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Hello, and thank you for your contributions on articles related to rallying. I'd like to invite you to become a part of WikiProject World Rally, a new WikiProject aiming to improve coverage of World Rally Championship and related articles on Wikipedia.
As you can see from the image on the left, we haven't achieved a four-wheel-drive yet. If you would like to help out and participate, please visit the project page for more information. Thanks, Prolog 04:57, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
The Bus Line Article
Latest comment: 16 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion
I'm sorry I reverted your edit to that article. I read over what I reverted then realized it had a LOT of POV issues, so I reverted again. Again, sawwy bout dat ;). -Amaraiel 22:22, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
No problem, although of course having seen the sudden return before my very eyes of what I, personally, could only perceive to have been the most abject and brattish of (presumably 'local lad' originated) vandalisms... I was sufficiently concerned for a span of about thirty seconds while I waited for whatever other oddity of a development would next arise, lol. I am a philosophically-minded moderate so I'll skirt clear, however, of venturing so far as to question the 'notability' of that article as I may also have been tempted to do. "Alrite buses"... I'll have to take up closer scrutiny of that one myself, heh. :) MRacer 22:29, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
Colin McRae
Latest comment: 16 years ago7 comments4 people in discussion
The Colin McRae article received heavy editing today by new/unregistered users, which I noticed at WikiRage.com. The article may benefit from a good review. According to Wikipedia Page History Statistics, you are one of the top contributors to that page. If you have the time, would you please read over the article and make any necessary changes. Thanks. -- Jreferee(Talk) 07:28, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
I'll keep tabs. Any issues with the article as such, certainly in terms of the different parameters of reliability/verifiability, depth, etc. remain largely the same as at any time immediately prior to his death and in any case, notwithstanding the sheer statistics, in its essence it appears to me to be an essentially stable article. I suppose the main issue with regards the regrettable death is to ensure all mention integrates with the article and that, to this end, the date possibly comes first so as to avoid the whole 'Oh look, suddenly there's been a death, lets suddenly switch a few tenses here and shunt in some haphazard and incongruent section about death at the end here somehow'. Something, on further scrutiny thankfully tells me that I think that has been assured. MRacer 18:03, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
Former Glory is rich for that page. The page was not over simplified it removed peacock and weasel words and a raft of POV. If you dislike an editors contribution do not blindly revert them make additions to them or contact the editor. The edits made were in good faith and researched, also please see wikipedia ownership of articles as It seems this may be applicable in this instance.--Lucy-marie 19:45, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
I agree with MRacer's restorations of some of the old text. Your changes unnecessarily removed useful non-POV information too (like in the 2003 part) and introduced factual inaccuracies and spelling mistakes ("this record has since been broken by Carlos Sinz and Sebastian Loeb", should be "This... Sainz... Sébastien... and Marcus Grönholm."). Prolog 20:20, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
Lucy-marie. My sincere apologies about the 'blind revert'. I did make additions, that was the whole point: you didn't leave much behind. So I'm not sure what you mean by 'well researched', when much of what you've done is remove content. I personally liked the older version more and felt it came across merely as entertainingly well-spoken - as any article of prose, anywhere, should be if it wishes to engage its readers. Personally, I didn't think you were being sympathetic enough to the huge differences between that, and genuinely 'weasel' language. Nor do I recall any of the stated 'Peacock words or phrases to watch out for' being used there. I also saw no difference to the POV between either version, just the sentences oddly chopped down on the latter. Still, now I realise there are at least ulterior considerations, so thanks for those points.
We just needed to compromise somewhere to avoid the most important section of the article staying an insignificant rump. Reading it through before, anybody would have imagined that the whole, 19-year career of one of the most, if not the most, decorated rally driver of the century had just flicked by as if it were just some casual liasion, an utter aside. It was not.
It was all long-standing, barely touched content (by this point, many other people had meddled with it) and spelling errors were legion within the 'cleaned up' version anyway.
