User talk:Zoe
Hello there, welcome to the 'pedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you need any questions answered about the project then check out Wikipedia:Help or drop me a line. BTW, I am very impressed with the quality of your editing, fact checking and cross-linking. Great work! Cheers! --maveric149
Zoe, WRT your work on city pages, we have a naming convention for cities as many localities worthy of mention in encyclopedias share names (for instance, Melbourne, Florida and Melbourne, Victoria). An example is Georgetown, which as well as the capital of Guyana is also the name of a major city near Washington D.C. Therefore, the Georgetown page should be shifted to Georgetown, Guyana and a disambiguation page pointing to the various Georgetowns put there in its place.
I understand that, but I was linking from the "national capitals" page, which isn't disambiguated, so I was just creating new pages from there. I guess I need to do REFER or whatever it's called, but I'm not sure how to do that. -- Zoe
Zoe - don't worry, I'll fix the Georgetown thing. Nice work on the capitals you have done. :) Cheers MMGB
It's not your fault Zoe -- whoever made the list in the first place was careless about this issue. It's also sometimes difficult to know if a particular city name is shared by several (or more) different cities. What I do when I'm not sure, is look up the city name on Google while excluding the name of the country and see if there are other notable cites also known by the same name. For example. Of course, one would never make a disambiguation page out of truely famous cities such as Paris just because some small city in Texas has the same name (in these cases a link to Paris, Texas at the bottom of Paris is more than enough). BTW, whoever makes a disambigution page is also responsible for fixing any broken links that may result (in other words, any links to Georgetown would have to be fixed to go directly to the right page). Hope this helps! --maveric149
- Hey that was ME, ya mongrel :) Actually, when I made the original page (which took forever) the last thing on my mind was disambiguation issues, back in those days we didn't have enough articles to have even contemplated it! Nice to see how times have changed :) - MMGB
Hi Zoe, good work on all the capital cities! One request: if you create a new article on a city, also create a redirect for "city, country". This isn't a real Wikipedia naming convention, but some people tend to link that way. Then again, if you don't do it, I will make the redirects... Greetings, jheijmans
- One more note - when you have a link to an article as the first word of a sentence, there's no need to make a link like
[[sugar|Sugar]]
In fact, all articles start with a capital letter, so no need to do this. jheijmans- Minor clarification: Articles are displayed with their first letter capitalized but are in fact case-insensitive -- so it doesn't matter if you capitalize the first letter or not when linking. --maveric149