User talk:Charliez
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[edit] John Bly
Thank you for adding this article. When adding stubs it is very hlepful to put the most specific accurate stub tag on the article that you can. see Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types for a full list of approved stub types. DES (talk) 18:03, 15 August 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Sheffield (disambiguation)
Meaning no offence, but I'm not as new around here as you are. From Wikipedia:Disambiguation:
- "Some topics have a primary topic which editors agree is the primary meaning for the term (Rome, for example). In this case the disambiguation page is named Rome (disambiguation), and the primary topic keeps the topic word or phrase."
Sheffield is just such a case. There are over 750 links to Sheffield, and by my reckoning at least 95% of those are for the English city. The various other Sheffield pages have only about 50 incoming links between them (not counting most of the links to Sheffield, Massachusetts, which don't actually exist now that towns have been removed from Template:Massachusetts). Sheffield, England, is a major European city (population > 500,000); all the other places linked are small towns (population < 10,000). There's nothing to debate here, seriously. If you don't believe me, see how we handle Manchester, London, Liverpool, Aberdeen, Bristol, Birmingham, Plymouth, Paris, Berlin, Amsterdam, Athens, Cambridge, Oxford, Split, Lisbon, Leeds, Dublin... sjorford (?!) 12:43, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
- Well, I do believe I have been around for a considerable longer time than you, all though a change of emails and a lost password made it necessary for me to change my user id. However, let us not sink to a level where we as bullies scream out “I’m bigger than you”. I'd in stead like to suggest some articles on Scientific method, argumentation technique and perhaps a further study on ethics of science. You'd be surprised to learn that it is not considered good practice to attempt to alter the meaning of quotations by cutting and pasting as to suite your own ambitions. For example leaving out the part
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- "In other cases, where there is no such consensus, disambiguation pages are named after the topic itself (Table, for example)."
- would by some people be considered ethical, only when viewed by very liberal standards. As you no doubt will also be surprised to learn, Rome is not - unlike Sheffield - a term used to describe a type of silver plate. I will agree with you in one regard, though; there is really nothing to discuss. It's fairly obvious that - to quote from the part of Wikipedia:Disambiguation that you removed in your own quotation - "there is no such consensus" on Sheffield as there is on Rome. Charliez 14:57, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
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- Am I a troll? I have sadly little experience with trolls, but I do not think people would be "trolling" their own talk-page. So the answer would be no, I shouldn't think so. Charliez 22:23, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
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- The term for the plate is Old Sheffield Plate, perhaps Sheffield Plate not just Sheffield. --ExtraBold 19:20, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
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- And the full name of the city of Sheffield, I do believe is Sheffield City. Brits call it Sheffield, just like people in the antique silver business just call Sheffield plate "Sheffield". Anyway, as fun as it may be to chat with you guys regarding the naming of Wiki pages, I shall have to let the subject go as I am pressed for time. I shall hence bow to the overwhelming majority of 2 to 1 that most users looking for "Sheffield", is indeed looking for the British city of that name. Charliez 22:23, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Image Tagging Image:Zangeberg christian.jpg
Thanks for uploading Image:Zangeberg christian.jpg. I notice the image page currently doesn't specify who created the image, so the copyright status is therefore unclear. If you have not created the image yourself then you need to argue that we have the right to use the image on Wikipedia (see copyright tagging below). If you have not created the image yourself then you should also specify where you found it, i.e., in most cases link to the website where you got it, and the terms of use for content from that page.
If the image also doesn't have a copyright tag then you must also add one. If you created/took the picture then you can use {{GFDL}} to release it under the GFDL. If you can claim fair use use {{Non-free fair use in|article name}} or {{fairuse}}. See Wikipedia:Image copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.
If you have uploaded other images, please check that you have specified their source and copyright tagged them, too. You can find a list of image pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that any unsourced and untagged images will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thanks so much. --Romeo Bravo 20:01, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
