User talk:Sloman

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Thanks for the welcome. {Sloman 01:18, 17 October 2005 (UTC)}

HKWNB, HKCOTW, Current events

Hello Sloman. Thanks for your contributions to some Hong Kong-related articles. You might be interested to take a look at HK wikipedians' notice board, HK Collaboration of the Week and Current events in Hong Kong and Macao. Happy editing! — Instantnood 05:53, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

Irish disambiguation page

Hello Sloman,

I was just wondering why you moved all the links off the Irish dab page and onto the talk page? It was my understanding that the page was meant to list all the specific links that someone might have meant when they linked to Irish. After all a dab page is only really for link repair, it's not an article, in an ideal wikipedia there would be no links to Irish at all so moving the links to the talk page is kind of hiding the options for people who doing link repair.

Anwyay I was just surprised to see the links gone and I was wondering if it would be alright to move them back to the main page. -- Lochaber 15:58, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

• I had been wondering if someone had told you to do it because it seemed a bit of a strange thing to do. Can you link to where this discussion took place, in particular about the Irish page, as I'd like to weigh in on it. I may move them back soon because I would definitely argue that all the entries that were previous there may have been what people were searching for. Quite apart from that the Manual of Style is only a guideline *wink*. -- Lochaber 17:12, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

Categories

Hiya, Sloman. I'm just wondering why you have been removing the Category:Glamorgan category from a number of locations which are in the borders of the old Glamorgan? Wikipedia covers both the old (Traditional counties of Wales) and new (Subdivisions of Wales) so if we have the category, we might as well use it.

I'm not actually bothered enough to put them back at the moment :) But for some historical articles, I think the old divisions are probably much more useful.

Telsa 16:50, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

Powys railway stations

Hi.

As part of the reorganisation of Category:Railway stations in the United Kingdom, which has become overpopulated, station articles are being recategorised by county, or in the case of Wales/Scotland, by country. Would you rather recategorise the Heart of Wales Line stations as Category:Railway stations in Wales, or as Category:Railway stations in Powys? The Powys category would be a subcategory of both Category:Transport in Powys and Category:Railway stations in Wales. Our Phellap 21:25, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

Rational Skepticism

Hey Sloman, I've got the wikiproject page up and running. You can now put your name under Participants and add to the website as much as you like. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikiproject_Rational_Skepticism Maprov

Crossing flags

Please do not cross flags on your user page. This may offend others and is even considered a crime in many countries. I am sure you are able to express your valuable opinion in a respectful way. Imagine someone crossed the flag of your country - also a union. ROGNNTUDJUU! 21:09, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Your userpage was briefly delisted by a rogue admin

This user believes that only articles need reflect a NPOV, and that displaying political, religious, or other beliefs using userboxes and user categories should not be banned.

You have a userbox User:Hexagon1/UN which links your userpage to United Nations Wikipedians. There is currently a movement to ban userboxes from Wikipedia which are shared and which create List of Wikipedians. Certain admins have taken it upon themselves to preemptively sabotage and/or delete such categories and template. Here is the incident report which reported damage to yours, in which hundreds of userpages were delinked from categories without the users' knowledge. They have been stopped, barely, and the damage reverted— for now.

There is a Wikipedia:Userbox policy poll, which if passed, will make required by policy the damage done to categories and templates such as User UN/United Nations Wikipedians. If you do not want this to happen, I urge you to vote Oppose. in the poll. Support is currently running at about 66%, and your vote could make the difference. It is said to require 75%-80% to be deemed reflective of consensus.

Thank you,

StrangerInParadise 23:13, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Rosebush

Rosebush redirects to a Rosebush in Michigan - it might need a disambig or at least an entry somewhere. Agathoclea 10:16, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

I will once I get around to collect the information needed on Rosebush. I just wanted to alert you to the fact, as you are doing a lot on Pembrokeshire recently and someone just created that particular redirect a few days ago. Agathoclea 13:03, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

I see you done the disambig already. Thanks Agathoclea 13:07, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

List of places in Gwynedd (categorised)

The List of places in Gwynedd (categorised) has links to a number of places that are valid towns and villages but which do not necessarily share identical geographic boundaries with their namesakes. In addition, in an article about a Ward, for example, the content is very likely to differ from that about a Village. The first relating to representation and politics and the latter to geography and places of interest. I am not therefore convinced that these links are valid and that I feel that there should be separate articles for the political and administrative entities much as there are separate articles for Parliamentary constituencies. Mrs Trellis 22:27, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Welsh geo-stubs

Hi Sloman - I thought you should know that your split of Welsh geography stubs by county is creating something of a nightmare at the Stub-sorting Wikiproject. New stub types should always be proposed prior to creation at WP:WSS/P, to check that the new types reach the thresholds required for split - which in the case of geography stubs is 60-65 stubs. Of the 23 Welsh geography categories, only one reaches this target - not surprising, since with only 700 stubs, 23 categories was far too many to be split off (far far less than there were for Scotland - about 2000 - or England - over 4000). Worse, some of the categories are so small as to be of no practical use to editors whatsoever (small categories actually create far more work for editors, which is why we have thresholds in the first place). The categories are almost certainly going to be deleted and the stubs re-merged back into the main category, which means a lot of work for all concerned. Also, stub templates should conform to the standard naming guidelines for stub templates, which neither {{NPT-geo-stub}} not {{Vale-of-Glamorgan-geo-stub}} do. Please, in future, if you want to create new stub categories, follow the procedures and propose them first! Grutness...wha? 08:06, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

thanks for the prompt apology! Don't do anything about it until it's sorted through WP:SFD - some compromise like "upmerging" (keeping the templates but having them all feed into the main Welsh category) may be decided on yet. Grutness...wha? 12:19, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

However now that you have created them, you must first remove them from any articles that use them before you mark them for deletion. By marking [[Template:Caerphilly-geo-stub]] for speedy, you also put more than a dozen valid articles at risk from deletion by careless admins. -- RHaworth 12:57, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Sorry to butt in but please don't start to "sort them back" to the standard Welsh category. Please let WP:WSS look into the matter first. Perhaps we can keep the templates but change the corresponding categories. This has been a standard procedure in similar cases. It'll just take a little more time to look through the material. Deleting a stub template will *not* automatically delete the article that use it. But it might make it a bit harder to "sort them back" to the starting point. Please do nothing yet, and give WP:WSS a little time to find the best solution. Regards. Valentinian ^(talk) 23:00, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Swansea Institute of Higher Education

I know this wasn't a copyvio when you started it, but not much has been added to it that isn't a copyright violation. Feel free to revert it back to the stub you started it as. —WAvegetarian•(talk) 21:14, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Sketty

Apologies for the brusque revert - I should have seen the Singleton park article first. However, I still think the information on the Park, brief as it is still has a place in the Sketty article. There is masses more than go into the Singleton Park article - if I can ever find the time ! Velela

University of Wales template

This looks fantastic - was really needed to tie the university together on Wikipedia. Thanks a lot for sorting it out - Good work! Twrist 11:54, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Flintshire

Do you think the anti-Welsh edits to the Flintshire by Owain are justified?

anti-Welsh edits? Having the translations all over a page that links to pages with them is unnecessary and adds clutter. Owain (talk) 14:58, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

Ladies and Gentlemen can we take this argument to Talk:Flintshire (Sloman 15:00, 28 June 2006 (UTC))

your opinion on CFD appreciated

You seem to edit a lot of Pembrokeshire articles, so you might want to voice an opinion on this CFD. Seems clearcut unless I have missed an argument you might be able to provide. Agathoclea 08:21, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

Gower Beaches template

There are a few minor beaches on the Gower not included in the current template. These are mostly well known but poorly documented divisions of wider bays such as Oxwich bay which is tradionally divided into Pobbles bay, Three Cliffs , Crawley woods and Oxwich beach. These beaches are much bigger and more frequently used than some of the smaller beaches such as Mewslade. I was wondering where to draw the line and whether to include some of these familiar beaches ? Mrs Trellis 11:17, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

Aberkenfig

Hello, I've basically rewritten the article for Aberkenfig because it needed doing. Would you like to read it and add to it - I've left out a lot of the 'colour' that was in there and well, now it seems a bit dry so maybe you want to inject a bit of life into it. :) --Luccent 21:30, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

People from Llanelli Category

Hi, I'm just wondering why you set up the people from Llanelli category. I don't think there are enough articles on people from the town to justify it having its own category. They should just be listed under the Llanelli category. SouthernWelshman 21:36, 25 August 2006 (UTC).

Vale of Glamorgan

Hi please can you create Vale of Glamorgan-geo-stub category too. Please tell me when it is done. Ernst Stavro Blofeld 11:21, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Yes I live in the Vale and have created many new and will create more for it. Ernst Stavro Blofeld 11:28, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Crymlyn Bog et al

Apologies for the many typos in my edits - but many thanks for correcting them ! I'll try and keep the numbers down - just depends how much time I have for editing and checking. Old age dulls the mind but not the intention. Velela 20:54, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for the edit (Wawelberg_Bank_building). You made the introduction so much clearer. Roobit 19:01, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Pen-y-Gwryd

Hello Sloman, Since you once edited the PYG article, I wonder if you would take a look at the talk page. Maybe I am wrong not to accept this as an article simply promoting an hotel, but I would welcome a second opinion (I have also asked others). —The preceding unsigned comment was added by NoelWalley (talk • contribs) 13:45, 28 January 2007 (UTC).

Very Sorry, I always sign oh dear!! NoelWalley 13:47, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for looking. The latest version by User:Stemonitis yesterday is an improvement that I am happy with and I hope will now stick. Apart from the hotel there isn't of course much more to write about locally except mountains and valleys and of course the partially excavated and reburied Roman camp. I was only looking for recognition that the name applies to the locality (quite a wide area) as well as the hotel - but that view was being denied and reverted (three times over three of months) by one who knows a little about the hotel and the climbers and insisted that the name applied only to the hotel. Your edit was June 3rd 2006. NoelWalley 14:48, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Sony Alpha

You may want to check out this link: http://www.dyxum.com/dforum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9852 since the lot of us who have been working on these articles are trying to standardize and unite our respective actions. Overall, I like what you're adding to it all. ChristopherBorcsok 20:12, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

I notice you've been creating articles on lenses. However, according to the article on f stops, they really should be designated at "f/2.8" rather than "F2.8" Trouble is, the Sony literature uses the wrong notation. As such I will rename the Minolta lenses, but I won't adjust the article names of the Sony's... yet. ChristopherBorcsok 22:08, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

Well, I found an answer. Simple Google search off one of Sony's websites: http://www.sonystyle.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/eCS/Store/en/-/USD/SY_DisplayMoreInfoAccessories-Start?ProductSKU=SAL100M28 The f/2.8 is used. We should stick to that. ChristopherBorcsok 22:10, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

UK infobox templates

There is currently a debate about replacing the existing UK place infoboxes with a unified one. I generally support this proposal but there is an attempt to remove the historic county information that a lot of people worked on and where a consensus was reached. I would appreciate your input into this. Thanks. Owain (talk) 11:06, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

BTW, the discussion is at Template talk:Infobox GB place#Straw polls Owain (talk) 14:56, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

Tsunao Okumura

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Addition of Treboeth

Hi Sloman

Apologies if I'm not following the correct protocol, I'm still finding my way around the way things are done here. If I am using the wrong protocol no doubt you will advise me accordingly for next time.

I'm curious why (at 22.27 Thursday 15 March 2007) you added Treboeth to the Llangyfelach detail.

Treboeth is within the Mynyddbach ward.

Your observations will be read with interest.

TheObserver77

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Leisure Centers

Hey Sloman, you aren't some spammer, so I'm just wondering if you really believe that all these leisure center articles are notable. I'd also like to see some references on them. I'm not going to mark them, but I'd like to see it. --Tdmg 20:20, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

Looks like someone wants to speedily delete one of your centers. I'd recommend getting on that. If no one other than you would be willing to put in the effort to improve these articles with descriptions and pictures, that is probably a good sign that these centers are not notable. Sure, some malls are notable enough to be on Wikipedia, but my local rundown strip-mall or plaza isn't notable enough. Keep this in mind. --Tdmg 20:30, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the turnaround. That other guy's articles don't seem particularly noteworthy either. --Tdmg 20:36, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

Penlan Leisure Centre

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