User talk:Cfailde
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TV Naming conventions.
[edit]At some point in the past you expressed an opinion on Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (television). I have instigated a new poll on that page. I am hoping that this poll will properly allow all users who have an interest in the subject to express their views fairly before we come to a consensus. I have scrapped the poll that was previously in place on that page because I believe that it was part of an unfair procedure that was going against the majority view. I am appealing to all users who contribute to that page to approve my actions. I would appreciate it if you could take the time and trouble to read the page carefully and express an opinion and vote as you see fit. Mintguy (T) 16:44, 13 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Hi! Thank you for changing my "Spanish" to "Spanish language" in the wikification of this article. You do good work! (I was tired when I wrote this long article)
My understanding of Wiki editorial style is to wikify the first occurance of a date or year, but not to wikify them aftewards in the text. I dewikified duplicate dates/years in this particular text already. Please let me know if that is the wrong thing to do.
I'd also like to say "Welcome to Wikipedia"! You are appreciated for the detail work you do around the Wiki. . . (smile) --avnative 00:49, Sep 20, 2004 (UTC)
- Howdy right back and you are very welcome. Re: wikifying dates, the relevant bit from Manual of Style: Do not link every occurrence of a word; simply linking the first time the word appears will usually be enough. ... For dates like 25 March 2004 wikify every time so that the date preference of the reader will be used. --Cfailde 09:21, 2004 Sep 20 (UTC)
- Thanks! Consider it done. --avnative 14:00, Sep 20, 2004 (UTC)
How can you mark Unemployment benefit as subject to deletion if not properly translated when only one section has problems? I am removing that piece of boilerplate and adding appropriate notice to the one section. -- Jmabel 19:00, Oct 7, 2004 (UTC)
- Nice choice of phrase but let us use the more accurate need of translation tag. The description of the problem was accurate and note its placing in the mostly translated section. The act of marking a page for translation makes it deletable automatically, something I did not desire but could not control. I am gladdened that you found a better way to indicate the problem without the terrifying delete statement at the start of the article. This method should probably be suggested in Wikipedia:Pages needing translation into English or somewhere appropriate if it is not already. If it is then I plead ignorance as I did not spot it. This is the first article I have put up for translation whereas you probably have more experience of this situation judging by your umpteen contributions. Have a nice day. --Cfailde 20:37, 2004 Oct 7 (UTC)
You can add a category and a note without using a template. That template is for articles that will be deleted unless fixed. -- Jmabel 20:40, Oct 7, 2004 (UTC)
- Good to know. Not explained anywhere :( --Cfailde 20:56, 2004 Oct 7 (UTC)
Thank you for your assistance with my first addition, I'm still quite new, so I'm learning, I was also half asleep when I originally created it. --Ice
Red-link recovery
[edit]Howdy and many thanks for your work on that list of mis-punctuated links. The list's pretty much completed now - I'll be generating a new version of it in due course, taking all the lessons learned from the last one into account. In the meantime, if you enjoyed working through the list (or at least found it a worthwhile distraction), you may want to have a look at the similar list of plural discrepancies which highlights red-links that might be red because they (or the article they are aiming for) are improperly pluralised. Again, thanks for your efforts - award yourself a wikimedal for janitorial services if you haven't already got one! - TB 11:26, 2004 Nov 8 (UTC)
Article Licensing
[edit]Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 1000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:
- Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
- Multi-Licensing Guide
- Free the Rambot Articles Project
To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:
- Option 1
- I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:
- {{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}
OR
- Option 2
- I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:
- {{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}
Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)
Fighting Fantasy
[edit]Great work with the infobox. I encourage you to go ahead and add it to the rest of the articles, or I could do it if you prefer. It would also be great if you wrote an article about any books which you think are worthy of it. I've done one for all the books which I've read and think are unique enough to warrant one, so go ahead and jump in. Euchrid 06:38, 14 September 2005 (UTC)
Naming conventions for television shows (again)
[edit]I saw that you were active in the first vote for naming conventions of television program(mes). Well it has raised it's ugly head again and I would appreciate any comments you have to make about my new proposal for naming television shows. Please leave comments here. Thanks! --Reflex Reaction (talk)• 21:42, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
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