User talk:Maroubrakid
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[edit] A welcome from Sputnik
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- СПУТНИКССС Р 03:59, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] You're Welcome!
You are very welcome for the welcome... It is a great community. Even though my nickname is sputnik, I actually am not russian, and as you can see from my userboxes, I actually speak very little russian. In reality I'm from Toronto. But the great thing is that inside Wikipedia it all (for the most part) drops away. You may want to add yourself to some user categories; just add the tag at the bottom of the page with your username and square brackets around it; for example, putting [[Category:Wikipedians_in_New_South_Wales|User:Maroubrakid]] will add you to the category of Wikipedians who live in NSW, etc... You also might want to add your areas of expertise on your page, perhaps through catgories and/or userboxes, so similarly interested users will recognize you. Hope to see you around! СПУТНИКССС Р 04:28, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
- You mean the yellow bar that comes across the top to tell you that you have messages? That's automatic; the wiki does that for you; it's activated as soon are there are changes to your talk page; I still can't figure out how it goes away after you look at it. But yeah, I didn't put it there; it's automatically activated. СПУТНИКССС Р 21:20, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Munich massacre notes
You asked "Can anyone fix the notes numbering to reflect actual notes in the article please?" on Munich massacre article. Well, answer is: I don't think so. The problem is that the same note is used in several places. So it turns out that Reeve's book should be note nr. 1, 4, 7, 10, 24, 27, 28, 30... understand what the problem is? --Dijxtra 09:00, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
- Oh, and now that I see you live near Maroubra beach, I just had to add: you lucky bastard! :-) I was there once and brought my friend a bottle full of Maroubra sand and I think that's one of best places to live ever :-) --Dijxtra 09:03, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
- Hm, sorry, didn't quite understand you what you were saying :-) What are you proposing, to move some of the links from "Notes" section to the article ans inline links? --Dijxtra 14:12, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
Hm, you have a point, but. The thing is that (as I understand it) Wikipedia guidelines propose to get rid of inline links (they are OK while the article is rapidly changeing, but are to be put in notes section after article stabilises, but then again, I might have got it wrong). But, nothing stops you to put the same link to "External links" section... there it would stick out, as I'm sure you're right - nobody sane would go and click links in the notes section... --Dijxtra 20:56, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
