Category talk:Sober Thought

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This was orignially posted on NSwiki:Cleanup; following the reaching of a consensus over the best approach, I have moved it here, for the record. Please do not alter the initial comments; however, feel free to add further to the discussion. Gruen2alk 19:10, 29 November 2005 (GMT)

Ceorana and I (Sober Thought) have discussing ways to make my category and the articles in it conform better to Wiki and NSWiki practices. Although I only intended to write a one-page entry using the Nation template, it has grown over the last eight or ten months to 70+ pages with haphazard organisation and naming conventions. Until we sort it, please don't mess with them. If you have an idea, leave us NSWiki messages or (better yet) just send me an NS TG.

I would appreciate any straight forward typographical corrections because I'm notorious for transposing letters when the juices are flowing and the fingers are flying. And for reasons inexplicable to me, I frequently type "but" when I mean "by." However, please don't mess with British, American or Canadian spelling differences. I spell in a peculiar mixture of all three so that every group has something that strikes them odd -- be it an "-our," an "-ise," a "toque," or compound rather than hyphenated word.

I've been active in a few wikis, but I confess I have been the least systematic in this one because it is "fun" and a "factual" error for a fictional country strikes me as less important tham my work as Anderskin in the English, simple English, French, German and Czech wikis.

Thanks for the help

Sober Thought 22:56, 22 November 2005 (GMT)

I'll reserve judgement on whether this belongs here, for the moment. Nonetheless, you must be aware this is a wiki. People will 'mess' your articles, if they think it'll help the project. If there are specific articles you want certain things done or not done to, then I'd suggest you note such on their Talk pages, rather than on a Meta page which is visited infrequently by the majority of contributors. Gruen2alk 23:11, 22 November 2005 (GMT)
Tu as raison. Touché. Feel free to move it if you like, but I thought it would be helpful since it involves a lot of articles and some fairly regular edits which might attract attention. Ceorana her/him/itself (not sure of gender or IC/OOC is preferred) noted that she/he/it became aware of the peculiar or inconsistent article heads purely by chance (I assume by looking at the most recent additions/edits). It seems conceivable that others might find these pages the same way.
And definitely, mess with articles in a nice way; I do it all the time. However, the whole American vs. British English edit wars I've seen elsewhere are usually resolved by a simple statement that a particular article is written "American" or "British" so leave it that way. But what about us poor Canadians, especially ones like me who read from a wide variety of current and historical documents? Programme and progam look equally right to me, but I go for the extra "-me" because it looks more French; connexion and connection look equally right to me, but I go for the "t" because it looks less archaic; "might come in useful" and "might come in handy" look equally right to me, but I go for the former because my name is Andy and I hated having it rhyme like that. (I think there was a British children's book or book character called Handy Andy, 'cause I got that a lot.) As I said above, I spell in my own English which gives pause to all readers (including sometimes myself!), so I was just giving fair warning. And where I have an option to merge a hyphenated word, I usually take it (cooperation vs. co-operation) even though the quaint "to-day" I encounter even in British documents of the first half of the last century still looks fine to me, I'm a lazy typist so compounds mean one less keystroke.
I'll make copies at least for the article talk pages; I forgot about them. And also as a supposed wiki frequent flier, I am only too aware that people don't log in or check the right pages as they should (mille mea culpa).
Now hand me that spanner so I can get my toque out of the works! 8^)
Sober Thought 23:48, 22 November 2005 (GMT)