User talk:Gsp
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[edit]HammerFall
[edit]Hello, Gsp! You made a good start by editing HammerFall. That article is one of my projects, and I appreciate very much the work you have done on it. I hope you stay here for a long time, as there is no such thing as "too many copy editors". Cheers! --Sn0wflake 01:31, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
Re: monobook.js opera problem
[edit]Try adding a period (.) after the equals sign in the regex; i.e. "if (/basepage=/" changed to "if (/basepage=./". I don't have a copy of opera hanging around, so that may not work; if not, just let me know. I'm basically guessing here. If you use IRC, we could meet up in #wikipedia and try things faster. I'd like to get this solved. JesseW 19:13, 2 August 2005 (UTC)
Re: Speedy spelling edits
[edit]Hi Gsp, thanks for the kind words :)
I don't use a bot to do my spell-checking (although there is one out there). I just started out by noticing spelling mistakes on random pages, took a note of them, searched for them, and then spell-checked the articles I found. Things just grew from there! I find that using a tabbed browser and a decent spellchecker helps streamline the process a lot.
What I like about my approach, as opposed to using the spelling bot, is that I'm constantly finding new spelling mistakes rather than just working of a list of known typos. Cmdrjameson 20:47, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
Greetings! I'm very sorry to have caused a potential for misunderstanding with the edits I made. In your message to me it sounds like you understand how things work here, and appreciate things for the right reasons. I can assure you that it wasn't because there was anything wrong with the info as such, just that it was the wrong info for an encyclopaedia article. It is for the same reasons that we don't have recipes for different dishes listed as articles. An example of what I mean can be found at the pushing hands article, where we talk about the theory and practical implications, but we don't tell people how to push. We have similar training in my style, but in the article I would have to mention it in the abstract (and indeed, I may add something about it to the article someday). If you were to refactor the info a bit, make it more third person, then it would be a great addition to the (admittedly small) article. Again, I'm sorry to have caused a misunderstanding and hope to work with you on articles in future. Another article that may interest you is the wuxia article, which needs a bit of help... Fire Star 18:07, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
Requesting comments on template alteration
[edit]Hello. I see you are using one or more of the User instruments templates in your Babel box. Inspired by some recent developments, I want to rework all the templates in there (including ones used on user pages), to make them more like the regular Babel templates. However, I thought I should hear from the people this would affect before actually doing it. Please weigh in at User:Ddawson/User instruments. Ddawson 10:36, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
Full Impact
[edit]Please see: Talk:Full Impact
Featured article for December 25th
[edit]I noticed you have listed yourself in Category:Atheist Wikipedians. That said, you will probably be interested in my suggested featured article for December 25th: Omnipotence paradox. The other suggestion being supported by others for that date is Christmas, although Raul654 has historically been against featuring articles on the same day as their anniversary/holiday. — BRIAN0918 • 2005-11-28 08:15
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