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Per the stream of edits such as your edit to Everything is Beautiful , there is an interaction between the specificity of articles about a particular song by a particular band, and the specificity of categories, that it appears you were unfamiliar with. Just to clarify, any article specifically about a specific Smashing Pumpkins release, such as Doomsday Clock (song), can be tagged with Category: Smashing Pumpkins songs, but not articles about songs by another band that SP has covered, such as Everything is Beautiful or Monster Mash. Anarchangel (talk) 19:14, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
...at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Music#"By-artist" categorization of cover songs. Your input there is welcome. --IllaZilla (talk) 21:19, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
I find this edit fallacious: WP:NC#Special characters and formatting specifically says, in bold, Do not apply formatting. It does not "mandate using italicized names for albums". In fact it says it "is used only in special cases" such as for taxonomic names of genera and species. MOS:TTR#Italics and formatting further says that ((italic title)) "should be used only in special cases – currently its only common use is for taxonomic genera and species". If you wish to change the MoS, you need to start a discussion on this in the appropriate place (the albums project would be a good place to start). Unless/until there is a consensus on the issue, please stop using ((italic title)) on album articles, and don't insert disengenous wording into the project's guidelines. --IllaZilla (talk) 22:22, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
If it was MOS:TITLE that you were referring to (when you said "MOS mandates using italicized names for albums"), that guidelines is for the titles of works, not the titles of Wikipedia articles. In other words, it refers to where the name of the work appears in the article text. If you look at all of the examples, they are for text formatting within the article body, not formatting of the article's title. So yes, we do "mandate" italicizing titles within article text, but we don't mandate itlicizing the titles of Wikipedia articles. --IllaZilla (talk) 23:02, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
Hey there Koavf, I noticed you recently requested both Age Ain't Nothing But a Number and Age Ain't Nothing But a Number (song) to be moved due to the capitalization of "but". I think it might interest you to have a look at this discussion I had brought up to another user when he moved the title to capitalize "but". Since both seem to be correct, I'd thought it might be worthwhile to maybe discuss capitalization of "but", just so it doesn't get moved back and forth every once in a while. Regards. — ξxplicit 20:59, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
Well, per WP:CAPS, it states In general, each word in English titles of books, films, and other works takes an initial capital, except for… and it lists several examples, such as articles, prepositions, coordinating conjunctions and so on. According to Dictionary.com, "but" can be used as either conjunction, preposition or adverb. This is where it gets tricky: all definitions seem to fit. Conjunctions and prepositions are, of course, not capitalized; adverbs are. The definition of "but" in sense of an adverb is "only; just", which seems to fit the title of the album and song (age is just/only a number). This is pretty much where the problem arises. Do we capitalize "but" or not? Doing a bit of searching, some publishers and websites capitalize "but": Allmusic, Entertainment Weekly, etc. Others don't: Rolling Stone, among others (too lazy to look at the moment). It's somewhat inconsistent, so I'm not too sure if either are fine or if one is more correct than another. As for the amount of letters it contains, I'd point out that "it" is shorter than four letters, but is always capitalized as it can only be used as a pronoun or noun. — ξxplicit 03:20, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
No worries. Perhaps I'll bring this up over at WT:CAPS. — ξxplicit 03:42, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
How is In the Beginning (Circa 1960) considered a posthumous album? Bubba73 (talk), 05:37, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
Well spotted on the ref thing. I'm taking out items with "www." (among other stuff) from the category Category:Articles lacking sources (Erik9bot), I wrongly picked this article because it has www in the image name (short for "West Wsa Won" i suppose) adn I put "." in the regex instead of "\." I'll check back for any others like that.
The default sort is to enable "How The" to sort after "How That" and before "How Theodore". (Note the capital T.) This does not affect the title shown in categories, just the sort order.
