User talk:Roberto~simplewiki

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-- Netoholic @ 01:06, 15 May 2005 (UTC)

Hailey

I understand your frustration, completely. I suppose I'll ask you to be patient and see if your recent message about spelling hits home. She does seem to require frequent "reminders", but seems to quietly take advice. If if gets to the point that you do have to monitor her contributions too closely, I would encourage you to bring it up on Simple talk. Perhaps a public "hearing" would help. -- Netoholic @ 01:23, 15 May 2005 (UTC)

Strange glitch on page Category:2002 ?

Looking in on some of your edits (cuz I know nothing about these category and interwiki things) I saw a strange thing on page [[Category:2002]]. Where on some other pages there is an '*', on this page it says '2' in bold, under the "There is 1 article..." and above the link to '2002'. Do you see that when you display the page? I've tried a couple different browsers (IE,Opera,Firefox - all show the same thing) because I can't 'see' anything different between the page text for 2002 and others. Any ideas?

unsimple articles from en:

Basically, I've been playing this by ear. It is technically against the GFDL to copy articles here without their page history. Most often, (well-meaning or otherwise...) people will copy articles directly here. Sometimes, this is done to preserve their POV (because the en: article is being edit warred). Other times, I've deleted articles copied by IP addresses which haven't made any edits since then. Occasionally, an article make sense here, and I copy the editor history, then clean it up or mark it with {{simp}}. Obviously, it is unfair (and illegal) for articles to just be copied directly. Let me know if you disagree. -- Netoholic @ 01:45, 31 May 2005 (UTC)

Yeah, fine, SqueakBox 02:41, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Year categories

Wouldn't it be better to place, say, Category:1972 deaths direectly into Category:20th century deaths rather than by decade? Decade just seems too granular and we tend to talk about people by the century they were born/died in. -- Netoholic @ 14:16, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I agree with you that cats like Category:1972 deaths could all fit into Category:20th century deaths, but I'm also thinking about the fact that there could be articles created where the year of death is not exact but we know it was in the 1970s. There, the Category:1970s deaths cat fits in. For the 20th century, it's probably not an issue but I know that there's some vagueness in earlier centuries. Also, I don't think that 100 subcategories in the 20th century deaths would particularly easy to navigate, especially if we start to have articles with unclear dates. However, I find that's more likely to be a problem with birth years. Besides, this is how English is organized and I think they've probably dealt with more issues than we have. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 18:46, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

In this case, I think that EN:'s system is also not ideal. Also, the word "century" isn't a very simple term (it's not in Basic English, though it is in Special English) and the "20th century" being the name for the 1900s isn't a common concept in all languages. I'd actually prefer our categories be like Category:1900-1999 deaths or Category:Births (1900-1999). Really, we won't have too many "vague" dates, and I would be hesitant to categorize any articles in any death category if we don't know the year precisely. -- Netoholic @ 20:20, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Hi, Just a question. What is the point of these birth and death categories that you keep inserting. Surely if somebody wanted to know the year, they would just go to the year page and look under eith births or deaths? It seems like duplicate information and a waste of space to me, but am open to hearing the argument. Maya 11:43, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Timon of Athens

I'm sorry about that! I'll try to remeber that next time!- Hailey

Game titles

I will try and remember to put them in italics next time. Thanks! Thorpe 21:09, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Show any page

I think the text in Wikipedia:Cleanup was talking about the link in the upper left of every page, which is "Show any page". And so I think you will want to go back and reverse your change, though maybe with an added explanation of what it is? Shenme 00:17, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Hailey

I'm sorry, I've had very little time in the last few days. I understand your concerns, and I agree totally. If you could write a summary of what you see she needs to change on Hailey's talk, I'll endorse it with a stern warning specifically asking her to reply. If she ignores this again, I have no problem blocking for increasingly longer periods of time until she agrees to your rather simple requests. -- Netoholic @ 05:42, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

Your account will be renamed

Hello,

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08:48, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

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