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Speedy deletion of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Trento

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Possible attacks on Category talk:Obsolete statistical procedures

Following your successful peace-making suggestions on the talk page Shlomo Sawilowsky, you may wish to view criticism of "boorish behavior" etc. on Category talk:Obsolete statistical procedures.Kiefer.Wolfowitz (talk) 22:42, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

I would suggest, on the substantive point, that you take the existence of the category to Wikipedia:WikiProject Statistics for discussion. If there is a suggested title change, it can then go to WP:CfD. (You can take it as read that I deprecate personal attacks.) Charles Matthews (talk) 07:08, 8 May 2010 (UTC)

David C. Premiership Page

My apologies, I'm not trying to insist my wording specifically, I'm just adding details from my revisions, and overwriting others. I shall try to avoid doing so. Thefloogadooga (talk) 20:57, 11 May 2010 (UTC)

OK, for obvious reasons it's a bit crowded right now. Charles Matthews (talk) 20:58, 11 May 2010 (UTC)

Meetup

Thanks for the heads-up, I'll try to be there.Terry0051 (talk) 20:23, 13 May 2010 (UTC)

Museum infobox

Hi Charles. Can you do me a favour and copy the text here and update Template:Infobox museum. It is locked from editing (somewhat unnecessarily) unless you are a sysop. Not much different but the map is standardised at 250px, the big red pin changed to a smart looking museum icon and the caption/labels sorted per standard. There should be no problem. I've been doing a lot of work with making city maps to feature landmarks on like Template:Location map United States San Francisco etc. I added a mapping parameter to infobox stadium this morning and eventually they will be standardised as more maps are made. But some templates are locked so will require an admin to update them . Thanks. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 11:02, 14 May 2010 (UTC)

Done. Does Template:Infobox museum/doc need anything? Charles Matthews (talk) 11:09, 14 May 2010 (UTC)

Nope, its just an aesthetic change. To make it look like McDonald's Cycle Center with an improved locator and label. Actually another little tweak is needed. Could you just reduce the marksize from 12 to 8 for the current one -that would be fine. Cheers Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 11:15, 14 May 2010 (UTC)

Done. Charles Matthews (talk) 11:38, 14 May 2010 (UTC)

Looks good, see National Museum Cardiff. Which city do you live. Does your city have any articles on here? I can create a map of the place if you want it from OpenStreetMap. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 12:37, 14 May 2010 (UTC)

Fitzwilliam Museum is within walking distance. Charles Matthews (talk) 13:12, 14 May 2010 (UTC)

A present. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 15:12, 14 May 2010 (UTC)

Nice. Charles Matthews (talk) 16:19, 14 May 2010 (UTC)

Could you give me an indication of what part of the map is the central part of Cambridge because I can make a smaller scale map showing streets. I gather it is within the pink road ring in the middle to the west of that section. I tend to make two maps of the cities I make them e.g Template:Location map Netherlands Amsterdam Greater and Template:Location map Netherlands Amsterdam Central. The problem I saw with cropping a more central map was that many of the university colleges seem quite spread out and some wouldn't fit in it. The reason I say is because these maps can be used for articles about the colleges locating them within Cambridge.

Also I've spotted one last tweak needed to infobox museum. Default photo size is currently too small and is not inline with the map size. Can you change the image photo size to 250 and also make the marksize 10 px rather than 8px. LOL 12px was too big, 8 px too small!! It should be fully sorted then! Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 17:43, 14 May 2010 (UTC)

Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 17:26, 14 May 2010 (UTC)

The actual centre: it's above the "C" of Cambridge on the map, just slightly to the left, a small pink area that is the marketplace. Officially it would be Church of St Mary the Great, Cambridge. I'll get onto the tweak now. Charles Matthews (talk) 19:32, 14 May 2010 (UTC)

As for colleges, there are two main groups. One is strung along the river, which runs north-south and is west of the central area. The other is along the road named "Hills Road" as it goes towards the middle of the town, east of the central area. And there are some outliers. Charles Matthews (talk) 19:41, 14 May 2010 (UTC)

Thankyou Charles. Have a look at Church of St Mary the Great, Cambridge now. I've also modified the church template to have a more appropriate marker in my view than the red dot. OK? I hope the church is marked in the right location. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 09:44, 15 May 2010 (UTC)

The church symbol is at the left end of the brown quadrilateral that is the church on the map: close enough. Charles Matthews (talk) 09:58, 15 May 2010 (UTC)

Google Books and DNB.

Your research in this field is extensive and greatly eases the process of contributing to this work. Thank-you. The links I provided were done so only after exhausting other reference options, as the existing ones had gaps in coverage. As the provided links are visible on my system, my presumption is that they work for all. These links, in their current location, facilitate the ongoing DNB work. Would it be okay to leave them there, temporarily, during our ongoing effort?CUoD (talk) 12:08, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

Fine - there would be every reason to tabulate as much as possible about the DNB online, in some place. It really is a complex story. The business about Google Books, the DNB and the UK may be (my assumption) something they worked out with the Oxford University Press; but there is no reason they have to tell me, or why you would be aware of it. Charles Matthews (talk) 14:47, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

I agree, the story is complex, no doubt.

On a different tanget, Lindsay, John (1552-1598) should be the correct title, in my haste to make a move, his birthday was initially left as "1592". All of the links currently point to the correct page with a 1552 birth, which incorrectly redirects to the page with the 1592 birth, where the article resides. Separate topic, time permitting, please take a look at Navigation page for Volume 3. I edited yesterday, thinking value added, and adjusted several titles based upon my understanding of DNB guidelines. In an attempt to avoid working at cross purposes, would prefer a gentle nudge so that I avoid back-tracking someone else's good work.CUoD (talk) 16:43, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

That's that other wiki, with the friendly people, though! I have just moved it back over the redirect, on Wikisource. As you can see from that, in May 2009 I wasn't too clear about the guidelines myself. It has become a bit more hectic since then, but on matters to do with the titles the important thing is to converge to a shared understanding. Eventually there will have to be a pass through all the articles to sort out various issues, but I'm not too concerned with that now. The titles do matter, to the extent that we should be able to predict the title correctly and put it in listings and redlinks before it is created. Charles Matthews (talk) 20:52, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

Agreed. Thanks for your help.

I wind up accessing most major university libraries across the US with this search engine. On occasion I get works from Canada and UK as well. I will pass your question along when I come across someone that can give you a more insightful response. CUoD (talk) 02:18, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

Request for lifting of restriction

Please be aware that a request to lift a restriction has been made in an ArbCom case in which you were an arbitrator.[1]Anythingyouwant (talk) 09:09, 22 May 2010 (UTC)