User talk:Basar

Carolina Birds

Thanks for helping out there, terrific job. Nick mallory 06:42, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

Parodies of Harry Potter

As a Project editor involved in our little restructuring drive, you may be interested in commenting on the Parodies of Harry Potter article, which was recently formed in a controversial five-way merge with four individual articles and one list. The discussion may be viewed here. Happy-melon 20:36, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

Notable civil engineers

Why get rid of the link to WP:Notable? That made sense. - Denimadept 21:04, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

I'm not sure linking to the Wikipedia namespace is "kosher" in articles. Correct me if I'm wrong. -- Basar (talk · contribs) 21:11, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

I have no idea, but I wouldn't have thought it to be a problem. - Denimadept 12:02, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the barnstar

It's always good to know my work is appreciated! Walton^One 13:09, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

Project page redesign

I'm going to ask the Final Fantasy and Square-Enix people if we can do that with our project pages. If they agree, and you do it for us, I'll give you a barnstar :) Thoughts? Judgesurreal777 16:55, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

Sure, I'll help you out, but I'm sure there are people there who can do it too as it isn't very difficult. – Basar (talk · contribs) 04:34, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

Hey Basar, I removed that formatting thing because, in Safari, there was no scrolling thing – it just kept going while that green line interrupted it in the middle. I just now tried opening the page in Firefox, and I see the difference. Could we ask the WP:VPT why it won't work in Safari? --Fbv65edel / ☑t / ☛c || 17:01, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

Just curious if you can see the scrolling here: {{Scroll box}}. If you can't, then I think it is just a feature that Safari hasn't implemented yet, and I doubt there would be anything we can do about it. – Basar (talk · contribs) 04:34, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

Category engineering is way too big

Wikipedia considers engineering a problem category because it is way too big. You look through it and see what you can remove. For example, Building materials was in it. so was every single building project in the world. What do you thing should be removed so it won't be way too big like it is now? I welcome suggestions. Regards, --Mattisse 23:29, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

Look at [[Category:Wikipedia categories in need of attention]] and see what you think. I will leave Engineering alone as I do not care whether it is too big or not. I was just being altruistic, which is always a mistake! --Mattisse 23:33, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

Because I do not think all Building projects, or all European building projects and other general categories should go under Engineering. That is why the Category is so enormous. It dwarfs all the other categories that are too large. Engineer was on all Audio broadcasting articles, every article under Acoustics, almost every article on Physics, all the articles on Tools etc. Even little boats were in Engineering. It is actually comical. I don't think engineers, or who every categorizes their articles, understand Categories and how they work. It is dysfunctional. Engineering articles end up in off-the-wall categories. Try it. But I will lay off Engineering. --Mattisse 23:44, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

Categories

I will give you an example from Psychology because that is what I know. There is an article and a Category in Psychology called Mood disorders. The article and Category are in Category:Psychology. If I take an article like Depressive disorder, all I need to do is put it in Mood disorders. From there it automatically goes into Psychology or the relevant sub categories in Psychology. If additionally I add Category:Psychology to Depressive disorder then it will also end up in the general uncategorized articles in Category:Psychology, bulking up the uncategorized pages for no good reason. When you have hundreds of articles uncategorized in Engineering, and really, too too many sub categories, no one is going to look through all that. It harms Wikipedia, which is why Category:Engineering is considered a problem category.

I have removed many whole categories from Engineering, like all the Aviation awards were under Engineering, all the Physics awards etc. etc. Everything that had anything to do with Mathematics or Physics or Optics was under Engineering. Those are just examples. Do you think that every article that has anything to do with Bridges should also be under Engineering? --Mattisse 00:02, 12 September 2007 (UTC)