User talk:Kevintimba

Wikipedia needs to standardize on capitalization of Spanish song and album titles. It's grammatically correct to capitalize only the first word (e.g., El manisero) but many use the English convention (El Manisero). I prefer the first but I'm not about to start changing them. However, as I go through various Latin music sections, I find a mixture of the two conventions. If the powers that be could issue an edict, I'll help to make pages more consistent.

"Accent"
Thank you for THIS and your other similar edits. The correct wording in English, rather than "accent" is, I believe, "diacritical mark". "Accent", as I remember, refers to the SPOKEN stress placed on a syllable when speaking, not when writing. No biggy... just thought I would mention it, and either "accent" or "diacritical mark", gracias por mejorar la enciclopedia (thanks for improving the encyclopedia). Mercy11 (talk) 15:52, 12 December 2013 (UTC)

Thanks - I usually edit when my primary motivation is to harvest factual information so I didn't want to break that flow to make sure diacritical was spelled right so I copped out with "accents" in the hidden description of the minor edit! As an irrelevant aside, unlike in French (voilà, déjà vu, etc.), the primary function of diacritical marks in Spanish is indeed to govern the accents when speaking. That's why you have Alberto Gonzales (no diacritical mark) versus Speedy González. The diacritical mark works with other exception-free rules to make the stressed syllable an ironclad certainty. [kevintimba]

Capitalization
Moving on to something more important, is there any chance that Wikipedia will issue an edict on capitalization of song and album titles in Spanish? It's a very inconsistent mess now. It should either be (my choice) the correct Spanish approach (El manisero) or the English approach (El Manisero), but it should be consistent. I've been using the former when adding new material but leaving them as they are when editing existing material. [kevintimba]

Design Problem in music singles chronology widget


When the Previous or Next single is not a hyperlink (i.e., doesn't have a placeholder or stub page), the user cannot continue to scroll through the chronology. In this case, for example, to continue following along with the singles chronology, I had to go the main discography page, find the non-linked single, and click on the next linked one.

Solution: Shouldn't the code automatically create a stub page when a single is added to the widget? (Never having added to or edited a singles chronology I'm not sure)

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