Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Gibraltar

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RfC: Self-government
Talk:Gibraltar Guy (Help!) 11:55, 23 January 2010 (UTC)

Unreferenced living people articles bot
Okip  00:56, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

GA Review of Our Lady of Europe
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Gibraltar articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release
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WikiProject cleanup listing
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We Need Your Help Please
We have begun an RFC at the Gibraltar article. The section for discussion is here. We really need a wider audience to help us with suggestions. Since this is one of the articles in your project area we would appreciate your assistance. Thanks! JodyBtalk 11:28, 21 November 2010 (UTC)

Catholicism in Gibraltar Article Error.
States current Bishop is Charles Caruana. Not the case - New Bishop is Ralph Heskett. Don't know dates and stuff thou

Bishop Ralph Heskett has moved to Hallam, and the See is now vacant. The article has been updated to state this. Dates have been added and a reference to the Catholic-Hierarchy.org website.GibCat (talk) 18:43, 24 September 2014 (UTC)

WikiWomen's History Month
Hi everyone. March is Women's History Month and I'm hoping a few folks here at WP:Gibraltar will have interest in putting on events (on and off wiki) related to women's roles in Gibraltar's history, society and culture. We've created an event page on English Wikipedia (please translate!) and I hope you'll find the inspiration to participate. These events can take place off wiki, like edit-a-thons, or on wiki, such as themes and translations. Please visit the page here: WikiWomen's History Month. Thanks for your consideration and I look forward to seeing events take place! SarahStierch (talk) 22:06, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Constitution Day
In the infobox in Gibraltar, we have Constitution Day listed as a recurring holiday on 29 January, but it's not mentioned anywhere else in the article. Politics of Gibraltar has it, but it's not cited to a reliable source. In fact, I went to the Gibraltar web site, and it appears that it's not even a holiday in 2013. I looked through the official notice archives and only found the listing for 2007. Is this truly an annual holiday, or was it just a one-time observance? Thanks. — howcheng  {chat} 18:42, 28 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Hi Howchen, it was a one-time observance. --Gibmetal 77 talk 2 me 13:02, 29 January 2013 (UTC)

Proposal to lift the Gibraltar-related DYK restrictions
A few months ago, there was a discussion on Wikipedia talk:Did you know about Gibraltar-related DYKs on the Main Page. I am proposing that the temporary restrictions on such DYKs, which were imposed in September 2012, should be lifted and have set out a case for doing so at Wikipedia talk:Did you know/Gibraltar-related DYKs. If you have a view on this, please comment at that page.

Gibraltar Caves Project - new reference to add..Thanks Chris Stringer
Barton, R. N. E.; Stringer, C. B. & Finlayson, J. C. 2012. Neanderthals in context: a report of the 1995-1998 excavations at Gorham’s and Vanguard Caves, Gibraltar. Oxford University School of Archaeology: Monograph 75. Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford, Oxford — Preceding unsigned comment added by 157.140.110.47 (talk) 11:45, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

Map problem
I thought I'd mention this here first. Gibraltar is depicted in the wrong place on a number of high usage maps such as this one. Rather embarrassing. Abductive (reasoning) 06:24, 2 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Wow, embarrassing indeed! Thanks for pointing this out. What's the extent of the problem, how many more incorrect maps are there? --Gibmetal 77 talk 2 me 11:15, 2 September 2013 (UTC)
 * I don't know. It looks like quite a few. I found some in economics-related articles. Probably somebody made one by accident, and people have been using it as a starting point for their maps. I don't know who to talk to about this. Abductive  (reasoning) 18:41, 5 September 2013 (UTC)

Merge discussion needs input
Please consider commenting at stalled merge of Sikorski's death controversy and 1943 Gibraltar B-24 crash at Talk:1943 Gibraltar B-24 crash. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 02:12, 9 September 2013 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Pride 2014
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Comment on the WikiProject X proposal
Hello there! As you may already know, most WikiProjects here on Wikipedia struggle to stay active after they've been founded. I believe there is a lot of potential for WikiProjects to facilitate collaboration across subject areas, so I have submitted a grant proposal with the Wikimedia Foundation for the "WikiProject X" project. WikiProject X will study what makes WikiProjects succeed in retaining editors and then design a prototype WikiProject system that will recruit contributors to WikiProjects and help them run effectively. Please review the proposal here and leave feedback. If you have any questions, you can ask on the proposal page or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you for your time! (Also, sorry about the posting mistake earlier. If someone already moved my message to the talk page, feel free to remove this posting.) Harej (talk) 22:47, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

Expert attention
This is a notice about Category:Gibraltar articles needing expert attention, which might be of interest to your WikiProject. It will take a while before the category is populated. Iceblock (talk) 20:56, 11 December 2014 (UTC)

WikiProject X is live!


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Harej (talk) 16:57, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

Gib wiki expert
Can a Gib wiki expert please help in getting www.europapointfc.com activated? Many thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by BuhoReal (talk • contribs) 17:59, 17 January 2015 (UTC)

Defensible Barracks and Defensible Barracks, Gibraltar
These articles both seem to deal with the same barracks, and therefore they should be merged. What are your thoughts on this? Xwejnusgozo (talk) 19:58, 10 July 2015 (UTC)

Numbers in navboxes
Hi! Anyone mind if I remove the numbers in History and Archaeology of Gibraltar, Caves of Gibraltar and Places in Gibraltar. It's not standard, and the numbers give the false impression that they refer to something other the order in which the links appear in.

Ping template creators: John Cummings and Gibmetal77.

Cheers, jonkerz ♠talk 15:41, 24 April 2016 (UTC)


 * Makes sense... Go for it! --Gibmetal 77 talk 2 me 18:38, 27 April 2016 (UTC)
 * ...aaaand it's done :) Also found Flora and fauna in Gibraltar, which I've nominated for deletion here. jonkerz ♠talk 19:07, 27 April 2016 (UTC)

GAR of Gibraltar at 2011 CYG
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WikiProject collaboration notice from the Portals WikiProject
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Request for information on WP1.0 web tool
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Requested move at Talk:Moorish Castle
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Moorish Castle that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Vpab15 (talk) 19:41, 28 January 2021 (UTC)

Category:People from Gibraltar
I have asked a question about the absence of a Category:People from Gibraltar at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Categories. –&#8239;Joe (talk) 11:35, 3 March 2022 (UTC)

User script to detect unreliable sources
I have (with the help of others) made a small user script to detect and highlight various links to unreliable sources and predatory journals. Some of you may already be familiar with it, given it is currently the 39th most imported script on Wikipedia. The idea is that it takes something like and turns it into something like
 * John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.
 * John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.

It will work on a variety of links, including those from cite web, cite journal and doi.

The script is mostly based on WP:RSPSOURCES, WP:NPPSG and WP:CITEWATCH and a good dose of common sense. I'm always expanding coverage and tweaking the script's logic, so general feedback and suggestions to expand coverage to other unreliable sources are always welcomed.

Do note that this is not a script to be mindlessly used, and several caveats apply. Details and instructions are available at User:Headbomb/unreliable. Questions, comments and requests can be made at User talk:Headbomb/unreliable.

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This is a one time notice and can't be unsubscribed from. Delivered by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:01, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

New Wikipedia Article Suggestion
While updating a film on IMDB, I found 100s of duplicate profiles which I merged as usual, a lot of which I updated and archived with their websites, social media profiles, and news stories, all of which I archived too.

One of the people I updated is Hollie Buhagiar born Hollie April Buhagiar aka Hollie April who was born in Gibraltar, and has countless articles about her.

She's a singer, musician, film/TV/video game composer, theatrical music director, and music producer, who has won countless awards.

Projects she's worked on have won a BAFTA, a Porsche Award, a Gold British Arrow, the McLaren Award and two Unity Award nominations.

She's personally won the 2018 Best Composer Award at the Underwire Film Festival, after having received a total of five nominations across two years. She was further nominated for the 2018 Best Sound Design Offie Award with her theatre debut in 'Collective Rage: A Play in Five Betties'. In 2020 she took home the Gold for Best Music Track at the LA Motion Picture Festival, the Best Music Award at the Top Indie Awards, and a nomination for Best Music at the UK Fashion Film Festival. In 2021 Hollie won the Best Composer Award at the Paris International Short Film Festival, as well as Best Score at the UVF Festival and various other nominations. Her acclaimed chamber music work for string quintet 'Astilbe' recently had its world premiere performance in Rhode Island and later screened at the annual Hear Her Score concert. She was further honoured with Gibraltar's first ever Extraordinary Achievement Award for her work in the arts and most recently the Michael Danino Award.

She easily qualifies for a Wikipedia article, however I won't be the one to create it. Danstarr69 (talk) 15:39, 30 August 2022 (UTC)

Project-independent quality assessments
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Women in Green's 5th Edit-a-thon
 Hello WikiProject Gibraltar:

WikiProject Women in Green is holding a  month-long Good Article Edit-a-thon event in October 2023!

Running from October 1 to 31, 2023, WikiProject Women in Green (WiG) is hosting a Good Article (GA) edit-a-thon event with the theme Around the World in 31 Days! All experience levels welcome. Never worked on a GA project before? We'll teach you how to get started. Or maybe you're an old hand at GAs – we'd love to have you involved! Participants are invited to work on nominating and/or reviewing GA submissions related to women and women's works (e.g., books, films) during the event period. We hope to collectively cover article subjects from at least 31 countries (or broader international articles) by month's end. GA resources and one-on-one support will be provided by experienced GA editors, and participants will have the opportunity to earn a special WiG barnstar for their efforts.

We hope to see you there! Grnrchst (talk) 14:39, 21 September 2023 (UTC)