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Archive 1 = 2006-12-29 thru 2008-12-31. Archive 2 = 2009-01-01 thru 2009-04-20

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Tips for reading Misplaced Pages

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And here's the humorous Misplaced Pages FAQK by Lore Sjöberg.

Tips for editing the encyclopedia

Removing Bias: APA guidelines for avoiding Heteronormativity

Removing Bias: APA Guidelines for Non-Handicapping Language

Open-mindedness - A look at some of the flawed thinking that prompts people who believe in certain non-scientific concepts to advise others who don't to be more open-minded.

User:Mccready - Editing principles for pseudoscience articles in Misplaced Pages

User:Antandrus/observations on Misplaced Pages behavior - interspersed with recommendations on how to deal with it.

Misplaced Pages:Advocacy - Misplaced Pages is not a venue for raising the visibility of an issue or agenda. Cooperate with other editors to neutrally summarize notable topics using reliable sources without advocating any particular position or giving undue weight to minority views.

Citations

All parameter names must be lowercase. In text, dates given as ] will display as 1970-04-20. In citations, leave off the brackets for the same effect.

• Citation templates
• Websites
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• Books (documentation)
  • <ref name="NAME">{{cite book |title= |last= |first= |authorlink= |coauthors= |year= |publisher= |location= |isbn= |page= |pages= |url= }} </ref>
• Publication
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• News (documentation)
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Welcome to Misplaced Pages

Courtesy note: You may have missed this

See: Ikip (talk) 02:00, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

Thank you, Ikip. That was eventually resolved a few months ago, which seems like an eternity in Internet-Time. Hope you are having a good week, thanks. ~_{Teledildonix314}~~_4-1-1~ 23:53, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

The Robinson RfC

I appreciate your taking the time to respond to the Gene Robinson RfC. Unfortunately, although I was trying to set up a process for a neutral and mutually agreed-upon statement of the issues, one user bypassed that and went ahead unilaterally. The result was that you commented before the other side had been presented. I'm explaining why I disagree with your comment, in the hope that, having heard both sides, you'll consider changing your mind and amending your response.

You wrote, "Our convention is to use the nomenclature preferred by the person themselves...." You're probably referring to our convention for article titles, which is to use the name by which the person is most commonly known. The issue on this RfC, however, is how to begin the article. There our convention is set forth at Misplaced Pages:Manual of Style (biographies)#Names (the MoS), which states:

While the article title should generally be the name by which the subject is most commonly known, the subject's full name should be given in the lead paragraph, if known.

The people who type in "Gene Robinson" should come to this article and see something like this:

Vicky Imogene "Gene" Robinson (born May 29, 1947)....

That should tell them whether they're on the right page. (Your comment prompts me to think that, regardless of the outcome of this RfC, we should add an "other uses" hatnote for the benefit of people looking for one of the Eugene Robinsons, the football player or the journalist.)

You also wrote, "We can use the standard redirection options for other variations, as we do for so many public figures whose 'famous' names are different from their 'legal' names." We already use redirection with respect to the article name. Vicky Imogene Robinson redirects to the Gene Robinson article. The redirect, however, doesn't affect the use of the full name at the beginning of the article. In such cases as Thomas Woodrow Wilson, Willard Mitt Romney, William Jefferson Clinton, and Samuel Langhorne Clemens, the legal name is a redirect to the article, which is at the famous name, but the article begins with the full legal name. That's the solution I'm supporting in this case. JamesMLane t c 05:45, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

Please excuse my mess today, i totally mixed up my thoughts regarding Title versus Lede, and i've gone back to change my comments, with strikethrough, right while you were posting here (and then i had Edit Conflicts while trying to strikethrough! gahh!) Very sorry about my mixup, i hope my newer comment will be more useful. Thanks ~_{Teledildonix314}~~_4-1-1~ 05:49, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

Thanks very much for taking the trouble to change your comment! JamesMLane t c 05:56, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

Oh wow, how wrong i was at first; i wish i had a time-machine so i could prevent my original remark from ever having happened! Now that my coffee has kicked in, i realized how much i messed up initially, so i just went back to that discussion and totally hopped on the soapbox. I did my best to plead the case for treating gay clergymen the same respectful way we treat amazingly successful African American politicians and super popular titanic British athletes. If it's good enough for the President of the United States and for the beloved wrestler Big Daddy, then i think it's good enough for an eminently respected Episcopal Bishop. I wish i'd been more awake when i first commented yesterday, because i was sadly conflating the title versus the lede; and now that i have a clearer head, i realize my true feelings lie in the opposite direction of my original comment. Sometimes i think i should wait a whole day before i chime in on any Misplaced Pages discussions, instead of blundering in hastily during the first minute without giving things my wisest consideration. ~_{Teledildonix314}~~_4-1-1~ 12:41, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

Reply

Sure, I'd be happy to take a look. Just give me a day or so to read up on the discussion. Regards, –Juliancolton |  02:12, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

Cool, thanks. ~_{Teledildonix314}~~_4-1-1~ 02:13, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

Hmm, doesn't look like I'd be able to do a lot in this case. I'll keep an eye on it, however. Cheers, –Juliancolton |  16:56, 4 May 2009 (UTC)