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Category:Ambassadors to the United Kingdom

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Wikidata weekly summary #40

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Continued from WT:MHC

Great stuff, Andrew, and I'll talk about the British Library and IWM after I see where the "votes" are, what direction(s) Milhisters want to go with this. If Milhist were to do something that winds up creating paid jobs for a few, that could be divisive within Milhist, and even if it not, it wouldn't respect the sensibilities of most Wikipedians. So, I propose that Milhist do something big, focused, and basically unpaid (although if people such as yourself who are already getting paid want to help, that's fantastic), with the goals of increasing collaboration with some big GLAM, increasing Milhist's prestige, pulling in new editors, and increasing the resources and training available to our project. It's more than fine with me if local groups of Wikipedians, including chapters, point to whatever we've been able to accomplish with the big project when they're applying for grants and or setting up collaborations with local GLAMs. - Dank (push to talk) 17:20, 12 January 2013 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #41

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Please check the new VIAF categories and their parents, before I request similar edits for the other identifiers and their sub-templates. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:19, 21 January 2013 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #42

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  • Development
    • Updated demo system
    • Improved design of sites code in core
    • Fixed SQLite compatibility
    • Worked on implementing references handling in statements user interface
    • Useful error messages will be shown in statements user interface in case of data value mismatches
    • Switched the demo system to Labs’ puppet
    • Selenium tests for length constraint, claim edit-conflicts
    • Setting up dispatcher script on internal test machine
    • More work on wikibase.getEntities() function for Scribunto/Lua-Templates
    • AbuseFilter is now working with Wikibase
    • The change dispatcher script is now ready for use on the WMF cluster
    • Initial implementation of {{#property}} parser function for the client
    • Created a widget for the client to connect a page to a Wikidata item and add interwiki language links to a page
    • Preparing a page to list unconnected pages on the clients
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WikiCup 2013 January newsletter

Signups are now closed; we have our final 127 contestants for this year's competition. 64 contestants will make it to the next round at the end of February, but we're already seeing strong scoring compared to previous years. Colorado Sturmvogel_66 (submissions) currently leads, with 358 points. At this stage in 2012, the leader (Irish Citizen Army Grapple X (submissions)) had 342 points, while in 2011, the leader had 228 points. We also have a large number of scorers when compared with this stage in previous years. Florida 12george1 (submissions) was the first competitor to score this year, as he was last year, with a detailed good article review. Some other firsts:

Featured articles, portals and topics, as well as good topics, are yet to feature in the competition.

This year, the bonus points system has been reworked, with bonus points on offer for old articles prepared for did you know, and "multiplier" points reworked to become more linear. For details, please see Wikipedia:WikiCup/Scoring. There have been some teething problems as the bot has worked its way around the new system, but issues should mostly be ironed out- please report any problems to the WikiCup talk page. Here are some participants worthy of note with regards to the bonus points:

  • United States Ed! (submissions) was the first to score bonus points, with Portland-class cruiser, a good article.
  • Australia Hawkeye7 (submissions) has the highest overall bonus points, as well as the highest scoring article, thanks to his work on Enrico Fermi, now a good article. The biography of such a significant figure to the history of science warrants nearly five times the normal score.
  • Chicago HueSatLum (submissions) claimed bonus points for René Vautier and Nicolas de Fer, articles that did not exist on the English Wikipedia at the start of the year; a first for the WikiCup. The articles were eligible for bonus points because of fact they were both covered on a number of other Wikipedias.

Also, a quick mention of British Empire The C of E (submissions), who may well have already written the oddest article of the WikiCup this year: did you know that the Fucking mayor objected to Fucking Hell on the grounds that there was no Fucking brewery? The gauntlet has been thrown down; can anyone beat it?

