User talk:Krychek

Welcome!

Hello, Krychek, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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Second Life

Second Life is a Featured article candidate! frummer 02:58, 26 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Play moves

Just a note; might you want to match the periods in the names U.S. and UK for both magazines? I suggest without the periods at all, to Play (US magazine) rather than Play (U.S. magazine). Maybe it's nitpicking, feel free to ignore me, just I think it might look better if they matched. --Cheers, Komdori 03:00, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I've just got to ask...

Krychek from the Stone? SingCal 17:41, 11 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Don't sweat it. Thanks for the note. :) SingCal 23:57, 12 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Portal:Origami

Hello, Krychek. I saw that you like origami (by the userbox on your userpage}}, so I thought you might be interested in helping out the Origami portal! Please leave a message on the talk page there or ask me if you have any questions. Thanks for your time, and have a nice day! *Cremepuff 222* 20:18, 16 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:User categories for discussion on -isms

Hi. A user category that you are in has been proposed for deletion at Wikipedia:User categories for discussion. You are welcome to comment. Cheers! bd2412 T 02:16, 21 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Stub tags

Please note that stub tags should be added at the end, per WP:ORDER, not at the top as you did at Intrapulmonary percussive ventilator. Thanks. PamD 17:38, 27 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Request

I would like to ask that you review and comment on this proposal on the Talk:Captain_Phillips_(film) page. Thanks - thewolfchild 19:20, 15 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Height of Burj Khalifa

Hello, I replied to your question on the article talk page. However, please note I first moved your question to the end of the talk page to become a new question. This is because 4 years is a long time after which to resurrect an old discussion. Astronaut (talk) 13:42, 18 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Whale

Hi, you might like to respond to the discussion at Talk:Whale where we seem to have a point of view... All the best, Chiswick Chap (talk) 08:47, 21 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion is continuing. Chiswick Chap (talk) 15:30, 27 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Request for Comment

Hi there-- I saw that you voiced your opinion regarding the usage of the words comedian and comedienne on Talk:Comedian. I started a Request for Comment on that talk page to sort out whether or not the word 'comedienne' should be mentioned in the first sentence of the article 'Comedian'. You can vote here. Thanks for your time! :) Newyorkadam (talk) 01:19, 15 January 2014 (UTC)Newyorkadam[reply]

America (2014 movie)

What is with editor Yabbadabbadootucker? He sent a message saying that the dispute regarding the America: Imagine the World Without Her article in the Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard, but I cannot see the entry. See Talk:America: Imagine the World Without Her. Steelbeard1 (talk) 10:52, 8 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Pajamas

Just a heads up, but I moved your comment on talk:pajamas to the correct section [1] Calidum T|C 04:32, 15 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Fergie (singer)

A discussion has begun at Talk:Fergie (singer) regarding her place of birth. --Tenebrae (talk) 16:00, 4 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Chadwick Boseman

All three cites are now included. Note: ABC and The Hollywood Reporter do not give a month and day, so those cites objectively cannot be used to cite month and day, only the year. Second, as at Mariah Carey, Mick Mars, etc. when reliable sources disagree, we use both. It is disallowed POV to choose one over other. --Tenebrae (talk) 18:02, 12 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Bring a direct source

Since you have explicitly chosen to be snarky in your edit summary, I have chosen not to clean up after your edit that was lacking a direct source. See previously blanked warning. Please stop adding entries to WP:DOY articles without direct sources. Toddst1 (talk) 22:05, 10 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Capitalisation in card games

Hi Krychek, thank you for your edits on Wikipedia. Please be aware that it is not incorrect to capitalise card names when describing card games. The sources divide almost equally into those that use capitals e.g. Ace, Jack, Five and those that don't e.g. ace, jack, five. Most American sources use lower case and most non-American sources use capitals. So we should prefer neither over the other and I'd be grateful if you'd revert your edits at Twenty-One and any other card game articles. Cheers. Bermicourt (talk) 07:42, 28 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I don't see anything in WP:MOS to indicate that individual playing cards are an exception to the guideline that game equipment should not be capitalized. If you can get that added to the MoS, I'd be happy to revert my edits. As it stands, I find this a very clear case of overcapitalization. Krychek (talk) 16:33, 13 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

MOS is a great tool but it is no more than top level style guide of a tertiary-level source. It cannot claim to have primacy over primary and secondary sources nor does it cover every eventuality in every topic area. This is an area that hasn't been addressed before and our style should be informed and guided by the relevant reliable primary and secondary sources. I'm happy to summarise my research and give some examples if that helps. So I'd still be grateful if you'd revert your edit. Thanks. Bermicourt (talk) 16:48, 13 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I know you have no reason to believe me, but I'm actually the editor of several prominent bridge writers -- two of them British. I have read texts on bridge and many other card games. So I feel my own research is at least as relevant as yours. While I do not doubt that there are numerous examples of overcapitalized terms in the genre, that doesn't make it correct, and it absolutely goes against the general WP advice against capitalizing non-proper nouns. This is similar to the former practice of some WP writers to capitalize animal species. They always claimed that some source or other did it, so it must be OK. But it was decided that while those sources are experts on their subject matter, they are not experts on grammar or style, and it became the official WP position that we should leave species names lowercase. For further reading on this topic, I suggest you look at the essay on specialized style fallacy. Krychek (talk) 18:24, 13 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Please don't patronise me. I am also a researcher and author in this field. If you study a wide range of sources, you will find that they use both forms in roughly equal measure. However, there are trends. Single game books tend to use lower case and there is a general American trend for lower case informality which permeates card game books too. Neither are wrong, but nor are they universal. So what some see as "over" capitalization, others clearly see as perfectly acceptable. No need to respond; we're not going to agree on this one. Bermicourt (talk) 19:01, 13 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]