User talk:Pigsonthewing/Archive 33
 | This is an archive of past discussions about User:Pigsonthewing. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
| Archive 30 | Archive 31 | Archive 32 | Archive 33 | Archive 34 | Archive 35 | → | Archive 40 |
Disambiguation link notification for April 26
Hi. When you recently edited John Stanley Webb, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Tramway (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver). Such links are almost always unintended, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of "Did you mean..." article titles. Read the FAQ • Join us at the DPL WikiProject.
It's OK to remove this message. Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, DPL bot (talk) 10:46, 26 April 2012 (UTC)
Talkback
Message added 20:45, 27 April 2012 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.
Hi I created this as I believed we needed a template like Bare URLs to encourage editors to add full citations not the just the websites. Can you improve this properly and sort out the documentation? I've asked Farmbrough to take care of adding it to some articles where the refs need filling out like Alogia (band).♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:58, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
Infobox mountain range
I am proposing that we use {{Infobox mountain range}} instead of {{Geobox|Range}}. Please feel free to join the discussion. —hike395 (talk) 02:39, 30 April 2012 (UTC)
The Bugle: Issue LXXIII, April 2012
|
The Bugle is published by the Military history WikiProject. To receive it on your talk page, please join the project or sign up here.
If you are a project member who does not want delivery, please remove your name from this page. Your editors, Ian Rose (talk) and Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 00:33, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
The Signpost: 30 April 2012
- Paid editing: Does Wikipedia Pay? The Consultant: Pete Forsyth
- Discussion report: 'ReferenceTooltips' by default
- WikiProject report: The Cartographers of WikiProject Maps
- Featured content: Featured content spreads its wings
- Arbitration report: R&I Review remains in voting, two open cases
This Month in GLAM: April 2012
| ||||||
The Signpost: 07 May 2012
- Paid editing: Does Wikipedia Pay? The Communicator: Phil Gomes
- News and notes: Hong Kong to host Wikimania 2013
- WikiProject report: Say What?: WikiProject Languages
- Featured content: This week at featured content: How much wood would a Wood Duck chuck if a Wood Duck could chuck wood?
- Arbitration report: Proposed decision in Rich Farmbrough, two open cases
- Technology report: Search gets faster, GSoC gets more detail and 1.20wmf2 gets deployed
Music field of template "Infobox television episode"
You made a recent edit to "Dance with Somebody (Glee)" that changed the list of songs in the infobox's Music field from being separated by the HTML "<br>" linebreak tag to using the Plainlist template. There's only one problem: the documentation for the "Infobox television episode" template specifically instructs that the songs should be separated by the linebreak tag.
I'm perfectly happy to change to Plainlist wherever appropriate, and to set up template fields so they use it. However, the documentation should call for it, or at least not specifically to call for <br>. As long as the documentation does specify, that's what I expect to be used. Is there some other place that universally calls for Plainlist usage instead of the normal line breaks in such template fields, that trumps template documentation? BlueMoonset (talk) 21:24, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
- WP:PLIST. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:33, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
- Seems to me that if you want this to catch on, the documentation for common templates ought to be changed so they don't tell people to do the wrong thing... BlueMoonset (talk) 22:03, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
- Most have been. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 09:00, 9 May 2012 (UTC)
- Seems to me that if you want this to catch on, the documentation for common templates ought to be changed so they don't tell people to do the wrong thing... BlueMoonset (talk) 22:03, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
WikiProject Birmingham
Thanks for fixing that one. :) Paul MacDermott (talk) 09:32, 9 May 2012 (UTC)
Infobox Ontario government ministries
seems redundant to template:infobox government agency or something similar. Frietjes (talk) 20:26, 9 May 2012 (UTC)
- So why not nominate it for deletion? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:02, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
The Lace Guild page initial draft complete and posted
Andy,
I've uploaded the Lace Guild page and want to add in the logo of the Lace Guild to the page but I can't find the page when I search for it. What do I do next.
Liz Baker Stuliz1123 (talk) 10:56, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
I think I've posted it but I'm not sure. What do I do next?
