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The article Royal Oak, Frindsbury you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Royal Oak, Frindsbury for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Bungle -- Bungle (talk) 17:02, 21 January 2017 (UTC)
Hi Mike. When you upgrade an infobox to a wikidata-aware version, you'll have to check that you get sensible results on each article if it is going to be 'opt-in'. One obvious mistake is setting local values to "FETCH_WIKIDATA", which is the way we had to do it in the older version. Have a look at your edit to Francis Patrick Dwyer for an example. Nikkimaria has fixed that, but has also reverted a lot of the work you did. I've restored some, but it's taking a while to work out what local parameters need to be retained. Perhaps you could take a look at what's been done so far to the articles you upgraded yesterday? Cheers --RexxS (talk) 14:21, 22 January 2017 (UTC)
The |family= in {{infobox person}} is described as "Family or house of the individual, if notable." - that's really family name (P734). It's not for including relatives, which has its own parameter, |relatives= described as "Names of siblings or other relatives. Include the relationship in parentheses after the name (sister, uncle, etc)." I may have to make a new call to aggregate Wikidata from multiple properties, like sibling (P3373) and relative (P1038), to fit that field, so I'd recommend using a local parameter for now. Cheers --RexxS (talk) 14:53, 29 January 2017 (UTC)
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Please revert the changes to the Wikidata infobox which results in the addition of unacceptably poorly formatted references to our articles. [1] Bare URLS (to things like Wikisource of all places), references which are clearly insufficient (Britannica, which version?), ...
Your changes have e.g. given Margaret Blackwood an age of 107, despite on Wikipedia being long dead.
This is the third time (double website, empty DIED label, and now this) in one week that this infobox is actively making articles worse on Wikipedia. THis is unaveptable, an a very good reason why you shouldn't use this on 300+ articles and why you shouldn't reintroduce it on articles where it is removed (like the Sabatier one).
Please remove the infobox from most articles and stop pushing it in this way. Fram (talk) 08:54, 29 January 2017 (UTC)
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Hi Mike. Of the three references you gave (numbered [2], [3] and [4]): [2] is only a passing uncited reference, [3] I'll come to presently and [4] is "Document Unavailable // This document is unavailable for viewing at this time." I had seen the section in Frindsbury before, but had dismissed the whole paragraph as an anti-clerical rant and not paid any real attention to it. "The purpose of a mediaeval church was to raise revenue for the Bishop" – maybe in some places and at some times, but hardly for 400 years over the whole country! Again the confusion between rector and vicar doesn't bode well for its trustfulness.
Reference [3] is rather interesting though. Clearly from this the place was called the "Old Vicarage" by 1842. The "Old Parsonage" in Parsonage Lane dates from 1700. From structural evidence it is probable that the tower of Frindsbury Church was the priest's lodging from 1075. Whether the priest moved out before or at the reformation I don't know. Just to throw more confusion into the pot, "There was a chapel dedicated to St Peter (1142) within the Manor of Islingham. Services were held 1330 to 1542 when they were discontinued. The building became an oast house.", see All Saints Church, Frindsbury, reference [3] to Barnard's Merrily to Frendsbury-A History of the Parish of Frindsbury. Today Islingham Farm Road run NE from the intersection of the Wainscott bypass and the Highham Road. If Islingham itself was near the intersection then the "Old Vicarage" is roughly equidistant from the two churches. I will investigate further where exactly the old village was, modern developments have obscured the ancient settlement patterns.
I think two possible timelines are emerging. One is that from 1075 to the late medieval the priest lived in the tower, then moved to the Old Vicarage at Bill Street, before moving back to Parsonage Lane (and in the 20thC to a new vicarage also in Parsonage Lane). The other timeline is that the priest from Islingham chapel resided at the Old Vicarage from 1330 to 1542 when it was sold or leased into secular occupation. Again though, the situation is unclear. Was the "chapel" a chapel of ease? If it was it would not have had its own vicar?
Regards, Martin of Sheffield (talk) 23:11, 5 February 2017 (UTC)
Mike,
I'm looking for basic guidance doing what you did for "Infobox telescope" over in Template:Infobox_company. (Andy Mabbett on the wikidata listserve suggested you.)
Are Lua and Scribunto used? Are they the only (easiest and best?) option for this? Infobox company will likely experience fairly high demand (60k pages on the en site use it), if the same template were used worldwide that might put some incremental demand on the WikiData servers?
Will I be able to get to a point where one company (eg Volkswagen) will will be stored only once in Wikidata and only the language labels will change as en, de, fr wikipedia sites using the "global" template will call up the exact same data?
I understand the French Wikipedia site uses "Infobox Enterprise", drawing 100% of its data from WikiData: [[2]] I can use Google translate to look at how the French "Infobox Enterprise" works, but working in English is easier for me.
Would appreciate any pointers to documentation, examples, sandboxes, etc. I'm starting at ground zero here so I need to start with the very basics. Willing to put some effort into it.
Thanks! Rick (talk) 16:04, 3 February 2017 (UTC)
Mike, Thanks very much for all the tips, links, and especially to the heads up RE discussion around the wikidata-driven infobox person. I'm in no rush here, working on a top down look at "companies data" and haven't even reached the foothills of understanding the nuances of just U.S. centric data, let alone the major usages across Europe and Asia. Business data (and accounting standards) have been quite country specific. The business data world is far more parochial than the scientific especially in terms of accounting measurements. Plus, we have the added step of many currency conversions. (This SPARQL query shows FX conversion but I'm still far away from understanding it [[3]] (And, yes, that could benefit from rounding (ideally to the limits of the raw data precision, and pretty printing with relevant thousands separators). Still, getting company data into WikiData is a great long term project, really wonderful. Just not likely to be delivered quick and easily across countries without some real effort. I'm thankful you more scientific guys are "going first" here. Rick (talk) 18:10, 6 February 2017 (UTC)
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The article Royal Oak, Frindsbury you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Royal Oak, Frindsbury for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Bungle -- Bungle (talk) 18:41, 11 February 2017 (UTC)
On 15 February 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty-Centimeters, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Very Large Array (pictured) observed nearly one million radio sources during the Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty-Centimeters survey? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty-Centimeters. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty-Centimeters), 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.
Mifter (talk) 22:46, 15 February 2017 (UTC)
On 16 February 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Professor Aristóteles Orsini Planetarium, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Professor Aristóteles Orsini Planetarium in São Paulo, opened in 1957, was the first planetarium in Brazil? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Professor Aristóteles Orsini Planetarium. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Professor Aristóteles Orsini Planetarium), 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.
Mifter (talk) 23:17, 16 February 2017 (UTC)
I would be happy to help out, If there is anything else to do on tbe page, I will take a look after work later this evening.D Eaketts (talk) 08:32, 18 February 2017 (UTC)
Hi, i work on a navbox for ways of obtaining science in two related field, scientific method from philosophy of science and dikw pyramid from information science. i need help of some people like you to finsh this,
you can see a prototype of navbox in my sand box: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:KPU0/sandbox Plutonium 16:19, 21 February 2017 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by KPU0 (talk • contribs)
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On 28 February 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Big Horn, Manchester, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Big Horn, a gateway sculpture to Manchester's Northern Quarter, was built on the remains of a hat factory in 1999? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Big Horn, Manchester. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Big Horn, Manchester), 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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