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Ayscoghe Boucherett

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This is an excellent article! As you can see, I've moved your draft into article space. In future, just go ahead and create your articles directly as you did with Sir William Earle Welby, 1st Baronet. One thing I would suggest re the Sir William Earle Welby article is to check that it follows the article naming conventions (it may not and need to be moved). Just post a query at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Biography and someone there should be able to help. Also check that it's correctly linked in the succession templates, once the name is finalized. Best wishes, many thanks for your work, and welcome to Wikipedia! Voceditenore (talk) 17:42, 2 May 2014 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for getting back so quickly! Your comments are good to hear. I will check up on those details for Sir William and will, in future, put articles straight out onto the main space unless I have significant doubt about it. Thanks again, Noswall59 (talk) 18:06, 2 May 2014 (UTC)Reply

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For all your great contributions to Wikipedia's coverage of British political figures and all since joining Wikipedia two months ago! You're one of the best new editors I've ever seen and your work is very much appreciated. Voceditenore (talk) 15:26, 26 June 2014 (UTC)Reply
Thank you so much! That was such a pleasant surprise to log-in to, your comments are great to hear. Thanks again, Noswall59 (talk) 18:45, 27 June 2014 (UTC).Reply
I'd echo Voceditenore's comments - great work! Hchc2009 (talk) 17:25, 29 June 2014 (UTC)Reply
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Thomas Tyrwhitt-Drake

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Hi. Venn, the directory of Cambridge University alumni, has the son Edward born in 1832 rather than 1823, so I've amended accordingly: it also refers to him and his older brother as "Drake" rather than "Tyrwhitt-Drake" which means that Edward gets referred to in cricket directories (such as www.cricketarchive.com) as "E. T. Drake".<http://archive.org/stream/p2alumnicantabri02univuoft#page/334/mode/2up> I'll probably start an article on Edward in the next day or so (I'm gently working my way through old first-class cricketers) and will try to cross-ref properly. BTW, was one of TTD's offspring really called "Charles Diana" and was it really female? Thanks. Johnlp (talk) 10:23, 2 July 2014 (UTC)Reply

Hi. I've just checked de Ruvigny and you're right - I mistyped the year, so thanks for spotting that. As for Tyrwhitt-Drake and Drake, it seems to be a fuzzy area, most sources (including the History of Parliament's article for his father) state that he had legally changed his name to Tyrwhitt and then to Tyrwhitt Drake. In practice, I think they stuck with the Drake - I saw a photo of a sign with a message from Thomas Drake Tyrwhitt-Drake, which was signed "T.D.T. Drake". And, yes, I've just checked the Ruvigny and, according to that work, the daughter was called Charles Diana; Burke's Landed Gentry from 1965 calls her Charlotte Diana, however, and, having just done some primary research, I can see that she was called Charlotte in her marriage records; I think it's safe to change it to that, which I will do in a moment. Thanks, --Noswall59 (talk) 16:16, 2 July 2014 (UTC).Reply
Thank you for the cricket reference: I started the Edward article, but then got sidetracked (by work) and will not get back to it until tomorrow. But I'll certainly use some of that material. The contemporary quotes are very good. Johnlp (talk) 22:52, 3 July 2014 (UTC)Reply
I'm glad I could be of some help. Thanks, --Noswall59 (talk) 19:11, 4 July 2014 (UTC).Reply
Young master Edward turns out to have been quite a character: he finished seventh in the Grand National in 1860. Thanks for the pointers. Johnlp (talk) 22:34, 10 July 2014 (UTC)Reply
It's great to see how the article has grown in the last few weeks - it appears there was a lot more to him than initially met the eye; I've added it to my watch-list now. It's really good work, I'm glad I was helpful. Noswall59 (talk) 18:20, 11 July 2014 (UTC)Reply
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Very pleased indeed to see a new reviewer joining the ranks chez Margaret Bondfield. Welcome, Noswall, and I hope you will want to go on reviewing – it really is the lifeblood of the top-flight WP articles. Tim riley talk 16:07, 11 September 2014 (UTC)Reply

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List of Scheduled Monuments in Taunton Deane at FLC

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Hi, Thanks for your support of List of Scheduled Monuments in Bath and North East Somerset at FLC - it has now passed. If you have a minute to take a look at List of Scheduled Monuments in Taunton Deane which uses the same format I've just nominated it at Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Scheduled Monuments in Taunton Deane/archive1. Any comments would be appreciated. Thanks.— Rod talk 10:24, 15 November 2014 (UTC)Reply

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I saw your question on the Notability talk page... if you wish to write an article, and are not sure if the topic/subject is notable, my suggestion is to draft it in User Space (as a sub-page of your user page)... this will keep it from being deleted while you find sources and build it to a point where it would survive scrutiny. Then you can cut and paste it into main article space.
If you are unsure whether the topic of an article that has already been written is notable, first try posting your concerns on the article talk page... then, if no one responds to your concerns and improves the article after a reasonable amount of time, go to WP:AfD and suggest that the article be deleted. This thread of deletion often gets people focused on finding sources in order to "save" the article, and you can use those sources to improve it. Good Luck. Blueboar (talk) 16:46, 2 December 2014 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for your comments, BlueBoar. I may well take the article to AfD - it's a difficult one to call. Thanks again, --Noswall59 (talk) 17:10, 5 December 2014 (UTC).Reply

