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Hi SMcCandlish! I was wondering whether you might be willing to provide some guidance for me on a question of the categorization of images? I came across another editor who, in all good faith, makes it a practice to delete category information from image files when he encounters them on Wikipedia. We've politely exchanged some ideas and opinions about that, as you can see from the first thread for August 2010 at Category_talk:Slavery in the United States, but I'm not really familiar with categorization, and am somewhat out of my depth. On the face of it, I find it hard to understand how removing category information from images benefits the encyclopedia, since it means (?) that images are unlikely to be reused, but I admit the other editor has more experience by far in dealing with categorization than I do. Do you mind giving your opinion, here, on this? (Or on the thread, if you'd prefer?) I won't quote you on/in that thread unless you say it's alright. Thanks! – OhioStandard ( talk) 00:36, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
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Hate to bother you, but it looks as if we may get an opportunity to break the stalemate on breed name capitalization. Seems there's a bit of discussion at the aforementioned page, and your input would probably be helpful. Hopefully it can get somewhere. The Blade of the Northern Lights ( 話して下さい) 02:40, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
I saw what you said on the proposal for the wikiproject darts and you suggested making it a task on WikiProject Sports, well I completely agree and was wondering if you would show me how to do this please. Mr.Kennedy1 ( talk) 11:51, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
I closed your proposal as a merge, see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Photography#Rename or merge. I've not done the merge as I would imagine that merging a WikiProject is pretty complex and someone familiar with the projects should probably take the lead on doing it. Fences& Windows 20:16, 4 July 2010 (UTC)
I didn't know where to go with this, because I'm not part of either project. I am interested in photography though. Anyway, this supposed project on Valued picture candidates appears on the verge of collapse due to the same reasons causing your problems at Photography. They call themselves a "project" though it appears unofficial. I suggested that a lack of visibility might be part of their problem. Thoughts? -- THE FOUNDERS INTENT PRAISE GOOD WORKS 23:07, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
Well can I? -- THE FOUNDERS INTENT PRAISE GOOD WORKS 12:07, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi Stanton,
I've just made some improvements to the Walter Lindrum article. I notice that you have previously made substantial contributions there, and have commented on the talkpage on the likelihood of raising this to Good Article status. Just wondering how you think it stands at the moment with the latest contributions?
Cheers, -- jjron ( talk) 11:41, 15 August 2010 (UTC)
Hey SMcCandlish, I have had really good copy editing experience with you before, and I was wondering if you would be interested in doing another editors article before/while it gets up to GA/A class reviews? It's John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent. Thanks much, Sadads ( talk) 11:29, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi, we made alot of progress at WP:DARTS from when you left. You should check it out. Here's what we got done.
And a whole lot more. What do you think? Mr.Kennedy1 talk guestbook 12:42, 4 September 2010 (UTC)
I think we can solve this by converting the first parameter into a switch-parameter and define what the template should do by each parameter. Just like {{
WWEPPV}} looks different as {{
WWEPPV|Royal Rumble}}
(at
Royal Rumble) and as {{
WWEPPV|WrestleMania}}
(at
WrestleMania). And this way we can split the article several times if needed. What do you think?
Armbrust
Talk
Contribs 10:25, 7 September 2010 (UTC)
Beware! This user's talk page is patrolled by talk page stalkers. |
This is really weird.
For August 2009, my talk page showed up in the Falsikon page stats tool as the 136th most popular page on English Wikipedia, with 14,836 visitors and 39,827 pagevuews], ahead of Brad Pitt, Rhianna, Johnny Depp, New York City, the Philippines, Shakira, etc., etc. This just can't be right. I mean, sure I'm pretty cool I like to think, and I'm even famous among the "digerati" (I was arguably the world's first professional online activist, and anyone following the Internet censorship and privacy issues of the 1990s to early 2000s knows my name from my work at EFF). But really, people not involved in those socio-political issues would not know me from Adam (my book is long out-of-print too, and never was a big seller).
My current guess is that some runaway bot or other tool must've done this. In August of 2009, the page views were even more excessive at 39,827, compared to a much more normal 314 a month earlier, 206 in September 2009, and 195 as of last month (August 2010). My user (non-talk) page didn't see changes of this sort, and has remained in the 100–300 range throughout 2009 and 2010, which strongly suggests automated behavior (if nearly 40K actual humans were reading my talk page in one month, readership of my user page would also have significantly increased, since humans are curious and scripts are not). — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(Õلō)ˀ Contribs. 19:14, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
The original threads that alerted me to this weirdness:
Why your talk page got so many hits in 2009. http://wikistics.falsikon.de/latest/wikipedia/en/ Rich Farmbrough, 21:05, 25 April 2010 (UTC).
