Hello, BenTrem and a belated welcome to Wikipedia! I see that you've already been around awhile and wanted to thank you for your contributions. Though you seem to have been successful in finding your way around, you may benefit from following some of the links below, which help one get the most out of Wikipedia. If you have any questions you can ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or by typing four tildes "~~~~"; this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you are interested in learning more about contributing, you might want to consider being "adopted" by a more experienced editor or joining a WikiProject to collaborate with others in creating and improving articles of your interest. Click here for a directory of all the WikiProjects. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Happy editing! Red Director (talk) 19:56, 16 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry for the delay in getting back to you. I meant nothing but positive intentions in that welcome message. The template used is designed for editors that have been around the block a time or two but never received a formal welcome. The simplicity of using a boilerplate template to welcome users seems rather mechanic but I will try to respond to any questions. You seem to have made some great contributions on here on topics you have some familiarity on. Keep up what you are doing for the big picture here. Every positive edit helps in the grand scheme. Red Director (talk) 02:38, 20 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Greets - One of Mediawiki's many problems: this sort of back and forth is nothing like threaded, so I dont' see what I wrote you. I hope I wasn't too antagonistic. 40+ years in technical communications and this era has rubbed me raw.
"The template" ... did you use a template? I don't think I knew that. I certainly did not.
Ah, boilerplate ... fine stuff, now we're in sync. I always advise against boilerplate. Sort of like prompting a person to eat a hamburger of cardboard rather than beef. My personal opinion, but I stand by it.
"Every positive edit helps in the grand scheme." I find this confusing. Did I make a positive edit? if so, then all of this is absurd ... literally. But also: you're telling someone who was hosting and editing wike before MediaWiki was a twinkle in anybody's eye. Why do you feel the need to explain what for me is ridiculously obvious? I have an idea: you use boilerplate which does not respond to nor address actualities. And then (quite happily) play catch-up.
