User talk:Andrew Davidson

Message

Hi Andrew! It was good to meet you today - thank you for all your help, information on Wikipedia and editing guidelines. I have created my own user page and therefore talk page. It will probably take me a while to get used to the syntax and I appreciate your help. Thanks! LCB1974 (talk) 15:30, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

Contribution Team

Hi Andrew Davidson! Thanks for joining the contribution team. Could you take a look at Wikipedia:Contribution_Team/Backlogs? We're trying to make a big effort to reduce these for the rest of the month. Thanks! ⇒SWATJester ^{Son of the Defender} 20:50, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

Hi there! This is a message sent to all members of the Contribution Team. We're letting you know that there has been a rather major update - you can read more about it at Wikipedia talk:Contribution Team#Backlog Drive Update And Other News. Kind regards, Panyd and Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry (talk) 23:24, 10 December 2010 (UTC)

The Contribution Team cordially invites you to Imperial College London

All Hail The Muffin Nor does it taste nice... 14:09, 5 February 2011 (UTC)

UK IRC community meeting

Just a quick reminder about the IRC meeting at 1800 UTC tonight to bring together the Wikimedia community in the UK to help the growth and success of the UK chapter and community activities. For information see wmuk:Community_IRC_meetings

Many Thanks

Joseph Seddon

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London Wikimedia Fundraiser

Good evening! This is a friendly message from Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry, inviting you to the London Wikimedia Fundraising party on 19th December 2010, in approximately one week. This party is being held at an artistic London venue with room for approximately 300 people, and is being funded by Ed Saperia, a non-Wikipedian who has a reputation for holding exclusive events all over London. This year, he wants to help Wikipedia, and is subsidising a charity event for us. We're keen to get as many Wikimedians coming as possible, and we already have approximately 200 guests, including members of the press, and some mystery guests! More details can be found at http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/London - expect an Eigenharp, a mulled wine hot tub, a free hog roast, a haybale amphitheatre and more. If you're interested in coming - and we'd love to have you - please go to the ten.wikipedia page and follow the link to the Facebook event. Signing up on Facebook will add you to the party guestlist. Entry fee is a heavily subsidised £5 and entry is restricted to over 18s. It promises to be a 10th birthday party to remember! If you have any questions, please email me at chasemewiki at gmail.com.

Hope we'll see you there, (and apologies for the talk page spam) - Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry (talk) 17:58, 12 December 2010 (UTC)

Barnstar

File:Britishlibrary.gi		The British Library barnstar
		Thank you for joining and contributing the British Library editathon, you definitely earned this barnstar! Fæ (talk) 23:26, 5 June 2011 (UTC)

• Don't forget to drop me an email so we can help coordinate GLAM task force activity. Cheers Fæ (talk) 23:26, 5 June 2011 (UTC)

British Library follow-up

Thank you for participating in the English and Drama Editathon at the British Library on June 4. I hope you enjoyed the day and got something useful out of it.

If you are new to Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects, I hope you had any questions or problems answered and maybe found being a contributor as addictive as many of the regulars do. If you've got any questions or need help, please feel free to ask any of us on our talk page or by e-mail (Fæ, Tom Morris, Sadads, James F., RHaworth, The Land, AdamBMorgan), ask on the British Library collaboration page or through the Wikipedia Help Desk.

If you are interested in working on Wikipedia, you might want to consider joining one of the WikiProjects. These are places where team work between editors interested in a particular topic can be coordinated. Some suggestions for WikiProjects that may be of interest to you as a participant in the event on Saturday include Literature, Poetry or Science Fiction. A full list of literature and language related WikiProjects can be found here, and a list of all WikiProjects is here. The WikiProjects often have things that need doing, and if you need help you can often ask in their talk page.

But there are other places you can get involved. If you are interested on working on images, such as improving image descriptions, categorisation or uploading new media, consider getting involved in Wikimedia Commons. Wikisource also needs people willing to help make available original source material, and Wikiquote is trying to compile a directory of quotes which you may be able to contribute to.

