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To Dicklyon on the occasion of your photograph of Ivan Sutherland and his birthday! What a great gift. - User:SusanLesch 04:40, 23 May 2008 (UTC) |
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For your hard work in improving and watching over the Ohm's law article SpinningSpark 00:59, 18 January 2009 (UTC) |
The Original Barnstar | ||
For your improvements to the Centrifugal force articles. Your common sense approach of creating a summary-style article at the simplified title, explaining the broad concepts in a way that is accessible to the general reader and linking to the disambiguated articles, has provided Wikipedia's readership with a desperately needed place to explain in simple terms the basic concepts involved in understanding these related phenomena. Wilhelm_meis ( talk) 14:29, 6 May 2009 (UTC) |
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For your comment here which at once admits your own errors with humility yet focusses our attention upon the real villain Egg Centric ( talk) 17:09, 9 February 2011 (UTC) |
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For your great contribution to Wikipedia in adding pictures and illustrations to articles improving the reader's experience by adding a visual idea to the written information.-- Xaleman87 ( talk) 05:57, 26 February 2014 (UTC) |
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I could not find a barnstar for standing up to an outrageously unjust block so you get a special one. Hang in there. В²C ☎ 23:25, 3 February 2015 (UTC) |
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For your work in standardising article titles in line with the now consistent MOS:JR guidance, I present you this accolade. Your continued work in this regard, and in others, has been appreciated. It may have taken years, but much was accomplished. RGloucester — ☎ 14:44, 30 July 2016 (UTC) |
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For an eternity of super- gnoming at WP:Requested moves to rein in entire swathes of article-titling chaos and bring them into order. I'm sure it can seem thankless work at times, so thanks! — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ >ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ< 19:41, 13 December 2017 (UTC) |
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I've started to note the many scholarly contributions of this author, beginning with editing of the Wikipedia Cintel pages. For images and vision, I've had a lifelong career in color grading for feature films, tv commercials, videos, etc. with telecine and other systems worldwide; as a musician, 'Human and Machine Hearing' will certainly be fascinating. Thank you to Richard F. Lyon for providing the PDF of this work to all.
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For resisting those who would like Wikipedia’s capitalization rules to resemble a corporate brochure or a government press release — Wallnot ( talk) 02:49, 13 May 2021 (UTC) |
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This is for your really thorough clean up after the Armenian genocide move discussion. My watchlist is full of your edits since days. Paradise Chronicle ( talk) 19:20, 30 May 2021 (UTC) |
The Graphic Designer's Barnstar | |
Thank you! Biggerj1 ( talk) 15:57, 10 November 2021 (UTC) |
that's for these hacks:
The Minor barnstar | |
SO MANY MINOR EDITS! Thank you for your work. -ASHEIOU (THEY/THEM • TALK) 19:46, 15 May 2023 (UTC) |
We have Rozelle Bay and White Bay (New South Wales), and Blackwattle Bay, but Johnstons Bay, between them, has no article. Need to fix...
And the new Me-Mel ferry could use an article. Me-Mel is also an alt name for Goat Island (Port Jackson) it says there. Dicklyon ( talk) 10:21, 11 February 2024 (UTC)
Hello, how may i contact you for a creation of a page? SilentNotmad ( talk) 12:07, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
Howdy. The positioning & indenting of your question, is confusing. Are you asking me or SmokeyJoe? GoodDay ( talk) 19:48, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
Dance On My Own, in which, hopefully, someone dances atop a dance floor formally named My Own. Randy Kryn ( talk) 14:54, 21 February 2024 (UTC)
Have you seen it from Australia? If so, envious. Randy Kryn ( talk) 15:27, 24 February 2024 (UTC)
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. Your comment at RMTR is beyond the pale. Normally, it might land you a warning, but you were recently blocked for another personal attack against the same editor. So, to make this clear: it is okay to raise questions about another editor's conduct at an appropriate venue. It is okay to contact an admin, privately or on their talk page, to ask for an outside assessment of another editor's conduct. It is never okay to level personal attacks against another editor, no matter how vexatious or frustrating you may find their opinions or procedural actions. I implore you to consider whether you want to continue down this path, as further incivility may well result in an indefinite block or community ban. theleekycauldron ( talk • she/her) 03:03, 26 February 2024 (UTC)
