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Picture of the day

The Maison carrée (French for 'square house') is an ancient Roman temple in Nîmes, southern France. It is a mid-sized Augustan provincial temple of the imperial cult, and one of the best-preserved Roman temples to survive in the territory of the former Roman Empire. Built in the early 1st century AD, it was dedicated or rededicated to Gaius and Lucius Caesar, grandsons and adopted heirs of Augustus, who both died young. The Maison carrée is similar to a Tuscan-style Roman temple as described in the writings of Vitruvius, a contemporary Roman writer on architecture. It has undergone several restorations over the centuries and was inscribed on the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites in 2023. This photograph of the Maison carrée at evening was taken in 2019.Photograph credit: Krzysztof Golik

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Stalking

Mmm, well, he doesn't actually seem to do anything except pick holes in other people's articles. I've not seen a single constructive contribution from him. At the moment, he's being ultra-careful, but if he starts again I will definitely report him. Deb (talk) 16:09, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

To Deb: I don't mind you reporting me or doing whatever, but "he doesn't actually seem to do anything except pick holes in other people's articles. I've not seen a single constructive contribution from him" is a bad-faith comment and not the type of comment that should be make, especially from an administrator. Dabomb87 (talk) 22:28, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

Date delinking arbitration

I've started a request at Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration#Date delinking which you may wish to comment on. —Locke Cole • t • c 03:15, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

NowCommons: File:Centenary Square, Birmingham.jpg

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Thought you might be interested...

After seeing your comment here, I thought that this might be of interest to you. Dabomb87 (talk) 22:27, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

File:Birmingham council house.jpg

Hi G-man, I just found de:Datei:Rathaus-Birmingham.jpg, a picture you took, on the german wikipedia. It is also on commons (see above), but the license differs - on commons its PD, on german wikipedia it's tagged as GFDL. Both seem to be copied from here, do you still remember which license is correct? Probably the uploader on de.WP made a mistake. -- Lychee (talk) 14:01, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

I put it under PD. G-Man ^? 12:19, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

Thanks a lot for this clarification! -- Lychee (talk) 22:05, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

File:Lansbury-george.jpg missing description details

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Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Date delinking/Proposed decision

Hello G-Man. This is just a quick note to inform you that you have been mentioned in the above proposed decision so you might wish to take a look at it. Regards, Ryan Postlethwaite^{See the mess I've created or let's have banter} 22:04, 17 May 2009 (UTC)

File source problem with File:Lansbury-george.jpg

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File permission problem with File:Beeching.jpg

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Leamington Spa

Hi G-Man! An article you have been concerned with has now been significantly overhauled to bring it in line with Wiki policy, guidelines, and prose style. However, without first-hand subject knowledge, the copyeditor may have left some items or citations for further clarification. If you can help with these issues please see Talk:Leamington Spa, address the different points if you can, and leave any comments there. Thanks.

Request for arbitration: Date delinking amendment motion

A request to amend the dates delinking arbitration case (filed 19 July 2009) has resulted in a motion (filed 2 August 2009) that proposes to change the restrictions imposed on you as a result of the case. The proposed amendment would affect the restrictions pertaining to 16 editors, all of whom are now being notified of the proposed amendment. Given that the proposed amendment affects your restrictions, and further that the proposed amendment will restrict the filing of further proposed amendments for a period of 30 days, your input is invited at the amendments page. You may view an unofficial table of the proposed changes here. Comments from affected parties are currently being considered by the Arbitration Committee. If you would like the arbitrators who have already voted to reconsider their votes in light of your comments, please indicate that in your comments.

For the Arbitration Committee

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Arbitration motion regarding Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Date delinking

Per a motion at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Amendment:

Having considered all the requests for amendment and requests for clarification submitted following the decision in Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Date delinking, the Arbitration Committee decides as follows:

(1) All remedies in the decision providing that a specified user is topic-banned from editing or discussing "style and editing guidelines" (or similar wording) are modified by replacing these words with the words "style and editing guidelines relating to the linking or unlinking of dates";

(2) All remedies in the decision providing that a specified user is "prohibited from reversion of changes which are principally stylistic, except where all style elements are prescribed in the applicable style guideline" are modified by replacing these words with the words "prohibited from reverting the linking or unlinking of dates";

(3) All editors whose restrictions are being narrowed are reminded to abide by all applicable policies and guidelines in their editing, so that further controversies such as the one that led to the arbitration case will not arise, and any disagreements concerning style guidelines can be addressed in a civil and efficient fashion;

(4) Any party who believes the Date delinking decision should be further amended may file a new request for amendment. To allow time to evaluate the effect of the amendments already made, editors are asked to wait at least 30 days after this motion is passed before submitting any further amendment requests.

