User talk:Cfeyrer

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Contents 1 Welcome to the Wikipedia 2 Spoken version of Dr. Who 3 What ought to link here? 4 Audacity

[edit] Welcome to the Wikipedia

Welcome, Cfeyrer!

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[edit] Spoken version of Dr. Who

I noticed your comment darn, Dr Who is taken :(. Sadly, it probably isn't taken because Throup seems to have gone missing after a misguided deletion of one of his recordings. -SCEhardT 01:26, 9 January 2006 (UTC) Thanks but now that I think of it a British person would be more appropriate. I'm going to start working on World War I instead. --Cfeyrer 18:28, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] What ought to link here?

I don't quite get the concept, since if something is linked, it should just be linked...and if the link is deemed inappropriate it will either be removed or moved to discussion...how is what ought to link here different than a discussion page indicating such items? --Cfeyrer 05:18, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

When you fix a links which is often to the wrong page, a redirect, or a disambiguation page you often face this situation where you would like to click on "what links here" then walk through each of those links and either fix it one way, or possibly another, or just leave it alone based on the context. I gave decades vs centuries as an example. Another one I personally have run across is foot the body part vs Foot (unit of length) the measurement. In any given article you might expect foot or feet to go to the right place, but it depends on which context you are in which seems more natural and many mistakes are made. So what I am asking for is some kind of bulk editing capability.

It has been a while since I wrote that. My first reaction was for something related that I would like. "What could link here". For this there are two cases.

1. You read a page and see something you would like to link. Then you realize there is no article yet for that topic. So you make an article. Then what is the next question? "Hmm. What ought to link here?" So you would like to search for pages with certain words and decide based on the context if it is appropriate to set up the link or not.
2. The next example is for a page that already exists but often is under-linked to. I think (and I realize there are those that disagree on this point) that many year pages are examples of this. But I suspect it is widespread as topic areas develop more maturaity, depth and breadth.

--Jake 17:01, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Audacity

You were listed as a volunteer to help with spoken articles. I've downloaded Audacity, but I'm having a little trouble. I want to record individual sections and save them as files, but I can't figure out how to name the files, and most importantly, how to merge into 1 file to upload to wikipedia. Any ideas? Ccson 03:40, 31 May 2006 (UTC)