User talk:Bencherlite

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"Bencherlite" and "Wife of Bencherlite" are proud to announce the arrival of "Stub of Bencherlite" on Monday 16th June 2008.

Bencherlite's editing will be significantly reduced for the foreseeable future.

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Pole becoming naturalised citizen of other country

This is exactly the category of person that I m not sure about. Mosts Poles are by default also a person of Polish descent as their parents are usually Polish, etc., but obviously there can be someone who is first generation Polish who becomes first generation American. My opinion is that Category:Immigrants should be gotten rid of and its contents merged into Category:Expatriates for immigrants who don t become citizens and Category:People with acquired citizenship, of which a main subcategory is Category:Naturalized citizens by nation. It usually is unknown whether someone is an immigrant and not a non immigrant expat, but is it quite commonly known whether someone has gained a second or replaced a first citizenship.

To be more specific about your query, if Category:Polish-Americans is to be merged into Category:Americans of Polish descent, then there should be a Category:Polish naturalized citizens of the United States started and used as a subcategory of and link between Category:Americans of Polish descent and Category:Naturalized citizens of the United States. The whole difficulty is that many Americans use 'Polish American' as a misnomer of sorts to mean an American of any amount of Polish ancestry, and not a Pole who has become an American citizen (which, from looking at the term, would appear to make more sense). This area of categorization, of ethnicity and its relation with citizenship, is still rather undeveloped on wikip Mayumashu (talk) 21:30, 13 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, it was merged, which is what you either said or implied - apologies (I was sure the vote was leaning to a keep, do not rename). At any rate, regards Mayumashu (talk) 21:38, 13 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

A bit of an afterthought - I wonder if someone who is first gen. Polish and becomes a naturalized American is still an American of Polish descent? I don t have a problem personally with interpreting it as such but probably to be dissuaded from doing so rather easily, but maybe not. Mayumashu (talk) 21:43, 13 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

List of Brigham Young University alumni FLC

Thank you for your comments on the BYU alumni list FLC. I have responded to your suggestions. If you feel your concerns have been addressed, I would invite you to please offer a supporting vote on the list's behalf. Thank you! --Eustress (talk) 14:09, 28 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

RFA thank-you

Thank-you for your support of me at my recent RFA, which was successful. I have appreciated everyone's comments and encouragement there. Good Ol’factory ^(talk) 03:31, 29 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Full stops

Hey Bencherlite. Hmm, full stops, well... somewhere in the MOS it states that fragments of sentences don't take full stops. I'm non-plussed by most of it within the context of notes in a list - e.g. if you have two fragments, do you have a full stop after the first fragment and then nothing after the second? Looks a little odd. Anyway, my note was just to be consistent, either way. So, if someone is strongly objecting to you having full stops then remove them. Sorry if I've caused any confusion! The Rambling Man (talk) 06:20, 30 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

By the way, "Your Good And High-Exalted Self" is correct when referring to all tabs - continuing to do so will not harm your nominations! The Rambling Man (talk) 18:33, 30 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Master of Arts

No problem - glad to help out. I'm not a Master of Arts fanatic or anything, I just found it on a disambiguation to-do list and decided to give it a shot. Let me give you a shout out though: making the link corrections is easy compared to putting all the content you did for the articles. Way to go! BTW - I'm almost done - so you're watch list should calm done within the next 1/2 hour or so. Enjoy! Keithh (talk) 00:00, 31 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Invitation to Wikipedia meetup in London

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Date: 13:00 onwards, Sunday 10 August 2008

Venue: Penderel's Oak pub, Holborn WC1 map

More information: Wikipedia:Meetup/London 12

Hello,

I noticed that you have listed yourself as a Wikipedian in London, so I thought you might like to come to one of our monthly social meetups. The next one is going to be on Sunday 10 August, which might well be rather short notice, but if you can't come this time, we try to have one every second Sunday of the month.

If you haven't been before, these meetups are mainly casual social events for Wikipedia enthusiasts in which we chat about Wikipedia and any other topics we fancy. It's a great way to meet some very keen Wikipedians, but we'd also love for you to come along if you're interested in finding out more about Wikipedia, other Wikimedia projects, or other collaborative wiki projects too.

The location is a pub that is quite quiet and family friendly on a Sunday lunchtime, so hopefully younger Wikipedians will also feel welcome and safe. Alcohol consumption is certainly not required!

Although the meetups are popular, many UK-based editors still don't know about them. It would be great to welcome some fresh faces, so I hope you can come along.

Yours,

James F. (talk) 09:27, 3 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Please forgive the slightly impersonal mass-invite!