Welcome to my talk page. If you start a new conversation here, I will respond to you here. If I start a conversation on your talk page, please respond to me there, I will have your talk page on my watch list. Thank you. Maproom (talk) 08:57, 12 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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sections seem too wide, if can help:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024%E2%80%9325_Kerala_Premier_League# 93.140.33.111 (talk) 11:56, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know what you mean by "sections too wide". But I've removed some table markup, which made the whole page look odd. If that's not what you meant, you can revert my edit. Maproom (talk) 14:40, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

New editors etc.

First, thanks for the thanks, which led to me (of course) visiting our user page to satisfy my curiosity. Which led to me reading the discussion from 2016 about why new editors think they should immediately create new articles.

I've had a related question in my mind for years, which is "Why do so many of the welcome templates direct people straight to Your first article, as though the very first thing someone should do is create one?" Much like the average programming textbook gets someone to write "My First Program" on page 2.

I can't help thinking these two things might be related.

(On a separate note, I don't think you've got ⅝ in your collection.) Musiconeologist (talk) 14:03, 12 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there, Musiconeologist. It's good to know that people sometimes look at my user page — and I thank you for the ⅝, which I've now added. Whenever I see your name I register it as "Musicoenologist". I wonder if you've read Beautiful Evidence by Edward Tufte? If not, I recommend it. Maproom (talk) 22:55, 23 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I haven't, but I think I've heard of it. Isn't it something of a classic where data visualisation is concerned? It's definitely one I'd read if it fell into my hands.

The ⅝ is just a long-press in the keypad I use on my phone, along with ½ ⅓ ⅔ ¼ ¾ ⅛ ⅜ ⅞.

It's definitely -neologist, to do with a somewhat insane writing project I was involved in when I registered. But now I've ventured into experimenting with writing templates, I'm cursing its length every time I want to use one of them. Musiconeologist (talk) 23:28, 23 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

February

March

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DBaK (talk) 00:32, 24 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks – I've responded there. Maproom (talk) 08:58, 24 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

April

May

Ayurveda

Please read Ayurveda. Thanks, Polygnotus (talk) 03:25, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Polygnotus: I have already read Ayurveda. I even contributed to it - though that was almost ten years ago. Thank you for clarifying, at the Teahouse, that your criticism of Michael D. Turnbull was for being too tolerant, not for being too bitey. Maproom (talk) 07:22, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, no, its not criticism of Michael D. Turnbull, who is probably a lovely person (I dunno but it is statistically likely). I just disagreed with 8 words I see this as an implication of WP:BITE. Disagreeing with a thought someone had in a fraction of a second is no criticism of the person as a whole of course. I disagree with a large percentage of the thoughts I've had. Polygnotus (talk) 07:57, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, my mistake, you didn't criticise Turnbull, you criticised what he had written. But his words I see this as an implication of WP:BITE were, I assume, accurate - that was indeed how he saw it. He thought you were criticising his earlier posting as bitey. I saw it that way too. Maproom (talk) 08:37, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

One day we will create a language that can only be interpreted in a single way, and all art will die. Polygnotus (talk) 08:40, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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