User talk:Steve virgin

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Bristol Wikimeet
Hi, I shall be away on Saturday unfortunately. Please keep me posted on any further meets, though. –– Jezhotwells (talk) 20:05, 12 May 2010 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the invite - have you put a note on WikiProject Somerset & WikiProject Bristol? I've never been to a meet up - what is the format?&mdash; Rod talk 20:17, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Who are you? User:AndrewRT or someone else? Why is User:AndrewRT posting invites using your signature?, , , . –– Jezhotwells (talk) 20:38, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
 * There is nothing on WikiMedia UK about this event.&mdash; Rod talk 20:41, 12 May 2010 (UTC)

Yes - there really is a Meeting Saturday 15th May at 6.30pm in The Watershed in Bristol
Hi this is really me

I am a fellow Bristolian

We have a Wikimedia Conference in town this weekend

We were getting some of the Bristol Project Wikipedians together at the Watershed on Saturday night for a Wiki Meet at around 6.30pm.

This is a good opportunity to meet people from the national Chapter, other Chapters from around the world and from the Wikimedia Foundation. There is a bar tab to help proceedings and we would be very keen to see you there.

RSVP - let me know if you are able to come and feel free to invite any other local Wikipedians in Bristol

Agenda - Learn more about the Bristol/Somerset Projects - How can the Board help - Can we make the get together a regular event - Plans/Suggestions for Bristol going forward

Steve virgin (talk) 22:19, 12 May 2010 (UTC)

Addition to talk page
No idea why you posted to my Talk page -- I am not a Bristolian ... quota (talk) 09:14, 16 May 2010 (UTC)

Jimmy Wales in Bristol Wikipedia 10th Birthday (13 Jan 2011)
Leave me a note here or send me an email steve.virgin@wikimedia.org.uk asking whatever you need to about this event & I will reply as soon as I can Steve virgin (talk) 15:08, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

Wikimedia 10 Bristol
Hi Steve, Thanks for the message etc - I can certainly be at the Watershed to help out as needed - as this is all provided I personally don't see any need for another meetup. The ideas for collaborations etc sound interesting (I'd like to get Bristol Museum and Art Gallery to do what the British Museum did. But I don't think I would have much time to devote to those sorts of projects.

Thanks also for your encouragement to apply for micro funding to arrange a series of meetups - however there seems to be an implicit assumption that meetups are a good thing & would be (in some way) productive - I'm not sure that is the feeling of the individuals involved & would probably be best tested on the wikiproject Bristol (& related projects) talk pages.&mdash; Rod talk 19:44, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

I completely agree Rod...I have been speaking to the Bristol Museum trying to encourage them (last February) it has been tough. Now we have the British Museum example it might become easier next year. Happy to work with the will of the majority. Will obviously go to the Project page to see but it would also be nice to hear. If we could meet at least once that would be good and facilitate that. perhaps that would come out of the 13th Jan event? Steve virgin (talk) 21:26, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

If I'm not too late...
Hi Steve, if I haven't missed the boat, is there any chance of a ticket for the talk by JW in Bristol in January? Cheers SmartSE (talk) 16:57, 12 December 2010 (UTC)

Latest Orlowski howler
According to the caption on an image published with a story by Andrew Orlowski on The Register today, your userpage is now his. Remarkable to see his standard of fact checking actually heading even further downwards from previous lows. --Demiurge1000 (talk) 14:13, 25 September 2012 (UTC) Andrew Orlowski would not know a fact if he saw one. It could be wearing a flashing glowing light on his head saying 'fact' and he'd miss it. Steve virgin (talk) 14:36, 25 September 2012 (UTC)

Bristol Wiki Meetup
You are invited to the Bristol Wiki Meetup which will take place at The Commercial Rooms, 43-45 Corn Street, Bristol BS1 1HT on Sunday 28 July 2013 from 1.00 pm. If you have never been to one, this is an opportunity to meet other Wikipedians in an informal atmosphere for Wiki and non-Wiki related chat and for beer or food if you like. Experienced and new contributors are all welcome. This event is definitely not restricted just to discussion of Bristol topics. Bring your laptop if you like and use the free Wifi or just bring yourself. Even better, bring a friend! Click the link for full details. Looking forward to seeing you. Philafrenzy (talk) 22:28, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Ways to improve Project Servator
Hi, I'm Mabalu. Steve virgin, thanks for creating Project Servator!

I've just tagged the page, using our page curation tools, as having some issues to fix. Good article, but I would recommend against using The Express as a source, and also, be very cautious about using Twitter and other social media as citations.

The tags can be removed by you or another editor once the issues they mention are addressed. If you have questions, you can leave a comment on my talk page. Or, for more editing help, talk to the volunteers at the Teahouse.

Mabalu (talk) 19:36, 21 February 2017 (UTC)

Copyright problem on Project Servator
Material you included in the above article appears to have been copied from the copyright web page https://www.cityoflondon.police.uk/community-policing/project-servator/Pages/Project-Servator.aspx and several other copyright web pages. Copying text directly from a source is a copyright violation. Unfortunately, for copyright reasons, the content had to be removed. Please leave a message on my talk page if you have any questions or if you think I made a mistake. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 21:02, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

November 2017
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The bot located some more copyright violations today. These were not new additions, but material you moved around within the article, which triggered a new bot report. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 22:45, 28 November 2017 (UTC)

I'll take a look when I have time. Of course, I am perfectly happy to slash any similarlity between article text and wiki text to a bare minimum (nothing at all if possible). Keeping this in mind, when I have a look I'll change anything flagged so that it is more my words than anything else.Steve virgin (talk) 22:56, 28 November 2017 (UTC)

Do you have a conflict of interest?
Hello, Steve virgin. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page Project Servator, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:


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Also please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. DuncanHill (talk) 13:14, 8 May 2019 (UTC)

simple answer is no - https://wikimedia.org.uk/w/index.php?search=steve+virgin&title=Special%3ASearch&go=Go - many of my contributions are not on the main site. I organized this event with the UK board https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR7CPQrHkUQ in my home town (mentions me a couple of minutes in 'thanks to SV and the local Wikimedia UK chapter' - this is also me https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Bristol_Wikimania_Bid (again not on the main wikipedia page). I seem to recall I went hunting after some French pages where the English entries were weak and beefed them up taking the French to English (St jean de Luz I think from memory). I had never done my own page before and felt the need to do so. I realised I had to really pull out all the stops as the topic was controversial so it references 80 newspaper articles on the topic. I purposely did not 'lift material' - I wrote up my intepretations. There may be the odd example where a sentence or two is close to the original. Change it - that's why Wikipedia exists collaboratively to tidy each others work. How the article came in to being - I was feeling the need to do an article as I had never done one. I had done things like this https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Monmouthpedia_Day_-_Steve_Virgin.JPG where we launched Monmouthpedia the world's 1st wikipedia town and my involvement was mainly offline getting help to promote the stories and publicity. I did not know if I was capable of doing my own article from scratch and felt the need to try - hence the project servator piece. I also felt that after 4-5 years of doing almost nothing it was worth dipping my toes back in. Servator is police I do not and have never worked for the police. I can't fault you guys for suspicion - there is logic in checking this out. But trying to stay at arms length from the topic is one reason why the pictures on the Proj Serv site are so shit - I had to use generic ones - hope that helps (Steve virgin (talk))


 * Thanks for your prompt answer, DuncanHill (talk) 18:55, 8 May 2019 (UTC)