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Range block

Hello HJ Mitchell :-)

I was wondering, you perform range blocks right? Could you perhaps do one for this range? Its some nasty disruptive IP hopping.

• 2600:1001:B108:5C2A:4147:4DD3:DCA:3D1B (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · block log · cross-wiki contribs · CheckUser (log))
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• 2600:1001:B028:C7BF:B1F3:3AA9:79C:4502 (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · block log · cross-wiki contribs · CheckUser (log))
• 2600:1001:B009:A831:A5EF:A130:C8E:4CAC (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · block log · cross-wiki contribs · CheckUser (log))
• 2600:1001:B005:DBE2:C981:22C3:A25C:6F3F (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · block log · cross-wiki contribs · CheckUser (log))
• 2600:1001:B120:119B:1C59:B5D3:F248:81E7 (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · block log · cross-wiki contribs · CheckUser (log))
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• 2600:1001:B02F:340:809B:4820:B1B5:818B (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · block log · cross-wiki contribs · CheckUser (log))

Bests - LouisAragon (talk) 16:18, 17 January 2016 (UTC)

It's possible; the lowest common denominator is 2600:1001:b000::/39. But ... you'll have to explain what the disruptions is, and if it's only a small subset of articles affected semi-protection might be more effective. I don't really have time to look into it right now so you might be better off asking another admin or going to a noticeboard. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 16:29, 17 January 2016 (UTC)

Well, the fact that he's extensively IP hopping is reason #1. Furthermore, he's often warring, adding factually incorrect info, and what not. Its basically sockpuppeting through an extensive number of IP's. Therefore, this range should be blocked as its not only a violation of Wikipedia's policies, it furthermore also hurts Wikipedia's content and integrity. Or am I wrong regarding my deductions of Wikipedia's policies? I just selected a small amount of the IP's as there are many more, and they hit a large number of articles. We tried protecting a few of the pages, but he simply targets other pages instead until the protection wears off. Bests - LouisAragon (talk) 16:36, 17 January 2016 (UTC)

I really am trying to get something else done, so I can't be of a lot of help. Your best bet is to explain it at a noticeboard or to another admin. But just one observation: hopping around a large range isn't necessarily evidence of malice—it's a mobile network, so it's possible that this person's IP address changes very frequently through no fault of their own due to the way the network works. Not that it makes life easier for you. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 16:51, 17 January 2016 (UTC)

No probs, just made an ANI section. :-) Yeah, of course it could also be due to the reason as mentioned in your last sentence, but he could easily avoid that by logging in onto his account (or, lets assume even more WP:GF), or by creating an account. Bests - LouisAragon (talk) 18:50, 17 January 2016 (UTC)

Thank you so very much

Thank you for leaving a message on my talk page about Neonatal infection's appearance on the Main page in the DYK section. I can appreciate all the time that it takes into sorting, classifying and finally publishing the items that appear on the main page. Thank you again for letting me know what's going on.

Barbara (WVS) (talk) 11:29, 18 January 2016 (UTC)

I'll leave this to you

Thanks. :) Anna Frodesiak (talk) 04:41, 18 January 2016 (UTC)

Thank you. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 14:30, 18 January 2016 (UTC)

Please read and amend

Please see Wikipedia:Deceased Wikipedians/Guidelines. No blocks. Need RS. --DHeyward (talk) 06:07, 18 January 2016 (UTC)

Ah, my mistake. Thankfully this isn't an admin task I have to perform very often. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 14:31, 18 January 2016 (UTC)

Our friend

Thanks for unblocking Dreadstar. Could you go further and restore his archives? Perhaps also "articles". (Links now on his user talk, they look green, but are red.) - In cased I forget, please remind me of "ignore ignore ignore" as Dreadstar often did, - perhaps the most valuable advice I ever got on this project. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:13, 18 January 2016 (UTC)

