User talk:LuisAnton

Trimming metadata

Greetings

I saw you moved Deleted:302nd Military Intelligence Battalion to 302nd Military Intelligence Battalion (United States).

When I first started participating here I was told there weren't as many rules as the wikipedia, but one request was to refrain from moving articles deleted from the wikipedia to article space here, until after any metadata only supported on the wikipedia was trimmed.

I did that for that article. Geo Swan (talk) 09:14, 25 March 2017 (UTC)

Can I just import the required templates from Wikipedia instead of removing those that didn't exist? LuisAnton (talk • contribs) 12:31, 25 March 2017 (UTC)

• Er, I am just another contributor here, so I can't give you official permission. My guess?

The site's owners would appreciate you porting templates -- so long as you make sure they work.

The tricky thing is that most templates at the wikipedia are created by people who have worked hard to make sure they know how templates work. And many of those templates are complicated, depend on many other templates.

I've worked on several other small wikis. One other wiki I contributed to supported core templates, like the {{cite news}} templates. But half a dozen others didn't support ANY templates.

Wikialpha supports a good solid subset of templates.

But, porting the complicated templates for military units? Bear in mind they will rely on a dozen, or dozens, of other templates that also haven't been ported here. If you were an expert at working on templates, you might be able to set them up.

If you aren't an expert at working on templates? Forget it would be my advice.

Cheers! Geo Swan (talk) 03:27, 31 March 2017 (UTC)

disambiguation

There are different approaches to disambiguation. Many people think adding disambiguators to article names can be postponed until it is necessary. Others think it should be put in the name, right at the beginning, when it is likely to be necessary some day.

In this particular case it is unlikely to be necessary. Other nation's armies have battalions. But they have different naming conventions. Even if one had a 302nd battalion, it might be an armoured battalion, or an artillery battalion, or whatever. And, even if other nations had one, would it merit an article? Geo Swan (talk) 09:23, 25 March 2017 (UTC)

The article above was imported from Wikipedia, so its name was from WP too. Also, the original name is Deleted:302nd Military Intelligence Battalion (United States), not "Deleted:302nd Military Intelligence Battalion". LuisAnton (talk • contribs) 12:31, 25 March 2017 (UTC)

• Okay.

Do you think we have enough articles on OTHER battalions, to justify the disambiguator "(United States)"? Geo Swan (talk) 03:12, 31 March 2017 (UTC)

Leaving a redirect

You didn't leave one. That made it more work to find where you put the article. Is there a reason you didn't leave a redirect? Geo Swan (talk) 09:23, 25 March 2017 (UTC)

A redirect from and to what? From Deleted:302nd Military Intelligence Battalion to 302nd Military Intelligence Battalion (United States)? The original name of the article before the move was Deleted:302nd Military Intelligence Battalion (United States), not the article name/hyperlink you put above, as I said in my above reply. LuisAnton (talk • contribs) 12:31, 25 March 2017 (UTC)

• A redirect from Deleted:302nd Military Intelligence Battalion to 302nd Military Intelligence Battalion (United States). When you move something there is a checkbox, for "leave redirect". On the wikipedia "leave redirect" is permanently on, unless you are an administrator. But here, if you don't click the box, no redirect is left. So, I got an email about the article, but when I clicked on it, to see what changes had been made, I found a redlink. If you had left a redirect, I would have found the article, right away. Geo Swan (talk) 03:35, 31 March 2017 (UTC)