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Changed Title

I changed the title of "Culture defines politics" to Cultural imprint on politics. I think this is a winner of a title for the subject material. I hope you agree. Let me know what you think? Thanks for your consideration and time. WHEELER 19:14, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC)

I am thinking that to make it an even better title is to title it "Cultural imprinting on politics". Is that okay. "Cultural imprinting" is an adverb and not a straight verb. Is this okay for you? And does it sound better and match encyclopaedic concerns? let me know please.WHEELER 15:17, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Cleaning up...

I haven't been active here for a while, and don't foresee that changing any time forseeably... so I've been cleaning my user space, and was wondering if you would like User:Amgine/Maureen's RfC to be moved to your space? It is still occasionally being attacked by Netoholic, though not for the past month. Best contact me at n:User:Amgine... - Amgine 05:40, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Doing well... I think I'll leave that where it is then, since it's linked to a half-dozen ways.

- Amgine 05:51, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Archiving

Maurreen, could I ask why you break up chronological archives? It makes things very hard to find. The Post-invasion Iraq archives were very mixed up and material seemed to be missing. Do you have a particular reason for doing things that way? SlimVirgin 06:52, Feb 5, 2005 (UTC)

There were 10,000 words missing. I don't know whether it was you or not, but it may be connected to the habit of moving sections of Talk pages around. Do you have a particular reason for archiving in a non-chronological order? It makes it very hard for editors coming after you to find anything. SlimVirgin 07:04, Feb 5, 2005 (UTC)

Adminship

Maurreen, you've done great work on Misplaced Pages. I was wondering if you'd be interesting in a nomination for adminship. Neutrality 06:19, Feb 7, 2005 (UTC)

Sure thing, then. Remember, much of the opposition was due to your inexperience at the time. Maybe in a few months. Regards --Neutrality 07:14, Feb 7, 2005 (UTC)

MoS

Maurreen, do you happen to know whether the MoS is policy or a guideline, and where in Misplaced Pages it states which it is? Best, SlimVirgin 11:54, Feb 16, 2005 (UTC)

Hi Maurreen, thanks, I found the policy page eventually. The MoS is a guideline. There's policy, semi-policy, and guidelines. I was asking because Jguk put the MoS into the policy category, but so far as I can tell without consensus. Do you happen to know where I'd find the Talk archives from around September-October 2004? That's when it was done, so I'd to see whether there was any discussion about it. Don't go to any trouble to look, though, but if you happen to know that would be helpful. Best, SlimVirgin 23:57, Feb 16, 2005 (UTC)

Maurreen, thank you, that's very helpful. The person who added the text to the article saying it was policy was User:Dcoetzee. I asked him how he knew it was policy, but it seems he added it only because he wanted passing editors not to make radical changes without discussion. Following that, Jguk simply added the policy category on his own initiative. Anyway, I think it's sorted out now. It's a guideline according to the policy page at Misplaced Pages:Policies and guidelines. Best, SlimVirgin 07:13, Feb 17, 2005 (UTC)

The issue I've been discussing is adding a rider to the usage and spelling section. It says: "Articles that focus on a topic specific to a particular English-speaking country should generally conform to the spelling of that country." I would like to add that people are not regarded as being "specific" to a particular country, unless they hold office. So, for example, just because John Smith was born in Canada does not mean he has to be written about in Canadian-English, unless he becomes prime minister of Canada, in which case he does. But I'm being opposed. SlimVirgin 07:23, Feb 17, 2005 (UTC)

I'm not sure about the EU issue; I'd like to think about it. It would be useful to know when it was added and what the consensus was, so if you know that, it would be helpful, but again don't go to any trouble. I don't agree with it, and I certainly wouldn't want to see it extended beyond treaties etc. It's true that EU documents use British English but that's only because they're written by British translators, and I'm not sure that ought to force all Misplaced Pages editors to use BE to write about any EU treaty or institution. SlimVirgin 07:38, Feb 17, 2005 (UTC)

Yes, there were only the two, so s/he was clearly a sock. I don't really mind - I was just curious, and I did give in in the end, so dear old Bernard is now in British English. SlimVirgin 08:33, Feb 17, 2005 (UTC)

Sorry, I forgot: also these SlimVirgin 07:42, Feb 19, 2005 (UTC)

New wiki?

