On May 20, 2012 8:34 AM, "Charles Matthews" <charles.r.matthews(a)ntlworld.com> wrote: wrote: Pardon me if I regard supporting a new editor in creating and developing their first article as a priority. As always, you're entitled to ask for a refund. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk

Hell. One keep vote so far on the basis that "the person has created, or played a major role in co-creating, a significant or well-known work, or collective body of work" which is either a misunderstanding of what that means or the editor plans to add something to demonstrate this. Now that it's been brought to my attention, unless someone can demonstrate notability I feel I have to vote no. Doug On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 10:29 AM, Charles Matthews <charles.r.matthews(a)ntlworld.com> wrote: -- Doug Weller http://www.ramtops.co.uk

On 19 May 2012 22:44, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> wrote: I'd be very surprised if an author of at least nine novels, all published by a single mainstream publisher (implying commercial success) with some republished in large print editions, had manage to garner no press coverage, interviews, or reviews. That they have been published over a period starting in 1976 means that such coverage is likely to pre-date the web and may never have been available electronically. I think you're miscounting. SOFIXIT! -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk

Now, if only we had a Wikipedian in Residence there. Oh, wait... we do! Perhaps Andrew could help. :D On 19/05/2012 23:03, Richard Symonds wrote: -- Stevie Benton Communications Organiser Wikimedia UK +44 (0) 20 7065 0993

On 19 May 2012 22:59, Andy Mabbett <andy(a)pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote: Perhaps. You would need to find multiple reviews (and probably fairly significant reviews) to satisfy WP:AUTHOR. 22 words out of 61. I'm only counting prose. I could re-word it, but with only one very short source (plus the book listing), you're always going to be essentially copying the source. I'm sorry to be such a killjoy, but I think the PROD was probably justified... I wish the article were a good one, but I wouldn't really be helping anyone if I were dishonest about my assessment.

On 19/05/12 22:44, Thomas Dalton wrote: My experience is that "how do I create an article" comes very high on the list of FAQs in workshops. Hence, I have suggested divorcing MediaWiki skills from Wikipedia skills (as dictated by the experience levels of participants). So, Monmouth is done and dusted? Time to return another "town"..... how about this quaint little hamlet (started as WikiProject in 2002)? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_London Gordo

Oh, but I would love to see somebody try to stick a plaque on Buckingham Palace without being shot and/or arrested! Harry ________________________________ From: WereSpielChequers <werespielchequers(a)gmail.com> To: wikimediauk-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Monday, 21 May 2012, 13:30 Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] A V Denham 106 FAs - that must be close to a record for any one place outside of Chicago. Perhaps the next project should be somewhere where we don't yet have so much featured content, but an easier town to get to than Monmouth? Better yet, the UK chapter could invite bids from Wikimedians who want the Monmouthpedia experience in their abode, and councils who'd like to pitch for the title. Wikipedia town of the year is the sort of accolade that some councils would really like to get, and if the Council is behind it then every museum they grant fund should be reasonably cooperative. If Monmouthpedia were morphed in a Wikipedia town of the year award then I believe we'd have something that could run indefinitely WSC On 21 May 2012 08:45, Gordon Joly <gordon.joly(a)pobox.com> wrote: On 19/05/12 22:44, Thomas Dalton wrote: suitable topics for people to create articles about (I think a lot of people just edit existing articles, which is much easier). It's particularly difficult for Monmonth since pretty much everything notable in the town already has an article! My experience is that "how do I create an article" comes very high on the list of FAQs in workshops. Hence, I have suggested divorcing MediaWiki skills from Wikipedia skills (as dictated by the experience levels of participants). hamlet (started as WikiProject in 2002)? _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l(a)wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org

The trick is to do it like the chap who did Toynbee Tiles [1] did. That way no-one notices until months later. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toynbee_tiles Richard Symonds Wikimedia UK 0207 065 0992 Disclaimer viewable at http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia:Email_disclaimer Visit http://www.wikimedia.org.uk/ and @wikimediauk On 21 May 2012 14:16, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote: