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Welcome!

Hello, Snookerhorn, and welcome to Misplaced Pages! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

The five pillars of Misplaced Pages Tutorial How to edit a page How to write a great article Manual of Style I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes (Snookerhorn (talk) 04:53, 16 April 2008 (UTC)); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Misplaced Pages:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{helpme}} before the question. Again, welcome! CambridgeBayWeather Have a gorilla 07:33, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Talk page instructions

I'm sorry but your instructions are to complex for most people to be able to follow. Not only that but there are certain problems with some of them. First, you can't force people to reveal their real names if they don't want to. The other problem with that is there is no way for you, or anybody else, to actually verify that the name they are giving you is their real name. Second, just because someone can't, or won't, follow the instructions laid out does not mean that they are vandalising your talk page. I would suggest that you remove the instructions and let users post in the normal way. You could then sort them in an ordering system that meets your requirements. Although I can't remember where I have seen others do that and as long as you don't change the meaning of their comments nobody will mind. I will leave a message at Misplaced Pages:Administrators' noticeboard#Complex talk page instructions in the event that you would like another administrators opinion on this.

By the way I really came to mention that the date format used here should be as per the guideline at Misplaced Pages:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)#Dates and not include the "th". Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather Have a gorilla 07:33, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/User_talk:Snookerhorn"

Also, they are mad. I mean, really. I have in the past had vast numbers of talk page messages, and never had to leave reams of instructions about them. Of course, since I only have a few tens of thousands of edits, I don't suppose I qualify as editing "heavily" by your definition :-) Guy (Help!) 11:22, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Hi Snooker......

I hope you don't mind me posting here - I thought I'd drop by with a small bit of advice which you could take or leave.... The truth is, that your approach to your user talk page is rather idiosyncratic (do have a look around mine, and others' pages - this one is a little unusual!) - it's interesting to see someone try something which on the face of of it looks kinda complex, but I'm afraid I don't really think it's a very good fit for the function a talk page generally fulfills.... which is for folk like me to drop notes like this in! You may be pleasantly surprised at how easy it can be to manage even a heavy load of messages, and there are certainly many wiki folk who will be more than happy to share their techniques and experiences with you.

Maybe give some thought to loosening the rules and reg.s a little, and I'd certainly hope you could understand that many passers by will be a little confused or nonplussed (or cheeky enough like me just to drop a message at the bottom and hope for the best!). cheers, Privatemusings (talk) 01:15, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

I should add that I'm happy to talk further about what might achieve the results you're after in ways more 'in tune' with current wikipedia practice... it can be fun and quite easy to manage communications here, and I might have a few tips, if you'd be interested... cheers, and best wiki wishes! - Privatemusings (talk) 01:17, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

Warning

All pages here, including user pages, belong to the community, not to individuals. (see WP:USER and WP:OWN for more information) Your posting instructions are unreasonable and you cannot require that people follow them. Notes from others pointing this out to you, such as CambridgeBayWeather and Guy left you, are are not "vandalism" and while you're entitled to remove them, you are not entitled to use incivil edit summaries in doing so, so please do not again characterise them as vandalism. Most importantly, you should realise that if someone turns up here to leave you a warning or notice about something, you will be assumed to have read that notice or warning if you remove it, and will be held accountable for what it says. Hope that's helpful. I'd strongly suggest switching to a normal page. ++Lar: t/c 01:35, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

PS, I removed the Failure to comply with instructions section for you, as those sorts of restrictions, regulations, codicils, etc are not allowed. ++Lar: t/c 01:37, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

D: Is this correct?

I've filled out the U.S. tax Form 1040 and its schedules completely by hand without outside assistance in the past (though I'm using a computer program now), but I'm still not entirely sure I'm following all of your convoluted rules correctly. Dtobias. Verification: *Dan T.* (talk) 01:41, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

Welcome, Dtobias!

Thank you for stopping by! It is most refreshing to see a user actually take the time to fulfill some simple requirements rather than complain about overcomplexity and whine that it cannot be done. Based on the title of your post, I was originally inclined to place your edit in the "Questions and inquiries" section. However, I notice that the text of your post is friendly in nature and generally does not contain a question with regard to the rules. In any case, let me welcome your warm thoughts and thank you for your contribution. When I was in the military, we learned that structure and organization are the key to all things strong, and it appears that you have both! I am sorry to hear about your taxes, but hopefully you will be rewarded for all of your hard work in completing the forms.Snookerhorn (talk) 05:04, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

bad direction....

Snooks... you're really not heading in a good direction... seriously - I'd love to help you enjoy this site, and engage with it productively, but I think there's a danger you may end up in trouble with the site's administrators if you continue in the vein you've been pursuing.... I wish you well, and would like to help, so please don't self immolate unless you absolutely want to! - Privatemusings. Verificaiton: Privatemusings (talk) 05:04, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

dammit! one 'honest' and one 'poor' - and everyone knows I'm much smarter than that reprobate Dan Tobias!! - well I tried - sorry it didn't work out.... Privatemusings (talk) 05:19, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

Problems with this talk page

I believe that in moving items around because they don't fit in with your system, wikilinks have been modified. Signatures are not showing up, the {{helpme}} tag didn't have nowiki tags so it was posted to the page of wikipedians needing help. If you insist on moving comments around, please try and preserve formatting so these issues don't continue. I don't know if you're reading this or not as I frankly don't have the time to read through all your ridiculous talk page instructions. Cheers, and chill. Wjw0111 (talk) 09:18, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

Second warning

Since you futzed around with my first warning, and ignored Yanksox, I'm going to spell it out for you a bit more clearly. Misplaced Pages is not a Nomic. You don't get to make long and complicated arbitrary rules about how people interact with you. I've removed them all again, and restored this page to some semblance of a normal page. Stop wasting the time of others this way. This ID needs to spend time doing other things than this, or this particular sock will be blocked as being disruptive. Specifically, if you restore your "rules" again, you'll be subject to a short block to stop the disruption. ++Lar: t/c 12:58, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

PS, it's inappropriate to edit the words of others on talk pages, even your own, in meaning changing ways. You can remove them completely if you like, but in your edits, you have removed wikilinks to things and replaced them with bare text. You need to undo that editing and restore the texts of others to the way they wrote them, or remove them completely. ++Lar: t/c 13:55, 16 April 2008 (UTC)