User:Joeblakesley/2004 Talk

Early Discussion with Dysprosia
Hi Joe :) I hope you continue to like the place and choose to stay.

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I'll reply at my talk page. Dysprosia 22:17, 6 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Legacy Microsoft Windows
Could you please cite a source for your Legacy Microsoft Windows? I've seen similar phrases used to refer to pretty much every version of Windows aside from XP or Server 2003. AlistairMcMillan 15:47, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Redirects
Please stop adding redirects. AlistairMcMillan 00:02, 26 Nov 2004 (UTC)


 * see your talk -Joe Llywelyn Griffith Blakesley 23:41, 2004 Nov 26 (UTC)


 * I'm begging you. Please stop adding redirects.  They should only be added when absolutely necessarily.  And you NEVER want to have redirects that point to redirects unless there is a really good reason.  Iso639 -> ISO639 -> ISO 639 is NOT a really good idea.  Everything should point at ISO 639.  EVERYTHING!!! AlistairMcMillan 15:38, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Comments regarding RFC 3066
Moved to Talk:RFC_3066 -Joe Llywelyn Griffith Blakesley 23:41, 2004 Nov 26 (UTC)

And yes, it is normal to reply to comments on the other user's talk page, because it then sends that user a flag that they have new messages. Stellertony the Bookcrosser 22:25, Nov 26, 2004 (UTC)

List of GNU packages
Hello. I just wanted to let you know I have replied to your comment on Talk:List of GNU packages. -- Mathieugp 20:46, 27 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Ideograms
Hi Joe, just wondering why this change to an article that doesn't exist? -- Chuq 06:55, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Redirects?
Hi, what's up with all the redirects to Dark-Sky Movement? Are you intending to write that article? If so, you should do so fairly soon (even a stub will do), or else the redirects will go away. Wikipedia policy is to get rid of redirects to non-existent pages, and someone listed them on WP:RfD. If you do create the target, you don't have to do anything on WP:RfD (we'll eventually notice the target is there. Thanks! Noel (talk) 12:39, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)


 * Sorry, I don't understand the point of your note on my Talk: page? Also, while I'm here, there are a bunch more of your redirects that also got listed (after I left the message above); the targets are legacy Microsoft Windows and lighting regulation. Again, these will go away unless you create the articles. Noel (talk) 14:25, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Unix system
moved to talk:Unix system.

Redirects again
Hi, there is no hard and fast rule, but in general one shouldn't go too far one way or the other. Too many is a problem, and too few is a problem.

E.g. if look at the original list of 7 of your redirects added to WP:RfD this time around, you will notice that the community consensus was to keep almost all of them (albeit with a certain amount of re-targetting). So this time you got it basically right.

In the past some of your calls have been a little too far out. E.g. all those redirects to Dark-sky movement, a lot of those I think are useless - they use combinations of spacing and capitalization which are very unlikely.

Sorry I can't be more definitive, but I think these two cases should give you a good sense of what a good level is. Noel (talk) 01:30, 23 Dec 2004 (UTC)


 * A reason for avoiding redirects is that it dilutes Google Page Ranks. We want the pages here to rank as high as possible, but if there are four or five different possible links all pointing to the same page, then the possible page rank is distributed among the actual article and the redirects. AlistairMcMillan 03:59, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)

DEC Windows
Hi, you need to check out the comments at Redirects_for_deletion and provide a response, otherwise these will probably go away (they rest all survived). Noel (talk) 12:52, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC)