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Okay, that's infinite, but w/re the DYK manual upate. There are multiple steps I'm confused by at Wikipedia:Did_you_know/Admin_instructions#Manually_posting_the_new_update_(if_the_bot_is_down), so maybe one at a time.
1. I've slightly clarified the first part of this one. The second part: If the image/file is on Commons and not protected, upload it to En and tag it with {{ c-uploaded}}. Here's what I'm thinking: "So I download the commons image to my machine, upload it to Wikipedia under the filename specified in the hook...which in the case of the next up dyk appears to be a commons filename: File:1959_Michigan_Wolverines.png...how am I making sure what I'm uploading and naming and protecting is what the MP is expecting? What name am I uploading this file under?" —valereee ( talk) 19:17, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
+sysop
cannot upload files to EnWiki if the filename is already used on commons, but as a sysop, you are able to do so (see reupload-shared
at
WP:UAL and the technical manual at
mw:Manual:Configuring file uploads). Using
File:1959_Michigan_Wolverines.png as an example, the software will always check to see if
File:1959_Michigan_Wolverines.png exists on EnWiki, and if so uses that version. If it doesn't exist locally, it then check to see if
commons:File:1959_Michigan_Wolverines.png exists and if so uses the file from that project. So by downloading
commons:File:1959_Michigan_Wolverines.png and uploading it here under the same name, you are guaranteeing that the MP will use the local copy instead of the commons version. Hopefully this helps, but if not let me know and I can try to explain more clearly. Personally, I've never had to do this as the commons bot is pretty reliable. —
Wug·
a·po·des
22:31, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
Your script successfully saved this edit. The script should not save this edit.-- Alcremie ( talk) 12:54, 3 March 2021 (UTC) , modification at 12:57, 3 March 2021 (UTC)
Thank you for closing the infobox RfC, a well-written, fair and informative close in my view. Unfortunately, the edit warring has moved on from having the infobox to what should be on it. I know you said "What counts as "relevant" should be determined through regular editing." but that does kind of imply if regular editing breaks down, then a talk page discussion is warranted. At the moment, I'm not going to take any action other than just keep an eye on it, and consider protection / blocking if there's more reverting without a corresponding discussion on the talk page. Although is technically reversing your unprotection, my understanding is this is acceptable per the advice given in WP:WHEEL : "Reasonable actions undertaken by uninvolved administrators to quell a visible and heated edit war by protecting a contended page should be respected by all users, and protection may be reinstated if needed, until it is clear the edit war will not resume or consensus agrees it is appropriate to unprotect." Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 09:05, 5 March 2021 (UTC)
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17:50, 8 March 2021 (UTC)
Hi, you unblocked Mr Hall of England ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) following his indef for editing against WP:NOTBROKEN. Look at his recent edits, he's at it again, with misleading edit summaries. He hasn't edited since my message to him today, but thought you might like to know. DuncanHill ( talk) 21:32, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
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Thank you for all the help, support and guidance you provided here — Amkgp 💬 04:36, 10 March 2021 (UTC) |
Regarding the COI username block template you just used, it needs fixing for redundant sentences - it repeats the example with '"Sara Smith at XYZ Foundation", "Mark at WidgetsUSA", or "FoobarFan87".' and like twice. I am not sure what's the name of the template, so I don't know where to report it. Could you? Or, since you are an admin, y ou can probably edit the protected template, wherever it is, and fix this issue yourself :) -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 05:09, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
How did you come to the conclusion that RFC was that consensus was AGAINST an infobox? From my count it’s clearly 4-3 FOR an infobox. Rusted AutoParts 02:28, 14 March 2021 (UTC)
Whether to include an infobox...is determined through discussion and consensus among the editors at each individual article.so comments such as "other articles have them" were discounted as against policy per WP:CONLEVEL. You should undo the edit where you reverted my implementation of the close. If you still believe I misread consensus you can appeal the close to uninvolved administrators at the administrators' noticeboard. — Wug· a·po·des 06:18, 14 March 2021 (UTC)
Hi, you closed Talk:Bitcoin_Cash#RfC:_Does_the_IBT_article_dated_22_August_2017_confirm_the_claim_that_Bitcoin_Cash_is_sometimes_also_referred_to_as_Bcash?. I noted today that Ladislav Mecir removed the content entirely from the article. I restored the content lower down in the article in the controversy section (the name is clearly controversial hence the RFCs) and removed the ibtimes source which is clearly unreliable from RSN-PS. The RFC was whether the content was an WP:ALTNAME and stated "Bcash is a significant alternative name to the topic." The subject of the RFC was obviously not to delete well sourced content entirely from the article, it was only if the content met criteria for ALTNAME (which to my understanding means content in the lede and bold). Please feel free to clarify your view. Thanks! Jtbobwaysf ( talk) 16:28, 13 March 2021 (UTC)
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23:20, 15 March 2021 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#Deprecate_linking_to_Wikipedia_books_in_templates_and_articles--
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14:40, 16 March 2021 (UTC)
Dear User:Wugapodes
On February 22nd, you had blocked User:Hullaballoo Wolfowitz for six months (Per consensus at ANI (discussion); violation of civility-related editing restriction).
