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Cheshunt Lock and other notes

Another Gorka source [1]
http://www.leeandstort.co.uk/Cheshunt_Lock.htm
Dictionary of Kongo
Faith hope and charity
Colour list
Queen's Hospital, Croydon see Fay Allen , Queen's Hospital (disambiguation)
Chirurgeon
Arnold Birkman ditto, insignia foxes shaking hands, ditto (heirs of, 1555, dubious) Also Collen = Cologne (Koln). booke-for-all-the-grefes-and-diseases-of-the-bodye/oclc/14317345 qv, [2], [3]
COvid vit D (dubious?)
RAC cites Pettigrew.
Regulation, rent-seeking, and the Glorious Revolution in the English Atlantic economy
A Glossary of Dialect & Archaic Words Used in the County of Gloucester (iss 1-3?) Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, Demy-Octavo (corrigenda P 214): bound in with Rutland Words 1891 Kegan Paul, Trubner & Co (Paternoster House, Charing Cross) [4]
Odiham Hundred
County Magazine re twelfth cake, and Pompeii/Hereculaneum?
Oppression in 19th century Britain
Winter 1966]
420 [5] [6]
Coastal eutrophication & plastic density
NHS funding
Bennet and Kerr books
Dr Johnsons's Dictionary
Captivity of Mrs Rowlandson
Sari Bear see also A Duty Clear Before Us : North Beach and the Sari Bair Range, Gallipoli Peninsula 25 April-20 December 1999., [7], [8]
- JJC
Cat and Bagpipean soc. see also Grose's Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue infra, See also: A History of Cant and Slang Dictionaries
Study of circs of TMWWBQ
Catamaran [9]
F. Grose Classical Dic., catamaran, chuffy
Ubuntu bash multi-terminal history
Author's alliance fair use guidance
Language speeds (sieve)
Pesticide Properties Data Base (Glyphosate)
Mandy Rice-Davies Seven Magnificent Gladiators
Warlike Operations Area Committee
Laser Activated Remote Phosphor (LARP)
PASC
There seems to be confusion between Spiraea arguta and Spiraea prunifolia, only the former I think is correctly dubbed "bridal wreath".
Meadowsweet <- Meadow sweet Meadow-sweet
Find out whether dry-point [A Catalogue of Manuscripts Known to Contain Old English Dry-Point Glosses] (de: Griffelglossen) includes/is metalpoint. DNC drypoint. Ans. Blackwell Ency.c Ag-Sax England, entry Glosses cited therein - 'with a stylus' 'scratched'
Investigate Bald's Leechbook and Lacnunga.
Wynde Monah 1845 see alsoBailey
John Eversely https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/58673/supplement/4/data.pdf https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/the-princess-royal-shakes-hands-with-mr-john-eversley-news-photo/834710966 https://bdaily.co.uk/articles/2008/04/23/enterprising-individuals-get-queens-award https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/business/2211450.best-uk-business-recognised-awards/ https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Award+recognises+John%27s+contribution%3B+in+association+with+RBS.-a0178074996
https://www.europeana.eu/en
Broken symmetry https://www.acsh.org/news/2022/04/13/clinical-trial-should-probably-wont-close-book-ivermectin-16244
Sort order, name https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sarah_Ann_Brock_Putnam&diff=prev&oldid=880695609
Barret M82 an 11/12 round mag was made [10] need a better ref if possible. perhaps or [11] [12]
[13]
[14]
Hilary English
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-sanctions-family-syria-asma-assad-end-war
probably WISEA J100115.86+555344.3 move to WISEA 1001+5553 (needs refs)
'Top 400' political scientists (US, Phd granting institutions only, tenure or tenure track, by citation count) [15]

Extended content

2025

Closed (poker)

I was looking at User talk:Conversion script, as one does, and noticed this nomination.

I read the Afd and I was going to redirect the page to Glossary_of_poker_terms#C but I thought I'd check the term was included. The headword is there, but it refers the reader to the now deleted article.

Can the content be added to the glossary, please, and the page undeleted (for copyright reasons) and redirected to the section, or a new anchor.

All the best: Rich Farmbrough 10:35, 4 April 2025 (UTC).[reply]

Hello, Rich,

In this case, I was just closing an AFD discussion where this term was the subject being discussed. All closers do is close discussions and we rely on our tool, XFDcloser, to handle the article, talk page and redirect deletions, to remove red links and other details involved an article deleted through an AFD. Perhaps the AFD nominator should have checked the "What links here" page link but it's not the responsibility of the closer to follow up and check every mention of an article title on the project. At least, I don't know of any discussion closers who do this. If any of my talk page stalkers know of an admin who goes to these lengths after an AFD closure, please mention them here.

As for your requests, I'll consider them today and tomorrow. Alternatively, if you think the closure of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Closed (poker) was incorrect or you want it overturned, you can file an appeal at Wikipedia:Deletion review. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 19:58, 6 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Copied to my talk, so I don't forget there are some actions needed here. All the best: Rich Farmbrough 20:44, 28 June 2025 (UTC).[reply]

Find out if people do take care when deleting stuff. If not what can we do?
Fix this issue:
1. Get the article undeleted and changed to a redirect.
2. Copy the content to the Glossary_of_poker_terms#C.

All the best: Rich Farmbrough 20:47, 28 June 2025 (UTC).[reply]

Nomination of Thekla Popov for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Thekla Popov 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/Thekla Popov until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, 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 until the discussion has finished.

Grumpylawnchair (talk) 21:45, 28 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Most murders

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A tag has been placed on Most murders requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G14 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is:

a disambiguation page with a title ending in "(disambiguation)" which lists only one extant Wikipedia page (i.e., there is a primary topic);
a disambiguation page that lists zero extant Wikipedia pages, regardless of its title; or
a redirect with a title ending in "(disambiguation)" whose target is neither a disambiguation page nor page that has a disambiguation-like function.

Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such pages may be deleted at any time. Please see the disambiguation page guidelines for more information.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and removing the speedy deletion tag. Cabinetkey (she/her • ☎) 11:26, 29 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Cabinetkey Really? After 2 minutes? All the best: Rich Farmbrough 11:32, 29 June 2025 (UTC).[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Template:Use Commonwealth English spelling

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A tag has been placed on Template:Use Commonwealth English spelling requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G4 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be a repost of material that was previously deleted following a deletion discussion, at Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2021_May_14#Template:Commonwealth_English_and_Template:Use_Commonwealth_English. When a page has substantially identical content to that of a page deleted after a discussion, and any changes in the content do not address the reasons for which the material was previously deleted, it may be deleted at any time.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. – Jonesey95 (talk) 22:58, 29 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

This is just soooo provocative. Rich is trying to find a solution, and this hostility is really unhelpful. Ohc ^{revolution of our times} 23:38, 29 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Tagging disruptive edits is not hostile. Discussion is ongoing, and this editor is trying to route around it by recreating templates that were deleted by consensus and making significant edits to templates that are under discussion. Not to mention removing a speedy deletion template from a page created by this editor, which is explicitly forbidden in bold text on the speedy deletion template. – Jonesey95 (talk) 00:03, 30 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

No one mentioned your hostile tagging.
And yes it is hostile, even if it's not meant to be.
Your claim of disruption is vacuous without any disruption.
I did not recreate a template, let alone one that was deleted by consensus.
There is no attempt to "route around" anything, the idea is to provide a solution which pragmatically provides the requirements of (almost) all parties (while delivering other benefits too).
1. Allow a way to keep track of progress specifically by the Engvar script.
2. Preserve the existing Use Fooian English structure, with readable template names.
3. Address the need for a template where the variety of English is broadly applicable to countries that don't use Websterisms, but cannot be specified more finely.

Admittedly this does not explicitly deal with your goal of reducing the number of national templates, which I have some sympathy for. However this would be purely a community persuasion project. You could have an RFC and invite all the people who objected to the deletions to explain when Use Fooian English is better than Use International English or whatever naming convention you think has most chance of success. If you succeeded you would make all these templates (at least temporarily) redirects to Use International English and there would be a new set of DMCs, and n sets of old DMCs would be removed.

Hope that helps. All the best: Rich Farmbrough 10:22, 30 June 2025 (UTC).[reply]

And, by the way, this is why we WP:Don't Template the Regulars. If, instead of tagging the template, you had left me a message asking why I had recreated the template, and could I, perhaps, {{g7}} it, that would have been far more productive. All the best: Rich Farmbrough 10:36, 30 June 2025 (UTC).[reply]

Recreating a deleted template is disruptive. Changing {{Use British English}} to use the EngvarB category is disruptive. And when it comes to templating the regulars, which is about user talk pages, not CSD templates, pot, meet kettle. You seriously templated me after disregarding the bold instructions on a speedy deletion template? I think you might need a break. – Jonesey95 (talk) 13:19, 30 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Log?type=delete&user=&page=Template%3AUse_Commonwealth_English_spelling&wpdate=&tagfilter=&subtype=&wpFormIdentifier=logeventslist
How?
… templating the regulars, which is about user talk page … Look to the top of this section - that is a template, probably {{Db-G4-notice}}, on a user talk page.

