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Requin/Requin Hut above the Mer de Glace! It'll have to wait for a bit longer even though I know its notability can be demonstrated.) I don't think it's helpful to suggest, or possibly even threaten, that AfD's will be placed on future articles of this type if they don't get changed, but perhaps neither is it helpful to remove what some see as a useful and visible flag to show where further work is needed. I certainly don't see them as delayed detonators with an AfD at the end of them if an article doesn't get improved after a certain period of time, and I hope AussieLegend doesn't either. It would be very disruptive and indeed unhelpful if that were the approach taken. I'm not going to suggest that it's inappropriate to challenge articles about an area on the other side of the globe, though I do not want to see disagreements in approach becoming disruptive, for whatever reason to the work of the four editors currently signed up to support the Alps TaskForce. So, I shalln't be working on improving these articles myself, as was suggested, but am leaving that to others to follow up in the fullness of time. If I've irritated you both by the above remarks, it's possibly a good thing, and hopefully we can get some balance back into what we're all trying to achieve without too much more disruption, please.

4931:. I was very disappointed the delete notice was slapped on within about 10 minutes of you creating the page, which I have personally found highly demotivating, and quite rude for articles that have only just started and clearly weren't spurious or vandalistic in nature. I might suggest in future you create a draft article in your Sandbox first, where you can create structure and add references and look to see if it fits with general style and notability before adding to Mainspace. Have you found the links to show that he is from Hawaii, also has a job in at Mercedes Benz in Honolulu, and was nude in The Full Monty? If not I'll post them on the deletion discussion page. Don't be too put off by the discussion - keep going, digging for references, and create some structure to your article. In my view, however, there are too many articles on minor modern celebrities and fictional characters (such is the ability of modern media to allow third party sources to proliferate which over emphasise a person's notabilty) whereas historically important figures often don't have anything like the quantity of third party sources written about them. So be prepared for a delete decision in this case. 5019:

provide to improve related content. I would particularly recommend that you ask for agreement to rephotograph the painting, putting a better colour-balanced, but not too high a res version on commons, to replace the current dim file would be good. We are often a bit touchy on image reprodiuction, so giving an assurance about good quality colour but low res image unsuitable for professional, commercial use would be good. It would be good to take close-ups of each element of the painting (e.g. Peter Perez Burdett, the philosopher etc being taken) - I do have a series of colour slides I took some years ago and could dig those out for a CC upload, but better to ask again and retake digitally. Also there's the signficant astronomical link of Knowledge on the Moon and the significance of the orrery itself to consider. Jonaythan W. tells me that the mechanical orrery will be coming back on display in the future once they can find a restorer to service the clockwork mechanism.(I have some close-up video I took of the earth/moon/sun/mercury venus movements I must upload to Commons sometime.)

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is within a url, an image name, a foreign word, is proper name or has been helpfully flagged as 'sic' or uses the template 'notatypo'. After that I quickly assess whether the spellchecker is still likely to be right in flagging it up within the context of the sentence or paragraph (I don't read the whole article whilst doing bulk spellchecks). Whilst I would never knowingly spell 'targeted' in the publications I write as 'targetted', others might. And you're right, it is not really that important, although many of the other howlers I see here most certainly are. Feel free to change it back to the 'wrong' version (LOL), but be aware that I and other users may well repeat the edit correction when they use the tool in future, simply because we can't remember the names of the thousands of articles we have edited, unless they stand out. Though yours will now, of course!.

6209:, which was the tool I was using to make other edits at the time. Personally, I'm happy to read either usage in this instance, but there are some grammatical rule and guidelines on hyphens which may help us understand why one form is correct, and the other is not. In general there seems to be a trend to use a hyphen only where it adds clarity, but not to do so where it isn't really required or where there is no potential ambiguity. I'm sure you'd agree that there's little ambiguity with "locally owned mills", unlike the phrase "rock-hard cake", which is very different from "rock hard cake" (which sounds like it's hard cake made out of rock). Perhaps this bit from Knowledge's Manual of Style might also shed some light on the preferred use of the hyphen here: 7409: 9612: 7158: 1708:

probably think I ought to ensure the Project is given the acknowledgement, not me, certainly in future as I plan to upload a suite of intimate peregrine life cycle videos - so I will tweak the credits. But it is OK as it stands and doesn't need to be removed for breach of any conditions. (I was more excited to have finally converted to one of my many .mkv videos into webm format than to think about the best way of credit them!). I thank you for raising this - (I would like to delete this discussion from my userpage in due course, just to slightly distance my involvement as a Wikipedian from my work in this field, although it is mentioned on my

