User talk:MinorStoop

Welcome
Hi, welcome to ! Thanks for your edit to the Blood Sausage page.

Please leave a message on my talk page if I can help with anything! -- BRG (Talk) 13:42, December 13, 2012

Black pudding vs. Blood sausage
On Wikipedia, the rule is that American and British usage are equally acceptable. I tend to follow a different rule, preferring American usage because (1) I am American and (2) there are more American speakers of English than British, Australian, and New Zealander speakers combined. This means that Wikipedia articles get retitled on occasion when they get copied here. I hope you'll understand. -- BruceG (talk) 14:28, December 13, 2012 (UTC)
 * At least you're trying to do the right thing. Cheese and sausage are wikis I manage, and most of the contributors seem to be spammers. One point, though, check spellings. You did a redirect on Cheese to "queso blanquo" which is a nonexistent page &mdash; the correct spelling is "blanco." -- BruceG (talk) 14:51, December 13, 2012 (UTC)

Category pages
It's nice that you've been adding a lot of category pages by nationality. You might note that there is a flag template so you can add a small flag shown (see the Welsh sausages category page). You can import the actual flag files from Wikipedia, and you need to copy a "Country data" template page from Wikipedia too, for each, however it needs a bit of editing; there is a line that says "alias =" and it needs to have "wikipedia:" put before the country name so you don't link to a nonexistent page on here. -- BruceG (talk) 23:21, December 13, 2012 (UTC)

SpikeToronto's "talkback" thing
I note that SpikeToronto has a "talkback" thing he uses to deal with this business about not seeing replies. It's easiest to follow discussions when both halves appear on the same page, which is why I tend to respond on my own talk page when you start with a message to me. -- BruceG (talk) 23:24, December 13, 2012 (UTC)

"Philipino"
I noted you changed a category of "Philippine sausages" to "Philipino sausages." There is no such word as "Philipino" in English. The correct spelling is as I had it; sometimes you see "Filipino" (the Spanish spelling) but that form is normally used as a noun, to denote a person, and not commonly as an adjective. -- BruceG (talk) 23:44, December 13, 2012 (UTC)

Deleting lists
Please don't delete content and replace the list code with flags. These were put there for a reason. -- BruceG (talk) 23:49, December 13, 2012 (UTC)

"About the lists marked for deletion; I failed to see your rationale for them, either because there was not enough information on the pages to see it or because I skipped too cursorily through them. However, in my opinion, if we manage to set up a good category tree, this kind of lists will be rendered obsolete, and we won't need to duplicate the effort." My rationale for them is as follows: If you click on a category, you get a page with big boxes for each article. Only eight are on a page, and they are also in a pretty random order, based on when the pages are created rather than alphabetical order. If you look at one of the list pages, the list is in a much better formatted form, and, bu clicking on the sort arrows, you can even get them alphabetized. I like the appearance of the list pages better than the category listings. -- BruceG (talk) 15:01, December 14, 2012 (UTC)

Actually, even if you select the category list, you get the category exhibition as well (at least, I seem to), which takes up a lot of the page. The fact is: I don't much like the appearance of the category page, so I prefer to use the lists as reference. You apparently do like the category pages. But it is always my belief that it does not hurt to provide something for everyone who might use the wiki. The presence of the list pages does not prevent your using the category page when you want to look at it. And there is no space limit that the wiki is running into. So why is there any argument about keeping the lists? -- BruceG (talk) 02:09, December 15, 2012 (UTC)

Blood as a kind of meat
Blood is not a kind of meat. See http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/meat?show=0&t=1355444496 which is a rather definitive dictionary. -- BruceG (talk) 00:22, December 14, 2012 (UTC)

The dictionary defines "meat" in its main meaning as "flesh," or at least "edible flesh." Blood is not included. I do not know whether "carne" in Italian is used in a way that includes blood, but it is not my experience that people consider "meat" in English as including blood. -- BruceG (talk) 15:03, December 14, 2012 (UTC)

Links to nonexistent pages
A link should not be deleted just because it points to a nonexistent page. This simply means that the page needs to be created -- and if you don't have time or resources to do rhat, leave it to someone else to do. -- BruceG (talk) 00:34, December 14, 2012 (UTC)

You say, "Links to non existent pages: these I fail to understand - if the page does not exist, why create a deliberately broken link to it?" The point is that in the end a page will probably be created. For the time being, the link is there (shown in red, so you realize no page yet exists) to make it clear that there is information that is relevant, but just has not been added yet. It may even prompt someone, if we get more people, to create the article. -- BruceG (talk) 14:55, December 14, 2012 (UTC)

Another point: There is a page called Special:WantedPages for the specific purpose of surveying what pages people need to fill in, because they are redlinks on existing pages. If you don't allow red links, nobody can tell what pages we need to add! -- BruceG (talk) 23:32, December 15, 2012 (UTC)

Montenegrin sausages
You changed the category "Montenegrin sausages" to "Montenegro sausages." When an adjective exists, it should be used. Since you said English was not your first language, don't change things which are correct English to things that are incorrect! -- BruceG (talk) 00:59, December 14, 2012 (UTC)

Actually, "Dominican" is used as an adjective referring to the Dominican Republic &mdash; though there is an island, also in the Caribbean, called Dominica, which could lead to confusion, since "Dominican sausages" might refer to either. But generally, in English, while one can use noun-as-adjective, it's not normal to do so when an appropriate adjective exists. -- BruceG (talk) 02:16, December 15, 2012 (UTC)

Use of English
As you admit, your English is good enough to be understood, but not of native-speaker quality. When you write something that is not quite correct, I can easily correct it. What I was objecting to is that you changed something (like "Montenegrin" to "Montenegro") in a way that made it wrong when it was correct to begin with. I cannot understand why you would do that. (And by the way, in English, we capitalize the names of languages.) -- BruceG (talk) 15:09, December 14, 2012 (UTC)