User talk:Fuhghettaboutit/Archive 1

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Let me know if you have problems with this or further questions. (my ~~~~ signature:) RJFJR 19:01, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

Three cushion billiards now redirects to the same article Three cushion billiard does, i.e. Carambole billiards. RJFJR 01:51, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

Contents 1 Camp Couture summary 2 The nickname 3 Transportation in NYC 4 Styx 5 supercede/supersede 6 Andy Garcia 7 Please stop editing the name Agression on Nardcore

[edit] Camp Couture summary

I removed your summary from the Camp Couture article as it wasn't conform with Wikipedia's Neutral point of view policy. "an obvious attempt to provide opium to the industrial masses to delay the inevitable class struggle against the wage labor run industrial machine." This is clearly not neutral (and also unsourced. If it is in fact meant seriously, it's also on the verge to original research). --Fritz Saalfeld (Talk) 01:10, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Oh my. Of course it was meant to amuse! Read it again. --Fuhghettaboutit 01:38, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, well, Wikipedia is not a place for that, either. The new summary you wrote is way better. --Fritz Saalfeld (Talk) 10:28, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Actually, it is a place for that. Us useful contributors get our messages across in many ways; it was an obvious invitation to change five words to make a useful summary--If you hadn't of erased in almost no time at all, someone else would have, or would have changed the already in place structure to leave a summary not unlike the one I wrote--after copyediting thirty pages, and reversing real vandalism, A bit of Ignore All Rules obvious humor in nonoffensive form hurt no one, certainly not Wikipedia. Learn to relax a little.

[edit] The nickname

Great nickname! Reminds me of our attempts at doing Donnie Brasco impressions in the pub once :) Mushin^talk 18:08, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

Oh dear lord! The British should never try Brooklynese; the fabric of the universe can only take so much abuse. You should hear me say "that's-a-spicy meat-a-ball!" (do not attempt). Fuhghettaboutit 22:40, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

Too late...looks like goodbye universe, based on the quality of my voices! Mushin^talk 23:35, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Transportation in NYC

Hello Fuhghettaboutit - I noticed your work on the New York City Subway article. You might be interested in the Transportation in New York City sub article. It tells a fascinating story and it's been nominated to be a US Collaboration of the Week after lots of work over the last few weeks. Check it out and if you like it, please vote for it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:USCOTW We need all the votes we can get! Wv235 04:22, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Styx

Just so you're aware, I reverted your change. "Follow up" is a verb ("The doctor said I need to follow up in three weeks."), while "follow-up" (or "followup") is an adjective ("The doctor set my followup visit in three weeks."). (Dictionary.com suggests the hyphenate is the preferred form, but it's rarely used any more.) "Followup" is also used as a noun when the subject is obvious ("The doctor set my followup in three weeks."). Hope this helps. RadioKirk talk to me 19:35, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up Kirk. However, "Followup" should not be used.-- see for example: http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/followup.html ("A doctor can follow up with a patient during a follow-up visit (note that the adjectival form requires a hyphen). Neither phrase should be turned into a single hyphenless word.").
See also http://www.nyu.edu/classes/copyXediting/one_word_two_words.html and

http://www.plainlanguage.gov/howto/quickreference/dashcompound.cfm and
http://www.exeter.edu/communications/style.html

An encyclopedia should follow the formal conventions of the language in which it is written.

I tend to agree with you; I kept "followup" because it's become the convention of late, but I'll go add the hyphen. RadioKirk talk to me 20:23, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] supercede/supersede

Cricket being an English game, I rather think the English spelling should apply, not the American English one; I'm reinstating supercede which is the correct spelling.

You might want to check your facts there. Actually, supercede is generally considered a mistake or passe in both American and British English. This is not a British versus American difference; writers on both sides of the pond write "supercede" as an alternate but frowned upon spelling of supersede. The British dictionary, http://www.dictionary.co.uk/, powered by the Cambridge University Press, has no entry for "supercede." Some dictionaries list supercede as an alternate spelling but flag supersede as more correct. Most notably, the OED does list supercede as an alternate, but that it is only quoted in 19th century texts. Changing it back will not cause any great damage. Just don't do it for the reason you cite. Personally, I think an encyclopedia should follow formal writing conventions. Fuhghettaboutit 04:45, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Andy Garcia

Hi please be careful when you edit image links as you just made the image disappear from the article. Arniep 20:31, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

Oops, sorry. Was monitoring recent changes and got "vandal edit hypnotized."

[edit] Please stop editing the name Agression on Nardcore

It is spelled with ONE G, on purpose and it's getting annoying to have to keep changing it. Obviously no one is familiar with the band, who happen to have been close friends so I know what I'm talking about. Thank you. ~~

Slipped by me during mass spelling revert on agresion. I did a google fight before this particular edit: "nardcore aggression" vs. "nardcore agression", and the former got more hits leading me to a false positive. Fuhghettaboutit 18:19, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

I'm glad you're being cool about it. I still don't understand how and why editors get into a subject they know nothing about, especially punk bands. There is still a lot to be changed. I'll get to it when time doesn't have me by the throat. ~~maluka

Why would anyone not be? All you have to do is go to amazon.com and look up one of there albums to see you're right. Unfortunately, when you're doing something like reverting 230 misspellings of a word, even if you're careful, sometimes one edit is made where it shouldn't be. Fortunately, those who are more involved in the specific article and have it on there watch list, almost always quickly come along and see the mistake for what it is. Fuhghettaboutit 01:46, 31 January 2006 (UTC)