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Hi, and welcome to Wikipedia! Would you be interested in being adopted by me? Your attitude to editing seems to be exactly how I started out, so it would be a pleasure to take you on! Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 23:16, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
This started out as a bullet on my userpage, but ended up being too long, so I moved it here.
The confirmation Emails for wikimedia projects reads:
Someone, probably you from IP address "12.345.67.89", has registered an account "Username" with this e-mail address on "Wikiproject."
Should this read, "Someone, probably you, from...."? Is it insane that I even care?
The above are rhetorical questions. I sorta care, which is sorta insane, but I don't really care. That would be really insane. Some editors, while clearly sane, strike me as somewhat zealous. Almost as if they really might really care about that missing comma. This in particular was intimidating. A lot of people seem to care about whitespace that no one will ever see. They didn't seem to care that coders, the only people who really deal with the text in the edit box, the people without whom there would be no wikipedia, the people who wrote the above confirmation Email, say "...any conceivable program for working with ASCII text is going to have problems..."
I noticed that talk pages were sparsely used. At first I thought this was strange. Then I noticed that, generally, the more there is on a talk page, the more arguing there is word-for-word. I've familiarized myself with the idea of feeding the trolls. I wish I could say that I have no experiencial knowledge of that arena, but I'm afraid I may have learned about it the hard way.
I don't know how to weigh comments on talk pages. There are a lot of articles that are clearly, blatantly, absolutely lost causes. The article on Catholics and Freemasons (which I'm afraid to link to in case the author finds out what I said about him.) is a good example.
What I'm driving at is, I have no way of telling when a wise editor sees a terrible article that deserves to be tagged at best, and deserves to be deleted in all honesty, and the editor just walks away. In many cases, and revisions, tags, or other attempts at correction will "only encourage them." I can't tell which cases these are, because there is no evidence when an editor ignores something completely.
I'd like to sort of practice on the articles that are read less frequently before I work on anything more prominent. It hadn't occored to me before that some articles may be recieving no attention and that's good.
You have "Some one uploaded a picture, but it's not in an explainie thingie box. How do I add an explainie thingie box?" Do you mean an infobox? If so, what kind? There are tons of them. Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 18:07, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for thinking of me, but regret my knowledge of tropical plants is negligible. "Precautions" does indeed appear a little OTT, but better safe than sorry..? Regards, Ptelea 13:10, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
You placed a tag to merge Teaching English as a foreign language. However, you have not given any statement on the talkpage to indicate why you think there should be a merge. The article you suggest merging it with, Teaching English as a second language, does not exist under that name. (I contributed to the debate that led to its renaming some months ago as English language learning and teaching You may find the debate there illuminating. Some has been archived.) I suggest you begin the debate -- the reasons you see for the merge -- in the correct place, and I will respond to you there. If no reason for the merge tag is given in the next couple of days, I will remove it. BrainyBabe 12:11, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
Your user page has something saying it needs copyediting. Please remove it as you do not need copyediting. Thanks. (I checked the page and couldn't find it. Sorry for being so rude, kind of in somewhat of a rush.) --Ashfire908 19:56, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
Hello Haikon.
WikiProject Strategy games has finished it's first collaboration: Risk (game) (). We are now asking for nominations and input for a new one. Please voice your ideas at the talk page.
Clyde (talk) and WikiProject Strategy games.
I think that you will get a lot of flak if you remove imperial conversions. I always write bird articles with just international units, but Americans don't understand those, so it's never bothered me if the imp units are added. Although I understand your thinking, I suspect that a change that simply makes articles less accessible will not be well received. jimfbleak 14:21, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for your answer to my question. It seems that the common consensus is that my skin will be drier now I'm in Canada, so that'll affect my shaving. Looks like I need to go and get some moisturiser! Cheers! Phileas 16:44, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
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I've responded on my talk page. --JianLi 20:21, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for watching my back and fixing my user page. --I already forgot 18:59, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
Haikon, I responded to your question at my talk page. If you have any further questions, please feel free to ask there! Regards, Iamunknown 21:46, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
Hi, I have an account (mrhappyhour I think) but it logs in automatically on my other computer and I forgot the password. For a series of easily reversible edits I didn't think it was important! Thanks anyway though. mrhappyhour 12/4/07
We should really create a page on 6 Square. Of course, I don't know how to make new pages unless there are links already pointing to unwritten articles... My god you edit an obscene number of things. ---aibara