User talk:Doktorbuk/Archive6

Independent
Hi - thanks for your message. I've always linked every independent - and, in most cases, there are one or two at most, so it's not a great issue. I do prefer to have them all linked, as that seems most likely to avoid any potential confusion and get consistency although, as you say, it can get rather repetitive in cases such as Luton South. Warofdreams talk 11:18, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

New Scottish constituencies and regions
We should really start the new articles ASAP, now that the final Boundary Commission version is clear. However, I personally have no great desire to pump hours of my time into creating 73 stubs (+ the new region stubs).

I recommend that we draw up a quick template, with perhaps only a couple of lines of actual text, but with standard Ref, See also, and Ext link sections, and just get the ball rolling. Let other editors fill them out a bit as desired.--Mais oui! (talk) 05:06, 15 May 2010 (UTC)

2010-11 Northern Premier League
Thanks :) I've become a bit of a non-league geek over the past year or so, so I had to get all the new info ready ASAP! Good luck to Burscough next season, and enjoy those away trips! Cheers, Bretonbanquet (talk) 11:56, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

Notional results
Hi Doktorbuk. You're right, notionals are guesswork, but they have to be used. The Rochdale constituency which exists now is not the same one which existed last month: it may share its name and most of its area, but it's a different creation. It's incorrect to quote changes as you have done, as you're not comparing like with like. Wereon (talk) 12:42, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
 * I've started a discussion on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Politics of the United Kingdom regarding this, if you're interested. Wereon (talk) 16:25, 8 June 2010 (UTC)

A boil shed
Happy to be of assistance. (Ass-sit-ance, perhaps?) -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 20:30, 8 June 2010 (UTC)

Boundary info
Hi! Happy to be able to help, it's a huge area of information that's really interesting and I can see that you've done loads of valuable work already. Hopefully I'll be able to help improve articles in some small way, you are not alone! If there's anything in particular you'd like any help getting through just shout. Oxenhillshaw (talk) 17:01, 11 June 2010 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of 2010 United Kingdom general election result in Glasgow


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Compact election box
Hi Doktorbuk

Hope you're well.

If you have a few minutes to spare, I'd value your thoughts on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject UK Parliament constituencies. -- Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 23:47, 4 July 2010 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:21st Century Conservative Democrats/meta/color
Template:21st Century Conservative Democrats/meta/color has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. Green Giant (talk) 00:56, 31 July 2010 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:21st Century Conservative Democrats/meta/shortname
Template:21st Century Conservative Democrats/meta/shortname has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. Green Giant (talk) 00:56, 31 July 2010 (UTC)

Saw this and thought of you
http://www.esds.ac.uk/findingData/snDescription.asp?sn=3803 contains the following:


 * con65-74.txt - UK Parliamentary constituency names; 1965 to 28 Feb 1974
 * con74-83.txt - UK Parliamentary constituency names; Mar 1974 to 9 Jun 1983
 * con83-91.txt - UK Parliamentary constituency names; 10 Jun 1983 to end 1991

Dunno if that helps any, but there y'go. regards, Anameofmyveryown (talk) 16:41, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

Reviewer
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Reversion of Witney
You may have an opinion :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Wereon#Reversion_of_Witney Cheers. Crooked cottage (talk) 23:49, 13 January 2011 (UTC)

Autopatrolled
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WP:DAW
Please try to remember not to abbreviate Wikipedia as Wiki if you can. Thanks. --Yair rand (talk) 08:31, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
 * With all due respect, I will refer to Wikipedia however I see fit depending on context. "Wiki" is as much acceptable shorthand as "US" for the country inbetween Canada and Mexico. doktorb wordsdeeds 19:04, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Would you mind taking the time to read Don't abbreviate Wikipedia as Wiki, if you haven't? It offers a pretty good explanation of why using "Wiki" is problematic. --Yair rand (talk) 21:15, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
 * I have. And whilst I understand the issue, I am not going to go out of my way to follow the rule, tbh. When I talk about "having a bit of a Wiki addiction", more people than not will immediately think of this place. If it's a biggie all of a sudden, then I'll look out for correcting myself in edit summaries and such, though please don't start keeping a tally because it's not the most important factor round these parts at the moment. doktorb wordsdeeds 22:03, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

