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Anyone care about British basketball?

To my surprise, over forty of the names listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Basketball/Unreferenced BLPs are figures associated with the British Basketball League. Does anyone here know/care about this league? If you think these articles are worth keeping, point me in the direction of some good sources I could use. Thanks! Zagalejo^^^ 06:54, 14 December 2010 (UTC)

Project scope: Hallstatt culture

Hi, is the article Hallstatt culture in the scope of the WikiProject United Kingdom? There has recently been a dispute about that. --Eleassar ^{my talk} 11:08, 19 December 2010 (UTC)

Doesn't appear to be any discussion about it on the Talkpage. Please provide a link to the dispute. Thanks. Daicaregos (talk) 12:24, 19 December 2010 (UTC)

Available in the history of the talk page of the article and the talk page of my page and User:Dbachmann. --Eleassar ^{my talk} 12:32, 19 December 2010 (UTC)

Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see why this page should be part of the UK project. I can see why the page might be tagged as part of the Slovenia wikiproject. Adding that tag to the page is fair enough. Removing it is also fair, if the remover then starts a discussion on the talk page. Then everybody who watches the page can join the discussion, and a consensus is reached. Isn't that how WP is meant to work? (I would expect an administrator to know that). GyroMagician (talk) 13:04, 19 December 2010 (UTC)

Mass update of place of birth

Recently user:SE7 has made mass updates to the place of birth of a large number of people and I disagree with these edits and would appreciate the input of other edits. My main problem is adding un-necessary addition locations, overlinking and using England when the UK would be more appropriate. The discussion is ongoing at my talk page. Thanks. Bjmullan (talk) 11:57, 28 December 2010 (UTC)

I disagree with the view that User:SE7 is over-linking. Since this is not a paper encyclopedia, there is no need to worry about overly wordly statements. Besides, arguably user:SE7 is just clarifying and formalising their places of births to avoid confusion with other places of the same name (e.g. in the USA, there are several locations called Cambridge as can be observed here Cambridge (disambiguation) and/or historical reasons (e.g. Richmond, Surrey prior to 1965 compared with Richmond, Greater London post 1965). Therefore, if this is done on a few peoples' pages, then it may as well be done merely for consistency sake. As a so called "free encyclopedia", it should be our aim to make every aspect of it as accurate as possible, which is why I disagree with your view. DMJohnston (talk) 20:09, 28 December 2010 (UTC)

Have to disagree with the use of the UK. For locations the country (England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland) is more appropriate to indicate which part of the UK applies. The inclusion of counties though is problematical and the county appropriate to the time of the event should be used rather than the current county. That is the reason that many locations in infoboxes deliberately have the county missing. Keith D (talk) 13:59, 12 January 2011 (UTC)

Having taken a quick look at the discussion, it seems to me that issues arising from SE7's edits need to be looked at on a case-by-case basis. In some there seems to be unnecessary overlinking, in others there seems to be a perfectly reasonable desire to correct historical misinformation (Birkenhead was in Cheshire, not Merseyside, before 1974, for example). The problem is often that there is a lack of articles on "historical counties", because of the odd view expressed by some editors (in the past?) that current local government boundaries outweigh everything else. Ghmyrtle (talk) 14:12, 12 January 2011 (UTC)

Help

If anybody has a copy of Des'ree's Supernatural, could they please add the credits for "Kissing You" to the article. Much appreciated. Adabow (talk · contribs) 09:10, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

Template:UK newspapers

I have raised a query on this template at [1]. If you have any observations please post them there. Thanks. Eldumpo (talk) 12:40, 6 February 2011 (UTC)

Strawberry

Hi, As our growing 18-vehicle bus operator, Strawberry, has no entry, I have added us to the Operator lists under our correct title of Strawberry (NOT Strawberry Buses/Strawberry Travel). However Wikipedia has understandably auto-linked this to a page about the Strawberry plant. If it is possible to create a Strawberry bus operator stub I would be pleased to provide/enter info for it. Our website is www/strawberrybus.co.uk. Oliver Howarth, MD oliverhowarth@btinternet.com86.145.45.230 (talk) 18:37, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

I've altered the link in the list to Strawberry (bus operator), so that's where your new article can go; you can then put a hatnote on the Strawberry article for the benefit of anyone looking for the bus operator. The trick though right from the off is to make sure that even the initial stub incontrovertably establishes the notability of the company, which means mentions in independent reputable sources. The company web site can be used to verify basic information about the company, but it won't establish that all-important notability. Malleus Fatuorum 18:49, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

If you need any help with that just drop a note on my talk page. Malleus Fatuorum 18:50, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

To avoid the above IP getting into WP:COI problems, I've created a stub for the bus company, and added it to Strawberry (disambiguation). PamD (talk) 21:56, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

That's a good start, sets the right tone nicely. Malleus Fatuorum 00:08, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

Special Relationship

The article Special Relationship, concerning US-UK relations, is being turned into an anti-British diatribe by a new user. I have reverted more than once. More eyes would be helpful. Lachrie (talk) 17:28, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

British Isles

Due to a 'reference' edit made in January 2011, that article's infobox was rendered too wide, thus shoving the intro to the left and making it too narrow. Anybody know how to fix it? GoodDay (talk) 17:58, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

The infobox hasn't changed in my browser. Do you know which edit is causing the problem? Nev1 (talk) 18:03, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

It was an edit made by Siddhant at 11:59 UTC January 22, 2011. GoodDay (talk) 18:08, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

Essex collaboration

A new wikiproject has started --> Wikipedia:WikiProject Essex. I opened my big mouth and suggested a Collaboration was a good idea....and so Colchester is first cab off the rank. Some comments/informal peer review type stuff would be good to get the ball rolling...and who knows...Casliber (talk · contribs) 14:47, 18 February 2011 (UTC)

Tony Blair

Editors here may be interested in assisting with the Good Article nomination of Tony Blair. The review can be found at Talk:Tony Blair/GA1. GA is reachable, but it will require hard work. Any assistance would be appreciated. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 22:54, 27 February 2011 (UTC)

United Kingdom Census 2011

The United Kingdom Census 2011 is topical at the moment. Obviously it will be a while before the results start to become available (particularly the detail down to parish or ward level) but is there a coherent plan anywhere of how the thousands of affected articles on wikipedia will be updated with the new data, perhaps involving county or regional wikiprojects, or is this left to ad hoc editing?— Rod ^talk 20:33, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

Urgent photo need of Gaddhafi house in Hampstead Garden Suburb

If anyone lives anywhere near Hampstead Garden Suburb, the article Topple the Tyrants could use a pic of the Gaddhafi house currently occupied by the activist group Topple the Tyrants. There's a pic on Al Jazeera's blog[2] at the 5:54PM slot showing a banner raised there. If anyone can snap a pic of the occupied house, that'd be awesome. MatthewVanitas (talk) 21:38, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

Wow, taken care of already by a UK wikipedian! MatthewVanitas (talk) 23:12, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

Devoultion government First Ministers & Deputy First Ministers

We need some input at Deputy First Minister for Wales (concerning a RM). Also, some comments at First Minister of Scotland, Deputy First Minister of Scotland & First Minister and deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland. -- GoodDay (talk) 20:15, 14 March 2011 (UTC)

WPENGVAR template:British English

{{British English}} use of the flag is in question, see Template talk:American English

184.144.160.156 (talk) 02:55, 16 March 2011 (UTC)

New Navbox

I have drafted the {{Heritage protection in the United Kingdom}} navbox template, aiming to bring together scheduled monuments, listed buildings, monuments records, etc across the UK. Comments suggestions and improvements from anyone interested would be welcome on the template talk page. Regards, Jonathan Oldenbuck (talk) 21:02, 17 March 2011 (UTC)

Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty? I only mention it because I live near one. Not exactly heritage, which is why I didn't automatically add it to the navbox. -- role^player 22:19, 17 March 2011 (UTC)

PS I think you could expand the archive section to include document repositories, most notably TNA, but possibly one or two others? -- role^player 22:23, 17 March 2011 (UTC)

AONBs don't really belong on a heritage template, but they belong on a to a related one for convervation designations (National Parks, AONB, SAC, RAMSAR, NNR). The difference being typically (in England) English Heritage is the responsible agency for heritage sites and Natural England for conservation sites, with the equivalent organisations elsewhere.

I agree, and have said so at the template talk page. The English Heritage/Natural England (and Historic Scotland/SNH) distinction might be useful in defining boundaries for the template. Thanks, Jonathan Oldenbuck (talk) 10:39, 18 March 2011 (UTC)

Birmingham 3

Hello everyone, I'd just like to enquire as to whether any Midlands-based editors would be interested in a meetup in Birmingham at some point this year, possibly in the early summer? There's a page for a Birmingham 3 meetup that could be rejuvenated if people are up for it. Colds7ream (talk) 14:12, 20 February 2011 (UTC)

I'd be interested in coming. Mike Peel (talk) 09:42, 26 March 2011 (UTC)

Jonathan Sumption and the Supreme Court

There is a quite circumstantial rumour that Jonathan Sumption has been appointed a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. Apparently there were many tweets about this on Thursday, and a significant blog post; and yesterday (Friday) there was a story in The Times about it. I don't read the Times and the article is behind a paywall. If anyone has a reliable source that this is all true, please update the page (I deleted an unsourced addition shortly after it was posted). The Supreme Court's website doesn't mention anything about this, so some caution is warranted. Charles Matthews (talk) 09:02, 26 March 2011 (UTC)

WikiConference UK 2011 - 16 April 2011, Bristol

Hi all,

Wikimedia UK is organising a WikiConference UK on 16 April 2011 in Bristol, to which everyone is invited - it will be the first large conference for Wikimedians in the UK (and the first in an annual series of such conferences). We'll also be holding our Annual General Meeting at the event. Registration is now open, and we're inviting talk proposals on both Wiki[p/m]edia content, and also chapter/wikimedia strategy, until 2 April. If you have any questions, please let me know. :-) Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 09:48, 26 March 2011 (UTC)

Postcode maps

IV postal area

I've been working with the OS Code-Point Open product, which utilises data from the Royal Mail PAF. This is freely licensed, but I'm concerned that I might be doing original research (so making the maps unusuable).

The product includes a point location for every postcode, but it does not attempt to indicate the area covered by any postcode. I've had to manually interpolate the boundary lines between adjacent districts. My method ensures that every postcode unit is shown as being in the correct postcode district, but in the remote areas there may be several miles between delivery points (eg the Glen Affric area). This means there may be significant errors in where I've drawn the lines, and this would show up in the image. For instance, there are noticeable differences in the area boundary compared to this map.

Is it worth me carrying on or is the potential original research too much of a problem?--Nilfanion (talk) 14:44, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

OS maps heads-up

Things are happening on the OS maps website - Get-a-map isn't working today, and they promise a new version of it launching tomorrow. The link via Geohack is currently broken. Needs watching! PamD (talk) 16:54, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

Do you have a history (sub) project?

There is a current debate regarding the validity of the article British America. Can anyone help in the non-deletion, non-redirect of this article? It is at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/British America. Argolin (talk) 11:03, 11 April 2011 (UTC)

Renaming Instant-runoff voting

Instant-runoff voting has been proposed to be renamed Alternative Vote, see Talk:Instant-runoff voting. 65.94.45.160 (talk) 03:47, 19 April 2011 (UTC)

Deletion of election poster image

I wish to inform you that this image has been nominated for deletion. There are possibly other nominations that I do not know about. Silverseren^C 20:24, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

Template:British Isles

Template:British Isles has been protected to allow for discussion of its title. It has been possible to change the title of this template on a page-by-page basis. Titles that have been used on different pages being:

• British Isles
• British-Irish Council area
• Great Britain, Ireland, and related islands
• British Isles — or Great Britain, Ireland, and related islands

A user has raised the question of whether this practice is a violation of NPOV.

A list of alternative solutions (aside form those being reverted between) is invited also. --RA (talk) 21:00, 10 May 2011 (UTC)

Photo request

I hope this is mainstream GLAM. I have been working just now on cleaning up Humfray Cole: Cole was a leading Elizabethan instrument maker, with 26 instruments surviving. His work is in the British Museum, National Maritime Museum, and at the University of St Andrews. Since instruments are 3D, using photos from the Web is generally copyvio. Would someone like to find a way of photographing some of his pieces, and uploading to Commons, which has related material nicely categorised? Charles Matthews (talk) 09:39, 6 June 2011 (UTC)

WikiProject Music of the United Kingdom is up for deletion

I've have nominated WikiProject Music of the United Kingdom for deletion at WP:MFD. Please comment here for any concerns. Thank for your time. Regards, JJ98 (Talk) 20:11, 8 June 2011 (UTC)

WikiProject English

Wikipedia:WikiProject English has been nominated for deletion. As this project was proposed for maintaining national varieties of English on how articles are written/formatted/spelled, you may be interested. (essentially, maintaing WP:ENGVAR compliance on articles) 65.93.15.213 (talk) 04:59, 5 July 2011 (UTC)

Renaming WikiProject Music of the United Kingdom

There is currently an 'RfM' Request to rename the WikiProject Music of the United Kingdom. Please go here to contribute. The project is not well known and was initially put up for deletion. Matt Lewis (talk) 22:57, 8 July 2011 (UTC)

The Mfd is here: Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject Music of the United Kingdom. It was a long discussion that led to 'no consensus'. The Rfm is now heading in the same direction. Input from this project would be appreciated. --Kleinzach 22:24, 9 July 2011 (UTC)

People can judge for themselves if the discussion was 'long' or not Kleinzach. In my opinion it wasn't remotely a long one (esp for Wikipedia!), but it did have a little repetition perhaps - but that is disagreement for you. All discussion is going to be tedious if you simply want to delete the project. The point we both agree on is that discussion on the project's future has had relatively low attendence. Matt Lewis (talk) 23:06, 9 July 2011 (UTC)

List of historic houses in the United Kingdom

If anybody has an interest in any of the counties of the UK can you please help build up this list with missing entries. I intend to make it as comprehensive as possible.♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:55, 14 July 2011 (UTC)

Tsunamis in the United Kingdom

I have been informed that I should seek permission to add your banner to an article. Should Tsunamis in the United Kingdom be tagged for WP UK? 65.93.15.213 (talk) 05:33, 17 July 2011 (UTC)

Bedfordshire clanger

We need an image! Please:

• Go and buy one, or make one.
• Take a photo of it.
• Eat it.
• Experience the deliciousness.
• Feel your bloodstream slowing down.
• If you survive, please upload the image to Wikicommons.
• Add the image to the artcle.
• Eat salads henceforth.

Thank you. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 14:10, 20 August 2011 (UTC)

Article alerts

Wikipedia:WikiProject United Kingdom/Article alerts has been created; generating Article alerts for this noticeboard. Timrollpickering (talk) 21:54, 27 August 2011 (UTC)

Merging WikiProject Music of the United Kingdom

Please see the Merger proposal. This issue has been going on for several months. It would be good to resolve it. --Kleinzach 02:32, 14 September 2011 (UTC)

Conservative Party (UK)

A collaboration is being formed to promote this article to Good Article. You can join the discussion here. Green plusses will be handed out. – Lionel ^(talk) 03:29, 17 October 2011 (UTC)

Open Ireland page move discussion

After a two-year ban imposed by Arbcom, a page move discussion for the Republic of Ireland can be entertained.

• (Discuss)–Republic of Ireland→Ireland (republic) Kauffner (talk) 08:22, 23 October 2011 (UTC)

Bodleian frieze

There is a c.1620 painted frieze in the Upper Reading Room of the Bodleian Library, I'm assured, with 202 portrait heads. I'm after a list of who these are, for reasons arising from an article. Can anyone, Oxonian or otherwise, help out? There are a number of learned articles about the frieze, but I can't find anything more than fragments of those freely online. Charles Matthews (talk) 14:54, 1 November 2011 (UTC)

Another journal on UK LGBT stuff

• Cocks, H.G. ""Sporty" Girls and "Artistic" Boys: Friendship, Illicit Sex, and the British "Companionship" Avertisement, 1913-1928." Journal of the History of Sexuality. Vol. 11, No. 3. July 2002

This could help coverage on UK LGBT History WhisperToMe (talk) 00:28, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

Discussion about the use of abbreviations in lists of monasteries, abbeys and priories etc

I have started a discussion about the use of abbreviations at Talk:List of abbeys and priories in England#Use of abbreviations which applies to all of the "List of monastic houses in X" (where X = counties) articles and the main list at List of abbeys and priories in England. The contributions of any interested editor would be welcome.— Rod ^talk 14:01, 12 November 2011 (UTC)

Relief maps

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I've uploaded a full set of relief maps for the English counties, and the Welsh and Scottish equivalents. I've added the Cumbria map to the relevant template and the results can be seen to the right.

I'll upload the remainder soon, and finish adding to the location map templates - these should be useful for physical geography articles (hills etc).--Nilfanion (talk) 11:33, 29 November 2011 (UTC)

Can we not use them for all location maps. Much better than the previous offerings. Fmph (talk) 12:28, 29 November 2011 (UTC)

The convention for location maps is to use political/road maps for human geography (eg towns) as the relief details on such a map amount to chartjunk, the human elements are more relevant there. Relief maps are prettier, but can be less informative for that sort of thing.

Which is a more informative background for a locator of Wembley Stadium: File:Greater London UK location map 2.svg or File:Greater London UK relief location map.jpg? Examples like are why I would not support relief maps for everything.--Nilfanion (talk) 12:45, 29 November 2011 (UTC)

Well I'd prefer the relief map in that particular example. Those political/road maps are astonishingly uninformative. Fmph (talk) 21:39, 29 November 2011 (UTC)

Really? I'd consider the M25 and the edge of the built up area to be much more relevant to locations in London than the northern edge of the South Downs, which is the only topographic feature I can readily identify. "Astonishingly uninformative" suggests something lacking - what exactly?--Nilfanion (talk) 21:54, 29 November 2011 (UTC)

Given that someone who has never been to London or Cumbria would not understand what was the difference between the blue, green and black lines, there seems to be an assumption that what features are on the map give some context to the red dot. Unless you actually have a handy key to the maps they are pretty uninformative. The relief maps on the other hand are very informative about location, and the administrative boundary overlays are reasonably simple to understand. Fmph (talk) 13:12, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

I'd imagine most UK readers would recognise a motorway on a map when they see it - the "blue line = motorway" is conventional. Adding a meaningful legend to the file description is sensible, and I can address that. With regards to structures in London, the relief detail itself really adds nothing (pure eye-candy, irrelevant to subject), meaning a plain political map contains the important info (the borders) even more clearly.

In any case, as things stand both relief and road map variants are available for use - you can freely use either. Longstanding consensus, for right or wrong, has been to prefer road maps over plain political ones for UK articles. As the UK relief maps are only just available, there is no consensus regarding what UK articles should use relief maps. Its worth noting the global convention of political for human, relief for physical. I'd prefer to not use relief maps for things that primarily relate to humans.--Nilfanion (talk) 22:21, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

Surely the maps should be informative to more than just UK readers? This is not just uk.wikipedia.org! In fact, I'd suggest the opposite is true. Most UK readers will already know where Manchester or Salford is. The maps should be there to help those from outside the UK who don't have any context to work from. And the idea that what gives context is the prevalence of motorway junctions is ludicrous. The relief maps are much richer visually and the context much simpler for the eye to read. I've never liked many of the 'administrative' maps. But those relief maps are great. Fmph (talk) 06:23, 1 December 2011 (UTC)

Can you point to a list of these or indicate how to search for them? To use the hills example above how would I find the best map to use on Quantock Hills or Mendip Hills which currently uses the UK outline map in the infobox but also has File:Mendip Hills Map.png or Somerset Levels which uses File:Map of Somerset Levels.png (which you made for the article). Are you suggesting File:Somerset UK relief location map.jpg for all of them & how could an editor indicate on the map which part related to a range of hills or more specific area?— Rod ^talk 22:32, 29 November 2011 (UTC)

Ok - sorry for not making clearer. I haven't yet set up a proper category on Commons - I'll do that when upload is done. For now, you can find the maps in my recent uploads. Now in Category:Topographic maps of the United Kingdom. The current set is for every English county, Welsh county borough and Scottish council area. England and Wales national maps will be next.

They will be readily usable via the {{location map}} series of templates, just the same as you would call the existing political maps, only change is addition of a relief=yes parameter.

Some location map-type templates will need modifying to use these new maps (such as Template:Infobox UK place, as they don't allow calls to the relief parameter.

The {{Geobox}} series of templates need a different calibration setup, copying the coordinate data from Template:Location map United Kingdom Cumbria to Template:Geobox locator UK Cumbria ought to work there.

I'm not sure which templates will need modifying to make full use of these, but I suspect its several!

A pushpin locator cannot readily replace a highlighted area map, you need to create an overlay image to go over the background. Geobox templates can handle this - for example File:Greater Fatra (SVK) - location map.svg over File:Slovakia demis.png produces the result at Template:Geobox/sample.--Nilfanion (talk) 22:55, 29 November 2011 (UTC)

Automagically converting OSGB36 to coord?

UK wikipedians may be interested in the current discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Geographical coordinates#Automagically converting OSGB36 to coord?. I started it as a request for help with changing OS grid refs on a few lists, but it has developed into a wider debate about which geographic identification systems to use.— Rod ^talk 20:47, 18 December 2011 (UTC)

Thistle Hotels

"Guoman Hotel Management" operates "Thistle Hotels" and "Guoman Hotels" Should Thistle Hotels stay at its name? Should it be split into Thistle Hotels and Guoman Hotel Management? Should "Thistle Hotels" be moved to "Guoman Hotel Management"? Thanks WhisperToMe (talk) 04:27, 29 December 2011 (UTC)

Template:User WikiProject United Kingdom

{{User WikiProject United Kingdom}} has been nominated for deletion. 76.65.128.132 (talk) 09:00, 1 January 2012 (UTC)

Monmouthpedia

You might be interested in a project Wikimedia UK is running to improve coverage of the town of Monmouth, in conjunction with various local groups. The Land (talk) 10:10, 2 January 2012 (UTC)

Merge channels and shows WPP banners to WPP Brit TV banner

Hello, UK Wikipedians' notice board. You have new messages at WT:WikiProject British TV#Merge banner templates together.
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

I'd like to suggest that the two task force banners (British TV channels and British TV shows) be merged into a WPP banner for the new WPP WP:WikiProject British TV subproject of WPUK. For the discussion, see WT:WikiProject British TV.

70.24.249.190 (talk) 02:08, 22 January 2012 (UTC)

WikiWomen's History Month

Hi everyone. March is Women's History Month and I'm hoping a few folks here at WP:UK will have interest in putting on events (on and off wiki) related to women's roles in the UK's history, society and culture. We've created an event page on English Wikipedia (please translate!) and I hope you'll find the inspiration to participate. These events can take place off wiki, like edit-a-thons, or on wiki, such as themes and translations. Please visit the page here: WikiWomen's History Month. Thanks for your consideration and I look forward to seeing events take place! SarahStierch (talk) 21:59, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Three-point turn listed for deletion

• three-point turn (AfD discussion)

Is there more to say about the three-point turn than this? Uncle G (talk) 08:32, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

Merge of Mandate Palestine into British Mandate for Palestine

In 2010, the article "Mandate Palestine" was forked out of "British Mandate for Palestine" article, becoming an identical article since. Due to the almost complete overlap (technically both articles describe a former Mandatory geopolitical entity of Palestine under British rule, which has only one article in other languages) and ongoing confusion (some insisted that "British Mandate for Palestine" is more the name of a 1922 document and not a country), i propose to merge Mandate Palestine into British Mandate for Palestine, and make an additional article named British Mandate for Palestine (document) to prevent confusion between the document and the geopolitical entity. Please vote with a proper reasoning here.Greyshark09 (talk) 10:02, 1 January 2012 (UTC)

Discussion at Talk:Mandate_Palestine#Merge. Keith D (talk) 14:23, 9 January 2012 (UTC)

Please vote on the new name here Talk:British_Mandate_for_Palestine#Requested_move_-_please_vote. Oncenawhile (talk) 22:34, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

Hi all, this debate has become quite complex - more thoughtful voices in the debate would be greatly appreciated. Oncenawhile (talk) 01:20, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

Britsh Gas move/disambig

The page British Gas was a disambig page, with the article about the company at British Gas plc. It had been like this since 2006. A few days ago, a recently registered user (Fox_starfish) did a cut and paste move, to move the article over the disambig. This was reverted, but they have repeated the move. Another user (Medic463), has suddenly appeared in support. There is some discussion at Talk:Centrica, comments welcome. --Vclaw (talk) 02:57, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

Assistance needed identifying Great Britain water polo players

The Australia women's national water polo team recently played (and have two more) test matches against the Great Britain women's national water polo team. It would be great if some one could create an article about the Great Britain team. At three of the matches, some videos and pictures were taken. It would be fantastic if some one from Great Britain could identify the players and edit the descriptions of the photos to say who they are. The women's team qualified for the 2012 Summer Olympics and would have qualified even with out the free pass because of being the host.