I can see you are a major contributor to WP, but why are you the 136th most accessed page here in august? Just curious, but I will watch you to see what i can learn here, im not just a grazer, im trying to improve my editing skills. Mercurywoodrose ( talk) 01:29, 19 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi SmCandlish, I got your name from the Editorial Team participant list, and wanted to tell you that we will be testing out assessment metrics in the Wikiproject: United States Public Policy, and I was hoping you would be interested in assessing articles with the Public Policy Initiative. There is more info about assessment on the 9/13/2010 Signpost. If you're interested or just curious you can sign up on the project page or just contact me. Thanks! ARoth (Public Policy Initiative) ( talk) 23:13, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi there, MOSLINK has been the site of warring and bad blood, and we have arrived at a delicatedly balanced result. Can you first propose any changes you think would improve it? (There were a few improvements in the language, but I've reverted them for the moment while we take a look at the whole picture.) Tony (talk) 02:44, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
Hello, I have completed a general cleanup of the adopter information page for the adopt-a-user project, located here. During my cleanup, I have removed several inactive and retired users. In order to provide interested adoptees with an easy location to find adopters, it is essential that the page be up-to-date with the latest information possible. Thus:
Delivered by MessageDeliveryBot on behalf of Netalarm ( talk) at 03:48, 23 September 2010 (UTC).
Hi, I invite you to finish the dispute for the importance ratings on darts articles.
Delivered by MessageDeliveryBot on behalf of WikiProject Darts at 16:31, 23 September 2010 (UTC).
Hello. You have a new message at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Darts's talk page. -- Mr.Kennedy1 talk guestbook 11:23, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi, i'm trying to create a new lead for the Phil Taylor article because the current lead is just plain terrible. It would be great if you could help out. I created it in my sandbox as it needs alot of work. Thanks. Mr.Kennedy1 talk guestbook 11:52, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi, how do get the template class articles etc. for WP:CUE as I want to do the same with WP:DARTS. Thanks. Mr.Kennedy1 talk guestbook 18:55, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
This is a proposal to change the Repeated links section of the MOS. Please edit &/or comment on the talk page as you see fit.
Feel free to move the proposal/discussion straight to the Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (linking) if you wish. I just thought we might establish some sort of consensus first, out of the heat and fury over there. -- Michael C. Price talk 10:21, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Archive 40 | ← | Archive 44 | Archive 45 | Archive 46 | Archive 47 | Archive 48 | → | Archive 50 |
Hi SMcCandlish! I was wondering whether you might be willing to provide some guidance for me on a question of the categorization of images? I came across another editor who, in all good faith, makes it a practice to delete category information from image files when he encounters them on Wikipedia. We've politely exchanged some ideas and opinions about that, as you can see from the first thread for August 2010 at Category_talk:Slavery in the United States, but I'm not really familiar with categorization, and am somewhat out of my depth. On the face of it, I find it hard to understand how removing category information from images benefits the encyclopedia, since it means (?) that images are unlikely to be reused, but I admit the other editor has more experience by far in dealing with categorization than I do. Do you mind giving your opinion, here, on this? (Or on the thread, if you'd prefer?) I won't quote you on/in that thread unless you say it's alright. Thanks! – OhioStandard ( talk) 00:36, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
Guild of Copy Editors Newsletter 2010-09-01
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Hate to bother you, but it looks as if we may get an opportunity to break the stalemate on breed name capitalization. Seems there's a bit of discussion at the aforementioned page, and your input would probably be helpful. Hopefully it can get somewhere. The Blade of the Northern Lights ( 話して下さい) 02:40, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
I saw what you said on the proposal for the wikiproject darts and you suggested making it a task on WikiProject Sports, well I completely agree and was wondering if you would show me how to do this please. Mr.Kennedy1 ( talk) 11:51, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
I closed your proposal as a merge, see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Photography#Rename or merge. I've not done the merge as I would imagine that merging a WikiProject is pretty complex and someone familiar with the projects should probably take the lead on doing it. Fences& Windows 20:16, 4 July 2010 (UTC)
I didn't know where to go with this, because I'm not part of either project. I am interested in photography though. Anyway, this supposed project on Valued picture candidates appears on the verge of collapse due to the same reasons causing your problems at Photography. They call themselves a "project" though it appears unofficial. I suggested that a lack of visibility might be part of their problem. Thoughts? -- THE FOUNDERS INTENT PRAISE GOOD WORKS 23:07, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
Well can I? -- THE FOUNDERS INTENT PRAISE GOOD WORKS 12:07, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi Stanton,
I've just made some improvements to the Walter Lindrum article. I notice that you have previously made substantial contributions there, and have commented on the talkpage on the likelihood of raising this to Good Article status. Just wondering how you think it stands at the moment with the latest contributions?
Cheers, -- jjron ( talk) 11:41, 15 August 2010 (UTC)
Hey SMcCandlish, I have had really good copy editing experience with you before, and I was wondering if you would be interested in doing another editors article before/while it gets up to GA/A class reviews? It's John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent. Thanks much, Sadads ( talk) 11:29, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi, we made alot of progress at WP:DARTS from when you left. You should check it out. Here's what we got done.
And a whole lot more. What do you think? Mr.Kennedy1 talk guestbook 12:42, 4 September 2010 (UTC)
I think we can solve this by converting the first parameter into a switch-parameter and define what the template should do by each parameter. Just like {{
WWEPPV}} looks different as {{
WWEPPV|Royal Rumble}}
(at
Royal Rumble) and as {{
WWEPPV|WrestleMania}}
(at
WrestleMania). And this way we can split the article several times if needed. What do you think?
Armbrust
Talk
Contribs 10:25, 7 September 2010 (UTC)
Beware! This user's talk page is patrolled by talk page stalkers. |
This is really weird.
For August 2009, my talk page showed up in the Falsikon page stats tool as the 136th most popular page on English Wikipedia, with 14,836 visitors and 39,827 pagevuews], ahead of Brad Pitt, Rhianna, Johnny Depp, New York City, the Philippines, Shakira, etc., etc. This just can't be right. I mean, sure I'm pretty cool I like to think, and I'm even famous among the "digerati" (I was arguably the world's first professional online activist, and anyone following the Internet censorship and privacy issues of the 1990s to early 2000s knows my name from my work at EFF). But really, people not involved in those socio-political issues would not know me from Adam (my book is long out-of-print too, and never was a big seller).
My current guess is that some runaway bot or other tool must've done this. In August of 2009, the page views were even more excessive at 39,827, compared to a much more normal 314 a month earlier, 206 in September 2009, and 195 as of last month (August 2010). My user (non-talk) page didn't see changes of this sort, and has remained in the 100–300 range throughout 2009 and 2010, which strongly suggests automated behavior (if nearly 40K actual humans were reading my talk page in one month, readership of my user page would also have significantly increased, since humans are curious and scripts are not). — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(Õلō)ˀ Contribs. 19:14, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
The original threads that alerted me to this weirdness:
Why your talk page got so many hits in 2009. http://wikistics.falsikon.de/latest/wikipedia/en/ Rich Farmbrough, 21:05, 25 April 2010 (UTC).
I can see you are a major contributor to WP, but why are you the 136th most accessed page here in august? Just curious, but I will watch you to see what i can learn here, im not just a grazer, im trying to improve my editing skills. Mercurywoodrose ( talk) 01:29, 19 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi SmCandlish, I got your name from the Editorial Team participant list, and wanted to tell you that we will be testing out assessment metrics in the Wikiproject: United States Public Policy, and I was hoping you would be interested in assessing articles with the Public Policy Initiative. There is more info about assessment on the 9/13/2010 Signpost. If you're interested or just curious you can sign up on the project page or just contact me. Thanks! ARoth (Public Policy Initiative) ( talk) 23:13, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi there, MOSLINK has been the site of warring and bad blood, and we have arrived at a delicatedly balanced result. Can you first propose any changes you think would improve it? (There were a few improvements in the language, but I've reverted them for the moment while we take a look at the whole picture.) Tony (talk) 02:44, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
Hello, I have completed a general cleanup of the adopter information page for the adopt-a-user project, located here. During my cleanup, I have removed several inactive and retired users. In order to provide interested adoptees with an easy location to find adopters, it is essential that the page be up-to-date with the latest information possible. Thus:
Delivered by MessageDeliveryBot on behalf of Netalarm ( talk) at 03:48, 23 September 2010 (UTC).
Hi, I invite you to finish the dispute for the importance ratings on darts articles.
Delivered by MessageDeliveryBot on behalf of WikiProject Darts at 16:31, 23 September 2010 (UTC).
Hello. You have a new message at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Darts's talk page. -- Mr.Kennedy1 talk guestbook 11:23, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi, i'm trying to create a new lead for the Phil Taylor article because the current lead is just plain terrible. It would be great if you could help out. I created it in my sandbox as it needs alot of work. Thanks. Mr.Kennedy1 talk guestbook 11:52, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi, how do get the template class articles etc. for WP:CUE as I want to do the same with WP:DARTS. Thanks. Mr.Kennedy1 talk guestbook 18:55, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
This is a proposal to change the Repeated links section of the MOS. Please edit &/or comment on the talk page as you see fit.
Feel free to move the proposal/discussion straight to the Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (linking) if you wish. I just thought we might establish some sort of consensus first, out of the heat and fury over there. -- Michael C. Price talk 10:21, 28 September 2010 (UTC)