User talk:Dabomb87

Balck Sabbath

Thank you granting my request at WP:RPP Mlpearc powwow 03:55, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

Em dashes

Sorry to inform you, em-dashes are spaced in normal typography. The only place where this practice is apparently not followed is on Wikipedia, where the blind lead the blind and no one bothers taking a course in typing or "keyboarding" as it is now called, or referring to any of the numerous books on style that have existed for a century before the World Wide Web was invented. There are good technical reasons for this, based on how various browsers handle certain characters for the purposes of line wrapping and visual clarity. — Quicksilver^{T @} 05:24, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

Dear Hydrargyruml, it's true that some US house styles call for spaced em dashes as sentence interruptors (even newspapers with short columns, amazingly, where wrapping is a big problem); but many Americans use spaced en dashes or unspaced em dashes, both of which are quite common elsewhere. WP has come to the decision that spaced em dashes—in the fonts we use—are just one step too visually disruptive in normal prose; as weill, they are not generally used by a third of English-speakers. It is an international site, isn't it. Tony (talk) 15:15, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

WP:FS at WP:POST

There is a huge batch of new WP:FS created on July 30 and 31 that have not yet been included in WP:POST. What is going on?--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 14:03, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

Reply

Hello. You have a new message at Killervogel5's talk page. — KV5 • Talk • 21:36, 18 August 2011 (UTC)

Merge request

I was wondering if you could merge Willy Fetzer's edit history into Bill Fetzer history? The discussion can be found here, and is a non-controversial merge. Jrcla2 (talk) 00:46, 19 August 2011 (UTC)

Are you sure that a history merge is needed? You can just do a simple text merge, which requires no admin tools. Dabomb87 (talk) 17:40, 19 August 2011 (UTC)