User talk:ColinEberhardt

Hi ColinEberhardt &mdash; I see you've been around for a while, but somehow no one has welcomed you yet. I hope it's ok to welcome you at this late stage!

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Re: Vandalism Alert
Just so you know, even anonymous IPs have talk pages. I posted a warning at User talk:194.72.105.222, but did not block him as he had not been warned in relation to his latest actions. If he vandalises again after the warning, however, he will be blocked. &mdash; Asbestos | Talk   (RFC)  11:42, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

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Enrico Rastelli
Ciao! Mhmhm... he has an Italian name and surname, so I guess that he was born in Russia to an Italian family working there. Anyawy, I reverted my format edits without specifying the nationality. Bye.
 * I've checked some sources. As I had guessed, he was Italian, simply born abroad due to his family trips for work. Bye.--Attilios 09:53, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

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Juggling Balls
I just wanted to say thanks for copyediting the Juggling Balls page. Your changes look really great (thanks for making a few of the sections, like "Stage Balls", less POV), though I did change "colour" to "color" (though I wouldn't be opposed to changing each occurence of the word to the British spelling, if that's what people wanted). Anyway, thanks again! Cheers, Rahzel 17:35, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

Juggling-stub
There seemed to be consensus at the proposal for temporarily upmerging the template to Category:Culture stubs. User:Alai, who helped with the template, suggested populating the template, and in case there were at least 60 stubs, it would get its own Category:Juggling stubs. In case there were less than 60, it should be upmerged to a different category, such as sports stubs or to a "circus-skills-stubs" (which exists, as I understand it, but would have to be reinstated - as you can see, I'm not an expert). The other option (which I didn't like) was to make the template scope broader, e.g. with a "Circus skills" stubs template. So, it's a compromise, but not the worst, in my opinion. —KNcyu38 (talk • contribs) 09:08, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Sounds great to me. I asked User:Alai if that'd be possible. —KNcyu38 (talk • contribs) 10:08, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
 * I reread the proposal discussion and if I interpret it correctly, the template needs a population of 60+ to justify a category in any case, and Cat:Juggling stubs would be parented anyway by Cat:Culture stubs and maybe additionally Cat:Sports stubs (which I endorse). It's weird though, that some of the Categories parented by Culture stubs have less than 60 pages in them, see Cat:Indian dance stubs or Cat:French architect stubs. Maybe they introduced this 60-rule-of-thumb later on, to help with overcategorisation. —KNcyu38 (talk • contribs) 10:34, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
 * You may want to ask User:Alai. As a substitute, I wonder if there is a way to include the content of a page (not just linking to it) on another page. That way we could include the content of the "what links here" for the stub page into the section, into the /use subpage of the template. I.e. anyone visiting the stub page would immediately see all the transcluded pages. Alternatively, we could just insert a prominent link for "what links here". —KNcyu38 (talk • contribs) 07:23, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Take a look. It's just a first compromise, but there you have all tagged pages on one glance. —KNcyu38 (talk • contribs) 07:33, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

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