User talk:Abacchus1974

Hello, Abacchus1974! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. You may benefit from following some of the links below, which will help you get the most out of Wikipedia. If you have any questions you can ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or by typing four tildes "~~~~"; this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you are already excited about Wikipedia, you might want to consider being "adopted" by a more experienced editor or joining a WikiProject to collaborate with others in creating and improving articles of your interest. Click here for a directory of all the WikiProjects. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field when making edits to pages. Happy editing! --Abacchus1974 (talk) 05:28, 5 February 2012 (UTC)[reply] Getting Started The five pillars of Wikipedia • Tutorial • Your first article How to: edit a page • upload an image Getting Help Frequently Asked Questions New contributors' help page Where to: ask questions • make requests Request administrator attention Policies and Guidelines Neutral point of view • Reliable sources Verifiability • Citing sources • No original research What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons Manual of Style • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Policy for non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The Community Community Portal • Adopt-a-user program Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • Resolving disputes Build consensus • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Things to do Be bold in editing • Help develop an article Maintenance • Peer review • Requested articles Join a WikiProject • Translating articles Cleaning up: General • Spam • Vandalism Miscellaneous Categories • Disambiguity • Stubs User pages • Talk pages Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

Introductory guidelines concerning use of Wikipedia should be featured at the beginning of every new user's User Talk page by default! I give examples as follows : --Abacchus1974 (talk) 04:01, 14 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Abacchus1974, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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You can use your sandbox/user space to start new articles, to wikify, format and categorise them, to add references and even to build a coherent text - before moving them to main space. This might help to avoid such problems as PRODs. In this regard see :

• Wikipedia:User_page#How_to_create_a_user_subpage
• Wikipedia:Starting an article
• Wikipedia:Article wizard 2.0 --Abacchus1974 (talk) 04:01, 14 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners --Abacchus1974 (talk) 04:01, 14 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Before long, I will need to start archiving my talk page...

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, adding content without citing a reliable source, as you did to Turkish invasion of Cyprus, is not consistent with our policy of verifiability. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. If you are familiar with Wikipedia:Citing sources, please take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. _{El Greco}^(talk) 19:03, 30 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not add content without citing reliable sources, as you did to Turkish invasion of Cyprus. Before making potentially controversial edits, it is recommended that you discuss them first on the article's talk page. If you are familiar with Wikipedia:Citing sources please take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. _{El Greco}^(talk) 19:03, 30 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe I wasn't clear enough - you have added this person to a Category page - this is not the function of a category page. If he is notable, you should add him to one of the List of Old Etonians born in the xxth century articles. If you don't know how to do that, I can help. Jpaulm (talk) 14:19, 21 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your information. Amended accordingly. (talk)

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, adding content without citing a reliable source, as you did to Malvern College, is not consistent with our policy of verifiability. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. If you are familiar with Wikipedia:Citing sources, please take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. Unsourced alumni entries have been reverted. Please also group the number of contributions instead of making dozens of edits within a few minutes, and be sure to complete the edit summary. Kudpung (talk) 12:24, 13 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

A tag has been placed on Charles Courtier, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the guidelines on spam as well as Wikipedia:FAQ/Business for more information. You may also wish to consider using a Wizard to help you create articles - see the Article Wizard.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Lastly, please note that if the page does get deleted, you can contact one of these admins to request that they userfy the page or have a copy emailed to you. ~YellowFives 07:22, 30 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Correspondence with Seraphimblade :

Moved from article page

hello User:Seraphimblade

sorry, I have no experience of contacting users or sending messages on Wikipedia so I am leaving a message as I know how.

I want to say that I do not agree with your speedy deletion and the reason that you gave for 'speedy deletion'. I kindly ask you to restore the page ... my reasons : the page is not advertising ; my contribution was simplly to furnish info about the CEO, not to promote the company, whose page already existed, and I note that you did not delete the page of the company, mediaedge:cia. If your concern is advertising, then you should also delete company page. But for me, that is unfortunate, as my only interest here is to furninsh info about a guy who is alumni of a college, Malvern College. I think this guy and the company he works for, one of the world's largest media agencies, are deserve their place here. So I see no reason why you deleted this page ...please restore it!!!!!!!!!!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Abacchus1974 (talk • contribs)

(moved by: — ækTalk 09:36, 30 November 2009 (UTC))

If you tell me what article you are talking about, I might be able to help. Seraphimblade Talk to me 15:42, 30 November 2009 (UTC)

Hello Seraphimblade, I am referring to the Charles Courtier article : Charles Courtier, CEO of Mediaedge:cia .... Alex --Abacchus1974 (talk) 04:36, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

At this point, I really don't see anything in the article that indicates that the subject is notable, and it largely does just state why the company is good. If there is a significant amount of reliable source material written by sources independent of this person about the person, we could certainly support a biography on them, else we could not. If you can direct me to that type of source material, I'd be happy to help you with writing an article in a more neutral tone. If such sourcing does not exist, we couldn't support a full biographical article. Seraphimblade Talk to me 04:50, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

Hello YellowFives, I asked you to hold on or to try to recover the page but too late. Alas, it is not to be...

Quite incredible. If this is "unambiguous advertising", then I am guilty of abusing your website. I am personally offended! Is it really "unambiguous" to you that I have no commercial relationship with the subject whatsoever?! By your logic why dont you also remove the article about the company with which he is employed, Mediaedge:CIA?! As a matter of fact, why not just remove all companies and all persons representing them for the encyclopedia!? This man is the HEAD of one of the world's greatest media agencies, employing 4500 people, which has won major international awards ...and that infers nothing about his own status and importance?!? Merely that he is Mr Nobody who works for a notable company!? ...There even exists on the company page a link to his (deleted) page - his name is in red, of course, since your deletion ... how many more reasons do you need not to gobble up every constructive effort which comes before you?! (talk) 10.01.2010

Hi. On Wikipedia, we use user talk pages to communicate. So, to get in touch with the user Seraphimblade, you need to use a link like this one User talk:Seraphimblade. You can probably find these links around Wikipedia as the word "talk" next to someone's user name (check my signature below for an example). I've moved your message to that page, so you should look there for his reply to your request. — æk^Talk 09:40, 30 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Abacchus1974. You have new messages at Seraphimblade's talk page.
Message added 15:43, 30 November 2009 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.[reply]

Seraphimblade ^{Talk to me} 15:43, 30 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

SECOND WARNING: Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, adding content without citing a reliable source, as you did to Malvern College, is not consistent with our policy of verifiability. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. If you are familiar with Wikipedia:Citing sources, please take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. Unsourced alumni entries have been reverted. Please also group the number of contributions instead of making dozens of edits within a few minutes, and be sure to complete the edit summary.--Kudpung (talk) 11:56, 4 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Abacchus1974, I'll ask you again please to remember to complete an edit summary for each of your contributions to Malvern College. Thanks.

Hi Abacchus1974! Malvern College is an article you have edited or contributed to concerns an important school. It still needs some urgent attention. If you can help, please see Talk:Malvern College#Lead Section regarding how it may be improved. --Kudpung (talk) 08:10, 26 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, but when you add content (particularly if you change facts and figures), as you have to the article List of Old Malvernians, please cite a reliable source for the content you're adding or changing. This helps maintain our policy of verifiability. Take a look at Wikipedia:Citing sources for information about how to cite sources and the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Kudpung (talk) 22:47, 9 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not add unsourced or original content, as you did to List of Old Malvernians. Doing so violates Wikipedia's verifiability policy. If you continue to do so, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. I've asked you several times before, on the article's talk page, and in the hidden comments in the articles page code. You appear not to read your user talk page. Kudpung (talk) 22:50, 9 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Kudpung, I took note of the hidden comments which you apparently introduced on January 9th. I added further references to Stephen Brown (judge) - although there was already one - and added back on the list. Maybe you can add a reference for Queen's College? I didnt address Norman Partridge (cricketer) yet but, as I didnt create these articles in the first place, nor did I add "Malvern College" to their contents but, merely, made minor alterations (to the presentation of their links on the "List of Old Malvernians" page), i regard this task as neither my obligation, nor my responsibility. I object to your threats. I will be talking with you tommorow. Abacchus1974 (talk)

Hi Abacchus, you are obviously either an Old Malvernian, a former member of Malvern College Staff, or a cricker. Whichever it is, your contributions are most welcome. However, I don't like unnecessarily issuing warnings, but as you continually refuse to acknowledge all the requests to only add sourced material to articles, I will continue to revert your edits (which is causing me a lot of extra work), and start making official warnings here. Please note that four warnings in a month may get you banned.--Kudpung (talk) 23:00, 9 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Kudpung, I added further references to Stephen Brown (judge) - there was already one - and added back on the list. Maybe you can add a reference for Queen's College? I didnt address Norman Partridge (cricketer) yet but, as I didnt create these articles in the first place, nor did I add "Malvern College" to their contents but, merely, altered the presentation of the link on the "List of Old Malvernians" page, i regard this task as neither my obligation, nor my responsibility. I object to your threats. I will be talking with you tommorow.

Hi Abacchus, I have already commented that your enthusiasm for the Malvern College articles is excellent, and I have never doubted that your edits are made in good faith. I also agree that it is neither your obligation, nor your responsibility to clean up and provide references for the mentions on other pages. Thus, knowing this however, those mentions certainly cannot be used in other articles or lists without further sourcing.
Wikipedia editors are perfectly within their rights to summarily remove anything that is not sourced; nevertheless, Wiki etiquette usually involves a friendly, informal mention to the contributor before removing his/her edits, or even helping out by finding some sources. If these requests are constantly ignored, then the only recourse is to official Wiki templates on a user's talk page. My repeated friendly messages (of all kinds) have been met with no acknowledgement from you until now, and it took what you perceive as a 'threat', to obtain some reaction (in a manner that puts you in conflict with WP:CIVIL).
Please try to understand that I have no personal interest whatsoever in either the Malvern College, or its Wikipedia articles other than maintaining the standard of their content within the rules of the encyclopedia, and the standard of content for other Worcestershire related articles, and articles about schools. Bottom line is, that MC is such an important school that its articles should, in my humble opinion, reflect the quality of the very noble alumnae it produces..--Kudpung (talk) 08:23, 10 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Abacchus1974. You have new messages at Talk:List of Old Malvernians.
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The article William Molyneux, 7th Viscount Molyneux has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Stub has not been referenced or further developed by its creator. Online searches have failed to come up with more information or sources.

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The article Christopher Reginald Reeves has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Not referenced or developed further since its creation on 13 October 200. Contains POV. and irrelevant or dead links. Some content disputed (Malvern College).

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Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{dated prod}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. The speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Kudpung (talk) 12:52, 10 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I thought (rather belatedly I'm afraid) that it might help for me to point out that you can use your sandbox/user space to start new articles, to wikify, format and categorise them, to add references and even to build a coherent text - before moving them to main space. This might help to avoid such problems as the two PRODs above. May I refer you in this regard to Wikipedia:User_page#How_to_create_a_user_subpage and Wikipedia:Starting an article. By the way do you know Wikipedia:Article wizard 2.0, yet? Best wishes. --Kudpung (talk) 13:59, 10 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Kudpung

Thank you for your suggestions. With this in mind, I will focus on adding references to existing articles rather than adding or expanding articles. I do wish to continue making a positive contribution to Wikipedia. My contributions list demonstrates my enormous positive contribution which has taken many unpaid days, especially on subjects relating to the Earls of Sefton and Malvern College alumni. I have enriched the Malvern alumni list very considerably. You are simply not right to say I added no references to Malvern or that they are "dead-end" references, in the vast majority of cases. (and we know 'dead-end' can happen over time) ...I notice DGG has confirmed that at least one of the "dead-end" references you refer to is in fact good. The Christopher Reeves link to the Times Obituary DOES work and DOES mention he went to Malvern. Incidentally, concerning the List of Old Malvernians talk page, Ellerman DID go to Malvern (please read carefully the Times link on his page) ...Moreover, as I told you before, the vast majority of the problems with the pages I have written on were were NOT written by me, as is demonstrable by their Histories, so it is not fair to single me out.