Hello there. Just noticed you added Category:Canadian discographies to Dave Matthews Band discography and I was wondering why? As far as I know, none of the band members are Canadian. Darry2385 (talk) 23:12, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
Good job on the discography categorisations. Cheers, Skomorokh, barbarian 07:37, 9 October 2009 (UTC)
The site "the classicalshop.net" has been blacklisted because it has been observed that it is often linked by spammers. See this discussion MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist#theclassicalmusicshop.net. Perhaps one of you has opinions about providing links to product pages in discographies, or knows of a page where one could solicit opinions. Robert.Allen (talk) 20:08, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
OK, I don't know whether you're trying to be helpful or a vandal, but adding the "Polish Rapists" category to the poor guy's article is inflammatory. Besides, she came onto him. Which makes him a paedophile, not a rapist. --LordNecronus (talk) 23:55, 10 October 2009 (UTC)
So, he's in the "French Rapists" category? Right, time to do some editing. --LordNecronus (talk) 23:58, 10 October 2009 (UTC) There is no settle consensus for adding these cats, talkpage please. Off2riorob (talk) 00:04, 11 October 2009 (UTC)
What is there to see on the talk? This is also under discussion at BLP noticeboard.Off2riorob (talk) 00:00, 11 October 2009 (UTC)
Copy this to at least three other talk pages.--Iusepencils. (talk) 01:28, 12 October 2009 (UTC)
Per Category:Articles containing German language text and Category:Articles containing Japanese language text, these categories should be added only by use of ((lang)). ---— Gadget850 (Ed) talk 02:10, 12 October 2009 (UTC)
WP:HONOR Honorifics (e.g. "Thich") are generally to be avoided in article titles, although there has been consensus to include them amongst some (e.g. Pope John Paul II and Saint Peter.) Wikipedia:Naming conventions (clergy) makes no mention of a special dispensation for "Thich" and I know of no consensus to include this honorific in article names. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 08:32, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
Yes, I understand what you were doing. But the band isn't called "Sisters of Mercy" it is called "The Sisters of Mercy" and this is something the band makes a particular note of a few times on their official website[1][2]. So defaultsorting them to appear under the the letter "S" is incorrect. --JD554 (talk) 07:03, 12 October 2009 (UTC)
I strongly urge you to read up on how we use cats on Wikipedia, and stop inappropriately adding Category:Democrats for Life of America to articles. -Andrew c [talk] 04:25, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
There was already a discussion over at WP:MOS about this. Do not revert.— Dædαlus Contribs 06:04, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
You didn't come to my talk page to apologise, but don't worry about it. I was right and I was proven right. Radiopathy •talk• 03:13, 23 October 2009 (UTC)
Justin - Just wanted to congratulate you on your support for dadelus969 who I have only just met (through our love of the quo). You also clearly appreciate his innocent nature and the fact that he would clearly never do the things which radiopathy is accusing him of. Dadelus12 (talk) 22:53, 23 October 2009 (UTC)
Hello koavf: Please add a RB colum to the Alicia Keys Discography page. AK has had many #1 on the RBcharts. AK is more of a RB artist. Beyonce has the RB column on her discography page so I think RB colums are allowed. AK's positions on the RB charts easily verifiable from BB. I dont know how to do charts that is why I havent done it. I dont wanna ruin the page. Thanks 64.26.99.120 (talk) 21:31, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
What do you think of Category:People of Ottoman Istanbul vs Category:People from Istanbul - and does it matter if he was there only a few years vs being born there? I don't know how these cats are defined. Smkolins (talk) 13:18, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
Why did you move this article without consent? Now it is very difficult to move this article back. It also messed up the intro. Please find some way of moving it back.Teeninvestor (talk) 20:53, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
Hi; if you manually rename categories that are at WP:CFDS, don't forget to also manually transfer the contents of the talk pages. That's why I like letting the bot do it—much easier ;| Good Ol’factory (talk) 03:13, 23 October 2009 (UTC)
I moved the snooker move requests from uncontroversial section to the controversial section. I did this because on a similar page, Talk:Snooker_season_2008/2009#Requested_move, this was a controversial move. I do not have any preference one way or the other. They will need to be converted to move request on a talk page to continue. ~~ GB fan ~~ talk 12:25, 23 October 2009 (UTC)
Hi Koavf,
Regarding this edit, just because a category is true, doesn't mean it needs to be on an article, otherwise every page would have hundreds of categories. The summary on WP:CAT says, "Categories are for defining characteristics, and should be specific, neutral, inclusive and follow certain conventions." Being buried in modern day Israel is in no way a defining characteristic of Bah'u'llah. See also WP:OVERCAT, which says, "However, not every verifiable fact (or the intersection of two or more such facts) in an article requires an associated category. For lengthy articles, this could potentially result in hundreds of categories, most of which aren't particularly relevant. This may also make it more difficult to find any particular category for a specific article. Such overcategorization is also known as "category clutter".
