User:Mowsbury/Old discussions

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U.S. Amateur

Hi... I had originally renamed the page to remove the "Men's" part (which is not technically correct as the event is open to women). When I did that, I left the "Golf Championship" bit in there, as this seemed to be the pattern on many of the USGA championship pages. I'm not entirely sure that the word "Championship" is part of the official title -- it is generally referred to as the "U.S. Amateur" on the USGA's web pages, much like "U.S. Open" -- so leaving the word "Golf" in the title seemed OK to me. This page seems to show the more-or-less official names for the various USGA events. If you don't agree, then the page should probably be called "U.S. Amateur Championship (golf)", as the "men's" part is not correct (the "U.S. Women's Amateur" is the official title of the women's-only event, so there is no need to disambiguate that anyways). Or, perhaps change the name to "U.S. Amateur (golf)" in line with the U.S. Open (golf) article. What do you think? Carl Lindberg 01:23, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

I think the article should stay where it is. If you look at the official site www.usamateur.org you will see that the "U.S. Amateur" label at the top has some sort of copyright tag. I would say the label is a logo, and that the words below "United States Amateur Championship" represent the official name. I don't think this interpretation is inconsistent with the fact that the USGA often uses a shorter form, - it is using an abbreviation for convenience, just as other people do. Mowsbury 03:22, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Hm. The mark is an (R), meaning registered trademark -- that would certainly seem to be the official name (it's not just a logo). On this page on the official site, they use "U.S. Amateur championship" (i.e. a non-capitalized version) when using the longer term in articles -- indicating that "championship" is not part of the title, and that the usage where they capitalize it is more of a page title where words are normally capitalized anways.

Either way though, I think the "(men's golf)" disambiguation should be changed to just "(golf)" -- that was the point I wanted to make more :-) The event is not barred to women, and "U.S. Women's Amateur" is the official name of the other event, so there would be no need to disambiguate anyways. Carl Lindberg 05:14, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

The fact that it is registered does not mean it is the official name as organisations registered many images, phrases, names etc. As for the other point, I'm thinking about it. The fact that it is open to women is really rather theoretical; for all practical purposes it is a men's event, and would rename so even if a woman qualified for it. Mowsbury 16:46, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Meant to get back to this, but forgot :-) Yes, the women's part is mostly theoretical, but since there is a separate women's tournament (with "Women's" as part of the official name) there will never be a need to disambiguate with a "(women's golf)". It makes it that much harder to link to the page without a redirect. Carl Lindberg 18:04, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

I'm not really that bothered whether the word "men's" is included or not, but it will help some people. I don't see that it matters very much if a link is via a redirect, so long as it is not a double redirect. Mowsbury 12:20, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

Rename of Category:Armor stubs

Hi - please see my comment here as to why a redirect from the old category name would be unnecessary. Grutness...wha? 00:13, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

Allegations of Chinese apartheid AfD

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df=y

What is it that you are adding to players birth date? michfan2123 17:52, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

I'm converting the dates for British players into British English, in accordance with the policy that articles about British topics should be written in British English. Mowsbury 22:23, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

It still shows up in U.S. format when I look at it though... michfan2123 02:41, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

Possibly you have date preferences set. Rich Farmbrough, 08:59 7 November 2007 (GMT).

User talk:COMPFUNK2

What sourced article did I add an {{unreferenced}} tag to? Anthony Rupert 00:22, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

Dates

Hi, where do you believe I have done this? Rich Farmbrough, 08:27 7 November 2007 (GMT).

Proposed deletion of Country house opera

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Country house opera

See here. --Klein zach 11:05, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Allegations of apartheid deletion notification

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Christian Arab Page

Could you explain the SectOR tag removal? Inappropriate, how? The section does contain OR, especially the part based on the aljazeera video. --Qvxz9173 (talk) 19:53, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

As I said before, I have no interest in this subject matter. If you choose to persist with the misuse of wikipedia's internal tools in which debate, in which an unbiased observed can see that all parties are driven by unreasonable partisanship, I have more sense than to think I can stop you. Mowsbury (talk) 15:05, 25 March 2010 (UTC)

Kill superhuman strength

3 years after a reprieve, the article still sucks. Let's kill it. It is not encyclopedic and is just a damn stub 3 years after the "keep and improve" by default. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.127.129.194 (talk) 23:01, 29 June 2010 (UTC)