User talk:Green
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[change] Authors/Writers
Can you please explain what you see is the distinction between your new Category:Writers and the already existing Category:Authors. I think we don't need both. -- Netoholic @ 01:42, 23 July 2005 (UTC)
Hello and thank you. A main reason why I created a category "Writers" is that writer is a simpler word for everyone. On the othe hand, 'auther' is NOT included in BE1500 list or VOA Special English Word Book. I think Writers would make English learners much easier to find ouf people who wrote books. Green 02:14, 23 July 2005 (UTC)
- Fine, and I agree, but you should not leave redundant categories.
- Now, why are you adding Category:Musicians to articles that are already in Category:Singers?
- I suggest you stop categorizing and move on to editing articles. You're making a lot more work for everyone else. -- Netoholic @ 05:46, 23 July 2005 (UTC)
I think we need much more easier way for beginners of English to find out an article; for example a certain book, musician, person etc. One way is to seek from "Categories", but as long as we follow a sample of English Wikipedia (NOT Simple English Wikipedia) it took time fid out an article desired. If we continue to categorize articles more and more, it results in confusion to many people. I hope you will get better way instead. -- Green 07:16, 23 July 2005 (UTC)
- Two points:
- Multiple redundant categories are bad and are MORE confusing.
- Write articles, don't copy ugly text. The VOA says material on their website is free to use, but transcripts probably don't qualify. Even if they did, you did not clean it up before posting it, and did not label the source of it.
- Please stop making more work for your fellow editors. -- Netoholic @ 20:01, 23 July 2005 (UTC)
AS for the first point, please make a page "List of Musicians" instead, as such kinds of pages already exist in en.Wikipedia. As for its samples, see en:Scientist.
To people who do know he or she only from a name of a musician, they do NOT understand there are many kinds of musicians in the world. So that it might be difficult to search a certain musician from related categories, or maybe just a time-consuming.
On the contrary, editers do not know all the musicians availabele here at a glance. As for me, I prefer to find an article from categories; NOT from a mechanical search system on the top page.
As for the second point, you say, "Write articles, don't copy ugly text." - Whether it mey be ugly or not, this will be judge by other readers; mainly by learners of English, not by a single person with native language. To make it simple, these text are written by proffessinals, so I doubt the reason why you insist so. I also showed a source for it.
By the way, this is a wiki, so everyone can join to edit a page. If every article should be cleaned up completely before postig, most people could not contribute here. You should NOT admit STUB - an article of just one or two sentences according to your logic. -- Green 14:23, 24 July 2005 (UTC)
[change] Babel boxes
The Babel boxes have been renamed to conform to a new accepted scheme. Please remake your boxes or change the references to fit with the new standard format. The old boxes will be deleted. Ask me any questions on my talk page. Thanks! --Cromwellt|talk 02:14, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
[change] Artur Balder
Please maybe u can help us to translate the article "Artur Balder" into japanish... Thanks!!--Yoda 12:23, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
[change] Deletion Nomination
One of your images on commons has been nominated for deletion. Please see your commons talk page for more info --82.32.52.223 09:03, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
[change] WikiProject
Hello, I noticed you speak fluent Japanese and I was wondering if you knew much about Japanese music? Anything ranging from J-pop to traditional enka. If so, would you like to join my Simple WikiProject Asian Music? Even small contributions are welcome. Thanks. Alexhl (talk) 10:33, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
