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McClatchy
Hello, Maurreen. Welcome to Misplaced Pages! Great to have you aboard. If you haven't yet perused Misplaced Pages:Welcome, newcomers, I encourage you to do so at your convenience.
I appreciate your care and diligence to present McClatchy in its very best light, both in wording and in professional AP style, per the AP style guidelines.
However, The AP manual of style is not what Misplaced Pages goes by. It has its own Manual of Style, which you may wish to peruse. Note that the Wikpedia Manual of Style is only a guideline - a suggested way of having text look on its site - and not any kind of heavyhanded thing that is rigorously enforced. (smile)
In that light, the way I set the text (admittedly with a few additions which come from my knowledge of the company where it got its start - California's San Joaquin and Sacramento Valleys) was in the usual Misplaced Pages style. If that is not what you want, that's fine with me - but it might be useful to know how different your edit looks compared to many other articles on Misplaced Pages about other United States newspapers such as the Los Angeles Times, the Dallas Morning News, the Washington Post, the Washington Times, the Chicago Tribune, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, to name a few.
Also, since Misplaced Pages is an encyclopedia and not a newspaper, it does things a bit differently in its articles. Misplaced Pages community consensus to date agrees that an introductory paragraph about the article's subject, covering what it is notable for in summary form, is standard.
What you do with the article is up to you. I am just letting you know in a (hopefully) kind and gentle way that your editing style is just a wee bit different from what most do around Misplaced Pages. That's to be expected, seeing you are new! Hopefully you will decide to stay around here awhile - which is my sincere hope - and "learn the ropes" much as I did earlier this year. I know you are new, and I'd like to be of help if you don't mind. You are very welcome to discuss anything about Misplaced Pages you would like to me (or any other Wikipedian you desire). I'd welcome your thoughts to me, if so desired. I was once new to Misplaced Pages, so I know how it feels to be new and not know everything. . . Actually, I still don't know a lot as yet. You may reach me at my user page, User:Avnative, and leave messages at the bottom of my discussion page - the tab just to the right of the user page up on top of your screen. Happy Trails, --avnative 07:22, Sep 23, 2004 (UTC)
Good evening, Maurreen! (or is it Good Morning. . .) (wink) Thanks for your very nice note just now. Yes, I was trying to be thoughtful, thanks.
Nah, I don't think there's as yet a formal Manual of Style for newspaper names. I gave you those links to US newspapers so that you could get a feel for how other Wikipedians dealt with the subject. I guess you can see a few warts there. . . Anyways, the Wiki Manual of Style says that when all else fails, the Chicago Manual of Style is a good resource to go to.
Understand the bit about getting the name right. FWIW, I've always referred to your employer as "McClatchy Newspapers" - and though I haven't yet done a Google test on that particular term, I suspect that that might be the most used term out there in cyberspace. You titled the article McClatchy. That is also fine with me. I am not by nature an argumentative person, and the minutiae of the naming can cross a threshold that causes me distress. . . So I tend not to get super involved in minutiae like that.
Glad to add a bit more on the company. The usual Misplaced Pages custom is to leave in those type of items in the most current revision.
You don't sound terse to me in your reply to me just now - not at all! You are probably a bit tired at your hour of the night, while I'm not at bedtime hour just yet. I give you slack to make a flub or two, OK? (grin) Happy Trails, --avnative 04:13, Sep 24, 2004 (UTC)
Unlist Hamdi?
Hi Maurreen – shall we unlist Hamdi from the COTW nominations? We're the only two votes so far, and the article now looks quite satisfactory, not really a COTW candidate anymore. Fpahl 10:31, 23 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Collaboration of the Week
Thanks for helping with the removing of unsuitable candidates in the CotW project! If you remove a candidate though, please add the nomination to the CotW archive and state a reason why you removed it (Lack of votes, no longer a stub, etc.). --Conti|✉ 09:20, Sep 24, 2004 (UTC)
Catagories, U.S. Marine Corps equipment
Hi Maurreen, you added "Category:U.S. Marine Corps equipment" to the AAAV page, and then moved it to the "Category:Amphibious vehicles" page.
I think you were right the first time (with "Category:U.S. Marine Corps equipment" on the AAAV page).
If you have no objections I'll add "Category:U.S. Marine Corps equipment" to both AAAV and AAV, and remove it from the "Category:Amphibious vehicles" page.
Duk 16:43, 26 Sep 2004 (UTC)