User talk:AMK152/archive1

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Good to see some more from Europe.

--Robin Patterson 09:21, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

Welcome back! Robin Patterson 12:28, 27 May 2007 (UTC) in New Zealand

Save yourself some time

 * Don't bother changing to  . Functionally it achieves nothing, because the software automatically capitalizes the first letter of every pagename (and of whatever follows a namespace prefix). Except in the search box!! Robin Patterson 15:46, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Another small point - instead of "nowiki" for a category,, you can just insert a colon -  Category:Smith Surname; less typing/clicking, and another advantage being that it's a clickable link in case your readers want to look at the page. Same idea as quoting images pages. Robin Patterson 01:37, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

Genealogy:Surname category template

 * Genealogy:Surname category template is as easy to paste as a category (which it includes), and it gives much more scope for developing the surname links. Maybe you just haven't found it (although it is listed near the top of the "Create a page" page)? I've recently applied it to a few surname categories which you had created which were shared by my relatives.

To make it fully meaningful, one must change "Unknown" to the particular surname in three places. Not altogether very much more work than pasting the bare category.

I commend it to your attention. If you think it needs improvement, well, it's not set in stone!

Robin Patterson 01:51, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

Unnecessary categories?
I'm pleased you are standardising on Category:Surnames and getting rid of that more wordy one that was once thought to be a good idea but has not come to anything (and is in title case, which always irritates me).

But please don't delete recently-created categories unless there's a consensus among active members. The birth and death "decade" categories are expected to have value even for people whose birth and death dates are known. For example, if one researcher gives a person a precise birth date, the decade entry will reduce the chance that another researcher of that person will give an approx date that's different and start duplicating the page, possibly never finding the match.

Robin Patterson 10:52, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Sorry, didn't know. - AMK152 (Talk • Contributions 17:57, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

Happy anniversary!
One year since your first edit.

Many happy returns!

Robin Patterson 13:50, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks! - AMK152 (Talk • Contributions 14:01, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

Can I save you some more time?
Please see http://genealogy.wikia.com/index.php?title=Category_talk:Lists_of_People_by_Surname#We_could_do_without_this_category

Robin Patterson 15:08, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

Template:Ahnentafel/doc
Template:Ahnentafel-doc on Wikipedia now redirects to Template:Ahnentafel/doc. So I've made ours match, carrying over your "category:tree templates" improvement. It's a fast-changing world!

I've not checked back to see what that does to the "transclusion" note that appeared on your "compact5" (which alerted me to a possible problem). Tomorrow is another day...

Robin Patterson 14:47, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Robin got a little loopy last night and posted this on my talk. Think he meant it for you.  Interesting template. BTW  ~  Ph l o x   16:34, 11 September 2007 (UTC)