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Sorry mate, for my poor editing of the William Gibson article and thanks also for the tip about the [ citation needed tag. I'll be sure to use it in future. Cheers. - 203.10.77.190
Portal:Browse and Wikipedia:Browse are Not the same. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Chuck Marean ( talk • contribs) .
Please see Wikipedia:Talk pages#Etiquette, specifically:
The usual method for archiving, a few days after discussion threads have ended (to give time for replies) is to just cut & paste talkpage contents to a new sub-page, eg Archive. I'll repost the previous message below to give you a chance to respond. Thanks. - Quiddity
"Cheatsheet, and portals Hi, re:your edit summary at wikipedia:cheatsheet: "I might want to look at the real Wikipedia:Cheatsheet"
You're more than welcome to place it in your userspace as eg Cheatsheet. But creating a redundant/near-duplicate page (it contains almost exactly the same info as wikipedia:quick guide) is potentially confusing to other users.
See my reply to you at Portal talk:Browse#intro for related comments. Thanks again. - Quiddity 20:41, 29 May 2006 (UTC)"
Thanks for telling about the Archiving & Community Portal. I'm still trying to navigate how to edit, so I can't do much with an article yet. Mostly I was looking for material to practice typing with. I'm not online as much as some people.-- Chuck Marean 09:31, 1 June 2006 (UTC) --i.e.Responding to: "You don't have to archive everything immediately... I'm gonna repeat my comments...articles are what need the most help!..."
Read what? QuizQuick 00:50, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
Hi, just thought I'd bring this to you're attention. It sounds like something you'd like.-- Here T oHelp 12:28, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
Hi, re: your edit at community portal, changing humor to humour. Please don't change international variations of words to your own country's preferred variant. See Wikipedia:Manual of Style#National varieties of English and the table at Wikipedia:Manual of Style (spelling) for details. Thanks. :) - Quiddity 18:17, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
Anyway, what have you seen? Thanks! // Fra nkB 05:34, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
Hi! Re: Talk:Tacitus#Use_of_the_term_.27Knight.27, how about an informed opinion? Fra nkB 18:53, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
Furthermore, Re: your initial question: "On the above, wonder who wins the population war? <g>"
So yes and no. ;) (man this site is endlessly fascinating. i am so lost) - Quiddity 04:48, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
You probably shouldn't other's comments for grammar mistakes. I understand perfectionism about spelling, but those are actual quotes from another person, and shouldn't be edited in this way. For example, even though Buzz Armstrong probably meant to say it this way, we don't quote him as "One small step for a man..." Λυδ α cιτγ 01:36, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
re: 03:41, 8 June 2006 + 03:56, 8 June 2006 <g>
Do you know anything much about templates? If so (On the Commons) Can you figure out how to get the template WikiPcatM (and also WikiPcat2M) (see diff to WikiPcat, ...2, 2M using the category) to take an arguement other than the given pagename. These are Modeled on w:template:commonscat. If you aren't good with template code, just send me an email, and I'll lay this on a guru I know who is probably wiser than we, and so sleeping now! <g> // Fra nkB 04:02, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
Please, stop trying, and leave me be, lest in my mind you continue to lower yourself to Tony's level on my Respect-o-Pad. Search 4 Lancer 19:57, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
Fair enough. :) -- Leo44 ( talk) 12:21, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
Done. :) Thanks for helping to keep Wikipedia tidy! Best wishes, Xoloz 19:19, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
I have to agree that some of the external links you rm'd from Five Temperaments were advertising; thanks. OTOH, one seemed to have some merit w.r.t. to the history of the system. Please see Talk:Five Temperaments. Chonak 06:35, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
I've been 'bugged' by my hot button issue of the default skin hiding categories from the user for around two months, and this related thing punched the button pretty much dead center as the same point has been nagging at me as is made by the originator. Seems to me a VP listing ought be made on both, as it were, by at least a mention 'synopsis' with link, and the common debate on kept this page. This seems preferable, as both VP:Technical and VP:policy are certainly apropo venues for a link posting, and I think we've all seen some of the bad effects of the current trend. This point made by the originator is sparse, but on point and imho, important. By keeping the discussion there, it can be similarly referenced on other BB's (Meta for one), and there are a few others. I'm much too focused on wikiEditing to keep up with all the discussion forums, so where should it go, should it be given a seperate venue (Yet another 'proposed guideline'!), or what? In sum, seems to me the 'Internal links' section with such a category template would solve both problems with minimal edit dislocation.