Yes, that's a good idea. And "ignore" is good advice. We can't be everywhere all the time, and for the sake of our sanity we have to let some things go. I'd add to that that we should try to focus on the things we enjoy. I've seen too many good editors, Dreadstar among them, get sucked into a toxic dispute, chewed up, and spat out. While we need people to intervene in these disputes, we should remind ourselves regularly of what we love about this place and what keeps us coming back. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 19:32, 18 January 2016 (UTC)

Thank you, for wisdom and action. Bitter irony that he passed the advice and then couldn't follow it himself. Look at an article such as Max Deutsch (you may have seen it on DYK on Wikipedia15). The discussion is on my talk, not as toxic as L.O. ;) - I looked up his last email: Christmas Eve, ending "could not ask for a better group of friends…." Missed. "Letting go" is the image caption from the beginning ... --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:56, 18 January 2016 (UTC)

I looked at the archives which are not too helpful, a history until 2011, and many red links, comment (from 2010) "And yes, I do tend to archive quickly. I like to keep my fire engine clean, it's a clean machine; with perhaps a little OCD mixed in. :)" - It's all in the talk page history, but no easy reading. Ideas? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:46, 19 January 2016 (UTC)

DYK for East Sheen Cemetery

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:01, 19 January 2016 (UTC)

Congratulations – well done! Headhitter (talk) 12:08, 19 January 2016 (UTC)

Thanks HJ

Thank you for the "Thanks", By the way I love your User Page, especially the banner at the top...sorry I'm guilty of this too...it's only because I am clueless ....SethWhales ^talk 14:18, 21 January 2016 (UTC)

You're welcome. :) I didn't even know that South African War Memorial existed, so it was a pleasant surprise to get the notification that South African War Memorial, Richmond Cemetery had been linked from it. Which gives me an idea for an article about Boer War memorials in Britain! HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 15:15, 21 January 2016 (UTC)

Devon County War Memorial

Are you planning on nominating this for DYK? I used to live in Exeter and would love to get this on the Main Page! Jolly Ω Janner 21:55, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

Hi Jolly Janner, I've been thinking about it but I'm trying to fill in other red links and I can't think of a sufficiently attention-grabbing hook. You're welcome to nominate it if you can pick out a good hook. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 23:37, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

As an another ex-Ex-onian... Get this on the main page Harry. Do it. Now. "... that Devon County War Memorial was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, the same man who designed London's Whitehall Cenotaph." is more than interesting enough for the front page. Also, Stacey says "enter the wikicup, and if you beat us, we'll buy you a drink at the next meetup we are both at". By "us" she means "me", we're collaborating on articles, but I'm entering them :) Worm^TT(talk) 10:17, 21 January 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for the great article, HJ. I have nominated it at Template:Did you know nominations/Devon County War Memorial.@Worm That Turned: you should propose that hook on the nomination page! It has already got a green tick, but it could still be weeks before it's promoted. Jolly Ω Janner 19:27, 21 January 2016 (UTC)

I'm happy with your hook Jolly Janner, anything with the word "hewn" in it has to be good :) Worm^TT(talk) 19:47, 21 January 2016 (UTC)

+1. That's a good hook, and I like the word "hewn" too! I'm slowly working my way to writing articles for all of Lutyens' war memorials (there are 40-odd in England, one in Wales, and about half a dozen abroad, of which I think half a dozen have articles pre-dating my little project) but I'm finding that the articles I want to link to and from don't exist either! I'm debating whether to do York or Northampton next! HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 22:48, 21 January 2016 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Richmond Cemetery

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Possible sock puppet?

