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This might come across as flippant, but it isn't intended to be. As I think most of the editors here know, there has been a page created in the userspace of another editor which can only be edited who "qualify" by certain rather arbitrary self-selection requirements. I've argued elsewhere, particularly regarding WikiProject Editor Retention, that we maybe allow there to exist a few pages other than Jimbo's talk page which can be perhaps exempt from some policy or guideline requirements but actively overseen by a few generally trusted individuals who are by definition free to revert or revise anything they see fit to. Most user space pages by definition qualify as such. In fact, Doncram has more or less made such a proposal at the talk page of that project. I would be interested, considering that Eric here seems to be one of the primary objects of attention of some of those associated with at least one such wikipedia userspace page, whether he might be interested in being the host of another one, maybe called "Eric's pub" or something like that?
I realize that there would need to be some proposed changes to policy and/or guidelines to llow that, but would be willing to propose them if the idea was one that had some support. John Carter ( talk) 18:11, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
Can anyone find an interesting DYK hook in Geoffrey Talbot (died 1129)? I'm so bad at it... Ealdgyth - Talk 15:21, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
Books & Bytes
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MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 17:40, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
![]() | Hello, Eric Corbett.
Tracy Park, an article you either created or significantly contributed to, has been nominated for
Did you know
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It is a very interesting article, and I have taken the liberty of doing some copy editing. If any Americanisms or my own errors have crept in, please feel free to revert. I won't mind. I noticed that a "Helena Augusta Davy" is mentioned, but then referred to later as "Helen". As the source is offline, it would be wonderful if someone with access to the paper source could resolve that discrepancy. Take care, Eric, and I hope that you will return to editing soon. Cullen328 Let's discuss it 23:57, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
I'd like to know what method people here use for researching new articles or large expansions, specifically in the situation where there are 100's of sources containing potentially useful bits of info. It's easy enough (though time consuming) to read everything and note down stuff that looks relevant to the article as you read. The trouble is when something doesn't strike you as relevant until you notice it's appeared several times, and you didn't note it down the first few times, so now you have to find the other sources. When I've written stuff using just a few sources, it's been easier to just go through each source from beginning to end summarizing its points, and then write from the summaries, but that doesn't seem to work when there's 100 sources saying mostly the same things with little differences here and there. The article I'm trying to expand is Citizenfour, sourced mostly from online reviews and interviews that as you can imagine make points that overlap each other quite a bit. Even my offline notes file is now an overgrown mess that I can't easily navigate. I'm wondering how often this situation comes up and how you all deal with it. Thanks. 50.0.205.75 ( talk) 02:59, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
A request that's totally not connected to females and their problems. Can you pop over to Kedleston Hall, and click on the thing that tells you how to pronounce it. I've always thought (and pronounced) it Kedleston to rhyme with kettle then 'stn' rather 'ston' with the emphasis on the 'e' as in kettle. However, that pronouncing thing makes a great deal of 'lest.' I suppose native speakers may know otherwise, and as you are from those wilds that are north of Watford, you may just happen to know. Giano (talk) 17:19, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
I object strongly to foreigners trying to tell me how to speak the Queen's English. If you went to Gloucester or a hundred other places and tried to tell them how to pronounce their place of abode you would soon get short shrift. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.28.216.137 ( talk) 11:12, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
Thank God it's Tuesday and the "argue over Eric's page on Eric's page" nonsense can stop. NE Ent 01:36, 10 March 2015 (UTC)
I don't check in on wiki much, but whenever I do (it seems to have become only a handful of times per year), I always check to see if MF is still around. You, Mr. MF now EC have outlasted many a horrible, tool-happy power-hungry admin headcase, and I always smile when I see you still plugging along, editing things that you like, helping editors make things better in your own way, with your own style, take it or leave it. You're still one of my favorites, I'm glad you're still here (and I'm glad to see you age like a good porter) and I would still without question hand over my admin tools to you if I could (and only if you'd find them useful). It's shocking that I still have them; almost as shocking as having ever received them in the first place. Ah well. Enough from me - back into the woods I go. Be well good editor. Keeper | 76 02:38, 10 March 2015 (UTC)
In view of the recent finding on ANI that Coffee's blocks are unsound, heavy handed and often unjust, the time has come to unblock Eric for the reasons posted here. Coffee publicly eating humble pie is not helping Eric. Giano (talk) 20:52, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
12:59 am <Ironholds> if Eric and Giano didn't have gender discussions to compare to the Gestapo or offend or inflame, they'd find something else, because they are essentially self-centred trolls.