My confidence is high that a structural problem in presentation is present under current standards (editorial guidelines), but my crystal ball shattered some years back <g>, so I can't measure it's severity there and it's hard to gauge it's exact magnitude using anything but inductive reasoning. Personally, I rarely visit the nether regions of a web-page, and admittedly tend to attribute that to other 'oldsters' as well. I guess the key question is: If one is reading casually, what reason have they, 'our customer-readers' for looking lower down past the references? Advice? Best regards! // Fra nkB 15:55, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for letting me. It's been deleted. User:Zoe| (talk) 21:21, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
SCAG was not the justice court which due to the large amount of displeased people, I was going to put on MfD. Geo.plrd 21:27, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
Hey, I noticed your entries on the Bill Hicks talk pages. I added a point about a play thats running in London currently that I think deserves a mention at least or its own page at best. Would you care to take a look? Thanks —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Filthish ( talk • contribs) .
Wikipedia:Locations in fiction, fictional locations, and settings is a proposed policy on how to list fictional locations and to differentiate between a physical place and a setting (ie. universe or world). Please join in and give your thoughts. PS. Bring some friends!
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Not overly sure how I can prove the book exists, if ISBN links and lookups are not canon, hope this helps a bit. 81.153.236.181 15:19, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
keeping thread at Geo's page.
Newbie User_talk:Rdengrove#2 contacted me [2] about a large rewrite he did on Mephistopheles, and I plead 'ignorance', save for superficial passing familiarity. If you've got some knowledge in the area (or perhaps, instead on or about ' Faust'), or just want to be 'welcoming', see if you can lend a hand. Thanks! // Fra nkB 16:05, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
No, there is no easy way to remove 'bad' edits when they are interspersed with good ones. We can rollback obvious vandal only edits quicker, but ones that are to do with quality of content are better done by people who know the article. Use the article history to compare versions and edit an old (better) version with the edit summary 'rv (reason)'. Petros471 20:36, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
I see you have asked for a response following my comment. Is it possible for the person who initiated an RfC to close it with the comment: "no response received"? Also, is there anything somewhere about what can be done when someone seemingly refuses to respond to messages and seemingly ignores them? I would like to get involved with the Tip of the day area again, but I feel I can't until that RfC is brought to a conclusion, even though I only commented on the discussion page! Thanks. Carcharoth 13:11, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
Hi, what do you think of the table I put on the Color tool page? Is that better? Thanks. ( Bjorn Tipling 21:19, 4 July 2006 (UTC))
FYI: Help_talk:Editing#Harassment_by_User:Quiddity. -- mtz206 ( talk) 16:09, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
The reason for the multiple policy lists and the complete listing at the bottom is so that a user at this page can easily navigate to what they want, as each section is for a specific, different thing. Someone who wants to respond to an RfC is going to click on that item in the table of contents, and then find that there are no RfCs to respond to. Conversely, the sections on making an RfC should not conclude by saying "scroll down to the bottom somewhere with a bunch of other parts unrelated to what you want." Having multiple policy lists is not clean, but it is good for having each section be self-contained once the user gets there. When creating this page, I considered splitting the list up into parts relevant to each section, but decided that ultimately all of it is relevant, except perhaps for the user civility one for policies, as policy pages tend to have more serious editors. I am open to suggestions, but I think that the list for each section must remain, and the policy lists aren't bad either. — Centrx→ talk • 03:33, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
What do you think about putting a single policylist at the top next to the table of contents, as the relevant policies are already mentioned in the text of each section. However, aside from encouraging people to read them, all these policylists mean that the text is lengthened to be long enough to be a good-sized "section", though some are still short. I was also toying with the idea of having it lead to separate subpages, this is already kind of what is done with User conduct, but overall this would mean creating 2 or 3 subpages and could be excessive when the reasons for it are mostly aesthetic. — Centrx→ talk • 04:36, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
