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Hello there Paul, welcome to the 'pedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you need pointers on how we title pages visit Wikipedia:Naming conventions or how to format them visit our manual of style. If you have any other questions about the project then check out Wikipedia:Help or add a question to the Village pump. Cheers! --maveric149

Thanks for the welcome!
You hope I stay? As well to hope that a rock will fall downwards when you let go of it. :)
I'm having trouble tearing myself away from the place...
-- Paul A
Ah. Welcome to my world. ;-) --mav

its an odd characheristic of mine. I dont know why. thanks for the correction - Stevert

Hi Paul, great article on Alistair Cooke! In 1973 he also published a book -- a history of the US -- entitled Alistair Cooke's America (BBC Publications, London) -- should that be mentioned as well?

All the best, KF 05:04 Feb 6, 2003 (UTC)

Thank you for your kind words. And thank you for reminding me about Alistair Cooke's America - I've added some information about it to the article.
--Paul A 06:04 Feb 6, 2003 (UTC)

Hi Paul. My wife's surname used to be Wonitoway. Do you have her beat in the difficult names category? :) -- Stephen Gilbert 13:42 Feb 6, 2003 (UTC)

I don't know. Wonitoway looks pretty straightforward to me. :o)
--Paul A 01:53 Feb 7, 2003 (UTC)

Hi Paul, I've set up a page at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (lists) and started moving the discussion at the pump to the related talk page. The pump is getting too long again and this is a better place to discuss the issue. I hope to see you there -- sannse 11:01 Mar 9, 2003 (UTC)

Hi Paul, I noticed that you made a minor change to The Beatles, and the change puzzled me. You changed markup to the headings so that there's no space between the markup and the text of the heading. I always put a space between. And so while I prefer "== heading ==", you prefer "==heading==". (I first started my way to make automatic spell checking shut up in Word.) I checked back on Wikipedia:How to edit a page to see how they did it. They have spaces in between. Is there another place with guidelines that I'm missing? Arthur 23:04 Mar 13, 2003 (UTC)

That's my background as a web designer showing: leaving no space between the markup and the heading text is my small rebellion against the general untidyness of the autogenerated HTML code. (That makes it sound deliberate, but it's not really; it's just something I automatically do whenever I edit a topic, like deleted trailing spaces at the end of paragraphs.)
I think the standard of including spaces, if it is a standard, is just to make the wiki markup more readable. As far as I know, it makes no real difference to the actual presentation of the headings on the actual Wikipedia pages.
--Paul A 01:35 Mar 14, 2003 (UTC)
(PS. You edit Wikipedia articles in Word?)
yes. Word is helpful because it does spell checking (very useful) and grammar checking (almost entirely useless for educated and good writers, but always good to check). To use Word, I edit the article so I get the marked-up version, select all, copy, paste into Word, edit the article, select all, copy, paste into edit field, and save article. You're right, it makes no difference to presentation. There does seem to be an implied standard on the page i referenced, however. Arthur 03:04 Mar 14, 2003 (UTC)

I don't know what happened at rocks. Apparently, I made an accidental redirect from rocks to rocks, but I got confused because on "What Links Here" there was a triple redirect of rocks. But, whatever, User:Salsa Shark seems to have fixed it by redirecting to rock, which is what I meant to do in the first place, so I'll ignore it. Tuf-Kat

Hi Paul, please see Talk:Carthusian where you can enjoy my mental confusion over erroneousness! Thanks, Nevilley 09:25 Mar 24, 2003 (UTC)

Replied to at Talk:Carthusian. Thank you for pointing that out... --Paul A 01:16 Mar 25, 2003 (UTC)

Hi Paul. You may, or may not, be interested to know that Crime Traveller is now available on Region 2 DVD. Also available and perhaps to your taste would be the late 50s British TV version of The Invisible Man[1]. Mintguy

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