As to removal of the {{G4}} (incidentally I created that short cut in 2015 to help you, use it wisely) your claim was egregiously wrong and I only read as far as the "If this template does not meet the criteria for speedy deletion, or you intend to fix it, please remove this notice" - my mistake, but hardly a serious one. If you had been correct, and you had left a polite message such as I suggest above, I would probably have {{G7}}'d it myself.

Note also I did not template you. I attempted to use humour to encourage more collaborative practices. I don't know if the humour backfired, you just didn't get the joke or something else is occurring, but it should be pretty clear to an objective observer.

If you have any goals here other than trying to move away from the EngvarB template, fix specific issues with the script and reduce the number of national templates, it would be useful to know what they are. You are giving the appearance of working against me when we broadly share these goals.

All the best: Rich Farmbrough 15:34, 30 June 2025 (UTC).[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #686

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-06-30. Missed the previous one? See issue #685.

Events

Upcoming events:
- 8-11 September: OpenRefine Barcamp - fully virtual, registrations and call for sessions are open
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  - Register to the event to get updates and news
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- Wikidata for Jewish Studies, a hands-on Wikidata workshop at the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz from September 8-9, 2025. (Registration by July 18)
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Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Blogs
- Visualizing Knowledge - how Indonesians turn Wikidata into stories that matter. This article details the efforts and winners of a WM Indonesia organised 30-day competition to create cool visualizations powered through Wikidata.
- OpenRefine: Data workflow via open source collaboration - the Linux Professional Institute interview the project manager of OR, Martin Magdinier, on the journey developing this data manipulation tool.

Tool of the week

User:Jon Harald Søby/senseItemLabel.js What it does is that when you add a P5137 statement in a lexeme, it will let you add the lemma as a label to the item in one click, if the item doesn't have a label in that language yet, or if the label is different (very useful for case differences, for instance)

Other Noteworthy Stuff

The Wikidata Ontology Course has finished its course sessions. The slides for all sessions of the course are available on the course page. Part of participating in the course was to set up a project related to the Wikidata Ontology. Current information on the projects, many of which are continuing after the end of the course is now available. If you are interested in one or more of the projects please follow the project, add something to its discussion page, or contribute to it.
PhD Position in Digital History at the University of Luxembourg is seeking someone with experience in Wikibase and Linked Open Data.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

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Newest database reports:
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Showcase Lexemes: ਸਿਫ਼ਤ (L713097) - Punjabi noun (si-fat) meaning "praise/glorification", "virtue", or "attribute"

Development

Wikibase REST API: We continued working on Item prefix search (phab:T388209) and started working on stemming support (phab:T397605)
Integration in Wikipedia and co: The improved edit summaries are now live on the first wikis (ca, uk, he). We are now showing the labels for linked entities instead of just their IDs (phab:T388685)
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You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
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Tech News: 2025-27

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

The CampaignEvents extension has been enabled on all Wikipedias. The extension makes it easier to organize and participate in collaborative activities, like edit-a-thons and WikiProjects, on the wikis. The extension has three features: Event Registration, Collaboration List, and Invitation List. To request the extension for your wiki, visit the Deployment information page.

Updates for editors

AbuseFilter maintainers can now match against IP reputation data in AbuseFilters. IP reputation data is information about the proxies and VPNs associated with the user's IP address. This data is not shown publicly and is not generated for actions performed by registered accounts. [17]
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A new feature, called Favourite Templates, will be deployed later this week on all projects (except English Wikipedia, which will receive the feature next week), following a piloting phase on Polish and Arabic Wikipedia, and Italian and English Wikisource. The feature will provide a better way for new and experienced contributors to recall and discover templates via the template dialog, by allowing users to put templates on a special "favourite list". The feature works with both the visual editor and the wikitext editor. The feature is a community wishlist focus area.
View all 31 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug was fixed that had caused some Notifications to be sent multiple times. [20]