Prior to that he had made several disruptive changes on January 18th to pages Rubina Bajwa and Gurbaksh Chahal personal life. I was able to revert his changes on Rubina Bajwa but I ask your help to revert the changes on Gurbaksh Chahal.
Please see the post I had made on the user's and subject's talk page for more information:
/info/en/?search=User_talk:Hullaballoo_Wolfowitz#Gurbaksh_Chahal_and_Rubina_Bajwa
/info/en/?search=Talk:Gurbaksh_Chahal#Disruptive_Editing
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Thank you for having taken the courage to close the IF RfC. I was determined not to take part and managed ;) -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 13:33, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
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I think it is completely unfair of you to remove this entry so quickly. I am not online 24 hours a day. I stopped working yesterday evening, and I was going to polish and rework the entry today...Does no one review the reviewers?and the interactions barely got more welcoming from there. That she wants to recruit editors for us after those experiences is heroic. Imagine how hard it must be for editors without a PhD! It's why I think meatball:WelcomeNewcomer is so important: we need to show new editors that we are alive and kind, and hopefully remind our regulars that there is a human behind that name. One of the things I'm most proud of and that never fails to bring me joy is Wikipedia talk:20th anniversary/Birthday wishes where readers left kind messages for us all, and editors worked together to make sure a warm welcome turned redlinked user talks blue.
I just came from La buona figliuola where I added an infobox, and thought we might share some ideas, ultimately about the infobox wars which I don't understand. I gave that opera an infobox. It looked like this before, and for the longest time had a sidebar navigating to the other operas by the composer. {{ infobox opera}} was developed in 2013, I liked it and used it, others opposed, which led to WP:ARBINFOBOX. --- Now, in 2021, all these sidebars were deleted: freedom for the infobox ;) - I still hesitated to add this one when I saw that the article was created by a user who worded his anti-infobox stance strongly. (Actually, the first line of my editnotice is taken from a friend's reply to him). Example: Joseph (opera)#Restore infobox? (which became the reason why Montanabw's RfA failed). I would not have added an infobox if he was editing, but he stopped editing a few years ago. - What I don't understand is: how can people get so excited (fill talk pages, loose manners, cast aspersion, leave Wikipedia) about this little addition, which takes nothing away from the rest of the article? Any help welcome. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 11:17, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
Bach's cantata composed for today, - perhaps listen. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 11:04, 25 March 2021 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Mr Hall of England. DuncanHill ( talk) 10:40, 28 March 2021 (UTC)
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17:29, 29 March 2021 (UTC)
Please would you place ( templated?) notices on the talk pages of relevant articles so that well-meaning editors do not inadvertently fall foul of draconian penalties? BushelCandle ( talk) 23:35, 29 March 2021 (UTC)
DS set aside, we can decide here on a topic ban., and Lindsay said
They are, at the very least, aware of the fact that the Horn of Africa is a problematic area, even if not specifically of the DS. The participants explicitly rejected the idea that this was a discretionary sanction. While participation in that discussion was not record-setting, it was unanimous. Beyond that, Lindsay pointed to their unblock request which took place roughly a month before the one we're discussing. In that discussion, which was well attended, Lindsay (supported unblock) and Beyond My Ken (opposed unblock) recommended a topic ban from this area. While that discussion did not result in a topic ban, the general consensus was to unblock on the understanding that further issues would result in sanctions (see WP:ROPE). I said this explicitly in my close:
they were unblocked with the understanding that behavior like this would not occur again. Based on the two discussions, I saw sufficient consensus to impose a topic ban or a block, and chose a topic ban given the unanimous agreement for it in the most recent discussion. If you still believe my close was incorrect, I would point you to the discussion where the restriction was appealed and denied. There I say more about the close, which might answer further questions. — Wug· a·po·des 01:08, 31 March 2021 (UTC)
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userright, which allows moving a page over a single-revision redirect, regardless of that redirect's target.Not just because I largely agree with it, but because it is a clear and complete close. It's well explained and touches on all the relevant issues, including some I'd not really thought about before. Nicely done. Hobit ( talk) 13:31, 31 March 2021 (UTC)
One thing I like to do is hand out user rights to editors I think could use them, even if they didn't ask. It's within policy, but goes around the typical process at PERM.I dislike the PERM process. From what I see, it's aimed at getting requests off the board as quickly as possible, not giving helpful feedback for one to improve (eg for rollbacker, some tips on how to improve their anti-vandalism patrolling; similar for TE + alternatives on how to edit templates without the rights), and sometimes the decline rationales I see are downright spurious.
