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University of Saskatchewan

Noted that you made contributions to the U of S article, a new subarticle has been started...University of Saskatchewan Academics which is in progress. Will use its sections for the U of S template, until full college articles are written. Working on a push to get the U of S to A status then to Feature... Invitation if you want to help out... SriMesh | talk 03:51, 10 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Changes to image templates

Hi! I noticed that you've made a bunch of changes (example) to templates such as Template:ShouldBePNG, changing [[GIF]] to [[Graphics Interchange Format|GIF]] etc. It's probably best not to do this, because the user may not immediately realize that "GIF" signifies "Graphics Interchange Format". Rather, just leave it as a link to the GIF page so that users will see "Redirected from GIF" and understand more clearly why they were brought to the Graphics Interchange Format page when they clicked "GIF".

Of course, what you did would be fine if GIF and PNG were disambiguation pages. But they're redirects, not disambiguations pages, and linking to redirects is usually just fine. —Remember the dot ^(talk) 04:17, 4 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'm planning to make it a disambiguation page; that's why I did.

Also I think it's more clear like this: This way you can already tell that "GIF" signifies "Graphics Interchange Format" without having to follow the link, even without having internet access: Move your mouse pointer over the link, for example.--Speck-Made 04:22, 4 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

How many people do you think actually do that, or even know that that feature is there? And how likely is it that someone is going to be using an online encyclopedia and not be able to click a link to a related page? Both are highly unlikely. It's simpler for everyone to just make use of redirects. —Remember the dot ^(talk) 02:39, 5 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know, I just know that I'm doin it myself and I think that Wikipedia shouldn't be bound to online usage. I think of direct links as the cleaner solution and see links to redirects as an intermediate solution, that doesn't hurt much, but that should be eliminated in the long term - except for some special cases like links on lemmata that redirect to a main article. Thats also what the rules on the german WP say; for the english version I didn't look yet. And in my eyes there are more advantages to it: With the direct link you don't get double redirects that easily, it is more likely that the linking article uses what is most likely to be the correct title of the linked article, the structure of the database is clearer ... I don't think it's a big improvement, but so far I think it's better that way and I don't see much drawback to it.

However, moving the GIF diambiguation to GIF is another thing - and after having thought again I don't see it as a good idea anymore. I see it as a case for another disambiguation model now because the meaning “Graphics Interchange Format” is just much more common.

Greetz – Speck-Made 16:52, 5 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

GIF

You've said "I want to move the disambiguation on GIF from GIF (disambiguation) to GIF and therefore I have to eliminate the links on GIF before it gets deleted." Just to reiterate, this is a bad idea. Unacceptable, even. Leave it. If you think there's a case to be made for such a move, be sure to bring it up for discussion on the talk pages of those two and of Graphics Interchange Format first. Dicklyon 04:56, 4 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

OpenThesaurus

Are you familiar with the notability guidelines? If so, and if you are telling me that what is in the article right now would be considered an appropriate level of coverage, I do not oppose removing the editorial templates. I'm not of much use when it comes to German. Let me know if you're still not sure and I'll try to see what I can do about looking at the sources by machine translating the text. Erechtheus 22:39, 5 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Page moves

Please see WP:NAME. Usage of the expanded "The GIMP Toolkit" is extremely rare. A move like this should be discussed beforehand - you didn't even leave a summary; it's not appropriate, and I've reverted it. Now someone (i.e. me) has to go and fix a dozen double redirects. Chris Cunningham 11:36, 6 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It's the official name from the project homepage.--Speck-Made 11:38, 6 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Replying on Talk:GTK+. Chris Cunningham 12:31, 6 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, so you found it already... :-) --Speck-Made 12:34, 6 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Let discussion happen before you move them all. Of your moves so far, KDE, XMMS, HTML and XHTML are all better-known by their acronyms and not their full names. There was no consensus for you to move all these pages and WP:NAME says to use the most common name, not the official name. NeoChaosX (talk, walk) 20:15, 8 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Well, at least in these cases I think our rules suggest to not have them under the acronym - if I interpret things right: WP:NAME#Prefer spelled-out phrases to abbreviations: “Avoid the use of [...] acronyms in page naming unless the term you are naming is almost exclusively known only by its abbreviation and is widely known and used in that form. NATO, NASA, laser, radar, and scuba are good examples of acronyms that are commonly thought of as words.” – You cannot think of KDE, XMMS, HTML or XHTML as words, I think.--Speck-Made 02:49, 9 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The passage you quoted didn't say anything about "thought of as words." Certainly KDE and HTML are widely known and almost exclusively used in that form; I have no idea what KDE stands for, and most people have no idea what HTML stands for, and there's little reason to care. Dicklyon 02:54, 9 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sure it does say something about "thought of as words" – at the end of the second sentence of the linked paragraph! – or what do you mean?--Speck-Made 03:19, 9 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Oops, I missed it at the end of the examples sentence. But the criteria stated didn't say anything about being thought of as words. The examples should probably be extended with something like HTML and the "thought of as words" thing removed. Dicklyon 04:22, 9 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think it's there by coincidence.--Speck-Made 23:16, 9 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

