User talk:Philpotomous: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 21:18, 31 July 2007

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First edit

The first edit i made was a minor one, the sentence used the term "virtual holocaust" which i changed to holocaust and rearranged the sentence, but i believe the meaning is the same. the reason i did this was because the word "virtual" could be confused. it was a real holocaust, not a virtual one, as in Virtual beings. --Philpotomous

The edit was fine. Not everything is her is well worded, because there are many contributors and it's a lot of work to really check everything. So if you come across other bad phrases or outright errors, just correct them :)

Also, please sign your comments on talk pages with four tildes: --~~~~ --Serenity 10:14, 31 July 2007 (CDT)

You don't need the whole nowiki thing. Just two dashes and four tildes, and it'll expand to --Catrope^{(Talk to me or e-mail me)} 16:02, 31 July 2007 (CDT)

Yeah, what nowiki does is not parsing any wiki-coding. If you use the four tildes by themselves, they will automatically translate into your name and a timestamp. So you don't need to type those by hand. --Serenity 16:18, 31 July 2007 (CDT)

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 We look forward to your contributions to the Battlestar Wiki community!
 --[[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support|Donate]] - [http://www.sanctuarywiki.org Sanctuary Wiki &mdash; ''New'']</sup> 09:49, 31 July 2007 (CDT)
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+== First edit ==
+The first edit i made was a minor one, the sentence used the term "virtual holocaust" which i changed to holocaust and rearranged the sentence, but i believe the meaning is the same.  the reason i did this was because the word "virtual" could be confused.  it was a real holocaust, not a virtual one, as in [[Virtual beings]].  --[[User:Philpotomous|Philpotomous]]
+:The edit was fine. Not everything is her is well worded, because there are many contributors and it's a lot of work to really check everything. So if you come across other bad phrases or outright errors, just correct them :)
+:Also, please sign your comments on talk pages with four tildes: <nowiki>--~~~~</nowiki> --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 10:14, 31 July 2007 (CDT)
+:You don't need the whole nowiki thing. Just two dashes and four tildes, and it'll expand to --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope|e-mail me]])</sup> 16:02, 31 July 2007 (CDT)
+::Yeah, what nowiki does is '''not''' parsing any wiki-coding. If you use the four tildes by themselves, they will automatically translate into your name and a timestamp. So you don't need to type those by hand. --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 16:18, 31 July 2007 (CDT)