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Thanks for your comments and support at Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Scheduled Monuments in Taunton Deane/archive1. The FLC director has given me permission to open another FLC, using the same format etc at Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Scheduled Monuments in South Somerset/archive1 and I wondered if you would be kind enough to take a look at that one and let me have any comments?— Rod talk 14:43, 12 December 2014 (UTC)Reply

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Thanks for your helpful comments on previous nominations in this series. I've now nominated List of Scheduled Monuments in North Somerset at Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Scheduled Monuments in North Somerset/archive1 and would be grateful for any comments you might have. As you may know there is a discussion about the column widths etc on these lists at Wikipedia talk:Featured list candidates#Column widths in table layout. Thanks for any input.— Rod talk 21:23, 6 January 2015 (UTC)Reply

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I have oddles of Sleaford stuff in Land and People of Medieval Lincolnshire... Lincolnshire Towns and Industry (1700 - 1914)... Tudor Lincolnshire... and Lincolnshire Politics 1832 - 1835 (I see you have this)... that I will look at adding when it looks as if you have completed your task. You might have referenced some of this of course - bit of a headache to find out by working down your 400 cites :) It might be useful for layout, particularly for GA, if you have a look at structure per WP:UKTOWNS. Acabashi (talk) 21:00, 7 February 2015 (UTC)Reply

@Acabashi: Hi, I haven't used those sources (other than the Olney) book. I did look at one of the books in that series (Early Modern Lincolnshire) and found that there was relatively little mention of Sleaford other than in passing. Is there much that's missing from the works you mention? I do have access to all of them, if they are useful. I have largely finished editing the article (at least until my GAR begins)—my recent edits have all been relatively minor additions or grammatical tweaks; if there are any major omissions, then please do fill in the gaps :) I will take a look at the structure; I think it corresponds with most of the structure prescribed at that page, but personally, I consider it illogical to put history before geography, given that it seems more sensible to describe a place before its history. Anyway, I will look at it all properly later. Many thanks, —Noswall59 (talk) 01:50, 8 February 2015 (UTC).Reply
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Another list of Somerset scheduled monuments at FLC

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As you have previously commented on one or more of nominations of the lists of scheduled monuments in Somerset, I wondered if you would be kind enough to take a look at the List of scheduled monuments in Sedgemoor which is now nominated at Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of scheduled monuments in Sedgemoor/archive1?— Rod talk 21:16, 23 February 2015 (UTC)Reply

Can I ask a favour outside of that review? I think I've now got all the relevant entries in List of scheduled monuments in Mendip and List of scheduled monuments in West Somerset (they are big lists!). I'm trying to use your trick of copying them into excel; however it is putting each row in the wikitable into more than one row of the excel spreadsheet so I can't see the number of entries (tried various paste formats). I can't work out where I'm going wrong so could you kindly re-run your tests of whether the number of items in the tab;e matches the number in the lead & NHLE?— Rod talk 19:30, 1 March 2015 (UTC)Reply
Hi Rod, I will have a look at this and the FLC reply later today (i.e. Monday). Cheers, —Noswall59 (talk) 00:19, 2 March 2015 (UTC).Reply
@Rodw: Okay, I've just exported them again. I get 233 for Mendip (out of 234) and 199 for West Somerset (out of 202). So, there are only a few more to find. Sorry, —Noswall59 (talk) 12:09, 2 March 2015 (UTC).Reply
Thanks I will keep looking but can't find/think of a simple way to do an A-> Z to compare easily.— Rod talk 18:42, 2 March 2015 (UTC)Reply
Thanks to your help I have now found the missing one on Mendip and an anomaly on West Somerset where one site has two entries on NHLE; however I think there is still one missing on West Som despite having been through the list several times. Do you have any clever ideas about how I could identify it?— Rod talk 21:48, 4 March 2015 (UTC)Reply
@Rodw: Hi, I have copied the table and then also copied the search results from NHLE (which can also be pasted into Excel, and don't merge like the Wiki tables do). I have gone through and compared them, which was complicated by the merged cells from the wikitable. Anyway, the two entries which appear in the search results but not your table are:
  • Name: Group of round barrows See also SOMERSET 170, List entry Number: 1002626 [1]
  • Name: Bowl barrow on Longstone Hill, 270m north east of Bicknoller Post, List entry Number: 1014130 [2]
In the case of the first one, it might have been superseded by later entries, I don't know; and as for the second, its name is almost identical to another one, except this is North East, not NNE. Hopefully, these tables are complete now—I imagine you will be pleased to see the back of these lists! As always, they are a great addition and at least you will know that they are complete for FLC now. All the best, —Noswall59 (talk) 00:04, 5 March 2015 (UTC).Reply
Thanks for all your help on this (and support re Sedgemoor). 1002626 is already included however 1014130 was the one I had missed (because of the v similar titles). I will add this now & then be confident they are comprehensive. Once they get to FLC I will find out how much more work is needed on these 2 final (and large) lists.— Rod talk 14:00, 6 March 2015 (UTC)Reply
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Another list of Somerset scheduled monuments at FLC

