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Notability

If you follow the discussions at WP:RL, you'll see this subject pop up from time to time. [1], [2] and I renewed it again recently [3]. •Florrie•leave a note• 07:22, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

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Rugby template

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I hope this helps. Cheers, RyanGerbil10(Говорить!) 02:00, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

Your edit to Lawrence Dallaglio

Will you please read the MOS, specifically WP:UNITS, which states: "Do not append an s for the plurals of unit symbols (kg, km, in, lb, not kgs, kms, ins, lbs)." The section on "National varieties of English" specifically states that "the accepted style of punctuation is covered in the punctuation section". Jimmy Pitt (talk) 00:21, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

Your edit to Shane Williams

I see you've been asked already to stop using plural abbreviations. See Talk:Shane Williams if you want to post any evidence you have that 'lbs' is a recognised abbreviation.

Ewen (talk) 21:01, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

'lbs' is NOT the recognised abbreviation in UK. The UK National Weights and Measures Laboratory in its "Specification for Local Standards of Mass", issued with the approval of the Secretary of State (and available at http://www.nwml.gov.uk/Docs/Enforcement/7000%20series/7110.pdf) uses "lb" for plural amounts.

Jimmy Pitt (talk) 22:42, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

To add to the above, the Economist (a UK magazine) in its Style Guide states: "Use lower case for kg, km, lb (never lbs), mph and other measures ..."

Jimmy Pitt (talk) 22:54, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

User:Alexsanderson83/monobook.js

Per your userscript, you have to remove the <source></source> tags, you were meant to copy it from the view, not the edit window. --Splarka (rant) 19:17, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

Infobox

It seemed to be working fine to me. Show me which items were affected. – PeeJay 00:39, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

And why not? It's not vital information, so why should it be included with information like date of birth, place of birth, etc. – PeeJay 00:48, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

The information is still not appearing after that edit, and I don't think it adds anything to the infobox, if anything it detracts from it. Alexsanderson83 (talk) 00:52, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

Well it's not designed to add anything to the infobox, only to reorganise the existing information. The problem is that you now have to insert a new parameter for anyone with information on school, uni, etc. – PeeJay 09:59, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

Did you not notice that I was grouping the non-essential information with the url parameter? Surely it makes more sense to have lots of non-essential parameters together than to have a few non-essential ones grouped with a few essential ones, and a non-essential one all on its own at the bottom. – PeeJay 20:10, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

Me neither. Personally, I don't see the need to mention a person's relatives, school or occupation in the infobox either. Why don't we just remove the lot? – PeeJay 20:27, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

I quite like the separation of the points totals into tries, conversions, penalties and drop goals idea. However, I don't see why school and relatives are deemed to be essential enough to belong in the infobox. I don't mind them being in the main body of the article, but to have them in the infobox seems unnecessary. Personally, if I was looking for that sort of information on a player, the infobox would not be the first place I would think to look. – PeeJay 21:38, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

"Jetting around"

I'm not sure why you changed the caption on the Ruud van Nistelrooy photo to "jet around". The previous caption was fine - it is a photo of RvN on the road, i.e. away from home. "Jetting around" implies the specific act of flying for pleasure and/or taking a series of flights to multiple destinations. So your edit doesn't really work for a photograph of RvN simply stepping off a plane. I'm reverting it back to the way it was. Thanks. --Mosmof (talk) 05:11, 17 February 2008 (UTC)