User talk:Corvus

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[edit] Nobel prize name

Apropos of these two edits: [1] [2] (and similar in several other articles). Why do you insist on using the formal description of this prize? The target article uses the full title, "Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobe", as it should, but who uses this unwieldy mouthful in ordinary discourse? I have a copy of Stiglitz's latest book in front of me and it says very simply on the jacket: "he won the Nobel prize for economics". One of most fundamental tenets of Wikipedia is to "call things as they are commonly known" -- and in most cases it makes perfect sense; to insist otherwise is sheer pedantry. Creating an encyclopedia is not a excercise in academic correctness; it is a practical undertaking. -- Viajero 19:17, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Truthkill

Hello. I don't think User:P4computerguy is a sockpuppet of User:Bobmarleysdead if that is what you mean, I just think he's mad about his one-man-band (Truthkill) and his gaming clan (Disfunctional Generation) being put up for deletion. I do think that the Truthkill article should be deleted, a Google search for "Truthkill" yields only 63 results [3], the first of which is about a different band named "TRUTHKiLL," and others that are about a song named "Truthkill" from a band named "Powerface," and they haven't released any albums, only mp3's on their site. Ben D. 18:50, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

I've listed it for deletion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Truthkill. Ben D. 03:02, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
I've deleted the article and banned the contributer in question. Don't know of a way to "watch" user contribs other than clicking "user contributions". Homey 01:32, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Vandals

"For editors who want to get an administrator to have a look at a vandal situation and consider blocking:
2. Make sure you've warned the vandal with the {{test}}, {{test2}}/{{test2a}}/{{test3}}, and {{test4}} templates or with the {{test-n}}, {{test2-n}}/{{test2a-n}}/{{test3-n}}, and {{test4-n}} templates as appropriate."

I know you said that he'd been warned many times, but this applies on a day to day basis- in other words, if he wasn't warned today, he can't be blocked. Besides, he seems to have stopped hours ago.--Scimitar parley 19:25, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Autumn - not a vandal

He... you reverted the changing of Fall to a lowercase F and the changing of "All though" to "Although" and labeled the edit that you undid as "vandalism" -- That edit certainly was not vandalism, as "Although" is definitely the proper spelling, and lowercase f on fall is also correct as far as I know. You might want to be a little less quick to make accusations of vandalism, considering it's quite clea that the edit you labeled as such was a good faith effort to improve the encyclopedia and was more correct than your version. DreamGuy 22:47, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

OK, yes, he vandalized it four days before you reverted it, and you failed to note both that someone had already reverted him and that other editors had made additional changes since that time, which you undid by reverting back before the vandal struck. DreamGuy 03:15, 22 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Electoral Districts

I would like to invite you to participate in Wikipedia:WikiProject Electoral districts in Canada. Discussion has begun on the many issues that need to be addressed. I've noticed you've been on the VfD pages so I can only hope you are not jaded from all the poor articles you must read through. I assure you, for this project we are aiming for feature class stuff, not the deletion class. So please read through the introductions, familiarize yourself with the topic and the options/examples and then participate in the debate about how the pages should best be laid out, and help us avoid some pitfalls. --maclean25 07:10, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Wikimedia Canada

Hi there! I'd like to invite you to explore Wikimedia Canada, and create a list of people interested in forming a local chapter for our nation. A local chapter will help promote and improve the organization, within our great nation. We'd also like to encourage everyone to suggest projects for our national chapter to participate in. Hope to see you there!--DarkEvil 17:11, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

Corvus - I'm a newbie to wiki in general and wikipedia in particular. Not sure how I am supposed to respond to your questions re: silver carp. Was I supposed to just hit (+) in the same page or go here, or what. Anyway, to answer your question, bighead and silver carps are extremely fecund, so they can withstand a lot of predation as young, and grow very large, very fast, so that adults or even older juveniles are too big to prey on by most predators (except man). Silver carp meat has an excellent flavor, if it is kept fresh (it deteriorates faster than most other fish) but they do not dress out well in comparison to other fishes native to North America. The percentage of meat on a fish is low, especially in bighead carp, and the filets have intramuscular bones, so even the filets are very bony. I have several projects underway to make these fish more palatable to North American tastes, by dealing with the bones in a variety of ways. In fact, I fear that some day I'll be managing for the fish, instead of against them, and that is disturbing to me, because I believe they do have negative effects on native fishes.

Please help me out with wiki protocol and how to respond to messages.

[edit] Title conventions

I saw the link about title conventions on Wikipedia. Of course, it's only referring to book and movie titles. "The Gold-Bug" is not a book; it's a short story. In fact, you could argue that it's a "chapter" in a larger collection (either it's original publication The Philadelphia Dollar Newspaper or an anthology like The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe). The policy you showed me looks very incomplete. I'm bringing this question up with the Short Story Task Force. In the meantime, can we at least get the story title correct? It's "The Gold-Bug," with that little hyphen in there. Please? --Midnightdreary 03:16, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

Answer found. Please see Wikipedia:Manual of Style (titles). I'm gonna go ahead and make the correction again on the Sullivan's Island page. Hope you don't mind. If you disagree, let's discuss it before you make a third revert to it. Thanks! --Midnightdreary 03:28, 19 July 2007 (UTC)