 | This user may have left Wikipedia. Niteowlneils has not edited Wikipedia since December 26, 2006. As a result, any requests made here may not receive a response. If you are seeking assistance, you may need to approach someone else. |
FAQ (answers to frequently asked questions):
- You seem to be reviewing all my edits {or words to that effect}?
- That may or may not be true, but you shouldn't worry about it or take it personally. Most of my time on Wikipedia is spent running thru lists of articles checking for light 'housekeeping' issues--format, punctuation, grammar, typos, etc. Where I get the lists is pretty immaterial to me--sometimes they're from Newpages, sometimes Recent changes, sometimes 'what links here', sometimes from other people's contrib lists, etc.--I've used all those sources and others multiple times, and will probably continue to do so, as I get bored editing from lists from just one of the sources. It is also possible that it is just coincidence--if you added or changed a bunch of articles in a row, I may encounter all of them working Newpages or Recent changes lists, etc.
- Why do you put a comma before 'and' and 'or' in a serial list (serial comma)?
- Per Wikipedia Manual of Style: Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#Commas [I am aware there is a proposal to change this, but I don't want to have to check the status of that proposal every day. Besides, over 4 years and 500,000 articles into the project I think is WAY too late to be making such sweeping changes, at least without a very compelling reason, and I see no such compelling reason in this case.]
- Why do you make most words in headers all lowercase?
- Per Wikipedia Manual of Style: Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style_(headings)#Capitalisation
- Why do you not speedy delete orphan redirects?
- Redirects from common misspellings and alternate spellings, capitalizations (EG Uss wadsworth for USS Wadsworth), words, or phrases help users of the Search box find what they're looking for, as well as prevent accidental duplication of existing articles. For example, note the redirs to Mahatma Gandhi[1]. Relevant guideline: Wikipedia:Redirect#What_do_we_use_redirects_for.3F
I am registered at a couple other Wikipedias, but this is the only one I'm likely to see messages on in any reasonable time frame.
User talk:Niteowlneils/Archive1 (20040224-20040925) User talk:Niteowlneils/Archive2 (20040927-20041115) User talk:Niteowlneils/Archive3 (20041116-20041220) User talk:Niteowlneils/Archive4 (20041220-20041220) User talk:Niteowlneils/Archive5 (20050101-20050331) User talk:Niteowlneils/Archive6 (20050401-20050806)