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1 Stub stuff 1.1 stub-sorting 1.2 BBC-stub 2 Unfossilised dinosaur bones, etc 3 Lyme Bay Map 4 WikiProject UK subdivisions 5 Intelligent Design revision 6 Spoken Wikipedia 7 Theory 8 Disambiguation headers 9 Sydney harbour bridge pic 10 English coast and countryside by county 11 Talk:Abiogenesis/Archive1 12 UK constituencies 13 AIM

Stub stuff

stub-sorting

I am absolutely in awe at the number of stubs you've sorted recently. Do you find time to eat? Blink? Exhale? Joyous 01:43, May 12, 2005 (UTC)

Hey, when stub sorting be sure to watch what you mark as a minor edit. Adding the nonsense template to an article puts it on speedy delete track - that's not minor. And cream pie is a sub-stub that needs writing, not nonsense. I put bogus text there because people clicking from articles about cream pie flavored yogurts, ice creams, etc, were being redirected to the porn term creampie which is not at all what the linker is looking for. SchmuckyTheCat 18:53, 12 May 2005 (UTC)

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I noticed you gave Astrampsychus a biographical stub, again, and over my protests without explanation. Here is my argument:

1. Astrampsychus wasn't a person. 2. Astrampsychus is not something a general biography buff is going to know anything about—mooting the point. 3. There is no good stub category for it. Someone tried "writer" stub before. Magic-Occult is better, but not right. Divination seems like magic now, but in Antiquity it was not, unless you were diving through the dead or something like that.

Any ideas?

(For a better idea of the topic, see the Wiki Classical Dictionary (http://www.ancientlibrary.com/wcd/Astrampsychus).

Roman-stub combined with magic-stub would probably be the closest Grutness...wha? 14:21, 14 May 2005 (UTC)

Moved to Talk:Astrampsychus.

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Thanks for sorting the stub on the 'Nessy the Dragon' article. I'm relatively new to Wikipedia, and didn't know how to do category-specific stubs. --Psyk0 19:35, 19 May 2005 (UTC)

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Thanks for sorting my article on deductive databases. Was about to do it myself (I'm new here :-S) and noticed you'd already done it. Thanks!  :-D GeorgeBills 12:44, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

BBC-stub

Hi Steinsky - I'm a little concerned about this one... you've done enough stub sorting to know that WP:WSS likes to go through a debate about new stub categories before they're created, to make sure that they don't cut across the hierarchy of stub categories that already exists. Well, this one does, quite thoroughly. You've got articles in the category which should have Template:Tl, others that should have Template:Tl, some Template:Tls - it's a bit of a problem, really. I've listed the stub at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Criteria#Newly-discovered stub categories - if you'd like to comment on the category there, feel free... Grutness...wha? 14:21, 14 May 2005 (UTC)

Moved to Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Criteria.

Unfossilised dinosaur bones, etc

On this debate, I think you should try to let the argument drop for a few days. There's no way that "Truthteller"'s "article" will survive Vfd, and its ultimate deletion will speak for itself about what Wikipedia thinks of his POV-pushing. In the meantime, I think everyone should just quietly let it be deleted, without debating "Truthteller" on any of his non-policy points. If "Truthteller" tries anything stupid, like reincarnating the article, we can put him before the arbcom and get him banned. Debating anything other than policy with him is only going to inflame the situation.

Hope I didn't seem too sanctimonious. Cheers, →Iñgōlemo← ^talk</font> 04:28, 2005 May 23 (UTC)

Lyme Bay Map

I changed the size of the text on the map instead, I just thought it was hard to see at 300px. WikiDon

WikiProject UK subdivisions

Definatly willing to help, although my knowledge is limited to London, Hampshire and Staffordshire. Grunners 18:49, 26 May 2005 (UTC)

Intelligent Design revision

Thanks for the feedback. Where do you think my information fits best? Dbergan

Spoken Wikipedia

Hi there. Keep up the good work on WP:SPOKEN. We need more non-American contributors.  :) — Chameleon 14:29, 29 May 2005 (UTC)

I second that - keep up the good work! :-) Just one question, this RSS code on the Spoken page, bloody good code, but my computer is trying to open it in "Microsoft Picture It!" but then fails, could you let me know what it is? Thanks Craigy (talk) 01:05, Jun 18, 2005 (UTC)

Theory

Hi - a recently signed on creation type has been removing evolution from the theory article and posting quite a bit on the talk. I thought you might want to take a look and comment on the discussion. Thanks, Vsmith 01:36, 31 May 2005 (UTC)

Disambiguation headers

I heavily disagree with the many removals of the disambiguation headers you've done. Not all users understand the disambiguation process, so please stop deleting them. Cburnett 18:31, May 31, 2005 (UTC)

Sydney harbour bridge pic

Hi there, I just wanted to let you know that I have the high resolution version now of this image up for featured picture. Thanks, --Silversmith Hewwo 23:07, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

English coast and countryside by county

• Could you please stop implementing this "decision"? I do not accept that there was a concensus. Nominator plus one supporter is a quite inadequate basis for such a sweeping change. Another objector has since emerged. Thank you. CalJW 12:26, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Talk:Abiogenesis/Archive1

This archive was created for our dicussion to be moved off the Abiogenesis talk page; and personally I don't it on my talk page. - RoyBoy ⁸⁰⁰ 06:51, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

UK constituencies

Aagh! Please see the discussion on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject UK Parliament constituencies! It's reckoned that because so many UK constituencies need some sort of disambiguator, and quite a few need "(UK Parliament constituency)" - because of Scottish, Canadian constituencies etc. - that all should have the same disambiguator. As far as I am aware, there is a rough consensus for this. Also, 611 of the 646 constituencies already had the full disambiguator, which was why I was just mopping up the last few this morning. sjorford →•← 13:03, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thank you for your sensible moves to (constituency). There is no such consensus as claimed above. The idea that another constituency named Epsom & Ewell exists is absurd. Dmn / Դմն

Well, it's clear to me there is no consensus one way or the other. Please note that I'm not trying to aggressively push this - I initially was in favour of only disambiguating when required, but it seemed to me that we had decided, for good enough reasons, to consistently use the same disambiguator for every constituency. I'm restarting the discussion on the WikiProject talk page, to try and settle this properly. sjorford →•← 13:48, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)

AIM

i just wanted to tell you, your AIM contact links to a disambig, (you might want to pipe it to AOL Instant Messanger or something along those lines). Also, can i steal that idea? i like it a lot. thanks, -mysekurity