User talk:Carlos

Welcome and thanks

Welcome to CPDL, and thank you very much for working on language templates, translations, and the like. I'm glad that you have already mastered the usage of the templates and that you have correctly created the Category:Works in Zulu. It's great to have you helping out! If I can be of any help to you, don't hesitate to contact me. -- Chuck_talk Giffen_♫ 10:30, 17 March 2008 (PDT)

Hi Chuck, thanks for the welcome! I have already contributed to the Portuguese and English Wikipedias, that's why I found it quite easy to manage CPDL's interface. I'm still getting used to some templates, the correct way of creating CPDL IDs and the like, so expect to find a few more mistakes in my edits for a while and feel free to fix them. -- Carlos 12:54, 17 March 2008 (PDT)

Composer redirects

Hi again, Carlos. I removed the categories on the Jacobus Gallus link to the Jacob Handl page. User:Hofius erred in putting them there in the first place. Such categorizations should not be on a composer redirect page for the simple reason that it provides the wrong count of the number of composers in the various categories. In other words, Jacobus Gallus and Jacob Handl are one and the same composer, not two different composers! Actually, what you added after the "pipe" ("|") did not change the categorization, but rather caused the Jacobus Gallus (redirect) page to be sorted under "Handl, Jacob" ... pipes have a different meaning for categories (they are just sort keys). Let me say, though, that I really do appreciate all your good work and that you are very rapidly getting up to speed with the wiles and whims of Wiki. It is good to have another active helping hand on this large site. -- Chuck_talk Giffen_♫ 00:30, 11 April 2008 (PDT)

Hi Chuck, I changed the categories because Gallus was appearing under letter H in "Slovenian Composers" category, together with Handl, what was clearly wrong. After the change Gallus passed to letter G, but you're right, it was a bit weird to have two entries for the same composer under that category. Regards -- Carlos^Talk 01:14, 11 April 2008 (PDT)

Oops, you're right - I had them switched in my mind (as I was focussed on the fact that they shouldn't be there at all!), sorry for the confusion. -- Chuck_talk Giffen_♫ 03:23, 11 April 2008 (PDT)

Adrian Cuello's page

Hi Carlos, thank a lot for the change, that you and your team are making in my web into CPDL, It is so great.!!!!

Hi Adrian, you're welcome! In fact it's not "my" team :) Most of the edits to your pages are done by very experienced admins and I just give them some help where I can. Your compositions are a great addition to CPDL! -- Carlos^Talk 11:57, 21 April 2008 (PDT)

delnow versus delreq

Hi Carlos. When there is no doubt about the advisability of deleting a page, you can use Template:delnow, which is a "speedy delete" request and useful for superfluous redirects or left-overs from a merging of pages. The Template:delreq is really for requests which might need further input before taking a decision to delete. Not a big deal, but makes it easier for admins to read (and usually we take speedy delete action in the cases where delnow would normally be applied). Oh, and I tweaked the 2nd parameter for Template:Composer, removing the nbsp, since some usage would require punctuation (such as a comma, semicolon, or colon) to start the optional material. These points aside, many, many thanks for all that you are doing here at CPDL. You are a tremendous help. -- Chuck_talk Giffen_♫ 23:44, 20 April 2008 (PDT)