User talk:Sturmde

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Welcome to Wikipedia, Sturmde! My name is Ryan, aka Acetic Acid. I noticed that you were new and haven't received any messages yet. I just wanted to see how you were doing. Wikipedia can be a little intimidating at first, since it uses different formatting than other sites that use HTML and CSS. In the long run, though, you'll find that the WikiSyntax is a lot easier and faster than those other ways. Here are a few links to get you started:

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I hope you enjoy contributing to Wikipedia. We can use all the help we can get! Have a nice day. Sincerely, Ryan. 13:02, August 2, 2005 (UTC)

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[edit] Voting on article title of Provisional designation of asteroids

At Talk:Provisional designation of asteroids#Approval. Feel free to make your voice heard. -- hike395 02:07, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Margaret

Hi Sturmde,

Can you support the Much Ado ref being an in-joke about UB313 and Pluto? I would like to put this in the Margaret article.

Thanks, kwami 22:12, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] pronunciations to be deleted

Hi Sturmde,

Just a heads up: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pronunciation respelling key.

—kwami 21:27, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Caron/hacek vote

There's a vote on Talk:caron where the article should be if you're interested. +Hexagon1 (talk) 10:09, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Me

For what it is worth, your recent edit reverses consensus other editors had about this. They wanted the most notable thing to come first, and that would be the work encoding scripts. That's the real job. I don't get paid for being a linguist. But you can discuss it with other editors. -- Evertype·✆ 09:57, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

There was clearly no consensus about the biography page, sadly the talk page shows this. I applied a NPOV, since I have not been party to the internecine edits. Text was only shifted: I removed no points previously existing. A biography page, in contrast to a user homepage, should be biographical. It should also be taxonomic. My college degrees are in physics, business management, and in computer science. Therefore, I would by default be a physicist, entrepreneur and computer scientist... for example.. even if I don't get paid for all of them. Unlike your range, I can't place mine in a clear taxonomic order. One is a linguist by training, there's no denying that. It doesn't imply it brings in six-figure incomes. From that grew typesetting and font designing, no? Or at least, one could argue, your baccalaureate and graduate degrees led to them. And I think your degrees are clearly categorized as linguist. Marc Okrand makes his living as a closed-captioning expert... but he's also still a linguist.

The quote leading the previous edit of the biography also was a bit irrelevant due to the weasely 'probably the greatest of all time'-like remark and doesn't stand the burden of the test of time. Sure, it's an interesting quote, but it shouldn't lead the biography. Should Isaac Newton begin "Perhaps the greatest physicist of all time..."? Even he only gets "generally regarded as one of the greatest".... --Sturmde 14:38, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Survey Invitation

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[edit] Greek alphabet

Assuming that I archived Greek talk page to hide edits is not true. I simply archived talk page, because it was very big already. For proof of my good intentions, I restored Greek alphabet table again and did the same with templates. I removed these letters only because other editors had edit war and didn't wanted them here. I only provoked edit war again, thus I give up. Maybe you will restore my changes and protect Greek alphabet and its templates from other editors, but not from me - I wanted only add missing letters and nothing more. CBMIBM (talk) 10:53, 31 January 2008 (UTC)