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2007

January

Orphaned fair use image (Image:EarlyBritishMonopoly.jpg)

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April

WikiProject France

Hello! We are a group of editors working to improve the quality of France related articles. You look like someone who might be interested in joining us in the France WikiProject and so I thought I'd drop you a line and invite you! We'd love to have you in our project :-) STTW (talk) 23:14, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

May

Image:KennetHeadmaster.jpg

Hello, CR7. An automated process has found and removed an image or media file tagged as nonfree media, and thus is being used under fair use that was in your userspace. The image (Image:KennetHeadmaster.jpg) was found at the following location: User:CR7/Kennet Comprehensive. This image or media was attempted to be removed per criterion number 9 of our non-free content policy. The image or media was replaced with Image:NonFreeImageRemoved.svg , so your formatting of your userpage should be fine. Please find a free image or media to replace it with, and or remove the image from your userspace. User:Gnome (Bot)-talk 05:25, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

Image:GPO badge.png

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July

B&Q corrections

Hi, I noticed that you changed 'PLC' to 'plc' in the B&Q article. While this is a minor matter I just wanted to point out that both versions are correct and so the change was unnecessary but because both are correct it may aswell stay as it is. Just a tidbit of info there for you. RaseaC 15:35, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

August

Exepose

over half the references are from the student union itself, to be regarded as notable and reliable they should be from a reputable 3rd party source. just because other crap exists doesn't make that article notable you have to establish its notability in its own right. Sherzo 07:34, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

no its not, please familiarize yourself with wiki policy, and even if that was the case do you have a reliable third party source on that? Sherzo 18:25, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

Template:Norfolk Schools

I see you've added a lot of red links to this template, which no doubt took quite a bit of time and effort. When I created the template, it wasn't the approach I took.

We've been having a discussion at Standardising UK county templates, and I said there "I don't see any point in including redlinks to non-existent articles, as these templates are essentially navigational aids and not lists of schools", after Dahliarose had commented "Some counties allow red links and others don't."

If you were planning to go on expanding other templates in the same way, would you mind joining in this discussion, in the hope that a consensus can be formed?

regards, Xn4 18:09, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

Buckinghamshire schools

It is a shame that you did not discuss your proposed changes to Buckinghamshire schools before applying them. The term secondary modern is never used in Buckinghamshire and if the schools needed to be grouped in the template, they could just as easily have been grouped by district. I am seriously considering undoing your changes. ~ Scribble Monkey 09:29, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply. In Buckinghamshire the term "secondary modern" doesn't seem to be used any more; probably because it appears old fashioned and has negative connotations. Bucks County Council call them "Upper schools" and this is reflected in the names of some of the schools. The school websites also tend to use "upper school", or just refer to themselves as secondary schools. My personal preference, if we want to group them in this way, would be to use "Non-selective", because "Upper schools" may not mean anything to people outside Bucks. However, assuming there may be a discussion to standardise the templates, it's probably best to leave things as they are at the moment. ~ Scribble Monkey 14:25, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

UK Schools Infobox merger

The Working Man's Barnstar
Well done sir, for all your hard work on the mind-numbingly repetitive task of moving UK Schools over to the new infobox. Truly you are a hero of the labouring classes. chgallen 12:55, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

BBC radio logos

Hello. Another editor reverting an unfamiliar and unexplained logo as "fake" might be bad faith, but it's not "VANDALISM". Using informative edit summaries helps other editors understand why you're reverting a particular change.

Following the link on the image pages, I see that they're possible upcoming logos - are they in use anywhere yet? The link says that they've "already started to appear", but I can't find them being used on the BBC website anywhere. --McGeddon 15:13, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

Okay, thanks for the sources. It's maybe a bit premature to put them on the BBC Radio articles before they're in common use - all we can get from those sources is that a design company designed them and believes that they're going to be the "new logos", and a couple of minor BBC sites have started using them. It's quite possible that they're using using the logos for podcasts, or that the new logos were partially implemented then scrapped. Really we should wait for a press release, or wide take-up across the BBC site. --McGeddon 15:26, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

