Wikipedia talk:WikiProject British crime

message: What about The Long Good Friday? I know for a fact the criminal underworld revolves around Bob Hoskins. --81.79.29.103 15:58, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: British crime in film and popular culture

message: If you want a particularly eye-catching image for the project banner, I like :Image:John Tenniel - Punch - Ripper cartoon.png. Having any image would definitely help draw attention to the banner. Best of luck with the project! Badbilltucker 17:39, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Wow, great picture! I've added it to :Template:WP British Crime Invitation for the other members to take a look (as it is certainly in need of a good image). I and the project certainly appreciate your assintance and I'm sure the project founder will be interested. MadMax 07:49, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Project banner image 

message: Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 21:06, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikipedia Day Awards 

message: *It seems a proposal for WikiProject Crime has been made, in case anyone wants to voice their opinion. Personally, I think such a project would be ideal for possible collaberations with Wikipedia:WikiProject Australian crime among other related projects. MadMax 19:26, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: WikiProject Crime

message: *The following articles have been proposed for deletion: 
#Ebony Simpson, an Australian murder victim nominated on the basis of being a non notable/memorial entry. Interestingly enough, it has been proposed by one editor to merge the victim to the crime, which has apparently been becoming common practice. 
#CrimeLine - a non notable/unverified organization. 
#Dean Roberts (criminal) - non notible drug dealer 
#Michael Tyrell (drug trafficker) - non notable criminal 
—The preceding unsigned comment was added by MadMax (talk • contribs) 04:44, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Articles for deletion

message: There has been a recent cfd/renaming discussion relating to :Category:Gangs by ethnicity as well as all ethnic and historically related street gang categorires which includes Historical gangs of London (a subcategory of Historical criminals of London) and I assume will effect naming conventions of general crime related categories to eliminate ethnicity from crime related categories. 
On a related note, a related discussion on changing Jewish-American organized crime to a "less offensive and accusatory" title will also effect article naming conventions for similar organized crime related articles such as Talk:African-American organized crime and Talk:Greek-American organized crime and I assume related British articles as well. 
Also, there has been some discussion regarding about a possible "collaberation of the week" between the various crime related WikiProject and I was wondering f that would be of interest to anyone ? MadMax 23:12, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Naming conventions concerning ethnic organized crime articles

message: John Martin Scripps, an article on a serial killer from Hertfordshire, has been listed for peer review. Feel free to comment and leave suggestions on the review page. Resurgent insurgent 14:34, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Peer review 

message: Both were egregious WP:BLP violations. One Night In Hackney303 05:44, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Also stubbed Timothy Morss, Gary Nelson, William Danso, Patrick Dunne (murder victim), John O'Shaugnessey and Brett Tyler. One Night In Hackney303 06:44, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: And Gurmej Rai, Arthur Hutchinson, John McGrady and Muzzaker Shah. One Night In Hackney303 07:18, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Patrick Mackay]] and [[John Childs]] and others stubbed

message: Could someone give the Moira McCall Anderson, Moira Anderson Foundation and Sandra Brown (campaigner) articles a look-over for notability/sourcing/neutrality? Tearlach 09:58, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Moira Anderson case

message: List of people convicted under Anti-Terrorism Act in the United Kingdom, would appreciate help with this list - especially from UK members! Sherurcij (Speaker for the Dead)  19:18, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: New list

message: If anyone's interested, I've proposed a new wikiproject for the creation of articles regarding specific prisons here. --Cdogsimmons (talk) 20:52, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikiproject Prisons 

message: This article has recently passed the GA review process and I have requested a peer review to see in what ways it could firther be imporved. Your comments would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Million_Moments (talk) 11:17, 9 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Ipswich 2006 serial murders]]

message: AndrewRT(Talk) 21:30, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Local chapter for the Wikimedia Foundation 

message: These two (uncle/nephew, from Liverpool) are serving 20 years each for drugs trafficking and perverting the course of justice.  They were the subject of a long Customs & Excise investigation which was detailed in a book ("Lima 3" by Harry Ferguson), convicted of heroin distribution, then pardoned after less than a year by the Home Secretary for providing information leading to the seizure of many firearms.  After a long investigation it was concluded that this was a set-up and the weapons belonged to the pair in the first place.  They were convicted and sentenced to 20 years each.  They claimed that Michael Howard took a bribe (not substantiated), and Peter Kilfoyle MP spent some time campaigning for an investigation.  
My question is whether they deserve an article?  Personally I think the number of newspaper articles on the various trials, the book, and the involvement of the Home Secretary (the case is mentioned in the wiki on Royal Pardons) make them notable.  I've started an outline here.  If I reference it properly and obey WP:BLP, do others agree that this will make a decent article?  I don't want to waste my time if it's not going to meet the criteria.
regards, TrulyBlue (talk) 14:33, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  John Haase and Paul Bennett 

