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This is the sixth archive of The Duke of Waltham's talk page. Its content mostly comprises messages regarding dashes or copy-editing in general. Here are archived discussions beginning and ending in the time period from 25 June to 1 November 2008, essentially the second half of that year.
Archiving here took place on 8 September 2008 and 13 March and 21 October 2009.
I'm glad to see you've talked yourself back into a sense of humour (as I suppose I should say). But my reasons for caring about MOS are substantive, and I've just posted them on WT:MOS. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 00:58, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
So you don't start screaming at me again ;) Lithuania-United States relations should be moved to Lithuania–United States relations or to Lithuania – United States relations? Also, just to make sure, terms like African–American should also use en dash, right? Renata ( talk) 19:55, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
We have a compromise I'm satisfied with. We've developed a more precise system for the current five-nomination system that could provide the infrastructure for more nominations in the future, if we're confident we can maintain it after trying it for awhile. You can see the discussion on the requests talk page, of course, but a sample of what we have in mind is here. Wrad ( talk) 01:42, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
Hi. I noticed your comment in the recent VPP thread on archiving. You seemed to be particularly enthusiastic about including diffs on archives, going back to redo your own archives. I wrote Template:Talkarchivehist, which creates useful links based on the revision ids. There's a brief discussion at Help talk:Archiving a talk page#Cut-and-paste archiving: Increasing transparency. I noticed that you use incremental archiving, which this template does not support well, so it may be less useful for you. Flatscan ( talk) 03:38, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
Sorry about the delay. I've been keeping myself busy with other things lately while waiting for the disputes going on around the dash thing to sort themselves out (fixing the bot wasn't particularly relevant while it's ability to run was up in the air). Here's a copy of what I just wrote on MZMcBride's talk page on the subject:
Via a combination category-based removal and manual checking, I will be removing all proper names and titles which would need to be attributed to a source in order to be correct. I haven't worked out the precise way I'm going to do it yet, that will wait until Monday. After it is worked out I will be using said system to find and mass-revert all false-positives that have already been made, hence the lack of any manual reversion on my part yet.
I hope that satisfies your concerns.-- Dycedarg ж 01:21, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
Hi there TDW,
I was wondering if you can take a quick look at the previous article nomination, and considering that your comments have been address (some of them done by your self), if you can help either supporting or denying this promotion. Thanks by the way for the good feedback.
Regards, Miguel.mateo ( talk) 08:02, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
An important discussion on Should WikiProjects get prior approval of other WikiProjects (Descendant or Related or any ) to tag articles that overlaps their scope ? is open here . We welcome you to participate and give your valuable opinions. You are receiving this note as you are a member of WikiProject Council -- TinuCherian (Wanna Talk?) - 12:43, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
Your Grace—I notice you're copy-editing "Lead section". Are you aware of the expectations that "Layout" will be copy-edited this month? I started on the job before my recent work-deadline. Wondering whether you're interested ... PS Have a look at my contributions over the past hour or so. Tony (talk) 13:09, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
I provided a quick copy-edit to your last comment at WP:MOS that I'm sure you'll appreciate. - Dan Dank55 ( talk)( mistakes) 22:20, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
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I officially declare WP:MoS to be the rising incarnation of the devil. This proclamation is thereby sealed with this girlishly pink userbox, awarded to the unsuspecting children of MoS. We shall pray for your soul. Renata ( talk) 19:36, 21 July 2008 (UTC)
I think you just made my point. Correcting dashes and commas for all eternity, in an office where the term ergonomics has never been heard is actually a pretty good description for Wikipedia ;) LOL Renata ( talk) 07:27, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
What chair? I edit Wikipedia in my bed... Renata ( talk) 19:58, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
There are problems with heat... It's too hot to keep on the lap (especially when it's like 30°C outside). And it's getting worse; I guess that's a symptom of old age for a laptop :) And then one day I accidentally buried the laptop under sheets as I was running widely late; when I came back the whole thing was so hot I could not touch it. Thankfully it did not catch fire... I guess I should really be migrating back to a chair... but how did we get from ewilness to (almost) burning laptops? Renata ( talk) 23:05, 26 July 2008 (UTC)
Alleged?! I think I made it quite official :) If a pink userbox does not make it official, I don't know what will... Anyway, I wanted to ask you, if you don't mind. Your (real) userpage says that you are Greek. How did you learn English so well? I am just asking 'cause I am green with envy... Renata ( talk) 22:11, 27 July 2008 (UTC)
No, you just like to talk. Period. Any topic goes: yourself, MOS, or even better yet – dashes... :P As for your English I was betting you are a native. I been in the US for the last four years (tomorrow is actually my anniversary), got myself thru bachelor's, getting myself thru master's, passed both TOEFL and GMAT with flying colors, have been writing for Wikipedia for three years now – and I still make stupid errors. Articles? Prepositions? Tenses? Ackwardology?... Seriously, what's your secret? Renata ( talk) 07:45, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
Hm... That's probably the reason: I don't really pay that much attention. My spelling is corrected by spellcheckers (bless Mozilla for that one!) and grammar... so far no one adopted this orphan :) I also don't read that much (thanks to a literature teacher who gave me allergy to books) and when I do it's mostly online and quite often written in "all base are belong to us" English. See, my language does not have either articles or prepositions – thus I cannot get the hang of them. I just go by "sounds about right" which, of course, usually means "ergh... wrong!"
