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Hi 12xii. Thank you for your work on Independent Higher Education. Another editor, Klbrain, has reviewed it as part of new pages patrol and left the following comment:

Thank you for starting this page. With 3 references from government sources, it is notable, but most of the text is from its own site. It would be helpful to broaden this by adding information from a range of independent sources.

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Klbrain (talk) 14:24, 12 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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I have sent you a note about a page you started

Hi 12xii. Thank you for your work on London Churchill College. Another editor, Klbrain, has reviewed it as part of new pages patrol and left the following comment:

Thanks for creating this balanced article for a UK higher education college.

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Klbrain (talk) 13:47, 18 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the thanks!

My first thank, thank you! CS012831 (talk) 20:15, 19 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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An automated process has detected that when you recently edited School of Psychology and Sport Science, Bangor University, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Urban.

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Academic dress of Bangor University

Hello. I came across Academic dress of Bangor University as part of new pages patrol. Did you intend to move this to mainspace? From your edit summary NB I accidentally made this page when I meant to put an edit on a draft, I guess not. At the moment, it is not very well sourced: only two sources, one of which is a primary source, and so notability is not established. I suspect you might want to improve it in draftspace. Can I move it back there? Cheers, SunloungerFrog (talk) 09:26, 22 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I think that seems reasonable, all I would say is that might be true for some other academic dress articles as well (eg Academic dress of the University of Wales). Xii Xii 10:35, 22 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I'd had a look at that one too! In fact, rather than draftifying, I'm going to suggest that the article be merged to Bangor University, where I think it will be a nice addition to the existing article. I am happy to leave that to you, or I can do it later on if you would prefer. Cheers, SunloungerFrog (talk) 11:12, 22 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I think for now the academic dress article can go back to draftspace as I can find some more sources for it (and it's too long to transclude entirely into another article), but yes I think a section on it in the main uni article would be a good addition - I'm prorgessively rewriting that article anyway so will include it at some point. Xii Xii 11:19, 22 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Unfortunately there is a bit of an issue in that the draftspace article still exists, I'm not sure how we merge them whilst retaining both page's history? Or we delete one of them. Xii Xii 11:24, 22 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I think you can tag the draft for speedy deletion under WP:G7, as only you have edited it. And then do the move. Cheers, SunloungerFrog (talk) 12:12, 22 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Coat of Arms of Bangor University

Hi, you appear pretty knowledgable with Bangor University and heraldry, I thought it might interest you to know that the entry for the University on Armorial of British universities lists the arms as “granted at an unknown date”. I doubt you know the exact date, but I suppose if you wanted something to do I feel like you’d probably know where to find the answer to this. notadev (talk) 15:53, 27 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Haha, I can certainly take a look in the uni archives. If not the College of Arms will probably have it if I end up in London at any point. Thanks for the quest! Xii Xii 16:36, 27 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]