User talk:Rkitko/Archive26

Hi

Thank you for moving the pages back. Teammm ^talk
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No problem. I didn't move them all back, but they did end up with the natural disambiguation instead of parenthetical and with the word state in Washington State capitalized as I do think that is correct from what I've read in style guides. And for precision and consistency, at least, I do agree that LGBT rights in Washington State should be explicit in the title even though there is no parallel LGBT rights in Washington D.C. to distinguish it from yet. Cheers, Rkitko ^(talk) 04:25, 31 January 2013 (UTC)

ETA: And, of course, anyone may disagree with my move or the original move and may revert back to the original title per the WP:BRD cycle and we'll go discuss the best titles then. Rkitko ^(talk) 04:27, 31 January 2013 (UTC)

Rutabaga

Hello, thanks for the edits on the entry for rutabaga -- I saw, though, that you reverted the commas on the section:

Finns cook rutabagas in a variety of ways: roasted (to be served with meat dishes), baked, boiled, as a major flavor enhancer in soups, uncooked and thinly julienned as a side dish or in a salad, and as the major ingredient in the ever popular Christmas dish Swede casserole (lanttulaatikko). Finns use rutabagas in most dishes that call for any root vegetable.

Should semicolons not be used in the list to remove ambiguity and improve readability? Grammar and Punctuation: Using Semicolons #Link lists where the items contain commas to avoid confusion between list items Asisman (talk) 21:04, 31 January 2013 (UTC)

Each item in that list is independent and separated correctly by a comma. There are no internal commas set off by clauses like in the example at your link. That is the only time you use semicolons in a list, when, if not used, there would be confusion between whether the clause is the next item in the list or a clause of the last. That did not seem to be the case since you reconstructed the sentence to essentially replace all commas with semicolons.

I'm willing to entertain the idea that this is a poorly constructed sentence from the start and it should be:

Finns cook rutabagas in a variety of ways: roasted (to be served with meat dishes), baked, boiled (as a major flavor enhancer in soups), uncooked and thinly julienned as a side dish or in a salad, and as the major ingredient in the ever popular Christmas dish Swede casserole (lanttulaatikko). Finns use rutabagas in most dishes that call for any root vegetable.

That changes the meaning slightly. Boiled would make sense being tied to the soup phrase. What do you think about that? Is that what the original writer was going for and what the vegetable is used for? I'd rather like to see some reliable sources on this, but I'm no cook. Rkitko ^(talk) 21:16, 31 January 2013 (UTC)

Move request

There's agreement at Talk:Guernsey Lily that the article should be moved to the scientific name Nerine sarniensis, since the common name is ambiguous. Could you move it please? It needs an admin. Thanks. Peter coxhead (talk) 14:16, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

 Done It's now at Nerine sarniensis. Please feel free to do with Guernsey Lily what you think is best. Dab page? Redirect (as it is now) with a hatnote? If you plan on a dab page, take note of the incoming links and make sure they get redirected to the proper species article. Cheers, Rkitko ^(talk) 05:55, 6 February 2013 (UTC)

Thanks. I'll go through the links now and see what seems best. Peter coxhead (talk) 11:22, 6 February 2013 (UTC)

Mount Vernon Grapevine

Hi I was surprised that you've taken the link down as there is a link on the same page for "Mount Vernon News" which is a newspaper also the only difference being that the Mount Vernon Grapevine is an online newspaper. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Headphones1971 (talk • contribs) 16:28, 24 February 2013 (UTC) There is also information for tourists -- Headphones1971 --

I would encourage you to read the external link guidelines to see what would be appropriate. The link you added is not, by any characterization, a newspaper - online or otherwise. It is personal website run by, it would seem, two people at this point (a husband and wife team). There are very few articles in the wireframe website, so it would appear they have aspirations to be something, but Wikipedia is not the place to promote such a website. The comparison to the Mount Vernon News isn't appropriate since the MVN has had a long history as an established news service, has advertisers, employees, a brick-and-mortar office, and paid subscriptions. Regardless, this new endeavor is not an acceptable external link. At the moment it's no different from a blog or personal website that unfortunately calls itself a newspaper. Cheers, Rkitko ^(talk) 17:29, 24 February 2013 (UTC)

cn template

Hi, I think I put too many {{cn}} in Carnivorous plant, but there are whole sections without references, like Cultivation, Flypaper traps, Bladder traps, Lobster-pot traps; or section with one or two references, like Pitfall traps, or the end of Ecology and modelling of carnivory. Do you think {{Unreferenced section}} and {{Refimprove section}} may be better suited? --KDesk (talk) 23:04, 27 February 2013 (UTC)