User talk:Jessicapierce

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Good luck! Mattb112885 (talk) 03:44, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

Possible copyright violation
G'day Jessica, you use the copyvio template by giving it a parameter, being the URL of the likely source:

Nice work on the Cookbook, good to have another set of eyes working on it! Webaware talk 23:23, 29 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Oh, thanks so much! I thought it must have been something like that, and actually got close by using a colon instead of equal sign. Now that I knwo how to do it properly, I certainly will! Jessicapierce 01:06, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Category sort order
G'day Jessica, you can set the sort order on a page by using the magic word  , e.g.

You can also tell Wiki that the default sort key for categories is the page name, using another magic word:   (although I haven't used this one myself yet).

NB: It isn't always appropriate, e.g. when the page name has non-ANSI characters like "ö", as they are sorted after all ANSI characters, thus leading to unintuitive sorting. In such cases, I put the page name using only ANSI characters. Webaware talk 01:53, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Awesome Copyediting
I've been watching some of your copyedits on the RC list. Even though small edits tend to be a thankless job and they often go unnoticed, they undoubtedly make wikibooks a better place. You do great work, it's good to have people like you around. --Whiteknight (talk) 23:52, 30 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Hey, thanks! I always get a bit nervous when I see "you have new messages" because I'm waiting for the day someone yells at me for fixing their commas. It's happened more than once at Wikiproper, and I know people often hold their recipes sacred, so sooner or later, I'm going to ruffle a feather, I know. Thanks very much for appreciating the small edits. They're not much, to be sure, but I like to think they help. Jessicapierce 02:33, 1 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Hey, what's all this with edits to my Cookbook:Mapo Doufu, huh? But seriously, I'd like to join Whiteknight in congratulating you on your efforts! Webaware talk 08:28, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Boring but "me too", good work (ignore the one above - not from "round here" ). Feel free to call on any of us if you want a hand -- Herby  talk thyme 18:54, 1 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Dudes! Thank you! You're too nice. I'm here mostly to educate myself about food and cooking - thanks to the wiki cookbook, I have mastered omelets! - and figured I might as well fix the little errors along the way. I only do it because errant punctuation puts me right up the wall. It's a sickness. Jessicapierce 21:29, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Sideline but this ain't WP (there are some refugees here tho) . Stick around and teach us about commas!  Cheers -- Herby  talk thyme 07:36, 2 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Yes please Im a'll for punctuation's in the right place's. And sentence structure too thats good to see and grammer and spelling to do stick around we need more help! (Yes, drives me up the wall too!) Webaware talk 10:20, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

Lime and Marscapone Cheesecake
G'day Jessica, I see that this recipe is still under the misspelt title - did you see my reply to your question? I thought I'd leave it to you to change, so that you'd get a chance to try a page move. Webaware talk 00:13, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

FYI
You have probably already seen this, but if not I suggest you take a look at Cookbook:Policy to see what sorts of standardization we have going on; you seem to be interested in maintaining the quality (at least of the formatting) of the recipes in the cookbook. Kellen T 03:24, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Names
G'day Jessica, nice work on Cookbook - FAB! However, please be careful with names in recipes - e.g. locality names (Dijon), product names (Marmite, Vegemite), and people's names (Graham crackers - although I'm not sure on the last one, as it's an American product, and they tend to not care about people's names much). cheers, Webaware talk 00:52, 8 May 2007 (UTC)