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Wikidata weekly summary #39
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 * Development
 * Updates for selenium testenvironments (browsers, ruby, selenium-tools)
 * Extended tests for statements user interface
 * Refactored snakview user interface to handle other property-snak types than PropertyValueSnak
 * Layout improvements in the user interface
 * Several minor bugfixes in the user interface
 * Updated Vagrant for Wikidata
 * More work on AbuseFilter
 * Deployed new version of Wikibase and MediaWiki core to wikidata.org and test2.wikipedia (bugfixes - all Wikibase changes here)
 * Fix for bug 43595 which was seen on Wednesday during attempted deployment of the wmf7 version of MediaWiki core. Thanks Marius!
 * Discussions/Press
 * Created prototypes for parsing coordinates and time in Wikidata that need feedback
 * Bureaucrat support requirements
 * Defining administrators
 * Events
 * 29C3
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * We’ve reached item ID 2.000.000
 * You can now enable the SitelinkCheck gadget in your preferences that makes it easier to check if a certain link is already in use in an existing item
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Give feedback on prototypes for parsing time and coordinates
 * Help translate the client extension (especially to Hungarian in light of the upcoming deployment)
 * Hack on one of these

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Omstein Theory
Despite your reservations about speedy for hoaxes, that's just what I did to it. Quite nicely done, believable by many (but so are religions and politicians...) but blatant to us. Few hoaxes here are good - most of them wouldn't fool a bright six year old. They get spotted quicker now. The current longest running was up for six uears - but no-one except the author will have known about it until a patroller went on random page patrol! It claimed a German band were killed in a plane crash in 1956 flying to England. The name of the band said hoax to me straight off, there was only one plane crash on the day, and the alleged concert hall didn't exist. I declined a speedy because of the age, and AfDed it and the AfDers had a field day. Great fun. This one - six out of ten. So, yes, you can CSD hoaxes if they're blatant, and if the reviewing admin doesn't get it, AfD it. (JohnCD enjoys hoaxes too, BTW.) Peridon (talk) 21:42, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the nice note! It came just when I'd realised I'd made my own tiny corner of stupidity, by creating a couple of categories with Portuguese mis-spelt.... best, Dsp13 (talk) 21:46, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
 * btw my favourite hoax fact on wikipedia was the one which made it into the Independent's obituary of Claude Levi-Strauss. Also Viktor Chaim Blerot was a hoax page which I remember hanging around for a few years.Dsp13 (talk) 22:12, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

William Edward Norris
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Kenneth Best
I'm confused by something in this article, which you created a few years ago: does citation #3 really say that the Liberian Observer was one of the country's first dailies? Having spent about a year working with lots of newspapers in a Liberian archive in the USA, I've worked with tons of pre-coup daily newspapers. Most of them only published Monday-Friday, but the Liberian Observer did likewise from its establishment until at least 2007 (and I think they still do, but I can't check them because they're in boxes at the bottom of a big stack), so I don't see a difference. I just wonder if it might be one of the oldest existing ones, since most publications from the Doe era ceased long ago, and most pre-1980 publications quickly died or were suppressed after the coup. I can't check the reference myself; I wonder if being in the USA means that books.google.uk won't let me look at its contents. Nyttend (talk) 23:53, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
 * good catch: that reference only provides the date February 1981. The claim that it's "Liberia's first daily newspaper" is at but I'm quite prepared to believe that's rubbish. I don't have time to check the page properly now, but will have a look soon. Thanks again, Dsp13 (talk) 09:44, 11 January 2013 (UTC)
 * You're welcome; thanks for the help. All I see on page 333 is a statement that the Gambian version was The Gambia's first daily newspaper.  Nyttend (talk) 23:01, 11 January 2013 (UTC)
 * d'oh you're absolutely right again - that'll teach me to try to give a quick reply while my mind was on something else. Dsp13 (talk) 10:59, 12 January 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #40
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 * Development
 * Bene* developed a new tool to show existing or missing items for a given Wikipedia category
 * Selenium test-groups for (non)experimental features (43828)
 * Notification for IP edits that IP will be logged (42954)
 * Verified fix & added Selenium tests for broken error-reporting on label/description uniqueness constraint (43301)
 * Label-edit-button links to Special:SetLabel when JavaScript disabled (43814)
 * Updated PHP, MySQL, Ruby, Selenium, etc.. on internal test server and enabled APC + memcached
 * Work on AbuseFilter to make it work with Wikidata content (42064)
 * Implemented length constraint for labels, descriptions and aliases (configurable with a default of 2500 UTF8 characters)
 * Implementing a new mechanism for dispatching change notifications to client wikis
 * Worked more on how Wikidata changes are handled in the client watchlist (43124)
 * Some work went into using Solr for the search. Still very simple
 * Prepared improvements to our puppet files on labs
 * Worked on statements UI (snaktypes/references)
 * Fixed bugs in UI event handling of widgets
 * Put EntityId parsing code into a dedicated class
 * Finished EntityDiff cleanup
 * Discussions/Press
 * Reworked inclusion syntax completely 1 2
 * Updates to time and space model
 * Is there a need for bureaucrats?
 * Planned improvement to the search field
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Deployment on the Hungarian Wikipedia is still planned for Monday (Jan 14th)
 * Jens writes a bit about Wikidata’s mascots
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Give feedback on inclusion syntax draft version 3, the updated time and space model and the plans for improving the search field
 * Hack on one of these

