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A Western Sahara-related vote

===>Here Make your voice heard. Vote or die. And all that. -Justin (koavf), talk 21:08, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

KB vs. kB

In all IT literature that I see, KB is the term for KiloByte. What is the basis of your changes? I understnd Wiki is supposed to reflect 'what is', not 'what should be' in this world. Thanks Hmains 18:03, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

In proper literature (and there is some out there), they will use the proper prefix of lowercase 'k'. It is incorrect to use uppercase 'K', as this stands for Kelvin. And all of this is as per SI. Therefore, while using 'kB' to mean "1024 bytes" is wrong, 'KB' is even more wrong, as it technically means "Kelvin bytes". —Gordon P. Hemsley→✉ 15:36, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

Beatles songs

The full conversation is on Crystallina's Talk Page.

Yes, I realize that those songs are not Beatles songs, but the category text reads:

"This category is for stub articles relating to songs by The Beatles and any of the four members individually. You can help Wikipedia by expanding them." (Emphasis added by me.)

The scope includes those songs. Crystallina 19:19, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

I'm inclined towards including those songs, just so the main song-stub category won't be as overpopulated. It's currently hovering just above/below the list. Crystallina 19:31, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

Hi mate. Thanks for joining the Beatles WikiProject and for the work you've done so far. Could I ask you to hold fire on restubbing Beatles solo songs for a moment? I think we'd agreed as a project that we'd stub solo songs in that category too; but obviously I should have maodified the template wording rather than just the instructions! I'm just going to backtrack on what was said and if necessary leave a few messages for other people; I'm not complaining I just want you to hold fire so there's less mess to clean up if that's what we've decided. Cheers. --kingboyk 21:44, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

You're a project member now so you get to decide how we do things just the same as the rest of us :-) Would you approve of me changing the wording of the stub template to make it clear that the solo Beatles songs should be stubbed with it too? I take it you destubbed because the template quite clearly says "Beatles", not that you have any philosophical objections to using the same template on Beatles and solo Beatles' songs? :) Comments and replies to --> Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_The_Beatles#Song_Stubs.

Since you're on board now and have already found two song articles to merge, I think you'd be interested in and would be a great help towards our article classification drive, where we work through a list of Beatles related articles and for each article classify it, log it on the todo list if it needs specific work, and apply a couple of tweaks while we are there. We still have a few to classify in our first batch (see Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Article Classification) and user:Lar will be getting the next batch ready soon - including the articles on songs. --kingboyk 22:09, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

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Hey, we have a Project userbox you know, should you wish to display it (I noticed that you have a collection of userboxes but not that one). :) --kingboyk 04:07, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

Ah, well, I haven't yet gotten around to finishing my collection of userboxes (you'll notice the empty sections towards the bottom of the page), plus, they seem to change every day. I'm sure I'll get to adding it eventually. :) —Gordon P. Hemsley→✉ 04:10, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

Happy Spring celebration / Easter (as your preferences and beliefs dictate)

Here's hoping that if the bunny leaves you any beans they're this kind! ++Lar: t/c 15:21, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

Beatles Newsletters

When a new newsletter is released, just make a quick addition to the list below, with a short message, if need be. (Please use the format already set up.)

• Issue 001 - First issue; more of a proof of concept; partially incomplete. —Gordon P. Hemsley→✉ 03:37, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

Issue 002 is in a very important stage... it only now needs some content. Please help!LessHeard vanU 20:13, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

Comment about Beatles Newsletter

I note your comments about the above appearing "unfinished" and therefore not updating something (please note I am not one of the technical types, my editorship involves spellchecking) on your page. This is our first newsletter on this project, and if we missed something obvious then any help and/or hints would be greatly appreciated.LessHeard vanU 22:36, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

What he said. If we missed something please tell us, so we don't flub up again next time. Thanks! ++Lar: t/c 19:03, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

Categories

Hi.... Every other page in Category:1989 births is an article. You probably should not put your user page in that category. What you probably want is a subcategory of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedians (perhaps Wikipedians by birth year and then wikipedians born in 1989) I have removed you from that category. If you still think it's not quite right, perhaps you should ask on the Village Pump... ++Lar: t/c 04:14, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

Fine, fine. Have it your way. Discussion commenced at Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)#Users in Birth categories. —Gordon P. Hemsley→✉ 04:22, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject The Beatles Newsletter, Issue 2, June 2006

Has been updated. Here is a link per your request. (it is probably not reasonable to ask that people edit an existing message on your talk page, but you can do so if you like...) ++Lar: t/c 01:28, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Beatles archiving

Nice work. Thanks. LessHeard vanU 12:45, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

No problem, anytime. —Gordon P. Hemsley→✉ 20:35, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Stubs

While there is no mandated place for stubs, the reasons for putting stub tags at the end are twofold:

• They are editor information (and a form of sef-reference) not content (or reader information), and therefore logically belong at the end.
• In the category listing we want the stub category to be the last category, not the first (Categories: Northwestern Russia geography stubs | Cities and towns in Vologda Oblast).

You can find more discussion here.

Rich Farmbrough 09:53 14 June 2006 (GMT).

Which is exactly why I started a discussion at Wikipedia talk:Guide to layout#Order of templates, categories, and interwiki links, but no one decided to reply. —Gordon P. Hemsley→✉ 17:11, 14 June 2006 (UTC)