User talk:Colonies Chris/Archive/2011/Feb

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Hello! In FEBRUARY, in the Supreme Federal Court of Brazil will be aproved the *SAME-SEX MARRIAGE IN BRAZIL* ([1]), and the pages LGBT rights in Brazil and Recognition of same-sex unions in Brazil need of you. Because will generate a heavy traffic on these pages, and we need you to help in the English spelling of these pages, you understand me? Please help me. Hentzer (talk) 12:00, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

Hello! WikiProject Albemarle County, an outreach effort supporting development of Albemarle County and surrounding area related articles in Wikipedia, has recently been started. As a user who has shown an interest in related topics I wanted to invite you to join us in developing content relating to the project. If you are interested please visit our page (currently under construction) and add the user badge to your talk page. Thank you!!!

- WikiManOne (talk) 19:47, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

Hello. I would think that you, an editor with well over 100K edits, would know by now to be more alert when using AWB; links to external sites should not be changed alongside other AWB fixes like that. Titles should not, either, because the title of a citation should be a duplicate of the title of the original source. Thanks. And if you are wondering what page I am talking about, see this. --HXL's Roundtable, and Record 23:45, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

Hi - your edit to add "Hilary Clinton" to the AWB typo list caused an error when AWB tried to load it, with a message of "not enough )'s". As I'm not an expert on Regex, I've reverted the change - feel free to replace it with the correct syntax. —  Tivedshambo  (t/c) 16:57, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

Also, any addition should not be flagged as minor. -- JHunterJ (talk) 18:16, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

I noticed you have been delinking United states in a lot of templates. Before I start reverting them I wanted to ask you what the reasoning was because I have seen several that I do not agree with you delinking action on. --Kumioko (talk) 18:06, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

Because I think that this delinking will have some longlasting and ill effects I opened up a discussion on the Village pump. to get some input from other users about this. Maybe its just me but I think this is probably not a good thing to do. --Kumioko (talk) 18:13, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

This delinking is in line with the MoS (see WP:OVERLINK), and has also been raised at WT:STUB and WT:WSS, originally by me before I started this delinking, and very recently by an admin who wished to confirm that there were no objections. There were no objections. Colonies Chris (talk) 00:50, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

Kumioko, apart from the style guide's discouragement of such low-value links, what exactly do you see as the purpose of linking whole country articles such as UK, US, Australia, Canada? Tony (talk) 01:12, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

I'm not here to complain about removing links but I have a question. I've read most of the discussions on overlinking and removing common terms. The understanding I got was that links, wherever possible, should be optimised by providing a more relevant target. I noticed that you had done this. I was wondering if it would not be a better idea to do this instead? It would seem to me that it provides a more relevant target and might possibly cut down the complaints about delinking. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather (talk) 22:08, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

It was at the bottom of the template. But the main thing is I did have the correct understanding about the links. CambridgeBayWeather (talk) 22:15, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

Could well be duplication. It's been a long while since I looked at the list. I usually only bother with extant airlines. CambridgeBayWeather (talk) 22:26, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

missed the leading bracket. Thanks! Plastikspork _―Œ^(talk) 02:11, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for spotting that. Colonies Chris (talk) 10:27, 11 February 2011 (UTC)