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As you have previously commented on one or more of nominations of the lists of scheduled monuments in Somerset, I wondered if you would be kind enough to take a look at the List of scheduled monuments in West Somerset which is now nominated at Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of scheduled monuments in West Somerset/archive1?— Rod talk 21:12, 25 March 2015 (UTC)Reply

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Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of scheduled monuments in West Somerset/archive1

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Hi, You said as part of your comments at Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of scheduled monuments in West Somerset/archive1 that "more will follow" and I was wondering if you had the time to take another look?— Rod talk 20:23, 24 April 2015 (UTC)Reply

KCC election articles

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Hello Noswall59. I'm really impressed by the Kesteven County Council articles you've created - maximum kudos. By any chance, do you know whether county borough council elections were held on a three year cycle like county council ones? I had hoped they were, but it looks like some (e.g Sheffield) were elected annually. Cheers, Number 57 20:45, 28 April 2015 (UTC)Reply

@Number 57: Many thanks :) I think it's worthwhile adding this sort of information - I am shocked at how many seats were uncontested in some of those elections (in at least one case, a son took over from his father too)... a national survey could make an interesting study. Added to that, most of the early articles include information about the professions of candidates, which again would really useful for an academic. I think this kind of information about democracies should be publicly available, but I digress. As for the Borough elections, I can't say for certain, but I have found cases of annual elections for Grantham Municipal Borough Council from the 1920s; there will be more. No wonder turnouts were low. I can do some digging around to see what the legislation says... Do you think they are notable enough to warrant having articles for each election? Thanks again, —Noswall59 (talk) 20:53, 28 April 2015 (UTC).Reply
Certainly county councils and county borough councils. Not sure about urban/rural districts though, although there are a few on such councils in Wales (e.g. Category:Aberdare Urban District Council elections). I guess Grantham was an urban district? Perhaps it was up to the councils (pretty much like it is today), and some opted for annual elections and others triennial ones. Number 57 20:56, 28 April 2015 (UTC)Reply
@Number 57: I have just looked at the legislation. Councillor's terms were three years, but elections were staggered annually, so one third of the council was up for election every year (see here, section 13.2). Cheers, —Noswall59 (talk) 21:02, 28 April 2015 (UTC).Reply
Cool, great find - elected by thirds, just like many modern-day councils! Number 57 21:39, 28 April 2015 (UTC)Reply

The final FLC nom of a list of Scheduled monuments in Somerset

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As you have kindly added comments to one or more of the FLC nominations of Scheduled monuments in Somerset I wanted to let you know that the final list, List of scheduled monuments in Mendip, is nomination for Featured List status at Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of scheduled monuments in Mendip/archive1. If you had any comments that would be great.— Rod talk 20:23, 29 April 2015 (UTC)Reply

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Rode Hall, GA Nomination

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Triple Crown

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I am pleased to award this Triple Crown to Noswall59 for excellent additions to wikipedia. Freikorp (talk) 08:27, 4 May 2015 (UTC)Reply
 
I am also pleased to award you the Imperial Triple Crown Jewels for your second set of nominations. Keep up the good work! Freikorp (talk) 08:27, 4 May 2015 (UTC)Reply

Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of scheduled monuments in Mendip/archive1

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Thanks for your comments at Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of scheduled monuments in Mendip/archive1. I wondered whether all of your concerns had been addressed or whether there is anything else you think is needed to make it meet the Featured list criteria?— Rod talk 19:52, 13 May 2015 (UTC)Reply

Holnicote Estate

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Thanks for the heads up. I've made a start on some of the changes in my sandbox but wanted to consult others before making major changes. I will work on this.— Rod talk 06:59, 21 May 2015 (UTC)Reply

Sleaford

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Nice one. Keep up the good work. SilkTork ✔Tea time 21:35, 11 June 2015 (UTC)Reply

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Congratulations, I've only just noticed this. Very interesting article. J3Mrs (talk) 12:28, 28 June 2015 (UTC)Reply
Thank you for your comments and the copy-editing you carried out :) —Noswall59 (talk) 22:01, 28 June 2015 (UTC).Reply

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Bass Maltings, Sleaford

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Nice one. Keep up the good work. SilkTork ✔Tea time 11:35, 12 July 2015 (UTC)Reply

Westholme House

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You are an asset to Wikipedia and to the people of Sleaford. SilkTork ✔Tea time 09:18, 23 July 2015 (UTC)Reply

Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II

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Hey! Having seen your improvements to the article on George VI's coronation, I was just wondering if you could do the same for Queen Elizabeth II's coronation. Especially with the processions bits, the service, etc. It could also do with a background on her accession. Many thanks. :) --Re5x (talk) 16:26, 11 August 2015 (UTC)Reply

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Very pleased to see the article on St Denys's has been promoted. Congratulations! Tim riley talk 20:41, 15 October 2015 (UTC)Reply

Thank you, Tim, your review was very much appreciated. —Noswall59 (talk) 21:15, 15 October 2015 (UTC).Reply
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Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/St Denys' Church, Sleaford, like it! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:02, 11 November 2015 (UTC)Reply

Precious

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Thank you for quality articles on places of historic and natural interest, such as St Denys' Church, Sleaford, and Dolebury Warren, and historic British figures such as Henry Fownes Luttrell, for being open to debate which "can lead to greater reflection and allow for improvements", and for "quietly get on with editing", - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

