Wikipedia:Village pump/March 2004 archive 2

Archived 10th March 2004

Requests for help and comments
I have been very impressed with this whole site. I have yet to find an article suffering from a lack of NPOV. Of course I know they are out there, but so far so good. I was pretty skeptical about this in the beginning. (Good to be wrong once in a while.)COMPATT 21:37, 26 Feb 2004 (UTC)


 * 1) Sennheiser has created a WikiProject Space and he would like to invite Astronomy and Space Exploration enthusiasts to join his new project.
 * 2) TUF-KAT has created Wikipedia talk:Infobox for all taxobox/infobox discussion to be centralized
 * 3) Belizian is willing to take photos of plants and animals in the jungle for wikipedia, he requests your help in identifying species at Plants and animals of Belize
 * 4) For those who enjoy writing and editing: Articles requested for over a year, RC patrol
 * 5) The Association of Members' Advocates is an intra-Wikipedia voluntary association looking for new members who are interested in assisting users with the dispute resolution process.
 * 6) If you voted to remove an article to Featured article candidates but have not raised a formal objection to it, please do so now. Bmills
 * 7) Wikipedians are encouraged to make use of this public domain site, see Wikipedia talk:Porting Vectorsite articles
 * 8) Multilingual? Or need a foreign-language wikipedia article translated into English? Check out the newly created Translation
 * 9) Rholton (aka Anthropos) suggests that every Wikipedian take the time each day to find a home for one of the many orphaned articles.
 * 10) WikiProject Ethnic Groups has gone live, seeks more participants.
 * 11) Jengod would love it if you would adopt your birthday (April 7, November 22, etc) and keep it updated, so the Selected anniversaries people have more material with which to build that section of the main page.
 * 12) Optim asks for feedback at MediaWiki talk:Nonsense

How to deal with rampant POV?
-->Talk:Asymmetric warfare

Neutrality dispute blackmail
-->Wikipedia talk:Neutral point of view

Old English markings
I am reading a book, a 1972 reprint of the 1925 book "Brunel and After, The Romance of the Great Western Railway", by Patrick Stevens. Throughout the book it has the "st" and "ct" of every word joined with a half circle over the tops of the letters. I have never seen such markings before and hoped there might be someone who could tell me what they are and what they signify. A particular pronunciation? Ross Lambourn rossandlesley@yahoo.com

No, it's a typesetter's device called a ligature. See Ligature (typography) Adam 09:53, 1 Mar 2004 (UTC)

cvfd
Take a look at Candidates for vfd and vote at Wikipedia talk:Candidates for vfd. Do not reply here; your comments on Village Pump will be ignored or moved to the talk page. Optim 18:43, 1 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Merging Accounts
If it is at least frowned upon to have multiple accounts, is it possible to have them merged somewhere (given that such thing already exists for IP addresses)? -- Dissident 19:10, 1 Mar 2004 (UTC)


 * See: Changing attribution for an edit --Kokiri 10:09, 2 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Trademark symbols
-->Wikipedia talk:Copyrights/archive2

List of en.wikipedia.org pages with more than 1000 hits in February
For those curious to see which parts of the English Wikipedia see the most traffic, I've put a list of Pages from English Wikipedia with more than 1000 hits in Feb 2004 on meta, generated from the webalizer stats. -- Jeronim 02:16, 2 Mar 2004 (UTC) -->Talk:Pages from English Wikipedia with more than 1000 hits in Feb 2004

Username or Real Name? Which should I use?
Moved to User_talk:Skyfaller and Wikipedia talk:Username

links stand out
I'm reading some very intersting articles about middle and old english when I start to get a little frustrated with all the links within the article. I love being able to instantly connect with relevant articles, but the links stick out so much that they are difficult to pass them over when one is trying to actually get all the way through an article (I tend to wander to other pages). Anyway, my point is, has anyone ever thought of making the links more subtle? If Wikipedia continues to grow, and just about anything has an associated page, then every article will be covered with links! Can you imagine trying to read a whole page of blue, underlined words?

Just thought I'd add my two cents.
 * The Manual of style says that you are not supposed to link every word. You're only supposed to link important ones. So even as Wiki grows (assuming people follow the guideline) I don't think we have to worry about anything. &rarr;Raul654 05:46, Mar 2, 2004 (UTC)

There was a Link style vote on Meta in which, sadly, a large majority chose to keep the current, underlined link style (really the browser default). If you are logged in, you can disable the underlining in your preferences.&mdash;Eloquence 06:51, Mar 2, 2004 (UTC)


 * Or, if you have a browser with good Cascading Style Sheets support, you can use your own style sheet to choose what you want links to look like. -- Wapcaplet 00:45, 3 Mar 2004 (UTC)


 * Overlinking defeats its own purpose. It's done with a good heart so it's crotchety to complain. I dare not de-Wikify, though I itch to. Wetman 15:18, 7 Mar 2004 (UTC)