User talk:Sympa

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[edit] Welcome

Welcome!

Hello, Sympa, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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:Questions, 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!  ~ ONUnicorn (Talk / Contribs) 19:25, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] I'm a master of user boxes? News to me.

Hi Sympa. I wouldn't call myself a master of userboxes, though I have managed to make a couple. Mostly if I want a userbox I look thru the galleries at the bottom of this page. They show what the usebox looks like and tells you what to type to transclude it on your page. The top of that page has instructions for grouping the userboxes.

The few times I've wanted to make a new userbox I've found one that's similar to what I want, go to the page where it is housed, click "edit", copy the code that appears, go to a page with the title I'm giving it, paste the code there and save the page (that way I always have an original to work from and revert back to if I totally screw things up). Then I modify it and make judicious use of the preview button and through trial and error eventually get it to where I'm happy with it. Then I save it. I really don't know what I'm doing with them, I just mess around until it looks right.

As for tables, I find them extremely confusing when I'm in the edit window, and avoid messing with them as much as possible. I don't think I'm quite up to creating them, much less trying to teach someone else. Help:Table has some instructions for creating a table. If you've got questions about tables, you might want to ask on the talk page for that page.

If there's anything else you want to know, ask me and I'll do my best to answer. :) ~ ONUnicorn (Talk / Contribs) 03:01, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Shattered Consensus Mediation

You have been listed as a party in this mediation. As mediator, I would welcome your input. Thanks! --nkayesmith 09:14, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] AfD Nomination: Shattered Consensus: The True State of Global Warming

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[edit] Praise

Gosh you write well, and show great perception. It's taken me years to develop skills that seem to be natural to you, and I'd still trust you over myself to observe and document, especially with people. Thanks for letting me know my comments were helpful for you.

I often find Wiki difficult. I write about sex, politics and religion, so what should I expect, lol. ;)

Actually I don't write about politics, I'm not interested in it. Unfortunately, sex and religion are politicized, that's the problem. Wiki ought to be free of censorship, not a vehicle for it. You're right about the debate pages being an outstanding feature of Wiki. I guess I'm disturbed that the "edit" link at Wiki is mainly used to delete. I'm less concerned about blatant POV pushing, at least that could stimulate positive contributions of opposing POVs and sourcing. People take the easy way and delete.

I'm concerned that a culture of "deletionism" (even when not censorship) is developing. Quantity is not mutually exclusive with quality, and deletion only improves things in cases of redundancy, which are rare. But I'm not going to go and debate this in all the right places. I'm going to stick to setting an example ... contribute and defend contributions (without "owning" them).

I have some buddies now, that helps me a lot. I don't ask them to help with issues, just let off steam sometimes.

If your contributions in RL are as quality as your contributions here, your friends are lucky. If even a fraction of what you give was returned to you, you'd be well-off indeed. Cheers Alastair Haines 05:31, 12 October 2007 (UTC)