Talk:Ralph Hancock (landscape gardener)

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The purpose of this wiki is two fold.

Firstly, it is to collect information on the gardens designed by both Ralph and his son Bramley. As well as gardens Ralph also designed interiors and possibly houses too.

Secondly, this wiki was an idea by members of the Hancock family to gather information on this son of Wales as sadly much of his work has long been forgotten and very little remains of the records that he once kept.

I'm not sure what you mean by "this wiki"? The purpose of Wikipedia is to report published, notable, facts only. So it is not an appropriate place to collect things not published elsewhere. But the article looks pretty good so far, though it does need sources for the facts about Hancock. Notinasnaid 15:22, 12 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I can tell you the sources. :) The original biographical research on Ralph Hancock was carried out by the students of Neath and Port Talbot College, Horticulture department, Garden history course 2006-2007. Unfortunately there's very little published about Ralph at present, so we may be in breach of the Original Research guidelines here. The N&PTC students are gradually publishing their research so there will be citable articles soon, but unfortunately nothing at time of writing. (Disclaimer: the contents at time of writing appear to have been written by the Hancock family, using the research carried out by N&PTC as a secondary source. I haven't edited the article but I did act as a research assistant for the N&PTC course.) lathos 15:00, 18 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You are right, material on the man isn't readily available. I'll change the reference to the material, sorry if it wasn't credited correctly originally. Please feel free to contact me via here. The plan is to have a dedicated Ralph Hancock website as well as a Wikipedia page/entry. It would also be useful to have more published material from the students. Meathead1962 21:00, 23 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

New source

A fascinating article, but I've had to add an 'original research' cleanup template to the article. However, it is fortunate that (subsequent to the conversation above) a very comprehensive biography (matching very closely to the one on Wikipedia) has been published in the free(?) Cardiff magazine City Life. It's not a major source (the sort of thing you find in dentist waiting rooms) but is a published source all the same. If the Western Mail published an article (as suggested in the footnote) it would be useful to incorporate that too. Maybe then the 'original research' and 'more footnotes' template could be removed. Sionk (talk) 02:28, 11 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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