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July 2009

The WPVG Newsletter (Q2 2009)

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Refactoring talk pages

Tyciol, I must insist that you stop refactoring talk pages as you add your comments to them, such as you did with Touch and . This is entirely unnecessary and makes it difficult to see what comments you did leave. --Farix (Talk) 11:35, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

No, the simple fact is that you should stop refactoring talk pages. There is nothing wrong with the talk pages to begin and nothing needs to be "fixed". --Farix (Talk) 18:33, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

But almost all of your "refactoring" that I've seen has been to remove whitespace between comments and in section heading. Whitespace that, in many cases, was included to separate comments from each other. I've also seen you merge multiple paragraphs into one, which you should absolutely not do. These are not refactorings to help clarify who is replying to whom. These are frivolous edits that you should stop immediately. And frankly, if I see it again, I'll revert on sight. --Farix (Talk) 18:46, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

I have to agree with Farix here. Simple stuff such as fixing indentation levels (as long as you have an absolutely clear grasp of the intended flow of the discussion) and correcting markup that otherwise breaks the page's display is generally fine, but changing spacing between comments (and "fixing" cursing) are both changes that should not be made on talk pages. If you intend to reorder discussions so that they go from oldest to newest, as they should, this needs to be done in its own edit, where you don't change *anything* else on the talk page, and it needs to have a very clear edit summary. I would completely disagree with year headers of *any* type like the ones you added to Talk:List of The Prince of Tennis characters - if a talk page is so long that such headers would be useful for navigation, it should instead be archived, since there is generally no good reason to add new comments to any discussion more than a few months old. 「ダイノガイ千？！」 20:57, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

Disambiguation pages and names

Hi--I've noticed that you're creating lots of disambiguation pages lately, and adding people with Japanese names to them; e.g., "Katsuo" and "Tanabe". I'd like to request that you take a look at MOS:DABNAME. In general, partial name matches are not considered to be appropriate entries for disambiguation pages; if you take a look at the Smith disambiguation page, for example, there are no people with the surname on that page. In at least a few cases, you've also added people when the previous redirect to something like a major city would otherwise be considered the primary topic of the search term. For example, Takamatsu, Kagawa is the capital of Kagawa Prefecture and has a population of over 400,000, making it the primary topic of the search term "Takamatsu" over Takamatsu Shinji, who doesn't merit his own article at the moment (although I like Gintama). Please keep these things in mind when creating new disambiguation pages in the future. Thank you! Dekimasuよ! 12:58, 16 July 2009 (UTC)