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[edit] Santa Fe article

I don't see any problem with the Santa Fe article. By "break(ing) somewhere in the 'Museums' section", do you mean the browser loads to the museums section and then stops? My best guess there is that your browser is failing to load the page fully. I don't know how you could fix this. PerryPlanet 21:50, 19 February 2008 (EST)

[edit] MoS issue with New Mexico "Eat" listings...

Hey Bill. Listen, User:Texugo and I have been having a discussion about the Eat listings on the Albuquerque page. He's arguing that by our MoS standards, we shouldn't split local cuisine up from non-local cuisine ("New Mexican" vs "Other"), otherwise we'd have to do that to just about every article we have on Wikitravel (Japanese articles with Japanese food versus Other, etc.).

Then I noticed that Santa Fe and Los Alamos also have this layout. So I wanted to get your opinion on the issue, seeing as you've been the main contributor to these articles. PerryPlanet 20:29, 30 March 2008 (EDT)

[edit] Why are you doing this?

Why are you helping Kitty revert my edits? --Red Forman 23:35, 30 May 2008 (EDT)

I'm trying to help out, Mr. Forman! [to Bill] Can you please block Red before he vandalizes more pages? --Kitty Forman 00:01, 31 May 2008 (EDT)

Someone tell her to shut-up! --Red Forman 00:09, 31 May 2008 (EDT)

[edit] protecting Discover template

Thanks for the warning. I don't want to block Jani's bot, but we're very concerned about vandalism on the templates on the home page. Judging by the quickness of your response, though, perhaps we can leave it to the admins to be vigilant. JuCo 13:49, 1 August 2008 (EDT)

I removed protection. Bill, is there a way to get notified when templates are changed? JuCo 14:17, 1 August 2008 (EDT)

Great news. I'm glad that loop hole is closed and, like you say, if it doesn't work, we'll keep thinking. Thanks for keeping me updated! JuCo 15:36, 1 August 2008 (EDT)

[edit] Admin nomination

Hey, I just nominated User:LtPowers for sysop status. I'd appreciate it if you would comment here. Thanks! --Peter ^Talk 19:03, 17 August 2008 (EDT)

[edit] Colorado regions

Hey Bill, I noticed you led the charge on the Colorado regions organization, and I had a question. As the boundaries are currently defined, there is a "gap" (in black) between Southwestern Colorado and Northwestern Colorado, since I-70 (the northwest's southern border) slices 5 counties in half that are not included in the southwestern list of counties. Is it fair to include the southern half of those counties in the southwest of the state? If this isn't clear, I'll be uploading a map soon in which I do include those "half counties" in the southwestern region. --Peter ^Talk 16:17, 27 August 2008 (EDT)

By the way, that would put Aspen in the southwest, which may not be so great. Another option would be to take out the I-70 as southern border (except vis-a-vis South Central Colorado), and just let the region go down to the Southwestern Counties. What do you think? --Peter ^Talk 16:20, 27 August 2008 (EDT)

One last question (and feel free to move this discussion to Talk:Colorado if you like): don't the Front Range and Denver area overlap? Certainly Jefferson County would. Should we treat the Denver Area as a sub-region of the Front Range? --Peter ^Talk 16:23, 27 August 2008 (EDT)

[edit] GUPI

Excellent abbreviation! What if we make it more widely used in VFD page? :-) --DenisYurkin 17:15, 24 October 2008 (EDT)

[edit] vfd's

Thanks for clearing those out, I wanted to myself, but was too wrapped up in the arguments. I'm not sure what we can do about it, but all of these ones that keep coming up as "merge and redirect" never actually get merged before the vfd ends. Not sure what we can do about that though – cacahuate ^talk 18:46, 24 October 2008 (EDT)

Insert a {{merge|into}} notice (or something similar, stating there's consensus on merge) into the vfd'ed page, and leave it to be merged some day by a volunteer? --DenisYurkin 16:53, 25 October 2008 (EDT)

Seems reasonable, and I'd like to have done that if there was a consensus to merge the Thailand articles. However, I didn't see any such consensus in those cases. -- Bill-on-the-Hill 17:48, 25 October 2008 (EDT)

The only thing with a merge template is that the article will likely sit there for ages, and essentially have been kept instead of deleted. Maybe some sort of time frame can be set to merge it before it's deleted. Like 14 days from end of vfd or something – cacahuate ^talk 18:17, 25 October 2008 (EDT)

I like the timeframe idea: if anyone care of preserving useful content, this is a good motivator to do so. As for "no consensus": has this approach seriously discussed before, somewhere? --DenisYurkin 07:24, 26 October 2008 (EDT)

[edit] Cityguide template

Hey Bill, why did you remove the cityguide template from Template:Smallcity? --Peter ^Talk 13:07, 9 November 2008 (EST)