User talk:Snakesteuben/Archive 1

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Hello, Snakesteuben, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question and then place {{helpme}} before the question on your talk page. Again, welcome! John Vandenberg (talk) 08:13, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

Feel free to pester me. Thinking of, and about, my own interesting questions is never as interesting as trying to answer questions I havent thought of. If it is a common question, then it wont take me long to answer, and it might save you hours of frustration, which can be better spent thinking of more interesting questions :-) . John Vandenberg (talk) 08:34, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

The problem with talk pages on a page that doesnt exist is that they are an orphan (i.e. very few other pages link to them), and they are soon forgotten about. Admins are instantly worried are pages that wont be seen by many eyes, so they delete them quick-smart ("if I dont delete it, maybe nobody else will find it ... so ... it's up to me.")

To avoid this, start a "stub" - a short one line article, and then integrate it into the rest of the 'pedia by linking to it. For example, I know very little about Svenska 1917, so I created it with what I did know, and I am crossing my fingers that someone will come and expand it. If you do know more, but cant write it well due to lack of competency in that language, you can then do a brain dump on the talk page, and nobody will mind, because that talk page is safely attached to a stub. John Vandenberg (talk) 09:21, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

Before creating a stub on de, review de:Wikipedia:Artikel#Umfang (Stubs), especially take note of the key differences between a Echter and Falscher stub. Native speakers of German are much more picky about how you use their language, and about quality, so you might find them over-aggressive to delete bad stubs. Different languages of Wikipedia have different communities, and different philosophies on how to build their encyclopedia.

If you do like translating templates, I would be grateful if you could translate Template:Bible translation infobox into as many languages as you can. This is because I am currently trying to identify and document all of the Bibles that we have currently on Wikisource (see s:WS:BIBLE), especially the foreign language translations. John Vandenberg (talk) 00:30, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

We are now tied at one a piece[1]. John Vandenberg ^(chat) 14:11, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

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I like User:Snakesteuben/Meidogger/Follyglot a lot. I hope you dont mind; I have adopted it.

p.s. I am no theologian; I am a comp.sci. come lib.sci. geek. TANSTAAFL is my favourite creation of Heinlein, and grok is in the standard dictionary in computing circles. John Vandenberg (talk) 11:46, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

A category would not be received well by either the monoglot or the uberglotters. I fear it would be deleted. John Vandenberg (talk) 14:13, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

User Category for Discussion

2008-03-23 06:47 UTC Currently inactive. -Winterxx

:-( John Vandenberg (talk) 06:58, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

I've moved the talk page to User:Snakesteuben/follyglotten, which is safely in your userspace, so you can continue to develop it. John Vandenberg (talk) 07:42, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

Hi, I changed my mind on that deletion request

I have asked for a deletion review of Category:User Follyglot. Looks like you closed the discussion, deleted it according to my request, and kindly fixed all the links so they all pointed to the new content location. Here's your courtesy pointer.

Thanks!

Winter (User:Snakesteuben) (talk) 18:24, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for the notice. I've commented there. - jc37 18:33, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks much for the pointer. That was fast. Very good and helpful comment. I still think it's useful to be able to find other people with that skill, though. BTW, you probably didn't take time to look at the rest of this page, but my "port this template to as many languages as you possibly can" hypothetical -- isn't. :-) Winter (User:Snakesteuben) (talk) 19:58, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

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• "I do not oppose a relisting for discussion at WP:UCFD, if that is what is being requested here. - jc37 19:48, 10 April 2008 (UTC)"

This is probably a dumb question, but is that what I should be requesting? Should I say so on that page now? If so, I hope that nevertheless, I started things off in the right place. Thanks so much. Winter (User:Snakesteuben) (talk) 20:34, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Well, atm, the DRV seems against this being restored as a category. And others in the discussion have suggested that even if it is reslited at UCFD, it will also likely be deleted. I merely was clarifying that I was not opposed to it being relisted if that is what you wished.

As for "what you should be" doing, I would suggest finding one or more Wikipedia:Space pages (finding a possibly-related WikiProject would be even better) to aid you in developing your essay/guide. I hope this helps : ) - jc37 20:48, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

"... WikiProject..."

Oh... Thanks! Yes, you're very helpful. And unusually polite. Do you have a pseudo-groupie/fan page? Winter (User:Snakesteuben) (talk) 09:09, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

You're welcome, and thank you : )

And no I don't, though I've received a few awards. (And no, that wasn't a suggestion : )

Have a great day : ) - jc37 15:09, 11 April 2008 (UTC)