Sounds interesting. What did you have in mind? SlimVirgin 08:19, Feb 24, 2005 (UTC)

Maurreen, I tried to leave this message for you twice yesterday, but after saving both times, checked and it wasn't there. So this is third time lucky. ;-) Just to say, I find your idea very interesting, and I think people would love it. But it would be a huge project. Do you have any thoughts as to how to start it? SlimVirgin 19:15, Feb 27, 2005 (UTC)

Sorry not to get back to you sooner but I've spread myself a little too thin here recently, so I'm finding it hard to keep up with everything. I do love your idea, but can't quite see a way to get it started. There are a couple of editors who have edited some of the journalism pages, who may be in journalism themselves. Did you have any luck with anyone else? We could put up a note somewhere asking for anyone who's interested, but you may not want to announce it widely as it's a good idea. SlimVirgin 08:31, Mar 4, 2005 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Third opinion

I've taken the liberty of moving the discussion you pasted to Misplaced Pages:Third opinion to Misplaced Pages talk:Third opinion, and of putting up a draft format at the project page itself. I'd appreciate it if you'll have a look and tell me if you like it. — Itai (f&t) 21:07, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I'm glad to see you like my formatting. (The thing that I'm most concerned about is whether the Reasoning paragraph cannot be simply integrated into the introduction.) Anyway, it might be wise to note that I'm going to be away for a week as of tomorrow, which means that - unless you're willing to implement this yourself - it will take some time until this is integrated into Misplaced Pages procedures. Which is good, as it means there's plenty of time for feedback to build up. — Itai (f&t) 08:49, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Thanks. — Itai (f&t) 08:56, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Transport(ation)

Maurreen,

I was trying to be helpful - Transportation is a disambiguation page - the main article you were referring to is at Transport. Also, and unconnected to the first point, you will note that there is no "first major contributor rule". WP:MOS refers to that as a "last resort" test, and, of course, you and SV have decided that WP:MOS isn't policy, but only a take-it-or-leave-it guideline anyway. Kind regards, jguk 19:17, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)

New Wiki Q

You mean a non-Wikinews wiki? DAVODD 08:19, Feb 28, 2005 (UTC)

You're missed already

Please come back to the page, Maurreen. We'll either have an agreement soon, or we'll take a break as you suggested, so either way it will be over soon, and the changes, if any, will be minor. But they may loosen things up just a little, which I think you want too, so please stick with it just a tad longer. Best, SlimVirgin 10:13, Mar 5, 2005 (UTC)

Well, the latest news is that we appear to have reached an agreement. Jguk has agreed to allow a sentence to the effect that not all people are topics, because people might have lived in more than one country and so on, so it's now just a question of finding the right words, which I suspect will not take long. It's nowhere near as much as I wanted, but I'm prepared to take it. As for the EU thing, I am prepared to agree to that as an exchange, though you should have input too, and particularly about the OAS thing, as I'm not too bothered about that either way. But if you've really had enough, then don't feel you have to comment, because you'll drive yourself nuts otherwise. The OAS can always be added later, and the EU thing removed if you don't want it, so don't fret. It's only an encyclopedia after all! (Something I should tell myself too.) ;-) SlimVirgin 10:45, Mar 5, 2005 (UTC)

Wiki

Oh, I meant not to announce it publicly before it's ready to start, in case the idea gets stolen. I didn't mean never to tell anyone, LOL. Otherwise it would be just you, me, and maybe my dog. We'd have fewer problems with styles of English, mind you. SlimVirgin 08:33, Mar 6, 2005 (UTC)

Journo wiki

Thanks for the note, I think it's a good idea. Some possible content:

  • AP Stylebook type stuff, but would be Creative Commons so could be printed and used all over
  • Expanding on some existing content in Misplaced Pages, such as Journalism fraud
  • Expanding on Disinfopedia type content, such as a guide to newspapers and media groups, from Sulzburger to Scaife
  • Case studies

