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| == Good article reassessment for ] == | |||
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| ] has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the ]. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. ] (]) 21:17, 20 October 2024 (UTC) | |||
| == notability of London Children's Ballet == | |||
| We have some discussion of articles about London buses at places such as | |||
| Is ] a notable organization? There is a whole lot of editing by ] company involved PR editing accounts and I just got done purging a swath of promotional pile of contents that belong on their website rather than here. ] (]) 17:48, 5 November 2024 (UTC) | |||
| {{re|OGBC1992}}, FYI. ] (]) 19:21, 5 November 2024 (UTC) | |||
| == ] regarding band member status == | |||
| *] | |||
| *] (full list) | |||
| There is currently an ongoing discussion at ] regarding the status of a band member who had retired from touring. Some opinions would be helpful for this discussion which can be located at ]. Thanks. ] (]) 18:08, 9 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
| As the bus is a notable feature of London, editors may be interested in these topics and discussions. | |||
| ⚫ | == London nightclubs == | ||
| ] (]) 12:12, 3 April 2010 (UTC) | |||
| I've created a list at ], to aid the creation of articles about nightclubs in London. Every entry is listed in some "best of London nightclubs" article in a ] - creating articles for these (providing they meet ]) would be welcome, as woule expansion of the list where applicable. 20:00, 23 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
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| :] 15:27, 3 April 2010 (UTC) | |||
| == Good article reassessment for ] == | |||
| == General election == | |||
| ] has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the ]. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. ] (]) 22:46, 26 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
| == Help newbie enthusiasts with editing. == | |||
| As you may be aware there is going to be a general election. The biggest impact on this project is that there are going to be some changes to constituencies. Some are split and merged, there are renamings and some seats that keep the same name are now made up of different wards. This will impact on locality article politics sections and infoboxes. ] (]) 13:40, 6 April 2010 (UTC) | |||
| :Hi. I had a look at Hackney North and South; and they seemed to be correct. I added the ref in, as the wards were unreferenced. Looking at ] opens up a can of worms. The whole political articles need to be restructured, with a lengthy table taken out of the article - moved to ]? - and keyed to the ward results, which are there from 1998-2006 (only 2006 in Hackney). Some of this is already in ]. | |||
| :So, there's three things to do: | |||
| #Remove retiring MPs from infoboxes when parliament is proroged. My understanding is that sitting MPs remain MPs for their constituency until the new parliament is called. | |||
| #Check the constituency information and correct in infoboxes; correct in articles. | |||
| #Define a suitable structure and content for grouping borough politics articles. Much seems to be there for LB B&D, just badly structured. Much seems to be missing from (say) LB Hackney; but it has a better structure. | |||
| :The other thing we need to do is hold the line about links to political parties - ie ensure if one is mentioned all get a look in. Hm, thanks for bringing this up (I think), there's a lot of work there ... all the best ] (]) 16:06, 6 April 2010 (UTC) | |||
| Can anyone in Camden or around North London offer to a newbie some hands-on lessons in editing? | |||
| ::FYI :- . Candidates, etc ... results will appear after the count. ] (]) 10:15, 12 April 2010 (UTC) | |||
| :::I emptied (and deleted) ]; the replaced constituencies I moved to ]. I got some of the dependencies on the replaced seats, but it would be good if other eyes could have a go from a different angle to confirm my omissions. ] (]) 17:02, 13 April 2010 (UTC) | |||
| ::::If you haven't already, you may want to ask ] if she's planning to do these; in the past she's mass-updated the constituency articles (if you check the histories, about 75% of British and Irish MP and constituency articles were originally started by her), and may have a set of bulk templates just ready to drop into place once the figures are released. – <font color="#E45E05">]</font><font color="#C1118C">]</font> 19:19, 13 April 2010 (UTC) | |||
| Reply to ] (]) 14:55, 14 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
| == BP head office photo request == | |||
| Hi! Has anyone yet photographed the ] head office at ]? | |||
| If one does not know which building it is, BP posted a copyrighted photograph here: http://www.bp.com/popuppreviewthreecol.do?categoryId=121&contentId=7003057 | |||