Dundee City
Hey I asked the question what to do with these sort of minor changes here, the consensus was to keep the original articles and create an entire new one :) -- Barryob  (Contribs)   (Talk)  15:39, 20 February 2011 (UTC)

Page titles
Hi, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you recently tried to give Dundee East (Scottish Parliament constituency) a different title by copying its content and pasting either the same content, or an edited version of it, into Dundee City East (Scottish Parliament constituency). This is known as a "cut and paste move", and it is undesirable because it splits the page history, which is needed for attribution and various other purposes. Instead, the software used by Wikipedia has a feature that allows pages to be moved to a new title together with their edit history.

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2010 electorate figures
Evening

I saw your comment on Mirrorme22's excellent work in adding the 2010 electorate figures - which has largely saved me a job so great. I don't know whether you saw the discussion between BHG and myself regarding these figures a few weeks ago and how I wanted to add them in to List of United Kingdom Parliament constituencies as a separate column from the already existing December 2000 figure, so that the reader can see the figures which brought about the current lot of constituencies, and the ones which will create the new lot. (At this point I inferred that BHG would rather drop the 2000 figures, but I may be wrong).

Given you have created the Sixth_Periodic_Review_of_Westminster_constituencies page I would have thought only the new constituencies and theor electorates would go in there, but I'm not sure of how you are planning. Thoughts? I know the discussion needs to go on WT:UKPC before I do anything, but your ideas are key here I believe. I was going to wait, but we now have all the constituency articles out of line with the list, which I would like to resolve sooner rather than later.

Thanks. Crooked cottage (talk) 20:15, 9 March 2011 (UTC)

Community restrictions
Mo ainm ~Talk  12:21, 11 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Regarding your comments here, there is no requirement that a template has to be placed on the talk page to be under the community restrictions, and edits to the article relating to Gerry Adams are clearly under the definition above. O Fenian (talk) 16:04, 11 March 2011 (UTC)

Please self revert that edit, or I will request arbitration enforcement. Thank you. O Fenian (talk) 18:26, 11 March 2011 (UTC)

Infobox for Barnsley Central by-election, 2011
Hi - I see that you undid my edit to add names to the infobox for this article, without explanation. I made the change following a discussion on the talk page of the article which appears to have reached consensus. If you disagree, please join in with the discussion. Warofdreams talk 17:10, 11 March 2011 (UTC)
 * No problem, thanks for the message. Warofdreams talk 21:06, 11 March 2011 (UTC)

Arbitration enforcement
Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement. O Fenian (talk) 18:32, 11 March 2011 (UTC)

WikiProject United States Government
Greetings. I noticed that you are one of the members of WikiProject United States Government that are still active so I wanted to ask you a question. It appears that this project is mostly inactive aside from what the members might be doing independently. I was considering suggesting that this project be pulled in under WikiProject United States and wanted to solicit comments from some of this projects members before doing so. As with Washington DC and the others the project would for the most part maintain its own independence but I believe this would benefit both projects. What do you think about this? --Kumioko (talk) 23:52, 24 March 2011 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Idle Toad


A tag has been placed on Idle Toad requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about an organization or company, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable.

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 * How long have you been contributing? Surely you have learned that you do not apply an hold on tag to an article at AfD? Incidentally, you may care to watch Apolitical Democrats, a party in Newbury of fractionally greater notability than Idle Toad - they have fielded a candidate for Westminster. &mdash; RHaworth 11:29, 26 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Another incidentally! I have nothing against South Ribble - I did a bit of work on the Preston Pals article. &mdash; RHaworth 11:33, 26 March 2011 (UTC)

May 2011 Newsletter for WikiProject United States
.--Kumioko (talk) 02:07, 6 May 2011 (UTC)

May 2011
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to Eurovision Song Contest 2011, did not appear to be constructive and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and read the welcome page to learn more about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. Thank you.  [[ axg ◉  talk   ]] 21:49, 12 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Yeah sorry about ^that^, I'm using Twinkle which just lists them in order from "General Note (1)" to "Final Warning (4)", and then sub-cat "[uw-vandalism1]" (which is the nice welcome warning). But yeah, you added Ireland as performing 3rd in the final, when the press conference had not got to them yet. --  [[ axg  ◉  talk   ]] 22:06, 12 May 2011 (UTC)

RE:Railway stats
Hello! Thank you for your message regarding railways stats in Lancashire. As a rail user it's something I'm very interested in. It's nice to see someone editing election pages too, I started the Wyre Local Election, 2010 and the Wyre local election, 2007 page and may end up doing the 2003 page soon too. I even stood in the 2010 elections myself. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Veganfishcake (talk • contribs) 15:33, 11 June 2011 (UTC)

June 2011 Newsletter for WikiProject United States
--Kumioko (talk) 18:17, 12 June 2011 (UTC)

Protection of Freedom
Thanks. You've answered my question. You need only state that this rule benefits private companies. Note that these discussions are happening on forums all the time. There are cases where parking companies go after registered keepers with threatograms from debt collectors and these in turn are in the wake of the driver having denied the debt in writing (so not technically appealing) but at the same time, where the keeper has admitted driving. It is not only "locating the driver" when the keeper refuses to divulge the information that stops private companies taking the case to court but also: with the whole affair of contracts being governed by Contract Law, the private parking company needs to satisfy the courts that the money they seek is purely to compensate for actual losses in line with the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 and not to make a profit. Evlekis (Евлекис) 22:18, 18 June 2011 (UTC)

US National Archives collaboration
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 * Would you like to help improve Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to the National Archives and its incredible collection? This summer, the National Archives—which houses some of America's most important historical documents—is hosting me as its Wikipedian in Residence, and I have created WP:NARA to launch these efforts. There are all sorts of tasks available for any type of editor, whether you're a writer, organizer, gnome, coder, or image guru. The National Archives is making its resources available to Wikipedia, so help us forge this important relationship! Please sign up and introduce yourself. Dominic·t 15:22, 22 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Would you like to help improve Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to the National Archives and its incredible collection? This summer, the National Archives—which houses some of America's most important historical documents—is hosting me as its Wikipedian in Residence, and I have created WP:NARA to launch these efforts. There are all sorts of tasks available for any type of editor, whether you're a writer, organizer, gnome, coder, or image guru. The National Archives is making its resources available to Wikipedia, so help us forge this important relationship! Please sign up and introduce yourself. Dominic·t 15:22, 22 June 2011 (UTC)

Sixth/2013 Review
Thank you for the comments, the work I have not yet done is to make the English regions table look like the UK one, and to remove the gerrymandering quote from the lead, where it looks isolated, and add it to the political impact section. The lead could do with a summary of the fact that major disruption will occur in some parts of the country (e.g. see the Democratic Audit paper on London.)

There should be a discussion about how to deal with the release of the reports especially if the whole of England is published on one day. Maybe the discussion belongs at the UK Constituencies project although that doesn't seem to see much activity. Further talk on the article talk page? Sussexonian (talk) 21:11, 4 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Thank you for filling in the current numbers of seats per region, I couldn't remember where I had the numbers so left them. I may do further work on the lead so it mentions more about the likely changes in outcome rather than the process.  I have placed a notice on the Constituencies page, so we can see what reaction it gets.  Actually there is (sort-of) a Fifth Review article, it is List of United Kingdom Parliament constituencies which gives brief details of the changes and actually I think it would be better if that was its main purpose, as there are so many lists of constituencies around the place.  Sussexonian (talk) 07:59, 5 July 2011 (UTC)

TfD
Please see Templates_for_discussion/Log/2011_July_18. I closed your nomination as "invalid", because you nominated three templates that have never existed. Feel free to re-nominate with the correct template names. — This, that, and the other (talk) 06:00, 18 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Sorry, that was wrong. My apologies for being hasty. Anyway, everything is under control: as subpages of a non-existent or deleted page, the "shortname" and "color" subpages are eligible for CSD G8, and I have tagged them thus. — This, that, and the other (talk)  06:03, 18 July 2011 (UTC)

July 2011 Newsletter for WikiProject United States
--Kumioko (talk) 00:30, 24 July 2011 (UTC)

Talkback
-- Red rose64 (talk) 18:36, 27 July 2011 (UTC)