MediaWiki talk:Recentchangestext/Archive 2

message: On Wikipedia:Recentchanges the requested articles "Ruth Barcan Marcus - Panjshir - YWHA - wage rate - Ed Fagan - modal logic -Dingle" haven't changed in about four days. Can we get rid of them and put up something else? Mintguy 18:38, 22 Aug 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: I see no reason why not. Four days is enough and it's not like you're going to run out of choice. Angela 03:39, 23 Aug 2003 (UTC)
replies: text:  Makes sense. I deleted the two that were left. Replace with your favourites. Martin 23:43, 23 Aug 2003 (UTC)
thread_title:  removing old requests 

message: In addtion to "Requested articles" why not have a section for stubs? --Jiang 23:45, 23 Aug 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: The requested article page links to Find or fix a stub. Angela
I mean on this page (how a few requested articles are listed out individually). --Jiang 23:53, 23 Aug 2003 (UTC)
thread_title:  stub section 

message: The link to the Hindi (hi) Wikipedia seems to link to the wrong page:  instead of .  I don't know where to begin in trying to fix the special characters.  Hopefully someone passing by can fix it. —Minesweeper 10:20, 13 Dec 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: I changed it now.  Hopefully I didn't break anything. —Minesweeper 08:23, 20 Dec 2003 (UTC)
thread_title:  Language link: hi 

message: When a request is created, is there a process to adding the next request?  I don't see any discussion of a request queue here or on the requests page. - Texture 23:08, 5 Mar 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Just pick something nice from the Requests page and replace it. That's what everyone's been doing, I suppose... Dysprosia 23:10, 5 Mar 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  How do we replace requests? 

message: The utilities line got long and wrapped with the addition of "community portal".  I have shortened the line by changing "community portal to "community" and "needy pages" to "needy".  Any objections or suggestions?  Do we need "community portal"?  - Texture 14:58, 10 Mar 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wrapping 

message: I've added some other interwiki-links.  In order to do so, I had to remove links to some less active Wikipedias.  Should we list them all?  If so, how?  A second row? Warofdreams 18:46, 12 Mar 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. Only the largest projects should have links so that line on this page never gets longer than one line on an 800 x 600 screen at full extent. --mav 07:17, 13 Mar 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Given people's views, I've kept the more active Wikipedias, and added a link to the Projects of Wikimedia page. Warofdreams 19:09, 15 Mar 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Language links 

message: Can an admin please add class="plainlinks" to the first line of the table, to suppress those stupid icons.  Thanks. - Lee (talk) 23:37, 29 May 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok, but the page isn't protected so it doesn't need an admin. :) Angela. 05:55, 31 May 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: It was when I made the request... - Lee (talk) 12:34, 31 May 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links icons 

message: We show links for requested articles on the recentchanges page but we don't tell new users what do do with them.  Someone who isn't familiar with wikis or Wikipedia may decide that they can look it up in the dictionary and create an article that describes the word instead of the concept.  I now think that we should give some amount of guidance on what new requested articles should look like. - Tεxτurε 18:02, 11 Jun 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Are we confusing new users? 

message: I added the guidance on creating requested articles because more than once a new user has created a dictionary definition and then when it was listed for deletion indicated that he/she was just creating a requested article as instructed.  New users don't have any guidance in recent changes or in opentask that tells them not to create dicdef articles. - Tεxτurε 14:47, 15 Jun 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  To Dori - regarding requested message 

message: Due to it being under attack by a vandalbot, I've protected this page for the time being. -Fennec (はさばくのきつね) 18:24, 17 Jun 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Protected (Wikbot) 

message: They don't want me to remove the live link because it says it is protected. 66.245.100.83 16:18, 22 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bad News 

message: Does it matter that (from the current list) nothing links to either Jay J. Ferriola, King list or Smith normal form apart from Recent changes?  Surely asking for people to create these is just encouraging the creation of orphan articles? -- Graham  ☺ | Talk 22:53, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Presumably anyone who knows enough about the subject to start an article knows what other articles to go to and insert links? Theresa Knott  (Not the skater) 23:09, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Future orphans 

message: Now, when it's possible to use images from Commons in Wikipedia articles, wouldn't a link to Recent changes on Commons be nice? Väsk 23:43, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Commons 

message: From the current list AHA-1, VMAT2, American Constitution Party and Adansi will all be orphans once they're created.  Barring my concerns above about creating work that we're only going to have to clean up later, a new concern that I have about this is that seeing as anyone can edit this page, what is to stop someone adding a link to something that doesn't exist, or to their own name or to some other nonsense subject, and it not being picked up on till later?  A response to this is that if it doesn't exist, then it won't get created but I have a counter agrument to that also: while that link is there, how many links to serious subjects are missing out on that space?  I propose that some text be added to this page requiring at least one article in main name space to link to the requested article before it can be added to the list.  What do other people think? -- Graham  ☺ | Talk 14:56, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: PS note from my last comment on this topic that Jay J. Ferriola is still an orphaned article. -- Graham  ☺ | Talk 14:59, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Future orphans 2 

message: Am I the only one who thinks Encyclopedic STDs sound rather scary? :-) --fvw* 05:05, 2004 Dec 13 (UTC)
:That's why we have protection. Ливай | ☺ 09:25, 2 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Encyclopedic STDs 

message: Is it possible to unprotect this page?  When it was at Wikipedia:Recentchanges it was unprotected, but now that it's in MediaWiki: it can't be edited by non-admins.  There's no reason for such a restriction.  --Whosyourjudas\talk 23:53, 23 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Protection?