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LivingBot, grid refs coords on WLM lists

Hi, I've just seen LivingBot has returned to Grade I listed buildings in South Somerset "reconverting grid reference to coordinate pair to avoid OSG38/WGS84 datum conflict" and this is great, but where I have added Grid Ref since the last run it hasn't added the lat & long. Isthe bot able to do this? as I was told it was a waste of human time when I was adding these manually.— Rod ^talk 11:39, 30 August 2013 (UTC)

Hi Rodw]. I've tweaked the bot and got it (on the second attempt!) to add those coordinates. I've also expanded the grid references to full form for consistency with the other listings (they could be changed en-masse to short form at a later date). In other cases, I could have used the bot to generate the grid references as well; it looks like the bot adjusted the coordinates slightly in some cases but I've checked the new ones and they seem correct. Were there any other articles in this category? - Jarry1250 ^{[Vacation needed]} 12:31, 30 August 2013 (UTC)

Thanks. I've also added Grid Refs with no lat or long to: Grade II* listed buildings in Mendip, Grade II* listed buildings in South Somerset & Grade II* listed buildings in Bath and North East Somerset.— Rod ^talk 12:51, 30 August 2013 (UTC)

Grade II* listed buildings in Bristol is similar - but not yet complete.— Rod ^talk 13:36, 30 August 2013 (UTC)

Grade II* listed buildings in Bristol is now pretty much complete, but quite a few of the rows have grid ref but no lat & long - could you work your magic. it also needs thatever you added to headers to make geocoding work if you have the time.— Rod ^talk 21:19, 4 September 2013 (UTC)

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Grade II* listed buildings in York

Thank you for asking about the errors in this list. There are a several major problems.

One is that it is buildings, not the names, that are statutorily listed and the names in the EH list have no legal significance and used merely for identification by EH. They are certainly not canonical. The surveyors did their best, and any mistakes at the time of listing should have been picked up, but names and uses of the buildings change. Sometimes they are changed in the EH list, sometimes not. This is very confusing, especially where there is no linked article, but there are many instances where the name used by the current owner or occupier, as well as the public, differs from that used in an EH listing. It would be easier for users if there were columns for earlier uses of the building and alternative names but we do not have them.

The second problem is in the compiling of the WP list from EH data. I do not know understand how it occurred, and it is obvious in many of the lists. To take York railway station as an example, the EH list entry is for the entire station. There is a long description, which includes mention of a footbridge of 1938. The footbridge is not especially picked out and certainly not the most interesting element of the large and well known 1870s station. But the WP list had footbridge for type and the date of the footbridge as the date of completion of the entire building (it is not even the last of the dates included in the listing entry) and there is no obvious reason why anybody should have made the error if they had been compiling the list manually. There are many such mistakes.

The third problem is that many entries have no identifying name at all - there is a long list of houses with no street name, for example.

The fourth big problem is the complete lack of structure or order in the default list order. It is not alphabetical, and even if it were, sometimes churches are named as 'church of' sometimes not (redundant as the list is sortable by type). Nor is the list geographical, though adjacent buildings are sometimes together in the list. I invited views in the talk page of the Grade I list for York, but have had no response, but we need to agree a consistent approach. It might be best to sub-divide the list, but that would interfere with sorting.

I hope that helps. --AJHingston (talk) 16:56, 10 September 2013 (UTC)

Next Oxford meetup

Hi, I see that Michaelmas Term begins Sunday 13 October. You'll probably be busy that day; shall I schedule the next Oxford meetup for Sunday 20 October or would a different date be better? --Redrose64 (talk) 19:29, 11 September 2013 (UTC)

@User:Redrose64: Actually the official start date is a little meaningless, the 13 October would actually be quite good. - Jarry1250 ^{[Vacation needed]} 21:51, 11 September 2013 (UTC)

Yes, except that London have already bagged that date, and if there is a clash, WereSpielChequers (talk · contribs) tends to go to London, as do some others. We clashed with London last weekend and Oxford attendance was 3. --Redrose64 (talk) 21:59, 11 September 2013 (UTC)

London is almost always the second Sunday, so hopefully we are easy to avoid. ϢereSpielChequers 22:22, 11 September 2013 (UTC)

I've created m:Meetup/Oxford/9 with no date, and a discussion page at m:Talk:Meetup/Oxford/9, where I've copied part of the responses above. --Redrose64 (talk) 15:45, 16 September 2013 (UTC)

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downcasing titles

My attention has been drawn to a discussion at WT:AWB where you suggested applying title case as a general fix. The discussion ended without implementation, but I'd be interested in incorporating the code into my formatting script. I'd appreciate it if you advise me how I would integrate such code/function into it. Regards, -- Ohc ^¡digame!_{¿que pasa?} 02:39, 17 September 2013 (UTC)