This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Archive 30 | Archive 31 | Archive 32 | Archive 33 | Archive 34 | Archive 35 | → | Archive 40 |
Ok, let's say a song contains a hidden track. And on a deluxe edition of a album the hidden track is not on the final track as the standard edition. But instead it's on the final track of the deluxe edition material. An example of this is here: Sing the Sorrow and Weapons (album). Which way of listing is correct? If you can't understand what I mean please ask more. — 60.229.149.123 ( talk) 09:07, 2 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi Eagles247, since you are an admin and a member of wiki project college football, I am wondering if you would be willing to review the 2011 Michigan vs. Notre Dame football game article that was recently created. I do not see how it meets notability, and gave my thoughts on the talk page and tagged it for notability. The game itself is already covered extensively in both the 2011 Michigan Wolverines football team game capsule section as well as the Michigan-Notre Dame rivalry page. Forgive me if this is not the appropriate way to go about this... I could not find a forum to raise the question on the wiki project college football portal. Regards, Tedmoseby ( talk) 05:48, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
You might want to take a look at his user page. Possible sock of User:MaxAMSC? NtheP ( talk) 14:06, 6 April 2012 (UTC)
As a writer, Wikipedia's strange rules on capitalization are borderline offensive. They go against everything I know as a professional. Since this is certainly not my site and not the rules I'm used to working under, I'll definitely try to veer towards NOT capitalizing anything in the future - should cut down on your workload a bit, eh?
I'd be very interested in understanding WHY these rules were written the way they were. Is there a discussion you could point me towards wherein these rules were decided?
- Smike (
talk)
03:37, 7 April 2012 (UTC)
In addition to following Wikipedia's capitalization rules in the future, I will be going through my edits over the next couple days and correcting those few times when I made this same mistake. Thank you for bringing it to my attention.
- Smike (
talk)
03:46, 7 April 2012 (UTC)
Regarding the archived discussion you linked, the bit that stands out to me most is when Brion says "I suppose it doesn't really matter, but 'External links' etc fit in better with the house style."
In other words, "This is how Wikipedia looks right now," and this is 2003 we're talking about, "so just do it this way and try not to think about it." Oh, OK. So there's no good reason in particular, but do it this way or it won't all look the same. Great, thanks.
While there's something to be said for standardization, making everything look the same just for the sake of it seems awfully shortsighted. And while I'm genuinely glad that you've been able to use Wikipedia's clear structure and rules as guides to assist you in growing as a writer, I'm afraid I may never escape the frustrating paradox they present: at once providing simple, fool-proof guideposts keeping the natives out of trouble and engendering cooperation amid dispute, while constraining our abilities and discouraging our enthusiasm at the same time.
- Smike (
talk)
08:47, 7 April 2012 (UTC)
Capitalization issues fixed! I finally finished going through my edits and have not only reversed all CAPS changes I've made thus far, but along the way I fixed any other CAPS discrepancies I noticed, and took the opportunity to improve anything else I caught to boot - anything quick and easy to improve, anyway! :-)
- Smike (
talk)
10:48, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
Is is possible to move The Fake Sound of Progress to The Fake Sound of Progress (song) and the page Thefakesoundofprogress to The Fake Sound of Progress? — ℂℏɨ₡ƙ℮ᵰᵴ∂ⱺ☮яϰŊøɓ ( talk) 04:32, 7 April 2012 (UTC)
Does an article need to have at least one English language reference? In the case of this article ( 1K17 Szhatie) which I am copy editing, the user has only displayed one reference and it is entirely in Russian. On a slightly unrelated note, I'm back (again) :P. -- Skamecrazy123 ( talk) 15:15, 10 April 2012 (UTC)
I have stumbled across these two uses of capital letters ("Bhavnagar City" and "Bhavnagar State") and was wondering whether or not "city" and "state" need to be capitalized. Thanks in advance. -- Skamecrazy123 ( talk) 17:10, 11 April 2012 (UTC)
This user has requested an unblock, and I thought it best to refer it to WP:AN for a community decision. As you were the admin who upped his block to indefinite, your thoughts would be welcomed. -- Boing! said Zebedee ( talk) 17:44, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
