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Adoption Advice

Hi Worm That Turned,

I am adopting a user on Wikipedia, and wondered if this was sufficient for a first lesson.

Thanks, Matty.007 18:40, 3 June 2013 (UTC)

One of the great things about adoption is that both the adoptee and adopter learn a lot through the process. I would have suggested going a bit more in depth (per my equivalent lesson), but it's really got to be up to you. Worm^TT(talk) 07:46, 4 June 2013 (UTC)

OK, thanks. I will try and go into a little more depth for future lessons.

Thanks, Matty.007 16:05, 4 June 2013 (UTC)

A cookie for you!

I'm in a good mood to give a good editor a good snack Thanks, TWTT. WorldTraveller101(Trouble?/My Work) 10:05, 3 June 2013 (UTC) 21:49, 3 June 2013 (UTC)

Thank you! Worm^TT(talk) 07:46, 4 June 2013 (UTC)

Oi you! Yes you.. I can see you watching this page!

Hello,

As you are watching Worm's page I thought I would ask you if you would be able to assist in anyway with this article Police protection provisions. I have put some things on the talk page that I need help with =) Thank you very muchly!

ツStacey (talk) 11:23, 4 June 2013 (UTC)

By the way...

I looked into it, and as of two hours ago, they disabled the ability of DISPLAYTITLE to do the things you wanted it to (specifically, using display:none CSS styles to hide parts of the title). More details here; the practical upsot is that they don't want DISPLAYTITLE to be used to create displayed titles that don't copy-paste as the correct page name. Writ Keeper ⚇♔ 20:22, 4 June 2013 (UTC)

I just tried, and one can still make set the colour to #FFFFFF - presumably this could be done in concurrence with shrinking the font to almost zero as well.--Gilderien Chat|List of good deeds 20:27, 4 June 2013 (UTC)

I was considering that, but it's a bit of a pain. I'll have a think about it. Cheers for the info Writ. Worm^TT(talk) 20:33, 4 June 2013 (UTC)

(edit conflict) Two ec's, crap. OK, Writ, I'll bite. randomtextgenerator.com having a bad day? Google's translation of a 15th-century Serbo-Croat hymn into sort of English? Bishonen | talk 20:36, 4 June 2013 (UTC).

I hear the manager of this place is C.K.Watt, aged 40.Worm^TT(talk) 20:48, 4 June 2013 (UTC)

Hi Worm That Turned - adoption

I have discovered the Wikipedia "Adoption" program, found the list of people who are willing to adopt, read each person's summary and noticed that you are mentioned a time or two as a person that has "lessons" or "lesson plans" that they are using or they refer to in their personal description paragraph. I saw on the adoption listing page that you are currently accepting or looking for "adoptees" and hope that you will consider "adopting" me, WTT. I have a graduate degree and typcially have a good working knowledge of software, authoring software "user's requirements" sheets for IT Programmers, testing software programs, and I also have a wide and varied level of interests that I do have more than a passing, basic knowledge about - knowledge which I have attempted on a number of occassions to share with Wikipedia - sharing with the community in the form of edits and authoring a few pages that I ended up having trouble with because I struggle with the Wikipedia Community Posting, Approval, permissions, formatting, etc processes. I LOVE Wikipedia and, WTT, I have used it for years as my first go-to source of information for any questions that I have about anything, literally anything. I do believe that one of my pages was eventually approved - but, since I am do struggle with the basic knowledge of how things work in Wikipedia World, I can't confirm if it was fully approved and allowed to be published. Authored another page about a Cinemascope Film - had it in my "sandbox" (while I was researching rules re: image usage) and the image that I had for it was deleted - which shocked me because I thought that it was in my sandbox, that it was not posted for comments or review or whichever stage happens when authoring something and then making it visible to othersfor critique. I thought that I was the only person who was able to see it still, at that time. WTT, I give these as a couple of examples of my attempts at contributing to the community, the knowledge database, of Wikipedia, and how my efforts were simply not sufficient because of my lack of understanding even though I have thoroughly read the rules and "how to" instructions for formatting, supplying images that are legal, and even how to work on an item correctly, in a place that is my own space and not posted out for the other Wikipedia Contributors and Editors to review completed and intentionally submitted work posted for official review and then publishing. I did notice on another section on your homepage that you are not currently seeking/accepting adoptees - but, I do hope that you will consider taking me on as a adoptee - a person that, at a minimum, you can guide through your lesson plans WTT. I figure that you may be very busy with your personal like and Wikipedia Work - and, with this in mind, I was intending to find an additional adoptor, one who has some similar interests (film, WWII/European fronts, popular culture of 19th-20th Century, Left Bank Authors and Popular Culture, Cinemascope and other specialty forms of moving picture filming processes, and several other niche cultural groups and movements, including political and "religious" or idealogical social movements, including the leaders and participants occuring during the past several centuries. Along with studying academically and now personally, since this post graduate degree period of my life, the above mentioned items I should add that during grad school, the emphasis of my last 2 degrees include degree in geography/digital cartography and Master's degree that included a strong emphasis on cultural history and using statistal analysis to measure social movements (demography) - and even with this educational base, I do need help with the basics of authoring/publishing/contributing to Wikipedia and I will be searching for a person who has at least a couple of common interests and hopefully academic background to fine tune the authoring, research and citation aspects of anything published/contributed in the future, once I understand the "nuts and bolts" of the Wikipedia process that appear to be the expert in, WTT. I do want you to know that I don't exactly understand how you will reply to my request - but, it appears that I am supposed to come back to this page, is this correct? If I don't respond to any message that you leave for me, it will be because of this, WTT. I am marking off the "Watch this page" check mark box so that I should be notified if there is any action on this page, right? Rules don't allow me to leave private, personal information - such as email addy - so I will just keep checking this page and any edit flags that appear for me on my account. Thank you for your consideration in adopting me, WTT. lmc33 Lmc33 (talk) 18:09, 16 June 2013 (UTC) Lmc33 (talk) 18:07, 16 June 2013 (UTC)