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I noticed that in the articles about Serge Gainsbourg and Je t'aime moi non plus (film) you made some changes based on varieties of English. Please see Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#Retaining_the_existing_variety that you should not do this. Also, you changed "'I Love You, I Don't" to "'I Love You, Me Neither". Although that would be the better translation, this is wrong, because the title most used is the first, and that is what counts. In short, I have summarily undone your edits in these two articles, and recommend you to consider more carefully next time what and why you are changing in articles which are already well-established. Debresser (talk) 23:25, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
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New software release
We are getting near to the next release of the MediaWiki software that runs Wikipedia, this will be version 1.19 and is expected in the second half of February. For those of you who are interested in the details of the changes then take a look at this page on MediaWiki.org. There is usually some disruption around the time of the release so if you experience problems then check out at the Village Pump to see if the problem has been reported. If it has not then report it so that the developers can get a view of the problem. One area of concern is the scripts used by users to perform routine tasks. It could be that if this change is included in the deployment then scripts may need to be changed to declare modules the script is dependent upon. So if your favourite script fails to work this could be the problem and will need to be fixed.
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New software release
By the time you read this the new software release mentioned in the last newsletter should be in as it is currently scheduled for 2 March. Problems in switching other wikis have been encountered, most notably Commons, which was reverted twice and, at the time of writing, is still experiencing problems with the new software. See article in Signpost for details.
Discussions
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So young and such long archive history ...
Yeh, pretty casual visit, here.
In your self-intro, I noted the disjunction (+-) in "New Labour voter who continues to do so"; "continues to vote with the party" something like that; you said "voter" but not "vote" so can't "continue" ... voting; "continues to be" I guess maybe'd be the most concise (if it works in the larger context). IMHO. Didn't want to edit there, of course.
I came via your My Lai ... work. ... Wow. You weren't even close to born. (Weren't even old enough to watch Four hours when it came out, prob.) As I remember it, I was in a first or second year (but "300-" level) university politics course when the ("massacre") story broke (FOUR!) years after the event. (Only just really apprec'd that time-gap these last couple of days.) Just for perspective you'd maybe be interested in the bit I dug up just before you did your edit. Stark. I came to it via Barry Zorthian, whose article I started from his obits; never'd heard his name ... but the Follies. Phoo. So INCREDibly wrenching, still, all this, for my gen. at least, me at least. So: I wrote a paper on the "relative coverage by the major [US] newsweeklies" of My Lai (of "the massacre"; that four-years-on characterization; the correct characterization, I guess; though so hard to second guess as decades accum. (it was the "War and I" piece (see Dana Stone) which really got me go...ing, y'day); I have to ask, now, Have you read Dispatches? it will always be my touchstone) for my Pol302PublicOpinion&something+- course. Phoo. For Edward Tufte, maybe the most "famous" (later) ... prof. I ever had. ("Unknown" but d/wryly good ass't prof., then, I'd say.) (And, well, there wasTony Smith, as a "visiting" .... Mm.) (But I digress ..., yes I do. ... And name-drop ..., yes I do.)
Oh, yeh. I was glad (in the 'misery loves company' sense) to see the "disambig" notices on this page when I arrived. I've had a rash of them, have maybe, thanks to their patient bot-ness, gotten a handle on it. Learned how to use the auto-fix, just the last. Nice. Though it'd be even nicer if they flagged them when one "Show preview"s an edit, eh?
Don't know how the duplication of my entry here happened but I've removed the second copy. It looks to have been long and "adventurous" enough the once. Cheers. Swliv (talk) 00:37, 13 May 2012 (UTC)
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The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
Link rot
This month I thought that we should focus on link rot in articles. Articles are created with lots of references to online sources as this is often easier than using printed sources. This is all well and good until a few months down the line when the web site is no longer available or has been re-organised and the page linked to has been moved. Whatever the reason for the change results in the reference link in our article becoming dead or just pointing at the main page of the site in question. The link therefore provides no verification for the information in our article and needs to be repaired. If you find a link like this then it should be tagged with the {{dead link}} template rather than deleted as the information may give someone a clue as to where to find a replacement link. If you know where the page has been moved to then go ahead and change the URL in the reference rather than tagging it. You could Google to see if a new page can be located or use the Wayback machine to see if there is an archived copy of the page available. If an archived version is located then use the |archiveurl= and |archivedate= fields of the {{citation}} template to record the archived version of the page.
The more information that is recorded when the reference is added the easier it is to find replacement URLs so remember to record as much information as possible when adding a reference. A bare URL with no information as to page title, publisher, publication date etc. makes finding replacements almost impossible. You can add archive details when adding a reference so that there is a backup copy already recorded for the reference. A BOT is currently operating to add archive details to live links to prevent future link rot. For more information on the subject of link rot see here.
