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Section sizes in Misplaced Pages:Village pump Section size for Misplaced Pages:Village pump (3 sections) Section name Byte count Section total (Top) 595 595 Archiving 345 345 See also 357 357 Total 1,297 1,297

See also: Misplaced Pages:Wikipedia_maintenance#Village_pump

Archives:

• For archival material between July 29, 2002 (Creation of Page) and Aug 23, 2002, please start at this link. For an explanation of why this approach is used, please see below.--GordonWatts 04:16, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
• Archive 1 (Aug 23, 2002 -to- Feb 08, 2003)
• For archival material between Feb 08, 2003 and Feb 15, 2004, please see the Page History for this page. The reason I have not manually created an archive page is that some entries on archive don't have listings in the page history, so there are errors that I can't fix. One example is this: At the bottom of Archive 1, we find "--Brion 00:53 Feb 8, 2003 (UTC)," but this diff clearly shows that the actual page history skips from Feb 05, 2003 to late evening Feb 08, 2003, with no mention of Brion's 00:53 entry. Another example is this: "Eclecticology 18:57 Dec 23, 2002 (UTC)" is not in the page history. Observe: This diff here skips from 18:34 on the 23rd to 20:00, that same day, with no mention of Eclecticology's 18:57 entry. I give up! So, I shall not attempt to recreate this portion of the archive; Rather, I shall merely move forward. See below, and have a nice day.--GordonWatts 04:13, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
• Archive 2 (Feb 15, 2004 -to- Mar 27, 2004)
• Archive 3 (Mar 15, 2004 -to- Sep 08, 2004)
• Archive 4 (Sep 08, 2004 -to- Jun 02, 2005)
• Archive 5 (Nov 08, 2004 -to- Jan 07, 2007)

New category speedy rename criterion

I would like to propose a new speedy rename criterion for WP:CFD: A category may be renamed if a corresponding article with the same name has also been renamed with broad consensus (>80% acceptance) for the rename.

I had thought about this for a while after both doing this myself and watching other people do this. In every case that I have seen at WP:CFD, such renames have been generally undisputed. A current example is Category:Uttaranchal for a state in India. The state was recently renamed Uttarakhand, and the corresponding article was renamed uncontroversially. The category is being renamed Category:Uttarakhand in Misplaced Pages:Categories for discussion/Log/2007 January 8#Category:Uttarakhand; everyone there has supported the rename. As I indicated, this is not the only such example, either.

I would like feedback on this proposal. I would also like to hear people's suggestions on how to make this proposal into reality. Thank you, Dr. Submillimeter 20:41, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Question

Do all queries on the Vilage Pump eventually get answered? Simply south 16:39, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Hopefully as many as possible. It depends whether or not there's anyone that can answer them. Tra (Talk) 16:44, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Request some help!

hi there how do i go about making a wikiproject? Trust me i have looked all around the start wiki project areas and all they say is do this and that however it doesnt give you a option to acctually start one so how do i do it what link do i go to to start it?? thanks in advance Maverick423 15:28, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Since i have asked for help (above), I feel you at least deserve an answer -in your request for help here. : I honestly don't know what a "wikiproject" is, but let me ask some experts, OK?

ANSWER: http://En.WikiPedia.org/Wikiproject

Best, --GordonWatts 08:23, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

hi everybody

IMDB and Misplaced Pages Convergence

I have put this up and people take it down. Can someone help me. How do you go about trying to establish the convergence of IMDB (Internet Movie Database) and Misplaced Pages. This is a serious question.

Thankyou in anticipation. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Zogin (talk • contribs) 00:20, 27 February 2007 (UTC).

The thread was put in the wrong place. I've moved it to the correct page at WP:VPR#Merge IMDB Database and wikipedia. Tra (Talk) 00:33, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Harder

Should we make Misplaced Pages harder from people who are vandalists or etc., like a special test?(Trampton 04:15, 7 March 2007 (UTC)).

How exactly would this work (without affecting the fundamental anyone-can-edit philosophy of the project)? – Qxz 18:08, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Well, aren't we being too too easy, I think some users are kinda sick of vandalists and reverting their mistakes.(Trampton 11:20, 16 March 2007 (UTC)).

Job

I wish to work as an addm. here on wikipedia! ho do i get to this point! I have great past knowing of safety & law enforcement on Myspace! It would be nice to know!--Mr.Taka 17:51, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

technical question

I think it would be useful if it was possible to organize the tables by any table heading on the "Comparison of *" articles with all the comparison tables. I'm not sure if this is technically viable or conforms to standards and such. Anyone have any idea? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.148.117.16 (talk) 22:16, 20 March 2007 (UTC).

Fictional character template

Taken from a previous question that I had asked, this question was asked weeks ago and has not been answered:

How would I go about creating a template for a list of fictional characters? I need to devise a way to do so, because there are some fictional charcters (from films and comics) whose articles I have either modified or created and need to thus find a way to have categories for them. --KnowledgeLord 20:03, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

Redirect problem - FA comment page lost

Western Chalukya is in the process of FA review. Yesterday the name was redirected to Western Chalukya Empire. Everything was redirected, except now on the Talk page template, the link no longer goes the FA editors comments. It goes to an empty page now. I do not know how to retrieve that link and redirect it. Is this the right place to ask for help on this issue? Thanks! Sincerely, Mattisse 14:51, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

"My watchlist" not working

For the past day, when I click "My watchlist" I have to wait for an eternity, then I get a "Page cannot be found" message. Other WP pages work. I've closed down and restarted my browser, deleted files and cookies, etc., all to no avail. What's the problem? Badagnani 23:41, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Now it's working, but the order of the changes is all wrong, and it lists as "current" some edits that are several edits behind on some pages. Is there a hacker at work? Badagnani 04:50, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

Name

Wiki over 1 million users and nearly 2 million articles, I think Misplaced Pages is no longer a village. Perhaps this should be renamed "city square"? --kingboyk 12:19, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

"City square" loses the water theme. Perhaps "leak in Misplaced Pages's underground water lines"? Voretus 15:22, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

come on--"global village"??? anyway, I do like city square. how about "village metropolitan" yes, I know its an oxymoron. I like oxymorons.Eddisford 21:10, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

And since only a couple thousand (at most) editors are active at any given time - saying "1 million users" is like saying the New Jersey Turnpike has a population of 10 million because that many people pass through it each day - it's still a village. - DavidWBrooks 21:17, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

Banning of the User Ariana310

Dear Admins of Misplaced Pages,

this User Ariana310 is an Afghan, an ethnic Pashtune who give wrong informations. in teh samanid, ghurid and some other articles where it is written about Afghans or Persians he changes or deldete the real informations. Instead of sharing the world his knowlegde he is looking to hide and defend facts about Afghanistan or his own people, like in the article Afghanistan. Please handle this. Thanks---Tajik-Professor 20:23, 28 April 2007 (UTC)Tajik-Professor