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![]() | On 12 January 2014, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article C-Band All Sky Survey, which you recently nominated. The fact was ... that C-Band All Sky Survey (C-BASS South pictured) aims to map the entire sky with two telescopes? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/C-Band All Sky Survey. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
— Crisco 1492 ( talk) 02:07, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
![]() | On 7 January 2014, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Open Government Licence, which you recently nominated. The fact was ... that the United Kingdom government's Open Government Licence is compatible with the CC-by licence? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Open Government Licence. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
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Thank you for your work in getting the NHS Trust Infobox together - this is a great step forward for those of us who want to see better coverage of the NHS Jpmaytum ( talk) 01:22, 14 January 2014 (UTC) |
Sorry it took so long to get back to you on this. I just looked over Notion Capital and it looks good to me. You used very reliable sources and I don't see any issues with the wording or anything like that.
The only thing I will mention is that I am relatively unfamiliar with venture capital investment firms, though I do understand that the main point of them is to create venture funds, but it is still rather jarring that the history section just starts out talking about creating a fund without once mentioning the company as...well, a company or a firm as it is. Is this just the way things are done in these types of articles or can some more info be added to explain a bit about that or maybe some info about the firm's history more directly? Silver seren C 04:43, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
![]() | On 14 January 2014, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Brian Davies (activist), which you recently nominated. The fact was ... that Brian Davies founded the International Fund for Animal Welfare in 1969 and Network for Animals in 2010? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Brian Davies (activist). You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
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![]() | On 14 January 2014, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Aaron McDuffie Moore, which you recently nominated. The fact was ... that Aaron McDuffie Moore was the first black physician in Durham, North Carolina, and founded a hospital for African Americans there in 1901? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Aaron McDuffie Moore. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
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![]() | On 15 January 2014, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Birmingham Crematorium, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the creation of Birmingham Crematorium (pictured) was supported by three bishops and a principal? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Birmingham Crematorium. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
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The DYK project ( nominate) 16:04, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
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Andy, this is surely an award you have earned many times over, not least for your voice recording project and your success persuading the BBC to open up some of its recordings. A truly first-rate Wikipedian! MartinPoulter ( talk) 22:10, 18 January 2014 (UTC) |
Hey Andy, you helped me out short while ago with an infobox on my first Wikipedia article. I am now finished writing the article and would love you to review it (if you've got time) before I submit. You can find the article in my sandbox ( /info/en/?search=User:AlexHollender/sandbox). Any suggestions, edits, or general feedback would be greatly appreciated. Thanks so much! AlexHollender ( talk) 23:14, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
![]() | On 21 January 2014, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article S. N. Cooke, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that S. N. Cooke gave Birmingham a war memorial (pictured) with a Twist? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/S. N. Cooke. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
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![]() | On 22 January 2014, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Progressive Primitive Baptists, which you recently nominated. The fact was ... that 95 churches in the USA and one in Haiti are both Primitive and Progressive? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Progressive Primitive Baptists. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
The DYK project ( nominate) 16:04, 22 January 2014 (UTC)
Hi Pigsonthewing (good user name!). I just wanted to bring up that the point of the genre change is not just vandalism becoming a problem, but that with current standards, it's still doing a disservice to readers. Per MOS:INFOBOX, which states that these are "to summarize key facts in the article in which it appears. The less information it contains, the more effectively it serves that purpose, allowing readers to identify key facts at a glance". It is basically there for a quick summary of what to expect what you are getting into. So along with WP:TECHNICAL,("Strive to make each part of every article as understandable as possible to the widest audience of readers who are likely to be interested in that material.") we should have it set to be as simple as possible. My list of genres was obviously not set in stone and I was not the final suggestions. But currently, the genre infobox does not follow standards. So either way, it's going to need to change as the average user doesn't know what several genres are, but if we can give them a basic one, it will be much simpler. I don't understand the anti-anglo styled genres as this is English wikipedia and should be formatted to make it easier to understand for English speaking users. Could you chime in on that on either the article or the talk page? Andrzejbanas ( talk) 20:40, 22 January 2014 (UTC)
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Hey, just letting you know the ONLY reason I redid it was how your first edit effected the infobox, I meant to put 'try again' but you fixed it on your next revision anyway. :) LADY LOTUS • TALK 16:04, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
Miss.Indecisive ( talk) 13:24, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
Hello! About the clip on Cumberbatch's page, I don't think it should be on his infobox at all and rather, should be placed in his radio works section. The clip is after all necessary to complement his voice work. I also suggest to upload a narration or a reading rather than an interview where he talks about random stuff like horses. It's more appropriate and he has done lots on BBC Radio so I don't think it's that difficult to find. He also did a reading for a Moby Dick project and I'm providing the link as it may be easier to obtain this one's rights. http://www.mobydickbigread.com/chapter-58-brit/ Mojomuning ( talk) 18:38, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
A motion regarding you has been proposed: Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Clarification and Amendment#Motion 1 (Andy Mabbett).