I agree with what you propose on McGeddon's talk page of putting the new possible logo as a thumbnail in another section, and using the current logo in the userbox.  Tiddly Tom  15:54, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
Right then, I'll get to it. If people don't like it, it can always be put back. CR7 (message me) 15:56, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
Actually, sorry, saying "BBC Radio _'s new logo, to be implemented soon" would fall under WP:CRYSTAL ("Individual scheduled or expected future events should only be included if the event is notable and almost certain to take place") - a logo change isn't that notable, and the vague three-sentence Merry Media article isn't a particularly robust source for it. We might as well just sit back and wait for the logos to hit mainstream usage. --McGeddon 16:07, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
We could just say 'Another version of the logo, as used on some radio 1 content'.  Tiddly Tom  16:46, 8 August 2007 (UTC)


The logo was removed from the article. I have re added it, but not said it will be implimeted just said as used on some parts of the website.  Tiddly Tom  11:58, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

Requested move

Hello CR7. As you might have noticed, I've closed your move proposal as inconclusive, but do not oppose the immediate creation of a new proposal. If you do create a new one, please use the discussion model suggested on WP:RM (the one where participants write a brief note after support-oppose-neutral) and relist your proposal there. I understand your moving reasons, but for the closing admin it's the outcome of a discussion that matters. Outcome not clear here. Regards, Húsönd 01:20, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

Good! :-) By the way, I have a couple more suggestions: 1) moving the new discussion to the bottom of the page, as new sections are usually added to the bottom, not to the top of talk pages; 2) following the model of e.g. this move discussion. Good luck. Regards, Húsönd 01:34, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

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Edit Summaries

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Moving coordinates to infoboxes

Hi,

When you add an infobox, such as to to an article about a place, please see if you can include the coordinates. Thank you. Andy Mabbett | Talk to Andy Mabbett 19:46, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

I've no experience with adding or manipulating co-ordinates, I'm afraid. As a result, I've been steering clear whilst templating numerous schools. How do you obtain the co-ordinates? Thanks, CR7 (message me) 19:54, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
In the above example, they were already in the article, and just needed to be moved into the infobox, More generally, see WP:GEO which has advice on finding and using coordinates. Cheers, Andy Mabbett | Talk to Andy Mabbett 19:57, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

Oldbury College of Sport

A {{prod}} template has been added to the article Oldbury College of Sport, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but this article may not satisfy Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and the deletion notice explains why (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may contest the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page. Also, please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. If you endorse deletion of the article, and you are the only person who has made substantial edits to the page, please tag it with {{db-author}}. directory information only DGG (talk) 22:52, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

I've seen your message, and i believe that according to current practice at AfD they are none of them notable. Notability for a school requires either awards for academics or athletics or notable alumni, or some public notability otherwise, & none of this is shown. I'll stop prodding them, because there's no point in prodding if the prod will be opposed. I (or someone else) will however probably nominate them all for afd if there remains no sources for notability. I suggest that the best thing to do will be to combine them into group articles for the area until there is more information. That way the work wont be lost, and they can develop into articles when they are ready. Consider doing that instead--some of the people doing US schools have adopted that method. DGG (talk) 23:21, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
Congratulations on having improved the article so thoroughly! See if you can get the others to the same standard. Quite possibly most secondary school articles could stand if enough careful work were done on them. DGG (talk) 17:15, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
And please feel free to remove any other prod tags after you get the articles to a similar standard. Unlike speedy, there is no rule against removing them yourself. DGG (talk) 17:17, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

Sherzo

Dunno if you are aware, but he's received a 2 month ban from editing wikipedia for persistant vandalism.TorstenGuise 23:52, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

I think we should give it at least a week for further comment. Give the debate due process. something he didn't do over closing the debate on Glasgow University Student Television. I dont really want to follow his precedent. TorstenGuise 23:58, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

I waited more than a month on GUST your suggesting only a week, oh and by the way those "bans" are just templates left by someone like Tortenguise with delusion of grandeur i leave them on my page because i find the funny Sherzo 19:14, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

I've re-opened the debate here. I feel his actions have been offensive and regressionary to what we are all here for. I've also replaced the Glasgow University Student Television article and marked it for deletion, so that there can be a consensus over it's notability. TorstenGuise 19:59, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

