User talk:NuclearWinner
Hi, regarding your moving botulinum toxin to botulin toxin: Why did you move it? The former term is far mor often used and is also the scientifically correct one (the bacterium is called "Clostridium botulinum", not "Clostridium botulin") (see, for example, this search: [1]) If there were specific reasons, please tell me, else I'll move it back. Best regards, Kosebamse 18:28, 8 Aug 2003 (UTC)
Having turned your anti-Semitism comment in Dorothy L Sayers more or less on its head, I consider it common courtesy to call your attention to the change. You may well consider that what I've done moves the emphasis too far to the other side of NPOV; but I urge any skeptic to compare the character of Sir Ruben Levy and his family with that of the American zillionaire in Whose Body -- or the American doctor in the Elopement story! There's certainly no Jew in her works as sinister as that SOB (which, alas, is more than I can say for Charles Williams).
I hope we can avoid an edit war here. In fact, I wouldn't mind an off-Wikipedia exchange on one or two matters related to this. BTW the most accessible documents at present on the Future of the Jews essay are available only in proceedings of the Dorothy L Sayers Society or the LordPeter mailing list on Yahoo. Not highly accessible, you might say, and I would agree. Dandrake 23:43, 16 Aug 2003 (UTC)
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When you list a page on Votes for deletion you must say "Listed on Votes for deletion" on the page you are listing. Otherwise the page will not get deleted. --mav 23:54, 16 Aug 2003 (UTC)
Hi,
Considering you have edited in the whales area in the past (great Bowhead Whale page I saw, I thought I would let you know that I have started a Wikipedia:WikiProject Cetaceans. It is rather sketchy at the moment - any and all contributions welcome! Pete 23:22, 3 Sep 2003 (UTC)
Hi. Re Bowhead Whale.
- The agreed convention with bird articles is to use capitals with a lower case redirect. Whilst I would accept that there is no agreement for cetaceans, in practice nearly all the other cetacean articles are capitalised, and it seemed odd for Bowhead to be almost the only one using American lower case style - you will note that the link to Killer Whale was changed by someone else, presumably for the same reason. My cetacean book also uses caps. However, there is no formal agreement, so if you want to revert, I won't reverse it, although obviously I can't speak for others.
- (Apologies for butting in). The convention for birds was discussed in monumental detail (I believe on the mailing list in particular) and my feeling is that after that level of discussion surely the right decision was reached (although I am well aware of the dangers of decision by commitee!) and that that policy would transfer over to the cetaceans too. However given that Wikipedia:WikiProject Cetaceans (plug, plug!) is still at a very fledging state this is not an open and shut case. For example I wrote Minke Whale and several times in the article wrote 'Minkes are...' rather than 'a Minke Whale is'. This was copyedited so that it was 'Minke Whale' everywhere... however in the cetacean literature writing 'Bowheads are...' or 'Blues are' is very common. Indeed this is the practice of the Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals, a learned tome indeed, is to make the contraction. I think we should use it on wikipedia. Pete 19:20, 5 Sep 2003 (UTC)
- The Bowhead Whale is endangered globally. As a compromise, I'll change the reference to CITES, rather than list countries. You will agree that to say that it is classed as endangered in the US, Canada... is not particularly elegant.
jimfbleak 06:24, 5 Sep 2003 (UTC)