User talk:CrashTestSmartie

I am here, I intend to do no harm, I think I'm smart ;)

December 2008

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If the material is available on a different site that satisfies one of the above conditions, link to that site instead. Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 19:03, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

Use of capital punishment by nation

Your recent edit to this page makes it sound like Suriname needs its own one. Start here: Capital punishment in Suriname. If you need a model, look at Capital punishment in the Cook Islands or Capital punishment in Canada. --IdiotSavant (talk) 02:16, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

Category:Black science fiction writers

I see you filled this category up with African American science fiction writers, although you say that "this category was created in order to capture black science fiction writers that aren't from the USA". It appears to me that the only writer you put in the category that belongs there by this criteria is Nalo Hopkinson. I've removed the rest and made African American science fiction writers a subcategory of Black science fiction writers. Whether a category of one will survive being deleted is anybody's guess. I'd suggest that you find some more non-American black science fiction writers with which to populate the category. Yworo (talk) 18:27, 24 December 2010 (UTC)

hmmm, perhaps I wasn't very clear, sorry for that. I should have said, "this category was created in order to capture both black science fiction writers that aren't from the USA and the ones that are from the USA, in one category." Sure, African-American is a subset of Black, but since there are as of yet not very many black SF-writers outside of America (I seem to be the only published writer outside of North-America, but the publication was quite limited and long ago), it seems to me a overzealous to go all rule-thumping on this. People can belong to more than one category, even if one is a subset of another. Take Taylor Swift. Technically, American country singer-songwriters is a a subset of American country singers, which is a subset of American female singers, yet no-one seems to have a problem with her belonging to all three. And yes, there arent' that MANY black SF-writers, but I say, cut them some slack. I realize SF-writers might not amount to much in some peoples eyes, but I do think a little respect is warranted here. Also, black people as such are a huge category, as are SF-writers. The cross-section of these two groups is interesting. As would openly gay Kansas rightwing politicians be, which, I am sure, is also a tiny category in itself. ;) CrashTestSmartie (talk) 04:10, 25 December 2010 (UTC)

We don't put articles in both a parent category and a subcategory. That is, they are only put in their narrowest categories. As African American science fiction writers are a subset of black science fiction writers, we simply put the category African American science fiction writers into the parent cat. See our categorization guidelines. And no, we don't create narrow categories like "gay Kansas rightwing politicians" at all. It has nothing to do with respect. It has to do with maintaining a manageable category system. Yworo (talk) 15:20, 25 December 2010 (UTC)

Nomination of Comparison of Android media players for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Comparison of Android media players is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Comparison of Android media players until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article.NickCT (talk) 16:55, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

Please answer my questions. It would be helpful to refrain from slapping REPETITIVE boiler plate policies at me. CrashTestSmartie (talk) 17:09, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

How wikipedia works

I don't think you're understanding how wikipedia works. If you add/change something as you did at Steffi Graf, and it gets reverted you don't add it back again. Like what I put in the summary, you bring it to talk to try and convince editors why it should be added. Please self-revert and bring this to the talk page. Thanks. Fyunck(click) (talk) 09:18, 30 June 2015 (UTC)

July 2015

Thank you for your contributions. Please mark your edits, such as your recent edits to Steffi Graf, as "minor" only if they are minor edits. In accordance with Help:Minor edit, a minor edit is one that the editor believes requires no review and could never be the subject of a dispute. Minor edits consist of things such as typographical corrections, formatting changes or rearrangement of text without modification of content. Additionally, the reversion of clear-cut vandalism and test edits may be labeled "minor". Thank you. Wolbo (talk) 14:44, 5 July 2015 (UTC)

Also note that a new talk page post should go at the bottom of the page, not the top (see WP:TALKNEW).--Wolbo (talk) 14:47, 5 July 2015 (UTC)

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