User talk:Acetic Acid/Archive 5

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fussing w/ funky footnotes -- not!

I looked over the post you made on Stairway. If you feel that strongly about it, you can go ahead and remove the link. If there are any disputes about it, it can be discussed on the talk page. Ryan 18:39, August 6, 2005 (UTC)

thanks, ryan, for encouragement to join the fray.

i scanned some of the other references in Stairway, and the quality is distinctly uneven, at best.

funky footnotes[1] aside, the bulk of the material on stairs is not all that bad. matter of fact, the wiki entry is head and shoulders above any of its cited source material -- even if it did not succinctly address my particular query, the answer to which google located elsewhere.

for me, the catch here is that i happen to be a competant copy editor with experience writing on architecture, and it is a topic that tends to excite my passions. there is a strong chance that a polish for clarity might improve the article. nor would ferreting a few superior supporting links be a bad idea, either. no way could i content myself with merely the fixing of one foul footnote.

but that would mean learning the wiki style sheet, the weird mark-up and buddha-knows-what other conventions, not to mention a measure of plain old work practicing the writer's craft. all-in-all, tweaking the thing toward perfection adds up to a hefty investment of time and effort that yields minimal benefit for me or anyone else.

and as i said, the piece is far from a fiasco, as it stands.

all that said, if in the future i stumble across something on wikipedia that really offends my sensibilities, i'll have at it.

--Teknozen 22:58, 6 August 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your support

Hi Ryan. Thank you for supporting my recent RfA. I was surprised and humbled by the number of positives votes. I'll be monitoring RfA regularly from now on and will look for a chance to "pay it forward". Thanks also for pointing out the vandalism on the RfA page: it's annoying, silly, and generally pointless, but more or less expected given the recent history of 60+ sockpuppet vandals (long story). Cheers, --MarkSweep 02:19, 7 August 2005 (UTC)

Rainbowwarrior1977

After yesterday's interaction with Rainbowwarrior1977, I've been looking over his contributions and decided to file an RfC against him. Since you were involved in the RfA fiasco, please consider commenting here. Thanks, and I'll see you around! -- Essjay · Talk 23:56, August 7, 2005 (UTC)

So how long do I have to rebut all these allegations? You know its really a distortion of my record to comb through my entire history and nitpick little phrases and present them out of context like that. You people are worse than lawyers! Furthermore, its not quite fair to have to rebut the denunciations of over 10 people. But anyway, I will respond, I was just wondering how long I have. Rainbowwarrior1977 03:36, 8 August 2005 (UTC)

Oops! I just got a copyright violation while editing my own user page with my own information, which appears on my own blog's about page ... I hold all rights to it, though Alex de Carvalho 10:21, 8 August 2005 (UTC)

RfA

Thank you for supporting my RfA. I will do my best to serve the Wikipedia community as an administrator. Flcelloguy | A note? | Desk 20:28, 8 August 2005 (UTC)

Func's RfA :)

101 support Wow, thank you, Ryan! :) I'm glad that you appreciated the way I answered the questions. I put quite a bit of thought into them. :)

Please never hesitate to let me know if you have concerns with any administrative action I may make.

Func( t, c, e, ) 00:02, 11 August 2005 (UTC)

Query of external links policy

Ryan

Thanks for greeting me on my talk page and for offering to answer questions. I have a query regarding policy on external links. I'm not entirely sure what the policy is on that and would appreciate advice. I've come across a page with a series of external links that I'm not sure whether to add to or to delete. Any guidance? MLA 13:44, 11 August 2005 (UTC)

My RfA

I'm deeply honoured that I get to be your first "thought he was one" vote! Thanks very much for the support - I'll be able to continue impersonating an admin now with a bit more credibility :P. See you around and happy editing, Slac speak up! 21:48, 11 August 2005 (UTC)

I wanted to let you know of a change I made to an edit of yours, and explain my reasoning. When you reverted some vandalism to the test3 template, you added a sentence creating a link to the Sandbox. I removed the Sandbox link from the Template. My feeling is that by the time youre using this Template, the edits in question are beyond the stage of potential tests, that's what the earlier test templates are for, so by this time there's not as much point having the Sandbox link, in my opinion. Best regards, Ëvilphoenix ^Burn! 04:16, August 15, 2005 (UTC)

Hi, Ryan

Thanks for the nice welcome message. I,like many others,will not be a major contributor in the near future, but who knows,someday maybe I will write something worthy. Stefan Udrea 12:58, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

RfA

I am quite happy to let the process tkae its own course, and am not going to try to lobby anyone to vote for me or to withdraw their oppose votes, but I find it very strange that you say that I have not responded to the nomination at all. Please take a look at the Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Ground Zero page again. Please review the answers that I have provided to the questions below the voting. If you have further questions, I would be pleased to answer them. Ground Zero 19:09, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

No worries! It's an easy mistake to make. I didn't have much time over the weekend to look at the admin duties, and didn't want to rush into accepting until I know more about it. Thanks for you support. Regards, Ground Zero 19:30, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

==Goodbye & Thanks for all the Fish== Just wanted to repeat my thanks for the welcome, I loved the fact that there was a welcome committee, it made me determined to try and create a number of good articles.... I envisaged investing significant time into the Wiki enterprise...

