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Hi there, I found an article on John Murray you had created (or so I'm guessing) accidentally pasted and saved into the template boxing-bio-stub (and so appeared on every page that had that stub tag on it :-)
Anyway, I removed it and pasted the whole lot into a new article at John Murray (boxer) (and just wikified it a little bit more - categories etc). Just thought you might like to know where it is in case you wanted to work on it further.
Welcome to Wikipedia, Notjamesbond! I am Pharaoh of the Wizards and have been editing Wikipedia for quite some time. I just wanted to say hi and welcome you to Wikipedia! If you have any questions, feel free to leave me a message on my talk page or by typing {{helpme}} at the bottom of this page. I love to help new users, so don't be afraid to leave a message! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:
The headings were too long, the dates and weight classes should be included in the section rather than lumping all the info into the header. The way the article is written is almost magazine style rather than a neutral encyclopedia. See WP:MOS for the manual of style. Hope this helps. Cheers, --Jimbo[online]02:43, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
Kessler Link
I removed it because inserting "See also..." in the middle of the article disrupts the article. That kind of link isn't appropriate for the middle of an entry.MKil (talk) 17:56, 2 January 2009 (UTC)MKil
If you look at the Wiki guidelines for "See Also," you'll see that these links don't go in the middle of articles. If used, they go at the end of articles. Placing them where you did disrupts the articles' flow. Honestly, I don't really see the need for a "See Also" link to either Calzaghe-Kessler or Bika-Codrington, but if you think they are necessary they should be placed in their proper place. In between two paragraphs in the main article isn't the proper place.MKil (talk) 18:55, 2 January 2009 (UTC)MKil
You were recently involved in a discussion with regards boxers nicknames. There is a continuation of that discussion with specific reference to Audley Harrison on the BLP page here. Please feel free to add your opinion there once more. Regards. Vintagekits (talk) 10:25, 11 November 2009 (UTC)
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A tag has been placed on Fred Mackintosh requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article, which appears to be about a real person, individual animal(s), an organization (band, club, company, etc.), or web content, does not indicate how or why the subject is notable: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not indicate the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable. If this is the first page that you have created, then you should read the guide to writing your first article.
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For guidelines on specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for bands, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this.
Note that per WP:POLITICIAN being an unelected candidate for political office does not confer notability - this is to prevent Wikipedia being used as an election bill-board. JohnCD (talk) 15:06, 4 January 2010 (UTC)
Looks like I was too late to prevent the deletion although I do think it was un-necessary. The individual concerned is fighting a highly marginal seat and will have a very good chance of attaining elected office. I thought Wikipedia was an encyclopedia which people could access in order to find out about a given subject. I can't see many more important subjects than the representatives in a coming election, especially when that representative stands a chance of getting in. The article in question, had no POV and no bias. I can't see the problem Notjamesbond (talk) 00:07, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
I was just going to leave a message about Chris Philp and Mike Crockart, but I see someone's beaten me to it for another article. PPCs are not inherently notable; regardless of how safe you might think their constituency to be, they should not have articles created until after the election. Wereon (talk) 00:02, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, but all Wikipedia articles must meet our criteria for inclusion (see What Wikipedia is not and Deletion policy). Since it does not seem that Fred Mackintosh meets these criteria, an editor has started a discussion about whether this article should be kept or deleted.
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I would like to add that my comments at this AfD are not intended as an attack on you personally - my concern is a general one that we tend to forget that Wikipedia is meant to be an encyclopedia, and are too ready to accept it being used as a convenient notice-board for every kind of announcement and promotion; anonymity means that we often have no way to know whether an editor has a conflict of interest, but I would like to limit the opportunity for people to be tempted to use WP to promote their companies/bands/parties/noble causes. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 15:41, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for the comment John, I understand that wikepedia should be policed and the integrity of the articles should be paramount. However I really do come at this from a different viewpoint from yourself. My opinion is that the articles in question are highly relevant provided of course that there is no bias and sufficient third party sources to warrant inclusion. There are some PPC's standing in parliamantary elections up and down the country who are of course paper candidates and who have no real background to speak of. However certain candidates, and Fred Mackintosh and Mike Crockart are good examples of these, do have significant backgrounds in terms of local politics and could realistically be elected to parliament. I really can't see anything more important than that and I can imagine there being a number of potential users of wikepedia who would want to find out a little bit more about these people considering that they may be represented by them.
On 17 October 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Leon Baptiste, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check ) and add it 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.
Hi there! Just want to say good work on the article and I've added a few more bits to link better between the junior info and the Commonwealth gold. Cheers! SFB17:11, 17 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi SFB, thanks for the message was suprised to see that it become a DYK am really pleased though as it's my first :) Saw the edits you made, have to say it did seem that there was a bit a gap between the junior success and the commonwealth so glad you got a chance to pad it out. Thanks again Notjamesbond (talk) 18:02, 17 October 2010 (UTC)
DYK for Liam Walsh (boxer)
On 14 November 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Liam Walsh (boxer), which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the new Commonwealth boxing champion Liam Walsh and his two brothers made their pro boxing debuts on the same night? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and add it 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.
Hello, I just wanted to introduce myself and let you know I am glad to be reviewing the article Tuition fees (UK) you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Lord Roem (talk) 20:25, 30 December 2010 (UTC)
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[1][2] Hello. The "page" parameter in the GA template is almost always a number - the number of the GA review. You don't have to change it [3] when you pass or fail an article. Gimmetoo (talk) 02:45, 3 January 2011 (UTC)
I think I've made quite a lot of effort already to be fair. Am working away all this week so offline, maybe at the weekend I'll have a chance to do something but then working away all next week as well. Not so easy to balance with real life when I'm on the road Notjamesbond (talk) 21:38, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for all of your work on this article. Congratulations. Perhaps you can find time to review one of the other articles nominated at WP:GAN. Racepacket (talk) 18:54, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
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On 2 March 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Ackworth, West Yorkshire, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the medieval cross in the center of the village of Ackworth, West Yorkshire, may have been built as a memorial to victims of the Black Death? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and add it 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.
Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 8,766 last month to 8,841 on February 26th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 65 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 61. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 51 out of a total number of 2,376 articles.
Currently we have twenty six Yorkshire featured articles:
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To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least Good article status
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Great Backlog Drive
Most of you should have spotted the advertisement for the Great Backlog Drive that is under way at the moment. This is an initiative to reduce the number of tags that are attached to articles by attempting to fix as many of these as possible. Of cause some tags are more of a problem to fix than others but the purpose of the drive is to cut down the overall number of articles that have identified problems in them, rather than concentrate on specific problems. It would be good if project members got involved in this and fixed tags that they come across in their editing. It would also be helpful to avoid tagging new problems by fixing them when you spot the problem, though if you cannot fix it then tag for someone else to look at.
The project clean up listing gives a list of the more common tags attached to the project's articles, of which 32.1 % are marked for clean up, and can be found -
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Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 8,841 last month to 8,899 on March 29th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 66 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 62. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 51 out of a total number of 2,395 articles.
Currently we have twenty six Yorkshire featured articles:
There are 84 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! No membership changes have taken place since the March newsletter,
though the number of active members is still currently low.
Thanks
Thanks to all those who took part in the Great Backlog Drive raised in the last newsletter. A small inroad was made getting down from 32.1% to 31.7% of articles tagged.
A very big Thank you to all the editors who labour away quietly and help make this WikiProject what it is; no edit goes unnoticed.
To members who have added suggestions to the ToDo list at Yorkshire Portal.
To the football and rugby editors who have done stirling work in keeping abreast of the top clubs.
To all the WikiProkject Yorkshire editors who have been busy on vandal patrol at watchlist.
Great!
Priority Articles
The top priority articles that have been identified to date are as follows -
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least Good article status
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WikiConference UK 2011
Just a reminder for those members in the UK that there is the WikiConference UK 2011 that takes place in Bristol on 16 April 2011. This will incorporate the Wikimedia UK's annual conference. It would be good if the project has some members who could attend and support the event. Opportunities are available to get more widely involved in the direction of the UK chapter. If you have time you can volunteer and get involved by just contacting them here.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The April 2011 articles selected below are the editors choice as no one came up with any other suggestions on the project talk page.
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Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 8,899 last month to 8,918 on April 19th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 66 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 62. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 51 out of a total number of 2,413 articles.
Currently we have twenty six Yorkshire featured articles:
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least Good article status
To set up a weekly or monthly selected article improvement drive (See this month's feature below)
To produce a regular news letter for circulation to members
and apropos of the above a 2010 New Year article improvement drive/collaboration is being organised.
Commons images
For those of you who missed it, April saw a milestone for images on Commons with the upload of the 10 millionth image. There are images on most subjects, if you can find them, to illustrate articles. With the major work of transferring Geograph images to Commons nearing completion then most location articles should have images available for use in illustrating the subject. All of the village and civil parish articles that had articles in December 2009 had categories created on Commons for them so that the Geograph images can be placed into them. Thus the {{Commons category}} template can be added to all village and civil parish articles to link to all the available images on Commons for the location. Though beware that if the template does not have any arguments, moving of the article to a new name will break the link to Commons so it is wise to include the article name in the template call e.g.{{Commons category|Rotherham}}.
Those of you interested in helping out at Commons are more than welcome to help organise and categorise all of the uploaded Geograph images so that they can be found and made available to users.
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Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 8,918 last month to 8,974 on May 23rd). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 68 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 63. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 51 out of a total number of 2,439 articles.
Currently we have twenty six Yorkshire featured articles:
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
The project is subscribed to a clean-up listing which lists articles tagged with various clean-up tags that need attention. The listing is refreshed by a bot on a regular basis.
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Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 8,974 last month to 9,083 on June 28). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 68 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 63. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 51 out of a total number of 2,603 articles.
Currently we have twenty five Yorkshire featured articles:
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least Good article status
To set up a weekly or monthly selected article improvement drive (See this month's feature below)
To produce a regular news letter for circulation to members
and apropos of the above a 2010 New Year article improvement drive/collaboration is being organised.
Featured Lists
Featured Lists have been promoted during the last month and have now been given their own weekly slot on the main page. Lists appear on the front page on Mondays just above "Today's featured picture". This may be extended to other days at a later date if people like it. In line with this I have also added a box for lists on to the Yorkshire Portal and created a couple of entries to start it off, more will be added later.
The project currently has 12 featured lists, out of 208 project articles identified as lists, and it would be good if we could get some of these on to the front page. Of anyone wants to take this up they need to create an entry for the list and nominate them to be considered here.
Lists are easier than articles to get to featured status as there is less prose to be created and the bulk of the page is the list itself. Most of the project's current featured lists are on football related topics and it would be good to get a broader range of topics for out Featured Lists. Some of the 208 lists could be brought up to featured status with a little bit of work, if any one wants to take up the challenge.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
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This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Lord Roem (talk) 20:25, 30 December 2010 (UTC)
; see Talk:Tuition fees (UK) for reasons why the nomination failed. If or when these points have been taken care of, you may apply for a new nomination of said article. If you oppose this decision, you may ask for a reassessment. Lord Roem (talk) 23:53, 30 December 2010 (UTC)
Hello! Your submission of Jason Booth at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Thelmadatter (talk) 02:18, 26 February 2011 (UTC)