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email) and The ed17 (talk • email) 00:22, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

Keep Calm and Carry On

Thanks for your kind words about the article. I've attempted to address the points you raised on the talk page so you might want to take a look. Feel free to ask anymore questions, and thanks. Retrolord (talk) 10:43, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #43

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  • Development
    • Deployment on the Hebrew and Italian Wikipedia ([1] [2] [3])
    • Switched the Wikipedias over to a new, more scalable dispatching changes script for propagating changes from the repository to the clients
    • Fixing various deeply buried bugs and a few minor bugs reported after deployment
    • Preparations for next deployment on wikidata.org
    • Working on property parser function for the client
    • Implemented robust serialization of changes for dispatching
    • Resumed work on linked data interface
    • References can now be created, edited and removed on existing statements
    • Several minor user interface fixes
    • Styling of the user interface for statements
    • Selenium tests for references
    • Selenium tests for non-JS SpecialPages
    • Worked on puppet
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    • Test statements on the [demo system before the roll-out to wikidata.org on February 4
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Wikidata weekly summary #44

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  • Development
    • Deployment of the first parts of phase 2 (infoboxes/statements) on wikidata.org done - see it live for example here, here and here
    • Diffs for statement edits can now be shown
    • Started work on query definitions
    • Edit links are now disabled in the interface when the user does not have the rights to edit
    • Edit links are now hidden when viewing old revision
    • Worked on search field for WikibaseSolr
    • More work on Lua templates for Wikibase entities
    • Worked on bugfixes in the statement user interface
    • New features in the statement user interface (references counter/heading)
    • JavaScript editing for table showing labels and description of the same item in different languages
    • Repaired and updated the demo system
    • Resumed work on Linked Data interface
    • Support for enhanced recent changes format in client
    • There are automatic comments for statement edits as well in the history now
    • Special page for unconnected pages, that is pages on the client that are not connected to items on the repository
    • Added permission checks for statements, so a user that can not edit will not be able to edit or that only a group can be allowed to do some changes like creating statements
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This Month in GLAM: January 2013



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66th

If I were you I would merge it - close enough ties, and anodyne name of more recent formation, which is the one it should go under in accordance with WP:MILMOS#UNITNAME. Buckshot06 (talk) 05:20, 12 February 2013 (UTC)

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Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers, etc

If i understand correctly, Category:Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers and sibling categories will soon be available. Right?

Recently intersecting categories Category:Wikipedia articles with authority control information and Category:Newbery Medal winners, I identified those 6 of 86 biographies in the latter category that were missing authority control information. That is, iiuc, those six missed by recent automatic completion of {Authority control |VIAF= }.

My notes on the six (User:P64/FSF/Children's#VIAF missing) concern how they are named at VIAF and WorldCat and whether their WorldCat pages adequately link to our biographies. Is any part of such notes likely to have diagnostic value here, or for you and your associates elsewhere?

Now I have revised all six biographies and added the VIAF/LCCN/GND-complete templates, among other revisions. I expect to delete the notes soon.

--P64 (talk) 18:27, 29 January 2013 (UTC)

At the top of this section I have twice corrected identifers=>identifiers, and observed that the lead link is now blue rather than red. -P64
Andrew, Thanks for your reply User talk:P64#VIAF error reports. FYI (a) I am just now editing related conversation with Max Klein User talk:Maximilianklein#Related to VIAFbot. (b) Several hours ago I checked my six cases at DE.wikipedia, registered de:User:P64de, and embarked on ... [that's enough to spell out; later, I'll report some instances at WP:VIAF/errors.
FWIW your dark sleeve and white cuff are unsettling but I don't know the source of any "Andrew Gray" image I have had, unknown to me. --P64 (talk) 00:26, 4 February 2013 (UTC)
Hi, Andrew. Concerning K. A. Applegate and Jean Lee Latham, do the listings by VIAF as "5xx's: Related Names" mean that there is no problem to be reported. Some of these related names for Applegate at VIAF, perhaps all for Latham at VIAF, are pseudonyms of the subject rather than co-authors or whatever. They do not redirect to the subject as one may guess pseudonyms should do.
--at least if the pseudonym is used uniquely by the subject, evidently not true at least for Rose Campion at Latham.
(Applegate is the 2013 Newbery Medal winner. I have now visited all in this regard.) --P64 (talk) 23:04, 12 February 2013 (UTC)

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DNB spinoff

James Pillans is today's DNB conversion, and led me to blackboard which you have visited, at least on the talk page. Librarian's question now comes up. Digging around (hooray for JSTOR) shows Pillans wrote a letter mentioning blackboard use, and dated 1814. Talk:Blackboard has a comment, left by Stephen Massil, librarian at Sir John Soane's, with a date indicating 1813 use. This suddenly becomes of quite some interest, therefore. Pillans was at Edinburgh High School from 1809. Charles Matthews (talk)