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  Number four is GB in third test match
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  GB coach and players
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• Playing in the first test match
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• Playing in the first test match

Thanks for the help and best of luck to your team come time for the 2012 Summer Olympics. :) --LauraHale (talk) 08:35, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

Do not know if this will be useful but there are 3 videos on the BBC article that may help with identification. Keith D (talk) 18:29, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

This might help http://www.swimming.org/britishswimming/water-polo/womens-senior-squad/ MilborneOne (talk) 18:37, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

If some one from the UK could look at the pictures and try to determine who they are based on the links provided, that would be fantastically helpful. I know there are a few people in the UK who want to try to get Olympic related coverage for British sport improved so in the future, Brits could have a chance at getting press passes to attend (2012 out of the question). Getting more pictures and labeling them and using the pictures, creating articles and telling sport federations you're doing this can help. I'm not going to do the identification myself. :( I'm having a hard enough time with the Australians. --LauraHale (talk) 23:09, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

There are profiles, with photos, at [3], but "look at the pictures and try to determine who they are based on the links provided" sounds a bit like WP:OR. PamD 08:19, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

There are Brits who would prefer Australians improve content related to them. If you are unable or unwilling to identify the individuals yourself, could some one in GB please give Great Britain Water Polo a call and ask for their assistance in identifying members of their national side? I was under the impression several members of WM-UK were at one point actively seeking to try to get press passes for Wikipedians and Wikimedians to attend the Olympic Games. Given that situation, it is rather disappointing that no one is able to identify players or call up the national association and ask for their assistance. This type of work makes a good case study to encourage women's organisations's to get involved with Wikimedia projects. Keenly sad to see a fantastic opportunity to improve female British related content related to one of the biggest events in the country this year not happen during Women's History Month. :( --LauraHale (talk)

Also, many of these are numbers. If you can match the numbers from the cap with the player name for this series, that would be great. I don't have access to many British sport sources. --LauraHale (talk) 09:21, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

Input required on CAMRA

CAMRA was the original name of the Campaign for Real Ale article, until it was moved in December 2005‎, and a redirect was left behind. In Feb this year a user created a disamb page, offering readers the choice of going to Campaign for Real Ale or Canberra Academy of Music and Related Arts. The redirect was restored under WP:PRIMARYTOPIC, and a hatnote placed on Campaign for Real Ale, pointing to Canberra Academy of Music and Related Arts. Another user has objected to the restoration of the redirect. Evidence was then provided of the high traffic to Campaign for Real Ale, and the low traffic to Canberra Academy of Music and Related Arts via CAMRA; evidence has also been provided for the high global visibility and recognition of the CAMRA acronym with the Campaign for Real Ale. Time has been provided for counter arguments and evidence. See discussion on Talk:CAMRA. The page is now somewhat unstable due to the dispute. Opinions and comments would be helpful. SilkTork ^{✔Tea time} 16:00, 27 February 2012 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion/Log/2012_February_27#CAMRA. PamD 08:14, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

Sonnets

People reading this who are interested in Wikipedia's coverage of literary subjects might like to weigh in on the topic of what to do about Petrarch's and Shakespeare's Sonnets (AfD discussion) at its discussion. Uncle G (talk) 23:23, 3 March 2012 (UTC)

Proposal to rescind Troubles restrictions

A proposal to rescind Troubles-realated restrictions has been made here. --RA (talk) 21:57, 11 March 2012 (UTC)

Comments requested on Talk:Northern Ireland

An outside view has been requested here on talk Northern Ireland. A wider view of comments are also invited. --RA (talk) 11:44, 14 March 2012 (UTC)

High_school#England_.26_Wales

There's a rather shambolic chunk of text here, trying to define use of the term "High School" in E&W. Someone who knows a lot about the education system might like to tidy it up. PamD 08:35, 21 March 2012 (UTC)

UK scholars

Do scholars of various subjects but living/teaching/writing in the UK fall in the scope of this wikiproject? — Preceding unsigned comment added by InMyHumbleOpinion (talk • contribs) 03:54, 22 March 2012 (UTC)

Edward George Turner

A new editor added a huge block of unreffed text to the Edward George Turner article. It needs tidying up and checking to see if it is a copyvio. -- Alan Liefting (talk - contribs) 21:07, 25 March 2012 (UTC)

Well spotted, a quick Google turned up this website with posts from 2007 that seem to have been copied (duplication detector tool). Nev1 (talk) 14:56, 26 March 2012 (UTC)

Help neutralise anti-British POV

Hi, I hope those with an interest in WW2 or military history will consider looking at the Western Betrayal article which as it stands now is largely aimed at blaming Britain for everything that went wrong in Europe from 1939 on. Can anyone write an alternative POV or neutralise the whole article such that British perspectives are given some currency? Pultusk (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 04:46, 2 April 2012 (UTC).

Colonel John Vaughan

Came across this article of Colonel John Vaughan. Shouldn't the military rank "Colonel" be excluded from the title? I thought of being bold & moving it. But discovered many John Vaughans and though it best to dump on you people to decide. Enjoy! §§AnimeshKulkarni (talk) 11:45, 11 April 2012 (UTC)

I've boldly moved him to John Vaughan (East India Company officer). PamD 12:04, 11 April 2012 (UTC)

Merger proposal of Titanic Musicians' Memorial, Southampton

I think this article's notability is not strong enough as a stand-alone article. I'm proposing a merger to Musicians of the RMS Titanic. Feel free to discuss at destination's talk page. --George Ho (talk) 03:39, 25 April 2012 (UTC)

It appears that a group of long-standing articles such as Wallace Hartley (created 2005) (See history havde been merged by User:George Ho and User:Dondegroovily, 2 1/2 hours after a merge proposal. PamD 07:39, 25 April 2012 (UTC)

UK Manual of Style

There is a suggestion at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Ireland-related articles that a manual of style for UK-related articles should be established. Perhaps a vote at this page as to whether or not one is required, would be a first step. Comments please. Van Speijk (talk) 13:42, 28 April 2012 (UTC)

Just to be clear what has been suggested, by an editor who feels he is not getting his own way, is not a UK manual of style but a style manual which would be used to remove Northern Ireland from the current WP:IMOS. I would be opposed to such a MOS on these ground and also feel the the UK has no need for it's own MOS. Bjmullan (talk) 13:46, 28 April 2012 (UTC)

So why does Ireland have to have one then? Van Speijk (talk) 13:47, 28 April 2012 (UTC)

I suggest you talk that question to the appropriate notice board. Bjmullan (talk) 13:50, 28 April 2012 (UTC)

Sounds fair enough to me. I can't see a reason why not. The C of E. God Save The Queen! (talk) 18:13, 28 April 2012 (UTC)

Perhaps someone who is in favour can explain why a UK MOS is required, with diffs of part edits where it would be of help? Bjmullan (talk) 19:35, 28 April 2012 (UTC)

British Library Wikipedian in Residence

Hi all!

I've just started as the Wikipedian in Residence at the British Library; I'll be here for six months, until the end of October. I'm still in the process of settling in and meeting with people here to discuss possible projects, but if you've any suggestions for collaboration, please do let me know.

We've currently got two events in the calendar:

• World War I Editathon, 16 June - organised jointly with JISC
• GLAM-WIKI 2012, 14-15 September - conference hosted by WMUK and the British Library

and I hope we'll be able to organise more community events this summer along the lines of the past backstage tours and editing sessions. If you'd like to be notified about further developments, either drop me an email or sign up to the participants list here.

Thanks, Andrew Gray (talk) 14:43, 3 May 2012 (UTC)

Congratulations on your new role. Secretlondon (talk) 14:46, 3 May 2012 (UTC)

Domesday Book template

A template is now available, for linking from articles about places, to their entries in the Domesday Book, on Open Domesday. See {{OpenDomesday}}. Pages using it are in Category:OpenDomesday. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:40, 12 May 2012 (UTC)

Neat! A whole four hours after the presentation, I note... Andrew Gray (talk) 21:01, 13 May 2012 (UTC)

Yes. Sorry it took so long ;-) Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:09, 14 May 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia:English Wikipedians' notice board

FYI, Wikipedia:English Wikipedians' notice board has been nominated for deletion. 70.24.251.208 (talk) 04:03, 13 May 2012 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:English Wikipedians' notice board -- 70.24.251.208 (talk) 23:30, 14 May 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia:English Wikipedians' notice board (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) has been redirected to Wikipedia:UK Wikipedians' notice board. 70.24.251.208 (talk) 23:28, 14 May 2012 (UTC)

British, English, etc, in descriptions, categories, etc

Just now i have asked WikiProject England (WP England talk: British, English, etc ...) much about the use of "British", "English", etc, in reference to persons --England and persons seeming the best place to start. Skimming the noticeboard I see nothing similar among the agenda here, except tangential and inactive BISLES. But I feel sure that you know where this has been discussed a lot.

Here are a couple of quotations from my long post WP England talk: British, English, etc ....
> One good example category: Category:British children's writers now contains 227 articles --almost all biographies of what is says-- while its English, Scottish, and Welsh subcategories contain 434, 37, and 19 articles. If I tool correctly (Combine wiki-Categories), 19, 1, and 10(!) of the latter overlap with the British.

> Should "British" be a preliminary and residual description, label, category? ... in effect "pending further research"

--P64 (talk) 20:44, 16 May 2012 (UTC)

Start with WP:UKNATIONALS.

By the way, it's hopefully just a typo but you appear to be equating British with English above ("British children's writers ... its British, Scottish, and Welsh subcategories"). Sorting that possible misconception out would be a good place to start. Mutt Lunker (talk) 21:41, 16 May 2012 (UTC)

Next day, I have restored wiki-links to my self-quotation (green) and twice abbreviated the long linkname. Yes, English of course as context shows. Thanks.

The tool Combine wiki-Categories has many uses. I learned it yesterday and know that some others will welcome it. --P64 (talk) 14:55, 17 May 2012 (UTC)

Expert needed: 2nd Baron Templemore; Henry or Harry?

I've redirected Henry Chichester, 2nd Baron Templemore to Harry Chichester, 2nd Baron Templemore as all links appear to refer to the same person. Can an expect confirm please? Did this person go by two names (Harry's article doesn't mention the name Henry), are links to Henry incorrect, or are there two nearly identical but distinct people here? - TB (talk) 10:45, 17 May 2012 (UTC)

Category:Politics of the British Isles

Category:Politics of the British Isles, which is within the scope of this WikiProject, has been nominated for discussion. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. --RA (talk) 08:58, 21 May 2012 (UTC)

Template:British cuisine

Due to contentious editing at Template:American cuisine, this has resulted in the deletion of the image at British cuisine template. You may wish to discuss whether to keep the image or not, but someone should watch the template to see if further contentious editing at American cuisine results in spillover to your template. 70.24.251.208 (talk) 11:33, 29 May 2012 (UTC)

Politics in the British Isles (again)

Wikipedians here may (or may not) want to contribute to a disussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Politics in the British Isles. --RA (talk) 16:19, 26 May 2012 (UTC)

A review of the deletion of the above article is taking place at: Wikipedia:Deletion review#Politics_in_the_British_Isles. --RA (talk) 08:14, 31 May 2012 (UTC)

Merger proposal: Ireland-United Kingdom relations / Politics in the British Isles

A merger of these two article has been proposed and is taking place here. --RA (talk) 19:09, 15 June 2012 (UTC)

Air pollution in the United Kingdom

Air pollution in the United Kingdom needs work. I split it out from another article a couple of years ago but it has not progressed very far. -- Alan Liefting (talk - contribs) 21:51, 15 June 2012 (UTC)

Not sure

I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this in, but I'm willing to get rebuked, so here it goes: I have just recently noticed that Talk:Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji is not related in any way to this project. Is this justified? I'm also unsure if Sorabji could fall within the scope not only of this project, but also WikiProject England. Sorabji's mother was English, his father was a Parsi from Bombay. However, Sorabji denied the English ancestry of his mother and had close to zero affinity for English/British culture.

Given Sorabji's biography, he may be of interest to the Dorset and Essex projects. As a person, he is known mainly for his compositions, and less so for his music criticism.

While my "questions" may seem elementary, I have very little knowledge on projects in general, or this one in particular. Thank you for your help in advance. --Toccata quarta (talk) 08:37, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

Perth requested-move notification

A requested move survey was started at Talk:Perth_(disambiguation)#Requested_move, which proposes to move:

• Perth → Perth, Western Australia
• Perth, Scotland → Perth, Perthshire
• Perth (disambiguation) → Perth

Background: There was a previous requested-move survey which ran from late May to mid June. There was a great deal of controversy surrounding the closure and subsequent events, which involved a number of reverts and re-reverts which are the subject of an ongoing arbitration case. There was a move review process, which was closed with a finding that the original requested-move closure was endorsed; however, the move review process is relatively new and untried. — P.T. Aufrette (talk) 04:11, 26 June 2012 (UTC)

London, England, U.K., Europe, Terra, Sol System, Milky Way, Local Group

• Alfred Hitchcock (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) Talk:Alfred Hitchcock#Edit warring
• +U.S. -U.S. +U.K. -U.K. +U.K. -U.K. +U.S. -U.S. +U.S. -U.S. +U.S. -U.S.

As you can see, it has been months now without a third opinion in sight. Perhaps a U.K. Wikipedian or two would like to explain on the talk page (whose section is hyperlinked above) to the slow-motion edit warriors whether "California, U.S." is a country and whether "England, U.K." is a state. ☺ Note that in some of the edits above, it has been a both-or-neither proposition. Uncle G (talk) 18:22, 4 July 2012 (UTC)

This would be helpful. Tinton5 (talk) 01:25, 5 July 2012 (UTC)

Village stubs

Dr. Blofeld (talk · contribs) has been threatening to launch 15,000 articles about British settlements consisting of no more than "xxx is a village in Cumbria. ref =google maps". See user talk:RHaworth#Stubs. He seems to have modified this proposal somewhat but I would be interested to hear other editors views on how large a settlement needs to be before it qualifies for its own article here. — RHaworth (talk · contribs) 21:39, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

Britain (placename)

I'm concerned about that article. An established editor - User:Botteville - has been expanding the article, and including some references, but has been doing so using language that I find difficult to follow. It may be that there is simply a need for copy-editing - basically, the article is becoming more difficult to understand - but it would help if some extra pairs of eyes could be diverted over that way. Ghmyrtle (talk) 12:06, 12 July 2012 (UTC)

Olympics

With one week to go before the Olympic games begin, additional editors to help improve the main 2012 Summer Olympics article along with other associated articles are going to be needed over the coming weeks, so hope people will be able to give some time to take a look and help. Thanks BritishWatcher (talk) 21:32, 20 July 2012 (UTC)

What's the rule for doubling the final consonant?

American_and_British_English_spelling_differences#Doubled_consonants did not help this reader find out what I want to know, and no one answers this question there. Please help me write in those articles that are in BrEng:

I understand that in AmEng, we double the final consonant if we stress that syllable; if not, not. It's simple. For example, water-watered, but occur-ocurred. Or repel-repelled, but travel-traveled. What is the corresponding rule in British English? How do you know wether to double the final consonat or not? Chrisrus (talk) 21:02, 8 August 2012 (UTC)Chrisrus (talk) 18:15, 6 August 2012 (UTC)

Ecuador–United Kingdom relations

I was wondering if it is time to start an article on it. That diplomatic tiff in London seems to make covering it to a fuller extent a good idea. -- 76.65.128.252 (talk) 13:01, 20 August 2012 (UTC)

Credo, OED, Times archive etc available from home

I'd like to remind UK editors that your local public library almost certainly offers you access to a range of seriously useful online resources which you can access from any pc, eg at home or work. Lancashire County Library's offering includes the Times archive 1785-1985, the British Library's 19th century British Newspapers, UK Newsbank (recent and current national and regional newspapers), the full Encyclopedia Britannica, Oxford English Dictionary, Grove Music, Grove Art, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford Reference (compilation of umpteen reference books), Credo (similar) and more, and as far as I know it's typical. All you need is your library ticket number. There are also a handful of resources which can only be used in a library, such as Ancestry.com family history database.

