User talk:Markcollinsx

Howdy, and welcome to the wikipedia!

Oh, lest I forget, here's some handy hints we normally recommend to "virgin" wikipedians (hmm, I'm probably not supposed to call people that...):


 * How to edit a page
 * How to write a great article
 * Naming conventions
 * Manual of Style

So, welcome again, and here's wishing you many wasted evenings editing pages you didn't even know you cared about :) -- Finlay McWalter 19:52, 8 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Hi Mark, I'd like to add my welcome too. It's always a hard introduction when a page you write gets listed on Votes for deletion, but don't let that put you off. I think your pages can be kept. The concern I had was whether we knew enough about these people to have whole articles yet, so your suggestion to merge them into one article on the competition seems an excellent suggestion. I have moved the discussion to Talk:Esat Young Scientist Exhibition. When the articles are merged into one, the originals can be made into redirects.

I am editing this page on an earlier version as you seem to have blanked the message Finlay left you. I didn't know whether this was intentional or not so I've reverted it temporarily. My personal feeling is that it's not a good idea to blank messages, but if you feel strongly otherwise, then in general users are allowed to do this, although see User talk:BuddhaInside for some discussion of the issue. Anyway, I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian!

Angela 01:49, Nov 9, 2003 (UTC)

Thanks Finlay and Angela for the welcome.

I blanked the first message as I assumed that messages were to be deleted when read.

I've tidied up the Esat Young Scientist Exhibition page a bit.

Markcollinsx 02:13, Nov 9, 2003 (UTC)


 * Esat Young Scientist Exhibition looks great now. I've left the link on the VfD page just so those following the discussion know where it's gone, but this doesn't mean it is still at risk of deletion. Angela 02:20, Nov 9, 2003 (UTC)

Peter Taylor is linked to by various other pre-existing pages. It is clear there are several people with the same name.

Markcollinsx 02:45, Nov 9, 2003 (UTC)


 * Ah, well spotted. In that case you have to get into the madness of disambiguation! See Non-unique personal name and have a look at what I've just done with Peter Taylor. By the way, you can sign your name using three tildes, like . If you use four, you can add a datestamp too. Angela 03:10, Nov 9, 2003 (UTC)

Microsoft page seems to have anti-microsoft propaganda
I'm no MS fan but there's a section on the Microsoft page that's really quite ridiculous:

>Microsoft to dump Windows?

>There is speculation that Microsoft may be using .NET and Longhorn as a way of dumping the Windows operating system. Microsoft has retired a flagship operating system before, by retiring MS-DOS in favor of Windows.

After Microsoft officially discontinued support for DOS (in 1994) their main desktop operating systems (i.e. not Windows NT) all still relied on the DOS kernel (e.g. Windows 95, 98, ME).

Microsoft has actually only completely abandoned DOS recently with Windows XP, which uses the NT kernel. It is highly implausible that Microsoft would abandon the operating system they have tried so hard to become mainstream over the last decade immediately after its most successful incarnation.

Longhorn will almost certainly be an extension of Windows XP and Windows Server 2003.

>...replace the old Win32 platform...

This is the platform which is used by all software developers (directly or indirectly) for Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 systems. It is updated with every release, including the most recent one (Windows Server 2003) as a trip to MSDN would reveal.

I'm not going to edit this page myself as no doubt it would cause controversy. But much of the content is less than objective.

Markcollinsx 04:25, 9 Nov 2003 (UTC)


 * You might want to bring this up on the Microsoft talk page. More people will see it there than they will here. Angela

That comment is on the Microsoft page now but surprisingly no one has posted a reply. I may just edit it then if the Microsoft page isn't as controversial as I thought.

Sorry SecretLondon that wasn't vandalism I was just trying to indicate that the page Schreyer Honors College Excellence in Teaching Award was itself vandalism. Markcollinsx 12:09, 10 Nov 2003 (UTC)


 * You might actually want to let her know on her talk page here :) Dysprosia 12:16, 10 Nov 2003 (UTC)
 * I know it wasn't vandalism. I saw no point in keeping the talk page of a deleted article. When you delete an article isn't doesn't delete the talk page - it has to be done separatly. If it had had any other content I would have kept it. Secretlondon 12:33, Nov 10, 2003 (UTC)
 * I presumed you would delete the talk page; I just thought that you thought I was vandalising so I decided I had better post a message.

Notice board
There is a new notice board set up for Irish Wikipedians at User:Ludraman/Irish Wikipedians notice board. Ludraman | Talk 09:08, 23 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Image:AlphaCentauri RelativeSizeofStars.jpg
Would you be kind enough to update Image:AlphaCentauri RelativeSizeofStars.jpg as to its source and copyright status? Thanks. &mdash;Vespristiano 18:41, 6 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Wikimedia UK/Wikimania 2006
Hi, this is a circular to Wikipedians in Ireland to draw your attention to Wikimedia UK, where the establishment of a local Wikimedia chapter for the United Kingdom (and possibly for the Republic of Ireland) is being discussed. See the talk page, as well as the mailing list; a meetup will take place to discuss matters in London in September, for anyone who can get there. On another topic, plans are being drawn up for a UK bid for Wikimania 2006, which would be conveniently close to Ireland. On the other hand, Dublin's bid was one of the final three last year - might we bid again? --Kwekubo 04:17, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of DJGPP


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