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Wikidata weekly summary #45

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  • Development
    • Deployment to English Wikipedia
    • Fix various minor bugs in client, including watchlist toggle with preference to default to always show Wikidata edits
    • Added the new Baso Minangkabau Wikipedia (min)
    • Fixed wrong revision of statements being shown in diff and old revision view
    • Diff visualization for claims (simple version for main snak)
    • Diff visualization for claims (extended version for references, qualifiers, ranks)
    • Tooltip that notifies about the license your contributions will be covered by while editing (can be disabled by each user)
    • Started with valueview refactoring
    • Started with user interface handling of deleted properties
    • Started with refactoring of local partial entity lookup
    • Started with refactoring of toolbar usage in jQuery.wikibase view widgets
    • Finished improvement on jQuery.wikibase.claimview’s edit mode handling
    • Improved search by using entity selector in search field instead of normal MediaWiki search field
    • More work on Lua-based templates for entities
    • Specified the capabilities of the query language we need
    • Created query object
    • Proper bot-flagging of edits (bugzilla:44857)
    • Use of ID to directly address an item or property
    • Search should give more of the complete matches now
    • Special:ItemByTitle should work for canonical namespaces and later on for local namespaces
    • More robust format for notifications of changes on the repository to the client
    • Started work on refactoring API and autocomments code
    • Started to maintain documentation of configuration options in git
  • Discussions/Press
  • Events
    • Upcoming: Wikipedia Day NYC
    • Upcoming: office hour in English tomorrow
    • Note: changed day of next German office hour to March 8
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • We have a time scheduled when Wikidata will be read-only for a database migration. The window for that is Feb 20 19:00 to Feb 21 2:00 UTC.
    • New features and bugfixes on Wikidata are planned to be deployed on Monday (Feb 18). This should among other things include:
      • Showing useful diffs for edits of claims (they’re currently empty)
      • Automatic comments for editing of claims (there are currently none)
      • Ability to add items to claims by their ID
      • Better handling of deleted properties
      • More results in the entity selector (that’s the thing that lets you select properties, items and so on) so you can add everything and not just the first few matches that are shown
    • We’re still working on the issue that sometimes editing of certain parts of items or properties isn’t possible. If you’re running into it try to reload the page and/or change the URL to the www. version or the non-www. version respectively.
    • Deployment on all other Wikipedias is currently planned for March 6 (a note to the Village Pumps of all affected projects will follow soon)
    • Check out a well-done item
  • Open Tasks for You
  • Help expand en:Wikipedia:Wikidata
  • Help expand and translate Wikidata/Deployment Questions
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DYK for 66th (2nd East Lancashire) Division

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DYK for Ahn Jun

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Wikidata weekly summary #46

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Please comment on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ships

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Wikidata

Alas, I shall be in Ukraine (I think) in April. Howeever if you are attending you could just remind participants of the fable of the infobox of Procrustes.--Smerus (talk) 16:09, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

Geonotice request

Hi Andrew, I've had a couple WP:GEONOTICE requests up for a few days, and there's another one there now too -- got a moment to give 'em a look? Thanks! -Pete (talk) 15:16, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

Thanks! I'd roughly draw a rectangle around the states of Virginia and Maryland. It probably should extend as far as Philadelphia. Is that specific enough? Would you like me to draw it on a map and email it to you? -Pete (talk) 17:34, 26 February 2013 (UTC)
Yes, that looks great! I suppose my initial instruction to include all of Virginia might have been bigger than needed. Much appreciated! -Pete (talk) 17:41, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

Hi Andrew, thanks so much for your help with the geonotice for the MHC event. The box you described sounds great! Sarah Oelker (talk) 13:52, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

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WikiCup 2013 February newsletter

Round 1 is now over. The top 64 scorers have progressed to round 2, where they have been randomly split into eight pools of eight. At the end of April, the top two from each pool, as well as the 16 highest scorers from those remaining, will progress to round 3. Commiserations to those eliminated; if you're interested in still being involved in the WikiCup, able and willing reviewers will always be needed, and if you're interested in getting involved with other collaborative projects, take a look at the WikiWomen's Month discussed below.