Regarding the discussion of Category:Manifestations of God in the Bahá'í Faith, the consensus that you claim says "NO CONSENSUS". The above points are valid for those articles such as Jesus, Buddha, etc. Cuñado ☼ - Talk 01:48, 24 October 2009 (UTC)
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Thanks, understood now. By the way, is it necessary to keep the tracklisting of articles as this and this uncollapsed? The second one especially looks weird, and the article looks bad visually. Suede67 (talk) 02:08, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
I have been editing articles on en.wikipedia for a couple of years, but began to take note of the incredible number of biography articles for musicians that have either inferior, outdated, or mostly, no photo whatsoever. I began learning to ask photographers on Flickr for permission to use their photos, and ask them to change their copyright to a GDFL or SA-BY-CC license, but the "Bryan Flickr upload" appears to be broken, and the handful of editors I've met I've stretched thin asking for help and assistance. Do you know how the ORTIS tag works in Commons? Other than Flickr, I don't know how to upload photos and prove I have permission via email (usually from publicists for the musicians I'm trying to find photos to fit. I've seen your work throughout my editing and am hoping you are familiar with Wikimedia Commons. I've had a hell of a time trying to comprehend how they work, how to be of use there, learn how they categorize, and generally, receive few offers of help, and those always assume that I've got a grasp of computer use and will learn things much quicker than I do, so I end up running out of there with my hands up screaming! I've noticed that you know about using computers, of which I never learned anything since I'm in my 40s and never had real opportunities to pick up tricks to use them. May I come to you for help with comprehending Commons, and some basic tips on page layout, etc.? I'm not stupid but do have ADD, and sometimes with new things I am slow to pick things up, but once I learn, my memory is pretty sharp. Is it OK to come to you for such things? Thanks for your time!--Leahtwosaints (talk) 15:55, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
The "POV" comment was in reference to actual vandalism which I chose to not refer to in that way - if you'd care to look at the dif.
You've been told repeatedly that a template is a guideline, not policy. Your block log speaks volumes about how much respect you have for policy.
When denoting a place in England, you list the highest government body followed by the county and the historical country. If it's a place in Greater London, you list the highest government body followed by "London, England".
