User talk:XTaran~enwiki

Hi there. Welcome to Wikipedia! Thanks for all your work on computer topics. If you want, drop us a note at Wikipedia:New user log to introduce yourself.

If you need editing help, visit Wikipedia:How does one edit a page. For format questions, visit our manual of style. You can use the Show preview button before you save, to make sure your edits do what you intended.

You can sign your name on talk pages by using " ~~~ " for your username and " ~~~~ " for your username and a timestamp.

Some time when you're bored, you can read through our policies and guidelines. If you made any edits before you got an account, you might be interested in assigning those to your username.

If you have any other questions about the project then check out Wikipedia:Help or add a question to the Village pump. You can also drop me a question on my talk page.

Happy editing, Isomorphic 20:03, 1 Mar 2004 (UTC)

---

Hey! You were only supposed to ask questions I know the answers to! No fair!

Seriously, I haven't seen a lot of footnotes in use, and I couldn't find anything in the style guides or help pages either (and I have more practice looking.) I'm guessing that there isn't a standard format. The format you're using on Debian seems to work, so I'd say go ahead and use that.

In fact, you might even want to add it to the style guides, so that others can see how you did it. You can post a comment about it on the talk page for Wikipedia:Manual of Style, with the proposed addition. Put a request for comment in your edit summary, and hopefully a couple people will take a look and give you their thoughts.

Good luck, Isomorphic 00:06, 2 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Re:Wiki Auto

First off, welcome to Wiki Auto! Secondly, you're abosolutely right, there should be a page for the VW Type 2. I was actually thinking about it this morning, while wondering what to add to {{msg:VW}}. The coverage of most vehicle topics in the WP is very limited, so we have loads of scope to play with. I would suggest starting a page at VW Type 2, and creating redirects for alternative names, while mentioning the alternative names at the top of the main article. IMHO the system works best if you create a page first, then ascertain the best name for it later. I'll add VW Type 2 to {{msg:VW}} now. Good luck, can't wait to read it! akaDruid 15:03, 25 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Nice work on this article, there is so much info here now! It may almost be worth creating child articles for each revision of the Type 2, since there is so much detail. I'll see what I can edit/add when I get time, too busy at work for now :( akaDruid 09:54, 29 Mar 2004 (UTC)

I vote for splitting it into one article for the T1-T3, and another for the T4 and T5. There's an obvious break in the continuum there.  ;-) At the moment however it doesn't seem to make much sense, because the T4/T5 article would be rather short, and while I'm willing to contribute more on the classic Transporters, I just don't know much about the modern stuff. Therefore, I think it might be best to wait and see whether there'll be T4- and T5-specific additions from other users that make an own article for those worthwhile. If so, I suggest that that article be called "VW Eurovan", since that's both the model name and the nickname that's used in the US for these vans. Ermel 19:14, 29 Mar 2004 (UTC)

---

Hi. I've just removed a link to a disambiguation page from your user page - but there are two more ([[Swiss]]-[[German]]). I wasn't sure whether to redirect them to the countries or the languages - so I've left it for you :). Regards -- sannse (talk) 18:42, 31 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Looks fine to me. Thanks. --XTaran | Talk 19:11, 31 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Why thankyou! I just tried to make it as clear and simple as I could. Introductions should always be simple, I think. I'm pondering doing a light copyedit on the body text, but I'm a little reluctant to do that as it's been so long since I read much about engines and my memory might not be up to the task. Best -- Tannin

Footnotes

On Talk:Debian, you asked about footnote marking. You can use {{fn|[number]}} and {{fnb|[number]}} for the backlink. Noisy | Talk 12:57, Apr 3, 2005 (UTC)

And now I see that question was a year old. Sigh. Noisy | Talk 12:59, Apr 3, 2005 (UTC)

Engine Types

Hey there. ^_^

Ran across your name on the talk pages of some engine articles which I plan on altering a bit. I was hoping you could help out with the new discussions. As I'm new to Wiki (new to editing anyways, been reading for a while ;)) I was hoping you could help me with input ideas and making sure I'm not being overzealous and blowing other people's stuff up. ;)

Telesque, Apr 26, 2005

Important WikiProject Automobiles Discussion

Hello! As a Wikipedia:WikiProject Automobiles member, I just thought you might want to input your opinions on an important discussion we're currently having about whether articles regarding similar vehicles should be merged into one or split by brand. If you would like to comment or read further, please see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Automobiles#Articles of Similar Vehicles. Thank you in advance for your thoughts and feedback. Airline 23:54, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

Wikiproject Automobiles Notification

Hi XTaran, you were on the list of members at WikiProject Automobiles and we are introducing a new way of listing members, as the old list was becoming too long. Our new method involves having all of our members in a category.

To add yourself to the category just add the userbox to your user page by putting {{Wiki Auto Project}} where you want the userbox. Alternatively if you don't like the userbox you can add [[Category:WikiProject Automobiles members|XTaran]] to your userpage.

If you no longer wish to be a member of the project, simply don't add the userbox or category, there's no pressure. Thanks for your time, James086^{Talk | Contribs} 04:41, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

Nomination of Xargs for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Xargs is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Xargs until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on good quality evidence, and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion template from the top of the article. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 00:37, 18 February 2012 (UTC)

Your account will be renamed

Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called XTaran. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name XTaran~enwiki that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name. If you think you might own all of the accounts with this name and this message is in error, please visit Special:MergeAccount to check and attach all of your accounts to prevent them from being renamed.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours,
Keegan Peterzell
Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation

03:27, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed

This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: Special:GlobalRenameRequest. -- Keegan (WMF) (talk)

20:37, 22 April 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!

Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:52, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of MicroBSD

The article MicroBSD has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

lacking sources from July 2008 & notability

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Editor-1 (talk) 12:17, 24 December 2018 (UTC)