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User talk:Daniel Quinlan/Archive 2003
== Original welcome message ==

Hello Daniel, welcome to Wikipedia! 

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

*[[Wikipedia:Naming conventions]]
*[[Wikipedia:Manual of Style]] 
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:and <b>27 articles</b> that link to  [[Daniel C. Boyer]].  There's almost an order of magnitude difference in ego size.  The redirect articles alone overwhelm any search for the last name of [http://www.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?search=Boyer Boyer] (try it).  --[[User:Daniel Quinlan|Daniel Quinlan]] Wed Jul 16 15:27:46 PDT 2003


::It should be noted that the search now only returns the article on the last name.  --[[User:Daniel C. Boyer|Daniel C. Boyer]] 20:31, 27 June 2006 (UTC)⏎
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:As to [[m:Wiki is not paper]], I accept and agree with the concept, but relative balance is very important.  If someone can't find the information they want, because there's tons of unimportant (or self-important) material in the way of the user's search for information, then Wikipedia is rendered less useful.  Imagine how quickly a user will be turned off to Wikipedia if every search for information on Surrealism leads to Daniel C. Boyer, if every search for fabric leads to a discussion of (contracted; show full)

:: Well, I'm not at all offended by bakla.net, but the rest are fairly gut wrenching. I think that a disclaimer is probably more justifiable here than elsewhere, but I don't like the current setup with big fat disclaimers all over the place.[[User:Eloquence|&mdash;Eloquence]] 03:20, Dec 9, 2003 (UTC)