User:Piet Delport

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Piet Delport
Background
Joined	2005-06
Country	South Africa
City	Cape Town
Languages	Afrikaans English
License	Public domain
Subpages (all)
/Task list /Edit summary snippets /Edit assessment /SAIX Proxies /monobook.js, /monobook.css
WikiProjects
Disambiguation • Redirect Fact and Reference Check Integration Computer science Programming languages Free Software Metal • Albums South Africa
Sister projects
Wiktionary	Piet Delport

Contents 1 Activity 1.1 Articles 1.2 Administrativia 1.3 Disputes 2 Guidance 3 Tips and tricks

[edit] Activity

I mainly play WikiGnome, but occasionally dabble in other things.

[edit] Articles

• SIOD
• Shadow Warriors (band)
• Abundance (programming language)
• Roedy Green
• Sanctity (band)
• Amazon S3
• Alexia Massalin

[edit] Administrativia

• 2007-06:
  • Criteria for speedy deletion:
    • Proposed template: naming convention orphan redirects, resulting in {{db-redirmisnomer}}
    • Blank talk pages, resulting in {{db-blanktalk}}
  • Disambiguation:
    • Incomplete parenthetical disambiguations, resulting in Wikipedia:Disambiguation#Incomplete disambiguation
    • Confusion over R to disambiguation page

[edit] Disputes

• 2006-05: Talk:Japanese battleship Yamato#Machine-gunning of survivors
• 2006-06: Talk:NewLISP#"Excellent language" for distributed computing projects?
• 2006-09: Talk:Continuation#Perl re-added
• 2006-11: Talk:Blind Guardian/Archive 01#Metallian.com link removal
• 2007-06: Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Eep

[edit] Guidance

Civility costs nothing, and buys everything. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Write good edit summaries

(and leave good diffs!)

Avoid Wikipedia jargon

Keep things understandable to newcomers and passers-through.

Reduce confusion by following policy

Use the rules as roads, not fences.

[edit] Tips and tricks

• Try QPreview (by Alex Smotrov): it should be default functionality.
• Create internal query string links using {{querylink|Foo|qs=args|bar}}, for example:
  {{querylink|User talk:Piet Delport|qs=action=edit&section=new|new message}} → new message