User talk:RPT01

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, articles should not be moved, as you did to Closed-circuit television, without good reason. They need to have a name that is both accurate and intuitive. We have some guidelines in place to help with this. Generally, a page should only be moved to a new title if the current name doesn't follow these guidelines. Also, if a page move is being discussed, consensus needs to be reached before anybody moves the page. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you.--McGeddon (talk) 13:44, 22 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Closed-circuit television

Thanks for explaining your thinking. You should definitely bring this up on the article's talk page to get a broader range of responses from people who know about the subject. I'm not an expert on the subject and don't fully appreciate the distinction between CCTV and video surveillance; for me (and this might be a UK thing), "CCTV" is fairly common shorthand for "fixed cameras performing surveillance", even if there's more to it than that. It's Wikipedia policy to use the most common name for an article, rather than trying to be exhaustively inclusive to the point of confusing the average reader.

Bring it up at Talk:Closed-circuit television and see what people think, though. --McGeddon (talk) 17:57, 23 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Your comment at Wikipedia talk:OTRS

I've removed it as that page is for discussion of the WP:OTRS policy. I see that your question has already been answered, however, on the section immediately above this one. - Rjd0060 (talk) 17:50, 2 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Copied from WP:EAR

Copied here for your convenience. Athanasius • Quicumque vult 19:09, 4 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Redirection

I was searching for "Video Surveillance" and I got redirected to the "Closed-Circuit Television" (CCTV) page which I was very surprised since there's a difference between both and therefore each deserve a separate article. Is there a way I can write an article soley dedicated to video surveillance and delete the redirection to CCTV? --RPT01 (talk) 18:35, 24 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Sure - just edit the Video surveillance redirect page to delete the redirect code and substitute your text. Make sure that you have reliable sources to support the notability of your new article. Probably a good idea to read WP:YFA first. – ukexpat (talk) 18:41, 24 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

(edit conflict) Absolutely! Though if you do plan on this, I'd strongly advise you to go about it in the following way:

Discuss splitting content from the CCTV article to a new one on video surveillance at Talk:Closed-circuit television
Write a draft article in your userspace rather than in the main article space (for example, at User:RPT01/Video surveillance)
Have a good argument ready as to not only how CCTV and video surveillance are separate concepts, but why they should have separate articles; it would seem to me that most if not all video surveillance is done via CCTV, so it makes sense to discuss it exclusively in the CCTV article

And to specifically overwrite the redirect, you need to edit the redirect itself. You'll notice when you type Video surveillance in the search bar, you get some text that says "redirected from video surveillance". Click that, and you'll be brought to the redirect. You can edit it from there. —/Mendaliv/^2¢/_Δ's/ 18:42, 24 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

And please be more cautious in the future before moving an article of this age and length to a completely new title, as you did before. --Orange Mike | Talk 19:33, 24 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

July 2009

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to Video surveillance, did not appear to be constructive and has been automatically reverted by ClueBot. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. If you believe there has been a mistake and would like to report a false positive, please report it here and then remove this warning from your talk page. If your edit was not vandalism, please feel free to make your edit again after reporting it. The following is the log entry regarding this warning: Video surveillance was changed by RPT01 (u) (t) blanking the page on 2009-07-07T13:22:25+00:00 . Thank you. ClueBot (talk) 13:22, 7 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]