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Skeleton of a map

Skeleton of a map or underlying graph is a shortcut for a 1-skeleton.Tomo (talk) 17:05, 2 January 2015 (UTC)

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Ombre

I agree with you what glossary means, which made me improve the display of those terms. The way that you put is quite confusing for the eye to spot them in two different lines. Nonetheless, the way that it is now, it also improves reading. Thank you for calling my attention to the problem.

I read somewhere that you are not satisfied with the article and the way that it is presented to the readers out there. As you know, the historical content is very important to date card games once many are passed over through oral tradition, specially variations. After interminable disputes and resolutions on how to proceed on this field, some people at least agree that the "how to" content must be explained, not taught. That is, rules are an integral part of the game, whatever game it is.

What the other User is doing (mainly playing cards, not card games) has already been done, not only by me but by many others before me. Every now and then this is necessary once people add things that disrupt and confuse the readers. I am a card game researcher and I can assure you that the way that Ombre was and is played today has been described in a short, precise, and assertive way. If there is anything I can do to help you with it, it will be my pleasure to assist you. Krenakarore ^TK 14:23, 5 January 2015 (UTC)

I like what you have done with the glossary.

"I read somewhere ...": maybe you read it here. I am concerned only with the "Ombre Renegado", which aims to give the rules of one form of the game. I think this needs improvement, for example, it does not say who bids first. Maproom (talk) 16:20, 5 January 2015 (UTC)

For a good reader, half a word is a complete sentence ! What you said about Ombre Renegado sounds more like a variation of this three-handed variety to me (as the game was taken from one place to another new rules were added such as a bid in Diamonds, described by David Parlett in his website. The best would be if you presented a reference to this so-called another form of the game.) Keep on copy-editing (what you mentioned is correct, "the Eldest, the player to the right of the Dealer, bids first" and also "if two players have the same bid the Younger has priority") to make it better once that calls attention from other Users who, like Countakeshi or Newwhist (the expert on Bridge in Wikipedia), have playing cards as their major. I'll follow. Krenakarore ^TK 20:44, 5 January 2015 (UTC)

I didn't intend to say anything about Ombre Renegado. I used the words only because they form the title of the section in the article which aims to give an account of how to play. So I don't know what you are inviting me to give references for.

I agree that anything by David Parlett is a reliable reference. So, I believe, is pagat.com.

I believe that what you say above "if two players have the same bid the Younger has priority" is mistaken. The article itself, and the Pagat article, both specify that the Elder has priority. Maproom (talk) 21:11, 5 January 2015 (UTC)

That's what I meant by "as the game was taken from one place to another, it evolved". "If two players have the same bid, the Younger has priority" is what I found on Parlett website, so I guess he must be mistaken somehow. Let's do the following: modify that section on how to play Ombre Renegado, according to what you see fit and we will see what we can do as for the references. Just let me get the hang of the thing. Krenakarore ^TK 23:20, 5 January 2015 (UTC)

I see that is indeed what it says on David Parlett's web site at http://www.davpar.eu/histocs/ombre.html. But in his "A Dictionary of Card Games", OUP, 1992, he writes "A player who has made a lower bid, and not yet passed, may raise his bid to equal that of the next bid against him, thus gaining the contract (unless overcalled again) by virtue of prior position." Maproom (talk) 11:06, 6 January 2015 (UTC)

Yet he does not mention the description being that of Hombre Renegado (not all three-handed versions are the Spanish one. This is just rhetoric. You will find other descriptions on Google Books). On his website he describes two versions: 1727 and 1975. For me, if two players hold the same bidding, and none of them wish to bid higher, the second bid cannot overcall the first. Therefore, Eldest (forehand) has priority over the Younger (middlehand), opposite to what Parlett says. John McLeod (Pagat) describes a current version played in Denmark, but as far as I know by reading 18th and 19th-century descriptions, those rules are different from the Spanish version. We may include Parlett's description on his DCG in the article, once it seems more appropriate ! Krenakarore ^TK 17:13, 6 January 2015 (UTC)

David Parlett has now updated http://www.davpar.eu/histocs/ombre.html to correct what he agrees was a mistake. Maproom (talk) 16:21, 12 January 2015 (UTC)

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A recent (last week or so) edit by you at the Help Desk helped inspire this post at the talk page. I am in no way trying to discourage you from helping at the HD but am just trying to educate. I hope you take this in the helpful spirit that it was intended. Dismas|^(talk) 20:27, 15 January 2015 (UTC)

Indeed. I learned from what you wrote at the Help Desk's talk page. I believe I even responded in the Help Desk thread, apologising to the OP for misleading her. Maproom (talk) 20:40, 15 January 2015 (UTC)