any voiced criticism is "beyond the pale". But editors who raise concerns about the behavior of others are required to comply with our policy on decorum, no matter the venue. theleekycauldron ( talk • she/her) 03:26, 26 February 2024 (UTC)
In particular, GoodDay had said he'd stay out of the uppercase/lowercase question. Instead, he just reverts moves that change case, saying that an RM is needed. I'm always happy to open an RM if someone says they disagree with the result of my move, but that's not what's happening here. He doesn't disagree, just obstructs. So I said so. How is this incivil or an attack? See the discussion he started about this at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ice Hockey/Archive84#NHL Conference Finals moved to NHL conference finals. Nobody has given a reason to prefer uppercase, and several there have supported the move to lowercase. It's just obstruction, given the recent long discussion and clear consensus for a similar result in another league with no different issues. Dicklyon ( talk) 03:50, 26 February 2024 (UTC)
Not a personal attack; it's critical of behavior ("being obstructionist" is an action taken, not a viewpoint, mental capacity, motivation, personality, protected class of any kind, political, religious or other indentity/association, etc., etc.). There may have been a better way to phrase it, but WP's actionable meaning of "personal attack" has a clear (albeit lengthy) definition at WP:WIAPA. Saying that an editor's action is "obstructionist" does not fit any aspect of that definition. The only clause of any potential relevance is "accusations about personal behavior that lack evidence"; however, after extensive discussion has already demonstrated that the upper-case cause on this is not supportable by relevant P&G ( MOS:CAPS, WP:NCCAPS) and sourcing, then thwarting moves that bring them into compliance with the P&G would appear to be describable as obstruction[ist] self-evidently, i.e. by-definition, so no diffs would be needed. (And what would someone diff? That GoodDay made an unconstructive WP:RMTR request? We already know that, since Dicklyon's comment was a reply to it).
Other ways to phrase Dicklyon's objection are various, but someone is apt to take offense at their (or in this case someone else's) action being criticized no matter how it was phrased, and "someone was criticized", even "someone was offended", does not equate to "someone was personally attacked". If we were required to do a noticeboarding with diffs every time we objected to something an editor was doing/saying, WP productivity would totally grind to a halt, and 95% of our activity would consist of fighting at noticeboards. We routinely just hash things out informally in talk pages (or, this time, a talk-equivalent process page), with the understanding that various actions, statements, or patterns will sometimes be objected to.
Catching up a bit, I've read the wikiproject thread, and what stands out to me is that no one has presented evidence or other rationale in favor of capitalizing (despite being repeatedly asked to), simply insisting on RM process for its own sake, and not addressing the fact that related discussion has already happened at length and concluded in favor of lower-case. Several respondents there (the venue most likely to support capitalization despite MOS:SIGCAPS and MOS:SPORTCAPS) are firmly in favor of the lower-case moves and even of them being manual moves. So, there does not appear to be any actual "controversy" in WP:PCM terms, only an unshared argument to drag things out via lengthy process that consumes editors' time. This is not what we're here for. All of our P&G are applied by default; an exception is something for which a case must be made, and treating one's topic of interest as if the exact opposite applied is highly likely to turn disruptive.
PS: "Beyond the Pale" is indeed a phrase people need to stop throwing around; it has a long, contentious ethno-political history that is highly sensitive to a lot of people (not just one, already linked above, but two nationalities of them). — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 05:22, 26 February 2024 (UTC)
Ummm, per
WP:NPA: Accusations about personal behavior that lack evidence. Serious accusations require serious evidence, usually in the form of diffs and links
would be considered a personal attack. While certain venues are preferrable, other venues are no excluded by the policy?
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@ GoodDay: did you think my complaint about your obstruction of move-related progress was intended as a personal attack? Did you take it as such? Dicklyon ( talk) 10:13, 26 February 2024 (UTC)
This is not a reasonable block IMO. I have asked Theleekycauldron on their page to undo it. Bishonen | tålk 10:48, 26 February 2024 (UTC).
I think if you were to open an RM at Conference Finals, an RM at NHL Conference Finals and an RM at KHL Conference Finals? There should be no problems or complaints, from anyone. GoodDay ( talk) 21:28, 26 February 2024 (UTC)
I've referred this block to this administrators' noticeboard. Dicklyon, if you have anything you'd like to add there, please put it here and I'd be happy to paste it over. Thanks :) theleekycauldron ( talk • she/her) 01:07, 27 February 2024 (UTC)
You have a problem with how I execute an RFC that's fine, but don't be bringing up past topics on an RM because you're frustrated. Lower your tone, come back to the RM when you have a level head. Conyo14 ( talk) 16:07, 2 March 2024 (UTC)
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Hello, Dicklyon,
I see on your Talk page you say you'll have a discussion at RM about these moves from Finals/finals when your block is over but instead you just did massive page moves to the page titles you prefer. Did you not think this would raise questions? Liz Read! Talk! 05:27, 10 March 2024 (UTC)
I've done nearly 2000 edits since my unblock 11 days ago, with no feedback but this. I guess that means I'm doing OK? Dicklyon ( talk) 11:46, 12 March 2024 (UTC)
What is the rationale for the mixed capitalization of NBA conference finals Most Valuable Player award. Would it not be lowercase per MOS:EXPABBR? — Bagumba ( talk) 18:46, 16 March 2024 (UTC)
Similar case with NCAA basketball tournament Most Outstanding Player.— Bagumba ( talk) 01:25, 17 March 2024 (UTC)
I also floated whether Academy Award for Best Picture was correct, but ngrams shows capping, not sure if its deemed "substantial". Then there's the Main Page currently capping standalone "Best Picture". Right up there with blurbs on tennis tournaments using standalone "Men's Singles" and the like.— Bagumba ( talk) 01:25, 17 March 2024 (UTC)
Hey Dick! You take a lot of photos. What's the Best Picture you've ever taken? Primergrey ( talk) 05:18, 17 March 2024 (UTC)
Hey Dicklyon,
I'm reaching out because of this edit, in which you added several move request discussions to the ongoing capitalization discussion lists. I wanted to remind you that it's very important to keep notifications to groups entirely neutral, unlike your edit here. You know better and you know that your commentary was unnecessary, inflammatory, non-neutral, and entirely unhelpful. The notification was clearly biased and, when a notification is biased, it may be considered canvassing. Please read the "campaigning" point under WP:INAPPNOTE and keep notifications to groups neutral and without personal commentary moving forward. Additionally, the issue has not and cannot be settled by one discussion because there is merit to each individual argument that "Draft" may be a proper name in some contexts. We can't do one mass analysis of sources for every sports league in existence at once and then claim that the issue is settled, we need to evaluate it on a league-by-league basis for leagues of a certain size. That's why previous move discussions have failed and that's why it's not nearly as obvious or "settled" as you implied. Hey man im josh ( talk) 12:22, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
Hi, you've recently performed quite a few moves described as in accordance with MOS:AT but you've done so preempting a RM discussion, that has since been raised on the WP:RMT board. You've also indicated that you've moved a bunch following a recent discussion here but there is no {{ old move}} template on the talk page of that article to be able to confirm the outcome of the discussion, or to be able to reference it in future move discussions. In the future, please ensure that you are not moving pages preemptive to closing the consensus discussion and then when you are closing, you follow the protocol listed out WP:Requested moves/Closing instructions or the simple instructions on WP:Simple RM closing instructions. microbiologyMarcus petri dish· growths 18:16, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
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FYI, PJ Ellsworth, while claiming to be neutral, was calling the pieds noirs an ethnic group and linking to a MoS section that says that capitalization of ethnic groups should follow English capitalization rules. While also claiming that "chair" is a name, I guess in a reference to COMMON NAME. That is what that was about, with a side of "this is English not French", and "stable version", although possibly I read in an unintended subtext there. I don't want to attempt to explain in the request what he meant, after complaining that he was explaining to me in the request what *I* meant.
Hopefully that is helpful. It is good to know that COMMON NAME would also lead us to lower case but I think that I should let other people talk over there. I did put the RM in "Article alerts" at WikiProject Linguistics. Are there any other Wikiprojects that should be notified? I did not find a MoS project. The RM was already listed at the Algeria, History, and Ethnic groups Wikiprojects.
