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| - | Hey there Bill. Glad to have you aboard. I know Rogue Leader has already welcomed you, but I also want to drop a note to say hi. It looks like the information below is the beginnings of a page that you plan on creating. If that's the case, then I have a suggestion for you: You should build pages on a user subpage (for example, "User:Bill Martinson/Prank Calls"), and then when you're ready, use the move button at the top to transfer your page to its final home. The advantage to using a subpage is that this page can be used for user discussion, such as this message. Incidentally, I learned something about "comprise" today, and I have you to thank for it. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 18:17, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
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| - | * Thanks for the tip ... I was actually building the real page with its actual title, but naturally I didn't want to actally save it until it was finished. Your way is much better, as I can save periodically while I'm working, and (as you point out) I can benefit from others' feedback. Thanks! — [[User:Bill Martinson|Bill Martinson]] 18:47, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
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| - | * So now I have [[User:Bill Martinson/Reference]] and [[User:Bill Martinson/Obviously Phony Aliases]] ... is there a way to automatically include a list of all my subpages? — [[User:Bill Martinson|Bill Martinson]] 18:51, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
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| - | ::I'm not aware of a method to ''automatically'' list subpages. If, however, you happened to forget what they are, you could look them up in [[Special:Allpages]] under the User namespace. [http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=Special%3AAllpages&from=Bill+Martinson&namespace=2 This link] would take you straight to them. But as far as listing them here in your user space, you'll have to do that manually. By the way, once you create a user page, your subpages will automatically have a backlink to your main page. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 19:44, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
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| + | Hey there, stranger! Happy Hallow-day! Good to see you! — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 15:55, 31 October 2006 (UTC) |
| - | New Question: I moved my page from User:Bill Martinson/Obviously Phony Aliases to Obviously Phony Aliases, but the category pages (for Running Gags and Lists) still point to the original page (which is now a redirect). This ''works'', of course, but it looks thoroughly awful in the category lists. I tried to fix this by looking for the right templates to edit, but the categories mechanism doesn't seem to use templates (as best I can tell). So it would seem that either the move function is not really the best way to do this, or there is something about it I don't understand. — [[User:Bill Martinson|Bill Martinson]] 20:38, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
| + | :Good to see you too, my friend. Yes, I have been too long absent. Life has been very busy for me lately. {{User:Bill/sig}} 15:59, 31 October 2006 (UTC) |
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| - | : Found the workaround: delete the category tags from the article, save, then put them back in. I guess in the future I'll have to keep such tags as plain text until I move the article to its final destination. — [[User:Bill Martinson|Bill Martinson]] 21:06, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
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| - | ::Hmm. I know there's a simpler way, but when I tried to test it, I couldn't recreate the situation (even though this has happened to me before). Oh, well. As long as it works now. Rock, rock on! — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 21:43, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
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| - | == Every day ==
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| - | Ooh, it really bugs me when people confuse ''everyday'' for ''every day''. And then I sometimes see ''every-day'' in place of ''everyday'', in news articles! Does no one speak English anymore?! Anyway, high fives. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 04:10, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
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| - | : Nice to find a kindred spirit! — [[User:Bill Martinson|Bill Martinson]] 04:23, 1 December 2005 (UTC) | + | |
| - | ::Oh, I don't think you'll find grammar 'n' usage enthusiasts lacking around here. Take a look at [[HRWiki:Manual of Style]] and its accompanying talk page! —[[User:AbdiViklas|AbdiViklas]] 22:23, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
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| - | == Expanding your "Search & Destroy" list ==
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| - | I have yet to introduce myself, but I would like to go ahead and say "hi" to you at this point. Anyway, the point of my discussion here was to inquire whether it would be OK with you to add certain grammatical "issues" to your ''Search & Destroy'' list. Some examples of such "issues" would be '''a lot vs. *alot''' and '''whether (conjunction) vs. weather (noun)'''. I have more but at this point I think it would be prudent to await a response before continuing further. Thanks! {{User:The Paper/sig}} 18:46, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
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| - | : I've created a new section on my user page for this, and I'll add your requests there. — [[User:Bill Martinson|Bill Martinson]] 19:17, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
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| - | == The ''only'' thing. ==
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| - | Sweet grammar guide you got there! I was wondering... have you seen the movie ''Oscar'' with Silvester Stallone? :) --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 19:59, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
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| - | : Sorry, I haven't. Thanks for the compliment. Maybe someday the grammar guide can graduate into a sister page for the frequently misspelled words page. {{User:Bill Martinson/sig}} 20:55, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
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| - | ::Oh! you should see it! It's a ''very'' funny movie! And your dangling modifiers reminded me of it, but I will say no more. Just rent it! ;) A grammar guide page! Sounds cool. --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 21:54, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
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| - | ==Welcome aboard!==
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| - | ...And, since this doesn't really connect with any of the above discussions, I'll start a new section. I just wanted to commend you for the tremendous number of really grade-A contributions you've made in the space of, what, 24 hours? It's always helpful to get someone who knows a misplaced modifier from a comma splice, and your zeal is matched by accuracy. Long may you edit! —[[User:AbdiViklas|AbdiViklas]] 22:29, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
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| - | :Wow, thanks for the kind words. In my experience, editors are usually considered a necessary evil at best, so it's nice to be appreciated and not just considered a Word Nazi. It's too bad there isn't some kind of regular-expression search function, to make it easier to find things like comma splices and other structural errors. (Being somewhat lazy, I wanted to start out with easy stuff I could just search for!) Oh well ... I guess I'll just have to read the whole darned wiki. ;-) {{User:Bill Martinson/sig}} 14:14, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
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| - | Do we realy need the new templates you made? In my whole experience in this wiki, I can count the number of times I used red text on one finger (Yes, finger). Anyway, if this stays, you could make it on one template. You should also read [[Help:Template]] :) {{User:E.L. Cool/sig}} 14:56, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
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| - | :Indeed. I've marked them for deletion, as they don't serve a purpose. — {{User:Lapper/sig}} 16:40, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
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| - | ::Well, initially I ''thought'' they were going to serve a purpose: I anticipated I might be using a lot of red and green as the [[User:Bill_Martinson/Grammar Guide|Grammar Guide]] grew. But the templates didn't work the way I expected them to, and at the time I didn't realize templates could take parameters. All of which is moot, of course, in lieu of the more important server load issue (which I didn't even think about at the time). If it does turn out I start getting sick of writing span tags all the time for color, I may try again in the future using single (rather than paired) templates with parameters (and applying the '''subst:''' trick to save on server load). But by all means, let's delete the ones I created today, and I'm sorry for the trouble. {{User:Bill Martinson/sig}} 18:59, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
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