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Hi, welcome to Wikipedia! You've found the talk page. Now say something. It doesn't really matter what. Try responding to someone's comment, or experiment with bullets and numbering. Isomorphic 00:19, 10 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Why even mention the ~~~, when adding the date helps a lot and only costs one letter? pstudier 02:47, 2004 Apr 10 (UTC)
- 'cause, sometimes, for example when voting in a poll, it's cleaner to just use your username. Gentgeen
- But normally, I think he's right. micahbales
- I concur. --Goobergunch 23:59, 6 Jul 2004 (UTC)
- But normally, I think he's right. micahbales
Why do they have "talk pages" in the first place? Why not forums? it is so much easier and organised. There could still be the creation or posting to a topic about a specific articles. Then you couldn't edit what people said. There could also be various sections like "Wikipedia Feature Requests" In which I could request say, saving a draft to your profile that isn't public. In this way you could work on an article over multiple days and then put it up. Maybe its a good idea to use this site's wiki stuff for the talking as well, but forums would be a definite improvement. There could also be forums for "User advice" which would certaintly be useful. I could ask if I should create a new article or add it to an already existing article, or ask questions about the best style for an article. Currently I'm writing an article in sort of a tutorial form where the reader "discovers" the content (sounds corny I know), while it seems like it ought to be virtually a list of facts with an example. Do you agree/disagree? Thoughts? --DivisionByZero 05:58, Jul 14, 2004 (UTC)
- A separate Forum for each of a quarter million plus articles? That would be a vast resource hog. --148.87.1.171 21:50, 5 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- Google would probably have to host it (and might still have to scrap 'G-Mail' to have enough resources) --198.50.4.4 23:01, 27 Aug 2004 (UTC)
--Kaniaz 08:50, 21 Jun 2004 (UTC)
- "Should have studied" would be correct grammar. (Think about it: "Have you studied?" "No, but I should have." If you're still not convinced, consider the contraction "should've" -- clearly, the root words are "should have." -- fuper (not logged in)
- Perhaps this person was mentioning someone named Should who is from Studied. In the case that Studied is a place it ought to be capitalized. (Oh yeah, test) Dustinasby 03:57, 27 Aug 2004 (UTC)
No need to study - attend the University of Life instead. It's free, much more interesting, the lecturers occasionally stage fistfights (at which your participation may or may not be optional!) and there's only one way to graduate: feet first.
Ecb 22:09, Jun 21, 2004 (UTC)
Will this work?
Will this work better?
this will work best
This will work even better!
My dog has dice
- My cat has cans of corn
- My tui has tapes of tartans
- My gannet has gaps in his grapes
- My tui has tapes of tartans
I can't help it!
- It's the best thing around.
- She'd get very mad if she heard.
- She would?
Tell me, tell me,
- where I'm going,
- I don't know where it ends
Mona-Lynn 10:50, 1 Sep 2004 (UTC)
gezz
- ickles
- ickles
- ickles
- ickles
Hi, I'm Tracey Lowndes!
- No you aren't. I am. So you can't be, sorry.
Is this cool?
Or is this more cool
- I have no idea
And this must be how it all works in practice... SteveH 16:40, 16 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Unregistered
196.29.130.223 14:39, 20 Jul 2004 (UTC) unregistered users can comment I don't get this really
Test
How will this look? Khalid 08:10, Jul 23, 2004 (UTC)
This is an inane comment heading!
This precursor to the inane comment the heading refers to!
I like balloons.
- And I like PostgreSQL
Midget 18:06, 10 Aug 2004 (UTC)
This Page
Well out of all the discussion tutorials I've seen
- this is the best.
- nice layout
- helpful advice
- elephants mentioned
- green, nice touch
But it could be improved.
- More elephants
- Other colours, e.g. purple
- Expand the section on Neptune
--81.6.253.240 17:39, 25 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Sgeo
Why doesn't ~ work? Sgeo 02:00, 31 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Just A Test
Texture's page is really nice.
- The layout is quite user-friendly.
- Yes it is :-)
Midget 18:01, 10 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Me Too!!
don't indent
- indent
- indent twice
- just one more indentation
- indent twice
This Pneuhaus Guy Knows Something About Headings!
- foo
- bar
- bla
- fasel
here is a post
- here is a response
- here is another response
text is sexy
- text is
- what text does.
- how
- will
- this
- work
- this
- ?
I'm not sure about the french
Believe It Or Not!!
Horizontal
Rulers
Rule!
Pneuhaus 14:57, 2004 Aug 16 (UTC)
Nice shortcuts
It bugs me no end when techies take shortcuts which they assume us luddites will understand. For example:
- For years the county library computers instructed users to hit "return" when there was no such key on the board. Sure, it was easy enough for the youngsters to figure out, but the rest of us?
- This page said to hit "make a comment". Of course, there was no such key for this. How was I to guess to hit the "+" key. Suppose this was some critical task I was looking to do. Treat this like the accurate document you want it to be, wikkies.
- Same thing for making "internal links"? Did I miss something in the "how to edit" instructions? or was I just s'posed to stumble upon the multicolored menu bar that younger word processing types automatically seek out?
- This "griping" is mostly just for wikking practice. Sfahey 21:22, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)
talk talk talk. Elephant talk.
Funkyj 18:24, 2004 Aug 23 (UTC)
- Are you fond of elephants, good sir? Lizzie 06:17, 27 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Greetings
New "not real literate" guy here.
- uh oh wrong button
- meh
Phewsha
The slow purple ant crawled under the polka dot pig. Nite Mirror 05:04, 2 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Good Call