If you want to continue some of the work we got started on Saturday, here are a few potential things to help with:

• Following on from work on Ella D'Arcy on Saturday, work has started to make all of The Yellow Book available on Wikisource. If you go to the page on Wikisource and pick a volume then click on 'scan index' you can start helping to proofread pages from the journal - simply click on the page you want to work on, and go through to check that the text on the left reflects the text on the right. If you need any help with getting started, please ask User:Tom Morris.
• If you created any new articles at the event, you might want to submit them to Did you know?.
• If you are able to translate into other languages, why not pick one of the articles we worked on, translate it and post it on another language version of Wikipedia: there are now versions in hundreds of languages. On Wikimedia Commons, it is also possible to provide multilingual descriptions of images and categories: this enables editors on the other language versions to better find images and media files they can use in their project.
• If you need images from the British Library to illustrate articles, please add them to the image requests page. If you would like a British LIbrary curator to help collaborate on an article, please add it to the collaborations page.
• You might also be interested in attending GLAMcamp London.
• To explore more articles related to the British Library, visit Portal:British Library.

Whatever you do, please tell us about the positive and negative experiences you have. On behalf of the organisers of the event, thanks again.

—Tom Morris (talk) 11:23, 10 June 2011 (UTC)

Did You Know

Bristol High Cross

Casliber (talk · contribs) 16:03, 30 January 2012 (UTC)

Delphine Parrott

As a virtual participant at the NIMR 2013 editathon, here is some virtual cake, as you missed out on the real cake on the day (with Rosalind Franklin's photograph 51 on top). Edwardx (talk) 09:10, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

Andrew, I think your new article on Delphine Parrott has great potential to be a DYK as the first woman professor at Glasgow University. In my introductory talk at the NIMR editathon, I suggested that we should aim to have one or two articles as DYKs. Marjorie Mussett, who I've started won't be long enough or interesting enough. Edwardx (talk) 09:17, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

@Edwardx: Yes, this has been my goal and I have a hook in mind. Being the first female professor is too obvious for my taste, though we might work that in. I'll put in a submission as soon as we qualify but currently have to make hay while the sun shines - hedge cutting and other chores need to be done now that my hand is more usable. More anon. Andrew Davidson (talk) 10:31, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

Hope your gardening (and recovering hand) went well. This evening, I've nominated two articles as DYKs (both started by new editors at the NIMR editathon): Audrey Smith and Elizabeth Press. I quite like the hook for the first one, but the other is rather dull. Any improvement would be most welcome. Edwardx (talk) 23:11, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

@Edwardx: I've done the nomination for Delphine Parrott now. It's bedtime now but I'll look at the others soon and will perhaps review them as my QPQ. Andrew Davidson (talk) 23:38, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

Hi Andrew, I was dropping by to thank you for starting the article on Delphine Parrot but I see Edward beat me to it! Thanks for taking part and helping improve Wikipedia's coverage of an important subject. Richard Nevell (WMUK) (talk) 15:25, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

And we have our first NIMR Editathon DYK on the front page today - Audrey Smith. Edwardx (talk) 09:03, 1 August 2013 (UTC)

Alex Shih^Talk 04:03, 7 August 2013 (UTC)

Fred Henry Andrews

Hello! Your submission of Fred Henry Andrews at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Worm^TT(talk) 15:28, 30 October 2012 (UTC)

• Sorry for the delay in replying - I've been ill the past few days. There's a picture of Andrews in the second batch of images, but the metadata is a little garbled - I'll try and get it up once I can get this sorted. Andrew Gray (talk) 12:39, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

Casliber (talk · contribs) 00:03, 3 November 2012 (UTC)

Flip teaching

Andrew,

I made some additions to the Flip teaching page. I'd be happy to have guidance/edits.

John — Preceding unsigned comment added by Johcha1024 (talk • contribs) 19:15, 21 February 2012 (UTC)

Ok, I'll take a look and comment further there. Andrew Davidson (talk) 13:13, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

Hello! Your submission of Flip teaching at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Daniel Case (talk) 07:40, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

Queen Victoria's journals

Hello! Your submission of Template:Did you know nominations/Queen Victoria's journals at the Did You Know nominations page is not complete; see step 3 of the nomination procedure. If you do not want to continue with the nomination, tag the nomination page with {{db-g7}}, or ask a DYK admin. Thank you. DYKHousekeepingBot (talk) 16:54, 27 May 2013 (UTC)

The DYK project (nominate) 00:03, 31 May 2013 (UTC)

Rowenna Davis

The DYK project (nominate) 08:02, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

St Mungo's (charity)

Hello! Your submission of St Mungo's (charity) at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. It looks as if you are still working on the article but I have made a start on the review SagaciousPhil - Chat 09:15, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:04, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

G'day!