You have a record of deleting or proposed deletion of articles or their contents, to which I have contributed. I have read your correspondence with User:Peterkingiron (11th Jan 2010) and in which you state that you want to get your GA for a 'Malvern' article and, therefore, you do not want more edits. I realise now think I know why I have been receiving so many warnings from you. While I have no problem with your wish to get a GA, I appeal to you to treat my fairly and not to single me out. It will be appreciated if you kindly stop spreading allegations to users such as User:DGG and User:Peterkingiron (11th Jan 2010), and inferring to them that I should be banned. I think it is not surprising that I was a little upset but I did not use any offensive words and I had reasons to be dissatisfied. I DO wish to be cordial with you. That said, I also wish to emphasise if you continue to promote the notion that I should be banned, I will get justice. I would go as high as is necessary to get it. Please just be open and fair with me. Regards,

Abbachus1974 (talk)

Hi Abacchus, I'm not the first user to have made similar requests on your talk page and I would ask you to read my comments more closely, and interpret them in the friendly spirit in which they are intended. The fact is, I have a record of deleting things all over the encyclopedia for which repeated friendly requests for citations have born no fruit and for which I was unable to find sources. I have tried to communicate with you in as many ways as the Wiki software allows, put hidden notes in the page code, put polite resuests over months on your talk page, put info banners on the article talk pages and offered tips aplenty, so please don't feel offended if you are now formally being asked to observe the Wikipedia way of doing things. The facts are: I have neither threatened to have you banned, nor spread any allegations that you should be - I fear that you may have totally misunderstood that I am trying to be as helpful as possible. If you want to see how nasty and spiteful some self-styled authoritarians can be on Wikipedia, I can give you some links - and in situations like that it doesn't help either to go to a 'higher authority' - admin debates rarely come out in favour of contributors who don't understand the rules. The fact is that four official warning (from anyone,including bots, in one month) will trigger a software alert to the admins. The fact is I have not singled you out; to the contrary, I have been impressed (and I have said so) with your enthusiasm. However, I have singled out all articles that are to do with all schools, that fall within the scope of the Wikiproject Worcestershire; and that such a clean-up obviously snowballs through the links into the other completely unsourced articles you have created or the alumnae list. The fact is that you have contributed an unusually high number of unreferenced additions, and rarely if ever, included an edit summary. Finally it has taken stronger measures to elicit a reaction to all kinds of friendly messages that have been helpfully trying to encourage you to make your edits in such a way that they comply with the rules, and make less work for other editors. Fact is, I have not named you in any communications with other editors and your work has never been the subject of a dicussion on Malvern articles. Moreover, the dialogues between me and Peterkliniron are part of a well oiled teamwork for a common objective. The GA for Malvern Town has absolutely nothing whatsover to do with Malvern College - I am not an alumnus of the school, and couldn't care less for it other than accuracy in the way its articles appear in this encyclopedia. We need contributors here with your enthusiasm, but your efforts currently do not help, however well intended, if you continue to run against the current, instead of wanting to be communicative and part of a team. There is arguably far too much bureaucracy on WikipediaI that has been arrived at through consensus of few to be imposed on many, but it's there, and we all have to abide by it. I would much prefer that if you are not sure of any of it, you would not hesitate to ask me to explain some of it for you. I don't bite the newbies, but you are the first user to suggest in four years that my interaction with the community is less than fair and cordial. Please seeTHIS, then pax. Best,--Kudpung (talk) 09:36, 11 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

BTW: I agree with you entirely athat the references should not be on the Old Malvernians List (except in the case where they don't have their own Wiki pages) , but this will only come into effect when the contributors begin to understand the importance of providing them with their work on the main articles. I split the Old Malvernians off from the main page,according to MOS, but don't claim ownership of it, and it's up to other editors to show some initiative and to do what has to be done.--Kudpung (talk) 10:11, 11 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Re my correspondence with Peterkingiron: I've reviewed what Peter and I have been discussing. It concerned strictly only the GA review for the Malvern, Worcestershire article to which you have not contributed. If you a re interested yu can get the bigger picture and see the rest of our collaboration here: Talk:Malvern,_Worcestershire The irony is that the user I alludeed to on Pete's page has long since retired (about 6 months ago) from Wikpedia and deleted their account! Abacchus, do please try to be a little less paranoid, and enjoy your editing.--Kudpung (talk) 10:51, 11 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

rather than worrying about each other, it is more useful to make sure that articles have good references from the very start. If the suitability of a reference is challenged, and it cannot be settled on the article talk p, the best place to go is WP:RSN, the Reliable sources noticeboard (or the BLP noticeboard if relevant). And certainly everyone should always include an edit summary--particularly when placing or removing a deletion tag. (and remember to sign postings, also). BTW, I too have a problem with many notable alumni lists, and often remove dubious people from them. DGG ( talk ) 23:19, 11 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Abacchus, I see you have been working partly from the Malvern Register 1905. Do ensure that any OMs you take from there are truly notable and worthy of an article or a mention in the Wikipedia - theList of Old Malvernians is to be strictly of notable alumnae only, and not a gerneral register of all past pupils. Check also that the book is correctly referenced and sourced, including the page number of the entry, its publisher, its location, and where it can be viewed. Use a citation template if you find it easier (I don't, but others swear by them). If you know of other sources for past students, do let me know and I will look them up when I am in Malvern in April (I live in Asia).--Kudpung (talk) 11:13, 11 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Abacchus1974. You have new messages at Talk:John Baker White.
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I notice that you have removed tags from List of Old Malvernians without making edit summaries. Tags signaling that articles need special attention are qute a serious issue. They must not be removed without good reason unless the specific issue has been fully addressed. This is one of the most important functions of the edit summary feature, because it saves other editors opening the pages to check your work.

When editing an article on Wikipedia there is a small field labeled "Edit summary" under the main edit-box. It looks like this:

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Filling in the edit summary field greatly helps your fellow contributors in understanding what you changed, so please always fill in the edit summary field. If you are adding a section, please do not just keep the previous section's header in the Edit summary field – please fill in your new section's name instead. Thank you.

