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The April 2008 issue of the WikiProject Universities newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you for your continued support of WikiProject Universities! —Delivered on 21:33, 2 May 2008 (UTC) by MiszaBot ( talk)
You suggested the amalgamation of the two pages which deal with Ramsay Muir. I put up the second article, which now incorporates the information from the first. Unfortunately I do not know how to merge the two articles. Any advice would be welcome.
You can contact me direct on gjl29549@aol.co.uk
Graham Lippiatt Graham Lippiatt ( talk) 19:19, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
Seems to have been notcied by Iain Dale, and a number of IPs and SPAs are questioning your process. Darrenhusted ( talk) 15:20, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
Hello, wonder if you could help with NI Senator Albert Walmsley. I have his autobiography somewhere (It was like this your honour...) presuming he's the same person as Judge Walmsley! I'm quite certain he is, but cannot find the book. I was wondering if you knew of any resources which may be of help. Thanks, Counter-revolutionary ( talk) 18:52, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
I was about to find someone to ask Darrenhusted ( talk) 15:51, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
Forgive an irrelevant query. I read on somebody's blog ( Liberal Democrat Vocie) that you wrote, 'For the record I am not a public school old boy (and very proud of that fact)' (22 July 2007). Yet you seem to have been educated at two famous public schools, Radley and City of London. Do you mean you did not attend a public school as defined by the Public Schools Acts? That is a perverse way of defining public school. Indeed, however you define public school, it is perverse if it excludes the schools you attended. I am confused. Please do explain! Alex-- 195.194.143.91 ( talk) 13:53, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
Okay, I have created Wikipedia:Requests_for_mediation/Burma. I have added you along with added 18 other users (including myself) to the list of involved parties. The ones I have listed are ones who have commented recently, or who commented on the Mediation Cabal case (except if they solely made a neutral comment). If you disagree with me listing you there, remove yourself from it if you wish. If you feel someone else should be involved, add/ask them. I hope those I have added are alright though. I also hope this step is what finally ends this dispute! Deamon138 ( talk) 00:32, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
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Request for Mediation to which you were are a party was
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Just letting you know that your semi-move-protection of Scotland won't accomplish anything as non-autoconfirmed users can't move pages anyway. You might have meant to fully-protect it. I'll leave it to you to correct if necessary. Stifle ( talk) 10:07, 11 July 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I was wondering if you might be interested in helping me with an article I'm working on for the comic book website Project Fanboy
I've created the article here on my sandbox and was wondering if you'd be so kind as to give it a look and let me know what you think. (whether the site is notable enough for an article or not yet) All the best, Millennium Cowboy ( talk) 15:27, 13 July 2008 (UTC)
Hello. You seem like a sensible person and you have an interest in universities so I thought you may be interested in this page. I placed a message on the talk page a while ago raising doubts as to the suitability of the article. I later placed a notability tag on the article. The original creator of the article has now removed that tag having made the most minor of alterations to the article. I don't know much about the procedures of Wikipedia, but I have a feeling one is not supposed just to remove notability tags one doesn't like without making a significant change to the material or making a case on the talk page or, best of all, gaining the consensus of other users that the tag was placed in an error of judgement. It seems to me that this user just wants to edit the page without any responsibility to the wider Wikipedia community.
As I said on the talk page of the article, I do not think that it is appropriate to have an article for every student organisation or campaign at every university. Some such organisations are definitely worthy of an article (the Oxford Union, for example, is obviously sufficiently notable), but I doubt whether this is one of them. I'd appreciate your view on it.-- Oxonian2006 ( talk) 21:07, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
When you have time, could you please move the talk page for Fraternities and sororities? It still reflects the old title.
Thanks for taking the time to sort through and repair this tedious mess. It can't have been very much fun. Cheers, The Fat Man Who Never Came Back ( talk) 22:31, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard P22575R15 ( talk) 05:36, 2 August 2008 (UTC)
Date: 13:00 onwards, Sunday 10 August 2008
Venue: Penderel's Oak pub, Holborn WC1 map
More information: Wikipedia:Meetup/London 12
Hello,
I noticed that you have listed yourself as a Wikipedian in London, so I thought you might like to come to one of our monthly social meetups. The next one is going to be on Sunday 10 August, which might well be rather short notice, but if you can't come this time, we try to have one every second Sunday of the month.
If you haven't been before, these meetups are mainly casual social events for Wikipedia enthusiasts in which we chat about Wikipedia and any other topics we fancy. It's a great way to meet some very keen Wikipedians, but we'd also love for you to come along if you're interested in finding out more about Wikipedia, other Wikimedia projects, or other collaborative wiki projects too.
