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Welcome to Wikipedia, Magnus! --LMS

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Hey Magnus; I've started a new thread over at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Elements about a concept for nav bars and locator maps (there is a prototype example at Lithium). Join in if you are interested. --mav

Magnus; I reduced the width of the image at lithium by 10 pixels. Does this work for your browser? If not I suppose I could shave off more... --mav

I just played around with a copy of it, and it was me who misinterpreted the whole thing. I thought you had tried to align the element names/links to the graphic! Now I realized it is an "up-and-down"-link. So, it was all right in the first place, I was just confused by the "labelling" of the elements... --Magnus Manske 08:28 Oct 1, 2002 (UTC)
Oh, OK. I'll revert to the slightly wider image then (which is just a wee bit better on my eyes). --mav

I disagree with your removal of the self-link on List of musical topics and List of computing topics. While in general we should remove self-links, I belive topic pages like these pose an exception for a few reasons. The pages themselves fall into the category of the topic they list. In the future, some people may use pages like that in place of Recent changes. If the scope of their Recent changes suddenly decreased because of a vandal, that should appear on their Recent changes page. --Ellmist Wednesday, October 9th, 2002

I'm afraid you'll have to explain that to me. Would that "Recent changes replacement" use the watchlist, or the "watch links" function? Also, is there a "list of lists on wikipedia" page? That would cover the lists as well, without the (rather inelegant) self-link. --Magnus Manske 08:13 Oct 10, 2002 (UTC)

It mentions on those pages that they were created to be used by people with Watch links. It seems to me, that anyone interested in seeing recent changes on musical pages, would also want to have the option of seeing changes to the List of musical topics page. I see three options:

  1. Mention that the page that lists musical topics does not have an entry on the musical topics list, so people can view the history of that manually or add it to their watchlist.
  1. Have Watch links also watch the page with the links.
  1. Include a self-link, which, I agree, doesn't pose the most elegant solution even if we hide it somehow.

Sorry, if I came off a bit truculent. --Ellmist October 10th, 2002

Magnus, I see you've changed back Foreign relations of Anguilla three times already. The point I made in my last change to redirect was : "Anguilla is not an independent nation, and as such has not foreign relations - these are handled by the UK; this article will therefore never have content". I think this article has no reason for being, and if the only useful information we can provided is a see to (which is likely also the only information there ever), we should make it a redirect. Jeronimo

Sorry, actually I didn't notice it was changed back, I'm just wading through the "double redirects" page. I'll try to avoid Anguilla from now on. --Magnus Manske 17:01 Oct 10, 2002 (UTC)
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