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User talk:Daniel Quinlan/Archive 2003
Please use a section header and add comments to the bottom.  Thanks! &mdash; [[User:Daniel Quinlan|Daniel Quinlan]]

== Original welcome message ==

Hello Daniel, welcome to Wikipedia! 

There are lots of resources around to help guide you. try:

(contracted; show full)== New Imperialism ==

You should reconsider your vote on New Imperialism.

A temp page with an uncertain future that is not a communally edited text but a rival to the main article by one single user should not be advertised as a rival on the main page. PP's temp page was not created not as a communal new edition of an article but as a ''rival'' to a communally drafted text.




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It is bad policy to effectively present a reader with two ''alternative'' rival pages. It gives the impression we are offering them two POVs where in fact we are in the business of one NPOV. Right now, the talk page where the temp maximum visibility. The article will be split soon once this dispute is put to rest and there's no reason cut out relevant information. This would set a very bad precedent. Jtdirl, a professional encyclopedist, has repeatedly stated that this goes against (contracted; show full)

::"redirects proposed by the program that generated them"?!!!... Thats way out of my league!! I thought that was some kind of a to-do list! Cheers, [[User:Muriel Gottrop|Muriel]]

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:::Well, it is sort of a to-do list.  Basically, the program looked for broken links that were named very similar to existing articles.  Read [[User:Daniel Quinlan/redirects]] for more information.  A bunch of people have been helping out.  Thousands of broken links (one way or another) have been fixed by now.  [[User:Daniel Quinlan|Daniel Quinlan]] 12:30, Nov 16, 2003 (UTC)