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Recent move

Andrew, you recently moved List of fictional British regiments to List of fictional regiments of the British Army. I note that there is a section British Empire Regiments which, I believe, does not tie up with the new title. Hamish59 (talk) 19:19, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

To be honest, I don't think they strictly fitted under "British" either! I'll have a think about how best to work this. Andrew Gray (talk) 19:48, 27 November 2013 (UTC)
No problem. Hamish59 (talk) 20:14, 27 November 2013 (UTC)
I've now tidied it up, put a note at the top defining the scope to include British Indian Army units, and removed all the spurious redlinks - thoughts? Next up will be merging/redirecting some of the individual articles, which are definitely non-notable, but not this evening! Andrew Gray (talk) 21:28, 27 November 2013 (UTC)
That looks a lot neater. Hamish59 (talk) 21:41, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

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Recent move

Andrew, you recently moved List of fictional British regiments to List of fictional regiments of the British Army. I note that there is a section British Empire Regiments which, I believe, does not tie up with the new title. Hamish59 (talk) 19:19, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

To be honest, I don't think they strictly fitted under "British" either! I'll have a think about how best to work this. Andrew Gray (talk) 19:48, 27 November 2013 (UTC)
No problem. Hamish59 (talk) 20:14, 27 November 2013 (UTC)
I've now tidied it up, put a note at the top defining the scope to include British Indian Army units, and removed all the spurious redlinks - thoughts? Next up will be merging/redirecting some of the individual articles, which are definitely non-notable, but not this evening! Andrew Gray (talk) 21:28, 27 November 2013 (UTC)
That looks a lot neater. Hamish59 (talk) 21:41, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

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Reminder: Museum geonotice

Reminding you as requested, about the pending geonotice request for the museum event. Thank you. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:39, 3 December 2013 (UTC)

Hi Andy. Nothing there - am I missing something? (I'll put up the BBC one just now, though) Andrew Gray (talk) 20:45, 3 December 2013 (UTC)
Doh! It was the BBC I meant. Thank you. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:08, 4 December 2013 (UTC)

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Geonotice poke

Hi Andrew! So to poke you again so soon, but I was hoping that our Geonotice could go out by this weekend. The event is still a week away, so no rush, but I just wanted to get it on your radar. -- Gaurav (talk) 20:25, 7 December 2013 (UTC)

Done! Andrew Gray (talk) 16:43, 8 December 2013 (UTC)
Thanks so much! :-D -- Gaurav (talk) 21:34, 8 December 2013 (UTC)
Oops, I just discovered a mistake in MediaWiki:Geonotice.js -- you've set the end date to "14 January 2013", so the notices won't display. It should be December 14, 2013 for us, but there are a couple of other events which need their year changed to 2014. Thanks for dealing with all this! -- Gaurav (talk) 21:54, 8 December 2013 (UTC)
I blame Sunday evenings! Fixed. Andrew Gray (talk) 21:55, 8 December 2013 (UTC)

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This Month in GLAM: November 2013

 




Headlines
  • Australia and New Zealand report: From East to West
  • Belgium report: Wiki Loves Monuments in Belgium and Luxembourg
  • France report: Mass uploads; Wiki Loves Monuments; Edit-a-thon; GLAM conference
  • Germany report: MS Wissenschaft; Science Gallery; Zugang gestalten; Science 2.0; OKFest 2014
  • Italy report: Libraries and librarians (but there are still shoes)
  • Mexico report: Wiki Loves Monuments 2013 award ceremony; Day of the Dead photo contest winners
  • Netherlands report: Edit-a-thon Amersfoort; Wikipedia seminar Oslo; Wikimedia Nederland Conference; Europeana Fashion
  • Spain report: Wiki Loves Monuments; Fundación Joaquín Díaz González; Wiki Party in Salamanca
  • Sweden report: Motorcycles, Norway and shoes
  • Switzerland report: Wiki Loves Monuments Awards Ceremony; Wikipedians in Residence; Image Donations
  • UK report: Open content at the BBC; edit-a-thons; photography
  • USA report: GLAM-Wiki Activities in Philadelphia and Vancouver, Washington
  • Open Access report: Open Access Button and Berlin 11 conference
  • Calendar: December's GLAM events


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