You say copy-editing? Can I torture you with some requests? (about time to turn the conversation into something productive) Renata ( talk) 11:02, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
You won't believe me, but every time I edit non-article namespace I feel guilty of wasting Wikipedia's server bandwidth and hard-drive storage... The above is probably the worst offense I have on my wiki-sin book. Not that it was not a pleasure... :)
Agh, MOS. How about some compliance with English grammar? I would really like to get the Lithuanian Civil War (1381–1384) and Lithuanian Civil War (1389–1392) to Good Article status, but they need grammar copy-edit first. Hælp? (fees can be collected at DOL) Renata ( talk) 12:35, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
It's like telling a person with OCD not to count steps from subway to grocery store to home... :)
No rush with copy-edits. Gosh, I am tired... Renata ( talk) 19:06, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
No worries. I would not have time to review anyway... :( BTW, use new Mozilla - it is pretty good at saving data when something crashes. Renata ( talk) 18:28, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
Two thingies: 1) Shouldn't pages like Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Men's 100 metre butterfly use en-dash? (please limit your answer to yes/no/maybe/don't know :P) 2) Burning laptops can be prevented with things like this. Renata ( talk) 03:51, 17 August 2008 (UTC)
Boohoohoo... the dash should be spaced for "Iraq – United States relations"... right? Another boo... my cooler broke down after three days of service :~( Don't worry about promises. I am also guilty of those "fail to deliver" situations. Renata ( talk) 20:16, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
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![]() My Dear Grace It has come to the attention of The Cabal, who have eyes everywhere, that one Harold Cartwright, private secretary to Your Grace, has become deeply distressed at an online dalliance which, rumour has it, is being conducted between Your Grace and another person who does not appear to be Harold Cartwright. We have been informed that Harold Cartwright is threatening to go out in a blaze of glory as a Wikipedian troll. We trust that Your Grace will see fit to appropriately restrain his private secretary, and thus avoid further inconveniencing The Cabal, and also avoid the otherwise consequent execution fee he will incur from The Cabal. You may take the presence of The Cabal's Seal at the top right of this document as authenticating the legitimacy of the origin of this communication.
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WP:POINT consists of doing things which the editor does not want to have done. I believe that Wikipedia would be better off with one detailed set of advice on numbers and words; my first choice would be to have the one at MOSNUM and a summary at MOS; my second choice is to have the same language at both places - and I have done exactly this.
You have, however, reverted to the ancient situation of variant details in both places. If you explained why you think this desirable, or why you like the old wording (I have made some effort not to change the substance of the guidance, to the extent of not removing redundancy), you might either convince me, or demonstrate consensus; but you have not bothered to discuss your reversions on talk.
I should like to believe in Your Grace's good faith; but you make it very difficult. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 20:53, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
Hi TDW,
Reading the FLC process, I think we can ask for extra time, since I do think this is almost there. Do you know how to do that?
