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Organizations by type

Hi Jpbowen -- I am proposing a rename of Category:Types of organization, which you created, to Category:Organizations by type. It's more in keeping with the other categories in Category:Organizations, and is a bit clearer, IMO -- the category collects articles about organizations, divided by type, rather than articles about types of organizations. I posted a mergeto & discussion about this a while ago and got no objections, so moved it up to CFD. Your thoughts at the CFD would be welcome. 2007/12/31 CFD. Cheers, Lquilter (talk) 07:05, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know. I have added some discussion on the CFD page. I think this raises some higher-level issues. Your thoughts and response are welcome. Happy New Year! — Jonathan Bowen (talk) 12:51, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

Your general point about "by type" and "types of" is well-taken, and I'll say so on the CFD page. One question, though: Why use "by type" as an aggregator for all the "by location", "by subject", etc.? Why not just have those at the top of Category:Organizations with the pipe-sort putting them at the front? That seems to me to be the most direct. I'm not sure that people will know to go looking through "by type" to find "by subject", "by location", and so on. --Lquilter (talk) 16:39, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

Yes, this needs a bit of thought. I'm doing a bit of reorganization. Where helpful navigationally, I think having some entries under Category:Organizations and Category:Organizations by type could be appropriate. Let's see how the organization (no pun intended!) and the discussion goes. — Jonathan Bowen (talk) 16:45, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

Relatedly, where you one of the folks previously involved in Wikipedia:WikiProject Organizations? I've been trying to get it going again; we desperately need a project to help with that. For me the order of priority is (1) categorization schemes -- right now it's a mess; (2) draft article guidelines -- what's a good article for an organization; and (3) fleshing out notability criteria with more examples and help, and keeping up with AFDs on organizations. If you haven't participated before, it would be great to have someone else thinking through the broad high-level issues with (before we start implementing changes). --Lquilter (talk) 18:23, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

No I was not involved before, but I have added myself now. I start a new job in January and will have less time for Wikipedia, but you have my moral support at least and time when I can devote it. I'm happy to respond to ideas if I can. Good luck! — Jonathan Bowen (talk) 21:36, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

• FYI - on alphabetical sorting, my understanding is that you can do the pipe trick with a space instead of an asterisk; it sorts the same, but doesn't create a confusing "*" subheading. e.g., [[Category:United Nations| ]] instead of [[Category:United Nations|*]]. --Lquilter (talk) 21:54, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the info. Is there any guidance anywhere on " " vs. "*", etc.? I tend to use " " for important single main entries and "*..." for multiple entries a la regular expressions, but that is just from habit and observing use by others. Official guidance welcome if there is any. (Thanks for your "civil conversation" — to quote from your user page — it is refreshing!) — Jonathan Bowen (talk) 22:05, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

Sorry for the delay. Yes, Wikipedia:Categorization#Pipe_tricks_and_sort_keys talks about "many readers feel..." So it's not a firm rule, but over time I believe I've seen them migrating towards the space not the asterisk. (The asterisk adds an asterisk in the table of contents, which is a little jarring, while the space doesn't.) --Lquilter (talk) 16:25, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

Anyway, I came here to say that the 12/31 CFD is closed. There were as many solutions proposed as people, I think! Feel free to join in continuing discussions at Category talk:Organizations. --Lquilter (talk) 18:59, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the info and pointer. Go luck with any reorganization. I guess it needs some debate! Best wishes, Jonathan Bowen (talk) 22:46, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

Footbridge at Folly Bridge, Oxford

Hi.

Nearly two years ago, you added the following to the article Folly Bridge:

A public footbridge was completed next to the road bridge in 2002, designed by Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners.

and I've found several sources that appear to confirm this. But the trouble is the images we have of Folly Bridge on the article date from 2005 and 2007, and show absolutely no sign of such a bridge. I've discussed this further at Talk:Folly Bridge. Can you help?. -- Chris j wood (talk) 14:50, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

Chris: I believe this was a design that was not implemented and have updated the page accordingly, with a reference. Apologies for any misinformation previously. I'll check the situation next time I pass over the bridge, but the photographs look rather convincing! Thank you for bringing this to my attention. — Jonathan Bowen (talk) 23:27, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum

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I have reverted to an old version which I believe does not have copyright issues. — Jonathan Bowen (talk) 00:12, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

