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Phillip Klinger
I would love to add references but I do not know how to unless you undelete the article! The fact you can find no references to Mr Klinger or the company is of no suprise to me. Mr Klinger does not pay tax in any country and has had himself removed from the British electoral register. The company is registered in Israel, in Hebrew, despite not having an office there, as few English/French/Spanish speakers speak Hebrew thus most people will never find out where the company is registered, etc.

I know all this as I worked for Mr Klinger as his secretary for 14 years, until 2011 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Badgerkli (talk • contribs) 21:38, 28 January 2012 (UTC) - Book (published 2008, Israel) translated into English: 'Phillip Klinger: Israel's British Financier' - Book (second in series to above) 'The growth of the Klinger Empire' 2009 - Spazzicoo (magazine) article on 08/06/2008 - UCCL Listings of Company Directors (British Virgin Islands Directory) - Petition to Totteridge Council, London, by Mr and Mrs L. R. Klinger for rear and side extension to property and addition of pool house. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Badgerkli (talk • contribs) 22:15, 28 January 2012 (UTC)


 * The last one is not an admissible source under any circumstances. The UCCL listing is probably not usable. The books are only acceptable sources to the extent their existence, at least, can be verified. —C.Fred (talk) 22:27, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

You now have your sources please verify them as quickly as possible, assuming you can read Hebrew, or if not access the Totteridge and Whetstone Town Hall Planning office and you will be able to validify the claims. Now please do hurry up and undelete it and I have found that Mr Klinger is even already on wikipedia himself:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lehman_Brothers#Board_of_directors Badgerkli (talk) 22:28, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

well how about you verify the books and then read/scan through them and you'll be able to see that all the information I provided is not only true but that I have done something helpful in putting them on the internet.

As stated previously he is also on wikipedia itself, which SHOULD be a reliable source for you — Preceding unsigned comment added by Badgerkli (talk • contribs) 22:35, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

Whatever you decide to do, delete or undelete it, please can I get the article back so I can save it offline! Please! Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Badgerkli (talk • contribs) 09:36, 29 January 2012 (UTC)

Yes I have done I would now be grateful if you could email it through to me. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Badgerkli (talk • contribs) 10:56, 29 January 2012 (UTC)

Thank you for the email, yet I am unable to open the deleted article. Could you please just send through the actual article in the email Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Badgerkli (talk • contribs) 11:12, 29 January 2012 (UTC)

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MSU Interview
Dear Shimgray,

My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication

Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia

Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU,

a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known

about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!)

want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea

(the class) to the community [[Wikipedia:Village_pump_

(proposals)/Archive_82#Learn_to_be_a_Wikipedia_Administrator_-_New_class_at_MSU|HERE]],

where it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a

few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes,

dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our

students.

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have been trained how to conduct interviews ethically and properly.

Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to

speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain

anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable

doing so, you can post your name HERE instead.

If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will

be more than happy to speak with you.

Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.

Sincerely,

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For you!
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Thank you for your help sorting out the TMIG template sent to people's talk pages. It's always great to have help fixing things (especially when they're on such a big scale). Hopefully this will be the last time I end up sending something incorrect to upwards of 50 people's talk pages. It's always annoying when the slip of a finger means that something wrong gets sent to >10 different wikis! ;-)

Thanks again, Rock drum Ba-dumCrash 21:50, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

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No good deed...
Hi. Edits like this actually did some damage. You removed the bot timestamp, so archive bots will get confused. And you removed the EdwardsBot key (&lt;!-- EdwardsBot XXXX --&gt;), so when I re-ran the bot, it hit certain pages twice (it uses the key for duplicate detection).

And, of course, characterizing this as bot error (in the edit summary) is absurd. Rock drum forgot to properly prefix the links here. I informed him of such here. No bot error about it.

