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1858 and 1859 AHS

Hi there. I just wanted to let you know I have partially completed drafts of 1858 and 1859 in the making, and I intend/hope to get them published soon. I'm all for collaborative effort, I just wanted to make sure we're on the same page so neither of us end up wasting our time writing duplicate content. Best, Juliancolton (talk) 02:28, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

1856-1859 Atlantic hurricane seasons

Hi 14GTR! I noticed that you have been working on the remaining Atlantic hurricane seasons, like 1856, 1857, and maybe 1858 and 1859 (with a potential collaboration with Juliancolton). Anyway, I wasn't sure if you intended on getting them to GA yourself (as in being the nominator). I probably should have ask you about this earlier, because I just nominated the 1856 Atlantic hurricane season for GA.--12george1 (talk) 03:44, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

Re:1856-1859 Atlantic hurricane seasons

Hi 14GTR, it's me again. Let me rephrase what I said. Did you want to nominate the 1856 Atlantic hurricane season for GA before I messed with it? At this point, it is what it is. But did I "steal" an article that you wanted to get to GA? If so, I apologize for that. During the previous few months, I was using the 1853, 1854, and 1855 Atlantic hurricane seasons as DYKs and GAs for the WikiCup. When I suddenly noticed that someone (turned out to be you) created the 1856 Atlantic hurricane season, I immediately got to work and ignored whoever whoever made the article and what their intentions were. Again, I apologize for this. Regards, --12george1 (talk) 15:13, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

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A barnstar for you!

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	I saw you've been editing for a while, and you do good work! I hope the recent encounter with 12george1 doesn't deter you. You're a good writer and I hope you keep it up. Hurricanehink mobile (talk) 14:35, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

Of course! I meant what I said, I hope you keep writing. You have skills that the project could definitely use. --♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 19:23, 26 July 2013 (UTC)

Hey there, it's me again. So, since I see you editing the 1850s Atlantic hurricane seasons, I was wondering what thoughts you had on what'll happen when 1858 and 1859 are eventually published. What should we do with 1850–59 Atlantic hurricane seasons? And specifically 1850? I'm curious if you had any thoughts. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 14:22, 8 August 2013 (UTC)

Hey, since you did such a good job with the 1850s seasons, I think you should do the honor of splitting off 1859 :) --♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 02:20, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

Hi, Juliancotton has produced a perfectly good draft of the 1859 season, see here, but has yet to post it as an article. When he does then, obviously the 1850-59 page can be deleted. Best regards 14GTR (talk) 07:33, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

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Many thanks;- don't worry it'll be a very long time before I write an article about a footballer or a wannabee pop singer. 14GTR (talk) 06:58, 18 October 2013 (UTC)

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Hey man! I hope you haven't given up editing tropical cyclone articles. You're a good writer, and we could use an editor like you :) --♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 14:13, 24 October 2013 (UTC)

Hi, nice to hear from you again; I haven't given up on looking at old TC seasons but for the moment I'm mostly looking at war artists from WW2, but will return to TC's in due course. Hope all is well.14GTR (talk) 14:23, 24 October 2013 (UTC)

Ah cool. Yep, all's been well. I'm working on some Pacific typhoon articles. They're sort of the graveyard of the project, since there's so many storms that did so much damage, but the WP coverage is pretty scant. Typhoon Vera, one of the most important Japanese typhoons, has a rather lousy article, so I'm currently working on storms over there so they're not so bad. Enjoy your time in the past in WW2! ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 18:16, 24 October 2013 (UTC)

Cardiff WikiMeet

Hi. Just letting you know that we've now got a dedicated space upstairs ar the Urban Tap House. See you there! --Rhyswynne (talk) 09:49, 31 October 2013 (UTC)

Many thanks, I know the Urban Tap can be a bit of a maze upstairs but I'm sure I'll find the meeting. 14GTR (talk) 10:19, 31 October 2013 (UTC)

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Hi, I did consider leaving a message on the users' talk page but after seeing their User Page, now deleted, I really didn't want to engage with them at all, but thanks for pointing me towards those Template messages. Regards 14GTR (talk) 08:06, 16 January 2014 (UTC)

Ruby Loftus

I've spun off some of the excellent content you added to Laura Knight to create an article for Ruby Loftus Screwing a Breech Ring. I'm going to nominate it at DYK. Thanks for all your great writing on art. Gareth E Kegg (talk) 00:04, 6 February 2014 (UTC)

Your welcome, you have added some really good material to create the new article. I saw the painting last year at the Laura Knight Portraits exhibition at the NPG and enjoyed writing about it and Knight in general. I seem to recall seeing a photograph of Knight and Loftus together so I'll see if thats available.14GTR (talk) 07:54, 6 February 2014 (UTC)

Your new section on Stanley Spencer

Thanks for your new section on SS, which reads well and as far as I know provides the correct facts. Two constructive comments: a) It could do with a main citation nearer to its starting point - did you base it all on one source or did you merge several? b) It draws attention to the need for a further new section on his WW2 War Artist work - especially the important shipbuilding paintings. These are of course already included in a minor way, but for their artistic importance and social commentary, they merit a complete new section. BW, --Dendrotek 15:16, 31 January 2014 (UTC) Hi Dendrotek, thanks for your kind comments; my intention is to add three more sections to the article,

• Port Glasgow 1939-1945
• Resurrection pictures 1945-1950
• Final years.

The first of these is almost done and the other two should be finished later this week. The 1932-38 section was based on the Tate Catalogue - hence the single citation. BTW, I like the Chronology section you added. Regards, 14GTR (talk) 08:47, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

Thanks. I would like to co-operate with you and agree that these Sections will be a good step. I'll keep off them for now. Glad you like Chronology. I may continue to add small cited items particularly on Early Life. I am thinking of categorizing a selection of SS's works into broad subjects e.g. Biblical, Gardens/botanical, Portraits, maybe Allegorical, War Artist etc., then put into a Wiki Table (? how these work) the Galleries at which they may be seen. Not to reproduce them in Wiki though, which causes problems with copyright. Having suggested this, I should add that I don't set myself deadlines for my Wiki pootling! BW --Dendrotek 13:34, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

Sounds good - I know some artists have those Wikitables as seperate pages to their main article - which might be the way to go with Spencer as you would be looking at a very long list indeed. 14GTR (talk) 14:27, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

Great - could you please tell me the titles of a couple of artists with Wikitables?--Dendrotek 16:11, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

Hi, this is one of the better examples, List of works by Vincent van Gogh. Plenty more in the category at the bottom of that page. 14GTR (talk) 08:11, 4 February 2014 (UTC)

Thanks. Yes, the Articles on VvG are well done, aren't they! But a Wikitable like that is more ambitious than I intended at this stage. In particular, it would take me into copyright concerns. Because Spencer was relatively recently alive and still has a lot of family in the Thames Valley whose sensitivities I respect. Rather than the VvG Tabl, the copyright situation is more like Francis Bacon, for example. I suppose one could claim Fair Use? See for example File:Triptych May-June, 1973.jpg ? What do you think bout that? Otherwise, I am inclined to start with a Table containing links to places on the web where one may see some representative works of Spencer on approved Gallery Sites e.g. Tate Britain, Spencer Gallery, Birmingham etc. without trying to put Thumbs with hot links into Wikipedia? BW. --Dendrotek 22:36, 4 February 2014 (UTC)

Sure, give it a go. 14GTR (talk) 09:39, 5 February 2014 (UTC)

Hi, have you undone my mods to the biographical section headings? Also, Patrons - War Artists Advisory Committee seems to have disappeared from the Bio Info box? I can't see anyone else working on SS at present.--Dendrotek 11:16, 6 February 2014 (UTC)

Yes, I did, those extended headings you added made the article look a mess. Nor is there any need to include WAAC in the info-box - the article has plenty on them already.14GTR (talk) 11:58, 6 February 2014 (UTC)

Hi - "a mess" is just your personal opinion - only one reader of millions! You might at least have informed me first, maybe I could have shortened them. I don't think any of the headings should be bare dates. And re WAAC - what's about them in the body of the Article is not the point. The WAA Committee were important patrons, so they should be in the box. Organisations as well as individual people are often important patrons of the arts. Again, you didn't inform me before chopping it - a bit rude. On a more constructive note, are you familiar with adding categories? If so, perhaps the Article should have a WWI War Artist category too. Would you like to add it?--Dendrotek 19:25, 6 February 2014 (UTC)

Work on painters

Hi, I just added the "Your Paintings" link to Charles Cundall (as one of their "popular artists"), but while I was there I saw you had already used the link and have been creating lots of pages using their links already. Thanks for your work, as I enjoyed reading a few of your painter articles, so I hope you decide to keep making more! Jane (talk) 08:46, 7 February 2014 (UTC)

Hi, Thanks for your appreciation. Funny you should mention "Your Paintings" I think its a great resource and use it a lot, normally as a 'Reference' to which museums have works by the artist, but obviously others add it under 'See also' or 'External links'. Has there been a discussion somewhere on a preferred way ? 14GTR (talk) 09:09, 7 February 2014 (UTC)

