User talk:Chuckstar

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[edit] Redirect

I fixed the redirect you put up for Chondrite-->chondrules. The word "redirect" needs a # before it, for the redirect to go into effect. Cheers! Joyous 02:52, Nov 30, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] VfD for Less than three

Hi Chuckstar, I noticed you had added a Vfd tag to the article Less than three. When you tag an article for VFD you need to complete three steps before the VFD is complete. It is all spelled out in the article Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion. After tagging the article itself you need to then create the Votes for deletion talk page for the article and list it on the Votes for Deletion page for the day. Its all spelled out for you in the Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion. Let me know if you have any questions, I'd be happy to help you out. Enjoy Wikipedia! Gblaz 21:39, July 27, 2005 (UTC)

  • As I was working on fixing it I see that you finished up the last steps. All set now! Gblaz 21:44, July 27, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Tone

Hi Chuck. You write “ I don't see why this seems such a problem to you: ß and ő have never been used in English. Æ is no longer used.” Please try to be less confrontational. It is not "such a problem to" me. In fact, I myself wrote most of the ”don’t use ß” paragraph on Wikipedia:Proper names (even though I disagree with it). I am sorry my behavior upsets you. As you say, ß has never been used in English, so we won't use it either. ö, incidentally, is an (albeit archaic) diaeresis which I have seen used on coöperation. (Really!) The æ-ligature is of course no longer used either. The question is whether Wikipedia should follow such English publications that use letters outside the English alphabet, as long as they are legible to the reader. Many English books do so, even my dusty OCE has garçon with a virgule. Vote by ”majority” won’t get us far either: the spelling Paul Erdős with a Hungarian double acute accent is at least as common (in English math books) as is Paul Erdös or Paul Erdos. Some of us feel that Wikipedia should rejoice in the fact that technology finally allows us to print these things faithfully. Others disagree. That's fine. (And with regards to ß I understand the point and accept the majority POV.) But it is a fair debate that isn't resolved by Use English. Cologne versus Köln is resolved by it, but Arhus versus Århus is not. Best, Arbor 07:46, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

Hopefully you're watching my page, otherwise these conversations become difficult (you post on mine, I respond on yours). I apologize for my tone.
I'm confused why it doesn't resolve the 'Arhus' case. I looked at the article and there seems to be a perfectly acceptable non-Å way to spell it. The Å is not English. It doesn't even represent something like garçon, which even if not English is at least widely known and used. I agree its great we have the technology to easily use these letters in the articles. That doesn't mean we should use it the way the Århus article did. I actually found it difficult to read. Sort of similar to how its hard to read a paragraph that's in all caps. It wasn't like "oh my god, I can't possibly get through this", it was more like my eye got stuck on that letter for an extra instant every time I got to it. I found that even if it was in the line above or below the line I was reading, I would notice that letter go by. I can't imagine I'm the only one who has that reaction. I should have read that article and learned something about Århus, instead all I really remember is that letter jumping out at me every couple lines. Its perfectly reasonable to inform people what the native spelling is, its unreasonable to make them slog through an article filled with it. Chuck 18:56, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Wiki-linking from quotes discussion

Hi there. I've added a comment to the discussion here about Wiki-linking from quotes. As someone who has posted to this discussion, I'd appreciate any comments you might have. Thanks. Carcharoth 19:05, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

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