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DYK nomination of Oakwood (HM Prison)

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Dan Friel

Hi, just letting you know I have replied to your comment at Template:Did you know nominations/Dan Friel. Cheers, BigDom 22:54, 5 January 2012 (UTC)

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GA review of Sealyham Terrier

Hi,

I've begun a review of your GAN at Talk:Sealyham Terrier/GA1. The article needs copy editing for prose problems. Meanwhile I've put the article on hold. I'll finish the review once there is progress on the copy editing front. Please feel free to contact me with questions or concerns.

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MathewTownsend (talk) 22:28, 7 January 2012 (UTC)

  • I have completed the review. Basic problem is one of breadth which I'm sure you can address easily. A few prose problems remain. The article is close to passing. It's a nice little article. Regards, MathewTownsend (talk) 18:46, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
  • ok, I answered my own question on Talk:Sealyham Terrier/GA1 and made the change to the lede I proposed and a few more copy edits. If you have no objections to the changes I made, let me know and I will pass the articles. Alternatively, change it the way you think it should be and I will pass it. It this point I think it is a fine article. Regards, MathewTownsend (talk) 21:11, 8 January 2012 (UTC)

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DYK for Ratonero Valenciano

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DYK nomination of Uggie

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A brownie for you!

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DYK for Set in Stone (novel)

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DYK nomination of Billy Barnes (footballer)

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Confused about this...

I saw this on my latest DYK:

Nominator has less than 5 DYK credits

What's is this? I'm not familiar with it. Maury Markowitz (talk) 16:51, 20 January 2012 (UTC)

Oh right, of course. I am aware of this, but must have forgotten to return to the nom! Oh well, all's well that ends well. Maury Markowitz (talk) 18:04, 20 January 2012 (UTC)

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DYK: Cyclone Susan

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DYK for List of Queens Park Rangers F.C. seasons

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DYK for HMS Holland 5

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Keep It Together

You can check it now. I think it moved pass. — Legolas (talk2me) 12:56, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

How about now? I can't get that script to wrok for me, even after saving it in my monobook.js :( — Legolas (talk2me) 13:22, 25 January 2012 (UTC)
Its difficult. Hope its done now. I will kill myself if its missing by 5-10 characters, lol. — Legolas (talk2me) 13:36, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

Saluki

The traits section is empty, can you fill it up or remove it please? Puffin Let's talk! 17:06, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

DYK nomination of HMS Telemachus (P321)

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List of Crufts best in show winners

Could you have a look at the 'notes' section of the Crufts best in show winners page, please? Under note F it reads: F ^^^^^^^^ The abbreviation SH stands for Senior Hunter, a title awarded for performance by gundogs in hunt tests.

However, if this note refers to the dogs with the title Sh Ch, it is incorrect. Basically, in the UK, gundogs and border collies have the title Sh Ch (abbreviation for Show Champion) if the dog has been awarded three challenge certificates under three different judges. The dog may only gain a full title (i.e Ch) once it also achieves an award in field trials (Gundogs) or working trials (border collies). The full explanation is given on this link http://www.thekennelclub.org.uk/download/7464/A3370-Regs-K.pdf

Sagaciousphil (talk) 11:40, 27 January 2012 (UTC)

I don't know if you feel it might be relevant to include some further information about the Sh Ch title? It's difficult to find web links as it was initiated by the KC in 1958. It is mentioned on this web page http://www.thelabradorretrieverclub.com/Articles/Coode-Ch&ShChampions.htm
The following is a quote from the book 'British Gordon Setter Champions 1978-93' by Bert & Mary Dyde, page 12
'In 1958, after much discussion and argument, the Kennel Club initiated the title of Show Champion, the requirement being the winning of three Challenge Certificates under three different judges. Prior to that, no matter how many Challenge Certificates a dog may have amassed, no title was given until that dog had passed the 'qualifier', and then the magic title of Champion was awarded. On 11th November 1958, the General Committee of the Kennel Club ruled that the amendment could be applied retrospectively so that any triple Challenge certificate winner since 19th December 1900, when the Challenge certificate was introduced, was entitled to be described as a Show Champion.'
Sorry, I don't really know how to make changes properly myself!

