User talk:Jonthescribbler

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Again, welcome! --EncycloPetey 00:38, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

Formatting

Please format entries in the way I have cleaned up your entry shirt-sleeve. If you get stuck consult one of the links above (that EncycloPetey) or ask me, EncycloPetey or anyone else who has been here for a while--50 Xylophone Players talk 01:07, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

If a page is tagged for cleanup, please clean it up only after learning how entries are formatted on English Wiktionary. See, e.g., the recent history of rag-and-bone shop or nail one's colours to the mast: your cleanup of it and mine. Mine is in accord (I thihnk) with Wiktionary conventions, and yours was not. I, for one, appreciate your good intentions in trying to clean up, and I'm sure others do, too, but it's no hel at all if someone has to come along after you and clean up what you've left. (Moreover, you remove the cleanup-necessary tag, which is counterproductive, as the page needs cleanup still.)—msh210℠ 17:46, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

Let me emphasize that it's great that you're adding new entries. Sorry if the preceding paragraph sounded harsh.—msh210℠ 17:53, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

Agree, we need more enthusiastic editors here! Check out WT:ELE and WT:CFI for what Msh and I are talking about (click the blue links). Mglovesfun (talk) 14:48, 10 August 2009 (UTC)

But you are still not formatting your entries properly! SemperBlotto 15:23, 7 June 2010 (UTC)