User talk:Mike Linksvayer

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Welcome!

Hello, Mike Linksvayer, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Where to ask a question, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome!  -- Longhair | Talk 19:30, 3 August 2005 (UTC)

What, you've only been at it three or four months longer than I have? —Tamfang 05:03, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
I've been at it since 2003, though still nothing significant. I don't know why Longhair chose to deposit a welcome message here last August. Mike Linksvayer 07:48, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
I found a page where Ryan said, No problem. We target blank (red) talk pages. We have no other way of pointing out new users, which is why we often end up welcoming experienced users. —Tamfang 07:54, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "Linksvayer"

The prank has been speedied. =) Just so you know, if you see any other pages that should be deleted right away, you can add the Speedy Delete template to alert admins that it should be nuked right away. The template looks like this: {{db|(reason)}}, and where "reason" is, fill in why it ought to be deleted, making sure it falls under speedy delete policy. This is different than an AFD nomination, because speedies can be deleted right away, while AFDs are subject to debate. Any questions, feel free to drop a line on my talk. [[User:Premeditated Chaos|User:Premeditated Chaos/Sig]] 23:51, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] simple links

Hello. Please note that you don't need to type [[Rational agent|rational agents]]; it suffices to type [[rational agent]]s. Similarly, if you type [[evolution]]ary, [[Austria]]n, [[hyphen]]ated, [[logic]]al, [[apocryhpa]]l, [[book]]s, [[rabbi]]nical, etc., then the whole word, not just the part in brackets, appears as a clickable link, and links to the page whose name is in the brackets. Also, the first letter of a link, unlike the later letters, is not case-sensitive, so you don't need to write [[Book|book]]. Michael Hardy 20:18, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks Michael for that very useful tip! Mike Linksvayer 00:50, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Another small work-saver: if you write [[crest (heraldry)|]] (with nothing after the pipe), it's saved as crest, i.e. the text outside the parenthesis is repeated after the pipe. —Tamfang 17:43, 4 March 2006 (UTC)