User talk:Trebor1990

Hi Trebor1990, I see no one left you the standard greeting, so here it is:


 * Welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you ever need editing help visit How does one edit a page or how to format them visit our manual of style. Experiment at Sandbox. If you need pointers on how we title pages visit Naming conventions. If you have any other questions about the project then check out Help or add a question to the Village pump.

As for your page on Kosi, we don't mean to be picking on you, it's just possible that you don't yet understand one of the conventions of Wikipedia, namely what qualifies for entry here. We prefer articles to be about well known facts, events, theories, or artistic creations. This means even if you have created something amazing, unfortunately we cannot acknowledge it until it has appeared in other forms--for example, if a newspaper covers your language, or it makes it into some other dictionary.

I see you've made a lot of other contributions anonymously (I believe IP address 66.135.111.26 is you) before you made this account, so please do not be discouraged, as we need your expertise! If you wish to reply to me, please do so at User talk:zandperl.

Best wishes! --zandperl 03:11, 21 Mar 2004 (UTC)

G'day Robert

Yes, I'd like to second that welcome. We particularly need some more people with interests in linguistics... just a few weeks ago someone listed the litotes article for delete on the grounds that as it didn't get a lot of Google hits it didn't exist. It's still a stub. Most impressed with your grammar and phonology writeup. Andrewa 04:53, 21 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Hm, I'm not too familiar with Wiktionary, so it'd probably be better to ask on their discussion pages there. Maybe there's a Hungarian version of it? I know on Wikipedia there's versions in different languages.

As for signing with your name, if you put THREE tildes it will automatically put in your username with a link to your page. If you use FOUR tildes ( ~ ) it will do both your username and the time (UTC). The help pages have more tips and tricks on stuff like that. You'll catch on in no time. :)

--zandperl 15:33, 21 Mar 2004 (UTC)

When you're not logged in, signing with tildes gives your IP address instead. Make sure that you log in before you make an edit or comment. Every page on Wikipedia will have in the upper right either your username (if you are already logged in) or a link to the log-in page. When you log in, check the "Remember my password across sessions" box so it'll remember it next time if you're on the same computer.

Logging in also helps the system properly attribute your edits to you. You can get your old edits attributed to you if you LOG OUT and then go to Changing attribution for an edit and post a request at the end of the page listing both your IP address and your username.

--zandperl 22:10, 22 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Someone else probably reinstated the former Kosi article thinking its deletion was an act of vandalism. Even when a normal user "deletes" a page, that usually means the page is blanked, but still exists with no content. So the proper procedure is that after there's concensus (on VfD) to delete it, an administrator does the actual deletion. Once you made the page, it's out of your hands. :-P Round about, isn't it? --zandperl 20:14, 24 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Trebor, I think your user subpages may be against user page policy. You should probably find some webspace of your own for your conlangs. - Gwalla 21:44, May 3, 2004 (UTC)

--- Hi Trebor, I've just seen your user page and just wanted to say hi 'cause I agree with you on so many things, esp. on Micro$oft and the Israel conflict. Oh yes and have a happy (belated) birthday! - Alensha 15:04, 24 Jun 2004 (UTC)

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