User talk:Connell66~enwiktionary

Trolling
Why do you think I said you're trolling? Rod (A. Smith) 01:34, 10 February 2008 (UTC)


 * This did not appear to be a direct response to any action taken by Dmcdevit. I reverted it as irrelevant.  Do you believe you are being persecuted?  Rod (A. Smith) 01:37, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I was afraid you thought I was trolling and were about to block me. Connell66 01:38, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
 * If you have a complaint about some specific action, I'd be happy to review it. Posts like "Honestly, if you think you can stop me, you are sadly mistaken" do nothing to forward this project.  Rod (A. Smith) 01:40, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Helping around
Well, right there, like this, I'd say the best place to start is Community Portal. Circeus 01:45, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
 * If you speak any language beside English, adding or checking translations, and adding material (especially informal/special terminology/dialect material) is a great way to contribute.

Dictionary
This is a dictionary. Rod (A. Smith) 02:41, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I might define a troll as someone who has managed to make about 25 edits bothering assorted administrators, and only a single edit to our dictionary here. A troll would try to cause tension without actually contributing constructively him- or herself. You wouldn't want to be confused with one of those, now would you? Dmcdevit·t 03:05, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Not being a troll
Let me begin by saying that, if you claim that you are no longer a troll, I will take you at your word, and I offer you my congratulations. However, your actions seem to imply otherwise. So far you have perhaps a dozen edits to people's talk pages and two edits to the main namespace. While I'm undecided as to the merits of your edits to troll, your edits to apply were excellent, adding an important sense to the word which was previously missing (although there was a minor formatting edit, take a look at my follow-up, if you like). So let me simply say this. If you do in fact, want to clear your name and not be labeled a troll here, stick to article edits for awhile. There is a great deal of work to do. If you keep bothering people with irrelevent talk page comments they will block you simply out of irritation. Two good places to start are Category:Requests for cleanup and Special:Randompage/Transwiki. Obviously if you'd prefer to do something else, you're more than welcome to whatever you like. If you have any questions on formatting or policy or anything else actually related to editing Wiktionary, feel free to ask me on my talk page. However, if you post an inane question about whether I think you're a troll or not (or something similar) I will revert it. In short, if you want to clear your name, get to work. Atelaes 05:08, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

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 * So, to transwiki something, go to Special:Randompage/Transwiki, and try until you find something you find interesting. These are articles that have been imported from Wikipedia because the 'pedia thought that they were better suited for a dictionary.  This entry needs to be formatted to fit Wiktionary's policies.  So then go to Our format guidelines to get a feel for what our entries are supposed to look like.  Some of the transwikis are lists of words.  For these, you'll need to create a bunch of new entries, and copy in the information (and format it).  Often these entries will need to be cut down a lot.  So, that's about the jist of it.  One final thing to keep in mind is that, often a new editor will get critiques of their work on their talk page from other editors.  So you'll spend all kinds of time and effort and then someone will tell you that you did it wrong.  This is actually a compliment, because it means that the other editors think that you're intelligent enough to improve based on their critiques.  So, listen to their advice, and don't let it get you down.  We have a lot of formatting rules, and it takes some time to learn them all.  Atelaes 19:48, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

alfalfa
So, you ready for your first round of critique? :) To begin with, alfalfas was not correctly formatted.  Every word must have a language header (in this case English), and a part of speech (in this case Noun).  Secondly, immediately underneath the POS (part of speech) header is the POS line.  On the POS line, the entry title is displayed in bold, and in some entries, other information is also displayed.  Finally, and this is the least important, we have templates for plural forms, which make the entry look pretty and do some categorization stuff as well.  On alfalfa, I reverted your definitional changes, and here's why.  First, the fact that it's a crop plant makes alfalfa found all over the world (it looks like the US is actually a huge alfalfa producer), so saying that it's found in Southwest Asia isn't really true.  It may have originated there, but that type of information is better saved for Wikipedia.  Secondly, with biological organisms, it's very important to have biological nomenclature, as this is an important part of the definition. Finally, when you made alfalfas, the alfalfa entry stated that it had no plural. This isn't exactly true, and so it has been fixed. So, there's a bunch of stuff for you to look over and learn from (you may want to look through the histories of these two words and see exactly what I've done to them). However, the simple fact is, that alfalfas is a word, which we didn't have, but now do, thanks to you. So, keep at it. Atelaes 23:02, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

User Page
You may have noticed by now that I removed the content from your user page and replaced it, song lyrics are generally copyrighted so we can't have them on the project, thanks for understanding. - 07:22, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

Your account will be renamed
Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Connell66. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Connell66~enwiktionary that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:42, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
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