The location is a pub that is quite quiet and family friendly on a Sunday lunchtime, so hopefully younger Wikipedians will also feel welcome and safe. Alcohol consumption is certainly not required!
Although the meetups are popular, many UK-based editors still don't know about them. It would be great to welcome some fresh faces, so I hope you can come along.
Yours,
James F. ( talk) 09:27, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
Please forgive the slightly impersonal mass-invite!
Forgive me if this comment is inappropriate, but my suspicions have been raised by finding that both of the Keeps on the CUSU LGBT AFD page are from unregistered users using IP addresses locating them in the Montanuniversität Leoben. It strikes me as rather surprising that of the eight people who have commented on the discussion two are from the same university in Austria. You might expect a number of contributions from users from Cambridge, or from the United Kingdom more generally, but I had never heard of the Montanuniversität Leoben until today and now two of its members are interested in CUSU LGBT, and both saying much the same thing. I find this a little hard to believe.-- Oxonian2006 ( talk) 21:14, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
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Hi there, I'm trying to sort out the Right/Left descriptions on the page List of political parties in the United Kingdom and seem to have come across some opposition. Please allow me to explain...
I think this is largely due to the illusion that the centre ground of British politics is static: It's not! Even over the last 30 years, a huge sweep to the right has occured, first with Thatcher pulling the Tories right, then New Labour abandoning socialism and shifting their policies in line with the old Tory ones, then the LibDems slowly drifting after them, until there is really very little difference between them all on an economic scale.
However, because the general population has also accepted the new right-wing thinking, Labour are still viewed subjectively as 'a little bit left of what people think' and the Tories as 'a little bit right of what people think'.
Using measures like this that are in a constant state of flux is misleading, unscientific, and opposed to the principles of neutrality. We've put ourselves in the position of the blind leading the blind and it's very hard (on wikipedia) to make people realise that their traditional views of left and right are biased towards current trends.
Neither long-standing nor consensus is a subtitute for neutral, scientific, and objective POV (The world is flat is the traditional example I believe)
Asha28 ( talk) 14:24, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi Timrollpickering. Thanks a lot for putting the MA Oxbridge article right. I'm not quite sure how I managed to do that - I really should look more carefully before I jump in and edit. -- Lo2u ( T • C) 17:27, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi Tim. I've noticed that you often comment on stuff to do with the UK constitution and politics. Someone is currently doing quite a major edit of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom article: I think this is a worthy thing to do but am keen that it gets a proper review. Would you care to take a look? Cheers. Bluewave ( talk) 13:22, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
Can I ask why you restored the RADA alumni section to this article please? I go to King's and can safely say that RADA alumni are certainly not considered to be, nor do they consider themselves King's alumni. The notable alumni section on the KCL website only includes those who studied at King's, or at one of the several institutions to have subsequently merged with King's. 79.75.242.170 ( talk) 19:46, 23 August 2008 (UTC)
I have just read the discussion on the Open University talk page about the nature of Open University graduation ceremonies. Since it is rather an old debate I thought I'd send you this message and then copy it to the page, otherwise it probably wouldn't be read. I think that the University of London must confer degrees in a similar way. I have here my certificate from the University of Lonon, which reads
N, having completed the approved course of study and passed the examination has this day been admitted by The School of Oriental and African Studies to the University of London Degree of Master of Arts with Distinction in [Subject] [signed] Director and Principal, The School of Oriental and African Studies [and] Vice-Chancellor 1 December 2006 [The Seal of the University of London]
By 1 December 2006 I did not even have my results and received this certificate long after the degree was conferred. Then only on 29 July of the following year was there a graduation ceremony (which I did not attend). Surely my degree was actually conferred, retrospectively, when the seal of the University was applied to the certificate. The ceremony was, I think, just for show. On the other hand I have from Oxford a certificate thus:
This is to certify that N [College] satisfied the Examiners in the Final Honour School of [School] on [date] and was placed by them in [class] and, having satisfied all the conditions prescribed by the Statutes of the University, was on 23 October 2004 admitted to the Degree of [DEGREE] University Offices, Oxford. 24 January 2008 [signed] Registrar [sealed]
23 October was the date of the ceremony.
Also interesting is the the name of my degree from Oxford is just 'Bachelor of Arts', with no mention of the subject or class (which is reflected in the programme for the ceremony) whereas I think my University of London degree is actually 'Master of Arts with Distinction in [Subject]'. It will be interesting to see what happens if I try to graduate with an MA in another subject from the University of London. At Oxford it would be absolutely impossible - when you have been admitted to the degree of, say, Bachelor of Arts, if you take another Final Honour School you cannot enter the degree for a second time.
cc. Savirr.-- Oxonian2006 ( talk) 15:08, 27 August 2008 (UTC)