User talk:Steve Morgan

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Moving "Oporto" to "Porto" was not the kind the help I was hoping for. The latter is indeed the Portuguese name of the city, but Commons categories should be in English. As such, I expect them to be in English as in the language, but not necessarily burdened with the pseudo-PC po-mo crap that become fashionable among English-speaking airheads in recent decades. The name "Oporto", while based on a misinterpretation of "''O Porto''" (not unlike other cases such as Portuguese language’s own "''Argélia''" instead of *"''Algéria''"), is a time honored English word in actual use for centuries by the local English-speaking community of wine exporters and in Britain, while "''Porto''" in English just means that poor brown people need “us” to use their exotic local spellings. I suggest you now go on changing "Egypt" to "Misr" in Commons categories — I hear they are deeply offended. (A reply is not requested.) -- [[User:Tuvalkin|Tuválkin]] [[User talk:Tuvalkin|✉]] 12:27, 22 January 2013 (UTC)
 
Moving "Oporto" to "Porto" was not the kind the help I was hoping for. The latter is indeed the Portuguese name of the city, but Commons categories should be in English. As such, I expect them to be in English as in the language, but not necessarily burdened with the pseudo-PC po-mo crap that become fashionable among English-speaking airheads in recent decades. The name "Oporto", while based on a misinterpretation of "''O Porto''" (not unlike other cases such as Portuguese language’s own "''Argélia''" instead of *"''Algéria''"), is a time honored English word in actual use for centuries by the local English-speaking community of wine exporters and in Britain, while "''Porto''" in English just means that poor brown people need “us” to use their exotic local spellings. I suggest you now go on changing "Egypt" to "Misr" in Commons categories — I hear they are deeply offended. (A reply is not requested.) -- [[User:Tuvalkin|Tuválkin]] [[User talk:Tuvalkin|✉]] 12:27, 22 January 2013 (UTC)
 
:Wow. If you had such strong feelings on this subject, I wonder why you did not change the many Commons tram categories that ''already'' were using "Porto" to "Oporto". If all (or most) of the Porto/Oporto tram categories at Commons had used "Oporto", I would have left them alone, for consistency, even though almost every English-language book and magazine I have seen (in addition to the Portuguese ones) uses the spelling "Porto". For example, the British magazine [[:en:Tramways & Urban Transit|''Tramways & Urban Transit'']] (and predecessor ''Modern Tramway'') have been writing "Porto" for about 40 years. And "centuries" of use does not seem relevant, to me, for tram-related categories; trams have only existed for about 1 1/2 centuries. Anyway, I definitely do not feel as strongly about Porto versus Oporto as you do. [[User:Steve Morgan|Steve Morgan]] ([[User talk:Steve Morgan#top|talk]]) 14:22, 22 January 2013 (UTC)
 
:Wow. If you had such strong feelings on this subject, I wonder why you did not change the many Commons tram categories that ''already'' were using "Porto" to "Oporto". If all (or most) of the Porto/Oporto tram categories at Commons had used "Oporto", I would have left them alone, for consistency, even though almost every English-language book and magazine I have seen (in addition to the Portuguese ones) uses the spelling "Porto". For example, the British magazine [[:en:Tramways & Urban Transit|''Tramways & Urban Transit'']] (and predecessor ''Modern Tramway'') have been writing "Porto" for about 40 years. And "centuries" of use does not seem relevant, to me, for tram-related categories; trams have only existed for about 1 1/2 centuries. Anyway, I definitely do not feel as strongly about Porto versus Oporto as you do. [[User:Steve Morgan|Steve Morgan]] ([[User talk:Steve Morgan#top|talk]]) 14:22, 22 January 2013 (UTC)
 
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== Category:Parks in Portland, Oregon ==
 
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You removed the 'urban parks in the U.S.' category from some of the Portland parks categories, but the 'urban parks' category does not include the 'Parks in Portland' parent category. Did you intend to add the 'urban parks' category to the parent 'Parks in Portland, Oregon' category? --[[User:Another Believer|Another Believer]] ([[User talk:Another Believer|talk]]) 15:17, 1 April 2013 (UTC)

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