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Joseph Bradish

I'm a descendant of the Bradish family and have researched Bradish in the UK archives. He did not sail with Kidd, except when he was a prisoner on the same ship enroute from Boston to London. The timing of Kidd and Bradish is very close and each sailed on different ships named Adventure, hence much confusion. Eventually I hope to write this all out, if I can read my notes.

Rick Clarke — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.21.241.139 (talk) 15:26, 5 April 2016

Note: RfC

Notice: RfC at WP:VPR#RfC: First sentence of BLP articles. J947 18:27, 27 February 2017 (UTC)

Guardian obituaries

Hi all. Just to let you know that there's now a page at User:Mike Peel/Guardian obits that tracks recent obituaries published by The Guardian, including matching them to possible Wikipedia articles, and fetching corresponding Wikidata links/dates of birth and death. It will be updated daily by my bot. I'm mentioning it in case it's of interest to anyone here. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 23:04, 27 February 2017 (UTC)

Help with Randal J. Kirk biography

Hi there, I'm looking for editors interested in biography articles to help improve Randal J. Kirk, the biotech investor and CEO of Intrexon. Mainly, I'm looking to improve the article's readability and reduce WP:NPOV issues. For the full details, you can see my edit request, but in short, the structure of the article is not standard for biographies and there are details included that strike me as not being encyclopedic, and are potentially promotional.

As disclosure, I do have a financial conflict of interest with this topic, as I am here as part of my work at Beutler Ink, consulting on behalf of Randal J. Kirk via Hill+Knowlton Strategies. As such, I do not intend to make any edits to the live article and hope other editors can review and make the changes they feel are appropriate. Thanks in advance! 16912 Rhiannon (Talk · COI) 20:43, 28 February 2017 (UTC)

Carlo Pesenti

Hello, I found that biography - that existed way before its Italian counterpart to be honest - and I have to say that it doesn't say much on the topic. Since I have collected several sources on that businessman and have been building from zero an article on it.wiki, I guess that there's material enough for you to work on, I'm sure that there's someone here who can read Italian. Regards, -- SERGIO aka the Black Cat 18:19, 3 March 2017 (UTC)

RFC of interest to this project.

See Talk:Natalie Portman#RFC on the inclusion of Portman's Erdos-Bacon number in the text of this article. Contribute if you have an opinion. --Jayron32 04:04, 4 March 2017 (UTC)

Debreets listing do not match all the articles created for Earl's of Winchilsea

Hi I have been updating sources for First lord of the Admiralty in my draft here:User:Navops47/sandbox2. There are discrepancies with articles created and this Debrett's listing here:https://books.google.lk/books?id=v6u5S-H7BCUC&pg=PA88&dq=Daniel+Finch,+8th+Earl+of+Winchilsea+First+Lord+of+the+Admiralty&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiolIrRg8bSAhVIqI8KHWpTBCEQ6AEIHDAB#v=onepage&q=Daniel%20Finch%2C%208th%20Earl%20of%20Winchilsea%20First%20Lord%20of%20the%20Admiralty&f=false

According to listing on page 88 its states that Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham, , 7th Earl of Winchilsea was First Lord of the Admiralty in 1741 and again in 1757, however in the First Lord of the Admiralty it lists the 8th Earl of Winchilsea. I am no expert but when reading the Debrett's section it appears that this article Thomas Finch, 2nd Earl of Winchilsea eldest son of the Elizabeth Finch, 1st Countess of Winchilsea has been named wrong he was the 1st Earl which now affects all succeeding articles requesting further investigation from someone more qualified to double check. --Navops47 (talk) 04:50, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

Additional update: Daniel Finch 7th Earl Winchilsea listed in 1757 as First Lord of the Admiralty here:https://books.google.lk/books?id=Y5WCAwAAQBAJ&pg=PR8&dq=John+Montagu,+4th+Earl+of+Sandwich+First+Lord+of+the+Admiralty&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjetcTlj8bSAhVFsY8KHU83BL44ChDoAQgbMAE#v=onepage&q=John%20Montagu%2C%204th%20Earl%20of%20Sandwich%20First%20Lord%20of%20the%20Admiralty&f=false the listing in the First Lord article for 1757 states 8th Earl Winchilsea.--Navops47 (talk) 05:03, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

References

Mystery initials to decipher: "IA ’43, MBA 2/’47, DCS ’58"

Hello. I am working on Stephen H. Fuller. On this webpage, it says, "IA ’43, MBA 2/’47, DCS ’58." I get that he earned a master in business administration in 1947, but does anyone know what IA and DCS stand for please? Also, 2/'47? What is 2? Please ping me when you reply. Thank you.Zigzig20s (talk) 10:59, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

@Zigzig20s: Google says DCS is "Doctor of Commercial Science", which seems plausible to me. Maybe you should ask at the refdesk if you want to ask someone who knows what they're talking about. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 16:37, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

IA is international affairs (hence the visiting professorship named for him at Ohio University's Center for International Studies). The date seems to be wrong, though. These two primary sources say he finished his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1941:

• Ohio University Alumni Association: Past Medal of Merit Awardees § 172 Awardees
• The Ohio Alumnus, 1965–66, p. 10

—Ringbang (talk) 20:14, 13 March 2017 (UTC)

Mark Weinberger photo request

Hi, I uploaded a photo of Mark Weinberger, EY Global Chairman and CEO, to Wikimedia Commons. The file name is File:Mark Weinberger at the EY World Entrepreneur of the Year 2016.png. Can an editor add it to the infobox at Mark Weinberger?

A brief history: The photo was originally added to the page by NinjaRobotPirate, but it was deleted after Justlettersandnumbers requested suitable permission to OTRS. I have sent permissions through OTRS and the photo has been restored in Wikimedia Commons.

In a separate edit request, I am asking editors to consider changing "Ernst & Young" in the introduction to say EY, formerly known as Ernst & Young to reflect the company's current name.

Reach out to me if you have any questions. Thanks, RS at EY (talk) 20:51, 10 March 2017 (UTC)

RfC on Nilüfer Demir

The Nilüfer Demir article is discussed at Talk:Death of Alan Kurdi#Proposed merge with Nilüfer Demir, where I invite you to comment. --George Ho (talk) 08:48, 14 March 2017 (UTC)

RfC

Hi, please comment at this RfC on Napoleon Hill. [1]. The article does not receive much traffic and is in need of comment. Thanks. SW3 5DL (talk) 15:38, 14 March 2017 (UTC)

Draft article for David Trone

On behalf of David Trone and Hickman Analytics, I have submitted a draft article about this American businessman as part of my work at Beutler Ink. Given my conflict of interest, I will not publish the article to the main space and ask independent editors to review this draft for accuracy, neutrality, and verifiability. Is there a WikiProject Biography member who will help move the draft into the main space? Thanks for your consideration. Inkian Jason (talk) 16:45, 15 March 2017 (UTC)

GAR

Members of this project might be interested in Wikipedia:Good article reassessment/Demi Lovato/1. Snuggums (talk / edits) 01:06, 17 March 2017 (UTC)

Discussion at WP:BLPN#P. A. Varghese

You are invited to join the discussion at WP:BLPN#P. A. Varghese. -- Marchjuly (talk) 01:48, 21 March 2017 (UTC)Template:Z48

Wikimedia Movement Strategy

Hi all. I'd like to invite you to participate in the Wikimedia Movement Strategy discussions, about our movement's overall goals, "What do we want to build or achieve together over the next 15 years?". It's currently in the first stage, of broad discussion. There are further details in the related metawiki pages (FAQ, lists of other simultaneous communities' discussions, etc). (Also, if you're interested in helping facilitate and summarize the discussions here, and to bring back here the summaries of what the other communities are discussing, please let me know. Thanks. :) Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 00:43, 23 March 2017 (UTC)

RfC Donald Trump talk regarding LGBT rights

Hi, please comment on this RfC here regarding whether or not to include a section on LGBT rights in the Domestic Policy section of the Donald Trump article. Thank you. SW3 5DL (talk) 01:39, 23 March 2017 (UTC)

April events at Women in Red

		Welcome to Women in Red's April 2017 worldwide online editathons. Participation is welcome in any language.
		"Psychology" "Book Artists" "CEE Countries"

(To subscribe: Women in Red/English language list and Women in Red/international list. Unsubscribe: Women in Red/Opt-out list) ----Rosiestep (talk) 18:40, 24 March 2017 (UTC) via MassMessaging

Automatically update requested photo status when image added

There is a huge deficit in Category:Wikipedia_requested_photographs_of_people and the Template:WikiProject_Biography 'needs photo' search parameter. it looks like the only way for that category to be removed is by manually updating the template on the talk page. According to the Image Existence Checker tool, many articles tagged as missing photos have already been updated with pictures. Shouldn't this be very easy to remove when a .jpg image is added to a page? And if the image field is correctly populated in Template:Infobox_person, as it is for Joy Adamson, I'd say that warrants immediate automatic removal from the requested image category. For Wikipedia projects whose goals are specifically to add images to biographical articlds, this lack of functionality makes clean-up that much harder. ~Eliz81^(C) 22:10, 26 March 2017 (UTC)

RfC on Donald Trump

Please comment on this RfC here regarding how best to describe the status of his presidency. Thanks. SW3 5DL (talk) 04:31, 28 March 2017 (UTC)

Biography of Seyfu Fantahun

Seyfu fantahun is an ethiopian artist please add his biography i am available to assist on any details