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Development of the war cemetery idea

FYI see Talk:Commonwealth War Graves Commission#Development of the war cemetery idea -- PBS (talk) 15:14, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

Thanks, PBS for starting Guild of Loyal Women. I will try and get back to this at some later point. For now, on the same theme of 'aftermath to wars', you might be interested in Ypres League. More specifically, on the women and wars theme, there was (probably still is) an association of Gold Star Mothers that I have a book about knocking around on my bookshelves. Ah, the article is in Wikipedia and has been for a long time: Gold Star Mothers Club. Having a look round there might give you ideas for categories to put the GoLW article in. Carcharoth (talk) 22:02, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

Arbcom

I seem to recall that it was with some hesitation that you even ran for arbcom. I'm glad you did, and I hope in hindsight, even with as difficult as I have no doubt it was, I hope you feel glad about your service too. I think you have much to be proud of.

I'm going to see if I can find an appropriate barnstar, but in the meantime, I thought you might like this userbox : )

This user was on the English Wikipedia's Arbitration Committee.

Enjoy : ) - jc37 23:43, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

You know, as I was going through the barnstars, I kept thinking that it's not easy to "pigeonhole" you. You aren't necessarily "known" for a character type (or caricature type for that matter). My experience is that you actually listen to discussion, cut through confusion, and respond sincerely. Often while offering suggestions on how to improve things for the better.

I guess it's not what people may write about, but I wish we had more like you.

I'm going to give you the same barnstar I gave NYB, because it entirely applies to you on your time on arbcom as well. But I also wanted to give you something unique - An "Upholder of Wiki award". Enjoy : ) - jc37 07:43, 17 February 2015 (UTC)

Thanks, jc37. It's interesting how perceptions can vary. My time on ArbCom wasn't one big chunk like that by others, but was two years, followed by a break, followed by another two years. At one time I thought that this might bring a different perspective, but I'm not so sure any more. I did recently reach the milestone of having been around on-wiki for 10 years, and might try and put down some thoughts on that at some point over the next year, but it seems that it is really all about the time you have available to devote to various aspects of Wikipedia and how wisely that time is invested. Wikipedia isn't exactly a place where it is easy to manage one's time. :-) Carcharoth (talk) 20:51, 28 February 2015 (UTC)

Barnstar!

		The Multiple Barnstar
		With sincere thanks for your many years of service on Wikipedia's Arbitration Committee. - jc37 07:43, 17 February 2015 (UTC)

J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Prize

Have you any plans to move User:Carcharoth/Article incubator/J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Prize to the mainspace? Hawkeye7 (talk) 20:25, 20 February 2015 (UTC)

Hi Hawkeye (sorry for the delay, I wasn't around the past few weeks). I didn't have any plans to move that draft article right now, but if you think it is ready (or could be made ready soon) I'd be happy to move it or work on it some more, or move it and leave you to add to it? I see that the one link I provided is now dead... I really should learn to archive links that might go dead like that. I've now poked around the new search engine and from those results should be able to put together some more permanent citations for each award. One of the reasons I didn't put it live back when I wrote that draft was that I was hoping a source would turn up confirming that the award ended, but that sort of thing doesn't always get published in the obvious places. Carcharoth (talk) 21:00, 28 February 2015 (UTC)

An update: the article is now at J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Prize. I'll drop a note on your talk page about another draft article. Carcharoth (talk) 12:57, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

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One of several of Godot13's quality submissions during round 1

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Opera

... continued, archived also recently. It's a bit like a fairy tale: Once upon a time, a project set out to install a new device and was helped by an expert, who didn't fail to place his portrait into it. There was some quarreling about the installation, because some traditional project members didn't like the new device, but now everybody seems happy. (subtitle: the infoboxes case) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:12, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

Yes, I've been half-following the infoboxes case review. One thing that puzzles me is that Courcelles is well aware of the history of the proposed decision back in the original case and his comments don't quite match that. I'll comment further over there. Carcharoth (talk) 14:27, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

Biased, as I am: I think that Courcelles shows most insight in the situation, because the infoboxes case didn't look at the problem why it was requested (reverts of infoboxes of operas, a little problem that came and went) but instead in some old battles which were anachronistic then already. - We still have sudden unexplained reverts, and the concept that the main contributor decides, in the case of Laurence Olivier that an infobox was removed that been in place for eight years, - interesting talk. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:51, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

For a quiet moment --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:58, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

I wanted this - Did you know ... that Ernst Pepping's 1948 Missa Dona nobis pacem (grant us peace) for unaccompanied eight-part choir may have been the composer's "personal plea"? - on capitulation day, but missed it by a day. Personal capitulation: amendment, the day I received an infobox for Die Walküre and Pepping, the latter by the "needs-infobox" feature of project biography. I never met Pepping but was pleased to hear from his student that reading the favourable review mentioned in the article was one of his last joys before he died. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:28, 9 May 2015 (UTC)

I expanded Pepping, and found an image of his grave - which made me think of you. - Your former colleague in arbitration, AGK, wants to know "how precisely their behaviour has reformed since the restrictions were imposed", "their" being me. What can I say? My behaviour hasn't changed a bit, I still don't say anything against fellow editors and believe that we can start today, as in 2013. The surroundings changed. - If you look at a discussion which got me to AE (again), would you think that of all editors in the infobox field, I am the one who needs to be restricted most - as I am at present? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:15, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

fyi

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Robert Young (longevity claims researcher) (2nd nomination) EEng (talk) 01:49, 4 March 2015 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

This wiki kitten is here to thank you for photographing the graves of the notable Polish individuals, neither of which had an illustration in the article before. (HS didn't even have an article on pl wiki, can you believe that?). By any chance, would this cemetery have any other tombstones of notable individuals? A quick search suggests the following: John Dibbs, and more Poles: generals Ludwik de Laveaux (officer), Stefan Dembiński and pl:Augustyn Gruszka, colonel pl:Bronisław Brągiel, and several more (I can link the articles if it would help).

_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 01:44, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Hi Piotrus. If you could do a list with names and birth and death years (where known), that would be great. What is needed is the actual grave location (there is an example in the John Dibbs article (grave 15, row G, block C). I know some London boroughs (like Richmond) have their grave databases online and searchable, but some don't. I don't think Hounslow do. But if the Polish burials were in the same rough area of the cemetery (it felt like that), or the list could be ordered by year of death, then it might be possible for me to go back and have a look. I can do the list if you don't have time, but if you do have time I can definitely go back there. Ealing at the time had (and probably still does have) a large Polish population, so if there is anything else I can help with, let me know. There is, I think, a Polish centre in Chiswick that might be able to help with information. Ah, we have an article on it! Polish Social and Cultural Association. That's the one! :-) Carcharoth (talk) 09:01, 21 March 2015 (UTC)

I sadly don't have information on where they would be buried in the cemetery, but here are the names of biographies from en/pl wikipedia for individuals buried there that are missing a picture: pl:Jan Bielatowicz, pl:Władysław Bobiński, pl:Bronisław Brągiel, Stefan Dembiński, pl:Augustyn Gruszka, Jerzy Hryniewski, pl:Adam Kosiba, Ludwik de Laveaux (officer), pl:Bogusław Miedziński, Ludomił Rayski, Tadeusz Schaetzel and pl:Leon Strzelecki. Out of those, in particular Ludomił Rayski has somewhat of a high profile, as the commander of Polish Air Force. Note that there is a burials category for this cemetery at pl wiki: pl:Kategoria:Pochowani na cmentarzu South Ealing w Londynie. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 03:03, 26 April 2015 (UTC)

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John Stuart Hay

A simple effort to find a death date for a Wikisource author is getting a bit out of hand. See Talk:Elagabalus for a slip in a featured article, and s:Author talk:John Stuart Hay for some reconstruction of who he actually was. (The potential birth date of 1881 comes from ScotlandsPeople, via Wikipedia Library.) What was called the "Hay plan" right at the end of World War I, to promote army recruitment in Ireland, might be this John Stuart Hay; or it might not (plausible because of the Catholic connection). I'm hoping army service records could help clarify. The "Hay plan" is in a paper I found in JSTOR, and elsewhere. Charles Matthews (talk) 08:34, 12 April 2015 (UTC)

Difficult to say. I had a poke around, but didn't find anything better than what you already have. The 'Hay plan' is interesting. Carcharoth (talk) 19:32, 12 April 2015 (UTC)

