User talk:MHarrington

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Contents 1 Welcome! 2 Other welcome 3 Exclamation! Marks! 4 Userpage 5 Old-Timey 6 Featured Article Noms 7 Why must you be so negative about me? 8 Feet/Inches 9 inprogress

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Other welcome

Hey MHarrington, I noticed nobody really welcomed you yet. So there's a welcome from Heimstern, with the guidelines, links and everything. Thanks for contributing, hope to see you around the wiki, and feel free to make a userpage about yourself sometime. ⇔Thunderbird⇔ 06:50, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

Exclamation! Marks!

Hey! Just in case you were thinking of embarking on a project to overhaul exclamation-point usage, I thought I'd chime in. While I like many of the changes you made to That A Ghost (especially the addition of {wheezily}), there are some that I'd prefer keeping as exclamations (don't worry, I'll take care of it). I'm reminded of an anonymous user in the fall who made similar revisions to quite a few pages (I can't help but wonder—could that have been you?); at the time I said "We don't want it to look like Mary Worth, but it's not like [exclamation marks] are inherently wrong. I tend to go by the character's expression as a guideline." —AbdiViklas 03:16, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

That said, I am impressed with your use of the interrobang. - Qermaq - (^T/C)  05:42, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Userpage

Hi MHarrington. I appreciate your recent contributions to the projects, but was wondering if you would consider making a brief userpage? Seeing Recent Changes full of edits made by a red linked username is a bit... Disconcerting. It's totally up to you, but I'm sure lots of us would appreciate getting to know a bit about you. Also this is kind of a minor thing, but please try and use the "Show preview" button a bit more, to decrease the number of "tweaking" edits. All in all though, thanks for being such a great user, and keep up the good work. EDIT: Thanks. ;) ⇔Thunderbird⇔ 06:13, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Old-Timey

MHarrington, please note how I have deleted the "old-timey" template three times just today, I believe. Also note how I have gone and reverted every single one of your edits adding that template to assorted pages without so much as a mention of this project or waiting for feedback in the least. Next time you choose to embark on a project such as this, make sure you get permission first and more importantly, make sure it hasn't already been done. I hope you've learned through this. — Lapper (talk) 06:18, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

In case you haven't seen it yet, we discussed this template here a while ago, and decided to delete it. I did link to that page when I first deleted it... --phlip ^T_C 07:14, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

While I would have chosen the word "concensus" over "permission", Lapper is correct. Major changes should not be unilaterally implemented. While no changes can be undone, it's wise to weigh the "un-do-ability" of any new change before deciding to post for comments or simply tackling it. - Qermaq - (^T/C)  09:20, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

Featured Article Noms

Is there some reason you added every form of Strong Bad page to the featured article nominations? Not all of them deserve to be featured, imo, and indiscriminately nominating articles will simply slow the process down. — Bassbone (^{TALK CONT}) 06:59, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

Why must you be so negative about me?

What is wrong with my contributions? I'm just trying to help. Why do you hate my additions?

Actually, M, most of your edits are quite good. There are times when we all make edits which are not going to stay, though. Don't worry, you're doing well.

BTW, I noticed you were marking edits minor. That should be reserved for reverting vandalism, spelling corrections, formatting, that sort of the thing. But if you change the content of the page, even a little, it's a major edit. See Help:Editing for the whole shebang. Again, keep up the good work! - Qermaq - (^T/C)  22:17, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

What I'm just trying to explain is that most things I send in are deleted. I'm just trying to help. Maybe you can give me a hand. Can you tell what I can and can't do so that no one is quite so objectionable about my efforts? Thanks.

Let me be the first to say that I immensely appreciate your efforts. You tirelessly work to improve this wiki without spending the majority of your time on User or Talk pages. Looking at your contributions, you've made over 400 article contributions, and only 8 talk edis! While applauding your efforts on being such an efficient worker, I would suggest that being involved in community discussion more will help you choose to create excellent articles that benifit the wiki to a greater degree. You seem like a very intelligent, level headed editor, one that would be well respected when giving insights and suggestions in discussions. Often there can be more work to be done cleaning up pages, such as the NYU Talk, rather than creating new ones. As a minor suggestion, getting into the habit of signing your talk page posts with four tildes ~~~~ will help you make a bigger name for yourself here. I just want to reiterate just how much I do appreciate your selfless work here though, and I hope that you continue your efforts. ⇔Thunderbird⇔ 17:44, 1 June 2006 (UTC) P.S. Have you considered providing an email address under your preferences? Your email will remain anonymous to those sending you emails, as they are sent through the wiki unless you reply to them.

I posted this on the article's discussion page, but you might have missed it. You are a good writer, MHarrington. You do a good job of formatting articles right off the bat. You even include all the necessary categories upon creation. However, many people seem to be trying so hard to think of an article to write that often times the article doesn't have a solid foundation of true references from the site. Again, I encourage you to continue contributing, mostly by improving existing articles. E.L. Cool has also suggested that you can help us improve the stub articles. —BazookaJoe 18:01, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Well, the truth is I did try to improve the stub articles, but I just can't find anything to improve them with. MHarrington 06:07, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

Feet/Inches

Re: this edit: have you ever seen This Is Spinal Tap? A similar mixup between inches and feet led to a rock and roll disaster. - Qermaq - (^T/C)  21:05, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

I never thought of that. Thanks. MHarrington 17:59, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

inprogress

Please, if you're not going to be editing a transcript for a significant amount of time, remove the "inprogress" tag from the section. The transcript for keep cool was deadlocked for an hour when you left the tag but did not make any edits. --Jay (Gobble) 22:29, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

I suddenly realized my mistake when I noticed that you were not the one who replaced the inprogress tag. My mistake. --Jay (Gobble) 22:32, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Re: http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=cliffhangers&curid=27766&diff=368053&oldid=368051&rcid=318126 - did you see the "inprogress" template? Please don't edit sections which have that template. - Qermaq - (^T/C)  02:26, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

I did see the inprogress template, but why can't I edit sections that have that template? Isn't that why it's there? To add in more? MHarrington 02:36, 19 September 2006 (UTC)