I solicited discussion on my addition to the MOS at the MOS talk page. As there are no objections, I will re-insert its link. There is no "ratification" for Manual of Style additions, just informal agreement. HQCentral 23:29, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
First of all, there seem to be some incomplete listings, such as Wikipedia:Community Portal/Things to do. I'll get back to you in a few minutes about the other issues. Ardric47 01:41, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for pointing that out (can't believe I missed it!). I've changed my vote. — Mets501 ( talk) 21:05, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
Sorry I haven't responded to any of your conversations recently, I was away in the Lake District so had no access to a computer. It looks like most of the pages that needed deleting have been and nearly all the ones which have been dealt with. When I get some spare time I will go through the remaining pages and check them. Lcarsdata ( Talk) 17:13, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for changing the link. I borrowed Essjay's Userbox code, so I have some of his userboxes on my page. Sorry for any inconvenience. G eo. 20:11, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
You've been exaggerating your descriptions a bit in your posts. "MPOV", "6 months", "edit war". Please tone it down -- I would really appreciate it. And thank you for restoring the 4-month stable version of the browsebar. I'm taking off again - don't have as much free time as I used to. Please watch over the browsebar. Thanks. -- Go for it 07:57, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
In case you're up for a challenge, Chuck Marean ( talk · contribs) is again exerting his unique editing style. Feel free to help try to get through. -- MichaelZimmer ( talk) 13:25, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
Æon Insane Ward has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling to someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Smile to others by adding {{ subst:smile}}, {{ subst:smile2}} or {{ subst:smile3}} to their talk page with a friendly message. Happy editing!
Æon Insane Ward 20:18, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
I don't have that much time either, but all the essential elements are now in place (programmers, project page, announcements). Now the project should pick up momentum on its own. Once the community has hammered out the details, the programmers already involved can easily implement it.
There's a new mock-up, in case you want to see it. -- Nexus Seven 03:12, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
Cheers! jkm 06:26, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
Hello. I just wanted to say thanks for accepting my suggestion about the help for signatures. I really do think it will help other users and appreciate being able to contribute to the community. Regards. -- Brian G ( Talk) 03:52, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
As an editor of Lists of topics, I'd like your opinion at Topics redesign. Thanks. -- gatoatigrado 15:42, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
For consistency, and so that the page name actually indicates its contents, Wikipedia:Browse should be renamed to Wikipedia:List of major categories. Likewise, Portal:Browse should be moved to Wikipedia:List of portals. Just a thought. -- Nexus Seven 23:38, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
I noticed an old discussion you responded on this matter and thought of asking you: do you know the reason it no longer appears systemwide? the source file still exists here. it was on our mainpage at ka:... drop me a line whenever you get time and/or if you know anyting about it. Thanks in advance. - Alsandro · T · w:ka: Th · T 16:59, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
You sent me a a "Welcome!" message. Thanks, but I do not know how the message system works in Wikipedia. Apparently a "message" is a new entry on my "talk" page. Should I respond to your "talk" page (as here) or should I respond by commenting on your message in my "talk" page? I assume your message is a generic "welcome" and was prompted by the various edits I have done over the last few weeks. I did in fact look at the references you gave (thanks!) before beginning to edit. So far, my edits have been primarily syntactic. did anything in particular prompt your welcome message? Arch dude 02:44, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
Howdy. I'm wondering what to do concerning newuser User:Jrosenbaum editing the Jonathan Rosenbaum article? They were good npov/cleanup edits, and he's a professional writer, so (assumming it is he) it'd be really nice to have him welcomed but not overwhelmed, but I'm not familiar with all the username policies/procedures for possible notable editors. All I could find linkwise was Wikipedia:Autobiography#If Wikipedia already has an article about you, and Template:Notable Wikipedian (which seems highly privacy-invasive to me (unless they place it themselves)), and I didnt want to just dump those links and a normal welcome template on his page.