Would you say that Zzzzzzzz22 is a sock puppet of BuickCenturyDriver? Steel1943 (talk) 21:38, 22 January 2016 (UTC)

(talk page stalker)@Steel1943: I've reported over at WP:SPI. Pretty obvious duck. — Strongjam (talk) 22:12, 22 January 2016 (UTC)

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User would like an email address removed

Hi! Could I ask you to do whatever's necessary to remove the email address from the history here? The user seems to think that should be done. Many thanks, Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 01:04, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

I wouldn't normally suppress something as trivial as an email address, but as they appear to have been unaware of the potential downsides of disclosing, I think it's justified on this occasion. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 01:11, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

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Thanks. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 21:49, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

Phone numbers

Hi, if a user who may or may not be a child adds their mobile phone number to their user page, does this need to be reverted? Thanks, --Rubbish computer (HALP!: I dropped the bass?) 16:45, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

(talk page watcher)Harry seems not around just now so let me see if I can help. The answer is "probably but I leave the decision to others". There are various approaches possible but the one that works best for me if I am worried about something like this is to email Oversight at oversight-en-wp@wikipedia.org - I give them the diff and explain my concern if it not obvious. They are strictly limited by the rules on what can be oversighted but the good news is that they are the right people to decide ... so where child safety is potentially concerned it is MUCH better to let them decide than for me to try to second-guess them. And if it is not technically eligible for oversight but they still see it as a concern, they will quite likely revdel it for you anyway which has a similar, if less absolute, effect of removing the information from public gaze. I've never had anything less than brilliant service from Oversight and I've never regretted making a report to them. Hope this helps, best wishes DBaK (talk) 17:02, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

@DisillusionedBitterAndKnackered: Thanks; I've emailed them. Rubbish computer (HALP!: I dropped the bass?) 19:41, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

@Rubbish computer: Always best to email us for something like that. An oversighter will look at it and make a decision. It probably needs to be removed, but they might not be too happy about you meddling with their userpage, whereas overisghters can explain what the problem was after it's been suppressed. Best, HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 20:25, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

Okay, thanks. Rubbish computer (HALP!: I dropped the bass?) 20:54, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Cecil Thomas (sculptor)

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War memorials

Hey Harry, many thanks for your work on war memorials. I noticed several of your edits and new articles popping up in various places. I'll try and add some additional material from the books I have when I have time. Good to see some more people working on this topic! Carcharoth (talk) 09:25, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

Thanks Carcharoth, great to hear from you! I've long found war memorials to be fascinating, in a horrifically tragic sort of way (it's actually very upsetting to stand at a memorial in a small village and realise there are more names on the memorial than houses in the village). I bought a copy of Lutyens and the Great War at the end of last year and since then I've been slowly working my way to creating articles on all his war memorials, though I sort of fell down the rabbit hole in Richmond an ended up creating articles on various other things. It always amazes me how many articles we still don't have, even though we have five million of them already! HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 15:37, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

Good work! And reminded me of a proposed contest/editathon Awaken the Dragon focussing on adding to/improving articles about Wales. You might be interested in listing (or creating) articles for war memorials in Wales. A very brief bit of research resulted in this document from Cadw which you may find interesting/useful. Cheers Robevans123 (talk) 16:03, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

I've seen it. I've also seen the "Awaken the Dragon" proposal—I've been drafting a couple of grant requests myself. ;) There is one Lutyens memorial in Wales, at Maindy Barracks in Cardiff, and I know there are lots of other interesting memorials. We could perhaps find a way to tie the two projects together and maybe involve Cadw. Are Cadw's listing available online like Historic England's? I can't find them anywhere obvious, which would be a stumbling block when it came to writing articles. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 18:31, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

Cadw's listings are nowhere near as accessible as Historic England's - I've nagged them once or twice... Try this search. It doesn't seem to be possible to narrow the search to scheduled monuments or listed buildings of different grades... They are in the process of getting more digitised and online. I do have downloads of their databases and also know how to search through the various (4) archaeological trusts in Wales, and the council listings for listed buildings. Give me a few days and I should be able to create a list with links to the various listings and also sortable by type of grading/protection. It would be great if the Military history project could get involved. The "Awaken the Dragon" project coincides with WikiWomen's History Month, and is planned to give special consideration to articles improved or created in relation to that. Robevans123 (talk) 19:16, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Bromhead Memorial

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Legit to remove IP whois template?

