User talk:Warshy
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Essjay 06:05, May 31, 2005 (UTC)
Thank you for the welcome and for the tips, Essjay. I am on a learning curve regarding how to publish stuff here, but I'm making some progress. I've figured out already at least one of the ways to sign a new page, such as Warshy 15:26, 31 May 2005 (UTC) Thanks again.
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[edit] You cannot reword a quoted document
You cannot reword a quoted document because it doesn't conform to Wikipedia style or because you don't like the wording! - Jmabel | Talk 22:46, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Explanation to Mr. Mabel
I wasn't trying to reword the document. I was trying to correct a link that was incorrect. There was no Wikipedia page about the Viaux coup attempt the link alluded to. Instead, the link was pointing to the Rene Schneider page, where the Viaux coup attempt was also mentioned, with a material to an existing Wikipedia page about Robert Viaux.
What I didn't know how to do, and what you have now done in correcting my misguided attempt at correction, is to make the Wikilink name, that points to a different page, not appear in the reading text of the page. You then later explained to me what you had done, which I didn't know how to do, in the following manner:
"Wikilinks have two parts: the display text and the target. When the two parts are identical, you just use the one piece of content (e.g. Georges Danton). If, however, you want to display text that differs from the target, you do it like this: Danton. That will display visibly as just "Danton", but will link the same place. This is also very useful when referenencing a secion of an article, thus ethnicbreakdown of the breakaway province."
Thanks for the explanation. Now I know how to do it, and hopefully, someone else reading this, will not fall into the same wiki "trap."warshy 12:08, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Greek
Thanks for your message. No, unfortunately I do not read or write Classical Greek, but I am willing to learn. Happy new year! —Viriditas | Talk 20:02, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Scholem
I honestly don't remember what my source was for the information about Scholem, most likely I translated bits from the Hebrew language Wikipedia. I don't speak Italian. I may also have opened a book, but I can't think what book it was (this was before Wikipedia started putting such an emphasis on sourcing). And I added a tidbit of information from my own knowledge, the fact that he was married to Fania (the two were neighbors of my grandparents). --woggly 05:33, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
- Take another look at the history of the article, you might find it enlightening. You can track the evolution of the article by clicking on the dates in the history page. Yes, I did create the article in December 2004, but I wrote nothing about the division into three stages. This is what I wrote: [1] A few weeks later, another user, Anyfile, who apparantly speaks Italian but not the best English, added a lump of text to the bottom, which he/she had translated from the Italian Wikipedia: [2]. I then revisted the article and attempted to touch up the English and blend the new text into the old, adding the comment some corrections, still needs major cleanup and fact checking: [3]. By tracking the article from "diff" to "diff" (from one edit to the next) it should be possible for you to identify which editor is reponsible for precisely which sentences in the text. You can ask Anyfile about the Italian. --woggly 15:23, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
