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I have (with the help of others) made a small user script to detect and highlight various links to unreliable sources and predatory journals. Some of you may already be familiar with it, given it is currently the 39th most imported script on Wikipedia. The idea is that it takes something like
John Smith "[https://www.deprecated.com/article Article of things]" ''Deprecated.com''. Accessed 2020-02-14.
)and turns it into something like
It will work on a variety of links, including those from ((cite web)), ((cite journal)) and ((doi)).
The script is mostly based on WP:RSPSOURCES, WP:NPPSG and WP:CITEWATCH and a good dose of common sense. I'm always expanding coverage and tweaking the script's logic, so general feedback and suggestions to expand coverage to other unreliable sources are always welcomed.
Do note that this is not a script to be mindlessly used, and several caveats apply. Details and instructions are available at User:Headbomb/unreliable. Questions, comments and requests can be made at User talk:Headbomb/unreliable.
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While patrolling new pages, I noticed that @Draqueeb: has been creating a large number of individual articles for UK electoral wards. I know this is all done with the best of intentions, but are we really sure that each ward should really have its own article? Consider the pages in Template:Wards_of_Fife, for example. All of the information on each page could easily fit into either Fife Council, which is now basically a shell, or the relevant article for the Fife Council election that year. It is difficult for me to see the value of having a separate article for every council ward in the UK, particularly when weighed against the administrative burden of keeping up all of these separate articles. agtx 18:38, 29 April 2022 (UTC)
Hello all. You may occasionally see me beavering away on various articles relating to UK local elections (mainly creating maps) but I don't believe I have posted here before, despite being a member since 2014! I have been making a start on the 2023 local elections article this week and it struck me how much double-handling of local elections data there is in terms of the number of seats for each council, the political party in control etc.
For example, if I wanted to know which political party held a majority of seats on Bassetlaw District Council, I could look at several articles:
Why not create a Lua module which acts as a central repository for all council election data held on Wikipedia? A module could be invoked to call the relevant data rather than needing to update several articles when there are boundary changes/changes via elections. The module could be expanded to include historic data in time. The 'fields' I envisage being held within this module are:
I have some programming knowledge but I have no experience with using 'Lua' so I am not entirely sure of the technical aspects of how it would work. I have had a very quick read through the Wikipedia:Lua article and, using Bassetlaw as an example, I imagine the data would be fetched in this way:
((#invoke:UK_Local_Councils|control|Bassetlaw)) Returns the name of the political party currently in control.
((#invoke:UK_Local_Councils|seats|Bassetlaw)) Returns the total number of seats.
((#invoke:UK_Local_Councils|seats|Bassetlaw|2015)) Returns the total number of seats as of the 2015 election.
((#invoke:UK_Local_Councils|seats|Bassetlaw|Labour)) Returns the number of seats held by the Labour Party.
((#invoke:UK_Local_Councils|seats|Bassetlaw|Labour|2015)) Returns the number of seats held by the Labour Party as of the 2015 election.
Any thoughts on whether project members would find this beneficial, and how the technical aspects of this proposal may work? Mirrorme22 (talk) 12:46, 15 May 2022 (UTC)
I just came upon the undignified mess that was 2012 Glasgow City Council election; and I realise that probably the same kind of problem exists elsewhere. There are multiple issues:
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and ((col-end))
;No. 3 might be more pertinent for Scottish STV elections than for the rest, but these points and similar probably apply throughout. I'm going to address these in 2012 Glasgow City Council election, but there are probably thousands of other similar cases which make this definitively a task too large for one person. No. 1 is probably the most important (as it is an actual obvious even to non-editors problem); but work needs to be taken up on the others too. Cheers, RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 01:21, 17 May 2022 (UTC)
((col-begin|width=95%))
and ((col-end))
issue for the 2022 Glasgow election as it was causing big gaps in ward article transclusions - but that may not matter too much if the existing ward articles are merged together without election tables as seems to be the direction that matter is heading towards. Not sure why that 95% coding was ever included?? Crowsus (talk) 06:05, 17 May 2022 (UTC)I've been having a look at the general election pages, and one oddity I've noted is that we have two different ways of counting the Speaker in the infobox/text/results table (thankfully none seem to have an actual disagreement...)
