User talk:EmyRussell

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DMCA takedown notice
Hello, EmyRussell.

My name is Maggie; I work for the Wikimedia Foundation. I'm sorry to have to tell you that I have had to remove part of the content you put into Rankings of universities in the United Kingdom on instruction of our legal department based on a long-running dispute that would be hard for a newcomer to be prepared for. The issue is that we received a letter from News International (who own The Times and The Sunday Times) demanding that we remove reproductions of their rankings, which they claim violate their copyright. I'm required to give anyone who adds the content in whole or in part, including updated versions of the content, the notice below (which is a form letter) letting them know their legal rights. Given the inclusion of this information from other publications, it's perfectly natural to assume that this, too, can be added, but until their legal claim is challenged, we are required to remove this content.

You may also want to review WP:TOP100 for community guidelines on the issue, including why even including partial lists of this type when creatively compiled may not be possible.

This situation is quite rare, and I'm sorry that you were caught up in it. --Maggie Dennis (WMF) (talk) 20:14, 14 December 2015 (UTC)

The Wikimedia Foundation (“Wikimedia”) has taken down content that you posted at Rankings of universities in the United Kingdom because someone alleged that your post infringes on a copyright.

You can see their communication here: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/File:DMCA_News_International.pdf

When someone makes a validly formulated notice of copyright infringement, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”) requires Wikimedia to take the content down and to notify you that we have removed the content. This notice, by itself, does not mean that anyone is suing you. The take-down requestor might only be interested in removing the content from our site.


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 * Filing a Counter-Notice

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Pursuant to the DMCA, Wikimedia must inform the alleged copyright holder that you sent us a counter-notice and give the alleged copyright holder a copy of the counter-notice. We will restore the content you posted within ten (10) to fourteen (14) business days, provided that the alleged copyright holder does not give notice of suit to restrain re-posting of the material.


 * Miscellaneous

As a matter of policy and under appropriate circumstances, the WMF will block the accounts of repeat infringers as provided under the DMCA.

If you would like to learn more about Wikimedia’s policies, please refer to the Wikimedia Terms of Use, available at http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Terms_of_use and the Wikimedia Legal Policies, available at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal/Legal_Policies. More information on DMCA compliance may also be found at:


 * http://www.chillingeffects.org/dmca512/faq
 * https://www.eff.org/issues/dmca
 * http://www.copyright.gov/onlinesp/

See also WP:Office.

Wikimedia appreciates your support of Wikipedia and will be happy to assist you if you have any additional concerns. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions regarding this notice.

Sincerely, Maggie Dennis (WMF) (talk)

Reference issue on University of Bristol
Hi, You seem to do lots of updated of rankings of universities on various league tables. On the University of Bristol article Reference 15 is showing a error " Cite error: The named reference THE_World_University_Rankings_2015-16 was invoked but never defined (see the help page)." I think it was this edit of yours which updated a reference from 2013-14 which was previously included but leaves with no URL to link to. Could you update to an up to date link?&mdash; Rod talk 20:56, 28 September 2016 (UTC)
 * I am a member of the WikiProject Universities, I would appreciate your honesty if you have an issue with me updating various league tables. Thank you for the note, I have amended the citation now. EmyRussell (talk) 23:49, 17 October 2016 (UTC)
 * I have no problem with you updating the league table bits & welcome someone keeping them up to date. I only found the referencing error because it showed up on the Bristol cleanup list which I keep an eye on.&mdash; Rod talk 07:29, 18 October 2016 (UTC)
 * I am glad to hear of this - apologies for the misunderstanding.EmyRussell (talk) 12:54, 21 October 2016 (UTC)