My background, for the last twenty years of the 20th century, was Newtown, Sydney, while it was still a happy mix of old families in grand old lacy terraces, working-class families in two-up-and-two-downs, ethnics of every variety, Greek businessmen whose had prospered and sent their sons and daughters to law school, artists, poets, semi-retired anarchists, bible-college-students, street people and a carillonist.

I was the carillonist, so I belonged to everybody else. When I was happy, everyone for a two-mile radius knew about it. When my boyfriend went back to the Queensland border everyone knew about that too. Likewise, when Australia won the America's Cup, when Cathy Freeman won Gold in the Olympics, and when Vincent Lingiari died on his way to Sydney for the Bicentenary, I made sure that everyone over a two-mile radius knew about it.

The street people in Newtown were the best-fed street people in the world. Little David, who sold the Big Issue, was taken to lunch by someone or other, several days a week. Shop keepers found work for people with mental illness, sweeping the yard or folding the cardboard crates, and paid them in meat pies with tomato sauce, hot chips and cups of tea. There was a camaraderie that accommodated differences. There was a group of unemployed aboriginal men (a.k.a the Newtown Mob) who often hung around outside the community centre. If anything needed sorting out, one only had to ask, and they sorted it. They sorted my disabled brother when he fell and hit the gutter, and took him up to Casualty at the Royal Prince Alfred, whether he wanted it not, cursing and bleeding profusely all the way. Years ago, I tried to edit the Wikipedia page to reflect all this, but came up against a wiki-purist who wouldn't have it that way! I was very sad to leave Newtown!Amandajm (talk) 11:53, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

• Thanks for the reminiscence. There may be an article in the "Newton mob". For example, there's quite a bit about them here: Demographic extent of Indigenous homelessness ..."Newtown is my town. You know that you won’t get hit over the head with a bottle or bashed.” If only Wikipedia was so friendly... :) Andrew Davidson (talk) 12:28, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

Goodonya, Mate!

Amandajm (talk) 02:34, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

A Tragedy of Fashion

The DYK project (nominate) 03:08, 29 June 2013 (UTC)

Message of the Day

You may have noticed over the past few days that the MOTD that you link to on your user page has simply displayed a red link. This is due to the fact that not enough people are reviewing pending MOTDs here. Please help us keep the MOTD template alive and simply go and review a few of the MOTDs in the list. That way we can have a real MOTD in the future rather than re-using (This space for rent). Any help would be appreciated! –pjoef (talk • contribs) 16:10, 6 March 2012 (UTC)

April Fools Day is just around the corner. As such please could you nominate a new motto or comment on existing suggestions at Wikipedia:Motto of the day/Nominations/Specials? Simply south...... facing oncoming traffic for over 5 years 16:44, 20 March 2012 (UTC)

Alan Gillett

Is the surveyor notable? Cos if not there is absolutely no point in having a disambiguation page. GiantSnowman 19:31, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

Yes. I am currently writing the article which will contain adequate references to establish this. Andrew Davidson (talk) 19:36, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

OK - I've fixed all the broken links to the football coach as well. GiantSnowman 19:39, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

Backwell Karate

Hi Andrew,

Thanks for your advice. I've added in references from numerous sources, including websites, newspapers and a magazine. Because of the age of some of the references many of them are not online, but there are quite a number that are. Hope this helps? --Nailseabackwellresident (talk) 20:43, 17 May 2012 (UTC)

Editathon

Glad you'll be able to make it, should be a fascinating event! Yes, do see what your old tutor makes of the article, and we can talk about strategy and tactics on the day... The Land (talk) 12:34, 27 May 2012 (UTC)

Elizabeth II

Thank you, Andrew Davidson! How reasonably you put your case! Amandajm (talk) 17:52, 2 June 2012 (UTC)

You're welcome. Andrew Davidson (talk) 20:55, 2 June 2012 (UTC)

Having got support from 3 other editors, I rewrote, according to the plan I had put forward to the "owners" of the page some months ago, using current Jubilee website, and a quote from Boris (God Bless Him!) It was immediately reverted By DrKeirnan with the every-so-reasonable suggestion that every point needs to be individually discussed.