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DYK for Billy Barnes (footballer)

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DYK QPQ

I've added reviewer credits for both of my current nominations. Toa Nidhiki05 18:27, 30 January 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Rapid Ranger

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WikiCup 2012 January newsletter

 

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Caesar (dog)

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DYK for Jane Levy

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DYK for HMS Telemachus (P321)

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DYK question

Hello Miyagawa, you recently rejected my DYK nomination for Super Bowl XLVI, located at Template:Did you know nominations/Super Bowl XLVI. I'm just wondering why it was rejected. User:Allen3 said that appeared WP:ITN the last couple of days. I'm new to the DYK nomination process and would be great to see what I did wrong. Thanks. -- Luke (Talk) 20:24, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for such a quick response! -- Luke (Talk) 20:31, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

DYK problem

A user just re-opened Template:Did you know nominations/Hill Cumorah Pageant without following proper protocol. —Eustress talk 23:46, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Caesar (dog)

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DYK hook

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DYK for Captain America in: The Doom Tube of Dr. Megalomann

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DYK for 1967 Football League Cup Final

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DYK for Mark Lazarus

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QPR and the Amateur Cup

Hi there

I had a look in the book and couldn't find QPR mentioned at all in any season - possibly this may be because they got knocked out in the qualifying rounds. Despite what the book's called, it only actually features results for the rounds proper. I know there's another, more recent, book out with a similar title which by all accounts does include the qualifying rounds, maybe that's the one you need to look out for......?

Sorry I couldn't be of more assistance...... -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 18:07, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

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DYK for Boxwood Barkentine

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Since you promoted a DYK of mine, do you know...

...if lists can be nominated for DYK? --Sp33dyphil ©hatontributions 06:51, 13 February 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply. I wasn't sure there was one, so I didn't nom List of Ohio class submarines for DYK two weeks back :( I'm glad lists are applicable, so thanks. (Can you do something about all the DYK notifications? There are so many of them on your talk page!). --Sp33dyphil ©hatontributions 09:09, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I forgot to add a picture to Template:Did_you_know_nominations/List_of_Sturgeon_class_submarines, is it too late to do so? --Sp33dyphil ©hatontributions 22:03, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
Thanks, pic added. --Sp33dyphil ©hatontributions 02:05, 25 February 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Susan (dog)

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DYK for Midkiff Seductive

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1967 Football League Cup Final

Just wanted to say great work on expanding 1967 Football League Cup Final, even if it is painful to read (the match result I mean, not your writing!). I will see if I can help out when I get a moment. --Jameboy (talk) 00:35, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Tom Kerridge

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DYK for The Hand and Flowers

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Robert E. Howard Museum

I had a quick question about the Template:Did you know nominations/Robert E. Howard Museum nomination, that I left on the page. Thanks --Mo Rock...Monstrous (leech44) 22:03, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Robert E. Howard Museum

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British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors

Added references, corrected reference form per your direction. Should be good to go. 7&6=thirteen () 11:18, 19 February 2012 (UTC)

Template:Did you know nominations/British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors 7&6=thirteen () 11:39, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
Thank you for your help. 7&6=thirteen () 12:41, 19 February 2012 (UTC)

DYK for White Heat (book)

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DYK for Brookesia micra

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DYK question

Is it mandatory for every article applying for DYK to have a five-fold expansion? ~*~AnkitBhatt~*~ 04:45, 20 February 2012 (UTC)

Oh, okay thanks a lot :D. ~*~AnkitBhatt~*~ 13:49, 20 February 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Statue of Nelson Mandela, Parliament Square

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DYK for Lucas Neff

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QPR seasons

Hello. Sorry to see you withdraw QPR seasons from FLC, but I do respect your commitment to getting it right. Don't know if you're aware of the London League section on nonleaguematters.net. Says QPR were founder members in 1896/7, dropped out mid-the following season, and then returned to a newly formed Premier League for first teams from 1901 to 1904.

And in case you haven't got the Amateur Cup result for 1896/97... They lost to Wandsworth in the 4th qualifying round after a replay: the first ref below is for the original match and confirms it was QR4, second ref gives detail of replay (goalless after normal time, 2–0 after extra time) but doesn't mention what round it was

  • "The Amateur Cup. Qualifying Competition. Fourth Round". Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper. London. 13 December 1896. p. 20.
  • "The English Amateur Cup". The Yorkshire Herald. 21 December 1896. p. 8.

Can't find any evidence of them entering the Amateur Cup after that season.