Sorry for the nuisance, Jonathan, I was doing other related work when I stumbled up that article. Not having enough familiarity with the article in question, I figured that prod would be a better way to get someones attention. Thanks for taking care of it. Yngvarr 00:15, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

No Problem! I guess for the future it is always worth checking the history of an article in case there is a previous version that is OK. Regards, Jonathan Bowen (talk) 00:17, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

Marlow Regattas

Hi JPB

As you created these articles you may be amazed at the inability of another editor to be able to differentiate between them. Regards Motmit (talk) 22:54, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

Many thanks for letting me know. I have removed the suggested merger and added notes to the talk pages. — Jonathan Bowen (talk) 21:12, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

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A new Oxbridge user box

Jpbowen...I am currently in the process of writing a user box for all of the colleges that are part of Oxbridge. This template is meant to replace your current college template. Please take a look at the work in progress and comment on it. My main concerns are college abbreviations and color choice. I am using scarf colors for the colleges. Thank you. - LA @ 16:57, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:Theatrical occupations

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Bronx Museum of the Arts

Hi! I'm still learning categories so can you explain to me these category changes? I'm not disagreeing at all, I just don't quite understand which are/not appropriate and want to learn this right rather than have to unlearn. Thanks! TRAVELLINGCARI^{My story}_{Tell me yours} 02:53, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

In adding categories you should not normally include categories that are above other categories in the hierarchy. For example, Category:Museums is high in the hierarchy — all the other categories with "museums" in their name are below this. In general, try to "narrow" categories as far as possible. For another check, look in categories you use. The article should be roughly comparable with others in the category. I hope this helps and have fun editing Wikipedia! — Jonathan Bowen (talk) 13:18, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Gotcha, so basically all I would need to add (not for this one but for another group I work on) is Category:Children's museums in New York City and it would automagically populate to Category: Museums, Category: Children's Museums in the United States, Museums in New York City, etc? TRAVELLINGCARI^{My story}_{Tell me yours} 15:18, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Not automagically unfortunately, a new category like this would have to be added and located in other categories manually — and only if there were enough museums in the category to warrant it (which would all have to be recategorized manually too). Creating new categories is something you should leave till you have good experience. Before that, just try to added the narrowest categories that apply to any articles you produce. If you choose a category, that has a more appropriate subcategory (or set of subcategories), use that/those instead. On the other hand, if you (or anyone else) is not sure, and use Category:Museums for example, it is likely that someone like me will spot it and recategorize — one of the wonders of Wikipedia and why it works! Hope this helps. — Jonathan Bowen (talk) 19:24, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Wasn't clear.. oops! The category of Children's museums in New York City exists. I created it because there was Museums in NYC and Children's in the US but the children's museums were 'lost' in both and there are a number of museums that fit in it. It's not yet well populated as museums are one of my personal projects: User:Travellingcari/Museums that I've adopted. I think I started copy pasting categories from MoMA or elsewhere so that explains some of the redundancy. But I also think there's a ton of list/category overlap. I've been known with stubs to just put it as {{stub}} and let someone else find a home for it when I can't. TRAVELLINGCARI^{My story}_{Tell me yours} 21:24, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

There are probably just enough NYC children's museums to make the category viable, but notice the speedy rename proposal because the capitalization is not standard. The general rule is be bold with articles but think carefully about categories — and if you are not very sure, don't create. — Jonathan Bowen (talk) 21:35, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

There are at least ten off the top of my head. Don't go by the ones listed in the List of... lists, as neither the NYC or NYS one is complete. If that's not enough someone can delete it but I checked to make sure that seemed to be an acceptable size before creating it. (I'm well aware of WP:OTHERSTUFF, but I don't think that applies to category size.) Didn't think there was anything wrong with adding the museums as I work on the articles. I'm not a fan of creating sub-stubs just for the sake of getting the article there and would prefer to gather materials and write the article/stub. Just a note on this. The external link that you changed it to does not work if the user doesn't have certain scripts (flash?) Is it better to link to the main one just because it's main even if it won't work for some users? TRAVELLINGCARI^{My story}_{Tell me yours} 03:08, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

It seems reasonable to me! It is just a bit of a jump from the United States down to New York City — but OK! Re link, I prefer the main link because it is much more stable (e.g., if the internal structure of the website is updated — very likely sometime. Flash is a flash in the pan! :) In any case, if the main website link does not work for some users it is an extremely badly designed website! Anyway, it is always possible to update and add to Wikipedia links if needed. Just my opinions! — Jonathan Bowen (talk) 18:26, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

