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Town Range

Tell Tommy thanks for the photo. With a little work I think we can have it up to GA like Flat Bastion.Tibetan Prayer ^᧾ 11:30, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

Will do. Please note that I've listed you as a co-author in the corresponding DYK nomination, so don't be too surprised when it pops up on your talk page. The article would be a bit short for a GA but I'm game - I don't think there's a set length, is there? By the way the new ID looks good on you... Prioryman (talk) 15:20, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

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DYK for Sikorski Memorial, Gibraltar

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... to a process near you. You may wish to comment on this before it goes live - I am just waiting on Newyorkbrad to confirm his is still up for closing it after a month or so.--Gilderien Chat|List of good deeds 11:46, 27 July 2013 (UTC)

DYK-Good Article Request for Comment

Hi, would you mind striking your comment in the general discussion - although you may not have seen it, I replied in some depth to your question explaining my rationale on my talk, and I think outlined it further on BlueMoonset's, I'll go and look.--Gilderien Chat|List of good deeds 09:12, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

This was where I answered BM's similar concerns.--Gilderien Chat|List of good deeds 10:22, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

Why more notifications?

The general RfC has already been advertised; you don't need to send out what is essentially the same message, to the same people, just to advertise your own section, IMHO. In any case, you're not on Edwardsbot's access list at this time. Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 08:09, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

A large number of people have already commented. They won't necessarily be watching the RfC, so a fresh notification seems the fairest way of ensuring that it comes to their attention. Prioryman (talk) 08:09, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

I do apologize for posting this before seeing your reply on the RfC itself. Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 08:11, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

If you wish to follow it, you may be interested in seeing this tool.--Gilderien Talk|List of good deeds 09:17, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

When to propose repeal of Gibraltar-related restrictions?

Is August or September the best month to propose? --George Ho (talk) 06:12, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

You said next month. However, we are discussing restrictions on Gibraltar articles right now. You may discuss to improve consensus. --George Ho (talk) 23:26, 18 August 2013 (UTC)

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• While we're at it, how do you feel about this cover? I think the Penguin could be de minimis, and the resolution is much higher than the version you have up. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 03:19, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

DYK Nomination of Footpaths of Gibraltar

Nice work on the article, and effectively saving the Devil's Gap Footpath content from deletion. I note that the nomination for DYK includes "Created by Prioryman (talk), Gibmetal77 (talk)" but the article history show's only contributions from you (and a minor fix from me) - should the contribution of Gibmetal77 (who I think created the original Devil's Gap Footpath article) be acknowledged somewhow in the 'new' article or its history? TheOverflow (talk) 02:52, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

I know, it's an issue that bothered me too. I can't really see any way around it other than possibly undeleting the old article and recreating the redirect, which would at least restore the history of Gibmetal77's contributions. On a related issue, I'm afraid Fram has chosen to disrupt this nomination too on completely specious and blatantly WP:POINTy grounds - see Template:Did you know nominations/Footpaths of Gibraltar and Wikipedia talk:Did you know#Abuse of DYK review process by Fram. Prioryman (talk) 09:26, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

Nomination of Footpaths of Gibraltar for deletion

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A barnstar for you!

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Thanks! I appreciate that. Prioryman (talk) 13:17, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

Copying within Wikipedia

Hi Prioryman, I know better than to template you, but next time (to avoid copyright violations, as unattributed copying is a violation of our license) please include (at the very least) a link as indicated at the above page. Otherwise you may end up with a block, which is not something I want to see happen. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 13:53, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

To be honest I'm surprised that we're even having this conversation, but for the record I'll point out the obvious: copyright violations require copyrighted material to be used without the permission of the original author, as WP:COPY makes clear. This has never been an issue in this instance as Gibmetal77 was fully aware that I was reusing his three paragraphs and was fine with it. What we are talking about here is a technical issue of how Gibmetal77's contributions can be recognised in the article history. You saw above that I had a suggestion of how to do it, but you came up with a better option, for which I'm grateful. But let's be clear: this was never an issue of copyrighted material being infringed, but of its usage not being properly documented until you performed a history merge. Prioryman (talk) 18:14, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

• The main issue is that of the license the content was released under (as CC is non-revocable): when he published it, it was CC-BY-SA, meaning that attribution remained necessary. Anyways, just (for the next time) giving a quick link in your edit summary when you are copying from one article to another would be nice. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 01:22, 1 August 2013 (UTC)

Permission

Hi, just to clarify (further to our off-wiki discussion) that you of course had my permission to reuse the text from my deleted Devil's Gap Footpath article in your new Footpaths of Gibraltar article. Nice work btw :) --Gibmetal 77^{talk 2 me} 20:39, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

RfC

Hi, firstly if you wish to raise concerns about whether the RfC is valid you should probably do so on the talk page.