Guess I missed that. My apologies. Thanks for keeping an open mind, Dismas|^(talk) 20:46, 15 January 2015 (UTC)

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Mohammed Soltan has broke a world record in Hunger Strike. I think it is relevant. I am not going to add it again but I hope you undo your edit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed_Soltan — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.90.58.6 (talk) 22:15, 29 January 2015 (UTC)

I will continue to oppose use of Wikipedia as a soapbox. Maproom (talk) 22:22, 29 January 2015 (UTC)

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Map "mechanical curation"

I wondered if you were aware of the project described here. James Heald is User:Jheald, mostly active on Commons (the Mechanical Curator collection) and I come across him quite often. Charles Matthews (talk) 08:49, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

Hi Maproom! Really good to make contact. (@Charles Matthews: thanks for the introduction!)

The project is about to enter quite a critical phase, with a lot to put in place over the next two or three weeks, so if you were interested in coming on board, there's as much to do as you'd like.

Where we're at is that the BL are just about to upload the 50,000 old maps that have been identified onto the server of the Georeferencer platform by Klokan in Switzerland. Final checks that the images are the right way up have been completed; a set of map images extracted where there were multiple images on one page should go onto Flickr today; 50,000 maps should start uploading to Klokan's server on Monday, and shouldn't take more than 24 hours or so in all. Klokan will take a little bit of time (a few days?) to install them, and for the BL to okay; but it's hoped the set will be ready to go in about 2 weeks.

Which leaves quite a lot to do on the Wiki side.

In terms of tracking & driving the process, I anticipate adding a similar set of coloured tags to the Synoptic and to do index pages, in a similar way that was done for the tagging phase, to mark books that have maps still to georeference; which it should be possible to automatically update -- say every 24 hours.

The bigger issue is what would (I think) be incredibly motivating to get people to participate is if we could encourage them that within 24 hours of their georeferencing a map, it would be uploaded to Commons, automatically appropriately categorised. It should be possible to use the GlamWiki Toolset uploader to do the actual upload. The more challenging steps are:

1. Trying to create a system to work out as well as it can what the map appears to be of.
2. Then trying to match that to appropriate Wiki Commons categories (and/or create new ones if needed).

There's a batch of 3,000 maps already geo-referenced to use as test pieces. So far, using Nominatim on the centre point plus the four points 40% of the way towards each corner I have been able to get some way with identifying continents, countries, and counties. (Though there are difficulties, eg for border areas, and counties/continents surrounded by sea.)

Some examples can be seen at eg

• https://www.flickr.com/search/?w=12403504@N02&q=geo:*=Scotland+geo:osm_scale=6&m=tags (also some at scale 7)
• https://www.flickr.com/search/?w=12403504@N02&q=geo:*=Paris+geo:osm_scale=12&m=tags
• https://www.flickr.com/search/?w=12403504@N02&q=geo:*=Edinburgh&m=tags

• https://www.flickr.com/search/?w=12403504@N02&q=has_georef+continent=europe+-geo:country=
• https://www.flickr.com/search/?w=12403504@N02&q=has_georef+country=uk+-geo:county=+-geo:city=

There are also titles that people have typed in, but these aren't always especially useful. Using Wikidata, I think I should also be able to do a bit better for plans of buildings / cathedrals / castles etc; battlefields may be more of a problem, but something to look at; also trying to recognise when a map is of a county or city, vs of part of that county/city.

Let me know whether you'd be interested in a copy of spreadsheets etc (or alternatively, where we can agree to put them in a shared place).

The second part of the problem is then trying to map that into Wiki Commons's category system. For most countries, there should be an "Old maps of X" category. Sometimes it will be broken up by date though. There may also be an "Old maps of places in X". Sometimes there may be explicit categories for old maps of regions / counties / cities; and for old maps or plans of buildings within them. Additionally, there may be a Commons (non-map) category for the place itself -- eg for a castle -- or alternatively for castles within X, where X might be a county of a country or whatever. So all of this structure is going to need some mapping and understanding too.

And the project goes live in about 2 weeks.

So if you would be up for a challenge -- as much or as little as you would like to take on -- you could be invaluable.

All best, Jheald (talk) 11:43, 20 February 2015 (UTC)

This all sounds very interesting, but I have very little idea of what it is about. For instance - would it involve travelling to the British Library? Maproom (talk) 14:36, 20 February 2015 (UTC)

No, no need to go to the British Library, everything is online; and the next challenges are very much on the programming side, which could be done from anywhere. (Though if something turns up that really needs to be discussed, the BL have been very good about standing me lunch -- though our key contact at the BL is going to be away from the next fortnight.

