User talk:Madw

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Aisin Gioro

Hello. Why are you changing "Aisin Gioro" to "Aisin gioro?" I think the former is more popular. --Nanshu 02:15, 16 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Thank you for changing it back to "Aisin Gioro." And Hong Taiji. His name seems to have been spelled so in the Manchu script though I've never found it. His name is completely blacked out in Manwen Laotang and some other Manchu documents to avoid discourtesy. But many researchers on Manchus use "Hong Taiji." --Nanshu 01:42, 20 Mar 2004 (UTC)

List of Chinese dynastic emperors

Wow, your work on those pages have been impressive. However, I would like to stress that tables of Chinese dynastic emperors are also previously placed on the pages of Chinese dynasties. Any thought of merging the lists and tables altogether? Ktsquare (talk) 03:45, 20 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Football

Because of the shuffling about of football pages about The Football League and the football pyramid etc.. by the anon IP the history of these pages has become disconnected from the article. Sometime (maybe later today, when I get some time) I intend to sort this out. Mintguy (T)

I still haven't done the above. Mintguy (T)

Dates

Hi. Generally articles about British subjects should use the British format rather than American. The way these wikified dates are rendered can be changed in preferences. See Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)Mintguy (T)

headers

Note that we start with the h2 headers (==header==) and not the h3. --Jia ng 18:38, 9 Apr 2004 (UTC)

2001-02 in English football

I noticed you removed the 2001-02 in English football link from the Football Conference page. I know it did seem to break the consistency where it was, but surely it is better to have a page (where possible) about a football season than a year.
SimonMayer 16:33, 13 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Yea I think I've done the same thing myself a few times. It's ok. Football Conference came up on my watchlist, so I thought to add the link. I should have known to wait incase someone else was making edits. Anyway, thanks for putting the link back.
SimonMayer 00:37, 14 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Three August Ones and Five Emperors

Nice re-organization of The Three August Ones and the Five Emperors. --Menchi 22:28, 20 Apr 2004 (UTC)

England

So why did you move English National Football Team to England NFT ? Bob Palin 14:31, 22 Apr 2004 (UTC)

I think NFT of England would be better. Mintguy (T) 16:50, 22 Apr 2004 (UTC)

So do I, although I see nothing wrong with English. Country names that don't have natural adjectives use the country name. Language is not an exercise in logic, it is all about usage. The team is called England and they are therefore the English National Football Team Bob Palin 18:35, 22 Apr 2004 (UTC)

I support the name English national football team or maybe national football team of England, but I think the latter is unnecessarily long. Also notice there aren't capital letters except for on England.
SimonMayer 18:45, 22 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Seems like a consensus is developing around National football team of England, and I'm fine with that too. As for length, it's just an "of" longer than what we have now and I don't consider that a problem. I'm going to copy these comments to the existing page itself so others can contribute if they want. - Madw 23:45, Apr 22, 2004 (UTC)

WBA

You marginally beat me on the WBA update! Great efficiency! calexico 13:25, 24 Apr 2004 (UTC)

History of China series box

The series box to which I reverted is consistent with History of South Asia and now Template:HistoryofChina on History of the People's Republic of China, Cold War, History of the United States, New Imperialism, History of Germany, and History of Brazil. It matches the bluish-purple TOC box, which seems to be emerging as the standard color scheme on Wiki. I don't have the information to answer the rest of your question, but perhaps you might want to look at Wikipedia:Article series and Wikipedia:List of article series. 172 04:11, 25 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

World Cup

To an American reader, what does FIFA World Cup mean? And more to the point what does UEFA European Championship mean? Leaving FOOTBALL in the title is more descriptive. It's also retains consistency with other sports. We don't for example say the International Rugby Board World Cup or (IRB World Cup) for Rugby. Mintguy (T) 02:10, 26 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Mediawiki

Thanx for helping me tweak the mediawiki's Ktsquare (talk) 07:29, 26 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

The cool Chinese wikipedia is also ongoing. Have a look. :) Ktsquare (talk) 07:38, 26 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Football in England

Why do you keep removing the (D1,D2,D3) links etc. They're very useful if you want to jump to another leagues without having to go to "football league" first and they don't look that messy either. Ed g2s 13:56, 4 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Altough having all of the sublinks would be messy, the D1, D2, D3 links I think are vital, you can't have a link to the premier league but not the first division. Personally I wouldn't mind having links to all the sub-divisions, but a half-way settlement would be the football league divisions. Ed g2s 16:01, 4 Jun 2004 (UTC)

They are rather major leagues and should really have their own links in the box I think.

They contain league standings and a list of all the teams in the league. They're useful for finding teams in that league.

That's fine. Ed g2s 16:31, 4 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
Multi-Licensing Guide
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To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

OR

Option 2

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

Speedy deletion of Template:HoC 5D10K

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If the template is intended to be substituted, please feel free to remove the speedy deletion tag and please consider putting a note on the template's page indicating that it is substituted so as to avoid any future mistakes (<noinclude>{{tranclusionless}}</noinclude>).

Thanks. --MZMcBride (talk) 21:01, 9 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion of Template:HoC HoM

A tag has been placed on Template:HoC HoM requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section T3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a deprecated or orphaned template. After seven days, if it is still unused and the speedy deletion tag has not been removed, the template will be deleted.

If the template is intended to be substituted, please feel free to remove the speedy deletion tag and please consider putting a note on the template's page indicating that it is substituted so as to avoid any future mistakes (<noinclude>{{tranclusionless}}</noinclude>).

Thanks. --MZMcBride (talk) 21:20, 9 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom elections are now open!

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