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This is to inform you that Murder of Joanna Yeates , which you nominated at WP:FAC, will appear on the Wikipedia Main Page as Today's Featured Article on 18 September 2014. The proposed main page blurb is here ; you may amend if necessary. Please check for dead links and other possible faults before the appearance date. Brianboulton (talk) 21:19, 3 September 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 03 September 2014

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Two articles, one list, and ten pictures were promoted
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Joan Robinson Hill

Never heard anything from the realtor, so it looks like we won't be able to use the music room photo. :(. I feel guilty about not working more on it, but everything I can think of at this point I might add would be from the book and would mean that you'd have more to do re: getting all the Blood and Money refs to come from the same book. We hope (talk) 14:32, 8 September 2014 (UTC)

Sorry--have been a bit distracted lately. As you've seen from my talk page, I was asked to do a blog entry. Have just (I think) finished it today. Have mentioned you in it re: our use of Newspapers.com to help document what happened after Blood and Money was published, and there certainly was quite a bit. :) Also mentioned that we were able to find that interview with Jo where she told how Tim-tay-shun was recorded. We hope (talk) 22:06, 8 September 2014 (UTC)
I believe it's for the Newspapers.com blog. When they let me know it's online, I'll let you know, ;) That's a lot of work re: the ref replacement-ouch! We hope (talk) 23:02, 8 September 2014 (UTC)

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For your recent efforts, which are much appreciated. BencherliteTalk 23:13, 8 September 2014 (UTC)
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The Signpost: 10 September 2014

Last month, I wrote an open letter to the Wikimedia Foundation, inviting others to join me in a simple but important request: roll back the recent actions—both technical and social—by which the Wikimedia Foundation has overruled legitimate decisions of several Wikimedia projects.
Even though it's not quite 3/4 over, it's safe to say that 2014 will go down as a year of war, mass murder, plane crashes and terrible diseases. While certainly paying it some heed, it's not surprising that Wikipedia viewers tried this week to find any alternative to that litany of tragedy and pain, and their chosen method of escape was, as usual, celebrity.
The amazing and strange tongue-eating louse replacing a fish's tongue! Because isopods, the subject of a new featured article, are both awesome and really damn weird!
This week, the Signpost decided to have a look around with WikiProject Check Wikipedia a maintenance project not concerned so much with articles' content, but in all the tiny errors that are to be found scattered within them. Their front page gives a list of things they mainly focus on ...

Newspapers.com

link to blog post. We hope (talk) 21:21, 16 September 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 17 September 2014

The Hürriyet Daily News reports on a series of posts on Twitter from Turkish Minister of Culture and Tourism Ömer Çelik.
As Scotland is deciding its future this week, we thought it might be a good idea to get to know the editors of WikiProject Scotland and talk to them about the project.
A prominent Wikipedia researcher has discovered that the encyclopedia's widely used article traffic statistics are missing out on approximately one-third of total views.
There is no unifying theme we can slap on top article popularity this week.
Four articles, two lists, and 51 pictures were promoted to "featured" status this week on the English Wikipedia.

Joanna

Oh, just a few more hours then the Yeates article will appear on the Main page. I think it is a great date for it to appear as well, with the Scottish referendum we can expect that many users from the UK will be on Wikipedia in the next 24 hours. Regards,--BabbaQ (talk) 20:40, 17 September 2014 (UTC)

precious again, to see it now, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:08, 18 September 2014 (UTC)

A test edit

... in which I'm going to complain. Twice just now I've tried to revert some vandalism in an article, but without success as the current version continues to show, and my edit isn't in the article history, so this is a test edit to see what will happen here when I make a posting. This is Paul (talk) 13:35, 18 September 2014 (UTC)

So it works. This is Paul (talk) 13:35, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
But it didn't work on the article, I now discover, because the edit had already been reverted. My attempt to go back 2 edits therefore effectively made no changes, so wouldn't show up. What a pity I didn't realise that a few reversion attempts ago. :( This is Paul (talk) 14:11, 18 September 2014 (UTC)

Nomination of Gemma Doyle (disambiguation) for deletion

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Alice

I just wanted to let you know that an article about the Disappearance of Alice Gross has been created. One of the most publicized disappearance for along time in UK press. Also the police has made groundbreaking efforts in terms of size of the investigation in trying to find her from what I have read.--BabbaQ (talk) 19:56, 27 September 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 24 September 2014

Six articles, four lists, one topic, and 17 pictures were promoted to "featured" status this week on the English Wikipedia.
The Hindustan Times speculates (September 18) that politicians and their supporters are "sanitizing" their articles in advance of the 2014 Maharashtra State Assembly election. The Times notes the absence of significant controversies in the articles of particular politicians and the presence of heavily promotional language.
0.75% of Wikipedia birthdates are inaccurate, reported Robert Viseur at WikiSym 2014. Those inaccuracies are "low, although higher than the 0.21% observed for the baseline reference sources". Given that biographies represent 15% of English Wikipedia, the third largest category after "arts" and "culture", their accuracy is important.
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A year and a week later, we're with some of the members of WikiProject Good Articles, who wanted to share the news of their upcoming contest within the project, the GA Cup. The aim of this friendly competition, which is held in the same light friendly manner of the WikiCup and the Core Contest, is to reduce the backlog of unreviewed articles at Good article nominations which has been a constant problem for quite a few years for those running the GA process.
Banning Policy finishes the workshop phase on 23 September. Parties have proposed findings of fact on the topics of the 3RR, the role of Jimbo Wales, and proxying for banned users. A request for arbitration was posted on 20 September about Landmark Worldwide.

DYK for Rona Fairhead

—HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 12:05, 2 October 2014 (UTC)

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The Signpost: 01 October 2014

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The argument on Wikipedia over the benefits of crowdsourcing versus the primacy of "expert" contributors stretches back to co-founder Larry Sanger's break with the project to start the alternative Citizendium.
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Jews wished each other Shanah Tovah ("Good year") this week as Rosh Hashanah was our most popular article. It was also a week not dominated by heavy news and tragedies, so aside from Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (#2, sixth week in the Top 10), our popular article list runs the gamut of current events including new television series Gotham (#3), the 2014 Asian Games (#4), and Reddit-fueled popularity for German director Uwe Boll (#7).
As the hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the American Civil War draws to a close, the race to improve content continues. The Battle of Franklin, fought on November 30, 1864, will, quite appropriately, be Picture of the Day for November 30, 2014, its 150th anniversary. If you want to help commemorate the American Civil War, why not help out at the Military History WikiProject's Operation Brothers at War. Or help out with the World War I centennial, just starting up, Operation Great War Centennial.

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Roses in the morning

Maclean's November 19, 2009 Mark Steyn. :) We hope (talk) 22:17, 9 October 2014 (UTC)

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2 Featured articles, 4 Featured lists, 62 Featured pictures, and 2 Featured portals were promoted.
The first case of the Ebola virus on US shores sent people into a tizzy, rushing to their keyboards to try and learn what they could.
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Eva Beem

I have started an article about a Holocaust victim Eva Beem. Take a look. If there is anything you can do in terms of edits please do :)--BabbaQ (talk) 13:56, 15 October 2014 (UTC)

I made one or two slight tweaks to it, but it's reading well. This is Paul (talk) 21:38, 16 October 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 15 October 2014

Why does Wikipedia still use the gendered pronouns "she" and "her" for ships?
Ben Koo of the sports blog Awful Announcing investigated how player Joe Streater's name became involved in recent years with a historic sports scandal.
The Banning Policy case was closed on 12 October. Arbcom affirmed that users have "considerable leeway" in terms of how their talk pages are managed.
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We are pleased to report that the WP:5000 has now been updated to include mobile views, including a column reflecting the percentage of views coming from mobile devices.
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The Signpost: 22 October 2014

Four articles, four lists, and fifty-three pictures were promoted to featured status.
Our op-ed writer this week opines that the organization of Hong Kong's "Umbrella Revolution" resembles how Wikipedia is organized.
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Joan Robinson Hill

I've added another comment to the peer review on Joan Robinson Hill--Esprit15d • talk • contribs 12:50, 27 October 2014 (UTC)

Re: Joan Robinson Hill

I think the idea makes good sense. If we take a look at a couple of other more prominent people such as Michael Jackson and Elvis, we have separate WP articles on their deaths. All three of the deaths generated a lot of news and legal issues. The death and post-death information for MJ and Elvis would literally "take over" the articles about their lives if the separate articles were merged into these respective pages. The articles would become too "packed" with information and would be hard to follow when trying to read them.

While Joan R. Hill was not well-known outside of riding and equine-related circles during her life, her death and the controversy surrounding it was what made news and headlines. More than 10 years after her death, there were still legal issues being thrashed out in Texas courts.

I may have been too "careful" when working on this; one thing I wanted to avoid at all costs was creating a "muddle" like the Skelton article was before going to GA and FA. It was a tough job to re-work so much of it and to try to have it make sense after that was done. I'm willing to do whatever I can and will be glad to follow any "plan" for separating the article like this. We hope (talk) 17:41, 27 October 2014 (UTC)

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I saw you put down The World of Not Enough for the featured article on Dec 7th. I've been working on Ford Island for about eight months specifically for that date. It's at FAC right now. If it passes, would you consider withdrawing The World if Not Enough?--v/r - TP 17:39, 28 October 2014 (UTC)

Thanks a ton, I really appreciate it!--v/r - TP 18:15, 28 October 2014 (UTC)

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The Signpost: 29 October 2014

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Noam Cohen reports in The New York Times (October 26) that Wikipedia's "Ebola Virus Disease article has had 17 million page views in the last month," an indication of the public's reliance on the online encyclopedia.
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That's grand, cheers Brian. This is Paul (talk) 11:33, 4 November 2014 (UTC)

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The Signpost: 05 November 2014

"Rachel Feltman, in The Washington Post (November 4), examined research in which a team, mostly from Los Alamos National Laboratory, headed by Kyle Hickman developed a model that enabled them "to successfully predict the 2013-2014 flu season in real time" by employing "an algorithm to link flu-related Wikipedia searches with CDC data from the same time." Apparently when individuals search for information about the flu and its symptoms in Wikipedia when they feel ill, this generates data useful in forecasting the the flu season."
"It is, perhaps, ironic that humanity chose the week of Halloween to finally put its fears to bed. Let's face it: 2014 has been a year of tragedies, conflicts, plagues and pain, and eventually something had to break... Whether we at last came to terms with our limited ability to affect events, shoved those events under the carpet, or just decided to let go and move on, we turned our eye to more positive things, such as sports heroes, hotly anticipated movies, and lifelong learning; two Google doodles appeared in the top 25 for the first time since the beginning of August."

Jo Stafford

- precious again --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:10, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

Thanks, This is Paul (talk) 13:48, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

Can you use this?

File:The Old Barn Dance 1938.jpg Searched "Stafford Sisters" photos on a whim and a full copy of the photo with ID turned up. Here it is cropped. :) We hope (talk) 06:00, 13 November 2014 (UTC)

I don't see why not. That photo had been "bothering" me ever since I saw the crop of it on the website; was wondering where there might be a full copy that might have "useful" information on it. :) As of now, this is the only PD photo I know of that pictures Jo's film work. We hope (talk) 16:21, 13 November 2014 (UTC)
Though we can't use it, thought you might like to see a photo of Jo in 1990 when she last sang in public for the Frank Sinatra tribute. This was cut from who knows where-the "Accent" is a US brand of MSG.
Don't know why the "Shower of Stars" and other photo wouldn't be fine on the filmography since the television and other appearances are listed on it too. We hope (talk) 16:50, 13 November 2014 (UTC)
It looks like this was never put on DVD; just checked Amazon and you can get a record from the show and a book, but nothing in video. :( We hope (talk) 18:08, 13 November 2014 (UTC)
If you have a VHS player or access to one, it was released on VHS. We hope (talk) 18:17, 13 November 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 12 November 2014

"Technology media outlets are abuzz after the November 6 unveiling of the Amazon Echo, an Internet-connected voice command device"; "The EUobserver talks (November 4) with Dimitar Dimitrov (User:Dimi z) about the lack of freedom of panorama in some European Union countries and its implications for Wikimedia projects"; "Scott Cantrell, classical music critic for the Dallas Morning News, recounts efforts to verify an uncited claim in the Wikipedia article for the Béla Bartók opera Bluebeard's Castle."
This was very much a week dominated by holidays and pop culture over current events, with new film Interstellar taking the top spot followed by holidays Day of the Dead (#2), Guy Fawkes and his Night (#4 and #5), and Halloween (#8, and its third week on the list). And a foursome of television shows, all return visitors, appear to setting up residence on the greater Top 25: The Walking Dead (#11), American Horror Story: Freak Show (#14), Gotham (#16), and The Flash (#18).
Nine articles, two lists, and 55 featured pictures were promoted during the week of 26 October.
We return to our interview format this week, speaking with the participants of WikiProject Hospitals. This project, formed in 2010, has no Featured content and only three Good articles, yet aided by around 30 hard-working Wikipedians covers a topic that is essential to life.

Re: Joan Robinson Hill articles

Have to say, I was a bit disappointed in the lack of follow up by anyone at PR after we had split the article. The one thing I'm not quite sure about is whether we've split it in the right spot, so having someone else have a look would be a good thing. I get sidetracked a lot at times too, but I know Mercer will be a lot better soon! :) We hope (talk) 13:26, 18 November 2014 (UTC)

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Re:The National

I can take the image and shrink it so it will be in keeping with the small size-low resolution needs of non-free images. It would be licensed as a non free newspaper. It's for identification via infobox so there should be no problem. I'll get the copy, shrink it and get it uploaded. Will put it into the infobox after that because there are some people who get nervous enough to tag a non free image as an orphan if it isn't put into an article 10 seconds after it's been uploaded. :) We hope (talk) 16:45, 27 November 2014 (UTC)

A done deal! :) We hope (talk) 17:03, 27 November 2014 (UTC)
Both of us say "Anytime, friend!". :) We hope (talk) 17:21, 27 November 2014 (UTC)

Adele

Oprah Winfrey isn't a politician...  — ₳aron 21:56, 27 November 2014 (UTC)

Replied on your talk page. This is Paul (talk) 22:00, 27 November 2014 (UTC)
No you haven't.  — ₳aron 22:01, 27 November 2014 (UTC)
I have now, thanks to a technical glitch my post wasn't saved. This is Paul (talk) 22:08, 27 November 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 26 November 2014

Four articles, four lists, eleven pictures, and one topic were promoted.
Numerous media outlets are reporting on a November 14 statement on the website of the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library announcing the formation of a Russian "alternative" to Wikipedia, a "regional electronic encyclopedia" dedicated to "Russian regions and the life of the country".
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DYK for The National (Scotland)

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:57, 29 November 2014 (UTC)

Hi

How are you these days? :) I have created a new article about the Death of Tuğçe Albayrak. A case that has become the main news story in German press and even the President has talked about it. --BabbaQ (talk) 18:27, 29 November 2014 (UTC)

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Labour Party thought police

Are you paid by the Labour Party to troll around Wikipedia tweeking articles to make them favourable to Labour and trashing articles about Labour's opponents? Or is it just a sad, mindless hobby? Why not be open and honest about your bias, "socialist comrade"? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.76.80.149 (talk) 11:09, 2 December 2014 (UTC)

I really don't see what the issue here is. The paper was launched, some people thought it was a good idea, others didn't, and that's reflected in the article. An article's lead should be an overview of the main points raised in the main body of the text, which this is. It has also been endorsed by at least two experienced editors at WP:SCOTLAND, and will no doubt expand over time meaning what is included in the lead will inevitably change. Please don't remove this again, if you disagree with something in a particular article, then you need to discuss the matter on that article's talk page and explain why you think the information should be taken out. Do bear in mind, however, that it is referenced. Also, throwing insults and accusations at people may be the way things work in certain other forms of media, but it will not earn you a sympathetic hearing on this one. This is Paul (talk) 11:39, 2 December 2014 (UTC)
Re your comments here, you might also like to take a look at The Covent-Garden Journal, which does detail some controversy/criticism in its lead. That particular article has featured article status, and I wrote The National with the featured article criteria in mind. As someone of Scottish descent, I'd personally like to see more Scotland-related stuff reaching Good or Featured status, but that can only happen if an article covers all areas. This is Paul (talk) 15:16, 2 December 2014 (UTC)
The above comments would apparently have something to do with this. This is Paul (talk) 11:58, 5 December 2014 (UTC)

About those two editors on Talk:David Cameron....

Their signatures are oddly similar, they both have an extra ( around the user name. Shearonink (talk) 21:43, 5 December 2014 (UTC)

I hadn't noticed that till you mentioned it just now, but you're right. Makes me wonder how many others there could be. This is Paul (talk) 21:49, 5 December 2014 (UTC)

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Scottish Labour Party

I think you will find there is no such thing as the Scottish Labour Party - anymore than there is a New Labour. Legally the political entity in Scotland is called the Scottish Council of the Labour Party. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.64.87.55 (talk) 21:06, 16 December 2014 (UTC)

In which case the onus is on you to find sources stating that. But as the media (and even ourselves here at Wikipedia) refer to the party as the Scottish Labour Party, the rules of WP:COMMONNAME apply to this article, and all relating to Scottish Labour. This is Paul (talk) 21:13, 16 December 2014 (UTC)

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Hi

First of all Merry Christmas to you! Could you please take a look at the article Carolina Neurath. Appreciate it!.--BabbaQ (talk) 22:14, 21 December 2014 (UTC)

Merry Merry

To you and yours

FWiW Bzuk (talk) 15:26, 22 December 2014 (UTC)

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