User talk:Pegship/FebJun2009

Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Astronomical objects#main belt asteroids
Hi, Sorry to come in at such an inopportune time, but the Great Asteroid Stub debate has started again here, and input from someone with awareness of the administrative problems of swarms of minimal stubs might be helpful. Alai seems inactive of late, so I saw your note on his talk page and thought you might like to comment.

Since you are on 40 days leave, perhaps you could alert some others with useful insight? I believe we can provide the essential information in a table format (with thousands of entries, NB), with links out to serious articles. But I hate to trash their creator's (Captain Panda) efforts by mass deletion, beyond what is really necessary to alleviate the problems these stubs actually create. I would really like to bring this discussion to a satisfactory actionable conclusion this time.

Thanks (and Happy Easter, when it comes)  Wwheaton (talk) 23:39, 24 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Thanks! Wwheaton (talk) 00:19, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

File:Sffilm2.jpg listed for deletion
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That libraries category
Say, I made a new renaming proposal - please have a look if you can spare a minute. Cgingold (talk) 23:25, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

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Stub project?
Has the stub-sorting project been going downhill? I see that Alai hasn't edited in a good while, and Grutness has been having health problems, while the discoveries page doesn't have anything newer than February. I went there to mention Honor-stub, which I just discovered; if you're still active in sorting, could you bring this to a forum where someone would notice it? Nyttend (talk) 13:39, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

I feel ununderstood
I only am homogenizing all the stubs of Spanish regions, and he insists on reverting me, eliminating maps, homogeneous text, and underestimating to the cities of Ceuta and Melilla. I know that he does not do it meaningfully, because he is not Spanish, and he does not know what he does. Satesclop 20:28, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

Bangkok Dangerous
In the article it is written that the hero "lost his sight after...", well, I don't think he ever lost his sight.... Jon Ascton    (talk)  01:53, 6 May 2009 (UTC)


 * I think you have worked on Bangkok Dangerous article... Jon Ascton    (talk)  15:08, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

Hey...
I kind of copy and pasted the stub sorting userbox you have on your userpage. Hope you don't mind. :-)

I also see that you are an experienced stub sorter. Nice to have an experienced comrade.

Is it okay to be in the wikiproject even though I just want to stub sort? --I dream of horses (talk) 04:09, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

Talkback
Thanks! I dream of horses (talk) 23:02, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

List of films based on war books
Hi,

I happened to have noticed from Mike Briggs' talk page that you assigned (?) war films to him in 2006?

Anyway, two months ago, I found a largely dormant page. I like history, and I am a former "Top Contributor" to the IMDb. So that page was sort of up my alley.

It was 1 small page two months ago. Now it takes up 7 pages.

I just followed the model that was evident in the page as it stood.

If there is some bigger master plan, please advise.

I had some ideas of my own, so it's not precisely as I found it, but the table structure is the same.

I have interpreted "book" broadly as "published work" in order to enclose as much history as possible. (It is hard enough to find a movie on a specific time period, much less one derived from some sort of acknowledged source.) And if that encourages somebody to read a poem by Tennyson or Yeats, so much the better, right?

Sincerely, Varlaam (talk) 17:47, 18 May 2009 (UTC) (in Toronto)

Your kind message
According to User:Varlaam's message above yours on my talk page, by doing that, I showed that "The self-centred arrogance of people at Wikipedia is unbelievable"! -- Orange Mike  &#x007C;   Talk  23:39, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

Re: edit summary on Hocken Library
...and hi to you, too! :) Grutness...wha?  00:24, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

Bartending-stub
Hello, there is a small movement in the Food and drink, Mixed Drinks and Bartending WikiProjects to get everything in order including templates and article ratings. We need this template to work with the Bartneding Projects WP 1.0 Ratings. Could you please restore this stub template? (You had originally nominated it for deletion)

--Jeremy (blah blah) 04:35, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

Hi. It would have been nice if you had discussed the deletion of my template (bartending-stub that I created back in early 2007, and made sure got approval before it was created, before the discussion was nearly over. It almost sounds like it was deleted once already. I was not aware of that. I have left historical information about the template as well as how it is used both here and by Wikibooks editors for the Bartending Guide there (which has a fluid, back and forth relationship with Wikipedia articles). The stub sorting template is highly useful to help us spot stubs here that might be better as part of the Guide, and also to see where we have information that can be excerpted back into Wikipedia (assuming we can located appropriate third-party sources). The bartending-stub is not exactly your usual stub sorting category/template, because of that close interaction between Wikibooks and Wikipedia. The choice of deleting that template will have adverse consequences both here and there. Please consider that, and the fact that there are around 25 articles in the category now, and that it is neither about a generic occupation, nor about a particular mixed drink, but about the entire genre and (dare I say?) bartending "mystique". Can you imagine any Old West saloon without it's barkeep? Let alone, can you imagine any Old West town without a saloon? Closer to home, can you imagine any typical Friday or Saturday night in a city without its dozens of bars, taverns, pubs, and nightclubs? And what is inside all of those? Bartenders, barbacks, cocktail waitresses, back-of-house runners, hostesses, cooks, bouncers, disc jockeys, security guards, valets, beer, wine, spirits, non-alcoholic mixed drinks, cocktails, garnishes, glassware, bartending tools and equipments, point of sale systems, drink mixers, ice, and so much more. ALL of those fall within the bartending genre. To be accurate, all of the stubs related to what I just said could be rolled into bartending-stub, since it is the general topic that all the others are subsets of. It is an occupation, a location, a facility, a drink, a social phenomenon, and sometimes stain on society. I hope you understand why I feel that it is not a category that should be deleted. And in case you are wondering, I have no COI except for my editing history, because I don't work in the industry, rarely drink, and hardly ever even go to a bar. I just happened to start my time here at Wikipedia by editing the List of cocktails and then devoted the next three months of my life to improving the entire section. (Followed by about a 6-month burnout and near Wiki-retirement after that experience.) I hope that you will agree with my insights and change your !vote to keep instead of delete, or even withdraw the nomination now that you have a better understanding of its history, its use and usefulness, and the increase in number of articles listed therein. Thanks. &mdash; Will scrlt ( “Talk” ) 06:56, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Sorry about that. I came in late to the discussion, so I wasn't able to follow all the tits-for-tats and series of conversations. I wonder how/when/why it was originally deleted. I remember the original discussions for establishing it. I wonder why nobody bothered to discuss it with the people who created it in the first place before removing it. I wonder if it was a case of boldness or if there was prior discussion we all missed. If the former, than reinstatement should have been automatic (no need to discuss reinstating one that was already approved and removed without adequate opportunity for discussion), and if it was the latter, then I guess it would have been prudent to rediscuss adding it back again (though that seems silly). So, I'm sorry that I misunderstood your position. Thanks for changing your stand to Keep. :-) &mdash; Will scrlt ( “Talk” ) 07:18, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
 * No problem. :-) I always try to be gracious and rational. Not always easy to do when someone is discussing deletion of something you sweated blood into. I can see that I am going to need to mentor Nopetro on that very same topic. &mdash; Will scrlt ( “Talk” ) 07:27, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

Stub mess
Any chance you'd like to weigh in on the mess I've just uncovered and taken to SFD? Grutness...wha?  07:17, 27 May 2009 (UTC)