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I've responded to your question at Template talk:Infobox UK place#Police and Fire concerning Brackla. I've also fixed the article for you. If you are editing many {{ Infobox UK place}} articles, you might want to view the subtemplate source code at Template:Infobox UK place/local to see the current list of valid parameter values. Your question highlights a possible need for the template code to be reviewed so that other editors are not confused when valid links break the template. — Richardguk ( talk) 10:16, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
Skinsmoke, today you moved Llanfair-yn-Neubwll to Llanfair-yn-neubwll. Apparently based on one website. If you place the village name into Google only one site out of the first 30 uses Llanfair-yn-neubwll with a small 'n'. Those using the capital includes the Police Force, Anglesey.gov.uk. Yell and from a printed perspective so does the Enyclopedia of Wales. Are there any other reasons for the move? FruitMonkey ( talk) 12:20, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
Hello there Skinsmoke,
I noticed you're work at Wikimedia Commons, particularly the much needed organisation and reorganisation of the Greater Manchester category. However, I raised a question here about making some further changes.
Do you plan to roll out the same format you introduced for the Stockport borough, for the remaining districts (ie do you have plans to have a "Met. Brg. of Oldham" category within which Oldham, Chadderton, Royton etc sit?). If so, please will you give me a nudge and I'll be happy to assist. -- Jza84 | Talk 13:42, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
Nice job there, I thought you were wrong on Ederyn but turns out not (although its a pity that the Saint's spelling is not maintained Just wondering though - when I grew up in North Wales (and spent every summer at Llangwnadl), no one ever called it a peninsular it was always just the Llŷn I wonder if we should rename? -- Snowded TALK 09:00, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
It is illogical to use the modern spelling Ceredigion in a list of counties from the 17th century where all the other counties use their contemporary 17th century names. RGCorris ( talk) 15:25, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
On a related note, please stop bypassing the redirects - see WP:NOTBROKEN and User_talk:Lozleader#.22Cleaning_up.22_redirects. Some of your recent edits have just repeated the same problem. Bencherlite Talk 23:22, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for your message. Perhaps you could link the Welsh guidelines for me at some stage; I can't immediately find them. Not that I particularly have an axe to grind in either direction of this argument, but I think you're not quoting the applicable guidance in full. Browsing around, I found WP:PLACE (a universal, not one-country, guideline), which says (with emphasis added):
So as I read it, it is permitted by WP:PLACE to say that Gilbertson, etc, were "born in Cardiganshire (now known as Ceredigion)" since that would be the widely-accepted historical English name for the county. I don't actually care enough about this to follow your contributions around, but perhaps this might give you something to think about. Bencherlite Talk 01:06, 19 January 2010 (UTC)
Why have you used the 2001 census as the source, rather than the estimate from the council. I understad that there will be greater uncertainty in the estimate, but it is more recent. Jolly Ω Janner 16:22, 29 January 2010 (UTC)
Hi, just a comment about changing Cornwall Council to Cornwall. If the field in the infobox is for the unitary authority, then a link to Cornwall Council is correct. DuncanHill ( talk) 13:53, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
I have linked some news articles to show use of Indian English spellings, in accordance to your comments.-- Redtigerxyz Talk 12:31, 7 February 2010 (UTC)
I have responded here Talk:Scapegoat#Requested_move -- Penbat ( talk) 22:01, 7 February 2010 (UTC)
You have recently participated in a discussion about moving Sarah Brown (spouse). The request has been modified so please revisit it here for further discussion if you care. — AjaxSmack 02:23, 11 February 2010 (UTC)
Skinsmoke, I think you raised some very valid issues with the move of Bolsa de Comercio de Santiago. I've collected a variety of sources to answer your concerns; let me know if there's anything else that has to be done for you to reconsider your opposition. Erudy ( talk) 15:53, 18 February 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for giving your comments at Talk:Daśāvatāra#Requested_move. As per the consensus: The result of the proposal was move to nondiacritic for the article. Several alternatives have been presented for this particular article (Dashavatara, Dasavatara, Dashavatar) so please help pick an appropriate one. Thanks. -- Redtigerxyz Talk 13:50, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
I used to have a "Pricilla" that worked for me. Drove me nuts at payroll time. I'm very suspicious of the facebook page. Out of 4170 Google hits, two are for the spelling "Priscilla and Kurt" and 4168 are for "Pricilla and Kurt". The Facebook page is the only place that uses the "Priscilla" spelling, so I suspect forgery. I've reverted you for now. If you find something to make it look like I got it wrong, go ahead and correct me.— Kww( talk) 14:57, 24 March 2010 (UTC)
Hi Skinsmoke, about a year ago you contributed to a debate I started on naming conventions for places in Wales. At the time, I think we agreed that 'regional' descriptors weren't generally useful when describing Welsh towns. However, User:Welshleprechaun has made an edit on Swansea Cork ferry which I believe opens the issue up again. [1] I'd welcome your input in the discussion at Talk:Swansea Cork ferry so that we can nail this down one way or the other.-- Pondle ( talk) 22:07, 1 April 2010 (UTC)
Thank you for kindly reminding me of something I read some time ago; I thought that using also Italian names could be helpful since in the external links I added (from important newspapers), the names of the villages are written only in Italian. I'll save the section you found for me.-- Broletto ( talk) 16:12, 13 April 2010 (UTC)
Could you please not edit my archive as you did here as the chances are I might miss the comment so please use my talk page best Mo ainm ~Talk 10:46, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
Mo ainm ~Talk 16:09, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
Hi. Just letting you know out of courtesy that I've created this navbox today, and will be adding it to your list page and to at least some of the relevant parishes, starting with the Darlington section. Please let me know if there are any initial problems, so that I can put it right. Of course I'll leave the updates to you, should you wish to do it.-- Storye book ( talk) 11:49, 23 April 2010 (UTC)
There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Los Angeles which you may be interested in. It is a consolidated discussion related to neighborhood moves discussed at Talk:Bunker Hill, Los Angeles, California, Talk:Angelino Heights, Los Angeles, Talk:Warner Center, Los Angeles, and other places. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you, Purplebackpack89 (Notes Taken) (Locker) 17:10, 28 April 2010 (UTC)
At Talk:MS Caribbean Princess#Requested move, you had listed oppose and gave the naming convention as a reason. Are you refering to WP:NC-SHIPS? If so, can you help clarify what part of the guideline you are using? The way I read it "A ship not known by a prefix should appear under its name only, if that is unambiguous". As the ship builder website, the cruise line website, and all but one ref in the article all seem to omit the prefix - it seems that this does fall into the category of a ship not known by its prefix. If you're using a different line in that guideline, can you help point it out, because I may be overlooking it. --- Barek ( talk • contribs) - 00:14, 3 May 2010 (UTC)
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OK, have you got a link to this discussion? If it was well-attended and came to a clear consensus, there would be no point rehashing it. Knepflerle ( talk) 11:19, 30 June 2010 (UTC)
It's interesting you're approaching it from a usage angle, 'cuz that's different than the way I was approaching it. I was approaching it on primarily a general naming conventions argument, with the additional argument that it was moved from O'Hare International Airport to Chicago O'Hare International Airport by one guy with no discussion. I did go to Google and Google Scholar to see which one was more hit; hopefully they'll be enough for you to support my argument Purple backpack89 15:36, 30 June 2010 (UTC)
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Hey—I replied to you on my talk page. Discussion is underway at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Vietnam#Diacritics, as you've seen. Is there a specific way we need to inform others that this is taking place? -- dragfyre_ ʞןɐʇ c 02:49, 12 July 2010 (UTC)
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The talk page is quiet, and there's only one other person opposed to the name switch (out of 5 votes). Just trying to put down some consensus. Ocaasi ( talk) 01:21, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi, Perhaps you can help me with this comment. I'm not sure what it means or how to fix it...yikes! It's a banner on the Tiger Dunlop page:
This article uses bare URLs in its references. Please use proper citations containing each referenced work's title, author, date, and source, so that the article remains verifiable in the future Thanks in advance for your time.CJ_WeißSchäfer 16:46, 15 July 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by CJ3370 ( talk • contribs)
Another question Thanks so much for the example. That was what I needed to get started. I think I've fixed the urls, but there doesn't appear to be a way to clear the banner. Is that a user privilege that I don't have as a newbee? CJ_WeißSchäfer 02:18, 16 July 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by CJ3370 ( talk • contribs)
Thanks so much for the heads up....it wasn't quite so clear from the website where I copied the map...yes it is a nice one. But another will do as well and not get me into trouble. I will have a look at the site you recommend and see if I can come up with something suitable. CJ_WeißSchäfer 14:45, 16 July 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by CJ3370 ( talk • contribs)
I mean War in Afghanistan (disambiguation) → War in Afghanistan. Personally I think it should be called either Afghanistan War or Afghan War. You'll notice that they currently redirect to War in Afghanistan. That preposition in is an abuse of language. In the past it was Korea War, Vietnam War, Falklands War... but in these modern days it is War "in" Iraq, War "in" Afghanistan. This kind politically correct grammar euphemism is quite irksome. But language evolves, and people tend not to say "excavation instrument" when they can say "spade", so you can bet it will be dropped in the future. If you're into that kind of things you can read (or re-read) Orwell's essay on politics and the english language. walk victor falk talk 04:57, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi! I noticed you moved the page Miranda, Italy to Miranda, Liguria. Now I moved it to Miranda, Molise because it isn't in region Liguria, but in Molise (as you can see in the map, they are very far from each other). Best regards, Von Vikken ( talk) 20:40, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
Edit: same thing for Pizzone, Liguria, moved to Pizzone, Molise. -- Von Vikken ( talk) 21:29, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
Hallo Skinsmoke
sorry to disturb you, I am writing about this redirect. Borgo is one of the original 14 historic quarters (rioni) of Rome. All over Italy there are hundreds, if not thousands, quarters and frazioni which bear the same name. You can google a little bit to discover it. Just to make an example of a town which I know well, the ancient part of Nocera Umbra, is called il Borgo. This means that this redirect is - at the best - ambiguous ,and therefore senseless. Moreover, a rione is a part of a city (Rome), not of a region (Latium), therefore it should be superordinated to the city. If we want really to be precise, then we should rename the article to Rione Borgo (Rome), and then rename accordingly all the other Rioni. I hope you got my point. Cheers from the Eternal City, Alex2006 ( talk) 11:27, 24 July 2010 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Borgo, Lazio. Since you had some involvement with the Borgo, Lazio redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). Bridgeplayer ( talk) 17:23, 24 July 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for your input re Steamtown - please see comments on ME2's talk page - am appreciative of your attempts to mediate Sulzer55 ( talk) 11:13, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
What Rmhermen was referring to when (s)he wrote "De facto standard titling used in many other articles" was that almost all the Allied bombing articles have that extension to the name eg Bombing of Hamburg in World War II, Bombing of Cologne in World War II, while the German bombings mostly have the name Blitz in the name Coventry Blitz, Southampton Blitz etc. -- PBS ( talk) 04:53, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
This definitely needs a full discussion if you want to move it (and thus I've reverted your move). -- Eraserhead1 < talk> 02:23, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
You changed a mention of "Pondicherry" in this article to read "Puducherry". I've changed it back and I’ve opened a discussion here. Xyl 54 ( talk) 23:05, 1 August 2010 (UTC)
You stated on the article Cawston, Warwickshire that I do not know my east from my west!
We'll sir in this case you were right. How embarassing! The worst thing is that I did a geography degree! The state of the British education system eh? ;-) Cls14 ( talk) 13:54, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
Just to let you know i reverted your edit on the Castlerock article where you removed the translation source from the infobox and inputed the Irish translation into the lede. We have an agreed practice over at the Ireland manual of style that states that as Irish is not official in Northern Ireland and many places don't actual use it, then places that are of Irish origin will have an derive tag after the placename in the lede, for example Belfast ot Tobermore - however places that aren't of Irish origin such as Castlerock don't as obviously it isn;t of Irish origin. Though if there is a modern Irish translation of a place not of Irish origin available it is listed (along with source) into the infobox. Thus i have reverted the article to this agreed practice. Mabuska (talk) 18:07, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
You are invited to participate in the discussion about a requested move of the article Dir En Grey back to Dir en grey. mx3 話 15:36, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I reverted your edit about naming not because you were wrong, but because this is the reason the council cited for the name. Mighty Antar ( talk) 16:58, 29 August 2010 (UTC)
If you think the change in wording will benefit anything, then go ahead, personally I think you're being over analytical, "smallest village" is an ambiguous claim but not an entirely unreasonable one, they may have considered Popham and Newtown and the others as hamlets rather than villages - they may have picked Deane because of it's central spot in the Borough, I really don't know, I suspect a 1978/79 guidebook might tell you or may simply repeat what they state on their website, that it's because Deane is the smallest village in the Borough - they don't define village or qualify "smallest". Mighty Antar ( talk) 00:53, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
I saw you had recently edited List of civil parishes in Cambridgeshire list and removed the column list; your edit-summary was common format throughout List of civil parishes in England. Cool. Fair enough. I accept my tags were not common; they were not unique though. No problem with your edit. With my POV hat on, I feel it would be easier to find the parish I am interested in when reading the list; personal viewpoint of course. Would you object if I one day (soon) collated the lists in the Cambs. list into a sectioned-sortable table similar to Worcs (though the Worcs. tables are not sortable) with a view to (a lot later when I am sure I have the refs to back it all up) converting it into a sortable table similar to Cheshire or even better, created ONE sortable table for England by transcluding from each list?
