User talk:Newcomer

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Thank you Etz. I am sure we are going to have a very interresting conversation. (Newcomer 18:55, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC))

A tip: Usually, discussions on user pages are split in two, as each user responds to the other one's page. These remarks you've made on my page are addressed to Project2501a, and are part of and edit "disagreement" we once had. For the story, I agreed with him and the issue was closed with consensus. Etz Haim 07:56, 9 Jan 2005 (UTC)

And an extra tip: Unless you want it to be so, you can omit the parentheses around your signuture: ~ renders Etz Haim 07:59, 9 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Thank you again. By the way, reading today the article "be bold in updating" I realized that you had the right to revert the changes that I made to the Greek civil war article. Excuse me for the extra work that I gave you.

Could you please help me with the procedure? Should I write my objections about certain sentences of the article in its talk page or should I wait a message to do so? Newcomer 08:16, 9 Jan 2005 (UTC)

"Being bold" is much more generic and it's meant to encourage newcomers like you. I wasn't being bold, I was just sticking to the policy against POV forks. It's upon you when to decide to express your objections, and the place to do this is the talk page of the corresponding article; neither any other article's, nor any user's talk page. However, I've told you that I'm not going to comment on it while the decision on the VfD is still pending. When this is resolved, you will definetely hear from me. Etz Haim 09:11, 9 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Alternative outlets
(I'm coming a little bit ahead of time here, as the VfD hasn't closed yet. The reason is that my personal obligations are not going to allow me to be available for a short while.)

Have considered an alternative outlet for publishing your article/essay on the civil war? An alternative outlet would be a site that its policies would not conflict with your work and allow it to be published. A few alternative outlets are listed here, and it's upon you whether to choose one/any of them. Among them, my suggestion for you is to choose Wikinfo, for the following reasons:


 * Not only it accepts POV forks (very the reason why your article will most likely be deleted), but it actually encourages them;
 * it even allows signed articles (with your full name).

The factual accuracy of what your work, and overcoming the technical inefficiencies pointed by other users (ie. proper wiki format) are still your responsibility, if you choose Wikinfo.

If you have any other question I'd be glad to answer it, provided I'm still available. Etz Haim 11:08, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Thank you for your suggestions. I'll try them. Any way the only reason I tried to post these views is that I considered the article incomplete and somehow not tottaly NPOV. I 'll be checking from time to time for your answers. Have a nice time.Newcomer 23:46, 15 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Poll
There is a poll in the talk page of Macedonian Slavs article here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Macedonian_Slavs#The_poll

Some people are lobbying for changing the article's name to "Macedonian" without any qualifier. As it seems, a number of these people come from the Macedonian/Macedonian Slav wikipedia project. It seemed only fair to attract the attention of people possibly from the other side of the story. I hope that this message is of interest to you, if not please accept my apologies. Dstork 02:35, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)


 * I strongly object to your Wiki-talk spam, and attempts to round up random people from Greek-themed pages to vote on the Macedonian issue. This is a perversion of the vote process, regardless of whether others are doing it too. Lectiodifficilior 14:35, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Read before you edit!
Hi there, did you even take a look at my user talk page before modifying it?? Well, next time make sure you read before you edit. Thanks. --dionyziz 20:51, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC).

Poll
I thank you for the message. But I'm afraid i cannot help you. Sorry. Perhaps a rather bad hoax. User: mario todte, 18:52, 23 June 2005 (UTC)