[Wikimediauk-l] Gay Switchboard (in the UK) articles
Anyone interested in taking up creating better articles for the history of Gay Switchboard (and Gay Switchboard Ireland below)? From my memory, it was a complex set of organizations across the UK, in the 1980s/90s more general gay groups setting up their own help systems. Then London Switchboard got really big, with serious funding, and this became a much more coordinated movement. Different organizations still cover different areas, for example Nottingham - http://www.nottslgs.org.uk - and have their own interesting and complex histories that would be useful as Wikipedia articles. There are sources for some of this evolution of gay groups, with well known writers like Lisa Power putting some of this down in their semi-autobiographical books. I have looked at this topic before (last editing London Lesbian and Gay Switchboard on the English Wikipedia in 2011), however due to some 'unpleasantness' when I have had a personal connection with an organization, I suggest someone with no past connection take a look. Thanks Fae -- Forwarded message -- From: "Gay Switchboard (via Twitter)" Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 15:21:05 + Subject: Gay Switchboard (@GaySwitchIrland) replied to one of your Tweets! To: Fae Fae @Faewik @PolariMagazine @GaySwitchIrland @Wikipedia No Wikipedia article for it, yet there is for London - someone fix it! 04:09 PM - 30 Jul 14 Gay Switchboard @GaySwitchIrland @Faewik @PolariMagazine @Wikipedia our core work is supporting the community.Perhaps someone at Wikipedia would like to volunteer to do it?! 04:21 PM - 30 Jul 14 Fae -- fae...@gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Unsuccessful candidates in UK elections
On 30 July 2014 11:16, Harry Burt wrote: > Are you intending this to contain anyone who has every > lost an election in the UK? Or just those who stood but *never* won? I would have thought just the latter, but - as always - the community will decide ;-) Subdividing to the level of [[Category: Unsuccessful candidates in the 1979 general election]], etc, would allow for the former. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Unsuccessful candidates in UK elections
Oops! We already have: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:British_political_candidates I've redirected my new creation. Still needs populating... On 30 July 2014 11:11, Andy Mabbett wrote: > I have just created: > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Unsuccessful_candidates_in_United_Kingdom_elections > > Please help to populate, and eventually subdivide, it. Andy Mabbett > > -- > Andy Mabbett > @pigsonthewing > http://pigsonthewing.org.uk -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Unsuccessful candidates in UK elections
On 30 July 2014 11:16, Harry Burt wrote: > On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 11:11 AM, Andy Mabbett > wrote: >> I have just created: >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Unsuccessful_candidates_in_United_Kingdom_elections >> Please help to populate, and eventually subdivide, it. Andy Mabbett > Are you intending this to contain anyone who has every lost an election in > the UK? Or just those who stood but *never* won? Presumably those who pass en:wp notability anyway - people who have nothing other than being an unsuccessful candidate in an election generally aren't considered to pass notability by that alone. - d. ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Unsuccessful candidates in UK elections
On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 11:11 AM, Andy Mabbett wrote: > I have just created: > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Unsuccessful_candidates_in_United_Kingdom_elections > > Please help to populate, and eventually subdivide, it. Andy Mabbett > > Are you intending this to contain anyone who has every lost an election in the UK? Or just those who stood but *never* won? Harry ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk
[Wikimediauk-l] Unsuccessful candidates in UK elections
I have just created: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Unsuccessful_candidates_in_United_Kingdom_elections Please help to populate, and eventually subdivide, it. Andy Mabbett -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk
