User talk:Whitti

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Angela. 01:56, Feb 3, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you!

Thanks for editing what I did on The Broker by John Grisham... I don't know how this thing works, I use Trillian and it uses it. I finished reading The Broker today so I figured that I would add something on it. I liked what you did to change mine, thanks!

-WaterIce

[edit] Periods after titles

Thanks for the inquiry. The use of periods after Dr and Mr and so on is a case of American and British English differences (see the section on punctuation). Wikipedia does not have a style preference between the two, so you should not make a systematic attempt to change one to the other -- we aim only for consistency within single articles, and of course, appropriateness to the topic. (An article on cricket would use the British style, for example, while one on the Fourth of July the American style.) See also Wikipedia:Manual of Style#National_varieties_of_English and Wikipedia:Manual of Style (spelling).

If the article name is affected -- and note that titles such as Dr and Mr should not be included in article names -- then a redirect should be made from the alternate version of the name, so that searching and linking either version will reach the existing article.

If you are creating the article yourself, choose the British/American style that suits the topic best; if neither applies, the one that suits you best. On a related note, if you wikify all dates (such as February 19, 2005), on display the software will automatically re-arrange the pieces to suit user preferences, so that a user who has set UK preferences would see 19 February.

Thanks for joining us; I greatly admire the Distributed Proofreaders project, and I'm glad to have you here! — Catherine\^talk 02:39, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Saxon

YOU DAMN BETTER RESTORE THE "SAXON = JOKE ACCOUNT" ADDITION >_<

   Eh...I don't get it...Wrong user? --whitti 02:34, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)