it's rather awkward to ask for rights on here.Understatement of the year. For all the talk about getting people to request admin, I don't think much attention is given to PERM. As wary as I am to make extended-confirmed bigger than it's original purpose, I think an opportunity might exist to start bundling tools with that access level (if not autoconfirmed). Rollback, for example, might be a good candidate since it's pretty redundant with Twinkle at this point and unlikely to cause truly serious damage. The file mover and page mover groups are more dangerous, but still wildly useful to anyone that's been around for long enough without getting indef'd. There's a serious cost to not giving people tools they need, and if we have a culture of anti-hat collecting that ultimately harms the encyclopedia more than it helps prevent tool misuse. As interesting as I find the "provisional admin" idea, I think the WMF would shut down any proposal to grant
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For 5 years I've deliberately avoided having a user page.
Unfortunately while completing a tutorial I inadvertently created one !
Please, please, please could you delete my user page ? BushelCandle ( talk) 14:59, 2 April 2021 (UTC)
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Hi me again, could you propose for me that the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party (UK) has the right grammar, Deputy leader looks poor grammar on the article. Hope this helps. Just had a break from Women Lords at the moment. Back on it soon. Mr Hall of England ( talk) 18:42, 7 April 2021 (UTC)
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Okay, that's infinite, but w/re the DYK manual upate. There are multiple steps I'm confused by at Wikipedia:Did_you_know/Admin_instructions#Manually_posting_the_new_update_(if_the_bot_is_down), so maybe one at a time.
1. I've slightly clarified the first part of this one. The second part: If the image/file is on Commons and not protected, upload it to En and tag it with {{ c-uploaded}}. Here's what I'm thinking: "So I download the commons image to my machine, upload it to Wikipedia under the filename specified in the hook...which in the case of the next up dyk appears to be a commons filename: File:1959_Michigan_Wolverines.png...how am I making sure what I'm uploading and naming and protecting is what the MP is expecting? What name am I uploading this file under?" —valereee ( talk) 19:17, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
+sysop
cannot upload files to EnWiki if the filename is already used on commons, but as a sysop, you are able to do so (see reupload-shared
at
WP:UAL and the technical manual at
mw:Manual:Configuring file uploads). Using
File:1959_Michigan_Wolverines.png as an example, the software will always check to see if
File:1959_Michigan_Wolverines.png exists on EnWiki, and if so uses that version. If it doesn't exist locally, it then check to see if
commons:File:1959_Michigan_Wolverines.png exists and if so uses the file from that project. So by downloading
commons:File:1959_Michigan_Wolverines.png and uploading it here under the same name, you are guaranteeing that the MP will use the local copy instead of the commons version. Hopefully this helps, but if not let me know and I can try to explain more clearly. Personally, I've never had to do this as the commons bot is pretty reliable. —
Wug·
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22:31, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
Your script successfully saved this edit. The script should not save this edit.-- Alcremie ( talk) 12:54, 3 March 2021 (UTC) , modification at 12:57, 3 March 2021 (UTC)
Thank you for closing the infobox RfC, a well-written, fair and informative close in my view. Unfortunately, the edit warring has moved on from having the infobox to what should be on it. I know you said "What counts as "relevant" should be determined through regular editing." but that does kind of imply if regular editing breaks down, then a talk page discussion is warranted. At the moment, I'm not going to take any action other than just keep an eye on it, and consider protection / blocking if there's more reverting without a corresponding discussion on the talk page. Although is technically reversing your unprotection, my understanding is this is acceptable per the advice given in WP:WHEEL : "Reasonable actions undertaken by uninvolved administrators to quell a visible and heated edit war by protecting a contended page should be respected by all users, and protection may be reinstated if needed, until it is clear the edit war will not resume or consensus agrees it is appropriate to unprotect." Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 09:05, 5 March 2021 (UTC)
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17:50, 8 March 2021 (UTC)
Hi, you unblocked Mr Hall of England ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) following his indef for editing against WP:NOTBROKEN. Look at his recent edits, he's at it again, with misleading edit summaries. He hasn't edited since my message to him today, but thought you might like to know. DuncanHill ( talk) 21:32, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