Round 1 saw 21 competitors with over 100 points, which is fantastic; that suggests that this year's competition is going to be highly competative. Our lower scores indicate this, too: A score of 19 was required to reach round 2, which was significantly higher than the 11 points required in 2012 and 8 points required in 2011. The score needed to reach round 3 will be higher, and may depend on pool groupings. In 2011, 41 points secured a round 3 place, while in 2012, 65 was needed. Our top three scorers in round 1 were:

  1. Colorado Sturmvogel_66 (submissions), primarily for an array of warship GAs.
  2. London Miyagawa (submissions), primarily for an array of did you knows and good articles, some of which were awarded bonus points.
  3. New South Wales Casliber (submissions), due in no small part to Canis Minor, a featured article awarded a total of 340 points. A joint submission with Alaska Keilana (submissions), this is the highest scoring single article yet submitted in this year's competition.

Other contributors of note include:

Featured topics have still played no part in this year's competition, but once again, a curious contribution has been offered by British Empire The C of E (submissions): did you know that there is a Shit Brook in Shropshire? With April Fools' Day during the next round, there will probably be a good chance of more unusual articles...

March sees the WikiWomen's History Month, a series of collaborative efforts to aid the women's history WikiProject to coincide with Women's History Month and International Women's Day. A number of WikiCup participants have already started to take part. The project has a to-do list of articles needing work on the topic of women's history. Those interested in helping out with the project can find articles in need of attention there, or, alternatively, add articles to the list. Those interested in collaborating on articles on women's history are also welcome to use the WikiCup talk page to find others willing to lend a helping hand. Another collaboration currently running is an an effort from WikiCup participants to coordinate a number of Easter-themed did you know articles. Contributions are welcome!

A few final administrative issues. From now on, submission pages will need only a link to the article and a link to the nomination page, or, in the case of good article reviews, a link to the review only. See your submissions' page for details. This will hopefully make updating submission pages a little less tedious. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email) and The ed17 (talk • email) J Milburn (talk) 01:26, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

WikiCup 2013 February newsletter

Round 1 is now over. The top 64 scorers have progressed to round 2, where they have been randomly split into eight pools of eight. At the end of April, the top two from each pool, as well as the 16 highest scorers from those remaining, will progress to round 3. Commiserations to those eliminated; if you're interested in still being involved in the WikiCup, able and willing reviewers will always be needed, and if you're interested in getting involved with other collaborative projects, take a look at the WikiWomen's Month discussed below.

Round 1 saw 21 competitors with over 100 points, which is fantastic; that suggests that this year's competition is going to be highly competative. Our lower scores indicate this, too: A score of 19 was required to reach round 2, which was significantly higher than the 11 points required in 2012 and 8 points required in 2011. The score needed to reach round 3 will be higher, and may depend on pool groupings. In 2011, 41 points secured a round 3 place, while in 2012, 65 was needed. Our top three scorers in round 1 were:

  1. Colorado Sturmvogel_66 (submissions), primarily for an array of warship GAs.
  2. London Miyagawa (submissions), primarily for an array of did you knows and good articles, some of which were awarded bonus points.
  3. New South Wales Casliber (submissions), due in no small part to Canis Minor, a featured article awarded a total of 340 points. A joint submission with Alaska Keilana (submissions), this is the highest scoring single article yet submitted in this year's competition.

Other contributors of note include:

Featured topics have still played no part in this year's competition, but once again, a curious contribution has been offered by British Empire The C of E (submissions): did you know that there is a Shit Brook in Shropshire? With April Fools' Day during the next round, there will probably be a good chance of more unusual articles...

March sees the WikiWomen's History Month, a series of collaborative efforts to aid the women's history WikiProject to coincide with Women's History Month and International Women's Day. A number of WikiCup participants have already started to take part. The project has a to-do list of articles needing work on the topic of women's history. Those interested in helping out with the project can find articles in need of attention there, or, alternatively, add articles to the list. Those interested in collaborating on articles on women's history are also welcome to use the WikiCup talk page to find others willing to lend a helping hand. Another collaboration currently running is an an effort from WikiCup participants to coordinate a number of Easter-themed did you know articles. Contributions are welcome!

