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Article Feedback deployment
Hey MRSC; I'm dropping you this note because you've used the article feedback tool in the last month or so. On Thursday and Friday the tool will be down for a major deployment; it should be up by Saturday, failing anything going wrong, and by Monday if something does :). Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 22:23, 13 March 2013 (UTC)
Category:People from Kew, London
FYI: I have opposed your proposed speedy renaming of Category:People from Kew, London.
I suggest that to avoid discussing things twice, there should be one CFD discussion which offers an alternative of either:
- or
It doesn't make sense to have the two categories out-of-synch, so we should synchronise them one way or the other ... and by nominating them together we'll get a consistent result.
I'm happy to make the CFD nomination offering the two alternatives. Is that OK with you? --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 02:12, 14 March 2013 (UTC)
- Sure. As the article is named Kew it doesn't seem as contentious to me. MRSC (talk) 06:29, 14 March 2013 (UTC)
See Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2013 March 14#Kew. I hope that I have set out your position fairly, and will now add a copy of the speedy nom. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 15:58, 14 March 2013 (UTC)
Category:Kew
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Nomination of List of bus routes in England for deletion
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Nomination of Chobham Academy for deletion
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Template:Infobox London bus route has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:33, 27 June 2013 (UTC)
Rail
Hi MRSC. I am intending on a more descriptive, less misleading classification for Britain's railways. Please give your thoughts as to how we can improve the current classification at the railways template where you have been a contributor. Adam37 (talk) 15:16, 5 July 2013 (UTC)
Request to take part in a survey
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Historic Counties
Hi MRSC, I'm new to wiki so correct me if I'm wrong. The London government Act 1963 made no move to redefine the historic counties surrounding and constituting what is now Greater London. I notice you have removed reference in Orpington and perhaps others, to the historic County of Kent. Under the law of the United Kingdom, many places, even those which identify most with Urban London such Tottenham and Ealing remain in the HISTORIC county of Middlesex, although the administrative and ceremonial County of Greater London is now what is ultimately their governing body. As of the 1st April 1965, as I see you have mentioned, the ADMINISTRATIVE duties of these counties were altered, but not their geographical or historic roles. I have also noticed that with regards to STAINES, you note it was part of the HISTORIC county of Middlesex prior to this date, however by law this has not changed as of September 2013. I do hope I am not wallowing in my ignorance, please let me know your thoughts on this, as I am not sure your edit(s) were entirely constructive, or entirely correct. S.robson1995 (talk) 15:44, 4 September 2013 (UTC)
I've queried, in a casual way, the naming instruction at Category_talk:People_by_district_in_England#Category_naming --Robert EA Harvey (talk) 18:01, 8 September 2013 (UTC)
Category:London Loop
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Nomination of List of mayors of Tower Hamlets for deletion
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Merge discussion for Kensington and Chelsea London Borough Council
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Your infobox template
It was great to find that with Template:Infobox London Borough/ethnicity you'd made updating London borough ethnicity statistics so easy, even for someone with no experience with templates. Nice job! NebY (talk) 13:21, 11 November 2013 (UTC)
Gina Trapani?
The Wikipedia space patrol has notified me that you made a change in the Gina Trapani article. I'm watching it, though frankly, I don't remember why. And I can't see any change. Would you please let me know what you did, and why, perhaps? Thx. GcT (talk) 06:00, 21 November 2013 (UTC)
- You can go into the page history and there is a list of 'diffs' (differences) marked 'prev'. Here is the one for my edit on 13:45, 6 November 2013 which added the template {{TWiT podcasts}} to the bottom of the article. MRSC (talk) 06:37, 21 November 2013 (UTC)
The intended merger of certain parishes into their main settlement
Dear MRSC, I am not proposing not listening, far from it, as you can see I have all along sought to implement the consensus. You raise an interesting issue. However I do think that for the least populated parishes with one clear main settlement, it is right not to write about this minority separately from their main village. That is my interpretation of all of the the guidance put together at WP:UKVILLAGES and at WP:MERGE. - Adam37 Talk 14:07, 21 November 2013 (UTC)
- Established practice and consensus is to keep them separate. We have soruces about local government (parish councils, meetings) and statistical information (from the ONS) that relates specifically to the parishes. They are incorporated areas for local government. If anything the settlements should be merged into the parish article (if settlement articles alone are ever unviable). Last discussed here. MRSC (talk) 15:21, 21 November 2013 (UTC)
November 2013
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- @Werieth: I don't understand why you are removing that image. It is the coat of arms of London Borough of Barking and Dagenham and has the correct rationale on the image page. MRSC (talk) 16:42, 26 November 2013 (UTC)
- I removed the file from the template, not the article, if the file is justified it can be used via passing it though a template parameter (Just like most infoboxes) Because that template can be used on multiple articles where justification doesnt exist, the image cannot be in the template. Werieth (talk) 17:47, 26 November 2013 (UTC)
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I have commented on your recent edit to Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead. Bazza (talk) 15:33, 3 December 2013 (UTC)
Category:Billing authorities in England
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Categorization
Some advice on categorization: Articles should be categorized by the defining characteristics of the topic of the article. For example the most definining characteristics of Torbay_Council are that it's a council and it's in Torbay; hence, the article should be in Category:Torbay. It should not be in categories for things that are not defining characteristics - anything that isn't mentioned in the article (e.g. education) can't be appropriate for categorization of that article. In other words, categorization should not be used as a way to create lists regardless of the content of the articles being categorized. DexDor (talk) 06:02, 11 December 2013 (UTC)
Directly elected mayor of Hartlepool
Given the previous moves I believe a move to this title could be contentious, could you please establish a consensus or point me to it if I missed it. Thanks, Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 13:14, 16 December 2013 (UTC)
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December 2013
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