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::::: I understand. No really, I do, :) because when writing plain text (e.g. emails) I also use double-space after sentences, for much the same reason (and the --uniform-spacing option of {{wp|fmt}}). But elsewhere that is frowned upon (e.g. Word squiggles them) or has no visual effect (HTML), so I don't bother. | ::::: I understand. No really, I do, :) because when writing plain text (e.g. emails) I also use double-space after sentences, for much the same reason (and the --uniform-spacing option of {{wp|fmt}}). But elsewhere that is frowned upon (e.g. Word squiggles them) or has no visual effect (HTML), so I don't bother. | ||
::::: While we're deep into formatting nitty-gritty, I also noticed the lack of '--' in your signatures. You don't use the easy button? --[[User:Xymph|Xymph]] ([[User talk:Xymph|talk]]) 03:08, 11 February 2016 (CST) | ::::: While we're deep into formatting nitty-gritty, I also noticed the lack of '--' in your signatures. You don't use the easy button? --[[User:Xymph|Xymph]] ([[User talk:Xymph|talk]]) 03:08, 11 February 2016 (CST) | ||
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+ | :::::: IME the ease of those buttons is outweighed by the tedium of going back and forth to the mouse each time and targeting. ([http://doomwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Doom_Wiki%3ARFC%2FStyle_guideline_proposal&diff=104572&oldid=104536 I'm no doubt in a small minority]; some contributors have used mouse-aim in FPSes every day since gastrillation.) My browser not supporting them until 2010 may also be relevant. If I start misspelling stuff like '''{{c|<nowiki>{{wp||}}</nowiki>}}''' and not catching it in preview, I suppose I'll reconsider. :> | ||
+ | :::::: Much bigger tangent: OMG THANK YOU for dmpsmu. I'd never have beaten Doom II without it! [[User:Ryan W|Ryan W]] ([[User talk:Ryan W|talk]]) 10:13, 11 February 2016 (CST) |
Revision as of 11:13, 11 February 2016
Welcome
Thrilled to have you contributing here. I have given you "editor" status so that your changes will automatically go live w/o waiting for review, as I trust and respect your long experience in the community in regards to the "deep history" from the 90's. I've done my best trying to document that stuff, but a first-person perspective is always going to be superior. Happy editing ;) --Quasar (talk) 11:32, 29 January 2016 (CST)
Re: Welcome
Thanks, that's very kind, as was your presidential reference when creating my steward page. :-) I have some prior experience editing a simpler wiki (TrackMania) but am new here, so you may still want to keep an eye on my edits for a while, in case I make an accidental faux pas against content policy, style, or somesuch.
I'm not sure how long I'll be active here, but for the time being I won't run out of pages to read (and perhaps contribute to). ;)
Btw, is it possible to tie this Xymph page to my Frans_P._de_Vries one somehow? --Xymph (talk) 13:21, 29 January 2016 (CST)
- Your person article is considered the encyclopedic one about you, while User:Xymph is free for you to use to describe yourself in whatever terms you like, without restrictions on content above our terms of service (you might see User:Quasar versus James Haley (Quasar) to see the difference). If you would like for your person article to be named Frans P. de Vries (Xymph), like most other person pages, I can do that as a move and leave a redirect in place. At the time I created your article I wasn't aware that you had a handle. --Quasar (talk) 13:31, 29 January 2016 (CST)
- Ok, starting to get the hang of these discussion pages. Yes, then please rename my person page, thanks. --Xymph (talk) 16:15, 29 January 2016 (CST)
Archive links
Hello! Wow, lots of mop-up; I like it. :D
I think you have changed a few external links referred to here. Are you doing this systematically, and if so, would you mind dropping a note somewhere when you finish? I'm planning to scan a database dump to find removed links, but if I do that right now, I'll waste people's time if some cases get fixed by you simultaneously. Hope that makes sense, thanks. Ryan W (talk) 17:20, 9 February 2016 (CST)
- Hi, you're welcome. :) No, the method to my madness ;) is not related to that list. Rather I went back to pages where I fixed archive links earlier the old-fashioned way, after Quasar showed how to use the template. I may fix more archive links as I encounter them, but am not specifically looking for the Romero ones. Are you saying this will be addressed a more systematic way? Then I won't bother. --Xymph (talk) 02:27, 10 February 2016 (CST)
- Please don't stop fixing links if that's what you want to do right now. My idea wouldn't make changes, only define the scope of the issue (addressing is a longer-term prospect, to judge by Quasar's example suggestions). By "systematic" I just meant "intended to eventually encompass all topic areas/categories". If you don't have a to-do list of pages left to check, then I guess I can proceed. Thanks. Ryan W (talk) 06:27, 10 February 2016 (CST)
- Been here less than two weeks – I don't have a to-do list. ;) Mostly I'm reading up on historical stuff that I know about, and try to contribute/fix what & where I can. I am also using search and Linksearch when I encounter one bad link to find related others. Considering the size of the wiki, I'm not sure when I'll be done with that.
- Btw, why do you like nbsp's so much? :) Or are they inserted automagically somehow? --Xymph (talk) 06:56, 10 February 2016 (CST)
- Gosh, no one's ever asked me that so calmly. :> I think it started because I had never edited a wiki before and wanted every post to be perfect; the sentences just looked jammed together on the screen. (I've since been assured the latter indicates senile dementia [1]). Nowadays I think it's an anti-gestalt exercise, forcing myself to reconsider each sentence individually so I don't copypaste them into drivel. The extra spaces are for discussions only, never "reader-facing" content.
- And you're right — a link often implies the use of similar links in related articles! That sure wasn't the case when I joined. Ryan W (talk) 18:04, 10 February 2016 (CST)
- I understand. No really, I do, :) because when writing plain text (e.g. emails) I also use double-space after sentences, for much the same reason (and the --uniform-spacing option of fmt). But elsewhere that is frowned upon (e.g. Word squiggles them) or has no visual effect (HTML), so I don't bother.
- While we're deep into formatting nitty-gritty, I also noticed the lack of '--' in your signatures. You don't use the easy button? --Xymph (talk) 03:08, 11 February 2016 (CST)
- IME the ease of those buttons is outweighed by the tedium of going back and forth to the mouse each time and targeting. (I'm no doubt in a small minority; some contributors have used mouse-aim in FPSes every day since gastrillation.) My browser not supporting them until 2010 may also be relevant. If I start misspelling stuff like {{wp||}} and not catching it in preview, I suppose I'll reconsider. :>
- Much bigger tangent: OMG THANK YOU for dmpsmu. I'd never have beaten Doom II without it! Ryan W (talk) 10:13, 11 February 2016 (CST)