User talk:Enchanter
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I wonder if you are anyone I know. Deb
- No - not to my knowledge, at least! Enchanter
Welcome! London is awesome... I plan to be there in late August. I noticed your interest in languages; do you plan to contribute any to the non-English Wikipedias? --Chuck Smith
- I don't contribute to the non-English Wikipedias, but I do look out for articles in the other Wikipedias to translate into English (mainly from French and German). Hopefully we will start to see some of the non-English Wikipedias really take off - then they would be a fantastic source of new material.
Hello, in searching Google to see if it was ever going to reindex wikipedia (yes, it finally has) I noticed that some of the articles I worked on were on the first page of search results (this alarmed me rather than appeasing me--I added another 2 paragraphs to one of them).
I've since gone through and searched mav's page and LDC's and found a few dozen articles which are on the first page of google results, and quite a few which are the first or second page listed. I thought this might be a useful thing to know because it points out high profile articles that we might want to be especially certain are complete, accurate, and neutral. (there's some talk about this at user talk:Maveric149).
Anyway, mav pointed out that I might want to stop doing the work manually because you may know of a way to do it automagically. Do you?
Thanks, --KQ 23:23 Sep 1, 2002 (PDT)
- No, I don't think there's an easy way of doing that automagically. Those pages are a great idea though - keep up the good work! Enchanter 15:07 Sep 2, 2002 (PDT)
- user:The Epopt came up with a Perl script that does it; he mentioned it earlier today (Sept. 2) in a post to wikipedia-l. I hope it proves useful. :-) --KQ
I see you are fixing some American links - great job. However a direct link to the United States would probably be best (this point forward, no need to change what has already been done). --mav
Hello Tim,
I saw you had staked a claim to Unemployment and related topics. I have just added NAIRU. I would be happy for you to review it and link it as you see fit.
Thanks - alan (Alan Peakall 14:01 Oct 23, 2002 (UTC))
Thanks for the tips, Tim. You're a busy man ... [boom!]
I do plan to stick around, especially since so many of the beer and jazz links appear to be incomplete. I've also spread the word about Wikipedia.
-- Rethunk
I just want to thank you for all your hard work on making the Wikipedia:Help page a truly easy to use utility. I am amazed at how quickly most new contributors learn the ropes around here and I am convinced that a large part of that is due to the ease of finding out how to do things. Kudos! --mav
Responded to question from KF on m:Talk:What wikipedia thinks it is
Okay, you're sysop on meta. --Brion 23:59 Feb 13, 2003 (UTC)
Thanks for the sort out on the various "Latin" articles. That's much better :) -- sannse 07:28 Mar 5, 2003 (UTC)
Thanks for the help! I got totally lost with my tenses on van der Lubbe. Danny
Hi Enchanter, it think it's time to regenerate the "most wanted stubs" page, as many articles mentionned there are no longer stubs. I could remove them by hand, but if you can do that automatically... --FvdP 22:21 12 Jun 2003 (UTC)
- Done Enchanter 00:07 13 Jun 2003 (UTC)
Thanks for the comments, I've responded to them here. Please do let me know your further thinking. Thanks again for the input. Alex756 12:03, 7 Sep 2003 (UTC)
- More comments added... Alex756 22:30, 7 Sep 2003 (UTC)~
Hi Enchanter. Nice to meet you. A word of advice: you want to be careful unblocking IPs without first examining the evidence. That 80.225.x.x vandal made some decent edits but he also did some 100% pure vandalism on at least three different articles. Please don't do that without considering it very carefully. (If in doubt, discuss with another sysop first - sometimes a second opinion helps a lot.) With that said, he's obviously on dial-up with rotating IPs, same as Michael, so there is no reason to leave blocks up for more than a short while. He does seem to be someone who just might turn into a worthwhile contributor if handled gently and firmly, seems to know his insects well, so I guess we just have to keep an eye on him and see which way he goes. Best -- Tannin 00:53, 28 Sep 2003 (UTC)
- Hi Tannin - to clarify, the reasons I lifted the ban were:
- At the time of the banning, he was involved in a content dispute over Peterborough, where he was making some reasonable points. We need to be very careful to avoid even the slightest perception that banning might have been used to try to settle a content dispute.
- Banning is for persistent vandalism only - where only a few pages have been vandalised we can easily just revert them. This user had made a small number of vandalism edits and a fair number of good edits.:
Enchanter 22:14, 28 Sep 2003 (UTC)
Could you take a look at recent history of Political economy? Stirling Newberry made massive changes I just reverted. Although you and I have had our differences regarding this article, I'd value your views on his changes. Slrubenstein
Hi
You might be interested to know that there is an economics article Labor market nominated for Wikipedia:Featured article candidates. If you have the time, could you take a look and leave any comments that you feel are appropriate. mydogategodshat 04:10, 9 Mar 2004 (UTC)