User talk:Urhixidur/Archive/2011

Service award level

There has been a major revision of the the Service Awards: the edit requirements for the higher levels have been greatly reduced, to make them reasonably attainable.

Because of this, your Service Award level has been changed, and you are now eligible for a higher level. I have taken the liberty of updating your award on your user page.

Herostratus (talk) 14:25, 21 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Why, thank you! Urhixidur (talk) 00:12, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Alfredo Caronia

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Capitalisation of French operas

I would have thought that a radical suite of edits to change the capitalisation of some French opera titles ought to have been proposed first at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Opera. You would then have been referred to Wikipedia:WikiProject Opera#Operas: capitalisation and diacritics and extensive discussions of this subject in the archives. In a nutshell: the Opera Project decided to follow reputable English language sources in this matter, instead of an inconsistenlty applied set of standards used in French writing. I suggest you revert all releated page moves and edits. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 15:26, 25 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

There's nothing inconsistent about French case rules. See http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_des_majuscules_en_fran%C3%A7ais#Titres_d.E2.80.99.C5.93uvres_ou_de_p.C3.A9riodiques In the particular case of this opera, you'd be very hard put to find a single case of the lower-case usage in Google Books. Looks open and shut to me. The WikiProject Opera rules state "For titles in their original (non-English) language, [...] the title is capitalized as it would be in a sentence in that language." However, the following sub-paragraph promptly contradicts this with its French examples: "For [...] French [...] opera titles, capitalize only the first word and any proper nouns (names of particular people or places) in that language, e.g. [...] Les mamelles de Tirésias [wrong], Les Indes galantes, Les contes d'Hoffmann [wrong], La vie parisienne [wrong] [...]". Looks to me like the committee who wrote this later paragraph has no clue how French case works. Urhixidur (talk) 01:07, 26 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The two operas you picked are Italian operas (my hasty mistake in wording the section title above).
The attitude "I'm right, and I know it" is not how Wikipedia works.
Not discussing such changes at the Opera Project's talk page is contemptuous.
Using administrative tools instead of submitting a requested move is abuse of the mop.
This discussion should be at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Opera.

Michael Bednarek (talk) 06:09, 26 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. I see you changed the capitalization of Le temps L'horloge today. Maybe the style we use for the capitalization of classical music titles is unfamiliar? Please let me know if I can explain anything. You can also see the Classical music guidelines. Thanks. --Klein zach 04:23, 7 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I see that is essentially the same as with operas. I've been had again...Gotta be more careful! Thanks. Urhixidur (talk) 11:52, 7 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

In the news

Hello. Please read Wikipedia:In the news and familiarize yourself with the process before editing the template. In particular, note the following:
1. The section is not a news ticker. Its purpose is not to report news; it's to link to Wikipedia articles substantially updated to reflect current/recent events. You reported news without linking to the relevant article.
2. Items are posted after consensus is established at Wikipedia:In the news/Candidates, at which point an administrator tags the discussion accordingly. A discussion regarding this event was ongoing and received no interaction from you.
3. The section's items are written in the simple present tense. You used present perfect wording.
Thank you. —David Levy 19:52, 13 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

This was your first edit to T:ITN since March 2007. If you intend to make any unilateral changes to a Main Page section, the least you could do as an admin is check to see if there is a project behind it, or if something has changed in the procedure since your last edit (over four years ago). Strange Passerby (talk • cont) 02:04, 14 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Duly noted. I was in a hurry and did not pay sufficient attention to the "Please note" banner. My apologies. At least it did turn out to be newsworthy... Urhixidur (talk) 21:42, 14 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

HRU (security)

Hi Urhixidur. I've seen your improvements on the article and that your native language is French. I had made a few comments on the French version of the article, however it took me a long time to try and formulate correct French sentences, so it would be hard for me (and error-prone) to actually edit the article. Maybe you have a look at the differences between the language versions? Thanks --Zahnradzacken (talk) 19:32, 6 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Bien sûr ! Urhixidur (talk) 20:03, 6 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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