University of Warwick
Hi EmyRussell, thank you for fixing my mistake on the List of UK universities by endowment page. I don't know why I chose the consolidated endowment in this case. Many thanks Aloneinthewild (talk) 16:23, 22 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Hi AloneintheWild, thank you for your message. For most universities, their endowment reserves are the same for Consolidated and University. It's only a few universities where Consolidated and University endowment figures are different. Reading, for example, has a very significant difference between the two figures (£206.9m against £14.8m for 2015/16) so it was decided that University endowment reserves should be used. Of course, I am open to discussing whether the 'Consolidated' figure should be used instead and we can discuss it over on the List of UK universities by endowment Talk page. EmyRussell (talk) 19:52, 22 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Yes, I'm in agreement with you. I think Warwick is like Reading in this respect, there is quite a difference between both figures. I think the current method of sticking to one consistent figure is simpler. I remember the amount of articles on which I updated the endowment figures and found confusion with income was astonishing. Aloneinthewild (talk) 15:01, 23 December 2016 (UTC)
 * That's very good to hear. I will continue to update the UK University Endowment page as I have been doing then. I appreciate your feedback.EmyRussell (talk) 15:36, 23 December 2016 (UTC)

Manchester grades
Hi, with regards to your recent edit on the Manchester university page should we remove all reference to A-level grades given that UCAS points can come from a wide range of sources? EvilxFish (talk) 13:43, 29 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi there, thanks for your message. I personally think it should remain as it is, i.e. show UCAS points by A Level and AS Level, as the majority of entrants will be British, therefore will have taken A Levels. This will be useful for prospective students viewing the page. Since most students take 5 AS Levels before dropping to 3 A Levels, I think the current system provides a good indicator. The source, CUG, state that UCAS points are calculated from examination results only, e.g. A Levels, International Baccalaureate, Scottish Highers, Cambridge Pre-Us etc. EmyRussell (talk) 21:26, 30 June 2017 (UTC)

updated endowment figures Cambridge
Sure, net assets aren't equal with endowment figures but you just added the University's restricted endowment (1,728 ) to the unrestricted (3,033) and voila 4.9 despite the linked Reporter is pretty clear on the fact that not all colleges invest with the University investment fund - starting with Trinity and its more than 1 billion endowment...
 * This was not how Cambridge's endowment was calculated. It was a result of the sum of colleges' endowment of £3,149.3M plus the central university system's (consolidated) endowment of £1,728.0M equalling £4,877.3M. The source on Cambridge University's wikipedia page states this.EmyRussell (talk) 17:57, 10 August 2018 (UTC)

University of Bristol
Thanks for the update to University of Bristol. You obviously know lots about these league tables and I was wondering if you knew what would have been referenced as "Complete League Table 2018"? Ref 89 on the article says " Cite error: The named reference Complete League Table 2018 was invoked but never defined (see the help page)." and I thought you might know what source this should be citing?&mdash; Rod talk 15:19, 15 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks for raising this. I have now corrected the cite error and updated consequently.EmyRussell (talk) 16:34, 15 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks.&mdash; Rod talk 16:41, 15 August 2018 (UTC)

Endowments for colleges
Thanks for adding endowment figures to the articles for various Cambridge colleges last year. I've now added an endowment field to Template:Infobox residential college and edited the college articles to use it.

if you find yourself adding the same data to a lot of similar articles in future, it's probably worth considering adding a field to the relevant infobox to start with, rather than using the 'free' field. TSP (talk) 17:00, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

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Rankings graphs
Hi EmyRussell, I was wonder if Graph:Lines would be helpful for these graphs? It looks like the data needs to be stored on wikimedia commons data, but it might make it easier to add future years and have the graphs (semi)automatically update. It might be possible to link the rankings table templates to the wikimedia commons data as well (but I've not looked into how this works). Robminchin (talk) 18:21, 8 March 2023 (UTC)


 * Hello . I had considered this, but the y-axis was not entirely appropriate based on the graphs I had played with: see User:EmyRussell/sandbox. My concerns were regarding the bunched y-axis data for Oxbridge, the inconsistency of the highest value being 0 for some charts but 1 for others and my own personal preference for matching colours. If these concerns were addressed, I would be very open to exploring the usage of graphs instead. I liked the Wikimedia commons data as it is possible for the file to be easily replaced (and therefore updated yearly) and the ability to control for appropriate y-axis. EmyRussell (talk) 18:55, 8 March 2023 (UTC)

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Thank you for sorting out…..
….the reference I added to the Simon Fanshawe article, after I had made a complete pig’s ear of it. Sweet6970 (talk) 16:13, 14 February 2024 (UTC)


 * Not at all, it was just a small typo. Happy editing! :) EmyRussell (talk) 18:08, 14 February 2024 (UTC)

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