Author templates
It appears that {{Works by Jack Vance}} should be renamed too. It's one of merely two that begin with "Works by". Category:Speculative fiction author navigational boxes
But i wait to learn more, see Template talk:Authority control re some other issues. I wait at least a day. --P64 (talk) 20:52, 13 May 2012 (UTC)
- P.S. If you are expert, see my last edit at Category:Author templates. --P64 (talk) 20:53, 13 May 2012 (UTC)
Infobox settlement Chile
new fork. Frietjes (talk) 22:28, 14 May 2012 (UTC)
The Signpost: 14 May 2012
- WikiProject report: Welcome to Wikipedia with a cup of tea and all your questions answered - at the Teahouse
- Featured content: Featured content is red hot this week
- Arbitration report: R&I Review closed, Rich Farmbrough near closure
Thanks
Cool edit. I am definitely going to remember to use the {{Plainlist| (bulleted list) }} template in the future. Thanks for the example. :) Schmidt, MICHAEL Q. 00:05, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
Template:US-president-row
One of the recent changes to {{US-president-row}} is causing the template to come up as lacking a references section. ( Cite error: There are <ref> tags on this page, but the references will not show without a {{Reflist|group=n}} template or a<references group="n"/> tag; see the help page. These are apparently the <ref group="n" name="num" /> entries. Since you are an experienced wikipedia editor, I thought that you would want to correct it yourself rather than me altering the template.Naraht (talk) 14:40, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
- Be my guest. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:51, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
- The problem is that I'm not sure what you are referencing *to*. And note, the templates inside links that you are doing in the line ! rowspan={{{how-many-vp}}} | '''[[{{{presd-link}}}|{{{presd-num}}}]]''' is making wikied cry (And I have no idea if it is correct or not)</nowiki>
mass creation of stubs with errors
Hi Andy, could you please take a look here about current problems: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/IncidentArchive732#.27Jaguar.2FSandbox.2F3.27_edits Thanks, Azylber (talk) 10:31, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
Moulton Bicycle and Pashley Bicycle
Hi Andy,
I'm from Pashley/Moulton,. I've tried to resolve contradictions and crossover on these 2 entries. If you are happy with the edits can you remove the contradiction buttons etc please.
Thanks John — Preceding unsigned comment added by DylanBun (talk • contribs) 10:48, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
- Thank you for your contribution. The Royal Mail contradictions have been resolved, but the Moulton article still says "(my emphasis)", with no indication of whether or when that actually happened, and no mention on the Pashley article. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:38, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
Template:End date
I've just added a new parameter |notime= to {{end date}}, allowing the generation of valid microformats without displaying the time 23:59:59 in the article text. I thought you might want to know. (If this is bad for some reason I don't understand, then feel free to revert it, obviously.) — OwenBlacker (Talk) 19:46, 19 May 2012 (UTC)
- I'm not clear why you think that's necessary. {{End date|1993|2|24}} should work fine; and render as February 24, 1993. {{Start date}} works the same way. Am I missing something? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:50, 20 May 2012 (UTC)
- They do work fine, but there are scary warning messages about whole end-dates needing a time as well as a date. I don't know enough about μF to know whether that's the case or not; reading around on the μF site, it looks like it's to do with the
dtendinclusivity issue, which you and Tantek Çelik have written about. - The μF wiki makes it look like this is no longer an issue; is that the case? I must admit I'm now more confused than I was before... —OwenBlacker (Talk) 19:30, 20 May 2012 (UTC)
- No, end-dates do not require a time; where do you see those warnings? I think this is a non-issue. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:48, 20 May 2012 (UTC)
- They do work fine, but there are scary warning messages about whole end-dates needing a time as well as a date. I don't know enough about μF to know whether that's the case or not; reading around on the μF site, it looks like it's to do with the
The Signpost: 21 May 2012
- From the editor: New editor-in-chief
- WikiProject report: Trouble in a Galaxy Far, Far Away....
- Featured content: Lemurbaby moves it with Madagascar: Featured content for the week
- Arbitration report: No open arbitration cases pending
- Technology report: On the indestructibility of Wikimedia content
WWI Editathon
Hi Andy,
Just to let you know we've finalised the list of academics who'll be attending the World War I editathon next month, along with their areas of specialisation. If any of these are topics you'd be particularly interested in collaborating on, or you want to suggest articles in those fields that need work, please do make a note on the page - it'd be great if we could have some suggested topics ready in advance.
