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Lincoln Diocese - Safeguarding
Hello Ealdgyth I noticed you deleted wholesale a new section on Lincoln Diocese page - all of which had been accurately cited and referenced. By same token you'd need to edit out the same section on Diocese of Chichester page which has involved many editors and many references? The same heading (Safeguarding) was used, and placed in the same place in the article. Don't you think recent BBC revelations about the diocese, multiple cover-ups, diocesan failure on a scale with or perhaps even greater than Chichester - warrant inclusion in wiki? Your deletion implies that the record of a diocese's widespread failure in safeguarding is not a significant part of its history? Please can you undo your deletion, or explain your reasons why. In which case you should seek to address the same issue with the Chichester Diocese page as well? I suspect all the editors who have contibuted to that section would be surprised to see their work deleted in such a sudden way without question. Joelionheart (talk) 15:22, 7 May 2019 (UTC)
Skowronek
Moved to Talk:Skowronek (horse)Ealdgyth - Talk 14:51, 22 April 2019 (UTC)
Re: this, it was promoted yesterday. - Dank (push to talk) 14:29, 13 April 2019 (UTC)
- Yet another article to think the worst of. Tony (talk) 11:46, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
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AQHA website redesign
Hi Ealdgyth. I had some time today, so I played around with that long URL for the AQHA hall of fame a bit. I found that if you only use the first bit of it up to the horse's name and with the ? mark, it works. You don't need all the rest of that nonsense. I was able to update Baby Doll Combs article successfully. Here's what I used: [1] Much shorter.
That's the good news. The not so good news is that all of AQHA seems to be redesigned and the links for AQHA need updated for all of their articles, not just the hall of fame. Well, anyway, I wanted to update the two rodeo horses who were also AQHA hall of fame members to see if I could. I think some sort of strategy to update the AQHA links might be needed. For example, I am working on how to update rodeo articles as the Professional Bull Riders and the ProBullStats web sites have both redesigned their websites and that's 100s of links in Wikipedia. Not to mention how they have broken all my links in my social media accounts, email, and bookmarks, etc. Such fun! Still working on Make It Do. dawnleelynn(talk) 19:17, 23 April 2019 (UTC)
Scarlett Johansson
Hello. Can you please schedule another article on Wikipedia:Today's featured article/May 30, 2019 instead of Scarlett Johansson's? I have another date planned for her main page appearance. Thanks. FrB.TG (talk) 08:49, 27 April 2019 (UTC)
- @FrB.TG: What anniversary are you thinking of? I double checked both Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests and Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/pending before scheduling ... it is greatly helpful if folks who want a specific date would use those to give schedulers a heads up. Ealdgyth - Talk 23:03, 1 May 2019 (UTC)
- I was thinking maybe on the day of release of her own solo Black Widow film (who knows when that’s gonna happen though). If not that, then maybe on her 35th birthday, but the former is the top priority. FrB.TG (talk) 10:44, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
WikiCup 2019 May newsletter
The second round of the 2019 WikiCup has now finished. Contestants needed to scored 32 points to advance into round 3. Our top four scorers in round 2 all scored over 400 points and were:
Cas Liber (1210), our winner in 2016, with two featured articles and three DYKs. He also made good use of the bonus points available, more than doubling his score by choosing appropriate articles to work on.
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