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The Signpost: 01 April 2015

The Wikimedia Foundation this week released a State of the WMF report, a 38-page "snapshot" of where it is and where it wants to go in the future.
TruthRevolt targets another editor; edit stage right; the Nine Best Hoaxes to Have Hit Wikipedia
Six featured articles, first featured lists, and twenty-four featured pictures were promoted this week.
The Report is more of a mix of random topics than usual this week. The top spot is taken by Bhutanese passport, a Wikipedia article which contained a crazed spoken word version which drew widespread attention.
The Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) will announce later today that it will begin accepting edits by mail for all of the projects under its scope, including Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Commons.
The Wikimedia Commons' annual Picture of the Year contest has concluded. The first 53 top-voted entries were disqualified because they were all nude.

The Signpost: 08 April 2015

Wikipedia has been gravitating towards a vehicle for business and product promotion for too long.
March saw a number of high-level hirings and executive reorganizations in the Wikimedia Foundation.
The venerable CBS news program 60 Minutes profiled Wikipedia and the Wikimedia community.
How appropriate that the theme of Easter week would be resurrection from the dead.
Four featured articles, seven featured lists, and 23 featured pictures were promoted this week.
With Holy Week having recently drawn to a close, it is an apt time to examine WikiProject Christianity, which was created in 2006, and boasts over 200 active members.
The Committee has voted on the 2015 appointments to the Functionary team.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community.

The Signpost: 15 April 2015

The Wikimedia Foundation's vice president for engineering, Erik Möller, will leave the WMF on April 30.
Time profiles Lila Tretikov, executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation, and paints a grim picture of the challenges faced by Tretikov and the encyclopedia.
Later this month, everyone will be able to use the same user name on every wiki, thanks to Single-User Login.
If it wasn't for Easter, Fast and Furious related articles would have taken the top four spots this week. The latest installment of the movie franchise, Furious 7, tops the chart for the second straight week.
Six featured articles, four featured lists, and fourteen featured pictures were promoted this week.

The Signpost: 22 April 2015

A Signpost investigation of the released data has revealed Sony's corporate practices regarding Wikipedia and uncovered what appears to be undisclosed advocacy editing of Wikipedia by Sony employees and possibly by others.
Wikipedia appears to have been drawn into the drama of the upcoming, hotly contested UK general election.
The Affiliates Committee this week announced the organization of a community referral for comment, currently open on the meta-wiki, to address upcoming changes to the way that the Affiliations Committee will review movement-affiliated user-groups in the future.
2015 will see through the biennial community election for the three community-elected seats on the Board of Trustees—the "ultimate corporate authority" of the Wikimedia Foundation and the level at which the strategic decisions regarding the Wikimedia movement are made.
Six featured articles and fifteen featured pictures were promoted this week.
Couch potatoes rule this week, as 9 of the top 10 slots were taken by either movies, TV, or sports.
The Gallery is an occasional Signpost feature highlighting quality images and articles from Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons based on a particular theme.

The Signpost: 29 April 2015

Esino Lario is set to host Wikimania 2016, but volunteers and others have raised a host of concerns that raise serious questions about the town's suitability for hosting such a large conference.
The evaluations reveal that in the last three years, WLM has possibly fallen victim to its own success and seen diminishing returns.
David Coburn, a Member of the European Parliament for the Scotland region for the UK Independence Party, was blocked from editing Wikipedia on April 6.
Ten featured articles, nine featured lists, and twenty-eight featured pictures were promoted this week.
Though the continued predominance of movies, TV, and sports noted in last week's report largely continues, three additional topics joined the Top 10 this week.
Reader demand for some topics (e.g. LGBT topics or pages about countries) is poorly satisfied, whereas there is over-abundance of quality on topics of comparatively little interest, such as military history.