It would be good, if this month, we try to reduce the number of {{dead link}} templates in the project's articles as a BOT is currently going round adding the template to articles.
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Currently we have thirty one Yorkshire featured articles:
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Elections
May is the month for local elections to take place in many of our town and cities. This will create a lot of work in updating all of the place articles that include council make-up details. In addition each of the elections will require a new article creating to cover details of the election and the results in each of the wards. A number of elections from the last round of elections have not yet been created and it would be good if the missing election articles could be created so that we have a full set of recent elections for Yorkshire.
At the same time as the local council elections a number of cities in the area are holding a referendum on elected mayors. The main article will need to be updated with the results from each of the cities involved and any background that may be relevant to that article. Individual articles covering the referendum in each of the cities involved would also be useful to create while the details and references are to hand in the local press.
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Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 9,769 last month to 9,824 on May 28th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 74 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 70. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 56 out of a total number of 2,993 articles.
Currently we have thirty one Yorkshire featured articles:
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Commons links
This month I thought that I would mention the {{Commons category}} template to generate a link to image categories on Commons holding additional images for topics. The template should be added to articles where Commons holds a number of other images that are not displayed in the article to provide a convenient link to these additional images. If you do not want to display the box then {{Commons category inline}} can be used instead to add an entry to the External links section.
The problem with both these templates is they use the article name as the name for the category on Commons so if an article is renamed the link is broken. To overcome this please ensure that all usages of these templates have as the first parameter the name of the category on Commons that is being used, even if it is the same as the article title. To enable those usages that have not been given a parameter to be tracked the hidden category Category:Commons category template with no category set has been set up. This has initially only been applied to the {{Commons category}} template. It would be good if members fixed these while editing articles to avoid having to edit specifically to fix the problem.
For newer members you can see hidden categories by setting the "Show hidden categories" option in the "Advanced options" section of the "Appearance" tab of the "my preferences" link.
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If you are going to nominate unfinished articles at GAN and then disappear, I would suggest you at least inform the editor(s) who have done most work on the article, which would have only been common courtesy. J3Mrs (talk) 14:41, 19 June 2012 (UTC)
I am somewhat perplexed about the merger of the Brewery and Bitter page. Sometime ago I split the articles as they were about ingerently different concepts. I would like to see them split again and wish to persue this. You have stated that you wish to see a standalone article for the brand which I agree with. I can find no evidence of a discussion regarding the merger. Do you know anything r.e. this? Mtaylor848 (talk) 14:25, 2 July 2012 (UTC)
Discussion was brief - it took place mainly here. There had been an awkward split which resulted in some loss of history and duplication of material so we had two articles on the same brewery, with one called Tetley's Brewery and one called Tetley's Bitter, there was also one called Carlsberg UK brewery, but that had been sorted out. User Farrtj, who has already done some very good work on brewery articles, asked for some assistance in sorting out the situation. What we have done is restore the Tetley's Brewery article, redirecting Tetley's Bitter to that article until enough material has been built up on the brand to split it out per WP:Summary style into a standalone article, using the Tetley's Bitter title. I've had a look at the history which is held in the server, and I don't think it would be worth doing a history merge, as the history contains no new material, mainly a copy of the material that already exists with appropriate attribution in the history of Tetley's Brewery. Farrtj appears to be doing more of his excellent work on the Tetley's Brewery article, though I'm sure would welcome some assistance on researching and building up material on the brand within that article ready for splitting it out as appropriate. I hope this answers your question - if not, let me know and I'll expand. SilkTork✔Tea time14:51, 2 July 2012 (UTC)
I have noticed improvements with the page as with many other similar pages. I would still seek a split if we are to develop this article further, something I am keen to assist with (I have reference book at home regarding the Brewery). Fundamentally they are separate concepts and the brand now has no connection with the premises (other than the obvious historical one). Cheers, Mtaylor848 (talk) 15:24, 2 July 2012 (UTC)
Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 9,824 last month to 9,880 on June 28th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 78 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 70. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 56 out of a total number of 3,009 articles.
Currently we have thirty one Yorkshire featured articles:
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
Did You Know?
At the suggestion of a member I have added Did You Know? entries for the project to the article activity section of the newsletter. Not having had any entries since January this month saw seven Yorkshire related articles appear in this front page section. There is a list of the recent entries from the project's articles on the main project page with a full list here.
