User talk:Jasononthehouse/Archive 3

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

Latest DAB queries
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

Adam Smith
The Adam Smith stuff is properly disambiguated, and indeed is a poster child for all disambiguation rules. Please leave it alone.


 * Adam Smith has to lead to the TW character, because it's the only thing named "Adam Smith" which is in universe
 * Adam Smith (disambiguation) is allowed because there are three Adam Smiths in the database, the minimum number required for a disambig page.

While it's fine if you want to put the three Adams on a massive Adam page, under no circumstances should the current Adam Smith (disambiguation) page be changed, nor should the titles of the three Adam Smith pages be altered. 00:54: Wed 09 Nov 2011

New disambig possibilities
In the course of my admin duties, I occasionally ensure that some common first names which were redirects are deleted, in order to make way for a disambiguation page. Since you seem to like the work of creating disambig pages, you might be interested to know that the following pages have recently been deleted and are ready to be recreated as redirects:
 * Ian
 * Barbara
 * Alice
 * Evelyn
 * Audrey
 * Eric
 * Gina
 * Gregory / Grigory needs to be added to Greg, and the whole Greg page needs a ton of expansion

Well, those are just a few for now. If you've found this sort of list helpful, please let me know, and I'll continue to send you updates as and when I clear more forenames for use. 07:54: Sat 12 Nov 2011


 * Cool! Here's some more that were cleared today:


 * Harris (mostly surname and one-name)
 * Charles
 * Miles (more than you'd think, once you throw in surnames)
 * Polly
 * Ray
 * Great work on the first list! 06:02: Sun 13 Nov 2011

Picture naming
Hey, thanks for your recent picture additions. Before you add too many more, though, please do read tardis:image use policy. One thing that you might want to consider is that file names should be devoid of meaningless strings of numbers, and should instead describe with words the content of the image. It's good that your recent load of Human Nature pics identify the episode, but the numbers are meaningless to any user but you. (And I'd wager that in six months, even you will have forgotten what the numbers mean.) 14:24: Sat 12 Nov 2011 17:42: Tue 20 Dec 2011