Thanks, Miguel.mateo ( talk) 14:40, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
I don't use flags all the time, just rare occasions I'm trying to make a point (or a joke...) I had no idea there was a guideline v (but I guess I shouldn't be surprised). TREKphiler hit me ♠ 08:58 & 09:00, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
Dear Mr Secretary. Please inform His Grace of a proposed merger of projects here. I would be grateful if you could request His Grace to pass comment on the issue. Ta-ra Craigy ( talk) 02:10, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
Regarding the discussion here, I raised the issue here. I'm notifying all who participated in the featured list disucssion, and will note that at WT:NFC. If you comment there, please say that I told you about this. Thanks. Carcharoth ( talk) 15:51, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
Claiming that any MOS page is "just a recommendation" is disingenuous, at least until FA and GA are either separated from MOS, conducted differently, or cease to be of any value to editors. Please don't make silly arguments; we can do better. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 22:15, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
Just wanted to state a thing I have been thinking for a while:
We run into each other all over the place it seems. And you often comment on some discussion I am involved in and you formulate all pros and cons so well that I often don't have much more to say after you have written your message. So thanks, I love your messages!
-- David Göthberg ( talk) 00:15, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
He wishes His Grace a most relaxing, refreshing low-activity period. Tony (talk) 14:13, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
sandbox -- Closedmouth ( talk) 05:36, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
Polish-Lithuanian–Teutonic War? It was moved... Renata ( talk) 07:31, 6 September 2008 (UTC)
Thanks. I am watching the page, don't worry :) Enjoy your semi-break. I know WP can be very taxing and burns you out pretty quick. As for categories, I don't really care. I just thought I should let you know in case you wanted to do something about it... I know you care about such things. Anyway, take care. Renata ( talk) 01:45, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
More traffic = faster burnout
.Ok, it seems you started a move war... But I have to agree with your opponent. Why would you be watching Village Pump? Watching pages like that makes your watchlist useless. Renata ( talk) 07:39, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
No rules? "I could mention 'Ignore all rules' here, but it's irrelevant: there is no rule to ignore in this case." That's not strictly true: if there was an article on the Polish and Lithuanian union (there are several about related political entities), it would be "Polish–Lithuanian Union" or about a joint business, it would be "Polish–Lithuanian Airlines," etc. The alliance between those two includes –, so when that alliance is paired up against something else, it becomes "Polish–Lithuanian–X." As you said, there is no provision for changing this to a hyphen or another kind of dash simply because there is a third party involved. — Justin (koavf)❤ T☮ C☺ M☯ 00:34, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
While the name {{ db-doc}} is indeed memorable, it bears a rather unfortunate similarity to the existing template {{ db doc}}. Might not something like {{ db-templatedoc}} be a better alias? — Ilmari Karonen ( talk) 16:39, 13 September 2008 (UTC)
I've never understood all the fuss over hyphen, mdash, and ndash. I don't see why there's all this fuss over it. Anyway, we have a question, should it be Hanna-Barbera or Hanna–Barbera? If ndash, should the article name itself have ndash in it? Please explain. — Rlevse • Talk • 20:25, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
Wikipedia talk:Article series; promotion/demotion of a guideline involving infoboxes, which I think is one of your many talents. (P.S. I've got moratorium going on watchlisting any more user pages until Oct 20.) - Dan Dank55 ( send/receive) 12:44, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
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The Excellent Userpage Award | |
I, Mr. Old-Skool, award you this barnstar for excellence in user-paginess. ( talk) 01:18, 28 September 2008 (UTC) |
Mr Cartwright, I'd be delighted if you passed on my congratulations to His Grace on the start of his new semester. Tony (talk) 15:12, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
[1] for which I'm responsible. Let me know if you would like me to email you the password. Darkspots ( talk) 00:07, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
Posted at the talk page. See here. Carcharoth ( talk) 06:57, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for cleaning those up. I will take better care in the future to avoid such mistakes. Cheers, « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 04:34, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
I have a move request that I am waiting on on the request moves page. It is nothing much, just a simple history move, could you please push that through for me? I would appericate it. Take Care... NeutralHomer • Talk • October 14, 2008 @ 03:28
Twinkle does this a lot, it seems. I'm not sure why, and I'm not willing to dig through hours of JS to find out, so I just won't use it anymore. :P Anyway, I've fixed the protection. Thanks for letting me know! Master of Puppets Call me MoP! :) 23:50, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
Re: your edit summary here, for future reference, if you're using firefox, you can un-close a tab with ctrl-shift-T (which will remember contents entered in text boxes :) -- Quiddity ( talk) 05:23, 20 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi Your Grace, I noticed the barnstar on Quiddity's talk page in which you mentioned Firefox tips (I love Firefox, and I love Wikipedia tips). So I popped by to see what wisdom he bestowed upon you. Cool, I didn't know the tips above. For your information, I've added them to WP:OTS, where I record the most effective wiki-methods that I come across, especially Firefox-related tools, tips, and tricks. Cheers. The Transhumanist 01:11, 21 October 2008 (UTC)
Thanks. In theory, I knew that, but lacking daily exposure to languages that differentiate between leading/trailing and interior letterforms, It didn't occur to me at the right time.
In any case, I've taken your suggestion into account by now. Διγουρεν Εμπρος! 12:15, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
The link on See also, The Duke of Waltham in popular culture goes to Narcissism. Maybe not quite appropriate.
Warrington ( talk) 11:07, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
Glad too see that you are able to be amused by this. I would simply remove it.
Warrington ( talk) 15:01, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
Well, it looked like vandalism, but if it is self irony than it is all right. But it might be misunderstood...
Warrington ( talk) 15:54, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
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The Barnstar of Good Humor | |
Warrington ( talk) 21:58, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
Never mind, you fooled me completely... I am not foolish and naive, but I did not read the whole page, only the first lines and the last... see also. I just wanted to take a look how the guy looked like in real life, not on a painting. And I thougt, why not, he could use his own article like userpage and somebody is mocking him . And i did n t spend time reading the dicussion side either ( I caught a glance on some words How dare you, blasphemous woman, speak ill of – and that fitted the aristocratic pattern), because if I was, maybe I realized who this Duke was, and that the page is only a theatrical show, with special effects. One should always
Although Borg Queen has hyphenated "African American actor" for instance, note that in this Google Books search both hyphenated and unhyphenated forms are common, and unhyphenated is more common. Art LaPella ( talk) 19:16, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
![]() | This page 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. |
![]() | 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 1 | ← | Archive 4 | Archive 5 | Archive 6 | Archive 7 | Archive 8 |
This is the sixth archive of The Duke of Waltham's talk page. Its content mostly comprises messages regarding dashes or copy-editing in general. Here are archived discussions beginning and ending in the time period from 25 June to 1 November 2008, essentially the second half of that year.
Archiving here took place on 8 September 2008 and 13 March and 21 October 2009.
I'm glad to see you've talked yourself back into a sense of humour (as I suppose I should say). But my reasons for caring about MOS are substantive, and I've just posted them on WT:MOS. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 00:58, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
So you don't start screaming at me again ;) Lithuania-United States relations should be moved to Lithuania–United States relations or to Lithuania – United States relations? Also, just to make sure, terms like African–American should also use en dash, right? Renata ( talk) 19:55, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
We have a compromise I'm satisfied with. We've developed a more precise system for the current five-nomination system that could provide the infrastructure for more nominations in the future, if we're confident we can maintain it after trying it for awhile. You can see the discussion on the requests talk page, of course, but a sample of what we have in mind is here. Wrad ( talk) 01:42, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
Hi. I noticed your comment in the recent VPP thread on archiving. You seemed to be particularly enthusiastic about including diffs on archives, going back to redo your own archives. I wrote Template:Talkarchivehist, which creates useful links based on the revision ids. There's a brief discussion at Help talk:Archiving a talk page#Cut-and-paste archiving: Increasing transparency. I noticed that you use incremental archiving, which this template does not support well, so it may be less useful for you. Flatscan ( talk) 03:38, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
Sorry about the delay. I've been keeping myself busy with other things lately while waiting for the disputes going on around the dash thing to sort themselves out (fixing the bot wasn't particularly relevant while it's ability to run was up in the air). Here's a copy of what I just wrote on MZMcBride's talk page on the subject:
Via a combination category-based removal and manual checking, I will be removing all proper names and titles which would need to be attributed to a source in order to be correct. I haven't worked out the precise way I'm going to do it yet, that will wait until Monday. After it is worked out I will be using said system to find and mass-revert all false-positives that have already been made, hence the lack of any manual reversion on my part yet.
