User talk:Docu

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Why are you creating double redirects with the numbers? --Wik 22:37, Feb 14, 2004 (UTC)

Where did I add a "double redirect"? -- User:Docu

Well, maybe not double redirects, but you change links from One hundred two to Number 102 although the article is at One hundred two. What's the point of that? --Wik 22:47, Feb 14, 2004 (UTC)

Good heavens, you seem to have made about 140 of those wrong links, and continued even after I told you. You have something to clean up there. --Wik 23:04, Feb 14, 2004 (UTC)

I'm not sure I follow. Why would [One hundred two] be a better link? People usually don't spell out numbers. Maybe you should explain us. -- User:Docu

Uh, perhaps because that's where the article is? --Wik 00:25, Feb 15, 2004 (UTC)

I don't understand the problem either, the links are obviously going to take people to the content they expect, they are not misleading. I don't think Docu has anything to 'clean up', redirects are a useful element of the software, I don't think there's any reason not to use them. Why do you find them so offensive? -- Ams80 00:34, 15 Feb 2004 (UTC)

You don't change a link from a direct link to a redirected link for no good reason. --Wik 00:35, Feb 15, 2004 (UTC)

Docu gave a reason, "People usually don't spell out numbers.", what's the problem with that? Why make an issue out of this? -- Ams80 00:38, 15 Feb 2004 (UTC)

I don't consider that a good reason. But I don't feel like reverting 140 pages now, so I'll leave it at that. I may gradually change them later. --Wik 00:42, Feb 15, 2004 (UTC)

The changes (link to number/section headers) are in accordance with an update of the template for the year pages. The article on the number 102 is unlikely to stay at [one hundred two] as a consensus has emerged to move it anyways. -- User:Docu

Initials

Hi,

I reverted your move of W.J. Turner. Several months ago, the question came up on the Pump about whether spaces should be placed between initials in names. IIRC, the consensus seemed to be against it, but I couldn't find the discussion (the Pump has gotten so busy). The Economist Style Guide which I have in front of me supports me on this. I have just updated the documentation accordingly: Wikipedia:Naming_conventions#Initials and Wikipedia:Naming conventions (acronyms). This isn't to imply that this is definitive; hardly anything on Wikipedia is. If you feel strongly otherwise, we can discuss it on Wikipedia_Talk:Naming conventions. All the best, -- Viajero 12:26, 15 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Hi, no problem. I will try to find the discussion I based it on. I think I saw all of them being changed the other way. Besides, I prefer not having the space between the initials and I think it's a good idea to add it to Wikipedia:Naming_conventions#Initials. -- User:Docu

Well, I guess the matter is still up for debate. Another user reversed that entry on naming conventions. So, let's have a vote: Wikipedia:Naming conventions#Initials. My guess is that it is something that has changed over the years; previously, it initials where written with spaces; more recently, in the quest for typographical sleekness, the spaces were removed. This seems to be the case in contemporary publishing. -- Viajero 09:48, 17 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Ok, I will just wait for the outcome. BTW most of your samples were in fact redirects. -- User:Docu

Hi Docu, you added They break the "what links here"-function though to Wikipedia:How to edit a page. This doesn't seem to be the case for me. If you look at Special:Whatlinkshere/User:Angela/useful_stuff, you'll see that User:Angela/sandbox2 links to it, even though that uses a section redirect. Angela . 06:55, Feb 16, 2004 (UTC)

Indeed, the "feature" must have been improved since, or the pages that didn't work were broken for another reason. -- User:Docu

What's with the pages with an exclamation point in them? Is that on purpose? Dori | Talk 21:14, Feb 16, 2004 (UTC)

See Specialpagelist or the talk pages. They are backups for some of the Specialpages. The ! was recently added by a developer (I had to guess some of the names). -- User:Docu

Cool, thanks for the info. Dori | Talk 01:36, Feb 17, 2004 (UTC)

Hey Docu, are you running a bot? If so it'd be nice if you turned down the frequency and registered it so it doesn't clutter RC. Dori | Talk 04:32, Feb 17, 2004 (UTC)

Hey .. don't call me a bot. -- If I do it manually, does that qualify? -- User:Docu

Wow, you fast...let me guess...tabs? Maybe this could be adapted, but I've never tried it myself: Wikipedia:Revert#bot rollback. Dori | Talk 04:47, Feb 17, 2004 (UTC)

Tabs, the bookmarklet on Wikipedia talk:List of stubs without msg, and really small stubs. -- User:Docu

For Wikipedia:Revert#bot rollback to work, do you need to revert edits or is it sufficient to action it once? -- User:Docu

I just tried an edit with the bot thing, apparently it only works with reverts. Dori | Talk 05:11, Feb 17, 2004 (UTC)

Maybe it's more prudent this way. I shortened/varied the edit summary a bit. Maybe it's easier to follow now. -- User:Docu

EFTA/Switzerland

I'm sorry, I was too quick. You're right, msg:efta isn't good. However, msg:efta needs changing, not the article. Kokiri 18:49, 17 Feb 2004 (UTC)

No problem. We could keep the msg and just edit it to look more like the previous template. The current format doesn't stack very well, e.g. Greenland, Norway. This would require to change all of them .. maybe I should bring it up on Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Countries. -- User:Docu

footers

You may want to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Page footers. --Jia ng 21:50, 21 Feb 2004 (UTC)

I will have a look. Thank you. -- User:Docu

number pages

Why did you revert my edit? Anthony DiPierro 23:04, 21 Feb 2004 (UTC)

I left a short note on One, it's my understanding that GUllman, User:Egil, Oliver P., Onebyone, —Eloquence, Tuf-Kat, FearÉIREANN, Ryan_Cable, Seth Ilys, Angela, Jiang, Del_arte, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, JDR, UtherSRG, Jamesday, Dysprosia Takanoha, Kevin Saff, +sj+, Hajor on Talk:List_of_numbers/Deletion#Vote_on_naming want the disamb. on 1 (number) rather than One -- User:Docu

That's not at all clear. That was a vote for the title of the number page, not for the how the word should be disambiguated. Anthony DiPierro 23:15, 21 Feb 2004 (UTC)