User talk:Fixbeforeigo

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The templates are something that were a collaborative effort on the part of numerous editors, and they are affiliated with protected land areas all over the world. To take out the current state and country identifiers from these templates without at least discussing it with others might not be the best way to go. See here: WikiProject Protected Areas/Infobox for more information and on linked pages and talk pages. Thanks!--MONGO 06:23, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Also, not to be a pest, but the standards generally are that for each country in which an article is about, the normal editing style for that country is preferred. In the case of U.S. articles, two letter state identifiers are best. For articles about british subject matter or other areas where American English is spelled differently, that is the norm there...ie: Color in the U.S. article would be Colour perhaps in a British article. See Manual of Style and associated articles.--MONGO 06:30, 16 December 2005 (UTC)


 * In response...I'm not trying to give you a hard time and I can see where you're coming from. But in those templates in many case, the words overrun and it starts to look weird somewhat as it sometimes wraps around onto another line. In the body of the articles, I usually spell out the state name in full the first time it appears in an article and then abbreviate it after that. I see why you might find it U.S. centric, but they are articles on U.S. locations...however it is done outside the U.S. would apply there for those articles. I think most of what you're doing is fine, and appreciate it.--MONGO 09:10, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

I seem to have been blocked by accident or bug by admin on long vacation--no notice on my Talk, and my edits are still on top
Also, the block was made Dec. 25 even tho' I had no edits since the 18th. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Ipblocklist?action=search&limit=500&ip=Fixbeforeigo http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Fixbeforeigo http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Fixbeforeigo

I emailed http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:David_Gerard but his User page indicates he's on extended break, and won't be back for more than a week.

The IP I've been editing with recently is stable and has a clean history (and all the more reason I suspect a bug--why would the IP blocking kick in 4+ days after the username block?): http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&target=65.35.49.186

Help? Fixbeforeigo 05:25, 29 December 2005 (UTC)