User talk:Tim!/8

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The Nuttall Encyclopaedia

"It may be the only encyclopedia that has entries for fictional characters from Charles Dickens' books, but at the same time lacks entries for fruit." is still true without the "printed" qualification. Wikipedia has entries for fruit :-) David Brooks 04:10, 18 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Category:BBC radio comedy

Hi, Tim. Since you seem to be interested in this cat, I'm just letting you know that I've nominated it to be renamed. Hopefully this will eliminate its ambiguities leading to some comedians being added. Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion#Category:BBC_radio_comedy The JPS ^{talk to me} 12:40, 19 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Deletion Review—Category:Wikipedians by diet

Hi Tim!(!). You were the closing administrator on the above category which I have listed for deletion review here. Thought you'd want to be kept in the loop.--Fuhghettaboutit 05:46, 23 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Qatar as a monarchy

Hey, I noticed you removed the category "Current Monarchy" from Qatar. Did you have a reason? The article suggests it is a monarchy. Thanks --Matt 21:21, 23 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

CFD for Category:Actors by television series

Removed cfdnotice, cfd has completed. --Kbdank71 16:17, 9 May 2008 (UTC) Dugwiki 19:58, 25 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, Tim!, I noticed that after the No Consensus result on this category you removed the tag from the article, but you didn't add the corresponding tag to the category's talk page saying "The result of this discussion was No Consensus". When you have a chance, if you could add that tag so interested editors can view the discussion that took place and they know the result, that'd be great. Thanks. Dugwiki 15:25, 9 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

1964 New York World's Fair

Hi, Tim!. I reverted your change to 1964 New York World's Fair to place it in Category:1964 in the United States instead of Category:1964. As I discussed previously with Jengod (talk · contribs) (here), the World's Fair was indeed a "World's" fair and thus not limited to the United States. Jengod agreed and reverted hir change hirself. I hope I can convince you of the same. =) I won't re-revert if you disagree, however. Powers ^T 13:42, 27 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Nice one Tim: Category:Clubs and societies in Scotland. Ta! --Mais oui! 11:11, 15 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Doctorwhocharacter

It's an interesting solution, but it doesn't solve the problem for characters that straddle series, like Bernice Summerfield, Jason Kane, Irving Braxiatel, and more tellingly, Jack Harkness and Toshiko Sato. Now, if you could find a way to fix those... --khaosworks (talk • contribs) 12:32, 29 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I think that's workable. --khaosworks (talk • contribs) 23:50, 30 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Trade unions cat

Ta for notification. Much appreciated. --Mais oui! 18:50, 14 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

why did you delete my name off the adam chase disambiguation tim? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Adam chase (talk • contribs)

List of Doctor who robots

~~You tagged this for cleanup - what needs cleaning up?~~GraemeLeggett 17:36, 16 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Strike that - answered on discussion page while I was typing the above. GraemeLeggett 17:37, 16 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Dragon Quest

what was wrong with my edit to the dragon quest page? do you hold a grudge against me or somthing?

user: adam chase

dear tim. i recived your message. would it be more appropriate if i discarded the 'probably'? Adam

Si Spencer

Good point. I don't know whether he pulled out, or if his script was pushed to next year (assuming there is a second series), but for now I guess he shouldn't be in the category. —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 10:14, 18 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Transport in London

I don't think we need both a cfd and a cfr tag. My intent is to rename them only. -- ProveIt ^(talk) 02:10, 21 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Also note, your cfd tags link are linking to the wrong place, they should all point to Transport in London. -- ProveIt ^(talk) 02:14, 21 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Nothing personal, just business

Hey, Tim! Just wanted to stop by and say "nothing personal, just business" when it comes to the actors-by-series debates. Obviously we're coming at it from different angles and assumptions, so we're coming to different conclusions. Anyway, lest that debate get too heated, I wanted to mention we may disagree on that topic but it's not due to personal animosity or some irrational phobia of the name "Tim". You obviously take categorization schema seriously, same as me, and where we might disagree on this topic we seem to agree on others.

So just saying "Hi", thanks for the help, and I hope you don't take my disagreeing with you on this one personally. I think it's a case of reasonable people seeing things differently. Dugwiki 22:22, 28 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Save the List!

