User talk:Jasononthehouse

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Go to town. You don't really need to ask my permission to edit productively. :) One of the reasons I've been marking dab pages with stub is in the hopes that others would notice.  18:58: Mon 31 Oct 2011
 * p.s. Please sign every post on talk pages.

Alex
Yeah, I'd throw in redirects from Alexandra and Alexander, just because I'm showing more than three of each of those forms — though, admittedly, Alexandra is padded out by both Alexandra Palace and Alexandra Tower.

Also, don't forget about Alexa, Alexei, and Alexis, the (so far as English is concerned) minor forms of the names. Wouldn't make redirects, but don't forget these.

Finally, I must again request that you always sign your posts on talk pages. When you don't, people have to go back to page history just to figure out who left the comment. Signatures aren't just "a good idea", they are da law. (Please don't go back now and sign your latest comment on my page as that will only trigger a false "you have a hypercube" message.)  02:28: Tue 01 Nov 2011

A word about talk pages
Removing talk page comments is vandalism I know that the temptation when you make a mistake is to try to "clean up the mess". But you should be aware that it is an act of vandalism to remove or substantively alter comments on a talk page. I noticed that you took down your hissy fit from user talk:Doug86 and that you papered over your failure to sign your posts on user talk:CzechOut. Please don't do this in future. Comments, once posted, stay posted. The only alterations you may make after pressing "publish" are spelling and grammatical changes. Removing comments makes it impossible for others to follow a conversation without using the page history. 03:08: Tue 01 Nov 2011

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I'd be wary of using your work at Alex as a template. Alex is a bit of an odd name, in English. The short form is the same for both men and women, so it'd be hard to split along gender lines. Also, you really only have one confirmed person who's an Alexandra in the DWU, I think. So it's easy to put the Alexandras on the Alex page.

Derivatives of Joseph are common enough that it would improve readability to split the list according to gender. Otherwise, the list would be awfully long. This is a bit easier to do than with Alex, because the feminine nickname for Joseph is Jo.


 * Joseph should be a base page. Joe should be a redirect.
 * Josephine should also be a base page. Jo should rediret to Josephine.  Should have thought about this when I created Jo just the other day.  Ah well. The easiest way to accomplish this is to put the instances of Josephine on the current revision of Jo, then rename Jo to Josephine.  Shouldn't take any time at all.

As for the James situation, I do think separation makes more sense. In fact, I think I just created Jamie, if I remember rightly. I'd tend to favor:
 * James for people formally credited as "James"
 * Jim as a base page, with Jimmy and Jimmie also on that page, and a redirect from them to Jim
 * Jamie as a basepage, with Jaime as a redirect. This one is a unisex page, as there's no distinction in the way that men and women spell the name.
 * All pages in the series should have dab notes at the top of the page pointing to the other variants. That is, You may be looking for the variants, James and Jamie.  Or something like that.

04:41: Fri 04 Nov 2011