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The Signpost: 06 May 2015

The Wikimedia Foundation this week announced the winning grantees in March's "Inspire" grant-making campaign.
Seven articles, three lists, and ten pictures were promoted to "featured" status this week. The second round of the WikiCup has ended.
artnet and The Next Web report (May 6) that the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is releasing a hundred images of works in its collection under Creative Commons licences in conjunction with a May 19 editathon.
Elections have begun for five community members of the Funds Dissemination Committee, the Foundation's volunteer body for judging and recommending millions of dollars worth of annual grants to affiliates in the movement. The election lasts just eight days, from Sunday 3 May until 23:59 UTC on Sunday 10 May, so at the time of publication, voters will need to act promptly.
Like colliding ocean liners, rousing entertainment and harsh reality merged ungainly in this week's top 10 list. The much heralded pay-per-view pummeling of Manny Pacquiao by Floyd Mayweather, Jr. dominated the list's top slots, giving this list one of its highest total view counts in months.

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Nomination for deletion of Template:Sea Mills railway station services

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The Signpost: 13 May 2015

Three community-elected seats on the Board of Trustees—the ultimate governing authority of the Wikimedia Foundation—will be decided by Wikimedians in the election to be held 17–31 May.
This week has been a busy one for the Wikidata project, with nearly simultaneous Wikidata contests, both organized by Wikimedia Sweden, now underway.
Casual viewers may think I've posted the same list twice. But no, readers just happen to be really interested in May 2's Big Fight. In fact, last week was just the weigh-in and the trash talk. This week, the numbers actually increased.
Grant Shapps, who was the co-chairman of the UK's Conservative Party until this week, has been accused of maliciously editing the Wikipedia biographies of his party's rivals.
There is a public misconception of Wikipedia: that any anonymous editor can edit Wikipedia at any time, and cannot be tracked or identified.
Eight articles, one list, and five pictures were promoted to featured status on the English Wikipedia in a slow week.

The Signpost: 20 May 2015

The Wikimedia Foundation's bi-annual Board of Trustees election is open for voting. Of the ten seats on the board, three are elected representatives of the global Wikimedia community—you.
The article counts of many Wikimedia wikis suddenly changed on 29 March 2015: as the Signpost reported at the time, sixty-five wikis fell below milestones tracked at the Wikimedia News Meta page, and three increased to new milestones.
The list is topped this week by Danish scientist Inge Lehmann, thanks to a Google Doodle celebrating her 127th birthday. Lehmann discovered in 1936 that the Earth has a solid inner core. It is sometimes surprising to realize how recently such basic scientific knowledge of the Earth, which we now take for granted, was discovered.
Wikipedia editors logging in on May 19 found themselves walking into an unexpected amount of anti-vandal work to keep the site in line with its extensive biographies of living persons policy. A plethora of Wikipedia articles related to the United States House Committee on Appropriations, and the fifty-one representatives serving on it, have been hit by a raft of anonymous editors making often vulgar edits referencing "chicken fucker," or more creative combinations: "sexual conduct", "sexual congress", "fornicator", "intimate relations", or "trysts with chickens."
Three articles, seven lists, and seven pictures were featured on the English Wikipedia.
Jimmy Wales and five others accepted the 2015 Dan David Prize at Tel Aviv University on May 17. The prize comes with US$1 million, ten percent of which goes to doctoral and postdoctoral scholarships.
This week, we had the pleasure of interviewing WikiProject Molecular and Cellular Biology, which has come a long way since our last interview in 2008. Like most projects, it has a long member list, but only a small subset of that group regularly contributes. With 28 featured articles and 58 top-importance start class ones, the project has clearly had some success, but has a ways to go. We talked to three regular project contributors.
The Arbitration Committee has an unusually large case load at present. Although perhaps not on a par with the high-profile, multi-party cases seen towards the end of last year and the beginning of this year, with five open cases the arbitrators are likely to be kept busy for the next several weeks.