Do you think Category:Children's museums in New York would be better? I wouldn't oppose as I see your point about the big jump. And no argument on the extremely poorly designed site, I had to rely on a google hit into an exhibit to get in and then be sure I didn't hit something like 'home' and have it lock up again. TRAVELLINGCARI^{My story}_{Tell me yours} 20:23, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

Certainly one would expect a Category:Children's museums in New York category for the state of New York to fill in the gap. And similar categories for other US states with significant numbers of children's museums, if there are enough to warrant this. I guess NYC is probably a special case with a high proportion of children's museums. — Jonathan Bowen (talk) 11:04, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

Agreed, however I think I'm going to hold off on that for a bit simply because the only non-NYC children's museum that has an article as of now appears to be Children's Museum of Utica, New York. I know there must be other children's museums in the state (likely in Albany) but I don't see making a category for one article. I'll add it to my User:Travellingcari/Museums to do list. TRAVELLINGCARI^{My story}_{Tell me yours} 17:25, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

Yes of course, all very sensible. — Jonathan Bowen (talk) 18:41, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

Archives & Museum Informatics

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EVA Conferences

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AfD notice

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Edmund Lenihan

Good work! I edited that one until I got frustrated and quit. Good to see others cleaning it up and adding to it.Trilobitealive (talk) 20:03, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Museum Mile, London

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No problem, but the term only seems to exist within the marketing dept. of the London Borough of Camden; I'm not sure that it merits an article - and seems to have some confusion with South Kensington. Be glad to hear your thoughts. cheers Kbthompson (talk) 09:34, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

WP:Museums Discussion

Hi! I think your personal knowledge might help answer this as I'm not sure which title(s) are the best to use. I'm not sure whether you watch the project page so I wanted to give you the heads up. _{TravellingCari}^{the Busy Bee} 20:11, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

I have added a comment to the discussion. — Jonathan Bowen (talk) 12:21, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

I saw, thank you! _{TravellingCari}^{the Busy Bee} 15:30, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

Rowiki

Hi, saw your post on rowiki and I see you are a regular rowing-related poster on wikipedia. I would love it if you would help make the snowball bigger, as it hasn't quite caught on as quickly as I had hoped. If you'd like to discuss, please contact me there (rowiki talk page for rrcjab). Thanks! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rrcjab (talk • contribs) 16:01, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, I have added an article. You need to act as a "champion" to get the wiki off the ground. For some suggestions in the context of museums, but also more generally applicable too, see Wiki Software and Facilities for Museums. Good luck! — Jonathan Bowen (talk) 00:30, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

Park West Gallery

Please do some more editing. It needs it. Ty 00:36, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Tyrenius, I have done a little editing; more could certainly be done. — Jonathan Bowen (talk) 22:40, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Ty. I agree! Ty 23:33, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

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Proposed deletion of Acland Hospital

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Rename Category:Getty Museum? Is Category:Museum books Needed?

I think "Category:Getty Museum" should be renamed "Category:J. Paul Getty Trust." Some of the entries there, like Art & Architecture Thesaurus, Getty Foundation, and Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names are not part of the J. Paul Getty Museum; however, they ARE part of the broader J. Paul Getty Trust.

Certainly there could be a broader "J. Paul Getty Trust" category above "Category:Getty Museum" (if you with to create one), but the latter is designed to fit in with other similar museum-related categories and the former would not do so. — Jonathan Bowen (talk) 13:50, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

Also, I'm not understanding "Category:Museum books" with three entries. Is it supposed to be books about museums, books by museums, or both? Two of the entries there -- Art & Architecture Thesaurus, and Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names -- are accessed electronically, not in books. That would leave one entry. Is there a need for this category? ArtPhotoLover (talk) 05:29, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

I have added a brief introduction. I was thinking of this category in terms of professional/education books by/for museum professionals. Thank you for your input. — Jonathan Bowen (talk) 13:50, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

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Many thanks for the information and useful pointers. I hope to get to a Wikipedia meeting sometime! — Jonathan Bowen (talk) 23:44, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Acland Hospital

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Proposed deletion of Museum of World Religions

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There are multiple reliable references easily found online. I have added a selection and deleted the notice. — Jonathan Bowen (talk) 23:51, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry (talk) 18:37, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

Category:Neighbourhoods of London

Hi Jonathan
When you created the Category:Neighbourhoods of London did you really mean to place it in England's 'London' as opposed to Canada's London or some place else? [1] Either way, the sad news is its sub cats are now seemingly displacing all the London Borough categories off articles concerning places in the London region.

