User talk:Earle Martin

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[edit] London Meetup - January 12, 2008

Hi! There's going to be a London Wikipedia Meetup coming Saturday January 12, 2008. If you are interested in coming along take part in the discussion over a Wikipedia:Meetup/London7. The discussion is going on until tomorrow evening and the official location and time will be published at the same page late Thursday or early Friday. Hope to see you Saturday, Poeloq (talk) 01:44, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Abuse, eh?

Protecting a userpage that has been vandalized is abuse? It's generally uncouth to edit userpages, so I'm curious as to how abuse occurred. Are you going to unprotect my userpage as well? the_undertow ^talk 01:43, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

Yes, yes. I hope my reasoning was "bloody good" enough for you. Lara❤Love 04:07, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

I suggest you read the protection policy, because users can protect their userspace if they like. Ryan Postlethwaite 05:29, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

Indefinite full protection is a serious measure which may only be applied to certain important pages. Not whimsical user sub-pages. So yes, it was an abuse of the feature. If the intent was to protect against vandalism, temporary protection was appropriate. Otherwise, policy is that the only protection that may be applied indefinitely to user pages is semi-protection. -- Earle Martin [^t/_c] 15:22, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

If that is the case, why didn't you just semi it in the first place? Or was that not the bloody consensus on the mailing list? the_undertow ^talk 01:33, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

I only found that out yesterday. However, my first instinct, that indefinite full protection was inappropriate, was correct. -- Earle Martin [^t/_c] 10:58, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] skyscraper hotels

I notice you created the Category:Skyscraper hotels page. Question - I'm thinking about creating an article for [1] that is being built in my hometown. Would that qualify to be listed in the skyscraper hotel category or does it have to be an all-hotel tower, not hotel/condo?--AgnosticPreachersKid (talk) 06:55, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

It's a skyscraper, it has a hotel in it - sounds fine, go for it! Maybe if the category gets much bigger in the future it would need to be split into pure-hotel towers and otherwise, but that's not necessary at the moment. Cheers, -- Earle Martin [^t/_c] 15:27, 31 January 2008 (UTC).

[edit] Wikipedia local wiki (wikimetro.org) feedback request

I am a Wiki developer, have spent the past 12 months developing wikimetro.org in asp.net as a local wiki and would like to ask for (expert) feedback. www.wikimetro.org a local wiki 04:20, 29 February 2008 (UTC) Jeff Brauer

Sorry for any inconvenience caused Thanks and Regards, Jeff

[edit] London Meetup - Sunday May 11th

Hi Earle. I think we met at a wiki wednesday gathering a while back... unless I'm confusing you with someone else.

Anyway we're hoping to have regular meetups for wikipedia enthusiasts in London. The next one is this Sunday lunchtime (May 11th) see Wikipedia:Meetup/London 9. in Holborn. Come along! -- Harry Wood (talk) 15:23, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thanks. Mandsford (thanks) 00:04, 15 May 2008 (UTC)