Between 1997 and 2019, the Speaker is counted separately from the party totals - eg in 2017, the Conservatives have 317 seats not including Bercow. In most cases there is a footnote in the infobox saying so. 1992 had no speaker standing for re-election, and then in 1987 we find the Conservative total given as 336 which appears to be including Weatherill - there is no distinct line for him. This approach seems to be the case in all prior elections as well, plus it is the one used at United Kingdom general elections overview - so the summary table there differs from the election articles.
I'm not really sure what the best approach here is, but either way it feels like the 1990s is a bit of an odd cut-off to switch from one approach to the other. Andrew Gray (talk) 15:48, 24 March 2022 (UTC)
One bout of Covid later, finally had time to look into this. The Commons Library CBP-8647 report with vote totals handily gives a specific cut-off: "Speakers seeking re-election usually stood as ‘Speaker’ after 1955 but were elected as party MPs until then". However, confusingly, their data gives the Speaker as party-affiliated in some years and not others (eg Selwyn Lloyd is "other" in Feb 1974, but Con in Oct 1974). I wonder if there is some subtlety here about exactly how they stood at that particular election.
So far:
Will keep poking away. Andrew Gray (talk) 20:53, 21 April 2022 (UTC)
One of the top advisers to the Conservative Party, David Canzini, was profiled this morning on BBC Radio 4. The item began with the statement "He has no Wikipedia page". On the basis of the profile, this can now be remedied. There's some good background in the FT here. There's also an interesting piece in the Guardian.--Ipigott (talk) 08:53, 29 May 2022 (UTC)
I know some of you will remember Max Fosh, who stood in last year's London mayoral election. His article is up for deletion: see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Max Fosh (2nd nomination). Input welcome. Bondegezou (talk) 13:31, 31 May 2022 (UTC)
The page List of British political memoirs needs work. At present it's just a long list. I'd like to arrange the authors by party allegiance. Robin S. Taylor (talk) 16:08, 1 June 2022 (UTC)
There is a discussion at the opinion polling article that may interest members of this Wikiproject. Thank you. — Czello 10:19, 7 June 2022 (UTC)
A lot of district councils in England like South Hams District Council should probably be merged with South Hams etc per WP:UKDISTRICTS however there are a number of cases where a district has been combined with a settlement (around 40) and thus a separate council article should probably exist but none currently exists for 7 of them, these are:
If we decide to split Gosport and Worcester districts to Borough of Gosport and City of Worcester, England then the councils should probably not have separate articles but redirect to the district articles. Crouch, Swale (talk) 21:33, 11 June 2022 (UTC)
There is a discussion in progress about recent additions to Joseph Pearce. Project members are invited to visit the discussion and contribute their views. Chiswick Chap (talk) 13:32, 13 June 2022 (UTC)
Why are the Prime Ministers listed in the infoboxes of Opposition Leaders? The Leader of the Opposition doesn't serve under the Prime Minister. GoodDay (talk) 03:10, 19 June 2022 (UTC)
Recent UK by-elections articles, like 2022 Wakefield by-election and 2022 Tiverton and Honiton by-election, now show the same results in four different formats. This seems unnecessary. I've started a discussion at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Elections_and_Referendums#Results_overkill and input there from this Project too would be valuable. Bondegezou (talk) 21:46, 26 June 2022 (UTC)
Why is the 'prime minister' listed in the opposition leader's infobox content? The opposition leader isn't in the prime minister's cabinet. GoodDay (talk) 22:32, 27 June 2022 (UTC)
We've got a lot of editors & ips, erroneously editing in that Johnson is no longer Prime Minister and/or Conservative party leader. He's not giving up both of those positions until October 2022. GoodDay (talk) 17:20, 7 July 2022 (UTC)
In direct response to media speculation around Boris Johnson's status, his spokeswoman recently said that he has resigned as party leader, while remaining PM for now. This 26 July Guardian article is one of many to carry the quote: "A No 10 spokesperson said: “The prime minister has resigned as party leader and set out his intention to stand down as PM when the new leader is in place.”"
