User talk:TedPavlic

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Contents 1 Archives 2 Google Web Accelerator Problem 3 Request for edit summary 4 Redirects 5 "lilliopsida"

[edit] Archives

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[edit] Google Web Accelerator Problem

unblock-auto|1=64.233.173.85|2=To edit, please disable Google Web Accelerator for Wikipedia. Please see http://webaccelerator.google.com/support.html#preferences2 for details.

Are you haing problems disabling web accelerator? --pgk 17:21, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

No, I've disabled it. I added en.wikipedia.org to its list of disabled sites. I thought the next step was to add that unlock line to here. Let me know if there's something else I need to do. --TedPavlic 17:55, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

If it's been disabled then you should be ok to edit, it was the IP address which was blocked so disabling web accelerator fixes that. --pgk 18:27, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Request for edit summary

When editing an article on Wikipedia there is a small field labeled "Edit summary" under the main edit-box. It looks like this:

The text written here will appear on the Recent changes page, in the page revision history, on the diff page, and in the watchlists of users who are watching that article. See m:Help:Edit summary for full information on this feature.

Filling in the edit summary field greatly helps your fellow contributors in understanding what you changed, so please always fill in the edit summary field, especially for big edits or when you are making subtle but important changes, like changing dates or numbers. Thank you. – Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 03:04, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Redirects

Hi. Just a note. Creating redirects of the form Ordinary Differential equation (mixed capitals) is in the long term not so helpful. If you type that in the search box the software is smart enough to figure out the correct capitals for you and direct you to the appropriate article even if the above is a redlink. On the other hand, having the above mixed capitalization link would I think encourage typos in articles (if you type the above and see it is red, you may think you did something wrong and may fix it, if you see it blue, you may think all is fine and leave it that way).

You can reply here if you have comments. Cheers, Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 18:44, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

I understand your concern; however, I create these entries to aid Mozilla Firefox and Camino users who define smart search bookmarks to get to Wikipedia pages. For example, when I type wikiped (string) into the URL box of either of these browsers, because of a quick search setup in the bookmarks, I am taken to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/(string). Unfortunately, if the capitalization is not correct, I am taken to the "Edit this page" page rather than the "Search" page that does the search for me. It's true that I can click the "Search for ..." link directly, and I often do, but this one extra click gets frustrating after a while. It's especially frustrating because WikiWords force the first letter to be capitalized, so that letter in the quick search gets capitalized automatically while the first letter of the second word retains its quick search case. Personally, I think that the WikiMedia software could be made user-friendly in this respect. It makes looking things up quickly much more convenient. Does that make sense? Am I the first person to use Wikipedia as a Mozilla quick search? I would be happy if instead of being taken to the "Edit this page" page, I was taken to the same page that results from clicking the "Go" in theOrdinary Differential equation search box on the left of the page. --TedPavlic 19:02, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

Additionally, I would argue that creating these entries prevents others from creating duplicate entries that simply have different case. I'm sure there are SOME stubs out there that are simply the result of people creating pages that they thought didn't exist. --TedPavlic 19:02, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

I think you are correct if you talk about links of the form Ordinary Differential Equation, but I would doubt your reasoning for links of the form Ordinary Differential equation. Given a link made up of three words as above, there are 8 possible choices of uppercase/lower case for the first letter, and adding one more word doubles the number of cases (and except for one or two, all those combinations are not grammatically correct) . While I understand your reasoning, I'd still think that doing all possible combinations of upper/lower case in the long turn would not provide gain, perhaps even the other way around. But there is room for disagreement. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 21:31, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

I'll give it more thought. For now, I'll just stick to whatever case is necessary for a Firefox quick search to return the correct thing provided all lowercase was used in the quick search. I think that should work, right? Thanks. --TedPavlic 16:07, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

OK. Cheers, Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 23:37, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "lilliopsida"

I don't remember the specific circumstances, but it's usually helpful to have redirects for the most common misspellings are alternate spellings - not unknown for someone to see a red link and create a duplicate article. Higher-level taxa in plant taxoboxes is an unsettled situation right now, I wouldn't expend too much brainpower on it. When we come to a decision, we'll probably mass-change boxes with a bot. Stan 23:12, 28 February 2007 (UTC)