Cheers, jeers, sneers, &c. --MZMcBride (talk) 04:07, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

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HighBeam Research collaboration (similar to WP:CREDO)
Hi! I've recently started a discussion with HighBeam Research, who is interested in donating some accounts for Wikipedia editors to use. I see you were involved with the Credo project and wanted to get your feedback on a few issues:


 * What did the Credo project do right? Wrong?
 * Were you too lenient in giving out accounts?
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I have read over the talk page discussions and archives for the Credo project and am formulating a loose idea of what might work better. Right now it would include:
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Help us develop better software!
Thanks to all of you for commenting on the NOINDEX RfC :). It's always great to be able to field questions like these to the community; it's genuinely the highlight of my work! The NOINDEX idea sprung from our New Page Triage discussion; we're developing a new patrolling interface for new articles, and we want your input like never before :). So if you haven't already seen it, please go there, take a look at the screenshots and mockups and ideas, and add any comments or suggestions you might have to the talkpage. Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 16:46, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
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Invitation to events in June and July: bot, script, template, and Gadget makers wanted
I invite you to the yearly Berlin hackathon, 1-3 June. Registration is now open. If you need financial assistance or help with visa or hotel, then please register by May 1st and mention it in the registration form.

This is the premier event for the MediaWiki and Wikimedia technical community. We'll be hacking, designing, teaching, and socialising, primarily talking about ResourceLoader and Gadgets (extending functionality with JavaScript), the switch to Lua for templates, Wikidata, and Wikimedia Labs.

We want to bring 100-150 people together, including lots of people who have not attended such events before. User scripts, gadgets, API use, Toolserver, Wikimedia Labs, mobile, structured data, templates -- if you are into any of these things, we want you to come!

I also thought you might want to know about other upcoming events where you can learn more about MediaWiki customization and development, how to best use the web API for bots, and various upcoming features and changes. We'd love to have power users, bot maintainers and writers, and template makers at these events so we can all learn from each other and chat about what needs doing.

Check out the the developers' days preceding Wikimania in July in Washington, DC and our other events.

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Glad you found the tool useful! Yuvi (talk) 00:53, 9 April 2012 (UTC)

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Abuse Filter on the Article Feedback Tool
Hey there :). You're being contacted because you're an edit filter manager, At the moment, we're developing Version 5 of the Article Feedback Tool, which you may or may not have heard about. If you haven't; for the first time, this will involve a free-text box where readers can submit comments :). Obviously, there's going to be junk, and we want to minimise that junk. To do so, we're working the Abuse Filter into the tool.

For this to work, we need people to write and maintain filters. I'd be very grateful if you could take a look at the discussion here and the attached docs, and comment and contribute! Thanks :). Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 18:31, 17 April 2012 (UTC)

Thanks
Hi Shimgray and thanks for your interest and help with the Maharishi School article. It's part of a larger topic area that could use an additional pair of eyes. I hope you have a chance to come back and join the conversation on the talk page. Best wishes, -- — <b style= "color:#090;">Keithbob</b> • Talk  • 18:42, 17 April 2012 (UTC)

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Statutes Table
As you responded on the Village Pump item :-

Wikisource has a version of the Chronolgoical Tables that was found on Archive.org :-

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Chronological_Table_and_Index_of_the_Statutes/Chronological_Table

However it only includes data up to 1877 (40-41 Vict), and doesn't seem to include the Short Titles.

It would of course, be nice to annotate the table once it's transcribed to take into accounts repeals made after 1877 Hence, a sandbox project here which so far as been compiled by reading through the 'original' text of General Acts as held on legislation.gov.uk.

Any assistance you would be able to provide would be greatly appreciated. Sfan00 IMG (talk) 13:00, 28 April 2012 (UTC)

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Abuse filter
Come on, shimothy, you know you want to help us out :P. Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 10:12, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

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New Pages update
Hey :). A quick update on how things are going with the New Page Triage/New Pages Feed project. As the enwiki page notes, the project is divided into two chunks: the "list view" (essentially an updated version of Special:NewPages) and the "article view", a view you'll be presented with when you open up individual articles that contains a toolbar with lots of options to interact with the page - patrolling it, adding maintenance tags, nominating it for deletion, so on.