The point about ethnic groups centers on the fact that Algeria had been a French colony, but it was also a notorious haven for English, Dutch, Italian, Greek and Albanian pirates in its precolonial period, when it was an nominally an autonomous Ottoman ie Turkish jurisdiction, and also took in huge numbers of Spanish Jews in the Inquisition period. See
Regency of Algiers
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I'm not sure why you haven't picked up a bevy of these already, but thanks for all your effort, particularly in tracking down good sources with diagrams, etc., on the photography- and color-related articles (not to mention fighting vandalism). Those areas of Wikipedia are much richer for your work. Cheers! — jacobolus (t) 02:05, 27 February 2008 (UTC) |
The Photographer's Barnstar | ||
To Dicklyon on the occasion of your photograph of Ivan Sutherland and his birthday! What a great gift. - User:SusanLesch 04:40, 23 May 2008 (UTC) |
All Around Amazing Barnstar | ||
For your hard work in improving and watching over the Ohm's law article SpinningSpark 00:59, 18 January 2009 (UTC) |
The Original Barnstar | ||
For your improvements to the Centrifugal force articles. Your common sense approach of creating a summary-style article at the simplified title, explaining the broad concepts in a way that is accessible to the general reader and linking to the disambiguated articles, has provided Wikipedia's readership with a desperately needed place to explain in simple terms the basic concepts involved in understanding these related phenomena. Wilhelm_meis ( talk) 14:29, 6 May 2009 (UTC) |
The Surreal Barnstar | ||
For your comment here which at once admits your own errors with humility yet focusses our attention upon the real villain Egg Centric ( talk) 17:09, 9 February 2011 (UTC) |
The Photographer's Barnstar | ||
For your great contribution to Wikipedia in adding pictures and illustrations to articles improving the reader's experience by adding a visual idea to the written information.-- Xaleman87 ( talk) 05:57, 26 February 2014 (UTC) |
The Special Barnstar | |
I could not find a barnstar for standing up to an outrageously unjust block so you get a special one. Hang in there. В²C ☎ 23:25, 3 February 2015 (UTC) |
The Resilient Barnstar | |
For your work in standardising article titles in line with the now consistent MOS:JR guidance, I present you this accolade. Your continued work in this regard, and in others, has been appreciated. It may have taken years, but much was accomplished. RGloucester — ☎ 14:44, 30 July 2016 (UTC) |
The Tireless Contributor Barnstar | ||
For an eternity of super- gnoming at WP:Requested moves to rein in entire swathes of article-titling chaos and bring them into order. I'm sure it can seem thankless work at times, so thanks! — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ >ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ< 19:41, 13 December 2017 (UTC) |
Editor of the Week | ||
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The Original Barnstar | |
I've started to note the many scholarly contributions of this author, beginning with editing of the Wikipedia Cintel pages. For images and vision, I've had a lifelong career in color grading for feature films, tv commercials, videos, etc. with telecine and other systems worldwide; as a musician, 'Human and Machine Hearing' will certainly be fascinating. Thank you to Richard F. Lyon for providing the PDF of this work to all.
Lingelbach ( talk) 22:28, 2 February 2021 (UTC) |
Fighting the Good Fight Barnstar | ||
For resisting those who would like Wikipedia’s capitalization rules to resemble a corporate brochure or a government press release — Wallnot ( talk) 02:49, 13 May 2021 (UTC) |
The Tireless Contributor Barnstar | |
This is for your really thorough clean up after the Armenian genocide move discussion. My watchlist is full of your edits since days. Paradise Chronicle ( talk) 19:20, 30 May 2021 (UTC) |
The Graphic Designer's Barnstar | |
Thank you! Biggerj1 ( talk) 15:57, 10 November 2021 (UTC) |
that's for these hacks:
The Minor barnstar | |
SO MANY MINOR EDITS! Thank you for your work. -ASHEIOU (THEY/THEM • TALK) 19:46, 15 May 2023 (UTC) |
We have Rozelle Bay and White Bay (New South Wales), and Blackwattle Bay, but Johnstons Bay, between them, has no article. Need to fix...
