Wikipedia talk:Simple talk
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[change] Massive Simple English Phrase book
Do we have one? I have been trying to simplify many words, and putting them in an excel document. (Reminds me of 1984 Newspeak LOL)
- Wikitionary? Microchip 08:44, Wednesday, June 18 2008 Utc
[change] The name for the Pump
As we do not yet have a village pump, I shall ask this here. What should the village pump be called? (In the English Wikipedia, the village pump is used for asking questions).
Village pump makes no sense in English, let alone simple English. A lot of other languages are using names based aound cafes. (Le Bistro, y caffi etc). Any thoughts on what to call it here?
Angela. 20 August, 03:16 BST
"Page where people speak back and forth about the simple Wikipedia" -Hehe. I dunno -- On Ar.Wiki (glad you joined, BTW - It was pretty lonely there..) I named it the "Community Oasis." Is "chat" a simple word? "Talk" would be the simplest, while discussion, and communication might follow after. "Simple Talk"? Easy chat? Some long words are actully simple, while others are complex - I think you're right that we should avoid dealing in metaphors as theyre an abstraction.
- I wouldn't suggest talk and that will get confused with talk about the articles. How about "questions" or "ask a question"? Angela.
- I personnaly liked the Market Place as a place to visit when we want, and shop for something like an answer. Ant
- I would not call it questions because it is also for remarks, proposals, etc. Avoiding the usual metaphor, because a metaphor is not really simple, I like Simple talk; the only possible confusion is with Simple/Talk, when we have an article called Simple, but that is not so serious. Patrick.
- Something straightforward: "Helps and concerns/worries/ideas/X".
- The problem with metaphors like "Village Pump" is that it was adequately metaphorically to the creator and those around him at that time (i.e., villagers gather around the pump to whatnot), but to most other people now, it's just a too poetic metaphor. We wouldn't want our metaphor to end up that way. --Menchi, August 20, 2003
- I like the suggestion of "simple talk" as it has a double meaning of both talk that is written in a simple language and it is talk about the simple English Wikipedia. Angela
I like it too.//我喜欢也是。 -Stevertigo
Why not stick with it then? Ain't broke: don't fix--BozMo|talk 11:49, 2 Aug 2004 (UTC)
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- If the "simple English" wikipedia is to live up to its "simple" name then a good name for a "village pump" would be "The place for talking it over", or the "Talking_it_over" page, simple, descriptive, easily grasped (although somewhat plain, of course, but along the lines of BASIC English). Jay B. ILVI
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I don't have any idea about the village pump, may be an object or machine ? " sukor06 "
[change] ISBN
Hi everyone! I'm Arizza, a writer at our student publication here at University of the East (Philippines)... Anyone! We have this DAWN INVESTIGATIVE BUREAU, and we're investigating the anomalies happenning in our school with regards to the books their issueing in the students... Books dont have their ISBN or International Standard Book Number. May I know the SIGNIFICANCE OF ISBN? Pls help me,,, help us... Thank you!
- Have a look at the article "International Standard Book Number". — Cheers, Truth's Out There –talk– 19:31, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
[change] WikiProject/(sub)Portal
Hi, i miss in the SimpleWikipedia the possibility to found a portal/project on a topic/area. Is this something only the "full" Wikipedias(these in "normal" languages) should have, or can we integrate it somehow in the SimpleWikipedia? I don't know how to realize it, but if this would be possible, I will found a project and/or portal for mathematics, but I would be happy if there were somebody, who knows more about maths, to help continuosly. Of course it would be good, if every big (or to-be-big) area will be found by somebody (or better more than one person) who will some sort of look after this area. sternchen14.July2005 ps: how can I get a signature with a link to my userpage without having to type it in?
[change] Simple
I find writing in Simple is really a difficult task. But, I will do it for sure. --Bhadani 16:36, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
[change] No table of contents?
Why do neither of these pages have table of contents? I don't think they should be omitted. T. Moitie|Talk|Esperanza 02:30, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
- I don't understand what you mean, Moitie, but in general, only those pages have a table of contents (TOC) by default, which have enough number of sections (headings) in them (I think the number was 4 but I'm not sure.)
- In order to force a TOC to appear on a page, no matter it has only one section, you can add __TOC__ to its top.
- In order to prohibit a TOC to appear on a page, no matter it has many sections, you can add __NOTOC__ to its top.