I can't believe the gumption of this man. He's listed me now!! Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#User:TorstenGuise. TorstenGuise 17:07, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

He's done it again. Faffing with the articles. TorstenGuise 14:00, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

I have appealed again for an administrator to decide Sherzo's fate. If you wish to do so as well, please do. TorstenGuise 16:38, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

Nothing was done. The complaint was a waste of time. TorstenGuise 06:53, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

I have placed another complaint on User:Sherzo,however, no one seems to want to do anything about his uncivility. I got blamed for personal attacks and threatened to be blocked by and administrator for reporting him. I know he has been very uncivil towards you and he keeps making politically charged edits on pages that he has been asked over and over not to do. I don't understand, is he some kind of admin friend or something?User:Bluecord18August2007 —The preceding signed but undated comment was added at 23:48:35, August 18, 2007 (UTC).

Derbyshire Schools

..and others. Thanks for your work on the infoboxes. Good work Victuallers 09:29, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

Infobox GB school

Name of template - I couldn't reply to your question, on Template talk:Infobox UK school, as to whether the Infobox GB school template and talk page should be deleted, because the talk page has been replaced as per your request, thus removing your question.

Personally, I think that Template:Infobox GB school and Template talk:Infobox GB school should be deleted, to avoid editors accidentally linking to them, and therefore going through a redirect. I would have thought that the risk of an editor recreating the template is minimal. ~ Scribble Monkey 14:04, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

I would have though a request for speedy deletion would be best. We had sufficient consensus to rename the template, and the longer the old template remains, the greater the chance of someone inadvertently linking to it. ~ Scribble Monkey 14:59, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
I think db-histmerge is fine, but if you don't think it's a good enough fit then db-reason with a reason like "redundant redirect template" should be ok. ~ Scribble Monkey 16:18, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

I've declined deleting this since there really isn't anything wrong with the redirect (and it has incoming links). I'd recommend taking this to Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion. --- RockMFR 19:03, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

I have added my support to your request for deletion. Let's hope this does it. ~ Scribble Monkey 00:28, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

RfC

Dunno if you know about this. Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/TortenGuise. TorstenGuise 13:30, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

What can be done though? He's already escaped the administrators twice over his behavior! TorstenGuise 13:47, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

Shall we start with this. I've critisised him enough for not following the rules, so I think we should. TorstenGuise 14:00, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

I'll let you. After all, you were implicated in this RfCU, but not the prime candidate for investigation. TorstenGuise 14:07, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

September

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Orphaned non-free media (Image:CanalJ.gif)

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October

Image:UK Royal Coat of Arms.png

Someone else created a vector image of the arms. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 01:37, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

Midland Bank

See here, an old request, finally filled! Emoscopes Talk 22:29, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

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Yup, it's good :). PxMa 16:35, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

November

WikiProject Newsletter n°1

Bonjour and welcome to the first WikiProject France newsletter!! It should become a monthly special of our project, but until the next issue, here are some points to consider for the month:

  • In an effort to determine the active members from the inactive, all members are asked to simply sign on my special userpage.
  • I have slightly rearranged and updated the Project page, putting all the featured lists in collapsible tables. This unclutteres the page and you only have to see them if you want to. Give your feelings at the talk page.
  • I have made a Wikipedia advert for our project, Image:Qxz-ad108.gif, what do you think? Personally I feel the words need improving ...
  • There are still map problems at Template:French commune - any help at resolving them would be greatly appreciated.
  • What about starting a monthly drive? We currently have no Featured Portals (except for the Basque Portal which really isn't French any way), so how about improving Portal:France??? I don't know what's exactly wrong but the criteria can be seen at Wikipedia:Featured portal criteria.

It doesn't seem like a lot, so I hope we will still have enough problems for nexts months issue. Salut till the next issue, ChrisDHDR (17:13, 10 November 2007 (UTC)).

December

WikiProject Newsletter n°2

It's been one high aiming month! The French WikiProject and related pages have been aiming high for Christmas - and have received an equal number of presents in return!

Well, that's this issue. Au revoir et à bientôt till the next time, ChrisDHDR (19:00, 9 December 2007 (UTC)).