So: the challenge is 50,000 images that we have identified as maps, found in digitised 19th century books, that are currently parked on Flickr:

https://www.flickr.com/search/?w=12403504@N02&q=map&m=tags

In about three weeks time, people will be encouraged to identify where these are on a map of the modern world, using some software called Georeferencer, as per the demonstration video on the page at

http://www.bl.uk/maps/

One of the most accessible outputs from the georeferencing is a rectangular bounding box, giving the maximum and minimum latitude and longitude of the old map.

The key challenge is how well we can use this bounding box to identify what the old map was of; and then how well we can use that to place it in some appropriate categories on WikiCommons -- automatically, using a computer to identify the place automatically (based on data from online resources); and then to determine the most appropriate categor(y/ies) (using some appropriate model of the WikiCommons category system).

An initial batch of 3000 images has already been georeferenced, specifically these ones

https://www.flickr.com/search/?w=12403504@N02&q=map+has_georef&m=tags

and I have a file that I can share with their bounding boxes.

Based on that, and on Nominatim, I have had some success with these 3000 allocating continents, countries, regions etc; which are now tagged up on Flickr, allowing retrieval with searches like the ones above.

But the identification is not really good enough yet for categorisation

• it is weak at identifying particular buildings, such as cathedrals or castles (Wikidata may help here, which is the next thing I am looking at);
• it's not good at identifying whether eg an image is of a county as a whole; or a feature within the county; or several counties (and similarly on a country scale). Often a county map won't be recognised as a county map, but as something on a larger scale; similarly a map of part of a county may not be recognised as not being of the whole county. (& similarly for states & other countries etc).
• I don't yet have a very good model for the Commons scheme of map categories, old map categories, and ground-plan categories to place places even once identified into the right categories.

So this is what could really use some help -- anything from just advice and a friendly pair of eyes looking over my shoulder, right up to as little or as much of the coding as you liked. I should add that coding so far has mostly been in Perl (as that's really all I'm familiar with), and pretty sketchy. But I am open to going with whatever languages suit.

Hope that's starting to make a little more sense this time round! Jheald (talk) 17:59, 24 February 2015 (UTC)

Thank you for the explanations. I still have a bunch of questions:

• Do I understand correctly, I would be unable to contribute anything for the next three weeks?
• How would I get hold of a copy of georeferencer?
• Does it come with a library of modern maps, to go in its right-hand pane?
• How would I find the most appropriate of these modern maps?
• Once I have "done" a map, how would I indicate that it has been done?
• The talk of "bounding rectangles" implies that these will be (a) rectangles, and (b) bounded by lines of latitude and longitude. These two assumptions are, for larger maps, incompatible; and, for older maps, possibly both false. Wouldn't it be safer and more accurate just to store the latitude and longitude of the four corners of each map, and calculate whatever is actually required when it is needed?

Maproom (talk) 22:08, 24 February 2015 (UTC)

Sorry, I wasn't clear.

It's not georeferencing itself that is the immediate priority -- that will come. But the work that's most needed right now is to build a pipeline that can cope with the maps once they have been georeferenced; and in particular, that can then slot them into the right categories on Commons -- as many of those categories as may be appropriate.

But to answer your questions about the georeferencing process itself first. I can come to your specific questions in the next paragraph; but actually, the easiest thing is simply to give it a go, and then I think everything will be a lot clearer. If you go to http://www.bl.uk/maps/ and click on the "Maps already georeferenced" tab, that will open up a map of the world, with pins for the 3000 or so maps already georeferenced. Click on one of those and it will show you the old map. If you then click on the name of the map, it will go into the georeferencer web service, and show you that old map laid on top of a current map of the world. This is the "Visualize" tab (in grey, at the top) If the georeferencing is not quite right (or even if it is), if you now click on the adjacent "Georeference" tab (in black, next door to it), you will go to the editing page, where can add additional control points to the old map and the new map (or move existing ones to more accurate places); you can also switch back and forth back to the "Visualize" tab at any time, to see how you're doing. Once you're happy, hit save; the system will then ask you to confirm the outline of the mapping part of the image, and once that's done it will then lodge the data, and so whoever accesses that map in future will see your improved georeferencing.

So, that's the georeferencing; that we're expecting the 50,000 maps to be available to do in about three weeks (though you can look at all the maps already done in the georeferencer now). To take your specific questions: There's no need to get hold of one's own copy of georeferencer -- it's a service, that's accessed through a website. The maps built in to georeference against include OSM/Mapquest, Google maps, Google satellite, Bing maps, and a fairly coarse 1940s OS map of the UK from the National Library of Scotland; which are selected via a drop-down selector at the top right on the georeferencing page. (I'm also hoping that a circa 1900 OS map of the UK at 1:10,000 that has also been geo-rectified by the NLS may also be added, because it would be a very useful thing to have a less modern map to be able to georeference against; however I don't know whether the BL will manage to organise that). You can switch easily from one modern map to another completely freely, via a pull-down menu, as you go along. Once you've "done" a map, there's a big red "SAVE" button in the top right.