On the list view front, we're pretty much done! We tried deploying it to enwiki, in line with our Engagement Strategy on Wednesday, but ran into bugs and had to reschedule - the same happened on Thursday :(. We've queued a new deployment for Monday PST, and hopefully that one will go better. If it does, the software will be ready to play around with and test by the following week! :).

On the article view front, the developers are doing some fantastic work designing the toolbar, which we're calling the "curation bar"; you can see a mockup here. A stripped-down version of this should be ready to deploy fairly soon after the list view is; I'm afraid I don't have precise dates yet. When I have more info, or can unleash everyone to test the list view, I'll let you know :). As always, any questions to the talkpage for the project or mine. Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 23:38, 5 May 2012 (UTC)

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Re:British Library
Andrew,

Just wanted to say congratulations on getting the post, it's one I've been hoping the library would eventually create! Looking forward to the WW1 event.

Regards,

Brian/ Miyagawa  (talk)  17:59, 9 May 2012 (UTC)

Have been meaning to stop by as well, and wish you all the best with the residency. If I can list my interests anywhere that would help in terms of being matched up with various initiatives, please let me know, as I work not far from the British Library (am able to visit in the late evenings for an hour or two and at weekends when not busy elsewhere), have a reader's card (just renewed), and keep meaning to use the library's resources a lot more (when local libraries aren't a better option). Also looking forward to the WWI event, for which I hope there will be quite a bit of preparation and work on articles beforehand, with books ordered, and topics listed for discussion (the Wikimedia-UK pages may be the best place to discuss that). Carcharoth (talk) 21:25, 12 May 2012 (UTC)

New Page Triage prototype released
Hey Andrew Gray! We've finally finished the NPT prototype and deployed it on enwiki. We'll be holding an office hours session on the 16th at 21:00 in #wikimedia-office to show it off, get feedback and plot future developments - hope to see you there! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 03:48, 13 May 2012 (UTC)

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Favour to ask
Could you possibly get this for me? User:Okeyes (WMF) recommended you :o) <span style="color:#003300; font-family: Apple Chancery, Zapf Chancery, cursive;">Pesky  (<span style="color:#003300; font-family:Papyrus, Noteworthy;">talk ) 11:36, 16 May 2012 (UTC)


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Barnstar
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Meetup/Cambridge/15
Any chance you could confirm one way or the other?©Geni 15:32, 19 May 2012 (UTC)

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Sanskrit thanks
Hi Andrew, and thanks once again for your help with JSTOR. Without it, I couldn't have written Boden Professor of Sanskrit or Boden Professor of Sanskrit election, 1860. I hope to nudge them through FL and GA respectively in the next little while. I now have my Westminster library card, so won't be troubling you for copies of The Times in future, at least - although I might just need some JSTOR help with my next project! Best wishes, BencherliteTalk 08:45, 22 May 2012 (UTC)

New Page Triage/New Pages Feed
Hey all :). A notification that the prototype for the New Pages Feed is now live on enwiki! We had to briefly take it down after an unfortunate bug started showing up, but it's now live and we will continue developing it on-site.

The page can be found at Special:NewPagesFeed. Please, please, please test it and tell us what you think! Note that as a prototype it will inevitably have bugs - if you find one not already mentioned at the talkpage, bring it up and I'm happy to carry it through to the devs. The same is true of any additions you can think of to the software, or any questions you might have - let me know and I'll respond.

Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 13:32, 22 May 2012 (UTC)

calling for discussion
You placed a prod on the article about Kenny_Ray_Morrison back in January 2010. The guidelines for prods recommend those placing the prod inform the article creator. I don't believe you did so in this particular case.

When I learned of the article's deletion I requested userification to User:Geo Swan/userified 2012-05/Kenny Ray Morrison.

