User talk:Bob1960evens/Archive2013

Grantham Canal GA nomination
Greetings and Happy New Year! I found this on my talk page. Since I am only the nominator, and don't have access to any sources I wondered if you could handle it?
 * Hello Robert EA Harvey, I am just letting you know that I review an article that you nominated for GA, Grantham Canal. Good luck and here is the review page: Talk:Grantham Canal/GA1. Regards,--12george1 (talk) 00:05, 1 January 2013 (UTC)
 * --Robert EA Harvey (talk) 17:05, 1 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Happy new year too. No problems. I will have a go at sorting any issues. Bob1960evens (talk) 19:25, 1 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Good man. I've been head cook & bottlewasher over the break, so I've been filling home centisquares on Geograph --Robert EA Harvey (talk) 20:05, 1 January 2013 (UTC)

Sleaford Navigation GA nomination
Another one I am afraid:
 * I've begun reviewing your nomination of Sleaford Navigation. A few points need action, which you can find detailed at the link above. Thanks for your work! -- Khazar2 (talk) 02:21, 2 January 2013 (UTC)
 * --Robert EA Harvey (talk) 07:08, 2 January 2013 (UTC)
 * No problem. I'll have a look at that one too. Bob1960evens (talk) 09:15, 2 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Good effort!--Robert EA Harvey (talk) 19:47, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

River Arun GA nomination
Hello Bob - I started reviewing the article River Arun, which you nominated for GA. I have a few initial comments, which you can read and respond to here. I may have one or two additional comments later. Take care, Moswento talky 16:01, 22 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Congratulations! Moswento talky 10:48, 24 January 2013 (UTC)

Hello
You see to be the perpetrator with the books, so I am bring to your attention that I have started reviewing River Rother, West Sussex at Talk:River Rother, West Sussex/GA1. I think I have been fair, but there is a bit of work that needs to be done before this can be a good article. Jamesx12345 (talk) 09:33, 11 February 2013 (UTC)

River Rother, East Sussex
Hi Bob, I began the review at Talk:River Rother, East Sussex/GA1. Thanks for your work on this one, it looks great--only some very small issues to address before passing. -- Khazar2 (talk) 08:19, 13 February 2013 (UTC)


 * Bob, In the review section you said (This is a general problem with river articles. There must be something somewhere that quotes basin areas and lengths for the rivers of the UK, but I haven't found it yet.) You may want to look at the info here, as it may be the something somewhere that you were looking for. Jokulhlaup (talk) 18:12, 21 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks for that. I'm still trying to work out what to do with it, but it may prove useful. For the Rother, I have five sections mentioned, Coggins Mill to Five Ashes, Coggins Mill conf to Witherenden Hill, Witherenden Hill to Etchingham, Robertsbridge to Iden and Kent.Lower. That gives a total length of 80.98 km (rather more than expected, even with a chunk missing in the middle) and an area of 170.07 km2 (much lower than expected). Bob1960evens (talk) 23:33, 21 February 2013 (UTC)

GA nomination for Axholme Joint Railway
Greetings. I have reviewed, and passed, this article as GA.--Robert EA Harvey (talk) 15:28, 1 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I have left a note on the review about facts in the lead that you raised. Bob1960evens (talk) 15:47, 1 April 2013 (UTC)

ISBN error on my Sources page
Thank you for the heads-up at User talk:84user, I did indeed mistype the ISBN of my dictionary! The sources page is now fixed and no longer appears in Category:Pages with ISBN errors. -84user (talk) 21:05, 15 April 2013 (UTC)

New icons
Some new icons that I thought might be useful (or at least more aesthetically pleasing): + variants. Useddenim (talk) 22:07, 20 April 2013 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Template:Canalrow


A tag has been placed on Template:Canalrow, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done for the following reason:

useless

Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not meet basic Wikipedia criteria may be deleted at any time.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, you can place a request here. Best regards, Keysanger (what?) 12:42, 21 April 2013 (UTC)
 * For me it doesn't look(ed) like a useful stuff, rather as a forgotten snippet but if you say it is then it is useful. I am glad you reacted immediately. --Best regards, Keysanger (what?) 14:03, 21 April 2013 (UTC)
 * I moved it (and Plainrow) to Route diagram template/Canalrow (and …/Plainrow. We already had this discussion about the BS-anleitung templates properly being sub-pages of WP:RDT. Useddenim (talk) 23:11, 21 April 2013 (UTC)

River Witham
There is a GA review going on if you are interested.--Robert EA Harvey (talk) 03:26, 4 May 2013 (UTC)

1_Squadron_SAAF
Hi. I saw you fixed the 'broken' ISBN there. FYI, I'm actually working on a copy of this biblio right now...not 'changing' it, but using the LCCN and WorldCat to fill in/correct the missing metadata and such. Just thought I'd mention it....when I get done in a bit and replace the section, it might look 'wierd' to see me replacing the whole thing. I have your fix in my text as well, tho. Revent (talk) 16:54, 9 May 2013 (UTC)
 * If you look now, I've written the 'filled out' version to the page. Revent (talk) 17:43, 9 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the info. The page appeared on Category:Pages with ISBN errors, which is how I found it. Bob1960evens (talk) 18:02, 9 May 2013 (UTC)

Talk:River Welland/GA1
River Welland is undergoing a GAN. It is a decent article, and will meet GA criteria - though there are a few queries, and a little bit of work to be done on the lead, on the layout, and on incorporating a couple of lists into the article. The review has been put on hold for an initial seven days to allow the work to be done.  SilkTork  ✔Tea time  23:07, 24 May 2013 (UTC)

Well done. Keep up the good work!  SilkTork  ✔Tea time  10:08, 31 May 2013 (UTC)

River Welland
Good Effort with the article. Have a Picture Postcard.--Robert EA Harvey (talk) 14:40, 31 May 2013 (UTC)

Typo
In this: Thames and Severn Canal‎; 00:46:26. . (+547)‎ . . ‎Bob1960evens (talk | contribs)‎ (→‎Funding: £800,000 in Dec 2013) ... the 2013 is a typo for 2012. I don't know if it's possible to correct the notes on changes, but it is quite confusing. Imaginatorium (talk) 04:09, 12 June 2013 (UTC)
 * I have not found a way to correct the edit summary, but I spotted that I had written "agree" instead of "agreed", so changed that and added a suitable edit summary about the £800,000 being in 2012, as the article said. Regards. Bob1960evens (talk) 08:29, 12 June 2013 (UTC)

Visual Editor
Hey Bob1960evens

I'm sending you this because you've made quite a few edits to the template namespace in the past couple of months. If I've got this wrong, or if I haven't but you're not interested in my request, don't worry; this is the only notice I'm sending out on the subject :).

So, as you know (or should know - we sent out a centralnotice and several watchlist notices) we're planning to deploy the VisualEditor on Monday, 1 July, as the default editor. For those of us who prefer markup editing, fear not; we'll still be able to use the markup editor, which isn't going anywhere.

What's important here, though, is that the VisualEditor features an interactive template inspector; you click an icon on a template and it shows you the parameters, the contents of those fields, and human-readable parameter names, along with descriptions of what each parameter does. Personally, I find this pretty awesome, and from Monday it's going to be heavily used, since, as said, the VisualEditor will become the default.

The thing that generates the human-readable names and descriptions is a small JSON data structure, loaded through an extension called TemplateData. I'm reaching out to you in the hopes that you'd be willing and able to put some time into adding TemplateData to high-profile templates. It's pretty easy to understand (heck, if I can write it, anyone can) and you can find a guide here, along with a list of prominent templates, although I suspect we can all hazard a guess as to high-profile templates that would benefit from this. Hopefully you're willing to give it a try; the more TemplateData sections get added, the better the interface can be. If you run into any problems, drop a note on the Feedback page.

Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 21:46, 28 June 2013 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Middle Level Navigations
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Middle Level Navigations you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by GA bot, on behalf of Pyrotec -- 17:06, 21 August 2013 (UTC)

Nomination of Ahmed Benyahia for deletion
hI! A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Ahmed Benyahia is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Ahmed Benyahia until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Great11  —Preceding undated comment added 01:29, 27 August 2013 (UTC)  --Great11 (talk) 02:34, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

Nomination of Ahmed Benyahia for deletion
HI!! Bob1960evens there is another Ahmed Benyahia caligraphe, he is natif from Fès Morocco, Thank you. I think if we change the article and we delete just the category painter we can keep the article. What do you Think for that ?--Great11 (talk) 01:16, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

Have you seen...
...This collection? http://www.southhollandlife.com/tag/drainage/ --Robert EA Harvey (talk) 02:36, 22 October 2013 (UTC)
 * No, I hadn't seen it. Thanks for pointing it out. Bob1960evens (talk) 16:29, 24 October 2013 (UTC)