Editing Portal:Pensapedia

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==Civil service worker information==
I want to gauge opinion on including certain information in the articles of civil servants, such as their addresses/telephone numbers (at least in the case of City Council/County Commission and similar) and salaries... What are some thoughts? '''[[User:Dcosson|dcosson]]''' ··· '''[[User talk:Dcosson|talk]]''' 11:25, 19 August 2007 (CDT)
:I think salaries are fair game. Home addresses and phone numbers are a little more iffy... I know that's what some Councilmembers, etc. have on their City website pages, but I think a link to those pages would be sufficient. --[[User:Admin|Admin]] 12:38, 19 August 2007 (CDT)
::Such is my general feeling. '''[[User:Dcosson|dcosson]]''' ··· '''[[User talk:Dcosson|talk]]''' 14:17, 19 August 2007 (CDT)

==Location succession box==
What do you think of a "succession box" as a way to mark the different businesses that have occupied a given building or address? It may be a simpler way than creating an article for each address with lots of past tenants (though we can still do that when appropriate). For example, [[Trader Jon's]] might have the following:
{{start box}}
{{succession box|before=[[Birgar Testman]]'s ship chandlery|title=[[Trader Jon's building|511 South Palafox Street]]|years=[[1953]]-[[2003]]|after=[[Big Sexy Food]]}}
{{end box}}
(Not the best choice as there were other tenants between Testman's chandlery and Trader Jon's, but you get the idea.) --[[User:Admin|Admin]] 15:02, 17 October 2007 (CDT)

==Awesome book==
I've just received an awesome new resource, a 1946 book entitled "The Naval Air Training Bases Through World War II".  FULL of pictures.  Hopefully I/we can figure out a way to get them scanned.  '''[[User:Dcosson|dcosson]]''' ··· '''[[User talk:Dcosson|talk]]''' 09:11, 21 October 2007 (CDT)

==Naming conventions for persons?==
Should we establish naming conventions for persons?  Especially with historic figures, there are a variety of ways to present their names, i.e. [[F. C. Brent]], [[Francis Brent]], [[Francis C. Brent]], or (this is how we have this article) [[Francis Celestino Brent]]...  Currently we have different articles with different name formats.  In the time of many of these figures, it was popular to go by your first and middle initials, i.e. [[F. C. Brent]], [[A. V. Clubbs]], [[P. K. Yonge]], [[C. H. Turner]]... should we respect that?

Generally I feel like we should go with full names whenever possible, a la [[Francis Celestino Brent]]... but then what format do we fall back to if we do not know the middle name?  For instance, at the moment I do not know C. H. Turner's middle name.  So should it be [[C. H. Turner]], [[Charles H. Turner]], [[Charles Turner]]?  Anyone have any input? '''[[User:Dcosson|dcosson]]''' ··· '''[[User talk:Dcosson|talk]]''' 09:37, 6 December 2007 (CST)
:In the case you mention, the [http://www.rootsweb.com/~flescamb/directv.htm 1894 city directory] calls him [[Charles H. Turner]], which is what I think I would use. --[[User:Admin|Admin]] 11:09, 6 December 2007 (CST)

History kind of writes the rules for us on this. Many like you mentioned are known by the initials only. I think we can simply us ethe majority rule. It that is how it is cited by a larger margin, then we should follow it as it is usually used that way on historic markers and plaques. [[User:JHarris|JHarris]]

==Name for Spanish Pensacola, 1781-1821==
What should we call this period of Spanish rule? I'd like to work on article of citizens from this time, but I'm not sure how to categorize them. "Residents of Pensacola's third Spanish period"? "Citizens of second Spanish Florida"? "Pensacolians during Spanish rule, 1781-1821"? --[[User:Admin|Admin]] 11:07, 17 May 2008 (CDT)
*I'd prefer the latter out of those three choices. '''[[User:Dscosson|dscosson]]''' ··· '''[[User talk:Dcosson|talk]]''' 13:24, 17 May 2008 (CDT)

==New template==
I'm working on a new Mediawiki skin that will ultimately become the Pensapedia default. It will be based heavily on Monobook, the current default, with a more distinctive look and a few more spaces for advertising. I'm open to requests for design features to include, pitfalls to avoid, color palette recommendations, etc. --[[User:Admin|Admin]] 10:26, 16 June 2008 (CDT)