--Kudpung (talk) 13:21, 11 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Until you brought this to my attention, I had no idea how to do this, nor how much or why it is used. I have noticed that different users have different opinions about how to act on Wiki. Must edit summaries be used every time, or only in certain situations? I will try to use it in future as.

I removed some proposed deletion tags because the necessary references were either already there (perhaps, you somehow missed them, or your firewall is blocking your links!?) or, otherwise, I or another user responded to the tags by adding or updating the references. In my opinion, it would be a small tradegy to lose good articles - and once lost chances of a return are dashed - and I think its not a chance worth taking. One reason, I got involved was because it struck me last year that the MC and OM pages were below par both in quality and scale ...I noticed some schools go about it much more thoroughly than others (maybe some try too hard!) but, clearly, it does suprise me that MC didnt decide to do something about its Wiki pages.

thanks in advance, User:Abacchus1974 (talk)

Hello Abacchus. yes, edit summaries must always be completed. Generally only people who are not registered members don't bother, although they should. In many instances they are posting spam or nonsense (vandlism). If you would like to see exactly what the edit summaries look like, click HERE. This is how you can find out at a glance what other people have been doing to pages you are working on. You can also access the list by clicking on the HISTORY tab at the top of every article page.
It's actually quite rare that students or staff of schools write the wiki pages about the schools. Take a look for example at Hanley Castle High School, or Malvern St James, and Malvern Hills College - all written by Wikipedia contributors who are just interested in schools or the local area where they are.
You may be right about me having problems accessing certain websites; it's not my firewall, but from where I live (Asia) maybe the connection times out too soon. If you want to know more, don't hesitate to ask me here or on my talk page. Regards, --Kudpung (talk) 21:15, 11 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, the main pages on the Lobster28 file are p.26-28 for John Baker White and ....yes, you got it, another OM on the list, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard the newspaper journalist on page 25.... there is even a reference to Aleister Crowley page 28? I dont seem to be able to get pdf files to work on Wiki so perhaps you can. User:abacchus1974 (talk)

To whom is the above addressed? I cannot recall whether it is official policy but PDF files are deprecated because they are virtually impossible to change and are thus contrary to Wikipedia's collaborative ethos. In any case to upload http://www.8bitmode.com/rogerdog/lobster/lobster28.pdf would be a copyvio. — RHaworth (talk · contribs) 03:57, 12 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Abacchus,

Like any other print media, especially government archives, etc., PDF documents (which are often scans of real documents) can most certainly be cited as a reference. Their text cannot of course be reproduced verbatim (at least not in big chunks), and the pages must not be uploaded to Wikipedia, but when you use them as a reference to the source of your information, do use the correct format for an inline citation - or a citation template if you find it easier (I don't) - include the url where they are located, the author, the date of publication, the publisher, the page number(s), and the date you 'Retrieved' it (i.e.: looked at the information online). When I get a moment I will do the ones you mentioned above so you can see how it is done, and if you have any further problems with knowing how to cite references, don't hesitate to ask me on my talk page, and I'll walk you through the process.

Regards, --Kudpung (talk) 04:35, 12 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

PS: See also the notes at: Talk:Stephen Brown (judge)

Hi Abacchus. Not all new messages appear at the bottom of this page. Very often, other users will add a message or a comment to a thread that has been already started further up the page. You might miss these comments (check back now). When you log in to Wikipedia, if you have new messages waiting for you, you might also see an orange banner telling you that you have new messages - click the link to go straight to them. One other way to be sure to see all all comments on your talk page and every other edit made by a user on any of the pages you work on, or on the talk pages of users you regularly communicate with, is to check out your watchlist every time you log on to Wikipedia. See the my watchlist tab on the top right hand side of every Wikipedia page (visible only when you are logged in). You will then again appreciate how important it is to always make edit summaries. All the links are clickable, you can go straight to the page that interests you and see what has been done. --Kudpung (talk) 04:53, 12 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Abacchus, there is a list of Old Malvernians that I had already deleted from the Malvern College article before I created the List of Old Malvernians. Now that you understand more about the process, maybe you would like to have a go at finding some notability and references for these and entering them onto the List of Old Malvernians. The list of deleted items is here: Talk:Malvern_College#Unsourced, non Wiki alumni. If you would like more informatin regarding the use of citation templates, see the notes at: Talk:Stephen Brown (judge). Regards, --Kudpung (talk) 06:29, 12 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Kudpung! Thanks for your advice on my talk page and elsewhere. I havent forgotten the remaining notables off the list. In the near future, I will be less active on Wiki - I must do some work! - but, eventually, if someone else has not, I will glady start them up. I have noticed some alumni lists are arranged by field of profession (government & politics, business & finance, sport etc) I wonder what you think about adopting this at some point for MC? I look forward to seeing your Lobster citation to John Baker White. Regards, Abacchus1974 Abacchus1974 (talk) 02:21, 14 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I have replied on my talk page.Lozleader (talk) 16:14, 20 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Abacchus. I would just like to thank you for your recent work on Malvern College. I have noticed that since January, you have now understood what it means to be a Wikipedian and part of this community, that can sometimes be a bit crazy! If you have more knowledge on Malvern or even Worcestershire, maybe you would like to join our project to clean up all the school articles and other pages on the county. Do take a look - it's here: WP:WORCS. Regards, --Kudpung (talk) 12:40, 15 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. At the moment, I feel there is still more I can do with the Malvern College pages, although I think they are looking a lot better now than some months ago. I do this as a hobby, when I have a little spare time. I did live in Malvern during my teenage years and I gather you or your father had some connection with the telecommunications research centres in the town. Out of curiosity, Im wondering whether any contributors actually do this for an income. --Abacchus1974 (talk) 21:43, 29 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Nobody gets paid for working here! If you check out my user page, you'll see from my biography how I am connected with Malvern.--Kudpung (talk) 16:12, 30 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It isnt a Malvern issue but its one that's been on my mind for a while. If all the thousands (or millions?) of contributors on Wikipedia are doing this as a hobby, I would like to know what could be the implication of this for the founder, Jimmy Wales? Would you know whether Wikipedia will remain a free, open access service for all users or is it within Mr Wales' rights, at some point, to charge users for access to it pages? While Im enjoy to contributing to Wikipedia, personally, I wouldnt feel very comfortable with the idea that he might be able charge users, given that credit for the existence of this great resource is largely due to unpaid contributors. --Abacchus1974 (talk) 18:42, 30 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

