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:Happy to help. According to our article on [[city]], the term is used differently in different parts of the world. In the UK it is a status conferred on a settlement by the Queen. It is only awarded to settlements over about 100,000 population. Sometimes people also use an older definition, whereby a settlement with a [[cathedral]] was regarded as a city. This is falling out of use. In the United States there is no such rule and any settlement may call itself a city. Thus there are cities over there with half a dozen inhabitants. The distinction between village and town is less clear cut. I hope that helps. I live in Edinburgh, Scotland, by the way. --[[User:John|John]] ([[User talk:John#top|talk]]) 09:48, 7 September 2014 (UTC) |
:Happy to help. According to our article on [[city]], the term is used differently in different parts of the world. In the UK it is a status conferred on a settlement by the Queen. It is only awarded to settlements over about 100,000 population. Sometimes people also use an older definition, whereby a settlement with a [[cathedral]] was regarded as a city. This is falling out of use. In the United States there is no such rule and any settlement may call itself a city. Thus there are cities over there with half a dozen inhabitants. The distinction between village and town is less clear cut. I hope that helps. I live in Edinburgh, Scotland, by the way. --[[User:John|John]] ([[User talk:John#top|talk]]) 09:48, 7 September 2014 (UTC) |
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:{{tps}} Boeing720, we've got the exactly same thing with Finnish language. We've got two words: "''kylä''" for a village (swe. ''by'') and "''kaupunki''" for the Swedish "''stad''". We don't really make any distinction between a town and a city in our vocabulary, but I think the limit for being called "a city" here in Finland is 10,000 inhabitants (LOL!). Everything under 10,000 is still considered "a village". [[User:Jayaguru-Shishya|Jayaguru-Shishya]] ([[User talk:Jayaguru-Shishya|talk]]) 11:38, 7 September 2014 (UTC) |
:{{tps}} Boeing720, we've got the exactly same thing with Finnish language. We've got two words: "''kylä''" for a village (swe. ''by'') and "''kaupunki''" for the Swedish "''stad''". We don't really make any distinction between a town and a city in our vocabulary, but I think the limit for being called "a city" here in Finland is 10,000 inhabitants (LOL!). Everything under 10,000 is still considered "a village". [[User:Jayaguru-Shishya|Jayaguru-Shishya]] ([[User talk:Jayaguru-Shishya|talk]]) 11:38, 7 September 2014 (UTC) |
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== Gage page == |
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The [[Phineas Gage]] article is being hampered by EEng more and more it seems. He's reverted the map issue (debatable and esoteric issue) and reverted my edits to make the images licensing and details accessible.[https://wiki.riteme.site/w/index.php?title=Phineas_Gage&diff=624623171&oldid=624612728] He has now started [https://wiki.riteme.site/w/index.php?title=Phineas_Gage&diff=624628741&oldid=624623171 ref bombing the text into an unreadable state]. I think the entire article be rewritten from scratch in a sandbox or in the draft article space so that consensus can be made to outright replace the article. It may be the best way to resolve all the issues at this point, it is not [[WP:TNT]], but in practice the article would be entirely different. [[User:ChrisGualtieri|ChrisGualtieri]] ([[User talk:ChrisGualtieri|talk]]) 05:39, 8 September 2014 (UTC) |
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A Note on threading:
Interpersonal communication does not work when messages are left on individual users' talk pages rather than threaded, especially when a third party wishes to read or reply. Being a "bear of very little brain", I get easily confused when trying to follow conversations that bounce back and forth, so I've decided to try the convention that many others seem to use, aggregation of messages on either your talk page or my talk page. If the conversation is about an article I will try to aggregate on the article's talk page.
I may mess up, don't worry, I'll find it eventually. Ping me if you really need to. please note this is a personal preference rather than a matter of site policy |
(From User:John/Pooh policy)
Personal attacks on my Talk PageHi John! It seems QuackGuru is on a personal defamation campaign now. He attacked against me on my Talk Page[1] accusing me of "following him to other articles" (WP:HOUND). He has made the same accusation several times before[2][3][4][5], but has never provided any evidence even despite of my requests. Doesn't this fall under "personal attack"? WP:WIAPA goes about the description of personal attacks as follows: "Accusations about personal behavior that lack evidence. Serious accusations require serious evidence. Evidence often takes the form of diffs and links presented on wiki." He also posted lengthy nine paragraphs where he is scrutinizing my edit history. The most interesting is that he is talking about me in 3rd person, so it's obvious that he didn't address it to me but made the post in defamation purposes, or as a "wall of shame" as WP:HUSH puts it. WP:HUSH says the following about user space harassment:
I am bringing this to your attention because you are already familiar with the editor and I trust your sense of judgement. I hope you have the time to take a look! Jayaguru-Shishya (talk) 15:57, 2 September 2014 (UTC)
Metalloid as requested TFA, October 4G'day John I've listed metalloid as a current Today's Featured Article nomination, for 4 October, here. Thank you, Sandbh (talk) 12:13, 6 September 2014 (UTC)
ktGood morning, John. I have long been interested in your talk page as a place where wise insights might sometimes be found, much as I have stalked the talk pages of other stalwarts such as RHaworth. One appoach that I adopted was the use of the edit summary "kt" when removing useless hand-waving or otherwise unproductive messages. It is, after all, my talk page - or indeed yours, on the many occasions you have used that edit summary. Being thus focused on the edit summary's purpose, I did not spend a huge amount of time investigating its meaning. I thought it was the first of these two;
Anyway, presumably it means different things to different people, but, having used it for so long based on your usage, I wanted to ask - what do you use it to mean? thanks! --Demiurge1000 (talk) 01:35, 7 September 2014 (UTC)
Town vs City qustion. (Brittish English)Hello John! I've assumed You live in the UK or Ireland possibly (Please foregive me if I'm wrong and correct me). Through other articles, I have found out very little about the difference [with the exception of Scotland]. My question is - When do You find it proper to use the terms "City" respectively "Town" in a foregin nation, like Sweden. I've got the impression that a "Town" has perhaps from around 15.000 to 50.000 inhabitants, while "City" is a better choice if the settlement has around 100.000 inhabitants or more. I'm only asking for Your opinion and as if the settlements would have been British instead , unless You have a more detailed knowledge of the matter and cares for sharing it.(Swedish language is lacking atleast one word here, I think. As the Swedish "stad" takes no concideration of size). If such matters are not the least interesting to You , then I appologize. Boeing720 (talk) 04:59, 7 September 2014 (UTC)
Gage pageThe Phineas Gage article is being hampered by EEng more and more it seems. He's reverted the map issue (debatable and esoteric issue) and reverted my edits to make the images licensing and details accessible.[12] He has now started ref bombing the text into an unreadable state. I think the entire article be rewritten from scratch in a sandbox or in the draft article space so that consensus can be made to outright replace the article. It may be the best way to resolve all the issues at this point, it is not WP:TNT, but in practice the article would be entirely different. ChrisGualtieri (talk) 05:39, 8 September 2014 (UTC) |