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Naming conventions

Pigsonthewing, sorry about our disagreements over "You in Your Small Corner"‎, but you touched a raw nerve. I have raised my concerns over terminology before, in greater detail than on the talk page. See my comments in Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (television)#When is a (TV) film not a film?. Unfortunately, it has not gained a response, so I would appreciate a second opinion, if you are so minded. Philip Cross (talk) 16:13, 20 November 2015 (UTC)

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Manchester

Hello

I am enjoying this. Shedsue (talk) 14:20, 21 November 2015 (UTC)

hola

hola how are you? Parquesol (talk) 15:18, 21 November 2015 (UTC)

hello

Hi Andy! Drwgovier (talk) 15:26, 21 November 2015 (UTC)

Hello

Thank you so much for teaching an old dogs a new trick. Marjorie Yvonne Eckersley (talk) 15:54, 21 November 2015 (UTC)

Hello

Hi Andy, Thanks for all the help today at the intro to Wikipedia held here at Manchester Library Media Lounge. SoundFlyer 15:59, 21 November 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by SoundFlyer (talk • contribs)

The Signpost: 18 November 2015

Please see discussion of "Does the current text of WP:BIDIRECTIONAL have broad consensus?" at Wikipedia talk:Categories, lists, and navigation templates#WP:BIDIRECTIONAL navbox requirements. Montanabw(talk) 01:41, 22 November 2015 (UTC)

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St Cecilia's Day
A Boy was Born

Music in your ears and heart! (in a box) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:05, 22 November 2015 (UTC)

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20:26, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

WP DEATH

Is an active project, somewhat slow and lame compared to the milhist or ships projects, but...

To go into a project and change an image without discussion at the project page is a bit... for an ed of your length of time and edit count

This is what I said at the template page (where you explain removing an image): -

WP:IDONTLIKEIT of a single editor is not a consensual decision for a project and how it is portrayed - there is no precedent for a single editor to provide a personal way to understand taste/preference - a discussion (or for that matter a check at the death project where this has been through before) is better first

I am sure I have briefly encountered you at a wikimania in the past, you probably dont remember me, but, for whatever sakes, please take a conversation to the death project Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Death - best way to do it mate

JarrahTree 00:32, 25 November 2015 (UTC)

You demonstrate a lamentable lack of awareness of Wikipedia polices and the underpinning "5 pillars". And I'd already stared a talk page discussion, before the duplicate to which you link. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:43, 25 November 2015 (UTC)
Fair enough. at least we have just a template image difference of opinion - have a thought for the orkneyians at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category_talk:Orcadian_Wikipedians JarrahTree 23:32, 25 November 2015 (UTC)

Magna Carta Tapestry

Hi Andy,

Sorry to bother you so early. I just forgot to mention that, if you are still in Manchester, perhaps you would like to see the exhibition in the Whitworth Art Gallery by Cornelia Parker. She made a tapestry about the Magna Carta taking as model the Wikipedia page. I went to see it and I think is worthy.

Just another way in which Wikipedia is influential.

Once again, thank you so much for the course today. It was amazing.

Regards

Miriam Parquesol (talk) 22:08, 21 November 2015 (UTC)

@Parquesol: Thank you. Sadly I was too late to see it, but I hope to in future. I'm glad you enjoyed the event. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:35, 27 November 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 25 November 2015

Template:Ukrsrow

Can I get some input from you, please, on Template:Ukrsrow and the state of UK railway stations – D et al.

I amended UK railway stations – C to use Template:Ukrsrow (based on awesome regex-fu, fwiw ... how are you getting on with that?). And that worked fine, as it does for Stations A & B

But UK railway stations – D and probably others have stations which have no postcode nor station TLA ... and in some cases, have ad hoc links to a map and a timetable - see Dduallt railway station in the list.

Template:Ukrsrow is designed to handle the presence or absence of a postcode and/or of a TLA. Not designed to handle ad hoc values (e.g. a Template:Coord for the map and URLs for station details and station timetables). Were Template:Ukrsrow to be amended so that it could cope with these additional values, then I could continue on & amend all pages a) without information loss and b) such that other later can add stations for which we have no postcode but do have a location.

Right direction / worth doing? And how is your template-fu? Might you be inclined to get involved? --Tagishsimon (talk) 21:16, 21 November 2015 (UTC)

@Tagishsimon: Belated reply, sorry.

I would first create new version of {{Ukrsrow}}, which takes coordinates, using {{Coord}}, instead of postcodes. This template should call data from Wikidata. It could also include columns for a thumbnail image, commons category link, etc. And it could cater for exceptions such as you mention, if there are a significant number of them (otherwise, their rows could still use raw table markup).

Some of the exceptions should be moved to List of heritage railway stations in the United Kingdom (or deleted, if already there, as Dduallt is).

