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Proposed deletion of 2011 Tottenham riots

The article 2011 Tottenham riots has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

WP:NOTNEWS, it is news, but no indication of lasting significance.

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Nomination of 2011 Tottenham riots for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article 2011 Tottenham riots is suitable for inclusion in Misplaced Pages according to Misplaced Pages's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/2011 Tottenham riots until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on good 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 template from the top of the article. Pass a Method talk 15:16, 7 August 2011 (UTC)

Please can everyone stop trying to delete what I do? Jaguar (talk) 15:40, 7 August 2011 (UTC)

Nomination of 2011 London riots for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article 2011 London riots is suitable for inclusion in Misplaced Pages according to Misplaced Pages's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/2011 London riots until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on good 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 template from the top of the article. Matt Lewis (talk) 00:13, 9 August 2011 (UTC)

Why? Jaguar (talk) 10:49, 9 August 2011 (UTC)

New message

Dorset GAN

Greetings Jaguar, I hope I have addressed all your concerns regarding the Dorset article. If you have any more, leave a message here Talk:Dorset/GA1#Initial_comments. Regards--Ykraps (talk) 01:34, 20 August 2011 (UTC) Incidentally as you are interested in all things Hampshire, you might like to check out Sopley an article I greatly expanded recently. (Not asking for an assessment, just thought you might be interested).

GOCE drive newsletter

Invitation from the Guild of Copy Editors The Guild of Copy Editors invites you to participate in their September 2011 Backlog elimination drive, a month-long effort to reduce the size of the copy editing backlog. The drive will begin on September 1 at 00:00 (UTC) and will end on September 30 at 23:59 (UTC). We will be tracking the number of 2010 articles in the backlog, as we want to copy edit as many of those as possible. Please consider copy editing an article that was tagged in 2010. Barnstars will be given to anyone who edits more than 4,000 words, with special awards for the top 5 in the categories "Number of articles", "Number of words", and "Number of articles of over 5,000 words". See you at the drive! – Your drive coordinators: Diannaa, Chaosdruid, The Utahraptor, Slon02, and SMasters. >>> Sign up now <<<

Sent on behalf of the Guild of Copy Editors using AWB on 16:31, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

Adar review

Thanks for taking the time to review it, cheers.♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:21, 22 August 2011 (UTC)

Unreferenced stubs

I'm concerned that you are creating dozens of unreferenced stubs. Perhaps you could flesh them out a bit more before you continue? Per WP:CREATE, "The very first thing you should write in a new article is a list of the source(s) for the information in it." Toddst1 (talk) 19:24, 26 August 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for your concern. I was concerned myself when starting those articles; I will try to add a reference to them including some list of coordinates along with them. Jaguar (talk) 20:25, 26 August 2011 (UTC)

There was no need to take away my Autopatrolled status!? I'm trying to expand Misplaced Pages, why is taking away something going to help? Jaguar (talk) 20:28, 26 August 2011 (UTC)

I don't understand why you think having NPP look at the articles you are creating is a problem. If you're creating proper new articles, then they will be quickly patrolled. You're still free to expand[REDACTED] without hindrance.

However, blasting out 72 virtually empty articles in 6 minutes is not the way you should be going about it. You will now have the benefit of additional eyes on the articles you create. It's not a bad thing. Toddst1 (talk) 20:52, 26 August 2011 (UTC)

I agree, having Autopatrolled status gives us no authority or 'powers' apart from having a non lit bar on the new articles' page! Sorry if I caused an inconvience with the 72 Spanish articles, that was my only time I have done something like that. Other than that, most of my articles are very high quality - I created 2011 England riots and it appeared on the front page etc. However if I were to destroy all of the red links of List of villages in Spain, should I do exactly the same but add more references with them? Thanks, Jaguar (talk) 21:49, 26 August 2011 (UTC)

I think one ref should be sufficient. Toddst1 (talk) 22:30, 26 August 2011 (UTC)

No point in adding a reference just for the sake of it. Unless you add population or other data then a reference is redundant. The interwiki tag clearly shows that it is to be translated. UNless Jaguar can find a directory population list then it would not be efficient to start them like that. The most important thing is that missing articles from other wikipedias are started and when there are so many missing sometimes this is the easiest way to get English[REDACTED] working towards such content at all costs..♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:23, 27 August 2011 (UTC)

The population list is already there at List of municipalities in La Rioja. Some villages I created have over 3000 population so they are already notable. However all I need to do is to find a Spanish census reference for the articles and that would count as a reference for population amongst over things. Jaguar (talk) 16:31, 27 August 2011 (UTC)

Autoreviewer

Have you considered applying for WP:Autoreviewer? If you're going to keep creating so many articles, then it might be helpful to the people who are trying to screen articles by inexperienced editors if yours weren't in the list. WhatamIdoing (talk) 22:48, 8 September 2011 (UTC)

Why should someone who's created so many articles have to apply? Malleus Fatuorum 23:56, 8 September 2011 (UTC)

I'll consider it again. Jaguar (talk) 14:48, 12 September 2011 (UTC)

Hundreds of Somerset

I made Template:Somerset hundreds which might be useful if your going to be making any of those articles.--Pontificalibus (talk) 17:57, 9 September 2011 (UTC)

Thank you very much, I was just about to do the same. I will create those hundreds soon as I will be a bit busy tomorrow. Jaguar (talk) 19:00, 9 September 2011 (UTC)

Somerset and Wiltshire's projects anniversaries

In response to your query about developing the stats table for WP:WILTS. For Somerset I've been keeping a monthly log for Somerset since it was created (see Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Somerset/progress) and I just take the lines I want, but I know it is possible to get old data for the months you want from User:WP 1.0 bot as I've seen it done for another project - but I can't remember which one or how it was done & I can't find a guide to doing it. I would suggest Misplaced Pages talk:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Index is the best place to ask for help.— Rod 19:16, 14 September 2011 (UTC)

Invitation

Hello!
Thanks for the invite. I haven't really considered joining any projects, as I don't feel I'm here often enough to contribute more than I am at present. And I wasn't really aware of this one 'til recently. But I'd like to drop in from time to time, if that's OK; and I'll continue to be interested in creating, expanding or tidying up Wiltshire articles as I come across them. I trust we can talk again... Moonraker12 (talk) 17:40, 19 September 2011 (UTC)

Feedback

Agathoclea (talk) 05:39, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

Thank you

		The Serbia Barnstar of National Merit
		For fantastic work about Serbia in wikipedia. Thank you. WhiteWriter 12:28, 27 September 2011 (UTC)

In all my years of editing Misplaced Pages, I have never received any barnstars. I've just had a really bad day at school and this has just cheered me up. Thank you! Jaguar (talk) 15:16, 27 September 2011 (UTC)

Hey, you did great job! Thank you for your contribution! I hope that we will work together in the future! And good things know when to happen! :) All best, my friend! --WhiteWriter 20:50, 27 September 2011 (UTC)

Talk:Somerton/GA1

A GAN of Somerton is on hold for an initial seven days to allow contributors time to work on the prose and on developing the lead. SilkTork 11:15, 2 October 2011 (UTC)

Thanks SilkTork unfortunately I can't answer the questions and comments today because I'm finishing up on drama coursework. I'll hopefully respond to the review tomorrow and will work on it throughout the week, so don't worry about me not being able to attend it. Thanks, Jaguar (talk) 13:37, 2 October 2011 (UTC)

Somerset hamlet mergers

Thanks for supporting merges of Launcherly and Southway into St Cuthbert Out and Yanley into Long Ashton, which I have now done. You opposed merging Coley, Somerset into East Harptree saying "I'll have a look into it first". Have you had a chance to do this yet?— Rod 16:54, 8 October 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the reminder I have answered the discussion at Talk:East Harptree and gave a support since the article is too short and will not be notable enough. Jaguar (talk) 18:29, 8 October 2011 (UTC)

A beer for you

Thankyou for participating in my request for adminship. Now I've got lots of extra buttons to try and avoid pressing by mistake... Redrose64 (talk) 15:02, 14 October 2011 (UTC)

Hmm. I'll have to wait till I'm 18 then. Jaguar (talk) 15:04, 14 October 2011 (UTC)

It won't keep, so I'll have yours. ;-) Malleus Fatuorum 15:10, 14 October 2011 (UTC)

Fair enough, I don't blame you there! :-D Jaguar (talk) 15:12, 14 October 2011 (UTC)

welcome

Thansk for your welcoming. However, I'm a non intensive but old user of WP. It's been nice to receive my firts message in 5 years. See you,!, --Amadalvarez (talk) 04:38, 17 October 2011 (UTC)

Serbian villages

Hi there, Jaguar. Might I ask what you're using to create these articles so quickly? — Joseph Fox 15:53, 19 October 2011 (UTC)

Nothing but browser tabs. If you really want to know I have a draft at User:Jaguar/Sandbox/3 and I copy and paste that using {{subst:PAGENAME}} in the articles. I go to List of places in Serbia and click all of the red links and use the browser tabs to create articles. Don't worry about the references, I have already discussed this with a sysop and we both agreed I can create any number of articles as long as they have a suitable reference. Regards Jaguar (talk) 16:40, 19 October 2011 (UTC)

I wish you'd have created these with the proper districts categories, an infobox and population. The population figures are there on the list page for taking! It would have meant much less maintenance work at a later date for getting the initial basics down. Anyway.♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:54, 19 October 2011 (UTC)

No worries, actually I finished all of them aside from one or two odd ones as I wanted them to be consistent.♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:15, 24 October 2011 (UTC)

Yeah it does make it easier when people come to add coordinates/population. The infobox in Gwebin here is what I generally use length-wise, although you'l have to find the timezone in advance. You can just add a subst:PAGENAME in the infobox name parameter too. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:30, 24 October 2011 (UTC)