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Mill Road Cemetery, Cambridge
Nice work on this article! Do you have a personal interest in this particular old cemetery? 2.24.4.3 (talk) 21:56, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
 * thanks! I live fairly nearby. Dsp13 (talk) 22:10, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

I have added 'Buried in Mill Road Cemetery, Cambridge' to those people who did not have it in their articles, and requested images of their graves/gravestones for the Find-A-Grave entries; I suspect my FAG friend Geoffrey Gillon will pay a visit to take some images. There are some nice bios. and images of the people on FAG, a Russian-Danish couple called "Julia&Keld" made them at the end of 2011 by the way. I am surprised that the grave images are not already there! Martin.

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 * looks like a bug with Magnus's authority control tool: I've created a Jira bug for this. Dsp13 (talk) 00:20, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #41
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 * Development
 * We are live on the Hungarian Wikipedia \o/
 * We have an intern for a week, Marius aka User:Hoo man. He’ll be working on the wizard for linking a new Wikipedia article to an existing item or creating a new item for it if none exists yet. (the first two stories here)
 * Refactored sites code to improve design
 * Changed item datatype to use entityid as datavalue rather than string
 * Added lots of new Selenium tests
 * Changed AbuseFilter so Wikibase can hook into it
 * Implemented new change dispatcher script
 * ~=[,,_,,]:3
 * Working on combining successive changes to avoid watchlist clutter
 * Claims error handling (i.e. they now show error messages when needed)
 * Implemented initial version of Solr-based search for Wikidata in extension WikibaseSolr
 * Started investigating use of Lua/Scribunto for the Wikibase client
 * Updated the Wikidata Vagrant development machine
 * Improved the setup via puppet on Labs
 * Discussions/Press
 * Latest updates on time and coordinate datatypes
 * Schedule for the reconfirmation of the first round of admins
 * RFC on en:wp about the transition to language links from Wikidata
 * Signpost, among others, covers the deployment on the Hungarian Wikipedia
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Congrats to our sister Wikivoyage on their official launch
 * There’s now a manual for using the Pywikipediabot on Wikidata
 * Deployed new code on wikidata.org
 * Community Portal got a rework
 * Tried to drop www from Wikidata URLs but that was more difficult than expected. Sorry for the issues it caused. We're working on resolving the remaining ones.
 * Open Tasks for You
 * d:Wikidata:Press coverage needs some love and attention
 * Hack on one of these

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Wikidata weekly summary #42
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 * Development
 * Updated demo system
 * Improved design of sites code in core
 * Fixed SQLite compatibility
 * Worked on implementing references handling in statements user interface
 * Useful error messages will be shown in statements user interface in case of data value mismatches
 * Switched the demo system to Labs’ puppet
 * Selenium tests for length constraint, claim edit-conflicts
 * Setting up dispatcher script on internal test machine
 * More work on wikibase.getEntities function for Scribunto/Lua-Templates
 * AbuseFilter is now working with Wikibase
 * The change dispatcher script is now ready for use on the WMF cluster
 * Initial implementation of parser function for the client
 * Created a widget for the client to connect a page to a Wikidata item and add interwiki language links to a page
 * Preparing a page to list unconnected pages on the clients
 * Discussions/Press
 * VIAF
 * Events
 * InfoLunch at Hasso-Plattner-Institut
 * Deutscher Sprachtechnologietag
 * upcoming: FOSDEM
 * upcoming: talk about MediaWiki groups
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Reconfirmation of temporary admins
 * Next deployment (Hebrew and Italian Wikipedia) still scheduled for 30th of January as planned
 * Planning for Wikimania in Hong Kong
 * Wikimedia data center move went rather smoothly
 * Request from the Bosnian Wikipedia community to be among the next to use Wikidata
 * Project about paid editing that might also become relevant for Wikidata at some point
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Hack on one of these

George Adams (optician)
I noticed that you tagged this article for splitting. Unfortunately, before that can be done, the identity of the subject of various sections of the article needs to be identified. Are you familiar with the subject? If so, would you mind clarifying the article? Op47 (talk) 18:09, 27 January 2013 (UTC)
 * I don't know anything about it, I'm afraid - but I'll have a look. Dsp13 (talk) 19:54, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

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Authority control and VIAF
Thanks for this. I noticed some of the VIAF and Authority control templates and discussions. I was under the impression that a bot was going round adding VIAF details. Should I be adding such things to biography articles I've created, or should I be letting that happen naturally? Also, in a couple of recent cases I resorted to VIAF and library catalogues to get birth and death years (or at least an idea of what to search for), but would I be right in saying that to avoid circularity, it is important to have independent verification of birth and death years from a reliable source? Carcharoth (talk) 00:09, 31 January 2013 (UTC)
 * FWIW, I went through a list of articles in my userspace, and found out of 42 biography articles that I'd created the following 21 (half of them) don't have VIAF links: John Chamberlain (letter writer), Thomas Snow Beck, Henry John Carter, Walter Gardiner, William the Englishman, Robert E. M. Hedges, Sir Norman Moore, 1st Baronet, Laurent Joubert, Karen Grigorian, Louis Vaughan, Gilbert Dyett, James Learmonth, Eric Rideal, Kenneth Street, Jr., Alexander Rankine, Victor Negus, Charles Illingworth, Robert Cooley (entomologist), Jack James (rocket engineer), Robert J. Parks, and Leroy Chang. The last three were created too recently, but I was wondering why VIAF links hadn't turned up on the other ones yet. Is that because a bot is slowly working its way through the hundreds of thousands of articles where VIAF identifiers can be added? And are some article likely to never have VIAF identifiers to add? Carcharoth (talk) 00:58, 31 January 2013 (UTC)

Hi, Carcaroth! My understanding is that the bot-added ones are needing to go relatively cautiously, after initial experiments showed naive matching was producing too many errors (sportspeople matched to scientists etc.) I manually matched some African writers: writers with names in another script (e.g. Arabic) and with variant transliterations are I think trickier to deal with automatic rules. Writers whose dates are only approximately known also benefit from manual attention. Most of the authority control templates I've added recently, though, are using Magnus Manske's funky tool. (See the tools section of my user page, or Wikipedia talk:authority control.) Dsp13 (talk) 03:54, 31 January 2013 (UTC)
 * VIAF is an effort to merge different library name authorities, which predominantly contain authors but also contain the personal names of people who are the subject of individual library holdings. Most wikipedia sportspeople, though, just won't have VIAF identifiers. (How name authority files evolve in the future is of course an open question. My impression is that on the web wikipedia is sometimes standing in as a name authority file, with people linking to relatively empty wikipedia pages, not so much for the useful information on the page but simply to explain which person with that name they mean.) Dsp13 (talk) 04:01, 31 January 2013 (UTC)
 * And as regards library catalogues as sources for birth and death years, I've always regarded them as as generally authoritative as other secondary works. The detail of the name authority record (e.g. the Library of Congress Name Authority ecord for Ian Rankin often includes where they've got information (here the birth year is from Hide and Seek, and a website, the author not having replied to a letter they sent). Occasionally they will say they have their information from wikipedia, which is plainly circular. But at least they say: all sorts of print sources now lift stuff silently from wikipedia, so the problem of circularity seems general to me. Dsp13 (talk) 05:16, 31 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks for that. I would add VIAF details myself, but sometimes several VIAF entries appear and I'm not sure what to do when that happens. I sympathise about sportspeople matching to scientists, though I would have thought matching birth and death years as well as names would help there. Two articles I created recently both required me to move a sportsperson stub out of the way first, making way for a disambiguation page: Jack James and Frank Newman. Do you know if there a date from which VIAF identifiers would not apply? A few in that list I provided are 16th century or earlier. Carcharoth (talk) 01:49, 1 February 2013 (UTC)
 * when several VIAF entries appear, I'm interpreting that as the result of an incomplete merging process. The national library records seem to me stabler as identifiers than the VIAF ones, so where there are several I'm not really minding whether the VIAF identifier I assign is linked to LCCN, DNB or BNF. (I personally think DNB and LCCN are probably most useful for the English site - DNB because there is already work linking from DNB to de.wikipedia, which will allow later automated cross-checking, and LCCN because it already produces worldcat niceness, and it's good for English-language authors.) I don't think there's any date at which there hasn't been an effort to assign VIAF identifiers, but I view them as less reliable/more provisional where dates are uncertain (often true before the C17th) or where name forms proliferate (chinese, arabic, classical authors; pseudonymous types; to some extent women). WP:VIAF/errors might interest you if you haven't seen it. User:Maximiliankleinoclc would know the details of present/future plans much better than me, as after a flurry of VIAF bot activity things have gone quiet afaik.Dsp13 (talk) 11:42, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #43
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 * Development
 * Deployment on the Hebrew and Italian Wikipedia
 * Switched the Wikipedias over to a new, more scalable dispatching changes script for propagating changes from the repository to the clients
 * Fixing various deeply buried bugs and a few minor bugs reported after deployment
 * Preparations for next deployment on wikidata.org
 * Working on property parser function for the client
 * Implemented robust serialization of changes for dispatching
 * Resumed work on linked data interface
 * References can now be created, edited and removed on existing statements
 * Several minor user interface fixes
 * Styling of the user interface for statements
 * Selenium tests for references
 * Selenium tests for non-JS SpecialPages
 * Worked on puppet
 * Discussions/Press
 * Abuse filter guidelines
 * Policy on properties
 * First external tool for output in RDF: and
 * Running your own instance of Wikibase (for science!)
 * Events
 * We’ve set the date for the next office hours
 * upcoming: FOSDEM
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Admin reconfirmation is still ongoing
 * Deployment of first parts of phase 2 on wikidata.org are planned for February 4 and deployment on English Wikipedia for February 11. See this blog post for details and more dates.
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Test statements on the [demo system before the roll-out to wikidata.org on February 4
 * Hack on one of these

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Wikidata weekly summary #44
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 * Development
 * Deployment of the first parts of phase 2 (infoboxes/statements) on wikidata.org done - see it live for example here, here and here
 * Diffs for statement edits can now be shown
 * Started work on query definitions
 * Edit links are now disabled in the interface when the user does not have the rights to edit
 * Edit links are now hidden when viewing old revision
 * Worked on search field for WikibaseSolr
 * More work on Lua templates for Wikibase entities
 * Worked on bugfixes in the statement user interface
 * New features in the statement user interface (references counter/heading)
 * JavaScript editing for table showing labels and description of the same item in different languages
 * Repaired and updated the demo system
 * Resumed work on Linked Data interface
 * Support for enhanced recent changes format in client
 * There are automatic comments for statement edits as well in the history now
 * Special page for unconnected pages, that is pages on the client that are not connected to items on the repository
 * Added permission checks for statements, so a user that can not edit will not be able to edit or that only a group can be allowed to do some changes like creating statements
 * Discussions/Press
 * Signpost
 * Lots of discussions about the usage details and policies of phase 2 on d:Wikidata:Project chat
 * Events
 * FOSDEM
 * upcoming: office hour (English; German later)
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Deployment of phase 1 (language links) on the English language Wikipedia is still planned for Monday late evening UTC (pending a performance review)
 * List of existing properties and their usage
 * List of new proposed properties
 * Open Tasks for You
 * d:User:PinkAmpersand is looking for someone to write a script that once someone has been made an autopatroller, retroactively patrols all of their prior edits
 * d:Wikidata:Press coverage could use some love and care
 * Hack on one of these

