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We're working on developing a consensus on the future of the Nobel icon template. Your opinion is welcome at Template talk:Nobel icon. Thanks, « Diligent Terrier (talk) 16:03, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
I'd be a little more cautious if I were you before a) adding highly controversial page moves to the "uncontroversial" section and b) performing the move myself after someone already reverted the previous move. Assuming good faith, you probably didn't know about WP:MOSMAC when you proposed the page move. Fine with that, however why did you perform the page move after discussion at User_talk:Parsecboy? (you must have seen the page has been moved and reverted if you have it on your watchlist)-- Avg 23:49, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi. I think it would be great if you could weigh in at WT:MOSMAC or simply at a requested move, as a (completely) neutral editor in regards to this subject. BalkanFever 11:08, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
Yes, that is what I mean. WP:NFC#Images says that screenshots should have critical commentary, so we can't very well make up our own commentary to validate the inclusion of the images. It has to be based on existing observations made by reliable sources, otherwise, where is the limit? I added the one of the Mayans to somewhat depict them, but they don't really match up with the neighboring content. I've since fine-tuned my approach to be more explicit in tying the images with the content; see my personal examples Fight Club (film) and Doomsday (film). —Erik (talk • contrib) - 18:49, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
We could upload this image of the tree to illustrate the critical commentary about what it took to put together. What do you think? —Erik (talk • contrib) - 20:24, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
Koavf,
I was very surprised to read the message which you left for me on the Talk page of the IP address which I share with others whilst browsing Wikipedia. Your comments are somewhat puzzling given that you it is you who are constantly reverting edits on the Pan-Arab Colors page without explanation. Moreover, the combative nature of your message falls sadly short of the standards required of contributors to Wikipedia, who should all presume good faith in the edits of other contributors.
If you have a problem with the nature of edits being made to the Pan-Arab Colors page, or indeed any other page on Wikipedia, I politely suggest that you adopt a more civil and dispassionate means of initiating discussion, preferably on the Talk page of the article in question, rather than making an unjustified and unjustifiable threat of blocking. Though this IP address is shared, the edits to the Pan-Arab Colors page are my own, and as such I can attest to the fact that they are absolutely within the permitted framework for edits on Wikipedia.
Regarding the substance of the edits, the issue with which you take exception appears to be the status of the Flag of Andalusia. As has already been stated by another contributor, this flag does not contain the Pan-Arab Colors - it only contains green and white. There is no similarity with those of Egypt and Yemen, which use only three of the four Pan-Arab Colors, namely red, white, and black (but not green), because these are the Arab Liberation Colors, a distinct and recognized sub-section of the Pan-Arab Colors. Moreover, you will be aware that previous versions of both these flags did indeed contain green in addition to the other Pan-Arab Colors.
The "source" offered by the contributor making the unique and factually inaccurate assertion that the Flag of Andalusia contains the Pan-Arab Colors (who is incidentally a resident of Andalusia) is entirely flawed. As both an Arab, and a student of vexillolgy, I can state unequivocally that the Flag of Andalusia does not fit into the distinct category of flags bearing the Pan-Arab Colors. Naturally, I recognize your right, and the right of any other contributor, to dispute this and to edit the article accordingly. This is the very nature of Wikipedia, and since I assume good faith on your part, I do not exception to your edits, though I know them to be entirely inaccurate from a factual point of view. I hope that you will reciprocate in this same spirit, as indeed the Wikipedia regulations oblige you to, and that further discussion of this matter will be limited to a respectful, productive, and non-threatening exchange on the article's Talk page.
I would naturally be very pleased to know your opinions on the points raised above, however, I respectfully request that any further message directed for my attention be left on the Talk page of the article itself (or indeed on your own Talk page), rather than on that of the IP address, simply because as it is a shared IP address, any messages will be viewed by users other than myself and be the cause of confusion. Until such time as the issue is definitively resolved on the article Talk page, I will continue to make factually accurate edits to the page, and I trust that you will do the same. In view of my preceding words, I hope that any further exchanges between us will be of a cordial and respectful nature.
Regards 90.242.24.164 (talk) 00:19, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
I see you changed the name of the the Assassination of Franz Ferdinand discussion. The archives are now inaccessable as a result. Please restore access. Many people have made foolish edits recently that if they could read the archive they would realize they are representing myth as fact.Werchovsky (talk) 01:33, 7 August 2008 (UTC) Thanks for restoring access to the archives.Werchovsky (talk) 04:40, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
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Why did you take those 2 categories out? [1] Grk1011 (talk) 23:52, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
Hello, just to let you know, categories are not eligible to be deleted under WP:CSD#A3. This criterion only applies to articles, hence the "A". I think what you may have been trying to use was ((db-catempty)), which files a category under CSD C1. Please note, however, that this criterion only applies if the category has had no members for four days, and is not likely to get any anytime soon (such as a maintenance category might), and has no relevance to the text portion of the category. Since I'm assuming that's what you meant, I'll probably delete most of your taggings anyway, but if I decline any, that's why. Thanks. Hersfold (t/a/c) 01:43, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
This caught my eye: "Magic Alex over redirect: most common name, remove psuedo-dab".
Magic Alex (discounting the title) is mentioned FIVE times. Alex (alone) is mentioned TWICE. Mardas is mentioned over SEVENTY times.
Could you please give me a sane reason for reverting the name? Leaving a note on the article's talk page would be nice, which you didn't do before.--andreasegde (talk) 14:12, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
--mboverload@ 07:43, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
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Hi, Koavf! If you don't mind, when you ((db-c2)) a category, would you take the moment needed to indicate on the talk page what the new, correctly spelled category name is? Just makes checking the deletion easier. Thanks much! -- SatyrTN (talk / contribs) 00:28, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
What is this? The person in the picture on that page is obviously Mick Taylor. Stan weller (talk) 03:47, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
In light of this nomination, should this previous one be closed or withdrawn? I noticed US–Iraq is on the longer list. Good Ol’factory (talk) 11:49, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
What is this? Please discuss on the talk page. Have you tried to read the article you have moved? That article covers only relations before 1941, the modifier is not unnecessary. Colchicum (talk) 02:29, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
Moreover, it is blatantly wrong to mention the Soviet Union in the title. The Soviet Union didn't exist before 1924, only Soviet Russia did, hence Soviet--German relations before 1941, and nothing else. Please review your edit. Colchicum (talk) 02:32, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
Why are you moving pages to names outside of standard naming conventions? There is a reason (WP:FOR) that it is Chadian-Sudanese relations, not Chad-Sudan relations. Fix the dash if you like, but keep the correct names.--Thomas.macmillan (talk) 12:44, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
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Hi, I really don't like what you've done with Matt Bianco. It looks a mess and is completely inconsistent with all the other cover versions. What was wrong with it the way it was? Cheers, Pdfpdf (talk) 10:41, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
Hello, I have been doing some patrolling on new pages and I am having some trouble with a certain user user:gibbs101 this user created a page titled IGangsta Productionz and I placed a speedy deletion tag due to importance or significance of the subject and the page was deleted. However the page was re-created and I placed the tag on it once again then gibbs101 removed the tag without putting the "hangon" tag and stating a reason the user then vandelised my user page. So I then reverted the edit on my page as well as putting the speedy deletion tag back on the igangsta productionz page again then wrote this to you and that is where the situation is at at the moment. Can you plase help me out at all.--Theoneintraining (talk) 19:50, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi, Koavf. You should be aware that you're being discussed here. Bishonen | talk 06:49, 22 August 2008 (UTC).
I don't understand, myself and other admins have already warned you, specifically, against doing exactly these moves. So, you just wait a year? El_C 08:23, 23 August 2008 (UTC)
You ask: "I really can't think of any compelling reason to have articles not obey that same standard. Can you?" Yes, I can. WP:USEENGLISH. That's the overriding policy here. Consistency is all fine and dandy, but Wikipedia naming should not and cannot attempt to be more consistent than the English language itself. It is a fact that country names in English are not a grammatically consistent class. What works syntactically with "United States–Venezuela relations" does not work with "German-Polish relations". People just don't say "Germany–Poland relations". It's simply wrong.
So, my opinion is still the same as a year ago: you got your sense of priorities wrong. Wikipedia naming policy favours whatever is most natural and common for each individual article. Naturalness is more important than uniformity. Please respect the decisions local editors have taken about what they find sounds best and reflects actual usage in the relevant literature about their particular countries. Some careful changes to details such as consistency in capitalisation is okay, but please don't force your unitary scheme on article where people have made well-considered different choices. Fut.Perf. ☼ 22:48, 23 August 2008 (UTC)
Hello, it is simply: fr:Monachisme had all links except en: for monk. so there was problem with mixed interwiki. There were only two good possibilities: replace interwiki in french article and remove link to fr: from all other languagues from Monk; or the one I did. If you think the other possibility is better, repalce interwiki in fr and let me know, I'll repair all other languages. JAn Dudík (talk) 10:20, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
I considered moving your hangon tag, but I decided not to because the article names are different enough. If they had been more similar, say only by one comma, then I would have moved it. I'm not sure why you moved it to include a capital "The" to begin with, though. — Twas Now ( talk • contribs • e-mail ) 01:06, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
Please do not add categories which do not apply to articles. The recordings in The Beatles Box Set were produced by George Martin with Phil Spector receiving producer credit on the Let it Be album. Steelbeard1 (talk) 10:51, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
Justin thank you for merging to articles together. I was going to ask you if you can do it to another album (¿Dónde Jugarán los Niños? (Special Edition) to ¿Dónde Jugarán Los Niños?, but it looks like it has been done already. Again thank you!! Manafan5 (talk) 06:16, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