- Hope it helps, - Huji reply 17:08, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
[change] Intro
I thought the intro looked a bit unclean, so I've used the style from the English Wikipedia Village pump, I think it looks alright. What do you think? T. Moitie - Talk - Esperanza 20:59, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
[change] Running simple wiki
In order to be administrator here, you must be on big one, how to apply for this one? How often must one reply and be active on both wikis? — This unsigned comment was added by 66.99.1.23 (talk • contribs) .
- You do not have to be an administrator (or even an editor) on the English Wikipedia to become one on Simple English. There are no rules on how often a person needs to post, how much they must post, or how long they have been posting for. Each person who applies for administrator is voted on by the other editors. Because each person has a different standard on how they vote, it is advisable to not bother to try for admin until you have at least around 1k edits, have been active here for 3 months, and have shown a good understanding of the guidelines and policies. Many people voting will not consider supporting the request unless the person has at least those qualifications (exceptions do happen though). To request to be an admin, see Wikipedia:Administrators and bureaucrats -- Creol(talk) 21:08, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
[change] Request for Page-Move
Hi! I don't know where the right place for a Page-Move is, so i'll try it here: SpVgg Greuther Führth should be moved to SpVgg Greuther Fürth, which is the correct german name. Thank you, --84.56.96.194 19:18, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
[change] Photographic Memories
I am hoping someone with a photographic memory happened to see my article on Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest. Earlier this morning, I started the article, specifying right there in the article that it was the home of Thomas Jefferson.
I saved my first draft, went to the bathroom, and came back and checked to see if you have an article on Thomas Jefferson. (You do, which is nice because for those of you who do not know, he was arguably one of a handful of the most famous presidents of the USA, which is a fairly large country in North America (at least in terms of land area).
Anywho...... I wanted to wikify my article to Thomas Jefferson, but did not wish to create a red link. So I thought it prudent to take the time to check first whether you actually had an article already on Jefferson. But when I went back to open my article on Poplar Forest, the home which Jefferson built, the article had vanished. I was stunned to find it in the deletion log, reason given: not notable. (Deletion log); 03:29 . . Chenzw (Talk | changes) deleted "Poplar forest" (QD A4: The article does not show notability)
Did anyone happen to see and read my incarnation of the now deleted article? I know it was only up at this site for about three minutes, so I guess there is not much chance anyone saw it, but if you DID see it, and you happen to have a photographic memory, I would greatly appreciate it if you would send me the text that I wrote.
I did not recreate the article right then and there (when this info would have been fresh in my mind), because I know it is against the rules to recreate an article which has already been deleted, for whatever reason. BUT.........Now someone ELSE has started the article again, which I guess is another violation of policy, but I won't get in to that matter. Anyway, this guy copy and pasted a very small amount of material from wikipedia and then abandoned the article. And not just to go to the bathroom either. It has been hours and the guy has not been back.
At this point, no one seems to be arguing the notability of this historic presidential residence. I am not sure what happened between the moment the article was deleted for being not notable, and the moment 31 minutes later when it was started again with new information copied and pasted from the wikipedia article on Poplar Forest. But I guess the article will stay. If it is notable enough for Wikipedia, possibly it might fly also at Simple Wikipedia. In fact someone has asked me to please add my information to that other guy's article, stating that the three people working on or deleting and recreating and adding wikipedia stuff, and pics, or protecting that article have not been to this historic landmark.... and I have and therefore I am in the best position to make that article a little tiny bit better.
So again, if someone can remember that text I wrote, please send it to me and maybe not having lost my little bit of work will help me feel better about expanding on that article those guys got started on.
Bumberspand (talk) 09:45, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
- Why would someone need photographic memory? Had you just asked politely, any admin could have easily provided you with the information from the article. Instead of constant complaining, a simple request would have solved the problem. As of now, there is a copy of the article in your user space as it was originally written (including factual errors, total lack of formatting and other problems). -- Creol(talk) 10:40, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
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- Thanks very much. I will be sure not to submit any more articles unless they are absolutely complete and perfect in every way. This is all I can do for now, though. (I have dug all morning and finally figured out what you meant by my userspace, and I got my original draft and incorporated it into the article for you. You have a very nice website here and I hope you find a lot of eager people who want to work on it and give their valuable time to learning how to contribute here.
Bumberspand (talk) 14:20, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
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- No need to be sarcastic. Microchip 09:53, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
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