User talk:Tommy Kronkvist/Archive 2007

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[edit] Regional variants of English

Please don't "correct" English spellings to American spellings, as you did here. Thanks. Guettarda 21:50, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

  • Regarding Robert John Lechmere Guppy, I only made the change to avoid a redirect, not primarily to "Americanise" the text. I guess a better way would have been to change [[palaeontology]] into [[Paleontology|palaeontology]] instead, thus fixing the redirect while maintaining the original spelling. My mistake, and I’m sorry: it will not happen again.
    Tommy Kronkvist (talk)|(contribs)

[edit] Moving pages.

Please don't do copy/paste moves as you did with Chronology of world oil market events (1970-2005) as this is a violation of the GFD license - use the "move" function (between "history" and "watch") instead. Please undo any other copy/paste moves you've done, and get violation pages speedy deleted.

Please also refrain from using characters in article titles that aren't on keyboards when another is acceptable. -- Jeandré, 2007-10-07t13:15z

  • Sorry about the license issue – I didn't know that a copy&paste within the site would violate the GFDL. I do now, so it will not happen again: also, I haven't done any other than that single one, so there aren't any more to undo.
    As for en dashes in titles, I follow Wikipedia's Manual of Style regarding en dashes in page names, which discourages the use of hyphens as a disjunction between years, and states that an "en dash may be used in a page name". ~ Tommy Kronkvist (talk|contribs) 05:43, 26 October 2007 (UTC)