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Cambridge meetup 14 November
[edit]Another Cambridge meetup is set for the afternoon of Saturday 14 November. Please contribute to the page and come along if you can. (Essex covers many things, but some of those things are adjacent to Cambridgeshire). Charles Matthews (talk) 19:47, 11 November 2009 (UTC)
Speedy deletion nomination of Germany's Aims in the First World War
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Speedy deletion nomination of Stop the Islamisation of Denmark
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CfD nomination of Category:Mark Haddon
[edit]I have nominated Category:Mark Haddon (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. RL0919 (talk) 03:30, 18 November 2009 (UTC)
DYK for Germany's Aims in the First World War
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RfA Thanks
[edit]Dear Francium12, here is a little note to say thank you for your kind vote on my request for adminship which failed with a final result of (40/19/12).
Thank you for your participation in my RfA which I withdrew after concerns of my knowledge of policy. Special thanks are owed to Coffee, who defended me throughout and whom I cannot thank enough for the nomination; to 2over0 for being supportive and helpful; to A Stop at Willoughby for the thorough, thoughtful and articulate support rationale; to IP69.226.103.13 for maintaining composure and for a pleasant interaction on my talk page and, last but not least, to Juliancolton who was good enough to close the RfA at my request and, frankly, because an editor whom I respect so much found the time to support me! If the need for more admins at the main page is still apparent in a few months, I may try again. Thank you all for a relatively drama-free RfA and for providing me with much material from which to learn from my mistakes. You're all welcome to drop by my talk page any time. God save the Queen Wiki! HJMitchell You rang? 20:45, 29 December 2009 (UTC)
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Unreferenced BLPs
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Law work
[edit]Thanks for your RfA support; is there any chance you do GAN reviews? I've got a load of law ones that need doing. As an aside, I have a few politics projects that you might be interested in :). Give me a poke if you'd be good with some form of collaboration. Ironholds (talk) 09:03, 3 January 2010 (UTC)
- As another aside, I just referenced the BLPs mentioned above. Yours, Ironholds (talk) 09:13, 3 January 2010 (UTC)
- Ehh, that's fine. I'm going to be writing a (hopefully) GA on indirect effect in a while - want to get involved in that? Try Court of Chancery or the Defective Premises Act 1972 if you're any good with tort. Thanks, Ironholds (talk) 09:27, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
Recent nomination at DYK
[edit]Hi Francium12,
I reverted your nomination because you deleted a load of other stuff at the same time. Add it back, but best to use the preview button :-), it's easily done I know. Mikenorton (talk) 19:40, 4 January 2010 (UTC)
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Hi, as an autoreviewer, any article you create is automatically marked patrolled. I suggest that this should be taken as an obligation not to create any unsourced stubs, without so much as an external link, as you did for this article. --Crusio (talk) 11:24, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
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Vanessa Perroncel
[edit]I see that you removed the proposed deletion from Vanessa Perroncel. Are you intending to improve the article? JACOPLANE • 2010-01-30 12:03
Speedy deletion nomination of Vanessa Perroncel
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Articles for deletion nomination of Vanessa Perroncel
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We are half way through round one of the WikiCup. We've had some shakeups regarding late entries, flag changes and early dropouts, but the competition is now established- there will be no more flag changes or new competitors. Congratulations to Sasata (submissions), our current leader, who, at the time of writing, has more listed points than
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AfD nomination of Howard Fredrics
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The "article" had nothing from impartial reliable sources to indicate any kind of notability. --Orange Mike | Talk 02:51, 9 February 2010 (UTC)
I have nominated Five Get Over Excited (The Housemartins song), an article that you created, for deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Five Get Over Excited (The Housemartins song). Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time.
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"war chest" editing
[edit]Your user page tells me that you
- will be making a run for admin at some point in 2010 and will be accumulating a war chest of edits and experience to win over voters.
Perhaps this creation of yours is intended as one of the items in the chest.
It strikes me as seriously defective work. Here's the first sentence:
- The Kingston University National Student Survey controversy was a controversy in 2008 where Kingston University were found to be attempting to manipulate responses to the National Student Survey, a survey of degree quality among final year undergraduates, in order to increase the Universities' position within University league tables.
First, you present no evidence of any real controversy. Universities are rather routinely (and rightly) criticized for misdeeds. Here it's clear that something went wrong. The BBC and the tabloids Times and Mail were right to report on it. None presented it as a controversy. Moreover, none alleged that the university as a whole was behind it. Maybe it was, maybe it wasn't; that's for Private Eye or similar to investigate. All these stories said was that two individual lecturers had encouraged the students to give favorable responses. The stories also made it clear that the university expressed dismay and regret; you or I might think "Well of course, it was caught with its pants down; such crocodile tears are meaningless", but that's for readers or for writers elsewhere to decide for themselves. (Also, if you discount what's said according to its likely motivation, then you'd have to discount any story critical of a university that's published in the poujadist Daily Wail.)
Most editors have off days. Certainly I do. I hope that this article was created during one of your off days. Either way, please be rather more careful about this kind of subject in the future.
Further, it can't harm to specify the title and date and where known author of any news article cited, if only in anticipation of reorganizations and deletions at news websites.
I'm not at all convinced that this "controversy" merits a paragraph within a larger article, let alone an article by itself. But anyway I have revised it. -- Hoary (talk) 04:33, 13 February 2010 (UTC)
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Round one is over, and round two has begun! Congratulations to the 64 contestants who have made it through, but well done and thank you to all contestants who took part in our first round. A special well done goes to Sasata (submissions), our round one winner (1010 points), and to
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TonyTheTiger (submissions), who were second and third respectively (640 points/605 points). Sasata was awarded the most points for both good articles (300 points) and featured articles (600 points), and TonyTheTiger was awarded the most for featured topics (225 points), while Hunter Kahn claimed the most for good topics (70).
Staxringold (submissions) claimed the most featured lists (240 points) and featured pictures (35 points),
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