This page has a link ("Find out...") to a spreadsheet which shows which Oxford resources are available in which libraries, and Credo has a facility to check whether your local library offers it, but beyond that just find your library's website and look for a heading like "Online reference library", "24 hour library", etc. If you aren't a member, you may even be able to join online. Or pop into your local branch / hunt down a mobile library / give them a ring and ask about it.

UK public libraries have had these services available for a few years, but the message doesn't seem to have got across to a surprising number of lively-minded people, who perhaps associate public libraries with kids books and fiction only. Your council taxes are paying for these resources, so you might as well use them! PamD 08:15, 23 August 2012 (UTC) expanded 08:36, 23 August 2012 (UTC)

Somerset County Council has most of those sites, but not the British Library's 19th century British Newspapers, nor Credo. Ancestry.com family history database can also be used in their libraries. British Standards is view-only, i.e. the pages can't be printed. Pyrotec (talk) 12:41, 23 August 2012 (UTC)

Try joining Bristol? Libaries don't seem to insist on "living or working in the area" as they used to. It seems pretty hit and miss as to who subscribes to what: I heard at an evening class in Leeds that Lancs had the 19C newspapers, joined Lancs library online at 11pm, and by 11.15pm was looking at the Leeds Mercury adverts for when my street was first built. PamD 13:09, 23 August 2012 (UTC)

I've joined Westminster libraries for on-line Times access because my home borough (Wandsworth) only gives access in its libraries. I had to visit a Westminster branch to pick up my card, though, but I didn't have to be living or working in the City of Westminster to join. Interesting to hear about Lancashire, though - I might look into that too! Bencherlite^Talk 14:21, 23 August 2012 (UTC)

Don't all rush to join Lancs (that's why I dug out Bristol for Pyrotec!), 'cos I think some of the services may be restricted to "n" users at a time! Spread yourselves around. PamD 14:47, 23 August 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for that info, PamD. The "libraries admin" site I use is Libraries West, which means I can borrow from Bath and North East Somerset, Bristol, North Somerset, Somerset and South Gloucestershire and use The Times digital achive at home, but my card is Somerset libraries. It would be worth me using Bristol just to get free access to BL newspapers site, rather than paying "as I go". Pyrotec (talk) 15:06, 23 August 2012 (UTC)

File:MRJames1900.jpg

File:MRJames1900.jpg has been listed for immediate deletion as being unsourced. I've copied some info over from commons, so someone might like to verify it? -- 76.65.128.252 (talk) 14:12, 2 September 2012 (UTC)

Infobox for by-elections

We're discussing what infobox to use for by-elections. Further input would be welcome. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:51, 3 September 2012 (UTC) Copied here from WP:VPM because I couldn't figure out what a by-election is. —Cupco 00:58, 4 September 2012 (UTC)

Resurgence & Ecologist

FYI, one of the oldest environmental magazines, The Ecologist, published recently only online, has merged with Resurgence, edited by Satish Kumar. All three are/ have been based in the UK. A new, combined print publication, Resurgence & Ecologist, is slated to come out this month (Sept. '12)... This set of articles will thus need to be updated soon. Thanks, DA Sonnenfeld (talk) 09:46, 6 September 2012 (UTC)

Arbitration motion regarding Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/The Troubles

Resolved by motion at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Clarification and Amendment that:

Remedy 5 (Standard discretionary sanctions) of Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/The Troubles is amended as follows:

The words "and British baronets" are stricken from this remedy. The Committee reserves the right to restore sanctions to this area by motion, should a pattern of editing problems re-emerge. Existing sanctions which were placed prior to this amendment remain in effect (and unmodified) until they expire or are lifted via the normal appeals process.

For the Arbitration Committee, --Guerillero | My Talk 20:05, 8 September 2012 (UTC)

Discuss this

2012 Olympics gold post boxes in the United Kingdom move

This has been requested to be moved to another title. Please see Talk:2012 Olympics gold post boxes in the United Kingdom#Requested move. Simply south...... eating shoes for just 6 years 20:37, 8 September 2012 (UTC)

English caste?

Editors on this WikiProject may be interested in the ongoing RfC on Talk:Caste. The article lists England as a region that has historically had a caste system, along with other countries, claims which some editors have found controversial. Editors critical of the current article have argued that the article has become a WP:COATRACK used to push the view that the caste system is not linked to Hinduism or India, while others have defended the article's portrayal of the caste as a universal phenomenon. The input of editors familiar with English history would be most helpful in this discussion. Was English society a caste? Is that a mainstream view and should England be listed?--Ninthabout (talk) 14:46, 13 September 2012 (UTC)

Thiepval Bombing 1996.jpg

image:Thiepval Bombing 1996.jpg of the Thiepval barracks bombing has been nominated for deletion for failing NFCC -- 76.65.131.248 (talk) 21:23, 14 September 2012 (UTC)

Specimen Bristol Pound.jpg

file:Specimen Bristol Pound.jpg has been tagged for deletion for missing information -- 76.65.131.248 (talk) 03:26, 27 September 2012 (UTC)

Requested move: social care in England

Please requested move at Talk:Social care in England to move it back to Social care in the United Kingdom. Tim! (talk) 21:45, 4 October 2012 (UTC)

Units on the Pennine Way

There's a discussion at Talk:Pennine Way about units: miles or "mi", metric before or after imperial. PamD 08:57, 11 October 2012 (UTC)

New article on novel Donkey Punch

• Donkey Punch (novel)

I've created this new article. If you've got additional input for secondary sources, please feel free to suggest them at the article's talk page, I'd really appreciate it. :) Cheers, — Cirt (talk) 18:19, 22 October 2012 (UTC)

RMS Queen Elizabeth 2

RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 has been requested to be renamed, see talk:RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 -- 65.92.181.190 (talk) 10:34, 29 October 2012 (UTC)

Politicized edit warring

• Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a soapbox
  • Talk:Rotherham by-election, 2012#Politicized edit warring
  • Talk:Rotherham by-election, 2012#Campaign
  • Talk:UK Independence Party#Fostering row
    • Rotherham by-election, 2012 (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) — currently protected because of edit warring
    • UK Independence Party (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) — currently protected because of the same edit warring
    • Denis MacShane (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
    • Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
    • Nigel Farage (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Consider this a challenge if you like. Can you U.K. Wikipedians do a better job of dealing with your domestic partisan political issues in the weeks prior to an election than the U.S. Wikipedians do? ☺ The talk pages for the by-election and for the political party need you. Uncle G (talk) 17:56, 24 November 2012 (UTC)

Template:Arthurian Legend

{{Arthurian Legend}} has been requested to be renamed, see template talk:Arthurian Legend -- 76.65.130.165 (talk) 11:38, 5 December 2012 (UTC)

Removal of Greens and BNP from info box for European Parliament election, 2009 (United Kingdom)

Both parties only got 2 seats, in the past when another party only got 3 seats, they were not included due to the big difference in seats. For European Parliament election, 1999 (United Kingdom) a good judgement call was made not to include UKIP, as they only got 3 seats. This time in 2009 The Greens and BNP have been included when they are far behind the other parties. This is inconsistent. The summary box is for summarising the headline result, those parties with a significant number of seats. 2 is not a significant number by any stretch of the imagination, besides the fact it's less than 3 and we've already said no to 3. Help us resolve this it's currently 3 Vs 1 and the 1 is desperate that these 2 parties remain, we're all convinced they shouldn't be! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.41.32.3 (talk) 22:00, 6 December 2012 (UTC)

Courts

At Talk:Chief Justice#Lead paragraph discrepancies, I identified a number of issues with the article as related to the UK courts. Could someone familiar with the subject have a look at it? —[AlanM1(talk)]— 18:06, 11 December 2012 (UTC)

Cheshire portal

I have nominated the Cheshire portal for featured portal status. Please join the discussion here. Espresso Addict (talk) 21:25, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

WWII images up for deletion

File:79 LAA Bty Walton on Thames.jpg and File:79 LAA Bty C Troop.jpg have been nominated for speedy deletion -- 70.24.247.127 (talk) 08:09, 21 December 2012 (UTC)

Request for comment

There is a request for comment concerning the BP article. Your input is appreciated. Beagel (talk) 10:51, 21 December 2012 (UTC)

Baron de Ros & William de Ros, Baron de Ros & Thomas de Ros, Baron de Ros

Linked move requests concering the Baron de Ros have come up, see Talk:William de Ros, 3rd Baron de Ros and Talk:William de Ros, 4th Baron de Ros. A related BOLD move was performed on William de Ros, 2nd Baron de Ros. -- 70.24.248.246 (talk) 22:50, 29 December 2012 (UTC)

See also the move request at Talk:Thomas de Ros, 10th Baron de Ros, which is related to the BOLD move performed on Thomas de Ros, 9th Baron de Ros -- 70.24.248.246 (talk) 23:10, 29 December 2012 (UTC)

Also, see the note at Talk:Baron de Ros where the renumbering issue was brought up because modern day events have stripped the title from the Baron first in line retroactively... (so, doesn't this mean he was first for some centuries, before being stripped latterly?) -- 70.24.248.246 (talk) 23:16, 29 December 2012 (UTC)

Discussion re domain names at Talk:Northern Ireland

A discussion is taking place at the above page relating to what domain name or domain names should be listed for Northern Ireland (if any). I am a participant in the discussion so do not wish to be seen to be canvassing here so I simply encourage more Editors to get involved at Talk: Northern Ireland. For balance I am also making this post on the Ireland project page. Frenchmalawi (talk) 17:18, 30 December 2012 (UTC)

Deputy First Minister for Wales

May we have some input at that article's RM, thanks. GoodDay (talk) 12:43, 5 January 2013 (UTC)

File:Duchess of cambridge.jpg

problematic image File:Duchess of cambridge.jpg has been tagged for deletion. The problem is that the metadata seems to say that this is not usable on Wikipedia. Does anyone have a replacement image? -- 76.65.128.43 (talk) 07:23, 13 January 2013 (UTC)

Training event for UK Wikimedians

Wikimedia UK is committed to supporting our volunteers and to encourage them to teach others how to edit Wikipedia, we are running a weekend training workshop that will take place on the weekend of 23–24 February in Newcastle. We would particularly encourage anyone from North East England and Scotland to attend. Richard Nevell (WMUK) (talk) 11:02, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

I attended a similar event in London last summer; the quality of the training-for--trainers was very high. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:48, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

Agree with Andy; I was a little cynical beforehand, but it's a very useful session and worth the investment of time. Andrew Gray (talk) 14:50, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

The response from the community is that a different location would be easier for volunteers to get to. As such the training session will be held in Manchester on the same dates. If you're interested please take a look at the event page for further details. Richard Nevell (WMUK) (talk) 13:46, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

Chrischataway.jpg

file:Chrischataway.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.43 (talk) 05:05, 21 January 2013 (UTC)

Archives directory for this page

Archive #14 is mis-labeled in the directory at the top of this page. It runs through December 2010, not August 2009. IIUC.

Is there an Archive #15 missing from the directory? --P64 (talk) 23:42, 24 January 2013 (UTC)

I've removed the redundant template - there's a search box in this page's header. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 00:02, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

Literary articles and Wikiproject UK

I do not know the procedure for this wikiproject, which is why I am inquiring... I have noticed that some literary articles are attached to national wikiprojects (Queen of Spades to Russia, for instance). Does the same hold true for Wikiproject UK? I am asking as I have recently got the article on She up to GA and plan to take it to FA review shortly, but am just dotting the i's and crossing the t's. Should this article be linked to this project, or does this project prefer only to keep to historical, political, etc. articles?
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Junipers Liege (talk • contribs) 08:43, 8 April 2010‎ (UTC)

Queen of Spades to Russia --I suppose the appropriate reference is to the Talk page for one of pages now disambiguated at Queen of spades (disambiguation).

--Yes, see Talk: The Queen of Spades (opera). On the other hand see Talk: The Queen of Spades (story). We don't know what WP Russia welcomes or intends. ... -P64

That was a good question and it should be handled by expansion of the Project page in one or two places, the sections Project scope and Talk Page Template. --P64 (talk) 00:55, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

... WP United States is a consortium that many but not all US-related wikiprojects have joined. There has been a lot of disagreement about how widely the banner should be used. Documentation for its talk page banner does not yet help much regarding its scope. ... to be continued if/when i find relevant old talk there --P64 (talk) 18:43, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedian in Residence: Natural History Museum

Hi all,

The Natural History Museum in London is advertising for a Wikipedian in Residence, working jointly there and at the Science Museum next door; it's a paid post for four months, and applications are open until 10th February. I've worked with Ed Baker at the NHM to define the scope of the program, and it looks really promising - there's some real opportunities for interesting projects here. Details are available on the National Museums site, and there's some details about other upcoming UK residency programs here.

