User talk:Goplat

Hello Goplat and welcome to Wikipedia! Hope you like it here, and stick around.

Here are some tips to help you get started:

To sign your posts (on talk pages, for example) use the '~' symbol. To insert just your name, type ~~~ (3 tildes), or, to insert your name and timestamp, use ~~~~ (4 tildes).
Try the Tutorial, and feel free to experiment in the test area.
If you need help, post a question at the Help Desk
Follow the Wikipedia:Simplified Ruleset
Eventually, you might want to read the Manual of Style and Policies and Guidelines.
Remember Wikipedia:Neutral point of view
Explore, be bold in editing pages, and, most importantly, have fun!

Good luck!

Thank you

I truly appreciate the effort you made in trying to eliminate the B-Movie Bandit once and for all. Unfortunately he's back, he's reverting articles and it's business as usual for the jerk. Others are still happily formatting these stupid things since, heaven forbid, information must not be lost! Result: I've lost whatever interest that I had in contributing to this project. I'm not blanking my pages, but nor am I planning on returning. Best way to reach me during the week is my work e-mail: production@dc.rr.com. I'm there during business hours at UTC minus 7. - Lucky 6.9 04:56, 10 Sep 2004 (UTC)

{welcome}

I'll use subst: from now on. Usually forget about it, so thanks. Whosyourjudas (talk) 00:25, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Welcome message

In the past when I've used {{subst:welcome}} instead of {{welcome}} the part of the message where the sig tildes are demonstrated inserts my sig and time stamps instead of staying as tildes, which is why I don't use it. I just tried it at my sandbox though and it didn't do that, so I'll start using it if there are no more problems. -- Graham ☺ | Talk 01:25, 1 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Hi. I noticed youre the one who removed the "unnecessary and confusing pipelinks" which I had spent good time adding. I note that youre new here so I wont bust your chops too much, but I dont think that you knew the point of those "unnecessary" links was so that Google would cache them as direct links, and thereby we can access WP:ML for example quickly through Google and other search engines. Though not as "necessary" as air, water, and WWF wrestling, they nevertheless proved useful, and in anycase took a lot of time to do: you might consider taking some time to re-do them now that they no longer are as confusing. (here is the diff) Thanks. -S V 02:41, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Saw youve made some progress. :)

Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
Multi-Licensing Guide
Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

OR

Option 2

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

worthless redirects

please stop :( gren

Ok, I understand now. I was just intrigued to see a user with so many decent contributions start doing that... but now it makes sense. Since you were fixing his mess it's only reasonable that I fixed some of the redirects created. Thanks for clearing that up *sheepish look*

Nice work finding the page moves. I'm confused on how you are finding out which pages have been moved, though. I'd like to help out, but I've never found an easy way to find the moves that need to be undone. Can you educate me on that? - Nunh-huh 00:40, 25 Dec 2004 (UTC)