3201:, so your concern is not supported by history. Instead I added maintenance tags requesting more references which, if anything, is a clear indication that I would prefer the articles to stay. As for my "unwillingness to cooperate in friendly discussion", exactly what discussion haven't I participated in? I answered your question (there was just one) on my talk page and I opened a discussion on your talk page regarding notability. I really don't understand why you would need a bot to substitute the 5 articles that you've created using Infobox Schutzhütte. A bot automatically substituted the four articles that you didn't bother substing yourself. 2786:

relatined to adding images but if you are like me and a little uncertain as to how to add an image in the correct spot, please simply uplaod anything useful to Knowledge Commons, make sure the species name is in the description and then notify me on my talk page and I'll see what I can do. I really need to sharpen up those skills since I have hundreds of photos of that could be of use. it was simply not a priority when I was first reading and familiarizing myself with all the policy stuff. Thanks so much for volunteering. I feel that photos of plants in every stage and especially in bloom can help readers immensely. with warmest rgards,

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demonstrate notabilty. Then you had to ask me how to address the notability problem when the template explained how to do just that. Claiming not to add citations to a page because you thought the page might be nominated for deletion makes absolutely no sense, for more than one reason. A page with no citations is far more likely to be deleted than one that includes citations. A page that includes citations that establish notability is more than likely to survive AfD. Prior to this AfD, in the 3 1/2 years since I created Infobox hut, how many of these articles have I nominated for deletion? The answer is precisely

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in some areas, too, albeit as a relative newcomer here. But hopefully one or two of the challenged articles can be worked on in the near future to demonstrate that it is entirely possible to use high quality mountaineering guidebooks as sufficient secondary sources, and they really shouldn't be challenged as being basic tourist brochures and therefore insufficient. Responding to AfD's is very time-consuming and it does divert efforts away from other important contributions. It has taken me well over a full day of my time to deal with this one, and I don't want to spend any more time on discussing it.

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permitted. Oh well, onwards and upwards on the WP learning curve! I can assure you I'll increase my selectiveness on which recommended edits I make from hereon in, and which I skip, and have now also realised I could have manually turn off automatic WP:MOS fixes, which I've now done to see what difference it makes. BTW: I don't suppose you happen to be able to point me to a list of 'controversial edits' to avoid? Or is it more a case of just being generally staying on top of all the editorial discussions and controversial editing issues around MOS? All I can find is

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the same name, and each standing on the shoulders of those authors who went before would have merit. That said, I didn't know of Mary Kirby, though I probably should have done, having had a small hand in the production of the 1988 Flora of Leicestershire, where I researched the life of A R Horwood who wrote the previous 1930s Flora. I didn't go any further back than that unfortunately. She sounds very impressive - interesting fact about the only female 19th century flora -writer. I couldn't believe it at first, but thinking about it, it could well be right.

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changes which are deemed controversial. I'm just testing how pre-parsing lists to editing - both with and without MOS fixes enabled - affects the results. Out of a list of 1000 articles searched on for text containing "1980's", AWB selected a new list of 172 articles it says need editing; without applying MOS fixes in that preliminary search, it identified 175 - so not a great difference. I might drop both drop both lists into Excel and identify the extra articles and see what's in them. I'm just about to test the two different AWB settings view the

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which this spelling is used. Other Abbreviations and latinizations of titles and names are also used in the same quotation, so it would be inconsistent to modernize this word only. The point of giving the quotation at all is to give the reader the opportunity to verify the original entry. I quite realize that the modern English spelling is 'licence', but the usage in this case is deliberate. For this reason I am about to revert your edit for a second time. I hope you will understand why. Thanks, and good wishes,

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mentioned above, personal blogs, social media, personal interviews with the subject, press releases and individual websites are not suitable to demonstrate notability. Knowledge simply summarises what other independent people have already written about that subject. So books, magazines, and websites with proper editorial oversight are normally needed. Geographical features and species are less of an issue and are usually automatically notable. Just let me know and I'll see if I can guide you. Cheers,

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space. Photo opps? Anotherr idea I could suggest is linking artworks in Derby Museum that show Derbyshire landscapes ( Jo Wright, Goodey et al) - especially the Derwent Valley Mills - and comparing them to photos today. I have contacts in the county council's landscape team and the DVMills (Adrian Farmer) who might be interested in supporting that idea, if necessary. Hope these quick thoughts might help.