12:59 am <Ironholds> it's not about gender, to them. It's about why is nobody nice to them?
User:Giano did anyone notice Coffee quietly came back...sounds like they were trying to avoid a cloud...is the arb request still an option? Hell in a Bucket ( talk) 15:07, 10 March 2015 (UTC)
Hi. I made this edit to tighten some of the language of your user page. Since you're now using the Eric Corbett account, the old language read kind of strangely to me. Feel free to revert if you disagree with my change, of course. -- MZMcBride ( talk) 20:37, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
(un-indent) J3Mrs: Baiting? By updating the text to reflect a username switch? What on earth are you talking about?
And perhaps Cassianto can explain how the page has "bugger all" to do with him or her. Has Cassianto been appointed Protector of User Pages? I'm baffled. -- MZMcBride ( talk) 21:10, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
MZMcB's version of the wording comes over as much more aggressive than Eric's original, and it seems totally inappropriate to make a change like that to another user's page. If you think the wording needs a change, leave a note on the talk page to suggest that change. Don't mess with another user's user page unless it's clearly an attack page, copyvio, etc. Pam D 22:16, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
MZMcBride, you may edit my userpage. But was it pure accident that you edited Eric's userpage on a Monday, the day he himself doesn't edit, per the top of this page? Bishonen | talk 22:42, 9 March 2015 (UTC).
What should I push to FA status next?
Hi, any chance you could give this a copyedit and check for MoS issues? I gave it a considerable edit yesterday but really needs an expert copyeditor to give a thorough edit.♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:40, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
Yes, that's fair, I've advised Sven to withdraw, largely because I don't think it'll pass this time. It needs a clean shot at it, and once it has been fully copyedited and outstanding concerns have all been addressed. I've seen the film, it's actually quite enjoyable, bizarre, mixing typical Bollywood-style dance with sci-fi, but entertaining nonetheless. Certainly more watchable than some of the generic superhero ones churned out by Hollywood at the moment.. Shah Rukh Khan (SRK) could also use some decent editors checking the prose quality before it heads off to FAC. I've put a fair bit of work into that myself trimming it and making more comprehensive. It gets over a million hits a year I think see [5]. I think it's in generally good shape, but the minor MoS glitches I always have a job spotting.♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:44, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
Dear Eric: I'm a novice Wiki writer, and recently visited the Walter Scott page, where I found some of your work. So I'm writing you about a reaction I had. There is a nasty hit piece about Scott in an area there called something like "Influence on education in the US." It is quoted from a 1990s book called "Unrepentant Leftist" and is very critical of Scott. It amazed me how this otherwise excellent article about a literary giant was suddenly thrust into the nastiness of our current political polarization. I don't think the entire US education system and the widely-admired work of an author from the early 1800s should be indicted due to one man's experience...especially since the important sounding "Influence on eduction in the US" surely deserves more research that this! Can you do something about this..I'm not a huge Scott fan or anything like that, but it occurred to me that whoever put that there is simply pushing his or her political position against a major literary figure...and doing it without any additional evidence. Thanks for listening, and thanks for all your good work. Blueridge12 ( talk) 15:47, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
On the other hand, the section is woefully underdeveloped, and any discussion of Scott in the US ought to begin with his readership in the 19th, not the 20th century, and particularly that in the "genteel" South. What it needs is more, not less, and that will help alleviate the undue weight that the passage now has (it needs to be trimmed anyway). It is a fascinating topic, worthy of a doctoral dissertation or a monograph--if that hasn't been written already. Drmies ( talk) 22:41, 16 March 2015 (UTC)
I have opened the 2nd PR as the article's first FAC is now withdrawn. Feel free to leave comments.