Please pass this on to anyone who might be interested, and feel free to get in touch with me if you've any questions. Thanks, Andrew Gray (talk) 11:58, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

Sub-dividing honours categories

We currently have a group of categories for recipients of British honours, such as Category:Commanders of the Order of the British Empire which has 2,909 members. I propose that we subdivide them, either by year:

Category:Commanders of the Order of the British Empire in 2012

or by annual lists:

Category:Commanders of the Order of the British Empire n the 2012 Queen's Birthday list

Category:Commanders of the Order of the British Empire in the 2013 new year list

Thoughts? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:19, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

Seems like a more desirable idea than what is currently in place. By decade may be the easiest though, a long term solution should be considered since this order and the others could easily be confird for at least another hundred years.. Nford24 (Want to have a chat?) 04:43, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

Should this be raised/notified at Wikipedia:WikiProject Orders, Decorations, and Medals as they deal with all the medal categories? MilborneOne (talk) 08:37, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

OK I have left them a note, they are already discussing dividing the same cats into civil and military so perhaps it should be discussed in one place, thanks. MilborneOne (talk) 08:41, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

We don't seem to be any further forward. anyone else got a view? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:22, 26 January 2013 (UTC)

I don't think there's any benefit to splitting by NY/Birthday (etc) honours - we have individual lists, though, which makes more sense. We're unlikely to have exact years to hand for a lot of the early ones, so perhaps splitting by century/decade in the first instance is a good start? Andrew Gray (talk) 21:19, 26 January 2013 (UTC)

Category: People from Birmingham, West Midlands

Category:People from Birmingham, West Midlands is applied to many people who died before 1974, the year that the West Midlands county was established. Should the category be renamed, or split, adding Category:People from Birmingham before 1974? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:21, 26 January 2013 (UTC)

French Mauritius and British Mauritius

Is French Mauritius a "top-importance" article to your project? Talk:Isle de France says it is, which I find very strange. This is also the case for Talk:Governor of British Mauritius -- 65.92.180.137 (talk) 08:44, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

French Mauritius was debannered and then rebannered by the original banner-er and put back at top-importance. -- 65.92.180.137 (talk) 12:01, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

I think an examination of all the importance settings placed by Kingroyos (talk · contribs) is in order.

• talk:Invasion of Isle de France is rated high importance by this person for WPUK
• Talk:Battle of Grand Port is rated top-importance by this person for WPUK
• talk:British Mauritius is rated as high-importance by this person for WPUK
• talk:Monarchy of Mauritius is rated as top-importance by this person for WPUK

-- 65.92.180.137 (talk) 13:45, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

Tomato purée

See talk:Tomato purée where a WP:ENGVAR issues has popped up. -- 65.92.180.137 (talk) 01:23, 11 February 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedian in Residence: Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums

Hi all,

Just to let you know that the Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums are advertising for a Wikipedian in Residence (announcement). It's a funded post, part-time through spring and early summer, based in Newcastle (so may well suit a student). Applications are open until 4th March. They're particularly interested in the prospect of someone wanting to work with the shipbuilding & industrial history collections, and digitising some of the material they have in their archives.

Details are available on their website, and there's some details about other upcoming UK residency programs here.

Please pass this on to anyone who might be interested, and feel free to get in touch with me if you've any questions! Andrew Gray (talk) 15:13, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

Infobox montage at Black British

There's a discussion started at Talk:Black British#Montage in infobox about the montage in the infobox - which currently shows 25 images, all of people currently living (I believe). Contributions welcome at that discussion. Ghmyrtle (talk) 09:49, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

Merger of {{United Kingdom constituents and affiliations}} and {{British dependencies}}

I opened the discussion. Please read Template_talk:United_Kingdom_constituents_and_affiliations#Merger_with_.7B.7BBritish_dependencies.7D.7D and leave your opinions. --Wikipean (talk) 16:07, 23 February 2013 (UTC)

Scarlett Keeling

Scarlett Keeling has been nominated for deletion. This project may wish to have some input.--Canoe1967 (talk) 17:52, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

File:John Murdoch, LL.D.jpg

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File:Durham light infantry.jpg

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The Coat of Arms of The Duchess of Cornwall.jpg.png

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File:Robert Stanford Tuck.jpg

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Colonel John McClure, Founder of Heaton Mersey Cricket and Lacrosse.jpg

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Boris Berezovsky.jpg

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A large number of Victoria's Cross holders' images are up for deletion

A large number of Victoria's Cross holders' images are up for deletion, see WP:PUF for April 1 and April 2. -- 65.92.180.137 (talk) 05:47, 2 April 2013 (UTC)

Additionally, file:Henry Edward Manning Douglas VC.jpg has been nominated for speedy deletion -- 65.92.180.137 (talk) 06:05, 2 April 2013 (UTC)

File:Lord Greville Of Mullingar.jpg

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Lott and Thomason on the U-35.jpg

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WP:WikiProject Water sports/RNLI task force (Royal National Lifeboat Institution)

I noticed that the RNLI taskforce is classified as a watersport, shouldn't this workgroup be part of WP:UK (or WP:TRANSPORT (or possibly WP:MED/EMS)) ? -- 65.92.180.137 (talk) 01:25, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

Sovereign Base Areas arms.png

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Backstage pass/ editathon at Queen Street Mill, Burnley

A backstage pass tour and editathon will be held at Queen Street Mill Textile Museum on 4 May 2013. Please see Wikipedia:GLAM/QSMM/event. All welcome, but booking essential! Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:56, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

Categorizing

How does one categorize events that have taken place in a certain place in only one of the four Home Nations?

Let's say that some kind of international sports event took place in Manchester. Should it be categorized as "International foo competitions hosted by England" or "International foo competitions hosted by Great Britain" or "International foo competitions hosted by the United Kingdom"?

Does one use the "lowest common denominator" (in this case England)?

HandsomeFella (talk) 14:07, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

I think it depends somewhat on what the event is. If it's something like the Commonwealth Games, where England competes individually, then "hosted by England" would make sense; we also do this for the 2003 UEFA Champions League Final - even though it's a club event, "England" is the level associated with football. Were the Olympics in Manchester, however, they would probably be "hosted by the United Kingdom" (we use the term GB for the Olympics, but it's the UK that actually contributes, including NI athletes); Andrew Gray (talk) 12:32, 25 April 2013 (UTC)

County navboxes on archaeological site articles?

A newly-registered editor has created a flurry of stubs about standing stones etc, and has added the ceremonial county infobox to them all (example). Is that appropriate? The stubs have a few other problems which I've raised on his/her talkpage. I don't know whether they plan to create stubs for every site listed in The Modern Antiquarian. Editors of an antiquities/archaeology bent might like to have a look at them. PamD 15:41, 12 April 2013 (UTC)

This was one of many sock puppets created by Paul Bedson. See Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Paul Bedson/Archive. For background, Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Paul Bedson and [4]. He has stated that he will continue to create sock puppets unless he is unblocked. Dougweller (talk) 16:59, 19 April 2013 (UTC)

New portal: Television in the United Kingdom

I started a new portal that may be of interest: Portal:Television in the United Kingdom WhisperToMe (talk) 01:21, 16 April 2013 (UTC)

File:Sir hugh clifford.jpg

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Events at The New Art Gallery Walsall

I am pleased to announce that I have just begun working as Wikipedian in Residence at The New Art Gallery Walsall. We'll be running a series of public events, to which all are invited. Details on the project page Wikipedia:GLAM/NAGW. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 08:54, 17 April 2013 (UTC)

1900s Robert Balfour MP.jpg

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File:Francis Galton2.jpg

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File:Vera Baird SG.jpg

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File:Kings-Royal-Hussars cap badge.gif

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Torquay Town Hall during World War Two.jpg

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File:CityofLondonCollege1883.jpg

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Wikipedian in Residence: National Library of Scotland

I'm delighted to be able to tell people about a new Wikipedian in Residence post at the National Library of Scotland - I've helped work to set this up, and I think there's a real potential for doing great things with the NLS and its collections. It's a paid post, full-time for four months, though this may possibly be negotiable to a longer period at part time - it's worth asking. The job is paid and formally employed by the Library, based in Edinburgh, funded jointly by the Library and by Wikimedia UK. this blog post has further details and a link to the NLS recruitment site.

If you've any questions, do let me know! Andrew Gray (talk) 11:12, 24 April 2013 (UTC)

File:Flag of Bristol.png

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File:Coat of arms of Manchester.png

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Largest cities of the United Kingdom

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RfC about flags

Please contribute at Talk:Flag of Northern Ireland#RfC: Should the Flag of Northern Ireland article show the flag of Ireland?.The poll is not conclusive one way or the other so extra input would be appreciated thanks. Dmcq (talk) 11:28, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

File:Coat of arms of Robert Bewicke of Newcastle upon Tyne by Alexander Liptak.png

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File:Tudor Crowns copy.jpg

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File:RearAdmiralScott.jpg

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Gurty pudding

The article Full breakfast says

In the past traditional Cornish breakfasts have included ... gurty pudding, a Cornish dish similar to haggis

Would anyone care to make a stub for Gurty pudding, or a redirect to another article that defines it?

Thanks. -- 186.221.169.119 (talk) 01:22, 5 May 2013 (UTC)

Conduct of Mais oui!

Mais oui! (talk · contribs) has been going around a large number of UK company articles removing all references to British and UK such as here. There are so many similar edits it's almost impossible to check them all but this does not seem like helpful conduct. Tim! (talk) 07:52, 11 May 2013 (UTC)

Have you asked him why? This page is not the place to discuss an individual editor's behaviour. Ghmyrtle (talk) 08:04, 11 May 2013 (UTC)

I think when an editor's behavior affects a whole range of articles a more centralised approach is helpful. Tim! (talk) 08:18, 11 May 2013 (UTC)

...and, you haven't even notified him of the fact that you're raising it here. Not good practice. I suggest you rethink this, and start again. Ghmyrtle (talk) 09:28, 11 May 2013 (UTC)

Not removing, but replacing British with English / United Kingdom with England. Where applicable, that's more precise, and perfectly reasonable. I do the same Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:19, 11 May 2013 (UTC)

Agree with Andy, perfectly acceptable. Use of Country followed by UK is unnecessary and I would remove UK to leave it in more specific place. Keith D (talk) 23:36, 14 May 2013 (UTC)

File:Welcome to Ely.JPG

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File:Star in a Bra UK Logo 2013.jpg

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Merger proposal for Jewry Wall Museum

One of the articles covered by your wikiproject has been proposed to be merged.

The discussion can be found at Talk:Jewry_Wall_Museum#Merger_proposal if you would like to contribute.

Many Thanks
Rushton2010 (talk) 15:18, 16 May 2013 (UTC)

Old late 1990s websites of UK governments

If anyone is looking for old web URLs of UK governments, I found a listing at http://web.archive.org/web/19990428103401/http://www.open.gov.uk/index/orgindex.htm - It can be useful to find antiquated URLs that you can get historical content from WhisperToMe (talk) 02:14, 18 May 2013 (UTC)

Viscount Soulbury image files

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File:Map of Studley Roger.jpg

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File:Star in a Bra UK Logo 2013.jpg

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Phoebeprince.jpg

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File:Kellyyeomans.jpg

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File:Banknote with Loul Deng.jpg

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Victoria Cross holders photos

Several VC holders' photos are up for deletion at Wikipedia:Possibly_unfree_files/2013_May_22 -- 65.94.76.126 (talk) 07:24, 23 May 2013 (UTC)

File:Balbardie House1910.gif

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Bertrand Russell in 1893.jpg

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Onesie

The usage of Onesie (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) is under discussion, see talk:Onesie (UK) -- 65.94.76.126 (talk) 00:47, 28 May 2013 (UTC)

File:Maurice Nightingale Asterley.png

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Never Let Me Down

This album by David Bowie has been tagged as part of this UK Wikiproject, but I'm not sure when or by whom. In fact when I scan this wikiproject, I'm not even sure why as I don't see a section for UK artists or albums. The article has achieved GA status so I figured someone would want to either update the importance scale of the article as it relates to this wikiproject or remove it altogether, whichever is appropriate. Thanks! 87Fan (talk) 16:11, 30 May 2013 (UTC)

Latte stones 2.jpg

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1704 - Paths taken by Simon Susarte .jpg

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KCL Coat of arms1.png

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Anonawinn.jpg

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File:Kirkstall Power Station.jpg

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Forced adoption in the UK

This article seems to have some major NPOV and sourcing issues, and could use some more eyes on it to make sure it does not stray into BLP violation territory. -- The Anome (talk) 16:36, 8 June 2013 (UTC)

Talk:Destruction of country houses in 20th-century Britain#Article issues?