There are a handfull of salaried administrators. I doubt if Jimmy Wales is too much worried about his future - there are plenty of kickbacks that go with the notability of having founded something so successful, but according to the articles of foundation, it's probably highly unlikely that the encyclopedia will ever go commercial or accept paid advertising. Check out the Wikipedia article about itself. On the other hand, if you know the Lonely Planet guide books for backpackers, the founders have become billionaires on the unpaid contributions of other travellers, and LP has become a huge commercial travel company with the BBC as a major shareholder. Link title

Hello, Abacchus1974, and welcome to WikiProject Worcestershire! Thank you for your generous offer to help contribute. We're sure your input will be much appreciated and hope you enjoy contributing here and being a Worcestershire Wikipedian. If you have any questions, feel free to discuss anything on the project talk page. Finally, remember, be bold with your ideas!

Hi, I'm still following the excellent work you are doing for the MC articles. There is a page called List of Old Salopians for Shrewsbury School. It has a similar problem where people keep adding totally unsourced and probably non notable entries. I know you probably won't have the same connections to the school as you have to MC, but if you would like to keep it on your watch list and occasionally delete any new unsourced additions, feel free to do so. You'll find example of the edit summaries for this on some of the deletions I've made already. Don't feel obliged to do any of this, but any help you can give will be much appreciated, especially now that you have got the hang of how it all works, and are now familiar with the strict policy of sourcing everything. --Kudpung (talk) 06:39, 11 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, thanks for your compliment about my work. I have added List of Old Salopians to my watchlist. --Abacchus1974 (talk) 19:30, 28 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You've done an extraordinary amount of work to this article now. What do you say we try and get it to pass a Good Article review? -It may need a Peer review first. -Kudpung (talk) 08:54, 23 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Im glad that you think the MC articles may be at Good Article stage. My contribution has been made easier thanks to you and others. We are getting closer but I feel that there is still a fair amount of work to be done. Some information still lacks supporting online references. In some cases, I am struggling to find online sources at all and would like to get access to resources such as the ODNB. Can you advise? Do you have access to such resources? Would you want to be satisfied that the article already meets GA standards before applying or is it acceptable to allow the process to bring it up to that level? --Abacchus1974 (talk) 20:13, 28 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I am asking you this question as someone who has no experience of applying for a GA. :-) --Abacchus1974 (talk) 02:02, 29 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think it's quite ready for nomination for a GA review yet. However, I do think that between us we can get it so close that the GA process itself would leave only very little to get it to a pass mark. I'll go through the article carefully in the next couple of days, and then I'll post a list of things to do that we can attack together. How does that sound?--Kudpung (talk) 04:51, 29 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi kudpung, Im happy with a GA application for the MC articles as they are. On the List of OMs, I just expanded the lead a bit further but it looks fine. Is that ok? Did you make an application yourself yet? --Abacchus1974 (talk) 04:42, 4 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

List of Old Malvernians: Hi Abacchus, I'm getting this list ready for a WP:Peer review prior to nominating it for WP:Featured List. I think you've worked so hard on it, it's almost there. The intro needs expanding just a bit more, and I have added some details of some of the more prominent Old Malvernians. If you think these people are not appropriate, or if you wish to add just two or three more, do go ahead. What we then need are some photos of them (there may be photos on their Wikipedia articles already that we can use), and a photo of the school, which you can also chose from the MC main page. --Kudpung (talk) 05:36, 1 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your advice. Yes, the page has developed quickly since you created it! Do feel free to develop it further as you feel is needed. Im quite occupied this month but I'll do what I can to contribute. Looking forward to seeing the final product! --Abacchus1974 (talk) 15:55, 1 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Just noticed your expanded lead ....I added James Jesus Angleton and Aleister Crowley, in place of Christoper Reeve and Ambrose Evans-Pritchard to keep it fairly concise. In terms of fame or popularity I think those two are definitely among the most prominent. Please let me know what you think. --Abacchus1974 (talk) 18:49, 1 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for that - it is indeed looking very good now, much better than my version. Would you like to dig out some mug shots of some of those people? They might already be on their Wicki pages, in which case we can use them immediatrly. Any others, you would need to find, and I 'll help you with the copyright stuff (it can be a bit of a pain). --Kudpung (talk) 13:52, 4 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

	The Working Man's Barnstar
	for all your tireless, high quality work on the Malvern College articles. Makes my number of edits on them look quite paltry! Kudpung (talk) 15:56, 7 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! It was a pleasant surprise when I opened this page today. I dont know what to say! ...except its nice to be appreciated. --Abacchus1974 (talk) 22:11, 8 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The article Michalis Attalides has been proposed for deletion because under Wikipedia policy, all biographies of living persons created after March 18, 2010, must have at least one source that directly supports material in the article.

If you created the article, please don't take offense. Instead, consider improving the article. For help on inserting references, see Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners or ask at Wikipedia:Help desk. Once you have provided at least one reliable source, you may remove the {{prod blp}} tag. Please do not remove the tag unless the article is sourced. If you cannot provide such a source within ten days, the article may be deleted, but you can request that it be undeleted when you are ready to add one. Nat Gertler (talk) 05:31, 30 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Dear NatGertler

Thank you for your Proposal for Deletion Message which I welcome if it will encourage other wiki users to contriubute. I welcome the "Find sources:" you suggested. However, I believe your notice is inaccurate. I believe you are surely mistaken that I did not include any references with this article which I created. Dont you agree? If you check again the article, and from the outset of its creation, you will see that I inserted four external references from such notable sources as official university websites and The Independent newspaper. Perhaps, it would be more appropriate if you modify your notice to suggest that it needs additional references and it needs citations to be inserted throughout the article to improve it further. Please respond. Regards --Abacchus1974 (talk) 13:26, 30 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

