User talk:LeadSongDog/Archives/2008/September

date
I responded fully on my talk page. Thanks for pointing this out. I thought the issue had been resolved by the author of the script two days ago, but clearly it hasn't. Without such feedback, it would be hard to refine its operation. 16:46, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Try as I did, I can't see the "and' change in the diff. Can you point me to it? Tony  (talk)  01:46, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Ah, that's the one I did identify and correct. Tony   (talk)  16:14, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
 * It does, which is why human oversight is particularly important at the moment—I've picked up quite a few of the same problem and sent reports to LM. But Lightmouse has been away for two days; waiting for his return to get this fixed finally. He'd actually asked me to test his attempted solution, and I didn't look closely enough at your article to pick up the continuing glitch; it happens only with unlinked dates ranged with a hyphen (wrongly, actually) rather than an en dash. We need to program in all four possibilities (spaced/unspaced, hyphen/en dash). Tony   (talk)  16:58, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

Date formats after autoformatting
With the recent deprecation of date autoformatting, "raw" dates are becoming increasingly visible on Wikipedia. Strong views are being expressed, and even some edit-warring here and there. A poll has been initiated to gauge community support to help us develop wording in the Manual of Style that reflects a workable consensus. As you have recently commented on date formats, your input would be helpful in getting this right. Four options have been put forward, summarised as:


 * 1) Use whatever format matches the variety of English used in the article
 * 2) For English-speaking countries, use the format used in the country, for non-English-speaking countries, use the format chosen by the first editor that added a date to the article
 * 3) Use International format, except for U.S.-related articles
 * 4) Use the format used in the country

The poll may be found here, as a table where you may indicate your level of support for each option above. --Pete (talk) 17:56, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

Response
I replied to you on my talk page. Your word choice “Accusations” you used to title that section indicates to me that you take everything too personally. This is an issue over interpreting guidelines. And you are way off base and incorrect in that regard. Greg L (talk) 18:34, 18 September 2008 (UTC)


 * It is a bit naughty of me to interrupt, but I do love spelling debates. I think the comments on the caesium talk page sum up Greg's attitude to international spelling.

I'm not sure there's much one can do about an attitude that thinks "This is an American Web site that uses American english. Period." but good luck trying. LeBofSportif (talk) 10:04, 22 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the good wishes, but Greg's already deployed the thermonuclear hand grenade of rational discourse. I'm moving on to other discussions where my efforts may accomplish something.LeadSongDog (talk) 14:38, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

Alzheimer
I don't think the "diacritic" (actually an umlaut) in the name is correct. I did a Google search in German pages. The version with an umlaut gets 18 hits; the version without gets 26,400. Since the guy who changed it appears to be German by his name, I think he should probably get the benefit of the doubt. Best wishes, Looie496 (talk) 01:34, 25 September 2008 (UTC)