It was good to finally meet you last week - look forward to seeing you again in June! Any questions, do let me know... Andrew Gray (talk) 13:48, 22 May 2012 (UTC)
The Bugle: Issue LXXIV, May 2012
|
The Bugle is published by the Military history WikiProject. To receive it on your talk page, please join the project or sign up here.
If you are a project member who does not want delivery, please remove your name from this page. Your editors, Ian Rose (talk) and Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 15:14, 25 May 2012 (UTC)
Nomination of Kings Norton Royal British Legion Youth Marching Band for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Kings Norton Royal British Legion Youth Marching Band is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kings Norton Royal British Legion Youth Marching Band until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion template from the top of the article. D O N D E groovily Talk to me 21:35, 26 May 2012 (UTC)
The Signpost: 28 May 2012
- News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation endorses open-access petition to the White House; pending changes RfC ends
- Recent research: Supporting interlanguage collaboration; detecting reverts; Wikipedia's discourse, semantic and leadership networks, and Google's Knowledge Graph
- WikiProject report: Experts and enthusiasts at WikiProject Geology
- Featured content: Featured content cuts the cheese
- Arbitration report: Fæ and GoodDay requests for arbitration, changes to evidence word limits
- Technology report: Developer divide wrangles; plus Wikimedia Zero, MediaWiki 1.20wmf4, and IPv6
Template:Berg operas has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 22:21, 30 May 2012 (UTC)
This Month in GLAM: May 2012
| ||||||
The Signpost: 04 June 2012
- Special report: WikiWomenCamp: From women, for women
- Discussion report: Watching Wikipedia change
- WikiProject report: Views of WikiProject Visual Arts
- Featured content: On the lochs
- Arbitration report: Two motions for procedural reform, three open cases, Rich Farmbrough risks block and ban
- Technology report: Report from the Berlin Hackathon
Thanks
That is more readable. MBisanz talk 11:51, 5 June 2012 (UTC)
- Cool. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:25, 11 June 2012 (UTC)
President
Are there any others we can link, do you think? Amandajm (talk) 13:07, 5 June 2012 (UTC)
- None that I know of. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:24, 11 June 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for the {{Highbeam}} tidying up; I really wasn't at all sure of the best way of giving Highbeam credit. George Ponderevo (talk) 21:04, 7 June 2012 (UTC)
- My pleasure. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:24, 11 June 2012 (UTC)
MonmouthpediA Barnstar
|
MonmouthpediA Barnstar | |
| Thank you for all the help and advice you've given me and Monmouth in general, lets keep swapping tips and I hope we can do some outreach work together in future. Mrjohncummings (talk) 16:42, 11 June 2012 (UTC) |
- Cheers, John. I'd be happy to work with you, any time. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:23, 11 June 2012 (UTC)
The Signpost: 11 June 2012
- News and notes: Foundation finance reformers wrestle with CoI
- WikiProject report: Counter-Vandalism Unit
- Featured content: The cake is a pi
- Arbitration report: Procedural reform enacted, Rich Farmbrough blocked, three open cases
hockey templates, again
The Signpost: 18 June 2012
- Investigative report: Is the requests for adminship process 'broken'?
- News and notes: Ground shifts while chapters dither over new Association
- Discussion report: Discussion Reports And Miscellaneous Articulations
- WikiProject report: The Punks of Wikipedia
- Featured content: Taken with a pinch of "salt"
- Arbitration report: Three open cases, GoodDay case closed
- Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
Hi, Andy. A User:George Ponderevo is edit warring with me over this template on Coral Island. See my talk. He's asserting that it's required, and I don't believe that to be the case. My view is that it's pretty spammy and the {{subscription required}} is sufficient. I'm thinking of TfDing it with an eye towards a redirect. Oh, he's also EW'ing over ';' as an improper shortcut for bold. Br'er Rabbit (talk) (Jack, Alarbus, pick one;) 22:49, 20 June 2012 (UTC)
- and this per this. Br'er Rabbit (talk) 13:58, 21 June 2012 (UTC)
- and I just fixed that help page. Br'er Rabbit (talk) 14:16, 21 June 2012 (UTC)
GOCE July 2012 Copy Edit Drive
|
The Bugle is published by the Military history WikiProject. To receive it on your talk page, please join the project or sign up here.
If you are a project member who does not want delivery, please remove your name from this page. Your editors, Ian Rose (talk) and Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 19:20, 23 June 2012 (UTC)
The Signpost: 25 June 2012
- WikiProject report: Summer Sports Series: WikiProject Athletics
- Featured content: A good week for the Williams
- Arbitration report: Three open cases
- Technology report: Second Visual Editor prototype launches
Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Level one user warnings
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Level one user warnings. (This invitation sent because you signed up as a member of WP:UWTEST) Steven Walling (WMF) • talk 18:23, 27 June 2012 (UTC) Steven Walling (WMF) • talk 18:23, 27 June 2012 (UTC)
Authority Control Integration
Hi, I've been researching the intersection of Wikipedia and Authority Control, and have just recently made a Village Pump Proposal to create a bot to expand the usage of a template. I've identified you as someone in the sphere of interest to this project and would appreciate your input at the Village Pump. Thanks, Maximiliankleinoclc (talk) 18:35, 18 June 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks very much for your comments on the proposal. We've refined it and worked out some more details after the discussion, and there is now a community Request for Comment to approve it being implemented. Any feedback gratefully received! Andrew Gray (talk) 09:48, 29 June 2012 (UTC)
Disambiguation link notification for June 29
Hi. When you recently edited Victoria Tunnel (Newcastle), you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Newcastle (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver). Such links are almost always unintended, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of "Did you mean..." article titles. Read the FAQ • Join us at the DPL WikiProject.
It's OK to remove this message. Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, DPL bot (talk) 16:13, 29 June 2012 (UTC)
The Signpost: 02 July 2012
- Analysis: Uncovering scientific plagiarism
- News and notes: RfC on joining lobby group; JSTOR accounts for Wikipedians and the article feedback tool
- In the news: Public relations on Wikipedia: friend or foe?
- Discussion report: Discussion reports and miscellaneous articulations
- WikiProject report: Summer sports series: Burning rubber with WikiProject Motorsport
- Featured content: Heads up
- Arbitration report: Three open cases, motion for the removal of Carnildo's administrative tools
- Technology report: Initialisms abound: QA and HTML5
This Month in GLAM: June 2012
| ||||||
Template:HighBeam has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Br'er Rabbit (talk) 21:27, 1 July 2012 (UTC)
- I appreciate that the replacement/"merger" of this template was suggested by a number of editors. But it's unclear to me how the editor experience has been improved by replacing an easily-remembered 8-character template with a more complex template that's four times as long, and yet yields the same text result as the shorter one did. (In fact the replacement template is actually a bit longer than the text it yields.) At any rate, I wanted to thank you for your effort in creating this template; it did save some time while it was around.--Arxiloxos (talk) 16:49, 9 July 2012 (UTC)
The Signpost: 09 July 2012
- Special report: Reforming the education programs: lessons from Cairo
- WikiProject report: Summer sports series: WikiProject Football
- Featured content: Keeps on chuggin'
- Arbitration report: Three requests for arbitration
Infoboxes
User:WOSlinker/Infoboxes. -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:12, 14 July 2012 (UTC)
Possibly unfree File:SevernBoth.png
A file that you uploaded or altered, File:SevernBoth.png, has been listed at Wikipedia:Possibly unfree files because its copyright status is unclear or disputed. If the file's copyright status cannot be verified, it may be deleted. You may find more information on the file description page. You are welcome to add comments to its entry at the discussion if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Sfan00 IMG (talk) 17:49, 14 July 2012 (UTC)
QRpedia / dealing with renamed articles and/or change of url syntax
Hi Pigsonthewing, I have two questions about the QRpedia project: 1) Does it in some way address the issue that an article might be moved and no longer be accessible afterward under the old name? What happens to the interlanguage links if that happens? 2) If the Wikimedia Foundation were for some reason to change the URL of Wikipedia articles, e.g. to .../wiki2/Dog instead of .../wiki/Dog, would QRpedia be able to change the redirect accordingly? I'm asking because we received an email today at info-de where someone asked about the reliability of Wikipedia URLs (he wants to create QR codes to illustrate plates in front of trees with links to the corresponding Wikipedia article, and I thought that this might perhaps be better handled via QRpedia than through QR codes linking directly to the article). Cheers, —Pill (talk) 11:26, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
Quick microformat question
Hey Andy, I'm planning to display time-dependent content in the WikiMiniAtlas soon (historical borders etc.). I need a way to figure out a time/timespan associated with the subject of the current article (to present the correct dataset). Event microformats come to mind. Do you have an idea of how common they are on historical articles in WP? --Dschwen 16:57, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
- You'd be looking for the presence of templates in the family of {{Start date}} and {{End date}}, in infoboxes which emit hCalendar microformats. I have a current BOTREQ (which I mentioned to you the other day) to complete the job of converting such dates to use those templates, which will increase their prevalence significantly. Also, note the caveat, in their documentation, about their use being problematic for pre-Gregorian era dates. Please let me know if I can help further. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:22, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
Speedy deletion nomination of File:SevernBoth.png
A tag has been placed on File:SevernBoth.png requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section F9 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the image appears to be a blatant copyright infringement. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted images or text borrowed from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.
