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Hi there, I was wondering what the benefit was in changing redirect links so that they point directly to the main article, if the redirects work totally fine and are in no danger of being changed to redirect elsewhere. I've noticed others doing it as well, and I've never been able to figure out why it is time worth spent. Thanks! Postdlf 12:32, 21 Jul 2004 (UTC)

It saves a lot on effort spent writing articles if one knows to what one should link. For instance, I've kept an eye on Valerie Solanus simply because that is a misspelling of her name. Thus, removing redirects helps us look like we can spell. Also, consider a redirect page like USS Enterprise. If you know this link should go to the nuclear carrier, change it. It also helps people writing new articles because they can see the right names for things: thus, the Independence Day holiday is often nicknamed the Fourth of July, not the other way around. Somercet 13:15, Jul 22, 2004 (UTC)

Valerie Solanas

Thanks for putting some positive attention toward Valerie Solanas. Its much needed! An An 23:36, 28 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

May I choke and die before I direct "positive" attention to someone who shot and nearly crippled a great artist and saloniste. Or shall I define NPOV for you? Somercet 06:56, August 4, 2005 (UTC)

There's no need to be rude about it. An An 12:00, 5 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

That's not rude. You don't want to see rude. I feel bad for Valerie Solanas, but I felt far worse for Andy Warhol. Somercet 18:02, August 12, 2005 (UTC)

Speaking of Valerie Solanas, did you ever hear back from womynkind.org? If you didn't get a chance to email them, let me know and I will follow up. Thanks, Nihila 01:12, 15 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

OCaml

I noticed that a recent edit of yours at the OCaml article removed all diacritics from the article, breaking some links and people's names. Has perhaps something gone wrong with the software you use to edit? --TuukkaH 21:34, 26 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Starting only earlier today, I used ELinks and Vim, as one metawiki recommended: I know Vim's support for UTF-8 is solid, so I can only guess that ELinks malfunctioned. Sorry for the mess, I have reverted and re-entered my change using Firefox. Somercet 01:46, 27 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Just a guess, but perhaps ELinks for some reason assumes it can only send ASCII to Vim, or vice versa? Anyway, thanks for cleaning up the redirect at OCaml. Happy wiki-ing! --TuukkaH 11:14, 27 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hyphenated compound adjectives

Hi. What was your rationale for de-hyphenating "open-source" in KDbg, Xxgdb, and ups (debugger)? As far as I can tell, there is presently no policy-level Wikipedia guidance on the hyphenation of compound adjectives in general, and "open-source" in particular. FWIW, Open Source Initiative suggests hyphenation. "Open source" may be unambiguous to typical Wikipedia contributors, but it seems to me that it hasn't quite made it into the standard English lexicon (at least it's not in M-W's dictionary).

I was fixing REDIRECTS and took out the hyphens while I was working on the other. I come across the hyphenated "open-source" or "closed-source" far more rarely than you, I suspect. Since both are correct, you can change them back, if you like.

Also, "ups" seems to get capitalized as if it were a common noun [1]. —Fleminra 01:32, 27 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

No, it doesn't. Check the sourceforge link at the bottom of the page.

Wait a min... *rereads Fleminra*, I mean, yes it does. Somercet 01:53, 27 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Specter refs

Hi- quick note about the ref style: the "work" field automatically italicizes its entry, so is the correct field to use for the names of newspapers and magazines, but not for websites like CNN which should use "publisher". thanks Tvoz/talk 09:09, 30 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

That should have said - at least that's the way I've been told to do it in numerous FACs. At this hour it's amazing I can even put two sentences together. Tvoz/talk 09:13, 30 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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