User talk:Hotspur23
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[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:AMT_Longslide.jpg
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[edit] SWORD
Thanks for putting this article together. I've made a few comments on the articles talk page and I welcome your input. Just so you are aware I am moving the article to S.W.O.R.D. (The Saint) in order to be consistent with other articles on The Saint, plus SWORD only appeared in one Saint book and TV episode and wasn't a recurring group. 23skidoo 15:15, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
- No, as you can see, it still has a diambiguation element to the title. But WP:STYLE says article titles do not include quotation marks, plus it's inaccurate to use the word "novels" since the group appeared only once. So to say (The Saint) is the best way to go about this, plus it is consistent with other disambiguated article titles such as Getaway (The Saint). I have adjusted all articles accordingly. I think the WP:STYLE jury is presently out as to whether acronym titles should be presented like S.W.O.R.D. or like SWORD. I'm ambivilent either way as long as its consistent. 23skidoo 15:35, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Teal
I intend to do an article on him just as I did one for Patricia Holm, however I am still reading the books so I don't have enough information to start one yet. It would be Claud Eustace Teal as WP:STYLE says to leave titles out of article namespace. If you're familiar enough with the character to start up an article, please do so and I'll fill in what I know. The only other Saint character who probably deserves his own article is Hoppy Uniaz, but I've yet to read any of the stories featuring him. 23skidoo 17:09, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
- I've now created an article at Claud Eustace Teal. As I noted earlier, we generally don't use titles in the article namespace (and Teal's rank changes over time, anyway). 23skidoo 18:30, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Moving articles
Hi, You recently moved Life on Mars to Life on Mars (scientific theory) by copying and pasting the contents of the page. Do not do this. The only allowed way to move an article is via the "Move" button that appears at the top of each article. If a move is not likely to be controversial, go ahead and move using the button. If the move is controversial or the button's function is blocked, the move needs to be discussed first on the talk page or dealt with more formally using the procedure at Wikipedia:Requested moves. Copy/paste moves are not allowed because they mess up the stored history of edits, which is important for protecting Wikipedia from copyright lawsuits.
I am reverting your move, because an objection has been raised. If you still want to do this, raise the issue at Wikipedia:Requested moves. Note though, that the articles you were working on are now disambiguated at Life on Mars (disambiguation), and each of the articles links to that. I suggest that this configuration is better than doing the disambiguation at Life on Mars, because the scientific theory is the primary meaning of the phrase.--Srleffler 04:17, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Disambiguation pages
Hi again. See WP:MOSDAB. There are special rules for the formatting of disambiguation pages, which differ from normal article format. In particular, the only links that should appear on these special pages are the words or phrases that are being disambiguated. The information content is also to be kept to a minimum. The purpose of these special pages is not to provide information, but to allow a reader to find the correct article as quickly as possible. --Srleffler 06:18, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] More move issues
Please don't change the redirects between Life on Mars and Life on Mars (theory), nor the link to the former on the disambiguation page. The proposal to move the former article to the latter has clear consensus and will go through in a couple of days. In the meantime, it's polite to keep things simple for the admin who closes the move, by keeping all the links pointing to the new location of the article, with a redirect from there to the old location. This makes the move simple, and means nobody has to go through and fix all the links after the page is moved. By changing these links and redirects, you are just making more work for everybody and doing no one any good. --Srleffler 04:16, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Fitzroy Maclean
Various anonymous editors have been changing the Fitzroy Maclean page (including dates and titles). I've no idea whether the old text or the new text is accurate. Could you please give the history of the article a quick look-over. Thanks Bluap 22:05, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
