User talk:Douglas Gross

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your contris
In Articles for deletion/Multitasking - How Multitasking Works you claim that you moved the article to this talk page. You did not move the article, you copy-and-pasted it. As a computer-literate person I am sure you will appreciate the difference. It is important to use moves in Wikipedia so that the edit history of an article is preserved.

Your talk page was the wrong place for the article - this page is for us to talk to you - so I have moved (that is properly moved) the article to User:Douglas Gross/Multitasking.

A couple of thing worry me: in the AfD item you say I will continue to post my technical articles [on my user pages] and your multitasking article lists a couple of Wiki articles as refernces! using external links!. This gives me the feeling that you have created this article as independant thing for publication elsewhere. Now, don't get me wrong, we do welcome all contributions but on the other hand wikipedia is not a free host or webspace provider. I suggest you concentrate on improving Wikipedia articles rather than producing your own versions of existing Wikipedia topics (we call them "forks" and they are rigorously policed out of existence).

Nevertheless, welcome and please contribute! -- RHaworth 10:09, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

Postscript. I always hate to write negative comments such as the above. Let me be positive - have you looked in Wikibooks to see if you could contribute there? -- RHaworth 19:41, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanx
-Doug