User talk:Mazzy

Welcome! Hope you like it here and hang around bit :-) --Anders

Thanks, Anders.

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Hi Mazzy, saw you had some trouble signing your talks. You can use three tilde characters (~) to sign a talk entry with your name; adding a fourth will also included server date and time. It's very easy to use ---> Jeronimo 03:58 Aug 1, 2002 (PDT)

Ta, much appreciated. I'm sure I'll get the hang eventually Mazzy (practising!)

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Wellcome aboard Mazzy. Here's a lot of guys who can give you any help as you wish. And many of us aren't all native English speaking so keep this in mind a bit. You can get some useful informations from the other kingdoms too. Best regard. -- XJamRastafire 16:27 Aug 1, 2002 (PDT)

Many thanks for the reminder. Information works across language boundaries, of course! And thanks, I've already had plenty of help from people who already know what they're doing here. I'll shake down and figure out what I'm doing here, eventually! Mazzy 03:59 Aug 2, 2002 (PDT)

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Hello, in going to Mav's talk page to respond to a comment he'd left me, I saw one of your questions. The dates are in American format because the pages they link to were started by and worked on assiduously by people from the U.S.; it's an unintentional -centrism but one that creeps in occasionally.

So far as italics and quotes go: Movies, books, CD/LP/8-track :-) titles, TV series, magazines and epic poems (The Iliad, The Odyssey) are italicized; short stories, songs, episodes of TV shows, articles, and most poems are in quotes. A lot of people have questions about the italics/quotes bit; I really should find a page to put it on. Anyway, welcome to wikipedia! --KQ

First thing:
Hello there, welcome to the 'pedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you need any questions answered about the project then check out Wikipedia:Help or drop a question at Village pump. Cheers! --maveric149

RE your comments on my talk page:
Good questions. You can get technical help on editing pages by going to Wikipedia:How does one edit a page, for our loose editing policy visit Wikipedia:Editing policy. for other policies, guidelines and things to consider go to Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines. However, I have been here since January and I still haven't read all that stuff. In general, just take it easy, work on stuff that you find to be interesting, have good intentions, keep it simple and just start emulating what you view as the most common way things are edited. For example, most of us (not all, but a great majority) usually only link the first occurance of a term (or date) and only if that term/date is important to the subject of the article (birth and death years would always be important; I wouldn't link the year the person entered high school though). And who decides what is an important thing to link? You do. However everyone else also has the right to undue what you have done or expand on it. Such is the wiki way. Oh yeah, for conventions on page titles go to wikipedia:naming conventions and we generally hide external links like this: [http://www.nasa.gov/today/index Today at NASA] which will render like this: Today at NASA (http://www.nasa.gov/today/index), unless the link is the homepage of the website; www.nasa.gov is fine (URL hiding is done mostly to save space). We also tend to only place external links in an external link section at the end of an article. Cheers! --mav

mav, isn't there a policy against URL hiding, because it makes printouts less useful? Sure I've seen that on policy. However, IMO in the body of te text, hiding good - but I'd say put the full link at the foot of the article -- Tarquin

Last time I discussed this with mav (I think on his talk page), I gathered the preferred policy was no run-in URLs at all, but prettifying to hide the URL was fine unless there was a specific, good reason for displaying it. Ortolan88 PS - Welcome, Mazzy.

Many thanks to all of you for answering my question, even though I haven't scurried round and said so individually on everyone's talk page. The above ideas makes a great reference for me to come back to and check for conventions. If I knew where to put it it I'd try and summarise it as a reference page for the Wiki...it seems there ought to be such a thing, even though there's no guarantee that a newbie would stumble across it, nor that experienced wikipedians would all agree on any particular format.... Thanks also for all the welcomes. I'm trying not to go overboard here but I certainly want to stick around and come back and work on some articles as time permits, it's a fascinating venture. -- Mazzy 02:15 Aug 7, 2002 (PDT)

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Hi Mazzy, I'm glad you like the Llandaff picture, and hope that you enjoy yours as much as we've enjoyed ours. You're supposed to dig them up and store them in a frost-free environment over winter, but I let them freeze in the ground and they seem to come back for more each year. --Ramin