If however, you where trying to heroically sort out the mess of London categories, then solution for this -I think- is to correct the names of the borough categories. Example: Category:Ealing (which is really the name of a town) should be changed to its proper name of Category:London Borough of Ealing (and not Ealing borough of London or Ealing borough in London or any other variation but exactly as they appear in Category:London_Borough.

At present, calling the borough cats by the names of the principle towns is not only wrong but just confuses people; neighbourhoods more so, because in England (and especially in crowed London) the use of the word changes with context. We need need in an encyclopaedia to have inflexible term for something that possess defined boundaries for the area covered in the article, -borough meets this requirement.

These latter two problems also badly affects Wikicommons. Nine out of ten photographs of London that get uploaded, don't get a category place name any more - it is just too mystifying for contributors. I wasted several hours last week trying to explain to a group of three people who were visiting (and who's mother tongue is not English), how to choose the right category for images which would place them geographically and came to realize, that as things are, it is a complete nonsense when it comes to the London region. Obviously too, without these cats it is impossible in practice to review image for any given locality in a WC gallery.

It would also make more sense if the exonym form of Category:Neighbourhoods in the United Kingdom on WP gets a 'redirect' to Category:Subdivisions of the United Kingdom (perhaps with a comment on that cat page that the word 'neighbourhood' is used differently in Britain and so ceases from here on in to be applicable). Then correct the names on its sub cats that included the exonym 'Neighbourhoods'. Finally and just for completeness the Category:Neighbourhoods of Walsall (that was created by someone else) needs correcting. It would be futile for me to start correcting these issues on Wikicommons if WP itself does not make sense (as you may know, Wikicommons uses the English Wikipedia as its guide regarding the naming of categories). --Aspro (talk) 09:22, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

Good luck with sorting things out. I guess there is no perfect or easy answer! — Jonathan Bowen (talk) 16:39, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

Category:Year of birth unknown

Hi. Please keep in mind than for Living individuals we use Category:Year of birth missing (living people) and not Category:Year of birth unknown nor Category:Date of birth unknown. Please keep instructions in those categories. Thanks, Magioladitis (talk) 09:45, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the information and I do know it, although knowing if someone is alive can be difficult sometimes! — Jonathan Bowen (talk) 16:39, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:Theories

Category:Theories has been nominated for 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. Cgingold (talk) 02:33, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

Worthy of keeping as a high-level container category, IMHO. — Jonathan Bowen (talk) 23:52, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Speech (album)

I have nominated Speech (album), an article you created, for deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Speech (album). Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time. Beano (talk) 05:54, 12 October 2008 (UTC) Beano (talk) 05:54, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

Worthy of keeping for completeness as the last album from an important blues-rock band, IMHO. — Jonathan Bowen (talk) 23:52, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

Boat Race image categories

I see you have been removing the boat race/sporting categories from some of these images. What's your thinking on this - have I miscategorised them? - Pointillist (talk) 23:06, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

I believe so, yes. The categories are far to wide. It is also best to choose "Images" categories for images. Perhaps it would be best to have a Category:Images of the Boat Race category for all these images. This could be put under Category:Images of the River Thames, etc, as appropriate. Just an idea if you wish to do this.

For guidance, when adding to a category, it is best to check if there are other similar images/articles there already. If not, it is very likely that they would be mis-categorized or too high in the category hierarchy if added. I hope this helps. Happy editing! — Jonathan Bowen (talk) 23:13, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

I have made a start at this. You are welcome to continue! — Jonathan Bowen (talk) 23:19, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for creating the 'Images of the Boat Race' category and your effort re-categorising images - much appreciated. BTW if you are "Bowen, J. P., University" on page 12 of my old list of resident members of Oxford, we are contemporaries. Let me know if you plan to watch next year's boat race in person? - Pointillist (talk) 23:42, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

I have finished all the images. And, yes, that must be me! I haven't watched the Boat Race live for a while (since moving from London), but will probably watch on television at least, although it would be nice to see it live again sometime. — Jonathan Bowen (talk) 23:47, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

Let me know if you do (I'd like to pick your brains re: Z vs Microsoft Olso/M and model-driven systems). - Pointillist (talk) 00:09, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

