User talk:Noian/Feb2009

Hua-Yi zhi bian and the Unification of All under Heaven
Hi! If you have time and if you're interested, could you take a look at the above article? It has made lots of progress since an earlier version of it was deleted and since you last looked at it. Your advice would be welcome on how to improve it further, and maybe on how to rename it, because the current title appears a little bulky. Cheers, Madalibi (talk) 10:50, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

Cottonball
Hi Noian, you said: "I noticed that it was split, but in my time here at wikipedia, I have not seem much use of the '-' to signify what are essentially subpages. Perhaps use'(' and ')' instead? ex. Herb (patents); as that is what is commonly used in disambiguation. Cheers!"

Can i create a page called with brackets, eg. Herb (patents)?

Cottonball (talk) 06:39, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

You can create whatever you want, I was just making a suggestion on accepted naming conventions (and also, the articles should be tagged with cleanup), I would suggest moving your current articles to the new name however as that will make things easier. I would have gone ahead and done this, but seeing as I wasn't in the discussion, I notified you instead as a option. &eta;oian  &Dagger;orever &eta;ew &Dagger;rontiers  06:41, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

Hi Noian, i've created the new page Herb (patents), but i don't know how to move the page Herbs-patents into the new page. How do you do that?

— Preceding unsigned comment added by cottonball (talk • contribs)

You MOVE it before creating the page........the move option is the tab on the top when you are viewing the old page, it combines copy+pasting w/ page creation and creates a redirect for you, making things easier. It also preserves the edit history, required by GNU.... &eta;oian  &Dagger;orever &eta;ew &Dagger;rontiers  06:49, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

Many thanks for the info.

Cottonball (talk) 06:50, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

You MOVE it before creating the page........the move option is the tab on the top when you are viewing the old page, it combines copy+pasting w/ page creation and creates a redirect for you, making things easier. It also preserves the edit history, required by GNU....I'll tag it with housekeeping so an admin can move it now the article has been created, you can move the other split articles though, remember to do so without creating the desired page, click the 'move' tab at the top of the old page. &eta;oian  &Dagger;orever &eta;ew &Dagger;rontiers  06:49, 23 February 2009 (UTC)


 * I've deleted the duplicate at Herb (patents). I didn't move it since I wasn't sure if you've come to a final decision, so I'll let you do it. Cheers, Amalthea  17:08, 23 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Nevermind, SoWhy moved it. -- Amalthea 18:23, 23 February 2009 (UTC)