User talk:Charles

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Contents 1 Hi 2 Reminder 3 Comment and some thoughts 3.1 Thanks for the reply 4 Reverted move of Djinn talk page

Hi

Charles,

Hi, and welcome to tinWiki. :-)

Just wanted to welcome you, and to let you know you should feel free to write in your user page. You can find that here. If you have any questions about anything in tinWiki whatsoever, please let me know and I will try my best to help. You are also welcome to post questions in the tinWiki Help desk, to post questions, or any other type of comment and so on, in the tinWiki working forum in ATS, and you can of course also contact other tinWiki users on their user discussions here in tinWiki.

Keep up the good work. Optimist 19:42, 25 June 2008 (CDT)

Reminder

Please remember to sign when entering an image into the image description page. Keep up the good work. Optimist 18:34, 26 June 2008 (CDT)

Comment and some thoughts

Charles,

You're making some interesting contributions. I also seem to notice that you may have additional interests as far as publishing stuff to the web, outside of what tinWiki is supposed to be about. What I mean by this is, I notice you are posting many images and describing personal experiences and accounts. This is certainly interesting with regard to the topics you are writing about, but the form is closer to a blog writing style.

Some of the stuff you are posting are great contributions to this encyclopedia. However, the strict limitations on what tinWiki is about don't really fit with some of the other contributions you are making. I consider that you should separate your publishings into two: that you should move some of your publishing to a personal blog, and also refine what you are contributing here in tinWiki so that it gets a more encyclopedic form and adheres more closely to the tinWiki style manual and guidelines. A link from the relevant tinWiki articles to your blog would then be good to add.

Let me know how my thoughts seem. If you wish to consider creating a blog, I will happily try and help you if you need help with what steps to go through to set up your acount. ATS (tinWiki's sponsor) itself used to have a blog hosting service, but this is now suspended, as I've understood it. However, as you know, there are several other free and very good blog hosts. Some famous examples are Wordpress.com and Google's Blogger.com. Not sure if it would be quite right for what you are looking for, but there are in fact wiki hosts out there as well, so you could post using the same type of format that is used in tinWiki. Let me know how this sounds.

And, again, if you could use some help, I will be happy to try and walk you through the steps of setting up a blog or other type of account. Optimist 11:30, 27 June 2008 (CDT)

Please respond to this message, Charles. Optimist 20:35, 27 June 2008 (CDT)

Feel free to send me a U2U in ATS. Also, I want to remind you again to sign image entries you make in the image description page. Optimist 20:50, 27 June 2008 (CDT)

Thanks for the reply

Charles,

First of all, I apologize that I have not been in the habit of checking the Help Desk often enough -- even though I have been referring visitors to my discussion page, there.

My bad.

Anyway, thanks a lot for the interesting and descriptive reply. I think I understood what you described is your wish, and will think about it a little bit so I can give you my best reply. Thanks again for the reply. P.S. In both discussions and when entering images into the image description page, after the period after your last sentence, the automatic signature wiki code should always be entered -- that's four tildes ~~~~. When you save the post or image entry, those four tildes will automatically be turned into a signature, like this --> Optimist 00:30, 28 June 2008 (CDT)

Reverted move of Djinn talk page

Charles,

Hi. I reverted your move of the Djinn talk page that moved that talk page to an article page called Djinn 2. Additions to an article should be made in the article page, not by adding a new page. Editing of existing pages is precisely what is the advantage of wikis. :-) After I made the revert, I have copied and pasted your discussion post into the article, adding it to the end of the article content that was there from before. Let me know how that seems to you. Optimist 20:29, 27 June 2008 (CDT)