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Editor using IPs 76.121.180.74 and 24.17.63.79

User:Yworo has asked the editor using IPs 76.121.180.74 and 24.17.63.79 not to post on this talk page; please have the courtesy to respect this and use the article talk pages instead. Like all users, Yworo has the right to remove any material from this page and will, I assume, continue to do so. Material will be more visible and permanent on article talk pages where it cannot be refactored in this way. Kim Dent-Brown (Talk) 00:01, 20 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Thaksinocracy

I have removed the prod tag you placed on Thaksinocracy, as per policy an article that has ever been discussed at AfD is ineligible for deletion via prod. I did this only to comply with policy; do not interpret this action as an endorsement for keeping this article. If you still wish to pursue deletion, please open another AfD. —KuyaBriBriTalk 03:05, 26 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Caps on HD

Please see WP:HD#How do I work out what the problem is re Capitalization?. Thanks,  Chzz  ►  10:13, 26 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 01 August 2011

"CYBER" vs "Cyber"

Please don't stuff around with capitalization on CDC CYBER related pages. The correct spelling in this context is all capitals "CYBER" not "Cyber". The CDC CYBER was a mainframe computer manufactured by Control Data Corporation between about 1970 to 1992. The company always used the word CYBER all capitalized. Thanks. Tom. Cdccyber (talk) 12:49, 5 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

We don't use stupid capitalization even when the company does. Only acronyms get all caps. Thus is it NOS and NOS/BE, which are acronyms, but Cyber and Kronos, Fortran, Lisp, because they are not acronyms. See WP:ALLCAPS for details. Yworo (talk) 14:56, 5 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
FORTRAN is short for FORmula TRANslator.
LISP is short for LISt Processing.
Cdccyber (talk) 14:21, 6 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Yup, but those are not acronyms, and neither is cased like that anymore. The only reason most of these works were written in all-caps was that the characters sets of the machines at the time did not include lower-case. We don't copy that. Yworo (talk) 14:24, 6 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Indigenous religions

Thanks for doing something with that paragraph dealing with Animist faiths in the Spiritualist article. It didn't fit in the article but I was not sure what to do with it. Tom Butler (talk) 17:36, 5 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Suggestion for WikiProject United States to support WikiProject New Mexico

It was recently suggested that WikiProject New Mexico, to which you are a member, may be inactive or semi-active and it might be beneficial to include it in the list of projects supported by WikiProject United States. After reviewing the project it appears that there haven't been much active discussion on the talk page in some time and the only content updates appear to be simple maintenance so being supported by a larger project might be beneficial. I have begun a discussion on the projects talk page to see how the members of the project feel about this suggestion. Another user has added the project to the WPUS template and I added it to the list of supported projects in the WPUS main project page but before I take any further action I wanted to contact each of the active members for their input. --Kumioko (talk) 15:03, 8 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 08 August 2011

SubGenius edits

As stated on my talk page, I do have reason to believe sock puppetry is involved with the blocked username in question. Because the majority of this particular drama is taking on Facebook and outside of Wikipedia, I wouldn't expect Wikipedia's admins to have first-hand knowledge of this. The username in question was used to intentionally slander the person whose name it was opened under, "Jessica Darling." I sent a message last week to Wikipedia's admins asking for the IP address of the username, but my request was rebuffed; they feel that the person using the name of "Jessica Darling" should contact them directly instead. -- Modemac (talk) 18:20, 9 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Max Morath

Thank you for your help and the barnstar. Much appreciated. - Derek R Bullamore (talk) 21:00, 9 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Michael Walker (knifemaker)

The subject, or a friend, may add or correct their own birthday, and correct other information that is not controversial, as was done at Michael Walker (knifemaker), see Wikipedia:Autobiography#Problems_in_an_article_about_you. User:Fred Bauder Talk 00:56, 10 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Nobody has made a claim to be either the subject or their friend. Some new user simply changed the birthdate without explanation. As we didn't have a source, and the new user didn't provide a source, why should we even include the birthdate, which can be used for identity theft in any case? Yworo (talk) 01:43, 10 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
The editor has claimed, off wiki, that he is a friend who has attended the subject's birthday parties. User:Fred Bauder Talk 03:57, 10 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Don't we subject that sort of thing to verification? OTRS? Something? Yworo (talk) 03:58, 10 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Images and galleries

Hi

While I appreciate the points you have made, do you know a way to get around the gallery problem of alt= and alt text?

If you can, then having changed them into galleries will be ok, if not then there is still going to be a problem. Chaosdruid (talk) 19:53, 11 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Ugh, I didn't notice any "alt=" parameters so didn't think about that. I know featured articles are supposed to have those though so I understand we can't go in a direction that prevents it. I had to switch from my MacBook Pro to an old moldy Windows machine, and now can't even load or edit the due to the number of images!! Feel free to revert my work as I can't really collaborate now. If you could make sure none of the tables exceeds 700px in width (I think that's the width allowed for panoramic images) then the problem would be greatly reduced. Yworo (talk) 20:08, 11 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
It's not just FA unfortunately, the GA criteria require MoS image compliance (well, technically all articles should comply to MoS lol), at GA the alt= parameter should be present but does not need the alt text, as per MoS (this stops visually impaired readers from having to listen to the file name when the alt= is not present); at FA the alt= should have the alt text included as well.
I was hoping you knew a way around it lol, never mind. I had a similar problem on a GA I nominated. The images were in a drop down and neither any of the wikitable versions I tried to change it to nor the {{hidden begin I had used originally would allow the alt= or the alt text to be placed without displaying it ... most annoying. Ah well, if I find a solution I will let you know :¬) Chaosdruid (talk) 21:08, 11 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]


The links I added on the Chee Soo page are directly relevant to the article, the publisher is non-profit making and what is more they have an extensive online mediawiki with almost all of the author's published works on there to read free of charge. --Chuangzu (talk) 19:17, 13 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Appreciate the Great Editing Job Yet a Little More Patience With a Newbie Would Have Been Nice

I appreciate your fair and thorough review of a recent article. However, expressing a little more patience, as defined in the Wikipedia civility guidelines, toward a newbie would have been even more appreciated. Wikipedia is a nightmare to edit from a technical standpoint, and the 4000 policies in place range from less-than-well-written to completely inscrutable, in my experience. To wit, I believe you sent me an automated message that consisted of three jargon-ridden paragraphs advising me to sign my posts with four tildes.

Yes, I realize that Wikipedia editors are busy yet many are very patient, offer specific instructions or references on instructions for fixing problems like link rot, and therefore make others want to continue using Wikipedia. By contrast, the feedback of an impatient editor making suggestions we don't know how to comply with makes most of us just want to tell Chrome to ignore all Wikipedia entries in search engine results.

Thanks again for your help. Jlchan29 (talk) 20:23, 13 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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