User talk:Dinoguy1000/notepad

Comments on old edits

I specialise in investigating edits from the UseModWiki era of Wikipedia, so I can help here. Yes, it's true that Nostalgia Wikipedia often contains earlier edits than the ones available in the main English Wikipedia database. For example, it contains the very first edit to Dragon Ball Z from 9 September 2001. A great way to find extremely old history is to use the what links here feature in the Nostalgia Wikipedia and check for CamelCase redirects. I did this for the Anime article, and found a version under the title "JapaneseAnime" from April 2001 that is still available in the English Wikipedia database. That's the earliest animanga page I can find.

Re: the history of User:LC, all user pages were stored in the main namespace before January 2002, and then cut-and-pasted to the user namespace. Unfortunately, LC's userpage was deleted on 28 February 2002 by Larry Sanger, according to the old deletion log. You can find versions of LC's userpage from 2001 at the title "LC" in the Nostalgia Wikipedia. Graham87 10:30, 28 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Graham, this should be helpful to me looking at other old articles. I knew about userpages originally being in the main namespace (unless I'm mistaken, Wikipedia didn't *have* namespaces until at least Phase II, did it?), but never thought of looking at that for User:LC. *goes off to Meta to expand/broaden/clean up m:wikiarcheologist/m:wikiarchaeologists prior to creating a userbox here for it* 「ダイノガイ千？！」^{? · Talk⇒Dinoguy1000} 23:09, 30 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Have a look: User:Dinoguy1000/UBX/wikiarchaeologist. 「ダイノガイ千？！」^{? · Talk⇒Dinoguy1000} 23:32, 30 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I like the userbox! :-) I've added it to my page.

Yes, Wikipedia had no namespaces at all until the Phase II software was installed in January 2002. People whose usernames were potential article titles used some interesting solutions for their user pages; see Wikipedians/The Cunctator and Sodiumtheperson on the Nostalgia Wikipedia. I've tried to move all ancient user page history from the main namespace to the user namespace, including the old pages found in the deleted edits of Conversion script. Therefore if you find some old user page history that is still in the main namespace, besides Jimbo Wales, Larry Sanger, and a couple of other exceptions where history merging is neither appropriate nor necessary, I'd like to know about it. I thought that "LC" would've been one of the pages I missed, because it's now a namespace article. Unfortunately that wasn't the case. Graham87 06:00, 1 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]