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== Your recent move of Picard–Lindelöf theorem == |
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As per [[Wikipedia:DASH#Dashes]] this article's name should indeed uses en dashes not a hyphen (as indicated in this original move [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Picard-Lindel%C3%B6f_theorem&diff=236839284&oldid=236839232]). Could you please move things back to the way they were. Thanks. [[User:RobHar|RobHar]] ([[User talk:RobHar|talk]]) 17:53, 13 January 2009 (UTC) |
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Thank you for your input on the article for Robert La Tourneaux. How did you come upon it? FYI -- I removed mention of "The Merchant of Venice" from his body of work, since he was cut from the show before it opened. Be well. Ecoleetage (talk) 20:49, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
- Very good. I am glad that we are able to give him the proper Wikipedia tribute. Be well. Ecoleetage (talk) 21:16, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
DYK for Robert La Tourneaux
BorgQueen (talk) 14:11, 26 November 2008 (UTC)
- I am so glad that we could work together on this article and to provide Robert La Tourneaux with a fitting tribute. Be well. Ecoleetage (talk) 14:24, 26 November 2008 (UTC)
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Ambiguously Gay Duo
Episode lists are not supposed to have images for every episode, it violates the WP:NFCC. Please do not restore the images. Jay32183 (talk) 07:16, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
Deborah Warner and domestic partner
Do not re-insert this information without proper sourcing; this is a biography of a living person - if you continue to edit war to include this information without proper sourcing, you will be blocked from editing. I understand that you want to keep the article up to date, but the Guardian has specifically reported they are not living together earlier and later has been ambiguous (just saying "partner" briefly in the source you gave), the information is not yet appropriate for the article. Since "partner" could mean anything (including that they have a business relationship) and since the article doesn't make the meaning at all clear, please find a better source for the information before putting it back. Shell babelfish 17:42, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
- Never mind, I've gone source hunting and found others myself; I added an additional article from the Independent that's clearly talking about their partnership in context which should satisfy the BLP requirements. I've left your reference in there as well. Shell babelfish 17:47, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks for understanding. Just in case it might help in the future - the BLP policy is pretty strict about a lot of things. If you run in to a similar situation, the easiest way to fix it is by finding a couple more sources (or more clear sources) to support any material that is being challenged :) Shell babelfish 17:50, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
- Never mind, I've gone source hunting and found others myself; I added an additional article from the Independent that's clearly talking about their partnership in context which should satisfy the BLP requirements. I've left your reference in there as well. Shell babelfish 17:47, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
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The article you changed about Marc Connelly: his parents owned a hotel. They were not actors. Connelly states this in his autobiography, Voices Offstage (1968). He was born in the family's hotel. Why do you insist on making this change that his parents were actors? -- K72ndst (talk) 15:27, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks for the quick reply. Connelly says in his book his father was an actor as a teenager, but by the time Marc was born he was in the hotel business, hence him being born in the family hotel. I do not think it is accurate to state he was born to an actor father. -- K72ndst (talk) 16:40, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
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Is there a particular reason you have reverted the John Northrup page? Are there particular issues with which you are concerned? Can you be specific? -- Astrochemist (talk) 18:34, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
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Regarding your revert at Jinx (disambiguation)
Do NOT ever undo a good faith edit as vandalism, as you did here. I have rollbacked your change, let's discuss this on the talk page hmm? Lord Sesshomaru (talk • edits) 15:37, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
- Again, take it to the talk page. I now cite WP:BRD. You are to stop immediately. Lord Sesshomaru (talk • edits) 15:46, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
El Cid, again
Are we going to do this again?
I see you’ve merged Cid and El Cid (disambiguation)]] again;
And I se you’ve deleted the comments I left you about it, without having the courtesy to reply. Here they are again; an answer would be civil. Swanny18 (talk) 17:26, 24 December 2008 (UTC)
El Cid (disambiguation), again
"As for this, your vague reference to the definite article suggests you’ve misread the situation; how is your English?
The name isn’t “el Cid” (ie “the Cid”) it’s “El Cid” (“The Cid”); the “El” is an integral part of the name. And it’s an integral part of all the names on that page, too. ( I didn’t include “the Cid Campeador”, which is a different title of Rodrigo’s, for that same reason). You wouldn’t combine “Le Mans” (or "Leman") and “Man” because it contains the definite article, would you? There is no justification for your change.
