User talk:Rhetth

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[edit] Welcome

Hello, Rhetth, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the New contributors' help page, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type {{helpme}} on your user page, and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! By the way, you can sign your name on Talk and vote pages using three tildes, like this: ~~~. Four tildes (~~~~) produces your name and the current date. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! Kukini 05:03, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Restaurant categories

Hi, Rhetth! I noticed that you are doing some editing and organization of restaurant categories. The way categories work is sometimes non-intuitive, so you might want to take a look at Wikipedia:Categorization and Wikipedia:Category. Unfortunately, in the case of regional hierarchies (as you probably have discovered) previous editors have not always been consistent in how they are applied and in preserving a true hierarchy. As it is, if you add a more specific subcategory, please be sure to remove any redundant parent categories (e.g., if you add Category:Restaurants in Missouri, you should remove Category:Restaurants in the United States); and usually we do not add nonexistent (redlinked) categories unless they are going to be populated (e.g., Category:Restaurants in Kansas City).

I have also been working on categorization and recategorization of restaurant articles, so I'm sure we'll run into each other again. You might be interested in looking at WikiProject Food and drink and help me restart the project. Cheers, MCB 00:35, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] User page semi-protection

Hi, Rhetth - I have semi-protected your user page, which should help keep it from being repeatedly vandalized by what appears to be a spambot. You (and other registered editors) can edit it, but anon IPs cannot. After a while we can remove the semi-protection and see if the spammer has moved on to other targets. Best, --MCB 21:07, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Core

Hi. I removed the core (anatomy) link you added to the disambiguation page core, on the basis that disambig pages aren't glossaries, but a way to distinguish information that exists on Wikipedia and which may be confused with each other. Before I removed the link, I did some searching to see if I could find some other anatomy article that talked about "cores" which we could use in the entry, but couldn't turn anything up.

If you know of an article that discusses the anatomical concept of core, or if you wish to write a stub for core (anatomy), I'd be happy to reinstate the entry. Sanguinity 20:57, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Oh, good! I'm glad that we'll have something to link to soon. Thank you for taking that on. :-) Sanguinity 21:58, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
There's some judgement call to it. The Manual of Style for Disambiguation pages has a discussion about when to disambiguate redlinks. If many articles already link to the redlink, then it's a good idea to disambiguate it. If nothing links to it, disambiguation is less important.
When I disambiguated all the links pointing to core, almost none of them had anything to do with core muscles, core strength, or related ideas. There are quite a few articles that could link to such a place, but no one was trying to. Personally, I would be okay with disambiguating that sense of "core".
As to how to disambiguate a redlink: it's bad form to have a redlink entry with no accompanying bluelink; it's bad form to have a redlink entry with a near-irrelevant bluelink, it's good form to have a redlink entry with a useful bluelink. Examples:
  • I'm Making This Up (band), a British rock band <-- Bad form: no bluelink
  • I'm Making This Up (band), a British rock band <-- Bad form: British is an unhelpful bluelink
  • I'm Making This Up (band), the childhood rock band of Tony Blair <-- If the Tony Blair article mentions the band, then this is good form. If the Blair article doesn't mention the band, then it's bad form.
Moot point -- you've already populated the article! Sanguinity 22:36, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sirtuins and Sir2

Hello, I see that you changed the Sirtuin redirect to a new page. Personally I'd prefer to have a single page discussing the sirtuins and Sir2 together, because almost all we know about sirtuins is about Sir2=SIRT1, the main study object of Sinclair et al. There are some other sirtuins, but comparatively little is known about them. The Sir2 article used to have an introductory sentence explaining that Sir2 is just one of the sirtuins, but that was recently removed and I just restored it. Your interesting information about sirtuin companies and history in sirtuin research could be merged with Sir2. Another option would be to merge both articles under the heading Sirtuin, which probably makes more sense since that's the larger concept. But of course it's your baby so if you prefer to keep them separate that's ok too. Cheers, AxelBoldt 18:02, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

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