User talk:OwenBlacker/Archive 5

Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Irish coin 1p (1980).jpg
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 * Resolved more pointless copyright paranoia. — OwenBlacker (Talk) 12:16, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

League of God's House and Three Leagues
Thanks for the comments on the article Grey League! I've created a article on the League of God's House and will eventually do one for League of the Ten Jurisdictions. If you have time, take a look at the League of God's House and see if you want to use anything in the Three Leagues or if I missed something in the article. Tobyc75 (talk) 18:34, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

London Meetup - January 12, 2008
Hi! There's going to be a London Wikipedia Meetup coming Saturday January 12, 2008. If you are interested in coming along take part in the discussion over at Meetup/London7. The discussion is going on until tomorrow evening and the official location and time will be published at the same page late Thursday or early Friday. Hope to see you Saturday, Poeloq (talk) 03:04, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

LGBT WikiProject Newsletter
Delivered sometime in January 2008 (UTC). SatyrBot (talk) 23:48, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

Reminder/request/idea/memo/suggestion/[insert a word of your choice]
Hello! I suppose you barely remember me... Well, it has been some time, has it not? As you might guess, I am here on SBS business. Alas, I have to be a little pressing at times, no matter how much I might hate myself for it. The problem is that participation in WikiProjects is on a purely voluntary basis, so it is both highly impolite and extremely insensitive for me to be taking such steps, but... Well, call me eccentric and it's settled (I hope).

To the subject: as always, there is a severe activity deficiency in the project—too much to do, and nobody to do it. I am not as much concerned about the editing progress, as this is supposed to be done by all editors. No, I am more worried about the guidelines and the templates, where there are still many things to be taken care of, numerous holes to be closed, countless loose ends to be tied up, immeasurable improvements to be made. In four words: decisions to be made. All I am asking for is a helping hand once in a while: add the SBS page to your watchlist (if you have not done so until now), and vote in the polls; as the majority of the proposals are rather uncontroversial, polls usually suffice for business to move on. If, of course, there is the slightest disagreement (succession boxes are rather straightforward, after all), more discussion can take place, until consensus is reached in the good old Wikipedia way. The fact is that the entire process will not take up more than a few minutes of your valuable time in any given day—and it is a rare event indeed to see more than two or three proposals submitted in a week. Actually, that speed would be ideal, as things right now move at much slower rates.

If we are to note any progress, we need participation. If you are interested enough to have signed up, I am not asking for much, am I? After all, aren't we all here because we are trying to make a difference? Waltham, The Duke of 22:21, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

P.S.: Ever heard of hard spaces? They are required in many cases by the Manual of Style, but most editors seem to ignore them entirely. There is an initiative attempting to change this situation; click here if you are interested. – Waltham

Flagicons
I removed the flagicons you added to Anthony Fedorov per Manual of Style (flags). Aspects (talk) 23:05, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
 * And I removed the flag icon you added here as it added nothing to the article. --John (talk) 17:37, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Disputed fair use rationale for Image:1 New Israeli Sheqel (1994-1995).jpg
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Orphaned non-free media (Image:Wappen Thal.png)
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Disputed fair use rationale for Image:1 New Israeli Sheqel (1994-1995).jpg
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 * Will someone PLEASE sort out these bloody irritating bots with their copyright paranoia so they're at least only paranoid about the right damn things?! — OwenBlacker (Talk) 11:35, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

LGBT WikiProject Newsletter
Delivered by SatyrBot around 17:14, 3 March 2008 (UTC) SatyrBot (talk) 17:50, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

Disputed fair use rationale for Image:1 New Israeli Sheqel (1994-1995).jpg
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 * Yet again, a buggy bot tagging an image incorrectly. — OwenBlacker (Talk) 18:03, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

Sean Gallagher
Hi, OwenBlacker! Do you have the Feb issue of Attitude referenced at Sean Gallagher? That info was originally added by an IP, so I wanted to check on it. And of course, they don't seem to have archived their issues on the web, the Ludites! Many thanks :) -- SatyrTN (talk / contribs) 21:40, 13 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Ping? -- SatyrTN (talk / contribs) 05:31, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

London Meetup - April 13th
London Wikipedia Meetup number 8 is happening next Sunday lunchtime (April 13th 1pm) in Holborn. Come along!

