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Hello Wintermute! I don't know who you are, though I get the Neuromancer reference. I see you've made some edits to Quarry pages. These are possibly not of much use, as (for example), the article [[abjure, adjure]] is ''already'' in the main wiki. Therefore your edit to the "abjure, adjure" subheading of [[Quarry/A-Af Ungramm 15-06-06.rtf]] is likely to be lost, or require an editor to manually merge it into the article. The [[quarry]] pages are only there until we finish moving the material from them into proper articles; they are the result of an automated import from all of Peter's RTF files. In short: the only changes to be made to them should be the moving of chunks of text to articles. Cheers! -- [[User:JoachimNoreiko|JoachimNoreiko]] 17:19, 17 March 2007 (GMT)
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Thanks for your response re copyright etc. I AM confused (so what's new?).
  
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The hassle, Phil, is that changing from the old Word documents has resulted in a change of format.  (This is the result of my inexperience with wikis and software generally, I think, leading to lack of foresight.)
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1.  My point is more that I didn't write the leaflets than that it's fully a copyright (hence legal) issue.  I suppose that I don't want to get up colleagues' noses by pinching their work; and 2) (ssh!) that I don't want to get some of their more questionable advice onto AWE.  So, informally and all, I want you to be aware of the issue (in those terms), and let me know when AWE is grabbing stuff that I didn't write.  I should have explained this to you before.
  
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Where, in the case of confusable pairs (or more than 2) of words, the Word docs tend to be titled 'x, y', e.g.  
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2 The page on Advice leaflets that I have just seen ([[http://www.gamescommunities.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Advice_leaflets&action=history]] is SPLENDID.  It leads me to a further thought: that we should provide links to the material on the Study Advice website rather than trying to rewrite it in wiki form. (This may contradict something I have said before.)  What do you think?
  
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abjure, adjure
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3  The whole thing is complicated by the fact that I have had several - reprimands would be too strong a word - tickings off over the past weeks, and want to be ultra careful.
  
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the wiki convention is 'x - y', e.g.
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4  SO - my job is to discuss this further with the powers that be over my head. In the meantime, plough on with whatever pleases you. The ones what I wrote include:
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    * Academic writing
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    * Apostrophes
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    * Homophones: some examples
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    * Hyphen or dash?
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    * Literature reviews
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    * Plurals
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    * Punctuation
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    * Spellcheckers and commonly confused words
  
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abjure - adjure
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I hope indeed to see you on Tuesday.  I shall have done nothing about this before then, as I am off for yet another weekend, culminating in a funeral on Monday from which i will return Monday evening, too late to do anything useful.
  
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. As we import from the quarries, that shift is to be standardised, please.  So looking up in the wiki to see if an article has also been quarried has to take that into account.  The easiest way of doing this, I guess, is to search for only one of the pair, which should redirect you to an existing article. And if the article you are currently working on does not yet exist in the wiki, create the new page with the dash instead of the comma.
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My regrets.
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[[User:PeterWilson|PeterWilson]] 09:01, 18 March 2007 (GMT)
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[[User:PeterWilson|PeterWilson]] 20:51, 20 April 2007 (BST)
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Hi Phil.
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I snatched a moment Yesterday from tending the sick (Stephanie thanks you for your concern) to look at the wiki.  Thanks: you seem to be working hard.  I adjusted 'wan' nevertheless.
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Thanks for spotting something I never would have.  (For a moment, I wanted to delete it, and then I remembered that one of your functions is to catch my aged lack of awareness, and I thought this is actually a good and valuable addition.  So I edited it instead.)
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This resulted in a couple of thoughts (possibly more, but I have forgotten them).  Remember to use the '''headword''' (in bold) within the first couple oflines of the artricle - and of course don't direct it to itself [[  ]].  Put in more links, particularly to technical terms of grammar, like [[adjective]].  This whole projetc will stand or fall by its cross-linking.  In the same way, I added a few more categories.
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[[User:PeterWilson|PeterWilson]] 01:18, 31 March 2007 (BST)
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Hi Phil. About redirects -- some of the 'multiple word pages' have dashes instead of hyphens in the title, eg [[Access – assess – excess]] instead of [[Access - assess - excess]]. The bot chokes on those because they're unicode characters. What's happened here is that I moved the page, which automatically makes a redirect at the old page title. But [[assess]] still points to the old page, and so there's a redirect that points to another redirect. You only get redirected the once (becuse otherwise you could make loops by accident). The solution is to fix [[assess]]. But that's something I can get the bot to do, based on the list at [[Special:DoubleRedirects]]. -- [[User:JoachimNoreiko|JoachimNoreiko]] 10:50, 6 April 2007 (BST)

Latest revision as of 20:51, 20 April 2007

Thanks for your response re copyright etc. I AM confused (so what's new?).

1. My point is more that I didn't write the leaflets than that it's fully a copyright (hence legal) issue. I suppose that I don't want to get up colleagues' noses by pinching their work; and 2) (ssh!) that I don't want to get some of their more questionable advice onto AWE. So, informally and all, I want you to be aware of the issue (in those terms), and let me know when AWE is grabbing stuff that I didn't write. I should have explained this to you before.

2 The page on Advice leaflets that I have just seen ([[1]] is SPLENDID. It leads me to a further thought: that we should provide links to the material on the Study Advice website rather than trying to rewrite it in wiki form. (This may contradict something I have said before.) What do you think?

3 The whole thing is complicated by the fact that I have had several - reprimands would be too strong a word - tickings off over the past weeks, and want to be ultra careful.

4 SO - my job is to discuss this further with the powers that be over my head. In the meantime, plough on with whatever pleases you. The ones what I wrote include: 

   * Academic writing
   * Apostrophes
   * Homophones: some examples
   * Hyphen or dash?
   * Literature reviews
   * Plurals
   * Punctuation
   * Spellcheckers and commonly confused words

I hope indeed to see you on Tuesday. I shall have done nothing about this before then, as I am off for yet another weekend, culminating in a funeral on Monday from which i will return Monday evening, too late to do anything useful.

My regrets.

PeterWilson 20:51, 20 April 2007 (BST)

Hi Phil.

I snatched a moment Yesterday from tending the sick (Stephanie thanks you for your concern) to look at the wiki. Thanks: you seem to be working hard. I adjusted 'wan' nevertheless.

Thanks for spotting something I never would have. (For a moment, I wanted to delete it, and then I remembered that one of your functions is to catch my aged lack of awareness, and I thought this is actually a good and valuable addition. So I edited it instead.)

This resulted in a couple of thoughts (possibly more, but I have forgotten them). Remember to use the headword (in bold) within the first couple oflines of the artricle - and of course don't direct it to itself [[ ]]. Put in more links, particularly to technical terms of grammar, like adjective. This whole projetc will stand or fall by its cross-linking. In the same way, I added a few more categories. PeterWilson 01:18, 31 March 2007 (BST)

Hi Phil. About redirects -- some of the 'multiple word pages' have dashes instead of hyphens in the title, eg Access – assess – excess instead of Access - assess - excess. The bot chokes on those because they're unicode characters. What's happened here is that I moved the page, which automatically makes a redirect at the old page title. But assess still points to the old page, and so there's a redirect that points to another redirect. You only get redirected the once (becuse otherwise you could make loops by accident). The solution is to fix assess. But that's something I can get the bot to do, based on the list at Special:DoubleRedirects. -- JoachimNoreiko 10:50, 6 April 2007 (BST)

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