Uncantabrigian

Hi - I've just moved Conservative Party (UK) back to that page (probably causing a million broken links and dounle redirects). I think it's probably best off there as the official title is the "Conservative Party", and the (UK) is only appended to distinguish it from the Danish etc variants. Probably remiss of me not to explain that on the talk page but don't think "Conservative Party UK" was the right place for the page. Uncantabrigian 20:29, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

• The page move was designed to make the page easier to find. :S It is disappointing to find that the article you are looking for does not exist when you search for it. Reason why?? Because the brackets, the apostrophes, the accents, and other diacritical remarks, (all of why may be typed, if you have a regular keyboard, and know the combination; I usually use a laptop, so the keyboard is somewhat limited), prevent your article from coming up on the screen...
  • That's not to say I disapprove of the reason why you moved the article, but the Wiki search engine makes life very hard indeed, especially when looking for British articles. If they don't show up immediately, they often don't show up at all, or only on page 10 of a v., v. long search. I'd rather not need to make a v. long search for the articles I want.
• Besides, I thought the name of the party was the Conservative and Unionist Party?? (RM21 20:42, 25 June 2006 (UTC))

• Hi - yes it is the "Conservative and Unionist Party" but (I assume you're British?) clearly its name is, effectively, the "Conservative Party". While omitting the brackets may make it a bit more difficult to find, it gives the misleading impression that the Party is actually called "Conservative Party UK", which it isn't. Also with the brackets is consistent with Labour Party (UK).

• • I think if you're having difficulty finding it, it's best to search for Conservative Party, then click the link one up from the bottom. Uncantabrigian 21:05, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

Yes I am <:P>. I know what you're trying to say: if this was a printed book, then all articles would be expected to comply with grammatical conventions; certainly the name of the party at home is the Conservative Party. The only differentiation made is where there are other parties, as in an international context.

• However, I think an aim of Wiki should be to make information as easy to find as possible, particularly non-American content. Also, when you are writing/creating links from articles (e.g. the Conservatives privatised this, this, and this...), it easier to build links to 'Conservative Party UK', rather than a more grammatically correct alternative. (RM21 21:15, 25 June 2006 (UTC))

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Ben Abbotts

Thanks for noticing the recreation of the article on Bromley byelection loser Ben Abbotts. I've now deleted it. The way to mark a recreated article for deletion is to add the {{Db-repost}} template to the top of the article, rather than going back to the AfD debate. David | Talk 18:40, 9 July 2006 (UTC) (A Cantabrigian)

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Could you please clearly reference your articles? Ironholds (talk) 22:25, 2 June 2010 (UTC)

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Threads

I liked your talk page comment on the Threads page. I've found a recent criticism of Threads but the user Nick Cooper continues to delete the addition. here's the Criticism of the movie- http://www.anthropoetics.ucla.edu/ap1001/bartlett.htm Despite the authors personal liking of the movie and having many positive things to say about it, they also note that - impressing us with the horror of the impending end of the world by nuclear warfare is no guarantee that our being so impressed will produce a desire in us to help "save" ourselves, let alone "save the world" from nuclear weapons. Inasmuch as the esthetic of Threads elicits serious horror, it creates the side-effect of serious despair, a despair that inhibits ethical conduct and invites fatalism--ironically, the fatalism one would expect its makers not to wish having created. More than any nuclear warfare movie, Threads risks destroying our faith in human agency by insisting on the "unrelievedly bleak" & the viewer might feel propelled to supplement Hines and Jackson’s Threads with the possibility for hope it obliterates in its obliteration of civilized Sheffield and its natural ecology. Otherwise, the film’s horror has no ethical import, and its effect might amount to the pornography of violence wearing the mask of anti-nuclear "awareness."

& due to your comment on the talk page, I thought you might be interested in this- The 2010 paper by Melissa Smith -Architects of Armageddon: the Home Office Scientific Advisers- detailed research programmes lay behind the much-mocked government civil defence pamphlets of the 1950s and 1960s You'd probably like to give it a read? Don't have free access to the paper myself but if you do let me know if it mentions 'Threads'. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Boundarylayer (talk • contribs) 00:23, 5 May 2012 (UTC)

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