User talk:Quywompka

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[edit] Welcome!

Hello Quywompka! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! SunStar Nettalk 14:37, 30 January 2007 (UTC) Getting started Wikipedia tutorial • The five pillars of Wikipedia How to: edit a page • upload an image Getting help Frequently asked questions Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and guidelines Neutral point of view • Reliable sources Verifiability • Citing sources • No original research What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons Manual of Style • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Fair use • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The community Build consensus • Resolving disputes Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • No legal threats Community Portal • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Things to do Be bold in editing • Help develop an article Pages needing attention • Peer review Join a WikiProject • Translating articles Cleaning up: General • Spam • Vandalism Miscellaneous Categories • Disambiguity • Stubs User pages • Talk pages Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

--SunStar Net^talk 14:37, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "Sunday" and the name

Nice work. And thanks. --Lenin and McCarthy | (Complain here) 14:09, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image

I see you managed to work out how to do it. If you want any more help, please feel free to ask! --sunstar net^talk 14:38, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Book Infobox

please note that the Preceded by/Followed by feature of the book infobox is only meant to present related works in a series, not simply the works the writer has done before/after the one discussed. Thus, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, for example, is followed by Ulysses which presents the same characters and continues Dedalus's story. Exiles, though chronologically coming between the two texts, does not relate to them otherwise and so should not be included in the infobox. Thanks. AshcroftIleum 04:48, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

As I've commented on your own Userpage, I won't fight you over the editing of Infoboxes; there's more important things to worry about in this life. But I don't agree with you. An encyclopaedia is useful in so far as it helps a reader who consults it to find out about something. If the encyclopedia requires that reader to have acquired arcane - and, in this case, fairly pointless - knowledge of its own rubric, it becomes less useful.

The way the Joyce boxes were set up before you edited them, it was possible to scroll through Joyce's work at the click of a mouse and gain a sense of the chronology of its production. That's useful, and gives Wikipedia an edge over, say, the Encyclopaedia Britannica. You might not recommend it for every author, but for Joyce - who published a grand total of seven books in his lifetime - it works well.

Your reasoning for breaking those links - that only Ulysses is technically a sequel to A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - may be correct, but it gives a misleading impression of both works. I have never heard anyone describe Ulysses as a sequel to Portrait, nor does Wikipedia itself (currently) make such a claim. I would agree that, of all Joyce's work, those two plus Pomes Penyeach and Exiles are the most directly autobiographical, in the sense that they contain characters whose lives very closely resemble Joyce's own. Nor does a Wikipedia Book Infobox itself indicate that "preceded by" and "succeeded by" refers only to sequels. An ordinary reader would assume, as I did, that in those particular boxes, the expressions were referring to the order in which Joyce produced his works.

By all means, edit as much as you like on Wikipedia pages, including this one. But in this instance, your editing has weakened Wikipedia. That's is a pity because - as I can see from some of your other contributions - that you have some talent both as a writer and an editor.

--Quywompka 10:39, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Persian literature

Hi!

Persian literature was previously a GA. However it was silent about contemporary literature. I added information about "contemporary persian literature". The section needs copyediting and also shortening. In case you are interested in the subject, I would like to ask you to help me in improving the article. Thanks alot.Sangak 16:29, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your kind helps. I watch the article closly as it is undergoing copyedits. I will recheck everything when the first round of copyediting is finished. Thank you very much. Take care. Sangak 09:30, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

PS: I am working on Abbas Kiarostami. It is now a FA candidate. It would be great if you could take a look at it and comment on it here for further improvements. Sangak ^Talk 16:52, 2 March 2007 (UTC)