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No offense, I just have several problems with your rule rewrites. Bottom line is I think the way it was before, though not perfect, was better. Your copyedits introduced several ambiguities (if I went into them all it'd be a wall of text here, so I won't do that). I didn't know exactly what to do at this point, is why I reverted. I don't know exactly the best way to proceed if you want to. What part of your edits were most important to you, perhaps we should discuss point-by-point. Ihardlythinkso ( talk) 16:18, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
I won't undo your edit for the time being in order to give you the chance to replyhas things a little upside down -- per WP:BRD my "edit" was a simple revert of your changes. (It is you who must find consensus before they can stand.) Whether I'm a shogi player or not isn't really relevant to the rules writing changes that I reverted. I'll wait for your followup to these comments. Ihardlythinkso ( talk) 05:50, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
No problem. I'm in no hurry and I appreciate any and all feedback . -- Marchjuly ( talk) 08:16, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
The following are illegal moves which result in immediate loss in professional and tournament shogiis an improvement and good addition to the text/rules. Ok that said, let's proceed serially ...
OK you changed "On any turn, instead of moving a piece on the board, a player may [...]" to On any move, instead of moving a piece on the board, a player may [...]".
I think that is confusing, and even seemingly contradictory. (Word "turn" was better than "move", because "move" connotes moving from one square to the other, etc. But that's not what's intended here. "Turn" is a better word to emcompass both a move on the board, or a drop. There was no reason to change from "turn" to "move" -- it just creates the named ambiguity/potential confusion. Previously in the article it states: "For each turn a player may either move a piece that is already on the board (and potentially promote it, capture an opposing piece, or both) or else "drop" a piece that has been previously captured onto an empty square of the board." So the text was consistent with earlier in the article, until you changed it. If you don't like word "turn" then I'd suggest compromise using phrase "move turn". This is a relatively small point so far, but let me stop here to get your response. Ok,
Ihardlythinkso (
talk) 17:09, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
Ihardlythinkso ( talk) 06:02, 8 January 2014 (UTC)A piece in hand may, on a player's turn, be placed – 'dropped' – on any vacant square on the board, subject to certain restrictions. A 'drop' counts as a move and play passes to the opponent.
My understanding as to how Wikipedia works regarding disputes is to try and reach a consensus. To me, that implies, involving as many people as possible in the discussion. This seems hard to do on single user's talk page when there are only two people involved in the discussion. It seems that the chance of getting feedback from others would be greater if this was done on the Shogi talk page. Thanks. Marchjuly ( talk) 08:23, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
Ok to try and speed things up, I'll go on to my second objection ... You changed "The piece is then part of the forces controlled by that player." to The piece is then controlled by that player and can be moved accordingly.
First, I don't see why you made the change. (The way it was was explicit and clear. What did you intend needed improvement?) And your change actually is worse, since when you say "The piece is then controlled by that player [...]" it could mistakenly be interpreted to mean that the next action by the player executing the drop, is to "control the piece" in some manner [e.g. by moving it]. And that is not correct of course. The problem is your word "then" which implies a "next step". But I'm not quibbling with that word per se, I'm quibbling with why you felt you needed to change the original sentence at all, which I see as being clear, explicit, and problem-free.