What exactly am I suppose to be stopping? I thought there was no problem with it unless the article wasn't going to be re-created?.-- Yankees10 20:06, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
Could you monitor the situation with user Swcrowe on this page. I know it's a rule here to save edits until things are official, and that user is insistent on the article listing them as a member of the Big 12, even though they won't join until July. I let him know that on his talk page after switching it back to the Big East and he reverted the edit with an edit summary reading "It's staying as Big 12 whether you like it or not." which sounds like a violation of WP:OWN to me and this guy screams edit war.-- Rockchalk717 ( talk) 01:36, 13 April 2012 (UTC)
Good news! You now have access to 80 million articles in 6500 publications through HighBeam Research. Here's what you need to know:
Thanks for helping make Wikipedia better. Enjoy your research! Cheers, Ocaasi t | c 20:39, 13 April 2012 (UTC)
My request was serious. Could you please keep the page as it is? Thanks. Amack17 ( talk) 21:17, 14 April 2012 (UTC)
There is currently a deadlocked discussion on career highlights located here - I was wondering if you could give your insight and end the dead lock either way http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Chad_Ochocinco#Conference_Championships_as_a_career_highlight
Thank you very much 24.147.30.7 ( talk) 06:29, 15 April 2012 (UTC)SirWence
I would say Les Brown (American football) certainly meets the criteria for speedy deletion. No college football experience, the longest of long shots to make an NFL roster.► Chris Nelson Holla! 04:00, 16 April 2012 (UTC)
E, can you use your marvelous references to check the roster status of Earnest Graham. An IP user changed his status to free agent, and I can't find anything that substantiates it, but did find several articles discussing his future----but with no mention of him as a free agent. You always seems to know where the random NFL refs are buried . . . . Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 12:37, 16 April 2012 (UTC)
Your new section here did not display properly. It's showing on the right side of the page. Calabe 1992 00:14, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
Per Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Request to add tag, an IP user created a tag description for MediaWiki:Tag-changing height or weight, and would like someone to move it to MediaWiki:Tag-changing height or weight-description. His proposed tag is currently here. If you think it's a reasonable request would you mind handling that? Thanks in advance. Equazcion (talk) 00:30, 17 Apr 2012 (UTC)
Hey, E, I've got one of those odd infobox questions for you. In "Template:Infobox college golf team" and other infoboxes based on the same coding is it possible to change the displayed order of the hex colors while maintaining the existing background and font colors? We are using blue as a background color on the Gators team pages, and it seems that the background color is tied to the first hex, and the font color is tied to the second hex---unless the font color is over-ridden in the "fontcolor" field. The school colors are "orange and blue" (not "blue and orange"), and it would be nice to make the order of the color hexes match the stated order of the colors. I'm hoping you can use your infobox old black magic again. Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 23:24, 19 April 2012 (UTC)
Ah, sometimes the most elegant solution is the simplest solution, as my economics professors used to say. That cures the problem for the golf team infobox, but I'm really trying to cure the problem uniformly for baseball, basketball, cross country, golf, gymnastics, lacrosse, softball, swimming, tennis, track and volleyball. (Football isn't an issue, because the infobox template doesn't have the color bars that all the rest do.) Maybe we could do this over a period of several days. If you can fix the template coding, I could implement the necessary changes for each of the infoboxes where the altered templates are being used. I wouldn't want you to be responsible for all of the clean-up. Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 00:19, 20 April 2012 (UTC)
Why did you delete my account page ? ....... Rmorris93 ( talk) 22:09, 20 April 2012 (UTC)
This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Archive 30 | Archive 31 | Archive 32 | Archive 33 | Archive 34 | Archive 35 | → | Archive 40 |
