User:Bigdelboy

Alt.Accounts: My main account is, is was formerly (1) This account  never did anything until January 2020 when I resurrected it to circumvent a self-enforced wikibreak from my own account. I might use it for bots or bulk stuff ... and this is possible for bulk transwiki stuff on Wikibooks should I ever get involved in that. (2) I have a further account for on-the-road use on less secure devices ... notably the Parkie library where HCC's IP's are typically blocked and anon edits are not possible. (3): From summer 2022 I have an additional alt. account that works on Vicipéid in the Gaeilge langauge. Deirge also does some contributions to language independent central wikis such as commons and wikidata in areas related to Ireland.

In case anyone wonders why the pace on Character Encodings appears to have slowed there are tow basic reasons. One is I am doing prods and tests on the development of this book and coming up to and back up to speed on some languages and tools, the other is to complete the support templates I made a big push at possible RL consequence of an ex-havenpool RM confronting me over the need to sort out some women's dresses and underwear ... at least he want a para. Be assured I am trying stuff, albeit not at that previous pace; and this may not be obvious on WikiBook edit history. I would still hope expect to see a big push at some point but am somewhat disillusioned at the whole mess. It is also possible morse may assist in determining that book structure is right ... but I am becoming reluctant to follow through with that initative. Thankyou.

The situation with the Character Encodings has gone badly. my requirements to retain the page in situ for 3 months have not been met so I am withdrawing from the project. I am probably willing to consider answering any questions to anyone wishing to continue with the project but I will not be assisting with imports of code pages for them.

It may be argued I no longer have need for the importer privilege and I will not oppose anyone requesting its removal. That said I may not be averse to consider assisting anyone requiring a page imported, But I may need to be contacted on my main account on the English WikiPedia. As I may be able response on the English Wikipedia currently in practice the best ways of contacting me currently is likely a talk page message on User talk:DeirgeDel on MetaWiki, simple or Wikiquote.as I am more regularly logged into those account and will get a message from another Wiki. Thankyou.