They are trying to delete the lists we've work so hard on help put a stop to it. List of J-pop Artists Vote to keep our precious list!!! -Bilaber 21:55, 12 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

1580 in Ireland

Why this subcategory? Me no hunderstan'.--Shtove 22:51, 14 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Never came across that before. There are pages - most dealing with the 19thC, with bullet-point linked events - and then sub-categories, made up of links too. What's the distinction?--Shtove 23:32, 14 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sieges

Um, all of those categories should be "Sieges of ...", not "Sieges in ..."; battles, wars, etc. are categorized by their participants, not by their geographic location. Kirill Lokshin 23:32, 14 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Well, not really. The principle of avoiding categorizing military events by geographic location (see WP:MILHIST#Battles) is one that we've rigorously followed throughout the entire category tree, because it's extremely problematic. Consider, for example, Fall of Constantinople: is it a siege "in the Byzantine Empire" (start of siege), "in the Ottoman Empire" (end of siege), or "in Turkey" (modern location). (Battles can be said to occur "in" a country as well, so there's no distinction here; the problem that arises is choosing which country the event was "in", as opposed to the simple question of what countries participated.) Kirill Lokshin 23:42, 14 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, which is why we made sure that all the applicable categories (battles, wars, military operations) were explicitly marked as using "of country" there. As there's no specific guidance for sieges, is there some particular reason why the parent category (battles) would not apply? In any case, I can list them on CFD if you prefer using that method. Kirill Lokshin 23:50, 14 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Your reference links at Royal Opera House

They don't seem to work, so I wonder what exactly you are trying to link to?

The History page of the ROH site?

BDP's work on the restoration (which, from their site, seems pretty limited as far as I can see).

Vivaverdi 15:57, 16 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thank for your response. Might have been a good idea to check 'em...

Anyway, they seem to relate to ROH being a Grade 1 listed building (or to the refurb of the house). Will you see if you can find what they mean - or shall I? I've contributed to quite a bit of the article. Vivaverdi 22:03, 16 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

ISBNs and Templates

It would be preferable to change the templates, as it would create consistencey both with normal text and most other templates. I already differentiate between Isbn= and isbn=, which is not ideal - these are all traps for future editors. Will you change the template? Incidentally ISBN magic won't accept spaces (although they are valid delimiters - you can see the reason). Rich Farmbrough, 09:31 19 December 2006 (GMT).

OK the developers have made a liar of me, ISBN will accept spaces now, I think this will cause "breakage" due to run on (ISBN 1 123 123141 Parameter error in {{ISBN}}: checksum 17/12/2006 for example) but is theoretically good. Rich Farmbrough, 09:34 19 December 2006 (GMT).

Unbelievable! That has been fixed now! Well doen someone! Rich Farmbrough, 23:26 19 December 2006 (GMT).

Re: American television series by decade rename.

Tim!,

I'm posting in regard to you comment to this discussion. Based on the tone of the original suggestion, it seems you agree with the intent of the orinal poster.

Given your affinity for and knowledge of the television categroies and articles, would it not be better to commit your support than standing to the side and just commenting?

Thanks for listening... — J Greb 23:14, 20 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, I wasn't aware that the older stuff would be a factor. I had assumed that it was included as reference for the new debate. — J Greb 11:55, 21 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Scottish television programmes

Can I ask, why are you removing Category:Scottish television programmes from Scottish television programme articles?
GMc^talk 13:15, 30 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Category: Referendum

Since the plural of this word is disputed I've moved the discussion to Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2007 January 1#Category:Referendum. Timrollpickering 15:56, 1 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Help

Why Hello there Tim! BTW Happy upcomming Admin aniversary.

Now, some time ago I bought a CD by a band named Psychostick. It was so worth my getting that I decided to honor them by making them a wikipage, since they were a very young band and are barely known. Anyway it was a bit stubish in the beginning and later it became a bit messy, so it got tagged for clean up and stuff.

I'm pretty sure some of the editors of these page were the band members themsleves; I've contacted them about the wikipage via myspace and they said they'll look in to it. You see some stuff was written as if this was a blog, well I and a few other editors cleaned it up.