-- Harry Wood (talk) 09:57, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

Image:Flag of Haiti civil.svg
Image:Flag of Haiti civil.svg delinked. I think I got all the usages. --- RockMFR 23:32, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Third Reich
I noticed that you created a map of the French Empire under Napoleon. Could you make one for Nazi Germany? The map in the template gives the divisions, but I feel that a map that gives full view of the European territories of the Reich is more appropriate. I you can't, than that's fine. However, do you known anyone else who could make it because I really do not known. --- Hpfan1 {talk) 15:10, 12 April 2008 (UTC)


 * My reply is at User talk:Hpfan1; hopefully Hpfan1 will reply here ;o) — OwenBlacker (Talk) 12:50, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:9Tail Fox cover (Amazon).jpg
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Thank you for your cooperation. NOTE: once you correct this, please remove the tag from the image's page. STBotI (talk) 17:04, 21 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Done. Though it'd be nice if someone would write a bot to put bloody book cover fur on the images, rather than just tagging them for deletion. But no, that would be helpful and contribute to a better Wikipedia; we can't have that(!) — OwenBlacker (Talk) 12:47, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

London Meetups - Sunday May 11th
We're hoping to have regular meetups in London. The next one is on May 11th Meetup/London 9. Another Sunday lunch in Holborn. Come along! -- Harry Wood (talk) 11:38, 28 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Glad to see you (maybe) signing up for Meetup/London 9. Hope to see you tomorrow! -- Harry Wood (talk) 15:47, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

Image copyright problem with Image:British coin 1p (1980).jpg
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 * That every article it is used on is linked to from its description page.

This is an automated notice by FairuseBot. For assistance on the image use policy, see Media copyright questions. --23:36, 16 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Removed incorrect call to non-free currency — OwenBlacker (Talk) 14:29, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Absolution Gap cover (Amazon).jpg
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Thank you for your cooperation. NOTE: once you correct this, please remove the tag from the image's page. STBotI (talk) 14:09, 19 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Done. Again, though, it would be nice if someone would write a bot that constructively leads to a better encyclopædia, say by adding book cover fur in an automated fashion, rather than destructively tagging images for deletion, leading to a less useful encyclopædia. — OwenBlacker (Talk) 08:49, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Ac preussen.jpg
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Thank you for your cooperation. NOTE: once you correct this, please remove the tag from the image's page. STBotI (talk) 14:19, 19 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Removed incorrect copyright paranoia from Image page. The image in question is public domain and is on the Commons. This appears to be (yet another) bug in (yet another) bot. — OwenBlacker (Talk) 16:47, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Altered Carbon cover 1 (Amazon).jpg
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Thank you for your cooperation. NOTE: once you correct this, please remove the tag from the image's page. STBotI (talk) 00:36, 21 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Done. I must get round to getting some kind of bot operating that will automate these pointless pieces of copyright paranoia. — OwenBlacker (Talk) 08:59, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Black Man cover (Amazon).jpg
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 * Done

Fair use rationale for Image:Broken Angels cover (Amazon).jpg
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 * Done

Consensus on reasoning for LGBT Project Articles
A new discussion you may be interested in:Consensus on reasoning for LGBT Project Articles. The Bookkeeper  (of the Occult)  07:30, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

User page layout
Hi there Owen, Ged from Thingbox here. I was wondering if you could give me a hand in organising my userpage, specifically the userboxes because yours are nice and organised and mine are a mess! I can't get the hang of table formatting on wiki, so any help would be greatly appreciated! Ged UK (talk) 09:35, 3 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Well, tbh, your table style on the right hand side for the userboxes, then i can muddle my way through the rest on the left hand side. Feel free just to edit my userpage, I imagine that's easiest, if that's OK with you Ged UK (talk) 15:24, 3 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Couple or three columns will be fine. Wikitables make me cry! Added you. Ged UK (talk) 15:39, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

LGBT WikiProject Newsletter
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WP:LGBT's Role in HIV / AIDS articles
It wouldn't be a proper gay community without a li'l bit o' drama! That's right. If we aren't arguing about something, then we should be asking if we're still queer. Maybe that's for the best, since we know we're still kicking. Our most recent topic is how far the role of our project should go in dipping our toes into HIV/AIDS articles. The main AIDS article was delisted as a Featured Article last month, sadly. (Sending a swift kick to WP:Medicine.) A spirited discussion is available for your entertainment on the WP:LGBT talk page about just how much of HIV and AIDS should we take on. As ever, we'll take your opinions under advisement. We're going to have to, because it doesn't seem to have been settled.