Please note that there are very good reasons why the title of this play has lower-case "is", which are stated on the article's discussion page. Please also note that before reversing a change (to any article) which has previously been discussed on the talk page, you need to justify your changes there. I have therefore reversed your changes in the text of the article, but unfortunately it is not now possible to reverse your move. I would appreciate it if you could discuss your changes on the article talk page before I initiate a page-move request. Note also that I am likely to be away from Wikipedia for several days, so I would appreciate it if you did not revese my changes until I have had a chance to reply to your comments. Many thanks,
--NSH001 (talk) 13:23, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
Hi, Koavf. I didn't see any protection on either of the pages you requested to be moved; article creation on the WP:DASHed locations was set to "allow all users". I'm not sure why it wouldn't let you move the pages. In any case, I moved the three that you requested. Regards, Parsecboy (talk) 02:49, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
I have nominated Category:Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • (Broken clamshells • Otter chirps • HELP) 17:09, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
Why are you moving all of these articles? Corvus cornixtalk 05:22, 6 September 2008 (UTC)
That's an absolutely ridiculous standard. Hyphens are on a keyboard, dashes aren't. Requiring people to create articles with dashes in the names instead of hyphens is far too burdensome. Corvus cornixtalk 05:25, 6 September 2008 (UTC)
I rarely get involved in MOS discussions, since they tend to be contentious and concentrate on miniscule details. Corvus cornixtalk 05:30, 6 September 2008 (UTC)
No, I understand why you're doing it. I just think it's wrong, but you're working off what is a really stupid convention. Corvus cornixtalk 05:34, 6 September 2008 (UTC)
You might want to withdraw this nomination. There's currently a pagemove request on Robert Lange, as he is most often credited as "Robert John 'Mutt' Lange", and it looks like the page will indeed be moved. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • (Broken clamshells • Otter chirps • HELP) 14:21, 6 September 2008 (UTC)
FYI. Se also User_talk:The_Duke_of_Waltham/Archive_5#Another dash question and User_talk:Noetica#Hyphenation_question. Renata (talk) 03:29, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
Clarity I'll admit that your question "How is Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War clearer than Polish-Lithuanian–Teutonic War?" is a completely valid one. All I can say is that with mixed dashes, it looks like some formatting error to me. I'd imagine that there are some users who woudl understand what that means immediately, for others, it would take a moment. Looking at the talk page of that article, it appears that the most common name is to omit "Lithuanian," that would be a solution. Otherwise, you could include "Commonwealth" and make some space delimiter at least; I honestly don't know if that would be clearer. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 01:41, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
I reverted your conversion of html charcters to ISO characters in Wikipedia:Manual of Style. My reason was that the page was showing editors which dash-like-marks to use in various situations, and illustrating how to type them. Entering ISO characters directly is not feasible for many editors. The little toolkit below the edit window isn't much use, becase although it offeres a selection of dash-like-marks, it does not indicate which is which, so most editors don't have a realistic alternative to typing the html. --Gerry Ashton (talk) 04:23, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
Hello, Koavf, I was asked by a user to comment on your recent edit at Otto Frederick Hunziker. In particular they were confused about your removal of en and em dash html (which I actually implemented last month) and your addition of link autoformatting after it had been previously removed. I wanted to alert you that they've raised a few points on the article's talk page about your edit in case you wish to comment, but I also wanted to alert you about the recent changes per MOS:UNLINKYEARS. In short, date autoformatting is now depreciated by the MOS, so full dates (i.e. September 8, 2008) should no longer be linked. If you have any questions, let me know. María (habla conmigo) 17:44, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
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This is the problem. The alternate cover and the Balanescu Quartet chronology are not displaying, only the Nyman chornology, the first cover, and the third cover. I don't want to identify the second cover as a reissue, because I don't know which came first. I know only that the first cover is what I've seen in stores, and the second and third cover only online. The second cover may be the British edition, which would make it primary, but I don't know for sure. The alternate cover has been marked orphaned and will be speedy deleted if the issue is not resolved soon.
((Infobox Album <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Albums --> | Name = String Quartets 1-3 | Type = studio | Longtype = | Artist = [[Michael Nyman]] | Cover = NonFreeImageRemoved.svg | Cover size = 200 | Caption = art by Paul Richards<br>clockwise from top left: Balanescu, Musker, Hinnigan, Carney | Released = [[June 14]], 1991 | Recorded = November 1990, [[Church Studios]], [[Crouch End]] using [[B & W Loudspeakers]] | Genre = [[Contemporary classical music]], [[Chamber music]], [[string quartet]], [[minimalist music]] | Length = 63:17 | Language = | Label = [[Argo Records|Argo]] | Director = | Producer = [[Andrew Cornall]] | Reviews = | Compiler = | Chronology = Michael Nyman | Last album = [[Out of the Ruins]]<br>1990 | This album = [[String Quartets 1-3]]<br>1991 | Next album = [[Prospero's Books]]<br>1991 | Misc = ((Extra chronology 2 | Artist = Balanescu Quartet | Type = Studio | Last album = | This album = [[String Quartets 1-3]]<br>1991 | Next album = Byrne/Lurie/Moran/Torke<br>1992 )) | Misc = ((Extra album cover | Upper caption = 1991 Alternate Cover | Type = | Cover = Altsq1-3.jpg | Lower caption = )) | Misc = ((Extra album cover | Upper caption = 2002 Decca Reissue | Type = Reissue | Cover = NonFreeImageRemoved.svg | Lower caption = )) ))
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