User talk:ChildofMidnight/talk

This page is for meta-discussion of my talk page.

Meta talk

I would like to applaud CoM for opening up discussion of the discussion. Perhaps an announcement could be made so folks will come here to discuss the merits or punishability of, for instance, correcting grammar on comments on his talk page about comments on other talk pages. And then we can all pile on! Drmies (talk) 04:02, 21 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

And if I may be meta-bold, I'd like to applaud my own applause here. There. Drmies (talk) 04:02, 21 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Saving electrons / rhetorical questions / snarky editors

Drmies suggested that a rhetorical question-asking editor save electrons by not asking such questions. However:

since the question was rhetorical, it could be expected that no answer was to be provided (hence no further electrons wasted); and
Drmies's comment used additional electrons,

wouldn't it be reasonable to ask Drmies not to waste electrons by responding to rhetorical questions? Bongomatic 04:15, 21 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think this is the right forum for such a question: there is an energy-efficient meta-talk page on Earth Day, I believe. But in the interest of saving energy,

A new argument for short sigs. BM 05:06, 21 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

No offense but I already associate the initials BM with something... ChildofMidnight (talk) 05:18, 21 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, we all do. But there's no way you could confuse a signature with that "BM". Bongomatic 05:27, 21 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Why does typing less save electrons? Isn't there some law about the conservation of matter? Are electrons matter? And are we really talking about electrons or electricity? If it's electricity, does typing things use electricity? Maybe the discussion should be about saving bandwith or server space? But then it has nothing to with Earth Day. Or does it? Am I posting these questions in the right place or should this be discussed on the regular talk page? ChildofMidnight (talk) 17:55, 21 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

They should probably be discussed on this page's talk page. Bongomatic 23:19, 21 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I would like to second that. We really need a talk page to discuss this talk page. Trusilver 22:22, 22 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Improper use of the talk page

This is complete inappropriate use of ChildofMidnight's talk page; questions regarding CoM's talk page should be addressed on the talk page's talk page, not on the talk page. In answer to the question, I think one day in Dr. Mies' lasts approximately a fortnight.--kelapstick (talk) 23:38, 22 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yeh, but the way things are going, the talk page's talk page will soon need its own talk page. Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots 00:05, 23 April 2009 (UTC) Silly me, Trusilver already said that. And now everyone's repeating it around the club. I hear Trusilver has a brother named Quiksilver. He's got a mercurial personality. Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots 00:07, 23 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

More meta talk

Consider this diff. Is the first edit kosher? And once "day" is changed to "month," could one (someone else than the original author) remove the comment since it no longer applies, perhaps with one of those cool Done marks in the edit summary? (After all, it's an assignment of sorts that I was specifically asked to ponder.) Do templates work in an edit summary? And the edit to CoM's comment, should I have brought it up here for consensus, or should one ask a friendly administrator to intervene? That would take some of the fun out of it, especially if in some alternate reality CoM were the administrator one asks for approval of this particular edit. I think we need a talk page for edit summaries (I mean a separate talk page for every single edit summary), just to stay on the safe side.

Which reminds me, I believe we should be able to edit edit summaries--I've found, more than once, that I made a typo in an edit summary. Let's start by enabling each registered user in good standing to be allowed to edit their own edit summaries, with an edit summary czar who can oversee the process and has the power to intervene and edit anyone's edit summary, perhaps on special request after due notification on an administrator's message board--or in a secret courtroom somewhere in the basement. Thoughts? Steamed clams to go with those thoughts, anyone? Drmies (talk) 05:13, 23 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
(comment boldly refactored by CoM to...) Is it okay that I changed "day" to "month"? Also, I think we need a talk page for edit summaries and to be able to go back and edit edit summaries. Thoughts? Drmies (talk) 05:13, 23 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

~~You've got a drinking problem.~~ I haven't had enough to drink. ChildofMidnight (talk) 05:27, 23 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I read the wp:refactoring page, and as I understand it I'm empowered to trim lengthy comments to the most pertinent bits. I have done so. :)

(comment unfairly refactored by Dr. to...) I'm empowered [and have a] lengthy [and] pertinent bit.ChildofMidnight (talk) 05:32, 23 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Two can play that game. Drmies (talk) 22:09, 23 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I have restored the original and refactored versions of our comments. This has been a very interesting use of the meta-talk page, just the kind of discussion it was designed for and that's so desperately needed on Wikipedia, where there are so few places to discuss irrelevancies and to banter back and forth. Now, what have we learned? ChildofMidnight (talk) 22:34, 23 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]