User talk:K kay shearin
Welcome, Kay! --Larry Sanger 02:19, 31 October 2006 (CST)
Law
I suspect it was forgotten, since if you look at the workgroup talk page it is one of the original workgroups. Chris Day (Talk) 10:38, 7 December 2006 (CST)
Category re queen consorts
Hi Kay, far be it from me to discourage boldness, which I generally admire, I don't think we should use categories as a special kind of article, but your latest Category entry Category:English queens consort would imply we're doing that. Actually, we are long overdue discussing the whole matter of categories and what to do with them. Frankly, I think we should probably delete them all and either start over, or do something entirely different. I hope I'll have time to elaborate more tomorrow. --Larry Sanger 22:27, 31 January 2007 (CST)
Very short articles and BSD
I'm not going to mark Hemlock for speedy delete (as well as other somewhat recently created stubs of yours which would otherwise fall under the category of very short articles (<2 sentences and <50 words) and are candidates for deletion. I kinda wish the deleters would wait a couple of days so that folks would have a chance to remove the BSD tag if it is on their watch list, though. James F. Perry 22:18, 19 February 2007 (CST)
- Now I'm confused. Anyway, here is why the stubs have been getting tagged BSD (from the BSD guidelines)::
- "really, really short articles: it consists of two sentences or less, or 50 words or less, which have been left on the wiki for more than two hours."
- But are you telling me that people actually go in and remove the square brackets which create links? Or are you talking about links such as the one on the Hemlock article to an external source?
- Oh, and I'm working on the Trial of Joan of Arc page. It is currently in the History Workgroup. I was thinking of moving it to the Law Workgroup where it would go with other famous Trials (Socrates, Scopes, Nuremburg, etc). What do you think? James F. Perry 23:07, 19 February 2007 (CST)
Edits by "Rob Levin"
Okay, now I think I get it. The West Memphis article was edited by "Rob Levin" and his edit removed the links you had put in.
"Rob Levin" is what is known on WIkipedia as a "drive-by editor". He hit the Joan of Arc article as well. The drive-by editor will go from one article to another, to another, and so on, making sometimes major edits before moving on. The edits are almost never constructive, never well informed, and this user was blocked. That is something that happens on CZ, but not on WP (the blocking, that is).
The actions of such users are actually quite insulting. I have been working on the Joan of Arc article for several weeks and, in the process, have read several whole books on the subject. Then this clown comes along, looks at the article for 2 minutes,and makes a whole bunch of changes, and leaves no note in the edit summary, and moves on, leaving me to clean up the mess. As if he can do in 2 minutes what it took me several weeks to do after reading a number of books on the subject!
Take a look at his "contributions". And note the time stamp.
James F. Perry 12:56, 20 February 2007 (CST)
Multiple Workgroups for articles
Apparently, articles can be placed in more than one category. The following page indicates that the new Article Checklist has space provided for up to 3 categories:
This is nice. It means I don't have to wrestle with deciding whether Joan of Arc goes in History or Religion and such questions.
I have started a listing of High Priority articles on the Law Workgroup home page. I can't really develop it that far since I lack basic expertise in that field. The Trial of Joan of Arc article is likely to be the only Law WG article I work on.
James F. Perry 18:05, 20 February 2007 (CST)
The Big Write
Larry Sanger just created the following article:
If I'm not mistaken, you're an Editor, so you can nominate articles. I just expanded the Trials section on the Law WG page. The entire list could probably be usefully expanded to between 100 and 150 articles.
Two really important ones: Magna Carta and Inquisition.
James F. Perry 20:36, 21 February 2007 (CST)