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and wherefores' of an obvious disagreement in your approach to editing, or of infoboxes - it took me long enough to consider the issues and present my views on this one simple hut, without spending a whole lot more on enhancing the actual article (which might have been quicker, as it turns out). I think I've shown that this is entirely possible, and I've left enough links in my comments for

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doesn't. And so I see what I see. (It was the duplicate 'of the of the' that I was trying to help clean up - which I hope you appreciated - rather than add the other issue tags, which the tool not unreasonably determined needed adding at that time.) And I'm glad you didn't take offence, and you are right about not wanting to put off new editors. I've added this to my personal

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have expressed the opinion that the "do general fixes" part of AWB doesn't necessarily always adhere to community consensus; one even suggested getting rid of the general fixes facility entirely. Since I don't run AWB, I have no experience from that side, but I do see the results in my watchlist, and I think that editor may have a point. Best,

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articles and then rejected reasonable sources. As a result, I decided not to waste time adding references or further articles, because I reckoned there was every chance that AussieLegend would make a move to delete them, based on his unwillingness to cooperate in friendly discussion to help improve them. I have been proven right.

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people like Linton, Painter, Clapham etc to be linked together. We've done some interesting comparisons between the species recorded in each publication, so I'm guessing that, as author, I don't for once have to worry about cutting and pasting as its my own words - just so long as it is fully referenced. Trust you're well.

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author of a county flora). The second time I looked was after you messaged me - so I did see the photos, too. (I'd have used 'fruit' not fruits' in the caption, but that's really minor). I was disappointed it was about a western Australian species as my only knowledge of ozbot is through my local English hero

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OK, so I can now confirm I am indeed free. I'm pretty confident I have enough leave/flexi to attend (I only work part-time on Wednesdays, anyway). I've dug out my slave flashgun and a couple of tripods and will do some tests to confirm my set-up is OK for you. Let me know if you want to proceed, as I

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There are a number of English grammar websites out there which also give detailed rules and explanations for best usage of the hyphen, although I have found one or two less authoritative ones which contradict others. So it can be confusing. Have I made any sense? Had you reverted the edit I certainly

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All good suggestions Nick - sad that won't meet you again today. I notice that you have some nice resources to add and maybe we can do that as part of this event. Im thinking now that it will be in 3-5 weeks on a Saturday. Hope you will try and manipulate your diary so you can attend. If we are going

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OK, Roger. I'm at work today, I'm afraid. I like the idea of spurring off from The Orrery. I've just checked and found your email, and read back thru the thread. It would certainly be helpful to know from Spencer et al what topics they think are under-covered on Knowledge, and what resources they can

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and I saw that I've edited it. Thank you for adding the note to the talk page. :-) I was able to edit it before, but I wasn't sure whether or not it would be appropriate to do so since there were no prior edits requesting/discussing changes. Therefore, I think your note is going to be a great help to

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Despite this, no attempts to improve most of the articles were ever made. If Bermicourt had bothered reading the notability tags, instead of deleting them, he would have known what he needed to do to improve the articles since it was explained in the template text. After conversion of the articles, I

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As part of the Cultural Partnerships initiative, Wikimedia is hoping to produce a series of case studies that can be combined in book where various professional cultural organisation who have worked with Knowledge will tell their own story, in their own words, about why they chose to do this and what

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It is good that you have been learning how Knowledge works by making small edits to existing articles. This is the best way to work out how things operate here, as there are lots of guidelines and policies which can confuse a beginner. I would point out that you must not add inline links to external

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should be sufficient. I presume you seek good images and capture metadata of editathon attendees, any college staff or alumni they might be able to persuade to come, plus the event activity itself? And it would be a good experience for me to see how experienced editors work with newcomers. I'm sure

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Hi, I saw that you tried to discuss with an ip contributor in the talk page about Mont Dolent. The user is a troll that have already been banned several times with for vandalism, and racist comments. It is the same person that tried to remane les Grande Jorasse as the walkerhorn. He nourishes a deep

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to check en masse the spellings of articles which have been recently edited. The link will take you to a list of common errors in spelling that it uses to offer corrections. It's that list that I use as my starting point for correcting typos. I then work by eye to assess whether the highlighted word