Now there's another tag that says that that article may no meet the Wiki music demands and could be deleted. Well they've made a record, went on tour and are getting paid for it, I don't see any reason why that tag should stay there, so could you do something about it?

I don't see what's so wrong about the page, if I'm mistaken, please enlighten me. Thanks. --Mudel 14:02, 2 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Categories for List of years in poetry

I see that you are removing date categories for various years in poetry; at this point several hundred pages such pages have been created consistently. It may be worth discussing before starting this removal. I'd suggest raising the issue on the List of years in poetry page or at Wikipedia:WikiProject Poetry page. Thank you. Sam 22:55, 2 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ah! Thank you - there must have been some copying over the template without fixing. I'll make sure those years get categorized properly. Best, Sam 22:59, 2 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:JAG cast

Category:JAG cast is a recreation of Category:JAG actors, which was deleted and listified at List of JAG actors per Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Log/2006 December 20. I've nominated Category:JAG cast for deletion; please don't try to bypass the results of deletion discussions in this manner. Thanks.—DomBot ^talk ; Chidom ^talk, owner/operator. 04:44, 5 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Your mistake;)

Thanks for welcome, but "anonymous" 83.10.196.158 is really me - Q Original 12:11, 6 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

re:re:welcome

Ok. Q Original 12:16, 6 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Yeah, I've been cutting and pasting primarily because I had no idea how to move things. Thanks for the tip, I'll keep it in mind from now on. Pele Merengue 18:46, 6 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Does Terry de la Mesa Allen, Jr. deserve his own wiki-page?

As you were a contributor to the article Battle of Ong Thanh please consider joining the discussion at this link on whether the American leader of the battle Terry de la Mesa Allen, Jr. who died in the fighting is notable enough to deserve his own wiki-page. I intend to enlarge the article but it was speedily deleted within an hour of its creation and now after much discussion it has been undeleted but is under review whether it should be allowed to continue to exist. Originally the person who deleted it placed the following on the Afd discussion page

Persons claim to fame is being the son of a famous US General. He became Lt. Col. (probably with a little help from his daddy), cockily chased some charlies in Vietnam, and got killed in the resulting ambush together with his unit. After his death he had some media coverage due to his famous daddy. Also, his wife left him for a rodeo clown. Two books available and one movie upcoming about the battle. In my opinion borderline notability at best, but as always i am willing to be convinced otherwise.

Thankfully he has been talked into revising this statement to be less insulting but I feel there is much bias against this article for no logical reason - right now the article is just a stub but its hard to expand something if you think its just going to be deleted.--Wowaconia 05:28, 7 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Please revisit and consider

Thanks for your input on the Category:Categories for deletion proposal, but be advised per YOURSELF! and User:Submillimeter's point, I've modified my proposal.
re: See this summary, and my comments on clear documentation all along our project pages. This alternative is more consistent with normal category practices. For your convienience this is a direct link back into the discussion. Thanks and Cheers! // FrankB 22:02, 8 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Terrorism in country categories

I saw you created the Terrorism in Ukraine category a while back. A new user is upset by the use of the word terrorism and is removing categories from pages at random. I would appreciate it if you would take a look at, and consider reverting the user's edits to, East Turkestan Islamic Movement, Grey Wolves, and Kurdistan Workers Party. Thanks, KazakhPol 02:48, 9 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Piped links

Per your edit summary:

'that proposes not linking dates at all'

Let's highlight the relevant portion which you overlooked in your attempt to mischaracterise the proposal:

Do not use piped links to "years in music" or analogous pages (eg 1983). (See Wikipedia:Wikiproject Music standards for discussion). (From here, and to head off the inevitable irrelevancy, note it says 'analogous' pages.)

'most other the other "year in" articles use piped links'

Most? Some evidence would be helpful. Actually, some evidence that this is a good practice would also be helpful, as opposed to this rationale, which I'll note you haven't even bothered addressing. So, the point of the piped links is what, exactly?

It's certainly explicitly warned against here and here.

Any further questions? --CalendarWatcher 04:04, 10 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]