I should also mention that there's a free open-source powered alternative georeferencer on the net, in case there are any maps of your own you would like to georeference -- see http://www.nypl.org/blog/2015/01/05/web-maps-primer for an introduction, and for some things you can do with the maps with open code once they have been georeferenced. An updated version of the open map warper is also currently under development for Commons. https://warper.wmflabs.org/ For various reasons, the BL are going with their existing relationship with Klokan; but the data generated will be completely open, and we can port the control points straight into the open version for Commons.

The georeferencing systems (both of them) are well tried and test. But what needs some quite quick development right now is what we can do with the maps on-wiki, once they have been georeferenced. I believe, from what I've been told, that it should be reasonably easy to track how the georeferencing is going, once the process for the 50,000 gets underway, and to get notification pretty quickly as soon as a new map has been georeferenced. I would then like to upload it straight to Commons. That bit is also reasonably do-able, I think. But the tricky bit, that I think really needs work is (i) to try to identify what the map is of, now that we have its coordinates; and (ii) to map that identification to appropriate WikiCommons categories.

There is a spreadsheet of the data from 3000 maps to work with, to see how far it's possible to get towards cracking this; and I have already made a start, using Nominatim and Wikidata; but it's still a long way from being ready for showtime (which is rapidly approaching).

You're right that idea of the bounding box is crude -- ie the extremal north, west, east and south latitudes and longitudes of the mapping area (which may not be rectangular). However, as a first stab, this is not bad data to start with, to try to work out what the map may be of. The fitted coordinates for a detailed polygonal boundary are also available; but at least to start with, I think that probably complicates more than it helps.

If I can work out the code-sharing and version-control system on Wikimedia ToolLabs, I'll try and put up what I've already done to somewhere it can be shared; and then I'm very open to thoughts for improvement, to try to get the project there.

Hope that's starting to make a bit more sense now. Do, do give Georeferencer (and MapWarper) a whirl. But it's building a back-end for the wiki side that I think has the most work needed that can be done right now. Jheald (talk) 19:30, 25 February 2015 (UTC)

Ok! When there's something specific that you would like me to do, please let me know. Maproom (talk) 13:57, 27 February 2015 (UTC)

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James Gill (artist)

Hello, I plan to completely review the article "James Gill (artist)" as it contains a number of violations. The new version (which will be in line with the article in German and French Wikipedia) will fully replace the present entries. - Norbert Schott (talk) 21:31, 14 April 2015 (UTC)

I suggest you discuss this at Talk:James Gill (artist). If you "fully replace" the current article without discussion, your change is very likely to be reverted. Maproom (talk) 06:38, 16 April 2015 (UTC)

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Lupton family references

Thanks for your response - If you could please check the dates of Lupton family article - there is some red "help" messages on ref number 77 of the Lupton page which I cannot fix up. Also the "Family of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge" page MIGHT have some of the dates around the wrong way? Thanks again Ed — Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.220.50.122 (talk) 12:29, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

The red error message is there because the title of the article cited is missing. As I do not have access to the journal, I can't help. I am not going to check the dates – if you think they may be wrong, you can check them yourself. Maproom (talk) 12:50, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

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@Maproom: Thank you for expressing your views in the RFC. I hope you saw the discussion. It is in a temporary freeze as only a few editors have expressed the (same) views. This is making it difficult for a consensus. I request you to see the threaded discussion and come forward with an approach different from others. Regards--M.srihari (talk) 07:44, 31 May 2015 (UTC)Srihari

I read the discussion, found I had nothing to say that had not been said already, and then !voted, giving the reason for my !vote. I thought this was the usual procedure at RfDs. Maproom (talk) 07:50, 31 May 2015 (UTC)

Thank you you for expressing you views back there(Def. section). I am quite new, so I don't know the procedure. Sorry if I had disturbed you. M.srihari (talk) 17:15, 31 May 2015 (UTC)Srihari

Please see my reply to your kind note on my talk page Peter Hitchens, logged in as ClockbackClockback (talk) 21:01, 1 June 2015 (UTC)

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Peter Hitchens, Golf etc

Honestly, no golf, I got out of sport by other means. I promise you that the removed picture had gone through all the right procedures, and there was no good reason for removing it, just bureaucratic zealousness. Interestingly, the dreadful picture which preceded it was almost certainly there in breach of copyright for 10 years, with no bureaucratic zeal displayed at all.I had been on the lookout for years for a legitimately usable improvement. But I would be delighted if you would edit the picture if you think you can give it a better shape. PH signed in as Clockback Clockback (talk) 10:32, 10 June 2015 (UTC)

Ok, my memory must be faulty about the golf.