Hi HJ, this guy keeps removing {{Whois}} from his talk page, which I was under the impression was not permissible, but after I warned him and he asked, "why not?", I have to admit, I'm confused myself. Any thoughts? I don't see anything at WP:TPG. Thanks, Cyphoidbomb (talk) 16:35, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

I'd be inclined to leave it. The template doesn't tell us much and the information can easily be found by running the WHOIS query again. That might not be what the policy says, but in my experience the policies on talk pages rarely take account of what happens at the coal face. Besides, anything for a quiet life! ;) HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 17:15, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

I guess I was trying to figure out what the policy actually says about this. I dunno that I'm any closer to that. :/ Cyphoidbomb (talk) 15:32, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Devon County War Memorial

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:01, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Grade I listed war memorials in England

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Link Smurf

Thanks for helping clean up after Link Smurf. He is approaching his second anniversary of being a sockmaster, so his activity has ratcheted up. I'm sure you and I would rather be doing other things, but such is the wikilife. –Fredddie™ 01:49, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

+1 Yes, your actions are much appreciated. Imzadi 1979 → 01:52, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

You're both more than welcome. I've only protected the articles for a week, but we can extend that if necessary. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 01:55, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

Blocking of Bank of America IPs

Dear Harry,

I am an employee of Bank of America, and a long-time reader, donor and "anonymous" (though I prefer saying "unregistered") editor of Wikipedia. I only use a registered account when I need to upload images or other restricted access. Out of choice.

The company I work for is fairly big (200,000 employees), but it uses a very limited number of public proxy IP addresses, which are shared among all employees and consultants when they access the web from their desks. These addresses are periodically (and apparently randomly) reallocated globally throughout the firm. Currently my workstation is assigned the IP address 171.159.64.10, which is simultaneously assigned to very many other colleagues, I estimate in the hundreds or thousands.

This means that our collective unregistered contributions over time appear, externally, schizophrenic in their quality, swinging rapidly from very good to very bad. This situation exposes our IP accounts to long-term blocks. The above IP has been blocked from unregistered editing (and account creation) for almost 3 years, following an episode of content removal. As I rotate addresses periodically, I have seen many such examples of Wikipedia blocks from within my company, and in fact so far I've only come across one address that was not blocked, out of about 10 I checked.

I know, I know. I can create an account from home and use it at work. But this is missing the point. I am not raising this only because I want to edit Wikipedia from work. I am raising this because I don't want Wikipedia to miss out on good contributions from other colleagues - or indeed from users in other big organizations with a similar external IP address policy. I like to think that Bank of America attracts people who have something to contribute to this project, and the history of our unregistered contributions seems to confirm that. Obviously, as can also be seen from the history, it has its share of bad apples, too.

However, much in the same way Wikipedia administrators shouldn't block the IP address of an entire country for extended periods of time, wouldn't that apply to Bank of America's widely shared IP addresses as well? Shouldn't our IP user pages also carry a similar warning to administrators, to prevent this from happening again and again?

I welcome your thoughts. Disclaimer: I am writing to you on a personal, unofficial basis, and my views do not represent the views of the organization I work for.

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia and your consideration to my concerns. Kind regards. 80.189.23.110 (talk) 20:27, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

A pie for you!

Thank you for your fast action. GABHello! 01:52, 6 February 2016 (UTC)

And thank you for yours. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 01:56, 6 February 2016 (UTC)

Frightening and disgusting that this sort of thing can -- and does -- happen. I'm about 80% sure that they're probably a sock of some LTA; if not, it's just as scary thinking that some random vandal managed to find this. GAB^Hello! 02:18, 6 February 2016 (UTC)

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Interstate highway protection

Were there some public reports related to the protection of articles in Category:Interstate Highway System? If not, that's OK. I was just wondering where the reports that led to the protection were. --Closeapple (talk) 13:01, 6 February 2016 (UTC)

There's some background at the admins' noticeboard, or you could look through the histories of some of the articles. There was a vandal rapidly moving between accounts and IP addresses to the point that blocking wasn't having any effect. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 16:34, 6 February 2016 (UTC)