This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Archive 30 | Archive 31 | Archive 32 | Archive 33 | Archive 34 | Archive 35 | → | Archive 40 |
Ok, let's say a song contains a hidden track. And on a deluxe edition of a album the hidden track is not on the final track as the standard edition. But instead it's on the final track of the deluxe edition material. An example of this is here: Sing the Sorrow and Weapons (album). Which way of listing is correct? If you can't understand what I mean please ask more. — 60.229.149.123 ( talk) 09:07, 2 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi Eagles247, since you are an admin and a member of wiki project college football, I am wondering if you would be willing to review the 2011 Michigan vs. Notre Dame football game article that was recently created. I do not see how it meets notability, and gave my thoughts on the talk page and tagged it for notability. The game itself is already covered extensively in both the 2011 Michigan Wolverines football team game capsule section as well as the Michigan-Notre Dame rivalry page. Forgive me if this is not the appropriate way to go about this... I could not find a forum to raise the question on the wiki project college football portal. Regards, Tedmoseby ( talk) 05:48, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
You might want to take a look at his user page. Possible sock of User:MaxAMSC? NtheP ( talk) 14:06, 6 April 2012 (UTC)
As a writer, Wikipedia's strange rules on capitalization are borderline offensive. They go against everything I know as a professional. Since this is certainly not my site and not the rules I'm used to working under, I'll definitely try to veer towards NOT capitalizing anything in the future - should cut down on your workload a bit, eh?
I'd be very interested in understanding WHY these rules were written the way they were. Is there a discussion you could point me towards wherein these rules were decided?
- Smike (
talk)
03:37, 7 April 2012 (UTC)
In addition to following Wikipedia's capitalization rules in the future, I will be going through my edits over the next couple days and correcting those few times when I made this same mistake. Thank you for bringing it to my attention.
- Smike (
talk)
03:46, 7 April 2012 (UTC)
Regarding the archived discussion you linked, the bit that stands out to me most is when Brion says "I suppose it doesn't really matter, but 'External links' etc fit in better with the house style."
In other words, "This is how Wikipedia looks right now," and this is 2003 we're talking about, "so just do it this way and try not to think about it." Oh, OK. So there's no good reason in particular, but do it this way or it won't all look the same. Great, thanks.
While there's something to be said for standardization, making everything look the same just for the sake of it seems awfully shortsighted. And while I'm genuinely glad that you've been able to use Wikipedia's clear structure and rules as guides to assist you in growing as a writer, I'm afraid I may never escape the frustrating paradox they present: at once providing simple, fool-proof guideposts keeping the natives out of trouble and engendering cooperation amid dispute, while constraining our abilities and discouraging our enthusiasm at the same time.
- Smike (
talk)
08:47, 7 April 2012 (UTC)
Capitalization issues fixed! I finally finished going through my edits and have not only reversed all CAPS changes I've made thus far, but along the way I fixed any other CAPS discrepancies I noticed, and took the opportunity to improve anything else I caught to boot - anything quick and easy to improve, anyway! :-)
- Smike (
talk)
10:48, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
Is is possible to move The Fake Sound of Progress to The Fake Sound of Progress (song) and the page Thefakesoundofprogress to The Fake Sound of Progress? — ℂℏɨ₡ƙ℮ᵰᵴ∂ⱺ☮яϰŊøɓ ( talk) 04:32, 7 April 2012 (UTC)
Does an article need to have at least one English language reference? In the case of this article ( 1K17 Szhatie) which I am copy editing, the user has only displayed one reference and it is entirely in Russian. On a slightly unrelated note, I'm back (again) :P. -- Skamecrazy123 ( talk) 15:15, 10 April 2012 (UTC)
I have stumbled across these two uses of capital letters ("Bhavnagar City" and "Bhavnagar State") and was wondering whether or not "city" and "state" need to be capitalized. Thanks in advance. -- Skamecrazy123 ( talk) 17:10, 11 April 2012 (UTC)
This user has requested an unblock, and I thought it best to refer it to WP:AN for a community decision. As you were the admin who upped his block to indefinite, your thoughts would be welcomed. -- Boing! said Zebedee ( talk) 17:44, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