But if you feel it is, I suggest you propose a merger, and see if anyone agrees with you. Swanny18 (talk) 08:42, 24 September 2008 (UTC)"
Thanks for your recent cleanup on Clark Kerr but it seems you added his article to Category:Suicides. Was this an editing accident? I've removed the category. If this was intentional, please explain. —dgiestc 22:06, 25 December 2008 (UTC)
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You took out the quotations while You were editing. But You gave no reason for doing so. Kdammers (talk) 08:16, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
Image move
Images can't be re-named or moved. Besides, no one will ever see the name, so it doesn't matter. If the name really bothers you, you could re-upload it to the new name and then request the old one be deleted. TJ Spyke 02:27, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
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Burris
Why aren't you even trying to justify your position that "designate" fairly encapsulates the drama surrounding Burris's appointment? "Designate" is something normally appended to the end of a title, e.g., "senator-designate". Anyone appointed to be a senator is "senator-designate" between the appointment and the swearing in. There is a real question as to whether he will ever be sworn in, and that should be adequately reflected in the note column. -Rrius (talk) 02:10, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
- It's not speculation, it is verified from numerous reliable sources that the Democrats will not let Burris take his seat tomorrow. -Rrius (talk) 02:26, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
Whose Life Is It Anyway? disambig hatnote
I'm confused...supposing one got to the Whose Life page but actually wanted Whose Line, how exactly would one get to the intended page? DMacks (talk) 07:06, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
- copied and responded on Talk:Whose Life Is It Anyway? to avoid further fragmentation of discussion. DMacks (talk) 19:33, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
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- I'm looking for physics editors who might improve the article on John Reppy. I've put some info in there, but don't really know how good it may be.
- Any suggestions about how to locate such people?
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Linking to sources
Hi,
I've looked into overlink and underlink, and both seem to apply to body text. While dates are singled out as something in the references section as something to avoid, linking to sources are not. Since links can come in from the references section from widely different sections of the body text, I have always though it useful to link any source/publisher/journal/newspaper/website that we have a wikipedia pages so each one can be checked by readers who are interested for their reliability and general context. Certainly this is an example of overlinking that needed to be corrected, but I think it adds value to the page to have the link in the footnote while offerring very few disadvantages.
The reason I see it as a good thing to have is as follows - if I am reading a page and see a comment I consider dubious, I will check the footnote. If it's to a publication or newspaper I am not familiar with, I would like to seem some context on it so I can check the reliability (and possible publication bias, political leaning, etc) to see how much credit I give it or what kind of slant may accompany the article. Another advantage to linking the source is that readers may not be familiar with newspapers from different countries - as a Canadian, if I'm looking at an article on India it's unlikely I'll know what papers are the dominant English-language ones. And as high a profile as the NYT is, people from outside North America and the European west may not be familiar so I don't think there is a case to be made that the NYT would not need a link. In general I think there is advantage to having the source linked somewhere. If a link to the publisher/work/webpage/journal is found in the body text (as is the case in the Indictment page), then that may be OK. However, a well-written article probably should not use the phrase "The New York Times said..." and instead the link should/will be found in the footnote. If it is a long page, with anywhere from dozens to hundreds of footnotes, and it links only to the first example of a source, then if I check any of the subsequent footnotes I will either assume there is no wikipedia page, or have to manually search for it. Obviously the latter isn't a huge trial, but it's still unnecessary work when a hyperlink placed into the reference makes it one click, is much more convenient to our readers, and offers few disadvantages since it is not a chunk of body text (see next paragraph). It also means the spelling of the publisher/work/journal is more likely to be correct, or at least not a barrier to finding the original publisher/work/journal. If the references on a page get expanded greatly and only the first instance is linked, or what was initially the first instance gets linked but then later text adds more references with the same source above the initial link, it's no longer convenient to find the publisher as it gets lost in a large number of competing and difficult to scan references. On shorter pages it may be less of a concern, but even then there are problems - if I check the second footnote on a page to the same publisher/work, but the publisher/work is linked only in the first, the ref link automatically brings the footnote I clicked on to the top of the page (i.e. [1]) which obscures preceeding footnote and therefore the reference name with a wikilink. By linking only in the body text (which doesn't always happen) or only the first reference, the ability to check the work/publisher is significantly more problematic.
The only disadvantage is a large number of links in the references section, but since they are not read the same way the body text is, the links can not be distracting to the reader. We do not discourage from linking author, publisher, book title and page number to an external site even though that would result in a nearly solid blue reference because each one adds value. We do discourage linking to the date because there's virtually no gain from linking to the year, month or day as it's highly unlikely the news article will be sufficiently relevant to a specific day that a link is hlepful. By contrast, linking to the work can be a huge advantage and adding subsequent links on the page adds no more incoming links to the publisher page than a single one (which I expect to be the issue with the linked dates).
What do you think? What are your concerns about having the extra links? If it's just OVERLINK, I think WP:IAR could fruitfully be applied here because there does seem to be improvements added with few drawbacks. It may also be worth discussing on the OVERLINK page to see if there is a reason I am not seeing or if there has been a discussion in the past providing context I am not sure of. Also, based on this discussion I think I'm going to write a brief essay about this point, then post it on the OVERLINK talk page for discussion. I may get referred to a more specific sub-page that gives more suggestions.
By the way, I had always used "publisher" incorrectly in the {{cite news}} template up until this point, so thanks for correcting that for me. I'll do it right from here on in WLU (t) (c) Wikipedia's rules:simple/complex 15:32, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
Your recent move of Picard–Lindelöf theorem
As per Wikipedia:DASH#Dashes this article's name should indeed uses en dashes not a hyphen (as indicated in this original move [2]). Could you please move things back to the way they were. Thanks. RobHar (talk) 17:53, 13 January 2009 (UTC)