Talk:Travega

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Anyone know what this is? At first it was an article about a band, now it's something else entirely. I googled on "travega" and there weren't a ton of hits, but they appeared to be mostly about the band. Friday (talk) 14:14, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Court of St. Cloud

It so happens that I have been involved in research, in the past, regarding the proceedings of the court of St.Cloud. And it would appear that nothing is fundamentally wrong with this synopsis, however summarised it may be. Unfortunately I am no authority on busses or the techniques of basket making so cannot be of any assistance there!

More information can be sought from a Gutenberg publication entitled "Memoirs of the Court of St.Cloud"

I hope this is of some benefit.

[edit] Travega

I wrote the article and I can assure you that all of the information is true. I encountered the word "TRAVEGA" when I was writing an essay in college about the Napoleonic era. I fell in love with the work and more so the word TRAVEGA because of its sound. So decided to write anything I could find out about it and these were the things I could find. I fully intend on elabourating more upon it when I have a chance. The initial article was about the band TRAVEGA because there was the most information about them and then I was going to write a long piece on Senitor Travega's involvement at the court of St.Cloud but almost immediately I got a warning message on my article so I just summarised the three things I was going to write about so that you would know that I was not just writing about one thing. Lastly, about the Liguria wicker tool by the name TRAVEGA, I am having trouble tracking down more information about that because I don't speak Italian and there is not a great deal of information about them in English.

Does this clear things up?

Thanks for the info. I have a couple of suggestions. First, we may not want to mention the band at all- band articles tend to get deleted if the band doesn't meet the guidelines at WP:MUSIC (this is to keep kids from putting in articles about their garage bands.) If the foreign word is just a dictionary definition, we may not want it here either. Of course, articles about tools defintely belong. Maybe that part can be merged into Basket weaving, I don't know. Maybe the historical stuff can be merged into History of Italy or somewhere? Anyway, we might want a disambiguation here, since the term apparently has several unrelated meanings. Friday (talk) 16:42, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] TRAVEGA

I understand your not wanting to promote bands but if you google the word TRAVEGA nearly all you get is information on the band so what happens when someone wants information on the senitor TRAVEGA or the wicker basket TRAVEGA? Do they have to know what it is before they try to find out what it is? If you perform "disambiguation" on it how can people get information about it with ease? With great difficulty I would imagine. They will have to hop from page to page compiling scraps of information around the site. Ferthermore I will have to try to track each nugget of information about TRAVEGA in order to enhance it. And what happens if I find another application of the word TRAVEGA and I add it in somewhere, using my intuition, and get it wrong again will I have to go through this ordeal again just enhance YOUR website?

Err, not sure I follow you entirely. When a word has multiple meanings, we usually have a seperate article on each one, and a disambiguation page that helps people find what they wanted. See New York (disambiguation), for example. Friday (talk) 17:05, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Travega

That sounds like a great idea thanks. So if I find another meaning for the word TRAVEGA I should just add it to the general heading it comes under and everything will be okay?

Well, we're not trying to be a dictionary, so we don't strictly want things that are just definitions. But information that's verifiable can be added, sure. So, things like "travega is a word my friend Billy just made up" would not be appropriate, for example. Friday (talk) 17:35, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] TRAVEGA

Oh that's good then so there isn't anything wrong with what I wrote, except the bit about the band. That's good news so you are going to redirect my articles to a different place? So if I want to add information to them I can just search TRAVEGA and append the article? Also if I find more meanings for the word I can put them in where I think they belong is that what you mean? As long as they're "varifiable".