What exactly am I suppose to be stopping? I thought there was no problem with it unless the article wasn't going to be re-created?.-- Yankees10 20:06, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
Could you monitor the situation with user Swcrowe on this page. I know it's a rule here to save edits until things are official, and that user is insistent on the article listing them as a member of the Big 12, even though they won't join until July. I let him know that on his talk page after switching it back to the Big East and he reverted the edit with an edit summary reading "It's staying as Big 12 whether you like it or not." which sounds like a violation of WP:OWN to me and this guy screams edit war.-- Rockchalk717 ( talk) 01:36, 13 April 2012 (UTC)
Good news! You now have access to 80 million articles in 6500 publications through HighBeam Research. Here's what you need to know:
Thanks for helping make Wikipedia better. Enjoy your research! Cheers, Ocaasi t | c 20:39, 13 April 2012 (UTC)
My request was serious. Could you please keep the page as it is? Thanks. Amack17 ( talk) 21:17, 14 April 2012 (UTC)
There is currently a deadlocked discussion on career highlights located here - I was wondering if you could give your insight and end the dead lock either way http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Chad_Ochocinco#Conference_Championships_as_a_career_highlight
Thank you very much 24.147.30.7 ( talk) 06:29, 15 April 2012 (UTC)SirWence
I would say Les Brown (American football) certainly meets the criteria for speedy deletion. No college football experience, the longest of long shots to make an NFL roster.► Chris Nelson Holla! 04:00, 16 April 2012 (UTC)
E, can you use your marvelous references to check the roster status of Earnest Graham. An IP user changed his status to free agent, and I can't find anything that substantiates it, but did find several articles discussing his future----but with no mention of him as a free agent. You always seems to know where the random NFL refs are buried . . . . Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 12:37, 16 April 2012 (UTC)
Your new section here did not display properly. It's showing on the right side of the page. Calabe 1992 00:14, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
Per Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Request to add tag, an IP user created a tag description for MediaWiki:Tag-changing height or weight, and would like someone to move it to MediaWiki:Tag-changing height or weight-description. His proposed tag is currently here. If you think it's a reasonable request would you mind handling that? Thanks in advance. Equazcion (talk) 00:30, 17 Apr 2012 (UTC)
Hey, E, I've got one of those odd infobox questions for you. In "Template:Infobox college golf team" and other infoboxes based on the same coding is it possible to change the displayed order of the hex colors while maintaining the existing background and font colors? We are using blue as a background color on the Gators team pages, and it seems that the background color is tied to the first hex, and the font color is tied to the second hex---unless the font color is over-ridden in the "fontcolor" field. The school colors are "orange and blue" (not "blue and orange"), and it would be nice to make the order of the color hexes match the stated order of the colors. I'm hoping you can use your infobox old black magic again. Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 23:24, 19 April 2012 (UTC)
Ah, sometimes the most elegant solution is the simplest solution, as my economics professors used to say. That cures the problem for the golf team infobox, but I'm really trying to cure the problem uniformly for baseball, basketball, cross country, golf, gymnastics, lacrosse, softball, swimming, tennis, track and volleyball. (Football isn't an issue, because the infobox template doesn't have the color bars that all the rest do.) Maybe we could do this over a period of several days. If you can fix the template coding, I could implement the necessary changes for each of the infoboxes where the altered templates are being used. I wouldn't want you to be responsible for all of the clean-up. Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 00:19, 20 April 2012 (UTC)
Why did you delete my account page ? ....... Rmorris93 ( talk) 22:09, 20 April 2012 (UTC)
This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Archive 30 | Archive 31 | Archive 32 | Archive 33 | Archive 34 | Archive 35 | → | Archive 40 |