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Unite accounts

Hi Carcharoth, could you please globally unify the "Carcharoth (Commons)" account? I don't want to leave any local accounts that aren't unified. Simply log in to the account and go to commons:Special:MergeAccount. Thank you, Taketa (talk) 05:15, 23 April 2015 (UTC)

Hi Taketa. I have now done this. Many thanks for letting me know and sorry for not doing this - I hadn't realised this step was still needed. I think all is OK now from looking at the CentAuth listings for Carcharoth (Commons) and for Carcharoth. Just to be clear: though I still control the 'Carcharoth (Commons)' account (which is now a unified SUL account), there should be no need for me to ever use it again? Do you agree that everything is now OK? Carcharoth (talk) 07:57, 23 April 2015 (UTC)

Hey Carcharoth, thanks :). No further action is needed. All accounts being global since last week, has created a new situation for renames. There are no guidelines or procedures, only best practice. I noticed that I created local accounts by merging manually. In order to make sure the SUL finalisation is not messed up by my renames I prefer to leave globally unified accounts behind. I should have asked you at meta, but only noticed the effect afterwards. To summarize, all is well, no further needed. All the best, Taketa (talk) 08:36, 23 April 2015 (UTC)

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Westbourne ward

Hasn't moved, and nor has it changed its voting habits particularly. Hope this helps. Sam Blacketer (talk) 14:25, 26 April 2015 (UTC)

Thanks. It's not where I vote, that is Brentford and Isleworth (UK Parliament constituency) (previously I was further west in Vince Cable's constituency!). I suppose you saw the discussions here and elsewhere about the allegations relating to Grant Shapps and the resulting arbitration case at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Sockpuppet investigation block? If you are happy to discuss that (no problem if not), what are your views on that, or the more general cases of editing and actions taken with respect to pages on political topics? I noticed you editing Lutfur Rahman (politician), and your comments on the talk page show why it is important to have editors familiar with such things watching pages like that. Carcharoth (talk) 14:40, 26 April 2015 (UTC)

WikiCup 2015 May newsletter

C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) is a long-period comet discovered on 17 August 2014 by Terry Lovejoy; and is one of several Featured Pictures worked up by The Herald (submissions) during the second round.

The second round one has all wrapped up, and round three has now begun! Congratulations to the 34 contestants who have made it through, but well done and thank you to all contestants who took part in our second round. Leading the way overall was Cas Liber (submissions) in Group B with a total of 777 points for a variety of contributions including Good Articles on Corona Borealis and Microscopium - both of which received the maximum bonus.

Special credit must be given to a number of high importance articles improved during the second round.

• Coemgenus (submissions) was one of several users who worked on improving Ulysses S. Grant. Remember, you do not need to work on an article on your own - as long as each person has completed significant work on the article during 2015, multiple competitors can claim the same article.
• Cwmhiraeth (submissions) took Dragonfly to Good Article for a 3x bonus - and if that wasn't enough, they also took Damselfly there as well for a 2x bonus.
• LeftAire (submissions) worked up Alexander Hamilton to Good Article for the maximum bonus. Hamilton was one of the founding fathers of the United States and is a level 4 vital article.

The points varied across groups, with the lowest score required to gain automatic qualification was 68 in Group A - meanwhile the second place score in Group H was 404, which would have been high enough to win all but one of the other Groups! As well as the top two of each group automatically going through to the third round, a minimum score of 55 was required for a wildcard competitor to go through. We had a three-way tie at 55 points and all three have qualified for the next round, in the spirit of fairness. The third round ends on June 28, with the top two in each group progressing automatically while the remaining 16 highest scorers across all four groups go through as wildcards. Good luck to all competitors for the third round! Figureskatingfan (talk · contribs · email), Miyagawa (talk · contribs · email) and Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email) 16:26, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

Arthur Porter

I discovered Arthur Porter whilst researching Kenyon Taylor.

