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June 2007

MOTD

Sorry, Astro, I think you have put 7 mottoes in the section again, please make a little less.c'mon, we've fished a good one.Kfc 1864 Cuba Libre! 05:14, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

7 isn't so bad. It's good that there actually are nominations coming in. --Tewy 05:46, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Tropical cyclone is a FA Nomination. c'mon, we've fished a good one.Kfc 1864 Cuba Libre! 06:40, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

sign here

Yes, internal links are fine (of course), but a link screaming "sign here!!" could be considered disruptive, or inelegant to say the least. The story is: I don't like those sign here links in signatures and then I discovered that the WP:SIG guideline advises against them. So I decided to ask the next best user with such a link in his sig if he'd agree not to have it. Luckily, I met Teh tennisman, who seems like a friendly guy (and I'm not saying that because he agreed).

Don't get me wrong: Signature pages are fine. FWIW, I strongly endorse the community spirit or what they produce. But I think some people are taking signatures too far. This is not usenet. Other people have to sift through pages all the time and long sigs make that difficult. Likewise, useful contribution-oriented links are fine. But this is not Myspace. If people want community, they can have the rest of the web. And if they must have it here, they please shouldn't take it to me with their signature. People can instead put up giant letters on their user and talk pages begging to sign their autograph pages. That's perfectly fine. But not in their signatures. That's not fine.

Sorry for this near-humorless reply, but you asked for it.

Regarding my userpage: Interesting. Which browser do you use? Do you use another skin than Monobook?

—AldeBaer 01:41, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Replied. —AldeBaer 09:42, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

ACE

Re-read the source for Andrea's ACE. It clearly says the ACE for Andrea is provided only as a comparison - "we are including this information to allow for comparison between individual cyclones across all basins, many of which contain records which inadequately distinguish between tropical and subtropical cyclones". – Chacor 00:43, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

Also, per WP:SIG, "When customizing your signature, please keep the following in mind: A distracting, confusing or otherwise unsuitable signature may adversely affect other users. Some editors find it disruptive to discourse on talk pages, or when working in the edit window. Very long signatures that contain a lot of code ("markup") make it difficult for some editors to read talk pages while editing" - I've formatted your signature on my talk page because it was becoming disruptive to use the edit box. I'd strongly suggest pruning all unnecessary links. – Chacor 03:04, 12 June 2007 (UTC)