In Wikipedia usage, an "External link" and a "Source" are two different beasts. An "External link" is saying "hey, here's online material that is related to the topic", and a "Source" is "This is where we got the information that is in the article". If some of your external links are actually sources, then it shouldn't be hard to re-mark them as such, to make them inline references (so that a footnote mark appears next to the data that arrives from that source and add a reference section. I don't have time to do so myself at the moment, but Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners has advice on how to do so. Add just one reference, and you can remove my prod notice yourself by deleting the top two lines of the article file. --Nat Gertler (talk) 14:04, 30 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I am familiar with inserting citations - I have inserted many - but I had the impression that the inclusion of relevant external links which include source material would be sufficient to avoid a proposal for deletion. I had thought in that case a "refimprove" notice would be appropriate. Perhaps I am mistaken. --Abacchus1974 (talk) 14:31, 30 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Another user has declined the prod and I will not reinstate it. However, in the future you may wish to mark your sources as sources. The marking of links specifically as "external links" pointed away from their presence being an indication that they are sources. --Nat Gertler (talk) 15:04, 30 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Abacchus. I've asked our resident references guru User:Wotnow to check through the references for us. I think when that's done we can risk going for the GA review I've been talking about for so long.--Kudpung (talk) 01:24, 17 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

great, that's good!!!--Abacchus1974 (talk) 21:26, 17 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! Pdfpdf (talk) 13:18, 17 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Much appreciated!!!--Abacchus1974 (talk) 21:37, 17 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Abacchus. I've nominated Malvern College today for GA review. There's quite a backlog over there, but that doesn't necessarily mean that reviewers take things in order. The low hanging fruit seems to go first. --Kudpung (talk) 14:42, 29 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, Let's keep them low then!!!--Abacchus1974 (talk) 02:13, 31 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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And big thanks for all your hard work at getting Malvern College up tp Good Article status. --Kudpung (talk) 13:29, 4 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Ah, nice to see this message was finally sent to my user talk page! Better late than never! --Abacchus1974 (talk) 04:10, 14 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, are you busy? If you have time, please have a look at List of Boston Latin School alumni, a featured list of alumni. Do you think it's worth adopting a similar layout style (table)? Cheers, --Kudpung (talk) 22:04, 22 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Personally, I would welcome the format you have suggested. It would certainly improve the layout but whether it is worth it Im not sure. I suppose it depends on whether someone is willing to introduce it. There are various alternative formats one being simply to rearrange the list according to profession. However, I think the facility of allowing the user to rearrange the list according to variables in the different columns is a splendid idea.--Abacchus1974 (talk) 22:08, 25 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

i'm copying this conversation to the Talk:List of Old Malvernians page where I have made another comment and where this exchange of ideas can now continue. This might attract some help and more ideas on the subject. I'm anxious that we should somehow get this list to WP:Featured List status, and that you should get a lot of the credit for the hard work you've put into it.--Kudpung (talk) 02:49, 26 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. My main contribution to the page has been one of researching and identifying persons with notability. Other than that, Ive just helped "touch up" the page's appearance.--Abacchus1974 (talk) 00:48, 27 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Abacchus. In order to more accurately interpret Wikipedia policy, it has been suggested that we rename the Malvern, Worcestershire page. Please see the proposal at Talk:Malvern, Worcestershire#Suggested page move where you are welcome to voice your opinion. Cheers, --Kudpung (talk) 14:42, 26 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Abacchus. We have a new editor who is keen to do more research for Malvern. Do check out his suggestions if you have time, and chime in with your thoughts. There may be some issues with footnotes. Cheers, --Kudpung (talk) 05:40, 2 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Is now nominated as a WP:GAC. Get ready for battle :) --Kudpung (talk) 05:56, 2 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

H Abacchus. Nice to see you still plugging away at this with unwavering dedication. Not much chance of getting this to FL status for a while. Apparently what they are asking for is a sourced footnote for every entry, a photo, and the year(s) they attended the college. Do you still have any direct connections to the school to be able to get some of this information? --Kudpung (talk) 11:26, 21 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I will contact the school to see if they can help. Yes, we need more images. The CSLewis and Crowley images were removed so we will definitely want to find alternatives. We also need to refer to the Registers for further information. I know the school keeps all the original house photos but Im doubtful whether such early images would be useful. I would imagine we are looking only for digital images with permission from the copyright owners. I confess that Im not familiar with Wiki's policy concerning publication of images. If it is not clear a copyright owner exist, is it necessary remove the image? Or could permission from the person depicted in an image suffice, ...or do would we not need permission at all in that circumstance? --Abacchus1974 (talk) 00:18, 25 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Ab. Sorry I missed this comment of yours. I've been tied up with becoming an admin and doing some admin work. Nice to see you still plugging away at it. If the people are dead there may be an argument for WP:FUR if it's impossible to get photos elsewhere, but just asking for permission doesn't work. BT, we have an eitor who has got a whole list of more Old Boys. I'll get him to chime in here. Take care, --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 10:08, 20 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the Don edit. Best wishes Span (talk) 23:45, 28 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It is a pleasure to help to protect the neutrality of the page you created. I hope the comments I made with my edits speak for themselves and that other users will take note : "style not neutral, removed POV, inappropriate use of blog comments (comments wrongly interpreted as a "votes; sometimes offensive eg comment #525, #526 etc)" and "NB an encyclopedia is not the place to promote POV, including subjectively construed statistics....".--Abacchus1974 (talk) 23:59, 28 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Kudpung suggested I post message on your page mentioning Talk:Malvern, Worcestershire#Oxford :Dictionary of National Biography where I have posted a list of Old Malvernians whose attendance at school is mentioned in articles about them in DNB. Dealing with other matters has higher priority for me that putting these names into the Malvern College article and the articles about the people named. I have more extensive information from the DNB articles that I do not wish to post verbatim because of Copyright but I can post answers to specific questions. Michael P. Barnett (talk) 11:48, 20 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Michael, Thank you for the message. I have replied on the discussion page Talk:List_of_Old_Malvernians in relation to OMs in the ODNB search list you put on the Malvern talk page. --Abacchus1974 (talk) 19:45, 21 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Abacchus. I just thought I'd let you know that List of Old Guildfordians (Royal Grammar School, Guildford) has been nominated for Featured List. It would be interesting to follow what happens there, with a view to getting some ideas for List of Old Malvernians. Regards, --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 13:36, 27 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The format looks good - more or less what was already suggested on the Discussion page for List of Old Malvernians. The only problem is that it, as things stand, IMO, the List is way too incomplete to merit that format. Although more or less all the entries feature references, almost none feature dates of attendance, and few feature an image. I think we have to work on adding this information to the current list before it may be ready for nomination. Unfortunately, images can be hard to find. I currently have little time on my hands, but if any Wiki users can help, it will be welcome. --Abacchus1974 (talk) 16:52, 29 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I would imagine such a prestigious school to maintain complete records.Can you suggest anyone to contact for the attendance dates? I will be back in Malvern soon for a few weeks and I'll also see what I can do about photos.--Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 00:55, 30 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure that Old Guildfordians will pass. We'll see.

