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DYK for The Top Notes

On 6 October 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article The Top Notes, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that although the Beatles had a more successful version, the first recording of "Twist and Shout" was by The Top Notes, and was produced by Phil Spector—who later went on to produce the Beatles? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/The Top Notes. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, The Top Notes), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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Nomination for deletion of Template:Bootleg Beatles

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A new user right for New Page Patrollers

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A new user group, New Page Reviewer, has been created in a move to greatly improve the standard of new page patrolling. The user right can be granted by any admin at PERM. It is highly recommended that admins look beyond the simple numerical threshold and satisfy themselves that the candidates have the required skills of communication and an advanced knowledge of notability and deletion. Admins are automatically included in this user right.

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Reference errors on 1 December

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DYK for John Hore

On 22 February 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article John Hore, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that canal engineer John Hore was described as setting a new standard for inland waterways with the Kennet navigation, also characterized as an important forerunner of the canals of the Industrial Revolution? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/John Hore. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, John Hore), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

— Coffee // have a cup // beans // 12:02, 22 February 2017 (UTC)

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Nomination for deletion of Template:Kenya railways nav

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MfD nomination of User:Velvet92/Lost Dawn

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Lost talk page editing history

Recently I was investigating a case of long-term disruptive editing using a number of accounts. In the course of doing so I found a reference to a talk page post which didn't exist. After some time searching I found that it was in the history of the page User talk:Mattgirling/Archive 12, which you deleted as G7 (One author who has requested deletion). This was clearly a mistake, as there was not just one author. I found that around the same time you deleted a number of your talk page archives, but all the others seem to have been created by copying, whereas this one was created by moving your talk page. Although it doesn't often happen, deleting part of the editing history of a user talk page can create the kind of problem that I found, and for anyone other than an administrator it would have been impossible to find the relevant edit at all. It seems that the content of the edits has been copied into one of your talk page archives, but it is necessary to keep the editing history too, so I have restored the page. I suggest that it will make more sense to at least move it into the MIDI userspace, rather than Mattgirling, and perhaps better still would be to merge it back into the history of this talk page. Any opinion? The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 16:17, 1 November 2017 (UTC)

Thanks James. I have very little time to look into this at the moment—currently with a two-week-old newborn, so (as evidenced by my recent contributions) WP is mostly off my radar at present. If you have this in hand I'll happily trust your judgment, and given that you have the mop I guess you can do any restores/moves/etc. that you deem necessary. Sorry I can't have more input at the moment! MIDI (talk) 16:55, 4 November 2017 (UTC)
Well, there can't be many better reasons for neglecting Wikipedia than looking after your child. I hope he or she is doing well, and that you are managing to get some sleep at night.
I have merged the history of the old archived page back into the history of this page. Probably a waste of my time, as most likely nobody else will ever need to check the editing history from seven years ago, but I did and there is just a remote chance someone else will one day. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 09:20, 7 November 2017 (UTC)

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