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St Denys' Church, Sleaford

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You reverted my deletion of detailed schedule information on this page. I have explained my deletion on its Talk page. You may want to reply there. --Macrakis (talk) 18:08, 13 December 2015 (UTC)Reply

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Hi, I came across your review of this article while preparing prep sets. You did a great job on the review of the text. But if the hook isn't hooky, it won't get promoted (or looked at). I've suggested an alt hook. Best, Yoninah (talk) 23:33, 26 January 2016 (UTC)Reply

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Congratulations for achieving GA status for this article. As an Old Carresian from 1965 to 1972, I am very happy to see all the good work you did get reflected in the change in status. DDStretch  (talk) 21:17, 5 March 2016 (UTC)Reply
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The Grange, Broadhembury

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Your contribution to Talk:The Grange, Broadhembury is worth much more than 2 cents and it does not deserve being collapsed. Unless you feel very strongly, please bring it out into the open for all to see! Or I'll do it if you prefer.  —SMALLJIM  14:13, 10 May 2016 (UTC)Reply

Okay, I have done now in the hope that it will contribute to a better debate. If it does not, feel free to collapse it again. I don't want to get bogged down into what may be a lengthy and possibly bitter debate. Thanks though – I appreciate your support, —Noswall59 (talk) 14:19, 10 May 2016 (UTC).Reply
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Hi Noswall59! Thank you so much for expanding List of Fellows of the British Academy. I have moved it to List of Fellows of the British Academy elected in the 2010s to stop it getting too long. If you would like, you could continue expanding the list in the form of List of Fellows of the British Academy elected in the 2000s etc. Do you think it would be a good idea to merge the fellowship section of the main article with links to the lists of fellows pages into a separate article? Maybe something simple such as Fellows of the British Academy. Or maybe just keep List of Fellows of the British Academy as a DAB page linking to the respective decade lists and maybe create a list of female fellows (like the Royal Society's list)? Gaia Octavia Agrippa Talk 23:46, 23 October 2016 (UTC)Reply

Gaia Octavia Agrippa, thanks. I would love to create a full set of lists at least for each decade, but there is certainly scope for lists along gender lines, plus also potentially List of historians elected Fellows of the British Academy and maybe List of Honorary Fellows of the British Academy, List of Corresponding Fellows of the British Academy. For now, it's probably best to link them in the main article, but I imagine it will be best to have a special sort of dab page for them. Cheers, —Noswall59 (talk) 23:51, 23 October 2016 (UTC).Reply
That's a good idea for the different categories. I've gone ahead and created the DAB article for them; I could see them getting lost if there wasn't one created from the start. The hat link in the fellows section links to the DAB article and then people can go from there to what ever sub-division they like the look of. Gaia Octavia Agrippa Talk 00:00, 24 October 2016 (UTC)Reply
Thanks for this – there will be plenty of others to create. It looks like the Academy included annual reports in its journal Proceedings of the British Academy up to the mid-1980s which contained lists of new fellows. After this, the journal became irregular and focused on themes in scholarship. It looks like the only source from then until 1998 will have to be their annual reports. My university library has copies of them (I think), so I shall try and call them up. Cheers, —Noswall59 (talk) 10:58, 24 October 2016 (UTC).Reply
That's a bit more complicated than I thought it would be! If your happy doing that, that would be great. I've created the female list and I'm in the process of adding women from the decade lists. Gaia Octavia Agrippa Talk 11:26, 24 October 2016 (UTC)Reply

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Hadn't planned on it - go wild. :-) --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 15:43, 30 November 2017 (UTC)Reply

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Hi, per this edit, I just wanted to let you know that the small d is deliberate. The posts First Minister and deputy First Minister are both equal - see here. st170e 18:51, 7 January 2018 (UTC)Reply

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Hi Noswall59

I just wanted to say a quick thanks for your posts[3][4][5] at WT:WikiProject Women in Red#Systemic_bias_in_notability about making lists of women in politics. That thread is getting a bit busy (lots of pent-up dissatisfaction producing a wonderful flurry of ideas), so I thought I'd reply here. Hope that's OK.

First thing: you inspired me to follow the write-about-what-you-know-about principle, and revive back to my own (vague, unwritten) plan to build on the lists I had already made of Irish women in political office (TDs, Senators and MEPs). I added[6] a graphical timeline to the list of TDs, and have now made good progress on a draft of the (depressingly short) list of women cabinet ministers. I still need to finish the referencing and then dig out my books and write the prose intro ... but I'm pleased with how it is going, and think I may submit it as a featured list when its done.

Then I will do the same for women Minister of State and women Parliamentary Secretaries of Ireland, and then continue for Northern Ireland. Hopefully I can build a complete set of decent quality lists of women in political office throughout the island of Ireland. Thanks again for inspiring me. (And a hat-tip too to @Frickeg, whose massive work on comprehensive and elegant lists of Australian parliamentarians sets a gold standard.)

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  3. might it be worth considering setting up some sort of page to group resources, track progress, swap ideas etc on expanding coverage of women in politics?
    I am wary of creating yet another WikiProject (squillions of them are moribund), but somewhere with a few pages might help.

What do you think? --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 15:20, 23 January 2018 (UTC)Reply

BrownHairedGirl, many thanks for your reply. I think the work you're doing for Ireland's women politicians is fantastic! As it happens, I recently noticed that WP's coverage of Northern Ireland's ministries is somewhat patchy, and our coverage of NI civil servants is very poor. I created the article Head of the Northern Ireland Civil Service only a couple of weeks ago! Given that most of the names on there are red, I imagine the same is true for each ministry's permanent secretary as well.
Moving on to the wider European political articles, I am glad that you liked the table. I think I'll post about in the politics Wikiproject sometime soon. Working on it all would be an enormous task, but also a very rewarding and potentially transformative one which would benefit from multiple editors' inputs. I think lists will be the way forward. To demonstrate the point, this afternoon I created List of members of the Parliament of Estonia, 1920–23 using databases of members put together by the country's parliament and by the National Library of Estonia. I also stumbled across the Estonian Biographical Database run by the Estonian Literary Museum's Archival Library, and a lot of material (including biographies) of Estonian women involved in inter-war politics on the National Library's website here. There really is so much out there, but evidently very little appetite to do much with this information (look at all those redlinks – pretty much all of these people will pass WP:NPOL!) Even on the Estonian wiki, I notice that their article on the 1920–23 session contains only a partial list of members.
Anyway, I'll see if I can find a few more databases and then post in the politics WP to see what interest there is. Thanks ever so much, —Noswall59 (talk) 16:57, 24 January 2018 (UTC)Reply

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Hi. I've restored the tag which you removed from your article. Articles need more than one source. Any claim to notability is weak without multiple sources, and there is virtually no claim to notability in this one as it stands. Deb (talk) 08:58, 21 February 2018 (UTC)Reply

Deb, The tag states that the article needs more sources for verification, but it does not. Everything in the article is verified by citations to an independent, reliable, secondary. What you're saying here is that you believe the article needs more sources to demonstrate notability, which is a totally different matter to verification; you're using the wrong tag which is why I removed the tag. Anyway, I reckon an obituary in a major national newspaper ought to demonstrate notability but I'll see what else I can find. It's a shame that you chose to spend time tagging several articles I've created with vague notices, then reverting my removal of one of those, and then posting here, rather than, say, actually improving the article. —Noswall59 (talk) 09:13, 21 February 2018 (UTC).Reply
You haven't actually made any claim to notability in the article. If you felt this was the wrong tag, then it's clear you understood what the problem was, and you have been here long enough to know that you don't remove tags without dealing with the issues raised. I gave you guidance on how to improve the article, since I noticed that the review by User:Enwebb had missed the obvious problem. It's not my job to fix your articles for you; I keep an eye on new articles to try and ensure they are up to standard. I posted here out of politeness but don't expect any further messages from me. Deb (talk) 09:37, 21 February 2018 (UTC)Reply
I didn't believe that there was an issue with verifiability in that article, which is what you tagged the article for; that is why I removed the tag and I reckon I'm perfectly justified in doing so. What you've since told me on this talk page is that you believe there to be an issue with notability, and so, now you've told me this, I'm telling you that you used the wrong tag; I wasn't to know this and did not know this before you posted here (i.e. after I removed the tag). As for notability, he is notable because (a) he was a Professor in a major English research university (equivalent to a Distinguished Professorship in the US, and therefore passing WP:PROF); and (b) because he has a lengthy obituary in The Guardian, a major national newspaper. Both of these things are in the article, as is additional commentary on the subject taken from the obituary. I never claimed it was your job to "fix articles for me", but I reckon it's far more constructive (for our readers) to improve an article than slap a vague tag over it, which confused me, an editor who's been here for four years with several featured articles and hundreds of page creations under my belt; I imagine it's enough to put off a newbie. Anyway, enough said here. —Noswall59 (talk) 10:30, 21 February 2018 (UTC).Reply
@Deb: thanks for the feedback. My understanding is that the claim to notability being present in an article only applies to certain subjects (WP:A7 and WP:A9). Per WP:GNG, "Notability is a property of a subject and not of a Wikipedia article. If the subject has not been covered outside of Wikipedia, no amount of improvements to the Wikipedia content will suddenly make the subject notable. Conversely, if the source material exists, even very poor writing and referencing within a Wikipedia article will not decrease the subject's notability." I reviewed the article and determined that the subject was notable, regardless of the contents of the current article. If you want to dispute the notability of the subject of this article, by all means start an AFD. Enwebb (talk) 16:14, 21 February 2018 (UTC)Reply
@Enwebb: I think you might be confusing the criteria for speedy deletion with the notability requirement. I didn't delete the article because I had no reason to suspect that the subject wasn't notable. On the other hand, the claim of notability in the article was extremely weak as it stood, hence I tagged for improvement in the form of additional references. Does that make sense? Deb (talk) 16:20, 21 February 2018 (UTC)Reply
@Deb: so here's how things stand. I reviewed an article I determined that the subject was notable. I marked it as reviewed because lack of a claim of notability is not enough for a speedy deletion for the subject matter, and it would most likely be a keep at AFD. You felt that a specific improvement tag should be added, so you added it. And now we're having a conversation about ??? Frankly I don't see why I was brought into this via your notification other than for you to rub my nose in the notion that I "had missed the obvious problem." Please leave further feedback of my article reviewing skills on my talk page. & to Noswall59, sorry for blowing up your talk page. Enwebb (talk) 16:32, 21 February 2018 (UTC)Reply

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It's all your fault

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Per our |discussion above, it was a post by you[7] at WT:WIR which prompted me to return to making lists of Irish politicians.

