User talk:Chris Capoccia

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[edit] Nose picking pic

Thank you for your defense. User:Boisemedia is mad that I deleted a link to a website he maintains from the article Boise media. That, I would say is self-serving. He wrote a message on my talk page thanking me for removing it, but has now reverted it, and started this petty controversy over the pic. Please respond on my talk page. Thanks. --[[User:JonMoore|— —JonMoore 20:24, 29 May 2006 (UTC)]] 03:34, 4 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Howdy!

How about some info on your user page? WikiDon 15:49, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

A simple page is now in place, and I fixed my signature to point to the right page.   — Chris Capoccia T⁄C 15:03, 17 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Since you posted earlier saying that the title should be changed, check out the discussion page. There's a request that the movie be given a separate article and the book the main article. --DrBat 22:48, 14 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Acronym and initialism

I noticed you reverted my change of US -> U.S., and quoted Acronym and initialism. However, that article states that American usage still requires the periods unless it's a pronounced acronym. Since U.S. is always spoken as its letters (as opposed to the word "us"), and the U.S. is certainly an American subject (as is Posse Comitatus Act, the article you reverted), the periods are appropriate and the preferred usage. Additionally, see Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Acronyms and abbreviations, which specifically endorses the U.S. usage. —Cleared as filed. 23:23, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

I am a native American English speaker, but not an expert, so have mostly just anectdotal evidence that "U.S." is not in general use. I looked quickly for some kind of online style guide that agreed with my experience, and the first one I found was from Canada’s IRDC Style Guide: Chapter 7: Abbreviations and addresses. But the more I look, the more I see that it evidently is not settled which way it should be written, and different groups have a consistent preference over how it should be done. So my final conclusion would be that niether of our edits should have been made.   — Chris Capoccia T⁄C 07:14, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
However, for consistency's sake, encyclopedias should have a standard usage, and according to the Manual of Style, U.S. is the standard usage here. —Cleared as filed. 13:20, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Caron/hacek vote

There's a vote on Talk:caron where the article should be if you're interested. +Hexagon1 (talk) 10:06, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Split Bean Coffee

Perhaps you noticed, but I just wished to tell you that Splitbean just deleted the entire article. I noticed that you had a large amount of contributions to the article. Would you like me to allow Splitbean to place {{db-author}} on it? I will revert the changes for the moment. Yours, Philip Gronowski Contribs 23:06, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

I don't think the article should be deleted. I do think Splitbean must have thought he could get some free advertising for his company, and was a little frustrated to find out that only encyclopedic entries are acceptable. In my opinion the company is on the edge of not being notable, but should not be deleted either.   — Chris Capoccia T⁄C 01:36, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The City of Lost Children

Hi Chris,

re: French don’t use English capitalization rules from 2006/06/01

I was just following the movie's poster, which seemed like a logical thing to do. The French use your casing, too, but for other films they the English style: fr:Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain. Never mind me. --213.196.5.160 12:27, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Háček

There's yet another vote at talk:caron. +Hexagon1 (t) 04:09, 8 July 006 (UTC)


[edit] Fred Wiseman

Hi Chris. I saw that your discussion page is untouched so i wasn't sure if you wanted people to leave messages there.

removed "Curiously, none of Wiseman's films are available on DVD or VHS in the consumer market." the movies are available, but at exhorbitant prices. $250 to rent Titicut Follies, for example.

That's pretty much what we meant by not in the consumer market. Want to add the info about the prices of the movies? --WikipediaAdventures


I tried adding that information to Titicut Follies, but it was ruled as not conforming to the neutral point of view. See Talk:Titicut_Follies. The pricing information is available at http://www.zipporah.com/sandr.html.   — Chris Capoccia T⁄C 16:59, 23 January 2006 (UTC)


interesting. fwiw, zipporah films is wiseman's company, i think it's him and one other person. i'm pretty sure he has complete control over his intellectual property and has chosen to keep his films out of wide distribution. why? i don't know. --Johnjosephbachir (aka WikipediaAdventures)

[edit] minor edits

Hi! I just noticed that you placed an OR tag on the King-James-Only page. I fully agree with you that the page deserves it, and particularly the passage in question. However, I would ask you to be more discriminate when using the minor-edit checkbox. I guess that most users would say that such a tag is nowhere near a minor edit. Most people don't look at minor edits when they see them on their observation pages (some even filter them out), but an OR-tag should be noticed by the editors of an article, and that's why a minor-edit is not such a good idea in a situation like that. Otherwise, thanks for your effort to improve that page, which really is in need of serious re-work. Landroving Linguist (talk) 08:49, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] KJV Only

I removed the KJV Only category tag that you added to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. While it is true that the LDS Church has an official set of scriptures that uses the KJV translation, there is no problem with people using other translations. No claim is made that the KJV is "better" or "worse" than any other translation. wrp103 (Bill Pringle) (Talk) 21:28, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks!

Thanks for the heads-up. Good to see a discussion started on cleaning up the KJV-only article. I can't promise much (see my comment on the talk page), but I'll help out as best I can. -- Kesh (talk) 21:08, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Klejas

I'm not sure what that character is up to, but I posted an incident at WP:ANI asking for help. I think there's a place to report vandals specifically, but I forget what it is. Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 13:19, 10 April 2008 (UTC)