User talk:Abburns

Hi. Thanks for your additions. In case you're new, here's some welcome/help stuff. Equinox ◑ 00:08, 19 July 2009 (UTC)

adore
Who is Edward Spenser? Did you mean Edmund Spenser? --EncycloPetey 01:23, 19 July 2009 (UTC)

WT:ACCEL
Very quick and very easy to use. Mglovesfun (talk) 17:39, 20 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Please consider using this instead of doing it manually, otherwise this needs doing to all the pages you create. Conrad.Irwin 00:01, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
 * PLEASE. Conrad.Irwin 00:34, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
 * IIRC AF does it, so don't bother, CI. &#x200b;—  msh210  ℠  05:59, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

petty officer first class, &c.
These entries are sum-of-parts (petty officer first class), and should not exist according to en.wikt guidelines. Can you present a counter argument for their creation? - Amgine/talk 02:47, 21 July 2009 (UTC)


 * If we accept the argument that each precise variant of "petty officer" needs a separate and exclusive entry, that would imply that every variant of "footman" would likewise require inclusion, of which there were some 80 variants within the household of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Most such titles are subsumed in larger classes, the basis for military ranks being hierarchy.


 * One further point to consider: Ranks are titles, and as such usually capitalized. Ratings (below non-commissioned officers) are not. - Amgine/talk 03:11, 21 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Well, there are far more ranks than could possibly be useful. I believe including every possible rank begins to look more encyclopedic than dictionary. Perhaps more useful would be a single table under petty officer or similar detailing various current national variants rather than every possible military rank throughout history, but that would be my personal opinion and not a policy. - Amgine/talk 03:33, 21 July 2009 (UTC)


 * But the same argument presented to justify the sub-rankings of petty officers applies to each possible rank, including boot-black. - Amgine/talk 03:56, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

Hate to butt in on this conversation, but you might FWIW wish to see User:Msh210/Sandbox. &#x200b;— msh210  ℠  22:10, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

gene expression
Um... so all genes have translated products? That isn't true. The term "gene expression" refers generally to the processes by which a gene is expressed, and because of that I'm not sure this phrase merits a separate Wiktionary entry, since "gene expression" is merely the "expression" of a "gene". --EncycloPetey 18:59, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

quotations
In this edit, you altered a quotation so that it no longer matches the source from which it came. That should never happen. --EncycloPetey 19:54, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

Alford plea
Hey there, I noticed you created the page on Alford plea, thanks for the contribution. Just to let you know I added some passages from references. Cheers, Cirt (talk) 19:24, 12 December 2009 (UTC)