User talk:Richard cocks

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Again, welcome! Chris Roy 17:04, 11 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Thanks. Is there a policy on spell-correcting talk pages? Whilst I leave them alone (I consider what someone has said their business if it's not an article) these is the issue that they slowly clog up the google results as the wikipedia increases. For example I've just done correct seperate to separate, but now there still are several hundred hits for seperate from talk pages and similar. Richard cocks 17:24, Mar 11, 2004 (UTC)
Hi there. Welcome from me also. The general rule on talk pages is not to alter the meaning or context of someone else's comments. I've never heard anyone complain about having comments copyedited by others, and I've heard at least a couple users saying that they encourage people to copyedit their talk comments. Isomorphic 21:25, 11 Mar 2004 (UTC)
ok thanks for clearing that up, I'll do a more thorough job in future then. Richard cocks 23:11, Mar 11, 2004 (UTC)
Hey Richard. My advice doesn't differ from Isomorphic's, but note well: you'll be fixing a lot more typos if you include talk pages in your corrections—something that I don't do, both because of the extra work involved (work that isn't quite as useful as fixing mistakes in the articles themselves) and the potential of people becoming chagrined at others modifying their comments.
Then again, the search results do get pretty cluttered when talk pages are left uncorrected, e.g. this Google search:
site:en.wikipedia.org publically
I've tried filtering the results to remove talk and user pages, like this:
site:en.wikipedia.org publically -talk -user
but such a search will remove articles that contain these words as well. What we need is a search parameter that excises only articles that contain, say "talk" in the title. I'll have to look into this. Chris Roy 10:49, 12 Mar 2004 (UTC)


Thanks for wikifying brainwashing Andries 08:41, 14 Mar 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Visual Basic Wikibook

I see you have contributed to the Visual Basic article on Wikipedia. Any chance you would like to join in editing the wikibook: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Programming:Visual_Basic_Classic? --Kjwhitefoot 07:58, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Cola programming language

Hi -- your prod on Cola programming language didn't include a reason (though you left a reason in your edit summary). To make the reason show up, do {{subst:prod|(REASON)}} and everything will work out fine. I fixed this one, but figured you'd want to know. Mangojuicetalk 11:56, 8 May 2006 (UTC)