So I am delighted that my List of women cabinet ministers of the Republic of Ireland has just been promoted[8][9] to featured list status. Without your eloquent post about the importance of lists, I would probably not even have started it.

The FL review process was quite arduous and prolonged; the wikicode of Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of women cabinet ministers of the Republic of Ireland/archive1 is almost as long as the wikicode of the list itself, despite lacking the list's complex table markup. It initially felt v offputting, and at one point I came close to withdrawing the nom, but I am glad I persevered. By about half way it started to feel more constructive, and I think the article was much improved through the review.

I hope it's all some encouragement to others working on lists of women in politics. I was sad to see that the Irish women cabinet ministers are the only women in Category:FL-Class Ireland articles, and the only one in Category:FL-Class biography (politics and government) articles apart from the US first ladies. It's also the only list of politicians in Category:FL-Class WikiProject Women articles. It'd be nice to see it lose its rarity value.

Thanks again. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 07:15, 7 April 2018 (UTC)Reply

BrownHairedGirl, that's great to hear – the list looks fantastic and it's a worthy topic! Hopefully it will inspire many more. Best wishes, —Noswall59 (talk) 16:55, 8 April 2018 (UTC).Reply

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Jeff Paris

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Hi. I reviewed the disambiguation page you created, Jeff Paris. Remember to remove the redirect to the old talk page, and I would recommend you add relevant wikiprojects to the talk page in the future. Also, you can refer to MOS:DAB for the manual of style. Bennv3771 (talk) 14:26, 15 June 2018 (UTC)Reply

Bashir Mohammed Ali Al-Hashimi

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Hey! Can't find the full name for the redirect you made Bashir Mohammed Ali Al-Hashimi in the main article. Wondering if there is a citation you can throw on the main page that shows his name to include the Mohammed and Ali - thanks! SEMMENDINGER (talk) 13:57, 16 June 2018 (UTC)Reply

Done. Cheers, —Noswall59 (talk) 14:30, 16 June 2018 (UTC).Reply

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Frayae, I've removed the prod and added sources - apologies, I hit the publish button instead of preview! Cheers, —Noswall59 (talk) 18:36, 4 July 2018 (UTC).Reply
That's ok, the prod was entirely procedural because there has to be sources. Thanks for adding some. As the topic is on a professor in whos who there is no problem with notability. Frayæ (Talk/Spjall) 18:40, 4 July 2018 (UTC)Reply

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"Edmund James Stephen Sonuga-Barke, FBA, FMedSci, is a developmental psychologist and academic." Academic what? Seems the sentence is incomplete :)—AE (talkcontributions) 14:01, 10 September 2018 (UTC)Reply

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[10]seemed a bit much for the article when I was reviewing it, however Ill let the revert stand, thanks--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 13:16, 16 September 2018 (UTC)Reply

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Elsie Griffin

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Hello. Would you please send me the text of her obit from The Times? I moved the cite in line, but perhaps it should also be cited elsewhere? -- Ssilvers (talk) 15:37, 27 September 2018 (UTC)Reply

Ssilvers, I don't have email setup on my account (and don't know how all that works), but I'll look into it this evening (UK time). —Noswall59 (talk) 16:20, 27 September 2018 (UTC).Reply
You can just copy it onto my Talk page, or onto the Elise Griffin Talk page, if you prefer. Thanks! -- Ssilvers (talk) 16:48, 27 September 2018 (UTC)Reply
Ssilvers: I'd rather not copy and paste for copyright reasons. I've read over the obituary, and it's not particularly long; the article seems pretty on point and there was little else to add, but where I found new facts, I went ahead and included them, as well as a comment from the obituary about her significance and skill as a soprano in the 1920s and 1930s.
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James Ogilvy Blair-Cunynghame

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Saw you reverted. Didn't see any missing cites. (3 before, 3 after.) What's up? Lfstevens (talk) 04:25, 17 November 2018 (UTC)Reply

Lfstevens: Sorry, it wasn't that the cites were missing, it was that they were no longer at the end of each paragraph, which made those paragraphs appear unreferenced: does that make sense? I'm quite busy at the minute, but can take a look at breaking it into manageable chunks, with references, in a few days. Cheers, —Noswall59 (talk) 14:02, 17 November 2018 (UTC).Reply
You appear to have mistaken me for someone else. The refs were stacked before I got there. Lfstevens (talk) 00:45, 18 November 2018 (UTC)Reply
Lfstevens: hi. Unless I'm misreading the diff, it looks like it was in this edit that you you broke the text up into paragraphs without re-inserting the inline citations for each new paragraph; that has the effect of making all but the final paragraph unreferenced, which is of course a problem. It did need sorting into paragraphs, so thank you for doing that; I've now gone back and re-added the correct citations so that everything in the body is cited inline. —Noswall59 (talk) 20:29, 21 November 2018 (UTC).Reply
It looks like we're in alternate universes. The version you referenced has this (I quote):
'"He died on 4 January 1990.<ref>"Sir James Blair-Cunynghame", ''The Times'' (London), 8 January 1990, p. 18.</ref><ref>[https://www.rbs.com/heritage/people/james-ogilvie-blair-cunynghame.html "James Ogilvie Blair-Cunynghame"], ''RBS''. Retrieved 27 September 2018.</ref><ref>[http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-162098 "Blair-Cunynghame, Sir James (Ogilvy)"], ''Who Was Who'' (online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2007). Retrieved 27 September 2018.</ref>"'
All the refs are at the end..... Lfstevens (talk) 09:45, 22 November 2018 (UTC)Reply
All paragraphs need to be referenced. Yes, the three refs were at the end of the final paragraph, but a reader will not know that these references cover every paragraph preceding it. References cannot and won't be assumed to carry back to each previous unsourced paragraph: that's not how it works in publishing off-wiki and that's not how it works here. Indeed, it's standard practice to add new citations at the end of every paragraph. If you need a guideline, then WP:INTEXT states "An inline citation should follow the attribution, usually at the end of the sentence or paragraph in question." —Noswall59 (talk) 10:11, 22 November 2018 (UTC).Reply