December 2008

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If the material is available on a different site that satisfies one of the above conditions, link to that site instead. Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 20:06, 30 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

So - you mean the link to the song lyrics? Do you really think this is a problem?--Speck-Made (talk) 20:13, 3 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Why move B. K. S. Iyengar?

Why did you move B. K. S. Iyengar to, the rarely if ever used, Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar, particularly with no discussion on the talk page? He is referred to by his initials and even most of his pupils wouldn't be sure what they stood for. Please move it back. Mutt Lunker (talk) 07:26, 16 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Erm - because it is his name?--Speck-Made (talk) 12:36, 16 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Please see above - it's not what he's referred to as. Like most people, he is not referred to by his full list of personal names in most situations (although it is appropriate to lead the introduction to the article this way) and in his case, is generally known by his initials. D. H. Lawrence is the name of the article for David Herbert Richards Lawrence because he is referred to as the former and not the latter. The same goes for, off the top of my head, V. S. Naipaul (Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul), I. K. Taimni (I don't even know what the initials stand for), E. E. Cummings or even e. e. cummings (Edward Estlin Cummings), PJ Harvey (Polly Jean Harvey), E. Nesbit (edith Nesbit), J. K. Rowling (Joanne Rowling), G. K. Chesterton (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) etc.

Please change it back to B. K. S. Iyengar, make your case on the talk page if you still think there is one for a change to Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar, and only move it there if there is a consensus to do so after a reasonable period of time. Moves should not be made without a discussion on the talk page, all the more so if the move is a controversial one. All the best. Mutt Lunker (talk) 15:36, 16 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

ABC (Yet Another Bittorrent Client)

I see that somebody reversed your adding the two mods to ABC on the ABC page. I know how to get those in - the page needs a "Criticism" section (I was going to add one) - and one of the criticisms would be that it was last updated by the founder 3 years ago and therefore is somewhat out of date, but that there have been several independently written modifications, and then list the two that you gave. But I have a question - I went to the two URLs that you listed, and, well, first of all, they don't work because you put them in with an extra space in them. But even taking them out, only one of them take me to a page - an index page: http://merapi.dyndns.org/abc/ The reason why I am bothering telling you all this is because I use ABC (I was introduced to bittorrents about 6 months ago using ABC), and now I find that I don't particularly like certain things that it does - mainly the huge amount of memory that it takes up (up to 900MB). So, can you please give me a two GOOD links that will take me to those two mods??? Otherwise, I am going to change to utorrent, and while I am sure that it is a good programme, I don't look forward to the hassle of changing over 83 partial bittorrents from ABC to utorrent. If I can modify my ABC with those two mods to get it to work acceptably for me, then I will stick with ABC - I mean, I am used to the interface (and I am sure there must be some advantage to using additional memory - I figure that if utorrent only uses a small amount of memory, then it must be constantly writing small writes to the hard disk, and thus end up with a very fragmented disk - but that's just a guess). Anyway, thanks in advance if you can answer my questions for me here, and I will put up the mods on the ABC in a way that should be acceptable to everybody. Appreciate it if you could answer this as soon as possible - the memory issue is driving me nuts. Also takes up a lot CPU usage. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.152.200.175 (talk) 12:53, 5 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hehe - well, I didn't put the deleted information in this article...

But thanks. See here for the way I've tried to deal with it...--Speck-Made (talk) 17:34, 12 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

As for your off-topic questions - well, at the first glance I think everything is (was) alright about the URLs... Anyways, it seems like it doesn't help you much. Have you tried Torrent Swapper for example? Or just any other software from the quite numerous free software BitTorrent clients?--Speck-Made (talk) 19:07, 12 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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CfD nomination of Category:Qt

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