Issuepedia:Commons

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Revision as of 16:43, 9 January 2007 by Woozle (talk | contribs)
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Introduction

Welcome to the Issuepedia:Commons! This is an area for general discussion about whatever – site issues, stuff that doesn't have a page yet, etc. It is analogous to the Wikipedia:Village pump. You can post here or on the discussion page.

(F)AQ

  • Q: Why is it when I search on "jsrrts" or "woozle" the User pages are not listed?
    • A: You can set which namespaces to search in your user preferences ("preferences" link in the group at top-left). By default, I've excluded the user pages (and some other namespaces), but I'm open to reasoned suggestions for change.
  • Q: I prefer the indented response talk style I've edited Talk:Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid to, what do you think?
    • A: Haven't had time to read this, but will soon. I do appreciate work in this direction; development of useful standards and guidelines for online debate is part of my goal for Issuepedia.
  • Q: I was wondering what is gained by articles Mormonism, aren't these factually better served through Wikipedia? Are you trying to do something different here from Wikipedia?
    • A: Yes, Issuepedia has a substantially different approach from Wikipedia. Some of this is covered in Issuepedia:About#Site Role (although it probably needs to be covered better; questions like this one help me to identify areas which could use further explanation). Some specifics:
      • Original writing and criticism is acceptable on Issuepedia; some guidelines will probably be needed at some point (see Issuepedia:Topics for some brief guidelines on appropriate subject material – more is needed, but I'm content to wait until it becomes clear that a restriction is needed before imposing such)
  • Q: I couldn't save this page without getting it blocked by the spam filter on the site "The following text is what triggered our spam filter: " the humansecurityreport.info site. I removed the reference from above.
    • A: Oops! That was due to a temporary blacklist of the .info TLD. I've removed the blacklist and replaced the link. I got spam three days in a row from .info domains, so I took a shortcut; this may happen occasionally. If any other legit links get blacklisted, please feel free to alert me to the problem.

FAQ credits

  • questions by Jsrrts 00:13, 9 January 2007 (EST)
  • Answers by Woozle, so far