User talk:Muriel R

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Admins
It is only a very small number, but with around 600 administrators on the English-language Wikipedia, if 2% are problem admins then that would be a dozen problem admins. My estimate is that there are about 1% who should be completely de-sysoped (and will eventually do something so egregious that the Arbitration Committee will agree with me), and there is another 3-5% who have their bad days or personal obsessions that will get them in trouble, and they just need an occasional timeout just like any other editor who becomes a small problem. Most admins, however, are good, conscientious admins and editors.

My worry has been that the bad will drive out the good. Mostly it's good editors who leave because they have gotten tired of the mostly anonymous vandals and the blatant, obsessive POV warriors. Sometimes, however, it's conflicts between regular editors (who may or may not be admins).

On the whole, I think that the Wikipedia is a good idea and usually does a good job of being a good encyclopedia, but I still don't see the solutions for some of the problems that the Wikipedia is facing.

I hope that all of this doesn't discourage you, and I hope that you become a valuable contributing editor on the Wikipedia. Blank Verse 17:12, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

Carlos Barral
If you have any interest in poetry, could you look at the article on this poet from Barcelona, Carlos Barral, to see if you could add anything more to it? Blank Verse 07:03, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Thank you for looking at the article. I turned your Spanish & Catalan Wikipedia links into interlingual Wikipedia links, so they show up in the Navigation sidebar below the toolbox links. I also added an extra category: Members of the European Parliament from Spain.


 * A special trick: If you have an account on the Spanish Wikipedia, for example, you can also have your Spanish user page show up as an interlingual link. You just add es:Usuario:Muriel R (substituting the correct user name if your Spanish Wiki account name is different) to your user page. You can see on my user page that I have interlingual links to the Spanish, Japanese, and Simple English Wikipedias. Blank Verse 13:55, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
 * I just added the interlingual links to the other two versions of the article.


 * Another suggestion: You can go to the Babel page to learn how to add templates to your user page that show how well you can read and write different languages. Blank Verse 14:46, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

What you put for the Babel templates is entirely up to you. Some people are fairly conservative, and other editors put down every language that the have some minimal understanding in (or maybe can just curse in). That means that anyone who speaks Spanish could probably add at least an it-1, fr-1 and pt-1. There are even templates for languages that you don't know (ja-0 is for no knowledge of Japanese). You can also add computer languages, musical instruments, and other Babel-like templates. You can even create your own custom templates. There are also some people have created their own joke templates as a parody of the Babel templates (see my old Tower of Babel for an example). Blank Verse 16:14, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

Galicia
Recently WikiProject Galicia has been created. Perhaps you are interested in joining us to help improving Galicia articles at English Wikipedia. --Stoni(talk) 14:18, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

Catalan Culture Challenge
I've seen on your userpage that you speak Catalan: From March 16 to April 15 we will be organising the Catalan Culture Challenge, a Wikipedia editing contest in which victory will go to those who start and improve the greatest number of articles about 50 key figures of Catalan culture. You can take part by creating or expanding articles on these people in your native language (or any other one you speak). We look forward to seeing you! Amical Wikimedia--Kippelboy (talk) 06:45, 11 March 2014 (UTC)

Files for deletion
I have just inadvertently rollbacked your edit - sorry about that! GregorB (talk) 17:12, 6 May 2015 (UTC)