Mells War Memorial

Thanks for your work on Mells War Memorial. Have you seen this? any truth re " figure of St Michael taken from Henry VII’s chapel in Westminster Abbey" if so worth a mention. This and this claim it is a figure of St George.— Rod ^talk 21:12, 7 February 2016 (UTC)

This book (no page number but 5 of 6 if you search for "Mells War Memorial") says "copied from a statue in the chapel of Henry VII in Westminster Abbey".— Rod ^talk 21:35, 7 February 2016 (UTC)

Interesting. I'm as good as certain it's George and not Michael; both fought dragons, but the slaying of the dragon is more commonly associated with George and the latter is the patron saint of England, so would make more sense for a war memorial. Skelton says it's George and he's the expert (Historic England agree with him); it's one of three statues of St George by Lutyens (the others are Fordham and Hove). As for Westminster Abbey, I don't know. It's not mentioned by Skelton or Historic England; I think I'd want a better source or at least more detail before incorporating something like that into the article—it could be a rumour or a misunderstanding. Even if it's false, the origins of the rumour are probably interesting (I'm reminded of the rumour that St George was born at Caludon Castle in Coventry; totally false, but made up by a king—Henry VII I think—in an effort to spark a wave of patriotism). The only way to get to the bottom of it probably involves trawling through local records. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 23:29, 7 February 2016 (UTC)

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You owe me a penny! :-)

Hi Harry, I wrote to you a few days ago, but the conversation ended up being archived. That's OK. FYI, I have raised it at WP:ANI. I hope you can take part of the discussion. Thanks.

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Blocking_of_Bank_of_America_IPs.The discussion is about the topic Blocking of Bank of America IPs. Thank you.

80.189.23.110 (talk) 07:38, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

user:169.244.26.158

I am going to recommend that you change the block setting for user:169.244.26.158 so he cannot create accounts during his block. CLCStudent (talk) 16:19, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

And I'm going to respectfully decline to follow your recommendation. The IP address belongs to a school and is probably shared by dozens or even hundreds of computers and hundreds if not thousands of students, which of course means we can't tell which editor is which. If they want to create accounts and edit that way, they're welcome to. If those accounts aren't used constructively, it's trivial to block them (which will also autoblock the IP address for a few days, and if we get lots of problem with account created from the same IP address it's easy enough for a checkuser to verify that and modify the block. But that doesn't happen very often; I've blocked thousands of school IP addresses and I've never come across something like that happening. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 17:06, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

Quinn

Is there some reason you skipped the step of WP:RAAA where it says to have "a brief discussion with the administrator whose action is challenged" before reversing any administrative action? In any case, my rationale for revdelling that diff was that saying she was accused of trading sexual favors for favorable coverage, without immediately making clear that the accusations are false, is itself suggestive that the accusations have some basis of truth behind them, which is grossly defamatory. —David Eppstein (talk) 01:02, 10 February 2016 (UTC)

Sorry but I just don't buy that argument, and I've never seen it applied anywhere else outside the gamergate articles. The accusations are defamatory, and I've oversighted edits that implied they were true in the past, but it's not defamatory to state that the accusation was made. Yes, the article should state that the accusations were bollocks because that's what the sources say, and edits that remove the word "falsely" should be reverted, but the removal of that one word doesn't somehow make that version of the article "grossly offensive, insulting, or degrading, which is the criterion you cited. Revdel is massively overused as it is, but if we start deleting every version of an article that omits a "falsely" or an "allegedly" we'll never stop. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 17:10, 10 February 2016 (UTC)

Your rationale for creating extra work for yourself by un-revdelling something is that...revdelling things like that would be too much work? Unbelievable. And not even an acknowledgement let alone an apology for your failure to consult. I continue to be disappointed in you. —David Eppstein (talk) 17:22, 10 February 2016 (UTC)

No, my rationale is that it didn't meet the criteria and that extending the criteria to cover the removal of the word "falsely" would create an absurd workload for no benefit. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 20:47, 10 February 2016 (UTC)

Would an edit that stated that a specific Wikipedian had been accused of being a prostitute be subject to revdel? If so, what is the rationale for affording greater protection to our editors than to our victims? MarkBernstein (talk) 19:48, 10 February 2016 (UTC)

Something to the effect of "XYZ is a prostitute" *might* be revdel'd or oversighted depending on the context. If XYZ had been accused of being a prostitute and this had been a matter of significant discussion in the media, then the statement "XYZ has been accused of being a prostitute" would not meet the criteria for either revdel or oversight. Whether the person being accused was a Wikipedian or an article subject or a third party would have little to do with it. False accusations of a crime or sexual promiscuity in Wikipedia's voice ("XYZ is") are routinely oversighted. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 20:47, 10 February 2016 (UTC)

Anita Sarkeesian

A brand-new editor was making changes to the Sarkeesian article and they should be notified of something, not sure what. The 500/30 rule apples only to Gamergate controversy itself, right? (and its talk page). The 500/30 and the 1RR are imposed as page-level discretionary sanctions. I assume that Anita Sarkeesian is under discretionary sanctions as part of the Gamergate topic, though not under 1RR. It has no talk page banner at present that would connect it to the Gamergate decision. Perhaps you have an opinion on how to label that article. Thanks, EdJohnston (talk) 20:32, 10 February 2016 (UTC)

I've previously let that editor know about the existence of the sanctions. The page itself does have a BLP banner, it could be updated to the GG one to make it more explicit. Also, the 500/30 restriction applies to the pages matched by Special:AbuseFilter/698, currently in the GG topic space that's just Gamergate controversy and it's talk page. — Strongjam (talk) 20:48, 10 February 2016 (UTC)

I think it's just the standard discretionary sanctions notification that's applicable. And obviously if they continue to edit problematically after that they can be topic-banned, blocked, or whatever else as appropriate. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 20:54, 10 February 2016 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Norwich War Memorial

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Uppercase for Grade or not?

You reverted my edit on Spalding War Memorial; I was following advice here on WikiProject Architecture that Grade is preferred to grade (when referring to listed buildings). Nedrutland (talk) 23:54, 10 February 2016 (UTC)

@Nedrutland: Interesting. I'm used to military history articles where only titles are treated as proper nouns (which leads to things like "Major General Joe Bloggs was a major general"). I've not come across "grade" being capitalised before, and it would seem odd to capitalise "Grade" but not "Listed Building". I know Historic England treat it as a proper noun, but companies and organisations often treat their own terms as proper nouns (try reading a contract and spotting every use of "the Company" or similar!). Still, it's not a fundamental issue. I guess it'll come up at FAC if any of these articles get that far (I need to get hold of more books first), and somebody might insist on an RfC about it, but until then I suppose it doesn't really matter. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 13:36, 12 February 2016 (UTC)

Omayra Sánchez

Could you at least protect Omayra Sánchez. 2602:306:3357:BA0:684B:B0A7:A436:5BE9 (talk) 22:25, 12 February 2016 (UTC)

That I can do. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 22:28, 12 February 2016 (UTC)

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Admin for Editathon at University of Edinburgh

Hi Harry, how goes things? We met briefly at the Training Day on 8th-9th January at WMUK. Just wondered if you would be open to acting as admin for a History of Medicine editathon event I'm hosting at the University of Edinburgh Tuesday to Thursday this week or be able to suggest someone else who might like to help in this regard? Just looking to make sure unnecessary deletions/reversions of articles don't take place so newbie articles can have best chance of life. Let me know anyway Cheers Stinglehammer (talk) 19:41, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

I should be about for most of that time from about mid afternoon tomorrow but not necessarily in front of my watchlist. Drop me an email and I'll send you my mobile number (or WMUK have it; you can ask Richard N). Whisky drinker | HJ's sock 23:25, 15 February 2016 (UTC)