User talk:Warofdreams/2005/01-06

Template:UKrailwaystations
I'm not thrilled by the addition of the major stations to what was quite a slim template directing users back to the list of UJ railway stations. Would you reconsider, or justify. (Why Cardiff and not Nottingham? Why none of the London stations ... users who wnt these stations could use the A-Z to find the station easily enough. For the majority of station pages on whch the template is used, the major station are probably of little interest...oh, and since it also serves as the index on each UK railway stations - X page, it does not IMO enhance each of these pages, merely pushes the payload further down the screen :. thanks --Tagishsimon (talk)


 * Thanks. Good solution. Now you just need to figure out how to integrate the London stations into the template, since their omission right now looks anomolous ... but as we both know, there is a London stations template ... have fun! --Tagishsimon (talk)

Revolt of the Earls
I had originally called it just "Revolt of the Earls" but then found other historical events that also use that terminology (these are all loose terms anyway, there is no "official" name) -- so I called it "Revolt of the Earls 1075" because 1) it would avoid disambiguation with other similar events and 2) it is clear in the title what it is referring too. It is the same problem with Siege of Jerusalem (1099) --Stbalbach 18:43, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)


 * If it's the most well known, then it's best as you have it, I was not sure. Stbalbach 20:32, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)

7th century Gospel Book fragment (British Library, Add. MS 5111)
Hi, you recently renamed 7th century Gospel Book fragment (British Library, Add. MS 5111). I have since found that the fragment in question has a name and renamed the article, again. However the listing of the article on VfD for having an "ugly" name has prompted me to write a proposal for a naming convention for articles about manuscripts without names. The proposal can be found here. Any comments you would like to make would be appreciated. Thank you. Dsmdgold 11:25, Jan 12, 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia, commas, and AE vs BE
I support avoiding US-centric spelling, etc.--I've been thinking of requesting a move of theater to theatre, and agree that both are welcome on Wikipedia, as I added to the tutorial. However, I am not aware of serial commas being an AE vs BE issue--in fact, most US newpapers omit it, following the AP style manual. I made the comma changes based on Manual_of_Style (and my belief that it is clearer). (PS FWIW, I wasn't 'targeting' any user--most of my last 250 or so edits were from my working thru a list of 500 newpages, that I retrieved late Jan 9.) Niteowlneils 19:02, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the link. I thot I had read Serial comma, but don't remember seeing the argument about how it can sometimes cause ambiguity. Sometimes it really helps (like). I can try to remember not to change it if I end up new articles you create again, but since it's in the WP MOS (and Serial comma says it's OK by Fowler's Modern English Usage, as well) I probably will mostly continue to change it, at least when I'm editing articles for other reasons. Niteowlneils 05:11, 15 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Owain
Hello, User:Owain has been adding "X place is in the traditional county of X" to loads of articles about Welsh towns such as Welshpool, I have had a word with him about it on his talk page, but he claims it is acceptable by the policy, which it certainly isn't. He seems to be ignoring me so perhaps you should have a word with him about it. G-Man 23:27, 15 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Geo-stubs
Hi Warofdreams, just a quick note that I've noticed one or two articles you've worked on turning up in Category:Geography stubs rather than in the subcategories that are better suited to them (eg Borden Island, which I moved to Category:Canada-place stubs). It's good to see you adding new articles and wikifying ones that are already there, but I'm busy trying to make the Geography stubs more usable by making sure that it's not so full as to be useless, so can you please use the subcategories where they exist? Thanks Grutness|hello? 03:07, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Eynhallow
Sorry about my use of the word "lift" didn't intend any slur on your work! Peter Shearan 07:30, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Image:Logo of the Fourth International.jpg
when copying images from another wikipedia please include the original description and an interwiki back to the original wikipedia. Plugwash 17:51, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC)

St. George's Day
St. George's Day has been proposed at UK COTW. I'd noticed you'd shown interest when it was previously nominated, and now the UK COTW page is once again seeing more interest there are high hopes that something will happen with the article. Please come along to the board and register your vote and any thoughts. Grunners 04:56, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Islands
Regarding the removal of the current non-islands from List of islands of England, is there a case for these having been historical islands? If so, then the List will need to be put back; if not, then the 'Isles' will need removing from category: English islands. Thanks, Ian Cairns 20:33, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Mary Mack
Hey cool, I didn't know about that fourth verse. Jordi·✆ 14:43, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Iraq election
Where did you get your figures on the number of seats won by each party? The Electoral Commission has not given any seat figures. If these are only your estimates, that should be stated. Adam 21:47, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)

DYK
 Did you know has been updated and a fact from the article Bolama, which you recently created, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you have another interesting fact to submit, then please suggest it at the section's talk page.