Is Pride POV?
We have a pretty cool sidebar that identifies core LGBT articles. Its symbol is the iconic gay pride flag, much like other Wikiprojects have iconic symbols denoting the topic is a core subject in a series of articles. However, a question recently arose asking if the symbol itself is not neutral. Should a pride flag show up at the top of the article on Conversion therapy? How else would anyone know the article is about queer issues? Is there another symbol that is as widely recognized and that includes all our many splintered facets? At what point do we stop asking ourselves all these questions and just go have a mint julep on the verandah and stop caring?

Harvey Milk and Jim Jones
For the love of all that is holy, no Kool Aid jokes. However, an editor involved in pioneering San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk's article has included a section about the late supervisor's support of Jim Jones and the People's Temple. While it may be accurate, there is a Request for Comment regarding how much emphasis the section places on Milk's support in light of his overall political influence on the city, and indeed the rest of the United States. Milk's article is a sad one in more ways than one. It lacks the detail and heart that honors its subject. Anyone want to do a barter with me? I'll bring Harvey Milk to featured status (give me a month or two so I can read stuff), if you do something of equal value to WP:LGBT?? Make me an offer...

Queer Studies is offensive!
The established branch of study known as Queer studies was brought up as an category for deletion because an editor was offended by the use of "queer" in the title. It was overwhelmingly rejected mostly by the usernames I see here on our Wikiproject page. (A clue that I know you are out there, hiding...biding your time...) So, I wish I could congratulate you, but now I'm all confused by my sympathy for the editor who was offended. So, if you're reading this, Moni has a short memory and can't remember your username. Don't be put off by our demonstrative pushiness. Join us. We can always use involved editors.

Lambda Literary Awards
What can you do to help the project out? Be a wiki-fairy, on many levels. There are all kinds of articles that need help. Why, just this morning I removed those ugly wikify and cleanup tags from four articles at random. If you can put  around stuff, you can clean up articles. There's a list of articles that need attention at the top of the WP:LGBT talk page. Or you can start with the Lambda Literary Awards, where the goddess of my altar received a pioneering award, and was "reduced to rubble" by Katherine V. Forrest's wonderful speech. The 20th ceremony of the Lambda Literary Awards, which celebrates LGBT literature, took place in West Hollywood on May 29th. The page needs to be updated with the new winners, to be found on the official website.


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Yeshayahu Leibowitz, Arthur C. Clarke and Bernard Montgomery
Why on earth would someone want to delete material about homosexuality? 'Tis truly a mystery. But these embattled articles have some random evil gnomes removing information that places these folks under our queer umbrella. Help us keep an eye out for the deletions. Take a peek at the articles, familiarize yourselves with the info, and be handy with the undo function in the article history. If tempers flare, take it to the Hall monitors and let them sort it out. Best solution is to make sure your sources are immaculate.

This month's Wiki stars
This is what I get for opening my big fat mouth and suggesting the newsletter should be revived. Here I am writing it. So, to pat self on back (*cough*) Mulholland Dr. became a featured article in May. This is A Good Thing since it is my personal declaration that there is no such thing as lesbian porn. I don't care what Benjiboi says about the video collection at goodvibes. Instead, we have hot women who connect on a deep, personal, soul-touching level, so this film should qualify as some of the skankiest porn available for lesbians. Plus, it's completely confusing and surreal! D'you think Laura Harring would care that the article is featured? I don't think so either... (Call me, Laura!)

Compulsive hoarding of templates
Once I saw a harrowing episode of Animal Planet's Animal Cops where this guy had, like, 250 cats in his house and it freaked me right out. I'm drawing a parallel between 250 cats and, well...three, really, templates in articles involving LGBT issues. Can we stick to one, maybe? In the aforementioned Harvey Milk's article there's a core LGBT template, a link to the LGBT portal, and a sidebar for LGBT rights. Jiminy! You'd think we weren't the folk to set industrial grey carpeting and track lighting in vogue. An LGBT footer was designed to link to articles of interest that aren't the aforementioned core articles. What do you think, can we have either an LGBT template for core articles, a footer for LGBT articles that are high profile but not core, or an LGBT rights template? As ever, anything's up for discussion on the WP:LGBT talk page.

