User talk:Nobbie/Archive1

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Contents

[edit] TheatRE discussion

I just wanted to thank you for your work on the theatre article! Having been here for slightly over a year, big things like that still intimidate me, but it needed to be done! Ganymead 00:36, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Good question...I would go with TheatER (structure). I'm currently editing a book about theatre history and we use both theatre (for the art) and theater (for the structure). I agree that it also prevents us from having to change the spelling repeatedly. Ganymead 02:17, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Looks great! I added a note about movie theaters and re-wrote the first section. I also added a note on the history to the discussion page. Ganymead 20:10, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Just a note to let you know that I have nominated Theater (structure) for Collaboration of the week. Please put in a vote for it! Thanks! Ganymead 17:46, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Ubeda

Please help me include Ubeda on the first line of the article Philip Baird Shearer 10:45, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] European English

You did some Great changes to the European English article, and so I changed my vote at VFD (I also left a short note on the Talk page with a couple of more suggestions for additions). As the vote stands, however, the article still might get deleted unless you contact some of the Delete voters to ask them to reconsider their vote after your drastic changes. BlankVerse ∅ 10:15, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Re: European English

The way the VFD System works is that an administrator will close the subpage and mark its results. The way the VFD List works is for people to see the current entries in list format. You are not permitted to remove the listing off from a subpage day VFD page simply because the way that a "log" of nominations are created per VFD subpage day. Once an article is nominated, it remains nominated... no matter what happens to the article. However, editing the article and improving it will help to convince people to change their "votes". -- AllyUnion (talk) 20:44, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Theatre

Hi! This is a note to let you know that I have just established WikiProject Theatre. Please come and join us in building up Wiipedia’s articles relating to theatre! Ganymead 17:34, 28 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Úbeda

Hello, sorry for the long message.

In March 2005, there was a WP:RM request and vote (which you took part in) to move Úbeda to Ubeda, with a 6-3 result, see Talk:Ubeda#Requested_move:_.C3.9Abeda_.E2.86.92_Ubeda (or perhaps here if renamed).

However, beginning in April 2005 and lasting several months, there was a survey conducted at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (use English)#Proposal and straw poll regarding place names with diacritical marks, with dozens of participants voting and discussing over an extended period of time. The purpose of the survey was to try to gather feedback for what the policy should be globally. Proponents of diacritics were in the majority, and in general, use of diacritics is widespread in actual practice on Wikipedia today (particularly since the Mediawiki upgrade to Unicode).

However, for Úbeda/Ubeda, Philip Baird Shearer is stating that the WP:RM vote takes precedence over the survey results, and a new WP:RM vote would be required to move it to Úbeda. My position is that there should be a global policy rather than case-by-case voting -- that was the whole purpose of the survey. In discussion with him, I wrote:

Just as we wouldn't have case-by-case voting on, say, capitalization issues for articles (eg, prepositions in movie and book titles should be lowercase, globally), we shouldn't have case-by-case voting on diacritic issues.

See the discussion at Talk:Ubeda#Talk_page_discussion_on_page_move (or perhaps here if renamed).

As a possible alternative to calling a new WP:RM vote which might set a precedent for case-by-case voting across thousands of articles, I am polling all the participants of the original WP:RM vote to ask:

  • Regardless of how you voted in the WP:RM voting, which do you believe should take precedence: the earlier WP:RM vote on the specific article, or the subsequent survey?

Note, since Philip Baird Shearer was one of the participants in that vote, he will also be receiving this message and thus will have the opportunity to respond. -- Curps 05:58, 7 October 2005 (UTC)


For what it's worth, and for the information of all the voters in the March requested move vote, there's now a new requested move vote at Talk:Ubeda. -- Curps 01:37, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Third Úbeda/Ubeda entry at your talk page :)

Hi! There's a new vote on Úbeda now. And some new thoughts in the discussion. Even though you didn't vote the same way I just did I thought it was right to let you know. - Haukur Þorgeirsson 21:43, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

Sorry, I haven't been active on Wikipedia for a long time.... Nobbie 22:20, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Tagging pages proposal

Hi there, I'm writing because at some point you showed interest in a proposal to solve the problems related to national varieties of English. There is a discussion and a vote ongoing here. Please take a look and let us know what you think. Thanks. PizzaMargherita 14:45, 8 January 2006 (UTC)