The removed picture is back, and as far as I can tell is likely to remain. (It was removed because it did not carry with it the right form of proof that it was not protected by copyright. I can't go into details because I don't understand the details. I have fallen foul of the bureaucracy myself, by uploading an image which was derived from an image already accepted on Commons, but not jumping through all the right bureaucratic hoops. The reason for the zealousness is that people want to prevent Wikipedia from breaking copyright law. The reason for the incompetent way it is applied is that there are rather few people involved, with a lot of work to do removing images which well-meaning contributors have copied from Facebook, Youtube, BBC News, etc., without any understanding of copyright.)

I shall trim the image, to remove most of the curtains, and the audience member whose nose you appear to be touching. Maproom (talk) 12:14, 10 June 2015 (UTC)

Thank you very much, also for dealing with the absurd warning notice. I am sure the audience member will also be relived that his nose is out of harms way.PH Clockback (talk) 15:10, 10 June 2015 (UTC)

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Nom for delete

Hey Maproom, am I, the nominator for deletion, supposed to cast a formal vote at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jun Hong Lu? I'm not partic'ly good at this. Ogress _smash! 08:56, 13 June 2015 (UTC)

Hi, Ogress. It may be reasonable to nominate an article for deletion because you believe that its deletion should be discussed, while personally believing that it should be retained. So, if you do have a view, you should express it at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jun Hong Lu. And note that it is not technically a "vote": we don't vote, we discuss and reach a consensus. Hence the use of the joking term "!vote". Maproom (talk) 09:08, 13 June 2015 (UTC)

Busway roadwork amendment

== your obviously dont live in tyldesley please keep out of this, you dont know what happened — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.149.205.175 (talk) 09:51, 13 June 2015 (UTC)

I know nothing about what happened in Tydesley. But I do know that Wikipedia requires references to reliable published sources. Please try to find one, and cite it next time you edit the article. Maproom (talk) 10:10, 13 June 2015 (UTC)

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Pre-partition map of Ireland showing traditional 32 counties

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You kindly created the above map for me. Unforunately, however, when I attempted to use it in my sandbox it doesn't work. Below is the map I created using a previous map, and beside it is my attempt at replicating it with the new map. Might the problem be because the previous map is .svg but the new one is .jpg?

Belfast

Milford

Belfast teams
Clarence
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Location of teams in the 1890-91 Irish League

(talk page stalker)Yes. _Fortuna ^{Imperatrix Mundi} 15:35, 18 June 2015 (UTC)

I am probably out of my depth here. I have never understood the template magic which locates red dots over images.

I observe that you have here placed a copy of the old location map, with the six counties merged into one grey area, and two red dots over it. But I can't find the filename that causes that map to appear.

I also observe that what you have added includes an unpaired pair of open braces, {{. I doubt that this matters, but I'm not sure.

I shall continue investigating. Maproom (talk) 15:39, 18 June 2015 (UTC)

I find that {{Location map+ |Ireland}} causes that map (which happens to be an SVG, I don't know if that is relevant) to be displayed. So my guess is that File:Ireland location map.svg is invoked by using the template with the parameter "Ireland". I don't know what to do about that. Maybe the stalker can help. Maproom (talk) 15:44, 18 June 2015 (UTC)

Who's the stalker? 194.32.31.1 (talk) 11:20, 22 June 2015 (UTC)

I think the Features Editor of the Mail on Sunday. _Fortuna ^{Imperatrix Mundi} 09:16, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

Help with Honeywell

Hi Maproom, I was wondering if you could help me improve the Acquisitions section of the Honeywell article. I have a paid COI and have posted on the talk page, but haven't seen much activity there. I was hoping you could look over my updated version of the acquisitions table here. I inverted the order of the table so that it reads in reverse chronological order, added a few more companies to the list, and corrected some of the acquisition years, as well as added in missing references where I could find them. Any help would be greatly appreciated!--FacultiesIntact (talk) 22:24, 19 June 2015 (UTC)

I wonder why me. I have no interest in or knowledge of the subject.

I have looked at the Acquisitions section, and I wonder what the "Special Business Group" column is for. My guess is that "ACS", etc. are divisions of Honeywell. But there is no mention of "ACS" elsewhere in the article. The column needs to be explained, or deleted. Maproom (talk) 22:39, 19 June 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for the feedback. The Honeywell article as it stands only mentions the different business groups in passing, and I created a section about the specifics of each division in my sandbox. That said, this section could use a little more introduction for context, and I've added a couple of lines at the beginning. Thoughts?--FacultiesIntact (talk) 21:07, 20 June 2015 (UTC)

I am still unable to find any explanation for the second column of the table which fills the entire Acquisitions section. Maproom (talk) 00:18, 21 June 2015 (UTC)

I initially misunderstood your comment that the special business group column wasn't explained. I thought you were more concerned with what each business group was, rather than why the column exists at all. To that point, I believe it provides greater insight into how the company operates. Typically when reading about these acquisitions, one reads just that a company has been hired by Honeywell. By listing which special business group absorbed a particular company, it gives context to the reader into why the acquisition was made, and how it will impact Honeywell going forward. This information is typically limited to press releases, and as far as I know isn’t easily available in an organized fashion anywhere else. Is this explanation helpful?--FacultiesIntact (talk) 08:22, 23 June 2015 (UTC)

I believe you have still not understood my comment. A typical reader (rather than a Honeywell employee) will find the second column of the table meaningless. He may fail to guess that "special business group" means "division of Honeywell", and he will be most unlikely to know what "PMT" means. If you are going to use terms that are understood only by people connected with Honeywell, you should explain them alongside the table. Maproom (talk) 10:40, 23 June 2015 (UTC)

I added the abbreviations for each division in parentheses, as well as specifically described them as business groups. I also dropped the "special" from the column header. Does it look better now?--FacultiesIntact (talk) 19:51, 24 June 2015 (UTC)

I realise now that you are making edits to the copy of the article in your sandbox, not to the live article. Yes, the paragraph at the top makes it all clear. Maproom (talk) 06:58, 25 June 2015 (UTC)

If you agree the changes are an improvement, do you think you have the time to implement them? Thanks for the help!--FacultiesIntact (talk) 19:48, 25 June 2015 (UTC)

I see that DarlingApertures has already implemented them. Maproom (talk) 20:38, 25 June 2015 (UTC)

I just checked it out and it seems that DA added some positive but unrelated changes. Would you mind?--FacultiesIntact (talk) 22:54, 25 June 2015 (UTC)

DA's changes seem reasonable to me. Is that what you are asking? Maproom (talk) 06:50, 26 June 2015 (UTC)

Sorry, I meant would you mind adding in the lines introducing the table, as well as the updated version of the table itself? I can't personally edit the article directly due to my COI.--FacultiesIntact (talk) 16:07, 26 June 2015 (UTC)

I've now done that. Maproom (talk) 16:34, 26 June 2015 (UTC)

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I'm surprised by this edit. Are you saying that Whitburn as a source is unreliable, or simply that as the information is not available online it can't be easily verified? I have the book in front of me - I have used it and cited it a lot, and in my view it is very highly reliable - not just for chart placings, but for ancillary information. Can you explain? Ghmyrtle (talk) 20:46, 26 June 2015 (UTC)

I made a mistake. I somehow got the idea that the cited source was Wikipedia's article on Whitburn. I shall revert those edits. Thank you for pointing out my error. Maproom (talk) 20:54, 26 June 2015 (UTC)

No problem - thanks for reverting yourself. Ghmyrtle (talk) 20:59, 26 June 2015 (UTC)

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Many thanks for that important piece of information Maproom. Will get on to it. Brightfire4 (talk) 05:05, 18 July 2015 (UTC)

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Heres what I'll do. From now on, I will do an edit summary no matter how small the edit. If I promise to do that, can you please not report me? 99.53.112.186 (talk) 17:35, 22 July 2015 (UTC)

The lack of edit summaries is not the problem. I will expand on that when I am next at a proper computer - probably tomorrow. Maproom (talk) 17:59, 22 July 2015 (UTC)

Okay, what I want is for you to tell me how I can help out on a non-disruptive way, I am willing to do anything to stay on Wikipedia. When you are on a proper computer, please tell me what I need to do in order to stay here. I promise you I have no bad intentions. 2602:306:3357:BA0:A1C3:10E:2F4A:83DC (talk) 18:08, 22 July 2015 (UTC)

To start with, you should register and use an account, instead of editing as 99.53.112.186, 2602:306:3357:BA0:A1C3:10E:2F4A:83DC, and for all I know, other IP addresses. This is always recommended, but is particularly important for someone who seeks to interact with other users, as you do.

