--- Steve Vertigo <utilitymuffinresearch(a)yahoo.com> wrote: Well, how about janitors? Seems to imply that not only do we take the trash out, we're not positioning ourselves in a position that can be perceived as paternal or as a figure of authority. For those who prefer to be more down-to-earth, they can be known as the garbage men or trash collectors. For those whose egos resist such labels, how about maintenance technician? Finally, for those who don't want to be associated with trash or dirt and prefer the more esteemed world of the medical profession: nurses. ===== Christopher Mahan chris_mahan(a)yahoo.com 818.943.1850 cell http://www.christophermahan.com/ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com

--- Ray Saintonge <saintonge(a)telus.net> wrote: Nice... Except, what's a phagocyte? Wikipedia Antibiotics? ===== Christopher Mahan chris_mahan(a)yahoo.com 818.943.1850 cell http://www.christophermahan.com/ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com

I tried putting this on the Village pump, but that's impossible to edit right now -- far too large and it takes too long to save, and edit conflicts are de rigeur. I tried putting it on the Talk:Main Page, but just as I was saving, Wikipedia crashed. So, here, maybe somebody can figure out what is going wrong and what can be done about it. I need help with Searching. I tried to split up [[Where in the World/Time is Carmen Sandiego?]] into [[Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?]] and [[Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego?]], but when I tried to move the page to [[Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?]], I was told that there is already a page with that name. I then tried to use BOTH "Go" and "Search" to look for the page with the question mark, without the question mark, and just looking for Carmen Sandiego, and got nothing even close to what I was looking for. In fact, "Search" returned '''''EVERY SINGLE ARTICLE''''' that had a string of "in" in it, regardless of whether it was a separate word or not. It's impossible to find the page in order to see what its contents are to know what to do with [[Where in the World/Time is Carmen Sandiego?]] As it now stands, if we have both [[Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?]] and [[Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego?]] (I don't know about the last one), we definitely don't need [[Where in the World/Time is Carmen Sandiego?]], but which one should it redirect to? RickK --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month!

RickK wrote in part: Those keeping track of everything should know that all of these 2-day-old stubs have been deleted, and the material is now all on [[Carmen Sandiego]]. But let's pretend that [[Where in the World/Time is Carmen Sandiego?]] had been around for a long time and couldn't be deleted, and let's pretend that [[Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?]] and [[Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego?]] were substantial articles that we wanted to keep separate from just [[Carmen Sandiego]]. /Then/ where should [[Where in the World/Time is Carmen Sandiego?]] redirect? The answer is that it shouldn't redirect to either of these. It should instead simply redirect to [[Carmen Sandiego]], the main article from which you could get to the others. An alternative is to make it a disambiguation page, but that's wise only if it's been used for a long time and you expect people to continue to link to it by accident. Otherwise, a redirect to [[Carmen Sandiego]] is in order. Of course, in the present situation, where the page is 2 days old, outright deletion should be no problem (and this was in fact done). -- Toby

--- Ray Saintonge <saintonge(a)telus.net> wrote: That's my favorite so far, even if it was meant as a joke. But we're killing the articles, not the people; we have to make that clear. It implies the collectiveness of wikipedia into one body, which I like LDan __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com

No, they're not a storm. That again implies destructiveness. LDan __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com