User talk:Charlie123

This is my Usertalk page. Charlie123 12:31, 25 May 2005 (UTC)

Improving World History
Since both the U.S. History and the World history book are part of the same license, it is fair to copy and paste the text onto either book. Feel free to do so. --Alsocal 03:04, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Gambling Page
Yes, the odds are minute. But, here's the thing, Charlie, even if you increase the odds of winning to 99.99999999% YOU STILL LOSE ON AVERAGE. Why? Because the payout on high percentage bets is exeedingly low. In fact, when you account for a built in house edge/pay-to-play/bookie-cut, you are actually losing a small but real portion of your stake each bet. You may win some, you may lose some, the laws of large numbers dictate that if you play long enough your wallet will eventually be empty. That you can bet on! --Shmeedogg 01:14, 2 Jul 2005 (UTC)

Gambling
Hi,

I cannot in any way see this as a wikibook for edutacional and academic purpouses. Also, you call it 100% complete, whilst it is mereley one page, and not a book at all. What do you mean with doing this? Have you not read the policies of the wikibooks?

Take a look at the about page, and please reconsider your book. --August 09:50, 2 Jul 2005 (UTC)


 * I have responded to the message you wrote at my duscussion page. --August 5 July 2005 22:22 (UTC)

Car Terms
Any particular reason this needs to be split into a total of four pages so far, when one would have sufficed? I find it best to use a minimum number of pages, then only split it, if it's getting too long. Furthermore, if you should need to create subpages, please follow the conventions on the page Naming conventions. Thankyou. - Aya 16:20, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

Re: Car Terms
If the book expands, it will be necessary to split it into sections;


 * Indeed. If the book expands. Perhaps you should wait to see how long it gets before making the decision as to split it. Also at this time, you will have a better idea of where a good place to split it would be. Leaving it on one page, using a '==' heading for each term would allow for easy linking via . This way you don't have to remember which page number it's on. Page numbering is generally frowned upon.

''furthermore, short pages take less time to load. Remember that we don't all have broadband yet!''


 * With text data, this is a negligable consideration, and probably unwise to model the book based on technical considerations. Generally we split pages which are over 32k (the system will warn you when this is the case), although a small hardcore of users belive it's always preferable to have the book in a single page to make it easy to print.

How would you recommend naming the sections?


 * According to the provisional policy, one of two conventions is currently acceptable.  and  . The former has the advantage of automatically creating a link on the subpage back to the main page. In addition, you can extend the hierarchy if necessary to   or  . The former will then create a link back to the section and the book.

''If it gets big enough, one section for each letter of the alphabet might be a good idea - then something would always stay in the same section. Let me know what you think... Charlie123 16:25, 12 July 2005 (UTC)''


 * That would seem reasonable when it becomes necessary, and would allow for people to easily link via . - Aya 16:49, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

Vote for deletion
Hi, I just thought that I would remind you that you forgot to sign you vote to delete Ardvark the Aardvark on the WB:VFD page. If you get a chance, would you sign it, because your vote won't count without it. (Donovan|Geocachernemesis|Interact) 12:57, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

Becoming an admin on the Wikibooks Simple English
I see that you are trying to become an administrator with Simple English Wikibooks. I hope that you have had some good luck in this area. If not, I would strongly recommend that you take a look at the Steward page on Meta to ask one of the folks there for some help. I would also strongly suggest that you "e-mail this user" rather than try to use the talk pages, although the stewards will more than likely respond. I totally agree with you that Simple English needs an admin, and if you are willing to do the work, put in the request. There is no admin nomination page for that wiki either, so it is fertile ground to try and get it organized more properly.

I've also taken a glance around and there appears to be a couple of pages that need to be deleted as well. So there is some cleanup work that needs to be done as well. Contact the stewards to see if they can get you set up as an admin for Simple English Wikibooks --Rob Horning 04:58, 30 July 2005 (UTC)


 * From experience, you should also get a fairly swift response (<24h) by using the official Requests for permissions page on Meta. There's usually at least one admin watching the page who can get things sorted out. It would probably be polite to use this page prior to contacting a specific steward, since this page is also watch by the developers who have even more power than stewards. - Aya T C 13:59, 30 July 2005 (UTC)

Contribution on London wikibook
Hi Charlie, just to say I would like to help build your Wikibook on London. --AndrewUK86 14:00, 27 November 2006 (UTC)