Talk:Olde English Bulldogge
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This breed of dog is not a Category:Dog fighting breed, it was never used for that. The balance of the article is well written, why such heavy editing ? If you want to add on more info that is good, but why move info around for no apparent reason ? WritersCramp 23:32, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
- Because the headings and organization don't match the standards for dog breeds; there are better titles than those there. Because the intro has a lot of stuff in it that's not intro. Because there are better ways to phrase, spell, and punctuate what was there. That's why. Wikipedia is about collaborative editing to make text better, not about preserving your exact original text; hence, I'm reverting. If you really think that it's not better written, better organized, and better conforming to the general approach outlined in the WikiProject dog breeds, I recommend that you raise the discussion before reverting again. Learn to work with a group.
- As for the guy, I didn't remove the mention but I find it's hard to believe that he's significant enough to ever warrant his own article; you can create the article and I'll reserve judgement to when I actually see it.
- As for the dog fighting breeds, if it doesn't belong in that category, there's most certainly no reason for fighting breeds to be listed prominently in the See also. Can you justify that?
- And now that I'm not so annoyed about having my text reverted *before* you asked why I did it--of course you can edit from there. That's a much better way of developing an article than reverting. Elf | Talk 21:07, 7 September 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Citing sources
References vs Books vs Further reading: see my question & answer and links to related discussions at Wikipedia talk:Cite sources. There's no precedence for "Books", and it's still in debate over whether references & further reading should be separate or the same, but I'll go for further reading.
Also, something to consider: WP does not have a standard style for the list of cited sources. However, there's a nice example here and I've been trying to get all the dog-related articles to use that same format so that they look consistent. If you want to use that format, I'd be delighted; if you dont' have strong feelings about it, I can go ahead and change the format. If you do have strong feelings about it--please say something now or forever hold your bulldogges. Elf | Talk 21:07, 7 September 2005 (UTC)
- The format I used at University was similiar to MLA, Wiki is using APA, I am easy going on the matter. WritersCramp
[edit] Englishe?
A change from "Olde Englishe Bulldogge" to "Olde English Bulldogge" has been reverted not too long ago. I wonder why. All the external links we provide use "English" (including the "International Olde English [sic] Bulldogge Association"), and Google counts 100 instances of "Olde English Bulldogge" for every instance of "Olde Englishe Bulldogge". I'm changing it back to English. Of course the article should be moved as well. Algae 19:58, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