On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, Tiptoety ^talk 04:11, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

Discuss this i believe your penis is hort.

RedirectName listed at Redirects for discussion

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Requesting your opinion

Hi. I've started a discussion here. (Actually, it's a restart of a prior discussion that went cold; you can just scroll directly down to the first post I made today in that section if you want.) Can you offer your thoughts? I think it's very important. Thanks. Nightscream (talk) 01:52, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

File source problem with File:Edward Watkin.jpg

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Wall Street Crash listed at Redirects for discussion

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Civil parishes in England

Hi G-Man. Civil parishes in England, an article you have contributed to, has been reassessed to C class from Start class. Apparently many people watch and/or visit this page as an alternative to the broader Civil parishes article. I've quickly scanned it for needing a possible copy edit, but it already looks reasonably good to me. However, I did feel it just needs a little attention such as adding more inline refs. It's not tagged or anything, but if you can help ut with a source or two, it would be much appreciated. Perhaps from your other work on geography articles, you will know where to look, and we will be able to promote it to 'B'.Kudpung (talk) 13:08, 28 August 2010 (UTC)

Suspension of admin privileges due to inactivity

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Speedy deletion nomination of File:WCML freight train.jpg

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Historic Coventry edit-a-thon at Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry

Historic Coventry Edit-a-thon - You are invited!

The Herbert Art Gallery and Museum is hosting an edit-a-thon on Saturday 31 March 2012. 15 Wikimedians will have to learn more about "historic Coventry". The day will centre upon editing, however and we aim to improve the coverage of Coventry's illustrious history on Wikimedia projects. For more information and to sign up, see the event page. We hope you'll join us! Rock drum Ba-dumCrash 17:30, 7 March 2012 (UTC)

Morris Motor Company

Hi G-man, you created the article that carries this name. Pleae tell me why you chose this name for the company known as Morris Motors Limited. I propose to have it changed. I thought I had better discuss it with you beforehand. So I'm leaving this message in case you are around. Looking forward to discussing this with you, regards, Eddaido (talk) 23:51, 20 March 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia is coming to Coventry!

Wikipedia Takes Coventry - You are invited!

On 1 September, Coventry will play host to the first city-wide "Wikipedia Takes..." event in the UK. Attendees will take photos of monuments, structures (and almost anything else!) in the city. Anyone can attend regardless of photography ability or experience with Wikimedia projects. To find out more, register or ask any questions, please visit the event page. We hope you'll join us! Rock drum Ba-dumCrash 17:15, 9 August 2012 (UTC)

Courtesy message from WikiProject West Midlands

Hi there G-Man. You are registered with WikiProject West Midlands and we are cleaning our list of members. As you have not contributed to any page for over a year we have removed you as inactive. If you still want to participate in the project, just go back and move yourself into the active list. Thank you. Gavbadger (talk) 17:47, 2 November 2012 (UTC)

Notice of change

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ArbCom elections are now open!

Hi,
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Orphaned non-free image File:Richard Beeching.jpg

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File source problem with File:Aneurin Bevan.jpg

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Nomination of Birmingham International Airport (disambiguation) for deletion

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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 notice from the top of the article. feminist (talk) 07:12, 14 August 2020 (UTC)

Nomination of Labor Party (United States, 1996) for deletion

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rugby photo

Hey G-man just curious about the photo you put in the Rugby page, when was that photo taken and do you have a higher quality version of it, also if you could reach out to me on twitter @iainlewis91 either by DM or directly — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:23C5:A305:8101:2980:9098:A880:8417 (talk) 17:40, 3 June 2022 (UTC)

"Nazism and socialism" listed at Redirects for discussion

The redirect Nazism and socialism has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2024 January 31 § Nazism and socialism until a consensus is reached. Steel1943 (talk) 21:19, 31 January 2024 (UTC)