When working on an article it is always worth considering if it can be nominated for the Did You Know? section on the main page. May be a little more work but it does get the article recognised and exposed to a wider audience. The main requirements for a nomination are that, within the last five days, it was created, expanded fivefold or, for an unsourced BLP, newly referenced and expanded twofold. If you think an article meets these basic requirements then take a look at the eligibility criteria and make a nomination. The hook is the important part of the process as that is the text that will appear on the front page and this must be mentioned in the article with an appropriate inline citation to back it up. If you can suggest more than one hook for an article then the more chances of it been selected for inclusion on the front page. If you do nominate it is important to keep an eye on the nomination as there may be questions/suggestions from those reviewing the hooks that you will need to respond to if the nomination is to succeed.
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Currently we have thirty one Yorkshire featured articles:
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Sporting feast
Just in case it has escaped members notice but August is a big sporting month with the 2012 Olympic Games taking place at the start of the month and the 2012–13 Football season getting under way from the middle of the month. There are likely to be lots of articles that will need changing as we go through the month with new signings, new records etc. so keep an eye on sport related articles and try and keep them up to date.
I have picked a pair of sport related items for this month's collaboration from the suggestions on the project talk page. So those of you with a sporting slant should have plenty to get going with this month.
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Inappropriate English variety changes
I see from your user page that you "do not understand American English and don't bloody well want to". Nonetheless, you need to accept the fact that all national varieties of English, including those that you deem "awful", are used at Wikipedia.
In some instances, you've corrected articles about British topics and other articles written primarily in British English. That's fine, of course. But in other instances, you've arbitrarily replaced North American English with British English for no apparent reason other than personal preference. You've also mislabeled your revisions "minor" (and I see that both of these issues were brought to your attention).
Please stop dictating to me, what I should be doing simply because you regard it as 'problematic'. If you go and take a look at where I have done it, it is all on subjects where the correct form of English is more appropriate, i.e. British/European/Australasian based articles, or articles with strong links to such. With regards to your course request, I shall continue to do so where I see fit. Mtaylor848 (talk) 10:14, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
Please stop dictating to me, what I should be doing simply because you regard it as 'problematic'.
The community regards it as problematic (hence the guideline to which I linked). And I'm sure that you regard it as problematic (as do I) when someone goes around replacing British English with North American English arbitrarily.
If you go and take a look at where I have done it, it is all on subjects where the correct form of English is more appropriate, i.e. British/European/Australasian based articles, or articles with strong links to such.
This is an example of such a change. (The topic has close ties to the UK, so the article should be written in British English.)
This is the edit that brought me here. On what basis do you assert that an article about an event that occurred in mainland China inherently should be written in British English? And even if that's the case, why would it justify a switch from Oxford spelling to Cambridge spelling?
Regardless, you've previously been informed that such changes aren't uncontroversial and shouldn't be labeled "minor" (let alone without the use of an edit summary). —David Levy20:47, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
I see that you ignored the above message and performed another arbitrary English variety replacement (this time in an article about a German topic), again mislabeled "minor" (which you know is intended for uncontroversial edits) and without a summary.
Please be advised that I'm monitoring your edits and will revert all inappropriate changes from one English variety to another. If you persist, I'll have no choice but to raise the issue in a community forum. Thank you. —David Levy17:15, 1 September 2012 (UTC)
To my mind a spelling correction is minor and uncontroversial, more over International-English is more appropriate than American-English in a German based article. I would also appreciate you desisting telling me what I 'know' and speaking on behalf of the community. First of all, I am disagreeing with your turse and incorerct assertions. Secondly you are speaking on behalf of yourself and not the community, your own opinion, in-particularly over grey-areas is by no means consensus of the 'community'. If you wish to 'monitor' my edits, feel free, they are no state-secret, in fact they are publically available information.. If you wish to waste your time doing this, I have no desire to hinder you. In the meantime your unhelpful and pedantic presence is becoming somewhat irritating. Mtaylor848 (talk) 22:38, 5 September 2012 (UTC)
To my mind a spelling correction is minor and uncontroversial,
Those weren't spelling corrections. "Flavor" and "flavoring" are the correct spellings in American English, the variety in which the article was written.
more over International-English is more appropriate than American-English in a German based article.
International English is a distinct concept. Your preferred variety typically is referred to as British English or Commonwealth English (though neither designation is perfect, as the former can be too specific and the latter can be too general).
Whatever you wish to call it, your belief that it's "more appropriate than American English in a German based article" is inconsistent with the aforementioned Manual of Style, in which it's plainly stated that such a consideration is applicable when "a topic that has strong ties to a particular English-speaking nation". Germany isn't an English-speaking nation, and we assign no preference to the variety of English used in the English-speaking nations that happen to be geographically proximate.
Of course, if a topic has strong ties to multiple countries, some of which are English-speaking, the article should be written in a variety used in one or more of those countries. (The example cited in the Manual of Style is Institutions of the European Union, which should be written in either British English or Irish English.)