You have hundreds of edits, I have only looked at a few of them. There are many examples like this in which you post a welcome message to a "new" user, who has never made any contribution to Wikipedia. I wonder whether these accounts are real people (it is unusual for a anyone to register an account and never use it), or whether you have created them yourself for the purpose of welcoming them. Many of your other edits are posting warnings to other users' talk pages, accusing them of things that they have not done: this, this, this. I suggest that you register an account, and concentrate on making constructive edits to articles while becoming familiar with Wikipedia procedures, before you issue warnings to others for ignoring policies that you don't understand. Maproom (talk) 11:36, 23 July 2015 (UTC)

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(see next)

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Mr. Map room: you may think you are right in what you did, as regards that deletion; however, I later explained fully, and in detail on the same page under your comment, the truth of the matter; hence, you must un delete your deletion of my piece, as, I did explain then, I own the copywrite of my own words, as used on the cath info site; do you want more proof, as I can cut and paste the page in question, or at least give you the link? philipofBVMPhilipofBVM (talk) 00:21, 5 August 2015 (UTC)

Mr. Map Room: nota bene!

Mr. Map room: you may think you are right in what you did, as regards that deletion; however, I later explained fully, and in detail on the same page under your comment, the truth of the matter; hence, you must un delete your deletion of my piece, as, I did explain then, I own the copywrite of my own words, as used on the cath info site; do you want more proof, as I can cut and paste the page in question, or at least give you the link? philipofBVMPhilipofBVM (talk) 00:21, 5 August 2015 (UTC) philipofBVMPhilipofBVM (talk) 00:26, 5 August 2015 (UTC)

It was not me who deleted the words, and I do not have the power to restore them. Anyway, until Wikipedia receives authority to use them, they should not be restored. For instructions on how such authority can be provided, see WP:Donating copyright material. Maproom (talk) 06:14, 5 August 2015 (UTC)

IFA Paris page

Hello Maproom, I work for IFA Paris and we want to edit our page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IFA_Paris to include some new information such as new mba and bachelor courses we offer as well as other things that are published wrongly now. But if it sounds too promotional, please tell me what exactly and I'll remove it. But don't just revert back to an old version because a lot of those infos are incorrect. Thanks in advance Dominik Nikki38394724 (talk) 06:59, 6 August 2015 (UTC)

I removed the phrases "is very proud to" and "one of the most reputable universities". Both were promotional, both were unreferenced. I shall continue to remove attempts to use the article for promotion. Maproom (talk) 17:49, 6 August 2015 (UTC)

Michael Lawrence

I notice some of Withern's edits do seem to be aimed at injecting his anme and website into articles [1], [2], [3] and editing the Michael Lawrence (writer) article [4].
Now I don't see anything intentionally sinister, just WP:COI stuff, but I still not sure of the best way to resolve this. I guess using dialogue to point out the importance of the COI guidelines, but what do we do about the edits allready made? Some of them appear to be quite acceptable. --wintonian ^talk 21:50, 7 August 2015 (UTC)

in fact there are only 2 refs. in the article, the first just links to the main page for the childrens section of the publishers website and the second is his own site. As far as I can see as it stands the article would qualify for WP:BLPPROD, only it was created in 2005, well before the March 2010 cut off. --wintonian ^talk 21:58, 7 August 2015 (UTC)

I'm getting tempted now to send it to WP:AfD as I can't find anything via Google that comes close to meeting WP:AUTHOR. However it is claimed in the article that his "Young Dracula" work was the inspiration for a BBC series of the same name, he claimes this in his website and it is mention on his Amazon bio [5], which I assume he either wrote or provided the info for?
WP:AUTHOR says in point 3; The person has created or played a major role in co-creating a significant or well-known work or collective body of work. In addition, such work must have been the subject of an independent book or feature-length film or of multiple independent periodical articles or reviews Either way it is not a feature length film and 'inspiration for' is somewhat remote I feel from the work being turned into an audio/ visual production, besides I'm struggling to find anything to back the claim. Also he has writtern quite a few book over the last 20 years and with the article itself being 10 years old I want to be reasonably confident that it may be deleted before submitting it. Thoughts? wintonian ^talk 04:38, 8 August 2015 (UTC)

I don't feel qualified to judge, I only visited the article to fix a broken ref tag. Maybe the best way to proceed is a WP:AFD rather than a WP:BLPPROD. Maproom (talk) 06:18, 8 August 2015 (UTC)

Okey, sorry I got a bit carried away. wintonian ^talk 06:36, 8 August 2015 (UTC)

Not at all, what you wrote seems to me entirely sensible. Maybe, when I've fully absorbed my early morning coffee, I'll apply a WP:AFD myself. Maproom (talk) 06:45, 8 August 2015 (UTC)

I have nominated Michael Lawrence (writer) for deletion: Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Michael_Lawrence_(writer). Maproom (talk) 09:45, 8 August 2015 (UTC)

