User talk:Warofdreams/2016

Template:Did you know nominations/Alex Moffat (trade unionist)
Could you help with the references. Drmies is not a happy camper. I don't have access to these sources. Robin Page Arnot, A History of the Scottish Miners, p.66" (note 2) lacks bibliographical information and is, unlike three other books, cited in the note, not in the Sources section; same with " Robin Page Arnot, A History of the Scottish Miners, p.420" (note 10). The latter: "Mr Abe Moffat", The Times, 29 March 1975 (note 8) lacks a page number (or a link--who has access to this article?); "Scottish TUC Bulletin, Nos.242-338, p.555" (note 9) lacks title and author and year.Thanks. 7&amp;6=thirteen (☎) 21:57, 10 January 2016 (UTC)
 * No problem, I'll take a look most likely tomorrow. I've got access to The Times and can tidy up the other sources.  Probably best to wait for another reviewer, Drmies doesn't seem to want to continue but there are plenty of other potential reviewers for DYK who may be able to give clearer suggestions on any further changes. Warofdreams talk 14:17, 11 January 2016 (UTC)
 * There is nothing wrong with the two articles. We need to tidy up per Drmies suggestions, but then we should be GTG.  Thanks.  7&amp;6=thirteen (☎) 15:51, 11 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Okay, I think all the references are sorted now, I've just done a touch of minor copyediting and hopefully the articles are ready for review. Warofdreams talk 20:11, 12 January 2016 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for the "thank" on the Fulwood article. Been wanting to do that one for ages, still lots of work to do on the Sheffield Suburbs, Norton is one significent omission, Lodge Moor, Ecclesall and Bents Green are three others that come to mind and many need expanding. Cheers Mick Knapton (talk) 18:56, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

Template:Did you know nominations/Alex Moffat (trade unionist)‎
We got a new reviewer. Would you take a look and add and move around citations? Thanks. I am tied up for now. 7&amp;6=thirteen (☎) 12:30, 21 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Great, should have time to do this tomorrow - looks like a quick change. Warofdreams talk 13:45, 21 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks.  When you do it, please let the reviewer know.  7&amp;6=thirteen (☎) 16:44, 21 January 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Alex Moffat (trade unionist)
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DYK for Abe Moffat
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Bureaucrat chat
Hi Warofdreams,

Can you have a look at the Bureaucrat chat on a RfA for Hawkeye7. Seth Whales  talk    23:41, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Hollow Meadows
Hi pal - Good work on the Hollow Meadows article, in fact very good. That's an interesting one for me as I work out at Rivelin Dams very close to HM. I had a nice photo of the hamlet taken from the Head Stone on the moorland (I can't find it now). Friend of mine lives in Hollow Meadows Mews which are the swish apartments made from the old truants school / mental hospital buildings. BTW Rik Allen out of Def Leppard had his accident at Hollow Meadows when he lost his arm, that might be worth mentioning in the article, as might be the Head Stone as it's very visible on the left hand side as you drive up the A57 towards Moscar. Just done an article on Bradfield Dale which I will post later today Cheers Mick Knapton (talk) 14:29, 8 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Many thanks, those are some good ideas which I will look into (but please also feel free to make additions yourself if you've got the references to hand). Bradfield Dale is another excellent article, as ever, really good to see. Warofdreams talk 14:54, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

Precious anniversary
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:06, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

Four years now! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:49, 9 February 2017 (UTC)

Trefor Richard Morgan
Hi, I've just seen that this article is up for deletion. I think it could be improved by you adding further details relating to his educational work that are listed in Google Books. This may address some of the existing concerns. Graemp (talk)
 * Thanks for the heads-up - it's great to see the article being improved already; I'll take a look to see what more I can add over the next few days. Warofdreams talk 13:28, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

DYK for S. M. Holden
 —♦♦ AMBER  (ЯʘCK)  00:08, 10 March 2016 (UTC) 00:01, 12 March 2016 (UTC)

CFD
As a heads-up, I've nominated Category:Northern Ireland MLAs 2011–, for renaming to reflect the recent election. I was looking for a speedy way to do it, as it's an uncontroversial change, but it didn't meet any of the speedy criteria. Valenciano (talk) 14:54, 7 May 2016 (UTC)

Category:General Secretaries of the National Association of Local Government Officers
Actually, Anderson, Drain, Daly and Jinkinson were Gen Secs after the union changed its name to the National and Local Government Officers' Association in 1952. So, their category is technically wrong. Would it not be better to simply use the (unchanged) acronym NALGO? Ghmyrtle (talk) 13:27, 12 July 2016 (UTC)
 * The organisation was the same, it was just the name that changed, so it's just a case of picking one name - I'm fine with NALGO if you'd like to change it. Warofdreams talk 13:34, 12 July 2016 (UTC)
 * OK. (It wasn't just the name that changed, its membership expanded beyond local government.... but I take the point.)   Ghmyrtle (talk) 13:47, 12 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Hmm.... there is clearly something I didn't do correctly.   Ghmyrtle (talk) 13:50, 12 July 2016 (UTC)
 * That changed how it is sorted in the parent category - to rename the category, you'll need to move the category, and update the category link in each article - I think there's an extension to speed up the process, but sadly I can't find which one. Warofdreams talk 13:57, 12 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks - obvious really.  Now done, I hope.   Ghmyrtle (talk) 14:13, 12 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Great, looks good. Warofdreams talk 14:15, 12 July 2016 (UTC)

William Weir Gilmour
Hi, I have just created an article on this interesting political figure. It is scratchy on much of his career and it occurred to me that you might have access to sources that could fill in a few gaps. Graemp (talk) 08:03, 17 July 2016 (UTC)
 * I've added what I can find; he doesn't seem to have been a significant figure in the mining unions or the ILP, so there's nothing from them. There are some horrible reports from the Herald about the reasons for his conviction; I've just summarised with the reason for his imprisonment. Warofdreams talk 18:58, 18 July 2016 (UTC)

Contests
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James Jack
Thank you for starting this article. James Jack was my first cousin twice removed and I remember my Grandad taking about him years ago :). Bennycat (talk) 21:26, 19 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Thank you, I'm glad the article was of interest! Warofdreams talk 13:11, 21 August 2016 (UTC)

WikiProject Africa/The 10,000 Challenge
Hello. I've revamped the contest page into this, based on the new British model. Long term goal, but I've added entries since the beginning of July to give it some initial life. Please add anything you've done then this then too! I hope it proves productive long term. The contests are still planned, but will be more tools towards increasing bulk output in overall goal. It's a permanent goal now, and open! I would be grateful if you could keep a record of all your articles you do there, as I really think seeing the combined efforts will encourage others to create more content too! Please spread the word to the others, cheers!♦ Dr. Blofeld  09:21, 3 September 2016 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Bishophill
Hello! Your submission of Bishophill at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 23:52, 13 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Warofdreams, we really need to hear back from you right away here; it's been a month since this notification was posted to your page. Thank you for your prompt attention. BlueMoonset (talk) 16:35, 13 October 2016 (UTC)
 * I have made a further observation. Andrew D. (talk) 20:32, 22 October 2016 (UTC)

William Belcher
Hi, I have drawn a blank on researching Belcher and wondered if your access to sources could shed any light. He stood at Dudley in 1900 as a Lib-Lab candidate. I have found his postcard from 1904 that suggests he may have been re-adopted, though he never stood for the UK parliament again. He is not the same person as William Belcher.Graemp (talk) 11:27, 16 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Nothing relating to trade unionism, but I've found some information, mostly in The Times. He lived at Castle Douglas, on Cranes Park in Surbiton, and in 1900 was described as a "brickmaster" (Worcestershire Chronicle, 6 October 1900).  After 1900, he was re-adopted as the Dudley PPC, but stood down in 1905 (Times, 8 February 1905).  He was adopted as PPC for Fulham in 1912 (Times, 31 May 1912).  In 1900, he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (RGS Yearbook 1902).  Possibly the same person or a relative, a William Belcher of Kingston celebrated his diamond wedding anniversary in 1940 and was described as a former world draughts champion (Times, 9 January 1940) - that individual had been president of the London Draughts Association in 1899 (Licensed Victuallers Mirror, 26 December 1898). Warofdreams talk 15:14, 20 September 2016 (UTC)
 * That's some seriously impressive research. Thanks. He can't have lasted long as Fulham PPC because he had been replaced by January 1914. I don't think he merits an article. Graemp (talk) 15:52, 20 September 2016 (UTC)

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DYK for Bishophill
Materialscientist (talk) 00:27, 19 November 2016 (UTC)

Excellent work! Can I interest you in The 10,000 Challenge?♦ Dr. Blofeld  21:56, 19 November 2016 (UTC)

WFTDA Divisions
I take it from your Thanking me for the revision I made to the WFTDA D1 Template that you approve of my being bold in how to define membership? (that is: that relevant membership is as of June 30, as that determines Playoff eligibility which is really the only reason to have Divisions right now) I updated most of the member teams, but may have missed some, unsure. Also, I moved former members into the former member list at Women's Flat Track Derby Association Division 1, although I have to go back and add "departure" dates. I figure for that, use the rankings release date where they crossed the 41 threshold. Thoughts? I suspect there are a few teams that weren't listed as members after that was first set up, that then became members of D1 and subsequently fell out of D1; that will take more research to verify. I'll probably dump the top 40 rankings into a spreadsheet to compare numbers unless you had other thoughts?

I hope at some point to do something similar to update D2 membership. I do not look forward to doing this for D3 membership.Echoedmyron (talk) 16:12, 23 November 2016 (UTC)
 * I absolutely approve of you being bold and making these updates; I do wonder if it would be easier to scrap these infoboxes and set up new ones by continent/country/region/state (depending on number of leagues in the part of the world)? They would be easier to maintain and have a clearer justification - I don't believe Division 3 really exists any more, and I don't think Division 2 has any meaning for teams which don't make the D2 playoffs. Warofdreams talk 01:05, 24 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Hmm, you may be right about D3 actually. The WFTDA recently launched a new mobile-friendly site at .com, and the link to the Competitive Division doc on there is busted, but they split off parts of the original site to wftda.org (side note: many historical links used as citations on wftda.com are now needing to be updated - the URLs for example for recaps of older tournaments are the same but just replace .com with .org...) and the doc is still on .org here: . Sure enough, there is no mention of D3 in there. It also no longer lists the D2 cutoff as being at 100 as it used to. Based on this, it could very well be that for all intents and purposes D2 now just means teams ranked 41-60 (and that doc also neglects to mention that teams outside that range may play at D2 Playoffs if higher-ranked teams decline).


 * I may reach out to some of the higher ups in the org (as someone who announces at Playoffs I have contact with a few of them) to see if there is something more detailed and clear that is lurking on the redesigned website that currently doesn't come up due to the update. Long story short: it's probably worth holding off on a D2 update pending what the definition should really be. And maybe the D3 article should get updated to say it's obsolete at some point. (and the D3 template is always going to be mostly redlinks, so maintaining it is hardly worth it probably.)


 * If we switch to per-country templates that could work - aside from fact that there are a few countries with only one member, for which a template isn't worth it. And would also be heavily-populated with redlinks in some cases. Maybe just stick with D1 and D2 templates for now, as most leagues in the top 60 have articles now? (I think only Team United in D1 is missing an article.) Echoedmyron (talk) 15:05, 24 November 2016 (UTC)


 * Yes, that's a good point about redlinks (although mostly in the U.S., most leagues in other countries are locally significant enough to merit articles, though that might not be the case forever). Happy to stick with D1 and D2 templates for now and think about options again in future.  I'll take a look at sources for a possible article on Team United over the next few days, too. Warofdreams talk 01:44, 29 November 2016 (UTC)


 * Ok cool. And yes, you're right, the redlinks will likely be mostly for US leagues. In the interim, I have been working on a couple of other series of updates: 1) I've been updating rankings and playoff appearances in the rankings tables for D1 teams - in the current template, I've done the non-US teams thus far and am working alphabetically through the US teams. As I noted before, the historical citations for older rankings I have now been relying on archived shots of the rankings pages, and pre-2016 Playoffs articles on the WFTDA site still exist, but at the .org suffix, not the .com. Mentioning this in case it helps you when working on Team United. (Where possible, I am trying to use either old DNN articles - which still exist also, although the URL changed from derbynewsnetwork.com to derbynews.net when they archived everything - or Derby Central for more recent articles.) 2) I have simultaneously been working on adding citations and notes about the original 30 WFTDA member leagues; naturally, WFTDA themselves don't have this on their website anywhere, but I resurrected an old map that was once in the main WFTDA article and restored it, and am using it to guide searches. I found an online book source that covers some of them, but only the first so many are viewable as not all the pages in that book are available online: In the main WFTDA article, I think the map will suffice and doesn't require a detailed list, unless you had another opinion. I've been adding this map to the pages of the leagues in question; I considered a template for the "original 30" but figured that might be template overkill. Echoedmyron (talk) 15:23, 29 November 2016 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

 * Many thanks, much appreciated! Warofdreams talk 01:44, 29 November 2016 (UTC)

Was surprised to see...
...your (I think) red-link to Dan Turley in the article on Hugh Corvin. No real comment to add...just that he was my grandfather. His last surviving child--my mother--passed away last January. As I said, nothing really to say but could not say nothing. 75.161.84.18 (talk) 17:55, 4 December 2016 (UTC)
 * I'm sorry to hear of your loss. I hope that the article was of some interest; thank you for your message.  All the best, Warofdreams talk 01:44, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

Bureaucrat chat

 * Requests for adminship/Godsy/Bureaucrat chat

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DYK for Baxter Langley
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WikiProject assessment tags for talk pages
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Herbert Asquith listed at Redirects for discussion
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