| We need a Wikipedian to have a freely licensed photo of the building. BTW I checked Geograph and Flickr and couldn't find anything there. ] (]) 03:44, 9 April 2010 (UTC) | |||
| :That photo looked as if it had been taken with an proper architectural camera. Even then, the horizontal convergence is extreme, so I looked on and sure enough the building is taller than the street is wide. Standing far enough back to get it all in will be impossible with and ordinary SLR. Even stitching several shots will be a bit of a challenge. I point this out, so that who ever goes, can plan the shot out before leaving home.--] (]) 12:04, 15 April 2010 (UTC) | |||
| ::I visited London, and so I took a photo of it (see ]). If someone wants to take a higher quality photo or a better photo, he or she is welcome to get a better photo. ] (]) 21:47, 23 April 2010 (UTC) | |||
| == Backstage Pass tour of the British Museum - invitation. == | |||
| Dear all, <br> | |||
| Following the above thread about the British Museum, I'm pleased to announce the first real activity of the project - the BM is offering a "backstage pass" tour to any Wikimedians who wish to come along on Friday the 4th of June. Details below, copied from the Announcement by Mike Peel from Wikimedia UK. All London-based (or those who can make it there) Wikipedians are very welcome to come along. The crucial info and signup page is all here http://uk.wikimedia.org/Backstage_Pass. <br> Sincerely, ] ] 23:35, 16 May 2010 (UTC) | |||
| From Mike: | |||
| Wikimedia UK and the British Museum would like to invite you to a very special event taking place from 11am on Friday 4 June - a "Backstage Pass" to the British Museum! | |||
| <blockquote>"You may have heard of the British Museum’s exciting initiative, a Wikipedian-in-Residence, with Liam Wyatt joining us in June to work with museum staff and Misplaced Pages editors to encourage mutual understanding and improve the encyclopaedia in areas relevant to the Museum’s collection. In order to kick off the residency, I’d like to invite you to join us at the British Museum Misplaced Pages Backstage Pass Day, on Friday 4 June.</blockquote> | |||
| <blockquote>In the morning we have arranged a number of behind-the-scenes and gallery tours for Wikipedians. Then, after lunch together in the staff canteen, we will get together in the Clore Education Centre to talk about collaboration, have a question and answer sessions, hear pitches for adding notable objects and developing featured articles, and hopefully also forming some relationships for future working, during and beyond Liam’s residency.</blockquote> | |||
| <blockquote>I hope you can come; there’s a lot of interest here at the Museum about it. I look forward to welcoming you to the Museum. ''Matthew Cock, Head of Web, the British Museum''</blockquote> | |||
| This will be an exciting, incredibly important, and - most of all - fun event, so I would encourage you to attend if you are able to. You can find out more information about what will be happening, and sign up to say that you are coming, at: http://uk.wikimedia.org/Backstage_Pass | |||
| Thanks, | |||
| ], on behalf of Wikimedia UK | |||
| == The British Museum wants to give you money and help you write articles! == | |||
| Yesterday I was lucky enough to attend the aforementioned ] event at the ]. It was part of a wider project of engagement with Misplaced Pages (see ]) that has seen them take on a temporary Wikipedian In Residence, ]. They see Misplaced Pages as sharing many of their aims, and they want to encourage involvement by Wikipedians with the museum, and vice versa. They have even offered 5 prizes of £100 at the BM shop for ] on BM topics - in any language.<br> | |||
| Most Wikipedians probably don't know that the BM has curators dedicated to answering phone/email questions about their specialist areas, and most of their department libraries welcome visitors doing bona fide research - and they now seem to recognise that editing Misplaced Pages articles, especially about items in the BM's collections, counts for those purposes. I know that the first question most people will have is "Can we have images of all their stuff?" and I'd just ask people to be patient on that front. Let's just say that the museum are well aware of our hopes there, there are staff who see advantages to the museum in doing something, and it's being discussed at the highest level. On the other hand it's a very complex area that needs to be handled diplomatically. Literally in some cases - foreign governments can get very touchy about the dissemination of images of artifacts relating to their cultural history, and the museum needs to respect those concerns.<br> | |||
| So for the moment the focus is on using the BM's huge resources of books, expertise etc to improve article content, and Londoners should be well-placed to visit the museum to do this. Hopefully we will also see articles being peer-reviewed by BM staff. Some of them are quite nervous about doing stuff on Misplaced Pages, a mixture of fear of professional ridicule, nervousness about the technical aspects, stories of rapid reverts of good-faith edits and just general culture shock - it's a very different world to the one they come from. So I'd ask everyone to look after any BM people that you see around the place, Misplaced Pages can gain a lot from their involvement and it would be a shame if they're discouraged for any reason. | |||
| As I mentioned above, ] is the clearing house for the BM's involvement with Misplaced Pages, and I suggest that further questions/comments are directed there. ] (]) 14:24, 5 June 2010 (UTC) | |||
| :"They have even offered 5 prizes of £100 at the BM shop for featured articles on BM topics - in any language" – in what way does this differ from what got ] globally sitebanned? – <font color="#E45E05">]</font><font color="#C1118C">]</font> 16:13, 5 June 2010 (UTC) | |||
| :: This is quite disheartening as this is the second time you've accused me of being the same as our troll-in-chief. MyWikiBiz was an attempt to use Misplaced Pages as an paid advertising platform for commercial organisations. The nascent relationship with the British Museum is an attempt to find ways that we can work together for mutual-benifit because we have, at base, the same ideals. I have taken pains to make sure that, whilst there is always a potential for CoI/Advertising/SPAM/Corruption (whatever you want to call it) that this risk is minimised by the nature of the way the project is run. In this instance, with the 100pound vouchers, there are some quite important points: | |||
| ::*They are prizes/rewards for writing content on Misplaced Pages with no demand or expectation editorial control from the British Museum - they will accept Wikipedian's own definition of "Featured Quality". | |||
| ::*There is no restriction on the subject matter or Misplaced Pages language edition other than it be an article of strong relationship to the museum, ideally an article about one of the "notable" collection objects. This is quite different to requiring that we write about the institution itself. | |||
| ::*They are a knowledge-institution who have staff members who are world-experts in the specialist subjects who are willing to receive inquiries from Wikipedians to help improve free-culture content about those subject. | |||
| ::I hope this allays your concerns. ] ] 15:16, 6 June 2010 (UTC) | |||
| Leaving aside the likelihood that you wrote this to be deliberately provocative, I think that the distinction in both intent and outcome is blindingly obvious to anyone bothering to expend more than a modicum of intelligence. One case involves paying an advertising agency to write about your company, with the intention of improving that company's business (with concessions made to editorial standards in order to skirt deletion or sanction). The other case involves a non-profit with whom we share a mission (to share knowledge), who generously offers incentives for contributing to our collection of knowledge. The result is high-quality, informative articles about objects contained in the British Museum which have real providence. It is my polite recommendation that you continue to contribute in areas in which you can make constructive contributions (like RfA) instead of making provocative comments in lieu of contributing to others. — ] • ] 12:53, 6 June 2010 (UTC) | |||
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Good article reassessment for The Bill
The Bill has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 21:17, 20 October 2024 (UTC)
notability of London Children's Ballet
Is London Children's Ballet a notable organization? There is a whole lot of editing by single purpose company involved PR editing accounts and I just got done purging a swath of promotional pile of contents that belong on their website rather than here. Graywalls (talk) 17:48, 5 November 2024 (UTC) @OGBC1992:, FYI. Graywalls (talk) 19:21, 5 November 2024 (UTC)
Iron Maiden regarding band member status
There is currently an ongoing discussion at Talk:Iron Maiden regarding the status of a band member who had retired from touring. Some opinions would be helpful for this discussion which can be located at Talk:Iron Maiden#Recent edit warring regarding band membership. Thanks. HorrorLover555 (talk) 18:08, 9 December 2024 (UTC)
London nightclubs
I've created a list at Misplaced Pages:WikiProject London/List of London nightclubs, to aid the creation of articles about nightclubs in London. Every entry is listed in some "best of London nightclubs" article in a WP:RS - creating articles for these (providing they meet WP:GNG) would be welcome, as woule expansion of the list where applicable. 20:00, 23 December 2024 (UTC)
Good article reassessment for British Library
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Help newbie enthusiasts with editing.
Can anyone in Camden or around North London offer to a newbie some hands-on lessons in editing?
Reply to Janosabel (talk) 14:55, 14 January 2025 (UTC)
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