User talk:Nurg/Archives

Hello! Welcome to Wikivoyage. Please take a sec to look at our copyleft and policies and guidelines, but feel free to plunge forward and edit some pages. Scanning the Manual of style, especially the article templates, can give you a good idea of how we like articles formatted. If you need help, check out Project:Help, and if you need some info not on there, post a message in the travellers' pub.

Also, thanks for improving the Gunbarrel Highway article. I have one question, though. I see that you converted some numbers to words (e.g. "16" -> "sixteen"). Is there an accepted rule for this in English? (Like, say, from 0 to 20 and then 30, 40, etc... are written as words, and everything else as numbers.) (WT-en) DhDh 15:13, 28 Nov 2003 (PST)

Yes, the rule is that if a sentence begins with a number it should be spelt out. The exception to this is years. It is ok for a sentence to begin:

2001 was the dawn of a new millennium.

The rule applies even to long numbers, but there is another rule that says you should try to reword the sentence so that it does not start with a long number.

838 Wikivoyage articles have been written. - Wrong.

Eight hundred and thirty-eight Wikivoyage articles have been written. - Better but still not good.

There have been 838 Wikivoyage articles written. - Best.

As to when you should spell out numbers that are not at the start of the sentence, this varies from one style manual to another. Some say spell out one to nine. Others one to ten. Some say one to ninety-nine. Some say to do it differently depending on the context. I think ten should be spelt as ten is only one more character than 10. I have my own idiosyncratic view that we should spell out one to twelve. Why? Because they are unique words. After twelve the numbers are -teen, -ty and combination numbers (except for the round ones like hundred, thousand etc.) Nurg.

If a sentence begins with two numbers connected by a conjunction (or "to", as in "Eight to 12"), and one is written in digits and the other is spelled out, it looks weird. Spell both out or write both as digits. -(WT-en) phma 11:16, 9 Dec 2003 (PST)

Time format

I responded to your note on Project:attraction listings. --(WT-en) Evan 10:13, 26 Dec 2003 (PST)

Bold Terms

Thanks for adding your comments about bolding the first appearance of the title of an article that you put on my talk page. (WT-en) Huttite 03:54, 12 Mar 2004 (EST)

Australasia

See Talk:Australasia for an answer to your question and action I have taken. -- (WT-en) Huttite 05:54, 22 Mar 2004 (EST)

I will try to answer your question on my talk page soon. Right now I really don't have the time for it. Sorry! (WT-en) Dhum Dhum Akubra 17:57, 22 Mar 2004 (EST)

I have answered your question on Talk:Australasia. (WT-en) Dhum Dhum Akubra 11:30, 24 Mar 2004 (EST)

Leeds

Hi, I've noticed you've been editing Leeds a lot. I have placed a listing in the sleep section - we have a number of locations in the city though so couldn't 'fit' the site into budget, mid-range or splurge - so created a different listing under Self Catering. I noticed there is another serviced apartment in splurge and was thinking should I move this into self catering to or leave it where it was?