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• This article from The Guardian as alleged here? By no means; it is from The Daily Telegraph, a paper so far to the right of The Guardian that you can see the curvature of the Earth between them. Fine papers both but neither would wish to be confused with the other, me judice. Tim riley talk 01:39, 7 December 2014 (UTC)

  Fixed. -- Daniel Mietchen (talk) 02:54, 7 December 2014 (UTC)

  Thank you for the fix. With a story like this, I'll generally have up to a dozen tabs open from different news outlets before I whittle it down to the key stories which actually provide original information and reporting. I had also consulted this Guardian story, which only has a couple of paragraphs at the end about the embroidery. Gamaliel (talk) 18:12, 8 December 2014 (UTC)

• Culture 24 also has the embroidery story. Some of us have recently been trying to improve the Magna Carta article (which is on the vital article list for society and social sciences), in the hope of getting it to GA (or even FA) before the anniversary in June 2015, as the current 150,000+ page views per month is likely to increase before then. Any help appreciated.— Rod ^talk 10:14, 7 December 2014 (UTC)
• It is a total coincidence, but within a few days of each other, all of these crowdsourcing projects went live:
  • WikiCheese sought funding on KissKissBankBank so that they could take pictures of cheese
  • User:TonyTheTiger sought funding on Kickstarter to fund a range of subjects, including the 2015 McDonalds All-American game
  • Commons:User:Ryan Hodnett sought funding on Kickstarter to fund his creation of mostly nature photography
  • Friends of Commons:User:Poco a poco sought funding on IndieGogo to replace stolen camera equipment

All of these projects independently, with no contact with each other or knowledge of the other projects, decided to present their crowd funding proposals in the same week. The first crowdfunded project was

• Commons:User:Evan-Amos sought funding on Kickstarter to create the Vanamo Online Game Museum

which was done years ago, and has produced excellent content. The WikiCheese project cited Evan-Amos' project as an inspiration. Blue Rasberry (talk) 16:15, 8 December 2014 (UTC)