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I'm trying to get the article on Gundelia at B-Class in the Plant-project. I'm not a native speaker though, so I could use some help improving the prose. Could I ask you if you'd be willing to read and improve this article. Thank you very much in advance, Kind regards and happy New Year. Dwergenpaartje ( talk) 16:32, 2 January 2017 (UTC)
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Please do not use AWB to introduce misspellings, as you did here and here. As you know, I believe you should not use AWB at all, but as Salvidrim! seems to believe in your abilities more than I do, I will not do anything about your access at the moment. Happy editing, — Kusma ( t· c) 14:02, 3 January 2017 (UTC)
I plan to take this to FA. Do let me know if you wish to leave comments at the PR page by pinging me. Thanks. — Ssven2 Looking at you, kid 07:36, 5 January 2017 (UTC)
Since Talk:Stanley Kubrick is such a mess with arguments over infoboxes, and has been that way for quite some time, I figured the issue should be taken to a sort of higher court. See Template talk:Infobox person#RfC: Should biographical articles always include an infobox?. Hopefully less insults will occur over there. – Matthew - ( talk) 14:46, 6 January 2017 (UTC)
The sports articles about Indian athletes are in a appalling state. Do you have any interest in working on it, maybe a specific sport? Let me know, Thanks. Numerounovedant Talk 08:24, 7 January 2017 (UTC)
I did a GA Review for Tiny Town (miniature park), passed the article to GA status and then tried to update the talk page using Template:Article history but can't quite get it right. Could you please take a look and fix it for me? For instance, the top template on the talk page says "Tiny Town (miniature park) has been listed as a good article under the good article criteria." so the type of good article is missing ("Culture, sociology, psychology" is there as the topic but it's missing from that top statement). Also the GOCE editing in August 2016 should be within that Template:Article history on the talk page but I couldn't figure out how to get it placed in there correctly. Thanks in advance for any help, Shearonink ( talk) 23:50, 11 January 2017 (UTC)
Hello! Can you please improve the career section of Ryu Jun-yeol. Because most of the prose is just peacock and fluff without any source. It was as if a die-hard fan wrote it. It would be of great help if you visit the page and do some tweaking for objectivity. Thank you very much! 180.190.102.249 ( talk) 00:06, 12 January 2017 (UTC)
Please help in removing the Endorsement section on Shin Min-a's page as it's not only unencyclopedic (Wiki is not a directory after all) but they also all without source as well. Thanks! 180.191.151.20 ( talk) 00:47, 12 January 2017 (UTC)
Please help in removing the Endorsement section on Lee Jong-suk's page as it's not only unencyclopedic (Wiki is not a directory after all) but they are also all without source as well. Fans of the actor keep on adding it. Thanks!
On 15 January 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Bug!, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the titular character from Bug! was one of three candidates to be the mascot for the Sega Saturn console, due to the lack of a Sonic the Hedgehog video game? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Bug!. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, Bug!), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
Schwede 66 00:02, 15 January 2017 (UTC)
Jaguar,
I edited the page on Shalden to remove reference to Fanny Adams as I don't think this is accurate. Searching newspapers from 1867 I can't find reference to the murder being in Shalden, but to the Alton murder.
The hopfield in which Fanny was murdered was close the area known as Flood Meadows, which is firmly within Alton. There is also reference to some of her remains being thrown into the River Wey, in multiple accounts, which must therefore also suggest the murder took place in Alton, rather than Shalden since the river flows through Alton.
