User talk:Bohdan Leonid Shmorhay
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Kind Regards,
Robert Tito | Talk 09:35, 27 March 2007 (CDT)
redirect
Just for your future reference, you can redirect pages by placing #REDIRECT [[pagename]] on the page. In other words, on the Kiev article it just needed the text
#REDIRECT [[Kyiv]]
--Todd Coles 15:45, 16 August 2007 (CDT)
- Also, you should be careful about making stubs that are so small, they are subject to deletion. See here for the policy http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/CZ:Policy_Outline#Stubs --Todd Coles 15:51, 16 August 2007 (CDT)
Much thanks for the help and advice -- I will be working on the oblast (province) descriptions in a bit, and will beef them up. Geography first, then history, then economics, then culture -- that is the plan for Ukraine. (In my copious spare time of course...) Again, much thanks for the guidance. --Bo Shmorhay 16-Aug-2007 14:00 PST
Red links
I notice on a recent edit you removed the red links form the geography section of the Ukraine article. Although red links are in some peoples eyes ugly, they are an important part of the wiki. They tell people that there is a page that needs to be writen. Also, when the page is writen, the link is set up automatically without people having to come back an relink the pages again. So you can leave red links in or add red links where you think there should be an article. I don't think we should remove a link just because it is red. Derek Harkness 05:35, 17 August 2007 (CDT)
- Agreed -- the reason I am removing the red links from the Ukraine page is that, on further research, I realized that the oblast names now have new spellings, due to the transliteration changes that have occured recently. This business of geographic name spelling is a major problem in both researching and documenting Eastern European history in general. I first became aware of these problems when friends from work kept asking me to help them with their genealogy research -- you won't believe how many different names the city of Lviv has had. When I have my act more together on the naming problem I will be more aggressive about setting up stubs and redirectors to at least get a handle on all this. -- Bo Shmorhay 09:15 17 Aug 2001 (San Diego)