User talk:Feureau/Archive/2006/Sep

WikiProject Filmmaking
Hello and welcome to WikiProject Filmmaking! We'd like to thank you for joining our project and look forward to your future edits. Please consider adding the project page to your watchlist and participating in discussions or helping work on articles within the project scope as you have the time. We've also just started doing article assessments, if that takes your fancy. I also noticed that your project interests were specifically towards particular directors and films, and I thought I should inform you that those articles are within the purview of WikiProject Films, not Filmmaking. You might want to check out our project scope again, which clarifies what the Filmmaking project does and doesn't cover.

Furthermore, I noticed that you have been deleting your user talk pages. You might want to be aware that this generally goes against WP etiquette with regard to user talk pages, but ultimately that's your decision. In any case, hope to see your work and happy editing! Girolamo Savonarola 19:52, 21 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Thank you for your prompt response! I noticed that you re-edited your project interests, but just to once again mention, the project doesn't cover directors or movies as such. We cover technique and technology. Good luck and best wishes, Girolamo Savonarola 13:07, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

Archiving
It's generally preferred that talk pages are archived to a subpage, instead of deleted, so that it's easy to see what past communication has been made. How to archive a talk page has guidelines on doing this. Night Gyr (talk/Oy) 20:34, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

Welcome to Esperanza!
Welcome, Feureau, to Esperanza! As you might know, all the Esperanzians share one important goal: the success of this encyclopedia. Within that, we then attempt to strengthen the community bonds, and be the "approachable" side of the project. All of our ideals are held in the Charter, the governing document of the association.

Now that you are a member you should read the guide to what to do now or you may be interested in some of our programs. A quite important program is Stressbusters, which seeks to support editors who have encountered any stress from their Wikipedia events, and are seeking to leave the project. So far, Esperanza can be credited with the support and retention of several users. We will send you newsletters to keep you up to date. Also, we have a calendar of special events, member birthdays, and other holidays that you can add to and follow.

In addition to these projects, several more missions of Esperanza are in development, and are currently being created at Esperanza/Proposals.

If you have any other questions, concerns, comments, or general ideas, Esperanzian or otherwise, know that you can always contact Natalya by email or talk page. Consider introducing yourself at the Esperanza talk page! Alternatively, you could communicate with fellow users via our IRC channel, #wikipedia-esperanza (which is also good for a fun chat or two :). If you're new to IRC, you may find help at an IRC tutorial. I thank you for joining Esperanza, and look forward to working with you in making Wikipedia a better place to work!

Some P.  E  rson  20:45, 21 September 2006 (UTC) 

has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling to someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Smile to others by adding {{subst:smile}}, {{subst:smile2}} or {{subst:smile3}} to their talk page with a friendly message. Happy editing!

Stubs
Hi - did you know that all stub templates and categories should be debated before creation at WP:WSS/P - this includes redirects, all of which should conform to stub naming guidelines. Please stop the creation of new types and make any comments regarding your recent creations in the appropriate section of WikiProject Stub sorting/Discoveries. It is very likely that many of these redirects will be nominated for deletion at WP:SFD, since several of them are highly inappropriate (redirecting "British" anything to "England" anything is seen as a gross insult in Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland, for instance). Grutness...wha?  23:23, 21 September 2006 (UTC)


 * I might add also, please take care that you use the correct stub. The Sailing hydrofoil article, for example, has no relationship to the Naval stub you inserted, because these boats are recreational craft only. =Axlq 05:05, 22 September 2006 (UTC)


 * The point with redirects is that they're fine for articles, but become a little trickier for templates and categories - they're a bit more strain on the servers and category redirects hardly work at all. For that reason, they're discouraged and - in the case of stubs - only made when there is a viable alternative that is likely to be used and still conforms to the naming guidelines (which say never to use adjectives like "British"). Which is why it's far better if they're approved by some central process like WP:WSS, especially since that wikiproject needs to know what stub types are around, since they'd be the ones primarily using them. As to the British/English business, yes, England is part of Britain, in the same way that California is part of the US. How would New Yorkers feel if US-bio-stub was redirected to California-bio-stub? Multiply that 100-fold and you'll get the sort of feeling that the Scots would have to finding a stub for all of the UK pointing to England. Grutness...wha?  22:59, 22 September 2006 (UTC)