Ihardlythinkso (
talk) 17:25, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
my use of the word "move" here refers to "moving a piece already on the board" or "dropping a piece-in-hand", because the sentence in question is describing ownership and capability specifically of a piece just dropped on the board. (I don't know how you branched into the thing about being against the rules to make "two moves in a row" -- it makes no sense to me -- perhaps your mistake just mentioned caused that.) I already told you why I felt the change you made could be ambiguous. (Please go back and read my objection.) Again, I think the sentence in question perhaps can be improved. Let me think about a copyedit to "part of the foreces controlled by that player" etc. and suggest a change for your feedback, okay!? Ihardlythinkso ( talk) 05:46, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
my rather attempt at trying not to repeat my arguments again and thus avoid running afoul of WP:IDHT.(What, did you change your mind? If so you didn't inform of that.) Again you're putting words in my mouth I never said or implied, with:
I didn't realize that this was something that could only be discussed by the two of us.If you read BRD then you know the person who reverted is the Most Interested Person, and it's discussion between interested parties that discussion aims to reach consensus. There's nothing exclusionary in what I said. At Bughouse chess, there isn't any text explaining that a captured piece when dropped becomes the property of the dropper, as there is in the shogi article. (It is just implied in the Bughouse article. I think that implication is fine for Bughouse, since, when a captured piece is passed to the partner, the color of that piece matches the receiving player's color. Not true in shogi since no color differentiation there. Could be that is why there's no mention of ownership in Bughouse, but there is in shogi, I dunno. Nevertheless, I am not the editor who included text about dropped-piece ownership in the shogi article, and neither am I the editor who made the same implicative only, in the Bughouse article.) I think rather than your ideas to make shogi article follow suit with the chess article, or your latter idea to follow suit with the Bughouse article, it would be a better strategy to write the shogi article appropriate for shogi, without consulting or attempting to mimic those other articles. I think to attempt to follow suit is bad writing strategy. (The Bughouse article even refers to the shogi article. So basing the shogi article on the form of the Bughouse article is also circular/illogical to that degree, isn't it?) Shogi is way more significant chess variant than Bughouse, besides (world notability). But I do agree with you that rules should be stated as concisely as possible. (Complete, correct, and concise.) That can/should be done without mimicking other article styles -- that's just good writing. And I agree with you too, that perhaps the shogi article is currently a bit of bad writing. (I've been doing a little copyedit work there since this dialogue, and I'm impressed how dysfunctional the text is generally. Yes, it could be improved generally. But your individual edits were not improvement, as already discussed until this discussion was ended by you at this Talk.) I'll participate if the discussion goes to article talk. It isn't my responsibility to move it there. This is my last edit here at your Talk. Again, good luck. Ihardlythinkso ( talk) 12:37, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
I believe you wrote We didn't even get to your other, poorer, edits I reverted.
The word "poorer" seems to imply that what we have been discussing so far were poor edits, they just aren't as poor as those we've yet to discuss. However, if my reading of that was incorrect then I apologize. I also thought that consensus is to be arrived at by those parties in conflict over an issue, which in this case, was just editors you and me
implied that only we could discuss this. So again I apologize if I misinterpreted this.
Marchjuly (
talk) 13:19, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
Objection #3 is simple grammar. You changed: "This is termed dropping the piece, or just a drop." to This is termed dropping the piece, or just drop.
I don't know what your improvement intent with that change, was it to keep verbs consistent (i.e. "dropping" and "drop")? In that case, "to drop" would have been better. But, there was nothing wrong with the original, "This is termed [...] a drop" is perfectly fine. ("It is termed [...]" means "It is called [...]", and it is called both "dropping the piece", and [it is also called] "a drop". I see nothing wrong with that sentence structure. Why did you change it to something ungrammatical?)
Ihardlythinkso (
talk) 17:38, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
I'll stop for now. (The rest perhaps gets uglier.) Cheers, Ihardlythinkso ( talk) 17:42, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
I noticed your query at the Teahouse ( "Carrier" improvements), and have some suggestions:
~Eric F: 71.20.250.51 ( talk) 16:52, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
No. | Title | Original air date | Description | ||
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1 | "All Hands" | April 27, 2008 | The USS Nimitz and her crew prepare to begin a 6-month deployment that will take them to Hawaii and beyond.
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2 | "Controlled Chaos" | April 27, 2008 | It's a perilous environment; living and working beneath the runway of a major airport and on the roof of a nuclear power plant.
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You can see my comments at the teahouse. -- MadScientistX11 ( talk) 13:50, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
You definitely haven't done anything wrong in asking a question at the reference desk. People were just confused because the edit summaries you mentioned happened to contain someone else's former username. -- Amble ( talk) 01:16, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
@ Ihardlythinkso: I am not trying to engage in a smear campaign against you and I am not trying to encourage others to do so on my behalf. Once again, I sincerely apologize that some of comments I made offended you. The questions I posted on RD/L were nothing more than an attempt to hear what other's had to say about grammar rule that I was not aware of. I really wasn't trying to pick apart your edits or mislead other's into thinking you are a bad editor. I apologize if that's how it came off. I didn't see it as being wrong at the time. I tried to keep the wording as neutral as possible and felt (I now know wrongly) that it would be safe to use the specific sentences (not all, but only some) as examples as long as I didn't refer to anybody by name. I had no idea that Malleus was an actual Wikiuser. I thought it was the name of a book or something. If I made any mistake (typos or otherwise) in the wording of the example sentences I used, then they were honest mistakes. I would've have gladly gone back and re-edited them once those mistakes had been noticed by either myself or someone else. Whether it was appropriate for you to edit (correct) parts of my question, I don't know. On one hand such a thing seems to be highly discouraged on Wikipedia, but I am not claiming to know all.