for the Barnstar, although not always easy (and somewhat hostile) it was (is) a pleasure. CommanderWaterford ( talk) 23:23, 9 March 2021 (UTC)
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Thank you for all the help, support and guidance you provided here — Amkgp 💬 04:36, 10 March 2021 (UTC) |
Regarding the COI username block template you just used, it needs fixing for redundant sentences - it repeats the example with '"Sara Smith at XYZ Foundation", "Mark at WidgetsUSA", or "FoobarFan87".' and like twice. I am not sure what's the name of the template, so I don't know where to report it. Could you? Or, since you are an admin, y ou can probably edit the protected template, wherever it is, and fix this issue yourself :) -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 05:09, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
How did you come to the conclusion that RFC was that consensus was AGAINST an infobox? From my count it’s clearly 4-3 FOR an infobox. Rusted AutoParts 02:28, 14 March 2021 (UTC)
Whether to include an infobox...is determined through discussion and consensus among the editors at each individual article.so comments such as "other articles have them" were discounted as against policy per WP:CONLEVEL. You should undo the edit where you reverted my implementation of the close. If you still believe I misread consensus you can appeal the close to uninvolved administrators at the administrators' noticeboard. — Wug· a·po·des 06:18, 14 March 2021 (UTC)
Hi, you closed Talk:Bitcoin_Cash#RfC:_Does_the_IBT_article_dated_22_August_2017_confirm_the_claim_that_Bitcoin_Cash_is_sometimes_also_referred_to_as_Bcash?. I noted today that Ladislav Mecir removed the content entirely from the article. I restored the content lower down in the article in the controversy section (the name is clearly controversial hence the RFCs) and removed the ibtimes source which is clearly unreliable from RSN-PS. The RFC was whether the content was an WP:ALTNAME and stated "Bcash is a significant alternative name to the topic." The subject of the RFC was obviously not to delete well sourced content entirely from the article, it was only if the content met criteria for ALTNAME (which to my understanding means content in the lede and bold). Please feel free to clarify your view. Thanks! Jtbobwaysf ( talk) 16:28, 13 March 2021 (UTC)
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23:20, 15 March 2021 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#Deprecate_linking_to_Wikipedia_books_in_templates_and_articles--
Moxy-
14:40, 16 March 2021 (UTC)
Dear User:Wugapodes
On February 22nd, you had blocked User:Hullaballoo Wolfowitz for six months (Per consensus at ANI (discussion); violation of civility-related editing restriction).
Prior to that he had made several disruptive changes on January 18th to pages Rubina Bajwa and Gurbaksh Chahal personal life. I was able to revert his changes on Rubina Bajwa but I ask your help to revert the changes on Gurbaksh Chahal.
Please see the post I had made on the user's and subject's talk page for more information:
/info/en/?search=User_talk:Hullaballoo_Wolfowitz#Gurbaksh_Chahal_and_Rubina_Bajwa
/info/en/?search=Talk:Gurbaksh_Chahal#Disruptive_Editing
— Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.203.236.203 ( talk) 15:46, 19 March 2021 (UTC)
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Thank you for having taken the courage to close the IF RfC. I was determined not to take part and managed ;) -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 13:33, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
What future bliss, He gives not thee to know,
But gives that hope to be thy blessing now.
Hope springs eternal in the human breast— Alexander Pope (1891), Essay on Man
Better for us, perhaps, it might appear,
Were there all harmony, all virtue here;
That never air or ocean felt the wind;
That never passion discompos'd the mind.
But ALL subsists by elemental strife;
And passions are the elements of life.
The gen'ral order, since the whole began,
Is kept in nature, and is kept in man.— Alexander Pope (1891), Essay on Man
I think it is completely unfair of you to remove this entry so quickly. I am not online 24 hours a day. I stopped working yesterday evening, and I was going to polish and rework the entry today...Does no one review the reviewers?and the interactions barely got more welcoming from there. That she wants to recruit editors for us after those experiences is heroic. Imagine how hard it must be for editors without a PhD! It's why I think meatball:WelcomeNewcomer is so important: we need to show new editors that we are alive and kind, and hopefully remind our regulars that there is a human behind that name. One of the things I'm most proud of and that never fails to bring me joy is Wikipedia talk:20th anniversary/Birthday wishes where readers left kind messages for us all, and editors worked together to make sure a warm welcome turned redlinked user talks blue.