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Autopatrolled right

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Hello, thanks for all your contributions to Wikipedia!

I notice that you’ve written a large number of valid articles, which makes you eligible to have your account marked as auto patrolled. This would mean that your articles get automatically marked as reviewed, without needing to be manually tagged as acceptable. As I can tell that you know what you’re doing, would you be happy to be nominated for this right? I’m keen to reduce the number of valid articles new page reviewers need to examine.

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Separately, as a suggestion for making your articles even better, one thing I recommend is adding an authority control tag on the pages of published authors. Once connected up to a Wikidata entry (which someone else can do at a later date), this allows you to click straight through from a Wikipedia page to Worldcat and to finding the nearest library stocking their works. I've added a link to your John Donaldson article as an example (in his case it just took me a few seconds as a bot had already created a database entry on him from a database of published authors back in 2014, but someone else can do this for you). Blythwood (talk) 12:58, 19 December 2018 (UTC)Reply

Thank you for making both of these suggestions, I had forgotten about this over Christmas, but I'll investigate autopatrolled rights and also the authority control template – I didn't know about the former and had no idea what the latter did! All the best, —Noswall59 (talk) 12:27, 2 January 2019 (UTC).Reply

John Perkins (academic)

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As the originator, I would draw your attention to the unhelpful edits which were made on Xmas Day, including calling the individual 'Philipose' for some strange reason (private joke, perhaps). Happy New Year! Chemical Engineer (talk) 16:56, 29 December 2018 (UTC)Reply

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Tovey Professor

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(and others, like the one just mentioned.) "was", or "is" ? if it's vacant, it still exists until the univ decides to abolish it. DGG ( talk ) 01:33, 2 January 2019 (UTC)Reply

Thanks, you make a valid point. I'll go through and check for this. It is difficult, however, to know whether a chair is vacant or has been abolished: universities don't tend to make that sort of information public (at least not online - I am sure if one completed an FOI request or looked in the archives, it would there). In some cases, I might omit the "is/was a named chair at..." and just open with "was established as a named chair at ... in ...". Safer wording perhaps. —Noswall59 (talk) 12:25, 2 January 2019 (UTC).Reply

Henry William Newman Fane

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Hello,

In the city of Wasquehal is buried an English soldier.

William Johnson, gunner of the 30th British Artillery Regiment stationed at Wasquehal, died at the Dragon Lock on December 6, 1939 at 8:15 am

On his death certificate is named Henry WN Fane, resident in Lincoln, 42 years old.

On the Henry William Newman Fane wikipedia that you have created, it is nothing mentioned about the period of the second world war.

would it be the same person?

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Acte_de_d%C3%A9c%C3%A8s_de_William_Johnson,_canonnier_du_30e_r%C3%A9giment_d%27artillerie_anglaise.jpg

If it's the same person you can take the signature for your page on Henry William Newman Fane

Thanks.

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A page you started (Legal Adviser to the Home Office) has been reviewed!

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Recent articles on Estonian politicians.

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Noswall59,

Hello! As a member of WikiProject Estonia, thank you for your recent contributions of articles on Estonian politicians! I very much appreciate your contributions. I would like to ask, however, if you object to two changes per Wikipedia:Article titles naming conventions. I would like to move the articles Mart Kiirats to Mats Mõtslane and Max Woldemar Gustav Eduard Bock to Max Bock. While Mart Kiirats is the correct birth name of Mats Mõtslane, like many other writers (Mark Twain, O. Henry, Lewis Carroll, George Eliot, etc.), he is mostly known by his pen name; nearly all of his work is written under this name. His Estonian Wiki entry is as Mats Mõtslane. My second suggestion is that Max Woldemar Gustav Eduard Bock be moved to simply Max Bock, as this is the name he is generally known by as well, instead of his full name (as can be seen on the Estonian and other international Wikis [11] [12]). If you object to these moves, please let me know. Thank you again for your good work. It is always appreciated to see some Estonian inclusuions! ExRat (talk) 22:28, 26 February 2019 (UTC)Reply

Hi ExRat and thanks for your comments: I'm glad someone so involved with Estonian topics approves! By all means go ahead and move those articles as you've suggested; I have no objections. Thanks, —Noswall59 (talk) 17:34, 27 February 2019 (UTC).Reply

