User talk:RafaAzevedo/2008/February

thanks for the feedback on the Ron Wood page - i do use the preview gizmo, but a] when the error is a faulty reference it's not visible in the preview if i'm editing just one section; and b] another editor advised me to make changes incrementally. i'll try to find some kind of happy medium. Sssoul (talk) 14:58, 22 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Inserting links to my page

Hey!

Look, what I was doing was that I was trying to make it possible so that people could get to the source of the poem easily! Darn it! I am really mad at what you just did! It took a while to do that and it was useful. (If I had been using the page it would have been useful to me.) It made the task of finding the poem easy, that's all! I did not know where the poem was on Wikisource, or whatever, and I was just doing a quick fix, and if you had somehow linked to Wikisoure that would have been great, but instead you just deleted!

I didn't take credit for anything, I was merely using (bureaucraticly incorrectly, I know,) my userspace for the good of Wikipedia!

Please, if you don't have the time to make the 'pedia better, why make it worse for no reason by now deleting the thing I did to find Martial poems? —Preceding unsigned comment added by David G Brault (talk • contribs) 01:56, 28 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

OK, look. I don't know why I am writing this message, but I am. It is a waste of my time and yours for me to be writing this message, but I am still writing it, and I'm sorry. But Argh! Look at what you have just done: you have changed

Book VIII, No. 14. 5-6.

to

Book VIII, No. 14. 5-6.

and given me a lecture on doing it wrong. What is the big deal! They both work!

The point is to work!

Even linking to my own page worked for the function!

Why do you care so much about formats? Really! I mean, why don't you just fix it if you care so much, but you are making it like I would to better not to post, I think. But I took some time to do it, and it was helping. It clearly was helping. You can't say it wasn't helping. —Preceding unsigned comment added by David G Brault (talk • contribs) 02:30, 29 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Look, I'm sorry. I didn't know the proper way to do it. Now I know. I got frustrated because of what I see as a general, negative trend on Wikipedia for formatting types to simply delete improperly formatted information, not to just put it into the proper format. (even my first version was proper information, improper format. It was as useful as the link up now.) Even if this takes a little bit extra of your time, I think it would have been cool of you if you could have seen my lame attempt, seen what I was trying to do, and then put it proper. (You say the edit was totally pointless, but I really disagree on that one. I really do. It would have helped me much. How? By making my Wiki reading experience more effortless and pleasant. That's what internal links are for. It really makes a difference to have them. I love clicking on a well placed link).

David G Brault (talk) 06:18, 29 February 2008 (UTC) (Are you happy that I am signing right? I do know how to do this. Really, why do you care if I sign or if the robot does it? It is just a pet peeve of yours, you must recognise this. When somebody (who signs wrong) is bothering you you just add "And you sign your posts wrong!"[reply]