User talk:Teratornis

A human welcome

Hello and welcome.--Bob^{'s your uncle} 18:04, 11 October 2007 (EDT)

Thank you for the gracious welcome. --Teratornis 19:12, 11 October 2007 (EDT)

I second the welcome :) - Icewedge 20:34, 11 October 2007 (EDT)

A mechanized welcome

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Thank you for the efficient welcome. --Teratornis 19:12, 11 October 2007 (EDT)

A friend of Ed sounds like a friend of mine

Jeez, it could be really useful fun having you around! Hey, are you buds with Ed?--PalMD^{-If it looks like a donut, eat it} 18:55, 11 October 2007 (EDT)

I can't say I've head the pleasure, but he (presumably "Ed" signifies a "he") sounds like a person I should try to ingratiate. --Teratornis 19:12, 11 October 2007 (EDT)

I'm sure he'd like that. He is the master of compromise.

Do we really have to be polite?--PalMD^{-If it looks like a donut, eat it} 19:28, 11 October 2007 (EDT)

BTW, Ed is also Ed and Ed. Also known as "Schlafly's Daschshund"--PalMD^{-If it looks like a donut, eat it} 19:32, 11 October 2007 (EDT)

Thank you for showing me some interwiki link prefixes for RationalWiki that I hadn't figured out yet (I'm used to being able to peek at the database on wikis I administer).

See? Insulting and educational!--PalMD^{-If it looks like a donut, eat it} 19:44, 11 October 2007 (EDT)

Be polite

(excerpted to a new section) Do we really have to be polite?--PalMD^{-If it looks like a donut, eat it} 19:28, 11 October 2007 (EDT)

No, I need to customize the Template:Talkheader I just copied from Wikipedia to RationalWiki. And I need to figure out which god I have to propitiate to get the messagebox standard-talk style class added to MediaWiki:Common.css here (which seems to be <gasp> empty now). --Teratornis 19:39, 11 October 2007 (EDT)

Just F.Y.I. Tmtoulouse and Linus are our resident techies/site administrators. Locke ^{Always Watching......} 19:44, 11 October 2007 (EDT)

Thanks for the information. This is the most responsive wiki I've seen since I ran my lawnmower over a hornet's next. Does everybody just watch Special:Recentchanges like antlions waiting for lunch to fall in? --Teratornis 20:00, 11 October 2007 (EDT)

Slow night at the clinic. I've only had four patients since 5pm (EDT).--PalMD^{-If it looks like a donut, eat it} 20:11, 11 October 2007 (EDT)

I should probably be studying for my medical terminology class, but I would probably find some other distraction if not this. Locke ^{Always Watching......} 20:19, 11 October 2007 (EDT)

Better dead than red.

Welcome to RW where some of us think that Redlinks are not our friends. Is there any chance of you reducing the large number of them on your user page?:--Remarcsd 19:35, 11 October 2007 (EDT)

There you go again...you really need a sphincterotomy. (JK for lulz)--PalMD^{-If it looks like a donut, eat it} 19:37, 11 October 2007 (EDT)

Thanks, but my anal retentiveness will defeat your sphincterotomy any day of the week, with its hands tied behind its back.--Remarcsd 19:45, 11 October 2007 (EDT)

Sorry. You will note that all (I think) of my red links are actually interwiki links which work on other wikis, and I just got here so I haven't figured out where RationalWiki lists its interwiki link prefixes yet. Of course that is no excuse, one would think I'd have the extra-sensory perception thing down by now. --Teratornis 19:43, 11 October 2007 (EDT)

Im sure Linus, TM, or Human could install the damn things.--PalMD^{-If it looks like a donut, eat it} 19:47, 11 October 2007 (EDT)

The basic method is simple. I documented exactly how I added more interwiki link prefixes to another wiki where I do have administrator powers:

• User:Teratornis/Wiki tasks#Interwiki links

and my plan was to start a similar user subpage here where I can list that sort of thing and other improvements I need to mark my territory. --Teratornis 19:54, 11 October 2007 (EDT)

I for one think that redlinks represent a promise of greatness - the potential to become something greater than what we are now. We should cherish them. :nods: --AKjeldsen^Godspeed! 19:40, 11 October 2007 (EDT)

In general, i agree with that...they are also a marker for what i have left to to.--PalMD^{-If it looks like a donut, eat it} 19:44, 11 October 2007 (EDT)

Oh yes, I also have some red links to user subpages I was about to start until everybody started hammering my talk page and bogging me down in edit conflicts each time I tried to reply. It doesn't help that my Internet connection decided to start crapping out at the same time. Jeeze, now I know what beautiful women must feel like trying to walk down the street past me. --Teratornis 19:47, 11 October 2007 (EDT)

Sorry, I started at the top of the wanted pages list, found a stange one and went to the source--your user page--and saw all the red, and made the unwarranted conclusion that they were all going to appear on the redlink list. All of which goes to show how wrong I can be. Sorry, he says again as he tiptoes bolts away from the hornets nest he just disturbed. --Remarcsd 20:00, 11 October 2007 (EDT)

No problem, I kind of rode in on a bolide by pasting in a mess of wikitext from my Wikipedia user page, which resulted in a pile of red links. Sort of like passing the time at airport check-in by juggling three hand grenades. I'd worry if it didn't get attention. --Teratornis 20:30, 11 October 2007 (EDT)

It's just nice to have a new, competent face around.--PalMD^{-If it looks like a donut, eat it} 19:48, 11 October 2007 (EDT)

By no means am I mocking the love. It's nice to have a wiki that actually appears inhabited. By natives who mistake me for competent, even! Rest assured that I see the ugly red links and I will fix them (or failing that, remove them). --Teratornis 19:51, 11 October 2007 (EDT)

Whoa

Teratornis, slow down please. I don't think it's polite to stroll into someone's home and start criticising the decor & making demands that they change / import things. You might be right in all you say but softly softly please. Susan^{talk to me} 16:14, 13 October 2007 (EDT)

Softly, like this guy? (Say, is it true that Che Guevara committed mass murder like Wikipedia says? How polite were the show trials he presided over?) Silly me, I must have read too much into the "Rational" part of RationalWiki, thinking that I wouldn't have to worry about the style over substance fallacy, and it would actually be enough (for the first time in my existence) to just be right about something. Not that I'm saying I'm right, and I welcome criticism, but did I really seem that aggressive? I mean in comparison to all the racist vandals posting crud on here? Not to mention the other users who look to be trading good-natured insults with each other on my talk page up above? I thought I was just making suggestions which everyone is perfectly free to ignore or refute, in the grand wiki tradition. Well, this probably is planet Earth after all. If I am right, I will try to refrain from saying so, just like my hero Richard Dawkins (not that I could claim to be as right as him). Speaking of softly, softly, what do you think of Arsebandit? He (presumably it's a "he" as I couldn't see many women feeling inclined toward wiki vandalism - more evidence why we need Moore's law to hurry up and give us high-quality Gynoids to dissipate some of that adolescent male frustration) seems to have taken a liking to my "work" (I use the term loosely), as in blanking much of it. I'm very impressed at how fast RationalWiki's administrators reverted his vandalism, even before I actually saw it - this level of vigilance is amazing. (Hopefully I can find a way to fit in before I alienate everyone on RationalWiki, or perhaps after I do.) I wish I could convince my co-workers in real (ugh) life to take an equal interest in the corporate wikis I painstakingly set up for them to neglect. In any case, henceforth I shall edit my potentially condescending suggestions on user subpages first, to kind of quarantine them for dispassionate review before unleashing them. --Teratornis 16:49, 13 October 2007 (EDT)