User talk:Tharsaile

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[edit] Welcome

Hello, Tharsaile, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the New contributors' help page, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type {{helpme}} on your user page, and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! By the way, you can sign your name on Talk and vote pages using three tildes, like this: ~~~. Four tildes (~~~~) produces your name and the current date. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! BigNate37T·C 22:06, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

By the way, it's good that you made an account. Now if you make controversial corrections, editors (like myself, sadly) won't assume you are vandalising because you did it anonymously. Oh, I think you can have your anonymous IP edits assigned to your user account if you ask the right admin, but I'm not sure. If you're interested in something like that you can use the helpme tag mentioned above and ask here about that. BigNate37T·C 22:06, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Durban Strategy and La Fin du Monde

Well I must say when I read Belgian I expected a very light beer. When I looked up this beer I've never heard of, I was surprised to see it is 9% Alc v/v. I've never seen it. I tend to drink Rickard's Red and occasionally a McEwen's (but I hate Guiness and am not fond of anything light). I'll be sure to try La Fin du Monde if I see it at the Liquor Board. I do like to try new things and I enjoy a good red ale for its taste—I don't drink at all anymore for the alcoholic effects.

Anyways, in the Durban Strategy article there is a {{Durban Strategy}} tag, which is the syntax for a template. With template tags, if no namespace is specified the Template: namespace is assumed. Because there exists no "article" called Durban Strategy in the template namespace, i.e. there is no Template:Durban Strategy, the red link appears. If there was a template at that location, it would be transcluded. What that means is whatever code exists at the page within double-curly-braces is inserted in place of the tag like a macro. The welcome message I left you, excluding the final paragraph, is Template:Welcome2 (the reason the tag doesn't appear in your talk page is because I subst'd it, what I really used was {{subst:welcome2}} ~~~~). I'm not really sure if I'm being too specific/technical or if I'm unintentionally patronising you, so I'll leave it at that. Just remove the {{Durban Strategy}} line and the article will be fine.

As for my welcome message, I patrol Special:New pages and editors with red links to their talk pages often catch my eye. I try to put a welcome message on these user's talk pages: welcome2 normally, or Template:welcomelaws if they seem to need more of a caution than an encouragement to be WP:BOLD, or Template:welcomeip if it is an IP address. I don't normally take the time to add a paragraph of my own comments, though I occasionally do. I must have scrutinised your article on Memory Spots too, though I don't remember it.

Let me know if you have any other questions, I'll gladly answer what I can and guess at what I can't. BigNate37T·C 20:53, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

Well I tried some La Fin du Monde today. Picked up a 750mL bottle for about $3CAD. It is a very strong tasting beer, and rather sweet. The strong yeast taste is a little too much for my taste. I must admit it is "too beer for me", and I pride myself on an affinity for dark ales. BigNate37T·C 00:35, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
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