And the new Me-Mel ferry could use an article. Me-Mel is also an alt name for Goat Island (Port Jackson) it says there. Dicklyon ( talk) 10:21, 11 February 2024 (UTC)
Hello, how may i contact you for a creation of a page? SilentNotmad ( talk) 12:07, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
Howdy. The positioning & indenting of your question, is confusing. Are you asking me or SmokeyJoe? GoodDay ( talk) 19:48, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
Dance On My Own, in which, hopefully, someone dances atop a dance floor formally named My Own. Randy Kryn ( talk) 14:54, 21 February 2024 (UTC)
Have you seen it from Australia? If so, envious. Randy Kryn ( talk) 15:27, 24 February 2024 (UTC)
{{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}
. Your comment at RMTR is beyond the pale. Normally, it might land you a warning, but you were recently blocked for another personal attack against the same editor. So, to make this clear: it is okay to raise questions about another editor's conduct at an appropriate venue. It is okay to contact an admin, privately or on their talk page, to ask for an outside assessment of another editor's conduct. It is never okay to level personal attacks against another editor, no matter how vexatious or frustrating you may find their opinions or procedural actions. I implore you to consider whether you want to continue down this path, as further incivility may well result in an indefinite block or community ban. theleekycauldron ( talk • she/her) 03:03, 26 February 2024 (UTC)
any voiced criticism is "beyond the pale". But editors who raise concerns about the behavior of others are required to comply with our policy on decorum, no matter the venue. theleekycauldron ( talk • she/her) 03:26, 26 February 2024 (UTC)
In particular, GoodDay had said he'd stay out of the uppercase/lowercase question. Instead, he just reverts moves that change case, saying that an RM is needed. I'm always happy to open an RM if someone says they disagree with the result of my move, but that's not what's happening here. He doesn't disagree, just obstructs. So I said so. How is this incivil or an attack? See the discussion he started about this at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ice Hockey/Archive84#NHL Conference Finals moved to NHL conference finals. Nobody has given a reason to prefer uppercase, and several there have supported the move to lowercase. It's just obstruction, given the recent long discussion and clear consensus for a similar result in another league with no different issues. Dicklyon ( talk) 03:50, 26 February 2024 (UTC)
Not a personal attack; it's critical of behavior ("being obstructionist" is an action taken, not a viewpoint, mental capacity, motivation, personality, protected class of any kind, political, religious or other indentity/association, etc., etc.). There may have been a better way to phrase it, but WP's actionable meaning of "personal attack" has a clear (albeit lengthy) definition at WP:WIAPA. Saying that an editor's action is "obstructionist" does not fit any aspect of that definition. The only clause of any potential relevance is "accusations about personal behavior that lack evidence"; however, after extensive discussion has already demonstrated that the upper-case cause on this is not supportable by relevant P&G ( MOS:CAPS, WP:NCCAPS) and sourcing, then thwarting moves that bring them into compliance with the P&G would appear to be describable as obstruction[ist] self-evidently, i.e. by-definition, so no diffs would be needed. (And what would someone diff? That GoodDay made an unconstructive WP:RMTR request? We already know that, since Dicklyon's comment was a reply to it).
Other ways to phrase Dicklyon's objection are various, but someone is apt to take offense at their (or in this case someone else's) action being criticized no matter how it was phrased, and "someone was criticized", even "someone was offended", does not equate to "someone was personally attacked". If we were required to do a noticeboarding with diffs every time we objected to something an editor was doing/saying, WP productivity would totally grind to a halt, and 95% of our activity would consist of fighting at noticeboards. We routinely just hash things out informally in talk pages (or, this time, a talk-equivalent process page), with the understanding that various actions, statements, or patterns will sometimes be objected to.
Catching up a bit, I've read the wikiproject thread, and what stands out to me is that no one has presented evidence or other rationale in favor of capitalizing (despite being repeatedly asked to), simply insisting on RM process for its own sake, and not addressing the fact that related discussion has already happened at length and concluded in favor of lower-case. Several respondents there (the venue most likely to support capitalization despite MOS:SIGCAPS and MOS:SPORTCAPS) are firmly in favor of the lower-case moves and even of them being manual moves. So, there does not appear to be any actual "controversy" in WP:PCM terms, only an unshared argument to drag things out via lengthy process that consumes editors' time. This is not what we're here for. All of our P&G are applied by default; an exception is something for which a case must be made, and treating one's topic of interest as if the exact opposite applied is highly likely to turn disruptive.
PS: "Beyond the Pale" is indeed a phrase people need to stop throwing around; it has a long, contentious ethno-political history that is highly sensitive to a lot of people (not just one, already linked above, but two nationalities of them). — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 05:22, 26 February 2024 (UTC)
Ummm, per
WP:NPA: Accusations about personal behavior that lack evidence. Serious accusations require serious evidence, usually in the form of diffs and links
would be considered a personal attack. While certain venues are preferrable, other venues are no excluded by the policy?
Cinderella157 (
talk) 06:25, 26 February 2024 (UTC)
@ GoodDay: did you think my complaint about your obstruction of move-related progress was intended as a personal attack? Did you take it as such? Dicklyon ( talk) 10:13, 26 February 2024 (UTC)
This is not a reasonable block IMO. I have asked Theleekycauldron on their page to undo it. Bishonen | tålk 10:48, 26 February 2024 (UTC).
I think if you were to open an RM at Conference Finals, an RM at NHL Conference Finals and an RM at KHL Conference Finals? There should be no problems or complaints, from anyone. GoodDay ( talk) 21:28, 26 February 2024 (UTC)
I've referred this block to this administrators' noticeboard. Dicklyon, if you have anything you'd like to add there, please put it here and I'd be happy to paste it over. Thanks :) theleekycauldron ( talk • she/her) 01:07, 27 February 2024 (UTC)
You have a problem with how I execute an RFC that's fine, but don't be bringing up past topics on an RM because you're frustrated. Lower your tone, come back to the RM when you have a level head. Conyo14 ( talk) 16:07, 2 March 2024 (UTC)
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Hello, Dicklyon,
I see on your Talk page you say you'll have a discussion at RM about these moves from Finals/finals when your block is over but instead you just did massive page moves to the page titles you prefer. Did you not think this would raise questions? Liz Read! Talk! 05:27, 10 March 2024 (UTC)
I've done nearly 2000 edits since my unblock 11 days ago, with no feedback but this. I guess that means I'm doing OK? Dicklyon ( talk) 11:46, 12 March 2024 (UTC)
What is the rationale for the mixed capitalization of NBA conference finals Most Valuable Player award. Would it not be lowercase per MOS:EXPABBR? — Bagumba ( talk) 18:46, 16 March 2024 (UTC)
Similar case with NCAA basketball tournament Most Outstanding Player.— Bagumba ( talk) 01:25, 17 March 2024 (UTC)
I also floated whether Academy Award for Best Picture was correct, but ngrams shows capping, not sure if its deemed "substantial". Then there's the Main Page currently capping standalone "Best Picture". Right up there with blurbs on tennis tournaments using standalone "Men's Singles" and the like.— Bagumba ( talk) 01:25, 17 March 2024 (UTC)
Hey Dick! You take a lot of photos. What's the Best Picture you've ever taken? Primergrey ( talk) 05:18, 17 March 2024 (UTC)
Hey Dicklyon,
I'm reaching out because of this edit, in which you added several move request discussions to the ongoing capitalization discussion lists. I wanted to remind you that it's very important to keep notifications to groups entirely neutral, unlike your edit here. You know better and you know that your commentary was unnecessary, inflammatory, non-neutral, and entirely unhelpful. The notification was clearly biased and, when a notification is biased, it may be considered canvassing. Please read the "campaigning" point under WP:INAPPNOTE and keep notifications to groups neutral and without personal commentary moving forward. Additionally, the issue has not and cannot be settled by one discussion because there is merit to each individual argument that "Draft" may be a proper name in some contexts. We can't do one mass analysis of sources for every sports league in existence at once and then claim that the issue is settled, we need to evaluate it on a league-by-league basis for leagues of a certain size. That's why previous move discussions have failed and that's why it's not nearly as obvious or "settled" as you implied. Hey man im josh ( talk) 12:22, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
Hi, you've recently performed quite a few moves described as in accordance with MOS:AT but you've done so preempting a RM discussion, that has since been raised on the WP:RMT board. You've also indicated that you've moved a bunch following a recent discussion here but there is no {{ old move}} template on the talk page of that article to be able to confirm the outcome of the discussion, or to be able to reference it in future move discussions. In the future, please ensure that you are not moving pages preemptive to closing the consensus discussion and then when you are closing, you follow the protocol listed out WP:Requested moves/Closing instructions or the simple instructions on WP:Simple RM closing instructions. microbiologyMarcus petri dish· growths 18:16, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
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FYI, PJ Ellsworth, while claiming to be neutral, was calling the pieds noirs an ethnic group and linking to a MoS section that says that capitalization of ethnic groups should follow English capitalization rules. While also claiming that "chair" is a name, I guess in a reference to COMMON NAME. That is what that was about, with a side of "this is English not French", and "stable version", although possibly I read in an unintended subtext there. I don't want to attempt to explain in the request what he meant, after complaining that he was explaining to me in the request what *I* meant.
Hopefully that is helpful. It is good to know that COMMON NAME would also lead us to lower case but I think that I should let other people talk over there. I did put the RM in "Article alerts" at WikiProject Linguistics. Are there any other Wikiprojects that should be notified? I did not find a MoS project. The RM was already listed at the Algeria, History, and Ethnic groups Wikiprojects.
The point about ethnic groups centers on the fact that Algeria had been a French colony, but it was also a notorious haven for English, Dutch, Italian, Greek and Albanian pirates in its precolonial period, when it was an nominally an autonomous Ottoman ie Turkish jurisdiction, and also took in huge numbers of Spanish Jews in the Inquisition period. See
Regency of Algiers
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