I know Z but not Microsoft Oslo/M, although I know parts of Microsoft are using [formal methods]]. — Jonathan Bowen (talk) 09:20, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for your corrections in texts to Hungary Tamas Szabo (talk) 20:26, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

You are welcome. I am working my way through categorizing European capitals better and have just finished Budapest. Further work is welcome of course. — Jonathan Bowen (talk) 21:26, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

Removal of supercategories

I'd argue that this edit, though technically correct, should be reversed. For some unknown reason, category:Cemeteries in Moscow indeed inherits from category:Religion in Moscow. However, absolutely most cemeteries in and around the city are non-denominational, and only a few selected ones do have notable religious history behind them, as in this case. I'd rather unlink cemeteries category from religion at all rather than remove religion tag from these few appropriate cases (Rogozhskoye Cemetery, Armenian Cemetery (Moscow), Preobrazhenskoye Cemetery, Vvedenskoye Cemetery). NVO (talk) 03:00, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

Your points are well made. I guess there is no perfect answer. Certainly the single Rogozhskoye Cemetery under Category:Religion in Moscow looked odd. Religious cemeteries might be better categorized under the religion - e.g., see Category:Jewish cemeteries and Category:Roman Catholic cemeteries if you wanted to use or create appropriate categories for specific religious connections. In many/most countries, cemeteries have religious connections as a rule, but Russia/Moscow is obviously different here. I hope this helps. — Jonathan Bowen (talk) 13:26, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject History of Science newsletter : Issue V - January 2009

It's here at long last! The January 2009 issue of the WikiProject History of Science newsletter is ready, with exciting news about Darwin Day 2009. Please feel free to make corrections or add news about any project-related content you've been working on. You're receiving this because you are a participant in the History of Science WikiProject. You may read the newsletter or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Yours in discourse --ragesoss (talk) 03:05, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:Honorary Fellows of Colleges of the University of Cambridge

Category:Honorary Fellows of Colleges of the University of Cambridge, which you created, has been nominated for 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. Cgingold (talk) 16:07, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

Regarding the Geometry Engine

Hello! I have noticed that you have made Geometry Engine a redirect to Geometry pipelines. I am wondering, would it be appropriate to re-purpose Geometry Engine as an article for the device developed by Jim Clark as described in his 1982 paper, "The Geometry Engine: A VLSI Geometry System for Graphics"? Regards. Rilak (talk) 07:01, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

Yes, this would be very appropriate if you have the time and inclination to do this, thank you. — Jonathan Bowen (talk) 09:37, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

{{UOxford-stub}}

Hi - I see you have recently created one or more new stub types. As it states at Wikipedia:Stub, at the top of most stub categories, and in many other places on Wikipedia, it is recommended that new stub types are proposed prior to creation at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals, in order to check whether the new stub type is already covered by existing stub types, whether it is named according to stub naming guidelines, whether it is otherwise correctly formatted, whether it reaches the standard threshold for creation of a new stub type, and whether it crosses existing stub type hierarchies. Your new stub type is currently listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Discoveries - please feel free to make any comments there as to any rationale for this stub type. And please, in future, consider proposing new stub types first! Grutness...wha? 00:24, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

Yes, I created this in line with the University of Cambridge stub {{UCambridge-stub}}. I can add stub entries if it is deemed acceptable. Sorry not to go through "official" channels. I have added this message to the section suggested above as well. — Jonathan Bowen (talk) 00:32, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:Former students of Magdalen Hall, Oxford

I have nominated Category:Former students of Magdalen Hall, Oxford (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) for renaming to Category:Alumni of Magdalen Hall, Oxford (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs). Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. Bencherlite^Talk 15:37, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

Also Category:Former students of Hart Hall, Oxford (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) on the same basis. Regards, Bencherlite^Talk 15:42, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

It sounds fine to me! — Jonathan Bowen (talk) 17:45, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

Good. You'll see that the categories are rather fuller than they were yesterday... Bencherlite^Talk 02:26, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

Univ

That's well done to fill those gaps! Heads of Houses offers plenty of scope still, I think. It would be nice to bear down on all those listed in the Dictionary of National Biography, as a sub-task of the rather large business of matching its coverage. Charles Matthews (talk) 20:27, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for the positive feedback. Yes, Cambridge are beating Oxford on this at the moment, so I am making a start for Oxford. I will try using the 1885 DNB more. Of course the ONDB is also a great resource. Unfortunately I do not have full access online, although I do have an older paper version as well as the recent Univ history, that I may use to improve entries in the list of Masters of University College, Oxford and also the list of Vice-Chancellors of the University of Oxford (and especially the intersection of the two!). — Jonathan Bowen (talk) 13:36, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

