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	:I think it should be Northern Irish, but apparently the term makes the catholics throw fits. Though you should know more about that than me as I've never been to Northern Ireland.] 13:10, 12 March 2006 (UTC)		:I think it should be Northern Irish, but apparently the term makes the catholics throw fits. Though you should know more about that than me as I've never been to Northern Ireland.] 13:10, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
	That's the thing though Carina - it is accepted in Northern Ireland as being one of the most generically accepted terms, by all 'sides'. Please see my talk page regarding discussion ]. I will be requesting that all categories are changed to fall in line with the vast majority of other country cats ("French..", "German..", "Scottish.." as opposed to ".. in France", ".. in Germany", ".. in Scotland"), and would appreciate your support when I've found out exactly how to go about nominating them for change. --] 19:38, 12 March 2006 (UTC)		That's the thing though Carina - it is accepted in Northern Ireland as being one of the most generically accepted terms, by all 'sides'. Please see my talk page regarding discussion ]. I will be requesting that all categories are changed to fall in line with the vast majority of other country cats ("French..", "German..", "Scottish.." as opposed to ".. in France", ".. in Germany", ".. in Scotland"), and would appreciate your support when I've found out exactly how to go about nominating them for change. --] 19:38, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

			== Country subdivisions ==

			...IMO splitting the cats into a group of "Administatrive divisions of some countries" and "Political divisions of some other countries" is not useful.

			could you maybe change your vote on ]

			and let's discuss this on the project page

			]

			first? It is really is mass rename, since it not only involves the cats and subcates but also lots of articles. As Lorenz pointed out the most important seems to be that we find clear definitions of what the terms mean. ] ] 07:54, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

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Wolseley and Reading

Hi, and welcome. Thanks for your contributions to the Reading article. However I noticed that the link you put in to Wolseley actually pointed to a disambiguation page. I presume that the Wolseley in question is the one described in the article Wolseley plc, based at Arlington Business Park. Anyway I've amended your link on that basis; if you really meant one of the other Wolseleys, please feel free to correct. -- Chris j wood 11:37, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thanks, that was the right one. Carina22 00:43, 5 May 2005 (UTC)

FTSE 100

Hi. The dual listings for Schroders and Royal Dutch Shell are correct. 100 companies, but 102 listings. Mark83 22:17, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

People want to know the names of the companies. Putting the complications in brackets is quite enough. Carina22 16:45, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

I've moved this discussion to the FSTE 100 talk page as it looks like others will have to judge the merits of both arguments. Mark83 18:08, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

Date formats

What on earth were you up to putting date formats in British articles into American date format. Please don't do it again. Carina22 08:20, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

This was a misunderstanding as to how the date system on Misplaced Pages functions. I was formatting the dates into the ISO international format (not American style, I hasten to add. In the US they use the short format MM/DD/YYYY -- the ISO format I used is YYYY-MM-DD) which is automatically converted by the Misplaced Pages into the format specified in Special:Preferences. I did this because I was unaware the Misplaced Pages is able to convert standard format dates this way too. I was also unaware that users who do not specify a date preference do not get any conversion.

I have been using Misplaced Pages for less than a month and this was an honest mistake. I do like to learn from my mistakes and I always welcome guidance from experienced users, but I do not appreciate the tone of your message ("What on earth were you up to ..."), particularly when you didn't even bother to get your facts right before criticising me (ISO and US dates). throup ✆ ✍ 17:18, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

Sorry I snapped, but I doubt that 1% of people have heard of ISO date formats. As a general rule, conventions which are familiar only to specialists or academics should not be used if there is an alternative as Misplaced Pages is aimed at the general population. Carina22 09:25, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

Apology accepted. As I said, I had misunderstood the guidelines and got a little over-zealous. I guess I learnt the hard way! I look forward to editing with you in the future. --throup ✆ ✍ 18:03, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

Wealthy fictional characters

Hi I would be really grateful if you could reconsider your vote on this. I didn't place a good reasoning for deletion with the original nomination so I will try and put a better argument. Firstly, how do we define wealth? As one voter pointed out, in poor communities a shop owner is considered wealthy. Secondly, in many works of fiction people start off poor and become rich or vice versa so will they have to be in a poor category too? And lastly, this category could get ridiculously large to include all characters in all books, films and T.V. programmes ever made. I would be grateful if you could vote or comment at: Categories_for_deletion#Category:Wealthy_fictional_characters. Thanks Arniep 13:57, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

It contains 38 articles after several months, and I don't see why it would matter if it was very large. It's just a fun category. Carina22 14:42, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

Supermarkets by country

Hi! Thanks for pointing out my error, I've cancelled my original proposal re: changing things to "in country", and have made a new one for changing things to "of country". All the best, Kurieeto 03:01, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

Category renaming for Category:United States Students' Unions

Hi. As an editor who participated in the discussion regarding renaming Category:United States Students' Unions, I am writing you to let you know that while there was consensus to rename the category there was no clear consensus for the final name. If you would like to revisit the discussion on Category talk:United States Students' Unions I am willing to consider an agreement there and rename the category. I won't be monitoring your talk page so if you have to reply to me directly please do so on my talk page. Thanks! --Syrthiss 19:52, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

Renomination at Cfd

Have you seen this re-nomination at Cfd: Misplaced Pages:Categories_for_deletion/Log/2006_January_28#Category:Cinema_of_Scotland_--.3E_Category:Scottish_actors_and_filmmakers--Mais oui! 04:31, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

Earls of England

Thank you for your attention to my suggestion at the Earls of England category. See the talk page there for more. -Danaman5 21:16, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

Northern Irish vs Northern Ireland

Hi. Just curious as to your rationale behind renaming the category I created to "Northern Ireland" instead of "Northern Irish". Cheers. --Mal 03:02, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

I think it should be Northern Irish, but apparently the term makes the catholics throw fits. Though you should know more about that than me as I've never been to Northern Ireland.Carina22 13:10, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

That's the thing though Carina - it is accepted in Northern Ireland as being one of the most generically accepted terms, by all 'sides'. Please see my talk page regarding discussion here. I will be requesting that all categories are changed to fall in line with the vast majority of other country cats ("French..", "German..", "Scottish.." as opposed to ".. in France", ".. in Germany", ".. in Scotland"), and would appreciate your support when I've found out exactly how to go about nominating them for change. --Mal 19:38, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

Country subdivisions

...IMO splitting the cats into a group of "Administatrive divisions of some countries" and "Political divisions of some other countries" is not useful.

could you maybe change your vote on Misplaced Pages:Categories_for_deletion/Log/2006_April_4#Category:Subdivisions_by_country_to_Category:Political_divisions_by_country

and let's discuss this on the project page

Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Subnational_entities/Naming#Umbrella_terms

first? It is really is mass rename, since it not only involves the cats and subcates but also lots of articles. As Lorenz pointed out the most important seems to be that we find clear definitions of what the terms mean. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 07:54, 9 April 2006 (UTC)