A few final administrative issues. From now on, submission pages will need only a link to the article and a link to the nomination page, or, in the case of good article reviews, a link to the review only. See your submissions' page for details. This will hopefully make updating submission pages a little less tedious. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email) and The ed17 (talk • email) J Milburn (talk) 11:44, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for your work with historical images of Canada. I am confused about the copyright issues as well. It seems that one difference is 'creation' vs 'publication'. Canadian laws go by creation date and US laws go by publication date. Since the images are stored on servers in the US they need to meet US laws. The Canadian definition of 'publication' may help. You may wish to have a legal department look over the US law and decide whether the images are allowed on US servers as public domain. I will see if I can find the email for our cabinet minister in charge of the definition of publication. They may be able to discuss it with their counterpart in the US.--Canoe1967 (talk) 14:25, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

I emailed my minister to see if his people would discuss it with the US people and get back to us with clarifications. It probably still won't hurt to have other legal types interpret the laws.--Canoe1967 (talk) 14:53, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
It's certainly a little muddled. However, we had a discussion about the copyright status & the issue of third-party rights with the BL's copyright advisory board, who are happy with what we're planning to do, and ran the question past someone at Library and Archives Canada, ditto. (UK law is also publication-based) I am as scrupulous as we come over copyrights, but even I'm happy with this collection :-)
Our Canadian curator's interpretation, which I believe is sound, is that because these were explicitly deposited for copyright (which took time, effort and money), and because they're often cherrypicked from larger bodies of work... we can reasonably presume any given item was intended for publication. People simply wouldn't have done this if they didn't expect commercial return! So while we don't always have absolute evidence of publication, we have a solid reason to presume they were. (In many cases, of course, what we have are the formally "published" copies.)
This takes care of all pre-1923 material. The small remaining portion of 1923-4 material in the collection may be copyrighted in the US if published there, if it had full legal formalities, and it was renewed... but it seems unlikely, in most cases, and I think we'll cross that bridge as and when!
In the particular case of the Fortes material, the copyright was in the name of a clothing company - which strongly implies they planned to use it for advertising purposes. Andrew Gray (talk) 16:25, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
It seems you are one step ahead of us then. Could you have a licence template approved by our copyright people at WMF for all of your uploads then and save all the discussions that may arise? User:Mdennis (WMF) is one that I know of. She has two user accounts and emails on her main page. She may help clear up issues in advance or know who can. As to the stamp image we are still trying to find the author and/or publication date of the background image. I emailed the artist that created the stamp and haven't heard back yet. If it is just two public domain images with limited creativity then it would not be eligible for copyright by Canada Post, I would think.--Canoe1967 (talk) 16:40, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #47

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Extended diff view to include references now
    • Fixed bug where incorrect statements revision was shown in diff view
    • Added first version of Linked Data interface (RDF/XML); will be accessible from Special:EntityData
    • Updated the demo system
    • More work towards using Solr for our search
    • More investigation and fixes of search issues
    • Fixed several bugs in the entity selector and improved its behavior
    • Worked on refactoring of how our widgets use the toolbar
    • Worked on implementation of missing data model components in JavaScript
    • A lot of bug fixing
  • Events
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • Rollout of phase 1 (language links) on all remaining Wikipedias is still planned for March 6
    • Next update on wikidata.org is also planned for March 6. This will have bugfixes and if all goes well string as a new available data type.
    • Proposal was made to the Hungarian, Hebrew and Italian Wikipedias to be the first batch to use phase 2 of Wikidata (infoboxes). Scheduled timeframe for this is end of March
    • d:Wikidata:Database reports has some useful reports like the list of most used properties
    • The interwiki shortcut :d was changed to always use www in the resulting link (to prevent editing issues on other URLs).
    • The list of available properties is growing and a whole bunch of new ones are being discussed
    • Reasonator gives you a nice adapted view of an item about a person
    • Items by cat helps you find missing items in a certain Wikipedia category
    • A few more additions to d:Wikidata:Tools that you should have a look at if you’re editing statements
    • We now have more than 2600 active users on Wikidata. Thanks for being awesome. <3
  • Open Tasks for You

DYK for Philip Magnus

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Hello Andrew. Terribly sorry for the late notice, but could you make this live? I was not expecting this to happen but if it can, then it should. Wikipedia:Geonotice#Wikipedia:Seattle_Wikipedians. Thanks. Blue Rasberry (talk) 02:04, 4 March 2013 (UTC)

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Philip Magnus

Hi, I just realized that I never updated you in the status of the photo - I've uploaded it as File:Philip Magnus.jpg - I'll leave to you the pleasure of incorporating it into the the article as you see fit. 06:20, 6 March 2013 (UTC)

Thanks! Andrew Gray (talk) 21:10, 6 March 2013 (UTC)
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