(Stalking your talk page...) I have access to a library copy of Alumni Oxonienses which may help with some of the ones that didn't make it into the DNB. Let me know if I can help. Bencherlite^Talk 13:49, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the information, I will contact you if I get stuck! — Jonathan Bowen (talk) 13:23, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

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Proposed deletion of Union Street, London

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I have added references and further information to these major streets to demonstrate notability. — Jonathan Bowen (talk) 23:16, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

I have nominated these articles for afd as I still don't feel they are notable. Jenuk1985 | Talk 02:45, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Union Street, London

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AfD nomination of Marshalsea Road

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• I can only disagree. These are major Southwark streets in central London with documented historical information. — Jonathan Bowen (talk) 13:28, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

you are well come Jets (talk) 17:14, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

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Proposed deletion of Park Place (Ardwick)

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Appears to be an othewise unremarkable street - does not have sufficient notability. The location of the C19 school can be indicated in the article about the C19 school. --Tagishsimon (talk) 19:10, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

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The Cossacks are coming!

Dear Jpbowen, I noticed your help on a couple of pages I am working on and wanted to thank you. Furthermore, given your experience here I was wondering if you had any ideas regarding the picture on Pugachev's Rebellion. Clearly Zaporozhian Cossacks are represented in the painting and not Yaik Cossacks. Is this misleading or a minor detail given the article implies a sub-category re: Cossacks?Ernstblumberg (talk) 12:16, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

Not really my area I am afraid. Good luck anyway! — Jonathan Bowen (talk) 15:03, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

Peer review of Oxbridge article

I've done a series of edits to extend and clean up the Oxbridge article. I was aiming to include all the essential points that others would otherwise add later, but in the smallest practicable stand-alone form: more crisp and focused than Oxbridge rivalry, for example. I'm now too closely involved to judge the result. As you were active on the Oxbridge rivalry article last year, would you care to review Oxbridge? Thanks in advance - Pointillist (talk) 09:58, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

It looks like a good separation to me. — Jonathan Bowen (talk) 22:45, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

Malta

Thanks for you help with the National Museum of Archaeology (Malta) article! All help on Wikiproject Malta articles is much appreciated. we are a marvelous Machine (talk) 20:09, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

You are welcome, thanks for the feedback. — Jonathan Bowen (talk) 22:45, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

Category:Museology

Happened upon this category. You 1st set it up, a subcategory of Museums, which seems exactly right. Later though you changed it so that Museums was a subcat of Museology. Very odd to have a topic be a subcategory of the study of that topic. I'd like to understand what's going on. Thanks, 69.106.242.20 (talk) 03:18, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

I guess it depends on how you view the term "Museums" — is it just museums or all museum-related articles? If the former, I agree, if the latter, as is the case at the moment, it is less obvious. Is there any guidance on this somewhere? — Jonathan Bowen (talk) 15:02, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

Category:Hello Sir

I deeply admire your work in becoming a renown computer scientist and I merely want to felicitate you for your achievements. This is a personal letter, and I plan on becoming a computer scientist such as yourself. I thought a little chat would bring me some "good luck".--DarkKunai (talk) 03:38, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

Good luck to you! — Jonathan Bowen (talk) 21:33, 26 April 2009 (UTC)

Deletion (JACM)

I was about to submit an AFD but then I thought deletion is potentially not a nice thing to do to someone. Look over this article and tell me what you think. It is 4 years old and nothing is really mentioned except a definition.

Journal of the ACM

User F203 (talk) 17:48, 26 April 2009 (UTC)

I would strongly advise against deletion, the JACM is the main scientific journal of the ACM, the world's leading computer science professional organization, and is such is highly notable with over 50 years of publications spanning most of the history of computing. Please do improve the article with further information if you wish. — Jonathan Bowen (talk) 21:33, 26 April 2009 (UTC)

I am not a troublemaker. Since you say that it's so important, I will go on a mission to make the article more than a definition. You have motivated me! It may take a while but I'll do it. Wish me luck! User F203 (talk) 17:04, 27 April 2009 (UTC)