Secondly, when I was checking to see if you were still online I saw this. May I ask what you are planning to do with it? I have my list available which you can use - User:Gilderien/GA-DYKRfC/Recipients but I noticed that you have included a lot of users which have not previously commented so to notify them would probably be seen by some as canvassing. If you want to notify those on my list, as I see you tried to, I have EdwardsBot access so if you run up a message I would be happy to deliver it for you.--Gilderien Chat|Contributions 22:38, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

Actually I'm planning to deliver a slightly different notification. DYK project members have not been notified, which I find a bit baffling, so I plan to send them a notification when the bot's latest run has finished. Prioryman (talk) 23:11, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

Ok, that seems fine as it would affect the project. Would you mind adding the GA project members to the list as well? EdwardsBot will automatically eliminate duplicates in the list so noone gets double-notified.--Gilderien Chat|List of good deeds 23:20, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

I could but I'm about to go to bed, and I won't get an opportunity to do so for another 18 hours or so. If you'd like to add the GA project members and run the bot that would be very helpful. I was going to use the following message:

• As a listed DYK participant, you are invited to contribute to a formal Request for Comment on the question of whether Good Articles should appear in the Did You Know? slot in future. Please see the proposal on its subpage here, or on the main DYK talk page. To add the discussion to your watchlist, click this link. Thank you in advance.

Obviously it would need to be amended to refer to GA project members but I'll leave that to your discretion. Prioryman (talk) 23:23, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

Ok, would you like your signature on it or mine? I shall do that and use the same key (584) so people who commented last time who I notified won't get it again.--Gilderien Chat|List of good deeds 23:28, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

The RfC is your baby, so it's best coming from you, I think. :-) Prioryman (talk) 23:29, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

Ok :) For future reference, the usernames have to be linked for EdwardsBot to work, so I shall run it off the main DYK page for now.  Doing... --Gilderien Chat|Contributions 23:37, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

DYK for Hahn/Cock

Orlady (talk) 08:03, 2 August 2013 (UTC)

DYK for Town Range

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Two in a day

Two in a day! - do I see a theme here? You tell them about an enormous cock before you tell them about the real filth?

I'm thinking you may get a record hit today for the 5 metre artwork - which was a very interesting and readable article - thanks Victuallers (talk) 21:49, 2 August 2013 (UTC)

10,240 hits - seems people like enormous cocks after all. Who'd have thought? Prioryman (talk) 08:30, 4 August 2013 (UTC)

Of potential interest: Research on DYK page views, with a more detailed analysis of Gibraltar hooks

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DYK for The Negro Motorist Green Book

Orlady (talk) 14:17, 10 August 2013 (UTC)

This is a very impressive article, on a very depressing topic. If you're considering taking it to FAC at some point, I'd encourage you to do so. Regards, Nick-D (talk) 22:59, 10 August 2013 (UTC)

Thanks Nick. I probably will take it at least to GAC at some point. Prioryman (talk) 23:26, 10 August 2013 (UTC)

• Fingers crossed for an FAC. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:42, 18 August 2013 (UTC)

• It should get a fair amount of interest - the DYK had over 66,000 views, so it's already the 3rd highest-ranking non-lead DYK. Prioryman (talk) 23:56, 18 August 2013 (UTC)

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DYK for Hair theft

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DYK for Footpaths of Gibraltar

 — Crisco 1492 (talk) 13:17, 25 September 2013 (UTC)

DYK for Water supply and sanitation in Gibraltar

Gatoclass (talk) 08:02, 30 September 2013 (UTC)

This is an excellent article Nick-D (talk) 11:16, 30 September 2013 (UTC)

Manxruler (talk) 12:56, 30 September 2013 (UTC)

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it. It was certainly an interesting article to write - it makes you realise just how important clean water is to human life. Prioryman (talk) 18:03, 30 September 2013 (UTC)

Definitely one of my fave Gib articles. Very well done! --Gibmetal 77^{talk 2 me} 11:09, 1 October 2013 (UTC)