The Violet Quill and magazines
Zigzig20s suggests we create an article on The Violet Quill, as it seems such a milestone in the advancement of gay/queer literature. Members of the Quill all have pages of their own (Edmund White, Christopher Cox, Robert Ferro, Michael Grumley, Andrew Holleran, Felice Picano, and George Whitmore). We need to find more info on the Quill per se to reference the page that we create. Perhaps Google Books - and libraries? - can help.

A number of magazines also need articles, perhaps most notably QW, LGNY, and Lesbian Feminist Liberation.

Mom's nagging for Pride Month
It's June, Pride month. Wear sunscreen, stay hydrated, get a designated driver, then go half-dressed in the streets find a girlfriend or boyfriend, or some homo who's standing there looking lonely and kiss 'em up real good. Remember, it all started 39 years ago when a bunch of drag queens just got fed the f*ck up by the cops raiding the bar and dragging them all out to the pokey again. Rock on, queens! Enjoy your celebrations. My town's is in October, and 200 people attend. I miss Denver.

Fresh faces to brighten our pages
Hey, I've seen you around! Sorry there seem to be so many—it's been a while. But we welcome you all: Cheezisyum21, Taineyah, Dustihowe, Avesta69, RachelSummers77, Vivekgopinathan, AMK1211, Staffwaterboy, Ted Ted, Joe5150, Leahtwosaints, Robapalooza, Arthomure, Confusionball, Affinity likely, PrinceOfCanada, Yobmod, Npd2983, Neagley, Bvlax2005, Bvlax2005, Rhullsf, Textorus, Kieran.casey, Tyciol, Meojive, Sappho'd, Bookkeeperoftheoccult,  Gaywarrior, Aujourd'hui, maman est morte, and Balin42632003.

It looks like we've picked up a lot of talent lately. We have no doubt you'll be making your indelible mark on LGBT knowledge as we know it, here at Wikipedia.

- In the immortal words of Miss Julie, "May all your Wiki days be bright, and may your Love Boat never turn into a Poseidon."
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We miss you, Miss Julie, as well as all the others who have graced our project and are on wiki-breaks or just got fed up with all the nuttiness and went to live their lives. Get your stupid houses built and hurry up and come back. --Moni3 (talk) 16:52, 9 June 2008 (UTC) To stop receiving this newsletter, or to receive it in a different format, please let us know here. If you have any news or any announcements to be broadcast, do let Moni3 know.
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Jesusland map
Note: Talk:Jesusland_map - Shaheenjim (talk) 06:35, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Image:Europe map Napoleon 1811.png
Hello! There has recently been a request over at Wikiepedia:Graphic Lab (Graphic Lab/Images to improve) to create a zoomed in image of just the Iberian Peninsula during the French 1811 invasion with some cities added. I was wondering if you still have the vector file of Image:Europe map Napoleon 1811.png that I could use to fulfill this request. I don't think I could accurately redraw the correct national borders on a blank map of Europe, so a map with the borders already there would be a great help. =] MissMJ (talk) 21:41, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Well, adding the cities isn't particularly difficult, it's finding what to add the cities to. ;) I can't blow up a section of the original .png file because it will become horridly distorted, and using a blank vector map of Europe will require redrawing the borders (and, at this point, finding a source for those borders too, I guess...). *sigh* MissMJ (talk) 00:27, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

Automated edits
We meet again! Please observe what happened to some of the sources in this article. You'll see that all the external links to articles on Jeune Afrique's website were broken because you linked "jeuneafrique" in the URL. I tremble at the thought of how extensive this problem might be, given that I have surely cited the Jeune Afrique website thousands of times. Could you please find some way to determine which articles have had their links broken in this manner and fix them? Everyking (talk) 01:01, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

LGBT WikiProject Newsletter (July 2008)

 * Newsletter delivery by xenobot  13:14, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Sweden_greater_arms2.png
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Please go to the image description page and edit it to include a fair use rationale. Using one of the templates at Fair use rationale guideline is an easy way to ensure that your image is in compliance with Wikipedia policy, but remember that you must complete the template. Do not simply insert a blank template on an image page.

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 * Fixed this particularly pointless example of copyright paranoia. — OwenBlacker (Talk) 09:08, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

Invitation to Wikipedia meetup in London


Date: 13:00 onwards, Sunday 10 August 2008

Venue: Penderel's Oak pub, Holborn WC1 map

More information: Meetup/London 12

Hello,

I noticed that you have listed yourself as a Wikipedian in London, so I thought you might like to come to one of our monthly social meetups. The next one is going to be on Sunday 10 August, which might well be rather short notice, but if you can't come this time, we try to have one every second Sunday of the month.

If you haven't been before, these meetups are mainly casual social events for Wikipedia enthusiasts in which we chat about Wikipedia and any other topics we fancy. It's a great way to meet some very keen Wikipedians, but we'd also love for you to come along if you're interested in finding out more about Wikipedia, other Wikimedia projects, or other collaborative wiki projects too.

The location is a pub that is quite quiet and family friendly on a Sunday lunchtime, so hopefully younger Wikipedians will also feel welcome and safe. Alcohol consumption is certainly not required!

Although the meetups are popular, many UK-based editors still don't know about them. It would be great to welcome some fresh faces, so I hope you can come along.

Yours,

James F. (talk) 09:27, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

Please forgive the slightly impersonal mass-invite!

Orphaned non-free media (Image:Market Forces cover (Amazon).jpg)
Thanks for uploading Image:Market Forces cover (Amazon).jpg. The media description page currently specifies that it is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, it is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the media was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that media for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

If you have uploaded other unlicensed media, please check whether they're used in any articles or not. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that all non-free media not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. BJBot (talk) 05:14, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Reverted vandalism to Market Forces, restoring the image. — OwenBlacker (Talk) 13:40, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

Cois Fharraige
Just wondering if you have any suggestions as to how I could make the Cois Fharraige article more encyclopedic? It seems in decent condition and I haven't included any unsourced information. Is the logo a problem? Or details on the price of tickets? --Candlewicke Consortiums Limited 00:44, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

Comma template
Hi, Owen. I see that you're the creator of the comma template. Could you explain what the purpose of the template is? It's been suggested in the talk page of Rolf Bae that the purpose is to display - or not to display - a comma before the "and" in lists of items, depending on the user's set preference. But from what I see, there is no conditional code in the template, it unconditionally displays a small, slightly elevated comma, which (in my opinion) just makes it look like one has dirt on the screen. (Maybe that says something about my screen or my eyesight.) Also, I didn't find any such option on my user preferences page. Does the template really work the way you intended? Apart from not having conditional code, why should the template display the comma as small and elevated? Don't commas normally come with the same typeface, size, etc, as the rest of the text (like this one here)? Cheers. LarRan (talk) 09:13, 10 August 2008 (UTC)


 * The purpose of the template was to add commas between reference items:, . Ideally, the Mediawiki code would insert commas in these situations automatically (based on user prefs). The French Wikipedia has an identical template (with a decent explanation of its purpose) at fr:Modèle:, — OwenBlacker (Talk) 13:43, 10 August 2008 (UTC)


 * I nominated the template for speedy deletion (on the grounds that it didn't fill a meaningful purpose), which I understood was a process that would take 7 days. In fact, it took only seconds. I'm sorry if that didn't give you a chance to object. LarRan (talk) 20:13, 10 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Yeah, you should've nominated it for regular deletion — it certainly serves a purpose. I hope you're now gonna go and remove the broken references you've just introduced across the Wikipedia? — OwenBlacker (Talk) 20:19, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Yes, I just got help on how to go about it (see my talk page). LarRan (talk) 20:44, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Ah awesome; cool :o) — OwenBlacker (Talk) 20:50, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

A new task force under wikiproject Europe
Hello,

I've noticed that you are active in the area of Europe. I just wanted to let you know that a European Space Agency task force has been set up to improve the presently very poor condition of articles about ESA and related topics. If you are interested, please join the task force here. We sure could use your help. Thanks.U5K0 (talk) 19:28, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

template
Hi I'm editing the catalan wikipedia and I have seen that you have edited that template: Template:Railway line header. Do you know how to do to hide railway tables as a default option? Thanks--Vilarrubla (talk) 20:01, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

Oxford Wikimania 2010 and Wikimedia UK v2.0 Notice
Hi,

As a regularly contributing UK Wikipedian, we were wondering if you wanted to contribute to the Oxford bid to host the 2010 Wikimania conference. Please see here for details of how to get involved, we need all the help we can get if we are to put in a compelling bid.