This could be part of WikiCities, or could be a WikiBook, or another project altogether. Let me know what you think. Fuzheado | Talk 17:21, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)

User:Amgine/Maureen's RfC

Hi. I don't know if this matters to you (and I apologize if it doesn't), but Jguk has recently been adding speedy notices to that page. Regards, Vacuum c 01:34, Mar 7, 2005 (UTC)

Maurreen. Vacuum is a troll, as evidenced by the complete lack of useful contributions Vacuum has made (see ). He appears to be here only to stir up trouble. Kind regards, jguk 06:56, 7 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Hi Maurreen. I completely agree with you about your right to keep the page. However, in the interest of not escalating matters, perhaps you should just let Jguk keep his speedy notice there until you reach a resolution. It's highly unlikely it'll actually get deleted, with the controversy, and if it is, you can just undelete it with your sysop powers. Thanks, Vacuum c 16:30, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)

Category:Wikipedians:Military

Can you edit the "Category" page and give standards or qualifications that one can label oneself a "Wikipedian" military. Is it one who was in the military? Or only edits military articles? Or just likes the military? Can you give parameters for inclusion on the category page. Thanks. and whether I qualify, I might join it.WHEELER 18:31, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Got another question. I tried to put my name first like and then I tried just so that my name would list aphabetically. Is there something in the code that prevents just the listing by names in the category. Please let me know. Thanks.WHEELER 16:18, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Figured it out. Have the members type something similar to this: ] and it shows up aphabetically. I forgot to use the "|" in the command code. WHEELER 18:25, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Journawiki

This is looking really good, Maurreen. Congratulations on pulling it together so fast; I'm impressed. Perhaps you or someone could write about it for Wikinews, which might attract people outside Misplaced Pages, and you could also try putting details on journalists' mailing lists and websites. I have a query for you about this sentence (regarding the liberation of Buchenwald): "At six o'clock that evening, the first American tank arrived, and behind it the Sixth Armored Division of the U.S. Third Army." Is this the right way to put it: the U.S. Third Army? In the source I took it from, it said "Third U.S. Army," which didn't sound right, but I'm not sure. SlimVirgin 00:56, Mar 16, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks, Maurreen, that's very helpful. I'm going to take another look through Journawiki as soon as I get the time, probably tomorrow, and will look to see whether there's anything I can usefully add to it. You've done a great job. SlimVirgin 03:39, Mar 16, 2005 (UTC)

Poetry

Hi Maurreen: Masterly edit of the Poetry form section. Good job! --Theo (Talk) 08:56, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Splitting the difference

Yeah, I thought so, too. Thanks. –Hajor 05:46, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Category:Currency

Are you aware there is already a Category:Currencies? Either the two categories should be merged, or there should be a "See also" link each of the categories going to the other category. —Lowellian (talk) 03:29, Mar 21, 2005 (UTC)

Thank you

Hi Maurreen, this is to thank you for supporting me in my adminship nomination, which I appreciate very much. Best, SlimVirgin 03:49, Mar 23, 2005 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Third opinion

I've just seen your March 5 note on Misplaced Pages talk:Third opinion... Took me some time, I know. Yes, this page is probably ready to be operational, although more feedback would have been nice. So... What do you say: should I (or we) take the plunge (remove the warning at the beginning of the page, add it to Misplaced Pages talk:Resolving disputes, and place a notice on Misplaced Pages:Goings-on), or should I place another notice on Misplaced Pages:Village pump (proposals) and wait for more feedback? — Itai (f&t) 15:44, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Category:Economics theories ?