In your prod nomination you raised the question "Article about someone convicted of sexual assault, imprisoned, and then unsurprisingly dropped out of the public eye. Surely not historically notable, two and a half years on?"

Eight months after your prod got the article deleted Morrison was raised in the following article in Sports Illustrated. I suggest to you that readers of Sports Illustrated who were interested in Morrison's case, may have looked to the wikipedia for those details -- and due to your efforts been disappointed. I am sure it wasn't your intent to strip interested readers of the valid information in this article, and I take at face value that you honestly couldn't conceive that there ever would be a single interested reader.

We have over a million articles on individuals. Most of these individuals stop getting current news coverage. We don't delete these articles, when they had sufficient references -- which, I suggest, this article has.

Are you aware we have a tool that tells us how often an article was accessed? Were you aware it shows that the articles was accessed almost 100 times the month prior to the deletion you triggered? Geo Swan (talk) 03:19, 27 May 2012 (UTC)


 * You replied on my talk page.


 * I checked, you hadn't leave me a heads-up.


 * In your reply you said you didn't think Morrison merited an individual article, and suggested information about him should be covered in an article about the event... But you didn't take  any steps to move that information to another article -- or inform the article creator of the prod in case I agreed with you, so I could move material to a related article.


 * Prod is only supposed to be used when the tag placer doesn't think ANYONE would disagree with them -- including those who had started or worked on the article.


 * The instructions on how to use prod merely recommend leaving a good faith heads-up -- it is not absolutely required -- and I think that is a mistake. I'd like closing administrators to have a tool that informs them when the tag placer didn't bother leaving that good faith heads-up.  I'd like that tool to have a button the closing admin could press, that would inform the prod placer the prod was declined because they didn't leave the heads-up.  Potentially the prod tag could be changed, to require a    and a robot could take care of leaving the heads-up.  Geo Swan (talk) 12:30, 28 May 2012 (UTC)

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JSTOR requests
Sorry to be a pain, but any chance of a few articles as I start to polish up another potential FL on Oxford professors? I've done the Savilian Professor of Geometry, now I'd like to get the Savilian Professor of Astronomy one looking as good. No rush, of course – with the bank holidays and half term for the kids next week, I'll have little free time immediately anyway! Thanks, BencherliteTalk 08:51, 1 June 2012 (UTC)
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Template:Web colors
Hi. Can Template:Web colors be unprotected now? --MZMcBride (talk) 23:12, 1 June 2012 (UTC)

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WWI Editathon
Hi Andrew, Thanks for your post. I've added three suggested topics, but would be happy to contribute to any discussion about the Sinai and Palestine campaign articles. (I didn't sign my suggestions, should I have?) Also added sources most often used.

One problem I couldn't link to the articles named because of course they are on Wikipedia. I really don't understand the relationship between Wikimedia UK and Wikipedia, so I have to go in via the article in the Bugle which was my original link. --Rskp (talk) 05:59, 26 May 2012 (UTC)


 * Hi Andrew,
 * Thanks for your comment about my "war and art" suggestions. There is more discussion on my talk page. Hope I can help from this distance. Cheers, Whiteghost.ink (talk) 01:48, 28 May 2012 (UTC)


 * Andrew, thanks a lot for the links; they will make it much easier to navigate this amazing site. I'm not surprised that the Sinai and Palestine campaign is not very well represented, after all it was a very small part of WW1. The topic was put forward mainly as a hopeful suggestion with as many references as I dared!

My concern regarding naming of battles in S&P is prompted by my limited knowledge of the huge scale of the Western Front battles and my concern that S&P doesn't appear to be over-reaching by having so many battles which were really very small affairs or actions. There is no on-going dispute regarding the names of the engagements but rather a concern regarding how to best fit S&P engagements within the WW1 template in a meaningful way. I know that the decision to change the 'affairs' mentioned into battles was to some extent reflecting the editors' knowledge of the Vietnam war. In particular the Battle of Long Tan could be equated with say the Battle of Katia in size and duration, but I worry whether this is apples and apples or apples and oranges. This is the sort of question which could only arise on Wikipedia where the scope of information is so vast. So I am keen to know what other editors on Wikipedia/Wikimedia think about this issue, particularly from a wider perspective than I have. --Rskp (talk) 04:20, 29 May 2012 (UTC)

Hi Andrew,

Thanks for finding the Lambert portrait of Streeton in uniform. Am trying to collect names of other artist/soldiers WWI art drafts page to see if anything can be added to any articles, or even if we can create a list. Whiteghost.ink (talk) 13:01, 1 June 2012 (UTC)

Hi Andrew,

Thanks for the post on my talk. I'll definitely be going. What is the situation regarding travel expenses? Mm jimmy (talk) 20:50, 6 June 2012 (UTC)

Virtual participation in editathon
Hi Andrew, Thanks for the info. I'm grateful for your thoughts about campaignboxes and the wider view. Clearly standardisation is an aim but not at this stage a necessity.

I've just cut the sources to S&P campaign as I agree with you that its not going to be possible to address the questions I suggested.

Given the time difference I can't see myself being up much after the Armageddon presentation, which I presume will be about the war in general and not Megiddo where its said to have taken place. The only other thing I can suggest regarding S & P is the Megiddo campaign itself which is quite extensive, complex and complicated. The series of articles about it are in development at the moment, and it occurred to me there maybe someone interested in taking a look. What do you think? --Rskp (talk) 05:34, 12 June 2012 (UTC)

Edinburgh Photography Workshop
Hi Andrew, Brian and I updated the project page with some information. Your attendance and feedback would be appreciated. If you know any Wikimedians in that area who might be interested in joining, feel free to contact them. Please leave any feedback on the project page or my talk page. Regards, Peter Weis (talk) 12:00, 12 June 2012 (UTC)

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Revert on resource exchange
Looks like you reverted a legitimate edit to the resource exchange, so I've reverted your edit. &mdash;innotata 20:40, 15 June 2012 (UTC)


 * Weird. I remember hitting revert, but could have sworn it was a different page - I must have slipped when looking at the watchlist! Many apologies, and thanks for catching it. Andrew Gray (talk) 20:54, 15 June 2012 (UTC)

Authority Control Integration
Hi, I've been researching the intersection of Wikipedia and Authority Control, and have just recently made a Village Pump Proposal to create a bot to expand the usage of a template. I've identified you as someone in the sphere of interest to this project and would appreciate your input at the Village Pump. Thanks, Maximiliankleinoclc (talk) 18:33, 18 June 2012 (UTC)

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Hi, I'd add another question and answer in the line of Isn't this rather something for the upcoming WikiData project?. --AndreasPraefcke (talk) 10:07, 29 June 2012 (UTC)

Yes, I like that proposal. --AndreasPraefcke (talk) 10:48, 29 June 2012 (UTC)

I see you're currently working with the BL. Since BL doesn't have its own authority file (if I understand correctly, they use LCCN/NACO), the whole library is kind of invisible in our German authority data universe. Couldn't BL provide a BEACON file of LCCN numbers or VIAF numbers for which it actually has holdings with a simple resolver that leads to catalogue entries using that identifier? We could include that in our "Personensuche" tool. here's an example from the Baden-Württemberg library system BSZ: http://swblod.bsz-bw.de/beacon/beacon.txt (it includes numbers of results after the GND numbers, which is optional). The resolver URL is in the TARGET field, {ID} is replaced by the identifier. It's really as simple as that. It doesn't have to be updated every time, even a monthly update would be great, if we could just have such a file. The possibilities of reuse are endless (see example, completely driven by BEACON files). --AndreasPraefcke (talk) 13:52, 29 June 2012 (UTC)