However, a handful of editors at the Boris Johnson article think that Boris Johnson's spokeswoman clarifying his status in comments reported in multiple reliable sources including the BBC, Times, Telegraph, Guardian and Sky is not reliable or specific enough! Article changes saying he has resigned as party leader were reverted. There is discussion at Talk:Boris_Johnson#Conservative_party_leader. I feel the input of additional editors there would be valuable. Bondegezou (talk) 14:17, 5 August 2022 (UTC)
Can I encourage editors to help police Endorsements in the 2022 Conservative Party leadership election (UK) with respect to WP:ENDORSE requirements? Bondegezou (talk) 10:04, 14 July 2022 (UTC)
I came across the article for former Labour MP Barbara Roche. The article has, in recent months, become oddly obsessed with her views on immigration, with some NPOV wording and dodgy sourcing. I'm trying to clean it up, but some more eyes would be welcome. Bondegezou (talk) 10:45, 11 August 2022 (UTC)
I have recently created an article on the (in)famous Brexit slogan "take back control". If anyone wishes to expand this stub, or have any improvements they would like to make to this, please go ahead! QueenofBithynia (talk) 21:53, 19 August 2022 (UTC)
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Death and state funeral of Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani#Requested move 25 September 2022 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. UtherSRG (talk) 10:50, 5 October 2022 (UTC)
That probably was cryptic... why do we care about that? This RM involves about 50 state funeral articles, including at least one that is related to this WP. - UtherSRG (talk) 12:16, 5 October 2022 (UTC)
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October 2022 United Kingdom government crisis is a really poorly set up article, it only provides some basic information; granted, it's a new event, but the coverage could be more thorough. It's too big for WP:STUB, but I feel Start class instead of C-Class would be more appropriate. Amyipdev (talk) 16:19, 20 October 2022 (UTC)
Some IP users have removed middle names and some -shire in "Territorial qualification" (e.g. [[Nottinghamshire]] to [[Nottinghamshire|Nottingham]], [[Dunbartonshire]] to [[Dunbartonshire|Dunbarton]] but Yorkshires were unchanged) which are inconsistent with the gazette. Mike Rohsopht (talk) 00:20, 31 October 2022 (UTC)
Please have a look at the request for comment on the contents of lists of officeholders. I hope to discuss whether list articles should contain separate tables pointing out various distinctions (still alive, oldest ever, shortest term, highest number of votes, etc). Surtsicna (talk) 20:03, 4 December 2022 (UTC)
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There are significant discrepancies between the "appointer" parameter of infoboxes on articles related to executive, judicial, and military offices in the United Kingdom. (e.g. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7) To establish consistency between these articles, should the parameter say: appointed by...
...on advice of the Prime Minister.
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Clarification: this RfC only addresses the offices that are appointed by the Monarch/Crown/Sovereign/King on the advice of the Prime Minister. Colonestarrice (talk) 12:30, 28 December 2022 (UTC)
I prefer option B, as it is the authority of the Crown that is being used. Maybe not for a while- but could reduce the need to change the terminology until Prince George's heir is on the throne Dbainsford (talk) 20:20, 31 December 2022 (UTC)
I have recently created 2003 Falkirk Council election and was wondering if it could be assessed. I am new to article creation so not sure how to get it assessed, or how to get it to show up on internet search, for example. Crumbsx (talk) 14:06, 9 March 2023 (UTC)
User:Thomasz Wolffe has made a series of edits that identify the British Conservative Party as Fascist or as far-right. Some of these edits have been reverted, but I am unsure of these edits to Fascism and ideology#Contemporary fascism (2008-present), as they provide content that is relevant to the article, and is sourced. I think this contribution is unbalanced, but it may be recoverable. Should this contribution be reverted, or modified, or kept as it is? Verbcatcher (talk) 22:40, 11 March 2023 (UTC)
There is a new task force which members of the WikiProject might also be interested in: WP:CIII. Tim O'Doherty (talk) 19:10, 13 March 2023 (UTC)
Given concerns about the length of Partygate and given that the Privileges Committee investigation section therein has grown considerably, and the hearings haven't even started, I've boldly created a new article, Commons Privileges Committee investigation into Boris Johnson. I suspect this will get considerable attention over the course of the day, so some additional eyes would be welcome. Bondegezou (talk) 10:35, 22 March 2023 (UTC)
Hello. I don't pretend to be an expert on Scottish politics, but is there any particular reason why Scottish "administrations" are titled "[SURNAME] government" rather than "[Surname] ministry]"? Seems fitting, considering the Scottish Government was founded as the Scottish Executive, and was known as such until Salmond changed it on the sly in 2007. Tim O'Doherty (talk) 16:38, 29 March 2023 (UTC)
