User talk:JackyR~enwikiquote

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And sorry for the delay in the standard welcome message. I'm afraid we don't really have a welcoming committee here yet, so this tends to fall through the cracks. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 08:55, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

Walter Scott

You wrote: Talk to me about the formatting here. You've put the quotes from ch. 15 of The Antiquary into (one particular) strict, formal Wikiquote style: I'd put them in context with a note about this bit of the novel. My strong feeling is that the page loses immensely by not having these extra notes; I feel that, not only are (brief) notes not absolutely contrary to house style, but that style exists to serve the publication, not rule it (and I speak as a professional editor). Consistency is a good thing, but not to the point where it undermines the purpose of the page.

I'm stating this very strongly, but obviously you also have an opinion here! Talk to me... JackyR 20:53, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

• It's not that I'm against offering explanatory text surrounding a quote, but I'd be apt to try to reign in the formatting of it a bit from your original. I would think we could accomodate both our wishes by compromising. Can we try to adhere to conventional WQ formatting, yet still retain your introductory text? ~ UDScott 21:05, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

I'll have a go. Posted that on the article talk page in case anyone follows and reverts one or other of the changes, but I guess it's not high-risk! :-) JackyR 21:19, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

Wikiquote:Aims

Thank you for the suggestion at WQ:VP about a Wikiquote:Aims. I haven't perused such pages for quite a while, but I think you're right that we need to consider creating and/or updating something like this. As with all other policy-type issues here, though, I suspect it will take some effort to drum up interest in making this happen, and participants will mostly be the dozen or so usual suspects. I won't publicly nominate you to head this project, as I half-jokingly did to poor Essjay when he spoke up about general policy revision, but I encourage you to be bold, pehaps by starting a draft, including the points you raised (all of which are excellent and certainly get to the heart of some of our biggest problems), and starting a talk page to discuss these points. (You might add the major goal of providing accurate quotes — something that is quite rare on the Web today — which involves sourcing, citations, and verifying, all of which are still rather disorganized here.) If you want to give it a shot, consider adding it to Wikiquote:WikiProject Policy Revision. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 17:24, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

I'll gather my strength a bit and have a go! Thanks for the positive feedback and pointers about where to start. I'm sure it will, as you say, be the Usual Suspects, but at least we'll then have a position (and page!) against which people can react! I don't see me making a good project leader, so won't volunteer. (I've spread myself so thin I'm letting plenty of people down already...) Cheers, JackyR 17:33, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

I suspect we all feel fairly thin-spread as well. (I know I do.) It's funny how even a completely voluntary project like Wikiquote can make you feel responsible for so much! We'll take whatever you wish to contribute. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 10:58, 5 April 2006 (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 JackyR. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name JackyR~enwikiquote 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.

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Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours,
Keegan Peterzell
Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation

23:26, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed

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05:49, 19 April 2015 (UTC)