I just came from La buona figliuola where I added an infobox, and thought we might share some ideas, ultimately about the infobox wars which I don't understand. I gave that opera an infobox. It looked like this before, and for the longest time had a sidebar navigating to the other operas by the composer. {{ infobox opera}} was developed in 2013, I liked it and used it, others opposed, which led to WP:ARBINFOBOX. --- Now, in 2021, all these sidebars were deleted: freedom for the infobox ;) - I still hesitated to add this one when I saw that the article was created by a user who worded his anti-infobox stance strongly. (Actually, the first line of my editnotice is taken from a friend's reply to him). Example: Joseph (opera)#Restore infobox? (which became the reason why Montanabw's RfA failed). I would not have added an infobox if he was editing, but he stopped editing a few years ago. - What I don't understand is: how can people get so excited (fill talk pages, loose manners, cast aspersion, leave Wikipedia) about this little addition, which takes nothing away from the rest of the article? Any help welcome. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 11:17, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
Bach's cantata composed for today, - perhaps listen. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 11:04, 25 March 2021 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Mr Hall of England. DuncanHill ( talk) 10:40, 28 March 2021 (UTC)
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17:29, 29 March 2021 (UTC)
Please would you place ( templated?) notices on the talk pages of relevant articles so that well-meaning editors do not inadvertently fall foul of draconian penalties? BushelCandle ( talk) 23:35, 29 March 2021 (UTC)
DS set aside, we can decide here on a topic ban., and Lindsay said
They are, at the very least, aware of the fact that the Horn of Africa is a problematic area, even if not specifically of the DS. The participants explicitly rejected the idea that this was a discretionary sanction. While participation in that discussion was not record-setting, it was unanimous. Beyond that, Lindsay pointed to their unblock request which took place roughly a month before the one we're discussing. In that discussion, which was well attended, Lindsay (supported unblock) and Beyond My Ken (opposed unblock) recommended a topic ban from this area. While that discussion did not result in a topic ban, the general consensus was to unblock on the understanding that further issues would result in sanctions (see WP:ROPE). I said this explicitly in my close:
they were unblocked with the understanding that behavior like this would not occur again. Based on the two discussions, I saw sufficient consensus to impose a topic ban or a block, and chose a topic ban given the unanimous agreement for it in the most recent discussion. If you still believe my close was incorrect, I would point you to the discussion where the restriction was appealed and denied. There I say more about the close, which might answer further questions. — Wug· a·po·des 01:08, 31 March 2021 (UTC)
Sike. jp× g 03:21, 1 April 2021 (UTC)
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News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2021).
delete-redirect
userright, which allows moving a page over a single-revision redirect, regardless of that redirect's target.Not just because I largely agree with it, but because it is a clear and complete close. It's well explained and touches on all the relevant issues, including some I'd not really thought about before. Nicely done. Hobit ( talk) 13:31, 31 March 2021 (UTC)
One thing I like to do is hand out user rights to editors I think could use them, even if they didn't ask. It's within policy, but goes around the typical process at PERM.I dislike the PERM process. From what I see, it's aimed at getting requests off the board as quickly as possible, not giving helpful feedback for one to improve (eg for rollbacker, some tips on how to improve their anti-vandalism patrolling; similar for TE + alternatives on how to edit templates without the rights), and sometimes the decline rationales I see are downright spurious.
it's rather awkward to ask for rights on here.Understatement of the year. For all the talk about getting people to request admin, I don't think much attention is given to PERM. As wary as I am to make extended-confirmed bigger than it's original purpose, I think an opportunity might exist to start bundling tools with that access level (if not autoconfirmed). Rollback, for example, might be a good candidate since it's pretty redundant with Twinkle at this point and unlikely to cause truly serious damage. The file mover and page mover groups are more dangerous, but still wildly useful to anyone that's been around for long enough without getting indef'd. There's a serious cost to not giving people tools they need, and if we have a culture of anti-hat collecting that ultimately harms the encyclopedia more than it helps prevent tool misuse. As interesting as I find the "provisional admin" idea, I think the WMF would shut down any proposal to grant
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For 5 years I've deliberately avoided having a user page.
Unfortunately while completing a tutorial I inadvertently created one !
Please, please, please could you delete my user page ? BushelCandle ( talk) 14:59, 2 April 2021 (UTC)
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Hi me again, could you propose for me that the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party (UK) has the right grammar, Deputy leader looks poor grammar on the article. Hope this helps. Just had a break from Women Lords at the moment. Back on it soon. Mr Hall of England ( talk) 18:42, 7 April 2021 (UTC)