Sorry about this. As usual I won't get in any 'edit' or 'revert' war, I'll just accept and meet you in the middle somewhere. I won't add any more tirades or long comments so if your opinion stands, that's fine with me. I understand all the other points you've made and I'll be more cautious. As I've implied, it just looked like too puritan an intervention to me. It seemed like the positive thing to do to me, to restore the majority of the old content. MRacer 21:34, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
Looking at it, the current version looks okay. The length's virtually the same anyway now so the balance is okay anyway now. MRacer 21:44, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
Thank you for you conciliatory tone, I accept that the revision I have produced is not perfect and if there are errors in their then by all means please go ahead and correct them. As for the language words I were referring to were things such as muster and gap year are a couple. I also think some referencing is required for the whole article as it seems to be lacking. I look forward to more editing.--Lucy-marie 22:24, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
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Page moves
Latest comment: 16 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion
Hey. It took me a while to notice but it seems that you moved Pablo Pérez Companc and Gregorio Pérez Companc by using cut-and-paste. This should never be done (although an exception is if you are the only author of the page), because the edit history must stay intact as otherwise editors won't get proper attribution which violates the terms of GFDL. Please always use the "move" function from now on (see Help:Moving a page for more information). These two moves are fixed now, but if you remember doing other cut-and-paste moves in the past, let me know and I will fix them by merging the page histories. By the way, great job on expanding BP Ford World Rally Team. Thanks, Prolog 09:22, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
Many thanks, and my apologies. Certainly I will endeavour to try to remember any such articles I treated in a similar way at any point in the past - I will let you know if I am successful in that. MRacer 19:35, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
Nicky Grist
Latest comment: 16 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion
Hi, please remember to complete the "edit summary" box when editing (especially when removing parts of an article) as unexplained edits could appear to be vandalism to other editors. That was the reason I reverted you removal of the bit about Nicky Grist being the second most successful co-driver, as I hadn't seen the talk page at the time. Cheers, Miremare 17:41, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
My apologies. For some reason, my attempt with my second edit to explain the alteration not only on the discussion page but also the edit summary, didn't seem to produce the desired result as the actual summary under the 'history' tab remained blank. I really ought to have persisted in order to make the motives for the deletion of the text clear. Thanks. MRacer 22:01, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
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The WikiProject Universities Newsletter: Issue IV (December 2007)
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The December 2007 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! —NoeticSage 23:34, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
Happy New Year
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Happy New Year!
Happy New Year, MRacer/Archive 1. May 2008 bring you many successful edits, featured articles, and less disagreements!
Stay safe, and watch those broken bottles on the floor.
The WikiProject Universities Newsletter: Issue V (January 2008)
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The January 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! —NoeticSage 22:01, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
Invite
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Century Tower
As a current or past contributor to a related article, I thought I'd let you know about WikiProject University of Florida, a collaborative effort to improve Wikipedia's coverage of University of Florida. If you would like to participate, you can visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks and related articles. Thanks!
WikiProject Universities Newsletter: Issue VI (February 2008)
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WikiProject Universities Newsletter: Issue VII (March 2008)
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WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - May 2008
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WP:YORKS is a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (3343 on April 27th). WP:GM has the lead in FAs. WP:YORKS is lacking in the area of GAs and falls well behind WP:LONDON. This topic was at the front of the new aims discussion and is an important issue for WP:YORKS.
As mentioned above, new aims have been decided. See the right hand column for more details.
Member News
There are now 45 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the 2 new members that have joined us since March:
No users left the WikiProject this month, but the list may need trimming to account for the one user who was permanently blocked and one who seems not to exist. There are also several who have not contributed to Wikipedia for some months.
The format of the member list has been altered to:
allow easier editing for new members
assist members to communicate more easily (by including members talk pages)
allow member to keep up to date with each other's contributions
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
Don't Forget...
Monitor Use the watchlist to keep an eye on changes to the project's articles so that vandalism can be removed as quickly as possible.
Images! There is a shortage of good images in Yorkshire related articles, particularly on pages about smaller settlements. A good place to start would be the requested photographs category but please remember that there are many articles not within this category that have the same need.
Assessment Assess and review Assessment of Yorkshire related articles has been brought up to date recently, but needs constant maintenance.
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WikiProject Universities Newsletter: Issue VIII (April 2008)
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WikiProject Yorkshire - June 2008 Newsletter
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WP:YORKS is a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 3343 last month to 3509 on May 28th). WP:GM has the lead in FAs. WP:YORKS is lacking in the area of GAs and falls well behind WP:LONDON. This topic was at the front of the new aims discussion and is an important issue for WP:YORKS.