Problem is, today is the day. It's only 8.45 in London, and the page has had 200,000 hits already.

I cannot simply keep reverting to the changes that I have made. Edit warring doesn't work!

I need reinforcements!

Amandajm (talk) 06:47, 3 June 2012 (UTC)

Still working on this article. Still being reverted at every turn. This is my latest message. I need back-up.

Amandajm (talk) 15:41, 13 June 2012 (UTC)

• I have responded at the article's talk page. Andrew Davidson (talk) 12:34, 14 June 2012 (UTC)

Your suggestion that every change should be discussed seems perfectly reasonable. However, it is extraordinarily difficult to achieve; hence my frustration and the lengths that I have gone to. The editors with whom I am dealing are far from reasonable. Every improvement to the intro (as it now is) has cost an argument, some of which started a year ago, (often with points being made that are frankly ridiculous) and multiple deletions. They only gave way when its was pointed out that several other people had wanted it changed, and even then chopped out a lot of the stuff (including deleting mention of the wars).

The same people, particularly DrKiernan, are now being just as difficult over the rest of the article. The preciousness with which they resist change is extraordinary!

No-one can afford to be that precious. I know that I can't!

I usually work on major art/architecture articles and have almost entirely written (or rewritten) a number of them. See Leonardo da Vinci, Ancient Greek architecture, Romanesque secular and domestic architecture, Renaissance architecture, Italian Renaissance painting. While this has been happening, I have been working on Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant which has been in every way pleasantly cooperative! Amandajm (talk) 16:50, 14 June 2012 (UTC)

Dan Leno

I think you're probably right. Thank you for spotting it. I've just re-added the minor grammatical change I was trying to add before. Tim riley (talk) 13:58, 21 June 2012 (UTC)

Hi, I see you have made a number of edits to the above and I want to thank you for your time in doing so. However, I must stress that as the article is currently today's featured article and any edits go live immediately. As the co-nominator at it's FAC I ask of you to hold off making any major changes to it and instead take any desired edits to its talk page. I really don't want warring on such a special day. Everything can be discussed tomorrow with a view of in corporating your contributions if you wish to discuss then. I will be reverting the article again to its original form as it's that version which enabled it to get to a FA in the first place. Many thanks and I hope to see you there. -- Cassianto^Talk 14:05, 21 June 2012 (UTC)

Sorry, there was an edit conflict. Where are we now with this? I see you have spoken to Tim on the matter. Incidentally, thanks for the stub. I will happily help expand. -- Cassianto^Talk 14:13, 21 June 2012 (UTC)

• My understanding is that Tim was making a minor grammar change but inadvertently reverted a bunch of other changes too. We seem to have worked that out already and I have no plans to make any more edits to the article today. Andrew Davidson (talk) 14:44, 21 June 2012 (UTC)

Sorry, it was a result of the edit conflict that things got a bit confusing. All the best! -- Cassianto^Talk 14:51, 21 June 2012 (UTC)

Oh, Lord! My hamfistedness has caused a right brouhaha. Apologies all round! Tim riley (talk) 17:49, 21 June 2012 (UTC)

Dunhuang Project event

Hi Andrew,

Good to see you've signed up for the event! It's running over four days, and you're welcome to attend any or all; we're hoping to be working on it more or less continually through the period.

The two specific things we do have scheduled are a group of students from SOAS on the Wednesday afternoon (about 3pm, I think) and a smaller group of MA students from UCL on Thursday morning (about 10am). We'll be quite busy at these points, but if you're interested in helping novice contributors learn to use Wikipedia, this would be a good time to come along. Andrew Gray (talk) 19:02, 18 October 2012 (UTC)

Hi there. Are you still interested in coming down? If so, please drop me an email so we can arrange a pass for you... Andrew Gray (talk) 09:16, 23 October 2012 (UTC)

I'm quite busy with auditions &c. this week but I'll try to make a flying visit at Thursday lunchtime. More by email. Andrew Davidson (talk) 14:37, 24 October 2012 (UTC)

Images

As of late 2012 the English language Wikipedia has over 4.1 million articles, and Wikimedia's image library Commons has nearly 15 million images.

Much of the time the people who write articles will add appropriate images, but in a volunteer based project where everyone chooses their own tasks we sometimes find things that get forgotten.

So we now are producing lists of articles that don't have images but for which images may be available.

Wikipedia:Articles with UK Geocodes but without images is a list produced by computer of articles about things in the UK, these are articles without images, but because they are in the UK we probably have images if anyone looks.

To add an image to an article.

1. Open three different editing tabs on your PC. One for this page, one for Wikipedia:Articles with UK Geocodes but without images and one for searching Wikimedia Commons
2. On the list find an article without an image.
3. Search Wikimedia Commons for that location.
4. If you find an image that you want to use, click on the link to the article in the list and then click edit on the article.
5. Copy [[file:photograph name.jpg|right|thumb|Your caption here|alt=A description for blind people]] to a new first line of the article
6. Copy the name of the file from Wikimedia Commons and past it over the words photograph name
7. Replace Your caption here with a caption, ideally one that explains the relevance of the image to the article.
8. Replace A description for blind people with a few words that would give a blind person more information than the caption.
9. Put Adding picture in the box marked Edit Summary
10. Click preview to see what the photo looks like in the article
11. If you think it improves the article, click save.
12. Edit Wikipedia:Articles with UK Geocodes but without images and remove the article that you've added a picture to.

Congratulations! you've just transformed a Wikipedia article.

Advanced options

Other languages

On the lower left part of the screen you will see a list of other languages that we have that article in, usually we won't have images in that language either. Feel free to add images to other language versions of Wikipedia, but please leave the caption and alt text blank unless you can write them in that language.

Sometimes one image just isn't enough

For example you might have a waterfall in spate and in drought and you want to put both images side by side

You can do this with the following code:

<gallery>

file:photograph 1.jpg|Caption 1

file:photograph 2.jpg|Caption 2

</gallery>

Sometimes a gallery isn't suitable

We need to remember people with slow connection speeds, so we only want images that illustrate something in the article. Sometimes we have several more images than we use and in those cases it is worth adding a link to the category on Commons.

You can do this by putting the following near the end of the article, usually in the see also section {{commonscat|category on Commons}} Just replace the words "category on Commons" with the name of the category on Commons (if the name is the same this parameter is not needed).

FAQs

Q What does thumb do?

A The thumb parameter makes the image thumbnail size rather than full size. We have other options as well, but thumb works as a good default.

Q What do I do if none of the images are suitable for illustrating that article?

A Sometimes the only image we have for a village is a roundabout, hedge or rusty tractor, if you don't think that any of the images you've found are worth adding then leave that one and check another article (advanced option - edit the list and add the words "no suitable pictures on Commons" and today's date. That way hopefully we can add it to lists we circulate to our photographers).

Q I want to know lots more about adding images, where can I find out about all the possibilities?

A Wikipedia:Picture tutorial

Q How do I add the image into the Infobox rather than above it?

A We may not cover this in today's class. But Help:Infobox picture has all the details.

Q Why do you keep the images in a separate Wiki, wouldn't it be easier if they were in Wikipedia?

A We keep most of our images in a separate image library so that they can be available for use in lots of different projects, including the nearly 300 different language versions of Wikipedia.

Q I keep seeing lots of images with Geograph in the name. What does that mean?

A Geograph is a photography competition in Britain and Ireland, people compete to be the first to photograph somewhere or something. Because they use a compatible license to us we have been able to copy 1.9 million of their images to Wikimedia Commons, and that's the main reason why we usually have an image for every UK village, waterfall, castle, canal or railway station.

