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List of acts of Parliament in the United Kingdom

I'd appreciate your input regarding whether the above list should be at List of acts of Parliament in the United Kingdom or List of Acts of Parliament in the United Kingdom. See Talk:List of acts of Parliament in the United Kingdom#Move. Hiding T 12:03, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

I've commented there. Really, all of our article/category titles should match; and that article should, in my opinion, reside at List of Acts of Parliament in the United Kingdom or List of acts of parliaments in the United Kingdom. My personal preference is to treat "Act of Parliament" as a compound noun, with both A and P capitalised when either the Act or the Parliament is a specific one. Thorny issue though. — mholland (talk) 14:57, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

Notability of residential colleges

You previously commented at WikiProject Colleges & Universities about the notability of college/university residences and other campus buildings. A RFC has been submitted on the best way to deal with the existence of many Wikipedia articles on residence halls and dormitories at colleges and universities that may not be notable. Your input and feedback would be appreciated at the RFC. Madcoverboy (talk) 23:18, 28 March 2009 (UTC)

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University of Gloucestershire logo

There is an old version of the University of Gloucestershire logo on the wikipedia page. Please could you replace it with this one:

http://www2.glos.ac.uk/offload/staff/uog_colourlogo.png

Thanks University of Gloucestershire Marketing Department 195.195.4.167 (talk) 16:09, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

University of Salford logo on Salford Business School

The logo is indeed the University's but the School is one of the academic elements of the University and University policy clearly states that there is no sub-branding. This would suggest that the University logo is appropriately attached to the School. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 146.87.147.104 (talk) 12:06, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia's non-free content policy requires that use of unlicensed copyrighted media be kept to a minimum (and that its use is necessary to a proper understanding of the relevant topic). The Salford logo is appropriately used at University of Salford, but not on other articles associated with the university. A good/useful alternative for the infobox would be a photo of something associated with the school (as in Bristol Law School, University of Glasgow Medical School, University of Birmingham Medical School). — mholland (talk) 12:44, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

Holly Smith - Local Edition

Hi Mholland.

I was wondering whether it would be possible to use your photograph of Keele University for our 'Newcastle-under-Lyme & Keele' Local Edition publication.

Local Edition is a weekly digital property publication, delivered to thousands of homemovers every week.

We currently have twenty four editions and an example of our current 'Newcastle under Lyme & Keele' edition can be found at the following link: http://rightmove.digi-page.net/?id=newcastlekeele

I found your image on a google search and thought it would be an excellant replacement for the image we are using at the moment.

For each photo we use we would provide an acknowledgement on the front cover with your name, the name of the photo and, if you wish, we could have a link to your profile page of wikipedia, or if you have another website you would like us to link to.

Many thanks for your time,

Holly Smith (wikipedia username: Localedition) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Localedition (talk • contribs) 16:48, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

Holly,

Photographs I've uploaded for Wikipedia are available for re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike licence. You are welcome to use that photograph in accordance with that licence - please credit the photo to "M. Holland"; no link required. If you're looking for similar "free" images in the future, you may find Flickr (Flickr CC search for "Keele University") and the Wikimedia Commons (Commons homepage) are more useful than Google. Best wishes — mholland (talk) 17:43, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

File:Wscc logo.png

Hey, thanks for clarifying, I wasn't sure of the original reason for deleting the logo from the electoral division articles, as they pertain specifically to WSCC and thought that I'd understood the terms of the rationale and logo use rules for non-free logos, but am happy to go along with your advice, I'll check that the logo isn't used on any future articles. cheers.

University of Liverpool

Hi I have added added a reference to the University of Manchester Act 2004

Section 5 of the preamble deals with the establishment of University of Liverpool

A Royal Charter was also granted by His late Majesty King Edward the Seventh in 1903 establishing a university in Liverpool to be called the University of LiverpoolVanpump (talk) 23:26, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

I'm grateful. — mholland (talk) 23:36, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

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That external source is a Wikipedia mirror. — mholland (talk) 19:21, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

naming

Please provide me with the link to the naming convention which you refer to in your The Lancaster University edit summary. This would be very informative. If you are mistaken, it still may be reasonable to not use "The". User F203 (talk) 14:34, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

Hi there. Apologies for not linking it in the edit summary. The naming convention I was thinking of is Wikipedia:Naming conventions (definite and indefinite articles at beginning of name). Also relevant is WP:COMMONNAME - the university is chartered as "the University of Lancaster", but trades as Lancaster University. As the more commonly used of the two options, our article resides at that title. — mholland (talk) 14:51, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

LSE people

I appreciate you trying to clean the LSE page. It was definitely too long. However, when you deleted the alumni/people section a while back, there were a couple pieces of interesting information that went with your delete. I know it's a pain, but if you're going to do a big edit because some info is covered elsewhere, then make sure all the information is actually covered elsewhere. My gripe/lost edit was very small, but somewhat close to my heart. Thanks. 82.35.193.47 (talk) 02:24, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

If I removed something that wasn't covered at the main article, List of London School of Economics people, it's probably because the information wasn't referenced. I've taken out quite a few unsourced sentences from the LSE article. My apologies if I erased any good, sourced material by accident. — mholland (talk) 19:20, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

LSBU Entry

Thank you for cleaning up our university page but from the audit trail of changes it appears you have put up a past version of our institution's profile and my comprehensive July changes have been overwritten. I hope that hasn't also affected the level of detail appearing in our history section. The university's Archivists spent time editing these. Although I'm sure your intentions were good this has left us with a heavier work load. Rachelwebeditor (talk) 11:34, 20 August 2009 (UTC)

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DMU Clephan Building.jpg

Hi,

Thanks for your message regarding the copyright permissions on the file I uploaded. I'm a bit of a newbie to Wikipedia, so apologies in advance. The image in question is from my university's website, on the page located on this URL. I don't think they would be too fussed regarding copyright if I were to straight-up email them, given the context of the article I have tagged it in.

I understand that it is replaceable, but just wanted to double-check with you that there are no easier alternatives rather than emailing for permission or taking a picture of the building myself.

Thanks,

Jack Jack.OSull (talk) 14:35, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

Hi there. The University would have to release the image freely for anyone else to use - permitting us to use it on Wikipedia is insufficient, and it's often a bit of a hassle explaining this and getting permission in an appropriate form. It's quite a small image, so taking a photo of the building yourself, and releasing it under a free licence would be ideal. For more detail on the rules for uploading images, have a look at the Wikipedia:Image use policy. Thank you! — mholland (talk) 00:51, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

Hi, I have now taken a picture of the building myself and licensed it freely, as you have suggested. Problem sorted, thank you for your help! Jack.OSull (talk) 19:26, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

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