I'm happy to provide further information on this, but the referece supporting the above is here: https://hampshireculturaltrust.org.uk/content/true-story-sweet-fanny-adams — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.181.62.104 ( talk) 16:20, 15 January 2017 (UTC)
On 16 January 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Oakhanger, Hampshire, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that a Roman hoard of 11,000 silver pieces was found in the village of Oakhanger in Hampshire? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Oakhanger, Hampshire. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, Oakhanger, Hampshire), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
Schwede 66 00:01, 16 January 2017 (UTC)
Are you still working on the WikiProject United States Territories? I was looking at the page for it and it seemed a little sparse but there were a ton of pages in this project. I would like to help out but I am fairly new so its a bit daunting to start working on something so big. Alex the Nerd ( talk) 16:55, 16 January 2017 (UTC)Alex the Nerd
Hi -- just going through your replies at the Burning Rangers FAC, and I noticed something I thought I would mention. When you indent, the way to do it is to repeat the previous indent and then add either an asterisk or a colon depending on whether you want a bullet point or not. If you follow a "*:blah blah blah" line with a ":*:blah blah" line, you may or may not get what you want -- if you've ever seen a threaded comment with two bullets on the same line you'll have seen the sort of thing that can result. Instead, follow a "*:" line with either "*:*" for a bullet or "*::" for an indent. Just FYI. Re the FAC: I'll try to finish going through your replies this afternoon, but I have to go out in a bit so I might not get to it till tonight or tomorrow morning. Mike Christie ( talk - contribs - library) 19:18, 16 January 2017 (UTC)
I was having trouble when I was editing the Gibraltar article. A bit childish to summarily revert people really, just like that, in my view.
I don't know, it sounds more like something out of a period from the 19th century to the 1930s, when the Governments of British, Dutch and German colonies and of French, Portuguese, Spanish and Italian overseas territories and also the Government of the Belgian Congo, using deceptive advertisements and advertising, to lure unsuspecting poor or unemployed young Europeans living in Western Europe, to accept "hardship postings" in or under much harsher and unfavourable conditions in non-European-settled European colonies in Africa, Asia and Oceania...given the relatively small population (fewer than 50,000) of Gibraltar, perhaps the editors are actually civil servants in the Government of Gibraltar (or their family members), trying to make Gibraltar look like as if it were a constituent part and a separate Kingdom within a so-called "Kingdom of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" more on the line of the Kingdom of the Netherlands or the Kingdom of Denmark, or a fifth constituent part of the United Kingdom on the lines of England and Wales, and Scotland and Northern Ireland, or a bit of both! ... if not also peddling a myth that Gibraltar being somehow a full member in Gibraltar's own right of the EU and of the EEA! ... probably in order to lure, by "a bit" of deception, unsuspecting professionals and business investment and investors, who haven't done their proper homework, and unaware of the true constitutional status of Gibraltar, into Gibraltar as many and as much possible, before Brexit finally happens, when Britain (well, England and Wales, really; but so what?!) drags Gibraltar (along with Scotland and Northern Ireland) out of the EU and probably also the EEA (and sooner the better; for one thing, English law and the English common law wouldn't really exist in their present form, if the UK were to remain in the EU for another 70-200 years!)
Anyhow, to describe the "British" Crown Dependencies and the British Overseas Territories as being "under [a] constitutional monarchy" is, quite frankly, patent nonsense. The British Crown is only a constitutional monarchy in the United Kingdom only. In the judgement in R (on the application of Bancoult) v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs ([2008] UKHL 61, Session 2007-2008, on appeal from [2007] EWCA Civ 498)), in the Appellate Committee of the House of Lords, Lord Hoffmann said, in Points 31 and 32,
https://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200708/ldjudgmt/jd081022/banc-1.htm https://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200708/ldjudgmt/jd081022/banc-2.htm https://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200708/ldjudgmt/jd081022/banc.pdf http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKHL/2008/61.html
31."Before your Lordships the case has been most ably argued by Mr Jonathan Crow QC for the Crown and Sir Sydney Kentridge QC for the respondent. It is common ground that as BIOT was originally ceded to the Crown, Her Majesty in Council has plenary power to legislate for the Territory. The law is stated in Halsbury’s Laws of England (4th edition, 2003 reissue) vol 6, para 823:"
"“In a conquered or ceded colony the Crown, by virtue of its prerogative, has full power to establish such executive, legislative, and judicial arrangements as this Crown thinks fit, and generally to act both executively and legislatively, provided the provisions made by the Crown do not contravene any Act of Parliament extending to the colony or to all British possessions. The Crown’s legislative and constituent powers are exercisable by Order in Council, Letters Patent or Proclamation…”"
32. "Authority for these propositions will be found in Lord Mansfield’s judgment in Campbell v Hall (1774) 1 Cowp 204
(“no question was ever started before, but that the King has a right to a legislative authority over a conquered country.”)
This appeal requires your Lordships to determine the limits of that power."