Hello all. I am thinking of unifying the formatting for lists of UK cabinet ministers (in some case a template could be made like Template:Cabinet table minister) as to include necessary information for all ministers' list. Any thoughts on this would be much welcomed. Cheers. ~~ J. Dann 23:58, 30 March 2023 (UTC)
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The page Leadership approval opinion polling for the next United Kingdom general election is out of date and missing a lot of content in multiple respects. Every section is at least months out of date. Nicola Sturgeon's polling on this page hasn't been updated since 2021 and there is nothing for the SNP's current leader Humza Yousaf. Some other sections, such as that of the Green Party of England and Wales' current leaders Carla Denyer and Adrian Ramsay haven’t had any information added at all since they became the party's co-leaders. Can someone please update this page and add missing information such as for that of the Greens etc? I'd also like to request that someone please add this request to the "open tasks" section on the main project page. Helper201 (talk) 18:33, 13 April 2023 (UTC)
I have a peer review going on about the old practice of ministerial by-elections, which I hope to bring to FA. I'd like someone to have a deep copyediting cleanse (especially with making sure all citations are properly formatted) and provide feedback on the general direction of the page (I understand it's not fully cited yet, but please act as though it were). – John M Wolfson (talk • contribs) 01:20, 7 May 2023 (UTC)
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Need your input on where British cultural Marxism should redirect. Please discuss at Talk:Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory. Thanks! AngusW🐶🐶F (bark • sniff) 21:49, 15 May 2023 (UTC)
Hello! I've opened a discussion at WikiProject UK geography about how we write about councils when a two-tier non-metropolitan county becomes a unitary authority, specifically whether or not to have two articles or cover both councils in one (yes it is a dry subject, thank you for noticing).
I've hosted the discussion over there as the UK geography editors understand the counties quite well, but it may also be interesting to editors here. Thank you. A.D.Hope (talk) 19:50, 28 May 2023 (UTC)
I've noticed that several election results articles for Islington London Borough Council don't have the winning candidates in bold, as I believe is the standard. For example, compare 1998 Islington London Borough Council election and 2018 Islington London Borough Council election. As well as 1998, this issue is also present on 2002 Islington London Borough Council election, 2010 Islington London Borough Council election and 2014 Islington London Borough Council election. Is there a simple way to convert Template:Election box candidate with party link to Election box winning candidate with party link, so that the elected councillors show up in bold typeface? Or can it only be done manually? For example, by using "Search and replace" in the 'Edit source' mode?
TrottieTrue (talk) 22:26, 22 May 2023 (UTC)
Hi all. I think we have got ourselves into a bit of a bother on the Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom article recently and I want to avoid anything even like an edit war. I essentially rewrote this article a couple of years ago, but I now realise (thanks to a talk page discussion from last year) that I made some mistakes and even at one point may have violated WP:NOR. I have been trying to fix these edits recently, but @Ebonelm has been reversing my edits. I have been trying to speak to Ebonelm about this on their talk page, but they only responded once and have reversed my edits twice since then. Over concerns that my edits were not explained properly, I made sure in my third and most recent attempt at improving the article to do it in several edits so I could explain exactly what I was doing, but my edits were still reversed because of "unexplained removal of content and insertion of claims regarding Clement Atlee disputed by many reliable sources". I am not sure what I left unexplained and, as I explained on Ebonelm's talk page, the only person who seems to have disputed that Attlee was a Deputy Prime Minister was me two years ago (this is where I possibly violated WP:NOR), but I now understand that this was based on a misunderstanding that the monarch appoints Deputy Prime Ministers. Therefore, I was hoping that we could get a third opinion on this matter — the best place to speak may be on Ebonelm's talk page. I think that we both just want this article to be as accurate as possible. Thank you in advance! FollowTheTortoise (talk) 15:30, 28 May 2023 (UTC)
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I'm trying to build a sidebar for Edward Heath, in line with those of other prime ministers. So far most of it is copied from Thatcher's template and the contents are being replaced piece by piece. Please help.
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Robin S. Taylor (talk) 20:17, 16 August 2023 (UTC)
There is a slow motion edit war at Next United Kingdom general election between editors who think the latest possible date is 24 January 2025 and those who favour 28 January 2025.
