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Contents 1 Urk? 2 EH and NT infoboxes 3 Formatting issue 4 Imperial Theatre, London 5 dyk Walter Emden 6 Paddington 7 JTR infobox 8 St Bride Library 9 A little harassment 10 WikiProject Good articles newsletter 11 The King Was In The All-Together

[edit] Urk?

Hello, KB. Umn, what the heck is this? [1] —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ssilvers (talk • contribs)

Hmm, they are billed for three performances - transfer, or in-house company? Not particularly notable, but on the other hand - I'd assume good faith. I'll look forward to your appearance in Godalming (London's Poughkeepsie) gracing the G&S page ... leave it for the moment, scrub it in a couple of weeks as not particularly notable. HTH Kbthompson (talk) 22:59, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

I knocked up a quick article on Walter Emden - architect of the Royal Court (and others) - to fill a significant hole. Comments and corrections welcome. cheers Kbthompson (talk) 13:43, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] EH and NT infoboxes

Thanks for your help re the above infoboxes I'll try a few to see if they work.--Harkey Lodger (talk) 13:34, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Hopefully, they'll do (in some form); let me know what happens and I'll apply anything useful to the London one's. cheers Kbthompson (talk) 13:41, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Formatting issue

Hi. OK, but you mean   not ndash. I'll fix. -- Ssilvers (talk) 17:52, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

Agreed... cheers Kbthompson (talk) 17:55, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Imperial Theatre, London

Hi, Kb. I don't think I can tackle this until after Buxton. I have too much on my plate at present, with a lot of performing, as well as work and WP. Sorry! If you work on it, I'll try to do what I can, but I might not be much help. Hope you are doing well! -- Ssilvers (talk) 04:37, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] dyk Walter Emden

On 28 May 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Walter Emden, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Victuallers (talk) 23:30, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

ta Kbthompson (talk) 08:05, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Paddington

Thanks for your very sane comments and suggestions on my anxieties about the section Associated people, to which I will soon return with a sharpened quill. Thanks, too for the comment about Paddington's borough status which I have now swotted up on and clarified. (I trust you will amend if still necessary.) My parents actually dragged me away to Australia in the 1950s before the 1965 legislation. Cheers Bjenks (talk) 04:30, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Not a problem, always glad to see someone taking an interest in places in London. Kbthompson (talk) 12:25, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] JTR infobox

It's currently a serial killer template being used, which is em-bolding the text of the caption. This isn't typical to other articles, and I would prefer to find the specific code to fix it. Help? - Arcayne (^{cast a spell}) 17:25, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Btw, the infobox is located here; I canna make heads nor tales of where the wacky bold stuff takes place - I friggin' hate html. - Arcayne (^{cast a spell}) 17:28, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

I friggin' hate html is a non-sequitur, as this is written in the wiki-parser - do you mean you friggin' hate wikipedia parser code? ...

The text hangs off an if clause if there's an image and it doesn't seem to me that there's anything in the image #if code to embolden it. Rather it seems not to be parsing correctly - and not resetting the emboldened heading. The template parser is far from perfect, in {{Infobox UKproperty}} {above}, I resorted to a 'sub-template' to get it to behave as I wanted it to. So, half an hour later and no progress, I don't think I can help with this one ... Kbthompson (talk) 18:15, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

OK, I fixed it for you ... Kbthompson (talk) 18:52, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Okay. So as to foster my own needful understanding of such, could you explain where you saw the issue and how you fixed it? - Arcayne (^{cast a spell}) 18:54, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

My initial appraisal (above) was correct. I realised that by explicitly defining a style for the caption, I could reset it. I still feel it's incorrect ... the 110% would be better replaced by "1.25em;", returning the style to "1.00em;" in the next style statement (instead of 90%) would render better than the % figs - essentially, it is far too arcane for you. 8^) Kbthompson (talk) 19:04, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] St Bride Library

Many thanks for putting in the link to the website, and for the extra references as well. :) Miss Book (talk) 13:16, 5 June 2008 (UTC) (moved from Archive 3} Kbthompson (talk) 13:34, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

No problem (new messages go here) ... Kbthompson (talk) 13:34, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] A little harassment

Perhaps I could trouble you to point out to Theplanetsaturn (talk · contribs) about how, when asked not to post on someone's user talk page, they should actually stop posting there? The fellow (or gal) is apparently of the opinion tat they can ask me not to post and expect me not to post, whilst they post gaily at their whimsy. I must say, I am finding it somewhat difficult to give them the assumption of good faith when they are specifically goading me to respond. Sme assistance would be appreciated, as my next method of asking them to go away involves semaphore flags and hand-puppets. - Arcayne (^{cast a spell}) 22:25, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

Again, a little generosity would not go amiss. Is the effort to create drama, or stiffle it? Kbthompson (talk) 01:48, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Good articles newsletter

The Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles Newsletter

The WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter Volume I, No. 8 - June 2008 May issue Project News There are currently 4,266 Good Articles listed at WP:GA. The backlog at Good Article Nominations is 157 unreviewed articles. Out of 215 total nominations, 44 are on hold, 13 are under review, and one is seeking a second opinion. Please go to WP:GAN and review an article or three as soon as you have a chance! The oldest unreviewed articles are: Choctaw, One Night Stand (2007), Justin Tuck, Tristan Tzara, The Stake Out (Seinfeld episode), Impalement arts, Backlash (2007), Adelaide Rams, and Sam Cowan. The categories with the largest backlogs are: Theatre, film and drama (31), Sports and recreation (31), Transport (24), Music (13), and Art and architecture (11) The backlog at Good Article Reassessment currently stands at 4 articles up for re-review. GA Sweeps Update The GA Sweeps process is progressing nicely! During the month of May, a total of 82 articles were reviewed. Of that total, 71 were found to continue to meet the GA criteria, and 11 were delisted. There are currently 15 articles that are still on hold in this process, awaiting revisions. We are once again recruiting new sweeps participants. Candidates should be very strong and comfortable in reviewing GA and familiar with the GA processes and criteria. If you are interested, please contact OhanaUnited for details. GAN Reviewer of the Month Giggy (talk · contribs) (a.k.a. Dihydrogen Monoxide (talk · contribs)) is the GAN Reviewer of the Month for May, based on the assessments made by Dr. Cash on the number and thoroughness of the reviews made by individual reviewers each week. Giggy had a whopping 45 reviews during the month of May! Congratulations to Giggy (talk · contribs) on being May's GAN Reviewer of the Month! Other outstanding reviewers during the month of May include: Ealdgyth (talk · contribs) Eustress (talk · contribs) GaryColemanFan (talk · contribs) Ice Cold Beer (talk · contribs) Juliancolton (talk · contribs) Nikki311 (talk · contribs) ThinkBlue (talk · contribs) Yllosubmarine (talk · contribs) Also, with 19 nominations, Mitchazenia (talk · contribs) is the nominator of the month, followed by TonyTheTiger (talk · contribs) with 8 nominations submitted. Member News There are now 216 members of WikiProject Good Articles! Welcome to the 6 new members that joined during the month of April: Jack Bethune (talk · contribs) Jordan Timothy James Busson (talk · contribs) Limetolime (talk · contribs) Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim Fan (talk · contribs) Mm40 (talk · contribs) Redmarkviolinist (talk · contribs) This WikiProject, and the Good Article program as a whole, would not be where it is today without each and every one of its members! Thank you to all! 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Nonetheless, we still desired to have better archiving and maintenance of past reviews, so that GA ultimately becomes more accountable. When an article is nominated, the nominator adds the template using a substitution, by adding {{subst:GAN|subtopic=<name of subtopic for article at GAN>}}, as well as lists the article (as usual) at WP:GAN in the appropriate category. When a reviewer initiates a review of an article, all that needs to be done is to read the template on the article's {{GA nominee}} template on its talk page, and click on the link to start the review. When the reviewer clicks on that link, they will also see some instructions on how to start a review of a GAN. For new reviewers, there's also a link to the Good Article criteria, as well as to the Wikipedia:Reviewing good articles page and the mentors list. Once an article is reviewed, the GA review page should be transcluded onto the main article talk page, by adding {{Talk:Article/GA#}} to the bottom of the talk page. This is to ensure maintain the transparency of the GA process, as well as to make editors of the article in question aware that the review is taking place. When an article is either passed or failed, there's really nothing different to do in the process, although reviewers are encouraged to utilize the {{ArticleHistory}} template, linking to the GA review subpage with the 'action#link' parameter. Did You Know... ... that there are slightly more than twice as many Good Articles (4,266) as there are Featured Articles? ... that Giggy has some really neat and useful tools to assist reviewers in conducting their reviews? ... that there are ten experienced reviewers listed on the GA mentors list that can offer assistance or a second opinion in reviewing articles? From the Editors A GA working party has initiated discussion on ways to improve the Good Article project and processes. The goal of the working party is to come up with suggestions for improvement based on recent issues and concerns raised in the past, primarily in the wake of the Great Green Dot Debate of May 2008. The discussion can be found here. Members of the working party include: Dank55 (talk · contribs), Derek.cashman (talk · contribs), EyeSerene (talk · contribs), Giggy (talk · contribs), Gwinva (talk · contribs), LaraLove (talk · contribs), Nehrams2020 (talk · contribs), and OhanaUnited (talk · contribs). Please leave any comments or feedback regarding this issue here. Contributors to this Issue Dr. Cash (Lead Editor) Giggabot, Giggy (Distributor) Improving Wikipedia one article at a time since 2005! WikiProject Good Articles: Open Tasks This project identifies, organizes and improves good articles on Wikipedia. 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[edit] The King Was In The All-Together

World War Two The Boy Colin Colin4C (talk) 18:41, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

Yes, Emperor Hirohito was renowned for running around China in the buff. Not sure the relevance, as could easily say it counts as one of the causes of WWII - complete with Spain, Abyssinia, etc.

Probably, the best way to put it is that 1939 was the year the empire on which the 'sun never set' weighed in, with India, Egypt, Hong Kong, the West Indies, Australia, New Zealand - not forgetting the Falklands ... before that, the war could be characterised as post-colonial and neo-colonial brushfires. After 1939, the UK was at war with nearly everybody (mainly trying to grab bits of the empire).

That's when the Japs went for Vietnam, Burma, Shanghai international city and Hong Kong - to name but a few. From an Asian perspective, you could argue that the war didn't end until the Americans got booted out made a strategic withdrawal from Vietnam, as that was a consequence of handing it back to France.

As to the start of the war, well I always followed A. J. P. Taylor's notion that the first world war never ended and that the second world war was a consequence of the conditions imposed on Germany by the Treaty of Versailles (see The Origins of the Second World War}! Kbthompson (talk) 22:59, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

Did you see, BTW, that the war here has still not ended. The Luftwaffe tried to blow us up with a 1T Hermann this week ... Kbthompson (talk) 23:05, 9 June 2008 (UTC)