If you think that the page was nominated in error, contest the nomination by clicking on the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion" in the speedy deletion tag. Doing so will take you to the talk page where you can explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. You can also visit the page's talk page directly to give your reasons, but be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but do not hesitate to add information that is consistent with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. elektrikSHOOS (talk) 19:29, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
The Signpost: 16 July 2012
- Special report: Chapters Association mired in controversy over new chair
- WikiProject report: Summer sports series: French WikiProject Cycling
- Discussion report: Discussion reports and miscellaneous articulations
- Featured content: Taking flight
- Technology report: Tech talks at Wikimania amid news of a mixed June
- Arbitration report: Fæ faces site-ban, proposed decisions posted
Point coordinate controversy
Hey Andy, I ran into User:Tom Morris at the end of the unconference, where he casually mentioned that he'd like to replace a ton of coordinate templates with direct links to OSM. I gues that qualifies him to be thrown under a bus by you ;-). I argued a bit with him, showing him the WikiMiniAtlas (which of course he did not know). He brought the M25 motorway example and I showed him how it is shown as a line on the WMA. Anyhow, there is a way we can find a compromise, leaving the point coordinates in the article, but adding a parameter for an OSM ID to the template. This could be passed on to the geohack, enhancing the display on Google Maps and Bing (I personally do not care about making those look good, but apparently other users do). If an OSM ID parameter is passed to the geohack we could then generate Google Maps links that are wrapped using a script that extracts the OSM object and creates a KML file from it to be displayed in GM. Maybe it is still the excitement form the conference that is making me think this could be a solution to make everybody happy... --Dschwen 01:05, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
- I'll deal with Tom ;-) - but I do like the idea of including OSM object IDs as we as coordinates (but never instead of), where relevant. Let me have a think about how best to do so. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 01:16, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
- Sure, of course in addition to coordinates. I also talked to an OSM guys who said that OSM IDs were a reliable and permanent mapping (contrary to what the OSM wiki says). --Dschwen 05:27, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
- Perhaps, but not everything we geotag will be mapped in OSM (for example: locations where events such as battles or plane crashes happened). Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:26, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
- Yeah, absolutely. For un-OSM-mapped objects we now have the Attached KML template (maybe not the ideal solution, but at least it works for now), and sometime we might get time dependent maps. Did you talk to the mapstory.org people? --Dschwen 13:09, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
- Attached KML does not remove the need for our current system of geotagging with a pair of coordinates. I don't think I know anyone from mapstory.org Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:59, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
- Just to clarify: I do not think any of these approaches removes the need for point coordinates! Please do not accidentally throw the wrong person under a bus ;-) --Dschwen 15:57, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
- Attached KML does not remove the need for our current system of geotagging with a pair of coordinates. I don't think I know anyone from mapstory.org Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:59, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
- Yeah, absolutely. For un-OSM-mapped objects we now have the Attached KML template (maybe not the ideal solution, but at least it works for now), and sometime we might get time dependent maps. Did you talk to the mapstory.org people? --Dschwen 13:09, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
- Perhaps, but not everything we geotag will be mapped in OSM (for example: locations where events such as battles or plane crashes happened). Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:26, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
- Sure, of course in addition to coordinates. I also talked to an OSM guys who said that OSM IDs were a reliable and permanent mapping (contrary to what the OSM wiki says). --Dschwen 05:27, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
Wikimania
|
Wikimania
Hi Pigsonthewing! It was a pleasure meeting you at Wikimania 2012! Hope to see you again next year!