—
Ssven2
Speak 2 me
13:52, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
Just like the female ferret??? Drmies ( talk) 22:33, 16 March 2015 (UTC)
Might you be so kind as to look at MIT Science Fiction Society? I had found it a miniature-stub of sorts and reared it up to this state (note image placement etc.) at which point I asked for an independent review which left it the current "improved" state.
Unfortunately, I had thought the issue was content and not appearance - and I do not really think the improvements, are. Nor am I as absolutely certain that all articles need infoboxes as the comments on the talk page indicate - all I want is that it be a nice, reasonably comprehensive and useful article - and to that end I solicit your assistance.
I found the suggestions made to me to be ones I would cheerfully (?) give a newby editor, but I am unsure that at 40K edits, editors with 11K edits necessarily notice that I am not precisely a newby. I believe you might recall me as the idiot who actually improved Joseph Widney to GA status by cutting it down (I wot not of any other articles which reached GA status in such a manner <g>). Many thanks! Collect ( talk) 11:30, 18 March 2015 (UTC)
I am not banned from Wikipediocracy, I chose to resign. Zoloft knows why, because I told him. Eric Corbett 15:56, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
Spotted a red link in the Ritz for Peter Beatty, a horse trainer/breeder I believe who jumped out the 6th floor window of the Ritz in 1949. [6] I thought Montanabw, Sagacious or a few others might be interested in starting him, if you can find enough on him that is.♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:19, 18 March 2015 (UTC)
I found him while expanding The Ritz, London, in the WWII section. Sagacious has made a great start on him! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:07, 19 March 2015 (UTC)
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Doorknob747 20:35, 19 March 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Doorknob747 ( talk • contribs)
I wonder how many other male editors feel as as I do, increasingly under pressure from a feminist agenda misguidedly supported by the WMF? Who are going to lose tens of thousands of donor's money in a face-saving attempt to redress the thing I'm not allowed even to mention. Eric Corbett 15:38, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
Okay, in the interests of full honestly and disclosure, I just wrote the following to a friend on Facebook : "There is a guy on Wikipedia called Eric Corbett who lives just down the road from you. Good writer, nice as pie if you want to write stuff. Approach him as an admin with a God complex and you'll get it with both barrels." (note : "just down the road" in this instance means Bolton - Manchester) As for myself, there is a lot I would say about Wikipedia that is not at all positive, but if I shot my mouth off and said what was on my mind I'd just get blocked. And that would be annoying. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 22:05, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
The case against me is vexatious indeed - I shall not contend against those who taste blood. The main complaint even includes my essays - so I wrote one which I hope you will appreciate WP:Wikipedia and shipwrights. It would be fun to see how others react, indeed. Warm regards, Collect ( talk) 04:21, 20 March 2015 (UTC)
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Thank you, Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 15:56, 26 March 2015 (UTC)
I poked my head over at Wikidata... and noticed some errors. So I fixed them. But ... it appears Wilfrid was a citizen of the United Kingdom, even though he died around 709, because most of my changes got reverted. For some reason, even thought the Wilfrid article on EN is well cited, they are only pulling references from the Italian and Russian language wikipedias. I'm so glad that they are working so hard to get infoboxes into everything so that wikidata can be accurate and stuff... so they can then turn around and push data from Wikidata onto EN. Ealdgyth - Talk 23:45, 26 March 2015 (UTC)
Today's main page FA is Exhumation of Richard III of England and over the last few days an admin with over 10 years experience has made some of the most inept edits I have ever seen in a featured article. I have asked him to stop, but once again he has been adding information with just a bare url as a reference - something I've asked him not to do already - see: Talk:Exhumation of Richard III of England#More bad edits. As I'm getting tired of cleaning up after him what's the best way to put a stop to this? Richerman (talk) 15:43, 26 March 2015 (UTC)
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This might come across as flippant, but it isn't intended to be. As I think most of the editors here know, there has been a page created in the userspace of another editor which can only be edited who "qualify" by certain rather arbitrary self-selection requirements. I've argued elsewhere, particularly regarding WikiProject Editor Retention, that we maybe allow there to exist a few pages other than Jimbo's talk page which can be perhaps exempt from some policy or guideline requirements but actively overseen by a few generally trusted individuals who are by definition free to revert or revise anything they see fit to. Most user space pages by definition qualify as such. In fact, Doncram has more or less made such a proposal at the talk page of that project. I would be interested, considering that Eric here seems to be one of the primary objects of attention of some of those associated with at least one such wikipedia userspace page, whether he might be interested in being the host of another one, maybe called "Eric's pub" or something like that?
