User talk:Renamed user 9nc9f7hfgg/Archive 5

July 2010

Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, but when you add or change content, as you did to the article Talk:List_of_teetotalers#Religious_section_edits, please cite a reliable source for the content of your edit. This helps maintain our policy of verifiability. Take a look at Wikipedia:Citing sources for information about how to cite sources and the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. NEMT, you seem more clever than most other Wikipedians. Have fun on here, continue to play nicely, and do not break anything major. Blue Rasberry 20:24, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

Thank you for the warm welcome fellow editor, after actively editing for several years it's about time. Had you taken the time to read the talk page of said article you would have seen the justification for the edit and a lengthy discussion regarding it. Furthermore a "reliable source" in this instance would be any English language dictionary in the world. --NEMT (talk) 20:35, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

Xenu

I share some of your concerns about how the lead of that article is written, and have made a suggestion on the talk page. Cheers, --JN466 14:07, 12 October 2010 (UTC)

It doesn't appear to be something the article's primary editors/maintainers/something are willing to budge on. --NEMT (talk) 17:37, 12 October 2010 (UTC)

I know them well; while your discussion was quickly derailed, your point was basically sound: the WP:LEAD is supposed to summarise the main points of the article, and at present it doesn't. --JN466 18:35, 12 October 2010 (UTC)

September 8 and the capture of Rome

Hi NEMT. Just wanted to let you know why I removed the entry about the Capture of Rome from the September 8 article. There are actually two reasons. The first is that the article Capture of Rome doesn't support this date, although neither does it contest it. Whether or not it is supported on the Italian language wikipedia is immaterial, it must have some support on the English language wikipedia to be eligible for inclusion. The second point is that although the Capture of Rome is certainly a notable event, that doesn't mean that every event leading up to it is also notable. For the most part one event gets one listing on these pages. I don't see why the date where soldiers begin to converge should be so significant. Winston365 (talk) 05:38, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

Pretty specious logic there. Soldiers beginning to march on Rome and actually conducting military operations there are two distinct things. There are plenty of troop mobilizations/deployments/etc listed in "on this day" sections independent of wars and battles themmselves. Had the entry been "General Cadorna slips on a banana peel on the way to Rome" you would perhaps have a legitimate reason to remove it. --NEMT (talk) 06:03, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

I agree they are distinct things, but that doesn't mean the are each notable. There may be other troop mobilization entries on these articles but that is wp:OTHERSTUFF. Perhaps we should take this up on Talk:September 8 and get it hashed out in a more public forum. Winston365 (talk) 06:53, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

I doubt I'd be able to establish it as an important event in the history of the Anglophone world; so that would be pointless. Nevermind. -NEMT (talk) 15:54, 31 October 2010 (UTC)