User talk:Cbuckley

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[edit] Vandalism on my user page

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thanks a lot for noticing and removing the vandalism on my user page! Cheers, AxelBoldt 20:28, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Damn straight it's the University of Durham, not Durham University

Re: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=College_of_St_Hild_and_St_Bede&curid=916896&diff=39358335&oldid=39357055 ;) --Jpowell 22:32, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] blink-182

I'm trying to start a discussion as to which is the correct form in the first word of the sentence. Please see Talk:Blink-182. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 01:08, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] thanks for adding merge

Thanks for adding the merge links to the logit and Logistic regression pages, I didn't know how to do that (or that a non-admin could do that). Cheers, Pdbailey 15:24, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "A Little Less Sixteen Candles"

I wanted to thank you for taking the time to rewrite "A Little Less Sixteen Candles, a Little More "Touch Me"." I had added the cleanup tag like a month ago and was making slow changes, but I never had the time to comletely fix it. I just wanted to let you know that your work is appreciated. —Akrabbimtalk 15:20, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

No problem. It had been irritating me for a while, but I finally got round to doing it. cBuckley (Talk • Contribs) 16:29, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome to CAUBXD!

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[edit] Acronym vs. initialism

Hi there. I noticed your change on GLC regarding the difference between acronym and initialism, and I had never heard of the difference so I looked it up. I notice on acronym and initialism that the difference between the terms is not universally recognized, and also that there is a lot of editing on this issue in various Wikipedia articles. So I'm curious... is there centralized discussion of this usage anywhere on Wikipedia? Thanks, 14:14, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

I tend to go with the "contentious point" part of that article, using acronym for pronouncable words like laser or radar, and initialism for an abbreviation whereby the first letter of each constituent word is pronounced, like XHTML (ecks-haitch-tee-em-el). Both are special cases of the more general abbreviation, which is just a reduction of a collection of words into a shorter collection. There is a rather popular article where people argue this point, and get their dictonaries out. It's a bit difficult, however, when English and American dictionaries differ. If I were to choose a definition I would choose the one used above, but because it's contentious (and because that particular disambiguation page had a general abbreviation Glc as well as the initialisms), I decided to remove it. I don't know if there is a discussion of this on Wikipedia anywhere, but I get the impression that the pedants who try to make a distinction (myself included :-P) go for this one. — cBuckley (Talk • Contribs) 16:16, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Recycle001.svg vs. RecyclingSymbolGreen.png

Why delete the latter? -- Avi 17:47, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

At first I thought the SVG version could supersede the original, but now that I've seen how many userpages it appears in, I'm inclined to agree. — cBuckley (Talk • Contribs) 17:50, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Tom Willmore

See User_talk:Cbuckley/Sandbox

--Jpowell 23:28, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Template creation

Err I did consider making it a template then realised I don't know how. Do you know?

Done. See Template:City of Leeds. I've left the LCC gif in there for now, and we'll see if it's WP:FAIR.

[edit] Leeds

How can the following contribution be taken as POV?

Three of the four men responsible for the 7 July 2005 London bombings were from Leeds.

The four bombers were traced and a bomb factory found in Leeds! Yorkshire Phoenix 15:37, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Leeds"

Okay, POV was not really the phrase I was after, but I really think it is not a relevant comment in an article about Leeds. I know it's true, but I don't feel it helps anything. Possibly the only thing I would object to is putting it in the section on the Islamic community - do all followers of Islam belive this was right? No. I was trying to think of it from the point of view of the person who wants to use the Leeds article as a point of reference, and while this really isn't POV I think it could be the start of flame wars, and is best left out. — cBuckley (Talk • Contribs) 16:13, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

It's a very relevant comment in an article about Leeds, especially one dealing with the context of the Islamic community there. No, I don't believe that "all followers of Islam belive this was right" any more than all Christians believe the Crusades were right: but this new form of Islamist terrorism has replaced Irish Replubicanism as the main threat to security in the UK and is an undeniable aspect of having Islamic communities in the post-11 September 2001 world. Yorkshire Phoenix 08:07, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] straw poll

Please see this straw poll.

[edit] Spinnaker Tower

Thanks - good idea. - Ballista 09:23, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Motorways.

You may be interested in using {{user:sceptre/motorways}}. Will (message ♪) 17:58, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cycling nav templates

Hi, just wondered why you were changing many cycling nav boxes that I only made in the past few days? Mk3severo 15:43, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

Although they are standardised, they seem to be standardised only to themselves, and not the general navigational templates. Sorry, I got halfway through doing them all and got distracted, but I'm finishing it now. It's possible to avoid using three templates and use only one with a transclusion of {{Dynamic navigation box}}. I noticed that Wikipedia:WikiProject_Cycling/Templates was a red link when I started, and I simply assumed that the templates were old rather than just being created! Sorry to change something that's only just been made, but I think (hope) that using the existing navigation template extends the idea of standardisation you were after. — cBuckley (Talk • Contribs) 16:24, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
Not really, it defeats it. Check out Wikipedia:WikiProject Football/Templates - I was going for the same style and which is used in over 300 pages. I would appreciate it if you could give it a chance to develop (having only just started to create nav footers), rather than changing on sight with minimal comment and no discussion. Mk3severo 16:33, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
I'll revert what I've done, but I must admit that I find the use of start and end templates a rather odd practice — I was simply trying to avoid that. — cBuckley (Talk • Contribs) 16:36, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Age category

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[edit] Re: BBC.svg

The image was taken from de:Image:BBC.svg and was reported there as ineligible for copyright. Is this a mistake on their entry as well? — cBuckley (Talk • Contribs) 02:58, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

I am not a copyright lawyer and don't have a perfect understanding of these things, but to summarize, to the best of my knowledge, the German Wikipedia seems to consider logos ineligible for copyright; we don't. Note also the license tag on Image:BBC Logo 1997-Present.png. Thanks – Qxz 03:20, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The Enemy

Hi, I stuck an "unreferenced" and "notability" tag on the page for The Enemy (English band), which you created last month. Can you please stick some press references in the page, so that it's referenced? I'm only saying, cos the article on their first album is already at Articles For Deletion and will probably get the chop, and the band article might be next. And, you know, I assume you'd care about that. AllGloryToTheHypnotoad 22:28, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, I gave it my best shot. The album article may reappear once it comes out, but for now I'll leave it. — cBuckley (Talk • Contribs) 01:29, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Finelines.jpg

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[edit] Ftr

A poll is currently being conducted at Talk:Ftr#Requested move to decide whether to move the article to FTR (bus). Your input would be appreciated. --Jorvik 10:23, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Happy Birthday!

Just a happy Birthday message to you, Cbuckley, from the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day!

-BigBrotherIsWatchingYou 07:57, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Motorway sign images

Hi, I was just going through the various motorway sign images marking them for conversion to SVG and copying to Commons, when I noticed you'd commented on Image:Motorway 6.png that you had SVG versions but that the font wasn't supported. What SVG editing program are you using? I use Inkscape and it has a function that allows text to be converted into paths, which makes fonts irrelevant - the text is "drawn" directly in the SVG itself. Could you check if your vector graphic program does the same? It'd be easier and more accurate than recreating them from the PNGs. Bryan Derksen (talk) 19:55, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

Hi Bryan, I can do that as I now use Inkscape, although those were actually created with a different program, which didn't have that functionality. I shall upload the correct versions to Commons. For reference, those fonts can be found at Chris' British Road Directory. — cBuckley (Talk • Contribs) 08:27, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
Thanks. Want me to clean up the templates I put on those image pages, or will you be doing that as you go? Bryan Derksen (talk) 08:32, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
Don't worry about that; I'll sort it out as I go. Thanks! — cBuckley (Talk • Contribs) 08:34, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

I don't like to be sticking a spanner in the works here, but I'm not really able to delete these under CSD I8 at the moment. First off, I8 only applies to the same images, not to PNGs replaced by SVGs. Second thing, these images are still used by {{Motorway sign}} and some of your sandboxes. There's no problem with deleting them if they are unused - CSD G7 covers that - but they do need to be unused, and I don't want to start messing about with templates and your sandboxes. If you can leave me a note when the PNG motorway sign images are unused, I'll delete them right away. There's no need to tag them again: a note on my talk page will be fine. Sorry for any inconvenience. All the best, Angus McLellan (Talk) 11:12, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, I guess I really meant vector version available, but when I tagged them as {{ncd}} there were still versions on enwiki rather than commons, and I wasn't sure of the correct template. Thanks for sorting those out, they'll be removed from that template as soon as I sort out the width of the single spacer!— cBuckley (Talk • Contribs) 18:30, 24 April 2008 (UTC)