User talk:Fadesga/Archives/2013/January

Overlinking
Hi, thanks for your work on en.WP. Please note that we don't normally link years, dates, country-names, or common terms on en.WP. Cheers. Tony  (talk)  03:28, 19 January 2013 (UTC)

Warning
You have now changed the bio stubs incorrectly on two articles that I created recently, S. D. Tchilinghirian and Archibald G. M. Batten. Please read the article before you do this to correctly establish the nationality of the individuals, or, as in the the case of Tchilinghirian for instance, that we don't know what nationality they are. Thanks Philafrenzy (talk) 13:06, 22 January 2013 (UTC)

Philatelists
I am undoing some of your categorisation as philatelists do not necessarily collect their own country. Only if they do, should their biographies be in the "Philately of ..." category for their home country. Archibald Batten for instance (see above) is in British Philatelists because he was British and Philately of South Africa because he collected Orange Free State. Thanks Philafrenzy (talk) 19:03, 22 January 2013 (UTC)

Israeli
I undid this edit of yours. You can not speak of Israel in the 11th century, so this person was by no means an Israeli writer. Debresser (talk) 19:25, 22 January 2013 (UTC)

Philately as an occupation
I am not sure you should be making these changes. Philately is not an occupation, it is a hobby. They all probably had a main occupation or job of another kind but we simply don't know what it was. What do you think? Philafrenzy (talk) 12:57, 23 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Hi Philafrenzy. About "philately as an occupation": let me kindly disagree with you. Let's take a look at these definitions: "oc·cu·pa·tion: 1. a. An activity that serves as one's regular source of livelihood; a vocation. b. An activity engaged in especially as a means of passing time; an avocation." So, as we can see, a "hobby" (and a very refined one as philately) can be considered an "occupation", too. Best regards, --Fabio Descalzi, aka Fadesga (talk) 13:05, 23 January 2013 (UTC)
 * That would be fine if they did not usually also have a "proper" occupation that was their main livelihood and from which they lived. I think in normal English usage occupation here means profession or job. Philafrenzy (talk) 13:35, 23 January 2013 (UTC)