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Dear Parkywiki, You have now twice changed the spelling 'lisence' in a footnote to this article to the spelling 'licence'. Please note that the reason it has been spelled 'lisence' in this case is because the text you are changing is an exact quotation from an early 17th century marriage register in

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I think it's already been agreed some while back not to add any new stubs or translations on alpine refuges without first ensuring good references are included, even if the subject does have one or more foreign language equivalents. (So, there goes my plan for creating a new article on the Refuge du

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does not attempt to put forward further articles for deletion of this type, please. I can't promise that these huts in the outlying Alps will be addressed anytime soon, as I can see that Bermicourt is active in other important areas of the Mountains of the Alps TaskForce, and I'm trying to do my bit

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A word on infoboxes. There is a well tried system for importing and converting German infoboxes to avoid manually translating every parameter every time. Essentially you convert the German infobox to point to the English infobox, so the parameters display in English. Then you get a bot to substitute

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Knowledge is so fussy and needs him to jump through those hoops. I thought it best not to upload an image too soon which couldn't then be used, or gets deleted by one of the over-eager beavers we have here on WP. But I appreciate your interest. It might also be worth me trying to clarify licencing

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Hi LiPollis Thanks for the prompt about the photo, and offer of support - much appreciated. Although I am quite comfortable with adding images either of my own, or from Wikimedia Commons, I've not yet had experience of uploading an image taken by another person, then getting their signed permission

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On the Talk Page you mentioned it was your intention to try and photograph this plant growing in situ. I am so glad you mentioned that and I would be very greatful if you could try when the season is right. I believe it would add good context to the article. I've negelected the area of my editing

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Hi MeegsC. Good question. The answer is yes to both questions. Yes, I did create the video entirely myself as I personally installed the camera, the nest ledge, and downloaded and edited the video directly to my computer, and put the CC licence on our webcam page (as I set up the Project). However I

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I really am so sorry. I have had that happen to me, and I know just how (bleep-bleep) frustrating it can be. It wasn't intentional - I was using AWB to review 'New Articles' and maybe it would help if the tool gave half an hour or so before allowing other editors to make edits. But unfortunately it

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Excellent news. I presume the email contains explicit permission from the sculptor/image generator to upload it to commons? Not wanting to get into educational egg-sucking territory for grandparents, I am aware how important it is to demonstrate to Wikimedians that images have been fairly supplied.

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Re:John MacKenzie Thank you for your kind comments.My father was a teacher at Dunan in Skye in the early '30s and met MacKenzie whom he greatly admired. I have sent an email to Skye Sculptures asking if I can use their photo. I see that the John Muir trust has a picture of MacKenzie and Collie so I

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And thanks for yours, too. Actually, I looked at your article twice - the first time because I thought the scientific name looked like that of a european cockchafer, so was curious to see what it was about. I then also saw it was pretty well-written (being a member of the Plants Project myself, and

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Great reply - thank you. I like your sense of humour - not at all condesending. And, I with you agree about North Americans, about the howlers you've corrected (although I think weird should be weerd or maybe weard) and "ciruclar in shape". That's a howler I'll certainly fix. I am very disappointed

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Gentlemen (I'm assuming you both are gentlemen) - let's see if we can find some common ground, shall we? It's clear we all care about improving Knowledge's content, but maybe we should agree that you each approach matters somewhat differently. Forgive me if I don't spend time delving into the 'whys

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I really don't want to get into an argument with you on someone elses talk page but some of your comments just don't make any sense to me. It's clear that you don't understand the notability requirements because you've removed the notability tags from completely unreferenced articles that in no way

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is a core principle of Knowledge. It's not sufficient to say that something is notable, it's necessary to demonstrate that it is notable. This has been Bermicourt's problem from virtually day 1. He does not like "his" articles to be questioned. As I've explained at the AfD, I tried tagging articles

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I agree - certainly different, and glad you didn't mistake my intentions. BTW: I've been doing a lot of work on the Derbyshire page today - drafting a geology/ecology section on my own User Page whilst I sort out the references. I'd welcome feedback as to whether you think it'd be OK to incorporate

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I hope you hadn't interpreted my reply to suggest I was going to write a Wiki biography page about myself or my co-author! I meant to suggest that a page about one book (ours) would not be appropriate for Knowledge, whereas one page that explained the series of four significant county floras all of