message: Robin Hood has been nominated for a good article reassessment. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to good article quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status will be removed from the article. Reviewers' concerns are here. --Malleus Fatuorum 22:40, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  GA Reassessment of [[Robin Hood]] 

message: Murder of Julia Martha Thomas, about a notorious murder in London in 1879, is currently going through a review for featured article status (see Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Murder of Julia Martha Thomas/archive1). The article is covered by this WikiProject; if editors are interested, please feel free to leave comments on the featured article candidates talk page. Prioryman (talk) 13:58, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Murder of Julia Martha Thomas featured article nomination

message: There is a proposal to merge :Fred West and :Rosemary West into a single article entitled Fred and Rosemary West. --Ohconfucius ¡digame! 03:23, 26 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed merger and page move 

message: I would welcome some alternative views/voices on this article. I got involved about two months after the article was originally started, and have put some work into expanding this and including cited information which outlines the importance of this case. A couple of editors have just weighed in, one of them suggesting it should be placed on AfD. This seems extreme to me: in fact I would argue that the ramifications of this case are already important and are yet to be fully realised, given that even now there's a government research going on which was prompted by the case and which is not due to reach completion for well over another year. But I think the article could certainly do with more editors working on it to get it balanced and up to scratch. At the moment it seems to be just me, plus the two editors who appear to be working as a team.
Hope to see you there. Alfietucker (talk) 15:05, 26 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Rochdale sex trafficking gang]] 

message: I know this project deals with British crime, but am wondering if there is a remit for including Britons convicted abroad. I'm interested as I've been working on an article about the Lindsay Sandiford case today. Any thoughts? Paul MacDermott (talk) 16:57, 23 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Britons convicted of offences outside the UK 

message: I received an email with the case of "Chris Huhne and Vicky Pryce each jailed for eight months” as a good example of equal justice for all. Others were more or less condemned by identical causes? All who lie to the English justice are sentenced to eight months in prison and 120,000 pounds? Or just politicians? - --Pires Portugal (talk) 20:13, 15 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chris Huhne, Vicky Pryce, Southwark Crown Court and equal justice for all? 

message: I have just created this page. I usually only write about horse racing so this is a big departure for me and I would like someone more experienced in this field to take a look at it. Tigerboy1966  17:43, 8 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Penge murders]] 

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thread_title:  Leaflet for Wikiproject British Crime at Wikimania 2014 

message: Related move discussion which won't show on Project alerts. In ictu oculi (talk) 15:57, 6 July 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for posting this. The murder of Ross Parker article is currently a featured article candidate so any input into review would be welcome.--Shakehandsman (talk) 06:01, 28 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Talk:Murder of Ross Parker]]

message: The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Exploitation in Rotherham has just been released, and has been picked up by all the major British news media. What it reports is absolutely horrific. This is one of the most serious abuse scandals in UK history, and is a major UK crime story that requires in-depth coverage on Wikipedia. -- The Anome (talk) 16:37, 26 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Exploitation in Rotherham]] 

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thread_title:  Comment on the WikiProject X proposal 

message: This is a notice about :Category:British crime articles needing expert attention, which might be of interest to your WikiProject. It will take a while before the category is populated. Iceblock (talk) 23:53, 18 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Expert attention 

message: I have created a new article for the TV series Crime Team. Please add more details if you have them. There are 2 redlinked articles related to crimes investigated in the series which could be created. I have a recollection that Frankie Fraser appeared in one episode but can't find a reference. JeanPassepartout (talk) 06:32, 1 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  ''[[Crime Team]]'' 

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thread_title:  WikiProject X is live! 

message: There is sufficient independent notability for the first fatal attack on a British MP for a quarter of a century for a separate article. Coverage relating to the suspect and the motivation are not best covered in the biography of the victim. Please assist at Draft:Murder of Jo Cox AusLondonder (talk) 02:52, 17 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Draft:Murder of Jo Cox]] 

message: A requested move at Talk:Offences Against the Person Act 1875 has just been relisted. Please come and add your choice and rationale to the debate.  Paine Ellsworth  put'r there  19:13, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Please come and help... 

