User talk:Manning Bartlett

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Please come back before too long

In the meantime, you will be missed. :( --mav (please help review urgent FAC and FARs) 05:24, 24 December 2009 (UTC)

Ill miss the person who granted me rollback. Good luck in real life pal :)--Coldplay Expért ^{Let's talk} 02:22, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

The History of Wikisource

Hi. I'm trying to reconstruct some early details about the Wikisource project, especially about when the initial idea was brought up and by whom.

As you probably well know, Wikipedia was set up in January 2001. Meta was set up as a separate site in November 2001 as a place to discuss the project, rather than just having a simple "discussion" page inside Wikipedia itself. It seems that you had something to do with this way back then.

The earliest discussion I can find where people suggested that Wikipedia also needed a place for full source-texts is the "Project Sourceberg" page at Meta, which was later moved to Wikisource. The first comments on that page were posted by you on December 10, 2001.

The initial comments posted on that date seem to from a discussion with more than one participant. Did you write them yourself? Or copy them from a Wikipedia page? If so, might you remember which one, so that I could look at the page history for those initial comments?

Thanks for any help you can provide, Dovi (talk) 11:30, 19 January 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply! Dovi (talk) 18:51, 24 January 2010 (UTC)

Warning

[1] followed by [2] = using an IP followed by a registered account to disruptively violate WP:LEAD = not good. Cirt (talk) 00:49, 4 February 2010 (UTC)

I am not being disruptive, I am improving a poorly written article under an IP, as is my right to do so. Your hamfisted reverting of an edit without any justification is the "not good" part. Manning (talk) 00:52, 4 February 2010 (UTC)

Please, engage in discussion at the talk page of the article. Cirt (talk) 00:53, 4 February 2010 (UTC)

That is the response of a coward who won't be held accountable for his bad actions. You are what is wrong with this project. Goodbye. Manning (talk) 00:57, 4 February 2010 (UTC)

The best way to solve conflicts is to discuss them, politely, on the article's talk page, not to throw around comments against the spirit of WP:CIVIL/WP:NPA like above. Cirt (talk) 01:06, 4 February 2010 (UTC)

Apology

Hi, I've thought about it, I probably should have explained better rather than just link you to WP:LEAD as my explanation. Apologies for the fluff-up. I intend to greatly expand upon the article, such that the two-paragraph lede will then actually be too short, instead of the reverse. In the meantime, I feel that it serves as a functional introduction should that be all that the reader sees, as a standalone background info on the subject matter. Cheers, Cirt (talk) 01:31, 4 February 2010 (UTC)