User talk:Skomorokh

Welcome back.

Hey, nice to see you again. 20:39, September 14, 2008 Zazaban

Thanks, hopefully I'll be able to get back to contributing significantly soon. Mahalo, Skomorokh 18:02, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

Restorations

I would like to have all revisions of the following articles (deleted on notability grounds) restored, then redirected to parent articles so that relevant content from the now deleted articles can be used in other articles without violating GDFL.

• the defenestrator (or defenestrator) restored and redirected to A-Space.
• Northeast Anarchist Network to Anarchism in the United States
• Anarchist Communist Union of Seattle to Northwest Anarchist Federation
• Co-ed Revolutionary Anarchist Liberation Union to Anarchism in Poland
• Requiem (band) to CrimethInc.

I have no intention of recreating any of these redlinks as stand-alone articles (unless references supporting notability are forthcoming) and the content is not problematic on BLP/spam/POV/copyvio etc grounds, so I think restoring and redirection should not be a problem. the skomorokh 13:38, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Category:Anarchism templates

Thanks for your friendly message. I'm applying some standards I've picked up over the past year or so:

• Templates that are the "core" template or templates for a category's topic are given the "[space]" or "[space]template-name" index (in this case {{Anarchism sidebar}} and Anarchism footer, if/when it's renamed Anarchism -- see below);

• If the category is meant to carry navbox templates but there are one or two templates of another type (i.e. not enough to merit their own subcategory) then they're given the "[space]" index (with no trailing template-name);

• μ = micro => stub (a "micro"-sized article, I guess);

• τ = tau => template;

• ω = omega, but looks like a "w", so indicates WikiProject/Task force/possibly Portal-related (I think);

• There may be other Greek letters in use like the above, but if so, it's very infrequent and I can't recall any.

• More recently, navbox / sidebar / other versions of the same or similar templates seem to be named "X" / "X sidebar" / "X other" (respectively) rather than "X footer" / "X" / various, so I renamed "Anarchism" to "Anarchism sidebar" and, once the transclusions have been updated, intended to request that "Anarchism footer" is renamed "Anarchism". (Do you think this is okay?)

Sardanaphalus (talk) 16:20, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Fascinating, I look forward to implementing this schema, thanks for the explanation. I don't think anyone would object strongly to naming the current {{Anarchism footer}} "Anarchism", once every existing transclusion is updated; I suggest you make a proposal at Template talk:Anarchism sidebar, a reasonably well-watched page, and I will notify the rest of the Anarchism taskforce. Sincerely, the skomorokh 16:29, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

• Thanks for your positive response. I'm about to try completing the update and will then post a note at Template talk:Anarchism sidebar. Sardanaphalus (talk) 13:20, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Looking forward to it. Regards, the skomorokh 13:23, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Cheers!

I have been away, and am now back (sorta), and you were away, and are now back (sorta). So, good to see you! Cheers! ---RepublicanJacobite_{The'FortyFive'} 17:05, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

The sentiment is mutual, muchacho. Let me know when you need a posse to take on some oofensively bad articles. the skomorokh 12:34, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Shockwave

Hi. Re the (unreliable source) tag at William Gibson. Perhaps one (or more) of these would be preferable?

• Roger Clarke's 'Future Trace on Dataveillance'
• Cyberspace—Land of Cyber Cowboys and Women Outlaws - UB Reporter
• Edging Into the Future: Science ... - Google Book Search

(Just found with a basic google, lots more in scholar/books: Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

:) -- Quiddity (talk) 18:13, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Bleargh...I have little appetite for adjudicating competing claims of who did what when, especially when they don't address each other or the subject of the article (i.e. Gibson) itself. I'll leave the tag up because the existing source is unsatisfactory, but by all means have a go at using one of the other ones if you think it beneficial. Thanks for the suggestion, and apologies for my jaded apathy, the skomorokh 12:34, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Heh, no problem. This place gets to me sometimes too.

I've replaced the cite with 1 and 3 from above, partially just to eliminate the last of the cleanup-needed tags. Ttfn. -- Quiddity (talk) 18:11, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Infoshop

Hello Skomorokh. I am the one who edited the Infoshop page to give a more thorough description of the World Bank Infoshop in Washington DC. I disagree with your assertion that the content I posted violated the NPOV policy. Everything I put up there is also on the website for the WB Infoshop, and is easily verifiable. When I posted the new content I made it a point not to interfere with anything other than the section already dedicated to the WB Infoshop. This revised section does not take anything away from the article, and gives a more comprehensive overview of the WB operation,which I think would be of use to anyone researching the term "infoshop". I plan to repost the same content, and kindly ask that you leave it alone. Pushpin (talk) 20:39, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Hello Pushpin, please accept my apologies for the overly accusatory welcome. You overrode perfectly good, relevant content (including replacing an image which depicted the subject of the article - anarchist social centres - with one that did not) without an explanation in your edit summaries; furthermore you marked your edits as minor, meaning an uncontroversial change (usually to grammar or coding or suchlike). This, along with the fact that all your edits were on the same topic made me suspicious of your actions. I can see now that you mean well.

The question of verifiability is separate from that of neutrality - as you say, the content you posted is on the World Bank website...which is exactly why its neutrality is suspect. We should expect organisations to portray themselves in a positive light rather than a neutral one. In any case, the real issue here is that the information you added does not tell the reader anything about the subject of the article - anarchist social centres. Wikipedia articles have one and only one subject; if multiple notable subjects exists with the same name, separate articles are maintained, linked to from a disambiguation page. For example, see Swerve (disambiguation); we should not expect to see a discussion of Swerve from the Transformers in the article about the LGBT magazine. If you think the WB infoshop is notable, by all means go ahead and create the World Bank Infoshop article, and we can link to it from the Infoshop article, but please do not persist in adding content irrelevant

to anarchist social centres to that article. Sincerely, the skomorokh 12:34, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Wow!

My watchlist just got a whole lot prettier. Nice work -- Keeper ǀ 76 15:20, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

Refs still need to be sorted, give me a minute. the skomorokh 15:31, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

Ok, finished the skeleton of a decent article. Seeing as no-one has !voted to delete at AfD, it is entirely up to you as nominator whether or not the discussion needs to continue. Regards, the skomorokh 16:17, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

I am an anarchist philosophical searching for ...

Please help me to read more on these topics and perhaps send me a newletter ar letter of some local minds loke mine, who seem to be searching for more enlightenment on this subject. My email address is Pennyds1@aol.com Will someoe please send me literaure and/or a list of local itineraries concrning my search for knowledge? I am a 38 yo person, am tired of the injustices our country seems to give a shit less about. Freedom is a thing of he past anymore.