User:Zai Lynch/Talkpage Archive 01

Welcome to my discussion page =)

If you want to leave a comment / start a discussion, please operate as follows:

• Press the edit button on top of the page.
• Scroll down and start a new topic using: == Name of the topic ==
• Write what you want me to know and then sign it with four tildes: ~~~~ (or the signature button ). These will automatically be converted into your username and a timestamp.
• Preview the page and save it if you're comfortable with it. Make sure to click the "Watch this page" button 'cause i'll answer your question / discuss your topic in here so everyone can follow the discussion and don't have to click from one talk page to the next to be able to keep track.
• If you want to answer to a persons posting you can scroll behind the posting, hit enter to start a new line and begin it with a colon. It will be displayed as an intended line then.
• If you want to answer to an answer, please write multiple colons in the beginning of the line.
• If I made a contribution at your discussion page, please answer there. I'll surely read it.
• Happy editing :-)

Awesome wiki page!

I was browsing the Second Life wiki and came across your uploaded images, and followed them here. What a super example of using your wiki page to provide help and info! I really appreciate you having these editing instructions too. :) Keep it up, and thanx for linking to my Video Tutorials! Sounds like you have a lot of fun — the FREE HUGS piccie is just too cute. - Torley on 2008-02-25 @ 7:55 AM PST

wow... *blushes* Thank you very much! =) Hope to see you inworld some day to ask for a Torley teddy. The sightseeing subpage is still a work in progress but I hope to finish it in a not to distant future. Thumbs up for the Video Tutorials. They're great. Friendly greetings, --Zai Lynch 09:59, 26 February 2008 (PST)

Ooh, it gets even better! I like your video bar a lot! AWESOME... and Ffriendly greetings to you too! - Torley on 2008-05-05 @ 5:04 PM PST

Woot! Thx again ^^ Still missing a Torley Bear in my collection tho :-P Gotta have a look at one of your office hours some day. Greetz, Zai Lynch^{(talk|contribs)} 07:09, 6 May 2008 (PDT)

RE: How to have a discussion in a wiki

Well, I am unaware of how to do this, So if you are good at this style of reconstruction, feel free to do so. I am just a rookie at Wiki coding, so something is better then nothing....

You have the go-ahead to change if you wish it to be a discussable page.

Neovo. —The preceding unsigned comment was added on 06:09, 18. Jan. 2008 by Neovo Geesink

Don't worry =) Took me some time as well to figure it out. I'll look what i can do at the Q&A Page. Greetings, --Zai Lynch 01:05, 18 January 2008 (PST)

re: template: delete

Last time I brought this up with Rob, the policy is generally to not delete stuff.

However, it's been a while so you might want to poke Rob at his office hours

SignpostMarv Martin 11:11, 11 February 2008 (PST)

ok, THX =) I'll have a look if I'm able to convince him about the helpfulness of such a template. Greetings, --Zai Lynch 09:49, 12 February 2008 (PST)

I was referring more to actually deleting stuff, rather than using templates to request such deletion.

To memory, the only thing that was deleted (as opposed just blanking the article) was the wiki-coded version of the TOS (I'd ported it over intending it as a means of tracking changes in the TOS) because any differences in the TOS might cause legal issues. Though LL don't seem to mind the wiki-code version of the Community Standards document :-)

The only reason why an article shouldn't be deleted is attribution, or if one article is based off another.

I would suggest & support a system of requesting accidentally created articles to be deleted, as well as redirected articles that aren't used for disambiguation- Orientation Islander redirects to SignpostMarv Martin because they're both me for example, but articles that were moved/redirected because of typos or structure changes that aren't linked to any longer (might be wise to discuss a minimum time frame such an article stays around doing nothing).

SignpostMarv Martin 01:48, 13 February 2008 (PST)

I wasn't requesting Residents getting delete perms, it was just the issue of attribution being affected I think. You'd have to dive around the wiki somewhere, but I think the end result was stuff gets moved into a recycle bin pseudo-namespace, which is incredibly wasteful.

SignpostMarv Martin 07:09, 13 February 2008 (PST)

found it

SignpostMarv Martin 12:45, 14 February 2008 (PST)

re: VTeam

The reason the VTeam article was included as opposed to integrated into the category was to allow the VTeam the option of fleshing out the information at a later date.

Integrating the article either locks them in to the category (in my opinion, categories as articles are a borked concept), whereas with the templating system, sections of the article can be selectively included in the catgegory.

-SignpostMarv Martin 08:28, 19 May 2008 (PDT)