User talk:Smjg
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Again, welcome! - UtherSRG 15:20, 15 Jan 2004 (UTC)
List of homonyms
Hi Stewart: Your suggestions have been most helpful on the List of redundant expressions page. I've begun a List of heteronyms you might wish to have a look at. Same problem there (moreso, since it entails pronunciation) with the categories--I don't wish to be U.S.-centric, but without a U.K. collaborator, adding to a "common" list implies I know it's common, putting it on a U.S. list implies others don't use it, etc., etc. Collaboration is the only way to get the list right.
This is much less of a problem on the redundancies list, since that's a logical issue and most everything which is redundant in the U.S. will be so in the U.K., though perhaps less common here or there. The distinctions for heteronyms should be sharper, though, given the fact that you guys "talk funny." :-)
The other problem for this page will be a simple, uniform pronunciation guide. Can't find one on Wikipedia. Know of one? --NathanHawking 22:52, 2004 Oct 29 (UTC)
VfD: List of songs with brackets in their titles
I noticed you've contributed to pages of lists of songs in the past. This page is now on Votes for Deletion and some deletionists would like to set a precedent for these kind of pages. Would you consider taking part in the vote? Thanks. [[User:Dmn|Dmn / Դմն ]] 13:21, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)
America, Cambridgeshire
I was following this entry in Wikipedia::Deletion log
16:50, 3 Dec 2004 Jimfbleak deleted America, Cambridgeshire? (content was: 'db|further research shows Mgekelly was right -- this doesn't exist}}For other places named America, see America.America is a town ...')
Susvolans (pigs can fly) 17:10, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Discussion continuing on Talk:List of interesting or unusual place names#America, Cambs.
Article Licensing
Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:
- Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
- Multi-Licensing Guide
- Free the Rambot Articles Project
To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:
- Option 1
- I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:
- {{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}
OR
- Option 2
- I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:
- {{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}
Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=User_talk:Ram-Man&action=edit§ion=new)| talk)
Template:Stub Category
Please do not remove the top-level category. There is no way to navigate or return back to the main category.
- Sorry - my braino. See Template talk:Stub Category for what I meant to do. -- Smjg 18:53, 2 Jan 2005 (UTC)
I just realized something. You can simply use {{subst:Stub Category}} and then change it... -- AllyUnion (talk) 17:13, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)
List of songs whose title does not appear in the lyrics
Hey Smjg, just a response to your comment on my talk page. I believe you are referring to my edit here: [1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_songs_whose_title_does_not_appear_in_the_lyrics&diff=11655813&oldid=11654586). I found that a lot of the entries on the page were not compliant with the criteria at the top of the page. For one thing a lot of the songs had a type of song in the title, such as "Nocturne", "Rockafeller Skank", etc. The other rules that I thought were being stretched were the "foreign language", "acronym" and "most parts" rule. For example, I removed "Tomorrow & Tonight", which has both of the words "Tomorrow" and "Tonight", but the phrase "Tomorrow and Tonight" does not appear verbatim; in the past (on the talk page), disputes of this nature have ended with the song being removed; the same for "Girls and Boys", "Black Cat", "Semi-charmed life". If you have questions about any other individual songs, you should probably post them on the Talk page of the article itself. Cheers. --DropDeadGorgias (talk) 14:18, Apr 4, 2005 (UTC)
Boob Tube
- I restored the clean-up notice.
- As someone living in Britain, you certainly know better than I whether boob tube is used as slang or not. But are they described as such in catalogues and in stores?
- The short answer is yes. The slightly longer answer is that it's one of a handful of names for the same or similar garment. -- Smjg 10:33, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- In the United States, at least, boob is always going to be slang, if not vulgar. -Acjelen 17:56, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Vandalism on my talk page
Thanks for the reversion. -- Necrothesp 11:03, 19 May 2005 (UTC)