User talk:Kelnius
KelniusThanks for your edits! We hope you'll keep on editing with us. This is a great time to have joined us, because now you can play the Game of Rassilon with us and win cool stuff! Well, okay, badges. That have no monetary value. And that largely only you can see. But still: they're cool!
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Thread closure[[edit source]]
The thread closure had nothing to do with you. It was wholly routine, caused by the fact that the contest had moved from Round 4 to Round 5.
Also, I have removed a post of yours in another thread, simply because it was taking the thread off course. The Time Lord Academy isn't for discussions, per se. You can ask questions that clarify the point being made, but you can't flatly contradict the original post or asks questions that are tangential to the subject. It's meant to just give a single, easy-to-digest point about editing on the wiki. You may find T:FORUM helpful.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 03:34: Thu 23 May 2013
- Okay, I'm confused. If you knew why the thread was closed, why were you apologising? You knew the closure had nothing to do with you, so why make such a big deal about it?
- And I apologise if you think I'm somehow being mean to you. My goal is simply to try to keep instructions to our users simple. This means that I sometimes will delete posts. I haven't targeted you specifically; there are any number of other posts which have been deleted for reasons clearly spelled out at T:FORUM.
- Please understand that we have a very broad user base. People from school age to retirement age edit here. We have users who are born and England, and people who speak English only as their third language.
- It's really important that the instructions given in The Time Lord Academy are as clear as possible. Your exact quote was:
- Dear Universe, There's no such thing as "single quotation marks". That's just an apostrophe that you're using wrong. Yours Sincerely, The Absurd Word Nerd.
- That is only going to confuse our regular, native-Hebrew-speaking editors — amongst others. If I'm saying in the original post that single quotes are standard British English, but we don't want to use them here — and then you're saying, "Eh, they don't even exist; they're just apostrophes used wrongly" — that's going to be confusing as hell to someone who doesn't even have this issue in their native alphabet!
- Your second paragraph really had nothing to do with the use of quotation marks. You were asking whether we reproduce "grammatical errors", and the thread had nothing to do with grammar. The thread was about quotation marks, which are punctuation.
- I'm happy to answer the question here, though. Yes, we do reproduce grammatical errors. We don't, however, reproduce use of single quotes, as the thread makes clear.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 05:26: Thu 23 May 2013- So, in trying to figure out what you were talking 'bout with respect to the Starship Battle thread, I just went back and read it. I think the reason you were apologising to me is because you you thought I thought you had attacked me personally. I never thought that, and — no offence — I didn't even remember the incident until today. Reviewing the thread now, I know that I took your "you" to be the collective "you". I thought you were talking to the whole crowd that was attending that thread. If you think I would personally be upset by anything you said in that thread, you don't know me very well. But as an admin, I have to be sensitive to the fact that others would see the phrase "a true Whovian" as an insult, the implication being that you thought yourself to be a "better" fan than they. That's why I invoked T:ATTACKS — not because I felt like I was under attack, but because I wanted to quickly stop the thread from degenerating into some sort of discussion about what it meant to be "a true Whovian".
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 06:19: Thu 23 May 2013
- So, in trying to figure out what you were talking 'bout with respect to the Starship Battle thread, I just went back and read it. I think the reason you were apologising to me is because you you thought I thought you had attacked me personally. I never thought that, and — no offence — I didn't even remember the incident until today. Reviewing the thread now, I know that I took your "you" to be the collective "you". I thought you were talking to the whole crowd that was attending that thread. If you think I would personally be upset by anything you said in that thread, you don't know me very well. But as an admin, I have to be sensitive to the fact that others would see the phrase "a true Whovian" as an insult, the implication being that you thought yourself to be a "better" fan than they. That's why I invoked T:ATTACKS — not because I felt like I was under attack, but because I wanted to quickly stop the thread from degenerating into some sort of discussion about what it meant to be "a true Whovian".
Christmas cheer[[edit source]]
As this fiftieth anniversary year comes to a close, we here at Tardis just want to thank you for being a part of our community — even if you haven't edited here in a while. If you have edited with us this year, then thanks for all your hard work.
This year has seen an impressive amount of growth. We've added about 11,000 pages this year, which is frankly incredible for a wiki this big. November was predictably one of the busiest months we've ever had: over 500 unique editors pitched in. It was the highest number of editors in wiki history for a year in which only one programme in the DWU was active. And our viewing stats have been through the roof. We've averaged well over 2 million page views each week for the last two months, with some weeks seeing over 4 million views!
We've received an unprecedented level of support from Wikia Staff, resulting in all sorts of new goodies and productive new relationships. And we've recently decided to lift almost every block we've ever made so as to allow most everyone a second chance to be part of our community.
2014 promises to build on this year's foundations, especially since we've got a full, unbroken series coming up — something that hasn't happened since 2011. We hope you'll stick with us — or return to the Tardis — so that you can be a part of the fun!
