User talk:AllyUnion/Archive1

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France A. Córdova

The France A. Córdova article that you created has been copied from [1]. Do you have a permission from them? Materials on websites are copyrighted, even if there is no explicit copyright symbol. Andris 11:09, Aug 19, 2004 (UTC)

A search on France A. Córdova showed a press release of the same information. If you like, I can contact the Chancellor personally for her biography and write something up. More or less, I think she'll just direct me to that particular page. Allyunion 22:05, 19 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Graduation

The Graduation article is clearly encyclopedic and should not be moved to wiktionary. It contains a lot of information about the practice of graduations, and is not just a dictdef. I have removed the notice. If you still feel it should be transwikied, please explain why on the Talk:Graduation page. — David Remahl 12:00, 19 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Appetite

Why do you think appetite needs to move to Wiktionary? The article has recently received a lot of attention (by me) to include scientific views about the interplay between appetite, health, obesity, anorexia, etc. Those things don't belong in a dictionary! Please discuss... JFW | T@lk

I saw your comments on talk:Appetite. Will due respect, I think you misunderstand the distinction between Wiktionary and Wikipedia. The fact that the article does not have a historical section (sorry, I know nothing about the history of appetite) does not make it unencyclopedic (look at any stub article on the project). Please drop a line on my talk page. If you want a link to sexual appetite, just add it to the article! JFW | T@lk 08:12, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Troop

I think I've expanded it enough to retain it as an acceptable article on Wikipedia. It's certainly more than just a definition. At the moment I don't have any further info to add, but when I do I will. -- Necrothesp 23:45, 19 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Template:University of California

I responded at Template talk:University of California.

I also moved your talk and user pages to their original locations. The "User contributions" and "E-mail this user" links are not available at the other location, which remains unregistered meaning someone could potentially register it be your imposter. You can get your username changed or register the AllyUnion account and then edit under it. Cheers, Jiang 22:02, 24 Aug 2004 (UTC)

You can also change your signature through Special:Preferences. I sign JFW, even though my username is User:Jfdwolff. As you can see, Jiang has made it even nicer. JFW | T@lk 22:21, 24 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Drizzt Do'Urden

Hi and welcome again to the best encylopedia in the world. You might be interested to know that I've cleaned up Drizzt Do'Urden after you listed it. ··gracefool |☺ 03:17, 25 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Yr VfD tinker

I'm not sure what result you got, but the reasons the method you seem to have tried is not already in use are

• Only 5 copies of a given template per page
• Parameters don't work for subst-calls

But you made a reasonable attempt! --Jerzy(t) 01:52, 2004 Aug 28 (UTC)

I wish there was a function call we could use... make life a bit easier.

Ice hockey stub

The reason I did this was because there are at least 100 if not more stubs for NHL ice hockey players (not to mention all the other potential ice hockey stubs). I'm working hard to create a general format for the players (see Wikipedia:WikiProject Ice Hockey/Player pages format) but it will take time. Kevin Rector 05:43, Aug 28, 2004 (UTC)

Video Game List

Good work, if we get ambitious about wikifying it, it maybe a good idea to have the link go to each video game's sound tract section. I believe you can do this by going {{Article Here#Soundtrack}} with square brackets. If you know how to do it perhaps do a few so people know what to do, I'll try looking up how to do it also. It is a pretty exhaustive list, hopefully it will be useful :). See you, --ShaunMacPherson 17:33, 3 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Re:Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion_archive_May_2004

I did it on purpose. That site holds the page history of vfd before May 2004 because the very lengthy page history was causing problems with the software. Other than that, it serves no other purpose so the note that remains is to indicate that. --Jiang 19:22, 3 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Oh, there was no note about the change. --[[User:Allyunion|AllyUnion (Talk)]] 02:48, 5 Sep 2004 (UTC)

User:Anthony_DiPierro & VfD

Thanks. I am trying to pull in my horns a little. RickK 07:57, Sep 6, 2004 (UTC)

