User talk:Alex Law/2005

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Thanks. Not sure how active I'll be, not a specialist in anything but I have wideranging interests. Might just wander the namespace looking for things to do. Oh, and I'm addicted to standards, but not anal-retentive about them. Alex Law 02:29, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

Nihonophilia
Hello Alex !

Hi Alex ! I Knew you would be a wikipedia contributor. Do you also know of http://wiki.theppn.org/ for JPOP related info ? Pawzle 13:22, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

Just started contributing. Hmmm, as I know nothing about JPOP and I'm amusical, I'm not sure how much use that is to me. Alex Law 14:01, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

More importantly, I'm not sure how much use I can be to it. BTW, do a user page, or I'll do one for you :-) Alex Law 21:37, 2 August 2005 (UTC)

aus-geo-stub
You wrote:

''Cunningham, Queensland Electoral District you converted a stub from generic stub to Category:Australia geography stubs I'm not sure I agree. Electoral districts in Australia have boundaries that move every few years, and have no significance other than being the pool of voters from which a member is elected to arliament. Not asying it is wrong, just not sure it is appropriate. There is a Category:Electoral divisions of Australia but it is not applicable as it covers Commonwealth rather than state seats. Also Oz geo-stubs is overloaded.''

It isn't as stub sorting would be the same thing as categorising; the main importance for stub-sorting would be to get the appropriate people (with the pertaining knowledge) to notice the appropriate stub; but you're right, it would have been proper here to use australia-stub together with poli-stub or gov-stub; and btw, the generic-stubs used to be very crowded indeed (ca. 20.000 in the hight times) til ca. 2-3 months ago :) Lectonar 04:43, 3 August 2005 (UTC)

"The Honourable"

 * Well, as a wise anonymous user noted on Talk:Victoria of the United Kingdom,


 * "Re the removing of use of Majesty and HRH. I agree. There are a lot of people here who keep adding on the superfluous use of 'His Majesty' or 'she married HRH Prince Whoever'. HRH and Majesty are forms of ADDRESS and as far as I know one can't address a dead person. In all professional encylopedias, any books written about royals, the Royal website itself (apart from the memorial sites - which is because those people died fairly recently and arent historical figures) - only here, and on selected articles at that, have I seen this constant use. It's not used for the pages of the Tudors etc. It's like saying the page for any untitled person should constantly be referred to as 'Mr', so a page about Benjamin Franklin would become 'Mr. Benmjamin Franklin' and referring to him as the son of 'Mr & Mrs Franklin'. I think we should remove them on all royal pages except living royals and make wikipedia look a bit more professional."


 * Similar comments could be made about The Honourable. Being over-zealous in its use (whether strictly accurate or not), just makes us look foolish and out of touch.  Please establish a firm consensus among editors of the Prime Ministerial pages for the inclusion of these styles before (re-)adding them.  Slac  speak up!  08:09, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

If I get time I'll try to did up a Protocol officer and get formal guidance on Australian usage.

Alex Law 09:57, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

Great Minds (etc)...
So there I was, thinking "it's about time I created a category for Wiccan Wikipedians", and I find you've beaten me to it by about 13 hours... Guess I was just too slow :-) Tonywalton 16:32, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

Qld MP's
My personal view is that they should be something along the lines of Category:Queensland Parliamentarians and Category Queensland Legislative Councillors. This is at least NPOV with regards to time. Slac &#91;&#91;User talk:Lacrimosus&#124;&lt;small&gt;speak up!&lt;/small&gt;]] 20:39, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

That would work for me too. Also what about Queensland figures like Drew Hutton and Nigel Freemarijuana, should we have a Category:Queensland Political Figures for them? Afterall, some of the most interesting faces in Queensland politics have been recurrent candidates but never actually been successful. If success is measured by membership in a parliamentary super fund... Alex Law 23:53, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

re:Category:Wikipedians by D&D Alignment
I noticed you are categorized as a Wikipedian by alignment. If you are in to userboxes, there are now infoboxes available using a standard template. See the alignment category page for details. This is a copied announcement, please reply on My Talk Page or in the category talk if you have any questions. xaosflux Talk  / CVU  18:51, 20 December 2005 (UTC)