|
- Hey, it was great to meet you too! Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:12, 21 July 2012 (UTC)
QRpedia article template error
Andy, The QRpedia aticle template has plus signs "+" where underscores "_" should be, so that the stats don't read out properly. I don't know much about templates, but am hoping this is easily fixed. Smallbones (talk) 14:25, 21 July 2012 (UTC)
- Fixed. See here. -- WOSlinker (talk) 16:23, 21 July 2012 (UTC)
Infobox aircraft
Template_talk:Infobox_aircraft#New_version_in_sandbox. -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:54, 21 July 2012 (UTC)
2012 Aurora shooting and date/time metadata
Hi, Andy. Would you keep any eye on this. Teh [[littlun]s keep fucking it up. Br'er Rabbit (talk) 08:39, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
- Will do. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:59, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
The Signpost: 23 July 2012
- Paid editing: Does Wikipedia pay? The skeptic: Orange Mike
- From the editor: Signpost developments
- WikiProject report: Summer sports series: WikiProject Olympics
- Arbitration report: Fæ and Michaeldsuarez banned; Kwamikagami desysopped; Falun Gong closes with mandated external reviews and topic bans
- Featured content: When is an island not an island?
- Technology report: Translating SVGs and making history bugs history
EduWiki Conference 5-6 September in Leicester, UK
I am writing to you as you have signed up to the Education Meetup at Wikimania 2012 and perhaps are interested in how Wikipedia links to education. Wikimedia UK is now running a education related event that may be of interest to you: the EduWiki Conference on 5-6 September in Leicester. This event will be looking at Wikipedia and related charitable projects in terms of educational practice, including good faith collaboration, open review, and global participation. It's a chance to talk about innovative work in your institution or online community, and shape the future of Wikimedia UK's work in this area!
The conference will be of interest to educators, scholarly societies members, contributors to Wikipedia and other open education projects, and students.
For details please visit the UK Chapter Wiki.
Please feel welcome to register or promote within your network.
Thank you, Daria Cybulska (talk) 16:20, 25 July 2012 (UTC)
Speedy deletion nomination of Template:HighBeam
If this is the first article that you have created, you may want to read the guide to writing your first article.
You may want to consider using the Article Wizard to help you create articles.
A tag has been placed on Template:HighBeam, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G4 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be a repost of material that was previously deleted following a deletion debate, such as at articles for deletion. Under the specified criteria, where an article has substantially identical content to that of an article deleted after debate, and any changes in the content do not address the reasons for which the material was previously deleted, it may be deleted at any time.
If you think that the page was nominated in error, contest the nomination by clicking on the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion" in the speedy deletion tag. Doing so will take you to the talk page where you can explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. You can also visit the page's talk page directly to give your reasons, but be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but do not hesitate to add information that is consistent with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, you can contact one of these administrators to request that the administrator userfy the page or email a copy to you. Br'er Rabbit (talk) 15:22, 26 July 2012 (UTC)
Andy, you know better. Br'er Rabbit (talk) 15:23, 26 July 2012 (UTC)
- I clearly know better than you that your stated reason for nominating this template for speedy deletion is bogus. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:29, 26 July 2012 (UTC)
Moscow on QRs
For an odd bit - see WT:QR. Smallbones (talk) 20:28, 26 July 2012 (UTC)
Template:Infobox derecho
Template:Derechobox – I wanted to drop by not as a US Roads member but as a Trop Cyclones member for a moment that this came to my attention and since I know you're good enough with templates, I'd like some advice if you think this is redundant in general to a severe storm infobox. The guy who made it also made Late July 2012 North American derecho, which uses said box. To say the least, I ain't happy that he made his own color and intensity scheme which is an OR in itself, but I'd just like an opinion from you. Mitch32(There is a destiny that makes us... family.) 18:06, 27 July 2012 (UTC)
- It certainly seems redundant - have you reached out to the editor who made it? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:33, 28 July 2012 (UTC)
Birmingham Meet-up
Hi Pigs/Andy, do you plan on creating another Birmingham meet-up any time soon. It's been ages since the last. Thanks ツ Jenova20 (email) 10:55, 28 July 2012 (UTC)
- Turnout was poor, last time, but why not - when do you suggest? Also, I'm organising an editathon (not yet announced) in November - watch this space! Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:31, 28 July 2012 (UTC)
- Well if turnout was an issue then how about making it quite far away? Like 2 months, a year...Thanks ツ Jenova20 (email) 10:09, 29 July 2012 (UTC)
The Bugle: Issue LXXVI, July 2012
|
The Bugle is published by the Military history WikiProject. To receive it on your talk page, please join the project or sign up here.
