User talk:Commander Scott

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Page move
Just letting you know that you acted properly- thanks for the help. :) --31dot 10:01, July 22, 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks 31dot, I’m just happy to be able to help out where I can. :) -- Commander Scott 03:19, July 23, 2010 (BST)

Brackets
While most starship articles do use brackets around the registry number, I believe that's because of the use of disambiguations in the page title, not because there actually should be brackets around them. Also, since we use brackets around citations and other real world info, I've been trying to remove brackets from articles where they aren't required. - 19:15, July 31, 2010 (UTC)


 * Ah right, in that case, you have my apologies, and I'll revert the changes. How do you feel about removing the brackets from the ship articles that use the registry numbers to disambiguate, such as the Enterprise, because other than making the Defiant articles match the others, I'm inclined to think that the removal of them from the ship registries in general would be a better way to go? -- Commander Scott 19:24, July 31, 2010 (UTC)

Not from the page titles of course, but all the starship pages don't need the numbers in brackets in the actual articles. - 19:35, July 31, 2010 (UTC)


 * My thoughts exactly. I have some free time this evening, so I'll make a start shortly. :-) -- Commander Scott 19:37, July 31, 2010 (UTC)


 * No, the parentheses are needed around the registry numbers. That's been the stylistic choice.  Archduk3 is spot on with the title stuff, but when noting the registry, we've chosen to put them in parentheses "" for whatever reason. -- sulfur 20:03, July 31, 2010 (UTC)


 * In that case, the ISS Enterprise (NX-01) and the ISS Avenger need the brackets adding to the articles along with the two Defiant ones. -- Commander Scott 20:07, July 31, 2010 (UTC)


 * Yup. They do.  The Defiants have it.  The other two do not (as yet). -- sulfur 20:11, July 31, 2010 (UTC)


 * Looks like you've beaten me to it, as I was just checking there weren't any changes that I had made that still needed to be undone. :-) -- Commander Scott 20:14, July 31, 2010 (UTC)

Is this in the Memory Alpha:Manual of Style? I always took it as a "monkey see, monkey do." - 21:51, July 31, 2010 (UTC)

Yeah, read the page first before linking to it... *facepalm* - 21:53, July 31, 2010 (UTC)


 * Ah well, we live and learn. *thumbs up* -- Commander Scott 23:54, July 31, 2010 (UTC)

Why
Why have you removed 3 of my edits? -- Admiralalexmann 11:49, August 10, 2010 (UTC)
 * Hi Alex, firstly, your edit of the Stargazer page added information about Picard that wasn't mentioned in any of the TNG episodes. Secondly, your edit of the Voyager page added superfluous information about Chakotay that was covered in the next paragraph.  Thirdly, your edit of the Danube class runabout page changed a link that had been updated by the SulfBot due to the Defiant page undergoing a recent change of location that removed the registry number from the title.  I hope that answers your questions. *thumbs up* -- Commander Scott 12:29, August 10, 2010 (UTC)