Then, request a bot to do the template conversions.

Finally, the original {{Ukrsrow}} would be deleted. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:48, 29 November 2015 (UTC)

I'm afraid your comment "restore; to avoid being archived" makes no sense to me. How would it be archived? Can you elaborate? Thanks. Protopone primigena (talk) 22:15, 28 November 2015 (UTC)

Talk page comments get archived, banners do not. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 23:36, 28 November 2015 (UTC)
Ok. I understand your comment now, but that does not justify having any such message or link. Protopone primigena (talk) 23:48, 28 November 2015 (UTC)
Indeed not. The message is justified by the fact that one of our fellow editors is in imminent danger of death. Yet you have edit warred to remove it. Such action is unjustified, and vile. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:18, 29 November 2015 (UTC)
If you would like to discuss it reasonably, please start a discussion on the article talk page. Protopone primigena (talk) 14:19, 29 November 2015 (UTC)

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  • Wikinews, Wikispecies, MediaWiki.org and Meta will be able to use information from Wikidata. [4][5]
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  • Category watchlists are now available on test wikis and MediaWiki.org. The plan is to enable it on most wikis in January. [6]
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16:16, 30 November 2015 (UTC)

You're invited! Women in Red World Virtual Edit-a-thon on Women in Religion

You are invited! Join us remotely!

World Virtual Edit-a-thon on Women in Religion

  • Dates: 5 to 15 December 2015
  • Location: Worldwide/virtual/online event
  • Host: Women in Red (WiR): Did you know that only 15% of the biographies on Wikipedia are about women? WiR focuses on "content gender gap". If you'd like to help contribute articles on women and women's works, we warmly welcome you!
  • Event details: This is a virtual edit-a-thon hosted by WiR. It will allow all those keen to improve Wikipedia's coverage of women in reigion to participate. All levels of Wikipedia editing experience are welcome.
  • RSVP and learn more: →here←--Ipigott (talk) 11:46, 3 December 2015 (UTC)

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  • Revision scoring will help to automatically identify bad-faith and good-faith edits. The point is to make it easier to block vandals and welcome newcomers. It currently supports Wikidata and 14 Wikipedias. [8]

Problems

  • Meta was not given access to information from Wikidata last week. This will happen later. [9]

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  • You will be able to use wikilinks in Flow topic titles. [10]
  • IP users will have a toolbar with links to the user talk page and user contributions. Some Wikipedias already have this feature. [11]
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  • New MediaWiki versions will now be on Catalan and Hebrew Wikipedia on Wednesdays. Other Wikipedias get the new MediaWiki version on Thursdays. [16]

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  • A new beta feature will show users links to related articles at the bottom of an article. It will not be enabled by default. [17]

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17:53, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

Time for ORCID in citations?

Hi, Andy. Do you think it's a good time for another try at getting ORCID implemented in citations? I was looking at your "five decisions to make" from the last time around, and think they can all be addressed. I think the main issue is how to display ORCIDS, and here I would suggest: don't display them. Display some kind of symbol which links to the specified ORCID page. I think that would server the purposes, without clogging the citation with a mass of digits. (The unresolved issue would be: what kind of symbol?) Interested? ~ J. Johnson (JJ) (talk) 23:37, 1 December 2015 (UTC)

@Andy: No? ~ J. Johnson (JJ) (talk) 21:19, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

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Hi Andy,

My name is Joanna Colley writing on behalf of my husband Reuben Colley, he now Lives in Birmimgham not Cornwall can this be changed on wiki ? Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.141.70.65 (talk) 07:45, 14 December 2015 (UTC)

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  • Meta will be able to use information from Wikidata. [18]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 December. It will be on all Wikipedias from 17 December. (calendar).

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17:42, 14 December 2015 (UTC)

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Composer PRs

After, hopefully, you have contributed to Wikipedia:Peer review/Albert Ketèlbey/archive1 as discussed, perhaps you'd be interested in contributing to another composer PR: Wikipedia:Peer review/William Sterndale Bennett/archive1. All constructive contributions gratefully received. Tim riley talk 17:45, 18 December 2015 (UTC)

Templates for possible deletion?

I am not up on the proper TfD procedures, but these look like templates that are similar to ones that you often target for cleanup: Talk:Pittsburgh/Archive_5#Multi-reference_templates_in_use. I found them while poking around citation template categories. They seem like a clear case of article content being stored in a template and being used in only one article. – Jonesey95 (talk) 17:50, 18 December 2015 (UTC)

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  • There is no deployment of MediaWiki scheduled until 12 January 2016 (calendar).

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  • Should administrators and other users with advanced tools need stronger passwords? You can discuss about it in a Request for Comments.
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18:29, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

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