User talk:Will Hanley

History of nationality in Cyprus
Please stop recreating History of nationality in Cyprus, which is a patent content fork from Modern history of Cyprus. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a sandbox; I can recreate this page in your userspace if you want but it is not appropriate for it to be in the mainspace. —  iride scent   (talk to me!)  15:26, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

One of my students has been attempting to create a similar page for several days now. She barely begins work and it is wiped away--I thought I'd try and I can understand the problem she is facing. I will have her work on it in her userspace. Will Hanley 15:31, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

Your "History of..." pages
Now it's come to my attention, I've redirected a number of your "History of xxx people" articles to the existing articles on the ethnic groups in question, as very obvious content forks. I appreciate this may have disrupted the class project, for which I apologise, but Wikipedia is not the appropriate medium for an exercise like this. —  iride scent   (talk to me!)  15:48, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

Well, I'm not sure I agree. I think that 20 articles detailing the history of nationality for 20 states (along the lines of History of British nationality law) will form a useful contribution to Wikipedia. This is especially true in that these pages will be fully referenced and aim to be comprehensive. As well, the students are exposed to the potentialities of this medium and may become regular contributors. Their articles are certainly inadequate to begin with, but they need to find a foothold somewhere. I've asked them to use user subpages; if their work appears subpar at first, please consider cutting them some slack. Will Hanley 15:56, 12 October 2007 (UTC)


 * I have to agree with Iridescent here, as while it is great that students are interested, creating small fork articles are not necessary unless they are properly sourced and longer than a few lines. Yes, good idea to use the User space to create them, then submit them later into mainspace. Phgao 15:58, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

History of Nationality in Gibraltar
Hi there. Was this article created as a history class assignment? I'm just curious. Regards --Gibmetal 77 talk 23:26, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Yes. Will Hanley (talk) 01:39, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
 * That's really interesting. I think it's a great initiative. Although how is it assessed when other editors are also contributing? --Gibmetal 77 talk 01:48, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
 * The page history makes it clear who did what. Thanks for your positive comment.Will Hanley (talk) 10:21, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

Armenian Nationality
You've moved everyone of these nationality pages to articlespace. How come User:Manju_Ismael/History_of_Armenian_nationality wasn't? Did he withdraw out of your class? Did incomplete the assignment?174.3.102.6 (talk) 22:02, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Subhi Saleh


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Ways to improve Tigrane Pasha
Hello, Will Hanley,

Thank you for creating Tigrane Pasha.

I have tagged the page as having some issues to fix, as a part of our page curation process and note that:

"I can't get a preview of the second reference to show me anything useful, but based on the content you wrote, it seems the book may make mere passing mentions, in which case the second source might demonstrate that the topic is notable. The obituary alone isn't sufficient to prove notability, so any other sources you can find, or any other content you can expand this article with, would be really helpful for proving that the topic is notable."

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Thanks for your editing. The guy was foreign minister of Egypt, and had an obituary in the Times. That is enough to make him notable. There is not a large secondary literature, so it's difficult to give him a fleshed-out biography. I designated it a stub for this reason. He's a necessary part of the series of foreign ministers, in part for continuity in wikidata. Will Hanley (talk) 15:58, 12 June 2020 (UTC)

Selimgate
Thanks for writing this article! I wasn't aware of the controversy, so I found the article very interesting reading, and "which were then answered by the trio in a critique of the critiques of the critique" cracked me up. Schazjmd  (talk)  23:19, 12 October 2020 (UTC)

Najam Haider moved to draftspace
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Nomination of Selimgate for deletion
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Speedy deletion nomination of Noah Smith (pundit)


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Nomination of History of Ukrainian nationality for deletion
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 * Thanks for cleaning up my blunder. I tried to use the "Move" tab but misunderstood. You fixed it! Thanks again for taking the time to make it right. Will Hanley (talk) 02:31, 15 December 2022 (UTC)
 * No worries, and no problem! DanCherek (talk) 03:40, 15 December 2022 (UTC)

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