Username change

Please create your new account in advance as instructed on the changing username page. Thanks — Kate Turner | Talk 12:59, 2004 Sep 8 (UTC)

• Confirming --[[User:AllyUnion|AllyUnion (talk)]] 12:18, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC)

UC Template

Hey. I noticed the discussion, but was too lazy to add something there. It looked unacceptable; I'll add to the discussion now. --Yath 15:04, 11 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Rurouni Kenshin

Allyunion, the Viz manga uses the Eastern way, because this is a historical manga. WhisperToMe 03:13, 2 Oct 2004 (UTC) What I meant was that the wapuro style that was used in the article should be replaced by macrons. Sure enough, they were. WhisperToMe 04:06, 2 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Name change

Your edits as User:Allyunion have now been reattributed to you. Regards — Kate Turner | Talk 23:56, 2004 Oct 13 (UTC)

Video game music lists

Please see my concerns posted at Talk:List of video game music. I am hoping that you can make sense of those lists, since you were involved in creating them. [[User:Aranel|Aranel ("Sarah")]] 20:38, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Cerritos, California Request for Expansion

Just curious -- athough there are still a few things that could be added to the Cerritos article (e.g. the Performing Arts Center), it is pretty complete, and way beyond most city articles. Is the Request for Expansion still needed? [[User:GK|gK ¿?]] 06:00, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)

There is an amount of rich history that hasn't been included into the article that could be easily be provided by a local historian... or some extensive research. That's all really the article needs. --[[User:AllyUnion|AllyUnion (talk)]] 10:17, 13 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Metapicstub

Would be happy to add image size, but don't know where it should go. Can you point me to an example? jengod 07:47, Nov 28, 2004 (UTC)

All those images sound good! Will keep an eye out. :) jengod 08:54, Nov 28, 2004 (UTC)

Cultural bias

After seeing the cultural bias thingie way back in the Wikipedia discussion for naming order for Jap. names, Wikipedia IS "culturally biased" in the sense that it favors Anglophone conventions. E.G. the Middle East is an Anglophone term. WhisperToMe 06:21, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)

That may be true, but I had the notion that most Encyclopedias write about people Last Name, First Name for indexing purposes. -- AllyUnion (talk) 07:25, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Yes, most do, but Wikipedia will never because there is no will to make all names SN, GN. Wikipedia is not paper. WhisperToMe 05:51, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I'm still not changing my vote. If the vote still swings in favor to SN GN for Japanese names, all the better. Aside from the cultural bias, there would be good question as to where the honorific endings go... if we go either way. (Obviously the SN, but some people might accidently use the GN... which is disrespectful.) -- AllyUnion (talk) 07:36, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Problem is, many Japanese themselves have adopted the GN-FN naming order when their name is written in roman characters. Also, the Prince of Tennis characters seen here (http://www.tv-tokyo.co.jp/anime/tennipri/chara1.html ) have their name written GN FN. GN FN is NOT insulting to many Japanese as Japan itself is more Westernized than China (e.g. Mao Zedong is almost always seen FN-GN) - Also, some Anglophones who look at the articles mistakenly put (GN, SN) in alphabetical categorizations of them. This is not a necessary evil with most Japanese names. WhisperToMe 18:11, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Also see: http://www.shonenjump.com/downloads/greetingcards/images/onepiece_02.jpg - Eiichiro Oda writes his name in Western order in Latin characters. WhisperToMe 04:31, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I suppose that be considered as an "Westernization" I don't think they do that particularly in Japanese. -- AllyUnion (talk) 07:48, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)

What it is is that when writing in Japanese characters, of course Japanese order is used. But when writing in ROMAN characters, the order oftentimes gets switched. Japan itself is a westernized society, and many people do business with foreigners, so people generally do not have problems with switching their name around when writing in roman characters (Unlike in China, where virtually everyone uses SN-GN) WhisperToMe 03:25, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)

As for another example: every actor's "page" at this link uses GN-SN in roman characters http://www.benten.org/concrete/cast.html