If you are a project member who does not want delivery, please remove your name from this page. Your editors, Ian Rose (talk) and Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 09:42, 29 July 2012 (UTC)
GibraltarpediA
Welcome on board! :) --Gibmetal 77talk 2 me 22:11, 29 July 2012 (UTC)
Hey! Just wanted to say, thanks for catching this awful mistake of mine. Much obliged. Nomader (talk) 05:43, 30 July 2012 (UTC)
The Signpost: 30 July 2012
- News and notes: Wikimedians and London 2012; WMF budget – staffing, engineering, editor retention effort, and the global South; Telegraph's cheap shot at WP
- WikiProject report: Summer sports series: WikiProject Horse Racing
- Featured content: One of a kind
- Arbitration report: No pending or open arbitration cases
DYK for Murder of Thomas Bates
 | On 1 August 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Murder of Thomas Bates, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that although four people testified that he did not murder Thomas Bates, Oswald Grey was the last person hanged at Winson Green Prison? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Murder of Thomas Bates. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
British Boxing Hall of Fame page
Hi Andy
Thanks for your comments and advice regarding the dispute over the British Boxing Hall of Fame page(s) and apologies for not following protocol.
It is very frustrating as it seems to be an open and shut case and example of trademark theft. I understand that in the real world though that things are not always that simple.
If you don't mind I would like to go over our position in a little more detail:
OUR CREDENTIALS
The British Boxing Hall of Fame Ltd was registered as a company in the UK in november 2011. http://wck2.companieshouse.gov.uk/48d54d6ba8eb3a4f8babba56032ff596/compdetails
Due to the use of the sensitive use of the word British in our name, we are recognised as being 'preeminent in our field' by the Department of the Secretary of State for Sport. All companies using the word British in the title need to be vetted and have to supply a letter of endorsement from their sport's governing body -
Here is a link to the official letter of endorsement from British boxing's governing body, The British Boxing Board of Control (BBBofC) - https://docs.google.com/open?id=1Pcd372V1fAaOT5BwM_XE9otCgsbCapRBwcvBz8CCm0qfadyBF4YkuvyWnRJt
The trademark for the British Boxing Hall of Fame was granted in 2010 with no objections and elaspes in 2020 - http://www.ipo.gov.uk/t-find-number?detailsrequested=C&trademark=2552093
We are officially endorsed and supported by the two leading boxing magazines in the United Kingdom - Boxing News (editor Tris Dixon) and Boxing Monthly (editor Glyn Leach). We are supported by a network of historians and top journalists globally. References are available from the very highest level.
THE OTHER ORGANISATION
The other organisation registered its domain names and company name in July 2012 but oddly claim to have a history going back to 2008. This is not true and they have no evidence to substantiate this. They have never staged events under the banner of the British Boxing Hall of Fame.
They claim to have a list of supporters/ambassadors but really that is no great achievement as we can do the same on an even higher level.
The real issue is that they are cynically attempting to steal our identity. We are already undertaking action with regard to company names and their online presence but the wikipedia article is particularly irritating because of its high search engine ranking.
I hope this is all a little clearer now.
