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In case you aren't watching my talk page: I replied to your Worldcon/WSFS comment there.

Incidentally, I see that your user page has a couple of references like

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Dutch_Shell Shell]

which looks like Shell. That form is really intended for references outside Wikipedia. What you really want for a reference inside Wikipedia but with text different from the article name is

[[Royal Dutch Shell|Shell]]

which looks like Shell.

Jordan Brown 22:50, 27 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Jordan - many thanks - I finally got round to fixing that! :-) VJDocherty 22:41, 27 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I expected this decision to be unpopular, and I'm sure you won't be the only person to query it. The number of people who express a particular opinion may be relevant to the outcome of an XfD, but it is not the sole determining factor. The argument that this was an example of Wikipedia:Overcategorization is a strong one. Most of keep comments failed to address it, and none of them refuted the claim. Instead, we had comments which closely resembled WP:ILIKEIT. As an aside, the easter-egged cross-namespace link from Worldcon to the category could be a bad idea as it might not work on mirrors of Wikipedia. There is no List of Worldcon Guests of Honor, which would be the easiest way to collect this information and contextualise it; alternatively it could be added to List of Worldcons although context might be a problem there. I'd have offered to make a list of the information, but fandom being fandom, there will surely be a million lists available already. Hope this makes sense, Angus McLellan (Talk) 13:16, 1 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, jargon is eeeeeeeevil! Easter-egging means doing stuff like [[Lord of the Rings|the greatest fantasy novel ever]] or [[J. R. R. Tolkein|that famous English fantasy author Michael Moorcock didn't much like]]: basically hiding where the link goes to. The cross name-space stuff I'm not sure it is a problem, but I've never seen a category linked as if it was an article. Wikipedia gets copied by lots of other sites, and if they don't copy our categories, and I'm not sure they all do, then [[Category:Worldcon Guests of Honor|Guests of Honor]] wouldn't work. The real problems with linking from one Wikipedia:Namespace to another are from the main article space to Wikipedia:anything or User:anything. Those are a Bad Thing because they definitely won't work on most mirrors of Wikipedia, and maybe not on copies on CD/DVD either. All the best, Angus McLellan (Talk) 13:36, 1 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Vince, you might want to copy your comment from Talk:Worldcon over into Category talk:Worldcon Guests of Honor so that it'll be directly visible to anybody following up on the deletion process. Jordan Brown 01:18, 2 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

There has been another a call for discussion for the deletion of the Science Fiction fans category. (And thanks for catching my typo on the Donald E. Ford page. Shsilver 00:41, 27 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thought you might want to know. --Orange Mike 14:58, 1 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Vince! Here's the main article on the topic: Wikipedia:Citing sources. When the cited publication is a fanzine, I just treat it the same way I would an article in any other magazine, be it Newsweek or Private Eye. --Orange Mike 21:22, 18 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Vince, my name is Rich Dengrove and I have research that shows that the Hugo was not modeled after the hood ornament referred to in your Hugo Award article. Would you mind me changing that part -- of course, giving my sources?

Rich Dengrove 20:59, 2 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Vince. Thanks for the note. I've moved the discussion to the Worldcon talk page.

--JohnPomeranz (talk) 15:25, 2 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Vinc, I've started a discussion on the Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Science Fiction page regarding a new category "<<year>> in science fiction". I'd appreciate any comments you might like to make. --Perry Middlemiss (talk) 11:08, 17 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

A good-faith prod template was slapped on Le Zombie, dismissing it as "just a fanzine". I've added one ref, but if more could be added, it would strengthen the zombie's defenses. --Orange Mike | Talk 19:26, 14 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

There is another attempt to delete the Worldcon GoH category. Since you participated in the last discussion, I thought you might be interested.Shsilver (talk) 22:57, 14 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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