The Constitutions of the Crown Dependencies and of the British Overseas Territories, arguably, not being (because they are not) Acts of Parliament of the United Kingdom, do not actually bind the British Crown as such, exercised by the [Home] British Government, by the (in the case of British Overseas Territories) Foreign Secretary, through the Foreign Office (FCO), in the name of and for on behalf of the Secretary of State; thus the "British Monarchy" (the British Sovereign, as the British Crown) is and remains theoretically at least absolute, in the Crown Dependencies and in the British Overseas Territories, although exercisable and exercised by the [Home] British Government.
-- 87.102.116.36 ( talk) 01:53, 21 January 2017 (UTC)
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Need your help here, buddy. Let me know if you are interested. :) Pavanjandhyala ( talk) 04:06, 25 January 2017 (UTC)
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Jaguar, I changed WP:BE back to a redirect to our blocking policy. I see from the history that in 2008 (which I made a mistake in my edit summary) that it was originally created as a redirect to the Wikipedia:WikiProject British Empire. In 2010 it was changed to redirect to our blocking policy and since then it's been cited on tens of thousands of pages. During that six year period, the WikiProject British Empire has been largely inactive including on its talk pages. I think a community discussion would be needed to change that redirect to the WikiProject mainly considering how many places WP:BE is linked in reference to blocks. It's a shortcut used commonly at AIV, SPI, and other administrative areas. Let me know if you'd like to proceed with that discussion at the village pump. Mkdw talk 06:08, 26 January 2017 (UTC)
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This is not a GA Cup question but maybe you can help... I have run into this problem before, where an article is passed to GA but then an old delisting review is still showing up as the status. I nominated this article for a GA and it underwent a review and was passed to GA status. Could you please take a look at Talk:Assassination of Abraham Lincoln and fix the code/headers so the status shows up correctly? Thanks, Shearonink ( talk) 03:21, 27 January 2017 (UTC)
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North America 1000 11:59, 30 January 2017 (UTC)
Against Australian people after Federation seem stretching scope a little too far, I am sure I have asked before, as to whether you really understand where to start or stop with the scope of British empire, and what it really consistutes. I really think you should actually put something on the Australian Noticeboard (and this would be relevant probably for Canadian items as well) - explaining why somehow that Australian individuals wh had nothing to do with the British Empire in any sense of the word are being included. cheers JarrahTree 11:50, 31 January 2017 (UTC)
Nah keep going, I think you are in the clear -
Apologies, at this stage - as terminology can be very misleading, however I am still concerned that where something like the transition of the colonies that evolved into states of Australia, some terminology might not necessarily 'move up' the scale, so to speak, and encourage misnomers of what constituted elements of the 'British Empire' as such or what really belongs in the individual projects of the countries that were removed from the shackles of the London based bureacuracy of the empire - the possibility of being legalistic and particular about the removal of all vestiges of the empire - some things remain even to this day.
I think we are at cross purposes - you seem mentioning living people - and I am trying to establish a point where colonies ceased - and what they became were less a component of the British Empire compared to when they were colonies. My limited understanding of Australian constitutional history suggests that the Australian colonies ceased to be specific constitutional parts of the empire upon the creation of the federation of Australia - and that is where I think you have to be careful - my noting that 'colonial' something in some positions after 1901 might be rabbit holes - in that they lead a suggestion that federation did not completely remove australia from things that happen in London - and therefore the BE as it was.
What items I see you have done re the Western Australian context I have only seen a few very problematic items, but to explore them, there are complex arguments which might not be productive at this stage.
I say keep going, but I would drop the 'living' thing, and be more focused on understanding when colonies ceased - and what that meant as to the standing of individuals in those places when they became more independent of the BE - not simple. JarrahTree 12:31, 31 January 2017 (UTC)
I have asked a friend who might have a better understanding of these things to have a look at what I have said here. JarrahTree 12:39, 31 January 2017 (UTC)
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Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article
Oakhanger, Hampshire you nominated for
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The article
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![]() Greetings, GA Cup competitors! December 29th marked the end of the first round, after it was extended from its previously scheduled conclusion at the end of November. Because of the smaller pool of contestants this year, it was decided to keep sign-ups open throughout the month of December. This extension proved to be very helpful as we saw that more users signed up and completed many reviews. Krishna Chaitanya Velaga earned an impressive 402 points, followed by Cartoon network freak with a close 338 points. Shearonink who signed up after our extension was in third with 170 points. We had a rule clarification in Round 1 which was that many articles were being passed with blatant copyright violations and plagarism occurring in the articles. Thus, the judges have concluded that if an article is passed even if it has a copyright violation/plagarism, we will not provide points for that article as it wouldn't be considered a "complete review" under the scoring rules. In the end, 94 articles were reviewed by 14 users who will all advance to Round 2. The judges had planned on having 16 contestants advance but since only 14 did, we are changing the pools in this round. We will be having 2 pools of 3 and 2 pools of 4 in Round 2, with the top 2 in each pool advancing to Round 3 as well as the top participant ("9th place") of all remaining competitors. Round 2 will begin on January 1 at 00:00:00 UTC and will end on January 29 at 23:59:59 UTC. Information about Round 2 and the pools can be found here. Cheers from 3family6, Figureskatingfan, Jaguar, MrWooHoo, and Zwerg Nase! To subscribe or unsubscribe to future GA Cup newsletters, please add or remove your name to
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I'm trying to get the article on Gundelia at B-Class in the Plant-project. I'm not a native speaker though, so I could use some help improving the prose. Could I ask you if you'd be willing to read and improve this article. Thank you very much in advance, Kind regards and happy New Year. Dwergenpaartje ( talk) 16:32, 2 January 2017 (UTC)
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Please do not use AWB to introduce misspellings, as you did here and here. As you know, I believe you should not use AWB at all, but as Salvidrim! seems to believe in your abilities more than I do, I will not do anything about your access at the moment. Happy editing, — Kusma ( t· c) 14:02, 3 January 2017 (UTC)
I plan to take this to FA. Do let me know if you wish to leave comments at the PR page by pinging me. Thanks. — Ssven2 Looking at you, kid 07:36, 5 January 2017 (UTC)
Since Talk:Stanley Kubrick is such a mess with arguments over infoboxes, and has been that way for quite some time, I figured the issue should be taken to a sort of higher court. See Template talk:Infobox person#RfC: Should biographical articles always include an infobox?. Hopefully less insults will occur over there. – Matthew - ( talk) 14:46, 6 January 2017 (UTC)
The sports articles about Indian athletes are in a appalling state. Do you have any interest in working on it, maybe a specific sport? Let me know, Thanks. Numerounovedant Talk 08:24, 7 January 2017 (UTC)
I did a GA Review for Tiny Town (miniature park), passed the article to GA status and then tried to update the talk page using Template:Article history but can't quite get it right. Could you please take a look and fix it for me? For instance, the top template on the talk page says "Tiny Town (miniature park) has been listed as a good article under the good article criteria." so the type of good article is missing ("Culture, sociology, psychology" is there as the topic but it's missing from that top statement). Also the GOCE editing in August 2016 should be within that Template:Article history on the talk page but I couldn't figure out how to get it placed in there correctly. Thanks in advance for any help, Shearonink ( talk) 23:50, 11 January 2017 (UTC)
Hello! Can you please improve the career section of Ryu Jun-yeol. Because most of the prose is just peacock and fluff without any source. It was as if a die-hard fan wrote it. It would be of great help if you visit the page and do some tweaking for objectivity. Thank you very much! 180.190.102.249 ( talk) 00:06, 12 January 2017 (UTC)
Please help in removing the Endorsement section on Shin Min-a's page as it's not only unencyclopedic (Wiki is not a directory after all) but they also all without source as well. Thanks! 180.191.151.20 ( talk) 00:47, 12 January 2017 (UTC)
Please help in removing the Endorsement section on Lee Jong-suk's page as it's not only unencyclopedic (Wiki is not a directory after all) but they are also all without source as well. Fans of the actor keep on adding it. Thanks!
On 15 January 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Bug!, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the titular character from Bug! was one of three candidates to be the mascot for the Sega Saturn console, due to the lack of a Sonic the Hedgehog video game? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Bug!. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, Bug!), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
Schwede 66 00:02, 15 January 2017 (UTC)
Jaguar,
I edited the page on Shalden to remove reference to Fanny Adams as I don't think this is accurate. Searching newspapers from 1867 I can't find reference to the murder being in Shalden, but to the Alton murder.
