User talk:Matthewedwards/Archives/2008/02

Re: GA newsletter
There's no specific 'subscription list'. The newsletter is sent out at the beginning of each month to all members listed as participants of WikiProject Good Articles. I also post copies at WT:GAN and WT:GA. Dr. Cash (talk) 06:32, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

Office redirects
Thanks. I've gone through and fixed them. Luckily, 95%+ were from a template, so that was accomplished easily and quickly. I've gone through and fixed the rest. Thanks for notifying me of the redirects, it seems to be something I always forget about. -Mastrchf91- 03:20, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Proposed merger
Hello...

You proposed merging List of European countries and their capitals with List of countries in Europe. I thought about this when first creating List of countries in Europe. The reason for not adding information to the List of European countries and their capitals article is due to the rather high volume of 'defacto independent countries'. My thoughts were that given the lack of consistent information regrading names, the information that would appear in the article would be less complete than that of the information for (excuse the lack of a better phrase) non-defacto independent countries. At worst, the information is temporary.

Perhaps the best solution is to take the capital names from List of European countries and their capitals, match them with the corresponding countries already listed in List of countries in Europe. The remainder of information could then be turned into a mirror article of List of countries in Europe with the title List of unrecognized independent countries in Europe. List of European countries and their capitals can then be deleted as superfluous.

What are your thoughts on this?

-- The € • T/C 12:13, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Hi. One of the reasons I proposed a merge was because there was an unneccessarily high number of "List of European country" articles. There was List of European countries before I redirected it to List of countries in Europe; European countries, which was created as a redirect page, and has pointed to seven different pages in its lifetime, and the List of European countries and capitals page.

Out of the three articles that weren't simply redirects, List of countries in Europe was the best and had the most information, which is why I redirected them all and proposed that particular merger.


 * Honestly, I don't know if a mirror article of the defacto countries would be better, or just a separate section after the "real" countries. List of countries, a featured article, lists all countries, identifying the differences using bold text for those with general international recognition, bold and italic text for those lacking general international recognition, and regular text for other non-state countries. Either way, List of European countries and their capitals should probably be deleted rather than kept as a redirect page, as who is going to be typing that into their search bar?! - Matthew Edwards | talk | Contribs 17:17, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

Hi. I started merging the info. Can you have a look at it and let me know what you think? List of countries in Europe Cheers. The € • T/C 21:37, 31 January 2008 (UTC) Cheers. The € • T/C 09:32, 1 February 2008 (UTC) Cheers. The € • T/C 14:16, 5 February 2008 (UTC) The € • T/C 14:17, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Looks all right. I also started something, based upon Infobox country, here, and here. Unfortunately, I'm having problems with rowspan on the third column, and it's taking a bit of time to think how to fix it. -- Matthew Edwards | talk | Contribs 22:46, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Those pages look interesting. What are your intentions for them?- to replace the current country boxes?
 * Cheers. The € • T/C 22:50, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Nothing as of right now. I was just playing around, seeing what could be done. The Country infobox has the fields already set in place, whereas the way I'm currently doing it the fields and results have to be put in manually, which is a pain. Then there's the thing of having to remove cells for information that wouldn't appear on other countries, such as "EU accession". That obviously would be redundant on an African country, but then it also messes up the layout of the box. And like I said, the third column is giving me problems with rowspan. It shifts the entire table out of sync. -- Matthew Edwards | talk | Contribs 23:01, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
 * OK. It is done. The list of capitals article shouldn't be deleted just yet. I'm going to put a section in at the bottom of the article separating out the non-sovereign countries and adding the countries that are unrecognized (as per your suggestion- BTW).
 * Cheers. The € • T/C 03:05, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I like how you put the native name of the capital cities, especially for places like Jersey, which I didn't even know had a native language. PS: Don't forget Sealand. :D -- Matthew Edwards | talk | Contribs 06:01, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Well, it is all done. The merger is complete and now the other article can be deleted and redirected. Also, can you remove the merger proposal from the article? And yes, Sealand is in there. It fits the description.
 * Looks a-okay. Should Sealand be placed in the list with the other unrecognised territories, or under a new section headed "Micronations"? -- Matthew Edwards | talk | Contribs 22:26, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I thought about that and decided against, because then Vatican City and Monaco would need their own sub-section as recognised states. It may become a little confusing to further categorise states in this manner. All in all, I think it is complete.
 * One more thing- I thought it might be a good idea to copy this thread to the discussion page of the article. What do you think?
 * I don't mind if you do that. -- Matthew | talk | Contribs 22:59, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

Re: Degrassi: The Next Generation
You will need to relist the article for reconsideration. I wish you good luck--it looks like you've done a lot of work to the article. Cheers! Redfarmer (talk) 01:02, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

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Yay

 * Woo! My first barnstar! That was easy-peasy! Thanks! -- Matthew | talk | Contribs 21:03, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

RE: Talk page design
Feel free to steal! As far as I know it's mine; well, I saw a similar table on someone's userspace and decided it would look good as a background, so I made the necessary changes. Same with my userpage. Basically, I take elements I like from other userpages and conglomerate them into my own. :) Master of Puppets   Call me MoP! ☺  22:04, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Notability tags
Hi, I noticed that when you are adding the multiple issues tags to the character articles you are re-adding the notability tags that I have been removing from the articles per the injunction from ARBCOM. Please double check that you do not add the tags again, thanks. Davewild (talk) 20:50, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Oh my gosh! I didn't notice I'd even done it. I've removed the parameter. My apologies. -- Matthew | talk | Contribs 20:54, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Great, not a problem. Davewild (talk) 20:55, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

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oh.. dear... Thanks. Rich Farmbrough, 00:13 12 February 2008 (GMT).
 * You're welcome! I'll leave it to you to fix :) -- Matthew | talk | Contribs 00:16, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Mazin Elsadig - Degrassi character Damian Hayes
Do you think you could create a Degrassi character page for Damian Hayes? While there is a Damian Haye listed here, it's a real person, not the Degrassi character and I think he's a athlete who lives in Europe. There are character pages for two other new characters, Holly J. Sinclair and Jane V. so I find it weird this character doesn't have his own page yet. Robinepowell (talk) 03:02, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Damien Hayes (Degrassi) is the page, and Damien Haze is a redirect to that page. Actually, I wouldn't have created a page, as I think none of the characters are notable enough to have an article on Wikipedia. It's not to collect masses of junk and crufty information. And none of the other articles are good enough to be here either. They're far too plotty, they're in-universe, and read like a fansite. IMO, all the D:TNG character pages would be better off being merged into List of Degrassi: The Next Generation characters page. -- Matthew | talk | Contribs 03:07, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
 * You've misspelled his first name and that needs to be fixed. I checked CTV and it's DamiAn.    Robinepowell (talk) 08:05, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I didn't create it, just pointed it out to you. You could always move the article. I'm going to bed, now. Night! -- Matthew | talk | Contribs 08:30, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Let me just point out that it's considered bad form to delete and change people's talk pages, even if they are your own comments. Replies to conversations should also be indented with a colon at the beginning of the new text.
 * I'm guessing what happened with the Haze/Hayes thing is that someone heard the name Hayes on the show, and thought it was spelled H-A-Z-E. When it was clarified that it was spelled H-A-Y-E-S, the article was WP:Renamed. It seems that they didn't know it was also D-A-M-I-A-N, not D-A-M-I-E-N, which is why it needs renaming again now. Like I said, this wasn't me, and I'm not awake enough to do it myself right now, because it involves fixing Double redirects. Goodnight! -- Matthew | talk | Contribs 08:44, 12 February 2008 (UTC)