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![]() | On 26 January 2014, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Erik de Mauny, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Erik de Mauny, the BBC's first Moscow correspondent, confirmed the presence there of Kim Philby? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Erik de Mauny. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Cas Liber ( talk · contribs) 01:13, 26 January 2014 (UTC)
I have opened a formal RfC at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Images#Request for comment on the deprecation of left-aligned images under sub-headings,an issue on which you commented in previous discussion there. DrKiernan ( talk) 09:55, 26 January 2014 (UTC)
Hi Andy. I tidied the dab but the incoming links need some attention. Regards Widefox; talk 21:52, 27 January 2014 (UTC)
Hi Andy, hoping you can help.
Something seems to have changed since QRpedia was transferred to Wikimedia UK... Codes for the following articles were generated and printed prior to the project's transfer:
They worked just fine but that's no longer the case... Common factor? The apostrophe!
The problem seems to be that although the URL for the article is /info/en/?search=St._Jago's_Arch, when it is copy-pasted into QRpedia it displays as /info/en/?search=St._Jago%27s_Arch and gives you a code for the latter URL. It used to work fine but if you were to scan that code now it returns en.qrwp.org/St._Jago%2527s_Arch, i.e. adding an extra '25' to the URL and this returns an HTTP 400 Bad request.
These codes have been integrated into wider information panels which will be costly to replace, so in an attempt to find a short-term fix I tried to create an in-wiki redirect ([[St. Jago%2527s Arch]]), but as you can see it doesn't let me create an article with this title.
Help please! -- Gibmetal 77 talk 2 me 23:19, 26 January 2014 (UTC)
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Hi! Someone seems to have screwed up {{ Infobox pig breed}}. I think it's just that the documentation has not been updated in line with recent changes. In any case, the result is that it only displays what it wants to. I don't want to make things worse by messing with it - could you take a look? Justlettersandnumbers ( talk) 12:14, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
| image_caption = Cumberland boar, late 19th century
is ignored because the relevant line of the template is |caption = {{{caption|}}}
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Mora Romagnola I added some (apparently uncalled-for, and surely unnecessary) underscores with
this edit, and got the altnames to show up; adding an s
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Can you confirm this photo [1] is Prunus nipponica (Japanese Alpine Cherry)? It turned up on a photo search for that tree and I just started an article on it. Thank you. HalfGig talk 22:50, 28 January 2014 (UTC)
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Hi Andy. We've got a centralised discussion going on here about which references to the BSBI's old name should be updated to reflect their new nme, and which should be left as is. I'd welcome your input. SP-KP ( talk) 13:07, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi, just letting you know that your nomination of The Crescent (Birmingham) is waiting for your input. DoctorKubla ( talk) 16:34, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
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Hi Andy, just a message to let you know that I've closed and archived the Infoboxes amendment request because both motions had failed to pass. For the Arbitration Committee, Callanecc ( talk • contribs • logs) 01:13, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
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Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 09:59, 3 February 2014 (UTC)
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...so I added the story to Wikipedia:Press coverage 2014#February. Nice work! - Eureka Lott 00:04, 4 February 2014 (UTC)
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I would be glad of your input, as a multiple Wikimedian-in-residence, at WT:GLAM#Usernames for GLAM participants. The question arose because of the creation of user Swiss National Library ( talk), which I have blocked because they declined an invitation to change username and declared that "The account is already used by more than one person and always will be." When told that role accounts were not allowed here, user Micha Rieser (one of the operators of the account) said that in that case they would not contribute. Has this ever been a problem in any of your residences? I hoped that other GLAMmers would chip in and contribute, and maybe try to persuade them that the "User:Micha at SNL" solution would work, but nobody else has commented yet. See also WP:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive259#Block review request. Regards, JohnCD ( talk) 21:55, 4 February 2014 (UTC)
I think it would facilitate the exchange of data between English Wikipedia and Wikidata, if Template:Geobox/type/settlement is converted by a bot to Template:Infobox settlement.
But I found no tool that displays how many articles use Geobox/type/settlement. Do you know such a tool?
CatScan gives:
Maybe it is just 8000 for settlements, i.e. 2% of Infobox settlement.
Do you know a bot that can convert? Androoox ( talk) 23:36, 28 January 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for the tracking category. Only 229 use Category:Geobox usage tracking for region type. Compare that with the thousands counties, provinces, departments, municipalites, districts ... around. One ugly example: Talamanca (canton) uses Geobox, but if one clicks upwards to the province, or downwards to a district, one finds that they use Infobox settlement. Androoox ( talk) 04:18, 5 February 2014 (UTC)
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Materialscientist ( talk) 03:18, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
I'm sorry, Pigsonthewing. I didn't notice you had already added a Wikipedians in European Parliament photo to the article about Hortefeux. Mathonius ( talk) 06:42, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
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![]() | On 6 February 2014, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article The Crescent (Birmingham), which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that The Crescent in Birmingham stood unfinished for over 150 years before it was demolished? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/The Crescent (Birmingham). You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |