User talk:Geek84

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Thanks again and happy editing!

— Trilobite (Talk) 23:30, 6 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Newbie questions

Just joined a few minutes ago. Been reading Wikipedia for a few months. I'm generally enthusiastic about what I see (some great articles and writing!).

Questions:

1. Any objections if I start by adding to the USB (Universal Serial Bus) article(s)? I'd like to add text about the Cypress EZ-USB chips, especially their ReNumeration feature. I think this has wider interest than just USB, because it gives a good example of how Windows selects the correct driver, etc. My level of expertise is high in this area.

2. Edit wars appear to be a royal pain. Is there someway to lock down a page so that it can be edited after a discussion with the original author? If that's not possible, any tips on avoiding editing wars? (Then again, it's not likely that contributors will have strong opinions about ReNumeration, compared to an article like Circumcision, hence they're not likely to want to edit 'my' article.)

Thanks, --Geek84 21:42, 6 Sep 2004 (UTC)

1. Be bold in Editing

2. Pages can be locked by sysops until the dispute can be resolved by all parties in the edit war.

(Oh, and welcome to wikipedia! 21:46, 6 Sep 2004 (UTC))

--Darksun 21:46, 6 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Darksun's right on all points.

1. By all means, go ahead and edit the page! I'm glad we have an expert.
2. See Wikipedia:Dispute resolution and Wikipedia:Requests for page protection.
3. Welcome to the wikipedia. :-)

• Benc • 21:52, 6 Sep 2004 (UTC)

3. I remember there was a link on every wikipedia page to get an "optimized for printing" version. Is this feature still available? If yes, how? If no, why not? I looked over the help pages and faq, searched on google, but didn't found any information on this. --aku

I believe that this is now available through the magic of CSS - when you send a page to the printer, a modern browser will automatically apply the appropriate formatting. --AlexG 23:01, 6 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Yes, thanks to CSS maintaining two versions of a page: one for viewing and one for printing, is no longer necessary and is generally considered poor web design. If you print a Wikipedia article you will see that it's formatted completely differently from its appearance on the screen. Links aren't underlined because they're fairly irrelevant to a printed article, and things like "edit this page" disappear. The wonders of technology! — Trilobite (Talk) 23:25, 6 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Hi, I've moved your question here as it was time to clean up the village pump and I didn't know if you'd seen all the replies yet. Angela. 14:35, Sep 10, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks

I've seen you fix mistakes in several articles on my watchlist. Thanks! Rl 08:41, 30 July 2005 (UTC)

Joan Embery

(It's not good to remove speedy deletion tags)

Too bad, I thought I recognized the name and I see she used to be on the Johnny Carson Show. But the article is deleted already. I think it would be good for you to recreate it, three other articles wuold link to it, and she is notable. Maybe use http://www.joanembery.com/Joan_Embery_About.htm as a guide to writing the article. The trick is to write more than one sentence before posting it, and then it won;t get jummped on from lack of content. --ArmadilloFromHell 06:15, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

Notification: changes to "Mark my edits as minor by default" preference

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Thank you for your understanding and happy editing :) Editing on behalf of User:Jarry1250, LivingBot (talk) 21:16, 13 March 2011 (UTC)