User talk:David Schaich

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FYI: I prefer to answer all comments here, instead of spreading discussions over multiple pages. If I leave a message on your talk page, I'll watch it for a week or so (except for anonymous users). You can respond there, here, or everywhere, as you prefer. -David Schaich ^Talk/_Cont

This user has gotten into the habit of going through his watchlist only once every day or two. As a result, he may not respond swiftly to queries.

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Contents 1 Archives 2 Social Democrats 3 I'm Stealing your "this user should be working on real stuff" box 4 Social Democratic Party of Pennsylvania 5 AfD nomination of Social Democratic Party of Pennsylvania 6 Template discussion 7 reference tags 8 I don't want to mess with your layout 9 Joshua G. Evans 10 Social Democratic Party of America 11 AfD nomination of Jim Lawrence (politician)

[edit] Social Democrats

Stop your personal attacks and opinions on social democrats unless you know what is personally what is going on behind closed doors. Comraderedoctober (talk) 00:00, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Please let me know what you're talking about. Thanks, David Schaich ^Talk/_Cont 00:14, 7 January 2008 (UTC).

[edit] I'm Stealing your "this user should be working on real stuff" box

Sorry, I'm not very creative, but a good idea is a good idea! Soli, T L Miles (talk) 15:45, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Social Democratic Party of Pennsylvania

[edit] AfD nomination of Social Democratic Party of Pennsylvania

An article that you have been involved in editing, Social Democratic Party of Pennsylvania, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Social Democratic Party of Pennsylvania. Thank you. T L Miles (talk) 15:42, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Template discussion

As an occasional editor to the discussion at Template:United States presidential election, 2008 your input would be appreciated at Template talk:United States presidential election, 2008#Proposal: A return to the old standards. Thank you.--STX 04:43, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] reference tags

Could you change back the reference changes? It makes it exceptionally awkward when trying to find citations when you cite it like that. The Manual of Style frowns upon changing reference type without discussion as well and I don't want to undo the other changes as well.KV(Talk) 12:22, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

What trouble are you having finding citations? All the links are still there, just formatted more compactly instead of rewriting the same citation twenty times, which looks (and is) ridiculous. The only change I made to the reference type itself was to change "http://www.stewartalexandercares.com/biography.php" to "Biography at stewartalexandercares.com". Still, if you let me know what difficulty you're having, I'll change things back if it can't be resolved another way. Cheers, David Schaich ^Talk/_Cont 13:59, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

Though it does reduce the amount of code on the page, it also makes it hard to keep track of the number of citations and creates issues when someone else tries to cite the same thing and has to look up the tag name, or on a different date. It's a wikipedia-only citation style as I see it, unprofessional in appearance, and makes it harder for future editors. The standard academic citation style would be as was on there originally, and it's much more editor friendly. KV(Talk) 17:23, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:CITE#Citation_styles KV(Talk) 17:50, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

If it were Wikipedia-specific, there would be no better place to use it. Of course it is not; in my academic field, it is completely standard to use the same citation to cite the same citation; to do otherwise would be regarded as utterly bizarre (and actually difficult to implement with the standard LaTeX software). Future authors can do whatever they like, either using this tag or adding a new one, as they see fit. Reusing the same tag also makes it clear how many different sources are being cited, as well as how many times each is cited, immediately giving more information about the number of citations. Finally, you link to Citation styles without comment, which brings up another advantage of this approach -- now one only has to change a single citation to move between styles, instead of twenty identical ones, a much more editor-friendly situation.

In every aspect, the current system seems unambiguously superior. -David Schaich ^Talk/_Cont 03:48, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] I don't want to mess with your layout

Not enough time to mess with that, so I'll just point you to User:King Vegita/spusa and User:King Vegita/moorealexander08.KV(Talk) 02:42, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

Neat! Just as a heads-up, using the SP logo in the first may ruffle some feathers -- see this diff for more information. -David Schaich ^Talk/_Cont 04:26, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

No problem there, it's copyleft. I doublechecked with Greg. You could do the same about YPSL. KV(Talk) 21:45, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Joshua G. Evans

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[edit] Social Democratic Party of America

There is no "formerly" in "SDPPA," Social Democratic Party of Pennsylvania as it is a real party registered with an EIN with its respective state.

The SDoA is only noted as a single red dot on the SI map in the Johnstown, PA area.

Why is a known member of another political party attempting to create information without having a single fact? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.239.34.219 (talk) 07:17, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

I assume you're talking about this diff? Three points: (1) I did not write "formerly", that was added by Jutland100 (talk · contribs) in this diff; (2) the relevant map displays three dots in North America, corresponding to three organizations, none of which are the Social Democratic Party of America; (3) since very few people are members of the SDPA, the vast majority of its article will be written by members of other political parties. If you have a problem with any of the content of that article, please feel free to raise the issue on its talk page. David Schaich ^Talk/_Cont 15:39, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

You've assumed too much about a party that is not yours to write about. The simple fact of writing "SDPA" shows that there is a missed step in reading their website from the start. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.122.45.99 (talk • contribs) 07:02, 26 April 2008

"SDPA" seems a reasonable acronym for the Social Democratic Party of America, at least for use on my talk page (as above, Jutland100 (talk · contribs) first added it to the article). If there's any problem using it in the article, it would be good to explain on its talk page.

Social Democrats refer to themselves as automous persons which is the reason for SDoA, Social Democrats of America. It is part of the division of internal powers which are up for a direct vote next week.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.171.120.134 (talk • contribs) 01:55, 28 April 2008

If you feel the article should be moved, please discuss it here. -David Schaich ^Talk/_Cont 04:31, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

Apart from the acronym, do you have any other specific concerns? -David Schaich ^Talk/_Cont 01:04, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

You are openly a member of another political party and should not consider ever writing about the workings any other party as it is a conflict of interest. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.171.120.134 (talk • contribs) 01:55, 28 April 2008

I am indeed a member of a different political party. As such I have no interest in the SDPA, and risk no conflict of interest by improving its Wikipedia article. -David Schaich ^Talk/_Cont 04:31, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] AfD nomination of Jim Lawrence (politician)

I have nominated Jim Lawrence (politician), an article you created, for deletion. I do not feel that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jim Lawrence (politician). Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time. Do you want to opt out of receiving this notice? Guy (Help!) 11:46, 3 May 2008 (UTC)