Plus I just finished reading his book on Dead Man, and would inevitably go all fanboyish on him, or over-proslytize that he join the wikiproject:film, or something! ;-)
Thanks for any help :) -- Quiddity·( talk) 02:45, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
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I was thinking about making an improved version of the above template. You are a lot better at colors than I am. I was hoping you'd mess around with this and make it look good. Then I can get started with the heading names and links. -- Nexus Seven 06:30, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
I just noticed your query concerning notables above. If you haven't already seen them, you may be interested in: Wikipedia:Wikipedians with articles and Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons#Dealing with edits by the subject of the article. -- Nexus Seven 06:33, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
I was wondering if we might change it to hues of red. I really like having it on my userpage, as I like to be able to make changes to it based on my interactions with other users. I am thinking about adding a section to it specifying information about the importance of using edit summaries. Thanks for the contact on this issue. (oh...I never claimed to have created this template, as I didn't. I do love it though. I find it one of the most thorough on wikipedia. Kukini 22:01, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
Please do your best to always fill in the summary field. This is considered an important guideline in Wikipedia. Even a short summary is better than no summary. An edit summary is even more important if you delete any text; otherwise, people may think you're being sneaky or even vandalizing.
What do you think? Kukini 22:35, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
This picture is on the template {{ transport}}. I can't make out what this is. It sure doesn't look like any aircraft I've ever seen:
-- Nexus Seven 08:08, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
Thx - It is pretty much a self created invention - I was trying to get some colors to appear right on 256 color machines - but some changes with new classes like wikitable, and infobox have made it less useful. I appreciate the link to color tool too - that will be useful - I use colorzila as well for picking colors. -- Trödel 03:18, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
Just so you know you are featured in the Wikipedia Signpost this week. ForestH2 t/ c 16:51, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
Glad you're up... Where does one find the class perameters for a sister project. Wikisource seems to not have bothered defining sisterprojects, so things like Template:Commonstmp( talk links history) and Template:Metatmp( talk links history) are screwing the pooch! Need it ASAP, if you know how to chase it down. Thanks. Reply here. I'll check back. // Fra nkB 04:53, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
I don't know how often you check it, so I'm posting this to let you know. :-) — David Levy 06:24, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
Could you take a screenshot of the problem you're trying to fix with the pagebreaks at the sidebar drafts page? I cant seem to see/replicate the error you're describing, in my browsers. -- Quiddity·( talk) 07:59, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
The bottom border line is missing from a couple of the boxes, is all. Messing with the number of blank lines and/or <br>'s preceding the mockup fixes it for some reason. I never bothered to learn how to take a screenshot, as the procedure seems like a big hassle. -- Nexus Seven 09:05, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
I've responded to your proposal on Wikipedia:Reference pages. Basically I suggested that you repurpose Wikipedia:Contents, as it is just sitting there, and it already has the name you want. Meanwhile, we can keep Wikipedia:Reference pages as a place to keep track of all the reference pages on Wikipedia (there isn't another page like it on Wikipedia, so removing links from it would kind of orphan those projects). -- Nexus Seven 08:43, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
After trying "Nexus Seven" out for awhile, I've found I just don't like it. It doesn't mean anything. So I'm switching to "The Transhumanist". -- Nexus Seven 13:29, 22 August 2006 (UTC)