User talk:Jph

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Hello John, welcome to Wikipedia. I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian. Your work on the quicklist looks impressive but how are you going to keep it up to date when new articles are created every hour? There is already an automatic function to list all pages, but this obviously includes stubs too.

Here are some useful links in case you haven't already found them;

• How to edit a page
• How to write a great article
• Naming conventions
• Manual of Style

If you have any questions, see the help pages or add a question to the village pump. Angela 13:19, Sep 14, 2003 (UTC)

[edit] Quicklist

Hey, what's the quicklist about? --Improv 02:59, 7 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Hi, I have listed the quicklist on Wikipedia:Votes for deletion, for the reasons given by Angela. If you could comment on Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/Wikipedia:Quicklist that would be great, thanks. – Smyth 12:04, 7 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Quicklist deletion

As the creator of the Quicklist I'd have to agree with all the criticisms about it. I started it as reaction to some of the problems that existed in the all pages at the time but has since been fixed. When I first started using the Wikipedia I tried to read it the same way I have read traditional Encyclopedias, from start to finish. Of course with Wikipedia that's impossible. One problem I found with the all pages that hasn't been fixed is that most of the entries are for redirects. But that's necessary of course due to the fact it makes it easier to find things. As the whole idea of the quicklist is flawed and no one including myself has any attachments to it I agree with its deletion.

I would like to apologies to all the users of the Wikipedia for starting that project and then abandoning it without notice. As I said above it was a project of a new user who wasn’t familiar with the wiki concept. I hope that since then I have become a better wiki citizen. Over the past year I have been an active reader of the Wikipedia and almost all of my contributions have been minor edits to correct links. When I next decide to contribute an article it will be more in the spirit of the Wikipedia.

• Don't worry about it. --Improv 13:10, 8 Oct 2004 (UTC)