User talk:W E Hill/Archive 1

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July 2009
Please do not use styles that are unusual or difficult to understand in articles. There is a Manual of Style that should be followed. ''Specifically: title case should always be used, not all caps; the form "since XXXX" should be used rather than "XXXX—" per WP:OTHERDATE; an en-dash ("–") or em-dash ("—") should always be used rather than a double hyphen ("--"); Please take a moment to read over the manual of style and use it as a guide for future editing. Thank you.'' DKqwerty (talk) 01:22, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

WP:OTHERDATE does NOT disallow dates with hyphens in tables. It discusses how to best use them. Please carefully read the provisions before calling out others for not following them.

WP:MOS applies to text; it says nothing about all caps captions in tables. That said, it does not matter to me either way, so I will use title case in my next edit of the templates.

You are correct about the double hyphen, and I will use the em-dash instead. Thank you.

I see that you have had that same issue with another person who was trying to edit the templates last month. To avoid a misunderstanding, perhaps I should explain why I am making the edits: it is to make the tables more readable. When the word "since" is removed, the spacing is much improved, the tables are half the length, and they can be viewed without excessive use of page downs. This is especially important in the Obama administration set of templates which have been stacked in multiple layers. Often the length of the templates exceeds the length of the biographical article on the Obama administration official.

Furthermore, as indicated in the MOS, "Printers and screen-readers will both output only the content that is immediately visible on the page". Therefore the tables with the "since" removed are more accessible and printable as well.

I trust that you will not revert these changes unless you can justify the unnecessary length, readablity and printability issues that your changes produce. --Regards W E Hill (talk) 12:20, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

File copyright problem with File:Gardner Ackley.jpg
Thank you for uploading File:Gardner Ackley.jpg. However, it currently is missing information on its copyright status. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously. It may be deleted soon, unless we can determine the license and the source of the file. If you know this information, then you can add a copyright tag to the image description page.

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If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thanks again for your cooperation. J Milburn (talk) 22:47, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

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First of all, please do not come onto my talk page or that of any other user with that kind of attitude. Your article was deleted for lack of content; the new version is fine. --PMDrive1061 (talk) 00:25, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

PS: My opinion of the current administration is immaterial. --PMDrive1061 (talk) 00:28, 4 August 2009 (UTC)


 * ''It seems that this admin, PMDrive1061 chooses to delete many articles that are in the process of being created, without notice to the users. When the users ask why on his talk page, they often get a similar accusatory response from him.


 * In my case, I had started an article and saved it when it reached stub quality. It had 2 references and a description which showed it was a notable topic (the article was about a new federal government agency or department). When I tried to add several more sentences and references to the new article a few minutes later, all my information was lost because the article had already been deleted. When, like many other users, I wrote PMTalk to ask why I got the nasty note above.W E Hill (talk) 11:46, 30 August 2009 (UTC)

File:Al Gore wedding.jpg missing description details
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If you have any questions please see Help:Image page. Thank you. [Belinrahs|talktome⁄ ididit] 16:56, 21 October 2009 (UTC)