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- Thanks! Aivin G. (talk) 12:28, 21 September 2018 (UTC)
Spacing
editHi there, I see you've been spending some time removing what you regard as excessive spacing, largely between sentences. You might find MOS:PUNCTSPACE useful, regarding "Software condenses two or more spaces to just one when rendering a page, so editors may use any spacing style they prefer (e.g., a single space or two spaces after a period/full stop". So the double space is valid here, though no more or less so than single spacing, and the end result as to what is displayed is identical. That should save you a bit of time.
Regarding spacing in other contexts, there is further advice throughout the WP:MOS. All the best. Mutt Lunker (talk) 10:23, 27 September 2018 (UTC)
- Thank you Aivin G. (talk) 10:47, 27 September 2018 (UTC)
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Speedy deletion nomination of Categoria:Alunos da Somerville College
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editHello Aivin G., I have a question and a comment about Somerville.
The question, do you have a reference for "The library is the biggest college library of the University of Oxford" in Somerville College Library? I have looked at the reference http://www.some.ox.ac.uk/library-it/ but that just says it is "one of the largest undergraduate College libraries in the University".
The comment, I edited Somerville College, Oxford to say Somerville's net assets had the seventh highest total for an Oxford undergraduate college. As background I have added a section on Finances to Colleges of the University of Oxford, with a reference to a 2018 Guardian article. College accounts do not include all their main sites and heritage assets, so they do not give complete values for the colleges' wealth.TSventon (talk) 15:22, 7 March 2019 (UTC)
- Hello, I did not find a reference for that online. There are just no other college libraries with more than 120,000 books and it is advertised in the library itself. Thanks for the comment, I didn't know about that. --Aivin G. (talk) 15:41, 7 March 2019 (UTC)
- I would suggest that saying Somerville has one of the largest undergraduate libraries would be more in line with the verifiability policy. Something advertised inside a college library is not published information, for example.
- I added the note on finances because Wikipedia users are unlikely to be familiar with detailed accounting rules. Valuation of unique heritage objects is generally avoided because it would be expensive and inaccurate and of limited relevance if the assets are unlikely to be sold. Somerville has a note about this on page 28 of its 2018 accounts.TSventon (talk) 16:43, 7 March 2019 (UTC)
- I have just made some more corrections to the article, mainly capitalisation. Hopefully they are not controversial.TSventon (talk) 11:45, 14 March 2019 (UTC)
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Girton College
editHi, further to your edit about Girton in the Somerville article, I have edited the description in line with the claim on Girton's website "the College is distinctive for being Britain’s first residential college for women offering an education at degree level." There should be an article about women's higher education in Britain but, as there doesn't seem to be one, I have added establishment dates to the list in the UK section of Women's college and will try to add some narrative eventually.TSventon (talk) 11:56, 23 April 2019 (UTC)
- Great, thanks very much! --Aivin G. (talk) 16:23, 23 April 2019 (UTC)
- Another Somerville query: the Darbishire section says "The coat of arms of Somerville and that of co-founder John Percival, first principal Madeleine Shaw-Lefevre and Helen Darbishire were carved by Edmund Ware inside the quadrangle. The archway leading to Hall was reconstructed in 1938." Are there four coats of arms or two? If so I think the "that" should read "those".TSventon (talk) 14:49, 25 April 2019 (UTC)
- There are indeed four coat of arms so I’ve changed it, thanks!--Aivin G. (talk) 15:45, 25 April 2019 (UTC)
- I have now added a brief introduction to the UK section of Women's college, if you want to add anything, please do.TSventon (talk) 15:14, 26 April 2019 (UTC)
- There are indeed four coat of arms so I’ve changed it, thanks!--Aivin G. (talk) 15:45, 25 April 2019 (UTC)
- Another Somerville query: the Darbishire section says "The coat of arms of Somerville and that of co-founder John Percival, first principal Madeleine Shaw-Lefevre and Helen Darbishire were carved by Edmund Ware inside the quadrangle. The archway leading to Hall was reconstructed in 1938." Are there four coats of arms or two? If so I think the "that" should read "those".TSventon (talk) 14:49, 25 April 2019 (UTC)
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