I am raising article issues here. If no further improvement is needed, perhaps re-assessment is needed. --George Ho (talk) 20:21, 9 June 2013 (UTC)

I see no issues with this page at all and have commented here: Talk:Destruction of country houses in 20th-century Britain#Article issues?.  Giano  20:47, 9 June 2013 (UTC)

Notts Aero Club DH.60 Moth.jpg

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File:Edith Picton-Turbervill, MP for the Wrekin.jpg

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Coronationset.jpg

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"Gabz"

The usage of Gabz is up for discussion, see talk:Gabz (singer) -- 65.94.79.6 (talk) 23:13, 21 June 2013 (UTC)

File:Tom Holland.jpg

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London Necropolis bombing.jpg

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Honour crimes in the United Kingdom

It seems there is enough material for an article [5] [6] [7] [8]. These source have statics, opinion polls, notable cases, etc. Currently there are a couple of WP:PERMASTUBs in Category:Honor killing in Europe about the some of the more mediatized cases of honor killings in the UK. The topic of honor killings seems both too broad (whole world) and too narrow (only killings) to properly contain this material as it's covered in reliable sources. 86.121.18.17 (talk) 11:08, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

Institution of Civil Engineers editathon

Interested editors are invited to an editathon event at the Institution of Civil Engineers, in London, on 19 July 2013. See Wikipedia:GLAM/ICE. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:49, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

Proposed move of Anglo-African to British in Africa

See Talk:Anglo-African#Proposed move to British in Africa. Helen (talk) 17:32, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

2006 definitives (british postage stamps).jpg

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user:Rjensen

Someone might want to check edits by Rjensen (talk · contribs). In mid June, he made a series of very weird and bad edits to political articles, such as [9][10][11] ; where he duplicated, triplicated, quadriplicated categories, navigation boxes, and used the wrong dates for categories. -- 65.94.79.6 (talk) 06:36, 28 June 2013 (UTC)

let's not get carried away. what happened was my sloppy cut and paste of bibliography items that accidentally included categories I hadn't noticed. Rjensen (talk) 06:45, 28 June 2013 (UTC)

Sir-charles-cameron-dublin.jpg

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RfC: UK road junction lists

There is an RFC underway here to modify MOS:RJL and to harmonise the guidance for road junction lists in the UK with that of other countries.--Nilfanion (talk) 09:27, 29 June 2013 (UTC)

EmmaMPearson.jpg

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IXI.jpg

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Thrillerjill.jpg

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Battle of Quebec (1775)

Today's featured article, Battle of Quebec (1775) is having ENGVAR issues, particularly, it's using American English, not British or Canadian. See talk:Battle of Quebec (1775) -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 02:26, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

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Lonnie Donegan.jpg

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Cheshire East Flag.png

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Flag of Pembrokeshire.png

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Barclays bank cheque 1955.jpg

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SOJAMES.jpg

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Corporal Eric Glass - 4 UDR.jpg

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File:The Badge of the Ulster Defence Regiment.jpg

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Northern Ireland

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File:Arms-cheshunt.jpg

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File:Arms-east-barnet.jpg

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Glenane.jpg

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The Yellow Crad.jpg

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Baron Leslie Scarman.jpg

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Destroyed8H Cromwell.jpg

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English law firm writing about itself

I suspect that the editor at http://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/User_talk:LDWikiEditor has been editing and ignoring messages, it would be useful for a uk based admin to have a look see, just in case I am missing something... thanks sats 14:40, 24 July 2013 (UTC)

Move discussion at Estate houses in Scotland.

A move discussion is currently in progress at Estate houses in Scotland. Please comment there. RGloucester (talk) 19:42, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

Bill Lewis painting photos

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Join the Talk:Prince George of Cambridge#Name registration (Official full name) discussion

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Lists of listed buildings: harmful edits

Loss of links and disambiguation

I'm concerned that good-faith edits (hundreds of them) by User:Nev1, relating to WikiLovesMonumnts in the UK (example), have i) used date templates where they're not appropriate and ii) lost lots of existing wikilinks, including disambiguation, which other editors are now being asked to replace ("The 'title' may need wikilinking to a suitable article name").

We may need a mass roll-back (after which the edits can be reinstated in better shape); or a bot to do cleanup.

Please see my two comments second comment on his talk page (or suggest a more suitable, centralised location) (Pinging User:KTC, User:MichaelMaggs). Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:06, 10 August 2013 (UTC)

Sorry; my mistake, I've stuck one of the two issues. The other still needs to be resolved. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:14, 10 August 2013 (UTC)

In the vast majority of cases the lists consisted of just a list of linked names. The new tables include more information, which directly benefits our readers, and links to the English Heritage database which acts as a reference. Ideally links would be included, as can be seen at Grade I listed buildings in Bristol. The community are certainly not being forced to add links. I have been doing a lot of the work myself for the Welsh lists and certainly believe it enhances the list. However, we are asking for help. If I'm to add links, do due diligence to ensure there are no ambiguous links, and add photos it will take a lot of time. Already people have started chipping in, and have been a tremendous help. Even adding a handful of links helps. This is a task built for crowd-sourcing: Wikipedia at it's very best. Nev1 (talk) 19:17, 10 August 2013 (UTC)

Not sure that we should provide a link to the English Heritage site as wikipedia is not really a directory, fine as a reference but not really as an external link in the article body. MilborneOne (talk) 19:23, 10 August 2013 (UTC)

You're replying to what I did not write. I did not say the community were being "forced" to add links; I said that they're being asked to re-add links that you have removed. Wikipedia at its best does not involve you deliberately breaking hundreds of links and then crowd-sourcing repairs which should never have been necessary. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:54, 10 August 2013 (UTC)

I would have liked to have retained the original links, but that was ultimately not programmatically feasible within the available time for WLM. I am however making efforts to restore links that existed before, both programmatically and by hand -- a process that will also create new links where no page existed before. The first phase (links to churches) ought to occur over the next couple of days. The second phase (all other links) may take longer. I think that's acceptable given the lack of pageviews these pages previously received (something WLM will change), but YMMV. - Jarry1250 ^{[Vacation needed]} 08:45, 12 August 2013 (UTC)

Just commenting on the mass rollback idea. The trouble with Nev1's edits is that they disrespected the work of the many editors who had spent so much time tracking down and inserting wikilinks, and the mass destruction took place without any obvious signs of consensus, which is unusual for such radical acts of good-faith trashing. However, we have ended up with lists that are more informative and offer more scope for further improvement. I've reinstated the Eden links within Cumbria and found photos on Commons, and I see others have been doing the same elsewhere. All of this takes time. A mass roolback at this stage would compound the sin because it would be undoing all the repair work that has taken place since the invasion. --Northernhenge (talk) 10:56, 12 August 2013 (UTC)

Fair points Northernhenge. I'm doing the same at Grade I listed buildings in Derbyshire. In that case Nev1's change was harmless, indeed positive, since before the change it was a very sparse list with no details beyond the name of the structure (although unbeknown to Nev1 I was intermittently preparing a more expansive version in a sandbox). Had the article been more complete I'd have had less sympathy. I do have issues with the chosen columns of the table though:

• is the listing date really that important?
• "completed" is rather simplistic and meaningless for buildings that have been adapted, restored and extended many times over the centuries
• why would anyone want to sort by NHLE number?.

I'd have fewer columns and lump some of the information into a Notes column (similar handmade lists have had a Notes column that provides a space for interesting context and additional detail, e.g. Grade I listed churches in Derbyshire; my own incomplete attempt included the NHLE number in this column User:Dave.Dunford/DerbyshireGradeI). Also I don't like the non-standard centred columns or small font - I've expressed these views in the template's Talk page but have not had a response. I do agree that there doesn't seem to have been much attempt to gain consensus, discuss possible approaches or consider precedents; although I note the need for urgency, I don't think WLM justified such a radical change, though it may be too late, as Northernhenge says, to roll it back. Dave.Dunford (talk) 12:50, 12 August 2013 (UTC)

I agree that a mass rollback would not be the best plan at this stages, for the reasons I indicated at Supporting the UK's first Wiki Loves Monuments competition, below. If anyone spots content issues that need to be cleaned up, please let me know and I'll be more than happy to help (once I'm free, from Friday onwards), as I am sure will any of the WLM volunteers. The WLM help desk is a good place to get the attention of volunteers, but if the are are editors who would prefer not to post away from the Wikipedia pages, that's fine, too: drop me a line and I will happily make sure the cleanup team hears about it. --MichaelMaggs (talk) 07:45, 13 August 2013 (UTC)

Just a note that I've consolidated and summarised some of the suggestions regarding the template at Wiki Loves Monuments 2013 in the United Kingdom/Organizers' help desk. Dave.Dunford (talk) 09:24, 22 August 2013 (UTC)

NRHP comparison

I would like to ask people to be friendly and work toward a solution. Having build multiple of these list systems and as one of the people behind the monuments database, I would like to provide some feedback

• Creating new lists is easy compared to updating existing lists
• Take a look at {{NRHP header}} and {{NRHP row}}. Been around for quite some time
• You want to add an article field and probably try to populate it with the contents of the old version
• Can you use the iso format in date_listed instead of another template? The embedded template will screw up the harvesting (check NRHP how you can parse it)
• Can you include the ISO 3166-2:GB code in the header template like for example in this page? This is used in the monuments database for navigation country -> county -> location, etc.
• I would expect links in the location and type columns.

Hope this helps. Multichill (talk) 04:40, 11 August 2013 (UTC)

The issue at hand is the removal of links, including disambiguation, from content. A solution to that certainly needs to be found, and quickly. I'm not sure how your comment helps with that
Turning to your other points: I don't see any one being unfriendly here. The NHRP handling of ISO dates will break if any other content is entered. {{dts}} is consistent, so should not harm data extraction (Postel's law applies). UK lists are divided by county, but include cities and metropolitan boroughs which have their own ISO codes. For example, Birmingham, Sandwell and other monuments are all on the West Midlands county page, but the ISO code for Birmingham is GB-BIR, for Sandwell, GB-SAW. There is no ISO code of the county. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 09:31, 11 August 2013 (UTC)

Other errors

I've copied this form Nev1's talk page. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:08, 11 August 2013 (UTC)

There are also a lot of spelling errors, mis-capitalisations, etc, and it would be useful if the person uploading the data could actually check it before just leaving it to be corrected by other people. Having said that, an example of what Dave mentioned appears in Grade_I_listed_buildings_in_the_London_Borough_of_Southwark, where Southwark Cathedral is listed as a "Gate Pier". Surely the cathedral is notable as a church, not as a gate pier? The trouble is, if you don't correct them at the time of upload, how are non-experts supposed to be sure whether the descriptions are right or wrong?Deb (talk) 09:18, 11 August 2013 (UTC)

Just to clarify - this is in addition to all the churches that are described as "sundials" and similar apparent errors.Deb (talk) 10:19, 11 August 2013 (UTC)

I think the type field needs looking at in all entries. Having spotted the Church of All Saints in Skipsea classified as a Boiler house yet the listing states "C20 boiler house of no special interest"! Keith D (talk) 15:40, 11 August 2013 (UTC)

My favourite so far is Clevedon Pier being described as a bench in the type column.— Rod ^talk 15:52, 11 August 2013 (UTC)

That column appears particularly prone to errors, perhaps we should turn it off at the template level? The name column often effectively explains what buildings are. Nev1 (talk) 16:40, 11 August 2013 (UTC)

Sounds like a good solution.Deb (talk) 17:10, 11 August 2013 (UTC)

Would that fully address the sundials problem? The site names were taken directly from the English Heritage site so barring typos and odd capitalisation on their end should make sense. Nev1 (talk) 17:28, 11 August 2013 (UTC)

It wouldn't address the problem, but it would make it transparent to readers. Deb (talk) 18:12, 11 August 2013 (UTC)

It may be worth reminding those who do not know that the site name in the English Heritage listing is simply the name recorded at the time of listing, give or take the odd updating and correction, and was not necessarily the official or proper name of the building even then, and certainly not now. Of course it is why description and location matter, but it does greatly complicate matters when this sort of exercise is undertaken. --AJHingston (talk) 18:40, 11 August 2013 (UTC)

Supporting the UK's first Wiki Loves Monuments competition

Hi all, thanks for the comments so far. For those who haven't been following organizational progress of the WLM competition to date, we have a small group of dedicated volunteers who are working hard to ensure that the UK's first contribution to the world's largest photographic competition goes without a hitch. We have a nice competition website to attract competitors (many of whom will not be Wiki savvy, and will be new contributors & editors). We are expecting this to be quite a big deal, and our friends at Wikimedia UK have been busy making arrangement for publicity as well as helping out with the lists. We expect press notices and image spreads to appear in the Metro, which publishes in Bath, Birmingham, Brighton, Bristol, Cardiff, Derby, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, Leicester, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Nottingham, Newcastle and Sheffield, as well as in The Times. The high-profile nature of the competition has been strengthened by the agreement of Steve Cole ABIPP, Head of Photography at English Heritage, to join the national judging panel (jury).

The WLM volunteers will do everything they can to make sure the English, Scottish, Welsh and Northern Ireland lists are in a good state before the start of the national and international competitions - September 1st is just three weeks away now. We are all very aware that the deadline is looming, and that a quite a lot of work still remains to be done. Everyone is working as fast as they can and I am sorry if the rapidly approaching deadline has meant that some errors have slipped through. Really, we need more people to help out. There is a particular need for editors who are experienced with bots or scripts to pitch in now, not only to help fix some of the errors that have been mentioned above, but also to help put up the remainder of the listed building data using the standard WLM templates. If you can help in any way, please make yourself known to the WLM team, either via my talk page, or by adding your name to the helpers' page on Commons. If you can actively help now, you should also, please, sign up to the Wiki Loves Monuments UK mailing list, where you can obtain detailed information. You can see the current status of the data uploads by going to the Progress lists for Wikipedians; you can see there, for example, that we still need someone to deal with the uploading of almost all of the Scottish data. We can provide structured lists of data for those who can help with this.

If you can't help with bot work, but are able to contribute by tidying up or correcting the WP lists for your area, that would still be very much appreciated. You can get to the lists by going via one of the following links:

• Listed buildings in Scotland
• Listed buildings in Wales
• Listed buildings in England
• Listed buildings in Northern Ireland

The best place to report systematic list errors, to ensure that the WLM volunteers see them, is not on this thread, but rather at the main WLM-UK help desk.

Given the fact that the competition will be starting in just three weeks time (whether the UK team is ready or not!), I would ask that editors do not make any radical changes at this stage which could inadvertently destroy the competition. In particular, please do not make mass reverts, unless you are able to put everything back correctly, and please do not remove or change the WLM template structure. This is essential for the automated upload tool to work properly, and also for the WLM international team to ensure that the data gets correctly harvested and copied into the worldwide Wiki Monuments Database.

After the competition has finished, at the end of September, would be a good time for the community to discuss - if desired - any possible template improvements to the way in which the UK data is standardized and displayed.

