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Merge proposal Hi, if you want to propose merging two articles you need to put the merge template on both articles and have them both point to a section on the destination article's talk page that gives your reasons why they should be merged so others can comment - see wp:merging#Proposing a merger. Richerman (talk) 22:36, 18 May 2017 (UTC) DYK for Open–closed political spectrum Template:Ivmbox Mifter (talk) 00:02, 24 May 2017 (UTC) Thanks for helping out at peer review! File:Feedback Responder Barnstar.png The Peer Review Barnstar Thanks for your help at Wikipedia peer review! --Tom (LT) (talk) 21:56, 24 May 2017 (UTC) DYK for Battle of Bamber Bridge Template:Ivmbox Vanamonde (talk) 01:24, 24 June 2017 (UTC) Proposed deletion of Government News Network File:Ambox warning yellow.svg The article Government News Network has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern: Wikipedia:Notability (media) and Wikipedia:Notability (websites) While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons. You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the Template:Tlc notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page. Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing Template:Tlc will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 22:36, 1 July 2017 (UTC) Homepage? Congratulations on the promotion to FA status of your Northern England article. I think it would make for an excellent article on the home page. I think you should propose it at WP:TFAR. I will certainly support it. Best, Edwininlondon (talk) 20:51, 18 July 2017 (UTC) Template:Ping Thanks! Have nominated it here Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Northern England. Smurrayinchester 08:26, 19 July 2017 (UTC) Northern England scheduled for TFA This is to let you know that the Northern England article has been scheduled as today's featured article for September 4, 2017. Please check the article needs no amendments. If you're interested in editing the main page text, you're welcome to do so at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/September 4, 2017, but note that a coordinator will trim the lead to around 1100 characters anyway, so you aren't obliged to do so. Thanks! Jimfbleak - talk to me? 06:18, 20 August 2017 (UTC) Thank you for "an increasingly distinctive cultural area, shaped by centuries of Celtic, Roman, Saxon, Danish, Norman and Scottish invasion and more recently by the rise and fall of heavy industry"! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:26, 4 September 2017 (UTC) Next Conservative Party (UK) leadership election I've nominated this article for deletion. As a contributor, your comments are welcome at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Next Conservative Party (UK) leadership election. 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This probably needs input from people who know more than me at Talk:Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus. Smurrayinchester 14:57, 18 February 2020 (UTC) User:Smurrayinchester I'm not saying Sars-related doesn't exist in the taxonomy, but according to https://talk.ictvonline.org/taxonomy/ it is the only "species" of the subgenus sarbecovirus, Riboviria › Nidovirales › Cornidovirineae › Coronaviridae › Orthocoronavirinae › Betacoronavirus › Sarbecovirus › Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus so it would make it clearer to group Sars-Cov, Sars-Cov-2, Bat_SARS-like_coronavirus_WIV1 into the sarbecovirus subgenus (the article doesn't exist yet, all we have to do is to rename Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus and edit its Taxobox) Reuns (talk) 15:40, 18 February 2020 (UTC) Template:2019–20 coronavirus pandemic data/Italy medical cases chart Why "Putting a footnote inside the percentage breaks the chart"? 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Greetings - note on the mods to Northern England.

Respectfully, rather than dropping a template on you - I'd like to explain things in my own words. Thanks for the clean up on Northern England.

I do think you removed language was useful - and terms like generally, perhaps, maybe - are not encyclopedic.

You seem a very experienced editor - so I do not think I need to push on this. I was actually surprised you left the language in the article.

I think the article has fundamental problems - I added citations as to the sources of where the area is - and I added the gov. regional refs months ago. They are administrative areas and they have changed frequently. The lack of citations was noted 'years' ago- but no editor has ever addressed them.

Some of this is also nebulous and editorialized as are many articles of this nature about this region.

I think these are certainly not contentious matters - again, looking at your excellent contributions - I was a little surprised at these edits.

