User talk:Jonathan W

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Your to-do list[edit]

You might want to move it to your user page User:Jonathan W: That's part of what user pages are for. -- stillnotelf is invisible 02:55, 7 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the suggestion, maybe I should. I just thought my to-do list was a bit personal and my User page was supposed to be for the public. Jonathan W 02:57, 7 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Well, the talk page is certainly for the public to leave you messages. If you want it in a more "private" space try creating User:Jonathan W/To do list or something similar; it'll still be wiki but it's unlikely anyone will ever stumble across it. You may want to see Wikipedia:User page. Happy editing, -- stillnotelf is invisible 14:55, 7 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

OK, I think I'll just delete the to-do list. I can always write it on paper or something. Jonathan W 15:08, 7 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hangman[edit]

Yea, I'd say go ahead and be bold and start a new game :D We need a little more life back in the game! --light darkness^(talk) 03:38, 12 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

OK Thanks! Jonathan W 13:59, 12 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Signature[edit]

Sorry its called nickname in your prefs! Mike _{(T C)} 00:22, 14 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I've figuered it out. Jonathan 00:22, 14 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Let me know how it works out! Mike _{(T C)}

00:25, 14 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

My new signature[edit]

Jonathan ^talk File:Canada flag 300.png

<font size="2" color=#00FF00 style="background:#884400"> Jonathan</font> 18:37, 14 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'm gonna save it here because I can't keep it on the sandbox without it getting deleted Jonathan 02:16, 14 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, hey! I have replied to your post at Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Signature, with full info on solving. I hope this all works, and if not just drop me a complaint at my talk page. ;) Good luck! Ian13/talk 18:52, 14 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Replied again... Ian13/talk 19:07, 14 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've moved my work on my signature to my personal sandbox. (click here to go there) Jonathan ^talk File:Canada flag 300.png 00:44, 15 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Trampoline Safety[edit]

You haven't made any changes to the Trampoline page and the neutrality dispute tag is still on the page. Do you have any plans to change it? If not I will be removing the tag unless I hear from you by next week. Dabbler 16:57, 11 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

No offence taken or intended. I just rather, tongue in cheek, wanted to point out that competitive trampoline with all the safety precautions allows people to go far beyond what the low-powered backyard trampolines can offer and do it more safely. I monitor trampoline safety as I have a personal interest in ensuring my kids don't get hurt which is why I was able to bring all those links out of my armoury so quickly. Dabbler 23:39, 13 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Links to not forget:[edit]

User:Jonathan W/histJan06[edit]

Hi, I notice that you've got a set of 'archive' articles up at User:Jonathan W/histJan06 - I like the idea, but I see that the categories are still activated, so the duplicate (and in some cases outdated!) articles are showing up in the regular Wikipedia categories like Category:Dinosaurs. Could I suggest that you deactivate them (by putting a colon before 'Category' in the link)? (see WP:CG, "If you copy an article to your user namespace (for example, as a temporary draft or in response to an edit war) you should decategorize it".) Cheers, Ziggurat 03:58, 15 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Invite[edit]

User:Clamster5/Events Clamster5 00:07, 20 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of A to Z Mysteries[edit]

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Tiens![edit]

"Tiens!" was commonly used by Hercule Poirot as an epithet (as in "Tiens! Hastings - I, yes, I, Poirot, have been such a fool"), so it's not particularly modern. The online Larousse gives English translations of the epithet "tiens" (from the first person singular of "tenir", not from the posessive "le tien") as various sort of "intensifiers", so

As an expression of surprise: "Tiens, Bruno! Que fais-tu ici?" → "What are you doing here, Bruno?");
As an insistence: "Tiens, le tonnerre grond" → "Listen, it's thundering", though I reckon that might translate more idiomatically as "Strewth, it's thundering".

In general epithets like this are very hard to translate well; I suppose a very literal translation of "tiens" might be "hold" but that would make no sense at all. Replace with "Strewth!", "Heck!", "Ee by gum!" to taste and you might be getting somewhere Disclaimer - Tiens, mon Français est très pauvre Tonywalton ^Talk 20:56, 29 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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