As mentioned above, new aims have been decided. See the right hand column for more details.
Member News
There are now 45 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the 4 new members that have joined us since the May newsletter:
No users left the WikiProject this month, but the list has been trimmed to account for the one user who was permanently blocked and one who seems not to exist. There are also several who have not contributed to Wikipedia for some months. However it is the exam season :-)
Malcolm Bryant (talk·contribs) does not seem to have registered on Wikipedia.(Let me know if I am wrong.)
Last month the format of the member list was altered to:
allow easier editing for new members
assist members to communicate more easily (by including members talk pages)
allow members to keep up to date with each other's contributions
It had to be changed again before the May Newsletter went out to allow easier, more efficient, circulation by the ENewsBot. The Bot worked like magic last month but slightly complicated the signing up process, particularly for novice users.
Thanks
The Yorkshire Portal continues to be maintained by User:Kaly99 once again, thank you. There has been a number of suggestions on the ToDo list and this has been kept up to date too.
The football and rugby editors have to be congratulated for keeping abreast of most. if not all, of the top clubs.
User:Cyberdemon007 has made a lot of edits to North Yorkshire settlement infoboxes. Thank you.
There have been more WikiProkject Yorkshire editors on vandal patrol on watchlist , just lately. Thanks it's really good to know that you have others in support.
A big "thank you" to all the editors who help make this WikiProject what it is; no edit goes unnoticed. If you patrol the recent changes regularly you "get to know" the editors and their specialities quite well.
York - B - Main problems are lack of references and the lists, also the external links section would need a major prune before a GA review.Maybe ask for peer review when these are done? Bath, Somerset is an FA and a good role model.
Yorkshire and the Humber - Start. The article has been reorganised and expanded (some sections with no text are there on the source page but are commented out at the moment). It could do with more citations.
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
Don't Forget...
Monitor Use the watchlist to keep an eye on changes to the project's articles so that vandalism can be removed as quickly as possible.
Images! There is a shortage of good images in Yorkshire related articles, particularly on pages about smaller settlements. A good place to start would be the requested photographs category but please remember that there are many articles not within this category that have the same need. A good old holiday picture of The Spa, Bridlington would be a useful addition to the article.
Assessment Assess and review Assessment of Yorkshire related articles has been brought up to date recently, but needs constant maintenance.
Last but not Least... Please remember that the list of stubs needing expansion is in permanent need of attention. Please take a look and see what you can do. One small edit each session would make a big difference.
Lealholm was not promoted to GA status on June 30th
WP:YORKS is a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 3509 last month to 3635 on June 29th). WP:GM has the lead in FAs. WP:YORKS is lacking in the area of GAs and falls well behind WP:LONDON. This topic was at the front of the new aims discussion and is an important issue for WP:YORKS.
Member News
There are now 47 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the 3 new members that have joined us since the June newsletter:
No users left the WikiProject this month, but 1 user was registered twice under different logins and has been consolidated.
Thanks
The Yorkshire Portal continues to be maintained by User:Kaly99 once again, thank you. User:Kaly99 would very much appreciate comments at peer review. There has been a number of suggestions on the ToDo list and this has been kept up to date too.
The football and rugby editors have to be congratulated for keeping abreast of most, if not all, of the top clubs. Also for getting Scarborough F.C. seasons to FL status during the month.
There have been even more WikiProkject Yorkshire editors on vandal patrol on watchlist. Thanks it's really good to know that you have others in support.
A big "thank you" to all the editors who help make this WikiProject what it is; no edit goes unnoticed. If you patrol the recent changes regularly you "get to know" the editors and their specialities quite well.
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
Informal article viewing and editing statistics for 5 of our priority articles
Rated a B class article. Viewed 40,122 times in May, 2008. Only went below 1,000 viewings on one day, 10th, and achieved 1,600 on the 6th and the 20th. Overall total number of edits 1,818 with 46 in May, 2008.
Rated a B class article. Viewed 38,018 times in May, 2008. On 12 days there were over 1,000 viewings with a sudden peak of 4,200 on the 24th. Overall number of edits 2,269 with 88 in May, 2008.
Rated a B class article. The highest number of monthly viewings for our priority articles at 50,846 for the month of May, 2008. There were consistently over 1,000 daily viewings with a high of 2,000 on the 25th. Overall total number of edits 3,152 with 86 in May, 2008.
