User talk:DirectRevelation

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Rocky
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 * Concensus reached on article, see Rocky discussion. DirectRevelation 20:39, 5 November 2007 (UTC)DirectRevelation

November 2007
Please do not delete content from pages on Wikipedia. Your edits do not appear to be constructive and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox for test edits. Also, please don't use misleading edit summaries. Rjd0060 05:37, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Edit summary not intended to be misleading so I added lenghtyy item in discussion to go over Rjd0060's concern.  DirectRevelation 06:22, 6 November 2007 (UTC)DirectRevelation

RE:Writers Guild of America
Good idea! You shouldn't just delete stuff like that. I, personally, see no problem with the Org Labor portal tag, as the WGA is a union...I think. As for the external links, I don't know why you wanted to remove them. Maybe you explained in the talk page, but I haven't read it. - Rjd0060 06:16, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Re: The Southern California Supermarket Strike/Copyright Violation
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re: Writers Guild of America
Hi Erica/Fang Aili

Thank you for cleaning up some of the items in the WGA article. This article has experienced a lot of deletions and undos without much explanation in the Discussion tab and I've also been guilty of that at times.

The addition of the Disambiguation flag didn't fall into that trap though as a lengthy post is in the Discussion tab from 11/2 without objections. While the article is certainly not FORMATTED as a Disambig page, the SUBSTANCE is exactly that (in my opinion).

Do you agree or disagree? Either way I would welcome your thoughts in the WGA discussion tab.

Thanks! DirectRevelation 18:36, 6 November 2007 (UTC)DirectRevelation


 * Hello! Dab pages are for pages that are not encyclopedic articles. They're a navigation tool. I can see where you're coming from though -- the WGA is really two entities. But I think that more could be written about WGA, so we should keep it an encyclopedia article rather than a dab page. Does that make sense? Also, people clicking on WGA are looking for information about WGA, not necessarily WGA east or west.
 * Regarding the talk page--people don't usually post to the talk page unless there's really something to hash out. Minor stuff is usually just fixed without comment. --Fang Aili talk 18:46, 6 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the superfast reply! A good point of contrast might be the Painters union which has a national structure with locals in New York, LA and other cities.  Readers are indeed looking for information on the WGA generally but there's no such organization; just two small stand-alone groups with similar names.  People are either using it as a Dab page or incorrectly generalizing as a result.  That's what makes me wonder if the topic is inherantly flawed (rather than just one of many articles needing work) but I guess time will tell.  Thanks again for your thoughts.DirectRevelation 19:16, 6 November 2007 (UTC)DirectRevelation

WGA
Hello! That was indeed the correct place to voice a concern about the WGA category. Thank you for doing so! I have responded to your concern on the same talk page. Best, Paul 06:12, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

2007 Writers Guild of America strike
Meh. Think nothing of it. I overreacted as a result of WP:EUI. For a current event topic, the article is in good shape: informed discussion and no revert wars to speak of. Thanks for your contributions and keep up the good work!&mdash;Twigboy 14:35, 16 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Re: The "second" strike by the WGA (as questioned at my talk)


 * The strike that is looming over at CBS News is a separate action on a separate contract with the news division. That contract, IIRC, expired more than a year (2?) ago. It affects the evening news and the local newscasts if CBS owns the station (not the affiliates, such as the station in Scranton, but the owned & operated stations such as the one in New York). In addition, the all-news radio stations owned by CBS are in the WGA-CBS contract. Not sure, but I would presume the newsmagazines and The Early Show are also included. Obviously the newswriters find this time ripe for getting their own publicity.
 * As for a naming convention, we need to reasonably explain the subject to the readers' expectations. The entertainment strike is the strike. I think to be succinct, the second strike could be best titled 2007 CBS News writers strike. (The division is called CBS News, so the space is deliberate. There is also no consensus on writers with or without an apostrophe at List of strikes.) The way I have proposed it, it is clear to show it is newswriters employed by CBS News, and articles are split on identifying with the union, industry or the employer (whatever is most identifiable). The entertainment-industry writers strike is probably OK as 2007 Writers Guild of America strike, because the bulk of the union is involved. It should then carry a hatnote, otheruses4 to point readers to the newswriters strike.


 * If that fails to pass with editors, the backup plan is this: Disambiguation at the current article title, with articles at (entertainment) and (newswriters). But I would push back before conceding that one.&mdash;Twigboy (talk) 03:56, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

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