User talk:Smjg/Archive 1

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List of homonyms
Hi Stewart: Your suggestions have been most helpful on the List of redundant expressions page. I've begun a List of heteronyms you might wish to have a look at. Same problem there (moreso, since it entails pronunciation) with the categories--I don't wish to be U.S.-centric, but without a U.K. collaborator, adding to a "common" list implies I know it's common, putting it on a U.S. list implies others don't use it, etc., etc. Collaboration is the only way to get the list right.

This is much less of a problem on the redundancies list, since that's a logical issue and most everything which is redundant in the U.S. will be so in the U.K., though perhaps less common here or there. The distinctions for heteronyms should be sharper, though, given the fact that you guys "talk funny." :-)

The other problem for this page will be a simple, uniform pronunciation guide. Can't find one on Wikipedia. Know of one? --NathanHawking 22:52, 2004 Oct 29 (UTC)

VfD: List of songs with brackets in their titles
I noticed you've contributed to pages of lists of songs in the past. This page is now on Votes for Deletion and some deletionists would like to set a precedent for these kind of pages. Would you consider taking part in the vote? Thanks. Dmn[[European Union| / &#1332;&#1396;&#1398; ]] 13:21, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)

America, Cambridgeshire
I was following this entry in Wikipedia::Deletion log

16:50, 3 Dec 2004 Jimfbleak deleted America, Cambridgeshire? (content was: 'db|further research shows Mgekelly was right -- this doesn't exist}}For other places named America, see America.America is a town ...')

Susvolans (pigs can fly) 17:10, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Discussion continuing on Talk:List of interesting or unusual place names

Article Licensing
Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:
 * Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
 * Multi-Licensing Guide
 * Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the " " template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:


 * Option 1
 * I agree to multi-license all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

OR
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 * I agree to multi-license all my contributions to any U.S. state, county, or city article as described below:

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace " " with "  ". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

Template:Stub Category
Please do not remove the top-level category. There is no way to navigate or return back to the main category.


 * Sorry - my braino. See Template talk:Stub Category for what I meant to do. -- Smjg 18:53, 2 Jan 2005 (UTC)

I just realized something. You can simply use and then change it... -- AllyUnion (talk) 17:13, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)

List of songs whose title does not appear in the lyrics
Hey Smjg, just a response to your comment on my talk page. I believe you are referring to my edit here:. I found that a lot of the entries on the page were not compliant with the criteria at the top of the page. For one thing a lot of the songs had a type of song in the title, such as "Nocturne", "Rockafeller Skank", etc. The other rules that I thought were being stretched were the "foreign language", "acronym" and "most parts" rule. For example, I removed "Tomorrow & Tonight", which has both of the words "Tomorrow" and "Tonight", but the phrase "Tomorrow and Tonight" does not appear verbatim; in the past (on the talk page), disputes of this nature have ended with the song being removed; the same for "Girls and Boys", "Black Cat", "Semi-charmed life". If you have questions about any other individual songs, you should probably post them on the Talk page of the article itself. Cheers. --DropDeadGorgias (talk) 14:18, Apr 4, 2005 (UTC)


 * OK, discussion continued there. -- Smjg 10:23, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Boob Tube

 * I restored the clean-up notice.
 * As someone living in Britain, you certainly know better than I whether boob tube is used as slang or not. But are they described as such in catalogues and in stores?


 * The short answer is yes. The slightly longer answer is that it's one of a handful of names for the same or similar garment. -- Smjg 10:33, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)


 * In the United States, at least, boob is always going to be slang, if not vulgar. -Acjelen 17:56, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Vandalism on my talk page
Thanks for the reversion. -- Necrothesp 11:03, 19 May 2005 (UTC)

fwss
I'm very sorry if this is obvious but what does fwss mean? You used it in an edit summary. --Celestianpower talk 14:26, 27 July 2005 (UTC)


 * Finish what someone started. I've found myself using it quite a bit when editing date pages and the like.... -- Smjg 14:48, 27 July 2005 (UTC)

WikiProject Years Survey
Hi. To get everybody thinking, I've created a survey about Year pages here. I'm telling all the participants of WikiProject Years and everyone else who has shown an interest or participated in the discussion. If you could check it out it would be appreciated, and tell anyone you think may be interested.Trevor macinnis 03:09, 28 July 2005 (UTC)

Big Brother UK series 6
I heard it on BBC Radio 1 and I'm sure the Sunday Mirror mentioned her dismissal. If I remember correctly, they dismissed her because she deminished faith the public have in nurses, which instantly strikes you off the list. A quick Google search brings up a few lists, this being first on the list. Scratch all that, I just found the Sunday Mirror article link too. The Nursing and Midwifery Council has received complaints about her from other nurses and a spokesman said: "If a nurse acts in a way that undermines public confidence or fails to uphold the good reputation of nursing they can be struck from the register. - That's from July 10. I knew I'd heard it somewhere! ;) — Cua HL   11:17, 11 August 2005 (UTC)

Hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian
What have you against this word, such that you've felt obliged to delete it from at least two pages?


 * List of autological words - Hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian has no more of a claim to being a word than "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious". Both return three hits in OneLook.  All of the latter give it as "a nonsense word".  Show me a dictionary that states "hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian" is a nonsense word.  Moreover, there are probably hundreds of "real" words with even fewer OneLook hits.
 * I'd have real trouble doing so, as it doesn't even make it into any of the dictionaries I've got.
 * Longest word in English - I can't for the life of me see why you think it doesn't belong here. The whole point of that page is to give examples of very long words, whether real or not.  If "hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian" doesn't belong here, then neither does "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious", "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz" or "Lip­smackin­thirst­quenchin­acetastin­motivatin­good­buzzin­cool­talkin­high­walkin­fast­livin­ever­givin­cool­fizzin".
 * The others are nonce words that have become nationally or internationally well-known, while "hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian" hasn't. --Carnildo 19:43, 15 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Excuse me, but what is your source of statistics on the relative well-knownness of words? For example, out of the current "Other long words" section, I for one had only heard of "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" and "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz" before I discovered this page, and only the first of these from any source other than Wikipedia.  Moreover, "hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian" is by far the most topical of all words to any resource or discussion on hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian words.  Is this not sufficient reason to include it? -- Smjg 11:26, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
 * The Pepsi word was used in a national television campaign. "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" was a significant part of a very successful movie.  "Abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz" is from a well-known children's show.  "Sesquipedalian" is a perfectly good, attested word for describing long words.  There's no need for a little-known joke word. --Carnildo 18:42, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

Jewish calendar
I've added something that I hope answers your question. Feel free to contact me if it doesn't. RachelBrown 17:43, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

VFD: Bracketed songs
Just a quick message to let you know that a page that you have voted to keep in the past List of songs with brackets in their titles, is up for deletion again here :( David 5000 18:19, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

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I am not a bot
I really do all that work myself. 71.112.4.204 15:56, 12 November 2005 (UTC)Ksnow

middlemarket
But you haven't explained what needs to be cleaned up. Tags left without a reason can't stay. Lotsofissues 10:36, 2 December 2005 (UTC)