User talk:82.212.68.183

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    It's a shame to add this after chewing you out and whipping you with a wet noodle! One of the perils of being on the welcoming committee, I guess! See WP:Wc for some good reference links under see also!FrankB

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  • Your IP is a powerful weapon in the hands of a Black Hat hacker who can attack you in several disadvantageous ways, if something so mild can be applied to an induced hard drive failure, along side identity theft, etc.! But more to the point, a Wikipedia user name is portable and even more anonymonous than an IP. It can also be used to send and recieve email anonomynously to other wikipedians without risk of revealing your identity.
  • You can use it anywhere, world-wide, and it need never change. If you've caught the 'wikiBug', it also helps identify your edits, in time, as one's not needing constant checking and monitoring, freeing up others to do their own preferred wikipedia work. Then again, the benefit of a watchlist is powerful if you care about the topics you added. Having such, allows you to interact in the dynamic and friendly wikipedian online community, and utilize resources you have no access to as an 'Anom' contributor.
  • I'm a member of the welcoming committee and dedicated to helping new comers learn what they need at their own pace, so do feel free to email me or contact me on my talk page at user talk:fabartus about any little thing. Note 'nickname' or my signature is a bit different! Click on either color and see why! Best wishes,// FrankB 23:12, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

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Thank you for your imput, however I still think that it is fine to use the format and layout. --Wisden17 17:32, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] All reverted--Bad timing now!

Hey! re: rv 7 September 2006 82.212.68.183 uninformed changes... these won't work on all sites with your alterations.

Congrats! I just more than doubled my total reverts on all the wiki's IN OVER 7,000 edits, give or take in two years! Good job! (Not!) MY, oh, my! You were enthusiastic! Why didn'y you post a query? Try email if in a hurry, though I've been off wiki most of today!

I know your intentions were good, but the logical test you removed is currently a Right Thing, while we work out the details and overall design of these templates. Besides, I HATE REDLINKS, and your version will create such on most sister's. For the moment, it's important that all versions be identical on all the sister's. Eventually, we may evolve to your form on all but the home template, which here on en.wp or Meta, is moot... but not otherwise!

Whilst the templates are 'generally' useless as a self-reference in their home space, they can be used to tag, create, or reach the sister templates XXXXXtmp1, XXXXXtmp2, depending, or another template name from inside a preview window. This obviously aids transfering several versions of new files from offline files on their home site. Your version won't allow that. A 'commons:' prefix dies on the commons, a 'wikiquote:' (or q:) dies on Wikiquote, a 'Wikisource:' dies on Wikisource, etc., and all giving bad links. The only two that work on their own site are 'w:' and 'm:'. The standardized form was chosen as an iterim convienience to easily cut and paste changes from one to another less evolved template. This is a WIP, AFTER ALL!

Note the logic is written for them (See one with interwiki's, say Template:Metatmp (edit talk links history)) to serve as dual source code for one alternative need solution in the system. This method may be depreciated once things settle in favor of say blanking the 'SITE' template call in the array displayed by the interwikitmp-grps autotagging and control templates. Until that analysis is completed, along with a fuller picture of the different sister's category systems, please leave this system alone. I'll be glad to collaborate, as I am via email with several, but... well... 'WIP', so for now, just remember your good intentions and the waste of both our time. (I don't have enough to spare, do you? <g>) Don't forget what they say about good intentions and Hell! Cheers! // FrankB 23:00, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks!

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Best wishes, David Kernow (talk) 09:40, 16 May 2007 (UTC)