User:Cgingold

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Cgingold has mostly recovered from a surgical interlude. But on any given day, it's possible that he is taking a short wikibreak and will be back on Wikipedia sometime soon. Translation: sporadic periods of editing.

1 under construction...
2 Haphazardly Helpful Hints
3 wikiwork
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[edit] under construction...

the architect is on vacation, building supplies are back-ordered, and the contractor just doubled his estimate <sigh> -- evidently I'm gonna have to do all the work myself, as soon as I find the time...

Update: a few walls and some scaffolding have been put up, but, um... the foundation seems to be missing. Hmmm... well, I'm sure it'll turn out fine in the end.

Okay, is it TIME yet?

Greenwich Mean Time:

June 2008

Thursday

8:11 am GMT

My local time:

June 2008

Thursday

1:11 am PDT

Meanwhile, feast your eyes on this tasty hors d’œuvre:

Expressions of astonishment and gratitude
for this lovely depiction of a rotating octaplex
should be directed to its creator, User:JasonHise.

No room for it here, but check out this eye-boggling image, too.

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Haphazardly Helpful Hints

I've created Template:CatRel {{CatRel}} for horizontal linkage of related categories, when vertical linkage is not appropriate.

Here's an easy way to leave a note for people who don't leave edit summaries:

Just put Template:Summary on their User Talkpage.

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Preview Button? Preview Button??

I don't need no stinkin' Preview Button!!.

Well, hombre, I'm afraid you do. Just take a look at this note I've left on certain UserTalkpages:

Hello, I've noticed from your edits of xxxxx that you've been using a trial-and-error process in an effort to get things right. That kind of hands-on approach is without a doubt the only way to learn how to do things — and there's quite a lot to learn! However, rather than saving each of your attempts, it's much better to make liberal use of the "show preview" button, which allows you to see the results of your edit before you hit the "save page" button. That way, all of those edits that aren't quite right don't clog up the edit history (something you will come to appreciate once you've been around for a while). Hope this has been helpful, and... good luck editing!

Good advice, man...--Dr.michael.benjamin 06:46, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

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