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[edit] PMRC

Excellent job revising Parents Music Resource Center. The only change I disliked was combining the Senate hearings section by removing the section headings. I found that the third-level headings, which don't break up the page with a horizontal line, made the text easier to read by grouping it into chunks. Additionally, the subheadings allowed readers to go directly to the subheading for a certain person from the table of contents.

Here's the old version for comparison. Thanks, Λυδαcιτγ 01:24, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

There were too many subheadings for the amount of text. If it could be split into two subheadings (supporters and opposers?) it might work, although IMO the whole section reads too much like a boring list, it would be better to summarise the two sides and the outcome rather than just listing who spoke and what they said. Ditto the next section as well: it hardly seems necessary to list every band that mentioned the PMRC, it might be better just to cover 3-4 really notable or interesting ones in more detail (probably the most interesting are the first one to do it, Aerosmith who made a real point (that they weren't mentioned) rather than just swearing, and Rage Against the Machine because their protest was novel). I might have a look at it again if I have time. NicM 14:04, 3 February 2007 (UTC).
All right, I split it up into "Supporting witnesses" and "Opposing witnesses". I agree about the Tipper sticker section, and I'll pare it down at some point. Λυδαcιτγ 17:49, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Stop putting irish on UK towns

Stop putting irish on UK towns —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Stopirishonukpages (talk • contribs) 14:38, 15 February 2007 (UTC).

Newtownards is both in the UK and on Ireland. Nearly half of the population of Northern Ireland identifies with the Republic of Ireland, everybody born in the province before (IIRC) 2001 is automatically entitled to Irish citizenship as well as British, and Irish is officially recognised as a minority language. Including Irish names on Wikipedia pages for towns on Ireland, north or south, is perfectly appropriate. Unless you can provide a good reason not to? NicM 15:08, 15 February 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Apology

My apologies for reverting this edit to Sudo. I had it backwards, my mistake. —Remember the dot (t) 17:48, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

No worries. NicM 17:54, 9 March 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Join the discussion on Wikipedia talk:Attribution/Community discussion! : )

Hello! Since you were the person who originally impressed upon me the importance of sources, I thought you might be interested in this. So, here's an official please join the discussion template:

There has been an extensive effort to combine Wikipedia:Verifiability and Wikipedia:No original research (together with much of Wikipedia:Reliable sources) into a new policy called Wikipedia:Attribution, and its FAQ, WP:ATTFAQ.

Recently, on Wikipedia talk:Attribution and on the Wiki-EN-l mailing list, Jimbo questioned whether the result had adequate consensus, and requested:

You are invited to take part; the community discussion should be as broad as possible. If you wish to invite other experienced and intelligent editors, please use neutral language. This message, for example, is {{ATTCD}}.

— Armed Blowfish (talk|mail) 19:20, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

I am interested, thanks for letting me know about this. NicM 22:19, 25 March 2007 (UTC).
 : ) Armed Blowfish (talk|mail) 00:32, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
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