User talk:Wex Viator

Welcome!

Welcome to Wikipedia, Wex Viator! I am Collectonian and have been editing Wikipedia for quite some time. I just wanted to say hi and welcome you to Wikipedia! If you have any questions, feel free to leave me a message on my talk page or by typing {{helpme}} at the bottom of this page. I love to help new users, so don't be afraid to leave a message! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Oh yeah, I almost forgot, when you post on talk pages you should sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); that should automatically produce your username and the date after your post. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Again, welcome!

-- Collectonian (talk · contribs) 22:10, 3 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Cheers for the Cookies! In defence of my edit I used the current Featured Articles as a reference and noticed that the first paragraph of two of the three had no plot information. This also seems to fit in with the Manual of Style when describing an opening paragraph. Though I see you're editing it at the moment; so I'll shush... watch the magic happen... and complain afterwards. ;) Wex Viator (talk) 22:32, 3 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, if you look at Tokyo Mew Mew, the most recent of those Featured articles, you will see that it does have a short plot summary in the lead, as it is part of summarizing the overall article :) The other two passed FA in early 2007, before the guidelines for passing were made tougher. Alas, the Excel Saga article is in such bad shape that its hard to really do much with it without spending hours and hours of time. Its a tough one to be your first article to work one :P BTW, if you are interested in anime/manga articles, make sure to look at the Anime and manga Manual of Style which is the primary guideline for article structure and content that we use. :) -- Collectonian (talk · contribs) 23:01, 3 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not one to do things by halves; diving in a the deep end is my speciality ;). I've already spent quite a bit of time crusing through the Anime and manga Manual of Style. I'm more concerned with performing the right editing etiquette at the moment; so thanks for the freindly intro! Wex Viator (talk) 23:09, 3 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Help

{{helpme}} Okay. Firstly I'm curious about this helpme thing, so I'm trying it out. Secondly; is there any way of knowing whether someone is currently editing an article?

Currently Wikipedia does not have an extension to tell you such, but if you run into an edit conflict, you'll know. =) -- PseudoOne (talk) 22:55, 3 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

(EC) Usually no, though you can check the article's history to see if someone made an edit in the last minute or so. If you see that the same person has made back to back, use the edit summaries and you can generally get an idea if they are actively editing. The exception being, of course, if they are vandalizing the article or making other inappropriate edits. If an editor is planning to do several edits in a row over a period of time, they might tag the article with the {{inuse}} template, which will put a notice at the top of the page that it is being actively edited (it is then considered courtesy to do no edits to the article until the tag is removed). (and, case in point for PseudoOne's answer, we edit conflicted when I tried to answer after he did :)) -- Collectonian (talk · contribs) 22:58, 3 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Heh, classic example; I'm guessing there's some sort of diffing system that goes on. I'm no stranger to code merging ;) -- Wex Viator (talk) 23:01, 3 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

CfD nomination of Category:Wexion Templates

Category:Wexion Templates, which you created, has been nominated for deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. --Stepheng3 (talk) 16:27, 7 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]