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Welcome!

Hi, and welcome to the London Transport WikiProject! We're a group of editors working to improve Wikipedia's coverage of London's transport system.

A few features that you might find helpful:

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16:41, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

East London Line

In case you missed it, the reason for removing the image was "decorative image, text stands without it so fails NFCC". See WP:NFCC, particularly 8 and 9. 90.203.45.214 (talk) 20:55, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

See London Overground for my reasons - your reasons are, well, rubbish as you're going over old ground on that page and the position same applies on ELL. [Note to self: in future, don't reply to people who aren't actually registered] D-Notice (talk) 22:29, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

::You're evidently having difficulty grasping this concept, so I'll just repeat it louder and more slowly: NON-FREE IMAGES CANNOT BE USED IN GALLERIES AND LINE-UPS, per WP:NFCC #8. I am treating any attempt at reinstating the image as vandalism. 90.203.45.214 (talk) 19:39, 26 December 2007 (UTC) Sorry... personal attacks will be removed

Some people take Wikipedia way too seriously for their own good... D-Notice (talk) 10:06, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

Lockerbie railway station

Can you please explain why you have changed <references/> to {{reflist}}. There has been recent discussions on Template talk:reflist#From Talk:Morayshire Railway and Wikipedia talk:Footnotes#From Talk:Morayshire Railway which concluded that <references/> could be left until there was around ten references. I intend to revert your edit since it was unnecessary an did not add anything to the article. --Stewart ^(talk) 19:42, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Fair enough. I was unaware of the discussion. D-Notice (talk) 19:52, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

London Meetup - January 12, 2008

Hi! There's going to be a London Wikipedia Meetup coming Saturday January 12, 2008. If you are interested in coming along take part in the discussion over a Wikipedia:Meetup/London7. The discussion is going on until tomorrow evening and the official location and time will be published at the same page late Thursday or early Friday. Hope to see you Saturday, Poeloq (talk) 01:39, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Gregorian calendar edit

Thank you for adding a reference to the Gregorian calendar. Could you add a page number to show where in the book Hershel's calendar proposal is? --Gerry Ashton (talk) 22:09, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

Not sure where it is - I lifted the reference direct from the page on Hershell... D-Notice (talk) 22:17, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

Never mind, I found it on page 629. --Gerry Ashton (talk) 22:20, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

Yay! D-Notice (talk) 22:21, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

Non-free images

I'm not going to explain why I removed the images, because it seems that you've been warned before over this, so I'm going to jump to level 4:

This is the only warning you will receive for your disruptive edits.
If you vandalize Wikipedia again, as you did to London Overground, you will be blocked from editing. In future, ask at WP:MCQ or WP:NFC before including non-free images with an invalid rationale. 81.110.106.169 (talk) 20:37, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

We've been through this before. See the discussion on London Overground. D-Notice (talk) 21:03, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

For an IP-editor to threaten banning is an interesting concept. Either they are an admin trying to hide behind some sort of anonymity, or they are trying to massively exceed their capabilities. Either way, they are wrong and could be themselves blocked for such behaviour if repeated. --AlisonW (talk) 23:15, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for this. I'll revert his/her edits D-Notice (talk) 06:36, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

This is the only warning you will receive for your disruptive edits.
If you vandalize Wikipedia again, you will be blocked from editing. 81.110.106.169 (talk) 13:12, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

You have no authority to be making such threats D-Notice (talk) 15:25, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

::There is no rule on who may or may not use warning templates. Do not reinstate those images without first asking at WP:MCQ or WP:NFC, or demonstrate on the talk page how the loss of these images "would be detrimental to [the reader's] understanding" of London Overground specifically. 81.110.106.169 (talk) 15:50, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

As AlisonW said, you'll be banned if you keep this up... D-Notice (talk) 21:18, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

alwaystouchout.com

I saw your post at User talk:Mr Thant. The problem with alwaystouchout.com is that, while it is very professional-looking, it's basically a fan site maintained by one person. Such sites are not regarded as reliable sources. --RFBailey (talk) 12:36, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

Alwaystouchout generally has good summaries, so using it as a source per se isn't a bad idea, at least for uncontroversial things. The problem here is that "Crossrail 3" doesn't seem to appear anywhere else. The site has a bad habit of not being clear about how solid its info is - so something that Dave overheard on a newsgroup once is written in the same authoritative tone as something that appears in a thousand official documents. I don't think we should be repeating the claim without knowing where it came from. --Mr Thant (talk) 14:23, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

Fair enough then D-Notice (talk)