Nomination for deletion of Template:Filton railway station services (second)

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Nomination for deletion of Template:Future Rail Insert

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The Signpost: 03 June 2015

The Wikimedia Foundation's volunteer election committee has announced the election results for the three vacant seats on the Board of Trustees. Dariusz Jemielnak, James Heilman, and Denny Vrandečić are set to take up their two-year terms on the Board. They will replace the three incumbents, all of whom stood this time unsuccessfully: Phoebe Ayers, Samuel Klein, and María Sefidari.
Caitlyn Jenner—the American hero of the 1976 Olympics, a film actor, and prominent member of Keeping Up with the Kardashians—may now be the most famous openly transgender person in the world.
Since the dawn of Wikipedia, or at least since 22 December 2005, the template named Persondata has existed.
Two featured articles and ten featured pictures were promoted this week.
Over the past few weeks, developers have been working on improving Wikimedia's performance when users connect to it using SPDY.
Wikipedia appears to be the single most used website for health information globally, exceeding traffic observed at the NIH, WebMD, WHO et al..
More UK government vandalism; legend has it; minding the gender gap
The traffic report is nothing unusual this week, with a Google Doodle for astronaut Sally Ride topping the list, the accidental death of famous mathematician John Forbes Nash, Jr. at #2, and the normal fare of recent popular American movies and television.

First Great Western article name

FYI, based on additional information received that the First Great Western franchise will be rebranded as Great Western Railway, not the abbreviated GWR as previously suggested, I have amended the discussion at Talk:First Great Western to reflect. This may or may not influence your previously given preference on this matter. D47817 (talk) 02:54, 10 June 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 10 June 2015

This week saw the publication of the Chapter-wide Financial Trends Report 2013, a now-completed research project that examines the finances and outlays of the 36 movement-affiliated chapters.
"Happy families are all alike," Leo Tolstoy said, "but unhappy families are unhappy after their own fashion."
UK media covers Wikipedia Arbitration case; Lila Tretikov visits Israel.
Four featured articles, two featured lists, one featured topic, and twenty-eight featured pictures were promoted this week.
Today it was announced that Wikimedia sites are going to become HTTPS only, finishing up 10 year effort of rolling out HTTPS.
The Medical Translation Project, an ambitious attempt to improve and translate Wikipedia’s medical content from English into other languages, began in 2012.

The Signpost: 17 June 2015

The Princess of Asturias Foundation announced that Wikipedia would be the recipient of the 2015 Princess of Asturias award in the category of International Cooperation.
The Arbitration Committee delivered its final decision in a case that reached the attention of the UK national press.
This would end a long-standing tradition in many countries that the skyline and the public scene should belong to everybody.
We need to be ever-diligent in ensuring that articles remain of high quality.
The rollout of HTTPS only has now been completed across all Wikimedia wikis.
We interviewed an Australian veteran who deployed to the region as a peacekeeper and now writes articles on the region's history to help him understand what he encountered there.
A more than usually severe outage Wikimedia Labs occurred after a massive database corruption implosion on June 17.
Six featured articles, seven featured lists, and seven featured pictures were promoted this week.
Author's note: This might be a violation of WP:BEANS; read at your own risk.
It wouldn't be the WikiProject report if we didn't feature an Australian topic once in a while, so this week we're looking at the left side.

The Signpost: 24 June 2015

Over more than a decade of weekly publication, The Signpost has accumulated an incredibly lengthy and detailed record about the issues, controversies, successes, and failures of the English Wikipedia community and the movement at large.
The Wikimedia Foundation's Language Engineering team plans to introduce Content Translation—a tool that makes it easier to translate Wikipedia articles into different languages—as a beta feature on the English Wikipedia.
During 2009–2011 Google ran the Google Translation Project (GTP), a program utilising paid translators to translate most popular English Wikipedia articles to various Indian language Wikipedias.
Four articles and nine pictures were promoted to featured status this week.
One paper looks at the topic of Wikipedia governance in the context of online social production.
This past week saw the kick-off of the 2015 MediaWiki architecture focus of improving our content platform.
The Board of Trustees is the "ultimate corporate authority" of the Wikimedia Foundation and the level at which the strategic decisions regarding the Wikimedia movement are made ...
The Hürriyet Daily News reports that the Turkish Wikipedia has posted banners on the top of the encyclopedia to warn users that a number of articles are being blocked by the Turkish government.
After six years of work, a residency in the Canadian Rockies, endless debugging, and more than a little help from my friends, I have made Print Wikipedia.
Clausewitz' pithy summary of warfare as "politics by other means" seems to be the motto of some Wikipedia editors.