As regards Old Malvernians, have you seen this latest diff. [1] ? --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 13:55, 8 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Abacchus.
List of Old Guildfordians has now been passed as featured list. See: List of Old Guildfordians (Royal Grammar School, Guildford) and especially:
Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Old Guildfordians (Royal Grammar School, Guildford)/archive1.
It did not appear to be too difficult. Could you cast your eye over the OM and see whether you think List of OM could pass FL on the same basis?
I am now in Malvern and will be here for another four weeks. If there is anything you would like me to look up at the local library for example, please don't hesitate to let me know. Regards, Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 12:10, 23 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Abacchus. I'm just letting you know that I have submitted List of Old Malvernians for peer review as a first step to possible Featured List. Regards, --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 04:22, 2 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

vandalism: Good catch Abacchus! --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 10:26, 12 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

thank you! it was heading below the belt, that one, but I was quick off the mark!--Abacchus1974 (talk) 12:10, 13 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

based on the peer review, it looks as if OM will still need a lot of work and research before it can be nomintated for FL. Never mind, perhaps I'll go to the bursar's office next time I'm in Malvern, but that won't be until at least October next year. On another note, are you actually in or near Malvern by any chance? --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 01:53, 19 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Happy New Year Kudpung, You live in Thailand or Malaysia, if I recall? I dont live near Malvern, though I may visit this year for an OM meeting. Nothing particular is planned. I agree that more needs doing, eg to obtain dates of attendance, references, image files etc. Initially, I thought the table layout would be practical but, on reflection, I was wondering whether it makes the list look rather bland and formulaic. Once the necessary information is compiled, the layout might be convenient but it appears there is a long way to go to that juncture. Do you agree? Is the peer review available online? --Abacchus1974 (talk) 03:17, 2 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Ab, and Happy New Year to you too! I've been living in Thailand since early 2000; before that I lived in France for 12 years and before that in Germany for 16. I go back to Malvern roughly every 12 - 18 months and I spent two months there last Sept-Aug. However, I am not personally connected with MC so I have no influence there. As you are an OM and planning on going to a meeting, I think it would be a wonderful opportunity to do some research and perhaps ask the school's administrators and other OM if they can come up with any sources. MC is such an important school, the list deserves to be brought up to FL. While I can certainly help out with prose and format, there is little I can do to provide any missing content or images. Photos are of course important and if the school or any OM have some that can be scanned I would be happy to advise how permissions can be organised for their use. The peer review is at Wikipedia:Peer review/List of Old Malvernians/archive1. It can be read but it is now archived so any relevant comments should be made at Talk:List of Old Malvernians. Regards, --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 04:34, 2 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello, Abacchus1974. I deleted the Old Malvernians category from the Alan Lloyd Hodgkin page because it seemed to me to have been added in error. ALH is not included in the List of Old Malvernians, and there is nothing at Category:Old Malvernians, nor at the Downs School page, to suggest that all old boys of the Downs School are considered to be OMs. I suspect membership of the OM Society may be open to former Downs School pupils now, even if they went on to some other school, but when ALH was at the Downs School it was not associated with MC, so could he have joined during his lifetime? If you conclude that he could, I leave it to you to reinstate the category. Moonraker (talk) 22:00, 26 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for replying Moonraker. This is raises an interesting question. What is the decisive factor for eligilibility to a list? Is it whether a person is an alma mater of an educational institution (ie actually attened the institution in question), has membership of the institutions old boy's Society, or whether the school in question has since merged with a school at which someone attended, entitling the latter's old boys to membership of the former's old boy's society? --Abacchus1974 (talk) 09:14, 27 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

For inclusion in a list of so-called "alumni" of schools I believe we have agreed at WikiProject Schools that there is no minimum period of attendance, simply having attended the school is enough. The problem here is that "Old Malvernian" is being used to mean something different from "People who attended Malvern College". I support using what the category regulars call the "Old Fooian" formats, and I don't have a problem with "Old Malvernian" having a less than straightforward meaning. "Old Truronians" attended either Truro School or Truro Cathedral School, or, indeed, both. In the case of Old Paludians, membership is open to people from several Slough schools. But how can we call someone an Old Malvernian who did not attend the school and would not have been eligible to join the OM Society? It's rather like the posthumous baptism for the dead. Moonraker (talk) 20:28, 3 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not add information without referencing it. I deleted it for a reason as we simply cannot allow information to be added without citations. Please familiarise yourself with WP:CITE and WP: RS before reverting again. Thank you. -- Cassianto^Talk 23:13, 17 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Cassianto, Thank you for your message. I agree about the need for citations and reliable sources. The reliable sources you wanted were already clearly cited on Oliver Selfridge's own wikipage but, in the light of your recommendations, I have now added a different reference on Harry Selfridge's own page. In this case, however, i wonder why you did not simply add a "citation needed" to my edit on the HS page, as you have in many places on the same page? Generally, overtly pro-deletionist policies dont agree with me. So, I want to balance your quote with one of my own : "Check it Before you Deck it!"--Abacchus1974 (talk) 02:16, 11 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Your response is confusing to me so I will answer what I can understand. The article was inundated with {{cn}} tags, as a result of information being put on with no references. I refused to cn your text as unfortunately, that is not how it works. When you put information on, you should be willing to back up what your saying with a reference. You can't just put on information and look for a reference later, or cn the text hoping someone will come along and reference it for you. Again, I urge you to read WP:RS and WP:CITE if you haven't done so already. I will continue to remove unsourced information as per the policy, so "Check it Before you Deck it!" doesn't apply here. Also, I have reformatted The Daily Telegraph reference you added. Please note that the publication goes in italics and the date is in BritEng. Periods are generally not used so instead use commas as the formatting is a continuation of everything preceding it. Many thanks. -- Cassianto^Talk 09:05, 11 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Worcestershire - one of England's oldest and still existing (with some minor boundary changes) ceremonial and political shires, famous for its nearly 1000 year old cathedral, the River Severn, the AONB of the Malvern Hills, some of the oldest schools in the country, England's fastest growing university, apples, pears, cider and cricket, and of course its world famous sauce. The Wikiproject is now in need of some attention. Created 12 years ago, this project amassed a huge resource for editors working on all kinds of articles and categories related in some way or another to the county. Kudpung is more or less retired from Wikipedia getting on for 2 years ago and it would be good if a group of editors could get it up to date and continue to maintain it.
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The WORCESTERSHIRE Project Newsletter - May 2023

