I came across an Article in Wikipedia that needed categorization. The
Article is a biography of a person in a field I am unfamiliar with.
Question: where do I go to get a list of all the Categories in Wikipedia?
Marc Riddell
"Newyorkbrad (Wikipedia)" wrote
> On the other hand, it appears that there will be at least
> ten cases in the evidence stage but not yet being voted on as of January
> 1st. I am concerned there will be an awful lot of "is this case ready to
> close, who's voting in this case, should we wait for more votes?" type of
> issues with so many new members and so many new cases.
The transition period will be marked by newcomers trying to find their way around, and probably the bringing of many fresh cases that people have held back. In practical terms this mainly means plenty to vote on. Let the clerks worry about the closures.
Charles
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I want to raise one specific and one general issue for discussion:
1) A recently created article about a newly appointed bishop in the Church
of Norway was nominated by a self-described "disiplined deletionist" for
speedy deletion. The nomination was subsequently defended on the basis that
our standards for notability don't say anything about Norwegian bishops.
Indeed, the standards don't say anything about religious leaders at all, but
I have to imagine that common sense would lead a reasonable person to
appreciate that one of the 11 top clergy of the official state church of
Norway is notable. Should we either update the guidelines for biographical
notability or impose some standard of common sense, to preempt this kind of
zealotry?
2) I am known to take a broad definition of vandalism. I think it's any act
that disrupts Wikipedia, perpetrated by someone who knows better. So when a
seasoned editor creates a lot of work for a lot of other people on an issue
that will surely go one way or another; or plays games with rules; or hides
behind AGF, then we should be allowed to assume they're up to no good.
Perhaps we should define bad behavior that falls short of vandalism but is
still unacceptable. I nominate KNAVERY as the right term, as it goes to the
saying "he's either a fool or a knave."
And happy holidays and a great, productive Gregorian new year to everyone!
Leif
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To Tranche Gamma:
Flcelloguy
Kirill Lokshin
Paul August
UninvitedCompany
Jpgordon
To Tranche Beta
FloNight (Mindspillage's seat, from which she recently retired)
Binguyen (Filiocht's seat, as he is on indefinite leave)
----
Both Mindspillage and Filiocht are eligible to (re)-claim what would
then be expansion seat in Tranche Beta at anytime of their choosing
until 2008-12-31, when their original seats would have expired.
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My sincere thanks for the vote of confidence by the community and Jimbo.
Got my work cut out for me... reading to get up to speed on the open cases. :-)
Everyone have a great day!
Take care,
Sydney aka FloNight aka Poore5
James D. Forrester wrote:
>James D. Forrester wrote:
>
>
>>Well, I personally have grave concerns at the concept of spreading the
>>ground too thinly, and parcelling out cases a priori. I'm a strong
>>believer in our current system (which is not much of a surprise, given
>>how and by whom its form was shaped :-)), where Arbitrators are moved to
>>write a case up, rather than handed it and told to get on with the case.
>>This is why we don't sit en banc (and won't, until I'm/we're convinced
>>that the benefits outweigh the disbenefits).
>>
>>
>For those playing especial, close attention, yes, I missed the word
>"not" from there - that is, this should have read "we don't *not* sit en
>banc".
>
>
Oh, I just figured that maybe "en banc" meant something different in the
British system. Why that might have been the case I'm not sure, but
since the term is actually French, who knows. (Yes, the law is equal
parts medieval French and Latin.)
Meanwhile, my best wishes to the Arbitration Committee. To the newly
chosen especially, but also to the already sitting, who hopefully will
absorb some renewed vigor from their colleagues. Be thankful that a
knowledge of English is generally sufficient, and try not to lapse to
much into Wiki-ish like IAR, CSD, and the like.
--Michael Snow
Ray Saintonge wrote:
> geni wrote:
>
>> On 12/21/06, Guy Chapman aka JzG <guy.chapman(a)spamcop.net> wrote:
>>
>>> "James Hare" wrote:
>>>
>>>> Case in point: Captain Jean-Luc Picard(r).
>>>
>>> So a caricature of Picard would be forbidden? Really?
>>
>> It might count as fair use under certain conditions. A painting of
>> Patrick Stewart would probably be a safer bet although there would be
>> other issues with things such as in the US at least the Right of
>> Publicity.
>
> I believe Major League Baseball already lost that case to the
> rotisserie leagues.
I believe that case had to do with organized baseball claiming to own
statistics, as a byproduct of owning the rights to the games as they are
played. I wouldn't expect it to be particularly applicable to this
situation. The right of publicity is a rather different concept,
associated with the use of a person's image or likeness.
--Michael Snow
To Tranche Gamma:
Flcelloguy
Kirill Lokshin
Paul August
UninvitedCompany
Jpgordon
To Tranche Beta
FloNight (Mindspillage's seat, from which she recently retired)
Binguyen (Filiocht's seat, as he is on indefinite leave)
----
Both Mindspillage and Filiocht are eligible to (re)-claim what would
then be expansion seat in Tranche Beta at anytime of their choosing
until 2008-12-31, when their original seats would have expired.
> From: Ray Saintonge <saintonge(a)telus.net>
>
> Daniel P. B. Smith wrote:
>
>> I don't see what that can't be broadened just a bit. For example,
>> let's suppose a library has an online catalog... let's say an online
>> catalog that's accessible to anyone. (Two that come to mind are the
>> Cornell University Library, and the 16,000-volume public library of
>> Bergen-op-Zoom in the Netherlands... well actually it seems to be
>> offline but it was available a few years ago).
>>
>> You can't prove a negative, but you can certainly say "his book is
>> not in the Cornell University Library" or whatever, and cite a link
>> to the search or a description of how to do the search. This doesn't
>> seem very different to me from a citation.
>>
> More precisely you can say that you could not find the book listed in
> the Cornell University Library Catalog. It's not the same even though
> the correlation between the two statements will be strong.
Yes, I stand corrected. Quite right. Or even "the book was not found
in an online search of the Cornell University Library Catalog." If
the citation gives the details of the search, that gives the
opportunity for someone else to check and point out that the search
succeeds if you spell the title differently. Not at all impossible.
(Of course we get back into murky territory if someone asserts that
the book is not in the online catalog, but nevertheless can be found
on the the shelves, third floor of the stacks, two rows from the
back, sixth set of stacks, fourth shelf, sixteenth from the left in a
dull red binding, catalog number QQXXZZ-12345).