Thanks for bearing with us while we try to work through these last few issues over the next couple of weeks. --MichaelMaggs (talk) 11:59, 11 August 2013 (UTC)

Michael, in the middle of your lengthy response, you say you are "sorry if the rapidly approaching deadline has meant that some errors have slipped through". This appears to be your only reference, indirect at that, to my concern that a number of links, including disambiguation, have been removed (deliberately so, not "accidentally slipped through"); and the only indication of you (collectively) taking responsibility for what you have done. You talk of rushing, and deadlines which are not applied by the wider Wikipedia Community nor binding on it, but you don't otherwise address that point. You repeat the request that the community fix the errors for you; I have already pointed out that breaking things then asking others to clean up after (collective) you is unacceptable. You ask us not to make radical edits, but you have made radical edits which have removed useful links, apparently without prior discussion. Despite your bold text, it seems that a reversion of the edits concerned would be the best solution. You can then find a way of re-applying your edits without removing others' work and expecting third parties to restore it. There is, though, no requirement for anyone reverting your botched edits to restore what you have lost, to then make good and redo your work. And no, a page on Wikimedia Commons is not the best place to discuss problems on en.Wikipedia. I'm supportive of WLM (and have been involved in making and improving the templates used) but it's not being presented in the best light either by the initial edits, nor in this exchange. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:39, 11 August 2013 (UTC)

For my part, I don't really see how a photographic competition can be used to justify the inclusion of glaring and basic errors in articles.Deb (talk) 17:09, 11 August 2013 (UTC)

I thought we were here to build an accurate encyclopedia of the greatest quality we can, not enter and try to win irrelevant photography competitions.  DDStretch  (talk) 19:51, 11 August 2013 (UTC)

You may be interested to look at the rationale behind the WLM project. --MichaelMaggs (talk) 07:19, 13 August 2013 (UTC)

Indeed we are, and I sincerely hope that Wiki Loves Monuments is a tool to facilitate that. From where I'm standing, the hope is that better illustrations will lead to better articles. Nev1 (talk) 20:02, 11 August 2013 (UTC)

You have still not properly addressed your removal of a large number of links, many disambiguated, and so tiresome to replace. What do you intend to do to remedy that? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:19, 11 August 2013 (UTC)

Andy, as I said in my first post in this thread I have been adding links to the Welsh lists. I will do so for England. As you say it's a tiresome task but I appreciate it enhancea the lists. Any help is appreciated, but if you'd rather not that's fine too. Nev1 (talk) 21:50, 11 August 2013 (UTC)

Nev1, thank you for your contributions - they are much appreciated. If I can help with any cleanups (I'll be free from Friday onwards) please point me in the direction of any pages that still need work. --MichaelMaggs (talk) 07:26, 13 August 2013 (UTC)

An example: Baylis House

Nev1 says above that he is "adding links". He recently did so to Grade I listed buildings in Berkshire. Let's examine one entry on that page; Baylis House in Slough. Before the changes, that page informed us that the listing at Baylis House was for the "House, forecourt walls and pavilions". That significant information is now missing; as is the reference originally cited. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 22:18, 11 August 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing that out, Andy, we'll get onto it. --MichaelMaggs (talk) 07:54, 13 August 2013 (UTC)

As I said, that's an example. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 09:31, 18 August 2013 (UTC)

I have added as much information as I can to Grade I listed buildings in Berkshire from the original listing particulars, short of having local knowledge, and have made some corrections to the table entries. The sources in the previous version of the page were mainly dead, and are now in any event replaced with direct links to the original listings. The page may not be perfect, still, but it is better than it was. --MichaelMaggs (talk) 15:39, 18 August 2013 (UTC)

Hiding of coordinates

A recant change to {{EH listed building row}} commented out the display of coordinates. This resulted in the following post on the template's talk page:

I don't know much about templates and don't want to go fiddling with the code, but I'm not sure the removal of Lat & Long is helpful. Although I'm happy with Grid Refs - anyone from outside the UK (and some Brits) will not be - therefore the removal of this function may limit their ability to find the building. It also stops the "KML" functionality which can map all the sites in a list onto Google or Bing maps (see for example the links top right of the list at Grade II* listed buildings in Taunton Deane). The edit summary says they are 50m out- but I have spent hours adding and correcting them on lists for Somerset - see sub lists of Grade I listed buildings in Somerset & Grade II* listed buildings in Somerset (a couple still being converted to use the template). If Lat & Long are not going to be used should I just save myself time & not bother filling them in?— Rod ^talk 08:16, 18 August 2013 (UTC)

Rod, it was the intention of the WLM team that both Geo-coordinates and grid references are useful, and ought to be shown, so the edit to comment out Geo-coordinates was a surprise to me. Do please keep on with your good work of filling them in and correcting them. If there turn out to be errors, they ought toi be corrected, not hidden. On Commons:Commons:Wiki Loves Monuments 2013 in the United Kingdom/planning#Resources there is a reference to a PHP tool, but I don't know exactly if or where where that has been used. User:KTC may know. It is also quite possible that there may be isolated errors in the raw data from the listing organizations. --MichaelMaggs (talk) 13:58, 18 August 2013 (UTC)

It's extremely unhelpful. The edit summary cited also invites the question, why is inaccurate data being added to articles; and why are the people who added it not now removing or fixing it (rather than suppressing the display of good and bad data alike), if they're aware of their error? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 09:31, 18 August 2013 (UTC)

The nature of that edit summary suggests its a systematic error due to dodgy conversion from OSGB36 to WGS84 - something which also plagued the Geograph batch upload on Commons. A more intelligent conversion will handle that, but the existence of a systematic error suggests 'every coordinate pairing is suspect.--Nilfanion (talk) 09:52, 18 August 2013 (UTC)

• (I've just got back from Hong Kong today so is catching up [with both WP & sleep...]) Assuming people are working from what I sent the WLMuk mailing list on 8 August, then the georef data (both lat/lon & grid ref) are what User:Jarry1250 gave me with no further processing done. I have no idea whether he took it straight from the EH spreadsheet source file which provided lat/lon data, or from their website which provided both separately. -- KTC (talk) 14:59, 18 August 2013 (UTC)
  • Andy, the commenting out is of course a temporary fix (it was late and I was tired): as Nilfanion suggests, it is my contention that there is a problem with the coordinate set as a whole, so it is important to take a step back and assess the situation before any errors get compounded.
  • The co-ordinates used are the result of running the conversion script KTC sent me (derived from [12]) on the grid references. Before we added the 30,000 pairs of coordinates, I checked a sample for accuracy -- though perhaps not to the it-now-transpires-required precision.
  • Why do I think there might be a problem? The coordinates provided near me seem to be about 50m out to the SE, whereas Geohack's own conversion into lat/long of the grid reference is much better. I encourage others to test some pairings from near them. Investigating further, it is fairly clear to me that what went into the database were OSGB36 coordinates, when they should have been WGS84. Thus, we do indeed have a problem. At this moment in time I think the best fix is probably going to be to have a bot trawl though and replace all 30000 coordinate pairs with their WGS84 equivalents (a conversion script is given at [13]). The other option is to use Lua to (pro tem?) attempt the conversion. Thoughts? - Jarry1250 ^{[Vacation needed]} 20:52, 18 August 2013 (UTC)
    • One of the script I provided earlier (see commons:Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2013_in_the_United_Kingdom/planning#Tools) included OSGB <-> WGS conversion functions. -- KTC (talk) 03:34, 19 August 2013 (UTC)

• • • • Just a note that I've consolidated and summarised some of the suggestions regarding the template at Wiki Loves Monuments 2013 in the United Kingdom/Organizers' help desk. Dave.Dunford (talk) 09:25, 22 August 2013 (UTC)

John Young Sangster.jpg

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Standing Stone in Cwmsymlog, Pant y Garreg Hir.jpg

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Markgasser1.JPG

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Please help get UK listed buildings ready for the start of the Wiki Loves Monuments competition on 1st September!

In September the UK is taking part for the first time in the international photography competition Wiki Loves Monuments. Participants will be invited to submit pictures of listed buildings of significant importance, as recorded by English Heritage, Historic Scotland, Cadw, and NIEA. Eligible buildings are those of grades I and II* (England), category A (Scotland), grades I and II* (Wales) and grades A and B+ (Northern Ireland). The main external website for competitors can be found here, and you can leave a message there if you have queries about competing. Do please join in, and let people in your local area know of this excellent way in which both existing and new Wiki users can help improve the encyclopaedia by contributing photographs of local listed structures. What about organizing a local Wikimeet to attract new people?

In preparation for the start of the competition on 1st September there is still quite a lot of work to do, and we would like to ask for the help of UK Wikipedians. Your local and expert knowledge will be invaluable in ensuring that the lists of eligible buildings are up to date and correctly formatted. If you look at Listed buildings in the United Kingdom you will see how many structures are included. If you then follow the links, you can get to the detailed lists for your area. Alternatively have a look at the WLM planning table. Can you help to ensure that the lists for your area are up to date and well presented?

Some of the lists have been semi-automatically generated from data provided by the official listing organizations. These use pre formatted templates (eg EH header in England) which will make it much easier for competition participants to upload their photographs to Commons as an automated process. Please don't change the template structure, as we need to ensure that the templates are properly compatible with the WLM standards that are in use worldwide. The format allows a bot automatically to collect the information and to put it into the international Monuments Database.

The data still needs the attention of local editors:

• The "title" may need wikilinking to a suitable article name (whether we currently have that article or not). If there are several buildings in one street all of the wikilinks point at an article about the street; however each entry has a separate line in the list.
• The "location" column looks and sorts better if just the parish or town is included (& wikilinked).
• The "date completed" column sometimes has eg "C19" for 19th century, and "C1850" for c. 1850 when the date is uncertain - these need to be corrected manually.
• The "grid ref & lat & long" (which is occasionally missing) may be given to 8 characters — only 6 (grid ref) or 5 (lat & long) are really needed.
• Clicking on the "list entry number" should take you to the data sheet for that entry on the English Heritage database which can be checked if needed for details.
• The image column should have a picture added if we already have a suitable image on Commons. (N.B. if you are going to be taking photos yourself for inclusion in the competition don't upload them until September)
• References may be added according to normal WP practice.

For further information, please see Commons:Wiki Loves Monuments 2013 in the United Kingdom.

If you have any queries, please post them not below but on the Organizers' help page on Commons.

Anything you can do to help improve these lists will be much appreciated. The final deadline for cleaning up is 31st August.

--MichaelMaggs (talk) 17:19, 22 August 2013 (UTC)

Some of these changes are more suited to a bot task (e.g. coordinates truncation, for which a recent bot approval already exists; "circa"). Others are discussed above. As I've said previously, the place to discuss Wikipedia content is Wikipedia, not Commons. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:30, 22 August 2013 (UTC)

Convert WikiProject Leeds into a taskforce of WPUK

It has been suggested that WP:WikiProject Leeds be merged into this page.

Hello, UK Wikipedians' notice board. You have new messages at WT:WikiProject Leeds#Merge inactive WikiProject as a taskforce of WP:UK.
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-- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 08:17, 26 August 2013 (UTC)

Moved to WT:WikiProject Leeds § Merge inactive WikiProject as a taskforce of WP:UK

WP:UK Talkpage template

Would the WP:UK talkpage template be interested in having the "|listas=" feature like the WP:US template for Biographies? Adamdaley (talk) 04:31, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

HMS Fortune (H70)

The fate of the articles HMS Fortune (H70) and HMCS Saskatchewan (H70) is under discussion, see Talk:HMS Fortune (H70) -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 06:39, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

Getting the word out about the Wiki Loves Monuments competition

As you probably know, the Wiki Loves Monuments competition starts this Sunday, 1st September, and we would like to get as many entries from the UK as we possibly can.

Please do your bit by letting friends and family around the country know, and please also spread the word to local societies that you may be involved with. Of particular interest are local historical groups, civic groups and photographic clubs.

Please feel free to use the text below as an email template. It's designed to be sent to a society, but should be easy to change if you are emailing friends.

--MichaelMaggs (talk) 14:42, 30 August 2013 (UTC)

Hi

I am emailing in case your members might be interested in contributing photographs of their local listed buildings to the international Wiki Loves Monuments competition, which runs throughout the month of September. I am a volunteer with Wikimedia UK.

Entries can be images taken specially for the competition, or can be pre-existing images, and will be available for others to use on Wikipedia.

I would be most grateful if you would be good enough to bring this competition to the attention of your members.

If you or any of your members have queries, please email me directly at xxxx@yyyy.co.uk

Thanks for your help, and regards,

. . .

____________________________________________________________________________________

World's largest photography contest comes to the UK!

September is the month when summer begins drawing to a close, the football season is in full swing and the leaves begin to change colour. You may not be aware that it's also the month of the world's largest photography competition.

Wiki Loves Monuments is a global competition, open to everyone. In the UK the aim is to gather together freely-licensed high quality photographs of the UK's listed buildings for use on Wikimedia Commons and Wikipedia. And it's open to everybody.

Wikipedia has a global audience of over 500 million people every month, making Wiki Loves Monuments a chance for entrants to have their photography potentially reach a very large audience. For example, the article about Hadrian's Wall receives around 700,000 visitors a year while the article about London is viewed around 4.5 million times a year.

Aside from being great fun, Wiki Loves Monuments is a way of capturing a snapshot of our nation’s cultural heritage for future generations, documenting our country’s most important historic buildings. Over time, the collections gathered throughout the competition will become an incredibly useful historical resource.

Entries can be images taken specially for the competition, or can be pre-existing images.

Michael Maggs, volunteer member of the Wiki Loves Monuments UK steering committee and a Wikimedia UK Trustee, said: “The contest is a great way not only to contribute to Wikipedia but also to record and share with the world images of your local historic environment. You don't need to be a professional-quality photographer to upload photos and help make a difference.”

Jon Davies, Chief Executive of Wikimedia UK, the charity that is helping to support the initiative, said: "Taking part in Wiki Loves Monuments for the first time is very exciting. We’re hoping that the UK will provide a leading contribution to the contest and are calling on photographers, amateur and professional alike, to help to make this happen. We'd love for the global winner to come from the UK."

To learn more about the competition and to get involved, visit www.wikilovesmonuments.org.uk

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{{The Commonwealth}}

Template:The Commonwealth (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 02:01, 31 August 2013 (UTC)

Guidon of the Queen's Royal Irish Hussars.jpg

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Lieutenant FW Harvey DCM.jpg

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5th Royal Irish Lancers Badge.jpg

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Regimental Colour-4 Royal Surreys.png

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Why 1922?

I was looking at this article Immigration to the United Kingdom since 1922 and a related one Historical immigration to Great Britain. I can't see why it is immigration after 1922. There is no mention of the year 1922 apart from in the titles of the articles and bits at the top linking to the related articles. The article about immigration since 1922 seems to be mostly about immigration after and during WW2 so unless someone comes up with a reason as to why it's after 1922 I will move the article to Immigration to the United Kingdom since World War Two or Immigration to the United Kingdom since 1939. Eopsid (talk) 11:42, 8 September 2013 (UTC)

1922 = de jure Irish independence. I guess that is actually relevant to the scope of the article too: Before then migration from Dublin to London would be internal to the UK, and after that would be immigration from outside. That would make a difference in how the statistics are reported etc, even if the article is only really covering post-WW2.--Nilfanion (talk) 12:04, 8 September 2013 (UTC)

Nilfanion is right. 1922 was de jure the partition of the island of Ireland into two: north and south. Record keeping was also separated: North Ireland is part of the the UK (post 1922 = Great Britain and Northern Ireland), the Republic is not part of the UK. Before 1922 it was the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Pyrotec (talk) 12:22, 8 September 2013 (UTC)

Surely this should be mentioned on the article then. Eopsid (talk) 12:28, 8 September 2013 (UTC)

I agree with that. Irish migration to Great Britain is a significant element of all migration to the UK, and should be covered extensively. While Irish independence is the reason for the split being in 1922, it doesn't mean we should split it then. It might be better to tie it to WW2, as that was a break in immigration before a major influx.--Nilfanion (talk) 12:42, 8 September 2013 (UTC)

• While the article doesn't currently reflect it very well, "since 1933" or "since 1945" is actually a bit of an awkward time to break a history of migration - in the run-up to WW2 you had a lot of emigration from Germany and some neighbouring countries, which merged into the wartime and post-war settlement of displaced persons and political exiles in the UK. As a result, the period 1933-47 probably shouldn't be split. A more meaningful date for splitting the article would be 1948 - this is when the Empire Windrush arrived and the political discourse around migration began to shift. Andrew Gray (talk) 13:10, 8 September 2013 (UTC)

• This is not my topic area. With NI being part of the UK from 1922 onwards, transfers to and from NI aren't going to be recorded as migration. Those figures will only record the Republic - UK migration. If I'm right there was a 1931 UK census, but it was lost/destroyed; and there was no 1941 census due to the war. There have been UK census every ten years from 1951 onwards. The "raw papers" themselves will not available for 100 years, but the statistics are. So, there is UK census statistical data for the UK which will give the numbers of people claiming Irish ancestry (white / Irish), for 1911, 1921 and 1951-2011 (there are early ones as well). People from both north and south living in the UK may well tick the "Irish box" But, is this the same as migration data, the family or their ancestors might have emigrated from Ireland to the US or Canada in say 1900-1910 and then the current members migrated back to the UK (their ethnic origin is the same, "Irish"), but they've come to the UK from north American? Pyrotec (talk) 13:31, 8 September 2013 (UTC)

Santisima Trinidad harried by Terpsichore.jpg

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Edinburgh Trams needs to be reviewed for Good article status!

If anyone would like to review Edinburgh Trams against the GA criteria, please do so! RGloucester — 📬 21:43, 13 September 2013 (UTC)

Category:Honorary Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath

Category:Honorary Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, which is within the scope of this WikiProject, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you.. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 12:25, 15 September 2013 (UTC)

Flag of the Chief of the Defence Staff.png

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Crown copyright file category

-- 70.24.249.39 (talk) 03:37, 22 September 2013 (UTC)

Also related discussion at template talk: Non-free Crown copyright -- 70.24.249.39 (talk) 03:49, 22 September 2013 (UTC)

Map of Wades Causeway Location Within North York Moors National Park.png

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Commonwealth Games Federation Logo.svg

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RMS Queen Mary Southampton 1965.jpg

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British Empire Games 1950 Silver Medal.jpg

image:British Empire Games 1950 Silver Medal.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 65.92.181.39 (talk) 07:15, 27 September 2013 (UTC)

Category:Turkish communities in the United Kingdom

Category:Turkish communities in the United Kingdom, which is within the scope of this WikiProject, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 16:58, 27 September 2013 (UTC)

Targeted Killings: Law and Morality in an Asymmetrical World

• Targeted Killings: Law and Morality in an Asymmetrical World

I've created the new article about the book Targeted Killings: Law and Morality in an Asymmetrical World, which discusses the subject of targeted killing.

Further suggestions for research and additional secondary sources would be appreciated, at the article's talk page, at Talk:Targeted Killings: Law and Morality in an Asymmetrical World.

Thank you, — Cirt (talk) 04:12, 30 September 2013 (UTC)

Grand Fleet sails.jpg

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This has generated a discussion at WT:MILHIST -- 76.65.131.217 (talk) 05:37, 9 October 2013 (UTC)

British vs. English

I hope someone can help me. I've read the Wiki page all about the UK constituent countries (WP:UKNATIONALS) but it's not helping with my work with categories.
I'm currently creating nationality categories for women philosophers if there are more than a few. With women philosophers from the UK, about half are categorized as Category:British philosophers so I added them to Category:British women philosophers. The other half are categorized as Category:English philosophers so I created Category:English women philosophers and made that a subcategory of the British one.
I should say that none of the British women philosophers identify as Irish, Scottish or Welsh and these are all philosophers from the 20th and 21st century. Is there a good reason not to merge the British with the English category? Categories, as you might know, are navigational tools so I don't know if a reader who is looking for a UK woman philosopher will search under British or English.
In lieu of any advice, I'll just let things be. But I hope someone who visits this Talk Page might offer some advice on contemporary uses of these national identities, at least as categories on Wikipedia. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 20:14, 25 October 2013 (UTC)

Ignore the nationality for the time being, but I suggest you have a look at Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2013-04-29/In the media and the hullabaloo caused by categorising people by gender before continuing with the categories you have created. NtheP (talk) 20:34, 25 October 2013 (UTC)

Per WP:CATDIFFUSE you could move those that are definitively English into the subcat but merging them would go against that and serve no useful purpose. Categorising Onora O'Neill as English would be questionable at best and Mary Shepherd, whom I've added to the category, is definitively not English. That you know none of the others to identify as three major British-but-not-English identities does not necessarily make them English. Mutt Lunker (talk) 00:26, 26 October 2013 (UTC)

"Veterans Day"

The usage of Veterans Day (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) and Veterans Day (disambiguation) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) and Veterans Day (United States) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) is under discussion, see talk:Veterans Day (United States).

Indirectly, this also concerns Armed Forces Day (United Kingdom) (former "Veterans Day"). -- 签名 _sig at 08:24, 27 October 2013 (UTC)

RFC: WP:MOSNUM

There are currently a number of proposals to improve the language at WP:MOSNUM relating to the use of Units in UK related articles. External opinion is invited at WP:MOSNUM#RFC: Proposals to rewrite WP:MOSNUM on UK units of preference. Wee Curry Monster talk 14:32, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

Created Category:Targeted killing

• Category:Targeted killing

I've gone ahead and created Category:Targeted killing, a category to encompass articles related to the topic of Targeted killing.

Suggestions for additional articles to add into the category would be appreciated, feel free to add them yourself or suggest them at Category talk:Targeted killing.

Cheers,

— Cirt (talk) 01:58, 8 November 2013 (UTC)

Bullying RFC

An RFC on Template:Bullying is taking place at Template talk:Bullying#RfC: Template links. Input from project members would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Lord Sjones23 (talk - contributions) 08:50, 19 November 2013 (UTC)

NHS Trusts

A raft of poor stubs has been created for NHS Trusts, of which one is at AfD, and several like North East London NHS Foundation Trust have been speedied and unspeedied. A nonstandard handcrafted infobox is being used. If anyone is interested in WP coverage of the NHS, please join in. Is there an infbox geek out there who'd like to create a standard "NHS Trust" infobox, perhaps? There's some discussion at the talkpage of the editor who created the stubs. I'm sure the trusts are notable and worth articles, but there's a lot of work to be done. Thanks. PamD 09:03, 1 November 2013 (UTC)

I concur. I am trying hard to educate the very hard working creating editor into working slower and somewhat differently. There is also scope for a possible new infobox template to cover the UK NHS, since there are particular areas where it is special and some parameter standardisation would be beneficial. Fiddle Faddle 10:15, 1 November 2013 (UTC)

I'm happy to help with an infobox; but discussion should be at a more general location (perhaps here) rather than an AfD or individual's talk page. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:16, 2 December 2013 (UTC)

I've made a start at {{Infobox NHS Foundation Trust}}; I suggest we discuss its development on its talk page. It's now used on North East London NHS Foundation Trust. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:23, 2 December 2013 (UTC)

That's another good example of why infoboxes are so often such a bad idea. Since when has Basildon been in Ilford? Eric Corbett 18:55, 2 December 2013 (UTC)

That's not a flaw in the infobox, I'd simply and inadvertently entered the HQ address in the wrong field; easily and already fixed. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:28, 2 December 2013 (UTC)

These articles also need, on their talk pages, to be tagged with the relevant projects - a local (county or city) one; and WikiProject Medicine, unless there is more specific one? That's probably a job for someone with AWB working. Are they in Wikidata? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:23, 2 December 2013 (UTC)

The new infobox has been nominated for deletion. Your comments are invited. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:18, 4 December 2013 (UTC)

Johann Lamont

If anyone has a few minutes to spare, I wondered if you could give me some feedback on the above article. I'm planning to take it to GAN, and in the recent peer review was advised to mention it on the talk pages of relevant projects. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Paul MacDermott (talk) 22:30, 10 December 2013 (UTC)

Theatres Trust Template

Please note {{TheatresTrust}}, for use on pages about theatres that have entries in the Theatres Trust database, e.g. Apollo Theatre. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:00, 20 December 2013 (UTC)

Portal for British film?

Would anyone be interested if I created a portal for UK film? Normally I create portals without prior discussion if there is an existing equivalent on the French Wikipedia or another Wikipedia. However... to my knowledge there is no portal anywhere about UK film. WhisperToMe (talk) 20:05, 30 December 2013 (UTC)

Please help me find this website

I had the impression that Gyosei International College in the U.K. was a secondary boarding school, but when I read through the website it talked about BA degrees. The Japanese name of the institution uses Daigaku 大学 which means "university". I checked EduBase, of the Department for Education but it seemed to come up empty. Would someone mind looking through records to see how the UK government classified this school?

Thanks, WhisperToMe (talk) 04:30, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

Okay, after doing some digging I answered the question myself: there was a separate Gyosei School and a Gyosei College. However the Gyosei International School UK website seems to be elusive (I got the college website). What was the URL of the former Gyosei International School UK before it closed in 2002? WhisperToMe (talk) 17:57, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

Portal:Channel Islands

Hi, I created this portal, so if anyone wants to help out, please let me know here or on my talk. Best, Matty.007 19:50, 11 January 2014 (UTC)

RFC

Could use some fresh eyeballs and voices at this previously stale merge proposal, splitting the content at Opium Wars into the articles First Opium War and Second Opium War and turning the page into a dab between them, to avoid the existing content fork. — LlywelynII 13:44, 25 January 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Bill Wakefield

FYI, there's a notice about this draft article at WT:ASTRONOMY about a Brit. -- 70.50.148.248 (talk) 10:01, 7 February 2014 (UTC)

"Mark Read"

The usage of Mark Read (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) is under discussion, see talk:Mark Read (singer) -- 70.24.244.161 (talk) 06:56, 10 February 2014 (UTC)

West Midlands Police Museum editathon

Wikipedians are invited to an editathon at the West Midlands Police Museum, Birmingham, on Saturday, 15 March 2014. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:22, 10 February 2014 (UTC)

Channel Islands wikiproject

FYI, a wikiproject has been proposed to cover the Channel Islands, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Channel Islands -- 70.24.244.161 (talk) 05:47, 13 February 2014 (UTC)

Conscription

UK Conscription List includes No Conscription League which was a US body. The UK list omits the No Conscription Fellowship. I would like a mentor to help contribute. Many thanks, Chloe Chl masonChl mason (talk) 11:02, 16 February 2014 (UTC)

User:Matty.007/Redlinks

Hi, if anyone wants something to do, can I point them to the Sport section on the linked page, there are lots of Winter Olympians who need pages, and lots of women's football teams. Thanks, Matty.007 12:31, 16 February 2014 (UTC)

Proposed naming convention (UK Parliament constituencies)

Advertising the proposed Wikipedia:Naming conventions (UK Parliament constituencies) here, as specified in Wikipedia:Article_titles#Proposed_naming_conventions_and_guidelines. PamD 13:54, 17 February 2014 (UTC)