The WikiProject WORCESTERSHIRE Newsletter Issue 3 - May 2023 (Archived here.) Welcome to the third WikiProject Worcestershire newsletter and the first one in (checks notes) THIRTEEN years! When I first joined this WikiProject back in December last year, I was slightly tempted to mark it as inactive, as activity had extremely slowed and there had been no new participants in 3 years. But I have decided to revive this project, as Worcestershire means a lot to me and I know it does for so many others. But as many participants of this project have disappeared completely off Wikipedia, this project is now in dire need of attention and it would be helpful if a group of editors could join me and continue to maintain it. Here goes for the third EXTREMELY irregular news bulletin... What's happened since last time Evolution of Worcestershire county boundaries since 1844 was promoted to Good article on 3 September 2014. Largely the work of Bellow558, a Worcestershire Project member, the article was reviewed by Mike Christie. Hanley Castle High School was was promoted to Good article on 30 August 2012. There are 78 good articles for educational institution of all kinds of which there are 4 GA for secondary schools in the UK. Hanley High School is the first state school in the UK to become GA. Evesham was nominated on 2 December 2010 as a Good Article Candidate. The nomination unfortunately failed due to unforeseen unavailability of the editors working on the article. It only requires minor attention to be renominated. Worcester Castle was awarded Good Article status on 27 October 2011. Largely the work of User:Hchc2009 , the article was reviewed and promoted by User:Malleus Fatuorum. The photo by David Iliff of the medieval cloisters in Worcester Cathedral (pictured above) appeared as picture of the day on 5 October 2016. Urse d'Abetot was awarded Featured Article status on 13 October 2009. Promoted by Karanacs, the article was 96.4% the work of Ealdgyth. It was finally featured on the main page on 14 April 2018. The Battle of Powick Bridge was awarded Featured Article status in 2020 and appeared on the Main Page on 12 February 2023. Worcestershire articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 1 1 4 6 FL 1 1 GA 4 3 6 13 B 2 5 14 12 33 C 1 5 20 73 2 101 Start 15 51 387 34 487 Stub 1 6 586 19 612 List 3 6 30 39 NA 1 1 23 337 362 Assessed 3 35 102 1,122 337 55 1,654 Unassessed 3 8 11 Total 3 35 102 1,125 337 63 1,665 WikiWork factors (?) ω = 6,636 Ω = 5.30 Experts needed! If you notice any editors contributing significantly to Worcestershire-related articles, then please ask them to join this WikiProject, as we need all the help we can get. Would you like to join the WP:WORCS?? Please enter yourself at WP:WORCS! - new editors are always welcome! Happy Wikying, and thanks to everyone else who has contributed to our articles. New project resources Before making any major edits to articles or stubs, please be sure to read the new WP:WORCS/HowTo. Urgent tasks are now listed at: WP:WORCS/ToDo. It should be referred to often, and will be your main stop for most maintenance tasks. We recommend keeping the page on your watchlist. Priorities are not set in stone and if you would like to discuss changes, please join in at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Worcestershire. The current priorities: Population Now that the 2021 census details have been released, most settlement articles need updating. This website: https://www.citypopulation.de/ can be helpful, although you should note this does not collect data from hamlets or small villages. Monitor The watchlist to keep an eye on changes to the project's articles so that vandalism and spamming can be removed as quickly as possible. Infoboxes Some of our articles need their infoboxes completing. References Please remember that the list of stubs needing expansion is always in need of attention. Please take a look and see if you can help. One small edit, such as adding a reference section and reference, to an article each session would make a big difference. If you are uploadiing an image, be sure it has a correct FUR, and that you have preferably already created a link on the page where you want it to be. These lists will help: All Worcs related articles by ABC Worcs related articles by type. All Worcs related articles about people by ABC List of all Schools in Worcestershire List by Class & Importance: Page 1 All categories except people (not yet tagged with WP banner) List by Class & Importance: Page 2 All categories except people (not yet tagged with WP banner). Guidelines How to write about settlements How to write about counties How to write about rivers How to write about people Missing civil parishes There is a project creating missing civil parish articles in England at User:Crouch, Swale/Missing parishes. The missing parishes in Worcestershire currently are: Drakes Broughton and Wadborough Norton and Lenchwick South Lenches Stock and Bradley Stoke, Worcestershire Westwood, Worcestershire Evesham project I am currently planning on reforming the Evesham article to get it up to scratch for another GA nomination. If other editors are interested in helping me then please do, especially if you live in Evesham yourself, as the main photo is from 2008 and is out-of-date as there is a new statue in front of the building. On the newsletter I intend to write a brand-new newsletter once every two months, though I would like other editors to help me in completing it in case of my unavailability. 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Malvern College has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. voorts (talk/contributions) 02:34, 13 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]