I hope that satisfies your concerns.-- Dycedarg ж 01:21, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
Hi there TDW,
I was wondering if you can take a quick look at the previous article nomination, and considering that your comments have been address (some of them done by your self), if you can help either supporting or denying this promotion. Thanks by the way for the good feedback.
Regards, Miguel.mateo ( talk) 08:02, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
An important discussion on Should WikiProjects get prior approval of other WikiProjects (Descendant or Related or any ) to tag articles that overlaps their scope ? is open here . We welcome you to participate and give your valuable opinions. You are receiving this note as you are a member of WikiProject Council -- TinuCherian (Wanna Talk?) - 12:43, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
Your Grace—I notice you're copy-editing "Lead section". Are you aware of the expectations that "Layout" will be copy-edited this month? I started on the job before my recent work-deadline. Wondering whether you're interested ... PS Have a look at my contributions over the past hour or so. Tony (talk) 13:09, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
I provided a quick copy-edit to your last comment at WP:MOS that I'm sure you'll appreciate. - Dan Dank55 ( talk)( mistakes) 22:20, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
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I officially declare WP:MoS to be the rising incarnation of the devil. This proclamation is thereby sealed with this girlishly pink userbox, awarded to the unsuspecting children of MoS. We shall pray for your soul. Renata ( talk) 19:36, 21 July 2008 (UTC)
I think you just made my point. Correcting dashes and commas for all eternity, in an office where the term ergonomics has never been heard is actually a pretty good description for Wikipedia ;) LOL Renata ( talk) 07:27, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
What chair? I edit Wikipedia in my bed... Renata ( talk) 19:58, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
There are problems with heat... It's too hot to keep on the lap (especially when it's like 30°C outside). And it's getting worse; I guess that's a symptom of old age for a laptop :) And then one day I accidentally buried the laptop under sheets as I was running widely late; when I came back the whole thing was so hot I could not touch it. Thankfully it did not catch fire... I guess I should really be migrating back to a chair... but how did we get from ewilness to (almost) burning laptops? Renata ( talk) 23:05, 26 July 2008 (UTC)
Alleged?! I think I made it quite official :) If a pink userbox does not make it official, I don't know what will... Anyway, I wanted to ask you, if you don't mind. Your (real) userpage says that you are Greek. How did you learn English so well? I am just asking 'cause I am green with envy... Renata ( talk) 22:11, 27 July 2008 (UTC)
No, you just like to talk. Period. Any topic goes: yourself, MOS, or even better yet – dashes... :P As for your English I was betting you are a native. I been in the US for the last four years (tomorrow is actually my anniversary), got myself thru bachelor's, getting myself thru master's, passed both TOEFL and GMAT with flying colors, have been writing for Wikipedia for three years now – and I still make stupid errors. Articles? Prepositions? Tenses? Ackwardology?... Seriously, what's your secret? Renata ( talk) 07:45, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
Hm... That's probably the reason: I don't really pay that much attention. My spelling is corrected by spellcheckers (bless Mozilla for that one!) and grammar... so far no one adopted this orphan :) I also don't read that much (thanks to a literature teacher who gave me allergy to books) and when I do it's mostly online and quite often written in "all base are belong to us" English. See, my language does not have either articles or prepositions – thus I cannot get the hang of them. I just go by "sounds about right" which, of course, usually means "ergh... wrong!"