Rated an FA class article.Viewed 37,740 times in May, 2008 with usually over 1,000 daily viewings. There were 6 days when over 1,400 viewings were made then a low of 900 on the 10th. Overall total number of edits 2,550 with 44 in May, 2008.
Rated a GA class article and actively being worked on for FAC. Viewed 42,902 times in May, 2008. Consistently over 1,000 daily viewings with 2,000 viewings on the 12th. Overall total number of edits 2,434 with 241 in May, 2008.
Monitor Use the watchlist to keep an eye on changes to the project's articles so that vandalism can be removed as quickly as possible.
Images! There is a shortage of good images in Yorkshire related articles, particularly on pages about smaller settlements. A good place to start would be the requested photographs category but please remember that there are many articles not within this category that have the same need. A good old holiday picture of The Spa, Bridlington would be a useful addition to the article.
Assessment Assess and review Assessment of Yorkshire related articles has been brought up to date recently, but needs constant maintenance.
Last but not Least... Please remember that the list of stubs needing expansion is in permanent need of attention. Please take a look and see what you can do. One small edit each session would make a big difference.
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WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - August 2008
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WP:YORKS is a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 3635 last month to 3781 on July 30th). WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 24 out of a total number of 1624 articles. In the area of GAs, at 17, WP:YORKS falls behind WP:LONDON and WP:GM who each have 21.
Member News
There are now 47 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the new member that has joined us since the July newsletter:
User:Kaly99 would very much appreciate comments about Yorkshire Portal at peer review which continues to be maintained by Kaly99. Once more, thank you.
There has been a number of suggestions on the ToDo list at Yorkshire Portal and this has been kept up to date too.
The football and rugby editors have to be admired for keeping abreast of most, if not all, of the top clubs.
WikiProkject Yorkshire editors have been busy on vandal patrol at watchlist. Thanks.
A big "thank you" to all the editors who help make this WikiProject what it is; no edit goes unnoticed.
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
Article improvement
One of the aims of our project was to set up a periodic Article improvement drive. The article on our county town of York is suggested for this month. Please discuss and/or make edits to move towards WP:GA? status for our first selected article.
Please remember...
The project is now subscribed to a clean-up listing which lists articles tagged with various clean-up tags that need attention. The listing is refreshed by a bot on a regular basis.
Monitor Use the watchlist to keep an eye on changes to the project's articles so that vandalism and spamming can be removed as quickly as possible.
Infoboxes Many of our articles would benefit from the addition of an appropriate infobox. Useful ones include:
The new C-Class represents articles that are beyond the basic Start-Class, but which need additional references or cleanup to meet the standards for B-Class.
The criteria for B-Class have been tightened up with the addition of a rubric, and are now more in line with the stricter standards already used at some projects.
A-Class article reviews will now need more than one person, as described here.
References Please remember that the list of stubs needing expansion is always in need of attention. Please take a look and see if you can help. One small edit, such as adding a reference section and reference, to an article each session would make a big difference.
Moves Please be careful when performing articles moves and ensure that you also move all the talk sub-pages and update any image fair use rational. Otherwise the archives, to-do lists, assessment comments and GA reviews get lost and the image may be deleted as it has an incorrect FUR.
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Henri Toivonen
Latest comment: 15 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion
Hey. Nice catch with the factual error on Henri Toivonen. I can't believe it went unnoticed for so long despite the wikilink to the 1986 season article. Prolog (talk) 13:14, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
I'll keep on the lookout for anything similar. I agree, and as these articles do tend to be the territory of really proud anoraks, it was odd to stumble across that claim. Ah well, uprooting errors and correcting them is what we're all here for! MRacer (talk) 14:37, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
Oxford Wikimania 2010 and Wikimedia UK v2.0 Notice
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Hi,
As a regularly contributing UK Wikipedian, we were wondering if you wanted to contribute to the Oxford bid to host the 2010 Wikimania conference. Please see here for details of how to get involved, we need all the help we can get if we are to put in a compelling bid.
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You may also wish to attend the next London meet-up at which both of these issues will be discussed. If you can't attend this meetup, you may want to watch Wikipedia:Meetup, for updates on future meets.
