User talk:FISHERAD

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[edit] Green Left (Green Party of England and Wales) Edit

I'm replying to the message you send me about the Green Left (Green Party of England and Wales). Clean up is very normal, we all make typo's, other small mistakes or don't know exactly what wikipedia's options are. So don't worry you didn't do anything wrong. Three small notes though:

  • There's nothing wrong with putting an article in many categories, aslong as the article fits into those categories. Because there are so many biographies on wikipedia, some categories are specifically ment for people and not for organizations. I removed those. Some of the categories you put on appeared not to exist, so removed those too.
  • What I find the cool thing about wikipedia is the linking. A large part of your text lacked links, so I added them.
  • A final word of warning, like you a sympathize with leftwing ideals, but wikipedia is supposed to have a neutral point of view, and it is not meant as a promotional tool. In the edit summary you wrote "As a member of the Green Left within the GPEW", quite honestly it does not sound like a good reason to create an article.

So, there is nothing with your article, and be bold! But if you have time please check out some of the general policy & guidlines of wikipedia, like The five pillars of Wikipedia. -- C mon 07:51, 10 July 2006 (UTC) (one final note, you can sign your edits by putting for tildes ~~~~ behind your post)

[edit] compliment

Nice work! – Kaihsu 14:50, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Young Greens (disambiguation)

I saw you created a disambiguation page for young greens, and linked all greens to it. I'm sory but this is not what a disambiguation page is used for, those are used for words or acrononyms with different meanings. Like the GreenLeft disambiguation you created. A category would be better here: Category:Youth wings of Green parties has already been created. I'm reverting your edits, including those organizations you found in the category, and I'll link young greens to the England and Wales one. Unless you have great objections though. -- C mon 08:44, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

Just thought I'd mention that I have my own Internet access now, and am making some edits to the YG article (off and on while doing other stuff). Please revert them if you disagree; I'm a bit sleep deprived (Just come back from FLOSSIE Conference; I'm setting up a FLOSSIE demo &c stall at conference--I don't know if you're interested in helping). Thanks for your work on all the GPEW articles which is really great at suggesting you need a life ;-).
Regarding the above, back in Jan when I did the green and youth politics WP category re-org, I did make a YGEW article (entitled Young Greens (England and Wales) which I think follows Occam's Razor better but I'm not fussed) and a List of youth wings of Green political parties (and List of green youth organisations), but I lost them both before I saved them (damn MS Windows)*.
I think it might be best to redirect Young Greens to such a list. I may have some of the list of orgs I made somewhere; if you dig around on the WWW and hundreds of Green youth mailing list archives, you'll find there's piles of (some probably not too active) Green youth groups. I find editing WP articles on organisations a bit boring but I'll try to finish that (and work on some of the non-green political orgs on WP) at some point.
[*Off topic: While my PC was down, I've been designing, on paper, an optional system for retrieving previously previewed WP articles mid-edit when logged in (with priv. controls) as I have an awful habit of not saving in bits and ending up losing most of my WP edits—at least when in MSW— and not remebering what I wrote. I don't know if you think that's a good idea. I'll dig up my notes and make proposal when I have a chance.]
Joe Llywelyn Griffith Blakesley talk contrib 15:57, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Red Green

A search for "red green" leads me to a page about eco-socialism while i was looking for the article on the Canadian tv personality. You should create a disambiguation page distinguishing the two. thank you, --MontySpurling 04:16, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] History of the Green Party...

...is fantastic Aled. Many thanks Twrist 10:52, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] You helped choose Environmentalism as this week's WP:AID winner

 Thank you for your support of the Article Improvement Drive.
This week Environmentalism was selected to be improved to featured article status.
Hope you can help.

AzaBot 18:33, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Collapsable sections

Hi! You have done considerable work on the {{socialism}}. There has been considerable discussion on the issue of the collapsable sections of templates like that one. I created a centralized place for discussion about this issue here. I hope you can bring your views to the discussion. - C mon (talk) 18:34, 12 March 2008 (UTC)