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Fiddled. James F. (talk) 15:22, 18 April 2013 (UTC)

Dr. Freud will see you now

..it's actually "Mr. Hitler", not "Mrs." but I don't know how to move a complete page. Regards, NickS (talk) 13:38, 18 April 2013 (UTC)

Replied there. James F. (talk)`

The BBC Radio 4 website that the article links to says "Mr." as do various reviews and blogs (New Statesman 9 April 2007, Daily Mail 30 March 2007, Medical Humanities blog 30 March 2007, The Stage 4th April 2007). However, the Marks & Gran website marksandgran.com says "Mrs." and I think one has to assume that's authoritative, so please accept my apologies. It's always possible someone at the BBC made a mistake when listing it in the Radio Times. NickS (talk) 14:36, 23 April 2013 (UTC)

OK. :-) James F. (talk) 18:06, 25 April 2013 (UTC)

Doubled entry

Hello! Could you please delete this entry as a copy of this one? Thanks. ;) --Lucas (talk) 10:07, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

Done! You can ask there instead, you know. :-) James F. (talk) 18:28, 25 April 2013 (UTC)

Thanks ;). Next time I will! --Lucas (talk) 17:31, 26 April 2013 (UTC)

FYI

I noticed that Tonwil61 (talk · contribs) has been editing the user page of Lukwil96 (talk · contribs), an account you CU blocked. Perhaps another sock? -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 21:29, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

Wiknic 2013

Wiknic 2013
Sunday, June 23rd · 12:34pm · Lake Merritt, Oakland
Theme: Hyperlocal list-making

Lake Merritt Wild Duck Refuge (Oakland, CA)

This year's 2013 SF Wiknik will be held at Lake Merritt, next to Children's Fairyland in Oakland. This event will be co-attended by people from the hyperlocal Oakland Wiki. May crosspollination of ideas and merriment abound!

Location and Directions

• Location: The grassy area due south of Children's Fairyland (here) (Oakland Wiki)
  • Nearest BART: 19th Street
  • Nearest bus lines: NL/12/72
  • Street parking abounds

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You're invited...

to two upcoming Bay Area events:

• Maker Faire 2013, Sat/Sun May 18-19, San Mateo -- there will have a booth about Wikimedia, and we need volunteers to talk to the public and ideas for the booth -- see the wiki page to sign up!
• Edit-a-Thon 5, Sat May 25, 10-2pm, WMF offices in San Francisco -- this will be a casual edit-a-thon open to both experienced and new editors alike! Please sign up if on the wiki page if you can make it so we know how much food to get.

I hope you can join us at one or both! -- phoebe / (talk to me) 20:20, 12 May 2013 (UTC)

@Phoebe: Thank you Phoebe for the invitations; I'm afraid I won't be able to do either of them (boo), but I hope next time I can! James F. (talk) 00:20, 13 May 2013 (UTC)

boo indeed! What is this "doing other things" business? Not allowed! Ah well, next time. (Also, notifications & the ping template works like a charm -- nice!) -- phoebe / (talk to me) 17:19, 13 May 2013 (UTC)

@Phoebe: Indeed! Really love the feature. :-) Sorry I'm busy that day. James F. (talk) 19:19, 13 May 2013 (UTC)

Open Government License

James,

Are all MoD works under the OGL?, and can you provide evidence that'll satisfy some people on Commons, an email to OTRS or a public webpage?

A lot of photos by this and other agencies (including some you uploaded) have been deleted since TNA's website isn't crystal clear, and there's currently this deletion request. —innotata 15:07, 12 June 2013 (UTC)

Help....

Hey Jdforrester. Thanks for the help. I was wondering if you didn't mind me poking you about what you did, and how you did it, if I need to ask? As you can imagine, those of us in the UK politics bit of Wikipedia have a LOT of these to replicate so I'd like to know how to learn! doktorb _words^deeds 14:57, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

@Doktorbuk: No problem; I'm afraid I couldn't work out what was causing the issue at the time - it seemed to be an issue with how the parameters were defined, and editing the parameters fixed it - but (with my other hat) I'll be looking into this and making VisualEditor better. Sorry! James F. (talk) 15:44, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Hey no problem User:Jdforrester, I'm not one of the "pitchfork brigade" :). There's so many templates with so many rules, it's no surprise that there's issues and problems. I started to "get" what was wrong but it just wasn't quite working for me. Hopefully no MP will fall under a bus or the like in the next few months so we can work on what's wrong without an election deadline coming :) Take care, doktorb _words^deeds 19:18, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

NYC Wiki-Picnic: Saturday June 22

	Great American Wiknic NYC at Prospect Park
	You are invited to the Great American Wiknic NYC in Brooklyn's green and lovely Prospect Park, on this Saturday June 22! We would love to see you there, so sign up and bring something fun for the potluck :) -- User:Pharos (talk)

URGENT DELETION MESSAGE

DEAR ADMINISTRATOR,

I request that my account be deleted with immediate effect, and that all my edits in the past, and past edit histories, be permanently removed from public viewing. Deletion of my account, City of Lukington, would be immensely appreciated.

I hope that this reaches you soon and that you are able to act upon my request.

Yours sincerely, Unknown user (formerly City of Lukington) — Preceding unsigned comment added by City of Lukington (talk • contribs) 20:37, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

Dealt with by other users, seemingly. James F. (talk) 01:00, 26 July 2013 (UTC)

Manchester meetup

Hi James, because your name is on this notification list, I'm just letting you know that there will be a Manchester Wikimeet taking place on 25 August. Perhaps we'll see you there? Cheers, Bazonka (talk) 21:57, 6 August 2013 (UTC)

VE

I'm sorry for the whole VE thing, after thinking through the talk and the answers to the questions (which were really good) ... well, the more I think about it, the stupider I feel...

I'm sorry. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 17:00, 9 August 2013 (UTC)

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St Paul's School, London

Yo JD, is it true you is like really well educated? Because I read a lot about St Paul's School, London and it sounds like super clever and I would never have a chance to ever step foot in the place, but I thought it would be cool to at least meet an Old Pauline one day because kid's from the area that I grew up in very rarely come into contact with people from that kind of background. Anyway it's funny how the school looks ugly from the outside but in fact contains so many geniuses who I assume to be much less snobby than Eton and Harrow for example. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.152.71.113 (talk) 15:26, 19 November 2013 (UTC)

You're invited: Art & Feminism Edit-a-thon

Art & Feminism Edit-a-Thon - You are invited!

File:Csaky madonna.jpg

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You're invited! WikiWomen's Edit-a-thon at the University of California, Berkeley

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Bah, fixed. James F. (talk) 01:08, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

Help

please can you help me making a side bar info-box? like the one in this site https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H:IB Thanks in advance. — Preceding unsigned comment added by AnthonyNuarin (talk • contribs) 13:50, 1 June 2014 (UTC)

@AnthonyNuarin: Hey, those are put in using Templates. You can read some information about them at Help:Template. You will need to pick the right template, which depends what kind of article you're writing. Whichh article are you trying to edit? Also, you can sign off your comments with four ~s like ~~~~. James F. (talk) 17:00, 1 June 2014 (UTC)

@Jdforrester: I'm trying to edit this [1] to have a sidebar like this [2]. It is a school BTW. and I'm not yet done with it. Thanks for replies! AnthonyNuarin (talk) 12:03, 4 June 2014 (UTC)AnthonyNuarin

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Hey, fixed, thanks. James F. (talk) 22:00, 13 June 2014 (UTC)

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Hey, fixed, thanks. James F. (talk) 22:00, 13 June 2014 (UTC)

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Sunday July 6: WikNYC Picnic

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Geograph US?

I saw your mention of Geograph in Wikipedia Weekly #98. Are you aware of any discussion about doing something similar in the US?   Mandruss |talk  13:51, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

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You're invited! Litquake Edit-a-thon in San Francisco

You are invited! → Litquake Edit-a-thon → See you there!

In the area? You're invited to    San Francisco Meetup # 22   Date: October 11, 2014   Time: 1-5 pm   Place: 149 New Montgomery Street, 6th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94105   prev: Meetup 21 - next: Meetup 23 | All SF meetups & events The Edit-a-thon will occur in parallel with Litquake, the San Francisco Bay Area's annual literature festival. Writers from all over the Bay Area and the world will be in town during the nine day festival, so the timing is just right for us to meetup and create/translate/expand/improve articles about literature and writers. All levels of Wikipedia editing experience are welcome. This event will include new editor training. RSVP →here←. --Rosiestep (talk) 04:16, 27 September 2014 (UTC)

Oversight discussion

User:Mike V says that there is an ongoing oversight discussion about the WP:ANI#Tutelary situation. When it has reached consensus, could you please inform me what it is? See, WP:OUTING has a rather long list of information considered personal, none of which I linked to: "legal name, date of birth, identification numbers, home or workplace address, job title and work organisation, telephone number, email address, or other contact information". If it is intended to include "any alternate accounts on any other web site", it would be good if that were added, as that is rather more common than many of the other entries, don't you agree? --GRuban (talk) 20:00, 12 September 2014 (UTC)

You also probably want to oversight a link in [[3]]; unlike my post, that does link directly to something giving names and places of study. --GRuban (talk) 00:05, 13 September 2014 (UTC)

So? It's been a while. What is the verdict? What part of my post was in violation of WP:OUTING? --GRuban (talk) 13:52, 24 September 2014 (UTC)

I'm sorry, but as it seems you're not active, I think I will need to ask WP:ANI. --GRuban (talk) 13:45, 29 September 2014 (UTC)

@GRuban: Hey, sorry I didn't see your messages. Did you get a response to your satisfaction? James F. (talk) 16:10, 3 October 2014 (UTC)

No. User:Callanecc deleted my post on WP:ANI immediately and told me, in email, to mail functionaries-en. But didn't answer my question. Functionaries-en (in the person of User:Risker) acknowledged receiving my email, but didn't actually answer my question either. So it's been three weeks of asking you and a bit under a week of asking someone else. :-( --GRuban (talk) 15:28, 5 October 2014 (UTC)

Got a response from User:NativeForeigner; he says it was because my conclusion was reached using off-wiki information. But that doesn't make sense, since surely we're allowed to do that, otherwise we couldn't ever write anything on the wiki. Sigh. Could you please explain your reasoning for oversighting my post? If it violated WP:OUTING, in what way? Is linking to any information about any user a violation? If so, can WP:OUTING say that, instead of saying "personal information" and giving a list, implying that some non-personal information is all right to link to? --GRuban (talk) 14:21, 7 October 2014 (UTC)

Check your email shortly. A conclusive email should be incoming in the next hour or so, I've been in the midst of moving. (Although do feel free to provide your own rationale James) NativeForeigner ^Talk 17:02, 7 October 2014 (UTC)

Conclusive email apparently is, yes, it is intended to include "any alternate accounts on any other web site". Will wait for confirmation, then will change WP:OUTING. --GRuban (talk) 17:57, 7 October 2014 (UTC)

Thursday December 4: NYC Wiki-Salon and Skill Share

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Wikimedia NYC Meetup- "Queens Open History Edit-a-Thon" at Queens Library! Friday December 6

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NZL/NZL-cats Templates

Thank you for adding MNZGS to the NZL [Post-nominals template]. Could you

1. Update the NZL-cats template and
2. Documentation for both templates?
3. Are there any other types of membership that need to be added such as Fellow of the society? (I'm assuming FRGS is a fellow of the (UK based) Royal Geographical Society and not the NZGS).

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Sinesurfer (talk • contribs) 18:57, 1 January 2015‎ (UTC)

@Sinesurfer: Hey there. I'm afraid I'm not a complete expert on this system (I just use it), and yeah, it really does need some documentation. I'll try to write something up. Ultimately it's somewhat flawed because as in this case people can get PNLs from multiple Commonwealth countries, like FRGS alongside other, domestic institutions. Maybe I should try to change it to "inherit" from the UK if it doesn't find it locally? Could be tricky… James F. (talk) 09:36, 4 January 2015 (UTC)

Hi. Multiple country post-noms can be rendered by using the post-noms template multiple times for each country. The template was originally written by a Canadian gent so when the country parameter is not defined the template defaults to Canada (which is of course ok). If you ever find post-noms OM render as The Order of Manitoba instead of The Order Merit, this is why. Changing the default behaviour now would be problematic where Canadian post-noms use the same index as the UK template but point to different awards/honours etc. The country parameter would need to be added to every use of conflicting post-noms in the CAN/CAN-cats templates.

The professional societies can be confusing, the templates for the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand accommodate their local society and the UK society (for the different professions).

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Saturday February 7 in NYC: Black Life Matters Editathon

Saturday February 7 in NYC: Black Life Matters Editathon

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ArtAndFeminism (3/7) and International Women's Day (3/8)!

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Sunday March 22: Wikipedia Day NYC Celebration and Mini-Conference

Sunday March 22: Wikipedia Day NYC 2015

You are invited to join us at Barnard College for Wikipedia Day NYC 2015, a Wikipedia celebration and mini-conference for the project's 14th birthday. In addition to the party, the event will be a participatory unconference, with plenary panels, lightning talks, and of course open space sessions. We also hope for the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects. Sunday March 22 Wikipedia Day NYC 2015 (RSVP on-wiki or at bit.ly/wikidaybarnard). 10:00pm - 9:00 pm at Barnard College, 3009 Broadway, by W 118th St We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Pharos (talk) 21:58, 9 March 2015 (UTC)

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Next meetups in North England

Hello. Would you be interested in attending one of the next wikimeets in the north of England? They will take place in:

• Leeds on 12th April 2015
• Manchester on 26th April 2015
• Liverpool on 24th May 2015

If you can make them, please sign up on the relevant wikimeet page!

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Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 20:21, 28 March 2015 (UTC)

Saturday: NYC Art And Feminism Wikipedia Editathon

Please join Wikipedia "Art and Feminism Editathon" @ Eyebeam on Saturday February 1, 2014, an event aimed at collaboratively expanding Wikipedia articles covering Art and Feminism, and the biographies of women artists! There are also regional events that day in Brooklyn, Westchester County, and the Hudson Valley. --Pharos (talk)

Upcoming Saturday events - March 1: Harlem History Editathon and March 8: NYU Law Editathon

Upcoming Saturday events - March 1: Harlem History Editathon and March 8: NYU Law Editathon

You are invited to join upcoming Wikipedia "Editathons", where both experienced and new Wikipedia editors will collaboratively improve articles on a selected theme, on the following two Saturdays in March: Saturday March 1: Harlem History Editathon (RSVP), focusing on Harlem history, landmarks and biographies Saturday March 8: NYU Law Editathon (RSVP), focusing on innovation law and intellectual property (with social dinner afterward) I hope to see you there! Pharos (talk)

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April 29: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

Wednesday April 29, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our inaugural evening "WikiWednesday" salon and knowledge-sharing workshop by 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan. We also hope for the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects. We will also follow up on plans for recent and upcoming editathons, and other outreach activities. After the main meeting, pizza and refreshments and video games in the gallery! Wednesday April 29 WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC (RSVP on-wiki or at meetup.com). 7:00pm - 9:00 pm at Babycastles, 137 West 14th Street Featuring a keynote talk this month on Lady Librarians & Feminist Epistemologies! We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Pharos (talk) 18:28, 14 April 2015 (UTC)

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