User talk:Mazzy
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[edit] General welcomes and hellos
Welcome! Hope you like it here and hang around bit :-) --Anders
- Thanks, Anders.
Hi Mazzy, saw you had some trouble signing your talks. You can use three tilde characters (~) to sign a talk entry with your name; adding a fourth will also included server date and time. It's very easy to use ---> Jeronimo 03:58 Aug 1, 2002 (PDT)
- Ta, much appreciated. I'm sure I'll get the hang eventually Mazzy (practising!)
Wellcome aboard Mazzy. Here's a lot of guys who can give you any help as you wish. And many of us aren't all native English speaking so keep this in mind a bit. You can get some useful informations from the other kingdoms too. Best regard. -- XJamRastafire 16:27 Aug 1, 2002 (PDT)
Many thanks for the reminder. Information works across language boundaries, of course! And thanks, I've already had plenty of help from people who already know what they're doing here. I'll shake down and figure out what I'm doing here, eventually! Mazzy 03:59 Aug 2, 2002 (PDT)
First thing:
Hello there, welcome to the 'pedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you need any questions answered about the project then check out Wikipedia:Help or drop a question at Village pump. Cheers! --maveric149
Hi, Thanks for your comment on my talkpage.
Bobblewik 15:45, 25 Jul 2004 (UTC)
[edit] American date formats, quotes, URLs and editing policy
Hello, in going to Mav's talk page to respond to a comment he'd left me, I saw one of your questions. The dates are in American format because the pages they link to were started by and worked on assiduously by people from the U.S.; it's an unintentional -centrism but one that creeps in occasionally.
So far as italics and quotes go: Movies, books, CD/LP/8-track :-) titles, TV series, magazines and epic poems (The Iliad, The Odyssey) are italicized; short stories, songs, episodes of TV shows, articles, and most poems are in quotes. A lot of people have questions about the italics/quotes bit; I really should find a page to put it on. Anyway, welcome to wikipedia! --KQ
RE your comments on my talk page:
Good questions. You can get technical help on editing pages by going to Wikipedia:How does one edit a page, for our loose editing policy visit Wikipedia:Editing policy. for other policies, guidelines and things to consider go to Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines. However, I have been here since January and I still haven't read all that stuff. In general, just take it easy, work on stuff that you find to be interesting, have good intentions, keep it simple and just start emulating what you view as the most common way things are edited. For example, most of us (not all, but a great majority) usually only link the first occurance of a term (or date) and only if that term/date is important to the subject of the article (birth and death years would always be important; I wouldn't link the year the person entered high school though). And who decides what is an important thing to link? You do. However everyone else also has the right to undue what you have done or expand on it. Such is the wiki way. Oh yeah, for conventions on page titles go to wikipedia:naming conventions and we generally hide external links like this: [http://www.nasa.gov/today/index.html Today at NASA] which will render like this: Today at NASA, unless the link is the homepage of the website; www.nasa.gov is fine (URL hiding is done mostly to save space). We also tend to only place external links in an external link section at the end of an article. Cheers! --mav
- mav, isn't there a policy against URL hiding, because it makes printouts less useful? Sure I've seen that on policy. However, IMO in the body of te text, hiding good - but I'd say put the full link at the foot of the article -- Tarquin
Many thanks to all of you for answering my question, even though I haven't scurried round and said so individually on everyone's talk page. The above ideas makes a great reference for me to come back to and check for conventions. If I knew where to put it it I'd try and summarise it as a reference page for the Wiki...it seems there ought to be such a thing, even though there's no guarantee that a newbie would stumble across it, nor that experienced wikipedians would all agree on any particular format.... Thanks also for all the welcomes. I'm trying not to go overboard here but I certainly want to stick around and come back and work on some articles as time permits, it's a fascinating venture. -- Mazzy 02:15 Aug 7, 2002 (PDT)
[edit] The Bishop of Llandaff
Hi Mazzy, I'm glad you like the Llandaff picture, and hope that you enjoy yours as much as we've enjoyed ours. You're supposed to dig them up and store them in a frost-free environment over winter, but I let them freeze in the ground and they seem to come back for more each year. --Ramin
[edit] Breatharians
Hi Mazzy i put in the link to breatharians today unaware that it had previously been removed by someone else!! I don't honestlt think that their philosophy is seriously worthy of consideration, but it's a topic that frequently comes up on some of the vegan lists I frequent, so I think its worth a link tho not really inclusion in the main body of text...
Cheers quercus robur
[edit] Poetry
Hi, I responded to your question here: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Poetry but forgot to put anything in the edit summary so that you'd see. Bmills 12:48, 14 Jul 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Sandhurst
Hi Mazzy, i'm a bit upset at your removing Sam Carpenter as a noted resident of Sandhurst on the page of the same name. Although you may not have much knowledge of Sam and his work we in Sandhurst feel Sam to be a very noted resident as we enjoy his work often, we are priveledged to have him a resident and we hope that you will reinstate his status on the website immediatley. Thank You.
If you feel he is important enough to merit inclusion in the article then please feel free to re-instate a suitable mention. I won't indulge in an edit war with you. I'll leave others to make a judgement about his importance. Apologies for any offence caused. I can see you've done a lot of work on the article. One person's judgement is only one person's judgement and that was my own. Mazzy 16:00, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Word association
I don't know, but I think its safe to say that I'm addicted! Thryduulf 11:04, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
Indeed what a small world! Although at the moment I am working in Bristol, I feel that it is only a matter of time before I bump into someoen who I know is a Wikipedian in an non-Wikipedia context! Thryduulf 11:38, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
Don't tell me your office is in Westbury-on-Trym as well? Thryduulf 11:55, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Much obliged...
hehe...yes, I don't want to flush any babies.
Thank you, Mazzy, for both your comments and your input. Please do have a good day and peace, --Gbinal 12:40, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
- You're welcome. It's easy to make a mistake...and good to know that there are lots of eyes around that can correct them when they happen. Mazzy 12:42, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Jaan Kaplinski
The sentence was finnish. I used fi-wiki while translating. Also, I'll be glad if you add something on kaplinki's reception in the West or just some additional information.--Constanz - Talk 10:05, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
- I'll try to remember to have a look at my copy of the book of poems over the weekend and see if there's any biographical or literary info I can add to the article. I've put a link on my user page to remind me. Mazzy 10:08, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
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- I think something can be found on his homepage (actually, there seems to be pretty much English material)--Constanz - Talk 10:15, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Unenrolled voter
I dont know if your familiar with me or what I wrote with "Happy Camper" guidence but in leui of the "Don't Bite The Newbies" policy of Wikipedia I was hoping you could look into it for an opinion. Someone keeps deleting my Unenrolled (Voter) page... probably it is vandals and I dont know how to protect it. There is a copy of the article at the very end of my Merlinus User Talk Page... I think thats what its called. Happy camper deleted the article and rewrote it extensively... thats fine... but now a vandal is just wiping it out along with the history. --merlinus 12:51, 13 April 2006 (UTC)Merlinus--merlinus 12:51, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
Merlinus
[[Unenrolled Voter]]
I appeciate that you looked into this and gave a fresh point odf view. Happy Camper sent me this E-mail at my home in Re: to the problem this morning:
Hi Mark, Sorry to see you being bitten again. I don't know why it is happening so often to you - it really makes me feel bad. Anyway, the article has been saved. If you add new material, it is probably best to post it on the page Unenrolled voter. It looks like you caught the attention of Mazzy, who is interested in unenrolled voting. -HC
I Do appreciate your interest and time. I am sincerly looking for possitive feedback on how to edit properly here at Wikipedia and looking for some opinions on how I am doing. Wholesale deleting it is not helpful in the learning process. I read some of your comments and though you seemd fair minded. If you would not mind taking a look at what I am editing once and a while and giving coments... I would be more than pleased. Marc --merlinus 16:43, 13 April 2006 (UTC)Merlinus--merlinus 16:43, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] SBL - SB station
Okay i've never been there either. Reading around however, the village used to be a seaside resort, hence the name, but now not much happens there, apparently, and the train service is reduced to about 2 a day. Simply south 11:39, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
