User talk:Lifeartist

Hello, I've been looking at your stuff so far. It looks pretty good and appears to have value. However, it is currently in an administrative area and therefore subject to removal.

One possibility would be to check out Enpsychlopedia to see if it fits with what you are seeking to do. Assuming it can work, you will want to move your pages over before somebody else gets itchy fingers over off-topic pages.

In the unexpected event that the Enpsychlopedia wiki won't work out, you might consider submitting a proposal for a Psychology specific wikicity. However, it is my thought that Enpsychlopedia might prove to be a satisfactory venue for your articles.

--Kirk 19:19, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

Another qualified welcome
I've had a look too - after I added the standard "please find a better place for this material" message to a couple. Great material.

If there's more from Wikipedia than I have seen, that's good too. BUT YOU MUST ACKNOWLEDGE ITS ORIGIN (which is very easy to do with template:wikipedia). You should also include all the internal links, templates, and other clever aids, so as not to leave yourself and/or other people having to add them later when you find how useful they are. When I'm copying from Wikipedia to one of the Wikicities I help with, I copy everything straight from the Edit box, except the language interwiki links. You should too.

Another point I would recommend is that you use "sentence case" for page names (as Wikipedia does); saves a lot of work, in ways I can explain if you're interested. You'll see that I edited one of your link pages accordingly.

As the husband of a social worker who has been at the sharp end of mental health crises among her clientele, I hope you can find a good place for all your pages.

Robin Patterson 11:05, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

Hello again, Joe. I found your message by going through the "Recent changes", but as it's not on my regular Talk page I might never have found it; next time click the links instead of typing!

"Sentence case" has capital letters only at the start and for proper nouns, eg "Clinical psychology according to Dr Joe". As Wikipedia (whence you can expect to do more copying) uses it, and Wikicities generally follows the same standards, copying and linking will be easier if your page names follow the same standard.

It seems from your most recent comments that you aren't interested in joining in with Enpsychlopedia. That would be your choice. You could do both, though. And/or you could become one of the most active members of the established one (which could be easy because it's rather new) and add your own flavour to it. Either way, several of us will be happy to lend a hand now and again to help a non-entertainment-related wiki thrive.

Robin Patterson 19:24, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

More?
Joe, I've not checked every change for the last few days, but there's another page been created by someone using your name a few hours ago. Funny, though - it's about Wikipedia instead of about the page name.

I hope you are making progress with EITHER getting approval for a separate wiki OR deciding to join Enpsychlopedia. Meantime, please don't annoy the management by creating more articles in the main namespace here. If you want to create more pages, please make them subpages of your user page by prefixing "User:Lifeartist/" to each link.

Robin Patterson 10:54, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

Psychology wiki is really in business
Just in case you didn't know. But I presume the anonymous contributor was you. Good luck! Robin Patterson 10:35, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

Further progress observed yesterday (NZ time). Good.

I could see that you had forgotten the title-case/sentence-case distinction when I saw your four graduated "Help" pages listed. I presume you know how easy it is to rename a page with the "Move" button. Better than rewriting because it leaves the original name as a "redirect" in case anyone searches on (or had bookmarked) the original.

Backing-up is something you will have to ask the experts about. If you know anything about "RSS" you are probably halfway there. I think Wikia is now a pretty substantial enterprise with very little chance of significant downtime.

I'll look in again soon and will probably do some basic structural things if obvious, eg putting articles into categories. You clinician, me clerk?? Not alone, though: don't be afraid to use the community portal or help pages here, to seek opinion and tips from wikicitizens of longer standing than I.

Robin Patterson 23:35, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Progress with psych
Nobody talked to you here in the last 4 months!! I can guess why - you've been flat out making the psych wikia thrive. It was pleasing to see several regular contributors last time I looked; you don't need me any more, if you ever did, but you're on my list of wikis to check now and then so I will probably continue to tinker at times.

Your policy of improving WikiPedia from the Wikia is admirable! And I take as a compliment the "enPW" - I invented the name "enWP" for what otherwise had a tediously-long name.

I looked (as invited) at your Furl Locker. Almost as big as mine and probably more serious. But the psych wikia Community Portal rates only a "3"??!

Robin Patterson 03:35, 6 June 2006 (UTC)


 * The stats link you put on my Talk here seems to be all zeroes. Robin Patterson 01:08, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for helping with the branding survey
Thank you for completing the Brand Audit User Survey. We really appreciate your responses. Lots of improvements and new features were suggested, and I hope you'll see these being implemented over time. The results are now being analysed by a PR firm, so you might see some interesting changes to the design of the site as a result. If you have any more feedback, we always welcome that in the Wikia forums. Angela (talk) 17:32, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Psychology Blurb
Yes, I'm also having trouble with editing, large font sizes and the options that are usually on top of the page sliding under the logo. If I change from the default "skin", it corrects at least some of these problems (and because I'm less familiar with those layouts, creates others). Anyway, thanks for creating the blurb! I hope it will be easier to make improvements soon. --CocoaZen 14:25, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
 * While it might be better, we haven't been using templates for the blurbs. I'll move what you've done to fit the pattern to Featured Wikia/Psychology/Blurb.  It's also a bit long to fit on the main page, so I'll see if I can edit it down.  I hope I won't mess it up too badly.  (I should add some of this to the reminders about how to switch the Featured Wikia that are at user:CocoaZen/fw.) --CocoaZen 14:31, 9 August 2006 (UTC)