I was just curious as to why he isn’t a mainspace article.CV9933 (talk) 20:14, 10 May 2015 (UTC)

Because I hadn't got round to converting those notes into something more like an article yet. I had been looking and thinking of doing that article only a few weeks ago. I could do that sometime this week, unless you had plans to do that? Some of the links went dead, but I think I re-found them. I should return to this, as the autobiography he wrote has a great title: So Many Hills to Climb: My Journey from Cumbria to North Carolina. I've wondered sometimes what those (metaphorical and literal?) hills were that he climbed. Carcharoth (talk) 00:17, 11 May 2015 (UTC)

I updated one of the links, but am not sure how to get hold of a copy of the obituary in Winston-Salem Journal (4-5 March 2010). The copy at Legacy.com is no longer there. I should have saved it at the time, and would like to see a copy of it again before carrying on with that article, but will move it into the external links if that is not possible. Carcharoth (talk) 00:25, 11 May 2015 (UTC)

I only know of him for his Ferranti connection,I didn’t know he was a work in progress. Dead links are a problem, but this book reference might be helpful.

I believe the memorial tribute was prepared by [1] Similar links [2]

[3]

CV9933 (talk) 13:37, 11 May 2015 (UTC)

Precious again

thoughts
Thank you for giving your precious time to thoughts, and for sharing them, thoughts on a BLP, on paid editing, and "how letting personal animosity and dislikes get in the way of the bigger picture ... destroys trust"- repeating: you are an awesome Wikipedian (30 December 2008)!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:49, 13 May 2012 (UTC)

Three years ago, you were the 122nd recipient of my PumpkinSky Prize, - look at today's, I am getting better at it, but nothing changed essentially ;) - It will be difficult to do justice to the legacy Viva-Verdi left unfinished. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:24, 13 May 2015 (UTC)

EddieSegoura Ban Appeal

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Hi, I saw your name at the volunteer list of Peer Review. Can you please do so of my Bahadur Shah I at Wikipedia:Peer review/Bahadur Shah I/archive1? RRD13 দেবজ্যোতি (talk) 17:04, 16 June 2015 (UTC)

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WikiCup 2015 September newsletter

The finals for the 2015 Wikicup has now begun! Congrats to the 8 contestants who have survived to the finals, and well done and thanks to everyone who took part in rounds 3 and 4.

In round 3, we had a three-way tie for qualification among the wildcard contestants, so we had 34 competitors. The leader was by far Casliber (submissions) in Group B, who earned 1496 points. Although 913 of these points were bonus points, he submitted 15 articles in the DYK category. Second place overall was Coemgenus (submissions) at 864 points, who although submitted just 2 FAs for 400 points, earned double that amount for those articles in bonus points. Everyone who moved forward to Round 4 earned at least 100 points.

The scores required to move onto the semifinals were impressive; the lowest scorer to move onto the finals was 407, making this year's Wikicup as competitive as it's always been. Our finalists, ordered by round 4 score, are:

1. Cas Liber (submissions), who is competing in his sixth consecutive Wikicup final, again finished the round in first place, with an impressive 1666 points in Pool B. Casliber writes about the natural sciences, including ornithology, botany and astronomy. A large bulk of his points this round were bonus points.
2. Godot13 (submissions) (FP bonus points), second place both in Pool B and overall, earned the bulk of his points with FPs, mostly depicting currency.
3. Cwmhiraeth (submissions), first in Pool A, came in third. His specialty is natural science articles; in Round 4, he mostly submitted articles about insects and botany. Five out of the six of the GAs he submitted were level-4 vital articles.
4. Harrias (submissions), second in Pool A, took fourth overall. He tends to focus on articles about cricket and military history, specifically the 1640s First English Civil War.
5. West Virginian (submissions), from Pool A, was our highest-scoring wildcard. West Virginia tends to focus on articles about the history of (what for it!) the U.S. state of West Virginia.
6. Rodw (submissions), from Pool A, likes to work on articles about British geography and places. Most of his points this round were earned from two impressive accomplishments: a GT about Scheduled monuments in Somerset and a FT about English Heritage properties in Somerset.
7. Rationalobserver (submissions), from Pool B, came in seventh overall. RO earned the majority of her points from GARs and PRs, many of which were earned in the final hours of the round.
8. Calvin999 (submissions), also from Pool B, who was competing with RO for the final two spots in the final hours, takes the race for most GARs and PRs—48.

The intense competition between RO and Calvin999 will continue into the finals. They're both eligible for the Newcomers Trophy, given for the first time in the Wikicup; whoever makes the most points will win it.

Good luck to the finalists; the judges are sure that the competition will be fierce!

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Request for clarification of an ArbCom decision you participated in

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