I realize that there would need to be some proposed changes to policy and/or guidelines to llow that, but would be willing to propose them if the idea was one that had some support. John Carter ( talk) 18:11, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
Can anyone find an interesting DYK hook in Geoffrey Talbot (died 1129)? I'm so bad at it... Ealdgyth - Talk 15:21, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
Books & Bytes
Issue 10, January-February 2015
by
The Interior (
talk ·
contribs),
Ocaasi (
talk ·
contribs),
Sadads (
talk ·
contribs)
MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 17:40, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
![]() | Hello, Eric Corbett.
Tracy Park, an article you either created or significantly contributed to, has been nominated for
Did you know
![]() |
It is a very interesting article, and I have taken the liberty of doing some copy editing. If any Americanisms or my own errors have crept in, please feel free to revert. I won't mind. I noticed that a "Helena Augusta Davy" is mentioned, but then referred to later as "Helen". As the source is offline, it would be wonderful if someone with access to the paper source could resolve that discrepancy. Take care, Eric, and I hope that you will return to editing soon. Cullen328 Let's discuss it 23:57, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
I'd like to know what method people here use for researching new articles or large expansions, specifically in the situation where there are 100's of sources containing potentially useful bits of info. It's easy enough (though time consuming) to read everything and note down stuff that looks relevant to the article as you read. The trouble is when something doesn't strike you as relevant until you notice it's appeared several times, and you didn't note it down the first few times, so now you have to find the other sources. When I've written stuff using just a few sources, it's been easier to just go through each source from beginning to end summarizing its points, and then write from the summaries, but that doesn't seem to work when there's 100 sources saying mostly the same things with little differences here and there. The article I'm trying to expand is Citizenfour, sourced mostly from online reviews and interviews that as you can imagine make points that overlap each other quite a bit. Even my offline notes file is now an overgrown mess that I can't easily navigate. I'm wondering how often this situation comes up and how you all deal with it. Thanks. 50.0.205.75 ( talk) 02:59, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
A request that's totally not connected to females and their problems. Can you pop over to Kedleston Hall, and click on the thing that tells you how to pronounce it. I've always thought (and pronounced) it Kedleston to rhyme with kettle then 'stn' rather 'ston' with the emphasis on the 'e' as in kettle. However, that pronouncing thing makes a great deal of 'lest.' I suppose native speakers may know otherwise, and as you are from those wilds that are north of Watford, you may just happen to know. Giano (talk) 17:19, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
I object strongly to foreigners trying to tell me how to speak the Queen's English. If you went to Gloucester or a hundred other places and tried to tell them how to pronounce their place of abode you would soon get short shrift. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.28.216.137 ( talk) 11:12, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
Thank God it's Tuesday and the "argue over Eric's page on Eric's page" nonsense can stop. NE Ent 01:36, 10 March 2015 (UTC)
I don't check in on wiki much, but whenever I do (it seems to have become only a handful of times per year), I always check to see if MF is still around. You, Mr. MF now EC have outlasted many a horrible, tool-happy power-hungry admin headcase, and I always smile when I see you still plugging along, editing things that you like, helping editors make things better in your own way, with your own style, take it or leave it. You're still one of my favorites, I'm glad you're still here (and I'm glad to see you age like a good porter) and I would still without question hand over my admin tools to you if I could (and only if you'd find them useful). It's shocking that I still have them; almost as shocking as having ever received them in the first place. Ah well. Enough from me - back into the woods I go. Be well good editor. Keeper | 76 02:38, 10 March 2015 (UTC)
In view of the recent finding on ANI that Coffee's blocks are unsound, heavy handed and often unjust, the time has come to unblock Eric for the reasons posted here. Coffee publicly eating humble pie is not helping Eric. Giano (talk) 20:52, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
12:59 am <Ironholds> if Eric and Giano didn't have gender discussions to compare to the Gestapo or offend or inflame, they'd find something else, because they are essentially self-centred trolls.