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Hippo images now uploaded to Wikimedia, and I've attempted to add categories to them all. I've added these to your draft Hippo page, and also added some geological notes, too. I could add another image of the laser-scanning process with the hippo tooth displayed on a computer screen, but I couldn't

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for how to do that. And when you quote someone, it is essential to add the citation immediately afterwards to help people check that what you say they said, was actually reported in precisely those words. In all other situations you should add content in your own words, and not copy/paste anything

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and other noticeboards. The hyphen-dash controversy is quite an old one, having hit its peak maybe 5 years ago. Right now there is a case at Arbitration about a bot operator, the primary developer of AWB, in fact, who runs an AWB-based bot. One small part of the case is that a number of editors

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It might be good to ask my former colleagues if there they have other smaller, un-related topics they would like to see created or enhanced - just to give attendees something else to focus on should they wish. (The Museum page is still very non-represntative of the whole museum's public exhibition

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You're welcome - I arrived at your new page simply because I was using an automated spell-checking tool (Lupin) referred to above. I knew nothing of Howard Bishop, but stopped to read the delete discussion out of curiosity, and am minded to oppose it as I then went away and checked a few links and

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I also have a question for you: would it have helped had the Summary of the edit told you that this made with a spellchecker? I ask because I am collating feedback on its use, and suspected that knowing how the edit was done might help article editors understand why the change was made. However, I

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Hi Nick. How are you? I have been quite busy editing Knowledge and creating new articles, so I decided to stop by and check on you. I hope everything is going well with you. I have done a few adjustments to my user page and have now been granted Autopatrolled rights and a barnstar. Please respond

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Having tried to turn a short list up to FA standard article last year, I know what a nightmare hyphens and dashes can be. (Bl**dy things!) I appreciate your comments. AWB does do an amazing job of spotting and highlighting multiple typos in articles. But it seems daft for it to be allowed to make

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I'm afraid this is a rather one-sided tirade that is quite inaccurate in places. Having created numerous articles over several year, I'm quite familiar with notability standards and that we don't "own" articles. My assessment is that, compared with other editors, AussieLegend has overtagged these

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which would be great to use on the page, too. It's not a plant that people will be dashing out to identify (I've been recording plants here for over 20 years and have would be confident at identifying it from all the other Rubi, but it is certainly a very relevant and important picture to include

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Nick .... I wouldnt think you would suggest that! I did look for "Flora of..X" on the Wiki and most of the articles are about the Flora of ..countries. I couldnt find any counties and only a few states. I just sent you the Leicestershire one because Id enjoyed writing it and I thought they were a

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Thanks Roger. A lifetime's work finished, at last! I make no money out of the sale of copies the Flora, but I would not want to be seen to be merely promoting one book. I do think there is significance in The Flora of Derbyshire as a concept of four books, covering 120 years, allowing articles on

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Reviewers should focus their effort where it can do the most good, reviewing articles. Other clean-up tasks that don't require advanced permissions can be left to other editors that routinely improve articles in these ways (creating Talk Pages, specifying projects and ratings, adding categories,

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article, for which my apologies. These (to me) trivial edits were all totally incidental to my main current use of AWB to find and remove apostrophes from decades. It's a bit weird that the managers of AWB allow it to make those controversial changes by default, if doing so with that tool is not

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My sincere apologies - I clearly reverted back to the wrong version in an attempt to remove recent vandalism but I failed to check back to ensure that my edit achieved the desired effect. So the answer to your question is an honest 'no' - and I will not make any similar reverts in future if I am

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to alert editors more familiar with the subject that notability needed to be established, but Bermicourt removed the tags without improving the articles. He seems content with converting the German prose to English but does not see the need to improve the articles to the standard required by the

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OK. I'm still very interested. What are your current travel plans/table? I assume jointly by car, leaving here c.8-9am on the 8th? As I'd need to be in work again (Matlock) on Thursday by c.11am, I'd be quite happy travelling back later the same night (unless totally Wiki-ed out!). (After May I

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Dear Parkywiki, I have done about all I can on 'Career'. If you are a mycologist, you can probably enlarge the section on 'Contribution to Mycology', for the fungal business is far beyond my capability or understanding. John Webster's bit in 'Mycologist News' might be very helpful. I well (and