No, not really. I downloaded the whole dataset and have been trying to match it up to another set of painter names. I have tried a few times to talk them into a collaboration, but they are nervous about it. Along with some folks from the UK we set up a project page here WP:Yours. Like you, I think it's a fantastic resource and use them a lot. I love the fact they can host all that modern art, something we can't do on Wikipedia. Jane (talk) 11:12, 7 February 2014 (UTC)

OK, thanks - I'll put that page on my watchlist.14GTR (talk) 11:34, 7 February 2014 (UTC)

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Another good hook. Cheers. Victuallers (talk) 09:52, 12 March 2014 (UTC)

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Good point - I'm sure it was the weather that particular evening that led to the pneumonia, I'll add a few words to make that clearer in the morning.Thanks for doing the page review.Many thanks 14GTR (talk) 23:26, 10 April 2014 (UTC)

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No problem; please proceed.14GTR (talk) 08:22, 10 November 2014 (UTC)

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Hall of Remembrance

Apologies for disturbing, but I wondered if you had seen my questions at Talk:Hall of Remembrance about your revert on that article. Thanks. -- Theramin (talk) 01:11, 29 November 2014 (UTC)

Sorry, but as I see you have been editing recently, I'd be grateful if you could explain what your edit summary of "IWM image credits required; more apt format." means. I was bold, you reverted, so now please can we have the discussion. Thanks. -- Theramin (talk) 23:44, 2 December 2014 (UTC)

It is totally inappropriate to include so many images in such a short article nor does it reflect the uncertainity about the composition of the list; since I started it I've revised it several times and expect to do so again. The IWM website specifies the format in which they want the use of works in their collection to be acknowledged and it is a courtsey to do so.14GTR (talk) 07:49, 3 December 2014 (UTC)

Thanks. I've replied over on the talk page. -- Theramin (talk) 01:19, 4 December 2014 (UTC)

"Your paintings" painters list

Hi! Thank you so much for the work you've been putting in identifying painters on the Wikipedia:GLAM/Your_paintings#Artists_by_birth_period.

One thing in future though, could I ask you if at all possible to make the edits on Wikidata, rather than (only) directly on the pages? The reason is that I have got a script now to update the lists from the information on Wikidata, but it doesn't take into account edits directly on Wikipedia -- so there's a real risk changes made directly to the wikipages may get overwritten and lost. (Also, if edits are made on Wikidata, they immediately become accessible to all sorts of other projects using the data).

So for example, in the 1875 list, I see that you've been able to identify "Paul Ayshford Methuen" with the wiki article Paul Ayshford Methuen, 4th Baron Methuen. This doesn't have a Wikidata entry set up in the list, but if you go to the article, then look down the sidebar of the page on the left hand side, to the 'tools' subsection, second from the bottom there is a link to Wikidata item, which in this case should take you to d:Q7149146. Almost all articles on Wikipedia have now got identified links like this to Wikidata (with the exception of some disambiguation pages and redirects).

Once on the Wikidata page, if you scroll down, the second section is called "Statements", and if you scroll down to the bottom of that, you should be able to see an "add" link on the right hand side, on its own below the other statements. If you click this, Wikidata will then let you add new information about the item.

Hitting this 'add' link should bring up a new entry-box on the left saying "Property". Starting to type "BBC Your Paintings" into this box brings up a choice of properties we can add -- in this case, it will be to add the "BBC Your Paintings artist identifier", and paul-ayshford-methuen can then be added in the entry-box that becomes available immediately to the right of this. Hitting "save" immediately to the right of this then confirms the edit, and saves the property. I have actually just made this edit.

In the same way, one can add the property "VIAF identifier", and set this to "23211318"; and if there were a Commons category, one could add that as a property and set its name (missing out the word "Category:").

The results of these additions can then be seen in the 'pretty' version of Wikidata, called Reasonator. Once you have enabled it (go to a Wikidata page, then 'Preferences' in the bar next to your user-name at the top of the page, then check 'Reasonator' second from the bottom of the section 'Wikidata-centric' and save), now on any Wikidata page there should be a link 'Reasonator' at the bottom of the sidebar on the left. Click this, and you will see what Wikidata knows about the subject presented in a slightly more accessible form, eg this for Paul Ayshford Methuen -- including in the 'infobox' area in the right hand side now a link to VIAF, a link to the "Your paintings" site, and a link to the English wikipedia. This is also where the "Commons category" link would appear. (And "Commons creator page", if it exists and has been set).

The next time the painters list pages get regenerated, they should now automatically include the link Paul Ayshford Methuen, 4th Baron Methuen (without a question mark now, since it's been drawn directly from Wikidata); and the VIAF number.

Yes, I appreciate that at least to start with it may seem more of a chore than just editing the Wiki pages directly. And unfortunately there isn't the satisfaction of seeing the results change instantly -- not until the whole set of list pages is regenerated. But on the upside, going this route makes it possible to regenerate the pages much more systematically and keep them updated, and gets the information into the system in a form where (with luck) it should soon be usable in all sorts of different ways.

So my apologies for changing the way things will need to be done. But I hope that, once you get into it, you'll find that editing the Wikidata pages isn't so onerous. And the big advantage is it now lets us do so much more with the data -- so that rather than being trapped on a single page, the linkages can now (or very soon) be usable anywhere; as well as allowing cross-queries to be run such as eg "which 'Your Paintings' painters also have identifiers in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography" ?

So thanks for bearing with this,

All best, Jheald (talk) 17:33, 12 December 2014 (UTC)

Hmmmmm.... a lot to think about there. I hope the changes I made didn't cause any problems for you. I tend to look at those pages every few months to see if I can spot anything, fairly obvious, to be updated/corrected or when I create a new article on someone who is listed. When that happens and the redlink under En.WP turns blue will that be carried over to Wikidata or will I need to amend their entry there ?. Thanks for taking the time to explain all this. Best wishes 14GTR (talk) 22:28, 12 December 2014 (UTC)

The Menin Road (painting)

Congratulations on your new article. Much better than the one I started at The Menin Road. I think I'll give up on the Nash brothers, if you are going to do them so well.

Do you think the pre-emptive disambiguation with "(painting)" is required? If so, I see that Menin Road is a redirect to Battle of Passchendaele, so perhaps the Menin Road should do the same. I'll leave you to decide. Happy editing. -- Theramin (talk) 00:23, 16 December 2014 (UTC)

OK - many thanks. Take care.14GTR (talk) 13:38, 16 December 2014 (UTC)

Paul Nash

Hi. I wonder if you could you possibly explain what "IWM criteria" are? Many thanks. Martinevans123 (talk) 16:24, 13 December 2014 (UTC)

When you download a image from the IWM website it specifies how they want usage of the picture acknowledged and that is what those alpha-numerical codes are. I don't know of any other museum that asks for that, usually the institions name is enough, but they do and it's a reasonable and easy thing to do.14GTR (talk) 16:33, 13 December 2014 (UTC)

Ah yes, I see, thanks. Reasonable and easy for the editor, certainly. But for the reader? and without any explanation in the article? Is that a requirement for the caption as well as the image file? I've made mistakes in the past when I have misinterpreted what is meant by "acknowledgement" and have added photographer's names to captions, only to be told that they need appear only at the image file. Martinevans123 (talk) 16:38, 13 December 2014 (UTC)

I doubt if many people, if any, notice them: irrespective of the WP requirement I would always add the photographer's name to a caption as well.14GTR (talk) 16:55, 13 December 2014 (UTC)

Well, I think some readers will be confused and will expect to see a location for the work. I'd be tempted to add a link like (Art. IWM ART 1154). But what is that IWM "acknowledgement" requirement exactly? Martinevans123 (talk) 17:03, 13 December 2014 (UTC)

I can't see it confusing anyone. I've two books on Nash beside me at the moment and all the WW1 & WW2 images in them use exactly the same notation.14GTR (talk) 17:10, 13 December 2014 (UTC)

Haha. I really don't think we can expect the average reader to have "two books on Nash beside them... with exactly the same notation," can we? Martinevans123 (talk) 17:15, 13 December 2014 (UTC) p.s. perhaps you could direct me to a description of that acknowledgement policy at the IWM website, or wherever? Many thanks. I've opened a topic for discussion on the Talk Page.

I wonder would you care to make an input over there?? Many thanks. Martinevans123 (talk) 16:37, 17 December 2014 (UTC)

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Has WikiProject X changed the world yet? No.

We opened up shop last month and announced our existence to the world. Our first phase is the "research" phase, consisting mostly of reading and listening. We set up our landing page and started collecting stories. So far, 28 stories have been shared about WikiProjects, describing a variety of experiences across numerous WikiProjects. A recurring story involves a WikiProject that starts off strong but has trouble continuing to stay active. Most people describe using WikiProjects as a way to get feedback from other editors. Some quotes:

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WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 2

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Making sense of a lot of data.

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WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 3

Greetings! For this month's issue...

We have demos!

