User talk:Rich Farmbrough

Welcome to Wikidata, Rich Farmbrough!

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Best regards! Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 04:53, 14 October 2014 (UTC)

Saw your posting at Talk:Q1346007

Hi Rich Farmbrough,

I see you asked some questions on 2022-11-03. Three days later there are no replies, which makes me feel better about my own crickets-experience :) One interesting thing, for me at least, is the fact that the subject lived into his eighties, even though he died more than a hundred years ago.

I (very) often find biographies of dead-people documented via wmf-sites who lived to an advanced age, even centuries ago. I find this puzzling? Thank in advance, Ottawahitech (talk) 14:38, 6 November 2022 (UTC)

It's fine not to get answers in this case, in a way the idea is to leave breadcrumbs for the next person to look at that page (possibly me again). There have always been some very old people, the increase in average life-span in the 19th and 20th centuries was largely due to less deaths in infancy and childhood. Moreover people who lived a goodly while had more chance to make their mark and cross whatever threshold of notability is relevant to a given project. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 18:09, 11 November 2022 (UTC).

Query - FTSE100 companies with website

1. Members (or former members) of the FTSE100 together with "official website"

SELECT DISTINCT ?item ?itemLabel ?website WHERE {

 SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "[AUTO_LANGUAGE]". }
 {
   SELECT DISTINCT ?item WHERE {
     ?item p:P361 ?statement0.
     ?statement0 (ps:P361/(wdt:P279*)) wd:Q466496.
   }
   LIMIT 200
 }
 OPTIONAL { ?item wdt:P856 ?website. }

} ORDER BY (?itemLabel) Would be useful to know how to save queries. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 19:37, 28 March 2023 (UTC).

Oxon alum

https://archive.org/stream/alumnioxonienses02univuoft/alumnioxonienses02univuoft_djvu.txt All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 10:53, 2 May 2023 (UTC).

Happy holidays

tree trunks

Hi Rich Farmbrough, Happy hollidays. Ottawahitech (talk) 22:57, 30 December 2023 (UTC)

Thanks! Hope you had a good Christmas and have a great new year! All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 08:03, 9 January 2024 (UTC).