Gibraltar

Prioryman, would you consider a self-imposed moratorium on submitting further Gibraltar articles to DYK? Gibraltar has been featured enough times on the home page of Wikipedia. Could you give other editors, and other topics a chance to have their work featured? Jehochman ^Talk 11:55, 30 September 2013 (UTC)

You're way too early for April 1st. Could you please wait a few months before posting a request like that? Prioryman (talk) 17:57, 30 September 2013 (UTC)

We're at the antipodes of April 1. Jehochman ^Talk 18:46, 30 September 2013 (UTC)

By all means keep writing whatever articles you like. However, could you consider helping to ensure a diversity of content on the home page? We have a problem with too many Gibraltar DYKs and too many fungus featured articles. I think the only solution is to raise awareness of these problems and ask editors to help balance the home page content. Do you write about things besides Gibraltar? Could you consider nominating more of those other things, and less (or no) Gibraltar? Jehochman ^Talk 13:16, 1 October 2013 (UTC)

Just under 13,000 hits and another high quality article! Of the 1,000 new Gibraltar related articles written in the last year I think yours and Anne's have received the most attention. I'm impressed to see that we have several hundred new photographs in the last few weeks. Well done Prioryman. Victuallers (talk) 14:27, 1 October 2013 (UTC)

It's too bad the other areas of the encyclopedia don't get so much coverage. Do we really want to let Wikipedia non-profit mission be overtaken over by outside interests, such as promoting Gibraltar's tourism, or the British position that Gibraltar should remain independent from Spain? Jehochman ^Talk 14:33, 1 October 2013 (UTC)

No, but since those things aren't happening, the question doesn't arise. By the way, the article was the third most popular DYK for the whole month of September, so you can hardly argue there's no public interest in the topic area. Prioryman (talk) 17:59, 1 October 2013 (UTC)

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A barnstar for you!

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It's in plenty of sources - see e.g. [1] and there is a map at [2] which shows where he sold his fake bomb detectors. Prioryman (talk) 18:07, 1 October 2013 (UTC)

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First class facilities of the RMS Titanic

Hi, really appreciate the work you did last year on the Titanic. Just been reading the main article and this, fascinating stuff!. I was wondering if you'd be interested in translating this from French wikipedia which has an FA on it? Obviously it would be gradual but looks fascinating. I've also asked Yngvadottir if she's interested. If not, no worries! But the main Titanic article should probably be brought up to GA at some point and would need somebody with much knowledge about it to overlook it I think.. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:17, 15 October 2013 (UTC)

Well?♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:28, 22 October 2013 (UTC)

Caracalla

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DYK for Reich Bride Schools

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DYK for Walter Burton Harris

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Your GA nomination of The Negro Motorist Green Book

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Volubilis

Congratulations! Really pleased to see it on the front page. (Knew it'd make it there eventually). Well done. Chiswick Chap (talk) 08:51, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

Wonderful to see this!! A pity about the "Gibraltar 120 miles this way" signpost I can see on the stone work though ;-]♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:03, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

We were hoping that Morocco could take the overflow of tourists caused by your last local TFA ... and now this! The whole region's airspace will be backed up as far as Iceland. Is there nowhere that is free from editors intent on Wikimedia's mission? ..... Well done! Victuallers (talk) 17:08, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

Thanks guys! Nice to see it got a decent number of views too. There is actually a Gibraltar connection, I went there (not directly) a few days after visiting Volubilis, so there you go... Prioryman (talk) 20:09, 20 November 2013 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of The Negro Motorist Green Book

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• I got a few things to do but I can't wait to sit down and read the article. Drmies (talk) 03:32, 20 November 2013 (UTC)

• Hope you enjoy it! I'm looking to put it through FA next - I'd quite like to see it on the Main Page next Martin Luther King Day (Jan 21). Prioryman (talk) 20:08, 20 November 2013 (UTC)

• I did. Hope you didn't mind my two tweaks. I wrote something a few years ago in the same field, First Baptist Church (Montgomery, Alabama). Look carefully and you'll see my daughter sitting on the steps. How time flies. Drmies (talk) 05:23, 21 November 2013 (UTC)

• Thanks for doing that, the tweaks are fine. Prioryman (talk) 17:18, 21 November 2013 (UTC)

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Happy New Year

This greeting goes out to all those I have worked with this year - it has been a pleasure. Whilst obviously a nice, conventional mountain article for me, I think our DYK was certainly the most *ahem* interesting hook I've had on the main page. To another good year! Gilderien Chat|List of good deeds 21:44, 31 December 2013 (UTC)