Hope this helps, cheers, Struway2 (talk) 10:36, 21 February 2012 (UTC)

Vandalism?

Re-adding the source link for the temperament info I posted on the Cockapoo wiki is vandalism? Yet the info stays...I don't get it. I am new here, trying to learn and contribute, but surely this is not vandalism. I believe it may be edit-warring, as I don't see why the cockapoocrazy.com link is different than all the other external links that are already unopposed in the same wiki page, but am unsure why it would be considered vandalism. I wanted to get involved here, and am well-versed in several knowledge areas including hybrid dogs, but it seems there is a lot of opposition to linking to external sources, which I thought was meant to be done when adding info. Anyways, the vandalism wiki page says: "Even if misguided, willfully against consensus, or disruptive, any good-faith effort to improve the encyclopedia is not vandalism. Edit warring over content is not vandalism. Careful consideration may be required to differentiate between edits that are beneficial, detrimental but well-intentioned, and vandalizing. Mislabelling good-faith edits as vandalism can be considered harmful." I thought it stayed within the good-faith edit lines, as it is relevant info, and I retrieved it from that source, which is my go-to source for info on that dog breed. Why is it vandalism? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Psychocy (talkcontribs) 21:24, 21 February 2012 (UTC)

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DYK for Brigitte (dog)

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Alternative text for hook

Hello there. Please notice that there's an alternative version that was approved by The Bushranger for Template:Did you know nominations/Aeroflot accidents and incidents in the 1980s, different from the one you used here. Regards.--Jetstreamer (talk) 23:28, 27 February 2012 (UTC)

English Setters

The English Setter has now been added to the Vulnerable Native Breeds List. I'm afraid I don't know how (or feel confident enough) to go about making the amendments to the various pages. Is it something you would look at doing? A link to a relevant article is: http://www.englishsetterassociation.co.uk/noticeboard.html . Sagaciousphil (talk) 11:33, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

DYK review note

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Re: DYK of Rated R: Remixed

This is not the hook that we decided on. This is. Why has it been changed? Aaron You Da One

WikiCup 2012 February newsletter

 

Round 1 is already over! The 64 highest scorers have progressed to round 2. Our highest scorer was   Grapple X (submissions), again thanks mostly to a swathe of good articles on The X-Files. In second place was   Tigerboy1966 (submissions), thanks an impressive list of did you knows about racehorses. Both scored over 400 points. Following behind with over 300 points were   Ruby2010 (submissions),   Cwmhiraeth (submissions),   Miyagawa (submissions) and   Casliber (submissions). February also saw the competition's first featured list: List of colleges and universities in North Dakota, from   Ruby2010 (submissions). At the other end of the scale, 11 points was enough to secure a place in this round, and some contestants with 10 points made it into the round on a tiebreaker. This is higher than the 8 points that were needed last year, but lower than the 20 points required the year before. The number of points required to progress to round 3 will be significantly higher.

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After you had moved this to a prep area, and then helped it be withdrawn back to the nominations page to get an image, and then have it wait for the better part of a week to be selected again, it seems a shame that it's the second item in Prep 3—the next set in line to be put in a queue—and not going to end up in the top spot of a set. Any chance of you pulling it to be the top spot in a different prep area, or did we all spend a lot of time to no purpose? BlueMoonset (talk) 00:16, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

PS: Please reply here rather than on my own talk page. Thanks! BlueMoonset (talk) 02:32, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

Sorry, by the time I'd seen this it had already made its way onto the front page in the second spot. Miyagawa (talk) 20:21, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
Not a problem. Thanks for the reply. I realized almost as soon as I'd written it that it was likely you'd signed off for the night. I did bring it up at the DYK talk page, but the response there was that there are more pictures than there are top slots, and then it was queued soon afterward on the front page. BlueMoonset (talk) 20:30, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Charles Cruft (showman)

  Hello! Your submission of Charles Cruft (showman) at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Ishtar456 (talk) 02:59, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

Do you want it moved to March 8, and do you want to re-word the hook? I think that you should state in the hook that he is the founder. It would be more interesting.--Ishtar456 (talk) 19:48, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Statue of Margaret Thatcher, Houses of Parliament

Casliber (talk · contribs) 00:08, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Palacegarden Malachy

Casliber (talk · contribs) 16:17, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

Template:Did you know nominations/Roger Bresnahan

Can you please take this DYK out of prep and put it in the special holding area? I had asked in there for it to be held for Opening Day (April 5), but I suppose that line got buried in there. – Muboshgu (talk) 20:42, 6 March 2012 (UTC)

Urgent

Gilles (stock character) is in queue 2, ready to be featured on the mainpage. Please remove it: after an editor raised a POV issue in the hook phrasing, I looked into the matter, and it turns out that we're about to publish someone's original research as a stated fact. See here.

