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[edit] List of Redundant Expressions

Just a ping to let you know I responded to you, on my talk page. — SMcCandlish [talk] [contrib] - 05:42, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

Re: "either and/or both: "Either and/or both of these reports (depending on the number of class hours missed) must be submitted within seven days of the absence." — Division of Nursing: NURS 4321 Professional Nursing with Groups/Populations, Summer 2006 Course Syllabus, West Texas A&M University, retrieved 10 July 2006" - nice find!  :-) — SMcCandlish [talk] [contrib] ツ 10:43, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

Re: Breaking the list into A, B, C, etc.: I knew that needed to be done but had been putting it off and procratinating (again and again). — SMcCandlish [talk] [contrib] ツ 12:23, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

The Minor Barnstar
For the tedious chore of alphabetically separating the List of redundant expressions into separately-editable sections — SMcCandlish [talk] [contrib] ツ 12:34, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] RCA

Greetings, SigPig: Thank you for adding the Order of Precedence for the RCA. I made some minor corrections to it (refer to RCA Standing Orders) and replaced the specified armoured regiments with the armoured branch in general. This was for the sake of uniformity and to alleviate having to change it again should another armoured regiment be established in the future. Cheers. - Capt B.W. Woods, CD, RCA

Hello SigPig! Interesting idea you had about making a List of athletes by nickname. I have been very busy making a list of NHL players by team and when checking double redirects and other bad links, I happened to run across your list when I went to "what links here" for Gump Worsley. Two suggestions: firstly, set up the table of contents similar to it is on List of Montreal Canadiens players so that your list is all alphabetical. Secondly, I noticed that nothing actually links to your list. There is no way to actually find your list from other pages. Masterhatch 16:32, 18 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Canadian Military History Task Force

hi, I just wanted to bring your attention to the Canadian Military Task Force at Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history. We're currently looking for the task force people to joint so that we can start to develop and organize Canadian Military history content on the 'pedia.Mike McGregor (Can) 14:59, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Request for edit summary

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[edit] Reply from The Man With No Name

"Hi. Just a quick question: does your username mean "The Man With No Name" in Gaelic? Thanks. SigPig 07:55, 25 March 2006 (UTC)"

Hello Sig. My username can be broken down as follows: fer=man; gan=without; anim=name. The usual translation is given as nameless man but I thought that this twist was just as cool! If you added the prefix "In" or "An" before it, it would then indeed be best translated as The Man With No Name. I did'nt make it up; it was quite a popular name in late medieval/early modern Ireland, and wrongly rendered in English as Ferdinand. Why the interest? Thanks for dropping by, Fergananim 15:40, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re : Malachi Barrie

Oh, that's a speedy delete, under re-post of AfD'ed content. Next time just tag such articles with {{deleteagain}}, and a fellow sysop will settle the rest. - Cheers, Mailer Diablo 02:28, 4 April 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Bruce Wars in Ireland

I've being doing some long-overdue edits to Edward Bruce, particularly under the headings "The Invasion of Ireland" and "Arrival and the Campaign of 1315". I began it because the original article was hopelessly wrong in many places, but am now wondering if what I am writing would be better suited as an article in its own right on the Irish Bruce wars? Fergananim 19:19, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Why oh why, the "Sea To Die"?

Wrote most of my reply on my talk page; had a look at the refs and OK, I can live with it then; I still ahve my doubts as to wehther it's legitimate slang or media-hyep slang; further comment to what else is there is I vaguely remember the Province or BCTV coining the term, but we never used it and considered it only a media neologism; but one tag line gets repeated over and over, finds its way into magazines thanks to earnest reporters who think that BCTV-coined terms are what people actually us, and the word/phrase becomes a convention ("we"=Whistlerites and others in the corridor) felt it artifically-tabloidish and viewed it as a media neologism meant to scare the gorbies (tourists; 'gorbys not exclusively a Canadian slangword or I'd have put it in the list...unless it's there already I haven't looked). OK, it's the nature of the Beast; media slang is pop slang nowadays; no matter how tacky....Skookum1 17:35, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Qor/Kor/QOR

Sorry about the redirect mixup. Your edit was what I had intended. Thanks for clarifying things.

Neelix 20:49, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Battle Honours and Order of Precedence

Says You:"Where are these pages? Love to look at them."

Says I:"Wikipedia:WikiProject_Military_history/Canadian_military_history_task_force#Project_References" Mike McGregor (Can) 07:03, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Edit Summary

It probably wasn't intentional, but (Forage cap? - The Forage Cap Flap) struck me as incredibly funny. Teke 19:02, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

  • Ha, "infoboxcutters" is a good one too. Have a smile.

Teke has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling to someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Smile to others by adding {{subst:smile}}, {{subst:smile2}} or {{subst:smile3}} to their talk pages. Happy editing!

[edit] Crescent Town

Thanks for the help, I had forgotten about it actually. I moved it to Crescent Town (Ontario) and did some wiki work, I got to strike it off my list. Happy editing! Tips Forage Cap Teke 20:16, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] List of idioms in the English language - Rake/Haul over the coals

Thanks for re-adding 'rake over the coals'. I think we may have an example of things getting mixed up here - although 'haul over the coals' is not listed in the same dictionary you cite, it's certainly used extensively - as is 'rake over the ashes'. I suspect the phrases may well have got mixed up/blended - especially as there's also the sense of rake as in 'raking someone with withering fire' from a machine gun. To me, hauling over the coals makes sense, as I certainly wouldn't want to be pulled over burning coals, whereas raking over the ashes or embers is what you do when looking for something. However, I well recognise there could well be usages coming into vogue that are not historically correct - the language does develop after all. One of these days I'll stop shuddering over people mixing up 'lose' and 'loose'. Regards. WLD 22:28, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Rank

No prob Sigpig. Thanks for the friendly apo.See you around! Motorfix 23:29, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Domestic Operations

Good start...I added Operation PEREGRINE, and started the artical just tonight. mind giving it a once over for me? Cheers! Motorfix 03:45, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the quick review!

Motorfix 04:02, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Jeff "Incubus" Adams

I found the information about him from here: http://www.crimezzz.net/serial_killer_statistics/nicknames_name.htm According to this http://www.crimezzz.net/serialkiller_index/index.php, he was an American from California who killed 3 people. I'm sorry that I don't have more info to give you. Asarelah 02:10, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Regimental Sergeant Major

Hi SigPig

I had alphabeticized the list of countries in the Regimental Sergeant Major page. I did leave the UK at the top, though. That's because it is the root of all the other Commonwealth countries. Do consider moving it back to the top. If not, maybe you can take a look at the paragraph and rephrase it now that it is no longer at the top. --Rifleman 82 18:43, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Harry Potter 7

Hello Nice to see that some new faces have recently become interested in commenting on the article. However, I am interested to know how you became involved with the page? It would seem that someone came along and changed the title without any discussion. Then someone started a debate about a different title. A number of people I have never seen comment on a Harry Potter page then opposed the proposed further move. This is quite extraordinary attention for a HP page.

No one has yet explained the grounds for changing the page from its original title. Can you explain why this was done? It was also done by someone who had never edited the page before and was pretty inexperienced. A justification was given, but not explained. Then an anon deleted the debate. Also very strange. Why would anyone do this? Sounded like someone wanted to avoid discussion. While I do not think it likely that people would have opposed the page title change if it is satifactorily explained, this has still not been done. I do not see how any change of title can be discussed or considered unless someone explains why it needed to be moved in the first place. Sandpiper 07:56, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for getting back to me. I do finally understand what was going on. No one had yet explained to me that a formal procedural debate was going on about moving the page. I think, though am not sure, the name was changed twice immediately before this debate by independent users, which all added to my confusion. Sandpiper 19:18, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] CAPITALIZATION of Operations Names

In operations orders and some other formats, operation names are capitalized in all NATO countries. (Place names are also capitalized in these usages.) In everyday writing, they are not. It is a minor Convention around here we do not set operation names in all-captials. We must ask ourselves, what would a user enter into the search function, how can we help a user find what he needs? Esoteric spellings do not help. I will change HARMONY back to Harmony, although I will use a redirect page to help users who use all caps. Paul, in Saudi 15:39, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for your concurrence. Paul, in Saudi 17:25, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Diagnose

My Concise OED (1991) says "make a diagnosis of (a disease, a mechanical fault, etc) from its symptoms". What was the problem with the entry at List of English words with disputed usage? Rentwa 19:44, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

Which Oxford when lists 'Jane was diagnosed..'? Mine makes no mention of the usage you cite or anything similar. The word is a back formation from diagnosis, and the same dictionary's entry for diagnosis has '1a the identification of a disease by means of a patient's symptoms. b an instance or formal statement of this' with 2a, 2b and 3a, 3b being the analogies for mechanical faults and biological specimens respectively. Thus I can find no evidence supporting the other usage in British English. Rentwa 10:38, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
The Concise Oxford English Dictionary, 11th Edition, 2004. Entry under "diagnose" is as fols:

v. make a diagnosis of (an illness or other problem). > identify the medical condition of (someone): she was diagnosed as having epilepsy.

The > symbol above represents an arrowhead symbol in the text, which the dictionary states "introduces each subsense". --SigPig 20:59, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
Then it's become current between 1991 and 2004, and by the link on the talk page is certainly disputed. The entry must stand, if you want with a note that it's disputed only in British English. The remark about selecting evidence is justified since you routinely quote US dictionaries and use only these as grounds for deleting entries. If you found the remark uncivil then I apologise, but the criticism was fair. The article does not specify US English, so you must take into account all major dialects when deciding what belongs there. Rentwa 13:56, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
Fine, then, in the interests of covering the major varieties of English, I will ensure the opinions of Concise Oxford are included as well. I prefer OED online, as it was far more detailed; however, as my school no longer has a subscription, I no longer have access.
WRT "diagnose", however, as Concise Oxford lists the "diagnose a patient" sense without comment, and without any tag such as "nonstandard" or "informal", I cannot conclude that Oxford sees it as anything other than standard English. If we could find out which particular edition of Oxford first included this, we could say that "This usage has only been mentioned in the Concise Oxford since 19--" or whenever.
WRT Mr Cochrane, if he's a language or grammar expert, by all means reinstate the entry and add him in as a cite to the contrary position. --SigPig 19:03, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
Actually, it would be good to see some entries from respected usage guides (Fowler et al); the dispute seems to arise between the prescriptive (dictionaries) and the descriptive (usage guides/grammaries). Whether or not the word "foo", say, can be used in a particular context ("Foo all the elephants!") may be seen by some to be undisputed if there is consensus in the dictionaries; on the other hand, if Fowler states that "'Foo' is an intransitive verb and never takes a direct object", well, we have our dispute then, don't we? It was your mention of Cochrane that twigged me to that; I did a little checking on him Googlewise (the be-all-and-end-all of computer-based research), and it mentioned he was an editor with some 30-odd years experience (although he is not without his detractors, even in the linguistics community).
And as for selection of dictionaries, I apologize if you thought I had a hidden agenda to propagate American English usage (as a Canuck, heaven forfend!): M-W, AHD, and RH are available online and more readily accessible when I'm typing away; so please do not attribute to disingenuousness that which could more be accurately described as a slight (and somewhat embarrassing) lack of diligence. Cheers. --SigPig 19:20, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Marcel Martin

Hi SigPig- I like your userboxes. Hope you don't mind input--I think you want to say "de bons copains" (we are good friends) instead of "des..." (we are some good friends) -Eric (talk) 13:34, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

Oh, yeah, my friends and I have hung on to a few of those ourselves. For us, it was "Papa, mangeons dans un restaurant ce soir!" "Oui, Papa, dînons en ville!" For some reason it really sticks, that 70s interactive multimedia experience. à+ -Eric (talk) 16:43, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Page boy

Hello. I had a suggestion for the Page boy article and wanted to see what you thought. L0b0t pointed out that there are other defintions for the term "page boy", so we thought a disambig might be more appropriate than deletion. I have created a draft of one at User:Satori Son/Sandbox and would greatly appreciate your opinion. Thanks for your time, Satori Son 16:15, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Looks fine to me. Thanks. --SigPig 16:29, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] pre-DEU

In February 2006, you used the expression pre-DEU in the sentence "In the Canadian Forces, there's generally 3 different designs of mess dress floating around: the dinner jacket and accoutrements (must-have for regular force officers, optional for everyone else); the "Mess CF" drss (the pre-DEU midnight-blue tri-force mess dress); ... " What does pre-DEU refer to? Bejnar 19:00, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, Distinct Environmental Uniform from your edit of DEU. Bejnar 19:42, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks!

Thanks for fixing my formatting on the Warrant Officer article. I hadn't looked at MoS quotation guidelines, yet. (note to self: RTFM!) --Born2flie 15:36, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

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