User talk:Gexge79

Welcome![edit]

Hello, Gexge79, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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Padeş[edit]

Yes, I will be happy to explain. First, I deleted nothing: the articles are simply redirected. Anyone looking for, say, Văieni village simply has to type in Văieni and will be taken to the relevant article (Padeş).

Second, while I wouldn't say there is a single approach for every country, I do know that editors on English Wikipedia interested in Romania (and Moldova) have concluded it makes more sense to cover all the information about a commune in a single article, rather than dividing up the article into several tiny, disparate articles and leaving it to readers to guess how the information is related. It's easier to manage (~2800 articles instead of ~13000 ones) and there's more potential for coherent, well-developed articles on communes rather than on villages.

Let me show you a couple of examples of how this works in practice, and hopefully you will appreciate the idea: Coronini, Bazna, Berzasca. I certainly encourage you to contribute all you can about the villages of Padeş, only the consensus is those contributions should be within one article, rather than spread around into multiple ones. - Biruitorul ^Talk 22:09, 30 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The "diacritics problem" has been around for a couple of years and no one seems able to solve it despite various discussions having taken place. I don't have the technical skills to create a bot, but I do know it would be harder to do than on ro.wiki since Turkish and Azerbaijani use ş, and there are a lot more pages here than on ro.wiki about those two countries. Anyway, as a temporary solution ("temporary" could be years in this case), we've been slowly moving toward ș/ț, and at the very least, we try to use just one variant within an article. But it's a bit of a mess with no immediate solution, I'm afraid. - Biruitorul ^Talk 23:06, 30 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Certainly. Let's say you want to edit Drăguțești. You have three logical choices. 1) You can leave the diacritics as they are, ş and ţ. 2) You can change everything in the text to ș and ț but leave the title the same. 3) You can change the text and the title. To change the title, put the mouse over the little downward arrow next to the search box (top right) and click "move", then put Drăguțești as the new title. And then, if you want to be really thorough, you can modify Template:Gorj County so it features the new title. Let me know if you have further questions. - Biruitorul ^Talk 15:50, 2 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]