London Overground

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on London Overground. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions on a single page within a 24 hour period. Additionally, users who perform a large number of reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring, even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing. Please do not repeatedly revert edits, but use the talk page to work towards wording and content that gains a consensus among editors. If necessary, pursue dispute resolution. I suggest talking it to the article's talk page, to discuss the issue and avoid getting blocked. DrFrench (talk) 20:37, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Sorry about that. The discussion has been done over the past few months. It seemed to have been settled and the other (anonymous) editor stopped making changes. They then came back & after being referred to Admin were suspended. Again, this seemed to have resolved the issue, but once again the anonymous user has brought it back to life. I was merely trying to re-instate what had already been agreed. D-Notice (talk)

You have been warned before that these images do not meet Wikipedia's non-free content criteria for London Overground and Turbostar. This has been pointed out to you three times before by two users. Re-adding the images is therefore vandalism (see Repeated uploading of copyright material). 81.110.106.169 (talk) 20:51, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

I respectfully refer you to the previous discussion we had on this subject... D-Notice (talk) 20:56, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

D-notice, I know you have the best intentions on this article, but you've reverted three times today to your preferred version. Just some friendly advice to be careful not to get too caught up over a silly picture (I'm still reading some of the history and prior discussions), just wanted to give you a "non-template" notice of 3RR. I'm not 100% convinced yet that the IP is "vandalizing" by removing two pictures. (I'm not unconvincible either, just unconvinced) Keeper | 76 | Disclaimer 21:52, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

No problem D-Notice (talk) 21:53, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Great - I've left another note to you on Enigmaman's talkpage. Cheers, Keeper | 76 | Disclaimer 22:17, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Invitation to Wikipedia meetup in London

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Date: 13:00 onwards, Sunday 10 August 2008

Venue: Penderel's Oak pub, Holborn WC1 map

More information: Wikipedia:Meetup/London 12

Hello,

I noticed that you have listed yourself as a Wikipedian in London, so I thought you might like to come to one of our monthly social meetups. The next one is going to be on Sunday 10 August, which might well be rather short notice, but if you can't come this time, we try to have one every second Sunday of the month.

If you haven't been before, these meetups are mainly casual social events for Wikipedia enthusiasts in which we chat about Wikipedia and any other topics we fancy. It's a great way to meet some very keen Wikipedians, but we'd also love for you to come along if you're interested in finding out more about Wikipedia, other Wikimedia projects, or other collaborative wiki projects too.

The location is a pub that is quite quiet and family friendly on a Sunday lunchtime, so hopefully younger Wikipedians will also feel welcome and safe. Alcohol consumption is certainly not required!

Although the meetups are popular, many UK-based editors still don't know about them. It would be great to welcome some fresh faces, so I hope you can come along.

Yours,

James F. (talk) 09:27, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

Please forgive the slightly impersonal mass-invite!

About BOINC's version

Yesterday, I noticed that BOINC 6.2.16 was replaced by 5.10.45 as the recommended version due to some serious bug which I have no clue about. Even I am using that version. Today, version 6.2.17 was promoted to the recommended version. Jesse Viviano (talk) 02:30, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

Oxford Wikimania 2010 and Wikimedia UK v2.0 Notice

Hi,

As a regularly contributing UK Wikipedian, we were wondering if you wanted to contribute to the Oxford bid to host the 2010 Wikimania conference. Please see here for details of how to get involved, we need all the help we can get if we are to put in a compelling bid.

We are also in the process of forming a new UK Wikimedia chapter to replace the soon to be folded old one. If you are interested in helping shape our plans, showing your support or becoming a future member or board member, please head over to the Wikimedia UK v2.0 page and let us know. We plan on holding an election in the next month to find the initial board, who will oversee the process of founding the company and accepting membership applications. They will then call an AGM to formally elect a new board who after obtaining charitable status will start the fund raising, promotion and active support for the UK Wikimedian community for which the chapter is being founded.

You may also wish to attend the next London meet-up at which both of these issues will be discussed. If you can't attend this meetup, you may want to watch Wikipedia:Meetup, for updates on future meets.

We look forward to hearing from you soon, and we send our apologies for this automated intrusion onto your talk page!

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Levenmouth DYK

I´m pretty certain you should have recieved a DYK notice on the article you created. When i can, i will message whoever gave me the DYK for your acknowledgement (Simply south) --Please can you think of one? (talk) 19:24, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

I think this should have happened with you credited

On 21 November, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Levenmouth rail link, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Simply south (talk) 20:23, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

Aw, thanks! D-Notice (talk) 21:31, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

Vandalism

No problem. Simply south not SS, sorry 23:19, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