-- Senra ( Talk) 19:11, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
I've made some suggestions to Senra. Dr. Blofeld 12:49, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
Excellent work on this article. I've nominated it for GA. The only outstanding issue I see is maybe you need to seperate the publisher info from the title in some of the referenced url links that feature using cite web that's all. Dr. Blofeld 21:45, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I noticed that on your request that List of civil parishes in Cornwall (pre-2009) was merged into List of civil parishes in Cornwall. Although I agree fully with your above statement that the pre-2009 article was not fit for purpose, after discussion at WikiProject Cornwall we agreed that original version at List of civil parishes in Cornwall was the most up-to-date and should remain on that page. I have asked the admin who carried out the merging to see if they can revert it and then I think a better course of action would be to consider whether we either improve or delete the pre-2009 article. One of the main problems we had with how the information was presented on the (now) pre-2009 article was the inclusion of the former Municipal Borough and Rural/Urban Districts in the Notes section - as Cornwall became a unitary authority, people might assume these were the former District Councils that the UA replaced - therefore a split would be needed to preserve this info. (Sorry if that all seems confusing, after the merge it's hard to be clear about which version/page I'm talking about, please ask if you need clarification)
On another note I agree that a common format would be good for the List of civil parishes in x for England and Wales. I see that there have been some discussions on various Users' talk pages on this - would it be best to have a discussion on this in a centralised location so all editors of List of civil parishes in x could contribute and be aware of it, if it ever gets rolled out? Perhaps on Talk:List of civil parishes in England? Cheers, Zangar ( talk) 14:19, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
Well done on all the work with the upgrade, the page looks great now! All we need is a map of the 1974-2009 districts and it should be complete. As per your suggestion, I've copied our conversations (as collapsible boxes) into the talk page. Here's something to acknowledge all your hard work:
The Working Man's Barnstar | |
For all your tireless work on the upgrade of the List of civil parishes in Cornwall. Good job! Zangar ( talk) 18:04, 22 October 2010 (UTC) |
Cheers Zangar ( talk) 18:04, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
Please discuss these first on the article talk pages, and remember that the OS does get place names wrong sometimes. There isn't an "official" name for anywhere, we have to look at various sources and make a judgement after discussion. Thanks. DuncanHill ( talk) 13:07, 6 October 2010 (UTC)
GA review has started. Please address comments.♦ Dr. Blofeld 06:52, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
The biggest issue is the referencing. Each one needs to have a {cite web or cite book and |author= |title=|publisher=|date=| etc.♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:45, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
Publishing info though is I think.. Super work BTW on User:Skinsmoke/Sandbox/Civil parishes/Kernow, exactly what we need.♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:44, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
Can you add the book page numbers to the sources where required for Aberdaron? Hope you are feeling better,♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:49, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
I'm not convinced that Thornton-Cleveleys should be spelled with an en-dash. It seems to me that it's a hyphenated name.-- Dr Greg talk 00:17, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
There is currently a requested move discussion underway that involves the titling of the articke Kyūshū which definitely has a consensus to move to "Kyushu". As such, I have reverted several of your edits changing instances of "Kyushu" to "Kyūshū", particularly in proper names such as University of Kitakyushu (it obviously has an official English name that is not the same as the article title the city currently has).— Ryūlóng ( 竜龙) 05:04, 28 December 2010 (UTC)
hey there, this is just a bulk message inviting you to re-think the topic as was discussed more than 6 months ago and is still unresolved. feel free to jump here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Icelandic_debt_repayment_referendum,_2010#Time_to_settle_the_title_dispute.3F and help figure out how we can end this conclusively this time. -- Lotsofmagnets ( talk) 02:51, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
Is there any reason you were being overly dramatic in your comments on Talk:Pay Money to My Pain and Talk:Journey Through the Decade? Changing the casing of three letters in one article and one in the other is not "ridiculous capitalisation" by any means.— Ryūlóng ( 竜龙) 06:49, 12 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi Skinsmoke. Edits such as that make display the Latin alphabet of the transliteration/transcriptions with the font specified for non-Latin alphabet. I suggest that transliteration/transcriptions should always be written outside of the non-Arabic-script language templates :) I saw the same error in too many articles. Thanks. -- Mahmudmasri ( talk) 08:29, 20 February 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for the heads up. The reference which gave the parish is from the Hampshire Board of Agriculture - a company that gave out the acreages of parishes in South East England that no longer exists. The reference on the detached portion of the parish came from 1905, so I think that it might have changed since then! You can see the full history here but the stuff on British History is very dated. And I must admit, back in June 2010 I was very inexperienced on using citations on Wikipedia. But the parish boundaries have changed since then and looking on the civil parish maps there certainly is no detatched portion. I know the local area quite well and there has actually been some rearranging in the past few years. I have removed the sentence saying that there was a detatched portion of the parish. Thanks, Jaguar ( talk) 19:10, 4 June 2011 (UTC)
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I was just flagged for editwaring on that The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills page also, along with several others, all of whom just left Puppet dude a message. When i clicked on his talk page I was directed to a a sandbox~ -- Gwillhickers ( talk) 19:14, 4 November 2011 (UTC)
Nominate for GA and I'll review it, looks to be GA quality.♦ Dr. Blofeld 15:53, 19 November 2011 (UTC)
Review has begun. Cheers.♦ Dr. Blofeld 15:02, 20 November 2011 (UTC)
Congrats, I passed Kilham, Northumberland. I noticed you seemed to be getting a little unsettled by some of the things I identified. Remember it is just a review and not everything highlighted will be compulsory. I needed to ensure that those facts were backed up of course.♦ Dr. Blofeld 21:05, 20 November 2011 (UTC)
Well excellent job. But I think you'll find you would be able to write a GA quality in just a few hours. I know people who've had their article promoted within a week of creation. I think you'd be capable of writing many more GAs on British hamlets and villages. But no rush, take it at your own pace. I will be here most likely when you come to want another article reviewed. Go for it!♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:13, 21 November 2011 (UTC)
Awesome, good luck with that. Long term goal perhaps a GA for every county of the UK? ♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:17, 21 November 2011 (UTC)
I'd be interested to know your source for claiming that the "official" spelling of this village name is "Hampstead Marshall". Pennystokes ( talk) 16:39, 29 December 2011 (UTC)
Hello, Skinsmoke
Thank you for your reply, but both spellings have been used interchangeably in official documentation going back at least to the early seventeenth century. Parliamentary papers (from both Houses) and governmental bodies such as the Poor Law Commissioners and the GPO sometimes printed Hamstead and sometimes Hampstead, as you will see if you trawl Access to Archives and Google Booksearch. I have a large collection of local maps, showing that Ordnance Survey has mostly favoured Hamstead over Hampstead since the early twentieth century. (The modern OS electoral map that you mention shows both versions printed almost overlapping). The electoral roll, of which I have copies going back to 1986, uses Hamstead. The ONS, which you quote as a source for Hampstead, must also be inconsistent, since the censuses of 1801, 1881 and 1911 (at least - these are the only ones I have checked) use Hamstead.
It's difficult to see how anyone could extract an "official" orthography from this, other than to note that over the last century Hamstead seems to have trumped Hampstead fairly thoroughly in usage. Could you be more specific about your reasoning? The parish clerk, who has been in office for some years, cannot recall being queried on this, so I'd be grateful to know who it was you contacted and when. Pennystokes ( talk) 11:32, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
I've commented out your recent addition to {{ 2011 railway accidents}}. I presume that you intend to write the article. Once it is live, the link can be made live again. AFAIK, the railway (and aircrash) templates are only for articles that exist. Mjroots ( talk) 19:14, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
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Wow your work is amazing Nickerss ( talk) 19:50, 29 February 2012 (UTC) |
Sorry forgot to tell you. I think every thing you wrote was interesting. Nickerss ( talk) 03:09, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
infobox uk place.By the way are you from england. Nickerss ( talk) 03:49, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
infobox uk place.By the way are you from the uk. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nickerss ( talk • contribs) 03:50, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
Nice picture of Bedford Square on the Fitzrovia entry. However Bedford Square although can be considered part of Fitzrovia, Fitzroy Square is more typical. You may note Bedford Square also features on the Bloomsbury entry as well as well as having its own page. I was minded to revert your addition, but that would be rude :o). This issue of London district borders is controversial. May I suggest looking at the other entries. -- Thegiantrodent ( talk) 13:32, 11 April 2012 (UTC)
For bringing my editing up to standard. Ankh. Morpork 10:56, 9 May 2012 (UTC)
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Just to let you know I left a message on your talk page at Wikimedia Commons. (I know that some Wikipedia users like the heads up when messages are left for them at Commons, and you seem to be more active here).
All the best, Ubcule ( talk) 19:30, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
Hello, as your edit says: http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Contrada&diff=371166726&oldid=371166530 you removed because it was a nonsense. Let me know why, I just recognized that "solitally" it's not an english word :D. Does make sense this: "Usually is only a street, as in the case of Lombardy."? Thank you in advance. (You have the honour to inaugurate my talk page) -- Otrebla86 ( talk) 12:39, 6 July 2012 (UTC)
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Coincidentally, last night I discovered a page i had printed out some years ago from a CD I had of Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England. Don't know where the CD is now, but it must have been the 1831 edition as it differed from this one :
[3] (1837) but was the same as this one:
[4]. Anyone the bit that had caught my eye was
"The municipal government of the city is vested in magistrates appointed by the bishop, who are justices of the peace within the isle; of these, the chief bailiff, called in the act of the 27th of Hen. VIII. "the temporal steward," exercises the functions of high sheriff"... and so on. So that was what operated in place of a corporation. It looks like the 1837 version of the Dictionary has been rewritten to take into account the passing of the Liberty of Ely Act 1837.
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You have continued to move articles on towns in Greater Manchester, despite this request to cease (which could perhaps have been phrased a little more pleasantly). The consensus at Wikipedia:WikiProject Greater Manchester is that articles should be disambiguated by the ceremonial county, not the metropolitan borough. There is provision in the naming conventions for England for an article to be disambiguated by settlement, but this is not supported within the Greater Manchester project, and in any case, would not apply to the moves you made at Middleton, Greater Manchester or Wardle, Greater Manchester, neither of which is part of the settlement of Rochdale. Please stop immediately. Any further moves will have to be considered as vandalism, and will be reported, which could result in you being banned from editing. Skinsmoke ( talk) 03:28, 28 September 2012 (UTC)
Fair enough, now that someone has made a civilized request, together with something of an explanation, I see no reason to rename anymore articles but I would appreciate it if you could direct me to where this particular convention for Greater Manchester is documented. As far as i could see I was applying general convention to the renaming but if there is some "stick-in-the-mud" agreement by Mancunians then I can live with that. Green Giant ( talk) 14:14, 28 September 2012 (UTC)
I owe you a drink. Sorry it's not Brains' bitter. Iechyd da! --
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Diolch yn fawr! I've struggled with the bloody things in the past, only to find it was something really simple required to fix it! I just happened to stumble across it. A Caerdydd man I presume. Skinsmoke ( talk) 15:27, 28 September 2012 (UTC)
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This did indeed look like a hoax, but looking at the history there was a more or less straight article back in 2009 before a couple of IPs mucked it up with "joke" edits; so I have reverted to the last good version. He doesn't look particularly notable, though, and you could consider AfD. I might do that myself if I get round to checking up on him. Regards, JohnCD ( talk) 17:19, 9 December 2012 (UTC)
Hi Skinsmoke, you're probably among the many well aware of and quite fed up with this subject. But I thought you would want to see this edit history and particularly the last edit summary: [5]. I really don't know what can be done to get this user to stop moving articles counter all past and recent RMs and RfC majority. Bắc Giang province was also moved counter the 07 Aug 2011 14 cities RM, but I restored it, Bắc Giang River was left alone. Any suggestions? In ictu oculi ( talk) 01:07, 28 December 2012 (UTC)
I made a request related to Talk:Bengkulu (city) at Talk:Bengkulu. AsianGeographer ( talk) 20:05, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
Many thanks to you. You may be interested in Talk:Special_Region_of_Yogyakarta#Requested_move. AsianGeographer ( talk) 22:59, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for that warning. To prevent misunderstandings, I made a post at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Indonesia#Provinces, listing requests for Bali Province, Bengkulu Province, Yogyakarta Special Region. AsianGeographer ( talk) 23:23, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
It would take a very long on wiki message to explain the sheer frustration of watching the project flounder for years and have the occasional english challenged indonesian attempt to re-invent the wheel, but to have the current globalistic terminology set of flies try to reinvent the project again is nothing short of.... Satu Suro 23:46, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
Haha hysterical indeed (where's the sound byte of hysterical laughter I once had... Ooops and I have mislaid my book of welsh swear words as well ) - I simply suggested (comes to mind, I did not say it was happening) that a new editor with an ongoing wandering into every nook and cranny to make a WP:POINT is far from hysterical but simply, an observation that such behaviour over time could lead into such an identifiable behaviour.
You are to be commended on your very clear explanations of the naming conventions and practices, that should serve anyone well if they are wandering into this discussion at this point Satu Suro 00:56, 5 January 2013 (UTC)
In this see also list, List of Chief Ministers of Pondicherry is not working for some reason which I could not found out, can you help? -- Tito Dutta ( talk) 20:43, 5 January 2013 (UTC)
As far as the images are concerned, there's quite a good help page at Wikipedia:Picture tutorial which is pretty comprehensive. Don't worry, you won't remember it all in one go, but it's useful to bookmark. Skinsmoke ( talk) 01:45, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
Since the end of the British imperial period, there have been a number of places in India which have been renamed for political, ethical or linguistic reasons. The renaming process though, pre-dates independence. In the 17th century, Nashik became part of the Mughal Empire, and was renamed Gulshanabad, reverting to its present name under the Maratha Empire.[[citations]] Other examples include... However, it is since 1947, with a newly independent country keen to establish a new identity, that the process has gathered pace.
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Hi! Thanks for the comments, I have replied in FAC page. As I was submitting this for FAC, I was wondering if the lead is engaging at all. It seems far from engaging, it is not of sufficient quality. We would be greatly obliged if you can suggest some improvement of the lead, if possible. As I told in FAC page, prose has remained a constant problem in India-related article. I think this is primarily because we are not native speakers of the language. I hope you or someone else could help. Thanks a lot. Regards. -- Dwaipayan ( talk) 18:01, 12 January 2013 (UTC)
You can add a passing mention of the climate, but IMO it should be really a passing one! Dwaipayan ( talk) 18:39, 12 January 2013 (UTC)
I hope overflowing of images to the next section is not a major problem per MoS, because that's what was happening prior to left aligning some of the images. You have any suggestion? Dwaipayan ( talk) 18:01, 12 January 2013 (UTC)
Wow! I did not even realize religion is missing. Will add information on religion. However, separate subsection may not be necessary. It can be within demographics. I have to leave now, will resume editing within 24 hours. -- Dwaipayan ( talk) 20:28, 12 January 2013 (UTC)
Again, from a distant perspective, the politics is fascinating, as Tripura is one of the states where the Communists have achieved real success at the ballot box. That marks it out as odd to European eyes (well, maybe not to Italian eyes, but certainly to northern European eyes), though I recognise it may not seem so remarkable to Indian eyes, as you are used to their successes in elections in West Bengal and Kerala as well. Skinsmoke ( talk) 02:29, 13 January 2013 (UTC)
If you give a nod that you are willing ti copyedit the article, I can withdraw the Tripura FAC, and re-submit at a later date. Just waiting for your nod!-- Dwaipayan ( talk) 19:14, 13 January 2013 (UTC)
Once the copy edit has been completed I intend to step away from the article for 24 hours, so as to be able to do a second copy edit run with "fresh eyes". Skinsmoke ( talk) 16:00, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
I am not sure which form Indian English uses in a couple of instances. Does it follow British English or Oxford spelling in "ise/ize" words? Do Indians "recognise" something, or do they "recognize" it? The norm in British English is to "recognise", "organise" or "Sanskritise", though the Oxford English Dictionary prefers (but leaves it optional) to "recognize", "organize" or "Sanskritize". I also note the use of American English in compass points, such as Northeast India. Is this the norm in Indian English? Modern British English would use North East India. Does Indian English use the British "per cent" or the American "percent"? Finally (for the moment), I may need some help on lakhs and crores! I have used British English in most cases, but will change this to Indian English when these points are clarified. Skinsmoke ( talk) 03:22, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
I'm not great at infobox layout (I usually end up threatening to throw the computer out of the window, as I get so exasperated!), but is it possible to get a border round the infobox under "Healthcare"? In fact, it might be an idea to review all four infoboxes, to try to get a common style (one has the heading outside the box; one has the heading with a blue background; one has the heading with no background; and one has an unbolded heading, no background and no border). Skinsmoke ( talk) 04:55, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
"however, it remains undecided if the extent of modern Tripura is cognate with Kirat Desh."
"Cognate" doesn't seem to be the correct word in this context. "Cognate" means "One of a number of things allied in origin or nature.", whereas I think you mean "covered the same area as". I can't, for the life of me, think of the correct word in this context. Hopefully, it will come to me later, but any suggestions? Skinsmoke ( talk) 06:11, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
"Reversal of demographics led to tribes becoming a minority."
What does this mean? How can "demographics", the characteristics of human populations for purposes of social studies, be reversed? Skinsmoke ( talk) 08:20, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
As I was reading through, the thought occurred to me whether "Tribal" is an acceptable term. Here in the United Kingdom it would be considered a demeaning and pejorative term, suggesting a primitive people with little formal education, and somewhat "backwards" in terms of human development. We would use "Tripuri people", "Tripuri nation", "Tripuri ethnic group" or simply "Tripuris" instead. I know it is still used in official circles in India, but I think you have to ask yourself, would you refer to the "Hindi tribe" or the "Bengali tribe". If not, why is it considered acceptable for ethnic groups that don't carry as much clout in Indian socio-political society? Skinsmoke ( talk) 15:22, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
In the 2001 census of India, Bengalis represented almost 69 per cent of Tripura's population, while the indigenous population amounted to 31 per cent. The " scheduled tribes", historically disadvantaged
indigenousgroups of people recognised by the country's constitution, consist of 19 ethnic groups and many sub-groups, with diverse languages and cultures. In 2001, the largestindigenoussuch group was the Kokborok-speaking Tripuris, which had a population of 543,848, representing 17.0 per cent of the state's population and 54.7 per cent of the "scheduled tribe" population. The other major groups, in descending order of population, were the Reang (16.6 per cent of the indigenous population), Jamatia (7.5 per cent), Chakma (6.5 per cent), Halam (4.8 per cent), Mog (3.1 per cent), Munda (1.2 per cent), Kuki (1.2 per cent) and Garo (1.1 per cent). Bengali is the most widely spoken language, due to the large number of Bengali people in the state.
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Thank you for your explanation. I had changed "North East" to "Northeast" only because the Wikipedia article on Northeast India spells it as one word. Caeruleancentaur ( talk) 02:32, 22 January 2013 (UTC)
Hi Skinsmoke, I don't know if you watch RM discussions you participate in, but if not, the one at Talk:Stafford, Virginia#Requested move has a few extended discussions and oppose rationales now. You thought the issue was straightforward; it appeared so when you replied, but IMO is certainly not now. If you haven't seen the newer input there, maybe take a look and see if it affects your position. If you have, and you just stand by your initial vote, then that's alright too, of course. Thanks, BDD ( talk) 16:13, 24 January 2013 (UTC)
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I've removed four of your category additions. At the moment the article text and the refs support the first 7 Buckinghamshire (Pinewood), Highland (Wester Ross, Skye), Hertfordshire (Little Gaddesden), Wiltshire (Castle Combe), Oxfordshire (Bicester Airfield) and Norfolk (Elm Hill) if you have sources for North Yorkshire, Carmarthenshire, or Gloucestershire I'd appreciate them being used to round out the article. Argyll and Bute is almost certainly wrong, as I did some logistical work for the Scottish part of the shoot and it was all Wester Ross/Skye not Argyll or Bute. Stuart.Jamieson ( talk) 09:16, 28 January 2013 (UTC)
I noticed you have added quite a few specific location categories to Harry Potter film articles. But as mentioned above, on Wikipedia we generally require that categories in an article be supported by both the article prose and by reliable secondary sources. Now it's fine by me if you want to source these locations to IMDb or something, but we really need to write about them in the article text, otherwise the categories are just hanging out there unsupported. Thanks for your consideration. Elizium23 ( talk) 13:40, 28 January 2013 (UTC)
Hi Skinsmoke, EdJ (good chap) fixed Kwami's undiscussed move. I left a message of thanks on EdJ's Talk as a heads up to WT:RM#Talk:Neve Şalom Synagogue. And Kyoto etc etc. Your input on wording change to minimise future unneccessary WP:BRD RMs is welcome In ictu oculi ( talk) 02:47, 30 January 2013 (UTC)
Hello User:Skinsmoke, it's nice to meet you. I noticed your comments here and was wondering if you felt like starting a discussion to reinstate Indic scripts in WP:India related articles. I look forward to hearing from you soon. With regards, Anupam Talk 04:54, 30 January 2013 (UTC)
Added rivers under Economic Trends by comparing it with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamil_Nadu#Economy. I too feel awkward to add it under Economic Trends. Anyway Now I will open up new section to add the Rivers. Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pselvaganapathy ( talk • contribs) 15:24, 30 January 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for ur suggestion Pselvaganapathy ( talk) 18:20, 30 January 2013 (UTC)
Hello! How are you doing? have done some edits in Tripura. One of the edits, unfortunately, involved editing over your edits. That concerned the use of "while". I saw in the past in some FACs that they suggest using "while" sparing;y. That's why I changed some sentence constructions in the lead.
If you feel like, please resume copyediting and improving the article. I have tried to reduce the incidence of "tribe". -- Dwaipayan ( talk) 06:41, 2 February 2013 (UTC)
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Good day, Skinsmoke. I see that you're updating a number of "Orissa"s to "Odisha". While this is good for the most part, we shouldn't be changing them when the text refers to Orissa at a time when the state was called by its older name (i.e. before 2011). For example, here. The same goes for Bombay, Calcutta, Madras, Calicut etc.— indopug ( talk) 02:32, 11 February 2013 (UTC)
Another small note on this: the edit summary you have been using (Disambiguated Orissa → Odisha) is misleading, because Orissa isn't a disambiguation page. Also, on the above point, the manual of style says "do not use a piped link where it is possible to use a redirected term that fits well within the scope of the text". Sorry if this sounds nitpicky, but when you're making such a wide change (it's shown up quite randomly on two pages on my watchlist even though I don't edit India-related topics), it pays to get the details right! Joe Roe ( talk) 10:26, 12 February 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for your edits. The section is not complete yet, with the latest developments yet to find a place. The initial 19th-20th centuries debate did end somewhat, because it was an active trench war then, which involved rigging survey data for a period over 2/3 decades. That situation does not exist now. Chaipau ( talk) 09:22, 11 February 2013 (UTC)
Hi. Please note that the name of Orissa state was changed to Odisha only in November 2011, so all historical mentions of the state before that should still have the name Orissa. It is same as with Bombay/Mumbai, etc.. -- Soman ( talk) 20:11, 14 February 2013 (UTC)
A discussion for moving Odisha related articles to "... Odisha" from "... Orissa", and to built clear consensus whether all related articles will henceforth use Odisha in the articles is taking place here. Everyone is invited to participate in the discussion. Amartyabag TALK2ME 16:05, 31 January 2013 (UTC)
WP:BURDEN does not state that you must firstly tag a source that needs citation, but it does say 'Any material lacking a reliable source directly supporting it may be removed'. I don't see how it helps to re-insert all that material without cites, much of which is badly written. How has the article got in such a bad state? Eldumpo ( talk) 08:11, 18 February 2013 (UTC)
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I think it's unhelpful to talk of vandalism. Also, it is not the case that the guidelines state you should firstly tag that a citation is needed. I did already read the 1st block you quoted and already posted one quote above, whilst another says challenged material must have an inline-cite. I'm also not aware of any 'grandfather rules' relating to articles written before x guidelines came into effect. Eldumpo ( talk) 20:56, 18 February 2013 (UTC)
I would kindly request you to have a look on Bhubaneswar (capital of Odisha) which requires a copyedit for better prose (aiming for a GA in near future). It will be helpful if you can help with bit of copyedit. Amartyabag TALK2ME 11:16, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
Hi! I replied at Template talk:Editnotices/Page/Gurgaon WhisperToMe ( talk) 19:07, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, we would ask that you assume good faith while interacting with other editors, which you did not on User_talk:Plantdrew. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. this change is offensive to several editors. Sminthopsis84 ( talk) 17:08, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
I have explained what happened at this page. Hopefully you can see that I am not a vandal. Bevo74 ( talk) 12:18, 24 February 2013 (UTC)
And one for yourself. Brocach ( talk) 20:40, 24 February 2013 (UTC) |
Sláinte (I presume it's roughly the same in Irish as it is in Scottish Gaelic). Skinsmoke ( talk) 20:43, 24 February 2013 (UTC)
Sin é. Glad not to be in Embra tonight. Brocach ( talk) 20:50, 24 February 2013 (UTC)
— Darkwind ( talk) 06:50, 26 February 2013 (UTC)
When Mike Cline half-closed the discussion, I asked him on his talk page: what did he mean to do? he wanted me to restart the discussion. So, I put a new discussion up at Talk:Pseudotsuga menziesii, and copied over the species-relevant part of the discussion. I copied your initial comment, but I trimmed the "Opposed" from the beginning, because you were opposed to the genus move, but eventually in favor of the species move instead. If you think I did a poor job of copying your initial comment over, please refactor to your taste: I am very hesitant to edit Talk comments, even dropping the single word made me come here and explain. — hike395 ( talk) 17:50, 26 February 2013 (UTC)
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thank you Skinsmoke for editing me! my mistake! Evilan123 ( talk) 13:25, 27 February 2013 (UTC) |
Thank you for the cleanup you are doing in India. You should be aware that "Station name (City Metro)" is a common naming convention for lots of metro/subway systems, attaching the system name as a suffix rather than "metro station". See Washington, D.C., Paris, Rome, Moscow, Dubai, Delhi and many others. There are other succession, navigation and route diagram templates that relate to these well structured systems and unless you want to amend those to match you should avoid radical changes to them. Again thanks for what you are doing, and I will help where I can. Sw2nd ( talk) 13:09, 2 March 2013 (UTC)
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I recieved your message Evilan123 ( talk) 00:55, 5 March 2013 (UTC) |
YOU are my hero. MANY thanks for finally standing up and telling people about how a mining community works. I have created coal town as a stub, take a look Coal town guy ( talk) 13:47, 7 March 2013 (UTC) |
I concur, 100% about your observations and tatgging of this article. I also raised the same concerns, quite a while ago, on the article talk page see here, wow, not a soul has addressed it yet. I would very much enjoy improving the article. Do you have any ideas that should be incorporated before I launch headlong into the effort. While, my user name is Coal town guy, and I have only visited 130+ coal towns in North America, I am somewhat familiar with German and Welsh towns of this type. Its been a while since I was there Coal town guy ( talk) 14:14, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
You recently commented on a RM on the article 1971 Bangladesh atrocities. The discussion was closed and the article moved to the previous title by another editor per WP:RM/TR. A new RM has been initiated and can be found here Darkness Shines ( talk) 16:26, 9 March 2013 (UTC)
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For your great contribution in uplifting articles related to Indian Railways and Bangladesh Railway. - Chandan Guha ( talk) 01:29, 19 March 2013 (UTC) |
I found this take a look its a dam good start Coal town guy ( talk) 01:36, 19 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi, you've made several page moves "per citation" - but what citation? -- Redrose64 ( talk) 21:04, 19 March 2013 (UTC)
{{
s-rail-national}}
template, used in certain routeboxes - I think that South Wales is free from this style though. That template expects station names to be of the form "previous railway station" or "next railway station" if only |previous=
and |next=
are given; but if |county1=
or |county2=
are present, it expects station names to be of the form "previous (county1) railway station" or "next (county2) railway station", as in this hypothetical caseBritannia Bridge in, or part of Pentir ? I don't think so and it would certainly surprise the residents of Pentir. Any chance of an explanation? Regards Velella Velella Talk 16:56, 20 March 2013 (UTC)
Welsh community councils are a direct replacement for earlier parish councils, under the Local Government Act 1972, and are identical to English parish councils in terms of their powers and the way they operate.
Thanks for the edits. But I don't understand how the categories have been improved by this! Please educate me. Jrfw51 ( talk) 20:11, 21 March 2013 (UTC)
Should we go ahead and put Tripura in FAC?-- Dwaipayan ( talk) 03:21, 22 March 2013 (UTC)
Given that this was the subject of a RM to its current position in the not to distant past, I'd have appreciated a discussion over the move to the new name rather than a Bold Move. The way I see it judging by the sources returned by google books Butlins Pwllheli was a notable holiday camp part of the Butlins chain whilst Hafan y Môr is a run of the mill caravan park that is part of the Haven chain. It could do with a larger RFC both for this and for Butlins Ayr as to how best to proceed in regards naming, logos, etc... Stuart.Jamieson ( talk) 11:55, 31 March 2013 (UTC)
The addition of separate categories for each region on Wales leaves far too many with tiny numbers of members. Only Pembrokshire has a decent number
This is a bad idea Vicarage ( talk) 07:20, 1 April 2013 (UTC)
I keep turning around and finding that an article has improved and its says "Skinsmoke" after it. I was going to offer you a beer but they only have lager and then I thought a Mancunian will like "Pie" but then the example they give is apple or cherry. We need deep fried black pudding (with a brown ale dip coolee) as a potential offering IMO. Anyway veggie or not .... thanks for your work. Victuallers ( talk) 14:06, 2 April 2013 (UTC) |
Help please! We're in a bit of a pickle here and here. Thank uou for your brief attention. -- Septimus Wilkinson ( talk) 00:09, 3 April 2013 (UTC)
Hi Skinsmoke, you seem to be creating several new categories but some of them will have no chance of having more than one item of content. I've nominated Category:Estuaries of Cardiff and Category:Bays of Cardiff for deletion. Sionk ( talk) 00:13, 6 April 2013 (UTC)
Avoid categories that, by their very definition, will never have more than a few members, unless such categories are part of a large overall accepted sub-categorization scheme, such as subdividing songs in Category:Songs by artist or flags in Category:Flags by country.
I'd be grateful if you could stop it until the issue is resolved. There hasn't been any agreement for excessive categorisation and I can't see any agreement likely to form. Your edits are becoming disruptive because they will take a considerable amount to undo if they are reversed. Sionk ( talk) 00:15, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
You are over categorising in multiple parts of Wikipedia. Vicarage ( talk) 10:05, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
Hi, re
this,
this and similar edits: please don't change the order of footers if the previous order satisfied
WP:FOOTERS but the new order does not. Specifically, navboxes like {{
Anglesey}}
and {{
Conwy Valley}}
should go before the categories. Thanks. --
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talk) 17:38, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
Category:Aberwheeler, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. Oculi ( talk) 13:54, 8 April 2013 (UTC)
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Category:Coal mining in Cardiff and Category:Coal mining in the Vale of Glamorgan, which you created, have been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. Sionk ( talk) 21:31, 8 April 2013 (UTC)
Category:Coal mining in Anglesey and thirteen others, which you created, have been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. Sionk ( talk) 22:39, 8 April 2013 (UTC)
Hi Skinsmoke
As you can see from the notifications above, many of the categories which you have created have now been nominated for deletion.
I am sure that you created all those categories in good faith. However, so far the discussions seem to be heading towards deleting or upmerging many of them. AFAICS, none of these discussions has yet been closed, and I don't want to prejudge the outcome ... but there is at least a possibility that they might be deleted.
It's not a good use of anyone's time to create categories which will be deleted. It takes a lot of the time of creator's time, and also of those who join the deletion discussions ... and we all end up back where we started.
If an editor repeatedly create categories which get deleted, it can be regarded as disruptive and tendentious, and can eventually lead to sanctions on that editor.
I'm sure that you have no intention of being disruptive ... so please may I suggest that you refrain from creating any more categories until the closure of the current CFD discussions on your creations?
If there is a consensus to keep them, then you will know that it is likely to be acceptable to create further such categories. And if there is a consensus to delete them, then you'll know not to create any more like that. Either way, a little bit of a break from such creations will allow the consensus to emerge, and clarify things for everybody.
Thanks! -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 08:00, 9 April 2013 (UTC)
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Tripura is the third-smallest state in India, bordered by the states of Assam and Mizoram and by Bangladesh. The Kokborok-speaking Tripuri people (children pictured) are the major group among 19 tribes and many subtribes; Bengali people form the ethno-linguistic majority. Before becoming part of the newly independent India in 1949, the area was ruled for several centuries by the Tripuri dynasty. Ethnic strife between the indigenous people and Bengalis has been eased by the establishment of an autonomous tribal administrative agency and other strategies. Five mountain ranges run north to south; Agartala, the capital, is located on a plain to the west. Forests cover more than half of the area, in which bamboo and cane tracts are common. Tripura, which has a tropical savanna climate, has the highest number of primate species found in any Indian state. Economic progress is hindered by its geographical isolation – only one major highway connects it with the rest of India. Most residents are involved in agriculture and allied activities. Mainstream Indian cultural elements, especially from Bengali culture, coexist with traditional practices of the ethnic groups. ( Full article...)
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You are welcome to join the discussion at Talk:Whitebark pine#Requested move to scientific name. — hike395 ( talk) 04:26, 12 August 2013 (UTC)
Curious to know the origin of your interest in Vayudoot. A former or present aviator? I see a mention of Pondicherry. Passinginterest ( talk) 23:20, 2 October 2013 (UTC)
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For taking on the overflowing John Dalli article was and slimming it down considerably. Eggishorn (talk) (contrib) 04:24, 16 November 2013 (UTC) |
I agree that some of the climate info was a bit confusing and not well written but you're wrong if you think the whole article is problematic and shouldn't be a GA. I've removed some of the sentences. Please work with me to try to improve it rather than take to GAR which is counterproductive. Remember that we're all volunteers here, you wouldn't like it if I turned up on the Aberdaron (an article which I helped you out with a while back) talk page picking holes in it would you? ♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:24, 28 December 2013 (UTC)
No worries, emailed.♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:52, 29 December 2013 (UTC)
Bangui has been improved. I'll give it a read tomorrow ust to be sure. If you still see any problems let me know but I don't think the call for a GAR is still warranted.♦ Dr. Blofeld 22:11, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
Thanks. Agreed, somebody added it to the history from German wikipedia, I didn't place it there. Mogadishu next looks like one which has the potential to become a GA but it needs a fair bit of reinforcement and improvement...♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:30, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
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You just broke the 1RR restriction on Syria Civil War articles by reverting my edits, and your changes break the common name guidelines. They also conflict with the title of the Siege article. Legacypac ( talk) 17:14, 4 October 2014 (UTC)
I noticed you've been working on Tierra del Fuego, so I thought I'd ask you what you thought of the latest edits by an IP editor. Although I don't see what it was so important to re-order the list of people to put Argentinians first, I can go along with it, but deleting Selknam people from the list entirely because the people are "extinct or almost extinct" seems ridiculous to me. Even if there are still five Selknam people there, they ought to be on the list, don't you think? CorinneSD ( talk) 19:35, 25 October 2014 (UTC)
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I've undone the first of your recent edits since no-one claims that Mercator was Dutch and the spelling Gerard Mercator is certainly not Dutch. The many variants of his name and the problem of his nationality are discussed in the main text and clarification within the lead itself would disturb the balance. I'm still working on this article and your suggestions would be welcome. Peter Mercator ( talk) 10:25, 4 August 2016 (UTC)
The only certain name and spelling are those in Latin given by Gerardus Mercator himself. Modern texts over the last 100 years give his first name as Gérard (French), Gerhard (German), Gerard (Dutch) whilst in English one finds both Gerard (usual) and Gerardus (rare). The BBC was following the crowd, not the Dutch. Do we have to change the title of the en:wiki to Gerard? Do we have to add four tags. (The French version is important since many Belgian scholars use it.) Should we use a Flemish tag with his pre-latin baptismal name, which may have been Geert de Cremer. On the other hand his first tongue was probably German (for 6 years in Gangelt), not Flemish, so should it be Gerhard de Kremer? I really don't want to get involved in these matters at the beginning of the lead, or in a long discussion here. If you feel strongly on this matter please feel free to reinstate your edit in some form, preferably not singling out the Dutch version. As I said this article is still a work in progress and I'll address the problem at some stage, but this is footnote material. Peter Mercator ( talk) 20:55, 4 August 2016 (UTC)
Hello Skinsmoke, i wanted to expand the article with text from dewiki, but the graphic with the stations and kilometers disappeared, although i reverted my edits with undo. Maybe you can help. Thanks.-- Buchbibliothek ( talk) 17:50, 18 August 2016 (UTC)
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I note that you have categorised Fforest Fawr Geopark under various 'parks of . .' headings. Just to note that Geopark designations are rarely parks in the conventional sense, though they may well contain individual parks within their borders. Of course one problem with the very concept of the park category is that it is just so very wide - everything from a plot on the corner of a street (not included in WP unless notable of course!) to vast expanses of pristine wilderness where no provision is made for people - the two ends of the spectrum have little in common. cheers Geopersona ( talk) 13:59, 29 January 2017 (UTC)
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Hello there. Just went through your Wikipedia contribution on Rabindra Sarobar metro station, Kolkata, India. I would just stop short of calling parts of it bulls***. Firstly, as a long time resident of Charu Market - Rabindra Sarobar region, and a user of the Calcutta Metro from day one, I have never seen ghosts in our station. All of it, I believe, is somekind of a canard aimed at maligning our station. Understandably, with its 3rd rail traction, Kolkata metro is a popular suicide spot. Yet, our station is nowhere near peak suicide spots in this railway system. So, secondly, your claim of it being a popular suicide spot, holds little water. Lastly, where on earth did you land up with the photograph of the station platform? Metro railway zone of Kolkata is a protected zone under Official Secrets Act, and photography is strictly prohibited. You are liable to be punished for taking photos of the metro stations, trains etc. I plan to move the authorities to get your page down. I am not a law enforcing authority, and do not represent one. But consider this as a gentle reminder to take your page down, else, you might hear from the Indian Railways next.
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The parish doesn't appear to have been formerly renamed, see [8] there is a discussion on the merge at Talk:Publow#Merge. Crouch, Swale ( talk) 11:34, 16 June 2018 (UTC)
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I see you created a category for the community here and on Commons. Shouldn't they both be refereed to as "Llansanffraid Glan Conwy". Shouldn't the category here also be in Category:Villages in Conwy County Borough? Crouch, Swale ( talk) 17:30, 17 August 2018 (UTC)
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I don't think that that should have been merged with its parish, although its apparently never been a parish in its own right it does have plenty of coverage and is a large settlement. Crouch, Swale ( talk) 20:48, 23 June 2020 (UTC)
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Skinsmoke, today you moved Llanfair-yn-Neubwll to Llanfair-yn-neubwll. Apparently based on one website. If you place the village name into Google only one site out of the first 30 uses Llanfair-yn-neubwll with a small 'n'. Those using the capital includes the Police Force, Anglesey.gov.uk. Yell and from a printed perspective so does the Enyclopedia of Wales. Are there any other reasons for the move? FruitMonkey ( talk) 12:20, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
Hello there Skinsmoke,
I noticed you're work at Wikimedia Commons, particularly the much needed organisation and reorganisation of the Greater Manchester category. However, I raised a question here about making some further changes.
Do you plan to roll out the same format you introduced for the Stockport borough, for the remaining districts (ie do you have plans to have a "Met. Brg. of Oldham" category within which Oldham, Chadderton, Royton etc sit?). If so, please will you give me a nudge and I'll be happy to assist. -- Jza84 | Talk 13:42, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
Nice job there, I thought you were wrong on Ederyn but turns out not (although its a pity that the Saint's spelling is not maintained Just wondering though - when I grew up in North Wales (and spent every summer at Llangwnadl), no one ever called it a peninsular it was always just the Llŷn I wonder if we should rename? -- Snowded TALK 09:00, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
It is illogical to use the modern spelling Ceredigion in a list of counties from the 17th century where all the other counties use their contemporary 17th century names. RGCorris ( talk) 15:25, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
On a related note, please stop bypassing the redirects - see WP:NOTBROKEN and User_talk:Lozleader#.22Cleaning_up.22_redirects. Some of your recent edits have just repeated the same problem. Bencherlite Talk 23:22, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for your message. Perhaps you could link the Welsh guidelines for me at some stage; I can't immediately find them. Not that I particularly have an axe to grind in either direction of this argument, but I think you're not quoting the applicable guidance in full. Browsing around, I found WP:PLACE (a universal, not one-country, guideline), which says (with emphasis added):
So as I read it, it is permitted by WP:PLACE to say that Gilbertson, etc, were "born in Cardiganshire (now known as Ceredigion)" since that would be the widely-accepted historical English name for the county. I don't actually care enough about this to follow your contributions around, but perhaps this might give you something to think about. Bencherlite Talk 01:06, 19 January 2010 (UTC)
Why have you used the 2001 census as the source, rather than the estimate from the council. I understad that there will be greater uncertainty in the estimate, but it is more recent. Jolly Ω Janner 16:22, 29 January 2010 (UTC)
Hi, just a comment about changing Cornwall Council to Cornwall. If the field in the infobox is for the unitary authority, then a link to Cornwall Council is correct. DuncanHill ( talk) 13:53, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
I have linked some news articles to show use of Indian English spellings, in accordance to your comments.-- Redtigerxyz Talk 12:31, 7 February 2010 (UTC)
I have responded here Talk:Scapegoat#Requested_move -- Penbat ( talk) 22:01, 7 February 2010 (UTC)
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Skinsmoke, I think you raised some very valid issues with the move of Bolsa de Comercio de Santiago. I've collected a variety of sources to answer your concerns; let me know if there's anything else that has to be done for you to reconsider your opposition. Erudy ( talk) 15:53, 18 February 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for giving your comments at Talk:Daśāvatāra#Requested_move. As per the consensus: The result of the proposal was move to nondiacritic for the article. Several alternatives have been presented for this particular article (Dashavatara, Dasavatara, Dashavatar) so please help pick an appropriate one. Thanks. -- Redtigerxyz Talk 13:50, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
I used to have a "Pricilla" that worked for me. Drove me nuts at payroll time. I'm very suspicious of the facebook page. Out of 4170 Google hits, two are for the spelling "Priscilla and Kurt" and 4168 are for "Pricilla and Kurt". The Facebook page is the only place that uses the "Priscilla" spelling, so I suspect forgery. I've reverted you for now. If you find something to make it look like I got it wrong, go ahead and correct me.— Kww( talk) 14:57, 24 March 2010 (UTC)
Hi Skinsmoke, about a year ago you contributed to a debate I started on naming conventions for places in Wales. At the time, I think we agreed that 'regional' descriptors weren't generally useful when describing Welsh towns. However, User:Welshleprechaun has made an edit on Swansea Cork ferry which I believe opens the issue up again. [1] I'd welcome your input in the discussion at Talk:Swansea Cork ferry so that we can nail this down one way or the other.-- Pondle ( talk) 22:07, 1 April 2010 (UTC)
Thank you for kindly reminding me of something I read some time ago; I thought that using also Italian names could be helpful since in the external links I added (from important newspapers), the names of the villages are written only in Italian. I'll save the section you found for me.-- Broletto ( talk) 16:12, 13 April 2010 (UTC)
Could you please not edit my archive as you did here as the chances are I might miss the comment so please use my talk page best Mo ainm ~Talk 10:46, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
Mo ainm ~Talk 16:09, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
Hi. Just letting you know out of courtesy that I've created this navbox today, and will be adding it to your list page and to at least some of the relevant parishes, starting with the Darlington section. Please let me know if there are any initial problems, so that I can put it right. Of course I'll leave the updates to you, should you wish to do it.-- Storye book ( talk) 11:49, 23 April 2010 (UTC)
There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Los Angeles which you may be interested in. It is a consolidated discussion related to neighborhood moves discussed at Talk:Bunker Hill, Los Angeles, California, Talk:Angelino Heights, Los Angeles, Talk:Warner Center, Los Angeles, and other places. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you, Purplebackpack89 (Notes Taken) (Locker) 17:10, 28 April 2010 (UTC)
At Talk:MS Caribbean Princess#Requested move, you had listed oppose and gave the naming convention as a reason. Are you refering to WP:NC-SHIPS? If so, can you help clarify what part of the guideline you are using? The way I read it "A ship not known by a prefix should appear under its name only, if that is unambiguous". As the ship builder website, the cruise line website, and all but one ref in the article all seem to omit the prefix - it seems that this does fall into the category of a ship not known by its prefix. If you're using a different line in that guideline, can you help point it out, because I may be overlooking it. --- Barek ( talk • contribs) - 00:14, 3 May 2010 (UTC)
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OK, have you got a link to this discussion? If it was well-attended and came to a clear consensus, there would be no point rehashing it. Knepflerle ( talk) 11:19, 30 June 2010 (UTC)
It's interesting you're approaching it from a usage angle, 'cuz that's different than the way I was approaching it. I was approaching it on primarily a general naming conventions argument, with the additional argument that it was moved from O'Hare International Airport to Chicago O'Hare International Airport by one guy with no discussion. I did go to Google and Google Scholar to see which one was more hit; hopefully they'll be enough for you to support my argument Purple backpack89 15:36, 30 June 2010 (UTC)
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Hey—I replied to you on my talk page. Discussion is underway at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Vietnam#Diacritics, as you've seen. Is there a specific way we need to inform others that this is taking place? -- dragfyre_ ʞןɐʇ c 02:49, 12 July 2010 (UTC)
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The talk page is quiet, and there's only one other person opposed to the name switch (out of 5 votes). Just trying to put down some consensus. Ocaasi ( talk) 01:21, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi, Perhaps you can help me with this comment. I'm not sure what it means or how to fix it...yikes! It's a banner on the Tiger Dunlop page:
This article uses bare URLs in its references. Please use proper citations containing each referenced work's title, author, date, and source, so that the article remains verifiable in the future Thanks in advance for your time.CJ_WeißSchäfer 16:46, 15 July 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by CJ3370 ( talk • contribs)
Another question Thanks so much for the example. That was what I needed to get started. I think I've fixed the urls, but there doesn't appear to be a way to clear the banner. Is that a user privilege that I don't have as a newbee? CJ_WeißSchäfer 02:18, 16 July 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by CJ3370 ( talk • contribs)
Thanks so much for the heads up....it wasn't quite so clear from the website where I copied the map...yes it is a nice one. But another will do as well and not get me into trouble. I will have a look at the site you recommend and see if I can come up with something suitable. CJ_WeißSchäfer 14:45, 16 July 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by CJ3370 ( talk • contribs)
I mean War in Afghanistan (disambiguation) → War in Afghanistan. Personally I think it should be called either Afghanistan War or Afghan War. You'll notice that they currently redirect to War in Afghanistan. That preposition in is an abuse of language. In the past it was Korea War, Vietnam War, Falklands War... but in these modern days it is War "in" Iraq, War "in" Afghanistan. This kind politically correct grammar euphemism is quite irksome. But language evolves, and people tend not to say "excavation instrument" when they can say "spade", so you can bet it will be dropped in the future. If you're into that kind of things you can read (or re-read) Orwell's essay on politics and the english language. walk victor falk talk 04:57, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi! I noticed you moved the page Miranda, Italy to Miranda, Liguria. Now I moved it to Miranda, Molise because it isn't in region Liguria, but in Molise (as you can see in the map, they are very far from each other). Best regards, Von Vikken ( talk) 20:40, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
Edit: same thing for Pizzone, Liguria, moved to Pizzone, Molise. -- Von Vikken ( talk) 21:29, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
Hallo Skinsmoke
sorry to disturb you, I am writing about this redirect. Borgo is one of the original 14 historic quarters (rioni) of Rome. All over Italy there are hundreds, if not thousands, quarters and frazioni which bear the same name. You can google a little bit to discover it. Just to make an example of a town which I know well, the ancient part of Nocera Umbra, is called il Borgo. This means that this redirect is - at the best - ambiguous ,and therefore senseless. Moreover, a rione is a part of a city (Rome), not of a region (Latium), therefore it should be superordinated to the city. If we want really to be precise, then we should rename the article to Rione Borgo (Rome), and then rename accordingly all the other Rioni. I hope you got my point. Cheers from the Eternal City, Alex2006 ( talk) 11:27, 24 July 2010 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Borgo, Lazio. Since you had some involvement with the Borgo, Lazio redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). Bridgeplayer ( talk) 17:23, 24 July 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for your input re Steamtown - please see comments on ME2's talk page - am appreciative of your attempts to mediate Sulzer55 ( talk) 11:13, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
What Rmhermen was referring to when (s)he wrote "De facto standard titling used in many other articles" was that almost all the Allied bombing articles have that extension to the name eg Bombing of Hamburg in World War II, Bombing of Cologne in World War II, while the German bombings mostly have the name Blitz in the name Coventry Blitz, Southampton Blitz etc. -- PBS ( talk) 04:53, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
This definitely needs a full discussion if you want to move it (and thus I've reverted your move). -- Eraserhead1 < talk> 02:23, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
You changed a mention of "Pondicherry" in this article to read "Puducherry". I've changed it back and I’ve opened a discussion here. Xyl 54 ( talk) 23:05, 1 August 2010 (UTC)
You stated on the article Cawston, Warwickshire that I do not know my east from my west!
We'll sir in this case you were right. How embarassing! The worst thing is that I did a geography degree! The state of the British education system eh? ;-) Cls14 ( talk) 13:54, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
Just to let you know i reverted your edit on the Castlerock article where you removed the translation source from the infobox and inputed the Irish translation into the lede. We have an agreed practice over at the Ireland manual of style that states that as Irish is not official in Northern Ireland and many places don't actual use it, then places that are of Irish origin will have an derive tag after the placename in the lede, for example Belfast ot Tobermore - however places that aren't of Irish origin such as Castlerock don't as obviously it isn;t of Irish origin. Though if there is a modern Irish translation of a place not of Irish origin available it is listed (along with source) into the infobox. Thus i have reverted the article to this agreed practice. Mabuska (talk) 18:07, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
You are invited to participate in the discussion about a requested move of the article Dir En Grey back to Dir en grey. mx3 話 15:36, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I reverted your edit about naming not because you were wrong, but because this is the reason the council cited for the name. Mighty Antar ( talk) 16:58, 29 August 2010 (UTC)
If you think the change in wording will benefit anything, then go ahead, personally I think you're being over analytical, "smallest village" is an ambiguous claim but not an entirely unreasonable one, they may have considered Popham and Newtown and the others as hamlets rather than villages - they may have picked Deane because of it's central spot in the Borough, I really don't know, I suspect a 1978/79 guidebook might tell you or may simply repeat what they state on their website, that it's because Deane is the smallest village in the Borough - they don't define village or qualify "smallest". Mighty Antar ( talk) 00:53, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
I saw you had recently edited List of civil parishes in Cambridgeshire list and removed the column list; your edit-summary was common format throughout List of civil parishes in England. Cool. Fair enough. I accept my tags were not common; they were not unique though. No problem with your edit. With my POV hat on, I feel it would be easier to find the parish I am interested in when reading the list; personal viewpoint of course. Would you object if I one day (soon) collated the lists in the Cambs. list into a sectioned-sortable table similar to Worcs (though the Worcs. tables are not sortable) with a view to (a lot later when I am sure I have the refs to back it all up) converting it into a sortable table similar to Cheshire or even better, created ONE sortable table for England by transcluding from each list?
-- Senra ( Talk) 19:11, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
I've made some suggestions to Senra. Dr. Blofeld 12:49, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
Excellent work on this article. I've nominated it for GA. The only outstanding issue I see is maybe you need to seperate the publisher info from the title in some of the referenced url links that feature using cite web that's all. Dr. Blofeld 21:45, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I noticed that on your request that List of civil parishes in Cornwall (pre-2009) was merged into List of civil parishes in Cornwall. Although I agree fully with your above statement that the pre-2009 article was not fit for purpose, after discussion at WikiProject Cornwall we agreed that original version at List of civil parishes in Cornwall was the most up-to-date and should remain on that page. I have asked the admin who carried out the merging to see if they can revert it and then I think a better course of action would be to consider whether we either improve or delete the pre-2009 article. One of the main problems we had with how the information was presented on the (now) pre-2009 article was the inclusion of the former Municipal Borough and Rural/Urban Districts in the Notes section - as Cornwall became a unitary authority, people might assume these were the former District Councils that the UA replaced - therefore a split would be needed to preserve this info. (Sorry if that all seems confusing, after the merge it's hard to be clear about which version/page I'm talking about, please ask if you need clarification)
On another note I agree that a common format would be good for the List of civil parishes in x for England and Wales. I see that there have been some discussions on various Users' talk pages on this - would it be best to have a discussion on this in a centralised location so all editors of List of civil parishes in x could contribute and be aware of it, if it ever gets rolled out? Perhaps on Talk:List of civil parishes in England? Cheers, Zangar ( talk) 14:19, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
Well done on all the work with the upgrade, the page looks great now! All we need is a map of the 1974-2009 districts and it should be complete. As per your suggestion, I've copied our conversations (as collapsible boxes) into the talk page. Here's something to acknowledge all your hard work:
The Working Man's Barnstar | |
For all your tireless work on the upgrade of the List of civil parishes in Cornwall. Good job! Zangar ( talk) 18:04, 22 October 2010 (UTC) |
Cheers Zangar ( talk) 18:04, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
Please discuss these first on the article talk pages, and remember that the OS does get place names wrong sometimes. There isn't an "official" name for anywhere, we have to look at various sources and make a judgement after discussion. Thanks. DuncanHill ( talk) 13:07, 6 October 2010 (UTC)
GA review has started. Please address comments.♦ Dr. Blofeld 06:52, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
The biggest issue is the referencing. Each one needs to have a {cite web or cite book and |author= |title=|publisher=|date=| etc.♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:45, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
Publishing info though is I think.. Super work BTW on User:Skinsmoke/Sandbox/Civil parishes/Kernow, exactly what we need.♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:44, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
Can you add the book page numbers to the sources where required for Aberdaron? Hope you are feeling better,♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:49, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
I'm not convinced that Thornton-Cleveleys should be spelled with an en-dash. It seems to me that it's a hyphenated name.-- Dr Greg talk 00:17, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
There is currently a requested move discussion underway that involves the titling of the articke Kyūshū which definitely has a consensus to move to "Kyushu". As such, I have reverted several of your edits changing instances of "Kyushu" to "Kyūshū", particularly in proper names such as University of Kitakyushu (it obviously has an official English name that is not the same as the article title the city currently has).— Ryūlóng ( 竜龙) 05:04, 28 December 2010 (UTC)
hey there, this is just a bulk message inviting you to re-think the topic as was discussed more than 6 months ago and is still unresolved. feel free to jump here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Icelandic_debt_repayment_referendum,_2010#Time_to_settle_the_title_dispute.3F and help figure out how we can end this conclusively this time. -- Lotsofmagnets ( talk) 02:51, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
Is there any reason you were being overly dramatic in your comments on Talk:Pay Money to My Pain and Talk:Journey Through the Decade? Changing the casing of three letters in one article and one in the other is not "ridiculous capitalisation" by any means.— Ryūlóng ( 竜龙) 06:49, 12 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi Skinsmoke. Edits such as that make display the Latin alphabet of the transliteration/transcriptions with the font specified for non-Latin alphabet. I suggest that transliteration/transcriptions should always be written outside of the non-Arabic-script language templates :) I saw the same error in too many articles. Thanks. -- Mahmudmasri ( talk) 08:29, 20 February 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for the heads up. The reference which gave the parish is from the Hampshire Board of Agriculture - a company that gave out the acreages of parishes in South East England that no longer exists. The reference on the detached portion of the parish came from 1905, so I think that it might have changed since then! You can see the full history here but the stuff on British History is very dated. And I must admit, back in June 2010 I was very inexperienced on using citations on Wikipedia. But the parish boundaries have changed since then and looking on the civil parish maps there certainly is no detatched portion. I know the local area quite well and there has actually been some rearranging in the past few years. I have removed the sentence saying that there was a detatched portion of the parish. Thanks, Jaguar ( talk) 19:10, 4 June 2011 (UTC)
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I was just flagged for editwaring on that The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills page also, along with several others, all of whom just left Puppet dude a message. When i clicked on his talk page I was directed to a a sandbox~ -- Gwillhickers ( talk) 19:14, 4 November 2011 (UTC)
Nominate for GA and I'll review it, looks to be GA quality.♦ Dr. Blofeld 15:53, 19 November 2011 (UTC)
Review has begun. Cheers.♦ Dr. Blofeld 15:02, 20 November 2011 (UTC)
Congrats, I passed Kilham, Northumberland. I noticed you seemed to be getting a little unsettled by some of the things I identified. Remember it is just a review and not everything highlighted will be compulsory. I needed to ensure that those facts were backed up of course.♦ Dr. Blofeld 21:05, 20 November 2011 (UTC)
Well excellent job. But I think you'll find you would be able to write a GA quality in just a few hours. I know people who've had their article promoted within a week of creation. I think you'd be capable of writing many more GAs on British hamlets and villages. But no rush, take it at your own pace. I will be here most likely when you come to want another article reviewed. Go for it!♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:13, 21 November 2011 (UTC)
Awesome, good luck with that. Long term goal perhaps a GA for every county of the UK? ♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:17, 21 November 2011 (UTC)
I'd be interested to know your source for claiming that the "official" spelling of this village name is "Hampstead Marshall". Pennystokes ( talk) 16:39, 29 December 2011 (UTC)
Hello, Skinsmoke
Thank you for your reply, but both spellings have been used interchangeably in official documentation going back at least to the early seventeenth century. Parliamentary papers (from both Houses) and governmental bodies such as the Poor Law Commissioners and the GPO sometimes printed Hamstead and sometimes Hampstead, as you will see if you trawl Access to Archives and Google Booksearch. I have a large collection of local maps, showing that Ordnance Survey has mostly favoured Hamstead over Hampstead since the early twentieth century. (The modern OS electoral map that you mention shows both versions printed almost overlapping). The electoral roll, of which I have copies going back to 1986, uses Hamstead. The ONS, which you quote as a source for Hampstead, must also be inconsistent, since the censuses of 1801, 1881 and 1911 (at least - these are the only ones I have checked) use Hamstead.
It's difficult to see how anyone could extract an "official" orthography from this, other than to note that over the last century Hamstead seems to have trumped Hampstead fairly thoroughly in usage. Could you be more specific about your reasoning? The parish clerk, who has been in office for some years, cannot recall being queried on this, so I'd be grateful to know who it was you contacted and when. Pennystokes ( talk) 11:32, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
I've commented out your recent addition to {{ 2011 railway accidents}}. I presume that you intend to write the article. Once it is live, the link can be made live again. AFAIK, the railway (and aircrash) templates are only for articles that exist. Mjroots ( talk) 19:14, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
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Sorry forgot to tell you. I think every thing you wrote was interesting. Nickerss ( talk) 03:09, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
infobox uk place.By the way are you from england. Nickerss ( talk) 03:49, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
infobox uk place.By the way are you from the uk. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nickerss ( talk • contribs) 03:50, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
Nice picture of Bedford Square on the Fitzrovia entry. However Bedford Square although can be considered part of Fitzrovia, Fitzroy Square is more typical. You may note Bedford Square also features on the Bloomsbury entry as well as well as having its own page. I was minded to revert your addition, but that would be rude :o). This issue of London district borders is controversial. May I suggest looking at the other entries. -- Thegiantrodent ( talk) 13:32, 11 April 2012 (UTC)
For bringing my editing up to standard. Ankh. Morpork 10:56, 9 May 2012 (UTC)
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Just to let you know I left a message on your talk page at Wikimedia Commons. (I know that some Wikipedia users like the heads up when messages are left for them at Commons, and you seem to be more active here).
All the best, Ubcule ( talk) 19:30, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
Hello, as your edit says: http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Contrada&diff=371166726&oldid=371166530 you removed because it was a nonsense. Let me know why, I just recognized that "solitally" it's not an english word :D. Does make sense this: "Usually is only a street, as in the case of Lombardy."? Thank you in advance. (You have the honour to inaugurate my talk page) -- Otrebla86 ( talk) 12:39, 6 July 2012 (UTC)
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Coincidentally, last night I discovered a page i had printed out some years ago from a CD I had of Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England. Don't know where the CD is now, but it must have been the 1831 edition as it differed from this one :
[3] (1837) but was the same as this one:
[4]. Anyone the bit that had caught my eye was
"The municipal government of the city is vested in magistrates appointed by the bishop, who are justices of the peace within the isle; of these, the chief bailiff, called in the act of the 27th of Hen. VIII. "the temporal steward," exercises the functions of high sheriff"... and so on. So that was what operated in place of a corporation. It looks like the 1837 version of the Dictionary has been rewritten to take into account the passing of the Liberty of Ely Act 1837.
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You have continued to move articles on towns in Greater Manchester, despite this request to cease (which could perhaps have been phrased a little more pleasantly). The consensus at Wikipedia:WikiProject Greater Manchester is that articles should be disambiguated by the ceremonial county, not the metropolitan borough. There is provision in the naming conventions for England for an article to be disambiguated by settlement, but this is not supported within the Greater Manchester project, and in any case, would not apply to the moves you made at Middleton, Greater Manchester or Wardle, Greater Manchester, neither of which is part of the settlement of Rochdale. Please stop immediately. Any further moves will have to be considered as vandalism, and will be reported, which could result in you being banned from editing. Skinsmoke ( talk) 03:28, 28 September 2012 (UTC)
Fair enough, now that someone has made a civilized request, together with something of an explanation, I see no reason to rename anymore articles but I would appreciate it if you could direct me to where this particular convention for Greater Manchester is documented. As far as i could see I was applying general convention to the renaming but if there is some "stick-in-the-mud" agreement by Mancunians then I can live with that. Green Giant ( talk) 14:14, 28 September 2012 (UTC)
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Diolch yn fawr! I've struggled with the bloody things in the past, only to find it was something really simple required to fix it! I just happened to stumble across it. A Caerdydd man I presume. Skinsmoke ( talk) 15:27, 28 September 2012 (UTC)
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This did indeed look like a hoax, but looking at the history there was a more or less straight article back in 2009 before a couple of IPs mucked it up with "joke" edits; so I have reverted to the last good version. He doesn't look particularly notable, though, and you could consider AfD. I might do that myself if I get round to checking up on him. Regards, JohnCD ( talk) 17:19, 9 December 2012 (UTC)
Hi Skinsmoke, you're probably among the many well aware of and quite fed up with this subject. But I thought you would want to see this edit history and particularly the last edit summary: [5]. I really don't know what can be done to get this user to stop moving articles counter all past and recent RMs and RfC majority. Bắc Giang province was also moved counter the 07 Aug 2011 14 cities RM, but I restored it, Bắc Giang River was left alone. Any suggestions? In ictu oculi ( talk) 01:07, 28 December 2012 (UTC)
I made a request related to Talk:Bengkulu (city) at Talk:Bengkulu. AsianGeographer ( talk) 20:05, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
Many thanks to you. You may be interested in Talk:Special_Region_of_Yogyakarta#Requested_move. AsianGeographer ( talk) 22:59, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for that warning. To prevent misunderstandings, I made a post at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Indonesia#Provinces, listing requests for Bali Province, Bengkulu Province, Yogyakarta Special Region. AsianGeographer ( talk) 23:23, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
It would take a very long on wiki message to explain the sheer frustration of watching the project flounder for years and have the occasional english challenged indonesian attempt to re-invent the wheel, but to have the current globalistic terminology set of flies try to reinvent the project again is nothing short of.... Satu Suro 23:46, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
Haha hysterical indeed (where's the sound byte of hysterical laughter I once had... Ooops and I have mislaid my book of welsh swear words as well ) - I simply suggested (comes to mind, I did not say it was happening) that a new editor with an ongoing wandering into every nook and cranny to make a WP:POINT is far from hysterical but simply, an observation that such behaviour over time could lead into such an identifiable behaviour.
You are to be commended on your very clear explanations of the naming conventions and practices, that should serve anyone well if they are wandering into this discussion at this point Satu Suro 00:56, 5 January 2013 (UTC)
In this see also list, List of Chief Ministers of Pondicherry is not working for some reason which I could not found out, can you help? -- Tito Dutta ( talk) 20:43, 5 January 2013 (UTC)
As far as the images are concerned, there's quite a good help page at Wikipedia:Picture tutorial which is pretty comprehensive. Don't worry, you won't remember it all in one go, but it's useful to bookmark. Skinsmoke ( talk) 01:45, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
Since the end of the British imperial period, there have been a number of places in India which have been renamed for political, ethical or linguistic reasons. The renaming process though, pre-dates independence. In the 17th century, Nashik became part of the Mughal Empire, and was renamed Gulshanabad, reverting to its present name under the Maratha Empire.[[citations]] Other examples include... However, it is since 1947, with a newly independent country keen to establish a new identity, that the process has gathered pace.
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Hi! Thanks for the comments, I have replied in FAC page. As I was submitting this for FAC, I was wondering if the lead is engaging at all. It seems far from engaging, it is not of sufficient quality. We would be greatly obliged if you can suggest some improvement of the lead, if possible. As I told in FAC page, prose has remained a constant problem in India-related article. I think this is primarily because we are not native speakers of the language. I hope you or someone else could help. Thanks a lot. Regards. -- Dwaipayan ( talk) 18:01, 12 January 2013 (UTC)
You can add a passing mention of the climate, but IMO it should be really a passing one! Dwaipayan ( talk) 18:39, 12 January 2013 (UTC)
I hope overflowing of images to the next section is not a major problem per MoS, because that's what was happening prior to left aligning some of the images. You have any suggestion? Dwaipayan ( talk) 18:01, 12 January 2013 (UTC)
Wow! I did not even realize religion is missing. Will add information on religion. However, separate subsection may not be necessary. It can be within demographics. I have to leave now, will resume editing within 24 hours. -- Dwaipayan ( talk) 20:28, 12 January 2013 (UTC)
Again, from a distant perspective, the politics is fascinating, as Tripura is one of the states where the Communists have achieved real success at the ballot box. That marks it out as odd to European eyes (well, maybe not to Italian eyes, but certainly to northern European eyes), though I recognise it may not seem so remarkable to Indian eyes, as you are used to their successes in elections in West Bengal and Kerala as well. Skinsmoke ( talk) 02:29, 13 January 2013 (UTC)
If you give a nod that you are willing ti copyedit the article, I can withdraw the Tripura FAC, and re-submit at a later date. Just waiting for your nod!-- Dwaipayan ( talk) 19:14, 13 January 2013 (UTC)
Once the copy edit has been completed I intend to step away from the article for 24 hours, so as to be able to do a second copy edit run with "fresh eyes". Skinsmoke ( talk) 16:00, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
I am not sure which form Indian English uses in a couple of instances. Does it follow British English or Oxford spelling in "ise/ize" words? Do Indians "recognise" something, or do they "recognize" it? The norm in British English is to "recognise", "organise" or "Sanskritise", though the Oxford English Dictionary prefers (but leaves it optional) to "recognize", "organize" or "Sanskritize". I also note the use of American English in compass points, such as Northeast India. Is this the norm in Indian English? Modern British English would use North East India. Does Indian English use the British "per cent" or the American "percent"? Finally (for the moment), I may need some help on lakhs and crores! I have used British English in most cases, but will change this to Indian English when these points are clarified. Skinsmoke ( talk) 03:22, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
I'm not great at infobox layout (I usually end up threatening to throw the computer out of the window, as I get so exasperated!), but is it possible to get a border round the infobox under "Healthcare"? In fact, it might be an idea to review all four infoboxes, to try to get a common style (one has the heading outside the box; one has the heading with a blue background; one has the heading with no background; and one has an unbolded heading, no background and no border). Skinsmoke ( talk) 04:55, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
"however, it remains undecided if the extent of modern Tripura is cognate with Kirat Desh."
"Cognate" doesn't seem to be the correct word in this context. "Cognate" means "One of a number of things allied in origin or nature.", whereas I think you mean "covered the same area as". I can't, for the life of me, think of the correct word in this context. Hopefully, it will come to me later, but any suggestions? Skinsmoke ( talk) 06:11, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
"Reversal of demographics led to tribes becoming a minority."
What does this mean? How can "demographics", the characteristics of human populations for purposes of social studies, be reversed? Skinsmoke ( talk) 08:20, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
As I was reading through, the thought occurred to me whether "Tribal" is an acceptable term. Here in the United Kingdom it would be considered a demeaning and pejorative term, suggesting a primitive people with little formal education, and somewhat "backwards" in terms of human development. We would use "Tripuri people", "Tripuri nation", "Tripuri ethnic group" or simply "Tripuris" instead. I know it is still used in official circles in India, but I think you have to ask yourself, would you refer to the "Hindi tribe" or the "Bengali tribe". If not, why is it considered acceptable for ethnic groups that don't carry as much clout in Indian socio-political society? Skinsmoke ( talk) 15:22, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
In the 2001 census of India, Bengalis represented almost 69 per cent of Tripura's population, while the indigenous population amounted to 31 per cent. The " scheduled tribes", historically disadvantaged
indigenousgroups of people recognised by the country's constitution, consist of 19 ethnic groups and many sub-groups, with diverse languages and cultures. In 2001, the largestindigenoussuch group was the Kokborok-speaking Tripuris, which had a population of 543,848, representing 17.0 per cent of the state's population and 54.7 per cent of the "scheduled tribe" population. The other major groups, in descending order of population, were the Reang (16.6 per cent of the indigenous population), Jamatia (7.5 per cent), Chakma (6.5 per cent), Halam (4.8 per cent), Mog (3.1 per cent), Munda (1.2 per cent), Kuki (1.2 per cent) and Garo (1.1 per cent). Bengali is the most widely spoken language, due to the large number of Bengali people in the state.
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Thank you for your explanation. I had changed "North East" to "Northeast" only because the Wikipedia article on Northeast India spells it as one word. Caeruleancentaur ( talk) 02:32, 22 January 2013 (UTC)
Hi Skinsmoke, I don't know if you watch RM discussions you participate in, but if not, the one at Talk:Stafford, Virginia#Requested move has a few extended discussions and oppose rationales now. You thought the issue was straightforward; it appeared so when you replied, but IMO is certainly not now. If you haven't seen the newer input there, maybe take a look and see if it affects your position. If you have, and you just stand by your initial vote, then that's alright too, of course. Thanks, BDD ( talk) 16:13, 24 January 2013 (UTC)
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I've removed four of your category additions. At the moment the article text and the refs support the first 7 Buckinghamshire (Pinewood), Highland (Wester Ross, Skye), Hertfordshire (Little Gaddesden), Wiltshire (Castle Combe), Oxfordshire (Bicester Airfield) and Norfolk (Elm Hill) if you have sources for North Yorkshire, Carmarthenshire, or Gloucestershire I'd appreciate them being used to round out the article. Argyll and Bute is almost certainly wrong, as I did some logistical work for the Scottish part of the shoot and it was all Wester Ross/Skye not Argyll or Bute. Stuart.Jamieson ( talk) 09:16, 28 January 2013 (UTC)
I noticed you have added quite a few specific location categories to Harry Potter film articles. But as mentioned above, on Wikipedia we generally require that categories in an article be supported by both the article prose and by reliable secondary sources. Now it's fine by me if you want to source these locations to IMDb or something, but we really need to write about them in the article text, otherwise the categories are just hanging out there unsupported. Thanks for your consideration. Elizium23 ( talk) 13:40, 28 January 2013 (UTC)
Hi Skinsmoke, EdJ (good chap) fixed Kwami's undiscussed move. I left a message of thanks on EdJ's Talk as a heads up to WT:RM#Talk:Neve Şalom Synagogue. And Kyoto etc etc. Your input on wording change to minimise future unneccessary WP:BRD RMs is welcome In ictu oculi ( talk) 02:47, 30 January 2013 (UTC)
Hello User:Skinsmoke, it's nice to meet you. I noticed your comments here and was wondering if you felt like starting a discussion to reinstate Indic scripts in WP:India related articles. I look forward to hearing from you soon. With regards, Anupam Talk 04:54, 30 January 2013 (UTC)
Added rivers under Economic Trends by comparing it with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamil_Nadu#Economy. I too feel awkward to add it under Economic Trends. Anyway Now I will open up new section to add the Rivers. Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pselvaganapathy ( talk • contribs) 15:24, 30 January 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for ur suggestion Pselvaganapathy ( talk) 18:20, 30 January 2013 (UTC)
Hello! How are you doing? have done some edits in Tripura. One of the edits, unfortunately, involved editing over your edits. That concerned the use of "while". I saw in the past in some FACs that they suggest using "while" sparing;y. That's why I changed some sentence constructions in the lead.
If you feel like, please resume copyediting and improving the article. I have tried to reduce the incidence of "tribe". -- Dwaipayan ( talk) 06:41, 2 February 2013 (UTC)
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Good day, Skinsmoke. I see that you're updating a number of "Orissa"s to "Odisha". While this is good for the most part, we shouldn't be changing them when the text refers to Orissa at a time when the state was called by its older name (i.e. before 2011). For example, here. The same goes for Bombay, Calcutta, Madras, Calicut etc.— indopug ( talk) 02:32, 11 February 2013 (UTC)
Another small note on this: the edit summary you have been using (Disambiguated Orissa → Odisha) is misleading, because Orissa isn't a disambiguation page. Also, on the above point, the manual of style says "do not use a piped link where it is possible to use a redirected term that fits well within the scope of the text". Sorry if this sounds nitpicky, but when you're making such a wide change (it's shown up quite randomly on two pages on my watchlist even though I don't edit India-related topics), it pays to get the details right! Joe Roe ( talk) 10:26, 12 February 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for your edits. The section is not complete yet, with the latest developments yet to find a place. The initial 19th-20th centuries debate did end somewhat, because it was an active trench war then, which involved rigging survey data for a period over 2/3 decades. That situation does not exist now. Chaipau ( talk) 09:22, 11 February 2013 (UTC)
Hi. Please note that the name of Orissa state was changed to Odisha only in November 2011, so all historical mentions of the state before that should still have the name Orissa. It is same as with Bombay/Mumbai, etc.. -- Soman ( talk) 20:11, 14 February 2013 (UTC)
A discussion for moving Odisha related articles to "... Odisha" from "... Orissa", and to built clear consensus whether all related articles will henceforth use Odisha in the articles is taking place here. Everyone is invited to participate in the discussion. Amartyabag TALK2ME 16:05, 31 January 2013 (UTC)
WP:BURDEN does not state that you must firstly tag a source that needs citation, but it does say 'Any material lacking a reliable source directly supporting it may be removed'. I don't see how it helps to re-insert all that material without cites, much of which is badly written. How has the article got in such a bad state? Eldumpo ( talk) 08:11, 18 February 2013 (UTC)
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I think it's unhelpful to talk of vandalism. Also, it is not the case that the guidelines state you should firstly tag that a citation is needed. I did already read the 1st block you quoted and already posted one quote above, whilst another says challenged material must have an inline-cite. I'm also not aware of any 'grandfather rules' relating to articles written before x guidelines came into effect. Eldumpo ( talk) 20:56, 18 February 2013 (UTC)
I would kindly request you to have a look on Bhubaneswar (capital of Odisha) which requires a copyedit for better prose (aiming for a GA in near future). It will be helpful if you can help with bit of copyedit. Amartyabag TALK2ME 11:16, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
Hi! I replied at Template talk:Editnotices/Page/Gurgaon WhisperToMe ( talk) 19:07, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, we would ask that you assume good faith while interacting with other editors, which you did not on User_talk:Plantdrew. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. this change is offensive to several editors. Sminthopsis84 ( talk) 17:08, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
I have explained what happened at this page. Hopefully you can see that I am not a vandal. Bevo74 ( talk) 12:18, 24 February 2013 (UTC)
And one for yourself. Brocach ( talk) 20:40, 24 February 2013 (UTC) |
Sláinte (I presume it's roughly the same in Irish as it is in Scottish Gaelic). Skinsmoke ( talk) 20:43, 24 February 2013 (UTC)
Sin é. Glad not to be in Embra tonight. Brocach ( talk) 20:50, 24 February 2013 (UTC)
— Darkwind ( talk) 06:50, 26 February 2013 (UTC)
When Mike Cline half-closed the discussion, I asked him on his talk page: what did he mean to do? he wanted me to restart the discussion. So, I put a new discussion up at Talk:Pseudotsuga menziesii, and copied over the species-relevant part of the discussion. I copied your initial comment, but I trimmed the "Opposed" from the beginning, because you were opposed to the genus move, but eventually in favor of the species move instead. If you think I did a poor job of copying your initial comment over, please refactor to your taste: I am very hesitant to edit Talk comments, even dropping the single word made me come here and explain. — hike395 ( talk) 17:50, 26 February 2013 (UTC)
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thank you Skinsmoke for editing me! my mistake! Evilan123 ( talk) 13:25, 27 February 2013 (UTC) |
Thank you for the cleanup you are doing in India. You should be aware that "Station name (City Metro)" is a common naming convention for lots of metro/subway systems, attaching the system name as a suffix rather than "metro station". See Washington, D.C., Paris, Rome, Moscow, Dubai, Delhi and many others. There are other succession, navigation and route diagram templates that relate to these well structured systems and unless you want to amend those to match you should avoid radical changes to them. Again thanks for what you are doing, and I will help where I can. Sw2nd ( talk) 13:09, 2 March 2013 (UTC)
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I recieved your message Evilan123 ( talk) 00:55, 5 March 2013 (UTC) |
YOU are my hero. MANY thanks for finally standing up and telling people about how a mining community works. I have created coal town as a stub, take a look Coal town guy ( talk) 13:47, 7 March 2013 (UTC) |
I concur, 100% about your observations and tatgging of this article. I also raised the same concerns, quite a while ago, on the article talk page see here, wow, not a soul has addressed it yet. I would very much enjoy improving the article. Do you have any ideas that should be incorporated before I launch headlong into the effort. While, my user name is Coal town guy, and I have only visited 130+ coal towns in North America, I am somewhat familiar with German and Welsh towns of this type. Its been a while since I was there Coal town guy ( talk) 14:14, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
You recently commented on a RM on the article 1971 Bangladesh atrocities. The discussion was closed and the article moved to the previous title by another editor per WP:RM/TR. A new RM has been initiated and can be found here Darkness Shines ( talk) 16:26, 9 March 2013 (UTC)
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For your great contribution in uplifting articles related to Indian Railways and Bangladesh Railway. - Chandan Guha ( talk) 01:29, 19 March 2013 (UTC) |
I found this take a look its a dam good start Coal town guy ( talk) 01:36, 19 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi, you've made several page moves "per citation" - but what citation? -- Redrose64 ( talk) 21:04, 19 March 2013 (UTC)
{{
s-rail-national}}
template, used in certain routeboxes - I think that South Wales is free from this style though. That template expects station names to be of the form "previous railway station" or "next railway station" if only |previous=
and |next=
are given; but if |county1=
or |county2=
are present, it expects station names to be of the form "previous (county1) railway station" or "next (county2) railway station", as in this hypothetical caseBritannia Bridge in, or part of Pentir ? I don't think so and it would certainly surprise the residents of Pentir. Any chance of an explanation? Regards Velella Velella Talk 16:56, 20 March 2013 (UTC)
Welsh community councils are a direct replacement for earlier parish councils, under the Local Government Act 1972, and are identical to English parish councils in terms of their powers and the way they operate.
Thanks for the edits. But I don't understand how the categories have been improved by this! Please educate me. Jrfw51 ( talk) 20:11, 21 March 2013 (UTC)
Should we go ahead and put Tripura in FAC?-- Dwaipayan ( talk) 03:21, 22 March 2013 (UTC)
Given that this was the subject of a RM to its current position in the not to distant past, I'd have appreciated a discussion over the move to the new name rather than a Bold Move. The way I see it judging by the sources returned by google books Butlins Pwllheli was a notable holiday camp part of the Butlins chain whilst Hafan y Môr is a run of the mill caravan park that is part of the Haven chain. It could do with a larger RFC both for this and for Butlins Ayr as to how best to proceed in regards naming, logos, etc... Stuart.Jamieson ( talk) 11:55, 31 March 2013 (UTC)
The addition of separate categories for each region on Wales leaves far too many with tiny numbers of members. Only Pembrokshire has a decent number
This is a bad idea Vicarage ( talk) 07:20, 1 April 2013 (UTC)
I keep turning around and finding that an article has improved and its says "Skinsmoke" after it. I was going to offer you a beer but they only have lager and then I thought a Mancunian will like "Pie" but then the example they give is apple or cherry. We need deep fried black pudding (with a brown ale dip coolee) as a potential offering IMO. Anyway veggie or not .... thanks for your work. Victuallers ( talk) 14:06, 2 April 2013 (UTC) |
Help please! We're in a bit of a pickle here and here. Thank uou for your brief attention. -- Septimus Wilkinson ( talk) 00:09, 3 April 2013 (UTC)
Hi Skinsmoke, you seem to be creating several new categories but some of them will have no chance of having more than one item of content. I've nominated Category:Estuaries of Cardiff and Category:Bays of Cardiff for deletion. Sionk ( talk) 00:13, 6 April 2013 (UTC)
Avoid categories that, by their very definition, will never have more than a few members, unless such categories are part of a large overall accepted sub-categorization scheme, such as subdividing songs in Category:Songs by artist or flags in Category:Flags by country.
I'd be grateful if you could stop it until the issue is resolved. There hasn't been any agreement for excessive categorisation and I can't see any agreement likely to form. Your edits are becoming disruptive because they will take a considerable amount to undo if they are reversed. Sionk ( talk) 00:15, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
You are over categorising in multiple parts of Wikipedia. Vicarage ( talk) 10:05, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
Hi, re
this,
this and similar edits: please don't change the order of footers if the previous order satisfied
WP:FOOTERS but the new order does not. Specifically, navboxes like {{
Anglesey}}
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Conwy Valley}}
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Category:Coal mining in Anglesey and thirteen others, which you created, have been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. Sionk ( talk) 22:39, 8 April 2013 (UTC)
Hi Skinsmoke
As you can see from the notifications above, many of the categories which you have created have now been nominated for deletion.
I am sure that you created all those categories in good faith. However, so far the discussions seem to be heading towards deleting or upmerging many of them. AFAICS, none of these discussions has yet been closed, and I don't want to prejudge the outcome ... but there is at least a possibility that they might be deleted.
It's not a good use of anyone's time to create categories which will be deleted. It takes a lot of the time of creator's time, and also of those who join the deletion discussions ... and we all end up back where we started.
If an editor repeatedly create categories which get deleted, it can be regarded as disruptive and tendentious, and can eventually lead to sanctions on that editor.
I'm sure that you have no intention of being disruptive ... so please may I suggest that you refrain from creating any more categories until the closure of the current CFD discussions on your creations?
If there is a consensus to keep them, then you will know that it is likely to be acceptable to create further such categories. And if there is a consensus to delete them, then you'll know not to create any more like that. Either way, a little bit of a break from such creations will allow the consensus to emerge, and clarify things for everybody.
Thanks! -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 08:00, 9 April 2013 (UTC)
Hi, an RfC has begun which proposes rewording WP:NSONG. As you participated in a related discussion, I invite you to join the RfC conversation. Regards, Gong show 04:56, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
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Tripura is the third-smallest state in India, bordered by the states of Assam and Mizoram and by Bangladesh. The Kokborok-speaking Tripuri people (children pictured) are the major group among 19 tribes and many subtribes; Bengali people form the ethno-linguistic majority. Before becoming part of the newly independent India in 1949, the area was ruled for several centuries by the Tripuri dynasty. Ethnic strife between the indigenous people and Bengalis has been eased by the establishment of an autonomous tribal administrative agency and other strategies. Five mountain ranges run north to south; Agartala, the capital, is located on a plain to the west. Forests cover more than half of the area, in which bamboo and cane tracts are common. Tripura, which has a tropical savanna climate, has the highest number of primate species found in any Indian state. Economic progress is hindered by its geographical isolation – only one major highway connects it with the rest of India. Most residents are involved in agriculture and allied activities. Mainstream Indian cultural elements, especially from Bengali culture, coexist with traditional practices of the ethnic groups. ( Full article...)
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You are welcome to join the discussion at Talk:Whitebark pine#Requested move to scientific name. — hike395 ( talk) 04:26, 12 August 2013 (UTC)
Curious to know the origin of your interest in Vayudoot. A former or present aviator? I see a mention of Pondicherry. Passinginterest ( talk) 23:20, 2 October 2013 (UTC)
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For taking on the overflowing John Dalli article was and slimming it down considerably. Eggishorn (talk) (contrib) 04:24, 16 November 2013 (UTC) |
I agree that some of the climate info was a bit confusing and not well written but you're wrong if you think the whole article is problematic and shouldn't be a GA. I've removed some of the sentences. Please work with me to try to improve it rather than take to GAR which is counterproductive. Remember that we're all volunteers here, you wouldn't like it if I turned up on the Aberdaron (an article which I helped you out with a while back) talk page picking holes in it would you? ♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:24, 28 December 2013 (UTC)
No worries, emailed.♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:52, 29 December 2013 (UTC)
Bangui has been improved. I'll give it a read tomorrow ust to be sure. If you still see any problems let me know but I don't think the call for a GAR is still warranted.♦ Dr. Blofeld 22:11, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
Thanks. Agreed, somebody added it to the history from German wikipedia, I didn't place it there. Mogadishu next looks like one which has the potential to become a GA but it needs a fair bit of reinforcement and improvement...♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:30, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
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You just broke the 1RR restriction on Syria Civil War articles by reverting my edits, and your changes break the common name guidelines. They also conflict with the title of the Siege article. Legacypac ( talk) 17:14, 4 October 2014 (UTC)
I noticed you've been working on Tierra del Fuego, so I thought I'd ask you what you thought of the latest edits by an IP editor. Although I don't see what it was so important to re-order the list of people to put Argentinians first, I can go along with it, but deleting Selknam people from the list entirely because the people are "extinct or almost extinct" seems ridiculous to me. Even if there are still five Selknam people there, they ought to be on the list, don't you think? CorinneSD ( talk) 19:35, 25 October 2014 (UTC)
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You participated in previous related discussion. There is an ongoing move discussion, and I invite you to comment there. -- George Ho ( talk) 03:22, 14 December 2014 (UTC)
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Hi, I've noticed several edits like this: which part of the Manual of Style does that relate to? -- Redrose64 ( talk) 12:36, 24 March 2015 (UTC)
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I've undone the first of your recent edits since no-one claims that Mercator was Dutch and the spelling Gerard Mercator is certainly not Dutch. The many variants of his name and the problem of his nationality are discussed in the main text and clarification within the lead itself would disturb the balance. I'm still working on this article and your suggestions would be welcome. Peter Mercator ( talk) 10:25, 4 August 2016 (UTC)
The only certain name and spelling are those in Latin given by Gerardus Mercator himself. Modern texts over the last 100 years give his first name as Gérard (French), Gerhard (German), Gerard (Dutch) whilst in English one finds both Gerard (usual) and Gerardus (rare). The BBC was following the crowd, not the Dutch. Do we have to change the title of the en:wiki to Gerard? Do we have to add four tags. (The French version is important since many Belgian scholars use it.) Should we use a Flemish tag with his pre-latin baptismal name, which may have been Geert de Cremer. On the other hand his first tongue was probably German (for 6 years in Gangelt), not Flemish, so should it be Gerhard de Kremer? I really don't want to get involved in these matters at the beginning of the lead, or in a long discussion here. If you feel strongly on this matter please feel free to reinstate your edit in some form, preferably not singling out the Dutch version. As I said this article is still a work in progress and I'll address the problem at some stage, but this is footnote material. Peter Mercator ( talk) 20:55, 4 August 2016 (UTC)
Hello Skinsmoke, i wanted to expand the article with text from dewiki, but the graphic with the stations and kilometers disappeared, although i reverted my edits with undo. Maybe you can help. Thanks.-- Buchbibliothek ( talk) 17:50, 18 August 2016 (UTC)
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I note that you have categorised Fforest Fawr Geopark under various 'parks of . .' headings. Just to note that Geopark designations are rarely parks in the conventional sense, though they may well contain individual parks within their borders. Of course one problem with the very concept of the park category is that it is just so very wide - everything from a plot on the corner of a street (not included in WP unless notable of course!) to vast expanses of pristine wilderness where no provision is made for people - the two ends of the spectrum have little in common. cheers Geopersona ( talk) 13:59, 29 January 2017 (UTC)
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Hello. I was reading random articles on wikipedia, and i came across Buldhana. After making few edits, i visited the talk page for the first time, and saw your comment there. It was posted on Dec 31st, 2012 though. I was not sure if you were still active. I have mentioned/replied you on the that talk page, would you please help me with sorting out the mess? Thanks. — usernamekiran ( talk) 03:33, 7 March 2017 (UTC)
Hello there. Just went through your Wikipedia contribution on Rabindra Sarobar metro station, Kolkata, India. I would just stop short of calling parts of it bulls***. Firstly, as a long time resident of Charu Market - Rabindra Sarobar region, and a user of the Calcutta Metro from day one, I have never seen ghosts in our station. All of it, I believe, is somekind of a canard aimed at maligning our station. Understandably, with its 3rd rail traction, Kolkata metro is a popular suicide spot. Yet, our station is nowhere near peak suicide spots in this railway system. So, secondly, your claim of it being a popular suicide spot, holds little water. Lastly, where on earth did you land up with the photograph of the station platform? Metro railway zone of Kolkata is a protected zone under Official Secrets Act, and photography is strictly prohibited. You are liable to be punished for taking photos of the metro stations, trains etc. I plan to move the authorities to get your page down. I am not a law enforcing authority, and do not represent one. But consider this as a gentle reminder to take your page down, else, you might hear from the Indian Railways next.
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The parish doesn't appear to have been formerly renamed, see [8] there is a discussion on the merge at Talk:Publow#Merge. Crouch, Swale ( talk) 11:34, 16 June 2018 (UTC)
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I see you created a category for the community here and on Commons. Shouldn't they both be refereed to as "Llansanffraid Glan Conwy". Shouldn't the category here also be in Category:Villages in Conwy County Borough? Crouch, Swale ( talk) 17:30, 17 August 2018 (UTC)
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I don't think that that should have been merged with its parish, although its apparently never been a parish in its own right it does have plenty of coverage and is a large settlement. Crouch, Swale ( talk) 20:48, 23 June 2020 (UTC)
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