When you updated DYK talk, some of the entries under the warn these users heading ended up in the archiving heading. I'm not sure how it happened, but please try to keep an eye out so it doesn't happen again. Thanks for updating, BTW. :) Mgm|(talk) 14:04, Mar 4, 2005 (UTC) Once you've informed people, you can remove the item from that section. They were already archived when they were featured a few days ago. Mgm|(talk) 17:37, Mar 4, 2005 (UTC)

Algerian civil conflict
Good point. It doesn't really fit the archetypal definition of civil war, since only one side really had any territory under its control; but Google reveals that you're quite right about the name being commoner, so feel free to move it to Algerian Civil War. - Mustafaa 20:35, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Thank you!
Hey Warofdreams, how are you? So Sheffield, ah? You gotta love Sheffield if youre a boxing fan, like me. Nigel Benn, Paul Ingle, Ricky Hatton is from nearby Manchester, and of course, one of my all time favorites, Naseem Hamed, who lives in a castle there!

When I go to Manchester, remind me to include boxing autograph hunting among my sightseeing duties..LOL

Anyways, thanks for letting me know about Melissa McIntyre being included in did you know. It was a pleasure to learn that.

Thanks and God bless you!

Sincerely yours, "Antonio Sheffield United Martin"

Searchlight magazine
You strike me as someone who might know some stuff about UK left wing campains/org's. Could you have look at Searchlight magazine. I am trying to keep facist POV from creeping in. Hope you can help.--JK the unwise 21:05, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Bring back quickpolls
I think it's time that quickpolls be re-evaluated as a solution to short term disputes between users. What say you? -- R yan!  |  Talk  05:18, Mar 11, 2005 (UTC)

List of countries by highest point
No problem - I was just about to add some entries manually myself before I had a World Factbook brainwave :) sjorford →•← 10:11, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)

re: Rest (music)
For non-4/2 time signatues, I have never seen anythign other than a semibreve rest being used. I agree that this isn't entirely consistent, so will look it up in the AB Guide to Music Theory when I get a chance. Tompw 17:03, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Worldwide stone circles
I've found some more examples which I've linked to on Talk:Stone circle. Although I'm not sold on all of them, it looks like my archaeology books were being a bit too Eurocentric. adamsan 20:28, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Parliamentary constituencies
Hi: Thanks for compacting the TOC at List of Parliamentary constituencies in the United Kingdom. I only learnt how to do this yesterday so I am pleased to see it done already. The addition of Combined English Universities is good but I am not convinced that separating out Historic Constituencies is easy to maintain; there are already historic constituencies embedded in the list. I was planning to convert the list into a table (if I can just get my head around the table tagging) with start and end dates for each constituency. --Theo (Talk) 19:28, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for correcting my parenthetical omissions. I had been led to believe that the convention was changing to their omission in constituency names. I now see that the Project deems otherwise. I will seek out my other errors that flowed from this. --Theo (Talk) 08:33, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Bureaucrats rule OK
Warofdreams: I'm also a bureaucrat, but there must be a better term for that.
 * Don't knock bureaucracy, Wofd... It was the much-needed 19th-century successor to nepotism and other ancient tricks, both brazen and underhanded, so let's hold on to what we've got..! ;) -- Picapica 21:39, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Thank you
Hi Warofdreams, thanks for voting for me in my adminship nomination. I very much appreciate your support. Best, SlimVirgin 03:03, Mar 24, 2005 (UTC)

Meet up pictures
I've got no problem with you using the pic on your user page - thats part of the reason I GFDLed them. As for taking my photo - just edit the caption and image description page if I've got something wrong, my memory is not perfect! Thryduulf 00:41, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Recent additions
While I appreciate your efforts in updating this page, I'd like to ask you to to take the items you add from the bottom of The archive section at Template talk:Did you know to avoid a number of items being skipped (which your edit did). Happy editing! 131.211.210.16 11:13, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Anon comment by MacGyverMagic