These rules weren't established arbitrarily or unilaterally; they reflect consensus stemming from an enormous amount of discussion. You're welcome to propose that the rules be changed, of course.
I would also appreciate you desisting telling me what I 'know'
I don't claim to possess any special authority on these matters. I'm citing our policies and guidelines, as others contacting you have done. If you were replacing British English with American English, my reaction would be the same. —David Levy18:22, 6 September 2012 (UTC)
Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 9,880 last month to 9,942 on July 25th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 83 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 72. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 56 out of a total number of 3,065 articles.
Currently we have thirty one Yorkshire featured articles:
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
Schools back
This month is the time for the start of a new school year. All of those pupils going to a new school will be looking for information on their new school and so the school articles under the project's banner will get higher than usual hits. It would be good if members could keep an eye out for vandalism and the addition of vanity entries on the local school articles.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The September 2012 articles selected below are suggestions from the project talk page.
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Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 9,942 last month to 10,141 on September 27th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 87 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 72. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 57 out of a total number of 3,102 articles.
Currently we have thirty one Yorkshire featured articles:
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The October 2012 articles selected below are suggestions from the project talk page.
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Keighley-Kendal Turnpike 1753-1877
I am currently collecting material to do a page on the Keighley-Kendal Turnpike 1753-1877
Have you seen any references on it you can send me?
Kildwyke (talk) 17:32, 4 October 2012 (UTC) Kildwyke
Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 10,141 last month to 10,234 on October 28th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 88 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 72. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 57 out of a total number of 3,140 articles.
Currently we have thirty one Yorkshire featured articles:
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The November 2012 articles selected below are suggestions from the project talk page.
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Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. Wikipedia appreciates your help. We noticed though that when you edited Todwick, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Sheffield Airport (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver). Such links are almost always unintended, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of "Did you mean..." article titles. Read the FAQ • Join us at the DPL WikiProject.
I am not sure which parts of the Boston Spa School page was not acceptable to you. Can you clarify?
If I have understood the process you have set up this site as part of a wider project to reference all schools. On the site when I first was asked to look at it wrere items that were inaccurate (cannot remember the details) so updated to be accurate.
Have tried to be truthful and accurate.
I can only think that adding our Mission statement to to be wrong. did not seem wrong but I notice that has been removed.
Is this what you edited?
Colin Boston Spa School (talk) 14:45, 8 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi, there are a few issues with the text.
1. Much of it such of the 'Mission Statement' is something I would regard to be of internal interest only, to be subjective and to lack academic notability. Certainly it falls short of what is required for an encyclopaedia.
2. Much of it seemed to heap praise on the institution, in a way that I would regard as promotional rather than objective. While I have no objection to third-party praise, it should be in balance with criticism and both should be supported by reliable and independent citations.
3. Much of the text read badly, the format was not suitable for Wikipedia (again, something I would expect from a prospectus than an encyclopaedia.
4. The text seems to have been written by the institution itself, which is fundamentally a conflict of interest.
These problems are certainly not uncommon on pages about schools. I would hate to discourage you from contributing and am happy to assist in building the article. There are many ways the school could help us to build a comprehensive article, such as by providing us with photographs to use via commons or, by bringing inside knowledge and facts to the table to be used when building the article or by translating the current article into other languages.
Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. Wikipedia appreciates your help. We noticed though that when you edited Cross Gates to Wetherby Line, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Collingham (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver). Such links are almost always unintended, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of "Did you mean..." article titles. Read the FAQ • Join us at the DPL WikiProject.
Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 10,234 last month to 10,275 on November 27th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 91 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 72. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 57 out of a total number of 3,163 articles.
Currently we have thirty one Yorkshire featured articles:
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
Signpost
The editors over at the weekly Signpost, that goes out to a large number of people on Wikipedia, have indicated that they would like to feature the Yorkshire project in one of the future editions. There was an invitation on the project's talk page for members to get involved in this by responding to a series of questions. It is disappointing that no members have stepped forward to respond to this but they have gone on my responses and the project should be featured in the 3rd December issue of the magazine.
Happy Christmas
It is Christmas time again so I would like to take this opportunity to wish all members of the project a happy Christmas.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The December 2012 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no further suggestions from the project talk page.
The project is subscribed to a clean-up listing which lists articles tagged with various clean-up tags that need attention. The listing is refreshed by a bot on a regular basis.
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Moves Please be careful when performing articles moves and ensure that you also move all the talk sub-pages and update any image fair use rational. Otherwise the archives, to-do lists, assessment comments and GA reviews get lost and the image may be deleted as it has an incorrect FUR.
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