The Signpost: 01 July 2015

This week The Center for Internet and Society published a promotional blog post highlighting the heritage of the center's creation of the Train the Trainer program.
A week now remains until the vote, expected on 9 July, when the European Parliament will express either its approval, disapproval, or lack of opinion on the question of freedom of panorama in the European Union.
Here to share their wisdom are Dodger67, Penny Richards, LilyKitty, and Mirokado of WikiProject Disability
Four featured list and twelve featured pictures were promoted this week.
For the week of June 21 to 27, 2015, the 10 most popular articles on Wikipedia, as determined from the report of the most viewed pages.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community.
Like many editors of the world's largest encyclopedia, Karanacs was browsing the site's articles and found that they were of relatively poor quality—and that the traditional narrative she'd learned was not necessarily accurate.

Your GA nomination of Montpelier railway station

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Your GA nomination of Montpelier railway station

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Your GA nomination of Montpelier railway station

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The Signpost: 08 July 2015

It seems like a good time to discuss the various communications channels available to community members.
Lila Tretikov this week posted an email to the wikimedia-l mailing list announcing the final publication of the Wikimedia Foundation's 2015 annual plan.
The mayor of Esino Lario warns that Wikimedia 2016 is "at risk of disappearing".
It's July 4 weekend and on this list that means only one thing: Wimbledon. Sure, the American Independence Day gets noticed too, but it can't hold a candle to that staggeringly British sporting event.
12 featured articles, 2 featured lists, and 15 featured pictures were promoted this week.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community.

The Signpost: 15 July 2015

"How long will this take?" This is one of the first questions new clients ask. They come to us because the Wikipedia entry about the company at which they work is wrong, incomplete, or even just outdated. The answer varies ...
However coy they may be about it in public, Americans love to win. And when they do, they make no secret of it.
We return this week with an interview with a historical project that's still fairly active, WikiProject Former countries.
In The Register, Andrew Orlowski reports that three weeks ago, Grant Shapps filed a request with Wikimedia UK (WMUK) under the Data Protection Act 1998 "for all data relating to him".
The Wikimedia Foundation is pleased to announce the release of our latest transparency report.
Wikimania 2015 is underway in Mexico City, and one of its sessions—a scheduled follow-up to the annual Wikimedia Conference that was held in Berlin in May—is good reason to provide a retrospective of that Conference.
One featured article, seven featured lists, and 14 featured pictures were promoted this week.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community

The Signpost: 22 July 2015

We want to take a moment to ask you to consider contributing to the Signpost.
Wikimania features remarks from some leading players from the Wikimedia Foundation as well as the free knowledge movement.
WMF's Executive Director, Lila Tretikov, gave the opening plenary address.
Three novelists "have found a way to control the Wikipedia narrative" by using the annotation website Genius to annotate their own Wikipedia articles.
Summary:When I was a kid, being a nerd meant wanting to go to Pluto.
WikiProject Politics of the United Kingdom
Three featured articles, two featured lists, and 29 featured pictures were promoted this week.
46 years ago this week, humanity set foot on the Moon.
Community technical news.

The Signpost: 29 July 2015

An RFC proposes to create a "Bureaucrats' Admin Review Committee" (BARC) composed of bureaucrats empowered to remove adminship rights.
Two years ago, I discovered that I was on the autism spectrum.
An article argues that Wikipedia displays some key characteristics of a collective intelligence process.
"Editors representing rival political tribes [are] frequently attempting to impose their respective narratives as the official version of one or another cultural controversy."
Five featured articles, five featured lists, and sixteen featured pictures were promoted this week.
For the first time since this list began, India-related topics have claimed both the top two slots.