Please refrain from editing UK articles if you can't do so with some respect for the feelings of the people who live there. If you continue to "UK troll", you will bring the wrath of several administrators upon yourself. Radiopathy •talk• 02:48, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
I saw you removed the category Category:Monotheistic religions from Yazidi. Nowhere in the article does it adress that issue in so many words, but it did give the impression of a monotheistic religion. [3] calls them polytheistic, while [4] calls them monotheistic. Do you have anything to say about this? Debresser (talk) 10:15, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
The detail about "Voice of Harold" is trivial and more relevant to the Dead Letter Office article. The tracklist and references formatting you institute are unnecessary (especially the latter, since reference intenral consistency is mandatory in Wikipedia articles, and the book templates aren't used in the article). The release section is a mess and completely unnecessary; some details are redudnant to other parts of the article and other are unsourced. The release table is unsourced and unnecessary; despite what the Albums wikiproject says, this sort of section has never been treated as mandatory, and even then, it has to conform to Wikipedia's overarching sourcing and verifiability guidelines, which in the version you institute it does not. I appreciate the work you do on album articles, but most of your edits to Reckoning (which is labeled a Good Article on Wikipedia) are detrimental to its quality, and could lead to delisting from the Good Article listing if they are left in. WesleyDodds (talk) 04:50, 29 October 2009 (UTC)
It is usually not a good idea to move around developed articles without discussion. Your moves to titles containing ndashes are particularly vexing. Please familiarize yourself with the function of ndash. I copy-paste from our article for your convenience:
examples:
If you find an article title including such a range and move it to an ndash-containing title, I will not complain. But you have repeatedly moved articles to ndashy titles that had nothing to do with ranges at all. For example, "creation-evolution" in List of topics in the creation-evolution controversy is not a range, nor is "Witch-cult" in Witch-cult hypothesis, and both are properly spelled with a regular hyphen. --dab (𒁳) 12:14, 30 October 2009 (UTC)
right, I will grant you creation–evolution as possibly arguable, but not *witch–cult. --dab (𒁳) 11:12, 3 November 2009 (UTC)
Hi, it would be great if you could repopulate Category:Jewish inventors in the same manner you depopulated it following the previous discussion. Thanks very much for this consideration, Badagnani (talk) 02:36, 3 November 2009 (UTC)
I noticed you have nominated for deletion some Unitarian Universalism-related categories. As the nominator, would you please put a note linking the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Religion/Unitarian Universalism work group? Thank you! LadyofShalott 07:00, 3 November 2009 (UTC)
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Why are you rapidly removing the Xbox 360 games category from several articles? BlazerKnight (talk) 07:57, 4 November 2009 (UTC)
Same question about PS3 games. It appears to be only PS3-exclusive games? Have you held a discussion anywhere on this as is usually the practice when making major changes to well-established practices? Chimpanzee - User | Talk | Contribs 08:52, 4 November 2009 (UTC)
WP:DUPCAT applies. The games need to be in both categories. The "only" category is a distinguished category, therefore xbox-only and ps3-only games should be in BOTH parent and sub-categories. - X201 (talk) 09:40, 4 November 2009 (UTC)
Regarding your post on ChimpanzeeUK's talk page, I'd have to assume it's because of the utter lack of content in the article. --ThejadefalconSing your songThe bird's seeds 20:41, 4 November 2009 (UTC)
That was a mistake, to be honest! I was trying to roll back all the edits you made removing categories and must of hit rollback on that one by mistake. As you may of seen, I didn't do all of them in the end anyway as it was taking too long. If it hasn't been done already, I may try and get a bot to do it - hopefully it will pay closer attention than I did! :) Chimpanzee - User | Talk | Contribs 10:49, 5 November 2009 (UTC)
Since there is right now in progress a deletion review on "Human disguise", with the comments running strongly in favor of overturning the deletion, may I ask whether — if the article is reinstated — you plan to restore all the wikilinks yourself, or leave that work for others? — Sizzle Flambé (☎/✍) 01:15, 5 November 2009 (UTC)
I've reverted all your 2000AD category edits, I can find no consensus for the edits, no discussion and they were made in breach of the speedy deletion process outlined at WP:CFD as an objection had been made. I would ask you to revert all your recent changes. Please note I will also be discussing this at the administrator's notice board, where I hope an acceptable outcome can be reached. Hiding T 09:29, 5 November 2009 (UTC)
Under the terms of your probation at Wikipedia:Editing restrictions, I am topic banning you from adding or removing categories from any page. Hiding T 10:05, 5 November 2009 (UTC)
Discography about a red link artist? Easy G8 candidate (subpage without parent page). Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Many otters • One bat • One hammer) 03:41, 13 November 2009 (UTC)
Please see R.E.M.'s official website (esp. discography) @ http://remhq.com/albums.php. This should clarify the original credit for the album in question... Doc9871 (talk) 05:10, 18 November 2009 (UTC)
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