Hope you enjoyed the session, please drop me a line if you have any questions or indeed any suggestions as to how we can run this better. ϢereSpielChequers 23:03, 4 December 2012 (UTC)

Thanks

LOL! --Elitre (WMF) (talk) 15:56, 12 August 2013 (UTC)

You may ask here if there are plans to add VE shirts to that initiative or to the shop. In the first case, you might get it if you are nominated :) --Elitre (WMF) (talk) 12:30, 13 August 2013 (UTC)

@Elitre (WMF): Thanks but I don't usually wear T-shirts, myself. The best freebie I got at Wikimania was a pair of sunglasses from the merchandise stand, which were good for the fierce sunshine in the square. Perhaps VE should give rose-tinted glasses :) Andrew Davidson (talk) 10:54, 14 August 2013 (UTC)

Rose is the color, yes :) --Elitre (WMF) (talk) 11:06, 14 August 2013 (UTC)

Harriet Law

I've nominated Harriet Law as a DYK, and given you contributor credit. It still needs work, if you get a chance... Edwardx (talk) 19:57, 13 August 2013 (UTC)

@Edwardx Thanks. I had planned to make this a DYK from the outset and was going to do the formalities today - a free day following the flight back from Wikimania. Now you've taken care of the nom, I'll spend the time on some other aspect. I want to have another hunt for an image. I see it said that no portrait of her exists but I hope to find a caricature or statue. Andrew Davidson (talk) 07:05, 14 August 2013 (UTC)

I thought that probably was your plan. But realised that Wikimania might perhaps have taken precedence, so thought I'd get in the nom within the five day limit. The hook is rather dull. I was tired and that was all that came to mind. I would be very happy to see you come up with something better! Welcome back. Edwardx (talk) 07:45, 14 August 2013 (UTC)

DYK for Harriet Law

The DYK project (nominate) 00:03, 31 August 2013 (UTC)

DYK for Cleveland Hall, London

The DYK project (nominate) 16:02, 3 September 2013 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: August 2013

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DYK nomination of John Winter (royalist)

Hello! Your submission of John Winter (royalist) at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! BlueMoonset (talk) 18:01, 6 October 2013 (UTC)

• Please revisit; issues remain. Many thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 00:07, 15 October 2013 (UTC)

• I have updated the nomination. Andrew Davidson (talk) 11:30, 15 October 2013 (UTC)

• Please stop by again. Thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 05:13, 17 October 2013 (UTC)

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GOCE September 2013 drive wrap-up

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DYK nomination of Eleanora Knopf

Hello! Your submission of Eleanora Knopf at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! —David Eppstein (talk) 06:38, 20 October 2013 (UTC)

• I have responded at the nomination. Andrew Davidson (talk) 08:35, 20 October 2013 (UTC)

DYK for Gladys Anderson Emerson

The DYK project (nominate) 00:05, 22 October 2013 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Elizabeth Laird (physicist)

Hello! Your submission of Elizabeth Laird (physicist) at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! BlueMoonset (talk) 01:13, 24 October 2013 (UTC)

• I have responded there, thanks. Andrew Davidson (talk) 21:23, 24 October 2013 (UTC)

DYK for Julia Gulliver

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DYK for Eleanora Knopf

The DYK project (nominate) 16:04, 26 October 2013 (UTC)

GOCE Blitz wrap-up; join us for the November drive

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DYK for Sidney Kennon

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DYK for Grace Bates

The DYK project (nominate) 16:05, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

DYK for Elizabeth Laird (physicist)

The DYK project (nominate) 00:03, 29 October 2013 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Iron railing

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DYK nomination of John Winter (royalist)

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Ada's Angel Award

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		Thank you for all of the effort you put into the Ada Lovelace events in October 2013. This is an award for supporting the events in UK and for inspiring people to join. --Daria Cybulska (WMUK) (talk) 14:09, 4 November 2013 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: October 2013

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DYK for Iron railing

The DYK project (nominate) 08:04, 12 November 2013 (UTC)

File source problem with File:Lilian Bland.jpg

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Possibly unfree File:Lilian Bland.jpg

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DYK for Chelsea Bun House

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November 2013 GOCE drive wrap-up

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DYK nomination of Lilian Bland

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Blocked

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