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Pamri • Talk 03:16, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
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[edit] Moving of article
Hi!
Your moving of Aimone, 4th Duke of Aosta to Tomislav II of Croatia, 4th Duke of Aosta was not especially well performed; it left a number of double redirects. --Palnatoke 14:11, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] moving snap music to snap (music)
Why'd you make this move? I reverted the move, because: a)the genre is more commonly referred to as "snap music", not "snap"(see google if you dont believe me) and b)you made a cut and paste move, instead of using the 'move' button.
I really suggest you read up on wikipedia's policies, and read Wikipedia:Introduction, before you continue editing-- it uses up time when we have to revert unhelpful changes. Thanks, --Urthogie 20:53, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
- Sometimes people link to bad names in disambig pages. Need to watch out for that.--Urthogie 11:51, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] old school hip hop
"In modern usage, it is sometimes used to refer to the early 90's." Could you please cite an example of a maintstream medium using it this way? Thanks, --Urthogie 19:40, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Styles
They shouldn't be included right at the beginning, though there's nothing retricting their use after the initial name with "styled" in front of them. (Your version looked better, however.) Proteus (Talk) 17:07, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Wikiproject hiphop announcement
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--Chubdub 15:10, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Final warning - stop unilateral page moving. You are causing chaos all over the place
This is your last warning. You have been asked to stop unilaterally moving pages. Wikipedia has clear procedures for moving pages. Other than in exceptional cases those procedures should be followed. Your actions are causing considerable problems for other users and are being seen by some as vandalism. Vandalism of pages results in a user being blocked from editing Wikipedia. Any more unilateral page moves will see you blocked from editing Wikipedia. You are causing chaos all over the place, breaking lists, creating tangled redirects that redirect to each other, etc. This has got to stop. This is your FINAL warning. Either you stop it or you will be blocked to stop you. FearÉIREANN
\(caint) 20:59, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
- Your contributions lists large numbers of moves. They may all very well be in good faith, but the way they are being done is causing chaos all over the place. I've just recently had to move tangled redirects to transfer a talk page back to the location of the article. WP rules are constantly evolving. Sometimes new issues do arise which can lead people to decide to tweak existing naming conventions. At this stage people are struggling to keep up with you, to fix (inadvent) chaos in moves, etc. A lot of articles need new locations but we need to be careful about how articles are moved and where they are moved to. A lot of people have put a lot of hard work into the royal naming conventions, and if faced with a convincing suggestion will support proposed moves. But massive moving of articles causes major problems. Please work with others and discuss the moves. The reason a final warning was issued was because major moving of articles without discussion is regarded as a major action. Users have been blocked for it. You weren't because whatever mistakes you made were genuine. So please slow down, discuss suggestions with them and work with the team. Massive unilateral moves should never take place. (Unilateral moves should if at all possible be kept merely to correcting spellings, etc. Moving to a new name should be proposed at Requested Moves and discussed on the talk page. And all moves should have their redirects checked to ensure there is no collatoral damage. FearÉIREANN\(caint) 22:15, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
BTW most of the "angry rant" is automatically generated by a final warning template on move pages. If you were offended I am sorry. Unfortunately we do have users who appear suddenly and begin mass page moves. When the scale of the moving hits a high level a final warning template is automatically placed (if not an automatic ban) and a blunt warning to stop. Please do contribute to the pages, and make suggestions about moves, just more slowly before everyone gets dizzy trying to catch up! :)
- There is no need to apologize at all. While the guidelines make it seem that the princess should have her husband's territorial title appended to the end of her name, common usage doesn't support that. Benedikte is the Princess of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg. However, in the back of everyone's heads, her husband is legally in Germany a commoner, not a sovereign. She outranks her husband in Denmark, certainly, and if they were not a couple, she would probably outrank him at royal functions outside of Denmark as well. That may provide insight as to why the Princess is referred to mostly by her Danish title, but who knows. Ideally, she would be referred to by the name which you had moved her to. The world isn't an ideal place though. Charles 23:49, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Monarchial styles
I do recall seeing that policy somewhere, but I'm pretty sure it only made sure that monarchial titles aren't included in the article title or before the name of the person in question at the start of the article. (By the way, I can no longer find the policy, would you mind pointing it out to me?)