Currently the article says 24 January supported by references that say the 28th. According to Google, gov.uk sites favour the 24th by 667 to 139 for the 28th. However, most of those are local government sites and the Electoral Commission and Parliament, who you'd think would know their stuff, only have the 28th. Cavrdg (talk) 12:53, 29 August 2023 (UTC)
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There is a requested move discussion at Talk:William IV#Requested move 14 September 2023 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. – MaterialWorks 17:11, 21 September 2023 (UTC)
Hi editors, I am seeking opinions on this request to update a small section of the biography of British political commentator Steve Hilton about the 2020 U.S. election. Since Hilton is British, I figured there may be some editors here who are interested in reviewing the discussion. Essentially, I am asking editors to ensure the Wikipedia article faithfully represents the source material per Wikipedia:Verifiability. I have a conflict of interest, as I am here on behalf of Steve Hilton, which is why I have not edited the article directly myself. Thank you for considering. SKflo (talk) 18:06, 2 October 2023 (UTC)
My name is Laura and I work for Joanna Shields, Baroness Shields, a baron, businessperson, and former British politician. The page about her was recently tagged for COI and advert issues due to some poor edits made years ago. I posted here regarding my desire to address the substance of the tags with a re-write or heavy trims, to remove the promotional content. I was hoping you might be willing to chime in on the proposed trims and/or the suggestion for a rewrite. Let me know. Best regards.~~~~ LauTad89 (talk) 16:05, 6 October 2023 (UTC)
Is it appropriate for pages about parliamentary by-elections to include images of non-notable losing candidates? See 2023 Tamworth by-election and many others. Availability of images seems very patchy - see 2023 Uxbridge and South Ruislip by-election, where the runner-up has an article but no image. In the Tamworth case the problem is made worse by the absence of any image of the winner (I have tried: I've now emailed her constituency party to suggest that someone should upload one, to use while we wait for the official parliamentary portrait!) PamD 12:07, 22 October 2023 (UTC)
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Quick question, in elections where there are multiple winners should the total votes be divided by the number of seats to get the number of votes for turnout TheHaloVeteran2 (talk) 17:32, 10 November 2023 (UTC)
It might interest people to know that we now have an article on every Westminster MP since 1900, all but six since 1850, and we are only I think about fifty shy of "every MP since 1832" - out of approximately 10,300 names. Quite an impressive feat - congratulations all! Andrew Gray (talk) 21:23, 3 October 2023 (UTC)
quick question regarding seats that go from SDP-Liberal Alliance to Liberal Democrats should that be considered a hold or a gain TheHaloVeteran2 (talk) 16:40, 23 November 2023 (UTC)
Next United Kingdom general election in Scotland has a list of target seats, based simply on being "constituencies which require a swing of less than 5% from the 2019 result to change hands." I tagged this as WP:OR, but Soosider3 removed the tag and added a link for the raw data used. This doesn't resolve the question of whether a list of target seats is WP:SYNTHy, or whether it can be counted under WP:CALC.
We've encountered this question before. If I recall correctly, we decided it was too WP:SYNTHy, although I may be misremembering. I note we don't have a comparable list in Next United Kingdom general election. What seats a party is actually targeting may be different from simply seats requiring a small swing. What seats a party is targeting can be based on reliable sources. So I would argue target seats should be based on sourcing and not a WP:CALC argument, but can anyone remember better than me what we agreed before? Bondegezou (talk) 14:45, 29 November 2023 (UTC)
Is anyone doing anything systematic to update articles on constituencies which will have changed boundaries for the next general election. I've had a go at Morecambe and Lunesdale (UK Parliament constituency) (because I live there), but it needs a new map (I updated the map caption), and other constituencies have also altered, such as Westmorland and Lonsdale (UK Parliament constituency) (changed boundaries) and Lancaster and Wyre (UK Parliament constituency) (revived existence; mentioned in lead but not in "Boundaries" which is out of date). With parties announcing their selected candidates, Wikipedia needs to reflect the changes. PamD 12:05, 30 November 2023 (UTC)
Hello. Another editor and I are in disagreement about what constitutes original research in the article on the phrase Tory scum. I believe the article is being held to standards different to other articles as it seems the other editor insists examples of the phrase come from sources that say something like, "This incident is an example of when the phrase "Tory scum" was used". The fullest the article has been, with the most examples given, was this edit. After discussion with the other editor, I suggested this more limited edit. After both, the other editor deleted the section containing examples of use of the phrase. Other opinions are sought as at the moment it's only the two of us so perhaps we're caught in ruts. The active discussion on the talk page is here. Thank you for your involvement. Woofboy (talk) 15:08, 18 December 2023 (UTC)
Please see Talk:Marcus_Rashford for multiple template errors. - FlightTime (open channel) 15:36, 27 December 2023 (UTC)
Hello.
I've ended up embarking on a massive update of the Scottish Greens article. I started a little a few months ago with Patrick Harvie and Lorna Slater's pages, but have since expanded my ambitions!
Anyway if anyone is interested in Scottish Green politics and fixing up what was a pretty poor article for a party in government, feel free to help me out. Nordrhein-Westfalen-CanlntoSpace (talk) 08:16, 31 December 2023 (UTC)
Posted about this impending milestone a couple of months ago, but just to mark the completion - we now have every MP who was elected since the 1832 general election. I added the last twelve this week, but by far the vast majority of the work was by other people, so congratulations all!
The total comes out at approximately 10,290-10,295, depending on exactly how you count some of the edge cases. Probably will jump up past 10,500 in 2024, though... Andrew Gray (talk) 15:20, 31 December 2023 (UTC)
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Marcia Falkender, Baroness Falkender#Requested move 3 January 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 12:27, 4 January 2024 (UTC)
Is andrewteale.me.uk a wp:reliable source? or does it fall foul of WP:Self published source? (Background to the question is that it is being cited at Milton Keynes City Council elections#By-elections.)
(I am inviting comment at this WikiProject, as I doubt that Wikipedia talk:reliable sources would be appropriate for something so niche. Of course it can be transferred there if anyone believes that would be preferable.) 𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 14:39, 4 January 2024 (UTC) updated to add reason for question. --𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 15:04, 4 January 2024 (UTC)
Hi, recently it seems an IP resurrected Government of Scotland, and called for a "Government of Wales" article at Politics of Wales (I removed their proposed split as no discussion started and nothing to be split? seems a requested article), to go alongside Governance of England and Government of Northern Ireland? All of which that are existing (so not Wales) are very short. Not fully opposed to the idea, but I have no idea what these should cover and how much it overlaps with the "Politics of" articles?
Like looking at each one that exists, it seems it is either to be on "history of government" and/or "powers and levels of government"? Still no idea. Should they be merged elsewhere or clarify their purpose in hopes of a better expansion? DankJae 00:55, 15 January 2024 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Isla Bryson case#RfC on the inclusion of Isla Bryson's former name, which is within the scope of this WikiProject. This RfC is on the application of MOS:GENDERID in relation to Bryson's former name.— Preceding unsigned comment added by BilledMammal (talk • contribs) 20:54, 10 July 2023 (UTC)
More opinions would be welcomed on the above AfD discussion on Hillhouse (ward), thanks. Crowsus (talk) 17:01, 19 January 2024 (UTC)
A lot of articles on yesteryear British public figures use monochrome photographs by Bassano, Walter Stoneman, Walter Bird Elliot & Fry, Godfrey Argent or Lafayette. A lot of these have been uploaded (including by me) under fair use arguments but there are also several marked as public domain, according to rules which suggest a lot of the fair use uploads have actually been public domain this whole time as well. Do we have any guidance on this? Robin S. Taylor (talk) 21:19, 22 January 2024 (UTC)
Also, what particular copyright law is being applied here? It's obviously not life+70 as Stoneman, Bird and Argent were all alive more recently than that. I've seen quite a few of the NPG photographs noted as public domain because they were UK government works prior to 1957, but I'm not confident in how consistently to apply that. Robin S. Taylor (talk) 19:18, 25 January 2024 (UTC)
How do I work out which photographs fall under ((PD-UKGov)), which explicitly applies worldwide? Robin S. Taylor (talk) 19:49, 25 January 2024 (UTC)
File:Viscount & Viscountess Acheson 1946.jpgTake this image for example - it dates to 1946 and is credited to "Bassano Ltd" rather than a specific person so it should be public domain in Britain, but I've no idea when it was first published in the United States. Does this one need a fair use tag?
As for the others, I'm going to abandon my changes for now and revert to how they were before.Robin S. Taylor (talk) 21:21, 31 January 2024 (UTC)