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Template:Defunct airports in the United Kingdom
Not sure that this has any value as a navigation template but rather than go straight for a deletion request I have asked at WP:AIRPORTS for any opinions refer Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Airports, any comments welcome. MilborneOne (talk) 17:19, 31 August 2013 (UTC)

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DYK for Ben Gunn (campaigner)
The DYK project (nominate) 08:02, 2 September 2013 (UTC) My pleasure to support peace and reconciliation ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:06, 2 September 2013 (UTC)

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Infobox poem
I see that you're involved with working on the poem infobox, I posted a technical enquiry on the talk page about possible new parameters to be added. Could you take a look and tell me if this is possible? I know precious little about writing an infobox. Template talk:Infobox poem--ColonelHenry (talk) 12:07, 5 September 2013 (UTC)

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Hi , I have nominated your File:Library of Birmingham - interior 2013-08-28 - 101.JPG into the featured pictures nominees. Hope it may succeed. By the way, it's a splendid pic. Benison talk with me 10:34, 7 September 2013 (UTC)

DYK for Francis John Williamson
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Selly Manor & The Manor of Selly
Hello Andy

Just wanted to say how pleased I am to see you’ve created an article for Selly Manor. I have been meaning to do something along these lines for a while, but I’m sorry to say I’ve never quite got ’round to it. In fact I haven’t been contributing much to Wikipedia for sometime now, so really must try and get back into things. Anyway, I hope you won’t mind me pointing out one thing, and that is where you say it was “Originally the manor house of the village of Bournbrook” because this isn’t correct; even though I do realise Selly Manor’s own website says it was “Bournbrook’s manor house”. It is true that the building formerly stood in Bournbrook Road, Bournbrook, but Bournbrook is essentially a nineteenth-century development, and, as far as I am aware, was never a village.

My understanding is that Selly Manor is actually believed to have been the manor house of the Manor of Selly, which was a sub-Manor of the much larger Manor of Northfield and Weoley. The Manor of Selly occupied the most northerly part of the old Parish of Northfield, and whilst it would have comprised what is now the district of Bournbrook it would also have included what has become the neighbouring suburb of Selly Park (the area that became Bournbrook and Selly Park originally being called Selly Hill), together with part of modern-day Bournville (including where the Green is now and everything as far south as The Bourn), as well as much of today’s Selly Oak (though not actually that part of Selly Oak where St Mary’s Church, Selly Oak Park and Lodge Hill Cemetery all are, as this area was originally within the medieval Weoley Park and therefore not in the Manor of Selly).

Anyroad, as I say, I hope you don’t mind me mentioning all of this, and once I can get my act together I’ll see about putting up some fully referenced additions. In the meantime, thank you again for creating the page and helping to expand the coverage of the old Worcestershire part of Brum on Wikipedia.

Best regards (Lepidus Magnus (talk) 19:56, 10 September 2013 (UTC))

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Victoria
A German user thought that Williamson's statue of Victoria in Christ Church (Commons) was "the bust", - I told him it's not, but what is it? Should it be mentioned? Several images, not one of them good. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:19, 11 September 2013 (UTC)

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DYK for Selly Manor
The DYK project (nominate) 08:02, 13 September 2013 (UTC)

About the newer place: 100.000 visitors in 8 days, - would you know where to find a source for that recent claim? The quote is too long and too English for "Schon gewusst?" --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:06, 13 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Tagged as . Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:41, 14 September 2013 (UTC)

Francis John Williamson
Mixed questions (to be continued):
 * 1) is this also a work by Williamson?
 * 2) What to do with coords ref for his residence here?
 * 3) How about giving positions of the people portrayed. Yes, there are links, and many readers may know them just by name, but the others? (I started in German, because there are no links, please check.) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:39, 14 September 2013 (UTC)



-- Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:41, 14 September 2013 (UTC)
 * 1) Cast by William Bloye from FJW's original
 * 2) Not sure what you're asking
 * 3) Good idea; but please remember, Ich spreche nicht Deutsch!


 * 1) I wondered because it doesn't say so in the description on the Commons, nor is the pic in his category.
 * 2) There is a ref using a template in English, that doesn't work in German.
 * 3) I mean the English article, could say "Shakespeare scholar" for Timmins etc, so that people don't have to click. (No idea how many know to use pop-up. I learned the hard way not to trust that people can even read a diff right.) - I took care of the German.
 * Thanks! no need to ping, I am watching ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:53, 14 September 2013 (UTC)


 * 1) It does when I view it (in English).
 * 2) Not sure what to suggest, sorry.
 * Ah, I see. I'll add it to my to-do list.

-- Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:27, 14 September 2013 (UTC)

Found pic info now, thanks. Working on the promised article, comments welcome, happy to improve content, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:40, 14 September 2013 (UTC)

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New CS1 cite admin
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Neutral colour for heading
What do you think of a neutral colour for the title of infobox musical composition, as in infobox person, to have a pic stand out more, for example here or here? I didn't manage. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:37, 29 August 2013 (UTC)
 * I'm generally happy to stick to the default colours, but I've ; just change the hex colour value if you want something else. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 22:48, 29 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Thank you, - I like it neutral, but great to have the option to match a colour with the pic if it's so important. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:03, 29 August 2013 (UTC)
 * You mean to change per article? That would require different code. I don't recommend it, as it is likely that people would use inaccessible colour-contrast combinations. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 23:11, 29 August 2013 (UTC)
 * I see more ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:17, 29 August 2013 (UTC)
 * ... but I don't see where to find the colour code for no colour, as used in Bach composition and opera --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:10, 30 August 2013 (UTC)
 * I looked at it again: the light blue we have now will be fine for most cases, such as this. I think two things are desirable:
 * have the subtitle the same colour
 * be able to toggle it off for the few cases where no colour seems better, but then also for other title field such as "premiere" (similar to the option for "no italic title")
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Show genre sooner
New question: If we have a symphony, we want genre, but not don't need to show it, because it's in the article name, for an oratorio (song, cantata ...), we probably want genre, but better show the term in the position of a subtitle. Ideas? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:18, 4 September 2013 (UTC)
 * I'm contemplating this. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:25, 4 September 2013 (UTC)

A similar question: opera, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:35, 19 September 2013 (UTC)

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Please note that Andy may be offline for a bit. There were some ISP issues, and he won't be doing Wikipedia via his mobile device. Anyone wanting to "yell at Andy", may have to wait a day or three. (and yes that was a play on Andy's sig.) —  <font style="color:#000080;">Ched <font style="color:#FF0000;">ZILLA  22:36, 21 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks, Chedzilla. To clarify, a fire at my domestic ISP means I have no connection at home for the last two, and next few, days. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:30, 22 September 2013 (UTC)
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How to get article re-assessed by WikiProkect UK Roads?
Hi, my apologies for contacting you directly. Can you tell me how I can get an article re-assessed by the WikiProject UK Roads please? I have been working on Wade's Causeway the last couple of weeks and the project still classifies it as a stub, which I do not think is appropriate any more. Can you tell me how I can get it re-assessed please? I didn't see anywhere to register it for re-assessment on the project page. Many thanks -PocklingtonDan (talk) 20:37, 26 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Nice work; I've reassessed it. For future reference, you can always ask on the relevant project's talk page. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:11, 26 September 2013 (UTC)

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WP:HWY and potential rules on article structure/content.
Hi Andy,

I noticed you have had thoughts on similar circumstances in the past. I would appreciate your comments on this thread:

Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Highways

Its a bit of a read :)

My main fears are that these rule ideas are not supported by the MOS, FA criteria, and can overrule the opinion of stewarding editors (or groups) who likely have good reason to deviate from the one size fits all approach championed by some in the thread. -- Nbound (talk) 14:10, 28 September 2013 (UTC)


 * Thanks, but I'm avoiding that nest of mendacious control freaks as much as possible. Do let me know, though, if they try, again, to prohibit the use of coordinates. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:32, 30 September 2013 (UTC)

A list of infoboxes
Hi Andy, since you're a member of the Infobox WikiProject I figured you might be interested in this recently recreated list of infoboxes.--eh bien mon prince (talk) 15:04, 28 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks for letting me know; an impressive piece of work. Is it manually compiled or did you use a script? How are you going to keep it up-to-date? It certainly shows that there is more work to so consolidating redundant infoboxes. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:05, 30 September 2013 (UTC)
 * The list was compiled manually with the help of Special:PrefixIndex, which means that infoboxes without the right prefix (like Template:Taxobox) were added manually or are still missing; new infoboxes can be discovered with the Catscan tool if they're transcluding Template:Infobox, while deleted or merged ones can be removed by checking the TfD logs if they were nominated there, but keeping the list thoroughly updated without some kind of automation will be problematic. There are hundreds of infoboxes that could be merged uncontroversially, all the templates in the fictional character section could be replaced with one infobox for example. If you're thinking about consolidation, the category with the most potential is sports, there are 54 infoboxes just for baseball so the scope for mergers is vast.--eh bien mon prince (talk) 19:11, 30 September 2013 (UTC)
 * You might find WikiProject Infoboxes/Statistics useful for tracking down infoboxes outside the "Template:Infobox foo" namespace. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:35, 30 September 2013 (UTC)

Help test better mass message delivery
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Start date template
Given this development, is there any chance that we could re-attempt the bot request for Start date in Infobox NRHP? Nyttend (talk) 22:29, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
 * That's an interesting turn of events. By all means try again, but see Bots/Requests for approval/Theo's Little Bot 25 first. It's exasperating. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:22, 4 October 2013 (UTC)

Voice intro project / David Gilmour
Hi Andy. Thank you for helping to introduce the voice intro project. I think it's an excellent idea. I hope as many notable people as possible are willing to participate in the project and that they don't feel "nervous" about recording their voice for Wikipedia. Hopefully notable people will agree that it's a good idea.

On a different note, being a Pink Floyd fan like yourself, I feel that the "Equipment" section in the WP article of David Gilmour isn't particularly well-structured. I've tonight divided one huge long paragraph into two lesser paragraphs for improved readability. But I still feel it would benefit from considerable improvement in terms of how it is structured to further improve readability. I wondered whether you would agree with that? Kind Tennis Fan (talk) 19:41, 2 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your kind words about the voice intro project. It's going very slowly; please consider whether you know anyone who might be eligible to contribute. As for DG's equipment, I agree, but I'm not sure how to improve it. Looking at the source, it seems to be a malformed list. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:20, 4 October 2013 (UTC)

DYK for Eric Ashby (naturalist)
The DYK project (nominate) 16:05, 3 October 2013 (UTC)

please help
i spent 3 days updating a profile of some one i am a huge fan of. you delete all my work in a few seconds. couldn't you have just messaged me and given me advice on how to make it better? i have lost all of that work. im so upset.

is it saved anywhere so i can change it to make it 'legal'? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Willfarrell39 (talk • contribs) 15:14, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Your edits were reverted because they included copyright text which you and Wikipedia have no right to use. There is a hard-and-fast rule that requires this. The message I left on your talk page links to pages which explain in more detail. Your edits are still viewable in the page history, should you wish to revisit them. Further support for new editors is available at Teahouse. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:28, 4 October 2013 (UTC)

ok, i understand fully. thank you very much, i will give it another go. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Willfarrell39 (talk • contribs) 09:14, 7 October 2013 (UTC)

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