User talk:JRV
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Happy editing! --Goobergunch|? 23:29, 3 Jan 2005 (GMT)
I moved ISB to Intelligence and Security Bureau (JRV). NSwiki:Naming conventions requests that all acronyums be fully spelt out. Thanks. → Fris Θtalk 12:46, 6 Jan 2005 (GMT)
- It also says ‘unless where almost exclusively known by its acronym’ and gives ‘NASA’ as an example. Though I’m not really bothered, and thankyou for moving it, I just thought I’d explain myself. BTW - It still appears there with the new page... can it not be removed? - JRV
While it may be universal within your nation, it is most certainly not universal within NSwiki. We ask you to follow naming convention for ALL of the wiki, please. The reason the duplicate was there is that you saved again after I deleted it. This time I changed it to a Redirect, in hopes that you wouldn't create it again a third time. You also created JRV, which I moved to JRVian Broadcasting Corporation. If you don't mind, please don't create any more acronym entries. Also, your edit history is better defined if you edit while signed in. → Fris Θtalk 00:24, 7 Jan 2005 (GMT)
“While it may be universal within your nation, it is most certainly not universal within NSwiki.”
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“We ask you to follow naming convention for ALL of the wiki, please.”
Well I thought I did. I don't want to get into an argument or seem like a pain in the a$$, but I was under the impression that acronyms such as the ones I used would be acceptable. If you don’t want acronyms full stop, it would help if the convention just said that in black and white so then there could be no doubt. Like I said, if it was that clear I wouldn’t have posted two acronym titled pages (and I did not receive your message until it was too late, so sorry about the JBC page). I don’t think ‘NASA’ was a good example, it is along the same lines as ‘CIA’ (‘ISB’?) and ‘BBC’ (‘JBC’?).
“The reason the duplicate was there is that you saved again after I deleted it.”
Again, your message was not received until later on and I was unaware that changes had been made. Sorry.
“Also, your edit history is better defined if you edit while signed in.”
Personally, I find it is more convenient to edit simple typos and the likes without signing in. However, I will make an effort in future…
Thankyou for your time and patience, -JRV, 07/01/05 7:10 GMT
- We 'borrowed' the Nswiki:Naming conventions text from Wikipedia largely intact, so that's where "NASA" came from. You're probably right in that it's a poor example. As to your other examples, check these Wikipedia pages for CIA and BBC. As you can see, even those agencies have other claimants for well-known acronyms. Whether you add in agencies for just the 700 NSwiki members, or consider the 4000 active members of the forums, or the full 110,000 live NS nations, or the 1,000,000+ total historic nations, all of which could conceivably be covered by wiki articles ... I think you should see that there are likely to be multiple claimants for any three letter acronym.
- We're not going to close the door completely because of commonly used acronyms like GDP or ADN, and there are quite a number of nations and regions with legitimate nationnames that are actually acronyms. So as you see, we can't spell it out in black and white, but we can be reasonable about it. You may also be aware that NSwiki:page editing can show you a way to display the acronym in text while linking to the full article. → Fris Θtalk 12:38, 7 Jan 2005 (GMT)
Quite right.
-JRV, 07/01/05 13:17 GMT
By ticking the box on the Userlogin page, that says: Remember my password across sessions. , you can be automatically logged in across sessions, if that helps. Sincerely, Rechze • (talk) 09:19, 7 Jan 2005 (GMT)
- To be fair, I only registered this week :p. I've discovered that option now though, thanks. - JRV. 22:52, 7 Jan 2005
No, I was aware of that - I just prefer doing things my way wherever possible. -JRV. 02:36, 8 Jan 2005
