User talk:Jemiller226/Archive/Dec2006

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- Mailer Diablo 19:34, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Substubs or stubs

Hi Justin - you wrote:

I've noticed that just about every one-line stub I dump into sub-stub, you move back....I was under the impression that extremely short stubs by definition are sub-stubs, and should be labelled as such--especially if you're not going to bother categorizing the stub when you revert its status like that. Care to explain...?

Quite simple really - Category:Substubs is slowly being emptied (it's down from 3000 stubs a week ago to about 900 now). I'm checking through about 100-150 of them per day, and others are also sifting. The vast majority are being categorised where they can be found by editors more easily (in one of the stub subcategories), or being merged, or vfd'd, or moved to wiktionary. There are bound to be a handful which don't quite fit into any of the currently existing categories, and they are going back into the main stub category for now. It is only a handful, though - I'd say about 5% of the ones I deal with go back there, if that. Grutness|^hello? 05:36, 2 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

is it better for me to toss a really short stub into sub-stub, or is it better for me to just leave it uncategorized in stub?

If they look like they could grow into reasonable articles and you can find a suitable specialist stub category for them, I'd do that. Others, feel free to move them to substub (as long as they're not ones that have just been moved from there!). Some of them are probably ones which are candidates for deletion or moving to wiktionary, and it's still easier to find them via substub. Don't be surprised if one or two of them turn up in category: Stub again, though! Grutness|^hello? 06:07, 2 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Boiserie

Hi, Regarding your edit today at Boiserie do you really think it is an architectural stub, to my way of thinking its more carpentry, interior design or something like that. Giano | talk 21:20, 4 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know about carpentry, but it could definitely be interior design. With stub sorting, sometimes it's a very imprecise art. =) --Jemiller226 04:59, 5 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Arheimar

Jemiller, either you suggest that Arheimar be listed for deletion, or you expand the article. AFAIK, the article can not be expanded beyond stub status. There is a reason for the notstub to exist.--Wiglaf 21:01, 5 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

My apologies. I didn't check your user page, so I wasn't aware of your large contributions to articles on historic subjects. I've just seen a small rash of completely unnecessary reversions and edits lately on stubs that I've sorted, and I assumed that yours was really no different, especially since you didn't mention anything about it on the article's talk page, and you left the edit summary blank. I can't claim any amount of knowledge in this area, though a Google search for Arheimar found sites that make a connection to Kiev, which might be an interesting thing to explore--again, if I had any expertise in this field. At any rate, I'm not going to nominate it for deletion, but I'm not going to expand it, either. I'll only make a fool of myself, since I'm just a little stub sorter. =) --Jemiller226 21:13, 5 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

It's OK. You're doing good work. I added a line about Arheimar possibly being a precursor of Kiev on the Kiev article, and it is funny how fast Wikipedia information spreads on the Internet :).--Wiglaf 21:21, 5 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

You know, I really wish there was a way around this situation, though. I have a feeling that if you took the stub tags off, some enterprising soul would see how short the entry is and either VfD it (which I don't believe it deserves) or reinstate the stub tag(s) again, which puts us back at square one. --Jemiller226 04:25, 6 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, whenever there's a category such as stub, there is bound to be cases where the use of it is questionable. I'll add this (<)!-- Please note that although this article is short it is not a stub since it covers the topic in question fully..blalbalbla... see (defenition of stub)--(>), but without parentheses. And, I will expand the article a little with quotes where the name appears. I think it deserves it :).--Wiglaf 13:59, 8 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Puccini

Thanks for the reply, there are quite a few of us called after him you know! Giano | talk 21:12, 5 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Musos

Jemiller226, if you put the category link as follows: [[Category:Wikipedian musicians|Jemiller226]] on your user page, then you will appear (correctly in my opinion) under J and not under U, where you are at the moment. I didn't change your user page myself as you have a notice on there asking me not to. Brequinda 12:40, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Done. I thought that's how I had it, but it seems fine now, so I'm not going to argue with success! --Jemiller226 04:28, 10 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Transposing instrument

The article on Transposing instrument has grown enormously since I looked at it last. The list of instruments is new to me; last time I saw it (and when I created the redirect) there was just a handful of examples. I've added a note describing the C-unison group as "nontransposing instruments". I don't see any purpose in a separate article, but I don't feel all that strongly about it. —Wahoofive (talk) 23:36, 17 August 2005 (UTC) [reply]

License tagging for Image:Marcusknight.jpg

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No redirect

This - 2006_Auckland_waterfront_vs._Eden_Park_debate - is an event which deserves a page, just like this - 2006 Melbourne teenage DVD controversy. --SilvaStorm

I honestly don't see where this can go, but I'll give it a chance. --Jemiller226 07:35, 27 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

FFS, why can't you just leave the article alone? --SilvaStorm

For the same reason that nobody can leave any of your other articles alone. --Jemiller226 07:02, 28 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]