After a lengthy research and design process, we decided for WikiProject X to focus on two things:

• A WikiProject workflow that focuses on action items: discussions you can participate in and tasks you can perform to improve the encyclopedia; and
• An automatically updating WikiProject directory that gives you lists of users participating in the WikiProject and editing in that subject area.

We have a live demonstration of the new WikiProject workflow at WikiProject Women in Technology, a brand new WikiProject that was set up as an adjunct to a related edit-a-thon in Washington, DC. The goal is to surface action items for editors, and we intend on doing that through automatically updated working lists. We are looking into using SuggestBot to generate lists of outstanding tasks, and we are looking into additional options for automatic worklist generation. This takes the burden off of WikiProject editors to generate these worklists, though there is also a "requests" section for Wikipedians to make individual requests. (As of writing, these automated lists are not yet live, so you will see a blank space under "edit articles" on the demo WikiProject. Sorry about that!) I invite you to check out the WikiProject and leave feedback on WikiProject X's talk page.

Once the demo is sufficiently developed, we will be working on a limited deployment on our pilot WikiProjects. We have selected five for the first round of testing based on the highest potential for impact and will scale up from there.

While a re-designed WikiProject experience is much needed, that alone isn't enough. A WikiProject isn't any good if people have no way of discovering it. This is why we are also developing an automatically updated WikiProject directory. This directory will surface project-related metrics, including a count of active WikiProject participants and of active editors in that project's subject area. The purpose of these metrics is to highlight how active the WikiProject is at the given point of time, but also to highlight that project's potential for success. The directory is not yet live but there is a demonstration featuring a sampling of WikiProjects.

Each directory entry will link to a WikiProject description page which automatically list the active WikiProject participants and subject-area article editors. This allows Wikipedians to find each other based on the areas they are interested in, and this information can be used to revive a WikiProject, start a new one, or even for some other purpose. These description pages are not online yet, but they will use this template, if you want to get a feel of what they will look like.

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Wouldn't it be cool if lists of requested articles could not only be integrated directly with WikiProjects, but also shared between WikiProjects? Well, we got the crazy idea of having experimental software feature Flow deployed (on a totally experimental basis) on the new Article Request Workshop, which seeks to be a place where editors can "workshop" article ideas before they get created. It uses Flow because Flow allows, essentially, section-level categorization, and in the future will allow "sections" (known as "topics" within Flow) to be included across different pages. What this means is that you have a recommendation for a new article tagged by multiple WikiProjects, allowing for the recommendation to appear on lists for each WikiProject. This will facilitate inter-WikiProject collaboration and will help to reduce duplicated work. The Article Request Workshop is not entirely ready yet due to some bugs with Flow, but we hope to integrate it into our pilot WikiProjects at some point.

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Books and Bytes - Issue 11

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Books & Bytes
Issue 11, March-April 2015
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List of Irish artists

given your expertise: Kenneth King (artist) should be in List of Irish artists but i do not know his date of birth. Lugnad (talk) 00:24, 6 May 2015 (UTC)

Feel free to add him to the list, even without a date. BBC Your Paintings has a single ship picture by a Kenneth King born 1939, would that be him ?. I have some reference books at home I can check this evening as well. Best regards. 14GTR (talk) 06:51, 6 May 2015 (UTC)

It has to be him (so you do have expertise). My compliments. you mention the BBC Your Paintings. that subject matter is what would appeal to him. He had served in the RN; so an Irish VC ...

Thanks for establishing his date of birth. 1939. I visited him few years ago, he looked elderly then. Yet he had boundless energy, running art classes for his neighbours on a pro bono basis.

A few days ago, I uploaded one of his pictures and the article: Irish Willow I left a question on its talk page. Remember, here on Wikipedia, there was a time when lots of articles had "trivia" sections and then there were purges, I fear that it is similar trivia. But others think otherwise.

Is there any significance to his signature? It is in English in the BBC Your Paintings picture. It is in Irish in the Irish Willow. I just noticed. Only curiosity.Lugnad (talk) 00:55, 7 May 2015 (UTC)

Interesting artist - thanks for bringing him to my attention. I don't know about his signature but I would go ahead and add the 'lucky' sailors material to the Irish Willow article - maybe trim it a bit. I'll see if I can find a better source for King's DoB. 14GTR (talk) 06:52, 7 May 2015 (UTC)

thanks - I'll try to get https://www.siopagaeilge.ie/products/Beathaisn%E9is/product10-18.htm [1] Lugnad (talk) 08:50, 7 May 2015 (UTC)

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Books and Bytes - Issue 12

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Books and Bytes - Issue 13

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Patrick Hennessy(Painter)

If you believe these two issues are still open then let's see if we can resolve them.I believe they are resolved otherwise I would not have removed the tags.Please let me know what your concerns are.snowpatrol 21:08, 23 September 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Seascaper (talk • contribs)

Unless you are prepared to come forward with valid reasons for your action of re-instating the two tags I shall assume that you have withdrawn your objections and I shall remove the tags.Should anyone else have any objections to my removing these tags then please come forward now.snowpatrol 21:50, 2 October 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Seascaper (talk • contribs)

No, those tags are still valid. 14GTR (talk) 11:56, 3 October 2015 (UTC) It is not sufficient to just state that the tags are valid without giving a proper explanation in each case.Do not try to act as judge and jury in this matter.As I have already requested last month,let me know what your issues are so that they can be discussed rationally.snowpatrol 20:51, 3 October 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Seascaper (talk • contribs)

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WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 5

Newsletter • October 2015

Hello there! Happy to be writing this newsletter once more. This month:

We did it!

In July, we launched five pilot WikiProjects: WikiProjects Cannabis, Evolutionary Biology, Ghana, Hampshire, and Women's Health. We also use the new design, named "WPX UI," on WikiProject Women in Technology, Women in Red, WikiProject Occupational Safety and Health. We are currently looking for projects for the next round of testing. If you are interested, please sign up on the Pilots page.

Shortly after our launch we presented at Wikimania 2015. Our slides are on Wikimedia Commons.

Then after all that work, we went through the process of figuring out whether we accomplished our goal. We reached out to participants on the redesigned WikiProjects, and we asked them to complete a survey. (If you filled out your survey—thank you!) While there are still some issues with the WikiProject tools and the new design, there appears to be general satisfaction (at least among those who responded). The results of the survey and more are documented in our grant report filed with the Wikimedia Foundation.

The work continues!

There is more work that needs to be done, so we have applied for a renewal of our grant. Comments on the proposal are welcome. We would like to improve what we have already started on the English Wikipedia and to also expand to Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata. Why those? Because they are multilingual projects and because there needs to be better coordination across Wikimedia projects. More details are available in the renewal proposal.

How can the Wikimedia Foundation support WikiProjects?

The Wikimedia Developer Summit will be held in San Francisco in January 2016. The recently established Community Tech team at the Wikimedia Foundation is interested in investigating what technical support they can provide for WikiProjects, i.e., support beyond just templates and bots. I have plenty of opinions myself, but I want to hear what you think. The session is being planned on Phabricator, the Wikimedia bug tracker. If you are not familiar with Phabricator, you can log in with your Wikipedia username and password through the "Login or Register: MediaWiki" button on the login page. Your feedback can help make editing Wikipedia a better experience.

Until next time,

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Having spoken to a number of Wikipedians a few weeks back regarding the structure of the lead section. One of the editors helped me by doing an example of a lead.All I have done is refine that lead.This I was assured I could do. I'm not quite sure what you're motives are for continually objecting to my edits regarding this article. Whilst I'm here,can you also explain to me how you managed to upload images of artists paintings onto a Wikipedia article? I was lead to believe that this was strictly copyright.snowpatrol 20:16, 18 November 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Seascaper (talk • contribs)

Seascaper, You need to read Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources and indeed the other guidelines in the sidebox on that page on how to edit. The changes you made today made the Hennessy article worse - you made the lead unacceptably short (again) and introduced unreferenced links into the text. No doubt if I had put the appropriate tags at the top of the article you would have objected to that as well. You have made a vast number of edits to that page but have yet to make the effort to learn how to do the simplest things properly. You even made a mess of leaving a message here tonight. If you want to learn to edit to a high standard you need to change your attitude to other editors and stop throwing accusations around, (I'm not quite sure what you're motives...). As for uploading pictures, I would forget that and learn the basics first. You might want to start by reinserting the edits I made today. 14GTR (talk) 21:03, 18 November 2015 (UTC)

14GTR When I spoke to editors ClemRutter and WereSpielChequers recently. They informed me that references were not required in the lead section. ClemRutter had a hack at the lead(his words)and all I have done is refined the lead.With regard to the length of the lead.As WereSpielChequers stated in his entry dated 10/11/15-17.18 add to it yourself if you feel it is too short. Finally aggressive responses like the one you have just sent are not acceptable on Wikipedia or anywhere else for that matter.I was just enquiring how you were able to upload images on a lot of the articles on artists you edited.Presumably I will have to ask elsewhere.(snowpatrol 21:43, 18 November 2015 (UTC)) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Seascaper (talk • contribs)

