User talk:Zagubov

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Albania/Demographics
Hi,

Your grammatical fixes on the Demographics section of Albania are good, grammar-wise. Unfortunately, they may go for naught, because some of us (well, two of us, anyway) have discussed whether that bit of text should be in the article in the first place (our opinion: no -- there is an article about Albanians, and it would be fine there). I invite you to join in the discussion! --Rschmertz 04:57, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

You've made a good point there and I've noted it on the discussion page. I'm not sure exactly how much needs removing to do it myself, but I'd support the change.Zagubov 10:23, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

Compact Cassette article
Hi,

I am contributing/discussing actively to the Compact Cassette article, and I was surprised to see some of mine and others' talk page entries disappear. The edit history traced this back to you. Unlike the main article itself, it's not considered good etiquette to delete other peoples' discussions, even if their points are moot or trivial (unless you are a moderator and had to remove offending material) else it seems like censorship or a personal attack. Just wondering... EpiVictor 10:47, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

A WikiProject you may be interested in...
Hi there! I notice you're from Surrey - please take a look at WikiProject Surrey, which I started earlier this afternoon. Cheers.--Vox Humana 8&#39; 21:37, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Roehampton
No problem, but the fact that suername that performed the edit, and the edit summary, say that a (ro)bot performed the edit should have made you think. David Underdown 08:13, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

New Malden
Thank you for your edits on the above page, however I disagree with the reasoning’s for this edit and have undone them :


 * His religion conversion and political beliefs go to his notability,
 * The line is not too long, only a little longer than some others,
 * The edit was not a minor one.

This bring me on to another point, I think you may not understand what a minor edit is. To help you may want to take a look at WP:MINOR, taken from the page :
 * Checking the minor edit box signifies that the current and previous versions differ only superficially (typographical corrections, etc.), in a way that no editor would be expected to regard as disputable.
 * Any edit that changes the meaning of an article is not a minor edit, even if the edit concerns a single word, and it is improper to mark such an edit as minor.

I also think that edits you un-did here and here were not vandalism, again have a look at WP:VAN: "For example, adding a controversial personal opinion to an article once is not vandalism". Please do not misunderstand this one, as I, like you, would have undone the edits, just not marked them as minor and with the edit summary of something along "peacock term and personal opinion". Codf1977 (talk) 07:24, 23 December 2009 (UTC)


 * I can accept the "minor" point. As regards the actual editing - the first two notable residents were airmen which was a core point of their winning awards, but we leave that in the linked articles for people to follow up. Similarly Anthony Caro's religious work may indicate a core spiritual issue (for all I know) but we don't follow that up in this list. We either pare this to the minimum or put in more detail for everyone, but we should be internally consistent.
 * As regards the Village Voice point, I'm glad we can agree that doesn't belong.Zagubov (talk) 11:24, 23 December 2009 (UTC)
 * I agree it needs to be consistent. I would see that as in between the two extremes, keeping the text to a single line - about 100-120 char. Codf1977 (talk) 14:06, 23 December 2009 (UTC)

re: Universities
Well neither of these institutions claims to be a university, which to me suggests they are not. There seems to be a distinction between "degree awarding powers" and "university status", though I am less clear about what this distinction actually is, other than naming rights. The RSAMD website says that "in session 1993/94, the Academy became the only UK Conservatoire to be awarded its own degree awarding powers by the Privy Council". The SAC website does not appear to include a history, but it does refer to "the college" throughout. UHI Millennium Institute also appears to fall into this bracket. Its website says "Since 1 August 2008 UHI has been able to award its own taught degrees, thanks to the achievement of taught degree awarding powers (tDAP), a major step in the path towards gaining full university status." Perhaps there could be another section of the List of universities in Scotland, listing institutions which award their own degrees, but are not called universities? Regards, Jonathan Oldenbuck (talk) 10:37, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi
Are you watching this as well? I'm not convinced we should have two articles, because this article is probably edited more about the release than the release article. Dougweller (talk) 13:56, 31 July 2010 (UTC)

Moving article names
I am by no means an expert on this, but if you want to change the name of an article, you need to select move at the top of the screen (Its behind the black down pointing icon if you use the new features) then type in the new name of the article etc. HOWEVER if the new article name already exists (as a redirect for example to the main article) then you have to request the move at Requested moves. Bleaney (talk) 21:18, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedian in Residence at the National Library of Scotland
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