User talk:David Kernow/Archive 2

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List of German concentration camps → List of Nazi concentration camps

David, you appear to have started the discussion about the proposed rename

List of German concentration camps → List of Nazi concentration camps

I wanted to be sure you were aware that the discussion has morphed to a choice between

  • List of Nazi concentration camps
  • List of concentration camps of Nazi Germany
  • List of German concentration camps

and that there was a proposal for the discussion period to be extended to allow consideration of the new options. Since you initiated the proposal, I wanted to draw your attention to the change so you have the opportunity to comment and to vote on the option you prefer. Regards. — JonRoma 01:01, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

David, I'm OK with the move as it stands (after Nightstallion's rename and your subsequent rename). The wording meets my criteria of specificity. Regards. — JonRoma 17:44, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

List of explorers

Well done with the tabulations at List of explorers. Looking good.--Ezeu 15:01, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for your encouragement, Ezeu!  Please grab a letter to make over should the fancy take you and time avail. In the meantime, do you know much about setting up Wikipedia tables?  I have a query prompted by tables elsewhere that I've asked here, but with no response. Perhaps there's a better place to ask, or what I'm asking is too obvious...
Best wishes and thanks again, David Kernow 18:38, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

I dont think it will work. As far as I know, CSS styles do not allow for table-cell centering to be defined vertically by column. --Ezeu 01:08, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

Darn. I thought it would either be something obvious, or not yet implemented. Looks like the latter. Thanks for the quick response. David 02:11, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

Recent Mass Move of Ethnic Articles

Hi, I've noticed that you have taken it upon yourself to move all ethnic articles to follow the pattern XXX people. I'm not placing a value judgement by making this comment, I'm just curious if this has been properly discussed. I've noticed your move request on the Germans page this morning. I don't believe that other ethnic articles were given such notice. Jbetak 21:00, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your concern; please see here and here for my comments. I believe more peoples' names fit an "XXX people" template, so ultimately there should be more consistency if it is used. However, if this is not the case or the consensus of those concerned is not to favor this pattern, so be it. Best wishes, David Kernow 00:21, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

Page renames

Hey, David, what are you doing with all these article renames ? You should not move the articles around that lightly. --Lysytalk 21:44, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

(as a sidenote: please do not consider my criticism of the renames or my opposition against them as any personal attack. peace.) --Lysytalk 22:45, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

Bergen-Belsen rename

Are you going to vote on your Talk:Bergen-Belsen rename request? LuiKhuntek 15:49, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your message, LuiKhuntek. I thought it was likely to go against Wikipedia policy to vote for your own Requested Move, but is this not so? (Seems odd if not!)  Best wishes, David Kernow 20:40, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
I don't know if it's against policy or not. I've been chastized both for voting and for not voting on a self-proposal (see User talk:LuiKhuntek). I'm interested to know of there's a policy and what it is but I'm not going to spend hours finding out. My feeling is that the proposer should have a vote since he or she has a strong enough interest to have made the proposal. LuiKhuntek 20:45, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
As far as I know it's not against the policy. --Lysytalk 20:48, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
Intriguing. I realise I've always assumed it would be. But I've just left a vote there and at least one other user (Lysy) hasn't been taken aback! David Kernow 20:53, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
Strangely enough, I've had requested article renames in the past that I myself had been against (and voted against). So it might make sense. --Lysytalk 21:07, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Depression (disambiguation page)

Just to say thanks for your recent revisions here. In my concern not to allow POV warriors easy exploitation of the clinical and everyday uses of the word, I realise the disambiguations had become overly long. Best wishes, David Kernow 21:35, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

No problem, I can certainly agree with your concern. Hopefully the sentences we have at the moment will lead people clearly to the right meaning. Thanks for your message -- sannse (talk) 21:48, 19 January 2006 (UTC)