We are also in the process of forming a new UK Wikimedia chapter to replace the soon to be folded old one. If you are interested in helping shape our plans, showing your support or becoming a future member or board member, please head over to the Wikimedia UK v2.0 page and let us know. We plan on holding an election in the next month to find the initial board, who will oversee the process of founding the company and accepting membership applications. They will then call an AGM to formally elect a new board who after obtaining charitable status will start the fund raising, promotion and active support for the UK Wikimedian community for which the chapter is being founded.

You may also wish to attend the next London meet-up at which both of these issues will be discussed. If you can't attend this meetup, you may want to watch Meetup, for updates on future meets.

We look forward to hearing from you soon, and we send our apologies for this automated intrusion onto your talk page!

Addbot (talk) 20:55, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

WM UK v2.0 board
Hi! Thanks for volunteering for the Wikimedia UK v2.0 board. We've made a page for candidate statements, so please add yours here, and sign the declaration (it's quite long and scary-looking, I know, but being on a board is a serious thing!). The proposed deadline for statements is 13 September, but we'll make a final deadline soon. Good luck! --Tango (talk) 02:40, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

Date formats after autoformatting
With the recent deprecation of date autoformatting, "raw" dates are becoming increasingly visible on Wikipedia. Strong views are being expressed, and even some edit-warring here and there. A poll has been initiated to gauge community support to help us develop wording in the Manual of Style that reflects a workable consensus. As you have recently commented on date formats, your input would be helpful in getting this right. Four options have been put forward, summarised as:


 * 1) Use whatever format matches the variety of English used in the article
 * 2) For English-speaking countries, use the format used in the country, for non-English-speaking countries, use the format chosen by the first editor that added a date to the article
 * 3) Use International format, except for U.S.-related articles
 * 4) Use the format used in the country

The poll may be found here, as a table where you may indicate your level of support for each option above. --Pete (talk) 18:37, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free media (Image:British coin 1d (1964).jpg)
Thanks for uploading Image:British coin 1d (1964).jpg. The media description page currently specifies that it is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, it is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the media was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that media for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

If you have uploaded other unlicensed media, please check whether they're used in any articles or not. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that all non-free media not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. BJBot (talk) 05:02, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Image has been replaced by those of better quality. I might crop the obverse of Elizabeth II out of it to add to the article at some point, bvut I've a copy on my home PC for that. — OwenBlacker (Talk) 22:02, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

Vote
Owen, if “C” is your favorite option in your vote (∆ here), on the WT:MOSNUM poll, why not adjust one vote up a half-point or the other down a half-point? Others have been using half-point increments; you wouldn’t be the first. Greg L (talk) 22:16, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

Wikimedia UK 2.0 Voting is open :-)
A warm hello to all those signed up as guarantor members of the soon-to-be-rebooted UK chapter! Voting is now open over at meta - there's tons of information online over there, and the mailing list has been very active too. Discussion, comment (and even the inevitable technical gremlins!) are most welcome at the meta pages, otherwise please do send in your vote/s, and tell a friend about the chapter too :-) Privatemusings (talk) 22:29, 20 September 2008 (UTC) I'm not actually involved in the election workings, and am just dropping these notes in to help try and spread the word :-) I welcome any or all comment too, but 'election related' stuff really is better suited to the meta pages :-)

Wikimedia UK 2.0 Vote
Hi you signed up as being interested in being a memeber of wikimedia UK 2.0. Just a reminder the that the vote for the inital board at Wikimedia UK v2.0/Vote ends next Saturday (September 25th).Geni 03:18, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject France newsletter
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What's new?

 * [[Image:Crystal_128_desktop.png|22px]] The project has recently experienced a complete redesign. The Outreach department has also undergone a major expansion, and this newsletter is the result of that.
 * The review department is currently under development, with several new proposals underway. Internal peer review had begun on the page of the project's Review Department. The department currently provides a centralized platform off all currently open reviews throughout the project (Featured Articles, Peer Reviews, Good Articles, Articles for Deletion, Categories for Discussion, etc.)
 * A new task force has been introduced: the Paris task force. Any users interested in contributing to the taskforce can join on the project page.
 * There is a current discussion about merging the French Communes WikiProject into ours. This communes project will be organised as a task force.

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Notifications
! Complete project tasks Complete To Do List
 * Several new user has joined the project this last month: Jordan Timothy James Busson, Djwilms and Mcewan. Welcome! Please come stop by the talk page to join in our discussions.
 * Lazulilasher has been awarded the French Barnstar of National Merit for his contributions to this project. Congratulations!
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The following is a list of all the current tasks for the project, as well as several project goals:


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Thank you for your contributions to the project, Jor  dan  Contribs  18:58, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Wikimedia UK v2.0
Hello! Thanks for showing an interest in Wikimedia UK v2.0. Formation of the company is currently underway under the official name "Wiki UK Limited", and we are hoping to start accepting membership in the near future. We have been drawing up a set of membership guidelines, determining what membership levels we'll have (we plan on starting off with just standard Membership, formerly known as Guarantor Membership, with supporting membership / friends scheme coming later), who can apply for membership (everyone), what information we'll collect on the application form, why applications may be rejected, and data retention. Your input on all of this would be appreciated. We're especially after the community's thoughts on what the membership fee should be. Please leave a message on the talk page with your thoughts.

Also, we're currently setting up a monthly newsletter to keep everyone informed about the to-be-Chapter's progress. If you would like to receive this newsletter, please put your username down on this page.

Thanks again. Mike Peel (talk) 19:55, 8 November 2008 (UTC) (Membership Secretary, Wikimedia UK [Proposed])

Template:Country data Sicily
Edit to Template:Country data Sicily done. --- RockMFR 04:10, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

Wiki UK Ltd Membership applications now invited!
Hello,

It gives me great pleasure to announce that Wiki UK Limited is now inviting membership applications! You can download the application form in PDF format from meta:Image:Wiki_UK_Ltd_membership_application_form.pdf

Information is given on the form about membership fees (£12/year standard, £6 for concessions); these need to be paid by cheque initially, although we hope to accept other forms of payment in the future. Applications should be submitted to me at the address given on the form. If you have any queries about the application process, please let me know.

We will formally start accepting members once we have a bank account, as we cannot process membership fees until that time. We will be submitting our application for a bank account in the very near future, and we hope to have this set up by the end of December at the latest.

Thank you for your support so far; I look forward to receiving your membership application.

Mike Peel (talk) 21:46, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

Membership Secretary, Wiki UK Limited

P.S. if you haven't already, please subscribe to our newsletter! See meta:Wikimedia_UK_v2.0/Newsletter for more information and to subscribe.

Wiki UK Limited is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. The Registered Office is at 23 Cartwright Way, Nottingham, NG9 1RL.

Wikimedia UK Newsletter - November 2008 Issue
Summary: Wikimedians in the United Kingdom are working to set up a chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation, which will aid and encourage people to collect, develop and effectively disseminate knowledge. A board of five members has been elected, and a company has now been set up. Membership applications are now invited, and will be processed as soon as we have a bank account. The organisation needs the support and involvement of people like you.

In this month's newsletter:
 * Creating a chapter
 * Elections
 * Status of Company Formation
 * Membership
 * Getting involved

''Wiki UK Limited is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. The Registered Office is at 23 Cartwright Way, Nottingham, NG9 1RL.''

Wikimedia UK Newsletter - December 2008 Issue
Summary: You can now join Wiki UK Ltd, which hopes to become the official UK chapter of Wikimedia in January. The organisation is planning its first Annual General Meeting, where members can vote on who is on the board, and put forward and vote on resolutions. The organisation is already supporting activities such as a bid to hold Wikimania 2010 in Oxford and the exciting Wikipedia Loves Art project at the Victoria and Albert Museum. We also bring you news of the the recent Wikimeet in London.

In this month's newsletter:
 * Chapter formation
 * Membership
 * AGM
 * Wikimania 2010 - Oxford bid
 * Wikipedia Loves Art
 * London Wikimeet

''Wiki UK Limited is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. The Registered Office is at 23 Cartwright Way, Nottingham, NG9 1RL.''