What you didn't warn me about was that the Helpers (I hoped for: Early Trainer, Coach and Mentor) roles are not as proactive as your welcome role, WHEREAS the Nihilists who jump around dropping "WIKIFY"? Templates with absolutely no explanation or helpfull comments are positively Hyperactive!! I experienced other such unhelpful to newbies templates being parachuted into my early admittedly poor quality attempts, again without any helpfull hints. Worse the Delete Template was quite a shock on my return from vacation. I found I had already gained 3 delete votes in my absence, so I spent 6 hours learning the expectations of good WIKI pages and words like POVing! and editing the page of De-Perimeterisation till it was half decent (or so I thought, I'd certainly got rid of the POVing!!) only to find this evening that it has been deleted. Your welcome notes remain the only communications in my wikipage....

So I thank you again for your welcome and politely and hopefully without too much rancour, I say goodbye to Wiki. I was ready, willing and "able" to learn! I mistakenly believed that "victimised" was a Bootcamp term for recruit. I hadn't realised that Wiki is turning into a massive Gaming Zone that involves Newbie "Victims" and Nazi "Admins".

I don't want to play.... Bye Adrius42 19:17, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

Response to your welcoming.

Thank you for the message. I've been using wikis for several years now, and Wikipedia for at least two. I have only recently had the opportunity (which will end in a few weeks, beginning again perhaps in November) to edit more frequently and so gave myself a username. Unfortunately, my access to computers is extremely limited most of the time, so I'll be a sporadic Wikipedian at best.

Thanks again for the welcome. --Blackcap 00:50, August 17, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the defense

Thanks for defending me at that RfA. I really appreciate it, I'd probably run off if I didn't have any support @_@ Redwolf24 03:52, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

run to User:Redwolf24/Friends Redwolf24 04:24, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

Greetings!

Happy editing, D. J. Bracey (talk) 19:31, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

Moved to user page. Acetic Acid 22:48, August 17, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the message. You are very welcome D. J. Bracey (talk)

00:13, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the barnstar

Thanks, Ryan. I really appreciate both of them. Have another,

Happy editing, D. J. Bracey (talk) 13:54, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

Moved to user page. Acetic Acid 15:50, August 18, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks, Ryan

For your help last August 5. It was so kind of you. I just opened my account again today. It's so nice to hear that I have other Roman Catholics here. My friends will like to hear this news. Thanks again! Cabanes 01:31, 19 August 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome

I'm noticing you get a lot of thanks here ;)...Amren 02:31, 19 August 2005 (UTC)

Thank you too

Thanks for the welcome. I'm mostly a casual user, but I browse around here near daily, as does my girlfriend. I'd like to contribute more, but I work alot and am just a student, off for the summer.

Returned the favor

Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Lupin. I defended ya back ;) Redwolf24 09:34, 19 August 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome!

My name is Peter (aka Flehmen). I'd like to thank you for your welcome. I have found that usually it is hard to break into a site (message boards) without "paying your dues"

You might have noticed that I've jumped in with both feet and already have created a disambiguation page, and did some work on eyepieces with more to come. Wiki is surprisingly complex but, as long as you can track down the information, easy to use. BTW, knew about the (~~~~) thing and had already looked at How to edit a page, Editing, policy, conduct, and structure tutorial, Picture tutorial. I had thought that I had read over How to write a great article but apparently I hadn't so I'll be doing that today. I find that one of the best ways to create good work is by finding something that looks good, clean, and informative and then using alt-e to take a look at the innards in edit mode.

I'd appreciate any comments you might have on my wiki-style and wiki-philosophy if you have a few moments to spare. A link to a talk page that has some newbies and some oldbies on it in actual discussion would be great too. :)

Thanks once again for the welcome and, yes, contributing to the wiki world is exciting and sometimes even a little scary. I find that if I let myself stop to think about what the wikipedia could become, and how information is created(well perhaps not created, but captured) in todays world I can see how important every good contribution is.

P.S. Here is a trick I found out yesterday that you might find of use as I noticed you didn't use it in your message to me. [[User:Flehmen|]] gives the same output as [[User:Flehmen|Flehmen]]. Hope that's a tip you can use now I have to get to work!

Take care! Flehmen 11:39, 19 August 2005 (UTC)

Hall Monitor's RFA

Thank you for the taking time to comment on my recent RFA nomination. Your support is greatly appreciated. Hall Monitor 19:14, 19 August 2005 (UTC)