Revert warring on Andrew Gilligan

I notice that you and Sandler151 appear to be in a slow revert-war on the biography of Andrew Gilligan. Can I ask that instead of simply reverting each other until domesday, you each go to the talk page of the article to debate the subject? It ought to be clear that you have a disagreement and are sticking to your positions, and from my perspective I can't say that either of you are clearly in the right according to established policies. A fuller debate may help illuminate the dispute and bring in other knowledgable editors who can help solve it. Sam Blacketer (talk) 19:50, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

Sorry about that. All I was doing was re-instating a fully referenced section regarding Mr Gillian's sock-puppeting. Is it worth mentioning the fact that the only edits that Sandler151 has done have been to remove the section and one which IMHO looks like a self-serving edit which could have been written by Mr Gilligan himself? D-Notice (talk) 20:20, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

The thought had occurred to me, because User:Sandler151 is a particularly extreme example of a single purpose account. However we assume good faith and indeed if it was a subject editing their own biography, the advice is to be understanding. Normally the rule is that blogs are poor sources for controversial claims, especially partisan ones - which I would say includes Boriswatch. However this rule is relaxed for blogs hosted by major news organisations, which I would think the Guardian blog comes under. The other problem which occurs to me is that the claim itself is somewhat speculative and as I read it the author does not claim that Andrew Gilligan has been proved to be a sockpuppeteer, only that the accusation is worth taking seriously. Sam Blacketer (talk) 20:40, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

WP:Hornbook -- a new WP:Law task force for the J.D. curriculum

Hi D-Notice,

I'm asking Wikipedians who are interested in United States legal articles to take a look at WP:Hornbook, the new "JD curriculum task force".

Our mission is to assimilate into Wikipedia all the insights of an American law school education, by reducing hornbooks to footnotes.

• Each casebook will have a subpage.

• Over the course of a semester, each subpage will shift its focus to track the unfolding curriculum(s) for classes using that casebook around the country.
• It will also feature an extensive, hyperlinked "index" or "outline" to that casebook, pointing to pages, headers, or {{anchors}} in Wikipedia (example).
• Individual law schools can freely adapt our casebook outlines to the idiosyncratic curriculum devised by each individual professor.

• I'm encouraging law students around the country to create local chapters of the club I'm starting at my own law school, "Student WP:Hornbook Editors". Using WP:Hornbook as our headquarters, we're hoping to create a study group so inclusive that nobody will dare not join.

What you can do now:

1. Add WP:Hornbook to your watchlist, {{User Hornbook}} to your userpage, and ~~~~ to Wikipedia:Hornbook/participants.

2. If you're a law student,

• Email http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:Hornbook to your classmates, and tell them to do the same.
• Contact me directly via talk page or email about coordinating a chapter of "Student WP:Hornbook Editors" at your own school.

(You don't have to start the club, or even be involved in it; just help direct me to someone who might.)

3. Introduce yourself to me. Law editors on Wikipedia are a scarce commodity. Do knock on my talk page if there's an article you'd like help on.

Regards, Andrew Gradman ^talk/_WP:Hornbook 20:19, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the offer. Unfortunately I deal with English not US law so I wouldn't be of any use to the project. D-Notice (talk) 20:54, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of St Andrews rail link

The article St Andrews rail link has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

This appears to be a grassroots campaign that's been rejected by the government. The single sentence does not assert notability; and although there's been some local news coverage of the group advocating this, I don't think it satisfies WP:N.

While all contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{dated prod}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. The speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Deor (talk) 21:36, 29 January 2010 (UTC)

London Wikimedia Fundraiser

Good evening! This is a friendly message from Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry, inviting you to the London Wikimedia Fundraising party on 19th December 2010, in approximately one week. This party is being held at an artistic London venue with room for approximately 300 people, and is being funded by Ed Saperia, a non-Wikipedian who has a reputation for holding exclusive events all over London. This year, he wants to help Wikipedia, and is subsidising a charity event for us. We're keen to get as many Wikimedians coming as possible, and we already have approximately 200 guests, including members of the press, and some mystery guests! More details can be found at http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/London - expect an Eigenharp, a mulled wine hot tub, a free hog roast, a haybale amphitheatre and more. If you're interested in coming - and we'd love to have you - please go to the ten.wikipedia page and follow the link to the Facebook event. Signing up on Facebook will add you to the party guestlist. Entry fee is a heavily subsidised £5 and entry is restricted to over 18s. It promises to be a 10th birthday party to remember! If you have any questions, please email me at chasemewiki at gmail.com.

Hope we'll see you there, (and apologies for the talk page spam) - Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry (talk) 22:14, 12 December 2010 (UTC)

The Contribution Team cordially invites you to Imperial College London

All Hail The Muffin Nor does it taste nice... 15:55, 5 February 2011 (UTC)

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Signpost Interview

Brought to you by Simply south...... eating shoes for 5 years So much for ER 19:36, 15 August 2011 (UTC)

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