Regarding the post on the Teahouse, again I was just looking for possible answers to what I perceived at the time to be a problem. Please try and understand that was my first experience interacting with another editor about such matters. It seemed to me that the discussion was going nowhere, so I just went to the Teahouse looking for advice. I honestly felt that you were lecturing me, not just on grammar, but also on the the words "move", "turn" or "move turn" and there appropriateness for the article. It was that last part, not the grammar questions, that I felt was worth continuing on the shogi talk page. Moreover, I didn't know how to say that without repeating myself, so I felt stuck and just was looking for a possible way out. Again, I tried to keep the wording as neutral as possible and didn't realize I was being offensive. I wasn't trying to use either the Teahouse or RD/L to wage some covert war against you. I am truly sorry if that's the impression I gave you. It was bad faith on my part to assume that you were intentionally trying to stifle discussion and it was wrong to post stuff that gave others the impression that you were.
I think that you have done great things improving the shogi page. I have already said so on shogi talk. There are some things that you do that I have questions about, but you are making edits at such a fast pace, often going back and re-editing things you change within a few minutes, that I am not sure if it's appropriate to try and change anything until the dust has settled. It is really unfortunate that my mistakes, newbie mistakes or not, have made you feel that we can no longer work together to try and improve the shogi page. I really didn't come to Wikipedia to make enemies. I hope you will consider my apologies to be sincere, accept the olive branch I am offering, allow me to learn from my mistakes and put this all in the past. I am learning new things each time I log in and sometimes my mistakes will be pretty bad. It was never my intent to be unethical or rude and I feel really bad if that's the impression I gave you. Peace? Marchjuly ( talk) 05:55, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
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No offense, I just have several problems with your rule rewrites. Bottom line is I think the way it was before, though not perfect, was better. Your copyedits introduced several ambiguities (if I went into them all it'd be a wall of text here, so I won't do that). I didn't know exactly what to do at this point, is why I reverted. I don't know exactly the best way to proceed if you want to. What part of your edits were most important to you, perhaps we should discuss point-by-point. Ihardlythinkso ( talk) 16:18, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
I won't undo your edit for the time being in order to give you the chance to replyhas things a little upside down -- per WP:BRD my "edit" was a simple revert of your changes. (It is you who must find consensus before they can stand.) Whether I'm a shogi player or not isn't really relevant to the rules writing changes that I reverted. I'll wait for your followup to these comments. Ihardlythinkso ( talk) 05:50, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
No problem. I'm in no hurry and I appreciate any and all feedback . -- Marchjuly ( talk) 08:16, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
The following are illegal moves which result in immediate loss in professional and tournament shogiis an improvement and good addition to the text/rules. Ok that said, let's proceed serially ...
OK you changed "On any turn, instead of moving a piece on the board, a player may [...]" to On any move, instead of moving a piece on the board, a player may [...]".
I think that is confusing, and even seemingly contradictory. (Word "turn" was better than "move", because "move" connotes moving from one square to the other, etc. But that's not what's intended here. "Turn" is a better word to emcompass both a move on the board, or a drop. There was no reason to change from "turn" to "move" -- it just creates the named ambiguity/potential confusion. Previously in the article it states: "For each turn a player may either move a piece that is already on the board (and potentially promote it, capture an opposing piece, or both) or else "drop" a piece that has been previously captured onto an empty square of the board." So the text was consistent with earlier in the article, until you changed it. If you don't like word "turn" then I'd suggest compromise using phrase "move turn". This is a relatively small point so far, but let me stop here to get your response. Ok,
Ihardlythinkso (
talk) 17:09, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
Ihardlythinkso ( talk) 06:02, 8 January 2014 (UTC)A piece in hand may, on a player's turn, be placed – 'dropped' – on any vacant square on the board, subject to certain restrictions. A 'drop' counts as a move and play passes to the opponent.
My understanding as to how Wikipedia works regarding disputes is to try and reach a consensus. To me, that implies, involving as many people as possible in the discussion. This seems hard to do on single user's talk page when there are only two people involved in the discussion. It seems that the chance of getting feedback from others would be greater if this was done on the Shogi talk page. Thanks. Marchjuly ( talk) 08:23, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
Ok to try and speed things up, I'll go on to my second objection ... You changed "The piece is then part of the forces controlled by that player." to The piece is then controlled by that player and can be moved accordingly.
First, I don't see why you made the change. (The way it was was explicit and clear. What did you intend needed improvement?) And your change actually is worse, since when you say "The piece is then controlled by that player [...]" it could mistakenly be interpreted to mean that the next action by the player executing the drop, is to "control the piece" in some manner [e.g. by moving it]. And that is not correct of course. The problem is your word "then" which implies a "next step". But I'm not quibbling with that word per se, I'm quibbling with why you felt you needed to change the original sentence at all, which I see as being clear, explicit, and problem-free.
Ihardlythinkso (
talk) 17:25, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
my use of the word "move" here refers to "moving a piece already on the board" or "dropping a piece-in-hand", because the sentence in question is describing ownership and capability specifically of a piece just dropped on the board. (I don't know how you branched into the thing about being against the rules to make "two moves in a row" -- it makes no sense to me -- perhaps your mistake just mentioned caused that.) I already told you why I felt the change you made could be ambiguous. (Please go back and read my objection.) Again, I think the sentence in question perhaps can be improved. Let me think about a copyedit to "part of the foreces controlled by that player" etc. and suggest a change for your feedback, okay!? Ihardlythinkso ( talk) 05:46, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
my rather attempt at trying not to repeat my arguments again and thus avoid running afoul of WP:IDHT.(What, did you change your mind? If so you didn't inform of that.) Again you're putting words in my mouth I never said or implied, with:
I didn't realize that this was something that could only be discussed by the two of us.If you read BRD then you know the person who reverted is the Most Interested Person, and it's discussion between interested parties that discussion aims to reach consensus. There's nothing exclusionary in what I said. At Bughouse chess, there isn't any text explaining that a captured piece when dropped becomes the property of the dropper, as there is in the shogi article. (It is just implied in the Bughouse article. I think that implication is fine for Bughouse, since, when a captured piece is passed to the partner, the color of that piece matches the receiving player's color. Not true in shogi since no color differentiation there. Could be that is why there's no mention of ownership in Bughouse, but there is in shogi, I dunno. Nevertheless, I am not the editor who included text about dropped-piece ownership in the shogi article, and neither am I the editor who made the same implicative only, in the Bughouse article.) I think rather than your ideas to make shogi article follow suit with the chess article, or your latter idea to follow suit with the Bughouse article, it would be a better strategy to write the shogi article appropriate for shogi, without consulting or attempting to mimic those other articles. I think to attempt to follow suit is bad writing strategy. (The Bughouse article even refers to the shogi article. So basing the shogi article on the form of the Bughouse article is also circular/illogical to that degree, isn't it?) Shogi is way more significant chess variant than Bughouse, besides (world notability). But I do agree with you that rules should be stated as concisely as possible. (Complete, correct, and concise.) That can/should be done without mimicking other article styles -- that's just good writing. And I agree with you too, that perhaps the shogi article is currently a bit of bad writing. (I've been doing a little copyedit work there since this dialogue, and I'm impressed how dysfunctional the text is generally. Yes, it could be improved generally. But your individual edits were not improvement, as already discussed until this discussion was ended by you at this Talk.) I'll participate if the discussion goes to article talk. It isn't my responsibility to move it there. This is my last edit here at your Talk. Again, good luck. Ihardlythinkso ( talk) 12:37, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
I believe you wrote We didn't even get to your other, poorer, edits I reverted.
The word "poorer" seems to imply that what we have been discussing so far were poor edits, they just aren't as poor as those we've yet to discuss. However, if my reading of that was incorrect then I apologize. I also thought that consensus is to be arrived at by those parties in conflict over an issue, which in this case, was just editors you and me
implied that only we could discuss this. So again I apologize if I misinterpreted this.
Marchjuly (
talk) 13:19, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
Objection #3 is simple grammar. You changed: "This is termed dropping the piece, or just a drop." to This is termed dropping the piece, or just drop.
I don't know what your improvement intent with that change, was it to keep verbs consistent (i.e. "dropping" and "drop")? In that case, "to drop" would have been better. But, there was nothing wrong with the original, "This is termed [...] a drop" is perfectly fine. ("It is termed [...]" means "It is called [...]", and it is called both "dropping the piece", and [it is also called] "a drop". I see nothing wrong with that sentence structure. Why did you change it to something ungrammatical?)
Ihardlythinkso (
talk) 17:38, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
I'll stop for now. (The rest perhaps gets uglier.) Cheers, Ihardlythinkso ( talk) 17:42, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
I noticed your query at the Teahouse ( "Carrier" improvements), and have some suggestions:
~Eric F: 71.20.250.51 ( talk) 16:52, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
No. | Title | Original air date | Description | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | "All Hands" | April 27, 2008 | The USS Nimitz and her crew prepare to begin a 6-month deployment that will take them to Hawaii and beyond.
| ||
2 | "Controlled Chaos" | April 27, 2008 | It's a perilous environment; living and working beneath the runway of a major airport and on the roof of a nuclear power plant.
|
You can see my comments at the teahouse. -- MadScientistX11 ( talk) 13:50, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
You definitely haven't done anything wrong in asking a question at the reference desk. People were just confused because the edit summaries you mentioned happened to contain someone else's former username. -- Amble ( talk) 01:16, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
@ Ihardlythinkso: I am not trying to engage in a smear campaign against you and I am not trying to encourage others to do so on my behalf. Once again, I sincerely apologize that some of comments I made offended you. The questions I posted on RD/L were nothing more than an attempt to hear what other's had to say about grammar rule that I was not aware of. I really wasn't trying to pick apart your edits or mislead other's into thinking you are a bad editor. I apologize if that's how it came off. I didn't see it as being wrong at the time. I tried to keep the wording as neutral as possible and felt (I now know wrongly) that it would be safe to use the specific sentences (not all, but only some) as examples as long as I didn't refer to anybody by name. I had no idea that Malleus was an actual Wikiuser. I thought it was the name of a book or something. If I made any mistake (typos or otherwise) in the wording of the example sentences I used, then they were honest mistakes. I would've have gladly gone back and re-edited them once those mistakes had been noticed by either myself or someone else. Whether it was appropriate for you to edit (correct) parts of my question, I don't know. On one hand such a thing seems to be highly discouraged on Wikipedia, but I am not claiming to know all.
Regarding the post on the Teahouse, again I was just looking for possible answers to what I perceived at the time to be a problem. Please try and understand that was my first experience interacting with another editor about such matters. It seemed to me that the discussion was going nowhere, so I just went to the Teahouse looking for advice. I honestly felt that you were lecturing me, not just on grammar, but also on the the words "move", "turn" or "move turn" and there appropriateness for the article. It was that last part, not the grammar questions, that I felt was worth continuing on the shogi talk page. Moreover, I didn't know how to say that without repeating myself, so I felt stuck and just was looking for a possible way out. Again, I tried to keep the wording as neutral as possible and didn't realize I was being offensive. I wasn't trying to use either the Teahouse or RD/L to wage some covert war against you. I am truly sorry if that's the impression I gave you. It was bad faith on my part to assume that you were intentionally trying to stifle discussion and it was wrong to post stuff that gave others the impression that you were.
I think that you have done great things improving the shogi page. I have already said so on shogi talk. There are some things that you do that I have questions about, but you are making edits at such a fast pace, often going back and re-editing things you change within a few minutes, that I am not sure if it's appropriate to try and change anything until the dust has settled. It is really unfortunate that my mistakes, newbie mistakes or not, have made you feel that we can no longer work together to try and improve the shogi page. I really didn't come to Wikipedia to make enemies. I hope you will consider my apologies to be sincere, accept the olive branch I am offering, allow me to learn from my mistakes and put this all in the past. I am learning new things each time I log in and sometimes my mistakes will be pretty bad. It was never my intent to be unethical or rude and I feel really bad if that's the impression I gave you. Peace? Marchjuly ( talk) 05:55, 15 January 2014 (UTC)