User talk:Piccadilly

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Contents 1 Welcome 2 Kenwood elevations 3 Image copyright problem with Image:Photograph of William Burges.jpg 4 Meißen 5 Categories for deletion 6 Actors who portrayed... catagories 7 Classical Guitar Categories 8 Ivan Caryll; Howard Talbot 9 Edit Summary 10 Robeson/Stalin 11 Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Log/2006 November 16#Category:Pool and Snooker computer games 12 Guitarist categories 13 "Leaders of Scientology" 14 James I 15 British royal titles templates

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Welcome

Johann Wolfgang [ T ...C ]

17:22, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Kenwood elevations

Thanks for those. Any chance you could upload the image to Wikimedia Commons - there is an image gallery there Commons:Kenwood House that it could go in. Justinc 12:27, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

• I will do soon. Piccadilly 12:29, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:Photograph of William Burges.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:Photograph of William Burges.jpg. However, the image may soon be deleted unless we can determine the copyright holder and copyright status. The Wikimedia Foundation is very careful about the images included in Wikipedia because of copyright law (see Wikipedia's Copyright policy).

The copyright holder is usually the creator, the creator's employer, or the last person who was transferred ownership rights. Copyright information on images is signified using copyright templates. The three basic license types on Wikipedia are open content, public domain, and fair use. Find the appropriate template in Wikipedia:Image copyright tags and place it on the image page like this: {{TemplateName}}.

Please signify the copyright information on any other images you have uploaded or will upload. Remember that images without this important information can be deleted by an administrator. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me, or ask them at the Image legality questions page. Thank you. Shyam ^(T/C) 12:50, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Meißen

Hi, you just moved Meißen to Meissen. Before you do something like that, you should submit it at Wikipedia:Requested moves. There has been a lot of discussion about replacing characters in proper names, that are part of the extended Latin alphabet, like ß, ð and þ. There is no consensus about that, see Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(use_English)#Disputed_issues. I suppose that means you shouldn't move this page unilaterally. I'll move it back. Markussep 13:55, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

People who want article names in German can use the German Wikipedia. Piccadilly 23:00, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

What nonsense! Have you read anything I wrote above? 1. Discuss moves like this before you do them. 2. Meißen nor Meissen is English, it's a town in Germany, and you can't decide on your own what the common English name is. Markussep 08:22, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

What garbage! This is the English Wikipedia and it should be written in English. Non native speakers who try to use Wikipedia to bend the English language should be banned from Wikipedia. You have no more right to tell us how to write English than we have to tell you how to write Dutch. The difference is that there are a lot of non-native speakers trying to manipulate the English wikipedia, but probably very few non-native Dutch speakers on the Dutch one. Piccadilly 15:42, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

If you don't like it, take it to Wikipedia:Naming conventions (use English) orWikipedia:Requests for comment. Markussep 06:12, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

Where the debate will shamelessly be manipulated by non-native speakers who should not be permitted to contribute! Piccadilly 16:00, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Categories for deletion

Yesterday I accidentally erased a whole bunch of content via this edit. Today I restored the content I erased. Since you were the person affected by this, please make sure that your votes are correct. My apologies for all the trouble.Balcer 13:15, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Actors who portrayed... catagories

Why can't you understand that I created those Actors/Actresses who portrayed... subcatagories because the Batman actors and Superman actors catagories were getting severely large. So breaking them down became much more conveinent for the user. Besides, there's only an elite number of actors who have portrayed a particular iconic comic book character like Batman and Superman (so they should get extra focus). TMC1982 14 October 2006 (UTC)

I understand why you are doing it but I still don't think it is a good idea. I would like to see the categories system keep in check, with just a handful of categories on each article. I don't think that playing a particular character is necessarily or usually a defining characteristic of an actor's career. Piccadilly 12:35, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Classical Guitar Categories

Hello! Thanks for the great job on the categorization of classical guitarists by nationality.