 * What does it matter if I delete my own words? I changed my mind and decided to add something else. If I knew who originally created the Damian Hayes page I would ask them to change it.  I don't so you're it.  Maybe later today? Robinepowell (talk) 19:28, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Because it's frowned upon. Anyway, you could go sofixit, I don't WP:OWN the Degrassi related articles. -- Matthew | talk | Contribs 03:52, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Re your recent edits to Degrassi: The Next Generation, Everything you just wrote was wrong - Mistycyn wasn't recurring from season 1, she guested in 1 episode. She was recurring in season 2. She still had star billing in season 5, she didn't leave at the end of season 4. Daniel Clarke left at the end of season 6. He can't have left at the end of season 7 - it hasn't ended yet. Amadna Stepto doesn't need wikilinking more than once. -- Matthew | talk | Contribs 06:04, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

How can Daniel Clark have left when he's still in the opening credits of Seaven 7? Robinepowell (talk) 07:28, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Degrassi character Cailtin Ryan
I changed it around. She appeared in one episode in Season 5 and that's her ONLY appearence until now.
 * She recieved star billing the entire season, though.

Also the characters of Toby and Ashley are recurring so how is that wrong? There aren't any individual photos of them in the opening credits and they aren't shown in the group photo. Robinepowell (talk) 07:27, 13 February 2008 (UTC) Because after a discussion with the user who did the GA review, it was decided to remove a lot of the information in the cast section, discussing only the changes to main roles. Melissa McIntyre (Ashley) had left the series at the end of season 4, and when she returned in season 6, she was given a recurring role. Hope this explains everything. -- Matthew | talk | Contribs 08:33, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

Degrassi FLC
Hi Matthew, yeah I'm just looking the article again and your comments - I'll get back to you as soon as I can. The Rambling Man (talk) 09:46, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Season 2 now had a first run-through, some similar issues as you said, but I've added some other comments too. Let me know when you'd like me to come back and re-review.  The Rambling Man (talk) 10:25, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

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Degrassi dvd release
Hey Matthew, sorry I missed your note on the FLC. I'd definitely go for placing it after the episode overview. Just my opinion but it's logical for me to see the release of the series after the episode synopses. All the best. The Rambling Man (talk) 19:10, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Of course. I'll do it "interfrastically".  The Rambling Man (talk) 19:16, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

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 * Yes, thank you, Robot. I know – it was me that replaced them! -- Matthew | talk | Contribs 19:41, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

No offense taken
None taken, I was just responding to your comment. If we disagree, we disagree. No harm, no foul. We just disagree. No biggee. — BQZip01 — talk 06:15, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

More Degrassi
Hey Matthew, sorry, been "working" all day, I'll probably get round to your latest FLCs in the next day or so. Apologies for the inconvenience. The Rambling Man (talk) 19:28, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Any time is fine :) -- Matthew | talk | Contribs 21:14, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Hmm, and you're right, in my enthusiasm to keep a clean talk page I overlooked your remark about the episode template for which I apologise! I'd look into it further tomorrow and let you know what I think.  One thing I've noticed - IE7 is crap at rendering the templates.  At work I use Windows XP (I'm sorry, I have to be sick) with an overall 3200 x 1200 res pair of monitors.  At home I'm a simple iBooker with Mac OS 10.5 and Safari.  It certainly shows the differences in the way the world presents web sites...  I'll get back to you.  All the best! The Rambling Man (talk) 22:49, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I too use XP. And I wish I had an Apple :( -- Matthew | talk | Contribs 22:55, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

Featured list candidates/List of autonomous areas by country
I have responded to your comments made at Featured list candidates/List of autonomous areas by country. Please respond back. Thanks! Gary King (talk) 03:57, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I have responded. Please archive the items that have been addressed - thanks! Gary King (talk) 16:09, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

Template:Episode list
Just a heads up: my reply. -- Ned Scott 05:18, 29 February 2008 (UTC)