The category you created yesterday, Category:Economics theories, isn't that about the same stuff as Category:Economic theories? —Gabbe 11:45, Mar 27, 2005 (UTC)

Accounting reform

You changed the categorization of accounting reform from economics to accounting. But the article deals primarily with reforming the national accounts (GDP, National Disposable Income, etc.) and very little, if anything, with accounting. I think that economics is the proper category, but don't want to move it back without talking to you first. Maybe you know something I don't know.--Fredrik Coulter 04:18, Mar 28, 2005 (UTC)

I wish I could help you, but the little economics I know I learned 15 years ago as a freshman in college. Maybe macroeconomics, since it generally deals with nations using something other than GDP to show the world how wonderful they are. (As you can tell, I'm not a fan.) But I'm an accountant, not an economist, so I'd have no real idea. Sorry.--Fredrik Coulter 04:52, Mar 28, 2005 (UTC)

Refactoring an old discussion

I've been so bold as to refactor the comments you made way back on User talk:JRM/Countdown deletion. I'm thinking of reviving this proposal, in a new form, and I'd like the new talk page to be a refactoring zone. However, I'm aware this goes against de facto Wikiquette and I can't retroactively instate it, so if you find you don't agree with my edits, please feel free to replace them with something better. JRM 15:52, 2005 Apr 3 (UTC)

Working together on Economics & Finance categories

We discussed this a few weeks ago... I'm making progress on cleaning the Finance category... moving articles from the main cat to appropriate sub cats. I'll occasionally dump articles into the main Economics category, since that seems to be where you're working lately. I know you're trying to clean up that main cat, so I try to limit my dumping. Feel free to do the reverse... I'll keep cleaning things out of the main Finance cat, so don't worry about detailed subcategorization unless you want to. Feco 00:17, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Commas

Hi, there. Sorry to hear (per your user page) that the wikistress is getting to you. I have a couple of questions:

  1. Your dates page says that the CMS favors "year first." I'm assuming that's a typo for day first, which is what my 14th Ed. recommends (but I do remember hearing that they were planning to cave in and go with mmm dd, yyyy, in a later edition).
  2. Whenever I come across language like "Espanola, New Mexico is the world rhubarb capital," I have an uncontrollable urge to stick the misssing comma in. Am I being unnecessarily pedantic? Has usage overtaken me? (I sidestep the related question with "Espanola, New Mexico declared itself the world rhubarb capital on March 4, 2002 and has not looked back since" by using the dd mmm yyyy format, of course.)

If and when you have a moment. Thanks. –Hajor 16:34, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply. It's good to know I'm not the only one putting in those missing commas (and it's also reassuring to know that the CMS still advocates dd mmm yyyy: I have a soft spot for underdogs and lost causes). I'd suggest a note be added on the point to the relevant articles -- MoS commas section, city naming conventions -- as long as it's not going to set off another holy war ("no one does it like that nowadays..." etc.) I see the MoS crowd have just found a new bone of contention, in the form of the capitalization rules for headers; dunno, professional deformation and all that, but sometimes you've just got to kowtow to house style, even though you don't like it. That, plus the fact that your time would be better spent writing articles instead of whinging. Cheers, –Hajor 04:07, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Aboslutely. As you'll have seen in my comments above, I thought it was a formal/traditional/strict vs. informal/modern/sloppy question. I wasn't expecting UK vs. US to raise its head again, because I honestly don't believe that is the issue. –Hajor 18:12, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages Manual of Style and Capitalization

About a month ago I was trying to find out why the incorrect capitalization rule that is in the Manual of Style is there. So far nobody has responded to my requests to posts a citation from a manual of style support the Misplaced Pages rule. Today I went over onto the offensive over that matter.

I did an internet search and found a quote from the The United States Government Print Office Style Manual 2000 and another quote in the Chicago Manual of Style, 14th Ed. that support my position. I have therefore posted those quotes on the sub-page talk page and on the talk page of the main manual of style page. I have also found out which user put the 'rule' onto the site in the first place and challenged them to support what they wrote with a citation. I await the reply with interest. David Newton 17:47, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

David Helvarg

Hi Maurreen: I have just finished tinkering with the biography of a journalist David Helvarg. The stub was on VfD and I felt that he deserved better (even though I knew nothing of him then). This is the first time that I have written a biography of another journalist and I have been feeling my way (the other biographies of journalists seem too varied, and often inadequate, to be much help as exemplars). Could you please cast your informed eye over it and make appropriate improvements or comments before I submit it for peer review? Thanks --Theo (Talk) 21:49, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Hi Maurreen: I made the changes that you suggested and have listed the article on peer review. Thank you very much for all your help. --Theo (Talk) 10:51, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Category:Journalism and Category:News trade

...are listed on WP:CFD under April 21. At least for me. Perhaps due to the new funky template thing, you need to reload or purge the page cache or something to get them to show up for you. -- Beland 02:52, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Ive reverted your edits to the news trade and journalism templates. Reason - Use articles not Categories, and most categoriees should have articles. Maybe you could write up something about visual journalism. Infotainment is a valid concept in journalism as a term of reference for non-Journalistic entities within the news trade. Why did you remove it? Business news likewise. And last but not least the comment "sometimes" is out of place for an article series template. Regards, -SV|t|add 09:02, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Looking at Journalism Project

Maurreen, thanks for doing good, sound, work on the "Journalism beat" here on WP. I've not worked on a "project" as such, but I'll look into it and posted some comments there at the Journalism Project. I'm not sure I understand what that is, but if it has to do with bringing some kind fo meta-organization to the overall heading "journalism" that that's a good idea. I hope it will be very neutral, factual and reflective of the normative standards extant in the industry...I'm sure with your eye on, it will go in that direction. Yours, Calicocat 14:46, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Serial comma

A couple of users are trying to strike all guidance on the serial comma from the Manual of Style, saying they've reached a consensus to do so. Could you comment on the talk page? I know you've been involved in that in the past. I know there was a vote not so long ago where the majority opinion was to keep as is. Do you know where that's archived? Jonathunder 21:56, 2005 May 9 (UTC)

RE: My posting in the latest WPt:MoS serial comma debate…

:Your comments are well done. Maurreen 07:23, 10 May 2005 (UTC)

Thanks, Maurreen. I thought they might have been somewhat overcooked myself. But I find useful discussion on this subject quite rare, and I long for a happy medium. ☺ I admire your patience and persistence in working on this meal prepared by far too many cooks. Jeff Q (talk) 08:01, 10 May 2005 (UTC)

Queen Elizabeth II

Please note that I have disputed the neutrality of this article. Jguk reverted my NPOV template, claiming that the NPOV dispute is just a personal campaign of one person. Whig 08:58, 15 May 2005 (UTC)

RfC Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters

Hi Maureen, I saw you chimed in helpfully on Jguk's spurious RfC against Whig. I'm not sure if you saw that Jguk created one on me also—mostly with the same free-floating semi-accusations. A few details differ, but I was wondering if you'd have time to chime in on my RfC with a similar comment to that you made on Whig's. It probably does't matter much, since the whole WP "gaming" is silly to start with... but just in case uninvolved editors happen upon it, another voice makes the situation more clear. All the best, Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters

Looking for help on a major wiki project

Hey :) I was wondering if you'd be interesting in helping out with www.Knowmore.org, a corporation search wiki we're trying to get off the ground. We could DEFINATELY use some people that know how to make a wiki community great & the site is almost a blank slate at this point. It's been heavily customized and is designed to help responsible consumers enter any product or company name and immediatly find information about that co. (the main focus of the wiki is corporate & political information in a much more specialized way then wikipedia currently offers) Let me know if you're interested! aim: knowmoreorg or bernard@knowmore.org

David Helvarg FAC

You gave me some great help with David Helvarg. It has now been hugely rewritten and I would welcome your comments at Misplaced Pages:Featured article candidates/David Helvarg. --Theo (Talk) 15:39, 24 May 2005 (UTC)

RfAr re: Styles

Please see if you are interested. Whig 09:54, 29 May 2005 (UTC)

David Helvarg revisited

Thanks for your polishing tweaks to David Helvarg. I think that it is now ready to go back to WP:FAC. --Theo (Talk) 10:37, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Theo RFA

And now thank you for your remarkably prompt support of my RFA nomination. I am astonished that you beat the nominator in entering your support. --Theo (Talk) 09:42, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