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Marcus O'Lone

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Hello there, I noticed that you removed the maintenance template from the article with the comment I can't see any unverified parts of the article. I am not reinstating the template but I want to inform you that the reliability of Who's Who (UK) is questionable as no consensus has ever been reached among the editors over the credibility of this source. Please see Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Perennial sources and check the concerned source's entry. Regards. Hitro talk 11:34, 6 June 2019 (UTC)Reply

Speedy deletion nomination of Anthony Gerald Hurrell

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Ways to improve Timothy Elworthy

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Ways to improve Terry Moran (British civil servant)

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@Domdeparis:, thanks for your comments. I've now added a number of other secondary sources, including a profile of Moran in a national newspaper, which I think add significantly to claims about his notability. Also, while I take your point about Who's Who not being brilliant for verifiability, that is different from notability and the perennial sources page you linked to says nothing about it in relation to notability; it is a selective publication and inclusion gives quite a lot of weight to when discussing whether someone is notable. Cheers, —Noswall59 (talk) 08:42, 22 August 2019 (UTC).Reply

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List of QC

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Are you planning to complete these -- they mainly need an introductory paragraph. DGG ( talk ) 00:01, 26 September 2019 (UTC)Reply

T. W. Allen

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Hi, I think that the redirect and main page for T. W. Allen should be switched. The main page should be Thomas William Allen and and the redirect should be T. W. Allen. That's inline with best practices, such as Martin Litchfield West and M. L. West, and also with existing Wikidata for Allen. I have worked on the content for a year and was surprised that you had recently created the pages before I could enter the completed content D. F. Salmon (talk) 21:17, 30 October 2019 (UTC)Reply

@D. F. Salmon: if that's the normal naming practice, then that's fine by me – I'm not well-versed on the MOS. Anyway, thanks for all the work you've done on Allen's biography – I had created the article as part of my effort to have articles for every FBA but there was clearly much left to do. Your write up is a good piece of work and I'm hardly surprised to hear you've been working on it for so long. Cheers, —Noswall59 (talk) 21:30, 30 October 2019 (UTC).Reply

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Rewriting lede

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Hi there. Great job on your rewriting of the Tony Blair lead section. I was just wondering whether you might consider also rewriting the (somewhat bloated) Clement Attlee lede? (I have tried copy-editing the lede myself (in my sandbox), although it does look as if a more comprehensive rewrite is necessary.) AlbanGeller (talk) 21:13, 17 November 2019 (UTC)Reply

User:AlbanGeller: thanks! I've had a go at re-working the Attlee lead. It's still very long, but his career was varied and unusually eventful. His wartime service, electoral record and unprecedented social reforms and foreign policy efforts make it hard for me to know what to cut without collapsing those achievements into sentences like "his government enacted wide-ranging social reforms and worked to implement a Keynesian programme of economic management based on full employment, a mixed economy and state provision of social services". Not wrong, but maybe not specific enough for someone who doesn't want to read the whole section on domestic policy. Cheers, —Noswall59 (talk) 10:29, 20 November 2019 (UTC).Reply

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Your draft article, Draft:List of Permanent Secretaries in the Home Civil Service

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Dr. Blofeld, thanks ever so much for that. It's been a while since I've worked on the Sleaford articles -- there are so many more aspects of Lincolnshire's history and geography that need improving, but I find myself short of time and adequate sources to work on them. Cheers, —Noswall59 (talk) 12:36, 4 March 2020 (UTC).Reply

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Hi I’m just reviewing this series of pages you’ve created. They all seem to be orphans (no inbound links) which will make them hard to find after all the work you’ve put in. Can I suggest that you create a list of lists article like Lists of Knights Bachelor by year of appointment and list all your lists there. If you link the list of lists article to the knight bachelor article then everything you’ve added will form part of an easy sequence of links that readers can follow. All the best Mccapra (talk) 03:36, 17 April 2020 (UTC)Reply
Hi, thanks for your message. I have now created a template and index page for these. Cheers, —Noswall59 (talk) 15:05, 17 April 2020 (UTC).Reply

Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

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Hi, I just wanted to say thanks for creating the lists of pages of Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences! You have put a lot of effort in it! I frequently create pages of members and have made some effort to place all the members in the Category:Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Therefore, I am especially grateful for having these overviews. If I find the time I will work on them by adding links to the articles of the individuals. One final thing, to aid further in navigation, might I suggest also making a template? Crispulop (talk) 18:55, 5 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

Thanks Crispulop. I did notice that there were a surprisingly large number of blue links, so thank you too for your efforts! I still need to merge some of the tables together, but linking is going to a big task. I'll have a look at setting up a template, perhaps modelled on the Royal Society one. I would like to get the year elected columns filled in too, so that we can have members arranged by year of appointment. Cheers, —Noswall59 (talk) 07:55, 6 May 2020 (UTC).Reply

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PamD I have now redirected this page to a sub-section in Standard Occupational Classification (United Kingdom). Hopefully this resolves your concerns. —Noswall59 (talk) 11:53, 15 October 2020 (UTC).Reply
Thanks, yes, I'd spotted it. I think that's a better solution. PamD 11:57, 15 October 2020 (UTC)Reply

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