User talk:Epolk/Archive December 2006

AfD Nomination: Brea Fire Services Department

An editor has nominated the article Brea Fire Services Department for deletion, under the Articles for deletion process. We appreciate your contributions, but the nominator doesn't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and has explained why in the nomination (also see What Wikipedia is not and Deletion policy). Your opinions on why the topic of the article meets inclusion criteria and what should be done with the article are welcome: participate in the discussion by editing Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Brea Fire Services Department. Add four tildes like this ˜˜˜˜ to sign your comments. You can also edit the article Brea Fire Services Department during the discussion, but do not remove the "Articles for Deletion" template (the box at the top of the article), this will not end the deletion debate. Kimchi.sg 08:14, 2 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

A Series of Unfortunate Events

On this page, you removed links to books in this series that appeared in a list of the books. I'm not really sure why you took them out, but I put them back in. I though that I should let you know. Clamster5 03:00, 15 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I was removing multiple links in the same article. In most cases, there is no reason why an article needs to be linked to more than once from another article. If you feel that there is a good reason to do so in this article, I will leave it alone. Epolk 00:39, 16 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

alphabetising categories

Hi, just to let you know that articles on Japanese people require special attention with regard to name order. As per the Wikipedia Manual of Style, the names of any Japanese person born before 1868 is to be given in Japanese name order, i.e. family name first, given name second. Many of the name you reversed today are now in incorrect order, e.g. Yokoyama Matsusaburo - Yokoyama is his family name not his given name. Pinkville 00:36, 16 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! I wasn't aware of the 1868 delineation. I noticed that most of the Japanese names were following a Western name convention so I just assumed that the ones that didn't had just been missed. Did you revert the ones that I incorrectly altered? Epolk 00:38, 16 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, the delineation is slightly absurd, there are strong arguments for maintaining Japanese name order for all Japanese people regardless of birthdate, but there it is... I've reverted Yokoyama Matsusaburo, Ueno Hikoma, Tamamura Kozaburo‎, Uchida Kuichi, Maeda Genzō‎, and Horie Kuwajirō, since they're the ones on my watchlist. I don't know if there are others... Ciao! Pinkville 00:54, 16 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Fire Service

Epolk , welcome to the WikiProject Fire Service! It is my goal to increse the overall quality of articles on English Wikipedia relating to the fire service while keeping an international perspective. Please feel free to leave me a message with any questions! I look forward to working with you! --Daysleeper47 14:54, 18 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Truely

Hi, I reverted your edit to Chess because it should be "truely" and not "truly" (old English). Greetings,--Ioannes Pragensis 20:14, 19 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I guess the spell checker didn't account for Old English. Epolk 20:15, 19 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks :-)

Thanks for cleaning my typos on the Cause Marketing article :-) Uberveritas 03:54, 20 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

AWB correction of typos

Hi, I noticed that you corrected what appeared to be typos in Dead Weather Machine_Re:Heat (comparison) using AWB. Some of the corrections are OK, such as [[Sleep|sleep]] → [[sleep]]. I'm a newbie contributor, and have only just realised that internal links are case insensitive! But the other "corrections" are in fact inappropriate. [[SleepResearch_Facility]] is intended to contain an underscore – visit the article for more info. The underscore has been removed by bots several times – how can I prevent them from doing this? Also, the misspelling of "seperate" is intended (it is quoted exactly from the source text), and I actually put an HTML comment next to the word, specifically asking people not to correct the spelling! --Slowspace 22:13, 20 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I notice from your edits that you have changed 'targetting' to 'targeting' and 'targetted' to 'targeted' in a number of articles. 'Targetting' & 'targetted' are actually legitimate spellings in UK and Australian English, so these articles should be changed back to their original spelling as per WP:ENGVAR. --Calair 01:40, 29 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

targetting and targetted have been reverted. You might want to either edit the Typos list or start a discussion about the spelling of targetting vs. targeting or someone else will have the AWB make the same changes. Epolk 18:56, 29 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Have queried on the talk page accordingly. --Calair 05:14, 30 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]