However: The category http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Classical_guitarists should actually be called Category:Classical_guitarists_by_nationality

Also: The category http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Classical_guitarists should contain what it contained previously, namely: links to the entries with classical guitarists http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Classical_guitarists

See also

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:List_of_classical_guitarists and
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category_talk:Classical_guitarists

[edit] Ivan Caryll; Howard Talbot

You moved him into "Belgian musical theatre composers", and he is the only item in that category. Are you sure that's the right way to do it? Also, you moved Howard Talbot to English musical theatre composers, but he is American born.... -- Ssilvers 20:27, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Everyone should be in a nationality-by-occupation category and Howard Talbot was English. Place of birth does not determine nationality and infant residency is irrelevant to the categorisation of adult careers. Piccadilly 20:29, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

OK, but if that's right, then shouldn't Caryll be in English musical theatre composers and American musical theatre composers, as about half of his musicals were composed while he lived in London, and half in New York? -- Ssilvers 20:39, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

If you wish. Piccadilly 20:42, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Edit Summary

Dep. Garcia ^{(Talk to Me)} 20:44, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

That is a patronising standard message to give to an experienced editor, and I really think you should think twice before using it again as it may prove counterproductive. Piccadilly 20:41, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

Please accept my sincere apologies, i can promise you it wont happen again - i have replaced it with a more suitable one. Thanks for alerting me. If you have any more queries or are still angry with me please tell me on my talk page.

Dep. Garcia ^{(Talk to Me)} 20:44, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Robeson/Stalin

Thanks, I have heard of that Stalin fella, but my question was about a source for the quote where Robeson said he admired him. Blueshoc12 16:25, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Log/2006 November 16#Category:Pool and Snooker computer games

Please review the above CfR again; I believe you've misinterpreted the rationale for it and not understood that it is simply a temporary change. This video game category is the only cuesports-related category at this point that is not part of the consistent naming scheme. Note I say "consistent" not "ideal"; I recognize that "billiards" is hardly synonymous with "cue sports" to anyone but some Americans; changing the name of the general cue sports article (and all categories relating to it, including the one under discussion) from Billiards to either Cuesports or Cue sports will be the next step. That step will be easier to perform, in a multi-category mass CfR, if all of the category names are consistent. That's the ONLY purpose of this CfR; it has nothing to do with a preference for the term "billiards" as a generic name for cuesports. :-) — SMcCandlish [talk] [contrib] ツ 10:31, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

The larger debate is now active at Talk:Billiards#Move of this article to "Cue sport", FYI. — SMcCandlish [talk] [contrib] ツ 09:58, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Guitarist categories

Hey there, I wonder if you mind if I combine Category:English heavy metal guitarists and Category:Scottish heavy metal guitarists into Category:British heavy metal guitarists? It seems to be broken down more than necessary, considering how few guitarists are in those categories. --Aguerriero (talk) 01:42, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

I'm afraid I would mind. "English" and "Scottish" categories are legitimate and there are hundreds of each. These articles should be reachable from the relevant English and Scottish categories. Piccadilly 17:20, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

Okay, will leave them. I am in the process of going through Category:Guitarist stubs, and many of those articles are not in any category. Hopefully I'll be able to file some more entries into those! --Aguerriero (talk) 17:27, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. Good luck. Piccadilly 17:28, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "Leaders of Scientology"

Not sure that Gabriel Williams belongs in the "Leaders of Scientology" category.... being a 'chief supervisor' of their outpost in Mountain View, CA is hardly a leader of Scientology, more like middle management at best. Similarly, we wouldn't list a McDonalds manager as being a "Leader of McDonald's". wikipediatrix 18:19, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] James I

I was taken aback by your "there is nothing in the article about pederasty. Look up the word if you don't know what it means. Categories are black and white and can only be justified by certainty" at the James I of England‎ article.

Categories are to guide readers to article with content relevant to the topic they are researching. It is "certain" that there is material relevant to pederasty in James I's life, since he had a relationship with Esmé Stewart, and even if you wish to dispute that, there is another, indisputable one with the seventeen year old Robert Carr. Regards, Haiduc 05:19, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

• There is no proof of sexual activity in either case. The category system deals in black and white and you are attempting to pass of speculation as fact. Piccadilly 19:50, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] British royal titles templates

So you've added the categories in manually for, what, 'ordering'? The reason there is a capacity to include a category in a template is because they go together - if someone was Duke of Albany, they belong in the category, and should have the template - thus the two are inextricably linked. What if we're told by the PtB that the category ought to be called "People who have in the past been a Duke of Albany" - someone would have to go through and manually edit the categories - whereas, with template embedding, it would only need to be altered once... – DBD does... 08:59, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

Yes for ordering. The way you did it damaged the presentation of every related article. Your point about having to edit each article is meaningless as category names can only be changed via Wikipedia:Categories for discussion and all adjustments agreed there are implemented by bot. No one will have to manuaully edit a single article. Please think twice about using advanced categorisation tools when you don't understand the basics, as you are likely to do more harm than good. Piccadilly 19:37, 1 December 2006 (UTC)