or a quote from "1066 and All That". It's also why I never use the wiki style of subject headings, but write them like they appeared in the venerable reference books I grew up with. I have the resources - here in this room - to go on and on about these subjects, but I am not an academic and I try and give a base of information that people can build on if they like.

:CMurphy, g'day. I suppose I wrote the above to you too. Forgive me for sounding a little proprietorial. You had me scurrying to the article and found nothing really wrong with it that could not be put down to taste or the preference of a different emphasis. Do what you wish to do; it is a wiki and I have no right to complain. [[User:AlanE|AlanE]] 16:41, 25 July 2012 (EDT)

:CMurphy, g'day. I suppose I wrote the above to you too. Forgive me for sounding a little proprietorial. You had me scurrying to the article and found nothing really wrong with it that could not be put down to taste or the preference of a different emphasis. Do what you wish to do; it is a wiki and I have no right to complain. [[User:AlanE|AlanE]] 16:41, 25 July 2012 (EDT)