Nomination of Formula One video games for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Formula One video games is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Formula One video games until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Tvx1 17:05, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 05 August 2015

That particular artists would be omitted through oversight or happenstance is reasonable, but that one of the world's leading publishers of art books is completely unaware of their major omissions is startling.
The public interest in remembering the facts about trials and convictions is, in my view, at least as strong as any "right to be forgotten."
VisualEditor is now on slow roll-out on the English Wikipedia.
The Report checks in with WikiProject Templates.
The Indian government has launched an investigation into the source of Wikipedia edits regarding Jawaharlal Nehru that caused outrage in that country.
Death is no stranger to this list, but it has never cast such a pall as this week, when for the first time half the slots in the top 10 were devoted to it, including the top 3.
Three featured articles, seven featured lists, and twenty-two featured pictures were promoted this week.
What if there was a gathering place on Wikipedia for newer editors to find a mentor?

The Signpost: 12 August 2015

Superprotect was a novel page protection level implemented on August 10 last year, without warning.
The Atlantic discusses "The Covert World of People Trying to Edit Wikipedia—for Pay".
The community speaks out on paid editing.
Our ongoing Wikimanía coverage.
The charts are led this week by UFC women's champion Ronda Rousey, who won her last match at UFC 190 (#9) in 34 seconds.
Watch out for icebergs.
Wikimedia technical news.
During World War II, the German battleship Tirpitz was a major threat to Allied convoys travelling across the North Atlantic and Arctic Sea.

The Signpost: 19 August 2015

Nothing makes Wikipedians more angry than a discussion of gender and feminism on Wikipedia.
A new article in PLOS ONE about Wikipedia's science coverage has attracted media attention.
This week's featured content.
Tony the Tiger tours New York City.
It's a long way from the leafy bowers of Greenwich, Connecticut to the concrete barrens of Compton, California.
Community technical news.
Wikipedia is capable of covering news like any news agency.

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Cygnus Loop
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The Signpost: 26 August 2015

Does the data mean good news for the encyclopedia?
The Russian Wikipedia is blocked, more blocks may be on the on the horizon.
Should paid event staff supplement the work of volunteers?
The Wikimedia Foundation's grant structure.
This week's featured content.
The recently closed Arbitration Enforcement case.
A look at the research presented at the OpenSym 2015 conference.

Banksy pic on Bristol

I saw you reverted my edit on Bristol about the Banksy mural/graffiti. Could you join the debate on Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Bristol/archive1 where User:Nikkimaria is arguing that Freedom of Panorama doesn't apply because it is 2D (a view shared by some others I've consulted).— Rod talk 13:49, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 02 September 2015

Nearly 400 accounts blocked in largest paid-editing bust ever.
The WMF collaboration team announced this week that Flow will no longer be under active development.
A conflict regarding fundraising banners on the Italian Wikipedia is resolved.
This Signpost "Featured content" report covers material promoted from 16 August to 24 August.
Also vital statistics regarding Ja Rule.
The late-summer smash success of Straight Outta Compton remains the chief talking point of the English-speaking world, interrupted only by the welcome return of a Google Doodle.
Community technical news.

The Signpost: 09 September 2015

The National Library is now releasing some of the nation's most treasured collections to Wikimedia Commons for everyone to use and enjoy.
Tony1 interviews a prolific featured content participant, Ian Rose.
Fram tells us why DYK is a problem.
First bot-created article generated from Wikidata; the Orange Bar of Doom has finally met its doom; active editor numbers still on the rise; arbitrator to resign; ne templates added in wake of Orangemoody case
This week's theme in popular articles revolved entirely around mass media productions.
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A recap of Wikipedia in the media this week

The Signpost: 16 September 2015

On Wikipedia's commitment to open access and its obligations to readers and editors.
WMF CFO to depart, notifications come and go, and questions about the possible editing by a recently arrested terrorism suspect.
Probably not. Also, Whitehall still editing Wikipedia.
This week's featured content.
No particular trends to spot in this week's top article traffic.
Community technical news.

Bristol P&R

Hi Matt, I'd obviously rather not get in to an edit war but to be completely honest I'm absolutely confused on why you undid the redirect ?,
All of the content here is all at Bristol park and ride so it doesn't make sense to have 2 articles that are pretty much a duplicate of each other?
Anyway thanks, –Davey2010Talk 14:55, 20 September 2015 (UTC)

@Davey2010: I agree it doesn't make sense to have duplicate articles, however my reasoning is that they should not be duplicates. The Bristol P&R article, which covers all the city P&Rs, should be expanded with info on the rest of them. There are articles on the Portway P&R, and I think on the Long Ashton one. The Bath Road one should have its own article too. As for your comment that it's an article about a single service number, it's an article about the facility as well as the service. -mattbuck (Talk) 18:34, 20 September 2015 (UTC)
You're right they shouldn't but if we remove the content on the A4 article that's already on the Bristol P&R article you'll then only have a couple of lines left on the A4 article, Unless individual services are notable than most often that not service numbers are put in to one article, I guess some of it could be merged in to Bristol P&R but as it stands it isn't really notable for a standalone article. –Davey2010Talk 18:52, 20 September 2015 (UTC)
So it's a stub, the world will not end because of that. I'm sure the A4 one can be expanded if people desire. -mattbuck (Talk) 22:02, 20 September 2015 (UTC)
Well ofcourse you're more than welcome to revert but I just don't see the point of having 2 identical articles, Anyway Thanks for replying & Happy editing, –Davey2010Talk 22:42, 20 September 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 23 September 2015

PETA launches a copyright lawsuit over the infamous photograph.
No, really, just stop.
This week's featured content.
This time of year features the Latin Grammy Awards, so here for an interview are WikiProject Latin music.
This week, drug lord and wannabe Bolivar Pablo Escobar was joined by a whole host of somewhat more primetime-friendly political insurgents.
Community technical news.

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Hi Matt, Just a heads up I've nominated the A4 Bristol Park & Ride article (here), Seeing as the ping has a mind of its own I thought it was only fair I left a message so I then know you've definitely got a notification!, Anyway thanks, –Davey2010Talk 01:54, 1 October 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 30 September 2015

A year of fundraising and a controversial decision.
More Wikipedia editing in the news.
Low numbers of active admins and high standards for adminship make a troubling combination.
A look at newly published Wikipedia research.
Community technical news

Your GA nomination of Avonmouth railway station

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Referencing stuff

Thanks for the ping re Reference formats on the GA review of Avonmouth railway station - I've taken a look at the article and could only see one other (minor error) which had an extra pp after page=. I have removed it. I think the error generated by having a link in work= is new and I have been removing some where I see them (working on the wp Bristol cleanup listing). If you look at item "25 External link in |<param>=" on Help:CS1 errors it seems to be linked to meta data (I'm not sure how). I just removed the link and left the text in work=. Interestingly links to work=BBC and similar don't seem to generate this error. I have a .js tool which highlights CS1 errors in red (but I can't remember which tool it is).— Rod talk 14:31, 10 October 2015 (UTC)

Well it's external links that cause the error, internal ones are still fine. It's all a bit annoying, as I was always of the school that references should link everything possible, given they are all read out of context. Thanks for doing the cleanup on a load of the articles I've written. -mattbuck (Talk) 19:47, 10 October 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 07 October 2015

Kazakhstan and Wikipedia: A marriage made in hell.
English speakers, like most of humanity, are primarily a northern-hemispheric people, and as autumn draws close and the days grow shorter, as a group we tend to huddle around our flickering screens and remember what matters: TV, movies, sports and, of course, crazy doomsday prophecies.
Some of Wikipedia's newest featured content.
These winners of the Wiki Loves Monuments Pakistan 2015 contest were shared with the Social Media mailing list recently.
A new case was opened for ArbCom as the Genetically modified organisms case was accepted and opened on 28 September.
A reproduced version of the Wikimedia tech newsletter.
A summary of Wikimedia's mentions in the media

Talk blanked at QI

A section of Talk:QI containing a comment by you has been blanked by (GUtt01 (talk) 01:22, 15 October 2015 (UTC))[1]. I left it as is with an added notice along the lines of WP:CBLANK. This does not seem to be the way these things are done and definitely needs your permission per WP:TPO. If you think what GUtt01 did is ok we can leave it as is, otherwise feel free to revert the discussion back in. Fountains of Bryn Mawr (talk) 02:43, 15 October 2015 (UTC)