12:59 am <Ironholds> it's not about gender, to them. It's about why is nobody nice to them?
User:Giano did anyone notice Coffee quietly came back...sounds like they were trying to avoid a cloud...is the arb request still an option? Hell in a Bucket ( talk) 15:07, 10 March 2015 (UTC)
Hi. I made this edit to tighten some of the language of your user page. Since you're now using the Eric Corbett account, the old language read kind of strangely to me. Feel free to revert if you disagree with my change, of course. -- MZMcBride ( talk) 20:37, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
(un-indent) J3Mrs: Baiting? By updating the text to reflect a username switch? What on earth are you talking about?
And perhaps Cassianto can explain how the page has "bugger all" to do with him or her. Has Cassianto been appointed Protector of User Pages? I'm baffled. -- MZMcBride ( talk) 21:10, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
MZMcB's version of the wording comes over as much more aggressive than Eric's original, and it seems totally inappropriate to make a change like that to another user's page. If you think the wording needs a change, leave a note on the talk page to suggest that change. Don't mess with another user's user page unless it's clearly an attack page, copyvio, etc. Pam D 22:16, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
MZMcBride, you may edit my userpage. But was it pure accident that you edited Eric's userpage on a Monday, the day he himself doesn't edit, per the top of this page? Bishonen | talk 22:42, 9 March 2015 (UTC).
What should I push to FA status next?
Hi, any chance you could give this a copyedit and check for MoS issues? I gave it a considerable edit yesterday but really needs an expert copyeditor to give a thorough edit.♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:40, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
Yes, that's fair, I've advised Sven to withdraw, largely because I don't think it'll pass this time. It needs a clean shot at it, and once it has been fully copyedited and outstanding concerns have all been addressed. I've seen the film, it's actually quite enjoyable, bizarre, mixing typical Bollywood-style dance with sci-fi, but entertaining nonetheless. Certainly more watchable than some of the generic superhero ones churned out by Hollywood at the moment.. Shah Rukh Khan (SRK) could also use some decent editors checking the prose quality before it heads off to FAC. I've put a fair bit of work into that myself trimming it and making more comprehensive. It gets over a million hits a year I think see [5]. I think it's in generally good shape, but the minor MoS glitches I always have a job spotting.♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:44, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
Dear Eric: I'm a novice Wiki writer, and recently visited the Walter Scott page, where I found some of your work. So I'm writing you about a reaction I had. There is a nasty hit piece about Scott in an area there called something like "Influence on education in the US." It is quoted from a 1990s book called "Unrepentant Leftist" and is very critical of Scott. It amazed me how this otherwise excellent article about a literary giant was suddenly thrust into the nastiness of our current political polarization. I don't think the entire US education system and the widely-admired work of an author from the early 1800s should be indicted due to one man's experience...especially since the important sounding "Influence on eduction in the US" surely deserves more research that this! Can you do something about this..I'm not a huge Scott fan or anything like that, but it occurred to me that whoever put that there is simply pushing his or her political position against a major literary figure...and doing it without any additional evidence. Thanks for listening, and thanks for all your good work. Blueridge12 ( talk) 15:47, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
On the other hand, the section is woefully underdeveloped, and any discussion of Scott in the US ought to begin with his readership in the 19th, not the 20th century, and particularly that in the "genteel" South. What it needs is more, not less, and that will help alleviate the undue weight that the passage now has (it needs to be trimmed anyway). It is a fascinating topic, worthy of a doctoral dissertation or a monograph--if that hasn't been written already. Drmies ( talk) 22:41, 16 March 2015 (UTC)
I have opened the 2nd PR as the article's first FAC is now withdrawn. Feel free to leave comments.
