User talk:BRG

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Hi. The 60 day rule applies to admin rights. Bureaucrat rights only involve the ability to promote other users, so assuming you already had the admin rights beforehand, are not generally associated with new responsibilities on the wiki. Your contributions look great and I've given you admin and bureaucrat rights. Good luck with the wiki! -- Wendy (talk ) 01:21, December 31, 2011 (UTC)

Re: Black pudding vs. Blood sausage

 * I get the point; not yet the applications. I'd imagine I will get them when I've found my way around the wikis (tea, cheese and sausage). Allow me to bump in a few walls while I do so.
 * There may be a few instances, like the "parmigiano reggiano" issue on cheese wiki, that may pop up deliberately - my mother tongue is Italian.
 * MinorStoop

It's gonna be a lot of work.
There's no denying that these three wikis are in their early stages of development. Let's see if I can work out a decent category tree for them, this wiki to start with - that'll probably help me with getting a feel for content and links; a few categories seem to depend on a template.

I don't know what kind of communication page you've used more often (message walls or talk pages), but I get notified every time there's something for me on my talk page, not on yours. I don't if you answer to a message of mine to you on your page, so I'll appreciate if you took anything you want to let me know on my talk page. There's always hope that we get more editors on here, and if there are enough, it may get complicated if we don't. MinorStoop  17:50, December 13, 2012 (UTC)

Multiple replies
1) I'll look into setting up the Talkback as soon as I can spare some undivided time to the issue.

2) About the lists marked for deletion; I failed to see your rationale for them, either because there was not enough information on the pages to see it or because I skipped too cursorily through them. However, in my opinion, if we manage to set up a good category tree, this kind of lists will be rendered obsolete, and we won't need to duplicate the effort.

3) Blood-as-meat: on this, our respective opinions may get in the way and we might fail to convince the other. A strict definition of meat refers to an animal muscle, a broad one goes all the way to include blood, offal, cartilage, skin, everything except bone. Merriam Webster's definitions you link to do not seem to clearly support neither of our ideas. Or both of them, and is therefore not enough to solve the disagreement. Let's shelve the issue until we can give it a bit more thought.

4) Links to non existent pages: these I fail to understand - if the page does not exist, why create a deliberately broken link to it? But it's a minor point - in case you haven't noticed I've created three pages containing "Link whatever pointing here". We can fill them at a later time.

5) Correct usage of english - this is likely going to be the source of some friction. I've had less than a hundred hours of formal training in english; I just realize it has been 28 years ago. Afterwards I took the pragmatical approach; if it was good enough to understand and be understood, it was good enough for me - got away with it until now. I'll try to improve it and hope you'll provide the required feedback.

MinorStoop  08:45, December 14, 2012 (UTC)


 * List/categories: on a category pages, at the top of the page, there is a toggle which allows you to select whether you want a category list (a plain list of up to 200 titles on a single page, I think) or a category exhibition (which shows also a picture for each title). Next to it there is a button that allows the ordering of the titles by visit number, alphabet, most recently edited. I'm still in favor of the categories alone.


 * Blood: it may simply a question of differing opinions, you being a splitter, I being a lumper. Not worth arguing over.


 * Broken links: a way of doing it different from what I would have followed. Again, not worth arguing over - as you say, they'll be repaired given time.


 * Montenegro/Montenegrin: well, you can't make an adjective out of "Dominican Republic", so you have to use the noun (I'll go for noun) in its place. Since "Montenegrin" seemed funny as a word to me, "Montenegro" seemed to fit the bill. OK, I'll leave that to you in the future, though I may ask you to clarify if I don't get it.
 * While I'm at it, I'm sure I've met the "Philipino/a" spelling before; probably relating to a person, as you point out.
 * MinorStoop  16:55, December 14, 2012 (UTC)

Hi Bruce!

I actually went to school in DC (George Washington University)- and that's when I wrote my blog. Sadly, it's not active anymore because I live in San Francisco now! San Francisco is where Wikia's headquarters are. I do miss D.C. (especially the great restaurant scene!).

Best,

Ariana 16:17, April 26, 2013 (UTC)

Wikia HQ
Wikia actually has a bunch of offices- the headquarters are in SF, the other offices are in NYC, London, and Poland. We do have a lot of people who work remotely, but about 100 people work here in the SF office!