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Hi, and welcome to Wikipedia! Would you be interested in being adopted by me? Your attitude to editing seems to be exactly how I started out, so it would be a pleasure to take you on! Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 23:16, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Elaborate question

This started out as a bullet on my userpage, but ended up being too long, so I moved it here.

The confirmation Emails for wikimedia projects reads:
Someone, probably you from IP address "12.345.67.89", has registered an account "Username" with this e-mail address on "Wikiproject."
Should this read, "Someone, probably you, from...."? Is it insane that I even care?
The above are rhetorical questions. I sorta care, which is sorta insane, but I don't really care. That would be really insane. Some editors, while clearly sane, strike me as somewhat zealous. Almost as if they really might really care about that missing comma. This in particular was intimidating. A lot of people seem to care about whitespace that no one will ever see. They didn't seem to care that coders, the only people who really deal with the text in the edit box, the people without whom there would be no wikipedia, the people who wrote the above confirmation Email, say "...any conceivable program for working with ASCII text is going to have problems..."
I noticed that talk pages were sparsely used. At first I thought this was strange. Then I noticed that, generally, the more there is on a talk page, the more arguing there is word-for-word. I've familiarized myself with the idea of feeding the trolls. I wish I could say that I have no experiencial knowledge of that arena, but I'm afraid I may have learned about it the hard way.
I don't know how to weigh comments on talk pages. There are a lot of articles that are clearly, blatantly, absolutely lost causes. The article on Catholics and Freemasons (which I'm afraid to link to in case the author finds out what I said about him.) is a good example.
What I'm driving at is, I have no way of telling when a wise editor sees a terrible article that deserves to be tagged at best, and deserves to be deleted in all honesty, and the editor just walks away. In many cases, and revisions, tags, or other attempts at correction will "only encourage them." I can't tell which cases these are, because there is no evidence when an editor ignores something completely.
I'd like to sort of practice on the articles that are read less frequently before I work on anything more prominent. It hadn't occored to me before that some articles may be recieving no attention and that's good.

Yes, one can judge the contentiousness of an article by the number of archives. Many articles that were written by one person have virtually no messages - Latter Days, for example, which I wrote alone, has no discussion of the content at all, just appropriate banenrs and a peer review. George W. Bush, possibly the most contentious article on Wikipedia, has 53 archives. Many articles you just have to stay away from because after a while you simply lose the will to live. That's why most FAs are obscure, lower level articles. Anyway, back to adoption. Stick {{adoptee|Dev920}} on your page and it's official, you can call on me for all the help, advice, and explanations you want! Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 15:14, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
Hooray! Right now I'm re-working Arabesh The article says it's a "modern typing language" I wanted to find out if there was a linguistic or generally accepted term for those. It seems to be a leet pidgin. In the process, I say something in the leet article that was upsetting, and wasted a lot of time biting my tongue. A similar thing happened when I set out to copyedit the Federal Bureau of Arctic something. I tried to get a sense of how other US federal beaurocracies were laid out, and got distracted.
That's all really neither here nor there.
It seems like there is generally a community concensus at Talk:Maya_Hero_Twins that some articles should be merged. It seems like the only reason this hasn't happened is because no one has had the time or the inclination yet. I should go ahead and merge those... Right? Be bold is subtle in it's language, and I'm not sure it has the likes of me in mind.
My longer term goal is to make go a featured article again. This is a matter of reminding the editors of the strong community concensus that it should be a featured article. These matters may or may not turn out to be my forte.
Anyway, thank you again for adopting me! --Haikon 16:00, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Question

You have "Some one uploaded a picture, but it's not in an explainie thingie box. How do I add an explainie thingie box?" Do you mean an infobox? If so, what kind? There are tons of them. Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 18:07, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

No, I just meant the picture at U.S._Arctic_Research_Commission I wanted to add a border, with a caption on the bottom that says, "The logo of the USARC", or whatever. I'll get around to reading the FAQ on it though. -Haikon 21:28, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
K, then you need to write [[Image:blah.jpg|thumb|right|200px(or whatever size)|The logo of the USARC]]. Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 22:02, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
Cool, thanks :) -Haikon 22:06, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Rauwolfia

Thanks for thinking of me, but regret my knowledge of tropical plants is negligible. "Precautions" does indeed appear a little OTT, but better safe than sorry..? Regards, Ptelea 13:10, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Your request for a merge

You placed a tag to merge Teaching English as a foreign language. However, you have not given any statement on the talkpage to indicate why you think there should be a merge. The article you suggest merging it with, Teaching English as a second language, does not exist under that name. (I contributed to the debate that led to its renaming some months ago as English language learning and teaching You may find the debate there illuminating. Some has been archived.) I suggest you begin the debate -- the reasons you see for the merge -- in the correct place, and I will respond to you there. If no reason for the merge tag is given in the next couple of days, I will remove it. BrainyBabe 12:11, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for removing the tag so promptly. BrainyBabe 13:36, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
No problem, boblem :D The two articles seemed to be about the same subject. I didn't take the time to notice that some one was 'on the caper', as they say. --Haikon 13:41, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Incorrect category

Your user page has something saying it needs copyediting. Please remove it as you do not need copyediting. Thanks. (I checked the page and couldn't find it. Sorry for being so rude, kind of in somewhat of a rush.) --Ashfire908 19:56, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Oh. Thanks, I totally didn't notice that. I tried to make a link to the page that lists all the articles in need of copyedit, but accidentally just put my userpage in that category. I guess I didn't notice the link never showed up. --Haikon 00:02, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Strategy games

Hello Haikon.

WikiProject Strategy games has finished it's first collaboration: Risk (game) (). We are now asking for nominations and input for a new one. Please voice your ideas at the talk page.

Clyde (talk) and WikiProject Strategy games.

[edit] Imperial units

I think that you will get a lot of flak if you remove imperial conversions. I always write bird articles with just international units, but Americans don't understand those, so it's never bothered me if the imp units are added. Although I understand your thinking, I suspect that a change that simply makes articles less accessible will not be well received. jimfbleak 14:21, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Shaving question on the reference desk

Hi, thanks for your answer to my question. It seems that the common consensus is that my skin will be drier now I'm in Canada, so that'll affect my shaving. Looks like I need to go and get some moisturiser! Cheers! Phileas 16:44, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Regarding edits to Jewish-American princess

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[edit] Re: Unprod

I've responded on my talk page. --JianLi 20:21, 29 March 2007 (UTC)