We look forward to hearing from you soon, and we send our apologies for this automated intrusion onto your talk page!
WP:YORKS is a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 3781 last month to 4005 on August 27th). WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 25 out of a total number of 1664 articles. In the area of GAs, at 17, WP:YORKS falls behind WP:GM with 27 and WP:LONDON with 22.
To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least Good article status
To set up a weekly or monthly selected article improvement drive
To produce a regular news letter for circulation to members
Yorkshire Portal
The Yorkshire portal helps people navigate through the content related to Yorkshire. The highlighted content is displayed randomly and includes -
Did you Knows
Articles
Biographies
Pictures
Panoramas
Any additions to these would be great. The portal is being prepared for featured portal candidacy so help meeting the criteria, for example, copy-editing or suggestions for new content sections such as Selected anniversaries, On this day, or In the news would be appreciated.
Priority Articles
The top priority articles that have been identified to date are as follows -
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
Please remember...
The project is now subscribed to a clean-up listing which lists articles tagged with various clean-up tags that need attention. The listing is refreshed by a bot on a regular basis.
Monitor Use the watchlist to keep an eye on changes to the project's articles so that vandalism and spamming can be removed as quickly as possible.
Infoboxes Many of our articles would benefit from the addition of an appropriate infobox.
The new C-Class represents articles that are beyond the basic Start-Class, but which need additional references or cleanup to meet the standards for B-Class.
The criteria for B-Class have been tightened up with the addition of a rubric, and are now more in line with the stricter standards already used at some projects.
A-Class article reviews will now need more than one person, as described here.
References Please remember that the list of stubs needing expansion is always in need of attention. Please take a look and see if you can help. One small edit, such as adding a reference section and reference, to an article each session would make a big difference.
Moves Please be careful when performing articles moves and ensure that you also move all the talk sub-pages and update any image fair use rational. Otherwise the archives, to-do lists, assessment comments and GA reviews get lost and the image may be deleted as it has an incorrect FUR.
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WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - October 2008
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WP:YORKS is a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 4005 last month to 4085 on September 27th). WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 28 out of a total number of 1678 articles. In the area of GAs, at 21, WP:YORKS also falls behind WP:GM with 28.
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least Good article status
To set up a weekly or monthly selected article improvement drive
To produce a regular news letter for circulation to members
Wikipedia DVD version 0.7
Wikipedia DVD Version 0.7 aims to be a collection of around 30,000 articles taken from the English version of Wikipedia.
The process of producing the list of articles for the DVD is currently under way and 43 of the project's articles are being
considered for inclusion. The list of selected Yorkshire articles can be seen here.
The selection has been done using a scoring system depending on the project's assessment, the number of incoming links to the article, the number of interwiki
links the article has and the number of times the article has been viewed.
The process of selecting clean versions for each of the selected articles is also being undertaken so that vandalised versions are not put on the DVD.
Some of the articles also have clean-up tags attached to them which need to be dealt with before a version can be used on the DVD. It would be good if members
could address any tags in the selected articles and fix the problem identified. Those articles that are tagged by multiple projects should get a visit by each of the projects involved
so the articles will probably get a lot of activity in the next few days.
The cut-off date for this work is October 20th, but changes to articles following version selection may not be incorporated as there may not be time to reassess them.
Please remember...
The project is now subscribed to a clean-up listing which lists articles tagged with various clean-up tags that need attention. The listing is refreshed by a bot on a regular basis.
Monitor Use the watchlist to keep an eye on changes to the project's articles so that vandalism and spamming can be removed as quickly as possible.
Infoboxes Many of our articles would benefit from the addition of an appropriate infobox.
The new C-Class represents articles that are beyond the basic Start-Class, but which need additional references or cleanup to meet the standards for B-Class.
The criteria for B-Class have been tightened up with the addition of a rubric, and are now more in line with the stricter standards already used at some projects.
A-Class article reviews will now need more than one person, as described here.
References Please remember that the list of stubs needing expansion is always in need of attention. Please take a look and see if you can help. One small edit, such as adding a reference section and reference, to an article each session would make a big difference.
Moves Please be careful when performing articles moves and ensure that you also move all the talk sub-pages and update any image fair use rational. Otherwise the archives, to-do lists, assessment comments and GA reviews get lost and the image may be deleted as it has an incorrect FUR.
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