—
Ssven2
Speak 2 me
13:52, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
Just like the female ferret??? Drmies ( talk) 22:33, 16 March 2015 (UTC)
Might you be so kind as to look at MIT Science Fiction Society? I had found it a miniature-stub of sorts and reared it up to this state (note image placement etc.) at which point I asked for an independent review which left it the current "improved" state.
Unfortunately, I had thought the issue was content and not appearance - and I do not really think the improvements, are. Nor am I as absolutely certain that all articles need infoboxes as the comments on the talk page indicate - all I want is that it be a nice, reasonably comprehensive and useful article - and to that end I solicit your assistance.
I found the suggestions made to me to be ones I would cheerfully (?) give a newby editor, but I am unsure that at 40K edits, editors with 11K edits necessarily notice that I am not precisely a newby. I believe you might recall me as the idiot who actually improved Joseph Widney to GA status by cutting it down (I wot not of any other articles which reached GA status in such a manner <g>). Many thanks! Collect ( talk) 11:30, 18 March 2015 (UTC)
I am not banned from Wikipediocracy, I chose to resign. Zoloft knows why, because I told him. Eric Corbett 15:56, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
Spotted a red link in the Ritz for Peter Beatty, a horse trainer/breeder I believe who jumped out the 6th floor window of the Ritz in 1949. [6] I thought Montanabw, Sagacious or a few others might be interested in starting him, if you can find enough on him that is.♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:19, 18 March 2015 (UTC)
I found him while expanding The Ritz, London, in the WWII section. Sagacious has made a great start on him! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:07, 19 March 2015 (UTC)
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Doorknob747 20:35, 19 March 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Doorknob747 ( talk • contribs)
I wonder how many other male editors feel as as I do, increasingly under pressure from a feminist agenda misguidedly supported by the WMF? Who are going to lose tens of thousands of donor's money in a face-saving attempt to redress the thing I'm not allowed even to mention. Eric Corbett 15:38, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
Okay, in the interests of full honestly and disclosure, I just wrote the following to a friend on Facebook : "There is a guy on Wikipedia called Eric Corbett who lives just down the road from you. Good writer, nice as pie if you want to write stuff. Approach him as an admin with a God complex and you'll get it with both barrels." (note : "just down the road" in this instance means Bolton - Manchester) As for myself, there is a lot I would say about Wikipedia that is not at all positive, but if I shot my mouth off and said what was on my mind I'd just get blocked. And that would be annoying. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 22:05, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
The case against me is vexatious indeed - I shall not contend against those who taste blood. The main complaint even includes my essays - so I wrote one which I hope you will appreciate WP:Wikipedia and shipwrights. It would be fun to see how others react, indeed. Warm regards, Collect ( talk) 04:21, 20 March 2015 (UTC)
Hello, Eric Corbett,
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Thank you, Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 15:56, 26 March 2015 (UTC)
I poked my head over at Wikidata... and noticed some errors. So I fixed them. But ... it appears Wilfrid was a citizen of the United Kingdom, even though he died around 709, because most of my changes got reverted. For some reason, even thought the Wilfrid article on EN is well cited, they are only pulling references from the Italian and Russian language wikipedias. I'm so glad that they are working so hard to get infoboxes into everything so that wikidata can be accurate and stuff... so they can then turn around and push data from Wikidata onto EN. Ealdgyth - Talk 23:45, 26 March 2015 (UTC)
Today's main page FA is Exhumation of Richard III of England and over the last few days an admin with over 10 years experience has made some of the most inept edits I have ever seen in a featured article. I have asked him to stop, but once again he has been adding information with just a bare url as a reference - something I've asked him not to do already - see: Talk:Exhumation of Richard III of England#More bad edits. As I'm getting tired of cleaning up after him what's the best way to put a stop to this? Richerman (talk) 15:43, 26 March 2015 (UTC)
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Thanks. Mike Peel ( talk) 20:49, 28 March 2015 (UTC)