I understand Bryn's reasons for returning them, but the fact of the matter is that it pertains to articles that have since been deleted. The apology I put up after that section has run its course, but if you feel there is no point keeping in these sections, let me know.GUtt01 (talk) 10:09, 15 October 2015 (UTC)
I object to any form of talk page blanking. If someone wishes to archive the talk page, that's fine, but the discussion should not simply be blanked. -mattbuck (Talk) 10:46, 15 October 2015 (UTC)

Patchway railway station

Hi, I was wondering if Patchway railway station was on your "to do" list of local stations? I've just come across it on the Bristol cleanup list as it is totally unreferenced - as you are much more expert on local stations i wondered if you could add any?— Rod talk 08:06, 16 October 2015 (UTC)

@Rodw: I expect I could work on Patchway in the next few weeks. I've just completed Pill, though next week's a busy week at work so not likely to have so much free time as this week! I was going to do the other Avonmouth stations next, but I'm waiting on a few new sources to arrive, so sure, Patchway it is! -mattbuck (Talk) 10:35, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
@Rodw: that's done now. Apart from a bit of proofreading, it's probably ready for GA. -mattbuck (Talk) 11:22, 23 October 2015 (UTC)
Thanks it has certainly got more refs then when I looked at it.— Rod talk 17:08, 23 October 2015 (UTC)

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Hi again, Do you have a copy of Oakley, Mike (2006). Bristol Railway Stations 1840-2005. Redcliffe. ISBN 978-1-904537-54-0. If so could you look up the page number(s) needed for Henbury railway station?— Rod talk 17:33, 24 October 2015 (UTC)

@Rodw: it's in my desk at work, I'll try to remember sometime this week. -mattbuck (Talk) 17:58, 24 October 2015 (UTC)
@Rodw: Henbury is pages 70 and 71. -mattbuck (Talk) 13:36, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

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DYK for Avonmouth railway station

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:01, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

Stapleton Road railway station & other local articles railway articles showing errors

Hi again, I'm looking again at the Bristol cleanup listing and wondered if you could help with some local stations:

  • On Stapleton Road railway station ref 15 a & b, "Train Times from Stapleton Road (SRD)" (PDF). Kadfire Ltd. 31 December 2012 to 10 February 2013". Retrieved 9 October 2013. is showing two errors - date value and dead link. Is that ref vital for the article & is any other source available.
  • On Bristol Temple Meads railway station an update banner has been added to passenger numbers

Any help you could offer would be appreciated.— Rod talk 17:43, 12 November 2015 (UTC)

@Rodw:  Done -mattbuck (Talk) 22:40, 12 November 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for your help.— Rod talk 16:39, 13 November 2015 (UTC)

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Can I ask for help from your specialised knowledge/sources again?

If you were able to help with any of them that would be great.— Rod talk 17:58, 29 November 2015 (UTC)

  • Metrowest - might be able to help, can't remember any obvious examples of it though
  • Proposed transport developments sounds like a random umbrella article which probably has no business existing
  • GWML... may be able to help, I'll take a look.
  • I have no idea about this one - I know it existed because it was on a map, but never found any textual references to it
  • Might be able to help with SWML, but Wessex may be outside my area of expertise. I'll see.
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Matt,

Apologies for dropping off the face of the earth during the GA review of Finchley Central tube station. I've had a massive workload on in the real world that has consumed all of my free time. When things quieten down, I will come back to the article, review any outstanding comments and renominate it. Thanks for your input.--DavidCane (talk) 09:07, 12 December 2015 (UTC)

Stapleton Road railway station

I have PR'ed the article. Thought I'd let you know here, as it's been a while since it was put up for review. White Arabian Filly (Neigh) 17:29, 12 December 2015 (UTC)

White Arabian Filly, thanks very much, I look forward to reading your comments. -mattbuck (Talk) 18:09, 13 December 2015 (UTC)

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station articles

Don't take things personally, if someone reverts you it's probably because they simply thought the previous version was better. The way wikipedia works is WP:BRD - make a Bold edit, it gets Reverted, you go to the talk page and Discuss it. Your change to Avonmouth railway station wasn't an improvement to the article as it made the routebox harder to understand. It's exactly this sort of situtation templates like {{rail line one to three}} was designed for. That said, some people do prefer to use the vanilla template, but with the different options on different lines, eg:

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Let me know if you need any help with editing station articles, I've been slowly working on improving Bristol area station articles and am always happy to help others apply the same logic. -mattbuck (Talk) 17:37, 16 December 2015 (UTC)

Hello, I could do with some help with this:

Preceding station   National Rail National Rail   Following station
Great Western Railway
South Wales Main Line
Saturday only

The problem is when it says Great Western Railway it doesn't appear like it does when it says First Great Western:

Preceding station   National Rail National Rail   Following station
First Great Western
South Wales Main Line
Saturday only

Do you know how to get round this problem? Your help would be much appreciated.-Merlinhst7 (talk) 22:45, 16 December 2015 (UTC)

@Merlinhst7: I'll be honest, I don't know my way around {{s-rail-national}}, I tend to stick to the many {{rail line}} templates as they're fully customisable. The issue will be somewhere in the coding of the template's switch calls on the s-rail template itself, but I'm unsure where exactly. -mattbuck (Talk) 23:02, 16 December 2015 (UTC)

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Hi, re this edit - what's wrong with MacDermot? --Redrose64 (talk) 21:34, 28 December 2015 (UTC)

@Redrose64: I'm sure it's a lovely book, but it's not one I own and so I can't get a pagenumber from it. -mattbuck (Talk) 22:38, 28 December 2015 (UTC)
I do own it. The gauge conversions are detailed in Appendix I, between pages 596 and 629. The conversions of 1873 (Midland Junction - North Somerset Junction, 36 chains, broad gauge to mixed on 4 August; South Wales Junction - New Passage Pier, 11 miles 37 chains, broad gauge to standard on 7-9 August) are listed on p. 599 and described on p. 66. --Redrose64 (talk) 23:42, 28 December 2015 (UTC)

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Hi, any reason you're trying for FA when the GA review hasn't begun yet? --Redrose64 (talk) 11:15, 31 December 2015 (UTC)

Frak, my bad. I've nominated the page for deletion - Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Patchway railway station/archive1 -mattbuck (Talk) 11:19, 31 December 2015 (UTC)
WP:G6 wasn't applicable, but WP:G7 was, so I deleted it as if you had added a {{db-self}}. --Redrose64 (talk) 11:28, 31 December 2015 (UTC)
Wikipedia speedy numbers always confuse me. Commons is so much easier. "It's a copyvio!" Thanks very much. I'll reconsider my article choice, perhaps Avonmouth. -mattbuck (Talk) 11:37, 31 December 2015 (UTC)

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Heart of Wessex Line

Hi again, I don't know if the Heart of Wessex Line falls within your area of interest? If so... it has a banner saying that it needs inline citations and, as you know the sources much better than I do, whether you could add some?— Rod talk 20:37, 19 January 2016 (UTC)

Hi Rod. I'm afraid I've been really busy recently so haven't had much chance to do wikiwork. The Heart of Wessex Line I feel may be an invention of sorts, I'll ask at WT:UKRAIL. -mattbuck (Talk) 21:10, 19 January 2016 (UTC)

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Do you know if works by British Rail are subject to Crown copyright? That is, should File:The Flying Scotsman (train) centenary poster.jpg be retagged as {{PD-UKGov}}? If not, then it is necessary to remove the image from Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Trains per WP:NFCC#9. --Stefan2 (talk) 19:44, 21 March 2016 (UTC)

I'm not sure, but you could ask at WT:UKRAIL. On the grounds that the image is currently fair use I have removed it. -mattbuck (Talk) 07:14, 22 March 2016 (UTC)

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Bathampton railway station

Hi, I know it is a bit outside your normal area of station interest but do you have any sources about Bathampton railway station? It has recently been tagged as unsourced & you know a lot more about these topics than I do.— Rod talk 19:04, 31 March 2016 (UTC)

Oakley's Somerset Railway Stations ought to cover it, if I get a chance at work tomorrow I'll have a look. -mattbuck (Talk) 19:29, 31 March 2016 (UTC)

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