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Is consensus needed to use the Wikipedia naming conventions? Blake the bookbinder 17:44, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Natural causes at adventist hospital 4:15 am wed 11 april 2007.... listed in SCMP thursday april 12, also he was my grandfather so i know... Scrugbyhk 09:19, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

Do you think you could do a page like that for the english wiki? i haven't had the time Scrugbyhk 02:18, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

Wahaha Danone joint venture

I just created this article on this very topical subject. The subject matter would make for a good featured article, so I am hoping to enlist your help to get it there qualitatively. Maybe you would be interested in translating it? The most important sources are in Chinese. ;-) Ohconfucius 04:03, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

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Honours

Well I suppose the London Gazette does actually still use them 2008 New Year Honours, but most newspapers no longer do so eg The Guardian style guide, Acronyms and abbreviations Wikipedia isn't really a formal document, but an encyclopaedia after all, so are usage tends toward that of general newspapers. David Underdown (talk) 13:42, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

I also meant to say that otherwise there was a mix of usage in the article, not using full stops in his postnominals, but using them in the Honours list. In addition, the London Gazette provides the official record of all British honours, and can be searched (back to the 1660s!) here. Obviously with Chinese names it's worth trying both orderings of personal and family names. The search facility isn't 100% due to the way older additions have been scanned in and automatically converted to text, so I've been building up an index of Honours lists, see User:David Underdown/Honours which may mean you can find the relevant information manually if you already know what year an honour was given. David Underdown (talk) 13:54, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

The Gazette did revamp their website in October last year, and the search is now better than it was, I don't know if you've tried again since that time. Bear in mind also that The New Year list is usually published at the end of the previous December - the award of Honours always includes the phrase "graciously pleased", so if you enter that as you search term, and restrict the dates to say 25 December and 3 january of the year you're actually interested in, you should get somewhere. Similary the birthday honours are normally inlate may to Mid June, "raciously pleased" should work there too, but "birthday" is also quite useful. David Underdown (talk) 15:22, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

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Re: Henry Pollock

Well, besides the fact that it should have been put under the 17th rather than the 19th (which the commenter should've just went and fixed themselves for you), there was no inline citation for the hook, which we're trying to make a requirement. It is a very nice article though, try adding in some citations and you could probably get it to GA status rather easily. Wizardman 15:29, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

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Thanks for correcting that, I wasn't sure. --Canley (talk) 13:48, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

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London Gazette

Clithering, it would be useful if you could use the template {{LondonGazette}} for references. It may have settled down now, but there have been some big changes over time in the way they put the urls together, if the templates used, it means all the references can be fixed automatically when that happens, just by updating the template, otherwise it's necessary to find every single article which uses the the gazette and manually edit them, which is a deeply tedious task. David Underdown (talk) 15:50, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

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Susana Walton

Why did you move the Susana Walton article? Her husband's article is called William Walton and I can't see any need to deviate from the name by which she is called. Is this in one of the many a Manual of Style sections that I haven't read yet? Please enlighten me. — Hebrides (talk) 07:45, 3 April 2010 (UTC)

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Congratulations on your latest article which I noticed because of DYK and enjoyed very much. I have tried to contribute a more international style of English, I hope it helps. I get the impression that your account of the negotiations reflects a Chinese/Hong Kong Government POV, rather than a neutral one? Perhaps someone will help balance it from another POV. Many thanks for an interesting afternoon Jezza (talk) 15:57, 17 June 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for your edits in the article. I have left my reply in the discussion page of the article in regard to its neutrality. Please continue our discussion on that page. --Clithering (talk) 13:02, 18 June 2010 (UTC)

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Thank you for your help! I just now reread the article and found far fewer difficulties, and I decided to change everything else that I could find, which wasn't very much; most of the bits that I changed were cases of going from ’ and ″ characters to ' and ". Could you please review it to ensure that I didn't change the meaning of anything? When you approve my changes or when you correct them, the page will be ready for DYK. Nyttend (talk) 13:15, 7 August 2012 (UTC)

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Dear Prince of Erebor, thank you for your invitation and your interest in my work. I appreciate your asking but I don't think I am qualified for the job, having focused mostly on biographies and history, rather than literature. My burdens in real life have prevented me from taking on further responsibilities here as well. I wish you could find the right people you need sooner or later. Feel free to let me know if I can be of other help. --Clithering (talk) 11:52, 4 November 2022 (UTC)

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Hi @Clithering,

I am sorry that I shall type the following message in Cantonese for the sake of convenience. You can definitely choose to delete this message after reading it.

我頭先睇到一啲IP用戶喺中文書面語維基百科嗰度做緊地區詞替換，包括將「女皇」替換成「女王」，「英國皇后」替換成「英國王后」，呢啲好明顯係違規嘅。唔該閣下幫手睇實佢哋。

閣下可以望下218.188.194.170嘅所有編輯，「英國君主配偶列表 」、「英皇按察使 ‎ 」仲有唔少條目都受緊影響。佢仲夾硬要將多倫多華人用開嘅「皇帝街」、「皇帝站」（有《明報》同《星島》作為來源）改成冇來源嘅「國王街」、「國王站」。希望閣下處理一下呢啲破壞同埋不當編輯。唔該晒！ 852hk (talk) 17:31, 23 February 2023 (UTC)

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