You say copy-editing? Can I torture you with some requests? (about time to turn the conversation into something productive) Renata ( talk) 11:02, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
You won't believe me, but every time I edit non-article namespace I feel guilty of wasting Wikipedia's server bandwidth and hard-drive storage... The above is probably the worst offense I have on my wiki-sin book. Not that it was not a pleasure... :)
Agh, MOS. How about some compliance with English grammar? I would really like to get the Lithuanian Civil War (1381–1384) and Lithuanian Civil War (1389–1392) to Good Article status, but they need grammar copy-edit first. Hælp? (fees can be collected at DOL) Renata ( talk) 12:35, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
It's like telling a person with OCD not to count steps from subway to grocery store to home... :)
No rush with copy-edits. Gosh, I am tired... Renata ( talk) 19:06, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
No worries. I would not have time to review anyway... :( BTW, use new Mozilla - it is pretty good at saving data when something crashes. Renata ( talk) 18:28, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
Two thingies: 1) Shouldn't pages like Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Men's 100 metre butterfly use en-dash? (please limit your answer to yes/no/maybe/don't know :P) 2) Burning laptops can be prevented with things like this. Renata ( talk) 03:51, 17 August 2008 (UTC)
Boohoohoo... the dash should be spaced for "Iraq – United States relations"... right? Another boo... my cooler broke down after three days of service :~( Don't worry about promises. I am also guilty of those "fail to deliver" situations. Renata ( talk) 20:16, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
HIGHLY confidential communication for the eyes of His Grace alone |
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![]() My Dear Grace It has come to the attention of The Cabal, who have eyes everywhere, that one Harold Cartwright, private secretary to Your Grace, has become deeply distressed at an online dalliance which, rumour has it, is being conducted between Your Grace and another person who does not appear to be Harold Cartwright. We have been informed that Harold Cartwright is threatening to go out in a blaze of glory as a Wikipedian troll. We trust that Your Grace will see fit to appropriately restrain his private secretary, and thus avoid further inconveniencing The Cabal, and also avoid the otherwise consequent execution fee he will incur from The Cabal. You may take the presence of The Cabal's Seal at the top right of this document as authenticating the legitimacy of the origin of this communication.
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WP:POINT consists of doing things which the editor does not want to have done. I believe that Wikipedia would be better off with one detailed set of advice on numbers and words; my first choice would be to have the one at MOSNUM and a summary at MOS; my second choice is to have the same language at both places - and I have done exactly this.
You have, however, reverted to the ancient situation of variant details in both places. If you explained why you think this desirable, or why you like the old wording (I have made some effort not to change the substance of the guidance, to the extent of not removing redundancy), you might either convince me, or demonstrate consensus; but you have not bothered to discuss your reversions on talk.
I should like to believe in Your Grace's good faith; but you make it very difficult. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 20:53, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
Hi TDW,
Reading the FLC process, I think we can ask for extra time, since I do think this is almost there. Do you know how to do that?
Thanks, Miguel.mateo ( talk) 14:40, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
I don't use flags all the time, just rare occasions I'm trying to make a point (or a joke...) I had no idea there was a guideline v (but I guess I shouldn't be surprised). TREKphiler hit me ♠ 08:58 & 09:00, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
Dear Mr Secretary. Please inform His Grace of a proposed merger of projects here. I would be grateful if you could request His Grace to pass comment on the issue. Ta-ra Craigy ( talk) 02:10, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
Regarding the discussion here, I raised the issue here. I'm notifying all who participated in the featured list disucssion, and will note that at WT:NFC. If you comment there, please say that I told you about this. Thanks. Carcharoth ( talk) 15:51, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
Claiming that any MOS page is "just a recommendation" is disingenuous, at least until FA and GA are either separated from MOS, conducted differently, or cease to be of any value to editors. Please don't make silly arguments; we can do better. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 22:15, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
Just wanted to state a thing I have been thinking for a while:
We run into each other all over the place it seems. And you often comment on some discussion I am involved in and you formulate all pros and cons so well that I often don't have much more to say after you have written your message. So thanks, I love your messages!
-- David Göthberg ( talk) 00:15, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
He wishes His Grace a most relaxing, refreshing low-activity period. Tony (talk) 14:13, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
sandbox -- Closedmouth ( talk) 05:36, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
Polish-Lithuanian–Teutonic War? It was moved... Renata ( talk) 07:31, 6 September 2008 (UTC)
Thanks. I am watching the page, don't worry :) Enjoy your semi-break. I know WP can be very taxing and burns you out pretty quick. As for categories, I don't really care. I just thought I should let you know in case you wanted to do something about it... I know you care about such things. Anyway, take care. Renata ( talk) 01:45, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
More traffic = faster burnout
.Ok, it seems you started a move war... But I have to agree with your opponent. Why would you be watching Village Pump? Watching pages like that makes your watchlist useless. Renata ( talk) 07:39, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
No rules? "I could mention 'Ignore all rules' here, but it's irrelevant: there is no rule to ignore in this case." That's not strictly true: if there was an article on the Polish and Lithuanian union (there are several about related political entities), it would be "Polish–Lithuanian Union" or about a joint business, it would be "Polish–Lithuanian Airlines," etc. The alliance between those two includes –, so when that alliance is paired up against something else, it becomes "Polish–Lithuanian–X." As you said, there is no provision for changing this to a hyphen or another kind of dash simply because there is a third party involved. — Justin (koavf)❤ T☮ C☺ M☯ 00:34, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
While the name {{ db-doc}} is indeed memorable, it bears a rather unfortunate similarity to the existing template {{ db doc}}. Might not something like {{ db-templatedoc}} be a better alias? — Ilmari Karonen ( talk) 16:39, 13 September 2008 (UTC)
I've never understood all the fuss over hyphen, mdash, and ndash. I don't see why there's all this fuss over it. Anyway, we have a question, should it be Hanna-Barbera or Hanna–Barbera? If ndash, should the article name itself have ndash in it? Please explain. — Rlevse • Talk • 20:25, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
Wikipedia talk:Article series; promotion/demotion of a guideline involving infoboxes, which I think is one of your many talents. (P.S. I've got moratorium going on watchlisting any more user pages until Oct 20.) - Dan Dank55 ( send/receive) 12:44, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
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The Excellent Userpage Award | |
I, Mr. Old-Skool, award you this barnstar for excellence in user-paginess. ( talk) 01:18, 28 September 2008 (UTC) |
Mr Cartwright, I'd be delighted if you passed on my congratulations to His Grace on the start of his new semester. Tony (talk) 15:12, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
[1] for which I'm responsible. Let me know if you would like me to email you the password. Darkspots ( talk) 00:07, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
Posted at the talk page. See here. Carcharoth ( talk) 06:57, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for cleaning those up. I will take better care in the future to avoid such mistakes. Cheers, « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 04:34, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
I have a move request that I am waiting on on the request moves page. It is nothing much, just a simple history move, could you please push that through for me? I would appericate it. Take Care... NeutralHomer • Talk • October 14, 2008 @ 03:28
Twinkle does this a lot, it seems. I'm not sure why, and I'm not willing to dig through hours of JS to find out, so I just won't use it anymore. :P Anyway, I've fixed the protection. Thanks for letting me know! Master of Puppets Call me MoP! :) 23:50, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
Re: your edit summary here, for future reference, if you're using firefox, you can un-close a tab with ctrl-shift-T (which will remember contents entered in text boxes :) -- Quiddity ( talk) 05:23, 20 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi Your Grace, I noticed the barnstar on Quiddity's talk page in which you mentioned Firefox tips (I love Firefox, and I love Wikipedia tips). So I popped by to see what wisdom he bestowed upon you. Cool, I didn't know the tips above. For your information, I've added them to WP:OTS, where I record the most effective wiki-methods that I come across, especially Firefox-related tools, tips, and tricks. Cheers. The Transhumanist 01:11, 21 October 2008 (UTC)
Thanks. In theory, I knew that, but lacking daily exposure to languages that differentiate between leading/trailing and interior letterforms, It didn't occur to me at the right time.
In any case, I've taken your suggestion into account by now. Διγουρεν Εμπρος! 12:15, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
The link on See also, The Duke of Waltham in popular culture goes to Narcissism. Maybe not quite appropriate.
Warrington ( talk) 11:07, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
Glad too see that you are able to be amused by this. I would simply remove it.
Warrington ( talk) 15:01, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
Well, it looked like vandalism, but if it is self irony than it is all right. But it might be misunderstood...
Warrington ( talk) 15:54, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
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The Barnstar of Good Humor | |
Warrington ( talk) 21:58, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
Never mind, you fooled me completely... I am not foolish and naive, but I did not read the whole page, only the first lines and the last... see also. I just wanted to take a look how the guy looked like in real life, not on a painting. And I thougt, why not, he could use his own article like userpage and somebody is mocking him . And i did n t spend time reading the dicussion side either ( I caught a glance on some words How dare you, blasphemous woman, speak ill of – and that fitted the aristocratic pattern), because if I was, maybe I realized who this Duke was, and that the page is only a theatrical show, with special effects. One should always
Although Borg Queen has hyphenated "African American actor" for instance, note that in this Google Books search both hyphenated and unhyphenated forms are common, and unhyphenated is more common. Art LaPella ( talk) 19:16, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
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