Newsletter delivered by Mike Peel (talk) 16:36, 26 December 2008 (UTC)

Infobox Newspaper
I've reverted two of your edits. Please see my reasoning. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 16:45, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

WikiProject Former Countries
Good day mate! The name's Laurinavicius. I noticed just now that you and I appear to be working towards the same goal: "the revival of WikiProject Former Countries" as quoted from that userbox we both share. Anyway, it struck me that, seeing as we have the same goal in mind, we should collaborate on bettering this project. If you're interested in co-operating with me, just let me know. I already have several ideas on how to revive our project that we could put in action immediatly if you decide to collaborate with me. My regards, Laurinavicius (talk) 01:22, 18 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I'm not attempting to organize us all about improving, tagging, and assessing articles. I'm just trying to get more people involved and for those people to work in cohesive and unified manner. Right now, an overwhelming majority of the project's members are inactive on the project, or just inactive on the encyclopedia entirely. And of those few remaining members, they just work individually. In my opinion, the entire project would be a whole lot better if these editors worked together. With several editors working on the same article, rather than several editors working on several different articles, articles would be improved much more quickly and would be quite better, thanks to peer editing. That's what I'm striving to do for this project. My regards, --Laurinavicius (talk) 21:47, 18 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Same here mate. Right now, I'm just trying to get through all those articles that need to be assessed and reassessed, so any help would be welcomed there. I had previosuly thought of attempting a sort of Tag and Assess 2009 to assess and reassess all of the articles within the scope of our project. But this idea won't fly due to lack of members, so I guess that makes recruiting more members in our spare time the main priority right now, besides improving, tagging, and rating articles. I'll let you know when I get a large enough group of people together to get started on a Tag and Assess 2009. Regards, --Laurinavicius (talk) 00:28, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Good day mate! I'd just like to you know that I'm planning on sending messages out to all members of the project with at least one edit during the month of January telling them that the WikiProject has been re-opened after a temporary and unexplained leave of absence and to look on the project's talk page for further information. But I'm not too sure about what to do on the next step. I had thought about holding elections for several project coordinators to be elected, so as to give the project a group of firm leaders, then having a two- or three-day long Tag and Assess Drive so as to eliminate all articles from needing to be assessed or re-assessed in the near future, but I would like your input. What do you think should be done? --Laurinavicius (talk) 00:44, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

Wikimedia UK Newsletter - January 2009 Issue
Summary: We lead with the exciting news that we are now recognised as Wikimedia UK by the Wikimedia Foundation. This means that we can shortly open a bank account and approve membership applications. Planning is also underway for a new website and for the upcoming Annual General Meeting. Meanwhile, we continue to support Wikipedia Loves Art, which will launch on 1st February and the bid to hold Wikimania 2010 in Oxford, and bring news of recent and upcoming meet-ups.

In this month's newsletter:
 * WMF approval and chapter formation process
 * New website
 * Annual General Meeting
 * Wikipedia Loves Art
 * Oxford Wikimania bid
 * Meet-ups

''Wiki UK Limited is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. The Registered Office is at 23 Cartwright Way, Nottingham, NG9 1RL.''

Delivered by Mike Peel (talk) 20:01, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

Wikimania Oxford bid
Some time ago you indicated your support of the Oxford 2010 Wikimania Bid, and it was recieved with much gratitude. I now ask if you could could help support our bid by contributing to the bid page that is located at: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2010/Bids/Oxford. Now is the critical period for work to continue on the bid as the official bidding period has now started and the jury has been formed.

I do not ask for huge swathes of time, just enough that with eveyrone working on this, it can be completed in time to the high standard required in a bid. For the bid page, an excellent source of information is the travel wiki article on the City of Oxford which is found at: http://wikitravel.org/en/Oxford. The chance of bringing Wikimania to the UK is the best so far and i expect the best chance for many years. With a fresh and stong UK chapter we have an amazing opportunity to put ourselves on the map. If you have any questions, please mail them to the Wikimedia UK mailing list, email me or post a message on my talk page and i will answer as quickly as possible.

I look forward to working with you on the bid page. Many Thanks. Sedd&sigma;n talk 15:13, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

Adding categories to templates
Hi,

This edit added a category to the infobox public organisation template. However, this category is already included in the template via its doc page. If a template has a separate documentation page, all categories and interwiki links should be placed there. For now I've reverted the edit in question. If you have any questions then please let me know. Cheers! Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 17:37, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

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