City naming
I noticed you've been creating a few pages for West African cities (or towns). I know there is no established convention, but I wonder if it would be less ambiguous if the article names could include the country (or at the very least, province). For instance, this proposal would move Koubiala, to Koubiala, Mali. Do you think you could change it, or have you thought about it and there's some reason it makes less sense?--Dmcdevit 01:47, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Highest point in Jersey
Yes, the highest point in Jersey is Les Platons in the parish of Trinity (also location of TV transmission mast). As for the highest point in Guernsey, I'm not sure. The highest point in the bailiwick is in Sark, but the highest point in Guernsey itself is around 106m and I believe it's in Forest, but I'm not certain of the exact location. Man vyi 06:32, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Sheffield Wards
Hi! Following your comments on my Sheffield template, you planted in my head the idea that it would be better if the districts of Sheffield were covered by 28 articles on the Sheffield wards. The wards have definite boundaries and so it is much easier to say what is within a ward, whereas the districts have quite fuzzy boundaries. Also most of the district articles are still red links, and those articles that do already exist are quite short (most are stubs). I think that focussing on a ward makes it much easier to write a structured and useful article. I have started an article for the Ecclesall ward (the area of Sheffield that I know best) to illustrate the idea. I have merged the contents of the Ecclesall, Millhouses, and Ringlinglow articles into this new article and I have redirected Millhouses and Ringinglow (I also created redirects for Bent's Green and Greystones). Because you originally created the Ecclesall article I have not yet redirected it but I propose to do that unless you object. As you seem to be the most prolific contributor to the Sheffield area articles I would be interested to know what you think of the proposal to replace all of the Sheffield district articles with ward articles. Thanks, JeremyA 00:53, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * You wrote: In general, where there is a substantial article on a location which is not the name of the ward, it could be kept 
 * I agree—I have started creating ward articles, where districts have stubs I am merging the content of the stub into the relevant ward article and redirecting. If however I come across a more substantial article (like Sharrow) I will leave the existing article and just have a short paragraph and a link on the ward page. Likewise, if any of the district sections in the new ward articles get larger than a couple of paragraphs I will split them off into their own articles. Bearing this in mind I am probably going to reinstate the Millhouses article that I had redirected to Ecclesall ward. With respect to moving Ecclesall ward to Ecclesall: I am not against that, but for now I have just forwarded Ecclesall to the ward article. JeremyA 23:27, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Rests, note values
Before you make any more changes to Rest (music), I want to alert you that I'm considering redirecting Multiple measure rest to Rest (music), and all the pages for crotchet, quaver, crotchet rest, and so on to Note value. Before I do this, of course I plan to merge the relevant information, and that's what I did with Multiple measure rest; but now you've removed that info again, or at least that's what your edit summary said. I'm happy to gather opinions on this before I do it. My view is that the individual note (or rest) values can only be understood in relation to one another, and there isn't much to say individually about them; the info in the stub pages is a lot of duplication. —Wahoofive | Talk 16:16, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)


 * Is it really necessary to put that old junk about "four measure rest" into the Rest (music) article? A Google search on "four measure rest" only brings up 23 results, half of which are Wikipedia mirrors and most of the rest are in contexts meaning "four measures of rest." I've never heard this term, much less as a rest of indefinite length as the text describes. Can you provide a reference? As for the description of "long rest" (if one is needed), it should be with the other rest durations at the top (I'll make a new graphic which includes it). —Wahoofive (Talk) 16:11, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Which vs. that
Like many people, you seem to think that these two words are interchangeable. Each has a differenct use and conveys a different meaning. Please see Get it write on-line for more information. Thanks. Ground Zero 18:38, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Barnstar
Hi. I've been looking at all your articles on West Africa, and thinking you deserve a working man's barnstar. If you accept it copy and paste and put it on your page with whatever caption you want. Howabout1 18:54, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)

COTW Project
You voted for Decolonization, this week's Collaboration of the week. Please come and help it become a featured-standard article. Tony Jin | (talk) 02:22, Apr 27, 2005 (UTC)

Lake Volta's size
If Lake Volta isn't the largest reservoir on earth, which lake is? You changed this on its page, but Geography of Ghana still thinks that it's the largest. --Joy &#91;shallot&#93;   09:43, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Hello
I think we may have meet in the real (i.e. non-wiki) world. In fact I'm prety sure. Did you go to sheffield Uni? If u are who I belive you to be then, nice to bumb into you on wikipedia, its a small world (especialy in internet-vill). Hope your life is treating you well.--JK the unwise 18:58, 4 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Don't you recognise my picture? (I am the one on the right) Joseph Kisolo-Ssonko Aka --JK the unwise 09:44, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Yea def' be up in Soctland. F**K the G8. PEACE. --JK the unwise 17:06, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Harris
Hi. I'm writing this to you as you seem to have made a lot of edits to this article. Apologies if what I have to say doesn't interest you. I have an issue with this article, and a similar problem with Benbecula, and I'm interested in your view. User:GordonMireson seems to have appeared for one day in 2004 and added a few Scottish island flags. Try as I might, I can't actually find these flags on the External Link page at flags of the world, and I believe the author of the webpage goes on to claim that these islands don't actually have flags. I left a similar comment/question on the Benbecula talk page a while back, but no one addressed it. What thinkest thou? mat_x 20:06, 4 May 2005 (UTC)

