User talk:Amphibio

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added to the page Universe do not comply with our guidelines for external links and have been removed. Wikipedia is not a collection of links; nor should it be used as a platform for advertising or promotion, and doing so is contrary to the goals of this project. Because Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the article's talk page before reinserting it. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Materialscientist (talk) 13:49, 9 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

onceuponauniverse.com is apparently a blog, and there is no evidence its writers are established specialists in the field (say Universe). Thus WP:ELNO. Materialscientist (talk) 14:09, 9 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I actually did have a look at "who we are" there before removing the link and only saw group photos and a link to a blog at wordpress. Clicking the link [1] brought me to a flickering page with little information and an offer to pay a little and upgrade something. Didn't look promising. Materialscientist (talk) 14:24, 9 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of International Book Week

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Speedy deletion nomination of International Book Week

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Removing Speedy at International Book Week

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Nomination of International Book Week for deletion

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October 2015

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Name of the Czech Republic

As you obviously haven't read my edit summaries, I have brought the explanation here. There is a difference between the "long form" of a country's name and the "short form". "The Czech Republic" is a long form name. "Czechia" is a short form name. Just as "The French Republic" is a long form name and "France" is a short form name. The fact that Czechia was codified by the Czech government is irrelevant to a sentence that is explicitly discussing only the long form of the name. --Khajidha (talk) 17:20, 16 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Czechia has been suggested as an alternative to The Czech Republic. It is not short form - it is an alternative. The issue is not unquestioned - it has been questioned, notably by the leader of that country. Amphibio (talk) 17:43, 16 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

That is exactly the situation that the "short form/long form" distinction is about. No one is suggesting Czechia become the only name of the country, they are suggesting that Czechia be used in situations where France would be used and that the Czech Republic be limited to those situations where the French Republic would be used. That is what is meant by the terms "short form" and "long form". As the sentence is only about the long form, formal name the codification of the short form, informal name is irrelevant. --Khajidha (talk) 17:49, 16 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I understand where you are coming from now. In that case, 'official' would be a more appropriate word than 'unquestioned', which is pretty clumsy Amphibio (talk) 18:00, 16 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]