User talk:Colonies Chris/Archive/2011/Jan

Württemberg

why change the spelling of Wurtemberg to Württemberg when the cited sources are using Wurtemberg? As the article Württemberg says "formerly known as Wirtemberg or Wurtemberg" and the two articles on my watch list that you have changed are both articles about the Napoleonic period? -- PBS (talk) 16:53, 10 December 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject Dacia

Hi, I saw that you collaborated on articles related to Dacia and thought this could be of interest: WikiProject Dacia is looking for supporters, editors and collaborators for creating and better organizing information in articles related to Dacia and the history of Daco-Getae. If interested, PLEASE provide your support on the proposal page. Thanks!!--Codrinb (talk) 03:44, 11 December 2010 (UTC)

Moved post

Hi, I moved your post at WT:TFD to here, which is where the templates are discussed. You almost had it, just missed one step. Thanks! Plastikspork _―Œ^(talk) 02:03, 21 December 2010 (UTC)

Merry, merry

Bzuk (talk) 20:36, 24 December 2010 (UTC)

Japanese era names or nengō

Please explain your recent edits to Enbun‎, Bunna‎, Kannō‎ and Kōei (era).‎ It appears that you replaced an article name (Japanese era name) with a redirect (Japanese era).

Perhaps you were unaware that there are hundreds of articles which have "Japanese era name" in the first sentence -- see, e.g., here. Your edits appear to have been correcting a piped link which was itself a different kind of mistake here. In the cohort of related nengō articles, I am at a loss to guess why these anomalies developed -- compare, e.g., Kemmu, Ōei, etc.; and see Template:Japanese era name.

Your edits highlighted an error I introduced in 2009. --Tenmei (talk) 18:10, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

Yes, a closer review of the edit histories reveals that your edit serve to highlight mistakes which were entirely mine, not yours.

No apology is needed. In fact, this is a good example of collaborative work which involves editors who would not otherwise find themselves working together.

I have worked for years on this cohort of articles. My objective is to develop a consistent format in which the historical differences will stand out more clearly across a select array, e.g., the nengō of the Gempei War, the nengō of the Nanboku-chō period, etc.

My best guess is that a typo in August 2009 must have been replicated in a cut-and-paste "improvement" of other articles in September 2009. We can hope that there are no more of these. --Tenmei (talk) 19:40, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

Your continuing work is appreciated -- especially when you are primarily engaged in correcting problems with my edits.

When I began working on this nengō project, wiki-conventions encouraged linked dates. That has changed. The preferred format of succession boxes changed; and the use of "& ndash ;" also came after I started to work on this cohort.

Wikipedia:Manual of Style (Japan-related articles) (WP:MOS-JA) also changed. Gregorian dates are now followed by Japanese era names in italics and in parenthesis). At one time, the pattern was nengō + Western date in parenthesis following the pattern of romaji + English translation in parenthesis. This arguably better emphasis on Western dates requires that I use a conversion program to convert the Japanese dates to Gregorian equivalents. I mention this because you may notice the two date formats and it may cause you to wonder. Both are reasonable, but one is preferred --Tenmei (talk) 21:18, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

The edits you're making are helpful -- no need to take on a larger task. My reason for explaining about what you've encountered is part of the "thank you" which has been earned. Your involvement with these articles turned out to be more significant than I would have expected; and IMO, you deserve to know a little bit more about the cohort. As I understand it, AWB is a fine-focus vehicle; but the true value of your investment of time can only be assessed from a wider perspective.

On behalf of those of us who are interested in this small slice of Japanese history and culture, isn't it seemly to demonstrate appreciation? Yes — arigatō (ありがとう) --Tenmei (talk) 00:42, 7 January 2011 (UTC)

Insufficient supervision of semiautomatic process?

In this edit it appears you allowed a semiautomatic spell-checking process to change the abbreviation UT into Utah when the correct expansion is Universal Time. Please fix this edit. Jc3s5h (talk) 02:29, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

Never mind, I fixed it. Jc3s5h (talk) 02:57, 14 January 2011 (UTC)