User talk:Loop

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Hey, Loop! Welcome to NSwiki. When you get a chance, tell us a bit about yourself on your User page.

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Happy editing! Frisbeeteria Θtalk 20:33, 27 Oct 2004 (GMT)

Common terms

Loop, sometimes it's better to leave a link unfinished (as an invitation) than to create an article with minimal information. Germany and Human would probably be better left undone. See Linking common terms. Frisbeeteria Θtalk 03:39, 28 Oct 2004 (GMT)

Re: fridge owls, I'd rather some East Pacifican came over and updated it from personal knowledge than for me to dig it out and miss some of the essentials. Iinstead of me coming over, why don't you encourage EPians to come over to the wiki and crank out a few articles? Just create a forum topic with an invitation, that should do it. Frisbeeteria Θtalk

First person vs. Third person

I've noticed a number of pages where you say some variant of "I (Loop) did this" or "I believe that". There are really only two places where First Person is appropriate in an encyclopedic context: your User page and the various Talk pages. It would be best if you could rephrase some of those comments into third person actions, i.e. "Under the 1 Infinite Loop administration, such and such happened".

Even though the East Pacific is essentially your private fiefdom, the East Pacific regional wiki page belongs to the history of NS, not to you. People will probably be editing in a variety of comments that you may not like, but that's how the neutral point of view policy works. Anticipating that by putting your own edits into Third Person, with neutral phrasing, will help keep your comments in context; and reduce the chance of edit wars. Frisbeeteria Θtalk 16:33, 28 Oct 2004 (GMT)


10-4 Loop 18:26, 28 Oct 2004 (GMT)


"Great Architect" link created as requested. → Fris Θtalk 15:03, 11 Dec 2004 (GMT)