User talk:Avaragado

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Angela . 17:52, Apr 6, 2004 (UTC)

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Hi David,

I noticed you added and sorted a fair bit on List of Doctor Who serials. I've started putting in some of the individual stories (see, for example, The Daleks and Inside the Spaceship) but it's going to take a while - if you fancy helping out, I wouldn't be unhappy. --ALargeElk 21:54, 28 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Hi. I'm so sorry for accidentally reverting your edit to Template:Feature! I was fiddling with the images to show why we must use divs instead of "|right" (see here), and in the process of reverting, I automatically assumed no changes would have been made. Sorry! - Mark 03:12, 1 Jul 2004 (UTC)

No problem - these things happen! -- Avaragado 09:32, 1 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Stop yer messing around

Any reason you keep changing the stuff i'm doing on Porridge? I mean, I'm doing the bulk of the work (let's face it, the information on porridge was unfairly small before I got started on it), and you just keep chipping in and undoing my work. I'm not getting indignant over this. I appreciate that this is an unfortunate side effect of the nature of the site, but please, have a bit of consideration next time that when you're messing around with a newly changed site, it may still be a work in progress. For example, I fully intend to complete all the cast and characters still in red within the next few days. Cheers. --Crestville 21:05, 27 Jul 2004 (UTC)

I thought it best to remove the quote taken from the BBC web site as it was probably substantial enough to be a copyright violation. There were also lots of typos, which I thought uncontroversial changes, and other standard copyedits for readability. I can see why you'd be unhappy at my delinking the characters; sorry about that. I didn't believe they would be worthy of separate articles. It's hard to tell when someone has "finished" editing... As you say, it's the nature of the beast, I don't mean to tread on your toes. -- Avaragado 22:07, 27 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Chris Tomlinson

Hi Avaragado,

I have noticed that whilst copyediting Chris Tomlinson and Chris Rawlinson you have removed the non-breaking space referred to in the Manual of Style and removed a couple of sentences. Personally I think that the removal of the year subsections makes the page more difficult to look at. I can't really see any gain in your edits except that you added to your number of edits?Scraggy4 17:53, 31 Jul 2004 (UTC)

I hadn't spotted that entry in the manual of style - thanks for the note. The Rawlinson article originally included, for example, "110&nbsp m" - which is interpreted by browsers as "110" then a non-breaking space then a breaking space then "m". The correct way to do this is "110 m" - note the semicolon.

To me, year subsections seemed visually cluttering. The year of the achievement is already present in the name of the championships, so no information has been lost.

I believe my copyedits improved the articles. If I were concerned only with my number of edits then I'd spend all day editing my own User page rather than trying to improve other people's articles. -- Avaragado 21:38, 31 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Naming convention for television articles

Hi. Seeing as you were once previously interested in a naming convention, I'd like to invite you to vote on adoption of Wikipedia:Naming conventions (television). Voting is taking place on the Talk page and ends on Sep 13 2004. -- Netoholic 23:26, 22 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Your comment raised a concern in my mind. When this was being discussed before, the majority felt that (TV series) was the best dismbiguator. This is the last edit made before the convention was written - Aug 17th - so take a look at the vote and discussion sections and see if you agree. I've left a comment back on the vote page, but your vote seems not based on your actual preference, but because you perceive a group needs to re-visit it. If so, then I'd ask you to let the vote itself determine the convention's merits and decide consensus. For that to work, though, everyone needs to vot only on it's merits in their mind. Thanks. -- Netoholic 13:51, 23 Aug 2004 (UTC)

English/British

Athletes should go in British category as they normally compete under Great Britain. Similarly, rugby players should go under England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, snooker players go under English, Scottish Northern Irish, Irish, etc, otherwise it is nationalist POV. This is no information loss as place of birth and details of competition in Commonwealth Games (the only place where athletes compete under different flags) can be put in the main text. Dunc_Harris|☺ 18:45, 25 Aug 2004 (UTC)

English rugby union footballers compete under England. category:British athletes compete under Great Britain. As do tennis players. To do otherwise may be construed as nationalist POV, and doing it this way keeps them together, since they compete under the same flag, and thus makes the categorisation simpler. As it happens, there were only about 5 Welsh athletes and a similar number of Scots, and it's hardly worth categorising them separately. As a compromise, it might be possible to put the athletes atleast into coutries because that's how they compete at the Commonwealth games, but they do that very rarely Dunc_Harris|☺ 19:32, 25 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Scottish athletes do not normally compete under Scotland. Therefore, they should be categorised under British. This makes all those who compete under the same flag appear on the same list, hence making it simpler. You perhaps have a marginal case for having them in both, but certainly not just the Scotland category. Dunc_Harris|☺ 19:54, 25 Aug 2004 (UTC)

TV Naming conventions.

At some point in the past you expressed an opinion on Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (television). I have instigated a new poll on that page. I am hoping that this poll will properly allow all users who have an interest in the subject to express their views fairly before we come to a consensus. I have scrapped the poll that was previously in place on that page because I believe that it was part of an unfair procedure that was going against the majority view. I am appealing to all users who contribute to that page to approve my actions. I would appreciate it if you could take the time and trouble to read the page carefully and express an opinion and vote as you see fit. Mintguy (T) 16:53, 13 Sep 2004 (UTC)

World Cup 2006 - European Qualification Details

Hello all - my FIFA data-mining program is now nearing completion - I have already used it to post a complete article which details all of the matches invovled in Football World Cup 2006 - European Qualification Groups. I can post articles of equal detail for each confederation with ease now.

I am debating with myself as to whether I should go one step further and give each match it's own report - complete player listings, substitutions, yellow/red cards, goal scorers, names of referee and other match officials ; 85 percent of the program to do exactly that is written...

Let me know what you think of the article I have posted for the European qualifiers - if there is any way in which it can be improved/tweaked.

I look forward to receiving any feedback you can offer. --Zaphod Beeblebrox 09:45, 2 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Cat welsh english scottish atheletes

I've undeleted them please repopulate before they deleted as unused again

World Cup qualification pages

Hi there - thank's for your input on the qualification layouts ; I do think that it needs to be wiki-fied ; I wrote my original version in pretty much raw HTML simple because that was the format I was most comfortable with - the tweaks you've suggested in your revision look very good indeed - I think a splash of colour in the headers to bring the entire page to life - a very nice touch indeed.

I've been busy looking at other (non-wiki!) activites for the last couple of weeks, but should be able to spend some time on this at the weekend. One thing in particular I am interested in doing is a more details (maybe 6-10 line) match report for each match, listing starting team/bench, any substitions made, goal scorers, yellow/red cards, match officials, etc Should not be difficult, as FIFA have all this stuff on their website - Have maybe 20 to 25 of these on a single page to keep it down to a managable length. Will prepare a sample page to show you what I am thinking about - and again, feel free to make suggestions for improvements.

So - in short, nice work on the design - I'll work on implementing that (and a lot more) at the weekend...

-- Zaphod Beeblebrox 21:47, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC)

The Humungous Image Tagging Project

Hi. You've helped with the Wikipedia:WikiProject Wiki Syntax, so I thought it worth alerting you to the latest and greatest of Wikipedia fixing project, User:Yann/Untagged Images, which is seeking to put copyright tags on all of the untagged images. There are probably, oh, thirty thousand or so to do (he said, reaching into the air for a large figure). But hey: they're images ... you'll get to see lots of random pretty pictures. That must be better than looking for at at and the the, non? You know you'll love it. best wishes --Tagishsimon (talk)

Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 1000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
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To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

OR

Option 2

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

Dates

Please don't "fix" dates to use the American convention of MM DD YYYY, if you want to view dates in this format you can set your preferences to do it. Jooler 13:32, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Honorifics and titles

I have posted a proposal on honorifics in my user space that I would like you to read: User:Ford/proposals. I believe it will accord with your middle position, and possibly even convince you that my personal position is neutral as well. Thanks.
— Ford 22:13, 2005 Jan 15 (UTC)

Thanks

I just wanted to send along my thanks for your work on the Cultural References section in the Dad's Army page. You cleaned it up quite nicely and it reads much better (especially from the way that I started it). I'm finding it fascinating to watch the way things unfold and evolve here at Wikipedia so, again, thanks and cheers. MarnetteD | Talk 19:14, 5 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

And in addition thanks for cleaning up the bits I have blitzed. I was listening to Howard Jones' "What is love" at the time, on repeat, and his bewitching synthesiser music made me lose track of time, space, and ultimately coherent thought. Magnificent fellow, Howard Jones. His music gets better the more you listen to it. I have been listening to it for six hours straight, now... the same song, "What is love". It makes a lot more sense, now, after six hours. But I am only beginning to understand what he was getting it, with those three simple words. What is love? Baby, don't hurt me - don't hurt me, no more. Surprisingly up-to-date sound for a single released in 1984, too.-Ashley Pomeroy 20:34, 25 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Naming conventions for television shows (again)

I saw that you were active in the first vote for naming conventions of television program(mes). Well it has raised it's ugly head again and I would appreciate any comments you have to make about my new proposal for naming television shows. Please leave comments here. Thanks! --Reflex Reaction (talk)• 21:42, 11 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Terry Lloyd

Some guy - ragusan is the handle - has edited the text you entered a few years ago about Lloyd entering Kosovo. Given the comment he makes I assume he is some sort of ultra serbian nationalist.

Though you would like to know malky53 12:41 11 November 2006 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!

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