User talk:Wintermute
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! -- JoachimNoreiko 17:19, 17 March 2007 (GMT)
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.)
Where, in the case of confusable pairs (or more than 2) of words, the Word docs tend to be titled 'x, y', e.g.
abjure, adjure
the wiki convention is 'x - y', e.g.
abjure - adjure
. 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. PeterWilson 09:01, 18 March 2007 (GMT)
Hi Phil! Didn't realize this was you! -- JoachimNoreiko 10:58, 18 March 2007 (GMT)
(message Peter left in the wrong place)
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)