The hopfield in which Fanny was murdered was close the area known as Flood Meadows, which is firmly within Alton. There is also reference to some of her remains being thrown into the River Wey, in multiple accounts, which must therefore also suggest the murder took place in Alton, rather than Shalden since the river flows through Alton.
I'm happy to provide further information on this, but the referece supporting the above is here: https://hampshireculturaltrust.org.uk/content/true-story-sweet-fanny-adams — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.181.62.104 ( talk) 16:20, 15 January 2017 (UTC)
On 16 January 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Oakhanger, Hampshire, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that a Roman hoard of 11,000 silver pieces was found in the village of Oakhanger in Hampshire? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Oakhanger, Hampshire. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, Oakhanger, Hampshire), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
Schwede 66 00:01, 16 January 2017 (UTC)
Are you still working on the WikiProject United States Territories? I was looking at the page for it and it seemed a little sparse but there were a ton of pages in this project. I would like to help out but I am fairly new so its a bit daunting to start working on something so big. Alex the Nerd ( talk) 16:55, 16 January 2017 (UTC)Alex the Nerd
Hi -- just going through your replies at the Burning Rangers FAC, and I noticed something I thought I would mention. When you indent, the way to do it is to repeat the previous indent and then add either an asterisk or a colon depending on whether you want a bullet point or not. If you follow a "*:blah blah blah" line with a ":*:blah blah" line, you may or may not get what you want -- if you've ever seen a threaded comment with two bullets on the same line you'll have seen the sort of thing that can result. Instead, follow a "*:" line with either "*:*" for a bullet or "*::" for an indent. Just FYI. Re the FAC: I'll try to finish going through your replies this afternoon, but I have to go out in a bit so I might not get to it till tonight or tomorrow morning. Mike Christie ( talk - contribs - library) 19:18, 16 January 2017 (UTC)
I was having trouble when I was editing the Gibraltar article. A bit childish to summarily revert people really, just like that, in my view.
I don't know, it sounds more like something out of a period from the 19th century to the 1930s, when the Governments of British, Dutch and German colonies and of French, Portuguese, Spanish and Italian overseas territories and also the Government of the Belgian Congo, using deceptive advertisements and advertising, to lure unsuspecting poor or unemployed young Europeans living in Western Europe, to accept "hardship postings" in or under much harsher and unfavourable conditions in non-European-settled European colonies in Africa, Asia and Oceania...given the relatively small population (fewer than 50,000) of Gibraltar, perhaps the editors are actually civil servants in the Government of Gibraltar (or their family members), trying to make Gibraltar look like as if it were a constituent part and a separate Kingdom within a so-called "Kingdom of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" more on the line of the Kingdom of the Netherlands or the Kingdom of Denmark, or a fifth constituent part of the United Kingdom on the lines of England and Wales, and Scotland and Northern Ireland, or a bit of both! ... if not also peddling a myth that Gibraltar being somehow a full member in Gibraltar's own right of the EU and of the EEA! ... probably in order to lure, by "a bit" of deception, unsuspecting professionals and business investment and investors, who haven't done their proper homework, and unaware of the true constitutional status of Gibraltar, into Gibraltar as many and as much possible, before Brexit finally happens, when Britain (well, England and Wales, really; but so what?!) drags Gibraltar (along with Scotland and Northern Ireland) out of the EU and probably also the EEA (and sooner the better; for one thing, English law and the English common law wouldn't really exist in their present form, if the UK were to remain in the EU for another 70-200 years!)
