User talk:Mjquinn id

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—Ruakh_TALK 00:01, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

Categories

P.S. You recently created [[Category:Racquet Sports]], but I think [[Category:Racquet sports]] would be a better title. Also, you added a comment at [[racquetball]] that it should eventually be removed from [[Category:Sports]], but I don't think that's true. —Ruakh_TALK 00:01, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

Nuts, You are absolutely right about "Racquet sports"! I will put in a Speedy rename Monday.

With regard to racquetball, I was assuming the category standard where articles should not belong to both a parent and child category...? -- Mjquin id 06:11, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

Re: speedying [[Category:Racquet Sports]]: no need, done. (I'm an admin here, which makes life faster. :-P)

Re: category standard: I believe that's Wikipedia's standard, but it's not ours, at least for lexical categories; for example, Spanish infinitives in (deprecated template usage) -ír are categorized both into [[Category:Spanish verbs ending in -ir]] and into [[Category:Spanish verbs ending in -ír]], the latter being a subcategory of the other. For topic categories it might make sense to follow Wikipedia's norm, but AFAIK that's not our current practice. (EncycloPetey (talk • contribs) would know, if you want to ask him.)

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—Ruakh_TALK 14:32, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

Page moves

(to Ruakh) I really appreciate your help. I am trying to expand tennis entries both here and there, but am finding it hard to find policies in order to understand the difference. I found tennis racket, which I think is inaccurate, but am not sure what to do with it. I proposed "tennis racquet", but had someone else just propose basically eliminating the seeparate page in favor of just a definition line on the racquet page; which actually might be more like a "dictionary". But where could I find a policy regarding "non-single word" terms or "derived" terms and how they should be created? -- (I appreciate your support) Mjquin id 18:13, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

unless

I've done my best ... to fulfill your request ... unless you object to the quote that I got ... and what you'd object to I know not. DCDuring Holiday Greetings! 01:59, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

Spectacular! -- Mjquin id 05:45, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

tennis racket et al

I have rolled back your changes. Our procedures differ from Wikipedia's. We have WT:RFD and WT:RFV processes. We also have WT:TR for questions about an entry. DCDuring TALK 12:21, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

All due respect, I was trying to follow that procedure, but really was hoping to find a Template:merge tag...which would have been more appropriate...WT:RFD doesn't give me much about the "procedure" for tagging..or proposing...?? -- Mjquin id 20:35, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

Sorry about your partially wasted effort. By my taste/interpretation, both tennis racket and tennis racquet do not fit our rules for inclusion (WT:CFI#Idioms. But take a look at fried egg and hippie movement. Then follow the link to the RfV discussion of hippie movement. DCDuring TALK 20:25, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

Hmmm...I don't believe they meet criteria for inclusion either...that is why I tried to tag them as "proposed for deletion", but I did not know about the "verification" phase...which is what I am trying to promote them for now. (Though I found a cute "merge" template...which actually does not say "merge"...) Still learning...ever learning... -- Mjquin id 23:23, 22 February 2009 (UTC)