Respectfully: Dr.BeingObjective (talk) 15:44, 30 November 2023 (UTC)

Template:Reply to Hi, thanks for the message. I admit I'm a bit confused. I removed almost no text from the article (If you're worried about the "Historically, there has been a significant challenge in defining what geographies precisely constitutes the 'North of England'" sentence, I just merged that with another paragraph slightly further down the intro and trimmed the redundant end of it) and as far as I can see I didn't add any "generally"s etc (the word "maybe" doesn't appear in the article at all, and "perhaps" only once). You're right that it certainly wasn't a full page clean-up – I only had a bit of time and mostly just wanted to update some outdated information and I also quickly shuffled around a couple of paragraphs that seemed jarringly long or short. If I have time I will go over it fully, but I didn't leave the article because I thought it was perfect and needed no additional edits. Smurrayinchester 08:52, 1 December 2023 (UTC)

Many thanks for the reply.

The sentence was part of it and I do apologize - because, I rather followed a similar path of light edits, I really did not drill down too much when I visited the page - there were a few non-encyclopedic expressions, I did a few tweaks across the article -

I was born -- in Rochdale, my parents left many, many moons ago, hence the interest. I also took a run at Blackpool (that really upset a few folks) and English Language in the north, I suspect it is some nostalgic thing. Just in case you wondered as to why I might even be reading these things - these articles likely do not get a lot of traffic. My usual focus is on medicine/science articles.

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Thank you! I added it to Portal:Germany and established a category for the related images. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:09, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

British overseas cities on territories and dependencies

Hello User:Smurrayinchester, I recall you did some top work with some overseas historical details on the City status in the United Kingdom article couple years back, I am finally getting around after long-standing requests such as

to spin those details out into a new article and would appreciate if you could sanity check it.

I'm still tweaking some sentences and am aware I could add some refs to the prose and update population counts, but any thoughts on aspects would be useful. I'll eventually mention on the above talk pages too (or might just go ahead once ready as several will see the linked updates on the main space articles) Regards, The Equalizer (talk) 14:15, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

Also finding that as certain colonies received self government, the numbers of cities declared increased dramatically as the rules were not on the whim of a monarch and more defined on thresholds such as population and revenue which means a lot more to find, unsure whether I should restrict scope on the historical cities list for those and the dominions to either independence or responsible government being granted. Or just keep it as a list of key cities. The Equalizer (talk) 12:36, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

Template:Ping Impressive work! And yeah, self-government is a bit of a grey area. I can definitely see the argument for cutting the list there. Otherwise it feels like every little village in Australia is a city! Smurrayinchester 13:42, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

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Has one ever considered Magneton? Pokelego999 (talk) 17:23, 20 May 2024 (UTC)

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Could I request a look at the interventions of User:Maurnxiao in Talk:2024 United Kingdom general election, sections Infobox, Muslim Vote, and Workers Party.

A member of less than a week (although his very first post was challenging the status of sources as reliable, making me suspect he has been active under a different identity), entirely unaccepting of the principle of consensus, determined to see a level of coverage of one political party that is disproportionate to that given by mainstream news sources. Highly disruptive, unwilling to accept that his preference is not grounds to change the approach taken by the article. Time sensitive issue (election is in 10 days), so a quicker intervention would be desirable. Is seeking a topic ban suitable, or is some other solution more suitable.

With thanks. Kevin McE (talk) 08:32, 24 June 2024 (UTC)

Obviously I feel an intense urge to defend myself after the way in which you have defaced my honor as an editor on here, but I should also really say that I had already acknowledged the lack of consensus and had stopped pushing for an inclusion of the Workers Party in the infobox with pictures should it be reintroduced. My question had been at what point does a regional party become significant enough in Westminster to be included. You had also promised to push for a "topic ban", whatever that is, if I should continue talking about Galloway in the talk page. I didn't make a single edit anywhere after that warning, and yet you chose to smear my name on so many different user talk pages? Maurnxiao (talk) 10:40, 24 June 2024 (UTC)

Thank you @Smurrayinchester, matter now seems closed. Kevin McE (talk) 11:29, 24 June 2024 (UTC)

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