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Jody Serrano (9 September 2022). "How Wikipedia's 'Deaditors' Sprang Into Action on Queen Elizabeth II's Page After Her Death". Gizmodo. And then there was Charles, the Queen's son who has waited to become King for what seems like an eternity. "What name would he take as King?" the Wikipedia editors wondered. They changed his name in the Queen's article—from "Charles, Princes of Wales" to "Charles III" to "Charles, King of the United Kingdom"—a number of times. (Charles settled on "Charles III.")
Annie Rauwerda (9 September 2022). "Who the hell updated Queen Elizabeth II's Wikipedia page so quickly?". Input. Over on the article for now-King Charles III, there was a frenzy of title changes as editors waited for his regnal name to be announced. Charles' article changed titles five times while people waited for his official regnal name.
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The result was: promoted by Lightburst (talk) 03:50, 26 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: Has appeared in the ITN section in the last year, although not as a bold link, so I believe it should be fine on this front. Promoted to GA on 22 May 2023.
Interesting GA, thank you for relentlessly getting him there! Fine sources, no copyvio obvious. I think most readers would say yes to the original hook. For the ALT, the intended image would need no be in the article, but I don't like the construction "as Prince of Wales, Charles III ...". Can you find something interesting he really did as King? ... best with an image to match? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:29, 25 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
This avoids the anachronism of "Charles III" and saves on space. There isn't much that isn't already obvious that Charles has done as king, that is illustrated in the article: the only thing that comes to mind is him banning foie gras, but that would be a very boring hook.
If you do require something else, please let me know. Cheers, Tim O'Doherty (talk) 20:53, 25 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
approve ALT2 if that's what you like ;) - offline sources accepted AGF, the pic is licensed and shows well even small. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:34, 25 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
The copyvio detector has a 52% score, mostly titles and such. Lightburst (talk) 03:52, 26 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Archival
Is it intended that this section not be archived, or some rather exotic bug? 109.255.211.6 (talk) 02:00, 22 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
A bug of sorts. The bot that does the archiving will only archive after a certain number of days have passed. Since this whole section transcludes another page, there wasn't actually a date that the bot could see, hence, it was never archived. Someone could either archive this manually, or, since this thread now includes dates thanks to the conversation we are having here, the bot will probably archive it automatically at some point now. Aoi (青い) (talk) 04:26, 22 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Ah, I see! Thanks for that info. I shall now do pat myself on the back for having blundered into "fixing" it, after a fashion. 109.255.211.6 (talk) 109.255.211.6 (talk) 19:13, 22 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The favored Wikipedia portraits for British monarchs seem to be of them in dress uniform or their regalia, and this portrait more fits that style. The difference just caught my eye and it seemed fair enough to ask CanadianPrince (talk) 05:12, 23 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Licensing of that image, is questionable. So we don't use that image. GoodDay (talk) 05:14, 23 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Alright then. CanadianPrince (talk) 05:15, 23 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Literally came here for this as well. Why is there an issue with the licensing, this seems to be the official photograph of the King. Hamidlinski (talk) 21:10, 4 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
See this discussion here. To summarise: There is no evidence that the image (which I like, a lot) is anything other than Crown Copyright, which means it enters the public domain in 2074. We would use it if we could. Wehwalt (talk) 21:39, 4 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
OTOH, that does leave the possibility that it's covered by the Open Government Licence, which would be wikipatible it seems. I don't know how one determines whether it is or not. 109.255.211.6 (talk) 01:21, 5 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
That would be determined by someone uploading it to Commons under that license, and we'd see how that goes. Go for it! --SergeWoodzing (talk) 15:14, 5 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you CH, very useful link and notification. A reupload might make sense if a different version is used, as a view offered there is that the 'full' version may be unlicenced CC, but the gov.uk version OGL'd CC. 109.255.211.6 (talk) 00:37, 6 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
« the 'full' version may be UL CC, but the gov.uk version OGL'd CC. » what does this mean, please? I find it difficult to follow the discussion if it’s got lots of acronyms. —— Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 01:41, 6 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I made an edit to the lead sentence which Rosbif73 reverted as it was “unnecessary”.
From my understanding, ”is the King of the United Kingdom and 14 other Commonwealth realms” is more accurate in grammar than “is King of the United Kingdom and the 14 other Commonwealth realms”. Димитрий Улянов Иванов (talk) 12:30, 18 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
A definite article is not usually used with a job title when there is only one holder of the title (at any given time). Rosbif73 (talk) 12:40, 18 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
It's a little tricksy, but the general understanding is that saying "the king" would be a description -- name, Charles; profession, kinging -- but "King of the United Kingdom" is a title. Note the different capitalisation. Like saying "President Biden" or "President of the United States", as opposed to "a/the president". 109.255.211.6 (talk) 01:40, 24 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I can see some reverts were made on attempts to claim the king has died, purely based on a release from a Russian news source. Thank you for this, and please continue to do so until official confirmation. Jalen Folf(talk) 22:33, 18 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
When exactly are you expecting official confirmation? Martinevans123 (talk) 22:41, 18 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The first such edit I saw had an edit summary claiming it was on the BBC website. It wasn't. That was one of our editors lying. A Russian editor? HiLo48 (talk) 23:34, 18 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I remain of the view that the lead section is... terrible. The wonder that it ever passed GAN in this state -- without detracting from the sterling efforts editors made considerably improving it in other respects, all kudos to those -- merely increases over time as his reign lengthens, and the "reign" paragraph fails to reflect that.
Specifically, p1 and p4 are absurdly undersized and uninformative, while p2 and p3 are long and trivia-packed. We learn that he spent six months in an Australian school six years ago, but not that he's currently head of state of that country. Nothing at all is said therein about his ongoing break from public duties on health grounds. We should significantly expand the former, and somewhat trim the latter. Or am I a lone voice in the wilderness on that? 109.255.211.6 (talk) 03:46, 26 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
level-5 vital article is rated GA-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
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Interesting GA, thank you for relentlessly getting him there! Fine sources, no copyvio obvious. I think most readers would say yes to the original hook. For the ALT, the intended image would need no be in the article, but I don't like the construction "as Prince of Wales, Charles III ...". Can you find something interesting he really did as King? ... best with an image to match? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:29, 25 May 2023 (UTC)
approve ALT2 if that's what you like ;) - offline sources accepted AGF, the pic is licensed and shows well even small. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:34, 25 May 2023 (UTC)
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