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Would you like to tell be the subject you want to create an article about and perhaps link to what you believe are the three best sources that you would want to use to show it is a notable topic? I'll gladly give you a few comments as to whether the sources you want to use are appropriate. As

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Thanks again- with some extra parameters in the searches, some more came up largely as per your summary here, and further it allowed me to see his resumé page. Hmm, an awful lot of b-movie stuff, and a lot of 'non-starring' roles but that's where a certain US president came from so maybe that

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regarding reference #4 of the main article about TEEB, unfortunately doesn't offer a static link, which could just be copied and pasted into the source text of the criticism of TEEB section, as you did with reference #3, but a dynamic link instead, which changes everytime you retreive the pdf

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As I said, Bermicourt seems happy to create articles but not to get them up to a required standard, but then he blames others who make good faith edits to improve the encyclopaedia. He did that in 2013 and then he has done so now. As you can see at the AfD he has recently removed a number of

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that Knowledge ought to consider (though I've so far only had one senior Knowledge staff member look at them). Of course, the way to avoid this issue happening with new content in future is to use one's Sandbox to prepare new article content if you decide you don't want to go through

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My 2+2 car is going down with me and Marianne and possible a girl from Sheffield. Four adults is possible but not comfortable. We have offer of bed in the college which could be fun. Obviously limited number but we could find you a train ticket. Or we have another travelling from

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Using your ref numbers "...3706" looks good and the first ones on the CD you gave me. ..3651-3655 show good head views and the first five on my CD (they have names rather than ref numbers and show the sculpture in Allenton, the head again and the whole thing again. The article is

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That's weird - I was only thinking today that it would be great of there were a local meeting of Wikipedians I could get involved with. (so much still to learn, too.) So probably 'Yes' is the answer. Have you been given a specific topic to work to - or is it up for discussion?

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Hi Parkywiki: Great! Thanks for answering. You might want to update the video's description to make it clear that the project is the "uploader" (as was), just so there isn't a problem in the future. And how cool that you've been up close and personal with such beautiful birds!

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So I see someone has made an edit via my watch list and if I'm intrigued ... and I was , then I read it. I have nt seen any errors yet. If you add pictures to commons then someone can always add them later- but I agree we have enough pics for the size of article we have.

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modify the English language, I let them get on with it. I could pretend that I checked with my ridiculously heavy copy of Chambers 20th Century dictionary (New Edition 1972) which, on page 1381, gives the spelling of 'targeted' with only one 't', or that I had read

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who travelled to S Australia and ended up having a Drosera named after him. (I co-authored the article in S Austral Nat. about him - so I really am interested. It's just that Spellchecking focusses you on speed and efficiency. But I promise I did look, albeit

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I also notice that earlier today you changed "transfered" to "transferred". A contradiction maybe? Or did you change it because "transfered" looks rong? Anyway, good luck. For me its the manenig taht metatrs, not the silenlpng - as lnog as we cmacmiounte.

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Accepting an apology gracefully, now there's a useful skill. I went out of my way to acknowledge you were right, with an obviously ironic "I-blame-Google" for self-deprecating humour, and you respond by rubbing my face in my mistake. Thanks, mate.

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I think I now have two photographers (you and another) - which is OK as I think we will have the work as its an eight hour gig. I think I MAY be able to offer accommodation on the night of the eighth. Maybe give me a phone call when you are sure.

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if you'd like to see or edit it. You may have noticed that Ive added several score of pictures from the museum to Flickr. The quality is not good but it will show wikipedians what is available ... to photograph properly! 14:57, 30 January 2011

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Prob. THE! Wright painting - I'm meeting the museum at 2 at the museum on Friday (29th). Im intending to be there at 1:30 (to look round) and I could meet you if you were available????? Sent email to you but not sure about address. R

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for deletion as it had been unused for the 14 months since Infobox hut was created. During the TfD that Bermicourt chose to post on my talk page again and he used the TfD to take a stab at me for adding the notability tags to the

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HiMeergsC: I've tweaked the description - I'd welcome feedback as to whether you think the wording will be OK. I can see from your user page you love your birds, too. It's certainly been an honour working so closely with wild

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Congratulations on finishing the book. I have polished some articles around the subject. An article on the flora of Derbyshire may work but you need to decide if it would add or detract from your royalty checks. All the best

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Indeed, I'm sorry for asking this, but this DYK? nomination of mine appears to be ignored in spite of it already being more than one week old. :( Also, if you want, I can review another DYK? of yours in exchange for this.

