User talk:Dalf
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I have been an off and on editor for a while. I mostly do clean up type stuff as I don't do really well writing professional sounding blocks of text. Use the little plus button please it will put new topics at the bottom with a heading, or just click here. Dalf | Talk 02:29, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Archive
[edit] Ford Family Tree
I originally created the Ford Family tree, in text format. There were not any "pictorial" versions of any other family trees that I could find when I created it originally. Please give me some info on how you created the boxed family tree. I am very interested in it. It looks pretty good compared to the text format.--Drussel3 02:26, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Archiving
Hi Dalf, it was I who deleted the contend of the Talk page, but it was to clear the air, and to get the writers to give proof of their objections to the article so that it could be rectified in order for the neutrality tag to be lifted, which is in the best interest of Wikipedia, I assume. I did not know about the archiving function, I would appreciate it if you could send me a link to information about how to archive. Regards.-Gemsbok1 20:17, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
- Unfortunatly it is a mostly manual process. There is a general intrest on wikipedia of keeping "historical" record of discussions in a place where they are easy to find. This is especially true in contentious arguments as they frequently come up at requests for arbatration (WP:RfA) or requests for comment (WP:RFC) and people may want to refer to them. I can totally see your point about wanting to clear the air though and I have seen archiving used to do so, though in my expirence if a argument is firce enough removing parts of the page (espically if done selectivly) makes things worse. If it has not caused anyone to object though I suspect you did the correct thing. I will go ahead and make an archive for you, the basic way is:
- You create a subpage (in this case Talk:Orania/archive1)
- Copy and paste the older inactive conversations into it and save it.
- Add a link to the top of the talk page.
- Dalf | Talk 00:45, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Tatar (disambiguation)
The problem with the Tatar (disambiguation) move is that no one put a reference to it on the Tatars page (or it was removed), so that when searching for the Tatar language under its name Tatar, I didn't get to the disambiguation page until I went back to the redirect, then to its discussion page which took me to the Tatar (disambiguation) discussion page which then took me to the Tatar (disambiguation) page, and then to Tatar language. I am sure that that was not your intent. While I see your point about 92%+ of references being to Tartars rather than to Tatar, I have found that creation of pages entitled "XXX (disambiguation)" rather than letting the main title act as the disambiguation center can cause this type of problem. I have seen editors place the disambiguation reference at the end of rather large articles in the "see also" which really doesn't work for the 8% user. I am glad to know about the WikiProject Disambiguation. Bejnar 20:03, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] WikiProject Disambiguation Talk Request
This is a form message being sent to all WikiProject Disambiguation participants. I may have found your page based on your contributions or your link repair user box on your user page. If you are not a member, please consider including your name on the project page. I recently left a proposed banner idea on the WikiProject Disambiguation talk page and I would appreciate any input you could provide. Before it can be approved or denied, I would prefer a lot of feedback from multiple participants in the project. So if you have the time please join in the discussion to help improve the WikiProject. Keep up the good work in link repair and thanks for your time. Nehrams2020 22:52, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] WikiProject Go
The Wikipedia:WikiProject Go has been running a few days. We have been discussing diagrams, amongst other issues. Charles Matthews 16:24, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