The style is used on many articles about monarchs who have style boxes, most notably all of the Princes of Monaco (with the exception of the current reigning prince, Albert II). Take a look at Rainier III, Prince of Monaco, Louis II, Prince of Monaco, Albert I, Prince of Monaco, Charles III, Prince of Monaco, etc.
I'm not going to revert your changes yet; I'd rather sort this out first, so I'll wait for your response. ♠ SG →Talk 08:23, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Wikipedia:WikiProject Punk music
Whats up? Hi, I'm trying to gather some more interest and support for the Wikipedia:WikiProject Punk music. Please check out the topics and lets get our WikiProject to function better. Recently, I've taken an interest in the Wikipedia:WikiProject hip hop and I consider that WikiProject to be better developed. I am now writing to usernames on the hiphopWP who might be interested in helping with the punkmusicWP. Hopefully we can all work together to improve articles relating to punk as has been done well with hip hop. Finally, I am trying to gather support and opinions concerning the punk house article and specifically the Theta Beta Potata article which is currently in AfD (x2) at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Theta Beta Potata (second nomination). Please check it out and voice your opinion. Xsxex 09:21, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Eton College
That was fast! Looks like you cut out the stuff I added on dress - I went there (1950-1955) and I assure you it is accurate (unless you know that it has changed since I attended Eton). Or was it the English that you object to?! Jpaulm 15:00, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
Thanks! Live and learn! I can still remember the feeling of relief that I didn't have to wear one - even if only until I got tall enough! Jpaulm 15:54, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
At least in college, we had two identical suits, and wore them alternate weeks. It wasn't until years later that I learned that this was probably due to the possibility of body lice - they die after a week away from their hosts. Question: is this appropriate info for an Encyclopedia? If not, just treat it as piece of trivia! Jpaulm 14:38, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
- Not clear: do you guys wear a suit for 1 week or 2 weeks at a time? If it's now 2 weeks, that suggests that things have changed since I was there. And does this apply to Oppidans as well as scholars? Thanks. Jpaulm 00:34, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
- Oh well, 2 weeks at a time suggests that the lice are no longer considered a problem :-) Yup, I stumbled across Flow-based programming, and have spent the last few decades trying to get it accepted! Contrary to popular wisdom, if you build a better mousetrap, the world does not beat a path to your door! Jpaulm 00:24, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
- By the way, if the above sounds unduly pessimistic, sometimes one just has to wait - fundamental change sometimes takes several generations! If you haven't read him yet, I suggest Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions". Regards. Jpaulm 01:13, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
Define success! Some influential people like it; 3 companies mention it on their web sites; a lot of people say "Hmmm, that's interesting!" and promptly forget about it... Look at [Flowlike projects] (if you haven't already). It will probably never be as well-known as, say, OOP, but I venture to hope in the long run it will be more influential! Thanks for your interest! Jpaulm 17:56, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
I work as a programmer. I have a little (2-person - myself and my wife) corporation, but that's really because clients often prefer an "arms' length" arrangement. You can also contribute to my wiki if you are interested - [1] - add your name to the VistorsList, etc. Jpaulm 14:38, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Education edit
Hi Yanksta! I'm just curious as to why you edited the education page. my own entry, in good faith, was to point out the basic inaccuracies in the sub-heading "Challenges", effectively praising the modern school system. You deleted both the inaccuracies and my comments, and left a hand hanging, so to speak. Why, may I ask? (I do recognize that editing is inevitable; the concept of education is controversial, and my edit left the original text so as to offer a more reasonable and accurate description of the other hand.)
