User talk:Adraeus/Archive008

Brand Identity

Please fell free to elaborate on your answer as I found it misleading rather than useful. Thanks. Kaeso Dio (talk) 17:04, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

This edit: [1] Kaeso Dio (talk) 17:05, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

Redirect of "Maritime piracy"

But there was a discussion, here. I started that discussion, then waited a full month before performing the merge. An active contributor to Piracy agreed with the merge. Maritime piracy is a stub, a mere definition, and a content fork compared with Piracy. Don't you agree? Hult041956 (talk) 17:35, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

Are you interested in discussing this? Every bit of Maritime piracy is now contained in Piracy. The former is a two-year old stub, getting very little attention. The latter is a fairly thorough, interesting, well written article. Having both is content forking. Shall we restore the redirect? Hult041956 (talk) 23:57, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

So, you discussed merging the article on an entirely different article without involving the editors of maritime piracy? Not good. I disagree with, and oppose, your suggestion to merge the articles. Maritime piracy might be incomplete at the moment, but there is more than enough material to make the article more comprehensive than piracy.

If you want to discuss this the right way, please start up a topic on the maritime piracy talk page and file for a request for comment. I don't spend every waking moment on Wikipedia (and I'm not inferring that you do) so my response will probably be late. Adraeus (talk) 10:36, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

Thought I might just comment here, but you cannot blame Hult for this. I agreed to the merge. On the merge banner on the Maritime Piracy page, if you click "Discuss" it takes you to the Piracy page. Since it it being merged into Piracy, that is where the discussion needs to be. I know this is probably not going to sound right but I don't know any other way to say it. It sounds like you feel that Maritime piracy is competing with the Piracy article. When in actuality they ARE the same thing. If you look, the first sentence of the Piracy article is "Piracy is a robbery committed at sea, or sometimes on the shore, by an agent without a commission from a sovereign nation." That is by definition Maritime Piracy. I saw this and just thought I would comment on it. Deflagro ^C/_T 03:04, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

Piracy should be a disambiguation page linking to at least three separate articles on maritime piracy in history, maritime piracy today, and maritime piracy in popular culture. Maritime piracy concerns more than just robbery, and more than just robbery on the sea or shore. The scope of the piracy article is limited and reads more like an article on the popular notion of piracy instead of the reality of maritime piracy, as defined and described by the United Nations and scholars. Adraeus (talk) 13:29, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

So are you suggesting we delete/split up the article into three smaller ones? I don't really see why that is necessarry...? Modern Piracy and Popular culture piracy have sections in Piracy. If they were split off they would be considered stubs. Deflagro ^C/_T 01:14, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

I don't think they would be stubs were there editors to work on those articles. I consider my previous suggestion ideal; however, I'm willing to concede to the merger if material from the published works that I listed in the Further Reading section were included and cited in the resulting article. I can help you and other editors obtain those works via private channels. Alas, I don't have enough time to be active as an editor. Adraeus (talk) 02:19, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

Cited and not just listed? I can help, but I don't have any of those books. Deflagro ^C/_T 16:01, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

They're actually articles from academic journals. I can get you PDF copies. E-mail me. Adraeus (talk) 08:45, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

I did in fact include all the Further Reading references when I did the merge. Piracy contains every keystroke of Maritime piracy. Best regards, Hult041956 (talk) 19:05, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, but he's talking about them actually being cited and not just further reading. I'm about to send you an email Adraeus. Deflagro ^C/_T 19:29, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

Understood. Thanks. Hult041956 (talk) 21:07, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

Hey I went to Special:Emailuser/Adraeus and it says you haven't set it up for users to email you through the Wiki. So what's your email? Or you can just set that up in My Preferences. I'm actually really interested in reading those articles. Thanks! Deflagro ^C/_T 19:33, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

Works now. Most of the articles in the collection I'll send you are different. I lost the others, but there are still quite a few. Adraeus (talk) 11:20, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

I sent it this morning but forgot to post here. If you don't get it, let me know. Deflagro ^C/_T 19:25, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

Paris, Texas

I was looking over your edits to the Paris, Texas article, and was wondering about your "controversies" section. I'm failing to see how these really qualify as relevant and encyclopedia worthy... 74.193.85.244 (talk) 07:50, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

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{{helpme|I don't understand lawyer talk. Plus, the image in question has no copyright and no established author.}}

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Huh? I think you have the wrong person

I think the user you should be addressing regarding those deletions is User:Otolemur crassicaudatus, not me. Please review [the revision history of the CHP article http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=California_Highway_Patrol&action=history] before going around accusing people of deletions they had nothing to do with! --Coolcaesar (talk) 06:52, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

Recent edit: Cite?

Considering your edits to A Story About A Tree, it's all good stuff, but why did you reformat the citing format? The original one is the standard set by Wikipedia:Citation templates. The removal of the double link is good though. Just curious really, I though the other ones were quite a bit easier to understand.~~MaxGrin (talk) 23:01, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply. I hope you do not mind the revert (refs only). The thing with templates is that it allows us more or less formatted representation of the contents, i.e. if the guidelines change, we'll be able to reajust them in a blink rather than manually checking every article for syntax. Your points are absolutely valid though.:)~~MaxGrin (talk) 08:29, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

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Image source problem with Image:Clan Ramsay (Plant Badge).png

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