User talk:Mardus

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[edit] Welcome, from Journalist

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[edit] Hurricane Katrina

Mardus, I think we've working toward the same end on the Foreign Aid section. I am ready to publish my version. Do you mind if I do so and then you can work out the diffs if you've got something different/better? Thanks. Chris 14:34, 4 September 2005 (UTC)

  • Dear Chris. I was blocked for a short time and tried very hard not to feel like a dick. Now, this statement made me laugh out. I failed in trying to not feel like that, so I actually went on to make myself ready to go out and buy some chocolate for consolation....
I contacted one of the admins who sent a message to me through an IP-based talk page (While I was blocked, I was forced to use an open proxy to access it) and explained him/her that I was working in good faith and not attempting to vandalize the page. I was busy fixing some of the minor mistakes a few days earlier and also proposed dividing the Criticisms section into subsections. Now that I can access wikipedia again, I feel like a happy man again.

[edit] Re

Talk:Russia#Russia.27s_opinion_on_Kosovo.3F

I replied to you there. --PaxEquilibrium 19:49, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Talk:Moscow Does not Believe in Tears

I have answered you at Talk:Moscow Does not Believe in Tears. Geevee (talk) 08:48, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Plame affair/CIA leak scandal

could you please vote again on a preference for the article name on the talk page? your input could very much help to reach a consensus. thanks!!Anthonymendoza 20:21, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Re:Categorized images at Commons

Thanks for letting me know! enochlau (talk) 16:37, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ellington

Hi. I just saw the quick addition and deletion from Ellington. Then you made a comment on Talk:Ellington, Northumberland. I checked it out and found that the redirect from the dab page's talk page to the town had never been erased. I assume you had meant your post for the dab page rather than the town's page? —Elipongo (Talk contribs) 03:00, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

That's correct. -Mardus 03:06, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
I've erased the redirect. It was there because once upon a time the article about the town in Northumberland resided at that name. When it was moved, whomever made the page into a dab neglected to erase the redirect from the talk page. Anyway, as I said, I've fixed it now. Do you want to move your comments to the correct page? I think it'll just confuse the folks in Northumberland. :-) —Elipongo (Talk contribs) 03:18, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
Do I move the comments by cutting them from the Northumberland talk and then pasting them into Ellington dab talk or is there some other way, too? -Mardus 03:41, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
Cutting and pasting is the way to go. Just be sure to explain what you're doing in the edit summary. Cheers! —Elipongo (Talk contribs) 03:44, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Redlinking

I am still unsure about redlinks and whether to create them for titles of old films. I have also removed and fixed my share of redlinks, while still not sure if I have created more redlinks into articles than I have fixed or removed any. I do feel that there must be some kind of a balance between the two at least...

One way to gauge whether redlinks are useful is to check if any have existed before my additions with What Links Here. At least if one is there, then this should be a sure-fire way to add more into relevant articles.

I was thinking then that if there was no redlink at all for a movie, then it should not be added.

I've been reading Wikipedia talk:Red link#Redlinks useful? and am unable to make up my mind about all these arguments.
-Mardus 09:37, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

For example, I was editing an actor page which has quite an extended filmography (actor pages are usually filled up with filmographies copied from the IMDb and then reformatted).

My personal opinions about these filmographies is that actor's pages should rather have selected filmography lists based on existing articles in Wikipedia... Just as well, if there is a redlink already in existence, it does not appear to be any harm in adding another one into another article... I think the point would then be not to create new redlinks that have a very low likeliness of getting their own article.
-Mardus 09:42, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

Another thought I had is that if there there might as well be no need to summarily create redlinks in articles that I am not thoroughly editing anyway, even if these redlinks have more than one to several articles that already link to them.

I also think that redlinks are useful for disambiguation purposes. For example, if a relatively short article about an actress contains numerous redlinks to films and some of them are blue and link to pages that are not about films, then it's duly useful to fix those Wikilinks and make them redlinks of the type "Film title (film)" or "Film title (year xxxx film)". This may create more redlinks in the end and perhaps even a disambiguation page (provided it contains numerous blue links already), but these new redlinks would still link to the right place.
-Mardus 09:48, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

While What Links Here is a useful tool to gauge requests for an article that is at that time redlinked, then the most useful way for the user to do it would be by adding just one redlink to his/her article of interest.

For example, a redlinked article has two articles that refer to it and these two articles were written and given redlinks to by two differnet users. There are other two articles (among several others) that use exactly the same text as the redlinked article (a movie title is one such example) and a user is doing major edits on one of them. To guarantee impartiality, a user can add necessary redlinks to that article only and not make similar redlinks to other articles that contain exactly the same text that can be used for the redlink, unless they are editing other articles as thoroughly as their primary article of the moment.

The exception to the rule is only when other users have created wrong redlinks that are ambiguous and/or link to irrelevant articles and in which case these redlinks mut be fixed. Alas, this form of action can be manipulated by malicious users that make use of sockpuppets.
-Mardus 10:52, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hi

Hi, I was just wondering if you'd take a look at my talk and user page. You seem like a respected user, so your expertese would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Madrus 12:09, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] A4Tech

A tag has been placed on A4Tech, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article seems to be blatant advertising that only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the general criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 11, as well as the guidelines on spam.

If you can indicate why the subject of this article is not blatant advertising, you may contest the tagging. To do this, please add {{hangon}} on the top of A4Tech and leave a note on the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would help make it encyclopedic, as well as adding any citations from reliable sources to ensure that the article will be verifiable. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. -- JediLofty User ¦ Talk 13:58, 6 June 2008 (UTC)