Thanks, I might reunite it with 1 or 2 of his books later e.g. The_Snottle & Young_Dracula_and_Young_Monsters. I'm kind of surprised they have languished so long without anyone querrying them. wintonian ^talk 17:06, 8 August 2015 (UTC)

I'm surprised too. But I see they have respectable numbers of viewers, 2 per day and 11 per day respectively. I'm getting close to !voting "keep" in the deletion discussion. Maproom (talk) 17:34, 8 August 2015 (UTC)

I found this, which may change my outlook on things; WP:Reliable_source_examples#Popular_culture_and_fiction. But I don't understand the last part after the final period; When a substantial body of material is available, the best material available is acceptable, especially when comments on its reliability are included. Comments where? What source would have a section for pepole to comment on it's reliability? :confused wintonian ^talk 18:25, 8 August 2015 (UTC)

I cannot make sense of that. Maproom (talk) 19:25, 8 August 2015 (UTC)

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Hi there! Thank you for your contributions to the discussion at the Helpdesk. And by the way, thank you also for answering User:Biscuittin's question for me on my talk page!

Just to let you know: I've brought up the "problem" at WT:AWB. David Cannon (talk) 10:52, 23 August 2015 (UTC)

I guess it was a bit rude of me to answer a question left on someone else's talk page. But I was confident I knew the answer, and neither question nor answer was controversial. Maproom (talk) 13:44, 23 August 2015 (UTC)

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Pippa Middleton

Please check that my MANY edit changes on the above page - numbers 5 to 11 - are all OK thanks Srbernadette (talk) 11:00, 29 August 2015 (UTC)

• 5 is not ok. It links, twice for some reason, to the same unreliable source.
• 6 the url has moved to http://www.wargs.com/royal/kate.html
• 7 is not reliable, it is to an article about the subject.
• 8 is superfluous, as it follows a link to Leeds where its position is stated
• 9 may be ok.
• 10 probably ok.
• 11 ok.

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Did you notice that 2 days after Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ram Harijan was deleted Late-development syndrome was created? Ram Harijan is now a redirect to it. A search on "Late-development syndrome" psychosomatic turns up nothing. Yes, "Late-development syndrome" is a term used in various ways, but the sources don't seem to relate to Harijan's concept. Doug Weller (talk) 09:01, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

Right. It is clearly WP:OR. I don't have time to do anything about it today. Maproom (talk) 09:44, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

Nothing to do anymore, someone must have noticed my posts about this. Doug Weller (talk) 12:30, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

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Non-free portraits in non-biographical articles

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That is hardly a fair comparison. The Moors murders article is the main source of information in Wikipedia about Ian Brady and Myra Hindley: those two links redirect to it, and it contains their biographies. However there is a separate article about Clement Davies, which contains the non-free picture of him. Maproom (talk) 20:19, 13 September 2015 (UTC)

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Hello, I noticed you are active on map. Can you make Paraguay dark green on the File:Nations_recognising_the_Armenian_Genocide.svg map? Thanks in advance, Étienne Dolet (talk) 18:45, 29 October 2015 (UTC)

I will if I can. I'll have a look at it tomorrow, i.e. within 16 hours of posting this response. Maproom (talk) 00:20, 30 October 2015 (UTC)

 Done Maproom (talk) 11:06, 30 October 2015 (UTC)

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Reverend Reynolds

I wasn't sure if this is where to go but I was wondering if you have considered The Reverend profile on the Internet Movie Data Base(IMDB) or on www.wn.com/Fairuza Balk/playlist4 which features a video of mine at 107 minutes in length and a song by her. I also have numerous music entries online which can be found by typing in www.globalmusicdownload.com/music/genre/php?p=5&cEasy+Listening+Satanic and if you type in Satan after my name into google you'll find it.

-The Reverend — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rev. Reynolds (talk • contribs) 00:20, 25 November 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia does not regard IMDB as a reliable source, as its articles can be written by their own subjects. The first url above gives a mostly blank page, and the second gives a 404 message. A Google search for "Reverend Reynolds satan" gives many pages selling your books, but I failed to find anything there about you. The only independent page about you I have been able to find is this, but it's not reliable, it's just a page at an internet forum. Maproom (talk) 08:25, 25 November 2015 (UTC)

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Degenerate polygon

I've reverted your revert. All the useful material in degenerate polygon is now in digon and monogon, which are older, better, articles that it supplanted, creating a mishmash article which goes against Wikipedia's WP:SYN principles. Both articles are fully referenced, and fit Wikipedia's scheme for articles about geometry far better than the degenerate polygon article. You'll notice that degenerate polygon contains links to both of these in the relevant section. It's not just me saying this, either. Please see the digon AfD for rationale. -- The Anome (talk) 18:50, 20 December 2015 (UTC)

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