message: Hi, I haven't done anything like this before so my apologies if I'm posting in the wrong place but I have opened a discussion on Talk:United Kingdom football sexual abuse scandal about whether to split off a section into a separate article on one of the convicted offenders. Thanks Harambe Walks (talk) 20:03, 9 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Discussion on page split 

message: Discussion on preferred version after edit war and lock of article. See Talk:Moors_murders#rfc_on_consensus_version_to_return_to Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 23:23, 7 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Moors murders]] 

message: For "Crimes in the United Kingdom" by year, is it the year of the crime or the year of conviction?  For example, at Operation Midland we have at present both 2014 and 2019 though there was only one crime (perversion of the course of justice). For most crimes it is likely to be the year of the crime, but in this case it is less clear. I cannot see any guidance here.Davidships (talk) 08:45, 25 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Categories 

message: I was wondering if anyone has a copy of the following book and could help with identifying some page numbers:
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I recently created the page Malcolm Fairley and have cited a chapter from the book in the article after finding it displayed in its entirety on Google Books. But Google Books doesn't show any page numbers for it. I mentioned this at the helpdesk and it was suggested I ask on the talk page of a relevant WikiProject, so here I am as this seems like a possible place where there may be someone who owns a copy. Any help would be much appreciated, and please feel free to edit the article and add the relevant information. Thanks in advance, This is Paul (talk) 21:54, 27 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Can you help with page numbering? 

message: Do you think the Murder of Sarah Everard should have a wikipedia page? If so, it should probably be made soon.DansterTheManster (talk) 17:33, 12 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sarah Everard Murder needs a wikipedia page? 

message: Hi all, in light of recent events concerning the disappearance of Sarah Everard and the list of femicides read out in Parliament  and covered in the Guardian. I have drafted a new navigation box template to highlight the femicides that have taken place and the organisations and support groups that exist also. I took my cue from the Black Lives Matter template (so it could cover related pages, existing and proposed legislation, popular culture also) but I wanted to gauge your opinion on the usefulness and appropriateness of the draft template as things stand. The template is here. and there is a discussion on the template's talk page about what is best to include (or not), so those who do not wish to see it do not have to. Stinglehammer (talk) 12:40, 15 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Femicide in the UK 

message: :Category:British crime articles needing expert attention has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Peaceray (talk) 06:23, 16 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: [[:Category:British crime articles needing expert attention]] has been nominated for discussion

message: I have opened a discussion at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Crime_and_Criminal_Biography#Possible_merger_of_related_WikiProjects%3F suggesting potentially merging this WikiProject into the main Crime WikiProject, either directly or changing this project into a task force - please take a look and comment if you have any thoughts.  SnowFire (talk) 22:05, 29 November 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Note: I've added an inactive marker to the WikiProject status.  Nobody else has chimed in favor or against on this particular project in the discussion at WPCRIME currently.  SnowFire (talk) 08:34, 5 December 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: @SnowFire Why has this WikiProject changed status from Inactive to Defunct without a formal proposal to change its status? All that has been proposed is a possible merger. I would have expected reasonable notice be given to all interested users seeking their opinions on such a merger and a second proposal for making this WikiProject defunct, rather than just retaining it as inactive. Also, the fact that this sort of action was being contemplated should have been prominently displayed on at least the project page so that it might be noticed by other editors who are not members of this WikiProject. I would have thought the response you received at WikiProject Crime (now archived) should have been a clue that a lack of response does not mean your merger proposal was accepted by all editors. WP:POLSILENCE warns that lack of exposure of the proposed change of a policy, which I see this change as, may be a reason for the lack of response, not that anyone agrees with what has been done. - Cameron Dewe (talk) 10:32, 4 September 2022 (UTC)
replies: text:  It was prominently displayed for nine months on the main page with the "inactive" status tag.  And this very talk thread was the proposal.  Nobody responded, and more importantly, there have been no conversations and no nothing on this Wikiproject talk page for years and years and years, excluding bot notices.  You've only noticed because I started, intentionally slowly, to actually clean up these banners, but there's nobody to talk too here.  A WikiProject without active users isn't a thing - the whole point is to facilitate collaboration, which obviously isn't happening.  More generally, the idea behind this project (and the Australia project) was incorrect to begin with.  Subdividing projects is fine, but it needs to be sensible subdivisions - you can imagine someone creating a Wikiproject like "Crime articles that start with the letter A" but that would be silly.  There's no need nor interest to call out British Crime as specially different, and no British Crime only community developed that wanted to be separate from the main Crime WP for some reason.  This was a good-faith idea that didn't pan out, as is utterly obvious if you read the talk page.  If you were genuinely using this WikiProject, you would have spoken up 9 months ago.  You weren't, which is fine!  Nobody was, so it wasn't a very useful place for collaboration.  But that also means that we have to face facts: this WikiProject is defunct.  SnowFire (talk) 15:47, 4 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible merger? 

message: There's an ongoing RfC at Talk:Michael Stone (criminal)#RfC - See also section of relevance to this project. Sirfurboy🏄 (talk) 12:01, 24 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  RfC - See also - Michael Stone 

message: There's an ongoing RfC at Talk:Richard D. Gill#Rfc - Kate Shemirani radio show appearance of relevance to this project. Structuralists (talk) 21:04, 2 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rfc - [[Richard D. Gill]] and [[Kate Shemirani]]