Hope you don't mind my expediency, but this is a rather serious matter. Dahn (talk) 21:58, 6 March 2012 (UTC)

Oh, right, hadn't noticed we're both foot soldiers :). Thanks for the tip, I'll hold on to the hope that some admin will pick on the comments I left on talk. (Casliber seems to be inactive, and I don't know who else to contact directly in such little time.) What's more, I really have to sign out, where I'm at it's already tomorrow. Dahn (talk) 22:03, 6 March 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Clare Smyth

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DYK for Charles Cruft (showman)

Casliber (talk · contribs) 12:54, 11 March 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Gemma McCluskie

Hey, all i am not the official reviewer of your DYK nom, I have expanded it and edited it, so it is updated to recent events, aswell as DYK standards. Can I add myself to helping with the DYK nom? I have added myself, but if you feel it is innapropriate, then feel free to remove me. Once again, many thanks, and RIP Gemma! :'( MayhemMario 21:55, 11 March 2012 (UTC)

Sorry, I must have sounded rather rude. I did some copy editing to McCluskies article, so its looks good now. MayhemMario 16:22, 13 March 2012 (UTC)

Old Family Red Nose

Greetings! I just came across a dog stub that caught my eye and was wondering if you'd like to help me to improve it. You always have great resources, so I thought I'd share it with you! It's the Old Family Red Nose article. This group of dogs appears to be quite significant in shaping the American Pit Bull breed. Feel free to take a gander, I'm going to be looking for sources over the next few days myself :) cReep talk 04:30, 13 March 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Nathan Outlaw

Casliber (talk · contribs) 14:27, 13 March 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Restaurant Nathan Outlaw

Casliber (talk · contribs) 14:27, 13 March 2012 (UTC)

Critters who help ;-)

I see you are involved with WP:DOGS, and interested in article improvement, so you might be interested in some significant editing and discussion at Talk:Animal-assisted therapy. Essentially, there are about three POV-pushers there claiming that AAT is useless pseudoscience, (they also claim Acupuncture is pseudoscience) and on the other side, to be fair, the article itself is pretty weak, had some too-flowery POV in favor and it DOES need much improvement and citation to peer-reviewed works. But substituting one POV for another is not the solution I favor a fair and balanced treatment of AAT but don't have the time or energy to take this on, so am alerting those who might be interested to pop over and comment. Montanabw(talk) 17:21, 13 March 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Dinner by Heston Blumenthal

The DYK project (nominate) 23:24, 14 March 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Zentarr Elizabeth

The DYK project (nominate) 16:03, 17 March 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Gemma McCluskie

The DYK project (nominate) 08:33, 21 March 2012 (UTC)

ANI

Regarding this [1] see [Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Are the morons responsible for 'did you know' on the main page out of their f***ing minds?]. I am calling for those responsible to be blocked from any further interaction with the main page. AndyTheGrump (talk) 15:12, 21 March 2012 (UTC)

And see also Wikipedia_talk:Did_you_know#Gemma_McCluskie AndyTheGrump (talk) 15:47, 21 March 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Celebrity chef

Rschen7754 00:03, 23 March 2012 (UTC)

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Sausage rolls

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DYK for Marjorie Gestring

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We are over half way through the second round of this year's WikiCup and things are going well!   Grapple X (submissions), of Pool B, is our highest overall scorer thanks to his prolific writings on television and film. In second place is Pool H's   Cwmhiraeth (submissions), thanks primarily to work on biological articles, especially in marine biology and herpetology. Third place goes to Pool E's   Casliber (submissions), who also writes primarily on biology (including ornithology and botany) and has already submitted two featured articles this round. Of the 63 contestants remaining, 15 (just under a quarter) have over 100 points this round. However, 25 are yet to score. Please remember to update your submission pages promptly. 32 contestants, the top two from each pool and the 16 next-highest scorers, will advance to round 3.

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