And now, thank you for your congratulations. I refuse to accept your apology for all the help that you gave me … I cannot accept anything so unneeded. This is a volunteer project: any help is a boon and I found your comments and changes to be valuable triggers. I hope to work with you again on something.—Theo (Talk) 18:12, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

lots of edits, not an admin

Hi - I made a list of users who've been around long enough to have made lots of edits but aren't admins. Since you've been previously nominated I added an '*' immediately before your name in this list. If for any reason you're NOT interested, my apologies and please remove the '*' (you could entirely remove yourself from the list also, if you'd like). I've suggested folks nominating someone might want to puruse this list. Thanks. -- Rick Block (talk) 18:31, Jun 15, 2005 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:U.S. Southern wikipedians' notice board

I have now reopened the notice board, if you are interested in contributing new topics, or in nominating articles for the Collaboration of the Week, which also received a revamp. Please post on the project's talk page if you show interest. Mike H 02:47, Jun 19, 2005 (UTC)

Era proposal

Well, I finally bit the bullet and wrote up an official proposal. Maybe you could offer some feedback if you get a chance. Cheers. Kaldari 22:03, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Re: News Trade

Nothing personal against the author of the article, but, yes, I think News trade should be VfDed. Calicocat 16:04, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Military Parlance

Thanks for your edits on this - it all helps! :) A curate's egg 21:30, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Keep editing Maurreen! :) A curate's egg 17:52, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Category economics game theory

Maurreen - I've noticed that you are creating a category called economics game theory and moving some game theory articles there. Is there a reason why you are doing this? Game theory is already a sub-category of economics, why the name change? best, --Kzollman 18:11, Jun 25, 2005 (UTC)

Maurreen - Good you noticed that! I think probably the appropriate action would just be to remove the economics category from those pages and leave the game theory one. The reason I'm worried is that game theory is highly interdisciplinary (involving sociology, economics, biology, political science, and philosophy) and so I wouldn't want to mislead people by making a special category "economics game theory". Thanks for your quick response, and I'll try to keep my eye out for those duplicate categories! best, --Kzollman 18:22, Jun 25, 2005 (UTC)

Could you explain removing category economics

You removed category economics from Cycle of poverty - why? Scott Ritchie 22:15, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Landscape ecology

I was wondering why you removed cat:geography from this article. Guettarda 1 July 2005 13:20 (UTC)

I was wondering why you removed many articles from the geography category. Cheers, Daniel Collins 1 July 2005 14:20 (UTC)

Subcats. Ok. I think it's entirely reasonable for there to be a physical geography subcat. I'll assist to the degree I'm qualified. Cheers, Daniel Collins 1 July 2005 23:27 (UTC)

Are You the Person I Need?

  • Hi! I see from watchlist you changed 'category' on BoHai Sea, to physical geology so are you a guru on categories? The Bo Hai is not really a sea, nor a Bay, though the article equates the two, misplacing the real bay, which is indeed part of the Bo Hai... itself a Gulf technically, or so I understand. To make matters even more confusing, I gather 'Hai' is indeed Chinese for 'Sea', making all clear as 'Mud'. <G>
  • So what's your actual expertise — fixing a red link, or a real life geographer? Other?
    • If you are a category guru or geography specialist, that's not the only place that 'invented at need' copycat category was posted that evening, so things should be adjusted, one way or another.
  • I wanted (meant) to get a hold of someone on that issue, and did post a talk page note, as I copied the 'category type', as it were, while trying to straighten (criss-cross) geo-political references, but got diverted in an expansion or three or four during the week.
    • In any case, there needs to be some category consistancy geo-region to geo-region, or so I would argue. Please advise. Thanks!
User:Fabartus || Talkto_FrankB 3 July 2005 00:54 (UTC)

reply:

  • The category you replaced: 'Bays of China', should, of course, be a sub-category of 'Geography of China'. I MODELED 'Bays of China' on another 'Bays of _______', category which I'd have to retrace to tell you what '________' was to be certain, but I think it was Australia. Perhaps the sub-category 'Bays of China' is one you should add under 'Geography of China', and revert your original change. Perhaps there is a 'Bays of the Pacific', or 'Bays of the World', but I don't know how to check. I am fairly new to Wiki. Hence, I was hoping you knew for sure which categories and subcategories were supposed to be under the project guidelines, and which were perhaps omitted or overlooked as categories by the people who were working China related things.
  • What I do know for certain, is that there is a 'Bays of _________' category or subcategory, and I happened across it, so modeled 'Bays of China' on it, which gave a red link.
  • To fix the redlink, one could fix the Bays of China by replacing it with 'Geography of China', but that might then be inconsistant with the other 'Bays of _________' I did see. So I was hoping you knew which way it was supposed to work, or at least who to ask. You would know that if someone had asked you to change my original, but not if you changed it when you saw it as a red link (on your own).

Thankyou for your time and answer. I hope that I made the small issue clear. My view is that 'Bays of China' is a proper sub-category of Geography of China, and should be added there; that of course means you should revert your change to the article as well. If not, the other two Bays on BoHai Sea need changed as well. No matter what, at least two changes are needed.

  • Please let me know what you decide and do. Thanks again.
User:Fabartus || Talkto_FrankB 3 July 2005 06:28 (UTC)

News_management

Hi. When you have a moment, would you please take a look at News_management? Thanks. Hope you had a good holiday. Calicocat 3 July 2005 10:24 (UTC)

Jguk

The temporary injunction is not listed, but as the case is closed, is no longer in effect anyway. Fred Bauder July 3, 2005 18:51 (UTC)

Project Journalism

I'd like to make a simple template that would advertise the project which we can place on Talk pages of related articles. Do you know how to do that? The whole namespace thing is new to me and I don't want to make a mistake. It could say something like, "A new project on journalism is underway, participants needed" with link to project page. Calicocat 5 July 2005 00:07 (UTC)


You helped choose {{subst:IDRIVEtopic article}} as this week's WP:ACID winner

 Thank you for your support of the Article Improvement Drive.
This week {{subst:IDRIVEtopic article}} was selected to be improved to featured article status.
Hope you can help.


Come to my userpage!--Yo Mama 5000 6 July 2005 20:45 (UTC)

IDRIVE

Thanks for offering your help on the Improvement Drive. It is still new enough for me to enjoy doing it. Right now, on the other hand, it looks like there might be an edit war coming up, because one user, SimonP,has removed all of the nomination templates on COTW and IDrive. I placed them all on the main page, according to a discussion on the COTW discussion page. (This was also done on COTW nominations.) Actually I came to the Collaboration pages because they seemed edit-war-free, but let's be optimistic, the problem may be solved in peace. Some people have set up a vote on whether the templates should go on the article page or the talk page, here: Misplaced Pages:Template locations.

Also, you voted for refugee, so you routinely get this template:

You helped choose {{subst:IDRIVEtopic article}} as this week's WP:ACID winner

 Thank you for your support of the Article Improvement Drive.
This week {{subst:IDRIVEtopic article}} was selected to be improved to featured article status.
Hope you can help.

--Fenice 18:14, 10 July 2005 (UTC)

Template designs

Hi Maurreen. I'd really appreciate it if you could cast your eye over my template suggestion and pass some comments. The main thing I'm after is whether you think that the organisation would be appropriate for a WP:TS competition similar to the talk page one. I'm still trying to think of how to sort it all out (and am waiting until after the new template location page has done its business). Perhaps having separate polls for each category? violet/riga (t) 22:35, 10 July 2005 (UTC)

Vote!

You've shown your opposition of Misplaced Pages:Disruptive User, but you didn't vote. Please do. Howabout1 22:58, July 10, 2005 (UTC)

Units

Thanks for letting me know. B. is an inveterate POV pusher about this issue, making only conversion edits to articles with no other input. He recently lost an adminship nomination because of it. Also, be careful when you read any descriptions he gives of situations or of other pages. He distorts and mispresents. If it's an issue you care about, check it out for yourself rather than relying on him. My position on this is that it should be up to the editors on the page to decide, except for science articles, where something might hinge on it. SlimVirgin 05:59, July 13, 2005 (UTC)