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Five years ago today, Wikimedia UK and Derby Museums announced their collaboration (because someone had decided to take a punt). Out of this came a whole group of wiki-projects around the world. You were that guy! Thanks

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seems to have write protection by a cascade-protected template, I didn't know what to do or where and to whom else to turn to, as the article's talk page seemed orphaned and I wasn't sure whether or not to add this

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Interestingly, the source I used for "A targetted flora survey was undertaken for...." has the spelling "targeted". A case of a Knowledge page being more accurate than one of its sources, perhaps. Alas, no longer!

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etc.) Let's rely on others when it makes the most sense. On the other hand, if you enjoy doing these tasks while reviewing and it keeps you engaged with NPP (or are guiding a newcomer), then by all means continue.

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Nick, I am absolutely in love with your contributions and work dedicated to the Teahouse. Your help for newbies is truly inspiring, and you are one of the editors who makes me proud to call myself a Wikipedian.

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Found your clarification request note and have, I hope, made it much clearer. Also checked for copyvios, but every quoted text block was already referenced and cited with page numbers, and over 100 years old

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Since you've obviously been able to find more sources than I have, perhaps you would consider improving the articles. Otherwise those that do not establish notability are likely to end up at AfD as well.

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Perhaps you can give me some feedback if I've made any errors along the way. Still can't get my head around communication to you within Knowledge - not sure if you see this message on your Talk page, or

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Thanks. I've added the user domain to your links (above), though I can't find any registered user with the name Nazi boy 031. Perhaps you could check and monitor their activity yourself, then report to

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or at least look at the images. I had to search for weeks to find that bloody plant. Answer to your question about spellchecker: Nope. That might have hurt my feelings even more! All the best to you.

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Many google hits seem to mention the Wherry, Fogg, Wahl work, and citations by other authors should count for something. I didn't do a google scholar search, but it could bring up more citations.

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Sounds extremely interesting. I'm at work right now but will check diary/leave allocation and get back to you by Friday night. Though more of a landscape than a people photographer, I think my

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Hi, I have received an email and some images from the MacKenzie Collie Heritage group and added one to the article. I'll put another one on later but I'm short of time at the moment. Regards

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in a few weeks, it would be nice to be able to show people an example of one of these articles. Do you reckon you could have it done by then, or at least a first draft? Thanks in advance,

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A very good question - thanks for asking! I understand why you do ask this, though I believe the format I changed it to is both grammatically the correct one, and also that preferred by

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OK - If you like, I'm happy to drive my MPV if someone navigates (up to 7 seats, though 5 or 6 people plus bootspace is more comfortable.) Would normally like the idea of a stopover/

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might ask John Hutchinson for a copy. Failing that I should be able to get a photo from the SMC archives. If you have any additions to make it would give me pleasure to see them.

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to do so, which I hope he will in due course. I think the same approach could be taken on virtually all the other high mountain refuge articles, so I would like to request that

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I never say no to cake, even if I don't deserve it. But I shall share the love and enjoy it. (Congrats on your 100,000 edits, BTW - I think you deserve the cake more than me.)

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to put it into Commons and sending that off to be authorised. The image is sitting here on my computer - I've just got to 'bite the bullet' of grappling with the process at

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The text itself would need to be licensed as CC-by-SA or CC-by and we would need permission to use the organisation's logo in the context of this case study. Best regards,

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I'm sure I could convert part of my Powerpoint presentation into something that would suit this brief. You didn't specify a timescale or deadline. (I may need reminding!!)

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Welcome to the Wright Challenge. It's getting busy - 3 barnstars so far! You speak German? Don't forget Wights special friend PPburdett - he retired to Karlsruhe. See

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within the article. If you're interested in seeing the photo, I can easily put it on another site and send you a link to view it. Just let me know. Kind regards.

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fondly) remember the Birkbeck department and the excursions, especially some Easter trips which were the highlights of my Easter holidays from prep school.

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To save you wasted effort, feel free to link me to those sources and I will take a quick look at them for you. Then, if they seem OK, I would point you to

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I made a mistake (typo) while uploading the pictures. If there is way to correct them, without breaking something, I would like to do (or like to be done)

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If you think there could be a challenge, maybe even a hasty cut/paste of relevant parts of the email might give weight to its legitimacy. Good work, too.

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