Sheffield United F.C
If Sheffield United weren't the first team to be known as "United", who was? I've often heard that Sheffield were the first United and would love to know why I am wrong! Warofdreams 18:15, 9 May 2005 (UTC)
 * I don't know if it's the oldest but there certainly was a Plymouth United in existence in 1888 (and if my memory serves me right was formed before 1886), one year before Sheffield United F.C. were formed. Bornintheguz 18:32, 9 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Interesting, and the SUFC article should make this clear, but the claim refers to Sheffield United Cricket Club, its predecessor, who took their name in 1854 (and therefore it is the first sports club to be known as "United", not the first football team) - although earlier examples are very welcome! Warofdreams 18:36, 9 May 2005 (UTC)
 * If you notice, I only removed the reference to first football club and left the reference to first sports club. Bornintheguz 18:45, 9 May 2005 (UTC)

Schools
Please join the discussion at Schools - this is an effort to reach consensus (or at least, compromise) through discussion, rather than voting. And it seems to be succeeding. Radiant_* 14:20, May 19, 2005 (UTC)

Emily Davidson hiding in Commons cupboard
Fascinating story. Do you have any references? Not doubting you, would just like to read more. Flapdragon 17:37, 25 May 2005 (UTC)

CWP
User User:TJive has begun aggressive edits to the Communist Workers Party and Orangeburg Massacre pages. I noticed you initiated the CWP page, so thought you might be interested in checking for balance. I'm currently reading some of the relevant reference works, but it will be a few days before I can make siginificant contributions. DJ Silverfish 19:28, 26 May 2005 (UTC)

Category:2000 by month
I see that you've created Category:2000 by month. A similar category for 2001 was created by User:Docu and deleted recently. I believe this way of handling month articles makes the category system harder to use and adds no real advantage over the standard way of categorizing months in the first (*) section of the year category (see, for example, Category:2001). I plan to recategorize the articles in Category:2000 by month and put it up for deletion. - dcljr (talk) 07:01, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * I've depopulated Category:2000 by month and nominated it for deletion. Thanks for the quick response. - dcljr (talk) 19:39, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Sorry to bug you about this again, but my nomination of the category for deletion seems to have slipped through unnoticed so far. Could you please go vote for its deletion so it can get at least one vote? Otherwise, it probably won't get deleted. - dcljr (talk) 07:12, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Nevermind. The category has been deleted, even with no votes beyond my original nomination! - dcljr (talk) 03:36, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Re: Transfer to Wiktionary
If I'm snippy, it's because I do all the transwikis to Wiktionary, so I come across opposition a lot. But it's unfounded. There should be no stigma attached to transwikification. I transwikied Rape and Lathe because I looked at Wiktionary and saw they weren't there. So, now that I've transwikied them, what happened to the articles? Nothing. They're not gone, they're not merged and redirected, infact, the only difference is that I took the transwiki tag off. Perhaps if you're really worried about what happens to articles after transwiki, you should come to the Transwiki log and help me resolve the backlog according to the instructins given there. --Dmcdevit 22:55, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Liberian True Whig Party
A contribution of yours to this article:

It presided over a society where only settlers and their descendants were citizens able to vote, and so represented them, often working in tandem with the Masonic Order. The party endorsed systems of forced labour and even sold human labour to other colonial powers. Despite this, the west saw them as a stabilising, unthreatening force and so invested heavily in the nation under William Tubman's leadership.

Is it really the case that the True Whig party -- created in 1878 -- "sold human labour to other colonial powers"? I was under the impression that the British navy had shut down the transatlantic slave trade decades earlier. Who were they selling to? French colonialists in Côte D'Ivoire? Jobius 08:49, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Papa Stronsay
I know nothing about the subject, but I made a few "cleanup" changes (see history). I hope that talamus is a good artcle to send someone to who wants to know about burnt mounds. I also turned a couple if WK links into external links because there is no WK aricle.

My intent was only to make the article more useful to the average reader. Please feel free to make changes as appropriate. --KSnortum 23:43, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)

red party
most other edits by ip were, just revert it.--Fenice 30 June 2005 16:08 (UTC)

Category:UK Wikipedians
Hi, just to let you know that the list of UK participants at the UK notice board was getting rather long, so I have replaced it with the above category which I have added to your user page. -- Francs2000 | Talk 30 June 2005 21:20 (UTC)