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Re:AFD
Ordinarily I would have taken this route or one similar to it rather than taking the extreme step of an afd, however in this particular case time is factor of great consideration. See both Illinois and Kentucky are part of the larger Iowa-class battleship featured topic, the latter of which is at the moment under review for failure to comply with the FT criteria - specifically, that the articles included are not all GA-class or better. In light of this I do not have a lot of time to let the community hammer out consensus as to the notability of the articles, I need to know as soon as possible whether the community wants the articles to be merged, deleted, or independently maintained so that I can determine whether or not to invest a lot of time and energy into a blitzkrieg to bring Kentucky up to the minimum GA requirement needed to keep the FT an FT. Its not worth diving into research material if the community decides to merge or deleted the articles, so this was the fastest way I could think of to determine consensus on the notability of both ships so I could get a clearer picture of which path to take on this matter. TomStar81 (Talk) 13:54, 1 August 2012 (UTC)

Can you do me a favor...
I would like to know if you could perhaps email me the text about the Italian battleship the Benedetto Brin within the book: "Jane's battleships of the 20th century", ISBN: "0004709977". If you could, it would be much appreciated. If this isn't allowed for some reason then could you get back to me on that as soon as possible so I might bug someone else about it :P. Cheers,  Ce ra don  talk<sub style="margin-left:-3.5ex"> contribs   21:52, 20 July 2012 (UTC)


 * Sorry about the delay - I was away over the weekend. I've called up the book (it's on its way now) and I'll see what I can do! Andrew Gray (talk) 10:53, 24 July 2012 (UTC)


 * There's about half a page covering Benedetto Brin and her sister ship, and I'll get the information for you. While I have the book out, is there anything else you'd need? Andrew Gray (talk) 12:33, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes actually, Could I have the information on the Russian battleship Navarin please and, once more another request, in the book: "Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860 – 1905" ISBN 0831703024 and "The encyclopedia of ships: the history and specifications of over 1200 ships" ISBN 1566199093, Could you also give me the excerpts on those two ships as well, please. If this is too much of a tall order for you to do, let me know (I kinda feel bad dumping this on you at the last possible moment.) note: the encyclopedia of ships book I've been trying to find for a while but no luck. Thank you.  Ce ra don   talk<sub style="margin-left:-3.5ex"> contribs   14:20, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
 * No luck on Navarin in Jane's. I've made some notes on BB, though, and I'll get them to you shortly. For the others, I'm not in work on Thursday & Friday, but I'll try to call the books up on Monday. Andrew Gray (talk) 17:58, 25 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Okay, thank you. I'll check back on Monday afternoon, if I can. --  Ce ra don  talk<sub style="margin-left:-3.5ex"> contribs   22:54, 25 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Thank you so much for the information on the Benedetto Brin, really helped. :). ceradon talk<sub style="margin-left:-3.5ex"> contribs   23:27, 26 July 2012 (UTC)

Finally got hold of these two - there are very very short entries in the Encyclopedia (about a paragraph each) and a bit more text in Conway's. I'll email you through the notes once I get a chance to type them up. Andrew Gray (talk) 13:02, 1 August 2012 (UTC)
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Re: Welcome to Wikipedia
Thanks. That does 95% of what I was proposing and 60% of what I would like ideally. Thank you so much for the pointer. -Sami — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ssaydjari (talk • contribs) 22:51, 1 August 2012 (UTC)

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The curation toolbar, our Wikimedia-supported twinkle replacement. We're going to be deploying it, along with a pile of bugfixes, to wikipedia on 9 August. After a few days to check it doesn't make anything explode or die, we'll be sticking up a big notice and sending out an additional newsletter inviting people to test it out and give us feedback :). This will be followed by two office hours sessions - one on Tuesday the 14th of August at 19:00 UTC for all us Europeans, and one on Wednesday the 15th at 23:00 UTC for the East Coasters out there :). As always, these will be held in #wikimedia-office; drop me a note if you want to know how to easily get on IRC, or if you aren't able to attend but would like the logs.

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