User talk:Columbia clipper

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Starship name page moves
Before arbitrarily moving articles for ship names based on diacritics, can you please bring it up on the talk pages first? Thanks. -- sulfur 19:36, June 30, 2010 (UTC)


 * Actually, I checked the talk pages before making changes. The comments on the USS Cortezs talk page indicated a preference for the spelling used in the script, and the Defiants talk page indicated that the diacritics were included to match those used for the Cortez.  Since the Sao Paulo's dedication plaque spelling was canonical, and the English spelling of Cortez was preferred by the community, I didn't think there was a need to discuss the issue more than it already has been. The moves weren't arbitrary, but were in keeping with Memory Alpha policies on both canon and community decision-making. --Columbia clipper 19:48, June 30, 2010 (UTC)
 * Since you moved the pages, could you fix some of the links to the old page then. We generally don't want too many pages using redirects if it can be avoided. There should be a "What links here" option on the left. Thanks. - 22:13, June 30, 2010 (UTC)
 * No problem. I think I've found and corrected all of the links (and a category that used the diacritic spelling for Sao Paulo). --Columbia clipper 23:00, June 30, 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks again. - 02:08, July 1, 2010 (UTC)

Image uploads
When uploading images, can you please ensure that you remember to add a license and category to them as per MA:IMAGE? These things are required to use images here. Also, please note that species names (ie "Human", "Bolian", "Vulcan", etc) are capitalized, since they are proper nouns. Thanks. -- sulfur 15:32, October 19, 2010 (UTC)
 * Seriously, add the categories. If you're not sure about one, add it after you upload the image so you can see the suggestions. - 00:08, October 20, 2010 (UTC)