Regards Stewart Howe — Preceding unsigned comment added by Stewarthowe (talk • contribs) 09:49, 1 August 2012 (UTC)
- Thank you, but your position was already clear; and my response remains as I made it under similar comments elsewhere. Nonetheless, if I can help by explaining how Wikipedia works, please feel free to ask. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:00, 1 August 2012 (UTC)
This Month in GLAM: July 2012
| ||||||
Nomination of D. Ian M. Wallace for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article D. Ian M. Wallace is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/D. Ian M. Wallace until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion template from the top of the article. -- Uzma Gamal (talk) 01:29, 6 August 2012 (UTC)
I've added (referenced) birth/death dates to this article and expanded the text a little. however, for some reason I can't add it to my Watch List. I'll try to remember to check the article for any comments from you on the talk page over the next few days, but you might like to ping me, or make a note here, if you need my attention.--Quiet Editor (talk) 15:33, 6 August 2012 (UTC)
- Thank you,and for letting me know. I've added a little more, and the
|df=yparameter to {{Start date}}. There have been some server issues today; you might be able to watchlist the article if you try again later. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:10, 6 August 2012 (UTC)
Roger Steare
I haven't had a chance to check it for neutrality yet, but one thing I am concerned about is the resume-esque nature of the article. The career section in particular is written in bullet format. Also, there are some regionally unique language in there such as "read History at..." which I assumes means "studied History at...." Just my two cents so far.--v/r - TP 19:55, 6 August 2012 (UTC)
The Signpost: 06 August 2012
- News and notes: FDC portal launched
- Arbitration report: No pending or open arbitration cases
- Featured content: Casliber's words take root
- Technology report: Wikidata nears first deployment but wikis go down in fibre cut calamity
- WikiProject report: Summer sports series: WikiProject Martial Arts
Wiki Loves Public Art
Hi Andy,
I read about your cool idea about Wolvopedia on Maketheshift (apparently blocked here...) and wanted to tell you about my project, Wiki Loves Public Art (WLPA), and suggest to you the possibility to cooperate a little bit. WLPA is inspired by Wiki Loves Monuments and will focus, as the name suggests, on public artworks. The pictures will be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons and even though some basic rules will be the same for all countries participating, the contest will have a rather federative approach and there can be adjustment locally so that it works better. The project is lead by Wikimedia Sweden in partnership with Europeana.
What I would suggest is to organize a local version of WLPA in Wolverhampton in connection to the larger international contest during May 2013. On top of the actual photo contest it would be great to have side activities to invite people to write about the objects, organize photo scavenger hunts etc. To do this together I think would create a bit more headlines for your project and a great way to get people involved; and for me Wolverhampton would be a great pilot city to start with to see how the concept works in the UK. I have also been in contact with Harry Mitchell about a similar thing for Coventry, but I am not sure if he is interested or not, and in any case I believe that there are many benefits with having two pilot cities instead of just one.
I hope that you think that it sounds interesting and would like to sign up on the list of volunteers that I have created on Wikimedia Sweden's wiki, see here.
All the best,
John Andersson (WMSE) (talk) 12:49, 7 August 2012 (UTC) (a.k.a. Jopparn)
- Thanks - I signed up for
WLPAWPPA (on en.WP) just yesterday! I will certainly try to include it in what I hope to do in Wolverhampton (we can link to the main site, http://maketheshift.org/. I'm not sure I have time to be a national coordinator, though. If we get the go-ahead for Wolverhampton, then I'll sign up for that. You might want to talk to User:Rock drum about Coventry. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:41, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
- That sounds good, but when will you know about Wolverhampton will happen or not? The WikiProject Public Art that you signed up for is something different though, even if I am hoping that a lot of the participants there will also help out with the Wiki Loves Public Art contest as well! Cheers, John Andersson (WMSE) (talk) 14:34, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
- After the event on 22 September. Thanks or the clarification. Why do we have two, very similar projects How are they being coordinated? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:46, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
- WikiProject Public Art is just a WikiProject with public art as its theme, created to coordinate the work regarding public art on English Wikipedia.
- Wiki Loves Public Art on the other hand is a photo contest very similar to Wiki Loves Monuments that will take place during one month every year (May 2013 will be the first!). The goals of the contest are to get as many good photos of public artworks as possible to Wikimedia Commons from all over the world; to attract both new and old contributors to go out with their cameras; and to increase cooperation between the Wikimedia chapters. I am working with the international coordination of Wiki Loves Public Art and thanks to our cooperation with Europeana we have access to legal staff that can help us figure out what we can and cannot do, we have a small budget to support events and the national teams organizing Wiki Loves Public Art. Europeana can also help us find GLAM partners that have the data that we need (and can help us to convince the GLAMs to release the data under a free license so that we can use it on Wiki(p|m)edia).
- I hope that this made it a bit more clear :). Regards, John Andersson (WMSE) (talk) 16:55, 7 August 2012 (UTC)