Seascaper, No, you clearly were not just enquiring how you were able to upload images, you were also questioning my motives for editing WP. I guess it is easier for you to accuse me of aggression rather than take my advice and learn the guidelines for good quality editing and stop making so many mistakes. More specifically, I did extend the lead today and you cut it back. Would you prefer I add a 'lead too short' tag to the article instead ? 14GTR (talk) 00:12, 19 November 2015 (UTC)

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Okay I'll edit it again even though it wasn't as bad as you make it seem. Can you help me then because this is for a final project at my university and frankly I'm not failing this assignment that I've been working on for a while. It's need to be up by 2pm tomorrow and frankly it can be deleted on Saturday. I'm just making the post to complete the assignment but I'm also trying not to insult or mislead anyone so I'm coming to you hat in hand for some help. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pcampbell30 (talk • contribs) 17:58, 10 December 2015 (UTC)

I'm happy to try and help although I'm far from clear what your objectives are. I'll format one of the references you have added and tighten up some of the text - anything that looks like a sweeping statement is problematic. Precise statements are always better.14GTR (talk) 18:33, 10 December 2015 (UTC)

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WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 6

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Hello there! Happy to be writing this newsletter once more. This month:

What comes next

Some good news: the Wikimedia Foundation has renewed WikiProject X. This means we can continue focusing on making WikiProjects better.

During our first round of work, we created a prototype WikiProject based on two ideas: (1) WikiProjects should clearly present things for people to do, and (2) The content of WikiProjects should be automated as much as possible. We launched pilots, and for the most part it works. But this approach will not work for the long term. While it makes certain aspects of running a WikiProject easier, it makes the maintenance aspects harder.

We are working on a major overhaul that will address these issues. New features will include:

• Creating WikiProjects by simply filling out a form, choosing which reports you want to generate for your project. This will work with existing bots in addition to the Reports Bot reports. (Of course, you can also have sections curated by humans.)
• One-click button to join a WikiProject, with optional notifications.
• Be able to define your WikiProject's scope within the WikiProject itself by listing relevant pages and categories, eliminating the need to tag every talk page with a banner. (You will still be allowed to do that, of course. It just won't be required.)

The end goal is a collaboration tool that can be used by WikiProjects but also by any edit-a-thon or group of people that want to coordinate on improving articles. Though implemented as an extension, the underlying content will be wikitext, meaning that you can continue to use categories, templates, and other features as you normally would.

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WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 7

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This month:

One database for Wikipedia requests

Development of the extension for setting up WikiProjects, as described in the last issue of this newsletter, is currently underway. No terribly exciting news on this front.

In the meantime, we are working on a prototype for a new service we hope to announce soon. The problem: there are requests scattered all across Wikipedia, including requests for new articles and requests for improvements to existing articles. We Wikipedians are very good at coming up with lists of things to do. But once we write these lists, where do they end up? How can we make them useful for all editors—even those who do not browse the missing articles lists, or the particular WikiProjects that have lists?

Introducing Wikipedia Requests, a new tool to centralize the various lists of requests around Wikipedia. Requests will be tagged by category and WikiProject, making it easier to find requests based on what your interests are. Accompanying this service will be a bot that will let you generate reports from this database on any wiki page, including WikiProjects. This means that once a request is filed centrally, it can syndicated all throughout Wikipedia, and once it is fulfilled, it will be marked as "complete" throughout Wikipedia. The idea for this service came about when I saw that it was easy to put together to-do lists based on database queries, but it was harder to do this for human-generated requests when those requests are scattered throughout the wiki, siloed throughout several pages. This should especially be useful for WikiProjects that have overlapping interests.

The newsletter this month is fairly brief; not a lot of news, just checking in to say that we are hard at work and hope to have more for you soon.

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Thank you for the additional information - I had no idea where in the UK she was even from. I didn't have the resources to find out more. ☕ Antiqueight ^haver 19:52, 29 March 2016 (UTC)

Your welcome - it's more by luck than anything else I found a reference for her.14GTR (talk) 20:32, 29 March 2016 (UTC)

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Issue 16, February-March 2016
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• New donations - science, humanities, and video resources
• Using hashtags in edit summaries - a great way to track a project
• A new cite archive template, a new coordinator, plus conference and Visiting Scholar updates
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WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 8

Newsletter • March / April 2016

This month:

Transclude article requests anywhere on Wikipedia

In the last issue of the WikiProject X Newsletter, I discussed the upcoming Wikipedia Requests system: a central database for outstanding work on Wikipedia. I am pleased to announce Wikipedia Requests is live! Its purpose is to supplement automatically generated lists, such as those from SuggestBot, Reports bot, or Wikidata. It is currently being demonstrated on WikiProject Occupational Safety and Health (which I work on as part of my NIOSH duties) and WikiProject Women scientists.

Adding a request is as simple as filling out a form. Just go to the Add form to add your request. Adding sources will help ensure that your request is fulfilled more quickly. And when a request is fulfilled, simply click "mark as complete" and it will be removed from all the lists it's on. All at the click of a button! (If anyone is concerned, all actions are logged.)

With this new service is a template to transclude these requests: {{Wikipedia Requests}}. It's simple to use: add the template to a page, specifying article=, category=, or wikiproject=, and the list will be transcluded. For example, for requests having to do with all living people, just do {{Wikipedia Requests|category=Living people}}. Use these lists on WikiProjects but also for edit-a-thons where you want a convenient list of things to do on hand. Give it a shot!

Help us build our list!

The value of Wikipedia Requests comes from being a centralized database. The long work to migrating individual lists into this combined list is slowly underway. As of writing, we have 883 open tasks logged in Wikipedia Requests. We need your help building this list.

If you know of a list of missing articles, or of outstanding tasks for existing articles, that you would like to migrate to this new system, head on over to Wikipedia:Wikipedia Requests#Transition project and help out. Doing this will help put your list in front of more eyes—more than just your own WikiProject.

An open database means new tools

WikiProject X maintains a database that associates article talk pages (and draft talk pages) with WikiProjects. This database powers many of the reports that Reports bot generates. However, until very recently, this database was not made available to others who might find its data useful. It's only common sense to open up the database and let others build tools with it.

And indeed: Citation Hunt, the game to add citations to Wikipedia, now lets you filter by WikiProject, using the data from our database.

Are you a tool developer interested in using this? Here are some details: the database resides on Tool Labs with the name s52475__wpx_p. The table that associates WikiProjects with articles and drafts is called projectindex. Pages are stored by talk page title but in the future this should change. Have fun!

On the horizon

• The work on the CollaborationKit extension continues. The extension will initially focus on reducing template and Lua bloat on WikiProjects (especially our WPX UI demonstration projects), and will from there create custom interfaces for creating and maintaining WikiProjects.
• The WikiCite meeting will be in Berlin in May. The goal of the meeting is to figure out how to build a bibliographic database for use on the Wikimedia projects. This fits in quite nicely with WikiProject X's work: we want to make it easier for people to find things to work on, and with a powerful, open bibliographic database, we can build recommendations for sources. This feature was requested by the Wikipedia Library back in September, and this meeting is a major next step. We look forward to seeing what comes out of this meeting.

Until next time,

Harej (talk) 01:29, 20 April 2016 (UTC)

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A bowl of strawberries for you!

Thank you for expanding the Meredith Frampton article and helping to bring more people to his beautiful art. MagistraMundi (talk) 09:29, 26 April 2016 (UTC)

Many thanks - much appreciated. I only wish I could find out more about him... 14GTR (talk) 11:33, 26 April 2016 (UTC)

I wish the same. Is there a forum where one could ask for living friends and relatives to give information? His work gets lots of interest on Twitter, so perhaps someone there could help, like Art in Society. (I'm not on Twitter myself.) MagistraMundi (talk) 09:19, 10 May 2016 (UTC)

I wouldn't use Twitter as a source. When time allows, I like to spend a day or so in a library gathering material for articles. The reading room at the Tate is particularly good. The next time I'm there, I'll do a search of their sources for Frampton and see what turns up.14GTR (talk) 14:16, 10 May 2016 (UTC)

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Christopher R. W. Nevinson GA Quality?

Hey 14GTR! I hope you are doing well. I just stumble across Christopher R. W. Nevinson and made some minor edits, but it occurs to me that the article would pretty quickly pass WP:GAN. You should nominate it for sure! There are very few things, reviewers are likely to comment on, and from my perspective they would likely be very minor. Sadads (talk) 19:00, 5 September 2016 (UTC)

Hi Sadads, thank you for your kind words - I really enjoyed working on that article, so I'm glad you liked it. I've yet to put anything forward to GAN, so Nevinson might be a good place to start. I'll let you know how it goes. 14GTR (talk) 19:42, 5 September 2016 (UTC)

Sure thing! {{ping}} me if the review does something odd (every once in a while they will), but I would be very suprised if that article has very minor changes/requests from the reviewer! Sometimes it takes ~ 1 month or two until someone reviews, sometimes it will be quick. Keep up the good work. Sadads (talk) 19:59, 5 September 2016 (UTC)

OK - I've put the nomination in. So, lets wait & see. 14GTR (talk) 20:06, 5 September 2016 (UTC)

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