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Wikidata weekly summary #45
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 * Development
 * Deployment to English Wikipedia
 * Fix various minor bugs in client, including watchlist toggle with preference to default to always show Wikidata edits
 * Added the new Baso Minangkabau Wikipedia (min)
 * Fixed wrong revision of statements being shown in diff and old revision view
 * Diff visualization for claims (simple version for main snak)
 * Diff visualization for claims (extended version for references, qualifiers, ranks)
 * Tooltip that notifies about the license your contributions will be covered by while editing (can be disabled by each user)
 * Started with valueview refactoring
 * Started with user interface handling of deleted properties
 * Started with refactoring of local partial entity lookup
 * Started with refactoring of toolbar usage in jQuery.wikibase view widgets
 * Finished improvement on jQuery.wikibase.claimview’s edit mode handling
 * Improved search by using entity selector in search field instead of normal MediaWiki search field
 * More work on Lua-based templates for entities
 * Specified the capabilities of the query language we need
 * Created query object
 * Proper bot-flagging of edits (44857)
 * Use of ID to directly address an item or property
 * Search should give more of the complete matches now
 * Special:ItemByTitle should work for canonical namespaces and later on for local namespaces
 * More robust format for notifications of changes on the repository to the client
 * Started work on refactoring API and autocomments code
 * Started to maintain documentation of configuration options in git
 * Discussions/Press
 * List of currently existing properties
 * Proposals for new properties
 * Events
 * Upcoming: Wikipedia Day NYC
 * Upcoming: office hour in English tomorrow
 * Note: changed day of next German office hour to March 8
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * We have a time scheduled when Wikidata will be read-only for a database migration. The window for that is Feb 20 19:00 to Feb 21 2:00 UTC.
 * New features and bugfixes on Wikidata are planned to be deployed on Monday (Feb 18). This should among other things include:
 * Showing useful diffs for edits of claims (they’re currently empty)
 * Automatic comments for editing of claims (there are currently none)
 * Ability to add items to claims by their ID
 * Better handling of deleted properties
 * More results in the entity selector (that’s the thing that lets you select properties, items and so on) so you can add everything and not just the first few matches that are shown
 * We’re still working on the issue that sometimes editing of certain parts of items or properties isn’t possible. If you’re running into it try to reload the page and/or change the URL to the www. version or the non-www. version respectively.
 * Deployment on all other Wikipedias is currently planned for March 6 (a note to the Village Pumps of all affected projects will follow soon)
 * Check out a well-done item
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Help expand en:Wikipedia:Wikidata
 * Help expand and translate Wikidata/Deployment Questions
 * Hack on one these

Wikidata weekly summary #46
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 * Development
 * Deployed new features and bugfixes including diffs for statements and the ability to enter items and properties by their ID
 * Updated demo system
 * Database maintainance (Wikidata was in read-only mode for a bit)
 * Implemented first version of a string data type
 * Worked on better error reporting from the API
 * Ported Lua function mw.wikibase.getEntity to Wikibase extension
 * Worked on making the search box suggest items and properties while typing
 * Improved the behaviour of the entity selector (thingy that lets you select items and entities)
 * Improved debugging experience in JavaScript when dealing with prototypical inheritance
 * Worked on cleanup of local entity store
 * Generalized generation of localizable edit summaries
 * Discussions/Press
 * Wikidata development will continue in 2013
 * Wikidata Phase 2 in Full Swing
 * RFC about the Wikidata API
 * Lots of discussions about certain properties and how they should be used. Current state is at d:Wikidata:List of properties and new ones are being discussed at [d:Wikidata:Property proposal]]
 * RCF about amending the global bot policy for Wikidata
 * Proposed changes to Wikidata’s notability guidelines
 * Events
 * office hour including a report on the current status of Wikidata (log)
 * upcoming: Wikipedia Day NYC
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Deployment of phase 1 (language links) on all remaining Wikipedias and a small update on Wikidata are planned for March 6
 * Great page for editors to learn about what phase 1 means for them
 * Cool tool visualizing family relations based on data in Wikidata
 * “Restricting the World” (first in a series about some design decisions behind Wikidata)
 * List of most used properties
 * OmegaWiki is using Wikidata to get links to Wikipedia articles
 * Nyan Nyan Wikidata Nyan Nyan
 * We’ve hit Q5000000
 * Had a look at d:Wikidata:Tools lately?
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Hack on one of these
 * Help translate Wikidata/Deployment Questions
 * Help bring the content of en:Wikipedia:Wikidata to your Wikipedia

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Talk 6 March
Lunchtime, West Road, might interest you:. You saw the meetup this Saturday? Charles Matthews (talk) 16:06, 25 February 2013 (UTC)

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A barnstar for you!

 * ta very much! straight back at you for doing the heavy lifting :) Dsp13 (talk) 20:51, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

Zornlins
I did Georgiana Zornlin since she came up in Tractarian stuff, and as you can see from the backlinks is one of the "BBC Art" list links that are good to get. Most of what is known about her, apart from the art (oddly) seems to be in the Notes & Queries link from archiv.org. Her sister Rosina Zornlin seems to be better known, however, mentioned alongside Mary Somerville. E.g. which Google Books cuts off in its prime. Charles Matthews (talk) 15:28, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

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Paolo Schiavo

 * Hello. I added a little bit of information on your article on Paolo Schiavo. I had trouble finding the names of his paintings, most of which carried their names in Italian. If you know of any websites or ways to translate the information into English, please let me know. I'd be very grateful for that.


 * Thanks


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Thanks for your additions and images! I'll take a look at the painting names. Dsp13 (talk) 00:12, 5 March 2013 (UTC)

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Darwin
Great to meet you yesterday! A quick draft of the names for the Darwin Correspondence session is up at WP:DARWIN, if you're interested... Andrew Gray (talk) 09:32, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
 * they're nice choices. Nothing links to the page, though it's under wikiproject:women's history - is it just you going to help people in the project get going with editing? Dsp13 (talk) 16:04, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the additions! That's the plan. I'm going to link it in afterwards, & tidy up the various edited articles. Changes so far... Andrew Gray (talk) 14:36, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

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D A Forman changed to A G Forman
I hope you have not created a new person. The link on the Ghana Armed Forces Official websites lists Commodore D A Forman. I don't dispute the fact that Archibald George Forman existed.I am not sure A. G. Forman and D A Forman are one and the same person. Shouldn't this article revert to its former name? It is a common problem with African articles that references are difficult to find. There is a lot of information I end up leaving out of articles because although I know them for a fact, I cannot find the references to back them up and I do not want disputes.--Natsubee (talk) 20:38, 5 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Sorry not to reply earlier. The name D. A. Foreman (with an e) is on the ghana website and in one book dated 1999. I've added refs. There seem a greater number of refs (e.g. the Times refs and the last ref on the page, the London Gazette giving the reason for his CBE) which say that the name of the naval officer seconded to Ghana to head the navy was A. G. Forman. So I think the sources conflict, but a greater number give the name as A. G. Forman. Dsp13 (talk) 14:20, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

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Women photographers in the ODNB
Thanks very much for your suggestions, Dsp13. Of the four you sent, Alice Hughes certainly deserves inclusion and I have already written a short piece on her. In view of her early start, Cecilia Glaisher may also be important but unfortunately I do not have access to the ODNB and other sources are very scanty. There is already something on fairy photographer Frances Griffiths but I don't think she should be included in the list and Susan Jellicoe seems to be more an author of books about gardens than an actual photographer. Perhaps you would like to write a short piece on Cecilia Glaisher yourself?--Ipigott (talk) 11:21, 11 March 2013 (UTC)
 * sure. I'll have a go some time soon. Is it worth me scanning Luminous Lint for historical women photographers WP doesn't have yet? Dsp13 (talk) 13:08, 11 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the long list. It'll keep me busy for a while! I'll go through them and see which ones deserve WP articles. As we're really weak on Latin America, I'm now embarking on Adriana Lestido who came up in connection with Orive.--Ipigott (talk) 10:04, 12 March 2013 (UTC)


 * Hello once again Dsp13. As you may have noticed, I've written up short biographies on most of the interesting ladies you included on my talk page. I've also looked into the three remaining red links. What I could find on Nell Dorr was rather sentimental with little or nothing on notable third party sites. Not much more on Emma Farnworth either. At a stretch, Marie Hansen could be covered as the third women photographer to work for Life, but that seems to be pushing it a bit. Unless you want to take any of the three any further, I think we'll leave it there for now.


 * Thanks again for all your help. We still have a couple more weeks of Women's History Month, so if you come across any other interesting names, please let me know. Thanks also for the bio you added yourself.--Ipigott (talk) 17:35, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

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