User talk:Techtonic

7 of 9 pic
They're pretty darn near the same. I'd say one in the infobox and the other further down the page, say on the left... Zue Jay (talk)  04:06, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
 * okay, how bout the right? Zue Jay (talk)  04:08, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Seven of Nine
When I was on the Seven of Nine page, I saw no pictures. So I thought someone had tamped with the page, and then tried to get them back. What I fond was your pictures. You can change them, I don’t want to start an edit war either. Also, I did not know of the conversation you had with Zuejay. 68.9.40.152 16:18, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:7of9_cargobay_mug.png
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 * Thanks for the messages about the 7 of 9 pic, and for adding the fair use rationale to the image page. I was on an extended Wikiabsence (and lost my password) so I didn't get your messages right away. Please excuse my tardiness, and thank you for taking care of the problems. As for the pic being abandoned, it seems it's back on the Seven of Nine page. Leave me a message if you need anything else. -- Techtonic (talk) 18:00, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

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Ecology of minnesota
Hi, Techtonic! I reverted the speedy request you made on Ecology of minnesota because it's a valid one. There shouldn't be any links to it, but it's definitely something someone would type. Let me know if you still think it should be deleted. -- SatyrTN (talk / contribs) 05:43, 28 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Hi SatyrTN! Thanks for responding to my speedy delete request. I put in the change thinking that Minnesota was the only region with a proper "Ecology of ..." title and another with a lowercased proper name. I now see that there's also Ecology of africa, Ecology of banksia and Ecology of california. However, none of these redirects actually have pages that link to them. That is to say, in the year that Ecology of minnesota and the others have been in existence (they were created in November 2007 by a bot), no one has mistakenly lowercased Minnesota in a link. Is it Wikipedia policy to predict people's mistakes and make extra redirects to account for them? (I am asking genuinely, not to provoke of argument.) Where is the line drawn? It seems this would create a lot of unnecessary articles (and would crowd the predictive search box, as it did for me). Let me know your thoughts. -- Techtonic (talk) 06:22, 28 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Hi, Techtonic! I'm moving your reply here so we can keep the discussion all-in-one-place.  I've watched your page and will see your responses here.
 * The "guideline" about creating these kinds of capitalization redirects is pretty sparse, but you can see it at Naming conventions (capitalisation)
 * That being said, the situation you describe is based on a couple assumptions, and is probably not one that was originally thought of.
 * First, these can't really be called "unnecessary articles", though they are pages that one wouldn't find in a standard encyclopedia. Since they're created for a reason, though, they aren't "unnecessary".  And since they're only redirects, they're not really articles.
 * But that doesn't address the meat of the topic. The predictive search is extremely new - within the past six months, I think.  Redirects, and the thought process behind when to create them, etc, were all created *much* longer ago.  So a redirect showing up in the predictive search wasn't thought of.  Unintended side effects are weird, eh?
 * My suggestion would be to pop over to the Village pump (technical) and see if there's a way to "hide" some redirects (like Ecology of minnesota while not hiding useful redirects (like Sovran Bank). Perhaps suggest over there that any redirects in the Category:Redirects from other capitalisations needs to not be included in the predictive search function.
 * Good catch, and hope I've helped! Happy editing :) -- SatyrTN (talk / contribs) 14:00, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

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I have sent you a note about a page you started
Hi Techtonic. Thank you for your work on Nicholas Lowry. Another editor, JSFarman, has reviewed it as part of new pages patrol and left the following comment:

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