User talk:David Shepheard

Hello David, welcome to WikiIndex! Glad to see you are jumping right in! (and that this is a belated welcome) Best, MarkDilley

Thanks for the welcome. I suppose I'd better get my user page up and running. David Shepheard 22:07, 10 April 2009 (EDT)

Great! A funny thing about the user page here - if you are using your real name - we like to do this criss cross thing - like my pages MarkDilley and User talk:MarkDilley - please go ahead and do that if you want. ~~ MarkDilley

Hmm. That would probably make me look like a spammer on Wikipedia. I'd get tagged for being a nobody. But if that is what you do here, I'll give it a go. David Shepheard 07:30, 11 April 2009 (EDT)

I've done it. Hope it looks ok. If anyone has any problems with this, please add a new topic to my discussion page. David Shepheard 12:27, 12 April 2009 (EDT)

Hi David! Looks excellent - you are rocking! Best, MarkDilley

Good idea David

How can I support you starting the 'upgradabilty' of personal pages?

I use this format at some wikis (example):

{{CommunityBox
| Bio = I think that we can achieve great things by working together and [[WikiWiki|wiki]] makes that easier.
| FavoriteWikis = {{ClearList}}
* [[WikiIndex.org]]
| FavoriteCategories = {{ClearList}}
* [[:Category:WikiOhana|WikiOhana]]
* [[:Category:WikiIndex|WikiIndex]]
* [[:Category:OrganizedLabor|OrganizedLabor]]
|}}

Best, MarkDilley

separate note regarding 'However, a lot of user pages do seem to be written in a very random fashion and I wonder how much usefulness someone will get from visiting a page that is not an encyclopedic entry about the person.' - I don't think we are building an encyclopedia here. Cheers, MarkDilley