Anyhow, to describe the "British" Crown Dependencies and the British Overseas Territories as being "under [a] constitutional monarchy" is, quite frankly, patent nonsense. The British Crown is only a constitutional monarchy in the United Kingdom only. In the judgement in R (on the application of Bancoult) v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs ([2008] UKHL 61, Session 2007-2008, on appeal from [2007] EWCA Civ 498)), in the Appellate Committee of the House of Lords, Lord Hoffmann said, in Points 31 and 32,
https://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200708/ldjudgmt/jd081022/banc-1.htm https://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200708/ldjudgmt/jd081022/banc-2.htm https://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200708/ldjudgmt/jd081022/banc.pdf http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKHL/2008/61.html
31."Before your Lordships the case has been most ably argued by Mr Jonathan Crow QC for the Crown and Sir Sydney Kentridge QC for the respondent. It is common ground that as BIOT was originally ceded to the Crown, Her Majesty in Council has plenary power to legislate for the Territory. The law is stated in Halsbury’s Laws of England (4th edition, 2003 reissue) vol 6, para 823:"
"“In a conquered or ceded colony the Crown, by virtue of its prerogative, has full power to establish such executive, legislative, and judicial arrangements as this Crown thinks fit, and generally to act both executively and legislatively, provided the provisions made by the Crown do not contravene any Act of Parliament extending to the colony or to all British possessions. The Crown’s legislative and constituent powers are exercisable by Order in Council, Letters Patent or Proclamation…”"
32. "Authority for these propositions will be found in Lord Mansfield’s judgment in Campbell v Hall (1774) 1 Cowp 204
(“no question was ever started before, but that the King has a right to a legislative authority over a conquered country.”)
This appeal requires your Lordships to determine the limits of that power."
The Constitutions of the Crown Dependencies and of the British Overseas Territories, arguably, not being (because they are not) Acts of Parliament of the United Kingdom, do not actually bind the British Crown as such, exercised by the [Home] British Government, by the (in the case of British Overseas Territories) Foreign Secretary, through the Foreign Office (FCO), in the name of and for on behalf of the Secretary of State; thus the "British Monarchy" (the British Sovereign, as the British Crown) is and remains theoretically at least absolute, in the Crown Dependencies and in the British Overseas Territories, although exercisable and exercised by the [Home] British Government.
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Jaguar, I changed WP:BE back to a redirect to our blocking policy. I see from the history that in 2008 (which I made a mistake in my edit summary) that it was originally created as a redirect to the Wikipedia:WikiProject British Empire. In 2010 it was changed to redirect to our blocking policy and since then it's been cited on tens of thousands of pages. During that six year period, the WikiProject British Empire has been largely inactive including on its talk pages. I think a community discussion would be needed to change that redirect to the WikiProject mainly considering how many places WP:BE is linked in reference to blocks. It's a shortcut used commonly at AIV, SPI, and other administrative areas. Let me know if you'd like to proceed with that discussion at the village pump. Mkdw talk 06:08, 26 January 2017 (UTC)
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Against Australian people after Federation seem stretching scope a little too far, I am sure I have asked before, as to whether you really understand where to start or stop with the scope of British empire, and what it really consistutes. I really think you should actually put something on the Australian Noticeboard (and this would be relevant probably for Canadian items as well) - explaining why somehow that Australian individuals wh had nothing to do with the British Empire in any sense of the word are being included. cheers JarrahTree 11:50, 31 January 2017 (UTC)
Nah keep going, I think you are in the clear -
Apologies, at this stage - as terminology can be very misleading, however I am still concerned that where something like the transition of the colonies that evolved into states of Australia, some terminology might not necessarily 'move up' the scale, so to speak, and encourage misnomers of what constituted elements of the 'British Empire' as such or what really belongs in the individual projects of the countries that were removed from the shackles of the London based bureacuracy of the empire - the possibility of being legalistic and particular about the removal of all vestiges of the empire - some things remain even to this day.
I think we are at cross purposes - you seem mentioning living people - and I am trying to establish a point where colonies ceased - and what they became were less a component of the British Empire compared to when they were colonies. My limited understanding of Australian constitutional history suggests that the Australian colonies ceased to be specific constitutional parts of the empire upon the creation of the federation of Australia - and that is where I think you have to be careful - my noting that 'colonial' something in some positions after 1901 might be rabbit holes - in that they lead a suggestion that federation did not completely remove australia from things that happen in London - and therefore the BE as it was.
What items I see you have done re the Western Australian context I have only seen a few very problematic items, but to explore them, there are complex arguments which might not be productive at this stage.
I say keep going, but I would drop the 'living' thing, and be more focused on understanding when colonies ceased - and what that meant as to the standing of individuals in those places when they became more independent of the BE - not simple. JarrahTree 12:31, 31 January 2017 (UTC)
I have asked a friend who might have a better understanding of these things to have a look at what I have said here. JarrahTree 12:39, 31 January 2017 (UTC)
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