User talk:Sdsds/Archive Dec 2007

Re: Please explain China Qing Dynasty Flag 1889.svg

That was the contemporary flag at the time of his birth in 1911. We do not usually use current flags for birth and death entries.--Jiang 10:21, 4 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

None of that is relevant. What is relevant is what flag was flying over Hangzhou at the time of his birth. This is the convention, where flags are used at all (most articles do not use flags).--Jiang 10:36, 4 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Putting it next to the name is giving it too much prominence though. It's only relevant with the birthplace. Otherwise, we risk implying that Qian is an imperialist Manchu.--Jiang 10:45, 4 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I use Che Guevara as a counter example. Argentina is his country of birth. We do not associate him with Argentina, though. Still, that flagicon is by his name. (sdsds - talk) 10:47, 4 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

See where the flag is for our friend, Fidel Castro.

I really have no idea why the Che article has it like that. I dont recall seeing that elsewhere.--Jiang —Preceding comment was added at 10:50, 4 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

See also Alexey Kosygin and Leonid Brezhnev (note different flags used for different periods)--Jiang 10:53, 4 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

or a more relavent (ie living) example: Vladimir Putin--Jiang 10:55, 4 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

OK, I defer to your expertise. Thank you for improving the Tsien Hsue-shen article! (sdsds - talk) 10:56, 4 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Trademarks

I responded at User talk:ArielGold.--Isotope23 ^talk 16:04, 15 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks so much to Isotope for answering while I was sleeping :) I replied as well, and I went ahead and replied to your comment on the talk page, and cleaned up the article a bit. That wasn't the only issue that article has, but I think that the issues may come from simply a different way of doing things on other language Wikis. Not huge issues, but best to stay to the format here, I think. :) Ariel♥Gold 21:50, 15 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Redstone Technical Test Center

Yes...looks good. I guess I was stepping on your toes while you were adding the citation. My bad. Cheers. ++Arx Fortis (talk) 04:14, 20 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Marriage

Got your request for help on the issue of human origins, marriage, and marriage ties. Take a look at the on-line article on this question at http://repositories.cdlib.org/imbs/socdyn/sdeas/vol1/iss2/art4/ It focuses precisely on this question. Am a bit busy now but can get back to this question if you alert me again. As for percent of marriages that are polygynous (whose? men's? women's) in the Muslim or Arab world, a possible Mid-Eastern ethnographer and comparativist to ask is Andrey Korotayev. Doug White

Progress spacecraft/Launch

A tag has been placed on Progress spacecraft/Launch, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article providing little or no context to the reader. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself. If you plan to expand the article, you can request that administrators wait a while for you to add contextual material. To do this, affix the template {{hangon}} to the article and state your intention on the article's talk page. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. brew crewer (yada, yada) 05:08, 20 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

(Interested parties may wish to see: Template talk:Progress spacecraft/Launch. (sdsds - talk) 05:51, 20 December 2007 (UTC))[reply]

I guess they weren't lieing when they said "speedily deleted", 4 hours later and bye bye. I wish I seen this earlier so I could have at least seen what the article was like. Are there list of pages in the "space" area that are marked for deletion? Rocketmaniac (talk) 09:43, 20 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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No worries! (sdsds - talk) 00:06, 27 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Glonass launch template

Hey there,

Wanted to touch base with you. I like the idea of information on up coming launches, but I really don't think a large blue box at the top of the article is the right way to handle it. The whole news vs encyclopedia thing, and focus of the article. Perhaps a GLONASS launch article, with stub in the main article, and then that article can have the template at its top. What do you think? - Davandron | Talk 00:50, 25 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks very much for your comments! A lengthier response is at Talk:GLONASS/Launch#Glonass launch template. (sdsds - talk) 03:06, 25 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Note: this page has been moved to Template talk:Launching/GLONASS, and the redirect at the old location is up for speedy deletion. --GW_Simulations_{User Page | Talk} 20:14, 26 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

{{Launching}} tags

Just to let you know, concerns have been raised (see Template talk:Launching/TecSAR) over general update tags existing as mainspace subpages. I have moved them to the template namespace, as subpages of {{Launching}} to prevent deletion. Please can you create future tags in the same place. Thanks. --GW_Simulations_{User Page | Talk} 17:57, 26 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Great! Thanks for finding the best "home" for these. (sdsds - talk) 00:04, 27 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]