User talk:Saga City/Archive 2010-2011

Unreferenced BLPs

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Unreferenced articles

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Hastings (name)

Hi Saga City, I noticed your change from Hastings (surname) to Hastings (name) and I have but one quibble with it. You dropped the brief name derivation paragraph at the top which, I believe, should be reinstated. In my 20 plus years of historical and genealogical research related to the name, I have yet to find an instance of use that didn't suggest a connection to the surname. For instance, in my own family, I have close cousins where this is both a surname and a middlename. Furthermore, I believe that users of this page will want and expect some sort of explanation as to how the name evolved. I think the one you removed was a bit weak but better than nothing. Thanks and look forward to your reply. SBmeier (talk) 14:34, 12 March 2010 (UTC)SBmeier

(answer is on SBmeier's talk page)

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Ugborough

Why? Jolly Ω Janner 22:37, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

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Cemmaes Road

Too many roads indeed, cut and paste error on my part. Good catch. Britmax (talk) 18:08, 26 September 2010 (UTC)

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This is what's known as a Soft redirect so this speedy deletion criteria does not apply. S a g a C i t y (talk) 13:42, 5 November 2010 (UTC)

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This is what's known as a Soft redirect so this speedy deletion criteria does not apply. S a g a C i t y (talk) 13:42, 5 November 2010 (UTC)

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False positive!

Why I reverted Derry Urban Area

It has been an ongoing thing in the Derry area, and is well documented in local media that Derry dwellers "border-hop" to escape Rates (NI council tax) and avail of education etc. Some quick examples are [1], [2] and here were the person in question states "I consider Derry my local town," . A further reason why most shops in Derry accept Euro alongside the Pound. Thought I would just provdie this explanation for my revert. Cheers --NorthernCounties (talk) 17:53, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

Nomination of A535 road for deletion

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Sheppey Light Railway

Re this edit, was that a mistake? Mjroots (talk) 11:36, 22 December 2010 (UTC)

Yes! Sick mouse syndrome to blame - now corrected. Best Wishes S a g a C i t y (talk) 11:42, 22 December 2010 (UTC)

kml

Just saw your edit to Category:Villages in Islay. What a fun little template - many thanks. Ben MacDui 16:36, 29 December 2010 (UTC)

Makaravilakku

Hi there. I noticed this edit which I don't understand, but I did not revert it since there might be something I'm missing so I thought I'll ask. First, {{unreferenced stub}} was merged with {{unreferenced}} per Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2010 February 5#Template:Unreferenced stub. Is there a reason to reintroduce it? Second, regarding the "auto" parameter, per documentation at {{unreferenced}} "This parameter should be removed after an editor has checked that the tag hasn't been placed in error", so why restore it? Best regards. --Muhandes (talk) 08:10, 7 January 2011 (UTC)

I reverted your edit for the time being. --Muhandes (talk) 18:12, 8 January 2011 (UTC)

Move of Johnny Lingo

I noticed you moved said page, and I've put some notes on the talk page. Could you provide your opinion as to the move? Cheers, ~Araignee (talk • contribs) 19:35, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

No problem with it being moved back - but other editors will have different views. S a g a C i t y (talk) 19:38, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

Place name disambiguation

Hello! I saw your recent move of "Alford, Aberdeenshire" to "Alford, Scotland". Whilst this is consistent with the disambiguation guideline, I have also seen other editors moving pages in the opposite direction, namely "Ellon, Scotland" to "Ellon, Aberdeenshire", "Huntly, Scotland" to "Huntly, Aberdeenshire" and "Kintore, Scotland" to "Kintore, Aberdeenshire". Although these moves go against the guideline, referring to places this way feels more natural to me. I'm worried we could end up moving things back and forth in both directions if we're not careful. This has prompted a rather longer than intended essay from me at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Scotland#Local Authority names in page titles/ URLs. I would be interested in your thoughts there. Best wishes, --Deskford (talk) 03:24, 25 January 2011 (UTC)

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An invite

Hi SC, can I tempt you (and your camera) to Derby?, hope to see you at Derby Museum on the 9th. Sign up for free lunch, tour etc Victuallers (talk) 09:50, 25 March 2011 (UTC)

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"Goosegrass"/"Goose grass"

Hello Saga City. I notice recently you've done a bit of redirecting work around the subject of "Goose grass", but I'm inclined to think that some form of disambiguation might be more helpful for encyclopedia readers, seeing as the distinction between "Goose grass" (redirected to Eleusine indica) and "Goosegrass" (redirected to Galium aparine) is so subtle that readers may end up not finding what they want (and actually the encyclopedia's listed common name for E. indica is "Indian goosegrass", with no space between "goose" and "grass" anyway). PaleCloudedWhite (talk) 05:17, 23 April 2011 (UTC)

Quite right - will research + fix soon S a g a C i t y (talk) 21:05, 23 April 2011 (UTC)

Meanie unblock

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• Glad to do it and glad you caught me lurking about. Thanks again! --PMDrive1061 (talk) 16:17, 30 April 2011 (UTC)

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Evulsion

Sorry my mistake Porturology (talk) 13:10, 4 May 2011 (UTC)

Soft redirects to Wiktionary

From the last couple of messages above, I get the impression that you have established, somewhere, that the large number of soft redirects you are creating to Wiktionary are acceptable under policy here. I'm tempted to take them to WP:RFD, but before I make a fool of myself — I've done so enough times already, thank you very much — I was hoping that you might enlighten me. I don't doubt that they ought to pass a speedy deletion nomination, but I don't know why they should survive RFD. Can you enlighten me? Regards, TRANSPORTERMAN (TALK) 16:42, 5 May 2011 (UTC)

Before I answer can you confirm that you are familiar with WP:SRD? I could be that the answer's there. S a g a C i t y (talk) 16:55, 5 May 2011 (UTC)

Yes, and I don't find it there, though authority might arguably come from a link on that page to Wikipedia:Deletion_policy#Other_projects. The criteria for the existence of the soft redirect would appear to be "If an article to be deleted is likely to be re-created under the same name, it may be turned into a soft redirect to a more appropriate sister project's article. This is especially true for Wiktionary." I have some doubt just how likely it would be for articles on "foozle" and "foofaraw," or even "expediency," to be recreated if they were to be deleted here at WP. Rather than get into an article by article debate over what would be likely to be recreated and not, I'm hoping, however, that you have some better authority than that which will show my concerns to be clearly misplaced. Do you? Regards, TRANSPORTERMAN (TALK) 17:20, 5 May 2011 (UTC)

Hope to give you a reply within next 24 hours - have been away and experiencing change of culture having got my first iMac yesterday. Now where's the tilde?? Found it. S a g a C i t y (talk) 16:06, 10 May 2011 (UTC)

Saw that you're another well-seasoned editor, like me (you were born in the Attlee adminstration, I believe; I in the Truman), so looking forward to your reply with no hurry. Regards, TransporterMan (TALK) 16:46, 10 May 2011 (UTC)

FYI

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Stoke Fleming

Hi! Re Stoke Fleming - has something changed? I thought refs always come before ext links - per WP:ORDER.  —SMALLJIM  21:47, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

Quite right - amnesia attack! S a g a C i t y (talk) 22:10, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

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Dabbing Orby

Thanks for disambiguating Orby -> Orby (horse). I don't leave as many of these hanging around as I used to, but one or two do slip through. Tigerboy1966 (talk) 00:51, 26 December 2011 (UTC)